The Syndicate

The reign in spayne falls manely in the plane.

It appears our moderator is a squidninja.

I'm listening to Spock's Beard right now.

Easy poll vote for me. Prog. I enjoy a lot of rock and some metal too.

Votes are changeable in this poll.

Hi Mac, welcome to this new world. I hope they serve beer.

Sorsha wrote:I'm picking alternative. 90's alternative to be specific but some of today's are good too. It's a toss up between that and rock for me.

Do you like Muse's new album? I do.

Sorsha wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Sorsha wrote:I'm picking alternative. 90's alternative to be specific but some of today's are good too. It's a toss up between that and rock for me.

Do you like Muse's new album? I do.

What I've heard so far yeah

Booosh!

Considering the poll, I thought this would be considered on-topic.

Tranq wrote:Rock.

Paper.

Typhoony wrote:

Tranq wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Tranq wrote:Rock.

Paper.

Lizard.

Spock.

Beard.

MacDougall wrote:

birdwithteeth11 wrote:

LoRab wrote:

MacDougall wrote:

LoRab wrote:Dom beat me to it with Is that a piano.

Brain is a bit full so wrapping that brain around this game will take effort. But that isn't a bad thing.

Love seeing Willow as part of the story telling!!!

I assume the MacDougall stuff against Matt is from mafia-history? Is he always like this? Because bringing up stuff like that tends to be pingy to me (even if it's brought up as a joke) but if he's always like that, then that may be context.

I find looking for valid reasons to lynch someone tends to be pingy to me.

Why would you find it odd for someone to look for valid reasons to lynch someone? Seems counter-productive to me.

I should have used the orange font.

No you should have used pink font.

Scratch that, pink wouldn't have been appropiate, use green.

Blue font for the win!

Some role questions in blue.



Cataclysm - Begins the game with four subterranean pulse emitters.

What is a subterranean pulse emitter and what does it do?



Chaos Wizard - The Chaos Wizard has a tower somewhere on the map, and starts on that square. Can do a variety of things from within the Tower:

- can create a Chaos Field around the tower, and anyone approaching will have their direction randomized (within one square of the Tower). Protected from ranged attacks (like kills where the killer isn’t on your square) while the Chaos Field is active
- can choose two players and switch their location, and targeted-ness that night
- can send a message to a player

If the Chaos Wizard leaves the tower, he will automatically randomize the targeting of any role within a two-square radius.

How long does the Chaos Field last?



Lich of Khastor Keep - Cannot be nightkilled while his phylactery exists. Each night, the Lich may discover the location of one player. Can stop one lynch.

What is a phylactery and what does it do?



Living Statue - Cannot move until united with the Star Gem. Immune to nightkills and poison. Will know the role of each person to enter its square.

When the Star Gem is placed in the Living Statue’s chest, it gains a movement rate of 4 and no longer rolechecks. The Living Statue will join the Win Condition of the one who placed the Star Gem, gaining BTSC if it joins a baddie team.

Is the Star Gem located on the map somewhere?



The Darkness - Infects one player per night with darkness, causing them to lose their win condition. The Darkness can send one message each night to those it infects, and may choose to release a player from the darkness at any time. The Darkness will know where infected players are at all times.

If the Darkness is night-targeted, the targeting will fail as though a roleblock or protection were in play. The Darkness may enter the BTSC of any square it’s on as The Darkness. Otherwise, it is undetectable.

If an infected player is targeted by the Essence Elemental, then they are cleansed of infection. If the Darkness is targeted by the Essence Elemental, it is killed! If The Darkness infects the Essence Elemental, the Essence Elemental will be killed.

The Darkness cannot acquire Items. *secrets*

Will players be informed of their lost win condition?
Do items work on the Darkness?

Mr. Lorab?

Epignosis wrote:

Long Con wrote:

-= Discovery =-

As the sun rose after a peaceful night, weary travellers arrived at their destinations, and began to explore their new surroundings...

Day 1 has begun. You will be getting a PM about your new location (if you moved) within the next hour or so.

The poll will come up first. Those that voted for Prog will not be on the poll. One Civvie, one baddie, and one Indy role were told at the outset of the poll that this was a possible outcome of the Day 0 poll.

HELL YEAH.

Wikipedia says it's one of the most progressive songs ever.

Sorsha wrote:Are votes changeable?

Votes are changeable in this poll.

Lorab, I just want to observe MacDougall.

Sorsha wrote:Would a "policy vote" be along the lines of how some players would just have their fall back day one vote? I know rabbit and I used to just vote for one another on day one, mostly on RM. that seems to have kind of gone out of fashion, but that's what policy vote sounds like to me.

That's one of the ways to describe it.

But here's another example. In a recent game on RYM, MP07 roleclaimed as cop and listed 2 (or maybe 3) players he had checked and their alignment. The one player he listed as mafia counter-claimed, saying he was the real cop. This other player (bcornett) pointed out the bread-crumb trail he had laid out for his checks, and gave a solid case for his candidacy. MP responded with this pretty believable story that he was quite certain about his read on the real cop, and so he fake-roleclaimed. Both were actually civilian, but we had to lynch one of them after these events. It would have been foolish to leave them both alive, especially since one was obviously lying, and potentially mafia. So MP was policy-lynched.

Golden wrote:I've satisfied myself as to Mac's motives in the Dune thread - I don't feel the need to rehash it here.

I will only say, that I will not be voting MattF for policy reasons, and I would never vote for anyone because I had decided they were unhelpful for the town. Even if I could make that judgment, for all I know, in any given game, that person is the cop and they will be very helpful and nail the entire baddie team. I just don't agree with the logic. I agree with those who say it feels unproductive.

I haven't seen anything which leaps out at me yet, but I'll put a preliminary vote on Sorsha since votes are changeable. I'm not sure what is going on with her posting that same thing in both threads but it gave me a bad vibe, like it's covering for something in one game or the other. The problem is I have no reason to determine which one.

Also, I probably won't vote for Epi, just for saying 'man titties'.

Epignosis is off the poll sillypants.

Can we just play this game independent of every other game going on right now?

That includes fantasy football games.

Turnip Head wrote:I'm going to policy ignore MacDougall every time he policy votes for MattF.

I'm voting for juliets until she responds to my fantasy football trade offer. Come on jules, I'm dying for a running back here and Ronnie Hillman is rotting away on your bench.

a2thezebra wrote:I don't like discussing what Mac's doing here because it's effecting two games, and I don't like being in a position where it feels necessary for me to talk about what's going on in another game (unless it's OT) to justify anything I have to say about the one I'm currently posting in. Of course, Matt F himself is in a much worse position for the same reasons and then some. That being said, I believe that a self-vote is a mortal sin in any mafia game. As long as Matt F's vote remains on himself, so will mine.

Matt F

Metalmarsh89

Aw shit, I can't do that.

LoRab wrote:

Matt F wrote:Sorry Zebra, vote stays. I was pretty caught off guard with this nonsense, but as Sorsha demonstrated, it's obviously not just Mac who feels this way. If I'm around after Day 1, legit scum hunting will begin. If not, good luck town!

For all you know they're just trying to rile you up. Self voting and giving up are not helpful--certainly not if you're civie.

I really don't understand the self vote.

He doesn't appear to be riled up, so their plan isn't working.

Turnip Head until he takes his vote off of juliets.

Linki: Now I look the fool.

Golden wrote:

Matt F wrote:In case anyone is interested (without having to go check the polls thread), voters of Progressive include:

Metalmarsh, Bullzeye, Floyd, SVS, Epig, BWT

If one baddie was told this would remove them from the lynch poll, I'm willing to bet he told his team. Unless LC barred such action?

Do we suppose the civ, Mafia, and indy were told that Long Con would tell the town that "one civ, Mafia, and Indy knew at the outset?" or did our host keep that info to himself when letting these players know?

You'd have to be daft to have your whole team pile on, though, right?

Plus, in the case of at least some of these people (Epi, Marmot, I'm pretty sure SVS), I know prog is also the truthful answer.

Count birdwithteeth in this category as well. No idea about Bullzeye. Floyd's name implies that he is. SVS, I think her tastes aren't as isolated to just prog, but she is a Floyd fan.

MacDougall wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

LoRab wrote:

Matt F wrote:Sorry Zebra, vote stays. I was pretty caught off guard with this nonsense, but as Sorsha demonstrated, it's obviously not just Mac who feels this way. If I'm around after Day 1, legit scum hunting will begin. If not, good luck town!

For all you know they're just trying to rile you up. Self voting and giving up are not helpful--certainly not if you're civie.

I really don't understand the self vote.

He doesn't appear to be riled up, so their plan isn't working.

The use of they in these two posts is unusual. I am one being.

You talking to me?

I was referring to the same they that Sorsha was: zebra and yourface.

Epignosis wrote:

MacDougall wrote:Epi can you please tunnel me and rile me up

Dude, after the week I've had, I don't have the strength.

I'm a high school teacher. I had to email the police. Who emails the police? I do, because I don't have a working telephone in my room, and a 300-pound autistic kid started stabbing the shit out of his textbook.

I didn't even have to email the police. They showed up at my house last night.

They had some paperwork to deliver to my roommate, so nothing unfortunate.

Epignosis wrote:

Dom wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Dom, are you bad?

nope.
are you?

Yeah you are.

Voting Dom.

Here's a bandwagon I can join.

MacDougall wrote:As lame as this subject seems to be... Metalmarsh where does your username come from?

I used to listen to heavy metal quite a bit. I've since transitioned from that phase to classic rock, and then to progressive rock. But the name is alliterative, so I've kept it through those times. I also listen to metal still from time-to-time. Iron Maiden is still one of my top 5 favorite bands.

Oops, I forgot.

Dom

sig wrote:The only reasoning you gave for a Dom lynch is that you think from his tone you could be bad. So anyone else who votes on Dom would either think the same thing or follow your vote based on good faith/trust of your read. Also I don't trust you enough on day 1 to follow your vote, which is why I'm not your vote comes down to nothing but a small meta/tone read. I find it very curios MM voted for Dom.

@MM why did you go with a Dom lynch.

I do trust Epignosis. Kind of.

Lorab is drunk?

Lizard.

LoRab wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:

LoRab wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:Rest in peace Nanners.

LoRab wrote:Still loving that Dark Willow is in the story telling

ftfy

Dark Willow is still Willow. And don't even think about starting with any Angel/Spike bullshit.

I'll just leave this here.

Harumph.

Banana! Don't forget to post in dead red. (It's one of the posting option tag things)

Thanks for playing.

Turnip Head wrote:

Dom wrote:

MacDougall wrote:Dom, SVS, Floyd, Bea ... no need to thank me.

You are so laughably inconsistent.

Bea isn't even playing this game

Dom's not playing the other game that bea's playing, so this post couldn't have gone there.

Turnip Head wrote:

S~V~S wrote:Also going with Rock. I used to collect rocks when I was a kid.

Damnit Marie they're not rocks, they're minerals!

"Mineral the Casbah" doesn't have quite the same ring.

24 players on the poll.

This means there are 3 others missing.

Epignosis wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Epignosis

Herro.

Where are my manners.

Good evening.

Turnip Head wrote:Rest in peace timmer.

S~V~S wrote:Considering how day one Epi operates, I did not think of that as a joke, and I am still not sure that I believe you.

I did not want to lynch Dom over such a small thing. The more frantic Mac got about it, the less I wanted to do it, tbh. He was freaking me out, and I am kind of surprised that he was not freaking YOU out. But I chose to vote for someone I thought had placed a suspect vote, even though he was a noob. Had that whole weird "OMG DOMS GOTTA DIE BECAUSE EPIGNOSIS SCUMDAR" from Mac, I would not have voted for Nanana.

I feel like you're putting the responsibility for your Nanners vote onto Mac because of something Mac said about Dom. Mac was also vehemently against voting for the low posters, so I'm not following your thought process here. How do you feel about Mac in all of this?

The last time I went against the lynching of low posters, I was mafia.

Turnip Head wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:Rest in peace timmer.

S~V~S wrote:Considering how day one Epi operates, I did not think of that as a joke, and I am still not sure that I believe you.

I did not want to lynch Dom over such a small thing. The more frantic Mac got about it, the less I wanted to do it, tbh. He was freaking me out, and I am kind of surprised that he was not freaking YOU out. But I chose to vote for someone I thought had placed a suspect vote, even though he was a noob. Had that whole weird "OMG DOMS GOTTA DIE BECAUSE EPIGNOSIS SCUMDAR" from Mac, I would not have voted for Nanana.

I feel like you're putting the responsibility for your Nanners vote onto Mac because of something Mac said about Dom. Mac was also vehemently against voting for the low posters, so I'm not following your thought process here. How do you feel about Mac in all of this?

The last time I went against the lynching of low posters, I was mafia.

You're always mafia.

That's... debatable.

Luke11646 wrote:Metalmarah didn't have a reason for voting epi and I'm wondering why

He asked who nightkilled timmer.

I answered his name, and voted.

He hasn't denied it yet.

Epignosis wrote:You're a real gumshoe.

Bearglove!

MacDougall wrote:Voting Epi. Pretty sure he is scum.

That dude killed timmer.

a2thezebra wrote:Stupid fucking English language is going to cost us the game lmao

Who's "us"?

MacDougall wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

MacDougall wrote:Voting Epi. Pretty sure he is scum.

That dude killed timmer.

That was bait. U r cum.

You baited me to repeat myself. You're the most excellent cumhunter.

Linki: well I'm a lame duck.

HamburgerBoy wrote:He said it because he was asking for it. He wanted people to give their opinions on what they think of Dom, not your ability to read him. Metalmarsh gave sig the wrong answer by saying he trusts you (Kind of.), and the only other person to reply was Bullzeye who took his request and tried to use it as a case against him, since she was already going against sig even on day 1. Interesting that he makes the same argument against sig being made this day: sig making a mountain out of nothing, and that nothing ends up ballooning into a bandwagon anyways.

You're basically asking a question he can't answer; if someone simply asks anyone broadly for an alternative opinion, they can't go and name select players they want to hear from.

Why is my answer wrong?

I like my burgers rare, so I'd rather you flip sooner than later HBOy.

Hamburgerboy

I lied, your not on the poll.

Votes in this poll are changeable.

I've voted Turnip Head twice to check.

More officially, Turnip Head, Turnip Head.