The Syndicate

thellama73 wrote:It just occurred to me. Why is Guess Who followed by a question mark? It's not a question, it's an imperative. It should be Guess Who! And your husband is an English teacher.

I guess because the original game had it that way. But you are right. Now it makes me want to change the banners, but I will refrain. They took me two hours this morning (Again, Paint. I really need to learn how to use a more efficient program.)

DharmaHelper wrote:If you remember, first is the worst. second is the best.

Oh my goodness, I LOLed for real. So who's got the hairy chest?

Mafia -
Dragon D. Luffy
Epignosis
Golden
spacedaisy

Civilians -
Black Rock
Splints
G-Man
Hedge
MetalMarsh
Missing Person
Niju
Rico
Roxy
Llama
Timmer
Turnip Head

Day 1
Missing Votes: Hedge, Missing Person, Turnip Head

Night 1
Anonymous Votes:
Black Rock - Hedgeowl
Splints -
G-Man - Timmer
Hedge -
MetalMarsh - Roxy
Missing Person - Roxy
Niju - Spacedaisy
Rico - Timmer
Roxy - Epi
Llama - Golden
Timmer - Roxy

Question: Is a member of the Mafia was wearing a bow tie? Answer: Yes (DDL)

Night Kill: Ricochet

Day 2
Missing Votes: Black Rock, fingersplints, Hedgeowl, Metalmarsh, Missing Person, Niju, timmer

Night 2
Anonymous Votes:
Black Rock -
Splints - G-Man
G-Man - Epignosis
Hedge -
MetalMarsh - llama
Missing Person -
Niju -
Roxy - G-Man
Llama - G-Man
Timmer -

G-Man was killed. No question was asked.

Night Kill:
G-Man


Day 3
Missing Votes: Hedgeowl, Missing Person, Roxy, spacedaisy

Night 3
Anonymous Votes:
Black Rock - MetalMarsh
Splints -
Hedge -
MetalMarsh - Timmer
Missing Person -
Niju - MetalMarsh
Roxy - Epignosis
Llama - Epignosis
Timmer - MetalMarsh

Question: Is a member of the mafia wearing sunglasses? Answer: Yes. (Golden)

Night Kill:
fingersplints

Day 4
Missing Votes: Hedgeowl, Missing Person

Night 4
Anonymous Votes:
Black Rock -
Hedge -
MetalMarsh - Epi
Niju - Epi
Roxy - Epi
Llama - Roxy
Timmer -

Epi was a member of mafia. No question was asked.

Night Kill:
Roxy

Day 5
Missing Votes: Hedgeowl, timmer

Night 5
Anonymous Votes:
Black Rock -
Hedge -
MetalMarsh -
Niju - Epi
Timmer -

No question as Epi got the most votes for the second time and he is mafia.

Night Kill:
Black Rock

Day 6
Missing Votes: Hedgeowl

**Missing Votes -
- Green = 1 missed vote
- Orange = 2 missed votes
- Purple = 3 or more missed votes and participation score is affected.

As stated in my first post:
Night Action - Civilians vote for a player via PM (you may not vote yourself). The winning player gets to PM the host a yes or no question about a Mafia member. Once you've asked a question about the Mafia, anonymous votes for you will no longer count.
- Acceptable question example: Does a member of the Mafia have red hair?
- Unacceptable question example: Is so-and-so a Mafia member?

I never said you may not inform the thread that you have had or have not had the opportunity to ask a question or what that question was that you asked. But, you may not give the answer to the thread or use the information that you receive to build a case.

For example,

- "I think Llama is bad (I know I pick on llama a lot) b/c I asked the host if a member of the mafia has a mustache and llama has one." That is a no no.
- Or, "Hey guys....I really think that Roxy is bad b/c she has glasses on." That is a no no.
- Also, "I really think a member of the mafia may be someone who has a necklace on." No no.

If you get info on a member of the mafia...keep it to yourself and use it to help build a real case on the person you believe to be mafia.

This evening, Epi and I will be at band practice. Therefore, I will not be able to write the host post until we get home around 9pm.

Also, to those that are voting/participating in the thread, thank you. The mother/teacher in me wants to give you all a reward. Haha...maybe I will reward you all with a participation ribbon at the end of the game . I always felt participation awards were quite stupid, but now that I am hosting alone for the first time, I feel a bit differently.

Happy 4th from me and from my crazy three!

timmer wrote:I'm hungover as fuck. I'll be participatory starting tomorrow. Ugh.

Hung over at 2:17pm. What country might you be from?

Golden wrote:I'm also getting more and more suspicious of MM's approach to me. He demanded I answer what I think is a very strange question, and in doing so continued to avoid answering mine - which is why did he misrepresent my post. When I quote people, I don't cut it off half sentence... I quote the whole sentence or paragraph for context and underline the relevant bit. That felt really snaky to me.

Also, elo, is talking about the name we might PM in allowed or not?

Not allowed. Sorry I didn't put that in the rules, I guess I should have.

Black Rock
0
No votes

Dragon D. Luffy
3
Epignosis (7), nijuukyugou (8), fingersplints (11)
20%

Epignosis
0
No votes

fingersplints
0
No votes

G-Man
0
No votes

Golden
2
Metalmarsh89 (4), Roxy (9)
13%

Hedgeowl
0
No votes

MetalMarsh89
0
No votes

Missing Person
3
Dragon D. Luffy (12), Ricochet (13), Golden (15)
20%

nijuukyugou
0
No votes

Ricochet
0
No votes

Roxy
0
No votes

spacedaisy
1
timmer (5)
7%

thellama73
0
No votes

timmer
0
No votes

Turnip Head
4
thellama73 (2), G-Man (3), Black Rock (10), Spacedaisy (14)
27%

Two-Face (Host,Dead,None)
2
Elohcin (1), S~V~S (6)
13%

Black Rock
1
Dragon D. Luffy (3)
11%

Dragon D. Luffy
5
G-Man (4), Roxy (5), Epignosis (6), Golden (7), thellama73 (8)
56%

Epignosis
0
No votes

fingersplints
0
No votes

G-Man
0
No votes

Golden
1
Spacedaisy (9)
11%

Hedgeowl
0
No votes

MetalMarsh89
0
No votes

Missing Person
0
No votes

nijuukyugou
0
No votes

Roxy
0
No votes

spacedaisy
0
No votes

thellama73
0
No votes

timmer
0
No votes

The Man Without A Face (Host,Dead,None)
2
S~V~S (1), Elohcin (2)
22%

Black Rock
2
nijuukyugou (6), thellama73 (8)
18%

Epignosis
0
No votes

fingersplints
0
No votes

Golden
0
No votes

Hedgeowl
0
No votes

MetalMarsh89
1
Golden (10)
9%

Missing Person
1
Epignosis (7)
9%

nijuukyugou
0
No votes

Roxy
0
No votes

spacedaisy
4
timmer (3), Metalmarsh89 (4), fingersplints (9), Black Rock (11)
36%

thellama73
0
No votes

timmer
0
No votes

Poker Face (Host,Dead,None)
3
G-Man (1), Dragon D. Luffy (2), Elohcin (5)
27%
Black Rock
0
No votes

Epignosis
0
No votes

Golden
0
No votes

Hedgeowl
0
No votes

MetalMarsh89
0
No votes

Missing Person
5
timmer (4), thellama73 (5), Golden (7), nijuukyugou (9), Epignosis (10)
45%

nijuukyugou
0
No votes

Roxy
1
Metalmarsh89 (6)
9%

thellama73
2
Roxy (8), Black Rock (11)
18%

timmer
0
No votes

The Face by Gentle Giant (Host,Dead,None)
3
Elohcin (1), fingersplints (2), Dragon D. Luffy (3)
27%
Black Rock
0
No votes

Epignosis
0
No votes

Golden
1
thellama73 (6)
9%

Hedgeowl
0
No votes

MetalMarsh89
1
Golden (4)
9%

nijuukyugou
0
No votes

thellama73
4
Black Rock (5), Metalmarsh89 (9), Epignosis (10), nijuukyugou (11)
36%

timmer
0
No votes

Killface (Host,Dead,None)
5
Elohcin (1), Dragon D. Luffy (2), MovingPictures07 (3), G-Man (7), Roxy (8)

Golden wrote:PS Elo I like a host who talks I do it too when I host.

Good, b/c I like to talk I am surrounded by children most of the time and I work alone, so I get almost embarrassingly excited for adult interaction.

thellama73 wrote:

G-Man wrote:

thellama73 wrote: The probability of any player being bad is therefore 4 / 12 = 0.33, so the odds of lynching a civilian from a random vote are 2/3.

Just curious- shouldn't that be 4/16 with a 75% chance of lynching a civilian?

Yes. You passed my clever test.

So I thought the same thing while reading llama's post. But then I thought, "well, this is llama writing this so it must be right somehow." This is how highly I think of Llama's intelligence and how unconfident I am in my own.

Do I talk too much as a host?

G-Man wrote:How type A of you indeed. You and my wife would get along. I now have a much better appreciation for Epi.

Kidding! :P


Sort of.

Oh, but I have to deal with HIS procrastination. Truth is, we balance each other out and after about 15.5 years together we have rubbed off on one another a bit.

And I looked back at it. Looks like everyone in the first three columns are in alphabetical order except for Turnip Head. So if you then go up to the fourth column, and go down, those are in alphabetical order. I just put Turnip Head (the last person alphabetically) in Neverwhere's spot since his name and Neverwhere's name is about the same length. Haha!

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:From my experience hiding the fact you are a nerd only leads to suffering.

Perhaps, but you don't have to reveal ALL the nerdy things you do on date 1. Let it slowly leak out and you may even catch an awesome, hot chick and turn her into a nerd like you. Epi did.

Questions from civilians should be about the avatar.

Ricochet wrote:I like that Hedgeowl is misspelled, but nijuukyugou isn't.

Shoot! Ah well, I am not changing it now.

Ricochet wrote:Not sure I get the "Civillians will be receiving specific information about players concerning their avatar." part from the rules. As in when a nominated player will ask a question during Nights or will there be more than that?

I am just reiterating that as you get the info that you already know you will get, do not use that info to build a case on someone else. For example, "I think we ought to lynch so-and-so b/c she has green eye shadow" or "I really think one of the Mafia is wearing a hat." Be more creative. If you find out that a member of the mafia is wearing feathers in her hair, then look through her gameplay and build a real case. Plus, if you do say something like the examples above, you will be modkilled.

Ricochet wrote:I have a date tonight, which is my idea of independence these days, but I should be able to make it back in time not to miss voting.

Don't tell her about Mafia just yet. She might think you are a nerd or something.

Players - There 16 players in this speed game. 12 players are civilians and 4 players are Mafia. Mafia has BTSC and kill each night.
- Civilians win if alive at the end of the game.
- Mafia when with their team, dead or alive.

Day Polls - Players will vote for one player to be "put down". Ties will be determined by drawing a name from a hat, and we all know we have plenty of hats.

Night Action - Civilians vote for a player via PM (you may not vote yourself). The winning player gets to PM the host a yes or no question about a Mafia member. Once you've asked a question about the Mafia, anonymous votes for you will no longer count.
- Acceptable question example: Does a member of the Mafia have red hair?
- Unacceptable question example: Is so-and-so a Mafia member?

Rules -
1. No BTSC (Behind the Scenes Contact/Conversation) with anyone other than your specified BTSC partners. BTSC takes place in a specific assigned chatzy. If I say your BTSC is interrupted or over, don't access it until I inform you otherwise.
2. No editing or deleting of posts.
3. No role outing of yourself or anyone else.
4. As you, the civilian, receive information about a player's avatar........ You may not use a player's avatar to discuss whether the player is civilian or mafia. Doing so will result in a mod-kill. If you are unsure about something you want to say, please PM the host before posting.
5. Be respectful and remember that this is a game.
6. Dead players should not post on-topic and should be in dead red. There is a "dead" button when posting for this function.
7. Off-topic posts should be in off-topic green. There is an "OT" button when posting for this function.
8. Posts from non-players should be in non-player blue. There is a "np" button when posting for this function.
9. This is your host's color. All host posts will be in this color. Don't use it!
10. S~V~S is the Mod on Duty. Please PM her with any concerns or frustrations you experience.

Additionally:
11. No posting the contents of PMs- period.
12. Votes are NOT changeable.
13. Don't forget to laugh!

Participation Score - Missing more than two lynch votes in the entire game will affect your participation score.




The room was dim. The walls were were a pale burgundy color and the air was filled with the stench of tobacco and bourbon. The guests were ill at ease as they were still getting to know one another. They knew there were some among them who could kill and the tension was a little too much for some to bear. The fear was so intense for one guest, in fact, that he had yet to show up altogether. "Sixteen!", said thellama73, "There are supposed to be sixteen of us, right? How can we begin our adventure if we are Missing a Person?"

You have 24 hours to put down one of the guests among you. Have fun!