The Syndicate

A Person wrote:Would hte Hays Code have applied if I posted ( . )( . ) ? I wanted to try but didn't feel like getting in trouble in yet another game. :P

That's a good question! With less classy players, this game could easily descended into the sordid underbelly of ASCII debauchery.

Epignosis wrote:I really enjoyed this. Thanks again for hosting if I haven't said it. Having taught Cinema studies, I loved the Hays Code element. I think I got away with saying "shit" though.

No wait, I died that night.

You know, Mafia always makes me think of Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men. This made me feel doubly so.

Only instead of proving innocence, we were trying to show that Juror #3 should be strung up by his shoelaces.

Thanks! I totally get the 12 Angry Men element. Have you seen the Russian remake "12"? It's quite good. It's very long and very awesome.

Anyway, hopefully you will come check out Film Director mafia, which will be a full game midway through the year or so.

Hedgeowl wrote: Made me want to go watch old favorites again.

You have unmasked our sole intent for producing this game!

Dom wrote:So proud of Nev and Lizzy!


Yay team!

<3<3

mongoose, host more often, mkay?

Thanks, Dom! I'm going to try!

I have Felt coming up in the next few months in the speed queue, so hope to see you all there (as well as a family-friendly Disney's Aladdin Micro game).

BIG props to my chronic partner in crime (and key lime) Llama Lo, who was the best co-host a slippery ermine such as myself could ask for. The Tallamaud Chronicles continue.

Thanks to everyone for playing! You made this possible!

A Person wrote: Prediction: vomps votes with Lizzy and we lose our majority

Okay! Let's try that again. That was a Film Noir-style madcap gaffe by Yours Truly if I've ever seen one.

To answer Hedge's Question in RE: Timmer's silencing:

Yes, he was. Any violation of the Hays Code suffices though, including taking the Lord's name in vain or talk about vulgar or indecent topics.

However, the Hays Code is not currently in effect, so you are all free to be as sordid as you please.

kneel4justice wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

kneel4justice wrote:I am a guy. Lol.
I am assuming the icon confuses people. Understood.

Does nobody read the gender guide?

That's what I was thinking lol. If it makes you feel any better, I use it.

A LOT of people thought I was a dude when I joined. I guess Mongoose is a very masculine animal moniker.

The Hays Code is Coming

The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code)



If motion pictures present stories that will affect lives for the better, they can become the most powerful force for the improvement of mankind

A Code to Govern the Making of Talking, Synchronized and Silent Motion Pictures. Formulated and formally adopted by The Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc. and The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. in March 1930.
Motion picture producers recognize the high trust and confidence which have been placed in them by the people of the world and which have made motion pictures a universal form of entertainment.

They recognize their responsibility to the public because of this trust and because entertainment and art are important influences in the life of a nation.

Hence, though regarding motion pictures primarily as entertainment without any explicit purpose of teaching or propaganda, they know that the motion picture within its own field of entertainment may be directly responsible for spiritual or moral progress, for higher types of social life, and for much correct thinking.

During the rapid transition from silent to talking pictures they have realized the necessity and the opportunity of subscribing to a Code to govern the production of talking pictures and of re-acknowledging this responsibility.

On their part, they ask from the public and from public leaders a sympathetic understanding of their purposes and problems and a spirit of cooperation that will allow them the freedom and opportunity necessary to bring the motion picture to a still higher level of wholesome entertainment for all the people.

General Principles

1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.

2. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.

3. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.


Particular Applications

I. Crimes Against the Law
These shall never be presented in such a way as to throw sympathy with the crime as against law and justice or to inspire others with a desire for imitation.

1. Murder

a. The technique of murder must be presented in a way that will not inspire imitation.

b. Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail.

c. Revenge in modern times shall not be justified.


2. Methods of Crime should not be explicitly presented.

a. Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc., should not be detailed in method.

b. Arson must subject to the same safeguards.

c. The use of firearms should be restricted to the essentials.

d. Methods of smuggling should not be presented.


3. Illegal drug traffic must never be presented.


4. The use of liquor in American life, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization, will not be shown.


II. Sex
The sanctity of the institution of marriage and the home shall be upheld. Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing.

1. Adultery, sometimes necessary plot material, must not be explicitly treated, or justified, or presented attractively.

2. Scenes of Passion

a. They should not be introduced when not essential to the plot.

b. Excessive and lustful kissing, lustful embraces, suggestive postures and gestures, are not to be shown.

c. In general passion should so be treated that these scenes do not stimulate the lower and baser element.


3. Seduction or Rape

a. They should never be more than suggested, and only when essential for the plot, and even then never shown by explicit method.

b. They are never the proper subject for comedy.


4. Sex perversion or any inference to it is forbidden.


5. White slavery shall not be treated.


6. Miscegenation (sex relationships between the white and black races) is forbidden.


7. Sex hygiene and venereal diseases are not subjects for motion pictures.


8. Scenes of actual child birth, in fact or in silhouette, are never to be presented.


9. Children's sex organs are never to be exposed.


III. Vulgarity
The treatment of low, disgusting, unpleasant, though not necessarily evil, subjects should always be subject to the dictates of good taste and a regard for the sensibilities of the audience.

IV. Obscenity
Obscenity in word, gesture, reference, song, joke, or by suggestion (even when likely to be understood only by part of the audience) is forbidden.

V. Profanity
Pointed profanity (this includes the words, God, Lord, Jesus, Christ - unless used reverently - Hell, S.O.B., damn, Gawd), or every other profane or vulgar expression however used, is forbidden.

VI. Costume
1. Complete nudity is never permitted. This includes nudity in fact or in silhouette, or any lecherous or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the picture.

2. Undressing scenes should be avoided, and never used save where essential to the plot.

3. Indecent or undue exposure is forbidden.

4. Dancing or costumes intended to permit undue exposure or indecent movements in the dance are forbidden.

VII. Dances
1. Dances suggesting or representing sexual actions or indecent passions are forbidden.

2. Dances which emphasize indecent movements are to be regarded as obscene.


VIII. Religion
1. No film or episode may throw ridicule on any religious faith.

2. Ministers of religion in their character as ministers of religion should not be used as comic characters or as villains.

3. Ceremonies of any definite religion should be carefully and respectfully handled.


IX. Locations
The treatment of bedrooms must be governed by good taste and delicacy.


X. National Feelings
1. The use of the Flag shall be consistently respectful.

2. The history, institutions, prominent people and citizenry of other nations shall be represented fairly.


XI. Titles
Salacious, indecent, or obscene titles shall not be used.


XII. Repellent Subjects
The following subjects must be treated within the careful limits of good taste:
1. Actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishments for crime.
2. Third degree methods.
3. Brutality and possible gruesomeness.
4. Branding of people or animals.
5. Apparent cruelty to children or animals.
6. The sale of women, or a woman selling her virtue.
7. Surgical operations.

Searching the office for clues, the investigators found some old case files in a desk drawer next to an empty bottle of scotch. Maybe that could explain the rambling incoherence of the tale they presented. This is what they said:

She looked so sad, sittin' in that chair and realizing all her hopes and dreams were quickly being turned into sadness and regrets. That's a hard thing to watch anyone go through, much less her, this bright and beautiful young woman. Her future, her possibilities, she was watching it all disappear as I told her we couldn't get those diamonds back. Sitting there with her, I thought my heart was going to melt and fall right out of my chest. “They were my mother's jewels. They were all I had.”

I tried calmin' her down, something I ain't really known for. “Look Miss Bolin, you know I'd love to help ya out here. But you ain't seen the faces of these crooks, you've given me no suspects, and you just told me those jewels are probably halfway to Switzerland by now. There just isn't much I can do.” Like I said, I ain't really known for my reassuring personality.

She caught her breath suddenly between sniffles, and a new life passed through her eyes. “What if I told you, these aren't just any diamonds. I've got a one-of-a-kind jewel, ain't nothing else like it in the whole world, and I've got a few pictures of it right here.”

I reclined back in my chair, my stonefaced impression slowly giving way to a sly grin. “Then I'd say that's something we can work with, Miss.”

The suspect didn’t leave much of a trail.

What he did do was leave his hat.

It sat in a mud puddle, mud ebbing and flowing over the brim like a little tide. It would need Tide, whenever the laundry people got ahold of it.

“That’s his hat,” she said, but I thought this too convenient. Without saying anything, I bent down and picked it up. When the rain washed away the mess on the tag, I found the inscription smudged.

“It was somebody’s all right,” I said. “Let’s go.”

We sought shelter in Skinny Pete’s, a place known for loud music and loud informants. I found Alison. She knew something, I was sure.

“This hat,” I said, “does it remind you of anyone?”

She didn’t say anything. She just raised an eye toward a man in the corner.

Logan.

I remembered that mustache. And he was wet.

I made my move.

And then the zombie-ninja-dinosaurs (who were also the worlds greatest detectives. because FUCK YOU BATMAN!) took over the world, and it became a zone of danger.

Or even a... DANGER ZONE, if you will.

When they stopped reading, they noticed that someone was missing.

agleaminranks has been killed by Preacher Harry Powell.

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S~V~S wrote:From a Noir standpoint, there were a lot of good choices. For me Noir is about hard boiled private eyes, but a Noir case could be made for pretty much all of the choices. But O Hostess with the Mostest, what is the Noir connection for a boxing match? I am not getting that one.

Before Million Dollar Baby, before Rocky, before Raging Bull, there was....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041859/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

S~V~S wrote:Also@ Mongoose~ the roles have this:

Cody Jarrett of White Heat. Periodic fits of insane rage, killing a random player.

What exactly does "periodic" mean? Especially in the context of killing a random player.

Very curious indeed!

You may now post.

Gender List

Male
Female

1. A Person
2. Roxy
3. Hedgeowl
4. Vompatti
5. Flyin' High
6. timmer
7. Metalmarsh89 bea
8. S~V~S
9. Lizzy
10. Epignosis
11. Dom
12. Kate
13. Turnip Head
14. SpaceDaisy Nevinera
15. agleaminranks
16. Enygma Eve
17. Kneel4justice
18. boo

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15. Have a great time. Please approach us with any questions or concerns.

A new mafia speed game experience brought to you by trench-coated Llama & Mongoose, the makers of many fine surveillance devices.


Roles:

The Civilians


Nick Charles of The Thin Man. BTSC with Nora


Nora Charles of The Thin Man - BTSC with Nick.


Asta of The Thin Man - Bark deters attacks (blocker).


Norma Desmond of Sunset Blvd. *Secrets*


Barton Keyes of Double Indemnity. Can check one statement each night to see if it is a lie.


Waldo Lydecker of Laura. Survives the first attempt on his life by faking his own death.


Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon. Searches for The Maltese Falcon. If he finds it, he can sell it for booze money!


Philip Marlowe of The Big Sleep. Hunts for baddies on even nights.


Mark Cardigan of His Kind of Woman. An aspiring Shakesperian Actor. Can take on another player's night power each night (at random).


James Temple of Key Largo. Wheelchair bound but extremely observant. His votes in lynch polls count for zero, but role checks every night.


Frank Bigelow of D.O.A. Has been poisoned and has only a little while to live. Has a random chance of dying each night, but the longer he survives the more powerful he becomes.


Cassie Hartley of They Drive By Night. Plucky Truck Stop Waitress. Can serve Coffee or Booze each night.

Baddies


Pastor Harry Powell of Night of the Hunter. Nightly Kills.


Cody Jarrett of White Heat. Periodic fits of insane rage, killing a random player.


Franz Kindler of The Stranger * Secrets *


Bruno Anthony of Strangers on a Train Criss Cross! Each night, force two players to target each other.

Indie

Dashiell Hammett of Thin Man/Maltese. Can re-write day happenings twice. One lynch switch and one lynch stop. BTSC with Wilder.


Billy Wilder of Double Indemnity/Sunset Blvd/Others. One anytime kill to use in the game. BTSC with Hammett.


Events
Hayes Code
Scenario Build
Femme Fetale
Prohibiting Prohibition

Vices (Items)

Liquor


Coffee