The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote:Effective immediately, Dom is replacing Draconus.

Effective immediately, Elohcin is replacing Serge.

One... two...

Sloonei wrote:Totally shocked at the identity of 509378, did not see that coming, much gasping.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Yo, winners, check it out!



Wear it with pride.

MovingPictures07 wrote:On that note, the prison yard should also be available for viewing, and all daily threads should be in there. Let me know, y'all.

Regarding private conversations, Daisy and I went back and forth on publicizing the BTSC (both prison and player), but in the end we've decided against sharing it publicly. Sorry to disappoint.

Epignosis wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Hey Epi. Why did you never get rid (kill/arrest) of P50, despite taunting him in the open about not getting swiftly removed for his hunts?

We didn't need him dead to win. I even said as much in the thread in a roundabout way that got the prisoner thinking I was genuine.

As the Warden, I knew he was an original prisoner and therefore not one of the family members. No reason to waste an arrest on him.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:

Sloonei wrote: I laughed a little as soon as I saw Jay's first prisoner post the day of the jailbreak, and there were at least a dozen times I nearly typed Jay instead of "prisoner" in this game.

My strategy to get paroled:

Be as JJJ as I can possibly be. I'll be honest, on Day 5 I was just going for appearances. I didn't care whether my reads were accurate at all, I just wanted everyone to know exactly who I am and give me the parole with the promise that I'd give the kind of effort that is typical of me.

I'm glad it worked, but I also worried the other prisoners would be annoyed by my post-mania and try to stop me.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Are the results public of the last prisoner challenge?

Good question! You all failed.

Sloonei wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Prisoner 509378 wrote:

Sloonei wrote: I laughed a little as soon as I saw Jay's first prisoner post the day of the jailbreak, and there were at least a dozen times I nearly typed Jay instead of "prisoner" in this game.

My strategy to get paroled:

Be as JJJ as I can possibly be. I'll be honest, on Day 5 I was just going for appearances. I didn't care whether my reads were accurate at all, I just wanted everyone to know exactly who I am and give me the parole with the promise that I'd give the kind of effort that is typical of me.

I'm glad it worked, but I also worried the other prisoners would be annoyed by my post-mania and try to stop me.

Oh no, I realized I have zero fat chances to challenge you. So I buddied you.

Actually, until we broke out of prison, I thought I landed with Diiny in my cell. Which was funny, because Dinny slipped on RYM that he was mislynched. Diiny played hard the first Days on CD-FIVEMOREINITIALS, so I imagined he'd work hard in Prison and Parole duty, too. But yeah, as soon as Day 5 started, I fully realized who I really partnered with.

Plus, I actually had a big schemng plan to pretend I'm Diiny and demand my parole, once prison break would occur... only for the Hosts to enforce the no-hint rule. D'oh.

I'm pretty sure they only told you not to hint at you truly are. There's no rule against hinting that you're somebody you're not.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I very much want to change my "Racketeer" rank/title thing to "Prisoner 509378".

Score.

G-Man wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Yo, winners, check it out!



Wear it with pride.

Yassss numero 6!

Easiest one I ever achieved, too.

Maybe it was easy for you because you got out Night 5. Holy heck did we have to claw our way through some insane stuff! Yes, please please please open those Prison Yard threads. I want everyone to behold the insanity of that 10-minute post challenge.

Now, let good old Dr. Evil explain a few things...

When I was approached about joining this game in secret I knew that, for me to stay engaged, I had to play in character. The prison aspect sounded like it get get either dull or hostile or both depending on how well we did with those challenges. I gave MP and SD a choice of three characters I would play as:

-Dr. Evil (which they picked, probably because he was the only one with a prison pic)

-Gollum/Smeagol from Lord of the Rings (would have been fun but I probably never would have been paroled)

-Olaf from Frozen (I was secretly hoping they'd pick this one but I probably would have drove too many prisoners nuts and they'd have shanked me)


I played in character 100% of the time until those posting challenges broke me. I even PM'ed the hosts as Dr. Evil. It was fun.

On our first day in prison, I wrote a big long spiel about how the original prisoners should all stick together and make sure only original prisoners got paroled when the chance arose. It was called Operation Improbably Victorious You or Operation IVY. In true Dr. Evil form, this was wordplay because Operation Ivy was an influential ska-punk band in the late 80s that eventually became the 90s punk band Rancid. It was my version of the "Alan Parsons Project" that Dr. Evil created. I later created an acronym for the BUDDY System for the posting challenges but I can't remember what it all stood for. Go find it in the prison threads.

I tried to pick a fight with Scotty during the prison break so I could do the whole "Scotty don't!" bit to some length but he either wasn't around or wasn't interested. I also tried to do the "zip it" and "shh!" bits with a few people but it never lasted long enough. Oh well.

We original prisoners were tight. I'm proud of all of them. We worked so hard and a few of the newbies worked hard too, so major kudos to them as well! The prison, at times, felt like a sick and twisted team-building exercise. It was a trying ordeal but rewarding in the end.

No non-original prisoner got paroled. How cool is that? Operation IVY was actually conceived out of my own paranoia that non-original prisoners would eventually outnumber original prisoners and start shanking us. They outnumbered us soon enough but not enough of them seemed to care or organize enough against us. So thanks for that!

Did anyone figure out it was me behind the Dr. Evil shtick? I was half-worried that it would be too obvious because playing in character would stand out and I've developed a reputation for standing out through my posting methods.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

G-Man wrote:Did anyone figure out it was me behind the Dr. Evil shtick? I was half-worried that it would be too obvious because playing in character would stand out and I've developed a reputation for standing out through my posting methods.

I definitely didn't. The only prisoner I had pegged correctly was Ricochet. I thought he was as obvious on Day 5 as I was.

I been thinking 920077 was Russtifinko. Clearly not!

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

I chose the thirty minute challenge and followed it up with the ten minute challenge deliberately. I thought, "Surely this second challenge will crush their spirits."

No spirit crushing occurred in my prison that day. No sir.

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I've still never been a baddie here except the time I had to be a totally different person (SVS 2).

S~V~S wrote:Congrats cops! You played a great game!

MP & Daisy thanks! And a quick question, had I not changed my kill the night I killed Dom, had I left it on Soneji, would things have been different?

And yes Quin, I will add whichever statement JJJ likes to my Sig

And I guessed Bea, Rico & JJJ for sure during the first prison break.

Dom wrote:Thanks for the game! Sorry I sucked this game. Replacing in is harder than I remember.

Congrats, fellow winners!

MovingPictures07 wrote:Interesting factoid:

Just 21 more posts in this thread and it will actually have more posts than Talking Heads Mafia!

Epignosis wrote:

juliets wrote:I think my account is cleared out now and Moving Pictures and Spacedaisy I just want to add my voice to say I greatly enjoyed the prison and it's challenges. The non-participants were frustrating but that was not your doing. I really had fun trying to guess who everyone was. The only one I got was Typhoony though.

Wait, we had men and women fraternizing in the same prison? What sinful business is this?

Epignosis wrote:I was never clear on what Ricochet did to win.

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I was never clear on what Ricochet did to win.

One could say I didn't do anything.

I've yet to fail with a win grab role, so far.

One could say you are out-marmoting marmot.

Golden wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Was there any point in which there were fears that Epig being handed the Warden duty would be too on the nose, given the Shawshank theme of that sock being adapted? Or did any player attempt making the connection, in private or public? I admit I didn't, the only contenders I thought of were Golden and Turnip Head, for some reason. Yet the Bublé thing in E.S.T. just now made me think how, sometimes, the design can backfire.

So you really thought it was me?

Roleplay should give it away immediately. I suck at it and don't attempt it unless I absolutely have to. The only way I would have been Shawshanking it up is if I was forced to speak only in Shawshank quotes.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:This is about as detailed as I managed to keep my spreadsheet for this game. Main game details are incomplete and there's really no way to find out all the night power uses or vote manips, unless the Hosts kept a diary, but I also monitored Prison activity (before and after my own pardon time), sometimes with details about the challenges.

Turf Wars - Main Game
Turf Wars - Prison Time

As always, impressive stuff.

Was there anything you still wanted to know? Not sure what level of detail we could provide with respect to every night action though, especially since we kept completely separate team power records.