The Syndicate

Crew Log

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Captain's Orders

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Me Crew (4)
Dragon D. Luffy - Posts
Kylemii - Posts
SpankGangsta - Posts Jackofhearts2005 - posts
speedchuck - Posts

Davy Jones' Locker (8)
DrWilgy - Posts - vanilla town
MovingPictures07 - Posts - vanilla mafioso
Long Con - Posts - vanilla town
Quin - Posts - vanilla town
dunya - Posts - Town watcher
Spacedaisy - Posts - Town doctor
colonialbob - posts - vanilla town
sig - Posts - vanilla town

The Captain
Sloonei

His Parrot (Co-host)
JaggedJimmyJay

First Mate (MoD/Facilitator)
Epignosis

Polls
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4

Prologue:

Ahoy mateys! I am Cap’n Sloonbeard, and welcome aboard me ship, the Black Sock. I’ve selected you lot because you’re the heartiest crew on all the seven seas! And because you volunteered. You all know why you’re here: to make as much booty as you can get your filthy pirate hands on! Our destination is the wreckage of the S.S. Marmot, said to hold the finest haul in all the Syndicate Empire! We set sail at sunrise, so say your farewells to solid land and get your salty hearts ready for the adventure of a lifetime. Arrr!

Day 0:

Morale was high when we set sail, but it seems a few of ye have turned sour on ol' Cap'n Sloonbeard! I've heard reports of a mutiny in the works among some of you scoundrels who I have graciously welcomed aboard me luxurious vessel. I'm not one for speeches, so I'll keep it short: a whole chest of booty to any man, woman, or parrot who can bring me the names of any of the mutineeers. Those who be deemed guilty shall walk the plank. Arrr!

Day 0 has begun. This phase is just meant to help you all get yer sea legs under you, but yer permitted to hunt for mutineers if you so choose in this time.
Day 1 will begin in roughly 24 hours.

Ricochet wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 7:11 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 6:56 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 2:17 pmThose who be deemed guilty shall walk the plank. Arrr!
SQUAAAWWWK walk the plank walk the plank
Let this hopefully be the only time I'm reading this as a spectator.

Squawk the plank.

Day 1

Rise and shine, landlubbers! This your Captain speaking! The Black Sock doesn't make its fortune by sleeping the day away. We've all got a mutiny to halt before those scoundrels take me beloved ship from under me. So hoist the sails and get to work, sing a shanty and keep one good eye out for any shady dealings that go on on me ship. Shadier than the usual, I mean. Yarr.

It is now Day 1. The deadline for Day 1 will be 6 PM EST on Wednesday, the 1st. Remember that all votes must be cast in the poll to officially count.

This is your captain speaking, dogs aren't gross, okay!?

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:30 am When does the poll lock? I'm not seeing a time here.

6 PM EST tomorrow. I am making this post at 11:30 AM, so the poll closes about 30.5 hours from now.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:26 am
Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:30 am When does the poll lock? I'm not seeing a time here.
SQUAAAWWWK when does the poll lock when does the poll lock

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2017 2:55 pmThe deadline for Day 1 will be 6 PM EST on Wednesday, the 1st. Remember that all votes must be cast in the poll to officially count.
SQUAAAWWWK deadline at 6 deadline at 6 hoist the sails walk the plank

Ayy, thank you Polly.

The poll won't actually lock, but yar captain will be here to close it manually. I'll provide a screenshot of the final poll for ye lot.

Kylemii wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:30 pm How do you look at a specific players posts in aggregate?

Arr, I've updated the Crew list to include a record of everything you all be saying. Individual post histories can also be reached by clicking the "Isolate Posts by..." link on the bottom left of each post.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:35 pm I mean, you could have said "EDT" isntead of "EST", but I've noticed you Americans like to pretend everyone knows when your DST starts.

/rant

Arr, this is why I noted the present time at the moment of me update.

~24 hours to go.

6 hours.

~45 minutes

8 minutes

Day has ended. Stand by for results, mateys.

This be the final poll. All votes cast after this are void:

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Argh, you lot brought a salty tear to me eye behind the patch today. Nothin' makes a captain more proud than a crew who's willing to fight, and die, for him. But alas, ye couldn't pick just one landlubber to give the old heave-ho to, and so you left it up to me lucky three-sided coin to seal all yer fates. It pains Old Cap'n Sloonbeard to see any of you go off like this, but if ye tell me there's a chance the scoundrel be a mutineer then, well, I suppose we can all rest easy. Yargh. So without further adieu, let's see what we came up with today...

DrWilgy has been forced to walk the plank. He was...

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It be Night 1. You all have 24 hours or so to get me yer night actions.

Captain's note: in order to chart a more desirable course moving forward, I'll be delaying the start of Day 2 by 1 hour. I hope to keep this deadline for the duration of the game.

Good mornin' to you, ye salty dogs! The mutineers were wise not to go after Captain Sloonbeard straight away.
That's a fight they won't be winning any time soon. Arr. Me thought I heard some swashbuckling below decks, but it seems yer all accounted for today,
so I see no reason not to hoist the sails and put on a little shanty. Who's got rum?
Play nice, lads, and make sure you put a filthy scab in the water at the end of the day! Arr!

Night 1 has ended. No one was killed.
It is Day 2. You have 48 hours to make somebody walk the plank.

For the sake of posterity, here's yar Day 2 poll. Now back below decks with ye all. The sun be a league behind tonight, so we've got another hour to spare before we begin again. Arrrgh.

Day 2 poll:

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You did Cap'n Sloonbeard proud yesterday. I thought I'd reward ye today, but instead I had a little fright this mornin'. Our dear buccaneer Long Con was found dangling from the mast, as lifeless as me wooden leg. There's no doubt those salty mutineers did this to get back at me and me crew. Arr. A gold doubloon to any lad who helps catch one of their lot today.

Long Con has been killed. He was...

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It is Day 3. You will have 48 hours to make somebody walk the plank.

Attention crew: SpankGangsta was dropped off at the last port. His place has been filled by Jackofhearts2005.

Another day gone by and ye lads tell me you've got another mutineer by his bootstraps. I were counting me booty when I heard ye all cryin' for Cap'n Sloonbeard to come down and pass judgment, and ye've got Quin here at the edge of the plank. If he be the evildoer ye all seek, I've got no reason not to feed him to the sharks. Let's see what ye all came up with then...

Quin has walked the plank. He was...

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It be Night 3. You have 24 hours to submit yer night actions, you scalawags.

Day 3 poll:

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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:22 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:12 pm If he be the evildoer ye all seek, I've got no reason not to feed him to the sharks. Let's see what ye all came up with then...
SQUAAAWWWK feed 'em to the sharks feed 'em to the sharks hoist the sales walk the plank filthy scab filthy scab

Hoist the sales? Arr, we shan't be sellin' me ship anytime soon, dear parrot.

Day 4 poll added to the first post.

Alas, Cap'n Sloonbeard's been off countin' his booty for a while now, but I be here just in the nick o' time to see ye boys pushing my dear lad colonialbob off the plank. Arr, he was a good lad, a pirate's life be the only one for him. Well, let's find out if he be a proper meal for the fishes, or just another poor salty bloke.

colonialbob has been lynched. He was...

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It is Night.

Arr, it's a sad day when a captain be forced to give up his own ship. Ol' Sloonbeard should have seen 'er coming the day you lot started whisperin' about mutiny. I thought I treated ye fair, always shared my booty, and kept the rum a-flowin', night and day. But now too many of me best men have been lost overboard. Ye villains have me outnumbered. Treat her well, boys, and keep the parrot if ye will. Sloonbeard's days as Captain of the Black Sock are over.

Sig has been killed. He was a vanilla pirate.
Outnumbered by mutineers, Captain Sloonbeard has been marooned on a desert island.

The Mutineers have won. The Black Sock now belongs to...

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Congratulations, ye scoundrels. I thank the rest of ye for serving loyally on me crew.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:32 pm That's twice now Cap'n Sloonbeard has been thwarted by mutineers.

you'd think i would have learned my lesson by now.

9 vs 3 is a tough setup for town to overcome. They had a good start with daisy Night 1 save followed by the MP lynch Day 2, but chuck and jack were impossible to crack. I'm glad I was hosting instead of playing, because I would have looked silly trying to catch them in this game. You all put up a good fight, it's a shame it ended with some townies asleep at the wheel.
Thanks for playing, everybody.

Kylemii wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:34 pm Even though I'm pretty sure I singlehandedly lost the game for everyone by being really bad at everything I enjoyed this game a lot and it was a pretty good reintroduction back into games.

Thank you Sloonei and Jay for hosting

It was a pleasure to host you in your return, honestly. Unfamiliar faces are always a wildcard, and I was delighted when you came out leading the charge from the getgo. Now I look forward to playing more with you in the future.

I think there is one minor victory to be extrapolated here: sig wasn't mislynched!

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:49 pm Well one thing I can say for sure:

I'm never doing a CFD again.

I've seen CFD's work and I've seen them fail. They're a case-specific event that will always depend on specific circumstances for me. But if I find myself disliking all of the on-the-table options near the end of the day and things feel off, I'm going to make some noise and try to shake something else loose 99 times out of 100. If nothing else it puts people under pressure and forces reactions.

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DrWilgy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:09 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:37 pm
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dunya wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:25 am My first mistake was in the role. Sloonei said I'm a watcher and I assumed that was a tracker role. I've never had a "watcher" in a game I've played.

My second mistake was writing in my notes for night 2 to watch Long Con, but then The National happened and a 5 hr drive, and I remembered while standing in the concert hall that I hadn't sent my night action in so I told JJJ over whatsapp if he can log me in to watch speedchuck even though he was in my "suspect list" at that point. No fucking idea why. I had no brain cells then.

So you can all say I singlehandedly lost you the game cos if I'd watched LongCon as intended, we'd have gotten speedchuck and quite possible have won.

Yep, I can retire now from mafia.

Hugs to Kyle for taking my suspicions like a real baller. I've had that sort of irrational suspicion on me countless times and it's annoying as f. Thanks bud!

Well played speedchuck! Well played Jack, nice to a see a replacement really make an effort!

I forbid you from retiring.

In answer to the double targeting question: Daisy protected Long Con Night 1, but then Long Con was killed Night 2. Double targeting is not allowed, but this move was allowed because different members of the scum team performed the kill each night (Spank N1, Speedchuck N2). Other hosts could rule differently on this, but that was my ruling.

Additionally, if the mafia kill was a team ability rather than an individual player's nightly action, the watcher would be a pointless role.

Long Con wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:04 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:01 pm Additionally, if the mafia kill was a team ability rather than an individual player's nightly action, the watcher would be a pointless role.
Not if the team can't double target, but they still pick a killer.

I suppose so. I've always preferred to designate a specific player each night to perform the kill, because I usually find this to be more of a risk/challenge for the mafia team. They have to pick the right person to perform the kill without being caught in any traps/IDs each night. But there are situations like this, or when a certain team member might be an obvious target, where it can give them an advantage.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:51 pm If there aren't protective/blocking roles then I don't think there's even a reason to implement a rule against double-targeting. I think that's something that has just become typical or standard here over the years. There are sites that never have that rule. RYM rarely had it.

It could make a watcher/tracker, or a roleblocker overpowered. They could all just plant themselves on a particular player and reap the results of whatever occurs.

But it is true that RYM rarely had an issue with double targeting. It was a pretty foreign concept to me when I first came here, so my ideas on it are not as fully former as others.

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