The Syndicate

bea wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 8:13 am Happy birthday TH. I miss you brother.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 8:00 pm Now I’m gonna be all paranoid about when I nightkill single people.

Askthepizzaguy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 2:58 pm Feel free to unbump or delete this post if you feel the thread is too old to bump. I'm new on this site so I don't know what the cutoff is yet.

I only had the pleasure of playing with Turnip Head once, in the Season 2 championship qualifier, game 3. (link)

Mr. Turnip Head deftly avoided my suspicion for most of the time I was alive. I can only claim to have been just enough of an annoyance to Turnip and coolkid to be targeted for a murder ahead of the actual cop, because I was the only claimed cop and I had accurate peeks, but I was a vanilla townie. However, I was far off from finding either of coolkid or Turnip Head. When I died, it spewed Yates and Adaham town (my fake peek villagers) and TehBankertin was already pretty spewed town from our interactions on day 3. That lead to a final 3 where Turnip Head faced off against Yates who was somewhat mechanically clear from my posts and me dying from a cop hunt, and Banks was pretty clear from Day Three (no one in the game really believed he was peeked guilty, and he realized that, and erupted with glee.) So you would think it would have been a pretty trivial final 3, but paranoia got the best of them, and Turnip Head didn't collect a single vote until the final moments of play. Turnip was just that good, he was a total smokescreen.

Yates and Banks sussed each other hard, and came close to voting each other several times. It was a nail biter. Had Turnip Head prevailed there, I could see him picking up enough votes to advance to the finals for his team. Unlucky for Turnip Head, he was on a team with the legendary coolkid, who became the season 2 champion after advancing to the finals. No one was outshining coolkid that year.

I never saw Turnip Head again after that.

However, I can say that I will always remember him, as he was in The Game. The one game I will always remember. After drawing the night kill from Turnip and coolkid's team, I ended up in dead spectator chat. It just so happens, in that chat at the moment of my death, was a new player named Sooh. We got to talking, and later, I moved from the USA to Norway to marry her. In 2019, in December, we had our first child, Jakob. And today, the 4th of September, 2021, we had our second child, Julie.

This post isn't about me, I just wanted to make it clear: Turnip Head touched a lot of lives. It is quite possible that without Turnip Head's influence on that particular game, I would not be in Norway, I never would have married (I'm getting older), and there would be no Jakob and no Julie.

As a game, mafia is pretty interesting, but it ultimately is a guessing game with a voting mechanic and a need to be able to pretend to be something you are not. The only reason I stuck with it so long despite having other hobbies is the community, the friends you meet along the way, the relationships you build out of that.

I missed out on my chance to know Turnip Head, but the rest of you did not. And I just wanted to add another voice to the choir, even if I am sitting in the very back row. I want you to know, Turnip Head dramatically changed my life in a way. He touched more lives than he can possibly know.

I know you can't see this message, but I will say it anyway. You will never be forgotten, sir.

-Askthepizzaguy