The Syndicate

DharmaHelper wrote:Whew, my schedule finally cleared up Epi I'm ready to sub in if you need it.

Who the fuck told this guy he could unretire?

MacDougall wrote:Well done on reading me like a book to Dom and whoever else did. Lorab I think pegged me super early on. JJJ at the end.

Sucks that SVS got night killed when she did. After Wilgy, Marmot and SVS got removed so early we were pretty screwed and INH got busy outside the game so I was alone pretty much the whole game. I just hard lurked for like 3 day phases and kept sending in kills hoping to throw people off.

Hehe, yeah. We kinda got steamrolled this game, coupled with those couple unlucky duels early on in the game.

Welcome Aragorn! Bring me back to life plz.

I died a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Still dead and available.

The heist game has more posts! Neener neener

Matahari wrote:Hi. I'm skimming the game, and I've realized it will probably take the rest of the game before I catch up. But I will try

Hiya Mata!

Read please. I promise I'll be good.

Remember that one time I died and I kept posting on-topic content because I didn't know I was dead?

Well, that's not happening this game.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:All-time self-voting record is getting shattered in this game.

And I'm not even self-voting.

I'll take Dom and Russtifinko for $600.

Turnip Head wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:I prefer green beans for eating. Wax beans don't sound appetizing. This is the Interrogation Chamber.
But what kind of beans do you like in your bean soup?

I like red beans personally.

I just loaded the poll, looks like I get to square off with Russ afterall.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:No, it's supposed to be a can. But for those of you calling it counterproductive, how do you interpret my reasoning for it? Why do you consider it vote-worthy?

I voted for prefects on my way out the door for a camping trip. I didn't know how the lynches were going to work, and I guess I had a different mindset when I returned. Additionally, I wanted to duel Wilgy. Had there been no duels, I don't think I'd have voted Wilgy.
Talk about the other points I made. I'll give you some direct questions:

Why did you bring up LoRab when you conversed with Wilgy?

Do you think it's fair for people to suspect that you and Wilgy are both buckets of WIFOM and that his painting you as his team mate shouldn't just be discarded?

Why did you want to duel Wilgy?

Did you want to duel Scotty?

Were you trying to capitalize on me being called a baddie by the messenger town role at the start of Day 2?

Who are your suspects?

Do you prefer green beans or wax beans? Is this the interrogation room?

DrWilgy directed a comment at LoRab. I had just posted ISO-links and glanced through, so I knew LoRab hadn't posted yet.

Of course. I love using WIFOM and wouldn't dream of going a whole game without using it.

As I've said already, I wanted to duel him after he thoroughly licked me in a previous game.

No. I have no reason to duel Scotty, and I want to keep him around.

No. I don't think you're bad at all. That's not going to stop me from playing a game though.

I don't like that Dom hasn't talked about me at all. I don't like that Russtifinko denied my offer at a duel. I have a grudge with Turnip Head. Nutella looks appeaseable but I think that's par for the course from her. There is the LoRab comment that DrWilgy made. After some thought, this is my shortlist of people.

I prefer green beans for eating. Wax beans don't sound appetizing. This is the Interrogation Chamber.

I'm trying to post, but the site is loading slowly, and I keep bouncing between work and here.

Look forward to answers to your questions Jay.

Linki......

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:Counterproductive? I can understand that explanation. How would you justify it?
If the lynches didn't turn out to be duels, I likely would not have voted DrWilgy on Day 1.

This post confuses me. I'll try to answer it in pieces.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Counterproductive? I can understand that explanation. How would you justify it?

Is this supposed to be "can't"? The question mark after "counterproductive" suggests to me that you're not in agreement with that term being used.

If not, I don't understand the need to justify my explanation if it is understood. You supported Wilgy to earn a unique distinction and then you helped get him killed. I'm trying to discern why those two truths coexist in this game.

If so, I'd like you to tell me why you felt your actions were the appropriate actions to take.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:If the lynches didn't turn out to be duels, I likely would not have voted DrWilgy on Day 1.

What does this mean?[/quote]

No, it's supposed to be a can. But for those of you calling it counterproductive, how do you interpret my reasoning for it? Why do you consider it vote-worthy?

I voted for prefects on my way out the door for a camping trip. I didn't know how the lynches were going to work, and I guess I had a different mindset when I returned. Additionally, I wanted to duel Wilgy. Had there been no duels, I don't think I'd have voted Wilgy.

Turnip Head wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
Turnip Head wrote:Or I could always vote myself so that I can duel the marmot and bring honor to my home.
You declined yesterday.
If you vote for yourself, I will vote for Turnip Head.

*shakes hand

Agreed. I'll vote later once I've decided who else to vote.

Scratch that, I've confused you with Russ, TH.

Turnip Head wrote:Or I could always vote myself so that I can duel the marmot and bring honor to my home.

You declined yesterday.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:You summarized (iso'd) DrWilgy's interactions with me, and called them iffy. Why are they iffy?
The reason you provided for voting Wilgy and I for prefect can be viewed with some doubt now that he's flipped as he has. I'll just copy/paste the rest.

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JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:Here's a list of people who haven't posted yet:

Bubbles
LoRab
rabbit8
Soneji

Eventually, I want to have a showdown with DrWilgy though.
This Wilgy mention seems rather arbitrary.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I should just start playing like MM. He has more fun than I do.
Are you not having fun?

Stay determined friend.

DrWilgy wrote:
nutella wrote:Oh I also want to hear more from Wilgy. I feel like he's usually a lot more active than this, but I keep forgetting he's even in this game and I don't think that's a good sign. Likewise with sig, to a slightly lesser extent.
How could you forget about me LoRab? I was at work and had dnd night, but never left...
LoRab hasn't posted yet DrWilgy. Does that bother you?
Softball question which doesn't really have the potential to lead somewhere meaningful.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
DrWilgy wrote:
Scotty wrote:
DrWilgy wrote:
nutella wrote:Oh I also want to hear more from Wilgy. I feel like he's usually a lot more active than this, but I keep forgetting he's even in this game and I don't think that's a good sign. Likewise with sig, to a slightly lesser extent.
How could you forget about me LoRab? I was at work and had dnd night, but never left...
wat

It's like you just woke up from a bad dream at precisely the time someone talks about you
Marmot friend told me in btsc that I was being talked about.

Im very suspicious of Lorab now that you mention it Marmot friend!
Wilgy plays WIFOM, projecting MM as his team mate.
Quin raised a good point as well when he identified the counter-productivity of your voting behavior. You supported Wilgy in the prefect vote, and then you voted to put him in a duel and potentially die.

Counterproductive? I can understand that explanation. How would you justify it?

If the lynches didn't turn out to be duels, I likely would not have voted DrWilgy on Day 1.

Thanks for the vote explanation though Jay. I buy it.

Elohcin wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:So, we have two baddie factions that are supposed to kill each night and neither of them did. Is an entire team filled with inactives?

There are obviously other possibilities, but this game is as lurker-loaded as anticipated so it could be.
I was thinking the same thing. And Epi usually accepts group PMs if I remember correctly, so even if there is one active player, they should be able to submit the kill, I would think anyway. However, we have to keep in mind all the secrets and other crap loaded into games like this. You never know what could have happened. Benefits were given out to the prefects as well as the winner of the Day 1 Duel. So....maybe one team was inactive and the other had something working against them. Not sure. But I am with you that there has to be at least some inactive baddies b/c there are so many inactives in the first place.

Also, I like your theory on MM.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'm only sad that I couldn't face DrWilgy in a duel myself.

Nobody died, there are two mafia teams that can kill. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them missed their kill.

And in other news, JaggedJimmyJay is bad.
What's yer beef, Marmot?
Epignosis posted it, and he knows your role.
Shoot, I looked at that post from Epi and I thought....."whatever, moving on," There's probably something like a 90% chance that Zhuge Liang is wrong. MM, you're just having fun and stirring the pot

Oh my goodness....I am reading and making comments on posts and then I get to the bottom of the page and there are three more pages to go! I think I'll go watch some tv.

I'm checking to see who's paying attention. Epignosis is our dear host, not a player in this game.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Hey Marmot, please talk about those things I said about you related to Wilgy.
I don't have much to say about Wilgy. I would've liked to lick him myself, but I'm still pleased to see him slain.

What does it mean to be a prefect?
I'm not asking you to talk about Wilgy. I'm asking you to talk about the things I said about you at the start of this day phase.

Why are you asking me a question about being a prefect that you know I cannot answer?

Also, considering your vote total, why did you vote the way you did on Day 1?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Turnip Head wrote:Also JJJ, though I'm reading you as town right now, I was surprised to not see your votes used for self defense when you showed up at deadline.
Yeah I got here at literally XX:58 and had to phone vote, I didn't even look at the tally. I'm surprised I even got my votes in on time.
Checking the tally first might have prevented me from getting my votes in, it was that close. I didn't know I had received as many votes as I had when I placed mine. I kind of just had to throw my votes down without thinking, so I put 'em on the two suspects I had talked the most about on Day 1.

I don't know what you can talk about wert the prefect business. Thanks for clarifying.

You summarized (iso'd) DrWilgy's interactions with me, and called them iffy. Why are they iffy?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Hey Marmot, please talk about those things I said about you related to Wilgy.

I don't have much to say about Wilgy. I would've liked to lick him myself, but I'm still pleased to see him slain.

What does it mean to be a prefect? Also, considering your vote total, why did you vote the way you did on Day 1?

Here, let me help.

Epignosis wrote:Shu – Virtue

Zhuge Liang
Strategist
He is the primary strategist of the Shu faction.
Zhuge Liang may post his thoughts in the thread each Night through the Host.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'm only sad that I couldn't face DrWilgy in a duel myself.

Nobody died, there are two mafia teams that can kill. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them missed their kill.

And in other news, JaggedJimmyJay is bad.
What's yer beef, Marmot?

Epignosis posted it, and he knows your role.

I'm only sad that I couldn't face DrWilgy in a duel myself.

Nobody died, there are two mafia teams that can kill. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them missed their kill.

And in other news, JaggedJimmyJay is bad.

I'm voting for DrWilgy and Turnip Head in the hopes that one of them will end up dueling me.

Oh, and the day ends in 75 minutes.

Catch you all later.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I should just start playing like MM. He has more fun than I do.

Are you not having fun?

Stay determined friend.

DrWilgy wrote:
nutella wrote:Oh I also want to hear more from Wilgy. I feel like he's usually a lot more active than this, but I keep forgetting he's even in this game and I don't think that's a good sign. Likewise with sig, to a slightly lesser extent.
How could you forget about me LoRab? I was at work and had dnd night, but never left...

LoRab hasn't posted yet DrWilgy. Does that bother you?

Nerolunar wrote:Aaaand I'm not sure who to vote for. Maybe I will be in a few hours, otherwise I will probably follow up on a reasonable bandwagon.

Define a reasonable bandwagon.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Hey guys. I just wanted to pop in and again apologize for my overly-emotional behavior (it's been a ridiculously stressful week and yesterday morning was doubly so, but that's no excuse), and I've since cooled down and thought this over. I was initially leaning towards staying out of this game because it's clear especially since I started my PhD that mafia games often overburden me when I'm busy and stressed (hence my reputation for emotional implosions), but I've decided to stick this out, or at least to try to once more before deciding to quit later if I feel I really cannot. I know Epi worked hard to fill this game and that replacements would be better served on the inevitable quiet few who never show up or someone who legitimately needs a replacement. But I'm going to return only under the circumstances in which I was originally intending -- only when I feel I have adequate time and I'm going to force myself away if I'm feeling stressed out.

With that said, I'll catch up later, since I still have a lot to do today. Not even sure when I'll be back.

I only have one point I want to make and that's in response to Macdougall (so if you're not Mac, don't feel free to read this unless you want to read an elaboration for why I post so often about my RL and schedule, so I'll make it green): I apologize again, Mac, for taking your comments and not counting to five and walking away before posting in response. But I wanted to say that I wasn't providing any detail of my busy schedule for slank cover, or because I think that it is alignment indicative or that I'm trying to use it in defense of myself. I'm not. I never would. I like to provide it (and am infamous for doing so, I'll admit) because I tend to be a very active player and I want people to know in advance that I may not get to them right away, I probably won't be doing in-depth analyses due to lack of time, etc., and I don't want people to think I'm hiding or anything because of lack of interest or my alignment. I specifically wanted to emphasize it this game because, despite consistently specifying it over many games especially since I've started my PhD, I've been working 10-15 hours on average every day, with the occasional all-nighter, and getting little sleep, and as I approach mid-September my workload becomes even more increasingly busier due to a flurry of badly timed major deadlines. And my wife and I are moving apartments right now. It's honestly the busiest I've ever been in my life.

So anyway, my point is that I think it's clear with anyone who's played with me over the years that, if I have time, regardless of alignment, I post. And I post a lot. And I also notoriously talk about how busy I am pretty much in every game I'm in. So if you or anyone else wants to judge me based on that, OK, but I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to defend myself with those statements; rather, merely to provide context to how often I'll be in the thread, and to warn people that I'll be inevitably taking a moderate and watered down approach this game. I brought it up specifically in the context of our conversation because I didn't think I had told you that and I didn't want you to think that I'm ignoring you or anything if I don't post for a while. If you want to judge it as alignment indicative, then I guess I can't stop you from doing so, but it's annoying and inaccurate to say the least for such statements to be judged as alignment indicative, even though I realize that technically anyone says in the course of this game at any time is fair game for analysis and suspicion.

Now, I haven't read anything since my post before this one. I probably won't for at least 24 hours, maybe even way more. Thank god the thread locks at Night. I don't really feel like I could make any semblance of an informed vote at this stage so I'm just going to abstain rather than randomize (since I really detest that), and will properly contribute whenever I feel I can, which may not be for a while. I need to actually know I can play this game in moderation. Hopefully I can stick to it because I cannot afford to spend much time here.

Thanks for sticking with it MP, you can ignore my first rainbow list if you like.

Here's a list of people who haven't posted yet:

Bubbles
LoRab
rabbit8
Soneji

Eventually, I want to have a showdown with DrWilgy though.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I'm not voting for MM on Day 1.

I'm not voting for TheCapsFan today.

Here's some post linksBass_the_Clever - Posts
birdwithteeth11 - Posts
Boomslang - Posts
Bubbles - Posts
Bullzeye - Posts
DFaraday - Posts
DisgruntledPorcupine - Posts
Dom - Posts
Dragon D. Luffy - Posts
DrWilgy - Posts
Dunny - Posts
Elohcin - Posts
Glorfindel - Posts
Golden - Posts
insertnamehere - Posts
JaggedJimmyJay - Posts
Jan - Posts
leetic - Posts
LoRab - Posts
MacDougall - Posts
Metalmarsh89 - Posts
MovingPictures07 - Posts
Nerolunar - Posts
nijuukyugou - Posts
nutella - Posts
Quin - Posts
rabbit8 - Posts
Russtifinko - Posts
Scotty - Posts
sig - Posts
Simon - Posts
Soneji - Posts
Sorsha - Posts
Spacedaisy - Posts
S~V~S - Posts
TheCapsFan - Posts
timmer - Posts
Turnip Head - Posts

Yelm me yelm you timmer.

Scotty wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:Fellow intelligent beings, make sure to get all of your words in since we can't talk at night.
Good point.

Why did you list SVS among your rainbow list even though she hadn't talked before then?

I listed all of the admins since it was a conveniently small group to list that Sockface is a part of.

Fellow intelligent beings, make sure to get all of your words in since we can't talk at night.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I'm going to hold an online seminar on Mafia Day 1 philosophy.

Are you hoping it'll have an impact on the current Day 1?

Looks like we have a 10-way tie on our hands.

Turnip Head wrote:You have to vote for yourself and then I will vote for you too.

Iseewhatyoudidthere.

You can't fool me like that Turnip Bread. CHALLENGE DENIED!!!

Turnip Head wrote:I challenge Metalmarsh89 to a duel.

Challenge accepted.

What do we do now?

Turnip Head wrote:THE ANCIENT RITUAL OF CHALLENGE DUEL HAS BEEN INVOKED. RUSSTIFINKO NOW HAS 24 HOURS TO ACCEPT OR WE WILL RAID HIS ANCESTRAL VILLAGE.

Says the fellow whom I always vote on Day 1.

Russ, I challenge you to a duel.

Scotty wrote: O rly.
Posting it 3 hours after his penultimate "I'm done and looking for a replacement" you were looking for a reaction from him?

Can't tell if joking or just a poor sport.

...

I haven't read the whole thread, so this is news to me.

Alright MP, I'm bumping you up to peach.

Scotty wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'm leaving for a camping trip soon. I'll be back on Wednesday. Peace!
Oh hey Scotty, I posted this at the beginning.

And to be fair, I probably wouldn't have contributed, even if I was around.
Ah, I missed that. Unfortunately, your input since you've been back is going exactly how you admit it would go.
Metalmarsh89 wrote:Also, my rainbow list looks something like this:

S~V~S
Turnip Head
MovingPictures07

Stay tuned for more.
Stay tuned for more...more what? Beer? Spears? Aneurysms?
What does the blue represent? Why do you suspect MP? Why anything? Why do I keep expecting you to expand upon your thoughts, knowing full well you're just gonna derp around them? Isn't that tbe definition of insanity?

You can't just post colorful words and not talk about them. Here's my rainbow list using your method:
Stalin
The Yuan Dynasty
Andy Richter
Crab People

Stay tuned for more.

More colours and names attached to them.

But mainly, I'm fishing for a reaction from MP.

Jan wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
You have a 71% chance of being correct about a civilian read.
You have a 29% chance of being correct about a non-civilian read.

Therefore, civilian reads are more likely to be accurate.
Oh lord, turns out I misunderstood the whole point that person was making. And here as well, I thought you were trying to convince me to make wild guesses by giving me that proportion.

I thought they basically had said that civilians are more likely to read scum correctly than scum, which is pretty obvious and facepalmed.

I guess I should go to sleep.

Well there you go.

Have a good rest.

Jan wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote: About 71% of the roles are civilian, so the probability is there.

That's even a bit less a proportion of civ/scum than in games I hosted. I usually stuck with 20-25%. How is that convincing?

Oh and in relation to that large ass post: *these three are elected. The two cast votes got me confused.

You have a 71% chance of being correct about a civilian read.
You have a 29% chance of being correct about a non-civilian read.

Therefore, civilian reads are more likely to be accurate.

^^^Jan said that.

Jan wrote:
Scotty wrote:However, from my general experience of over 20 mafia games played and 3 hosted, Day One lynches are usually pretty much wild guesses and there's more meta and philosophy to them than necessary. I'm rather poor at guessing who is scum, I'd rather have some evidence first. Besides, literally nothing arose my suspicions yet. I reread everything while I'm writing this post and the only thing that made me raise an eyebrow was someone that said "civ reads tend to be more accurate than scum reads". LOL

About 71% of the roles are civilian, so the probability is there.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'm leaving for a camping trip soon. I'll be back on Wednesday. Peace!

Oh hey Scotty, I posted this at the beginning.

And to be fair, I probably wouldn't have contributed, even if I was around.

Scotty wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:
Sorsha wrote:Hehe... I was like wth does "utr" mean... Unable to read?

Anyway, I think voting for those who are the most suspicions is the best bet.
Unable to rezz.
Speak of the marmot

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Also, my rainbow list looks something like this:

S~V~S
Turnip Head
MovingPictures07

Stay tuned for more.
I see.
I look forward to you placing someone who hasn't posted yet as your only civ on your rainbow list

Would you like me to show you the proper use of pedantic pink?

Also, my rainbow list looks something like this:

S~V~S
Turnip Head
MovingPictures07

Stay tuned for more.

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