The Syndicate

Phoebe Buffay

DFaraday wrote:I commend you for still trying to actually play the game instead of going along with the vouch fest that is the rest of this day's comments. I'm never a fan of games devolving into "I'm just really sure about him, guys!" Especially when I end up on the short end of the stick. Pity party over.

I sense that this one is distraught by his exposure. It is for the best that he be destroyed. It is done.

Phoebe Buffay

I am inspired to speak about the child of wise Epignosis. May it be that he has earned the fealty of some for his valor in battle, and his unending thirst for combat? This spirit would warn against such a notion, as the rules of reason and bravery are different for such a young one. He should not be judged the same way others are judged. He wants to fight because fighting is exciting.

Phoebe Buffay

Boomslang wrote:I feel like I'm being set up. Literally the last post of the previous day was Scotty calling me out for a rushed vote, and then he gets NK'd. Of course that's going to throw suspicion my way.

And I realized that we didn't finish our inactive hunting—we need to vote Aragorn. Jan was absent from Day 3 through Day 12 before Aragorn took over. There's also some negative back-and-forth between Aragorn and Scotty buried in Day 13, long enough ago that he might have thought able to get away with the NK now.

We will not be pursuing the destruction of the striding one. You shall provide a different name.

Phoebe Buffay

Quin wrote:
Zuo Ci wrote:If it brings comfort to you, children, this spirit would consider pitting himself against the one called Boomslang. I fear that my influence would be lost if I am destroyed, and those who remain would do something unthinkable. I need pledges.
I don't think we're at the point where we need to start taking those risks. I still have a whole lotta names I'd vote before I vote you.

I understand, child. I would ask that you meditate on this, and ponder where the true risks lie. All may not be as you see it. Our story unfolds as a mystery.

Phoebe Buffay

If it brings comfort to you, children, this spirit would consider pitting himself against the one called Boomslang. I fear that my influence would be lost if I am destroyed, and those who remain would do something unthinkable. I need pledges.

Phoebe Buffay

I have examined each name remaining in our story. I have instructed a student to hold a knife to my throat and to demand that I speak with total truth my feelings about whether each may be our lone murderer. I will share with you those feelings which I expressed under threat of death:

The clever fish: not anywhere in this world.
The one called Boomslang: it is possible.
The one called DFaraday: it is possible.
The bearer of jars: my trust holds sway.
The striding one: not anywhere in this world.
The one called Matahari: it warrants consideration.
The ninja warrior: I have pledged to support the will of the bearer of jars.
The confused little girl: my trust holds sway.
The child of wise Epignosis: may we pray not, for his destruction would be the most difficult of trials.

It would seem that at the deepest depths of my soul, my attentions are focused upon the ones called Boomslang, DFaraday, Matahari, and the child of wise Epignosis. Of those, the one called Boomslang alarms me most.

Phoebe Buffay

I will stay my voting hand for now. My immediate desire is to destroy DFaraday and Boomslang though.

Phoebe Buffay

indiglo wrote:Scotty!!! I will do everything in my power to avenge you. I hate to see you go.

And voting-wise:

WE MUST NOT VOTE NINJA/BLOOPER AGAIN! I must be emphatic here. We must look elsewhere.

I was really hoping we wouldn't get a NK from the DingDong, but here we are. I feel VERY strongly that Bass should be 1 of our options today. For the other option, my POV is that Boom or DF are our best choices. I would lean towards Boom, personally, because he did yet another drive by vote.

Best choices for today: Bass, Boom, DF

I prefer: Bass & Boom

This spirit feels VERY strongly that the clever fish must NOT be one of our options today. I will support your defense of the ninja warrior if that is what you believe in. I ask that you support me in favor of the clever fish. The striding one is not to be attacked either. Nor will seek the destruction of the confused little girl or yourself, bearer of jars.

We can eliminate many possible evils if we work together. We must not vote for the clever fish. I will not vote for the ninja warrior. We must work together. There are other options.

Phoebe Buffay

Scotty wrote:
Zuo Ci wrote:
Scotty wrote:As for leetic being the best candidate to duel and possibly being our last foe: that's exactly what I'm saying. Having Bass, who has won two battles already, fight as some sort of damned champion, seems like a very good idea, no?
It does not. To win two duels does not equate to winning three duels. Leetic may remain my only true suspect, but I would pit him against those who are plausible enough alternative foes.
I've already answered this, and don't feel like we're seeing eye to eye on this.

Do you have info on Bass that you would like to share with the class? Because his veiled threats that his death will do damage to the town are resoundingly hollow to my ears right now.

You ask me an impossible question.

Just know that I believe the clever fish. Are the words of this spirit resoundingly hollow to your ears right now?

Phoebe Buffay

Scotty wrote:As for leetic being the best candidate to duel and possibly being our last foe: that's exactly what I'm saying. Having Bass, who has won two battles already, fight as some sort of damned champion, seems like a very good idea, no?

It does not. To win two duels does not equate to winning three duels. Leetic may remain my only true suspect, but I would pit him against those who are plausible enough alternative foes.

Phoebe Buffay

Scotty wrote:Anyway, Boom, DF and Bass seem much more palatable than ninja or Simon. I don't know what else I can say there before I'm just a broken record.

The same applies to my unwillingness to vote for the clever fish. I will not be moved from this conviction. I'd sooner vote for anyone else.

DFaraday would be a tolerable choice. I don't want to pit Boomslang in a duel but I could live with it.

Phoebe Buffay

To prioritize replacements is to have no regard for fairness. This spirit will not rest on such assumptions.

Phoebe Buffay

Scotty wrote:Simon has done nothing but try to fight. I don't think he is a threat at this moment, spirit

And the most willing combatant otherwise is the same clever fish you would destroy. This spirit suggests that you emerge from your tunnel, child.

Many of you forget that leetic is the best candidate for the lone murderer as well as the Nanman or yellow turbans. He may even be our final foe.

Phoebe Buffay

Quin wrote:We do have another day, right? I'm not just confused?

Yes, this day is still young. Sometimes we are pulled to our callings quickly.

Phoebe Buffay

An acceptable alternative to the ninja warrior would be the son of wise Epignosis.

Phoebe Buffay

indiglo wrote:What if I told you that I am as certain in my assessment of Bass as I was in my assessment of Mac, and as I currently am in the assessment of leetic? Even if you can't sense it yourself, would hearing that give you pause?

It would not.

Phoebe Buffay

indiglo wrote:Oh, I'm down with voting leetic, I have no problem there.

It's just ninja/blooper that I'm not sure about voting. So you think ninja/blooper could also be Yellow, hence the SpaceDaisy reference? Or a remaining, inactive Nan?

Do you have anyone in mind for the Indy SK who will inherit the Yellow NK? Because that seems like a good place to vote if we're working on vanquishing the Yellows.

If we are willing to assume that the muderers of all factions have not been murdering because of their inaction and apathy, then the answer is simple:

The sole remaining wearer of the yellow turban is leetic, or it is nobody.

The sole remaining bearer of the scent of the Nanman is leetic, or it is nobody.

Both the yellow turbans and the Nanman may even be gone to us already. This is plausible enough. In such a world, the killer who acts alone is leetic, or it is nobody.

The second vote is a matter of who is suspicious without consideration of the variables. The variables do not favor anyone but the one called leetic. This spirit feels that the ninja warrior is the least trustworthy among the remaining souls.

indiglo wrote:I guess what I really want to know is, how sure are you about Ninja/Blooper?

As sure as you are about leetic? As sure as you were about Mac?

You catch my drift there, spirit brother?

Understand that this spirit respects the rules of nature above all else. I will say though that I am not certain about the ninja warrior, not as I was about MacDougall. My confidence is limited to my ability to judge the heart of the ninja warrior with limited exposure to her public image. However, my confidence against the destruction of the clever fish is stronger. This spirit feels that destroying the clever fish would be no more sensible than destroying yourself, bearer of jars, or even the one who speaks only in metaphor.

Phoebe Buffay

Only one name truly fits the inaction of the yellow turbans. That is the one called leetic. The clever fish does not fit. Nobody fits. The Nanman and the yellow turbans may both be gone to the spirit world, and leetic remains as the silent lone murderer.

I have followed the call of nature as ever before for the second vote. The clever fish exhudes an aura of trust and of peace. This spirit does not understand why he endures such antipathy. The soul of the ninja warrior burns less brightly. She conducts herself much like the flower of the heavens which we long ago vanquished.

Phoebe Buffay

The choice is simple, and it is done.

Phoebe Buffay

It is done. This spirit cannot linger through the evening.

Phoebe Buffay

Boomslang wrote:Mac's desperation and rapid posting read as genuine to me; I can't see a baddie drawing all that attention to himself, especially in a game where inactives have gotten to coast so easily.

You'd as well suggest that the sun would hesitate to shine for fear of being distinguished from the stars.

Phoebe Buffay

indiglo wrote:I don't particularly see the leetic/yellow connection either. I'm happy to do a read there though, and get more input from others too.

To perceive the yellow tint in the spirit aura of the house leetic does not require reading his scrolls. They are few and brief. One must only understand that they who wear the yellow turbans are absent from our story, but not surely passed to the spirit world. The one called leetic is the only remaining soul whose silence is suitable to the yellow turban tradition of inaction and absence. If he is not of their kin, then they have no living kin; or their surviving soul is deliberate in his or her refusal to act under the cover of night.

indiglo wrote:@Zou - I have a couple of questions, only answer if you can. Do you have win conditions? Are they the same win conditions you had when you were alive?

Your questions will be answered in the next life, child. I cannot impart such knowledge to you. I hope you will judge me for what words I speak and none else.

indiglo wrote:I ask because I am developing a theory about Bass's role. I feel like it wouldn't hurt civs to have Bass gone, but I also feel like he isn't our biggest adversary. And I'm wondering if Zou is perhaps related to him in some way. In which case, I have no objection to working together to oust the baddies.

Tin foil hats, anyone?

I only judge the clever fish for his role in our story. I welcome dissenters to express themselves, for I am not a spirit without flaw. I do not believe he carries the scent of an evil family, as I similarly do not believe you carry such a scent.

Phoebe Buffay

We must remember the teachings of wise Epignosis. His word is truth.

Epignosis wrote:The Yellow Turbans
Rebellious eunuchs and spiritualists.
Have BTSC
Kill each Night

Phoebe Buffay

Matahari wrote:Why does Leetic appear yellow to you? I saw where he posted twice, and that he voted INH and Caps for prefect. I am not seeing the yellow connection.

He of the house leetic has stayed in silence and reclusion for a full moon's journey. Those who wear yellow are gone from us in voice but perhaps not in body. I do not believe their light has been snuffed.

Phoebe Buffay

Aragorn wrote:
Zuo Ci wrote:This spirit will not vote for the clever fish. Nor will I vote for the one who strides. This is certain.

MacDougall and leetic shall be destroyed. I will listen to your protestations now.
Oh wise spirit, the clever fish had won 2 previous duels (with warriors) with relative ease, in the first bout, I might add. I was relying on the same thing happening between him and Mac. B_T_C is a Good bet in a duel, based on what has already happened.

Your perspective is understood, striding one. Be wary though, for now we are few. Our villages are reduced to a barren state, only a small number of brave men remain to stand against those who would destroy us. To endanger them further when there is another way would be unwise.

Fortune has favored the clever fish so far, but fortune may turn without warning if it is tested. Let us pit our enemies against each other. MacDougall does not know what it is to be at peace, and we must show him. He of the house leetic looks to possess a wardrobe of much yellow. The clever fish is not suspicious to this spirit. I would hear your protestations, children, if you would have them.

The confused little girl is of a noble upbringing. We will trust in her insight, though always understanding her imperfections. This is our way.

Phoebe Buffay

This spirit will not vote for the clever fish. Nor will I vote for the one who strides. This is certain.

MacDougall and leetic shall be destroyed. I will listen to your protestations now.

Phoebe Buffay

I am swept into the avalanche.

Phoebe Buffay

MacDougall wrote:Buuuuuullllllshit.

To throw that joking comment I made in there proves you have an agenda.

You speak like you know met yet if you knew me you would know better than to point at that post and give it any credence at all.

I don't thino any of the dead ever really cast suspicions on me either, so if that is my way why is dom alive?

You have revealed the purpose for its inclusion, as it is the only one you've discussed in your response. If I may illustrate in the sand...

This spirit has provided five scrolls containing the words of MacDougall, four of which are caught in the passage of the Nanman scent. A fifth is included, one which is probably unimportant.

MacDougall only desires to speak of that fifth scroll. It is the dummy scroll. MacDougall is to be destroyed.

Phoebe Buffay

I am called by nature to share my research.

MacDougall wrote:I would like to see Wilgy and JaggedJimmyJay in a duel. Who wouldn't?

There is no inspiration. This is not to be viewed with favor.

MacDougall wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Hi Mac.
Don't look at me like that. I'm not even here yet. Stop it. I can tell what you're thinking.

The smell of fear is palpable.

MacDougall wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:By the way, why do you want Wilgy and I to kill each other?
I don't want to say it, people don't like it...

There is no inspiration. This is not to be viewed with favor.

MacDougall wrote:Oh look a guy who I voted for on day 1 got lynched and is bad and this time I didn't actually try making a case on him. New strategy.

Wassup Glorfindel with ignoring my comment? You scared there buddy?

To claim credit where there is no inspiration. This is not to be viewed with favor.

MacDougall wrote:I don't feel like Dom is bad, so sending him to fight the Marmot isn't jiving with me.

I don't think Marmot is a good candidate either. I don't like that the case has trace elements of Wilgy wifom in it. Wilgy is a savant of causing wifom to work the way he wants. I feel like he would be expecting Metalmarsh to get suspicion from that post. I also think Metalmarsh is playing the game way too casual considering his situation.

The only person with a vote who I am feeling neg about is Russtifinko. So I will be voting for Russ and trusting my feel on Dunny from Day 1.

The rodent spirit animal was slaughtered because his affiliation with the doctor was visible in nature. To resist his destruction for the reasons stated appears as a disconnect with the truth of the universe. I am inspired to pursue the destruction of he who spoke it. To make a mistake is to be human. This does not appear as a mistake. It appears as a conscious resistance to the destruction of the second Nanman on the second day.

Those who the Nanman have murdered are those who have threatened the Nanman. This is the way of MacDougall.

Phoebe Buffay

MacDougall wrote:Your hiding nonsensical reasoning behind your schtick.

There is no nonsense. To call it nonsense does not render it nonsense.

Phoebe Buffay

MacDougall wrote:I am to be destroyed because I made a case against you? That's not in the spirit of the game.

You are to be destroyed because of your Nanman scent. You are to be destroyed because you pretended I declared to the gods that you suck, or that such a declaration would have meaning.

Phoebe Buffay

MacDougall wrote:
Zuo Ci wrote:I would see MacDougall destroyed. The scent of the Nanman is strengthened. To slaughter those who speak is an evil to be attributed to this one. It is his way. Those who threaten the Nanman are killed by the Nanman. MacDougall does not suffer threats. His vote for the doctor on the first day is not meaningful. He resisted the destruction of the rodent spirit animal based upon his concern about the doctor's manipulation. It was transparent.
OMGUS from the orient.

This spirit stood against you before you stood against this spirit. Your attempted placing of a yellow turban upon this spirit's head has been rebuked soundly. You are to be destroyed.

Phoebe Buffay

Were a premature gale to thrust me to a decision in the present, my votes would fall upon leetic and Macdougall.

Phoebe Buffay

I would see MacDougall destroyed. The scent of the Nanman is strengthened. To slaughter those who speak is an evil to be attributed to this one. It is his way. Those who threaten the Nanman are killed by the Nanman. MacDougall does not suffer threats. His vote for the doctor on the first day is not meaningful. He resisted the destruction of the rodent spirit animal based upon his concern about the doctor's manipulation. It was transparent.

Phoebe Buffay

Those who wear the yellow turbans have not acted since the sixth night. This spirit joined you well later. This spirit cannot be summoned by a summoner who is not awake.

Phoebe Buffay

I am called to action.

Phoebe Buffay

This brief response does not satiate my desire to understand. To be wrong is no evil, but nor is it virtuous. I wish to know the depth of your mistake, or I cannot know it as a mistake.

Phoebe Buffay

You who have rejected your kinship with nature. I would still speak with you. I would recall an earlier inquiry with the hope that you might answer.

Zuo Ci wrote:
MacDougall wrote:Humour me. If I am bad, am I a Nanman or a Turban? Am I teammates with the guy I voted on day 1 who got lynched and did I fake being silenced for an entire day or am I teammates with the guy who I called out early game and who had an aneurysm about my needling him?
Please child, speak with me for a moment. You have presented a riddle which remains unsolved, and I am inspired to make an attempt. Your conflict with pictures in motion is the purest expression of your wu wei. It is to be lauded; it is to be respected. My thoughts drift to the Nanman, those who would bring destruction upon us, those not in concert with pictures in motion. I would ask that you speak of your actions in the second day, that which saw the rodent spirit animal of the nameless one vanquished despite your protestations. You showed fear of deception by the dark doctor, that his engagement with the rodent spirit animal is not something to be perceived as truth. My heart aches, as I cannot in true faith state that your words were in error. You are a renown authority in these matters, and it is to be expected that your expertise would lead you against the rodent. Please speak to me of your mistake, and allow me to know it as a mistake.

Phoebe Buffay

MacDougall wrote:I'm not a mafia player but if you want me to duel that's okay because I ain't about this life.

I am grateful for your testimony. It is heard. There are those among us who do not honor the dead. They bring dishonor instead by mimicking those lost to us, they who do not let their words free. Silence is not virtuous when the forces of evil seek our destruction. The Yellow Turban remaining could be any such wordless shadow.

Those who act are fewer in number, and it is they who can be considered for Nanman treachery. The jar is wise to seek wisdom here. Scour the scrolls of yesteryear and recall the demonstrations of those who would speak with and speak of our enemies. The options are few, and the spirits continue to pass to the ether.

Phoebe Buffay

MacDougall wrote:What's not to trust?

The sound of your name causes you to perspire, and the odor carries a faint scent of the Nanman. In my meditations I was stung by the memory of the treacherous rodent spirit animal of the nameless one, and of your own inaction in pursuit of his execution. Remind us as you might of the good doctor and your part in his end, but know that the hourglass has turned over and over since that day. Let free your words of innocence or be judged by nature.

Phoebe Buffay

I mourn your loss, Dunny, and I bear the responsibility for your destruction. I have misinterpreted the whispers of nature. I will meditate on this.

Phoebe Buffay

To understand my actions, one must only listen to the whispers in the wind.

I have prepared a scroll containing the complete works of the one calling himself Dunny.

Phoebe Buffay

My votes are like butterflies, released into the open air so that they may flutter to wherever their instincts may pull them.

Phoebe Buffay

It is finished. This day may continue uninhibited by the stresses of conflict.

Phoebe Buffay

The currents carry me toward a Dunny vote. I believe there are few alternatives. The air carries a scent of Nanman when one stands downwind of him.

Phoebe Buffay

I have never known such intense drama as this. It is exhilarating.

Phoebe Buffay

It is my instinct to believe the testimony of the man Boomslang. I did however report this occurrence to the most esteemed mathematicians in China to satiate my curiosity. Their oracles inform them that an accidental declaration of fealty to two members of a fringe faction would be impressively improbable. I would welcome consideration of this notion, though I freely release myself from such a dialogue. I commune with spirits, not with metaphysical symbols.

Phoebe Buffay

MacDougall wrote:Humour me. If I am bad, am I a Nanman or a Turban? Am I teammates with the guy I voted on day 1 who got lynched and did I fake being silenced for an entire day or am I teammates with the guy who I called out early game and who had an aneurysm about my needling him?

Please child, speak with me for a moment. You have presented a riddle which remains unsolved, and I am inspired to make an attempt. Your conflict with pictures in motion is the purest expression of your wu wei. It is to be lauded; it is to be respected. My thoughts drift to the Nanman, those who would bring destruction upon us, those not in concert with pictures in motion. I would ask that you speak of your actions in the second day, that which saw the rodent spirit animal of the nameless one vanquished despite your protestations. You showed fear of deception by the dark doctor, that his engagement with the rodent spirit animal is not something to be perceived as truth. My heart aches, as I cannot in true faith state that your words were in error. You are a renown authority in these matters, and it is to be expected that your expertise would lead you against the rodent. Please speak to me of your mistake, and allow me to know it as a mistake.

Phoebe Buffay

Four souls yet breathe who have declared fealty to the nameless one. Nature quakes in anticipation for their testimony. Let loose the guilt within, and I will listen. I am compassionate to your folly.

Ninja maiden from across the yellow sea, let your words free.

You of the house Leetic, let your words free.

Dunny, heroic victor over our fallen foe, let your words free.

Boomslang, dear child, your fealty was to the nameless one and also his rodent spirit animal. You must let your words free.

Phoebe Buffay

My votes are placed. I have not chosen them, but they have chosen me.

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