The Syndicate

Golden wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 4:47 am I’m not town reading you yet, DH, and the absence of town reading you yet troubles me. Your tilde solving felt like a DH imitation.

sig wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:36 pm I have to try and find the time to read over DH and Quin This phase. Quin for me has no presence in the thread which is just a bit odd. I know he’s posted but can’t recall any thoughts from me on anything he’s said.

DH was a scum lean I remember day one calling out his like of substance and it seems like other people see that too. I’d like to reread him though.

I’ll caveat my last post by saying if we keep missing mafia I could tinfoil Llama as one.

Also we should be looking out for whoever doesn’t vote as I believe a mafia ability is to take a vote and give it to an outside 3P? Which I’m assuming is JJJ vote

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:17 pm I moved my vote to [VOTE: DH] aubergine.

Sloonei feels very confident.

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 3:44 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 3:40 pm TBH I got distracted reading old games but I'll say some smart stuff tomorrow.

Ooh, which ones?

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:49 am I feel it really is time to get more of DF and LoRab in particular. I also have no feel yet for Michelle, Kate, or Wilgy in this game. Wilgy I think is most unlikely to be bad of the five.

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:53 pm What a bizarre kill. RIP splints.

I came in to today ready to make a case against her, so I guess that’s one off my checklist.

Kate wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:23 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:49 pm The mafia killed splints because she has kids, and the mafia also have kids.

Discuss.

Do YOU have any kids DH?

Kate wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:14 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:49 pm The mafia killed splints because she has kids, and the mafia also have kids.

Discuss.

So those of us with kids deserve to die? Or we shouldn't be wasting our time playing online games??

NotAnAxehole wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 6:16 pm Anyone want to play a little game?

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 2:07 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 1:59 pm Srsbsns
What do you think this is, a game? We’re not playing around! You had better take the game seriously or there will be consequences. No bullsuit!

the player who quotes a post last is
the player who breaks a rule last is

the player who quotes[breaks] a rule that is ~~~~~~~~~~ the following day.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 1:59 pm Srsbsns
What do you think this is, a game? We’re not playing around! You had better take the game seriously or there will be consequences. No bullsuit!

the player who quotes a post last is
the player who breaks a rule last is

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 2:29 pm 4. When Night ends, any dead will not have their roles revealed. Perhaps.

Elohcin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 5:14 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 5:12 pm I'm gonna Vote For G-Man

I will be a cold dead son of a bitch before I ever use that fucked up vote tag.

I feel the same way, DH. We shouldn't have to use them in this old school game.

Vivax wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:45 pm

Elohcin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:43 pm

Vivax wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:39 pm [VOTE: DrWilgy] aubergine

I think it would be really helpful if there were points given as to why you are voting someone when you do so.

Don't like the game state, would like Wilgy to do stuff as he's sort of just there for a majority of players.

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 1:48 pm [VOTE: Lorab] aubergine

Vivax wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:00 am Antispew is stopping to post when it looks like you're going to the block.
Your question wasn't dodged. I didn't work with the assumption that mafia can pocket another mafia like you did. I think you're the first I saw do that.

Vivax wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:00 am Antispew is stopping to post when it looks like you're going to the block.
Your question wasn't dodged. I didn't work with the assumption that mafia can pocket another mafia like you did. I think you're the first I saw do that.

Vivax wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:54 am

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:45 am What about bea buddying G-Man is assuming that G-Man is town, given that there are two mafia teams?

Is that so ?
Do you think Eloh went into antispew ?

LoRab wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:52 am

Vivax wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 5:25 am [VOTE: LoRab] aubergine

For snipey pop-in

If pointing out a strange post makes me seem suspish to you, I’m ok with that.

Do you sus Scotty for that ?

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:46 am At the time I'm writing/reading all this:

bea - 21 posts

Spoiler: show

After some early game fun posts, downplays her ability as a mafia then the rest of Night 0 is more reminiscing.

As Day 1 begins, here to a vote from Scotty that seems a bit wonky, is "confused" by NotAnAxhole's post, defends her cheery attitude and is disheartened that she has gotten some votes. Agrees with G-Man RE: Day 1 needing to be more substantive and RE: laying out some adverbs. Has some interesting exchanges RE: DF's activity level. Particularly interested in the defense of DF by way of saying that Golden's defense of DF itself "vibes better" for Golden.Defends herself from Sig/Llama's criticism of low posters by saying she's getting back in the swing of things. Refuses to give a solid read/opinion on the current state of the game, instead saying she "generally sees the good in everyone".

Here she again downplays her ability to lie/be mafia

Here She offers 3 "reads". I say "reads" because they're "This person hasn't done anything noteworthy yet, this person is quiet, and this person is confusing" which mean nothing to me and could be taken any number of ways.

Has a bit of an exchange with Golden that doesn't seem to be amounting to much

Then forgets when the poll ends.

Overall Read - I don't like the "teehee I'm bad at being bad" stuff generally speaking. I don't think the reads she's offered up have any meat to them, and I think her G-Man post is buddying. Nothing I'm reading from her is quite worth a vote just yet but Bea is not comfortably outside of my radar by any means.

DFaraday - 1 post

Nothing here worth looking into or posting about, moving on!

Dr Wilgy - 15 posts

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Here an early vote for Scotty that does not appear very serious. Which is then "revoked" here and replaced with a vote for Sig that doesn't appear very serious. Lots of licking summarized here

Overall Read - Doc is a strange guy and (intentionally) hard to nail down early. If later contributions are at this level I'm worried, but for now, nothing to make hay over.

Eloh - 12 Posts

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Here is the Post Heard Round The World, Eloh attaches onto Sloonei's "suspicion" of sig, pointing out that she is not a fan of changing votes and would r ather take the day to consider things. Says that the only way sig would know votes were changeable would be after he'd voted (making his hasty vote suspect). Defends herself here by saying that Rule #5 says votes are "maybe" changeable. Says she'd read the ROLES, including "Moveable Votes", but didn't understand it. Claims she'd confused it for a RULE, but after sleeping on it sees the error she made. Retracts her sig suspicion.

Here and Here defends herself from mine and Scotty's comments by saying we ought to "know" to give her "leeway" and that she "wasn't lying". I confess to having intentionally responded only with a to see what shook loose (if either she would respond defensively, or if someone would take the crumb and run with it, both of which happened).

Here is an exchange with Scotty. Scotty is saying Eloh "presented her suspicion in so many words" and dropped it "without offering any other reads for other players". Eloh's response is that "day one reads are a shot in the dark" and "there was a lot going on" at the time of her post. My two cents being that Eloh made a gut read oon sig based on faulty/misunderstood info, retracted it when she was found to have been misinformed, end of. I don't agree with the assertion by Scotty that she was obligated to offer another read or that she is suspicious for not having done so. Then Eloh makes some pretty generic statements about how mafia would act, and uses that to cast suspicion onto Scotty by saying he is being "kind of silly/off topic and distracting from gameplay". How that holds up will have to wait until I read Scotty's posts.

Here responds more in detail by offering commentary on my questions to Scotty, calling Scottys response "very bad". Says she's not voting for people she doesn't know.

Criticizes NotAnAxehole [url=https://www.mafiathesyndicate.com/viewtopic.php?p=966070#p966070]Here For being pessimistic about the lynch prospects.

Here Sees Scotty's response as him "edging off" his suspicion of her. Refuses to offer a baddie read when asked, but offers a tame, relatively safe "bea is a civ because she would have had teammates to tell her when the poll ends" read.

Overall Read - Indie probably.

Fingersplints - 13 Posts

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After some N0 Fluff Defends NotAnAxhole's behavior as "NAI" when Llama starts sniffing around, but also says that llama's line of questioning is good. So a net 0.

[url=https://www.mafiathesyndicate.com/viewtopic.php?p=966005#p966005]Here Doesn't like the Eloh/Scotty discourse. Says Eloh was "quick to jump on" the sig stuff, but defends her and offers that it would've been "easier for mafia Eloh to leave the suspicion on sig", which I disagree with because it was such an easily disprovable suspicion. Says Scotty was "quick to jump on Eloh" which I agree with. Turns out Splints does want to jump into the Eloh/Scotty discourse, but may not want to look like she did.

Votes for Sloonei because she has "high expectations" and wants to see where they're at.

Sniffs out that Llama left out DFaraday as a low poster[url] (when Llama was saying that mafia are laying low/low posting).


Overall Read - I wanna see where the llama stuff goes. I'm leaning civ for Splints atm.

G-Man - 13 posts [spoiler] [url=http ... 65904]Here After some Night 0 fluff and catching up and whatnot, offers some mechanical insight into the game (specifically the adverb mechanics).

Here Says he's "useless" on Day 1.

Here Defends NotAnAxehole's behavior as "NAI" and suggests that we "ignore some of his punchier tendencies".

Here says that Llama being "loose" is a good sign

Here Says he doesn't want to lynch anyone with a low post count (LoRab, DF, Kate). Says he thinks Llama is good and that Eloh is "Bait". Doesn't want to lynch Vivax because they're new to each other. Thinks that "chopping from the top half of the post count" will yield the most content. (Scotty, Sloonei, Golden, Me, Bea, Michelle, and NAA)

Hesitates based on the Rez Mechanic.

Overall Read - Saying that you want a more productive Day 1 and then giving people who are being the least productive on Day 1 a lynch pass, while singling out the people who are giving you what you asked for as worth lynching is a bad look. Offering little "meat" yourself while requesting it from others is another bad look. My man is not a civ. [/spoiler]

Taking a break from my reads for now.

It’s not a slam dunk because D1 reads are never slam dunks. I’m like the looney tunes when the monstars suck the power away. I