The Syndicate

I will start the game today, don't worry!

Yay! Three more! Make this my best birthday ever and sign up by tomorrow!

Four more, guys! Let's get this started by my birthday! (Saturday)

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Vompatti wrote:

A Person wrote:

Vompatti wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Doodle?

i like eno butt i don't like mafia

what if i said i'm happier when you're there with me? <3

i dunno k

If you tell me what you dislike about mafia, I can then explain to you why this game will have none of the things you dislike.

What if I tell you I like mafia for the same reasons vompernoodle dislikes it?

Then I will either have to pick a favorite between the two of you, or convince you both that your likes/dislikes will be simultaneously catered to.

Vompatti wrote:

A Person wrote:

Vompatti wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Doodle?

i like eno butt i don't like mafia

what if i said i'm happier when you're there with me? <3

i dunno k

If you tell me what you dislike about mafia, I can then explain to you why this game will have none of the things you dislike.

Vompatti wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Doodle?

i like eno butt i don't like mafia

I like you, but I don't like Dr. Pepper.

Mongoose wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Urgh this so tempting. But I'm so buuuuusy.

Busy having Thanksgiving with me, you mean.

This is for sure only 6/6?

Would I lie about a thing like that?

Halfway full! Yay!

And I bought two new ENo records over the weekend to help inspire me (Small Craft on a Milk Sea and Music For Films 2)

Mongoose wrote:Urgh this so tempting. But I'm so buuuuusy.

Busy having Thanksgiving with me, you mean.

S~V~S wrote:I AM talking about Eno.

I signed up to play, so I have no problems being a troll. I think Eno is boring~ he is an awesome collaborator/mentor. The Talking Heads did their best work under his wing. Maybe working with others tempers his overwhelming grandiosity. On his own, he's basically pretentious elevator music

Trolling Achievement Points UNLOCKED Booyah!


*Crawls back under the bridge*

I can see how you could think his ambient music is boring (although I disagree) but have you heard his rock stuff, like from his first solo album, Here Come the Warm Jets?

MovingPictures07 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Inspired by this thread, I went out to buy whatever Eno record I could find. The only one in town was Someday World, the 2014 collaboration with Karl Hyde. Listening to it now. It's weird. Kind of an electro-funk feel. I think I generally like it though.

I haven't heard that one... worth checking out?

It's different, but I like it. Sort of a modern electronica take on Talking Heads.

Inspired by this thread, I went out to buy whatever Eno record I could find. The only one in town was Someday World, the 2014 collaboration with Karl Hyde. Listening to it now. It's weird. Kind of an electro-funk feel. I think I generally like it though.

It's a shame that ambient music has come to mean those trite meditation CDs when Eno's work is so profound and beautiful. Plateaux of Mirrors is definitely one of his best.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Did you hear Small Craft on a Milk Sea from 2010? It's very good.

I haven't heard any of his newer stuff, but that one and Lux both look good to me. I want to check them out when I have the opportunity.

MovingPictures07 wrote: I've heard Ambient 1, 2, and 4 so many times I've lost track ages ago. Genius.

What about Ambient 3? I like that one. I actually don't have Ambient 4. I've been meaning to plug a few holes in my ENo collection with that one, 801 live, the collab between Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico and Eno, Fourth World, Clsuter and Eno, and Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundscapes. Maybe after Christmas I'll go on an Eno buying binge.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Another Green World is a top 10 desert island record for me.

The four vocal albums from the 70s are all five star records for me, but my favorites in order are:
Before and After Science
Another Green World
Here Come the Warm Jets
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy

Of course, I also adore his ambient work, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and his collaborations with Bowie.

It's going to be a straightforward game. Not many secrets, not many side games or contests. The timed game and the win conditions are the extent of the complexity.

Yay! It occurs to me that some people not know who Eno is. He is a musician, singer, producer, conceptual artist, the inventor of the ambient music genre, he worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo, U2 (ugh), Robert Fripp, Cluster, Harold Budd, and others. He wrote the startup sound for Windows 95. You should all know him and love him, and playing this game is a good way to start.

This will be a somewhat unusual, conceptual game of three teams lasting six days and six nights.

The teams start with no BTSC, but gradually gain it as the days progress. When a killer dies, the power does not pass to other team members.

Roles:
Gals - Only surviving members win
Cindy Tells Me - Can send an anonymous PM to one player each Night
Baby ’s On Fire - Kills Nightly
Judy’s Jungle - Role block
Julie With... - Protect
The Fat Lady of Limburg - Gains BTSC with one teammate daily
Miss Shapiro - Can control one player’s vote


Fellas - Kill as many animals as you can - Team wins if has more surviving members than animals
St. Elmo’s Fire - Splits Ions in the Ether
Kurt’s Rejoinder - Retaliates against any night actions used against him.
Blank Frank - Kills nightly
The Great Pretender - A Seemer role
Third Uncle - Gains BTSC with one teammate daily
Energy Fools the Magician - Insanifier


Animals - Maintain an even balance between gals and fellas - Survival not necessary
Spider and I - Gains BTSC with one teammate daily
Somber Reptiles - Add a lynch vote
Little Fishes - Subtract a lynch vote
The Camel - Sticks needles in your eye, making you vote blindly (randomly)
Mother Whale Eyeless - Team checks. Immune to the camel
An Arc of Doves - Protect

Locations:
Over Fire Island
In Dark Trees
By This River
Tiger Mountain
China My China
On Some Faraway Beach

Secret Hidden Location

Player List
1. insertnamehere
2. Boogs
3. MovingPictures07
4. Dominus
5. Black Rock
6. sabie12
7. Metalmarsh89
8. S~V~S
9. Ninja Blooper
10. Mongoose
11. A Person
12. Vompatti
13. Roxy
14. Bass Something Something Clever
15. DFaraday
16. Snow Dog
17. Juliets
18. Triceratopzeuhl