The Syndicate

Let me throw this out there and see what people think.

Mathematically, the cult is not much of a threat. Using one of Klaus's auto scum catches on Ishmael would most benefit.....the mafia.

So players expressing extreme unwarranted concern about the cult are somewhat suspicious to me at this point.

Uhhh ishmael, given those recent revelations is a huge threat. Explain... sounds like he could recruit baddies and help finish the game earlier in the Civs favour. I guess it works in reverse if he recruits Civs? He could recruit baddies yes, which hurts them. However they also need to be the large...

Uhhh ishmael, given those recent revelations is a huge threat. Explain... sounds like he could recruit baddies and help finish the game earlier in the Civs favour. I guess it works in reverse if he recruits Civs? Mirrors my thoughts. Could put us in the awkward situation where the cult and the town...

Zebra, Faraday , Long Con, Snow Dog, and you. I think those are the only ones in that game that were here discussing the subject. I will table my thoughts on Snow Dog and try to give him a fresh start in my book. I do seriously hate I wasted all that time on it though. I wasn't even going to read a...

Thanks, DF.

Same for me, usually, but I didn't want to assume.

Would the cult vanillaize its recruits? Can mafia members be cultified?

Would Olaf be immune to Klaus's role check? The gravedigger seems fairly weak and the conditional double voter, while strong, could give away herself and a teammate if she actually uses the double vote. I consider the roleblocker the best Klaus's target in this mafia. The other mafia don has SECRETS...

@LC On HCRealms, you are allowed to make statements specifically for a lie detector. There's really no getting around it. There's all sorts of reasons a cop could be wrong but lie detectors are generally bulletproof, putting a scum player in an impossible situation. I prefer this "no 'I am town...

Yeah @ the lie detector ruling. That's more fun than usual.

Boo @ the non threatening cult ruling. Cults should be super threatening, imo. More fun that way.

@Epi You never said Snow Dog was good, true. What you said was "I won't be voting for him." :shrug2: Well, for what it's worth, I won't be voting for you Day 1 either, Jack. It has nothing to do with your alignment (or his). Oh yeah? Can't figure out how to use the polls either, then? I'm...

@Epi You never said Snow Dog was good, true. What you said was "I won't be voting for him." :shrug2: Well, for what it's worth, I won't be voting for you Day 1 either, Jack. It has nothing to do with your alignment (or his). Oh yeah? Can't figure out how to use the polls either, then?

@Epi

You never said Snow Dog was good, true.

What you said was "I won't be voting for him."

Four pages all about Snow Dog and Long Con's bad directions. Snow Dog must feel special. I won't be voting him Day 1. Oh yeah? What caused you to determine SD is town or rather, definitely not someone you could see yourself lynching? Do you see a specific better option at this point? Or did you mer...

I could get behind splitting the difference with alignment only flips. While no janitoring is more comfortable to me, I'm big on trying new things. I'm playing without reading my role. This seems like a terrible idea. If you're being truthful and you're town, this only hurts your performance. If yo...

In fact not only is it a baseless assumption but if we look at previous claims of players not reading their rolecard in past games, they are usually lying. Their reasons for doing so vary wildly but not all of them are mafia-motivated and on some level DDL and Jackofhearts must recognize this. I wo...

How do you propose we read him, then? Based on the assumption he doesn't know whether he is civ or bad himself. As we normally would. We cannot be sure he's being truthful. He could be a lying scummer and we should be reading his posts attempting to look into that possibility. If he's being truthfu...

By the way, is Day 0 followed by Day 1 or Night 0?

I am a mafia deconstructionist. In mafia, much less is alignment-indicative than what the average mafia player believes is. Because of this, unorthodox tactics of finding mafia should not be punished but encouraged. Your claim that reaction-fishing tactics only help identify aggressive players rath...

I'm playing without reading my role. :hugs: In this game, I will defend Snow Dog to the death. Why? I drove him a bit loopy in the last game we played together so I am indebted to him. This transcends alignment, you see. But for what it's worth I do believe he is civ from what little content there ...

I'm okay with policy lynching Snow Dog. Or rather, policy vigging him. A player who doesn't know their alignment is a waste of a lynch. I strongly disapprove of this post with all due respect. Noted. Since you keep asking why I disapprove of it , I'll tell you. You seem to be encouraging a policy l...

I'm playing without reading my role. :hugs: In this game, I will defend Snow Dog to the death. Why? I drove him a bit loopy in the last game we played together so I am indebted to him. This transcends alignment, you see. But for what it's worth I do believe he is civ from what little content there ...

I could get behind splitting the difference with alignment only flips. While no janitoring is more comfortable to me, I'm big on trying new things. I'm playing without reading my role. This seems like a terrible idea. If you're being truthful and you're town, this only hurts your performance. If yo...

a2thezebra wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:I'm playing without reading my role.

In this game, I will defend Snow Dog to the death.

Why?

I could get behind splitting the difference with alignment only flips. While no janitoring is more comfortable to me, I'm big on trying new things. I'm playing without reading my role. This seems like a terrible idea. If you're being truthful and you're town, this only hurts your performance. If you...

What's the likely significance of the direction choice?

Not being able to change my vote is also going to take a bit of getting used to.

Woot! First Syndicate game. I'm thinking the auto janitored nightkills are going to be the toughest thing to get used to. Open setups? Lots of power roles? Inability to roleclaim? Been there (though only in vanilla games for that last one). Not knowing how many bad guys have been killed off by vig/s...

So what were the arch villain win conditions?

I want that last section to be "kill powers" but there's an extra blank.

More Grodd: ..... during the game.

Possible Grodd text: Is immune to all....

Also, can you alignment claim?

So I'm going to be disappointed when I get to the end and don't know who everyone was and what they can do? Just the janitored night deaths are a pretty massive change for me. Especially with so many factions, I'd at least prefer an autopsy of alignment, if not character. Thoughts from the Syndicate...

Would have voted Epi over Llama at the end of Day 1.

Holy shit you guys can talk at night?!?

I know my role, and I assume everyone here knows theirs as well (Depending on whether or not Made has opened his PM yet.) So, I know Epi is not my role. If you are a civvie or a non-baddie, you also know that Epi is not that role as well. It is then mathematically 100% certain that Epi is a baddie,...

Oh! I generally view survivors as scum roles. In a situation where a survivor is the tie breaker vote, scum can strongarm the survivor into voting with them. This means that scum will always intentionally kill townies over survivors. I tend to lynch survivors into silence. Let them take bullets for ...

Can I post here? I CAN post here. :) I love to hear myself talk so I'm going to leave my notes here. At first glance, this game appears unbalanced. Too few townies. Too many scum and survivors. However, inability to claim, no scum BTSC and at least two vigilante roles means a mass scum/neutral takeo...

Started watching the movie tonight with my wife. Funny stuff. I'm pretty excited about this.

Apparently an admin needs to unban and the mods are a bit more active/chummy with the mafia board than the admins. Should get fixed in the next day or two.

You're no longer super banned. You're just on double secret probation.

I'm getting in the Christmas spirit with the HeroClickers. :beer: I'm still awaiting activation, but whenever I get activated I'm totally signing up. That message is kinda misleading. They really should change it. The steps are 1) Register 2) Post something without a link to the new player forum 3)...

Okay. You've been moderator unbanned but Quebbster (mod) wasn't sure it went though and might need admin approval.

I can click on your profile now without the site erroring out so...you're probably no longer banned.

Haha. Probably happened if you linked to the Syndicate in your first post. Sent a message to a mod to unban you.

Sounds like you'll fit in real well around here then. :feb: That's my hope. :) Went ahead and signed up for a game. There is a Christmas game open on the realms that could use some more players if anyone wants to try something different and try to siphon off a couple more players for the Syndicate....

Never read the books but this looks like fun.

Count me in.

Heh. The vague awareness of Mafiascum as the only other online mafia site and that it is an unpleasant place to play mirrors our awareness exactly pre tournament. HCRealms also rarely has vanilla roles but our roles are generally not revealed at all except in name only through nightkills/lynches and...

You said you played in the mafia championship with Sloonei; what community are you from? I've played on HCRealms.com for about ten years, now. It's not entirely dead but the player base and participation rate have shrunk. There was a time when a new mod could run a game with an obscure theme and ge...

'Lo, ladies and gents. Sloonei recommended this site to me after he kicked my tail in the big inter-website mafia tournament thingie. Currently reading through last year's Flash mafia and Battlestar Galactica mafia. Liking what I'm seeing so far. Any friend of Sloonei is a friend of mine! Welcome t...

'Lo, ladies and gents.

Sloonei recommended this site to me after he kicked my tail in the big inter-website mafia tournament thingie.

Currently reading through last year's Flash mafia and Battlestar Galactica mafia. Liking what I'm seeing so far.

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