The Syndicate

Ok, here's how it went. Epig won Atlantic Avenue after FZ was lynched. We offered him $100 for it for some reason, and he countered with $303, I believe.

When Lorab won Electric Company in the bid (yup, not you or Boogs, I knew the whole time, tee hee!), we noted how she had tried (and failed) to scoop Atlantic Avenue from Epig, and took Epig up on his offer, paying him $303 for it. We then offered it to Lorab for Electric Company, and she quickly accepted, since she was yellow.

We wanted Electric Company so that we would have something Water Works would accept as trade for Oriental. Good plan, but MM wouldn't even consider it.

thellama73 wrote:My only goal this game was to not let Turnip Head win, so I was pleased when he was NKed.

I was more than happy to take up the mantle of getting him killed after you died.

That was some funny trick you pulled on me. What made you decide to do it?

WOW, thanks for the recap of that lynch, host! I never suspected that fingersplints was the key.

Thanks to everyone for not lynching me just for winning an Autofind. Awesome benefit to choosing to win with Lorab and bea: now they can enter Epig's 2014 Champions Game!

Black Rock (Oriental) searched me (Connecticut) on Night 1, and we gained BTSC. The Autofind came up for bid very soon after, and I won it and instantly Elohcin (Vermont) was added to our team. BR was killed before we could even blink, but she soon replaced back in as Elohcin left the game. So we were LMS BTSC for basically the whole game.

Metalmarsh acquired Oriental by killing BR 1.0, and we spent the whole game trying to get it back. He built two houses and wouldn't build more, the scum! We tried trading him Electric Company, and some other stuff, but he wouldn't even haggle.

We lived the whole time with less than $1000 each, I think I was down to under $100 at one point.

We bought the Beatdown for $475 dollars, I think. Don't know if anyone else bid for this, but I figured it would come in handy.

Our goal all game, after Electric Company died, was to kill Water Works. It would simultaneously give us access to Oriental finally, and activate the Beatdown. I really thought TH was Water Works, and even when I accepted that he wasn't (since Water Works convinced us ), I still wanted him dead because he had that sweet red hotel that I wanted.

It was a harrowing lynch between Metalmarsh and myself - I used eight extra votes on MM, just to be sure. TH had a very sound strategy, that jerk, in getting us to use up our extra votes! You all should practice listening to TH, he is a smart guy! He had the right plan.

Also, Metalmarsh, you almost had me earlier... after my ill-advised comment about there being only 1 Civvie left in the game, you started to inquire about what exactly that made me, since I clearly had a partner. I didn't respond, and there was a lot of chatter, and you never went back to it. I was sure that slip-up would get me killed.

We were also concerned that TH would use his Protect on the night we killed him, which would have probably ended with my own lynch at his hands directly... I couldn't resist much more of his sensible talk. I said "he probably used it when he acquired the red hotel..." TH, was I right?

And then MEtalmarsh scooped the Lynch Remover and AutoNightProtect as he died - what a scammer!

Well done, boo, I see why people speak of your games so highly!

LoRab wrote:

Long Con wrote:

Did you read Captain Planet? You're offering us money?

Not in any seriousness (offering you money, that is).

As soon as I have the PM from Boo that MP traded back my property, I will trade it with BR.

We can get it directly from MP for convenience, that's fine too.

There is just one thing that needs to happen. If it doesn't happen, then we will regretfully have to do this the hard way.

I think it should be pretty clear. I don't know if you're yellow or green, Splintsy, but the yellows have a big opportunity here.

Did you read Captain Planet? You're offering us money?

As long as BR gets something for Christmas, something evocative of bananas, lemons, sunshine, and smiley-faces... then we shall all have a Happy Christmas and a Merry Hannukah!

LoRab wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:This is assuming LoRab and LoRab's partner agree to this arrangement. If not, well, things will get interesting.

We are in.

Then your PM Inbox is the next place you need to go. You will not be disappointed.

All the same to us. It's completely a business decision for Lorab and her partner to make.

There is truly only one road to victory, Lorab. No tricks, just friendship.

LoRab wrote:

Black Rock wrote:

boo wrote:
Captain Planet: Allows the player who uses this power to choose for any other set in the game (meaning not their starting property set) that they or someone they BTSC with has a property of. Once chosen they can then search each night for and get BTSC with (any BTSC either the searcher has or the person they search and find has is also part of this BTSC, and they can all win together). Anyone who holds one of the properties at the time the power is used (even if that card wasn’t their starter) is considered to be part of the set (if traded after the power is used, the person who had the property at the time of use is still the person who if searched would result in getting BTSC with the searcher). Bids for this power are made privately via PM. If BTSC is gained as a result of using this card, any NK anyone in the BTSC has is lost. - Starts at $500

I have a proposal. Who may be interested in being my friend? LoRab? Fingersplints? Bea? I believe I know which colour group LoRab is, would FS or Bea be the same colour group or a different one? For this to work I would need to trade a property. I would love to win with any of you ladies.

I'm willing to consider friendship.

A wise choice. We just need back what we traded to you long ago.

Poor Pacific Avenue.

HannaK wrote:Ah man I can't believe nobody even showed up today to read my post and stuff Oh well, please read it if you get a chance and think about it, I am going to bed. At any rate it was a fun game so far and i will see you on the other side

Your post was very intelligent and sensible. I'm sorry I couldn't say so earlier, and I'm sorry it had to go this way for you.

HannaK wrote:Oh and sorry for double posting but I was flying pretty below the radar before today so why would I 'risk' that strategy if I were part of the blue team and close to winning. It's the opposite: I really think LC is part of the blue team that has the kill and is thus close to winning this thing

That's a good strategy, of course, pick the guy who's had the most "heat" and pin it on him, but... I'm not a blue. My hue is a bit warmer. This is all I need to see, I figured you were TH's teammate ever since MM implied it.

*votes HannaK*

fingersplints wrote:

Long Con wrote:I'm not a blue, and I don't have the Beatdown.

fingersplints wrote:You have said specifically you are not the player with the kill, but not that you aren't a part of that group.

What? Are you accusing me of trying to sneak past the Lie Detector? Is there a Lie Detect in this game?

That's really stretching it.

I didn't bring up a LD. It is what you had done though

The kill being a thing that a player owns wasn't really on my mind, I pictured it as something that a team just... is.

I'm not a blue, and I don't have the Beatdown.

fingersplints wrote:You have said specifically you are not the player with the kill, but not that you aren't a part of that group.

What? Are you accusing me of trying to sneak past the Lie Detector? Is there a Lie Detect in this game?

That's really stretching it.

HannaK wrote:

Long Con wrote:I'm not Vermont. I would say Vermont killed TH because he was the most powerful with his hotels. Possibly a frame-up job, which makes me eye HannaK for bringing it up like this.

What makes you say that he was powerful? To my knowledge he was a pinkie and had only one hotel (if his claims about not having other teammates was true) and was the first player to almost go bankrupt in the game?

He also had Indiana Ave with a hotel.

And, fingersplints, Metalmarsh made it clear that Turnip Head had a teammate, surely something drawn from his knowledge as a Utility. We should look back and see who among the living had landed on a Utility, Turnip Head's teammate is among those people. I'm sure that TH would have traded all his properties and prizes to his teammate since he was so much in the spotlight, and had publicly bought a red hotel.

That's the person we need to lynch today.

I'm not Vermont. I would say Vermont killed TH because he was the most powerful with his hotels. Possibly a frame-up job, which makes me eye HannaK for bringing it up like this.

Indeed, I called him out from Day 1.. maybe Day 0.

Let this be another example for the ages of how a baddie expressed trust in a Civvie in order to gain trust back.

I hope I didn't get the end time wrong.

St. James Place - $15
Tennessee Avenue - $15
Boardwalk - $15
Mediterranean Avenue - $15
Water Works - $15
Oriental Avenue - $15
Illinois Avenue - $15
Virginia Avenue - $15
North Carolina Avenue - $15
Pennsylvania Avenue - $15
Kentucky Avenue - $15

HannaK wrote:

Long Con wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:Just that he has a lot of extra votes, really. If he also has Beatdown, and now the lynch removal, we'd basically be handing him the game if we didn't force his hand a little bit today.

Metalmarsh had the last laugh, taking the Lynch Removal and the Auto-Protect with him by invoking the Take Three prize he bought for $500.

I dont remember this prize, which day/night did he buy this?

It was during his lynch:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:$500 on Grab Bag

Let's see who else has extra cash.

Turnip Head wrote:Just that he has a lot of extra votes, really. If he also has Beatdown, and now the lynch removal, we'd basically be handing him the game if we didn't force his hand a little bit today.

Metalmarsh had the last laugh, taking the Lynch Removal and the Auto-Protect with him by invoking the Take Three prize he bought for $500.

Phew! Good game, MM! Wow you had lots of properties.

Turnip Head wrote:Oh snap that's cold Bass

It was like a slap in the face. From a friend you just helped move.

Turnip Head wrote:Glhf everyone

Good Luck, Health, and Fortune?

Bass_the_Clever wrote:well I'm going to vote LC

I can't believe you did this. I helped you freely, I didn't try to bust your balls or rip you off. You traded with me even as you voted for me.

Do you know exactly how Money is Power is working its way in there?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Correct, they're all single votes.

So, who do you think will be lynched?

You know Jack about me, I never landed on a utility.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:Well I'm sure your knowledge and power has told you that Long Con has just as many extra votes as you do, and this would probably be a good chance for you to help us deal with that.

Indeed, I am wary of this, as well as his financial status.

My financial status is a joke compared to you and and anyone holding a red.

Do you mean "Utilitize"?

We have 30 minutes to beat your latest bid.

$101 on Money is Power

He could very well be Water Works... and even if he isn't, he has Kentucky Avenue. If he is, then he may even have two red hotels on hand. Those things are a bigger killer than baddie teams and ebola combined.

HannaK wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Hanna, why did you suggest that MP or Bass might be a baddie?

I just pointed to the fact that everyone said they were 'neutral' now but they got the roles of two inactive players which means that there is always a chance one of them got a baddie card (or at least that's how I read boo's explanation about how bass and MP got back into the game), i never said they were bad per se, just that they can be and we should keep that in mind and not cross them of our list because they are replacements, but maybe I am missing something?

I would say that even if they had gotten a baddie card, they would still be neutral, with the win conditions that the host laid out when he subbed them in. I believe you were indeed missing something, Hannah, look back on boo's posts and see where they came back. I don't believe they can be baddies.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:On a side note, LC do you have a record of SVS's lynch? I think TH and Hanna voted SVS, but I can't recall who the players who voted TH were. I do know there were six of them.

Sorry, don't have it. Gotta read back for that info, I'm afraid.

What's the deal with Hanna?

fingersplints wrote:I agree that MM makes sense to be WW but idk that he would be that obvious if it were true and the missed kill still bothers me with him as well.

Which players currently alive does it NOT bother you to have missed a kill? Is Metalmarsh MORE unlikely to skip/miss a kill than some other player?

'Cause... it happened.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Long Con wrote:TH thought Lorab was an RR earlier, and I thought that he might have been using the Utilities role-learn for that knowledge. But none of that panned out.

You also seem to have a lot of knowledge about what properties are alive and dead in this game. Then again I've trusted your intuition because I've had you pegged as a color all this time. But you were slow to accept the possibility of TH being pink.

LOL, "a lot of knowledge". You mean because I think the reds were already killed. That's literally it. My other big "knowledge" really didn't pan out, as you said, since TH might actually not be Water Works.

TH thought Lorab was an RR earlier, and I thought that he might have been using the Utilities role-learn for that knowledge. But none of that panned out.

True, but it's like I described before... Mexican standoff, you as WW, Lorab as RR... if DF was just waiting for WW to come after him, his only real recourse would be to take WW down with him. At least that's how I would have felt.

I would love for MM to be Water Works, but wouldn't DFaraday have said something to lead us in that direction? I'll check his posts.

Great job, Metalmarsh, you took him out with good planning and excellent intuition.

Just want to add, TH would have to pay for landing on Illinois, because he just has Indiana. I believe his payment was quite real, and that he's not a native red.

Well, first of all, TH bid $1 and got Indiana Avenue (with a hotel) after it was taken from S~V~S' lynched corpse, so yes... he has one.

Second, even if TH had a red, and landed on a red, it would still show up as him paying them, even if he were paying himself.

I think the reds are all dead, and in the hands of the Railroad, the Utility, and Turnip Head.

I didn't bid on the Beatdown. It was pretty much a sure thing that the Reds would make sure they got it.