[END] The Syndicate's 2013 Game of Champions

#3601

Dammit, I messed up. I was hoping to host this behemoth of a game without messing up, but I did.

Yes, no one received votes, and thus it was a tie, yet I randomly selected someone to die, forgetting about Zodac. In the rush of having all this craziness happen and wanting to get a post up ASAP, I failed to remember that.

I apologize to S~V~S, but given she is now outed and I already made that mistake, I don't think there's anything I can do.

Thankfully, S~V~S's game very well may not be over, so it makes me feel less bad about this. Nonetheless, so sorry for messing up; I was too distracted and didn't think it through.

#3602

Keep in mind this is just the math and is very slapdash. And this all assumes Epignosis was PP, which may or may not be a leap in logic.

1-UP poll wrote:
Kate
11
Mongoose (3), bea (8), Epignosis (15), thellama73 (17), Spacedaisy (20), Devin the Omniscient (31), birdwithteeth11 (34), juliets (43), Vompatti (46), Bullzeye (49), AceofSpaces (57) 19%

Epignosis voted for Kate, which supports the idea that Epignosis was PP and Kate was Big Daddy.

Day 5 Lynch wrote: Epignosis
6
Spacedaisy (7), S~V~S (14), birdwithteeth11 (15), blindfaeth (18), AceofSpaces (23), Hedgeowl (27) 22%

thellama73
10
DharmaHelper (8), Nevinera (10), Devin the Omniscient (11), Flyin' High (12), Mongoose (13), juliets (16), Elohcin (19), Bullzeye (21), Epignosis
(22), DFaraday (24) 37%

Devin, Goose, Juliet, and Bullz/Timmer all voted for Kate for the 1-UP AND voted for llama in the D5 lynch. Interesting!

Day 6 Lynch wrote: Epignosis
5
S~V~S (15), birdwithteeth11 (19), Nevinera (20), Spacedaisy (22), timmer (23) 21%

Vompatti
7
Boomslang (12), DFaraday (14), Flyin' High (16), DharmaHelper (17), Elohcin (18), juliets (21), Epignosis (24) 29%

Going by the placement/timing of their votes for Epignosis, I think we can discount SD and Timmer from being teammates with Epig if Epig was PP. Someone we cannot discount however is Juliets. That's where my eye will be turned for this coming day :P

#3603

I also voted for Arkansas, because it's Kansas for pirates.

#3604

juliets wrote:
BigDamnHero wrote:
Nevinera wrote:What just happened? Did someone have a 'end the day immediately' item or something?

RIP SVS :-\
That sucks.
I've gotta fess up....I'm pretty sure this was MY fault, unfortunately. I had a prize from my MacGuyver story, though I had NO IDEA what it did, just that I could only use it during the day phase. I'm so so very sorry SVS.
But BDH, somehow she had to get a vote didn't she? You didnt do that. Or was it considered a tie because none of us got any votes? And Zodac decided? That just doesn't seem right because if Zodac is civvie-leaning why would he choose SVS? This whole thing just doesn't make sense to me.

It's Sock, so maybe there was some sort of price associated with ending the day early. I dunno. When I saw him end the day early, I also saw no votes so I thought things would just get back on track. Then I saw the PM w/SVS' death and felt I needed to get in front of this thing before it got too outta control with wild accusations and theories.

linki @ Sockface: WOOO HOOOO!!!! SVS' DEASTH WASN'T MY FAULT!!! MY SOUL IS CLEAN AGAIN!!!!!!!

Sorry dude. IMO, you're still doing a GREAT JOB @ hosting.

#3605

Bah, I hate host errors. Sorry again, guys.

Anyway, hope that helps explain things. Again, you have 24 hours to send in PMs and vote in the night poll. I will try to attend to all of this when I get home after the concert tomorrow, but I have a sneaking suspicion it will not get properly addressed until Saturday afternoon. We shall see.

#3606

DharmaHelper wrote:Keep in mind this is just the math and is very slapdash. And this all assumes Epignosis was PP, which may or may not be a leap in logic.

1-UP poll wrote:
Kate
11
Mongoose (3), bea (8), Epignosis (15), thellama73 (17), Spacedaisy (20), Devin the Omniscient (31), birdwithteeth11 (34), juliets (43), Vompatti (46), Bullzeye (49), AceofSpaces (57) 19%

Epignosis voted for Kate, which supports the idea that Epignosis was PP and Kate was Big Daddy.

Day 5 Lynch wrote: Epignosis
6
Spacedaisy (7), S~V~S (14), birdwithteeth11 (15), blindfaeth (18), AceofSpaces (23), Hedgeowl (27) 22%

thellama73
10
DharmaHelper (8), Nevinera (10), Devin the Omniscient (11), Flyin' High (12), Mongoose (13), juliets (16), Elohcin (19), Bullzeye (21), Epignosis
(22), DFaraday (24) 37%
Devin, Goose, Juliet, and Bullz/Timmer all voted for Kate for the 1-UP AND voted for llama in the D5 lynch. Interesting!

Day 6 Lynch wrote: Epignosis
5
S~V~S (15), birdwithteeth11 (19), Nevinera (20), Spacedaisy (22), timmer (23) 21%

Vompatti
7
Boomslang (12), DFaraday (14), Flyin' High (16), DharmaHelper (17), Elohcin (18), juliets (21), Epignosis (24) 29%
Going by the placement/timing of their votes for Epignosis, I think we can discount SD and Timmer from being teammates with Epig if Epig was PP. Someone we cannot discount however is Juliets. That's where my eye will be turned for this coming day :P

I'm not sure why you've picked me out of the group to focus on but I'm sure you will explain and I'll answer tomorrow.

#3607

MovingPictures07 wrote:Dammit, I messed up. I was hoping to host this behemoth of a game without messing up, but I did.

Yes, no one received votes, and thus it was a tie, yet I randomly selected someone to die, forgetting about Zodac. In the rush of having all this craziness happen and wanting to get a post up ASAP, I failed to remember that.

I apologize to S~V~S, but given she is now outed and I already made that mistake, I don't think there's anything I can do.

Thankfully, S~V~S's game very well may not be over, so it makes me feel less bad about this. Nonetheless, so sorry for messing up; I was too distracted and didn't think it through.

Giirrrrlll. SVS gonna be so maaaadd at chu'

We still love you though.

(says the owl who just missed the vote

)

This explains BWTs reference to Homestar and the contest too. Also, I assume the poetry contest came from SVS - Homestar to Llama and Devin and as a result her insistence that he intentionally posted wrong.

The PP has to be Epi, Russ or Gleam, so yes I think it very likely that was his role.

DH - after a review of the last few days either you or Timmer is definitely a civ, so you may make my list with Lizzy after all.

#3608

Hedgeowl wrote:
timmer wrote:I think one of these
is rump: faraday, hedgeowl,
Mongoose, juliets.
I didn't actually read your analysis post because you said to ignore it. Should I go back and address any points?

I am curious what Lizzy thinks of DH now given the Vomps reveal as Jack.

I have been reading through player list and thinking that many people are flying under the radar so to speak. I really can't decide if we are a bunch of civs debating regularly with hiding baddies or more baddies in plain sight. Probably a mix really. Here's a brief rundown of my current thoughts.

FH - was killed by piranha plant, so doubt she's a VG villain.
SVS - killed by manipulators, so doubt she is on this team. She wasn't

People I have no read on are Devin, BWT, Booms, SD and Timmer.

People I have a slight worry over are: Elo, BF, DF, Mongoose, and Juliets.

People I feel sort of ok about are: SVS, FH, Nev, DH, BDH

People I feel pretty good about: Lizzy, Bea,

People I do not feel good about: Llama Indy not baddie.

Of the two lists of no read and slight worry I feel that I need to spend some time rereading those people.

Linki wasn't Timmer earlier analysis about Rump? I assume its from that but would need to find the post.

Updated list:

People I have no read on are Devin, BWT, Booms, and SD

People I have a slight worry over are: Elo, BF, DF, Mongoose, and Juliets.

People I feel sort of ok about are: FH, Nev, BDH

People I feel pretty good about: Lizzy, Bea, DH or Timmer

People I do not feel good about: ???

Looking at the baddie teams it seems that VGVs only have Creeper and Fetus left and the Mani/Pedis have Rumps, Cathy, and Moriarty as far as we know. So 5 baddies left potentially and maybe a rogue Cohen. Anything else I am missing? Should expect a kill from Moriarty tonight, but skipped the role reveal withe double day. It appears we may be down to a nightly kill barring crazy game and host shenanigans.

#3609

juliets wrote:
DharmaHelper wrote:Keep in mind this is just the math and is very slapdash. And this all assumes Epignosis was PP, which may or may not be a leap in logic.

1-UP poll wrote:
Kate
11
Mongoose (3), bea (8), Epignosis (15), thellama73 (17), Spacedaisy (20), Devin the Omniscient (31), birdwithteeth11 (34), juliets (43), Vompatti (46), Bullzeye (49), AceofSpaces (57) 19%

Epignosis voted for Kate, which supports the idea that Epignosis was PP and Kate was Big Daddy.

Day 5 Lynch wrote: Epignosis
6
Spacedaisy (7), S~V~S (14), birdwithteeth11 (15), blindfaeth (18), AceofSpaces (23), Hedgeowl (27) 22%

thellama73
10
DharmaHelper (8), Nevinera (10), Devin the Omniscient (11), Flyin' High (12), Mongoose (13), juliets (16), Elohcin (19), Bullzeye (21), Epignosis
(22), DFaraday (24) 37%
Devin, Goose, Juliet, and Bullz/Timmer all voted for Kate for the 1-UP AND voted for llama in the D5 lynch. Interesting!

Day 6 Lynch wrote: Epignosis
5
S~V~S (15), birdwithteeth11 (19), Nevinera (20), Spacedaisy (22), timmer (23) 21%

Vompatti
7
Boomslang (12), DFaraday (14), Flyin' High (16), DharmaHelper (17), Elohcin (18), juliets (21), Epignosis (24) 29%
Going by the placement/timing of their votes for Epignosis, I think we can discount SD and Timmer from being teammates with Epig if Epig was PP. Someone we cannot discount however is Juliets. That's where my eye will be turned for this coming day :P
I'm not sure why you've picked me out of the group to focus on but I'm sure you will explain and I'll answer tomorrow.

You voted for Kate to be rezzed, and your vote helped keep Epignosis from being lynched on two separate occasions. Add to that a general heeby-jeebyness, and bish bash bosh, bob's your uncle.

#3610

RIP SVS.

I'm very sad you are deadded.

So those of you who played the game, and JC - does the make and the choosing of a location seem to indicate that we are in American God's territory now?

#3611

DharmaHelper wrote: and bish bash bosh, bob's your uncle.

#3612

Well, on the bright side, I'm no longer insanified! On the dark side... everybody missed a vote. Which, presumably, will come with host punishments. That's a pretty big nuke by whoever did this.

#3613

RIP SVS! And sorry host for missing the Day 8 vote!

I'm not sorry about missing the Day 9 one though, because come on.

I was wrong about Llama, I did think he was bad. But I was leaning civ for SVS, so at least I got that right.

I went with Tennessee, because it's pretty there and I met a kitten there once.

#3614

thellama73 wrote:Congratulations, you lynched a vanilla indie with no powers.

Sorry, mate! Did my best to try and stop people from voting for you. Actually, I defended you more than you did when you were the only one who knew who I was.

Had SVS figured out as HS not too long ago, so I hope she'll be back soon.

#3615

Boomslang wrote:Well, on the bright side, I'm no longer insanified! On the dark side... everybody missed a vote. Which, presumably, will come with host punishments. That's a pretty big nuke by whoever did this.

I doubt he'd punish us for missing that vote.

I hope we get a rez vote soon - last time we got to get one of the lynched and two non-revealed,
and Zodac picked SVS last time, iirc.
Surely she'd get picked again!

I was born in IL, so that's where I'll go.

#3616

Eek! Can't believe that we skipped a night and then the day ended almost immediately @.@

In any case, thank you BDH for fessing up - this obviously would have been a huge distraction from baddie hunting, so I'm getting really good vibes from BDH atm.

Personally I'm not feeling the warm fuzzies from Devin or SD.
I feel generally good about Nevin, Lizzy, DH, bea
Slightly leaning civ on Mongoose, Timmer
No read on juliets, hedge, elo, df, boomslang
Neutral on BWT at this point - early on, our thoughts aligned a lot, which made me personally feel good about him at the time, but our common suspects have since disappeared
Slightly worried about FH, can't put my finger on why tbh.

-- Since a couple of other people have posted similar stuff. I noticed a couple people had me either listed as neutral or were a little worried about me, is there anything I can do to alleviate your suspicion of me?

Also, I voted for IL in the poll, because I would like to visit Illinois one day to see a personal friend of mine!

#3617

Glad the shenanigans from yesterday have been explained. And hopefully we can get SVS back.

I voted Illinois because it has Chicago which has the Field Museum which I really, really want to visit.

@BF: When you are able to put your finger on what about me gives you slight worries I'll happily try to address it.

#3618

I'll answer your suspicions later DH, I don't have the time right at the moment.

I just stopped in to vote Oklahoma because that's where my mother is from and her family is still there.

I can't imagine MP would charge us for missing a vote on a day that ended immediately. And with SVS, I have to say again it is frustrating to lose you. Terribly bad luck.

#3619

Holy Crap! Sorry I had you all wrong SVS :/ Your attack on llama suddenly makes a lot of sense. But I still stand by my opinion that he wasn't lying. As I said I completely missed that I wasn't supposed to post off topic. Oh well,

I'm voting KY. Born and raised!

#3620

Wow. RIP SVS! Sorry that you had to go that way. But you shall be avenged!!!

Also, idk if this has been discussed, but I know MP keeps posting the whole "just because you're out doesn't mean it's over" or whatever it is. Does anyone else think that it involves dead people being allowed to either use their powers or influence the game in some way? I know I've played several games before where all the deadies got their own secret thread to chat in. And there were polls to vote in that influenced the game i.e. giving people prizes, punishing them, etc. Anyone think that could be a real possibility here?

#3621

EBWOP: Also voting Kentucky because....well duh. :P

#3622

Iowa born & raised...so basically most if us r voting for our home/ birth states, huh? Anyone know if these places hold significance in the American Gods mythos? I tried doing a search but couldn't come up w/ anything.

#3623

DharmaHelper wrote:Keep in mind this is just the math and is very slapdash. And this all assumes Epignosis was PP, which may or may not be a leap in logic.

1-UP poll wrote:
Kate
11
Mongoose (3), bea (8), Epignosis (15), thellama73 (17), Spacedaisy (20), Devin the Omniscient (31), birdwithteeth11 (34), juliets (43), Vompatti (46), Bullzeye (49), AceofSpaces (57) 19%

Epignosis voted for Kate, which supports the idea that Epignosis was PP and Kate was Big Daddy.

As I think I have said before, I voted for kate because at the time I thought she was civv and I had a slight ping about FH. The ping about FH has since gone away and I now believe Kate was Big Daddy but none of that was clear at the time.

Day 5 Lynch wrote: Epignosis
6
Spacedaisy (7), S~V~S (14), birdwithteeth11 (15), blindfaeth (18), AceofSpaces (23), Hedgeowl (27) 22%

thellama73
10
DharmaHelper (8), Nevinera (10), Devin the Omniscient (11), Flyin' High (12), Mongoose (13), juliets (16), Elohcin (19), Bullzeye (21), Epignosis
(22), DFaraday (24) 37%

DharmaHelper wrote: Devin, Goose, Juliet, and Bullz/Timmer all voted for Kate for the 1-UP AND voted for llama in the D5 lynch. Interesting!

Day 5 was the day llama submitted the case against you DH. I defended you in the thread and voted llama for what I thought was an attempt to get you lynched.

DharmaHelper wrote:
Day 6 Lynch wrote: Epignosis
5
S~V~S (15), birdwithteeth11 (19), Nevinera (20), Spacedaisy (22), timmer (23) 21%

Vompatti
7
Boomslang (12), DFaraday (14), Flyin' High (16), DharmaHelper (17), Elohcin (18), juliets (21), Epignosis (24) 29%
Going by the placement/timing of their votes for Epignosis, I think we can discount SD and Timmer from being teammates with Epig if Epig was PP. Someone we cannot discount however is Juliets. That's where my eye will be turned for this coming day :P

On day 6 I was still neutral on both Epig and bwt. I re-read Vomps and FH had brought up an important point about Vomps so I voted for him. The case for him was strong enough that you also voted for him DH.

All this is predicated on the fact that Epig was PP and we have no way to know that at this time.

I will be somewhat busy this afternoon and then have Jeopardy and then dinner so I'm not sure I'll be back on here today until late or even tomorrow morning.

#3624

birdwithteeth11 wrote:Wow. RIP SVS! Sorry that you had to go that way. But you shall be avenged!!!

Also, idk if this has been discussed, but I know MP keeps posting the whole "just because you're out doesn't mean it's over" or whatever it is. Does anyone else think that it involves dead people being allowed to either use their powers or influence the game in some way? I know I've played several games before where all the deadies got their own secret thread to chat in. And there were polls to vote in that influenced the game i.e. giving people prizes, punishing them, etc. Anyone think that could be a real possibility here?

Maybe so, because Matt/A Person is probably still sending in his exaggerating text, so who knows what else deadies are able to do beyond the veil.

#3625

I picked Illinois because I really want to visit Chicago and I love the Sufjan Stevens song of the same name. Also, I don't remember Illinois being particularly of significance in the American Gods novel.

#3626

Voting for Kentucky as well, for hometown pride and because most of AG takes place a bit farther west, if I remember correctly.

#3627

Nevinera wrote:
Boomslang wrote:Well, on the bright side, I'm no longer insanified! On the dark side... everybody missed a vote. Which, presumably, will come with host punishments. That's a pretty big nuke by whoever did this.
I doubt he'd punish us for missing that vote.

I hope we get a rez vote soon - last time we got to get one of the lynched and two non-revealed,
and Zodac picked SVS last time, iirc.
Surely she'd get picked again!

I was born in IL, so that's where I'll go.

zodac picked FH instead of Kate who was the 3rd one who technically won the vote.

#3628

Ok - so - I'm not sure yet if we are in the American God's part of the game. I was hoping maybe JC or someone could confirm it. It's just where my head went since I've read the novel a few times. Essentially, the novel just as much about the road trip Shadow takes as it is about the God's he meets. (Also - the only other thing I could think of in regards to our host and picking destinations was the train in the Electronic mafia on FEW. It seemed to fit less than the idea of it being American Gods time.)

But - in the chance that we *are* in American Gods part of the game, I did some digging into the places listed in reference to the novel.

This site here: http://frowl.org/gods/geography.html was particularly helpful. As was this site here: http://americangods.wikia.com/wiki/American_Gods_Wiki (You guys, there really is a wiki for everything!)

4 of the places - Wisconsin, Kansas, Tennessee and Illinois haves some significance to the novel
4 of the places do not - Arkansas, Kentucky, Iowa and Oklahoma.
1 place - Iowa - is traveled through, but from what I can gather, not stopped at (Which is weird because the roadside attractions holding power was a pretty big deal in the novel and there are an unusually large amount of "world's largest" attractions in Iowa.)

Of the places traveled to:

Wisconsin is where The House On the Rock is located. It is where Shadow sees the God's first use their power, it's also where the Old God's have a conference about the upcoming war with the New Gods.

Tennessee is where Rock City, the place of the final showdown between the God's takes place.

Kansas is where the Center of the US is. The Old God's and the New Gods try to hold ceasefire negotiations. It's concidered a place of "negative sacredness" because despite the fact that there are many Center of the US shops and hotels and attractions, due to the fact that it's not the *true* center (it's a few miles away from the true center) it never really attracted the visitors that helped too feed these spots their power.

Illinois is where Cairo is. Shadow actually makes several stops in Illinois but I think Cairo is most important because it's here that Shadow meets Mr. Ibis and company.

I'm likely to vote for Illinois for this reason, but I'd like to hear some opinions as to whether anyone thinks I'm on to something or if I've just wasted an hour and a half on a wild goose chase.

#3629

and also because I realize I haven't asked the host:

Oh Great and Powerful Sockface, Are we now in the American God's portion of the game?

#3630

bea wrote:and also because I realize I haven't asked the host:

Oh Great and Powerful Sockface, Are we now in the American God's portion of the game?

Yes.

But not for much longer.

#3631

MovingPictures07 wrote:
bea wrote:and also because I realize I haven't asked the host:

Oh Great and Powerful Sockface, Are we now in the American God's portion of the game?
Yes.

But not for much longer.

well.....at least I've narrowed the gap some as to whether or not I wasted an hour and a half of my life.

Thank you sockface.

#3632

Ok - I'm going with Illinois on the hopes that we get a dead civ back to being live.

#3633

@Bea: & that's why Iowa ROCKS!!!! Hmmmmm....roads tide attractions = prizes maybe? Just a thought.

#3634

Arkansas.
Arr, Kansas.
Kansas. For Pirates.

#3635

DharmaHelper wrote:Arkansas.
Arr, Kansas.
Kansas. For Pirates.

Ooooooohhhhhh.... I get it now! I thought u meant....uhh, ok forget about what i thought.

#3636

Voting Kentucky, because Ohio and Florida aren't options.

#3637

Who cares about ohio?!?!?:p

#3638

*Tennessee*

#3639

BigDamnHero wrote:Who cares about ohio?!?!?:p

#3640

So going from MP's comments, Saturday should be an important/busy day for the deadies. Thoughts on that, guys?

#3641

Voted Illinois.

All I remember was us going to Wisconsin and that being a fail in the game (was it really or did the hosts just mess with us?)

#3642

DharmaHelper wrote:So going from MP's comments, Saturday should be an important/busy day for the deadies. Thoughts on that, guys?

I imagine they may get to vote in the lynch or something like that. Or maybe another rezz?

#3643

bea wrote:
Nevinera wrote:
Boomslang wrote:Well, on the bright side, I'm no longer insanified! On the dark side... everybody missed a vote. Which, presumably, will come with host punishments. That's a pretty big nuke by whoever did this.
I doubt he'd punish us for missing that vote.

I hope we get a rez vote soon - last time we got to get one of the lynched and two non-revealed,
and Zodac picked SVS last time, iirc.
Surely she'd get picked again!

I was born in IL, so that's where I'll go.
zodac picked FH instead of Kate who was the 3rd one who technically won the vote.

I believe I know who Zodac is, and they have definitely been playing a prociv game. I trust them.

#3644

Hey everyone! I am about to crash and I have to work tomorrow, so... I will get to night post and such sometime late tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow evening EST. Be sure to check back then! Sorry for the delay.

Pixies were seriously so absolutely awesome!!!!! :drums:

#3645

DharmaHelper wrote:So going from MP's comments, Saturday should be an important/busy day for the deadies. Thoughts on that, guys?

I guess it would all depend on how intereactive (if at all) they are allowed to be. I'd like to hear more from SVS as she seems to have had a good read on most of us. But if the dead are just going to be able to use abilities or such...well fuck us we're gonna be in for a rough ride! If that's the case, I suggest we run and hide!!!! From what I've seen, Sock likes chaos so we could be in for a bumpy few days.

#3646

♪♫ Siiiiiilent niiiiight ♪♫

#3647

PSA: Don't drink and mafia...

[ytubehd][/ytubehd]

This kid is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid...he coulda had a friggin' PRIZE!!!!!!

#3648

awwwwww......viodeo embed fail

....and he STILL doesn't get his prize....dumbass

#3649

& isn't Roadblock a stranger!?!?!? Wtf!?!?!?

#3650

quinteplue post...woooooo!!!!!!

Who deserves to win?