The Syndicate

And I'm gonna give another vote to CapsFan, hopefully third time's the charm.

DDL has certainly been aggrandizing, but at least he's posting. At this point, that's more civ like behavior than most people.

What with the Chatty Kathy massacre and all, I've decided to start poking around at some of our more silent players, starting with BWT. The biggest thing of note he's done is to come out with a soft defense of MP on Day 1.

This is his latest post:

birdwithteeth11 wrote:Alright. So I have still not caught up any more, and I am now about 15 pages behind. So I have 1 of 2 options:

1) Give up and ask to be replaced because I do not have the free time right now to read through the amount of posts I need to get through to catch up.

2) Start from scratch right now and build on from there.

And I'm going to try option #2. Soooooo....anyone got some Cliff Notes for what's happened so far?

That was 11 days ago.

My vote for him is as much a random shot in the dark as it is a call for him to get off his posterior.

Voting CapsFan and DragonDLuffy

CapsFan's been someone who's weirded me out for a while, and I've voted for him the last two days. Let's make that three.

DDL is someone who just shot their way onto my radar with the last three pages of posts. I feel like him and Scotty are pushing this lightly-inactive tunnel vision mindset, and it just seems like saying shit to say shit, the equivalent of picking on someone you know won't fight back.

Scotty has a history of stuff like this, and I haven't necessarily picked up any bad vibes from him.

DDL, however, what with his apparently trademark standoffish attitude, admitted tunnel vision, and him immediately voting for Boomslang after he posted something against him almost gave me whiplash.

So I'm gonna throw a vote his way.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Boomslang you are giving a number of reasons you think I'm bad but failing to explain why thy mean anything.

Why is it bad that I suspect Mac for meta and activity. What is it bad that I'm tunneling on him and you? Why is it bad that I made the same vote as Mac back on day 1?

You can't just list everything I have done in the game, yell "BAD!" and expect to be taken seriously. You need to do more.

As someone on the receiving end of metareads and been screwed over many a time from them, you throwing your hands up and saying "I PLAY ENTIRELY ON META READS AND TUNNEL VISION, DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT?" is the equivalent of attempting to order a massive steak at a vegetarian restaurant.

This easy-ass style of playing, just pointing at one or two inactive players and leading a blitzkrieg against them, is the perfect way to coast by and stand out juuust enough to where you don't seem too blend-y.

Scotty wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:Glorf may be the most baffling new player I've seen upon returning to the site, Non-3J division. His uber sincerity made me 101% see him as scum in BSG, but it turns out he was civ after all, and his histrionics were genuine.

So I'm gonna give him a pass for now until I can do some good old fashioned Baltimore style good po-lice work.

Yesterday I voted for CapsFan and Sorsha. Neither of them have done anything to dissuade my opinion on them, and neither has a more compelling candidate come up. I'm gonna try and make this a Groundhog Day by voting the same way again.

So you gonna vote or what?

Gotta be honest, mate. My 2nd vote is between you and Quin. And I mostly want to vote Quin because he seems far too 'appeasy" this game. I can't put into words my tone read of him besides I don't like it. If I can keep digging and come up with something a little more potent on him before EoD, I'll vote there, otherwise you're my standby.

You say you never use inactivity as a crutch in strategies in your game, which may or may not be true. But when you are around, I'm not getting any sense of urgency or care. It could be a bias since you were vaulted into a place of importance (prefect) early on. You had so much potential, like 'Suicide Squad' and 'No Man's Sky' did.

I feel like your posts on me are less a suspicion, and more you poking me with a stick to see if I'm still alive. Luckily, I am in fact still on this here mortal coil, and am making a firm resolution, right here, right now, in the eyes of gods and men, that I'm going to try and be more active than I've been in the past.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Holy shit I forgot inh was even in this game.

ha

Glorf may be the most baffling new player I've seen upon returning to the site, Non-3J division. His uber sincerity made me 101% see him as scum in BSG, but it turns out he was civ after all, and his histrionics were genuine.

So I'm gonna give him a pass for now until I can do some good old fashioned Baltimore style good po-lice work.

Yesterday I voted for CapsFan and Sorsha. Neither of them have done anything to dissuade my opinion on them, and neither has a more compelling candidate come up. I'm gonna try and make this a Groundhog Day by voting the same way again.

Epignosis wrote: It is now time to turn to Insert Namhere. He had a notorious reputation in the province of Me-Dia for his wanton vanity and anger. It was said that the wife of some official, who was rumored to be a witch, had cast a spell on him as a child, such that whenever anyone spoke his name in his presence, he became more powerful than before. Because of this, he demanded that all in his house speak his name whenever anyone was in the same room as he was. One day, a servant insisted on using his courtesy name instead. Insert Namhere ordered the servant taken outside, where he was whipped until he had said his master’s name twenty-five times. Because of the prodigious fear in the land over Insert Namhere’s accumulated power, he was made a prefect so that he would be appeased.

This excerpt from a host post directly references the ol' Mr. Popular/Media role, so I think it's safe to assume Epi's aware of it.

nutella wrote:Or was Mr. Popular based on number of times quoted? I don't remember... man that was a fun team to be on though.

I had a similar role in the 2013 Champions game, and made up a ridiculous story about having coded a program that would read everyone's posts and calculate their chances of being bad by cross-referencing their word choice with their past games.

Of course, me knowing next to nothing about coding, programming, or computer systems made this a little difficult. But it got people talking about me.

I got through about 3 or 4 lynches despite being the top suspect because people just wouldn't shut up about me, and wanting to prove my cockamamie story wrong.

I really loved that role.

nutella wrote:

Quin wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:My first guess is that the sockpuppet is one of those things where they gain power when people quote them. I'm going to stay away for now

I have never heard of such a role.

I once invented a role (for a "Build Your Own" game in which players designed their own roles) that gained different powers based on how many times my name was said in the thread, and it's been reused/adapted a couple times -- not sure if there's precedent for a version based on number of times quoted, but it's possible. I kind of doubt that's what this sock is though, sort of an odd thing for TH to think of.

I've heard of this role before...

Sorsha wrote:insertnamehere
Because I'm weird and I "went after him"
It reflects on your alignment because you could have gotten an advantage that you are now able to use/share bts with your team, you sure aren't helping out in the thread with whatever advantage you won for being a prefect. So yeah, I do find that suspicious.

I don't think simply trying to gain powers is in and of itself, suspicious.

I'm not sure if you think me being inactive was purposeful strategy or what. Frankly, I'd never be intentionally inactive in any game. I just don't see the point of that.

Also, you make a pretty big assumption that whatever magical super secret powerful gifts were bestowed upon me would provide me with info to help the civ cause. Unfortunately, they didn't. I've lost my paddle, and the water around me has a strange brown consistency.

Quin wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:Voted for Sorsha and CapsFan.

Caps due to his weird "lynch-me-if-you-wanna" attitude, and Sorsha for general weirdness and also apparently going after me? I admit that I screwed up and severely misjudged the amount of mafia time I would have, but how would that reflect on my alignment?

Not really seeing the logic there.

I also admit that Timmer has been acting nutso, but seeing as he's already most likely due for a duel, I'm not gonna throw another log on a blazing fire.

What do you think about the fact that timmer voted TCF?

I think any judgments made because of that would be inconclusive due to the two mafia teams, plus the cult, plus a whole bunch of other weird shizzle-whizzle.

Voted for Sorsha and CapsFan.

Caps due to his weird "lynch-me-if-you-wanna" attitude, and Sorsha for general weirdness and also apparently going after me? I admit that I screwed up and severely misjudged the amount of mafia time I would have, but how would that reflect on my alignment?

Not really seeing the logic there.

I also admit that Timmer has been acting nutso, but seeing as he's already most likely due for a duel, I'm not gonna throw another log on a blazing fire.

TheCapsFan wrote:quote="Quin"]

TheCapsFan wrote:I would be comfortable being voted for.

Catching up a little. I don't like this.

I’m hurt.[/quote]
I'm also catching up, and I also don't like this.

Sloonei wrote:

Quin wrote:

Sloonei wrote:@Quin: You just named Dom as your top suspect while also expressing a "hard ping" on CapsFan. So what do you make of this post, if anything?

TheCapsFan wrote:As annoying as he may post, Dom seems pretty town as well.

I don't make anything out of it that I wouldn't to another person. The stronger I feel about Dom the more people seem to civ read him. I don't know if I'm supposed to be missing something but I feel like meta is beating out in-thread evidence. What do you think about Dom?

What things are you referencing here? How would you rate Moonrise Kingdom?

Wes Anderson is a twee god. I'm now contemplating an exceeding violent but also quite pleasant Wes Anderson Mafia.

Sloonei wrote:I figured I'd have a look at the roster and identify all the Strangers. I've not played with or have very limited experience with the following:
DisgruntledPorcupine
Dunny, unless this is diiny.
Glorfindel (I think we played a heist together a few months ago)
insertnamehere
Jan
leetic
LoRab, name is familiar but I can't recall any past game experience.
rabbit
Simon
CapsFan

That's more than I was expecting.

Howdy Sloonei, I think this may be the first time we've played together. Seeing as I've been AWOL since the beginning of Day 1, your fresh-facedness and getting people to re-explain their reads has been pretty neat for me.

Scotty wrote:To an extent, I think it is suspicious for someone to campaign to have a responsibility to the people and not show up. It's like he hopped on the one-way bus in San Francisco and now he's in Thailand without a phone. How did he get there? Any word would help.

I did a shitty thing, I realize. I severely misjudged how much extra time I'd have over a very limited amount of days. I messed up. But I'm now here and ready to play.

Scotty wrote:

Ricochet wrote: What do you think about my idea that INH is among the most significant candidates (if not the one) to have been incapacitated (silenced + stripped of voting) on Day 2?

Yeah I'm pretty sure you said it first, LoRab may have developed it.

RE: INH being incapacitated Day 2? Maybe. What doesn't help this theory is that he still hasn't posted on Day 3, so I feel as though he's just plain not here. I wonder if putting vote pressure on our other prefect could wake him up (wake him up inside, wake him up inside, save hiiiim)

Oh, hey guys. What'd I miss?

Thanks to my voters, you're all obviously awesome people, and now let's get started lynching baddies.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:If someone out there is a bad guy trying to acquire power, I think it's more likely he/she/they'd be among the people making a show of their candidacy (banners, Trump impersonations, etc).

Scotty wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

Golden wrote:

Bass_the_Clever wrote:

Golden wrote:Jay, why did you vote for yourself?

Because he skipped the rules section on page one. Lol

The rules say that self-voting is permitted, but it doesn't seem like a very Jay thing to do to give himself a potential reward.

I disagree Golden.

I think what's actually most striking here is this "Why didn't everyone vote for themselves"?

Because some Prefect candidates are decent, hardworking people who aren't egotistically giving themselves an extra boost by voting for themselves. Some honorable, principled Prefect candidates want to win simply on their own merits! Crooked 3J over there already revealed his priorities with his vote: ME, ME, ME. Whereas some extremely intelligent and attractive candidates have been voted for BY THE PEOPLE and will work tirelessly FOR THE PEOPLE.

Au contraire por favor.

I think a self vote is admirable because a) it adheres to the rules and b) it shows confidence in yourself. Your votes for other people tells me you would far rather other people have this position over you.

I think I am a good candidate and voted myself as such. It seems other people agreed with me.

Maybe it just means that I care about people OTHER than myself, and am willing to REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH.

VOTE INSERTNAMEHERE

HE WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE - NOT HIMSELF

DrWilgy wrote:

Golden wrote:

Bass_the_Clever wrote:

Golden wrote:Jay, why did you vote for yourself?

Because he skipped the rules section on page one. Lol

The rules say that self-voting is permitted, but it doesn't seem like a very Jay thing to do to give himself a potential reward.

I disagree Golden.

I think what's actually most striking here is this "Why didn't everyone vote for themselves"?

Because some Prefect candidates are decent, hardworking people who aren't egotistically giving themselves an extra boost by voting for themselves. Some honorable, principled Prefect candidates want to win simply on their own merits! Crooked 3J over there already revealed his priorities with his vote: ME, ME, ME. Whereas some extremely intelligent and attractive candidates have been voted for BY THE PEOPLE and will work tirelessly FOR THE PEOPLE.

Glorfindel wrote:OK, the deadline beckons... The leading wagons right now are 3J and INH on 7 votes with Scotty on 6 votes. All I have to go on is my experience of these players from previous games. In my latest game here (Battlestar Galactica) 3J defended me when no one else would so he'll get one of my votes. From my recollection insertnamehere did vote to lynch me and wouldn't believe me that I was Town so he's not getting my vote. That leaves me with Scotty who'd left the game by the time 'the debacle' occurred and as 3J voted for him here and insertnamehere hasn't, I'm happy to give my remaining vote to him.

If it makes you feel better, I was a weird rogue indie in that game who simply wanted to not have as much attention as possible. Plus I replaced in after 200 pages of posts that I really didn't want to comb through. Look at me not as a wrong civilian, but as a crafty independent, and you'll be closer to the truth for that game.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:No strong civ/bad reads here, but if I had to pick... I guess Glorfindel is giving me a good vibe, like hs is being honest, though that might be because I've lynched him for saying things I disagreed with heavily before, so I'm kind of used to his meta. But I don't know what bad Glorfindel looks like so... yeah.

Also Eloh questioned me and that felt sincere too.

I dunno, to early to say anything strongly.

Is insertnamehere more likely to be civilian than the mean?

Are you?

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:

Glorfindel wrote:Working on the assumption that a 'Prefect' is a position of some significant authority and influence, can anyone explain to me why Golden only has one vote? I mean SERIOUSLY? He was (is?) The Syndicate's representative at the Mafia Championships. He won a s#*^load of awards on this site this year (including The Syndicate MVP). He has demonstrated an ability for intelligent analysis and shown that he has the courage of his convictions (from my experience of him in Arkham Mafia). On top of all that, he's just a really nice guy... If anyone out there is still undecided, I'll be voting for him and for the reasons stated, I think you should too.

This is a mafia game, not a job interview. We are judging whether people are civ or bad.

and remember folks, nothing says trustworthy civilian like banners

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I am considering however the potential that the paranoia about giving me more power is either rooted in or supported by people who don't want that power in my town hands.

sounds like someone took my earlier post seriously.

Huh

heh

Glorfindel wrote:Working on the assumption that a 'Prefect' is a position of some significant authority and influence, can anyone explain to me why Golden only has one vote? I mean SERIOUSLY? He was (is?) The Syndicate's representative at the Mafia Championships. He won a s#*^load of awards on this site this year (including The Syndicate MVP). He has demonstrated an ability for intelligent analysis and shown that he has the courage of his convictions (from my experience of him in Arkham Mafia). On top of all that, he's just a really nice guy... If anyone out there is still undecided, I'll be voting for him and for the reasons stated, I think you should too.

This is why I'd hold off on voting Golden:

Golden wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Guys, just sign up. Let the 98% have their fun. GOoooooooooooooooooooooo

This.

The sooner this game starts the better for my schedule, since I go from being fucking busy to FUCKING BUSY.

Indeed. I go from busy to fatherhood

Golden wrote:So, basically, this is going to start when the Champs finale does.

You are seriously going to see the most ill-informed, quiet, passive golden you have ever seen in your life!

Wilgy and Marmot are still bad, though, count on it

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I am considering however the potential that the paranoia about giving me more power is either rooted in or supported by people who don't want that power in my town hands.

sounds like someone took my earlier post seriously.

PEOPLE THAT VOTE FOR ME = CIVILIANS

PEOPLE THAT DON'T VOTE FOR ME = MAFIA SCUM

Which one are you?

The other Prefect candidates may have snazzy, wacky posts, personal relationships, or just any qualifications at all, but do you know what they don't have?

A bitchin' banner.

I'd like to push my name forward as someone who'll be active and wouldn't mind the prefect post.

The phrase prefect mainly just reminds me of Harry Potter. I promise that, if elected, I won't turn into a Percy.

Russtifinko wrote:Agreed, JJJ.

Hey, I REALLY like the idea of the "whoever does ____ first, gets my votes" posts. They prevent people from finding excuses to give votes to baddie teammates. So I'm gonna do one too, and would suggest others do the same (even though it's an itsy bit late for a few).

The first two people to post pictures or emojis of platypi earn my votes.

leetic wrote:Voted for my fellow Bulbagardener as well as INH from my first game on this site.

Since nobody else submitted any gorgeous Steve Buscemi's Eyeballs to the thread, I'm gonna reward Wilgy and pay Leetic back with a tip of the hat and vote his way.

DrWilgy wrote:What is good everyone?

My name is DrWilgy and I am most definitely...

Actually... I'll follow INH's example and vote for the two people who tell me what I most definitely am first!

Linki - Hi Quin... Cheeky...

Incorrigible?

Quin wrote:

DrWilgy wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:Hello peoples and yay game!

The first two people to quote my post with an added close up of Steve Buscemi's eyes will get my vote for prefect.

Nope. You can't just quote somebody else's picture of Steve Buscemi's eyeballs and call it a day. Find your own Steve Buscemi's eyeballs, Quin.

Hello peoples and yay game!

The first two people to quote my post with an added close up of Steve Buscemi's eyes will get my vote for prefect.