The Syndicate

I can give you spec/dead chat, if you want that

Game already started, sorry!

Role PMs are being sent, will tag everyone in the game thread when we're ready to start.

Anyone that listed observer I’ll Pm with a link to spec chat. If you want to observe just shoot me a message and I’ll send it to you too!

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:30 pm Unless someone pinged wants in, I can take the last spot. I’ve underestimated how much time I have sitting in the same room 24/7

Looks like the spot is yours! Will roll the game and send out role PMs this afternoon/evening.

[mention]Jackofhearts2005[/mention] [mention]sig[/mention] [mention]TonyStarkPrime[/mention] last chance to reconsider your observer stance and get into the action instead!

Otherwise role PMs are headed out soon as I can finish writing them.

I’m sending out role PMs tomorrow with or without a 15th. Hopefully with!

Just one more for a full game!

Just three small payments of 39.99 a month, plus shipping and handling

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 12:29 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:31 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:01 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:23 am

ts account wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:03 am Fun AC fact: I am playing in a game themed after it

Is this an alt or something?

Is that something syndicate does?

That's Mikey. You might know him from champs?

Maybe but I doubt it, I remember very few names i haven’t directly interacted with multiple times!

he's pretty cool

also nice to meet ya i'm funnygurl from flashflashrevolution and i'm also leetic's band

Nice to meet you! Hope you have a fun game

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:01 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:23 am

ts account wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:03 am Fun AC fact: I am playing in a game themed after it

Is this an alt or something?

Is that something syndicate does?

That's Mikey. You might know him from champs?

Maybe but I doubt it, I remember very few names i haven’t directly interacted with multiple times!

Cool—let’s get to 15 then so they can play!

At any rate we have at least twelve, so I’ll likely get this started pretty soon! Can take up to 15 tho

ts account wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:03 am Fun AC fact: I am playing in a game themed after it

Is this an alt or something?

Is that something syndicate does?

2-5 more to start! C’mon guys and gals I believe in you

I can scale this to 12 if I have to, but it’s a better game at 15

Other Barry is a package deal

And Barry, of course, both the one played by bill Hader and the one from archer.

Dragomir wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:13 am Which assassin(s) is(are) your favorite Nanook? Mine are Bayek and Kassandra.

Probably kassandra and ezio

The /ins are supposed to go up guys, not down

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:24 am Never played the game, but I once played a YouTube video of AC to teach my students what Dickensian London may have looked like. So I'm basically an expert already.

/In

Seems legit!

It’s puns like that that keep me coming back to this place

Fun fact: I didn’t actually play AC: Syndicate, but I’ve heard you got a cane sword thing, which seems pretty cool. IIRC it’s also the most modern setting for the Assassin storyline.

Fun fact: in AC: Rogue, you get a dart rifle. And it’s cool as hell.

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 12:05 am Just started playing through Rogue and I can confirm that running in the trees like Tarzan is the dopest thing

Right?!! It makes you feel like a goddamn ninja.

Fun fact: in AC IV: Black Flag, you play as a goddamn pirate. A pirate! With a pirate ship! And Blackbeard is in it! And Mary Read! And Anne Bonny! And a bunch of other very cool if you can ignore all the murdering pirates! Avast, ye hardies!

If I’ve designed it properly you should be able to have just as much fun whether you’ve played the video games or not!

Man, hard to answer that without giving stuff away about the setup! Uh, in general during game design I try to focus on roles and mechanics that are fun to play (without taking away from another players fun, if that makes sense), and have some semblance of balance—I don’t care about being perfectly balanced, but I want both sides to be able to reasonably win the game if they play well, cause playing a game you have a 2% chance of winning even if you play perfectly is not fun.

In a themed game I generally try to walk the line between people who are familiar with flavor being able to go “oh, that’s neat!” without putting people who aren’t familiar with flavor at a disadvantage.

I think that covers the basics? I guess the main things I focus on are making a fun game, and trying out stuff with mechanics that I think are interesting.

Fun fact: AC: Liberation is the first game in the series that the main playable character is a woman.

This is a lot of fun facts for just 6 signups guys

sprityo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:03 am

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:11 am Fun fact: in AC III, YOU CAN CLIMB THE DAMN TREES AND THAT IS THE COOLEST SHIT EVER

is it tho?

HELLZ YEAH IT IS BUDDY, CLIMBING THE SHIT OUT OF THOSE TREES IS THE BEST PART OF THE GAME.

Fun fact: in AC III, YOU CAN CLIMB THE DAMN TREES AND THAT IS THE COOLEST SHIT EVER

Belated fun fact: AC: Revelations features what can best be described as a “metal grabby hand” that makes climbing walls much easier. It also has zip lines for the first time in the series, which are inarguably cool!

I’m maybe 1/4 or 1/3 through odyssey, tbh I can’t tell if it’s a good game or if it just hits all my sweet spots.

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:40 am I'm gonna get Black Flag and Rogue for my Nintendo switch. I want odyssey but it isn't available on the platform.

I never made it through Rogue due to my PS3 dying while I was in the middle of it, but what I played was a lot of fun. Black flag is a great game.

Also, you should sign up!

Fun fact: the voice actor for Desmond let slip that he was working on a new assassin’s creed game before Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood was officially announced.

Bonus fun fact: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is the first Assassin’s Creed game to let you recruit NPCs as Assassins and then call them into combat during the course GOG gameplay.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:48 pm i can only commit to games after march. i want to play a game after march. so if this is running then, pm me and i'll switch to yes. i hope it doesn't take that long to fill, tho, cos it seems fun,

I will try to remember to do this!

A small clarification—I will replace people pregame if necessary. Once D1 has started, there will be no replacements.

Fun fact: in Assassin's Creed II, when you first meet the main character's uncle Mario, he introduces himself by saying "it's a me, Mario!"

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:23 am This will be the first time I've ever played a game with "Assassin's Creed" in the title as well.

Do you like side scrollers

Fun fact: as of 2013, Francisco Randez, the model that Altair and Desmond's faces were based off of (as well as Ezio's), purports not to have played any of the Assassin's Creed games.

Bonus fun fact: the Assassins in the original game are based in part on a real life Order of the Assassins, also known as the Nizari Ismaili State, that was active in Persia and Syria during the 12th and 13th Centuries.

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2020 5:15 am There will be a poll whenever I figure out how your forum does polls

Update: there’s a poll, you filthy animals

sprityo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2020 2:51 pm Will we be inviting any new people?

Also I learned mafia with hammer voting so I would love to play given that i'm not in 5 games at the same time.

If it takes awhile to fill and I get impatient, maybe

There will be a poll whenever I figure out how your forum does polls

A game for 15 players. A couple non-standard for the Syndicate rules, so read carefully:

Role and character claiming ARE allowed. A character's alignment in the video game(s) is not tied to their alignment in this game (i.e., Ezio can be mafia, Shay can be town, etc.), and alignments are randed after character assignment. There will be a hammer in effect this game--meaning that if a majority is reached before the deadline, the day ends early. If a majority is reached and I'm not around to end the day right away, screenshot the poll and send it to me. Discussion post-hammer is allowed until I end the day. The thread will not be open during the night. Only talk to other players about the game privately or during the night if I have explicitly allowed it. Days will be approximately 72 hours. There will be no replacements or subs, players that have to drop or flake out will be modkilled or otherwise dealt with at the GMs discretion.

There will only be two factions in this game, Righteous Warriors and Heathenous Spies. There are no conversion mechanics in this game. The GM will not lie but he may not always answer your question.

Character list:

Altair
Aveline
Bayek
Connor/Ratonhnhaké:ton
Desmond
Edward Kenway
Evie Frye
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Haytham Kenway
Jacob Frye
Kassandra
Layla
Lucy
Shao Jun
Shay Patrick Cormac