The Syndicate

Is there a specific reason to be concerned like a natural disaster or something?

Damn I better hand back my award.

Funniest poster... man. This is the high point of my life.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:21 pm nutella's award presentation:

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Good lord this is the best thing I've ever seen in my life.

Ok

The Assassination of Nutella by the Coward MacDougall


I shall preface the tale I am about to tell with a little education. I am not your run of the mill bounty hunter. I don't look for surface reasons, slips and statements. I look for deeper intent. I don't read the words and think to myself "there's a civilian", I look for "Mafia sub purpose". If I cannot see it, then I see a civilian. The objective of the bad guy is to look as civvy as possible but they cannot hide their true intent, which is to continue to exist and to confuse the civilians into thinking they are one of their own. This is the assassination of nutella by the coward MacDougall.

Unlike most of the time when I throw out an early read, nutella pinged me not for tone or gut but because of a post. This one in fact. I rate nutella as at least a 4 star catch so keep in mind that it's not like she's gonna be some glaring beacon of Mafia. When she's Mafia she's good, real good.

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:26 am

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:49 am Kylemii, MacDougall, and G-Man are bad.

Go.

oh yeah totes

It's short, I know. As with all things it could be a civ post but as far as Mafia-like posts go this one is pretty typical of early game Mafia players in that it doesn't possess much civilian purpose and is also a fairly "risk free" type of post. It's as Jay would say "busywork". Responding to the first Earnest attempt to start the game off with a choking response, the point of this post is questionable and all it does really is immediately take the pressure valve off the three players Epignosis tried to put under the hammer, which I rate as a good look for the drunk guy.

This alone is not enough though. As you will see there is a bit more to come and it really only came to a head at the end of the previous day. It was the way she dealt with the lynch of Enrique that has me quite certain of her Mafia nature.

We'll get there soon. Here's another really intriguing post she made along the way.

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:29 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:00 pm

Lunalee wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:54 pm Ugh, the poll has way too many single votes on it right now.

Maybe you could fix that?

Lol last time someone called Luna out for not practicing what she was preaching she was bad

I don't necessarily suspect her for it here though. Only so much one can do

But we only have 4.5 hours so yeah who should we start grouping votes onto? I'd love to hear thoughts other than my own

In the above post this reads like a Mafia player latching on to a town made case. She is also exhibiting "the Russ" by casting doubt in both directions. This serves to pacify both Speechuck and Lunalee towards her at the same time. It's made even more genius by the fact that speedchuck wasn't even really explicitly suspecting lunalee, and nutella escalated it to that in a way to make it seem like speedchuck did. What you do here as mafia is go back and blame speedchuck when lunalee flips town. Not outright, but "speedchuck pointed out that she was being hypocritical and I agreed" is a good cover for raising a bad case.

You can see in the below post that DDL saw something samesuch in the post. He simplified it down to her use of the term "lol". I think he felt something else and struggled to quantify it. Speak to that for me DDL.

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:47 pm

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:01 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:29 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:00 pm

Lunalee wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:54 pm Ugh, the poll has way too many single votes on it right now.

Maybe you could fix that?

Lol last time someone called Luna out for not practicing what she was preaching she was bad

I don't necessarily suspect her for it here though. Only so much one can do

But we only have 4.5 hours so yeah who should we start grouping votes onto? I'd love to hear thoughts other than my own

The way you start the sentence with "lol" before throwing shade at someone then saying you won't "necessarily" vote for them triggered my senses.

Come on you have played with me in the last year.

Moving on to where nutella starts to get a bit outrageous.

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:43 pm Your tripping sense. SVS is obvtown.


....or is that just the recency bias speaking

SVS might be civilian looking, but she is a damn good Mafia player. Read Buffy if you don't believe me. Nutella knows better than to make statements like this without TMI playing a part.

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 8:08 pm I may join the enri train, SVS had decent reasoning and his one last post felt weird/off to me

She's buddying SVS in this game.

It's ironic because TMI is what ultimately is gonna hang her.

The way nutella straightened her back and decided to try to play town leader at the end of the day reminded me of myself as Mafia so much that it damn near made me proud.

Step 1 - There's a wagon on a civvie who is making some really civvie sounding posts in a game where there's a damn good likelihood he's gonna get lynched anyway because apathy is the rule of the day.

Step 2 - Make posts like these.

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:22 pm Anyway I decided I believe enri's truth meta. Luna hasn't decided anything, and I know I shouldn't be one to criticize flipflopping but she seems to be fabricating thoughts on enri according to the whim of the thread.

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:57 pm @Epignosis @S~V~S @MacDougall @speedchuck please move your stupid damn votes plzkthx. preferably to luna she is suspicious af

Now she's got a new target. Probably another civilian. Though in a really damaged universe she might be fake bussing her scummate for real good wifom. Either way the agenda isn't really to get luna lynched. She wants Enrique to get lynched and flip civ so she can make this post. She has way TMI on Enrique for a start. The facts she has at her disposal should not cause her to get this aggressive in defending an unknown quantity. Enrique did not look that civilian.

Ultimately she got exactly what she wanted.

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:01 pm This is the second fucking stupid lynch in a row of a cool player who I would have liked to play with just because people are being fucking lazy

And she is laying it on real thick.

Her last second switch to G-Man was even more illogical. The progression of her day wasn't so much to stop Enri's lynch as it was her suspicion of lunalee. She went from "we should lynch luna she's bad" to "enri is so obviously town I'll help attempt to lynch another random person" in a way that can only be coming from a person hoping to win civ cred from defending a civilian.

This is stuff I do to a tee as Mafia. It's great Mafia play. You will see why when she picks apart all these points in extremely rational and sensible ways.

Don't get it twisted kids, she's dangerous here.

Why would me being wrong be hard for me to accept?

SVS I solved some of the equation again but I won't show my work so in order to pass the test you have to reverse engineer it.

So I was in fact right about nutella who is definitely Mafia.

Go my friends and save the world.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 4:46 pm [VOTE: MacDougall] aubergine

Talk more Mac.

I can't/won't. I am enjoying my vacayyyy.

I haven't even really got into this game yet. Leave me alive another day or two for when I get home and I will solve it for you peasants.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:52 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:13 pm I am struggling fam. Kill me plz.

I don't know what this is.

I have gone away for the weekend (and also have a bit of a cold) so I am struggling to participate and was requesting the Mafia to kill me which they didna do.

Enrique wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:44 pm Hello fellow civilians who are we looking to lynch

I am struggling fam. Kill me plz.

Yeah so don't quit bastard.

DharmaHelper's plan of self promotion all year in every game is about to reap massive rewards I feel.

I am not afraid to admit that I was excited that I might have actually won that one. Decent preso Jay. Congrats DH you rotten bastard. Quin and I will just console ourselves by being Australian together.

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:48 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:47 am

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:43 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:36 am The only person I am absolutely sure is bad is nutella.

oh man this is gonna be good

You think I have a case eh?

Guilty mind.

no, I really, really don't. you're flinging poo and that always goes well

I am suspicious of you.

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:43 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:36 am The only person I am absolutely sure is bad is nutella.

oh man this is gonna be good

You think I have a case eh?

Guilty mind.

The only person I am absolutely sure is bad is nutella.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:49 am Kylemii, MacDougall, and G-Man are bad.

Go.

Nah Kyle isn't bad.

Kylemii wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:36 pm my role is "Coolest Guy" and my alignment is just listed as "Kyle"

idk what that means :\ is that good

Well my entire role was to find who the Coolest Guy was to achieve my wincon so this game was easy.

Well butter my muffin, we have a game on our hands folks