The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote:Three bad lynches and game over.

I know, I'm sorry! I thought Barry would kill at least one baddie before getting himself killed.

Sometimes, no matter how hard one strives, no matter how carefully laid the plans, circumstances conspire to ruin any chances of success. Such was the case with young Redmond Barry, whose abbreviated career never displayed the promise offered by his ambition.

Epignosis has been killed. The Captains have won the game.
Congratulations to a2thezebra, Long Con, Metalmarsh89 and Sorsha.

In hindsight, I suppose this could be regarded as another failed Llama experiment. Although I don't think the game was unbalanced so much as heavily dependent on the first day/night cycle. A successful lynch combined with a kill by Barry would have left the mafia decimated almost before they began. However, Rocochet(Barry) had the misfortune to draw the first night kill, which lefts the civilians without much hope.

I apologize for the brevity of the game, but I hope people had gun all the same. Thank you, as ever, for playing!

Sometimes a stranger, met in a chance encounter, can profoundly influence the course of events in a life through unexpected kindness. Sometimes, that kindness is punished instead of rewarded.

Dfaraday has been lunched. He was Lischen.
You have 24 hours to submit your night action.

DrWilgy wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Thellama73, permission to change my vote?

Permission denied.

Llama, permission to be unbelievably attractive?

Linki - and would and angel lie?

Granted!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Thellama73, permission to change my vote?

Permission denied.

It did not take long for the travelers to decide that Prussia was no place for those who wished to rise through the ranks of society into amore comfortable life. For that, one needed money, and the meager wages of an infantryman would never suffice for such grand aspirations as our participants had. If was therefore into the gambling parlours that they ventured, where the prospect, not only of winning money, but of making the acquaintance of influential people who could help them along their way was promising indeed. It was too bad the Chevalier was already dead, and also Serge.


Serge has been killed.
It is now Day 4. You have 48 hours to lynch a Captain.

Who shall we lynch for a cowardly deserter?

Poll ended at Wed May 11, 2016 5:22:42 pm


agleaminranks


5
Scotty (2), DFaraday (6), S~V~S (7), Metalmarsh89 (11), birdwithteeth11 (12)
38%

birdwithteeth11


1
Long Con (5)
8%

DFaraday


0

No votes

DrWilgy


1
agleaminranks (8)
8%

Epignosis


0

No votes

Long Con


0

No votes

Metalmarsh89


0

No votes

Scotty


2
Serge (4), DrWilgy (9)
15%

Serge


0

No votes

Sorsha


2
Sorsha (10), Epignosis (13)
15%

S~V~S


0

No votes

Prussia (Host/Mod/Dead/NP)


2
thellama73 (1), MovingPictures07 (3)
15%



Total votes : 13

Prussia proved to be every bit as cruel and unforgiving as life in the ENglish infantry, and no one felt this cruelty more keenly than aleaminranks. After a couple of weeks, his companions could no longer stomach his company, and summarily executed him. They were tired of being cheated out of their wages anyway.

agleaminranks has been lynched. He was the Chevalier du Baribari.
You have 24 hours to submit your PMs.

Apologies for the late post, folks. I was unexpectedly called away from my computer. Working on it now.

Scotty wrote: Hey @HOST!!
Is the one captain in charge of the kill required to be the one to supply it, or can his/her teammates speak on his behalf?

I decided to disallow group PMs this game.

Protestations notwithstanding, the royal army can only be withstood for so long, and it wasn't long before the assembled group found themselves whisked away to fight in a war they knew, nor cared, nothing about.

But fortune has a way of favoring the bold, and opportunities abound for a sly and enterprising young soul to avoid doing his duty. Just such an opportunity came not long after they had made the crossing onto the continent. A bout of stomach flu had seized the entire ranks of commanding officers, and the motley party used this an excuse to slip off into the woods, unnoticed. It was in this way that they managed to escape military service, and flee to Prussia. But that too was to have its own problems, as they were soon to find out.

No one has been killed.
It is now Day 3. You have 48 hours to lynch a Captain.

Fury among the commoners at the murder of Ricochet quickly bubbled up to the point of insurrection. Numerous and well trained though the army was, they could nevertheless not act fast enough to prevent the assembled throng from seizing one of their own and exacting bloody satisfaction

By the time they were able to shove the peasants back into their proper place, one of their own lay dead and bleeding, staining the green Irish clover red beneath her still-warm body.

a2thezebra has been lynched. She was Captain Grogan.
YOu have 24 hours to submit your PMs.

Who put Ricochet in his place?

Poll runs till Sun May 08, 2016 5:17:37 pm


a2thezebra
4
DrWilgy (4), Serge (7), S~V~S (9), Long Con (10) 33%
agleaminranks
2
Scotty (11), DFaraday (12) 17%
birdwithteeth11
0
No votes
DFaraday
0
No votes
DrWilgy
1
a2thezebra (2) 8%
Epignosis
0
No votes
Long Con
0
No votes
Movingpictures07
0
No votes
Scotty
0
No votes
Serge
0
No votes
Sorsha
0
No votes
S~V~S
1
Epignosis (6) 8%
Ryan O'Neal
4
thellama73 (1), Metalmarsh89 (3), ika (5), sig (8)

Scotty wrote:5/12 missing votes and the poll ends in 10 minutes. Yeesh.

Makes me really wonder why we even bother with 48 hour periods.

Right?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Hi everyone!

I'm down for a Ryan O'Neal lynch, because that's who I'm currently voting for.

That is an illegal vote, MM. Don't make me regret letting you sub in.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Effective immediately, this guy is replacing MovingPictures07.

Morning dawned on the sleepy Irish village with a thunderous clamoring. War had arrived! Or, to be more precise, the representatives of a foreign war, which for reasons ill understood by the local populace, demanded their sons and husbands go and fight for a cause, they knew not what.

Displeased at the injustice of being conscripted by Englishmen, of all people, young Ricochet stepped forward and, his brow flushed with anger, spat right into the face of one of the recruiting officers. For this insolence, his punishment was swift and decisive.

Ricochet has been killed.
You have 48 hours to lynch a Captain.

My idiot friend bailed on me so I got the post up on time after all.

Oh, how unsportsmanlike! Men are supposed to duel to prove their honor. Men! However, in your haste for bloodshed, you have inadvertently caught an old and defenseless woman in the crossfire. Shame on all Irish scum for such a crime. Then again, she was only a peasant, and probably without long to live in any case. Oh well, that's the way the potato crumbles.

Sig has been lynched. He was Belle, Redmond Barry's mother.
YOu have 24 hours to submit your night actions

Who is a scoundrel and a rogue (Take 2)

Poll ended at Thu May 05, 2016 5:34:14 pm


a2thezebra
0
No votes
agleaminranks
0
No votes
birdwithteeth11
0
No votes
DFaraday
0
No votes
DrWilgy
3
sig (2), Sorsha (9), birdwithteeth11 (13) 21%
Epignosis
0
No votes
Long Con
1
Epignosis (11) 7%
Movingpictures07
0
No votes
Ricochet
0
No votes
Scotty
0
No votes
Serge
3
Scotty (5), DFaraday (8), Ricochet (14) 21%
Sig
3
a2thezebra (3), S~V~S (10), Long Con (12) 21%
Sorsha
0
No votes
S~V~S
0
No votes
William Makepeace Thackeray (Host/Mod/Dead/Non-Player)
4
thellama73 (1), JaggedJimmyJay (4), ika (6), Metalmarsh89 (7) 29%
Total votes : 14

An hour to go with ten votes missing. Don't make me regret giving you guys 48 hour days by not taking advantage of them.

Hey players, a friend is unexpectedly coming over for drinks/dinner this afternoon, so the host post will probably be late. I apologize for any inconvenience.

birdwithteeth11 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

S~V~S wrote:I thought we had 48 hours? That was what Llama had said in signups?

I am so sorry I missed it.

llama dun goofed.

I sure dun. I'm going to reset the poll for another day. Sorry everyone, you'll have to revote!

I will hold you personally responsible for all failures.

In my defense, I think the site goofed instead of me. When I went to edit the poll, it was set for two days. No idea why it closed after one.

Anyway, Stanley Kubrick was famous for making actors do many, many takes, so let's go with that. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Epignosis wrote:

S~V~S wrote:I thought we had 48 hours? That was what Llama had said in signups?

I am so sorry I missed it.

llama dun goofed.

I sure dun. I'm going to reset the poll for another day. Sorry everyone, you'll have to revote!

S~V~S wrote: I am sorry if that came across as a criticism; it was just an observation. I think poll threads spoil us to some extent.

Oh don't worry. I didn't interpret it as a criticism.

S~V~S wrote: I see there is no poll thread. Is he the only one not to check in?

There will be a polls thread for subsequent polls. I just didn't see a point for the first one.

S~V~S wrote:So what do you say? Or do you only post pseudo on topic/off topic posts?

Llama,has everyone picked up their PMs?

Pfft, I'm not going to tell you that.

It was a bright spring morning, and green as ever the emerald isle was, but indigence married with ambition drive men to do strange things. An assembled and motley crowd watched in eager fascination as it became apparent that violence was to ensue. Rumours abounded that someone in the village, perhaps more than one someone, bore the helpless peasants ill will, and tales of war in England certainly did nothing to assuage their petty anxieties.

Tensions such as these cannot be sustained indefinitely, and so it was to no one's surprise that the cries for blood were not long in coming. But whose blood would it be? Would the officers of that ruthless military reap what they had sown, or would the violent act fall upon one of the people's own, good and true?

You have 48 hours to lynch a Captain.

S~V~S wrote:I mean that I am in the bathroom at work on my phone. Do the satirical essays of Swift have any beating on the game? Will this info be something I need for game purposes?

No, you don't need to read it.

S~V~S wrote:So it's off topic?

Depends on your point of view, I suppose.

S~V~S wrote:Is this in the wrong thread?

If I'm not mistaken, he is making light of the plight of the starving Irish in this game's setting by posting the famous satirical essay "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift, in which he proposes to solve the Irish famine by eating babies.

Epignosis wrote:...

A very modest proposal indeed.

S~V~S wrote:The only way I have seen cross affiliation BTSC happen is if at least one of the parties goes in as their role, not as the player.

@Llama, is that the case? Also, if Barry's son is NKed, Barry will know his role since it effects his win con? Barry can win with the Captains?

Nora Brady and Captain Quin will not know each other's identities unless one of them gets too blabby. Barry will know if he drops a rank in the hierarchy, but he can't drop below peasant, so he may not know if Bryan is killed, depending on circumstances. Barry can win with the Captains as long as he is alive and a Lord when they achieve their win condition.

Ah, what a glorious day in God's green Ireland. If only everyone wasn't so dratted poor, and if only there weren't so many thieves, scoundrels, rogues, and various other criminals skulking about. What one wants s to pull oneself up by the bootstraps. Sure, and that's the way to success and happiness in this life, me lads. Best get to work, right after you finish chopping that pile of wood!

All role PMs have been sent. If you did not receive a role, please notify me at once.
Day 0 will last 24 hours and exists only for you to check in before the mayhem begins. Make the most of it, and have fun!
You may now post.

The second in my ambitious series of Kubrick themed mafias, based on my second favorite Kubrick film. This will be a straightforward game with no secrets and everything out in the open, only with an added Hierarchy mechanic. This being a story of people swept along by the whim of circumstance, the individual players are fairly limited in their night powers, but I do not think that will lessen the fun substantially.

Roles:

Redmond Barry - An opportunistic Irish lad determined to advance his station in the world. He attempts to kill every night, but the kill only succeeds if it targets someone of the next higher class (Barry starts as a peasant, so first must kill a soldier, and then a noble.) When such a kill succeeds, Barry advances to the class of the person killed. In order to win, Barry must be alive and at the highest social station at the end of the game.

Lords and Ladies

Lady Lyndon - Wealthy Noblewoman on whom Barry has his eye. Has BTSC with Reverend Runt


Sir Charles Lyndon - Lady Lyndon's infirm husband. He is too weak to do much, but Barry cannot advance to the rank of Nobility while he lives


Lord Bullingdon - Barry's son-in-law who hates and resents the Irish commoner who would usurp his family's good name and squander their fortune. Each night, he searches for Barry. If he finds him, they have a duel which only one can survive.


The Chevalier de Balibari - A professional gambler. Each night he selects another player and wagers a number of lynch votes of his choosing. A game of chance commences and the loser takes that many lynch votes on the following day. The Chevalier cheats, so the odds are slightly in his favor.

The Lords and Ladies win when the Captains are dead.

The Captains

Captain Potzdorf - Officer in the Prussian army. He kills every night and if he is killed his power moves to someone else.


Captain John Quin - Barry's rival for the affections of Nora. Has BTSC with Nora.


Captain Grogan - An old friend of Barry's and also an officer in the British army. Cannot be killed by Barry


Captain Feeney - A famous highwayman. Each night he can rob one player of their vote and use it for his own purposes.

The Captains have BTSC with each other and win when they outnumber the remaining players.

Peasants, Servants and Children

Reverend Samuel Runt - Longtime tutor to the Lyndon children. Loyal to Lady Lyndon and has BTSC with her.


Belle, Barry's Mother - A doting mother willing to do anything for her boy. Has BTSC with Barry.


Nora Brady - Barry's first love, but rejects him in favor of the wealthy Captain Quin. Has BTSC with Captain Quin.


Bryan Lyndon - Barry's beloved son. If he dies, Barry turns to drink and drops a rank in the hierarchy.


Lischen - A German peasant maid. She can provide nourishment to weary travelers, which they can use to remove lynch votes from themselves.

The Peasants, Servants and Children win when all the Captains are dead.

Rules
1. No unauthorized BTSC
2. No role outing, info dumping, or fun ruining.
3. No editing or deleting of posts
4. No hissy fits or temper tantrums.
5. No on topic posting from the dead or non-players.
6. Days will last 48 hours, night will last 24 hours.
7. Any player who does not post, vote, or send in a PM for a period of 72 hours will be deemed a non-participant and their P-Score affected.
8. The Host reserves the right to change or add to these rules without notice.

Player List
a2thezebra - Capatin Grogan - Lynched Day 2
agleaminranks - The Chevalier - Lynched Day 3
birdwithteeth11
DFaraday
DrWilgy
Epignosis
Long Con
Marmotpictures87
Ricochet - Killed Night 1
Scotty
Serge - Killed Night 3
Sig - Belle - Lynched Day 1
Sorsha
S~V~S