[END] Talking Heads Mafia (RYM #90)

[a2thezebra]

Voted for FZ for RYM and Roxy for Syndicate.
Because they are awesome.

I am inclined to vote for you because Nicki Minaj

[kneel4justice]

Voted for FZ for RYM and Roxy for Syndicate.
Because they are awesome.

I am inclined to vote for you because Nicki Minaj

Omg, another Nicki fan?!

[a2thezebra]

There isn't enough of us.

[Ricochet]

I am now Richard D. James, everyone vote for me

I could, but that's no Autechre.

[a2thezebra]

I am now Richard D. James, everyone vote for me

I could, but that's no Autechre.

Autechre is hit-and-miss for me.

[Ricochet]

I am now Richard D. James, everyone vote for me

I could, but that's no Autechre.

Autechre is hit-and-miss for me.

AT is one-album-and-misses for me.

[a2thezebra]

Which album may I ask?

[Ricochet]

85-92

[a2thezebra]

Whoops I guess this is off-topic technically

It actually took me a while to warm up to that one but now it's probably my favorite.

[thellama73]

I like Autechre a lot more than I like Aphex Twin.

[Long Con]

So many bands I never listened to. R.E.M., Guns N Roses, Metallica, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, Beck, Weezer, Rancid, Green Day... that's where I'm coming from.

[Ricochet]

So many bands I never listened to. R.E.M., Guns N Roses, Metallica, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, Beck, Weezer, Rancid, Green Day... that's where I'm coming from.

I'd take R.E.M., Radiohead and early Beck out of that and I'm good.

[a2thezebra]

So many bands I never listened to. R.E.M., Guns N Roses, Metallica, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, Beck, Weezer, Rancid, Green Day... that's where I'm coming from.

I'd take R.E.M., Radiohead and early Beck out of that and I'm good.

Same

[a2thezebra]

maybe just a little weezer and metallica

[birdwithteeth11]

Let's make it interesting...

[Tangrowth]

The poll has ended.

A post will be forthcoming shortly.

[Tangrowth]

DUSK 0

Who should be the next Assistants to the CEO for RYM Records and Syndicate Schemes?

You may select up to 2 options


bcornett24 -- (RYM Records)
0
No votes
Choutas -- (RYM Records)
2
Long Con (20), seaside (30) 4%
Diiny -- (RYM Records)
1
Golden (8) 2%
espers -- (RYM Records)
0
No votes
FZ. -- (RYM Records)
1
kneel4justice (44) 2%
Golden -- (RYM Records)
1
Matt F (6) 2%
HamburgerBoy -- (RYM Records)
0
No votes
JaggedJimmyJay -- (RYM Records)
6
sig (9), Epignosis (14), TheFloyd73 (33), Metalmarsh89 (35), Ricochet (38), Diiny (46) 13%
MacDougall -- (RYM Records)
2
JaggedJimmyJay (22), motel room (42) 4%
Metalmarsh89 -- (RYM Records)
5
DrWilgy (3), thellama73 (12), Sorsha (28), birdwithteeth11 (31), Devin the Omniscient (36) 10%
motel room -- (RYM Records)
1
espers (40) 2%
Rbzmncaeaei -- (RYM Records)
1
Roxy (23) 2%
rundontwalk -- (RYM Records)
1
bcornett24 (17) 2%
sanmateo -- (RYM Records)
1
seaside (29) 2%
seaside -- (RYM Records)
1
Choutas (25) 2%
Strawhenge -- (RYM Records)
0
No votes
TheFloyd73 -- (RYM Records)
0
No votes
bea -- (Syndicate Schemes)
0
No votes
birdwithteeth11 -- (Syndicate Schemes)
2
DrWilgy (11), thellama73 (13) 4%
Devin the Omniscient -- (Syndicate Schemes)
1
bcornett24 (16) 2%
DrWilgy -- (Syndicate Schemes)
5
Metalmarsh89 (4), Ricochet (18), Devin the Omniscient (37), motel room (43), birdwithteeth11 (48) 10%
Elohcin -- (Syndicate Schemes)
0
No votes
Epignosis -- (Syndicate Schemes)
3
sig (10), JaggedJimmyJay (21), Diiny (47) 6%
kneel4justice -- (Syndicate Schemes)
0
No votes
Long Con -- (Syndicate Schemes)
3
Roxy (24), Sorsha (27), espers (39) 6%
Matt F -- (Syndicate Schemes)
3
Golden (7), Choutas (26), TheFloyd73 (32) 6%
reywaS -- (Syndicate Schemes)
2
Matt F (5), Long Con (19) 4%
Ricochet -- (Syndicate Schemes)
0
No votes
Roxy -- (Syndicate Schemes)
1
kneel4justice (45) 2%
Russtifinko -- (Syndicate Schemes)
0
No votes
sig -- (Syndicate Schemes)
1
Epignosis (15) 2%
Sorsha -- (Syndicate Schemes)
0
No votes
thellama73 -- (Syndicate Schemes)
0
No votes
TinyBubbles -- (Syndicate Schemes)
0
No votes
PLEASE ONLY VOTE 1 PLAYER PER COMPANY!! (hosts, non-players only)
4
MovingPictures07 (1), Sloonei (2), Spacedaisy (34), acrosstheaether (41) 8%
Total votes : 48

[Ricochet]

Both players I voted for won, woo!

[thellama73]

BWT, I'm disappointed. Now you don't get to call my NKs....if I'm bad.

[Ricochet]

We get to lynch you, though. What about that!

[birdwithteeth11]

BWT, I'm disappointed. Now you don't get to call my NKs....if I'm bad.

It was worth it to end the poll.

Now I'm hoping that both winners show up at their desks on Day 1 and there's a present on top of their desks. And they are presented with a choice...

[JaggedJimmyJay]

[Long Con]

Congratulations, JJJ and Wilgy!

[Marmot]

Don't make me regret my vote.

[birdwithteeth11]

Don't make me regret my vote.

How would he make you regret your vote? By being bad?

[a2thezebra]

So far in the game I've seen a total of four posts that I have found suspicious. To make matters more interesting (and possibly help me with my conclusions) I'd like whoever's interested and/or bored to guess which ones before I say.

[Marmot]

Don't make me regret my vote.

How would he make you regret your vote? By being bad?

Precisely. And the fact that my vote helped give him the edge over me.

[Marmot]

So far in the game I've seen a total of four posts that I have found suspicious. To make matters more interesting (and possibly help me with my conclusions) I'd like whoever's interested and/or bored to guess which ones before I say.

I bet 50% of those posts were made by me and the other 50% were about Niki Mirage.

[Tangrowth]

Dusk 0: The Democratic Circus

The employees talked in circles, self-promoting, arguing who would make the best Assistant to the CEO. 'IT'S POLITICAL PARTY TIME' is all MP could think while he was watching it. The discussions ensued until eventually the two employees were decided.

"Wow! What a discussion. That is it. Congratulations to the new Assistant to the CEO of Syndicate Schemes Gaming Co... DrWilgy!!!!!!!!"

And congratulations to the new Assistant to the CEO of RYM Records... JaggedJimmyJay!!!!"

The employees of both companies broke out into applause. MP stepped up to the podium once more.

"Alright!! Now, to show you just how amazing this new mafia game installment is going to be, I have a surprise!!!" MP pressed his clicker and a giant table started protruding up from the stage floor. What was perhaps most intriguing to the crowd was the presence of a strange-looking device, covered in white cloth, on top of the table. All of the employees watched in awe. Even Sloonei was unaware of this. Eventually, the table stopped moving.

MP walked over to the table. "Ladies and gentlemen... I present to you, the world's first virtual reality mafia game!!"

As MP pulled off the cloth, everyone could see what appeared to be similar to a sci-fi ray gun in its design and comical appearance.

"What is THAT?!?" exclaimed Roxy.

"It's a virtual reality mafia gun! The game moderator programs the gun to fit any number of preset themes, then chooses the number of players, etc. etc., and then zaps the players into the game! While in the game, the players feel as though they're in a virtual reality, can converse, and it's like living out a real mafia game! The music that RYM Records has been providing me the licenses for was the last piece in the puzzle to make this project truly immersive. It's something I've been working on for years, but configuring the technology has been very difficult. I knew there had to be a way to take the mafia experience to the next level, but I didn't have the technical expertise or the time to do it myself. Thus, years ago I outsourced the technological research to a team of scientists, and they've finally managed to finish a prototype! This gun is currently programmed with its very first game preset... based on Talking Heads! It is exactly the game that you all thought we were designing for a board game edition. Although the prototype is far from completion, I wanted to demonstrate to all of you why I'm so excited about this installment, and what better way to do so than to show you this?!"

MP picked up the massive gun. "Pretty neat, huh? Let me show you the functions." As MP held the gun and walked forward, he accidentally tripped down the stage stairs, pressing the gun's auto-fire button in the process.

The employees watched in horror and awe as the gun started shooting beams of light all over the auditorium, picking off co-workers one by one, until eventually there were no employees to watch. The gun tumbled onto a couple of the auditorium seats.

"MP... what the heck just happened?" Sloonei asked in confusion.

"I'll tell you what just happened... the start of the first virtual reality mafia game ever... accidentally." MP declared triumphantly.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The players all rose slowly, still shaken and unsure what had happened. It was like someone had plucked them up from real life and dropped them into a fantasy land, one full of gigantic suits and tight vibes. One by one it started to come back to them. The office, the merger, MP's clumsiness... they were in virtual mafia reality, and that could mean only one thing... the game was on. Who would make the first move?


Dusk 0 has ended.

It is now Day 1. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

[thellama73]

So far in the game I've seen a total of four posts that I have found suspicious. To make matters more interesting (and possibly help me with my conclusions) I'd like whoever's interested and/or bored to guess which ones before I say.

I bet one of them is mine!

[HamburgerBoy]

Can't be me.

[a2thezebra]

No to mm and no to llama.

linki: And no to HamburgerBoy, haha.

[Long Con]

These vibes are already pretty tight!

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Don't make me regret my vote.

How would he make you regret your vote? By being bad?

Precisely. And the fact that my vote helped give him the edge over me.

Don't worry about all that, just let me get to work.

More importantly, our agreed-upon transaction will come to fruition probably starting tomorrow. Because I'm going to sleep. Right after being promoted.

Thanks for the votes, y'all!

[JaggedJimmyJay]

No to mm and no to llama.

linki: And no to HamburgerBoy, haha.

One was me!

[espers]

did the syndicate players have their own private day 0 thread? anything happen there?

[Marmot]

I'll start things off with a virtual vote for rundontwalk because that guy's silence is scary.

[Marmot]

I also promised these five players I would not vote for them today.

• DrWilgy
  thellama73
  Sorsha
  birdwithteeth11
  Devin the Omniscient

Because this is a crime against the state.

[a2thezebra]

No to mm and no to llama.

linki: And no to HamburgerBoy, haha.

One was me!

I didn't think to count Day 0 since it's, well...gone, so that makes five posts that caught me off guard. And you are incorrect as well 3J, because three of them are yours counting Day 0. Here's a little RYM Records exclusive context for those in the dark.

3J's opening post in Day 0 set off an alarm for me and some others, (I believe I was the second or third to point out how suspicious it seemed, and I believe someone even asked 3J if he was asking to be lynched) as he basically excused himself to be somewhat absent for the game, his reasons being that he was on vacation and that he also has another game going on. When I confronted him he responded by saying that he's normally a more minimal poster than most. I responded by saying that if he's known for being a somewhat minimal poster than why bother excusing his even more minimal behavior? But I let him off the hook in the same response because I have been known for my tunnel vision and it has gotten civilians lynched before. It's also interesting that I'm the first person from RYM Day 0 to mention this. When Bernie Sanders Matt F asked if anything of note happened on Day 0, I found it odd that Golden responded with a no, but (in the same post) since he seemed to have missed the end of that day I'm not sure if he missed my exchange with 3J or any of his posts that day. Maybe he's off the hook, maybe not. But again, it is a little disconcerting to me that I am the only one to have mentioned this exchange, even if it was a light suspicion at the time.

Now I try to base my suspicions off of individual scum-reads rather than observing what seems like a scum team, but something caught me off guard during Dusk 0 that was very hard to ignore with or without the context of 3J the day before. Enter sig.

I'd like to recommend myself for the Syndicate CEO assistant position. Facts are I'm well-versed in music, with an acquired taste in significant eclectic genre.

As for who I'm voting, I'd like to hear some pitches first. Give me some insight into your music preferences, stuff you're passionate about, etc..

linki: Deflecting the question, ey, Marshy?

Kansas is the greatest band ever.

I am disqualified, aren't I?

Kansas is great I will vote for you just for that reason alone.

Epignosis
JaggedJimmyJay

sig votes for Epignosis providing as decent of a reason for it as any (Kansas is pretty damn awesome, but I digress) but then votes for 3J providing no reason whatsoever, not even a humorous one or the simple explanation that it was a random vote. It comes out of nowhere, and it is noteworthy that this is both sig's first post and the first vote for 3J. But then it gets better...

Kansas is great I will vote for you just for that reason alone.

Epignosis
JaggedJimmyJay

You just won my vote. Voting sig and 3J.

Epignosis votes for sig I suppose because he voted for him as well as mutual appreciation of Kansas. But then we have another inexplicable vote for 3J that is neither explained nor noted other than the vote itself. And now, enter 3J.

With all due respect to our honorary RYMers (they're super neat), we should band together as an RYM gang and ensure the Syndicateers don't pick our CEO for us just based on who they know. :P

I'll vote for one of my biggest influences MacDougall, and the guy that gets night killed every ten minutes because baddies are terrified Epignosis.

I'm going to try to use colors when I bold my votes because I absolutely cannot see the plain white bold.

I'll be fair, outside of the vote for Epignosis there's nothing suspicious here. But his reason for voting for him seems fake in the greater context. This came about half an hour after Epig's vote for 3J but 3J doesn't reference this, instead picking a whole new reason to vote for Epig, which is humorous. It just doesn't seem genuine to me. And then....this.....

But really though llama, are you bad?

This is why first impressions are often correct. I've tried, I've really tried, but even when I block out 3J's post excusing him from activity (which is now especially suspicious since he seems far from inactive, as if he was excusing potential inactivity from fear of slipping some susfishes) in Day 0, as well as the context of his inexplicable votes, (which resulted in his win) this post is just...oh man.

It comes twelve minutes after the last post that was in reference to the suspicions (which I remind you, were sarcastic for crying out loud) that bwt had for llama. That exchange didn't set any alarms off for anyone until 3J made this post. It comes off as unbelievably opportunistic. Take a close look at that page, the posts, the times they were posted, and so on, put everything in context, and tell me JJJ isn't a decent suspect at the moment. And again, the reason I avoid group suspicions is that if one of the people you suggest turns out to be good, your credibility is destroyed and whoever else you mentioned gets off the hook whether they're good or not. But I can't help but feel a possible JJJ/Epignosis/sig thing going on. No hard conclusions yet, I'm trying to play it safe and I may end up voting for someone absent if I'm not confident enough and/or I see some good defenses for this. We shall see.

[Marmot]

3J's opening post in Day 0 set off an alarm for me and some others, (I believe I was the second or third to point out how suspicious it seemed, and I believe someone even asked 3J if he was asking to be lynched) as he basically excused himself to be somewhat absent for the game, his reasons being that he was on vacation and that he also has another game going on. When I confronted him he responded by saying that he's normally a more minimal poster than most. I responded by saying that if he's known for being a somewhat minimal poster than why bother excusing his even more minimal behavior? But I let him off the hook in the same response because I have been known for my tunnel vision and it has gotten civilians lynched before. It's also interesting that I'm the first person from RYM Day 0 to mention this. When Bernie Sanders Matt F asked if anything of note happened on Day 0, I found it odd that Golden responded with a no, but (in the same post) since he seemed to have missed the end of that day I'm not sure if he missed my exchange with 3J or any of his posts that day. Maybe he's off the hook, maybe not. But again, it is a little disconcerting to me that I am the only one to have mentioned this exchange, even if it was a light suspicion at the time.

This has got to be one of the silliest things I've ever heard.

[Marmot]

Also, votes are changeable in this poll.

[thellama73]

Agreed that just asking someone whether they are bad on Day 1 is super scummy.

That's a pretty good case, Rbzmzmnzzzxzxzxzxz. I'll have to sleep on it.

[Marmot]

Agreed that just asking someone whether they are bad on Day 1 is super scummy.

That's a pretty good case, Rbzmzmnzzzxzxzxzxz. I'll have to sleep on it.

What if I told you that Jay asked that question on Day 0?

[Marmot]

EBWOP: Dusk 0.

[a2thezebra]

@MM On my part or his?

linki MM: I am aware, but I still don't want to be too trigger-happy and start influencing people before we see a defense.

linki llama: Gracias, but why didn't you call him out on that at the time? Too busy in defense mode?

linki MMx2: Tru tru

[bcornett24]

I would normally start off with a vote for sleepystalinist, but he is not here so instead, I'll vote for motel room because he has something to do with sleeping.

[a2thezebra]

Also anyone scared to spell my name can just call me

Spoiler: show

zebra

[thellama73]

linki llama: Gracias, but why didn't you call him out on that at the time? Too busy in defense mode?

I was joking about that part. I ask people that exact question on Day 1 almost every game, so that is why JJJ asked it to me.

[a2thezebra]

linki llama: Gracias, but why didn't you call him out on that at the time? Too busy in defense mode?

I was joking about that part. I ask people that exact question on Day 1 almost every game, so that is why JJJ asked it to me.

That certainly puts a damper. I got no impression at all that 3J wasn't serious.

[thellama73]

linki llama: Gracias, but why didn't you call him out on that at the time? Too busy in defense mode?

I was joking about that part. I ask people that exact question on Day 1 almost every game, so that is why JJJ asked it to me.

That certainly puts a damper. I got no impression at all that 3J wasn't serious.

Pro tip, though: If you ask someone if they are bad, and they don't deny it, they usually turn out to be bad.