The Syndicate

I don't think I saod thank you yet, so thank you both for this game. Especially daisy, I'm sorry I couldn't bring glory to your family.

Both hitmen were dead by Night 1?

Epignosis wrote:
Sloonei wrote:A part of me wishes I hadn't signed up for this game so that I could have gone to prison.
We tried to get you there twice.

I really appreciate it

A part of me wishes I hadn't signed up for this game so that I could have gone to prison.

Nerolunar wrote:
Quin wrote:I got to the roles and I am absolutely kicking myself. I thought my lover must have died at the beginning because in 9 days we never found eachother, shiiiit.

I'll catch up with everything after lunch.
Its unbelieveable. Good game though Thanks MP and Daisy for hosting. This has been the best game I have had here so far

I sucked though. Chaindeath was town after all

The most fitting scenario would have been you and chaindeath as the lovers.

Dom wrote:Thanks for the game! Sorry I sucked this game. Replacing in is harder than I remember.

Congrats, fellow winners!

You didn't suck, you replaced into the most difficult and unfortunate position in a mafia game. We essentially knew you were bad before you subbed in.

But wow, this game was nuts. I've never seen such a rollercoaster mafia game. My mood went from through the roof to way down in the dumps, and then back through the roof again when SVS killed Dom. Then a crushing unforeseen defeat.

Soneji wrote:My supreme confidence should have tipped people in that I might know something that they do not. There is rarely a situation where I would concede.

At the time I was assuming there was no possible way we could lose, so your apparent concession made perfect sense. Even when I saw the game had ended, my first thought was that you had officially conceded.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:
Prisoner 958153 wrote:This thought just occurred to me:

Can someone explain how Dom survived the lynch on Day 11? I see nothing in the roles that would lead to a baddie being given lynch immunity. This tells me that it could either be a undisclosed game mechanic, or be a result of the hosts one-use powers they used way back at the beginning of the game. With this in mind, how feasible is it to suggest that Turnip may also have benefitted from this protection? With all this on the table, I still think chaindeath is more likely to be a policeman.
We still don't know how Dom survived that lynch. There had to be some kind of secret mechanic or role ability in motion, but the details elude us and probably will until endgame. We could certainly tinfoil Turnip Head as being the same story, but I don't think it would be wise. We do know after all the dons have to be alive, and it makes no sense for Soneji, chaindeath, or I to be dons.

Plus Soneji is conceding.

Beautifully played Soneji and all of the cops. If it weren't for process of elimination and role assignments, this scenario may never have arrived. There's not much a baddie team can do about that.

This post though. Soneji wasn't conceding at all

Epignosis wrote:
Sloonei wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
Epignosis wrote:This was my first time being bad in a long ass while. Felt good.

Sometimes.
You really kicked ass. You and Soneji were the MVPs for sure.

Speaking of which, I'm still amazed that Soneji's double arrest succeeded so many times despite being mathematically improbable.

You are a frightening ass civilian to go up against.

You and 3J both on the same page the whole game? I doubted our chance of success many many many times.

Thanks! That's fine praise coming from you, I appreciate it. And it's good to know Epi is scared of me.

I also had to laugh a bit at the end when every page was just me and jay going back and forth. I felt a little bad for everyone else in the game.

Quin wrote:
Sloonei wrote:Totally shocked at the identity of 509378, did not see that coming, much gasping.
I figured it out based on what he's said and his syntax

That post belonged in this color

You played awesome and I'm sorry I thought you were bad.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Epignosis wrote:This was my first time being bad in a long ass while. Felt good.

Sometimes.
You really kicked ass. You and Soneji were the MVPs for sure.

Speaking of which, I'm still amazed that Soneji's double arrest succeeded so many times despite being mathematically improbable.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Sloonei wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).
I'm amazed that the top two games in post count can be games in which you didn't play.
That's because I still spam as a host.

Go team Hostface!

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

I'm amazed that the top two games in post count can be games in which you didn't play.

MovingPictures07 wrote:This game really was a ball to host, even if it progressed totally differently than either of us expected!

Thanks again, all. I'm actually sad that it's over, despite looking forward to it toward the end here so I could get my "free time" back. :P

I feel like poor old Brooks right now.

I was devastated when y'all shanked Golden.

Just started skimming the prison and yeah, G-man is my favorite.

My mafia spirits were so down in the dumps from this game, and then we lynched a baddie on Day 1 in Spirited Away and I nearly lost my mind.

Ricochet wrote:
Sloonei wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Prisoner 509378 wrote:
Sloonei wrote: I laughed a little as soon as I saw Jay's first prisoner post the day of the jailbreak, and there were at least a dozen times I nearly typed Jay instead of "prisoner" in this game.
My strategy to get paroled:

Be as JJJ as I can possibly be. I'll be honest, on Day 5 I was just going for appearances. I didn't care whether my reads were accurate at all, I just wanted everyone to know exactly who I am and give me the parole with the promise that I'd give the kind of effort that is typical of me.

I'm glad it worked, but I also worried the other prisoners would be annoyed by my post-mania and try to stop me.
Oh no, I realized I have zero fat chances to challenge you. So I buddied you.

Actually, until we broke out of prison, I thought I landed with Diiny in my cell. Which was funny, because Dinny slipped on RYM that he was mislynched. Diiny played hard the first Days on CD-FIVEMOREINITIALS, so I imagined he'd work hard in Prison and Parole duty, too. But yeah, as soon as Day 5 started, I fully realized who I really partnered with.

Plus, I actually had a big schemng plan to pretend I'm Diiny and demand my parole, once prison break would occur... only for the Hosts to enforce the no-hint rule. D'oh.
I'm pretty sure they only told you not to hint at you truly are. There's no rule against hinting that you're somebody you're not.
I would have broken the "hint that I might have had a past in the main game" rule.

rats

G-man you are my favorite human being.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Sloonei wrote:How did the Prison work? What was going on in there?
Can you see it? It should be a subforum under Current Job #2. If not, then I've got more permissions to fix.

Further, if you ISO my posts you should be able to find a detailed spoiler post as well as a few other blurbs that together will tell you about everything in prison.

I haven't checked yet.

Ricochet wrote:
Prisoner 509378 wrote:
Sloonei wrote: I laughed a little as soon as I saw Jay's first prisoner post the day of the jailbreak, and there were at least a dozen times I nearly typed Jay instead of "prisoner" in this game.
My strategy to get paroled:

Be as JJJ as I can possibly be. I'll be honest, on Day 5 I was just going for appearances. I didn't care whether my reads were accurate at all, I just wanted everyone to know exactly who I am and give me the parole with the promise that I'd give the kind of effort that is typical of me.

I'm glad it worked, but I also worried the other prisoners would be annoyed by my post-mania and try to stop me.
Oh no, I realized I have zero fat chances to challenge you. So I buddied you.

Actually, until we broke out of prison, I thought I landed with Diiny in my cell. Which was funny, because Dinny slipped on RYM that he was mislynched. Diiny played hard the first Days on CD-FIVEMOREINITIALS, so I imagined he'd work hard in Prison and Parole duty, too. But yeah, as soon as Day 5 started, I fully realized who I really partnered with.

Plus, I actually had a big schemng plan to pretend I'm Diiny and demand my parole, once prison break would occur... only for the Hosts to enforce the no-hint rule. D'oh.

I'm pretty sure they only told you not to hint at you truly are. There's no rule against hinting that you're somebody you're not.

How did the Prison work? What was going on in there?

How long did it take you cops to figure out I was the Don? I assumed you had me on Night 2 or 3, whenever those failed arrests happened. I even asked Daisy if I'd be allowed to roleclaim because I didn't want the cops to have information that my family didn't. I was not allowed to.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:
Sloonei wrote: I laughed a little as soon as I saw Jay's first prisoner post the day of the jailbreak, and there were at least a dozen times I nearly typed Jay instead of "prisoner" in this game.
My strategy to get paroled:

Be as JJJ as I can possibly be. I'll be honest, on Day 5 I was just going for appearances. I didn't care whether my reads were accurate at all, I just wanted everyone to know exactly who I am and give me the parole with the promise that I'd give the kind of effort that is typical of me.

I'm glad it worked, but I also worried the other prisoners would be annoyed by my post-mania and try to stop me.

You did more than just JJJ. You JJJJJJ'd.

I laughed a little as soon as I saw Jay's first prisoner post the day of the jailbreak, and there were at least a dozen times I nearly typed Jay instead of "prisoner" in this game.

Spacedaisy wrote:
Sloonei wrote:sorry i spent so much time and energy trying to get you lynched, quin and sig.

That CFD was amazing but it kinda doomed me personally in this game. It caused me to shake up so many of my reads from earlier in the game, and it turned out all of my new ideas were wrong and my old ones were much more on the right track.

Soneji had me fooled the whole time though. If it weren't for those last day shenanigans I was never going to vote for him. Very well played Soneji and the rest of you cops.

This is so very true for pretty much everyone but Silverwolf. Silverwolf has incredible instincts. However, I have never seen so many civs be so absolutely wrong and yet 100% they were right as I did in this game. People who usually have outstanding instincts as well. It was almost painful to watch at times.

Also, I have to share my own Slooneji story. Sloonei, you were originally supposed to be the Chief and soneji was supposed to be my Don, but because I flubbed and got Sloonei and soneji mixed up, I had to flip flop your roles because one of the role card messages was read as soon as I sent it. I felt like an idiot.

I'm glad I wasn't alone in getting our names mixed up then.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:
Epignosis wrote:I told you all "CFD" is foolishness.
You're still wrong.

Well actually I'm usually not a fan. The CFD wasn't the problem in this game though, it was the townies' reads following the CFD. Now they've all seen it before, next time they'll be better prepared.

I was never expecting that to happen for a moment. Even when I put my vote on Fuzz I was just expecting everyone else to sit on their votes and nothing would change. I came back to thread and EVERYONE was on him. When it actually netted us a baddie lynch I was equal parts confused and ecstatic.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Sloonei wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
Sloonei wrote:
Soneji wrote:Epi and I very much hinted towards the Prisoner not mattering. The game would be heavily unbalanced if the Cops had to rely on the town to take out the Dons to win, as the Dons were immune to the actions of the cops. Neither faction of town can meet their wincon if only the Dons remained from each family, so Cops win by default if only one of them is alive against both Dons.
I was unaware of this all game long

Do not share BTSC unless specified. Win when all of The Police and The Don from The Sockfaced Famiglia are dead or arrested, but only if their alive and free family members outnumber those of The Sockfaced Famiglia.
I mean I did not know the Police would win in that 3 person scenario.

But I am also not complaining, just saying I messed up my outlook of the game. It was an adventure and I loved playing in this thing. I'm just glad we at least recovered well enough to identify all the baddies before game's end. It may have taken us a while, but we did it.
Yeah, you all didn't get much of a chance to Don-hunt like Daisy and I were thinking would happen because the cops just wouldn't get lynched.

I remember mentioning my BTSC thread that I wanted to start Don hunting as soon as sig and boomslang were out of the way, but then that kept getting delayed and then they were both town and by the time it was obvious I couldn't do anything about it

MovingPictures07 wrote:Furthermore, we have a special banner for prisoners who contributed significantly to the entire prison's success throughout various challenges...!!

Daisy and I went through all of the challenges and identified the prisoners we think were crucial to the entire team's success in breaking out of prison. Here is the list. If your name is on it at least once, you are free to wear this banner!

Day 2 - N/A
Day 3 - DharmaHelper, timmer
Day 4 - Long Con

Day 6 - a2thezebra, DharmaHelper, G-Man
Day 7 - a2thezebra, bea, G-Man, juliets, Typhoony
Day 8 - N/A
Day 9 - N/A
Day 10 - N/A
Day 11 - ika, Silverwolf, S~V~S, Typhoony

Congratulations to our prison thugs...

a2thezebra, bea, DharmaHelper, G-Man, ika, juliets, Long Con, Silverwolf, timmer, and Typhoony!!!!

Wear the banner with pride.

I demand to see the prison

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I'm voting Sloonei until he responds to my complaint.

Do not speak to the Don like this.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:All three of the other paroled independents deserved it and I'm very glad you guys made it out.

One more confession, civvies: while I was definitely on your side in this game, there was one motive I had that you did not -- get my independent brothers/sisters from the start out of prison and into the win column. Paroling actual townies instead of us would have been a better strategic choice; we knew we had to stand out however we could.

Nah, paroling townies wouldn't have been much more of an advantage to us. I asked and it turns out even paroled townies would have remained anonymous and unaffiliated.

sorry i spent so much time and energy trying to get you lynched, quin and sig.

That CFD was amazing but it kinda doomed me personally in this game. It caused me to shake up so many of my reads from earlier in the game, and it turned out all of my new ideas were wrong and my old ones were much more on the right track.

Soneji had me fooled the whole time though. If it weren't for those last day shenanigans I was never going to vote for him. Very well played Soneji and the rest of you cops.

And yeah, thanks a bunch for the game both of you. This was one of the wackiest and most stimulating setups I've ever played. I never had any idea what was going on.

This is how I felt on Day 11:

Prisoner 509378 wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
Sloonei wrote:
Soneji wrote:Epi and I very much hinted towards the Prisoner not mattering. The game would be heavily unbalanced if the Cops had to rely on the town to take out the Dons to win, as the Dons were immune to the actions of the cops. Neither faction of town can meet their wincon if only the Dons remained from each family, so Cops win by default if only one of them is alive against both Dons.
I was unaware of this all game long

Do not share BTSC unless specified. Win when all of The Police and The Don from The Sockfaced Famiglia are dead or arrested, but only if their alive and free family members outnumber those of The Sockfaced Famiglia.
Yeah, I think both town teams were content with "we'll call it a tie and give nobody any banners as long as the cops don't win." All of the confusion will likely stem from that.

I was playing for a stalemate. My last resort was that I could wiggle my way to a victory if I became the Warden and had powers to abuse, but it turns out none of that was the case. That was the real reason I wanted it so bad.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Sloonei wrote:
Soneji wrote:Epi and I very much hinted towards the Prisoner not mattering. The game would be heavily unbalanced if the Cops had to rely on the town to take out the Dons to win, as the Dons were immune to the actions of the cops. Neither faction of town can meet their wincon if only the Dons remained from each family, so Cops win by default if only one of them is alive against both Dons.
I was unaware of this all game long

Do not share BTSC unless specified. Win when all of The Police and The Don from The Sockfaced Famiglia are dead or arrested, but only if their alive and free family members outnumber those of The Sockfaced Famiglia.

I mean I did not know the Police would win in that 3 person scenario.

But I am also not complaining, just saying I messed up my outlook of the game. It was an adventure and I loved playing in this thing. I'm just glad we at least recovered well enough to identify all the baddies before game's end. It may have taken us a while, but we did it.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Prisoner 813142 wrote:Riiiiight. Now I'm even more confused than before. How did the Police win?
Neither civilian faction could win the game unless the opposing team's Don was dead, as stated in the public win con. That was mathematically impossible, given a chaindeath arrest meant that the only two living civilians left were each team's Don.

Since the Police had no way to actually rid the game of the Dons, Daisy and I told them that, as long as they took the game down to at least one of them being alive and the only civilians left are the two Dons, then they would win the game by default.

If all of the Police had died before it got to that point, but then the civilian factions still couldn't mathematically take out each other's Dons, then the game would have been a draw and no one would have won (except independent prisoners, if they happened to get paroled).

You all were too busy mislynching each other unintentionally to see the opposing team's Don as the threat that they really were.

I wasn't a threat, what're you talking about I'm an angel!

Soneji wrote:Epi and I very much hinted towards the Prisoner not mattering. The game would be heavily unbalanced if the Cops had to rely on the town to take out the Dons to win, as the Dons were immune to the actions of the cops. Neither faction of town can meet their wincon if only the Dons remained from each family, so Cops win by default if only one of them is alive against both Dons.

I was unaware of this all game long

Totally shocked at the identity of 509378, did not see that coming, much gasping.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:Yeah I clearly misunderstood something. I didn't think they could win with the dons still in the game and not arrested. I thought it might be headed toward a civ-civ stalemate of some kind, but I didn't think the cops would be able to accomplish their win condition.

Sorry civilians. I have a feeling many of us misinterpreted the same thing somewhere.

Yeah, same. I thought we were cruising toward turnip head & I staring awkwardly at each other some more until the game just ended.

I had a crew member alive the whole time! I assumed I was submitting night actions to nobody from night 9 on.

How was it, Bob?

I don't know what you are talking about.

I don't have to put up with this, I'm an Ambassador!

I am a noob

What is your avatar/signature thing? It looks neat.

I'll be voting for soneji. I'm still bitter about his name being similar to mine.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:
Sloonei wrote:Also are we able to deduce why Silverwolf was so sure Soneji has to be a cop? I am not inclined to believe she was the Stool Pigeon herself, so like what's up with her certainty?
Have you read his most recent posts?

I had not read them before making that post. Hey soneji are you bad?

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