The Syndicate

Hellooooo new shiny game!!

There is no poll. I do not understand. What am I supposed to do?

Well you can't stop me voting. I have rights!! Just try and stop me!

Oh man i have no time. Sorry for my lack of presence this game. A busier week than i expected with hubs on jury duty.

I am voting made for the strange potential slip as well. The math doesnt seem quite right, but it def higher than it should be.

Votes Made

Linki well now i feel bad. Sorry Made.

Linki bidding $275 for windfall

Whoa, Made you really had me regretting my vote there. Yay for getting a baddie Day 1!

Linki I bid $2.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:$74

so you're that person in the auction.


$75.

Frick $90

keys56000000000 wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:Frick $90

..Elliot? :o

Does bidding have to go up by ten dollar increments in this auction?

$100

Ah, you are probably right. $110

S~V~S wrote:I didn't think of that

Well, this is how I feel now.

Won't that just "kill" anyone wanting to bid on property however? If you know you will just be NK'd for it?

The only way to get around it would seem to be bidding at night and then selling it to someone else. But then you'd have to be vocal about it being gone. Idk, this seems like a tricky way for baddies to get all the lynched properties as well.

Sorry you got left holding the bid SVS.

I will have to think about what I will bid on later.

Epignosis wrote:

S~V~S wrote:

I'm not happy either. I wanted to tangle a little.

FZ. wrote:Asking again:

What happens if no one bids on a property?
Because if we decide we don't bid and baddies do, we know they're baddies, and if they're too scared to bid on them too, they don't get them?

I cant imagine any baddie actaully doing that though. Its a good thought not bidding, but what baddie would out themselves that way. Another thought would be to bid last minute so you cant be nkd for the card that night and then sell it as LC said he would do.

Long Con wrote:

juliets wrote:

Long Con wrote:

FZ. wrote:I just saw that I stepped on the baddies property. Great, they get $240 for 3 people stepping on...

Yeah... by my spreadsheet, Electric Company is up $480. The second biggest net earner is Metalmarsh at +$200. So if MM is Electric Company he's so rich!

Epig seems to be down the most, at -$500, from his big bid on the Chance card (will you let us know when you use it, Ep? Are you using it yourself or someone else? Is it Chance or Community Chest that can send you Directly To Jail? That would be funny.) Then Hedgeowl seems to be down $375, which I believe was the price she paid for the Windfall.

Ha, I just thought of another reason Epig could give for the early big bid. Maybe the baddies will consider him 'closer to bankruptcy' and avoid wasting their nightkill on a player that is so much closer to death.

LC I had $275 for Hedgie so went back and checked when I saw your $375. It is indeed $275 in the thread, bid was made right before end of period. Would there have been some reason $100 would have attached to the $275 that maybe I'm not thinking of?

Hedgeowl also paid $100 to Income Tax on the first move.

Well, apparently i need a SS too then. i was going to correct you as well. I am not good with money irl either.

HannaK wrote:I am inclined to believe FZ because back in the day I sorta played the pity card when I was civvie as well when I felt overwhelmed with the game and everything, plus it is also an indicator FZ doenst have BTSC.
The person I am mostly looking to right now is juliets, now I am nor familair with the style juliets normally plays, but looking through the posts I find it weird that most of them are either questions directed at other players who they find suspicous without really contributing anything substantial or info about votes and/or money. To me this feels like a good baddie tactic, posting without revealing too much about yourself so I am gonna go ahead and vote juliets. I'm not 100% convinced but so far this has spiked my baddie-sensor the most.

I will be one more person to say that that is definitely Juliets style and it makes her baddie game incredibly hard to read. I have fallen into the same stance on her style in earlier games and convinced myself she was bad. I won't claim to read her perfectly either, but as of now I don't overly distrust her.

TH brought up an interesting point on LC's specific knowledge, but it is also what I understood from that descrption.

I am finding Lorab's case on Elo the most interesting currently. Especially with RR teammies being unknown this early in the game it is hard to find evidence to "saving." However. It was such a slip-up that teammates might have feared losing him.

Votes Elo

well MM hat doesn't make me feel good about this.

$310 on auto find

$120 on protect

$185 on auction

With all of the "voting FZ for the bonus" people, we could have lynched anyone else you know.

$180 protect


Fucking Linki you fidnvjsus,am!!!!

$190 protect

Long Con wrote:By the rules, I believe bidding has ended.

Do the rules include linki tis from hell??

Even polling places let the line through after closing.

Turnip Head wrote:$200 protect
$140 jail card

Damn I missed this in Linki.

Long Con wrote:Now switching my vote to FZ.

Same.

Turnip Head wrote:

keys56000000000 wrote: Hopefully FZ will flip civ.

0_0

indeed.

I think it might be time to take this conversation on tone to PM and out of the game. Even though it is so far a very unheated and more thoughtful discussion. I will say that in my experience this forum is actually strict about offense and rudeness in games and a lot goes on behind scenes to deal with these issues as they come up. I think many of us can remember specific examples of this. In my experience both Epi and Lorab can be forceful players with strong opinions. I think you both bring a lot to any game even if we play differently and enjoy playing with you both.

Here's a Death to Smootchy video you should watch:

Long Con wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:I'm also wary of Hedgeowl being quiet, especially after the last game.

Ha! I was just thinking "Boogs wants to come after me for being a sneaky baddie in Monty Python?? What about Hedgeowl and her extended gang of superthugs who were laughing at all of us while they ran the whole game?"

By all means let us lynch each other based on past games. That will definitely make this game more fun.

Not sure who I will vote yet, but I don't like this punishing people for powers either. I think it's important to note for the future, but I think thread evidence is also more important. I don't find MPs case against LC and Llama compelling, because I really can't see llama playing that way. He is definitely more devious than that.

thellama73 wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote: Not sure who I will vote yet

You've only got 95 minutes to decide, you know.

Only 2 more pages to go and I thought I was getting a handle on the cases. Now I see everyone is voting BWT, so clearly something important happened in the next two pages. More reading....

Alright, I caught up on the BWT case from Epi and I do find it more interesting than the llama/LC thing, which I don't buy atm. I don't know how to read Boogs this game, but his determination to get LC does not make me feel good about him necessarily. Currently I think the opinions put forth on BWT are the most interesting, but it seems like there are to arguments. One that he is utility and one that he is railroad. I am leaning utility as of now, but we will see.

Votes BwT

Wow, that is a seriously awesome result. Epi I applaud you sir for your astute observations.

Welcome back to everyone replacing!

I am admittedly gun shy about bidding on properties, especially baddie properties at this point. I don't think I will be participating tonight. Completely forgot about bidding on powers last night in my catch-up.

thellama73 wrote:

fingersplints wrote:why not hedgeowl? I don't mind being looked at because I don't have anything to hide, but I don't think your logic there makes sense. When did the lynch become inevitable? How come someone who admittedly isn't reading and just happened to vote a baddie gets a free pass from you? bwt seemed to resign himself to being lynched much earlier in the day, so it's just as likely his partner did too. Or maybe his partner isn't even around and that's why he seemed to give up so early.

bye Elo welcome back BR

linki

I neflected to put Hedgeowl into my post, although I meant to. Yes, she should definitely be looked at as well. Good point.

Does neflected = deflected+neglected?

Splints- how I am admittedly not reading? I thought I was admittedly reading...

fingersplints wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

fingersplints wrote:why not hedgeowl? I don't mind being looked at because I don't have anything to hide, but I don't think your logic there makes sense. When did the lynch become inevitable? How come someone who admittedly isn't reading and just happened to vote a baddie gets a free pass from you? bwt seemed to resign himself to being lynched much earlier in the day, so it's just as likely his partner did too. Or maybe his partner isn't even around and that's why he seemed to give up so early.

bye Elo welcome back BR

linki

I neflected to put Hedgeowl into my post, although I meant to. Yes, she should definitely be looked at as well. Good point.

Does neflected = deflected+neglected?

Splints- how I am admittedly not reading? I thought I was admittedly reading...

Not you. SD said she wasn't going to catch up. So I'm curious how that became the cut off

Ah gotcha. With one teammate it is hard to speculate accurately, but I think both the last voters and non-BWT voters are the best places to look. A reread of BWT might be useful as well.

I do love a snappy case from Epi.

Wtf BO! Why did you want to kill me? I have nothing for you! I am going to keep my $100 from Community Chest thank you very much.

I do know how I survived to those who have asked. Having friends in high places helps. However, I don't fault anyone for suspecting me otherwise and would do the same honestly.

I am preparing for the arrival of guests and another toddler, but should be back to discuss more tonight and tomorrow night. I haven't really read llama's case on TH in depth yet, but find some of Epi's points on Boogs interesting, I just don't know that I am as deeply convinced by them as he is.

Sorry everyone I am at a conference all day, but it looks like it doesn't matter anyway.

I was trying to say that I had found a friend aka a btsc partner and that's how I survived without outing anyone specifically.

With 3 railroads left and three days of searching I'd assume at least two of them have btsc. With possibly one left on their own, the odds of that being the one person targeted seem really low to me. I also helped vote Made out because of his obvious slip and was a b idder on his property until it was pointed out that could be dangerous for survival.

However, the way this game works out there is very little incentive for anyone to save a civ as many LMS groups are already forming or complete.

I won't be back till this evening.

$200 on 5 votes

$250 votes

$200 deflect

$450 rob

Long Con wrote:Hedgeowl is trying to drain some money before she goes. Respectable.

Doesn't really need my help it seems.

Linki try again TH

$250 votes

$200 deflect


$100 risky
$100 Masd
$200 lockin

Long Con wrote:bidding is over, 12:06 bids do not count, right?

Turnip Head wrote:That's some high quality trollin, Hedgeowl.

I like to consider it helping out my team in their objective.

Linki doh

Have fun everyone and thanks for the great game boo!!

Choo Choo.

S~V~S wrote:I started out as Park Place. I really want to know what led Hedgeowl to kill me.

It was kinda ironic that I came back as her teammate.

Awesome game boo

And sorry I killed you Epi, I was sure you were not going to die; I thought you were Electric Company. I wish I had checked you, Faraday. I did not check any low posters since the railroad I was seeking seemed pretty active.

I killed you for the railroad you won. it gave me $50 when people landed on me next round. It wasnt personal. So who were our other teammates? You, Me, Made, and ?