The Syndicate

Hang me from the gallows if you like. If there were replacements available I'd sub out. I almost certainly won't be back before the lynch.

Kid 1 woke up from her nap with a 105 degree fever, so mafia takes the back seat.

Here's a question for you all: I have time to either be productive around the house or re-read the game thread and post thoughts on everyone. Doing the latter may take me all but right up to the lynch deadline. If I shirk domestic productivity, what are the odds that I'm just accused of being a try-hard now that I have votes? Because if my efforts have a high probability of being dismissed and I get lynched anyway, I'll just be productive and let you lynch me.

Has anyone received a coherent/substantive/useful PM from Rico thus far? After taking the bait and posting the poppycock, I sent him a message to see if it continues in private. For me, it did. Twice.

Rico is a lazy choice but the satisfaction factor is growing stronger by the hour.

How disappointing, yet predictable.

Ricochet wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:03 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 2:32 pm Rico - Any thoughts at all? I'd like to understand who you suspect/who you trust.

All you have to do is follow these steps... Say:

P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y That's me!

Here we go folks. It's worth a shot:

P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y That's me!

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:25 pm
I have to go do some stuff but later I'll probably be making a post about why I think you could be mafia if you want something to respond to.

Have at it, good sir. Responding to concrete suspicions against me rather than me speed-reading and fumbling around for tone reads will probably give me a better foothold on the game. Just don't expect a super-prompt replay. Kid 1 has been begging me to go out for ice cream all week. Now that Kid 2 isn't throwing up every 90 minutes, tonight may well be the night.


Can someone lay out the Nutella suspicion for me or at least point to the post where she looks like a bad egg? Somehow I glossed right over that and I haven't had time to go looking back for it.

Hamstrung. That's they best way to describe myself right now. I've lacked the necessary focus to make many tone reads and the votes are logged in overall vote order, rather than in the order people voted for each option (Long Con voted for DH's protection before I did yet my name shows up before his). Because of this (and the lack of alignment reveal), I can't take my vote analysis to the usual wonky level that I do.

I promise to try harder (keep in mind that it's Father's Day weekend) but I'll understand if you lose patience and lynch me.

@Rico...

Ricochet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2017 8:46 am P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y That's me!

Who's gonna protect meeee
Now that I lost dad-dyyyy
Who will my saviour beeee
Why won't you love me?

Are you denying that this post was a roleclaim? Or are you now declaring it a fake claim? Either way, go to your room, young lady. You're grounded.

Ricochet wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:04 am P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y That's me!

People answer meee
Should I muti-nyyy
Or will you treat meee
With love and candy?

Honey, listen to your mother. You need to put this Poppy bit to rest and grow up. It's nothing but a desperate cry for attention and there are more important things to do right now. Also, trust me when I say I mean this in the most loving way possible- you don't have what it takes to mutiny.

Now go clean your room.

Hi there. My week of meetings and vomiting children continues. I will catch up over breakfast tomorrow morning.

How appropriate is this? I'm listening to The Moonglows today and stumble upon this little number:

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2017 7:19 am Voting the mysterious Mutiny for 2 since that seems to be the thing to do, and voting to protect G Man becasue I am looking forward to hearing more of his insight.

Have I any insight? No. No I do not. I admit to phoning it in on Day 1 because RL was busy.


I'm voting for Public Ranking Voting because I have no idea what it means and it sounds fun. Also voting to protect DH for more sassy Negan gifs.

Ricochet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2017 8:46 am P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y I'm Poppy!
P O P P Y That's me!

Who's gonna protect meeee
Now that I lost dad-dyyyy
Who will my saviour beeee
Why won't you love me?

Humble apologies are all I have to offer. Busy at work, which is why I ended up with a drive-by switcheroo. Then I had dinner, a church meeting, and Kid 2 joined the Projectile Vomit Club tonight. Her sister taught her well.

Now where's that life insurance paperwork...

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:14 pm What I really wanna know is how Epignosis finds himself so often in the middle of these chats

Helps when the sender copies him on the message like a nub Dutchie.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:01 pm He really didn't say anything comprehensible. It looked like spam.

He's right. I'm not opposed to having pen pals but it would be nice for the contents to make more sense.

Ho boy am I confused now.

Have I now?

Holding my breath for that DrWilgy PM.






























































Not.

Hmm. The truth is that I'm really not sold on lynching Llama. With all the vote movement, I don't know where to out my vote in order for it to have an impact.

How intriguing! When I moved my vote to Llama, I considered placing it on DrWilgy because he seemed to be blendy but I didn't because it would just add to the vote spread and be his first vote. Voting for Llama held potential for adding to the lynch drama by putting someone in the lead.

If baddies are just going to sit back and let the civvies do all the hard work of building cases against other civvies, then I may as well start looking at the blendy folk. Wilgy fits that description for me thus far.

Hey speedchuck...

Long Con wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:36 am
G-Man - A little light on the usable content, just a smidge. I thought this post was wishy-washy.

Ah, but this post here moved my needle a little more. What was your takeaway from that?

Haven't heard from Spacedaisy yet. As frustrating as that is, it's not lynch-worthy. Llama is on my no-read list. Let's see what happens next.

Dyslexicon wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:20 pm

How presumptuous of me. See, Dyslexicon, I am but a casual player here and thought you joined only recently. I can see from your member profile that you joined back in autumn. That's possibly long enough to get accustomed to many of the regulars you now find yourself sparring with. It actually makes me trust you less now.

Long Con wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:03 pm Do something infamous.

Heh. Already working on that.

Of the two, I feel less inclined to trust Dyslexicon. LC's gaffe doesn't fit his nature if a baddie but he's a wily one and could easily be an indy that done goofed. To me, it looks like Dyslexicon is stumbling through all the new faces and the methods and biases that come with them. The punchy factor doesn't help Dys's cause but I don't know Dys at all (or his/her gender), so I'm forced to work with generalizations.

Howie Mandel wants an answer:

S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:16 am Self imposed curses annoy the heck out of me

Good thing you didn't play Economics Mafia.

S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:16 am I used to think they were just a way for people to weasel out of answering questions in a coherent way, or to have the appearance of a lot of posts without having any actual content (until I saw G Man iso the entire player list in Haiku or Limericks, some kind of poetry in a non poetry themed game) but in my experience, baddies seldom actually do that kind of thing becasue it draws too much attention to them.

You remembered! It was haiku, which inspired Haiku Mafia. That was a most excellent round of shenanigans if I do say so myself.



Right now I see a bunch of people jawing at each other. Rather than break out my own jump-to-conclusions mat, I'll vote for the game's only no-show. I may or may not keep it there.

Hey now. Why'd you move your vote onto me, Dyslexicon? That's not being all neighborly like, now is it?

Hey Dyslexicon, can your vote be changed? There's nothing in the rules about changeable votes and you voted already. Or the host can answer too. Either or.

S~V~S wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:15 pm [quote=G-Man post_id=361286 time=<a href="tel:1497311965">1497311965</a> user_id=383]
Harrumph! Long Con and I go back ages. I am very disappointed he didn't offer me any deals. Then again, I'm also disappointed that nobody PM'ed me at all.

He did not contact me either. And I would have expected him to contact either DH, me, or you, G Man.

Dizzy, did he make you this offer before or after the thread kerfuffle? How was this offer broached? I am mainly asking because I do not see LC making offers like this to someone who is possibly suspecting him.

And G, I did not PM anyone, I wanted to wait a day or two to get a feel for people. You would just be paranoid of me anyhow
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To be honest, I wouldn't have trusted LC any more than you had he PM'ed me. Sometimes a girl just wants to be remembered every now and then.

Harrumph! Long Con and I go back ages. I am very disappointed he didn't offer me any deals. Then again, I'm also disappointed that nobody PM'ed me at all.

Here are links to everyone with posts so far:

Dharmahelper- posts
DrWilgy- posts
Dyslexicon- posts
Epignosis- posts
G-Man- posts
Long Con- posts
Nutella- posts
Ricochet- posts
S~V~S- posts
Sloonei- posts
Spacedaisy- posts
Speedchuck- posts
Sprityo- posts
TheLlama73- posts
Timmer- posts

Dear non-posters,

Please post.

Kthnxbai

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:45 am Douglas Fir is my porn name

Horticulture gone hard-core? No thanks.

Time to build a spreadsheet.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 12:14 am I'm interested in the public vote as a scum hunting mechanism.

Hyphenating 'scum-hunting' would make your post sound more civvie but scum don't need to hunt unless there are two baddie teams.

Anywho, I'm voting for two lynch votes because I love lynch drama. I'm also voting for red cedar because I've always enjoyed the aroma of cedar wood.

Hi there. The NHL playoffs are over now but I'm going to bed. See you all in the morning.