The Syndicate

RIP you three. Sucks. I wasn't reading any of you as mafia, but wasn't strong town reading any of you either.

I can empathize; I used to get lynched on or before Day 3 pretty often for a while there.

Voted.

I've read a bit more of the thread. Consider my strong support of juliets being civilian withdrawn.

Not sure why sig was unanimously lynched like that. Feels like deja vu.

I thought you were civilian, sig! I think. :P

I haven't been following the game D2 that much, really, been preoccupied with other things.

S~V~S wrote:Well, we all talked about it and she would rather stay in baddie chat, so no baddies for you

Can't say I blame her.

zebra should come in and just tell us who her teammates are. :P

Seriously though, I'd rather remain unspoiled.

S~V~S wrote:That was an oversight I changed it to 5 options.

Going to have to think about this.

JJJ's teammate interactions are yummy food for my hungry analytic-driven mafia brain. I feel as though I should have some solid suspicions (rather than vague reads as I did Day 1), given zebra's flip, but it hasn't all sunk in fully yet.

Typhoony wrote:Aw we can only vote one person in the poll.

So I voted Zebra

Cheater. :P

I'll be shocked if Juliets and HBoy are mafia.

Turnip Head wrote:Sad to see Zeebs go, she's a fun player. And her role had a secret trigger which, if it had happened, would have been truly hilarious.

But I'm especially heartbroken to see the Barry Allen role gone so soon RIP DFaraday.

Indeed, those both seemed like great roles and they are both players I enjoy watching / playing alongside!

When are they going to show their faces here?

Having only gotten a glimpse at the roles this game with just 3 reveals, my hat is off to both of you, TH and S~V~S, for melding these games together with awesome dynamics. Such intriguing reinventions of roles so far!

Typhoony wrote:MP and me voted Zebra in the D1 poll

And I named Epi and zebra my top 2 baddie reads.

G-Man wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Typh, G-Man, care to explain any of your mafia reads as per your votes in the poll? Both of you can bring great insight to the table, so I'm curious what you're currently thinking.

I haven't been reading much at all. I just picked the people I would initially suspect to be baddies given their civvie/baddie ratios for the year.

That's understandable, I've probably read half the thread or so.

Typhoony wrote:Is this role different that how it originally was?

Also, there are apparently items in the game

Yes, definitely. But the Donner Party was a game where Roxy experimented with shifting alignments and roles, so it inevitably needed to be rewritten extensively.

Wow, what a result! Never expected that role to be reinvented like that, but that was a genius reinvention of it.

Typh, G-Man, care to explain any of your mafia reads as per your votes in the poll? Both of you can bring great insight to the table, so I'm curious what you're currently thinking.

I'm 100% with JJJ here; this is the post that has most bothered me from Zebra as well:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

a2thezebra wrote:Everything HBoy has said regarding Rico is leading me to believe he's desperately trying to save his teammate.

Curious to hear what he'll have to say when he speaks normally again.

Alright, I've voted in the poll... with my uninformed (and probably wrong) opinions. Zebra and Epi are my top two mafia reads at the moment, but I don't feel remotely confident about that.

juliets is my top civilian read at the moment.

As to the mafia... need to mull over that some more.

I'm surprised as well, especially since Epi brought up Media. There are definitely players who are playing GoC, have played Death Note, and apparently not considered that role's inclusion.

When changeable votes started to be experimented with, by Epi if I remember correctly, I hated them. Seemed like a more baddie-friendly feature than civilian-friendly to me.

Since playing on RYM and other sites throughout 2015, I began to see the merit of changeable votes, and over time I've actually warmed up to them, and now I prefer them. Never thought that day would ever come... it took some time to convince me of their benefit, but playing on RYM especially I saw how changeable votes allow civilians to better put pressure on players and more flexibly vote up through EoD. They also can be effectively used to make mafia uncomfortable as much as, if not more than, civilians. In addition, they can be cast when players are afraid of missing the deadline, but changed if that player does in fact make it before EoD, a situation I've been in before and sometimes wished I could change my vote when votes were nonchangeable. That said, there are definitely pros and cons for both.

Also, regarding Ricochet's weird behavior, has anyone considered that he might be Sidoh from Death Note?

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Independent (1)

Sidoh wins if he both makes his existence known to everyone and retrieves his Death Note from whoever has it; assuming he has completed both, he can then win with any team.

Sidoh – A shinigami whose Death Note was stolen, he searches for Ryuk every night to retrieve his notebook. If he finds Mello, something happens. As a shinigami, he cannot be harmed by humans, nor can he be seen by humans who have not made contact with his Death Note. Because he is a shinigami, votes by humans in lynches do not affect him, and writing his name down in a Death Note will not kill him. Thus, he cannot be lynched or night killed. However, if he is about to be killed for the second time, although he will still not die, his existence will be made aware to everyone, outing him. Every night he searches for his Death Note, which was stolen by Ryuk. If he finds Mello, Sidoh reveals himself to Mello and they gain BTSC. Every night he must also pick four roles and publicly reveal their secrets so that everyone is made aware; all of these selections cannot be from the same team, unless only one team has secrets remaining. Once Sidoh finds his Death Note, he steals it from its current owner, ending that player's ability to kill with the notebook. As a shinigami, like Ryuk, he does not kill players using his notebook. After he has revealed all of the role secrets, more secrets are revealed, but are represented in tildes. These additional secrets are secrets that were not explicit in each player's role PM, and thus the player who has that role may or may not be aware of them. Any letters revealed among the tildes are only made known to Sidoh, not publicly. Every time Sidoh successfully solves a role's additional secrets behind the scenes, those secrets are revealed publicly in full. For every role's secrets that Sidoh solves with four or less revealed letters, both Sidoh and the player whose additional role secrets he has solved, assuming that player is still alive, gain an extra vote to be used secretly in any subsequent lynch.

The role would have to be edited to fit this game, but it's the 2015 role possibility that most explains his current behavior IMO. Turnip Head had this role in the original game, and he posted nearly 1,000 posts by the game's completion, and successfully was able to get himself lynched twice in order to satisfy his win condition.

I can contact HamburgerBoy on RYM. Surprised no one else has done so. I'll do it now.

Hi everyone! Just wanted to pop in and say hello.

I haven't really read any of the game, though I've read some of the most current page. I'm intrigued and wanted to start properly reading, but I doubt I will due to lack of time and an insane post count. What a talkative thread!