The Syndicate

Wow I didn't realize it had been that long since the YTs killed. I'm all for voting for any combination of those four then.

Epignosis wrote:

Day 7: A Peasant’s Labor is Overlooked

勞動天

Rey Was labored every day in his fields, hoping to be rewarded for his diligence. He knew Zhang Jiao would repay him kindly. Zhang Bao saw his work and thought he could make him work harder if he got his brother to make the weather hotter. Rey Was labored all day, and grew faint, and that is how he died.

This continues the evils the Yellow Turbans inflicted upon the peasants.

reywaS has been killed by the Yellow Turbans.
It is now Day 7. You have 48 hours and two votes each to decide the who will be in the fourth duel.

It was Day 6 actually, Scotty.

Does this change anything in your train of thought?

So now we are just going after inactives?

Also I'm starting to think everyone should duel once.

Quin wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Day 7: A Peasant’s Labor is Overlooked

勞動天

Rey Was labored every day in his fields, hoping to be rewarded for his diligence. He knew Zhang Jiao would repay him kindly. Zhang Bao saw his work and thought he could make him work harder if he got his brother to make the weather hotter. Rey Was labored all day, and grew faint, and that is how he died.

This continues the evils the Yellow Turbans inflicted upon the peasants.

reywaS has been killed by the Yellow Turbans.
It is now Day 7. You have 48 hours and two votes each to decide the who will be in the fourth duel.

It was Day 6 actually, Scotty.

Does this change anything in your train of thought?

Ah good call.

But also no, because as far as I know everyone else has posted since. Even Mac, who disappeared after day 8

Bass_the_Clever wrote:Also I'm starting to think everyone should duel once.

Well....no. It's not like getting a vaccine, Bass-a-roo. Not everyone needs to duel- only those that are bad

Trying to eliminate the YT does not mean we should stop hunting for Nanman. Odds are there are still at least 1 of them left- someone actively attending to the game but probably not too active...

Voted Jan and Bullzeye. They all have 1 a piece now. No hiding anymore

Scotty wrote:I'm going to suggest this:

Here are the people that haven't posted since before night 4, the last night a kill went through for YT:
-leetic
-Dunny
-Jan
-Bullzeye

Bullzeye hasn't posted since Day 2, leetic and Jan haven't posted since Day 3, and Dunny last posted Day 4.

I would strongly suggest voting a duo of those pairs for now. Here's why:
1) if one is bad and defeats another, odds are they won't be active to receive a treasure, and we just try again the next day.
2) if YT are still alive, that's our best bet to find them
3) if YT are eliminated, we know the indie leader role that inherits the kill is still alive, so it can be assumed that he is not paying attention.



Also @EPI Spacedaisy is still on the poll and the alive section of the 1st page. I'm pretty slow and almost factored her in during my perusal.

I'm going to place a couple of votes based on this. I'm not involved enough to have a real suspicion at the moment, but the strategy of lynching lurkers has been improbably successful so far, and I like this train of thought.

I apologize again for my total dropoff in participation.

I went with Jan and leetic. I remember Jan making a few posts that kinda set off some minor alarms earlier in the game, and leetic seems to have disappeared from The Syndicate entirely so there's no harm in voting there.

Hopefully we'll get this down to the point where I'm the only inactive left.

Sloonei wrote:I went with Jan and leetic. I remember Jan making a few posts that kinda set off some minor alarms earlier in the game, and leetic seems to have disappeared from The Syndicate entirely so there's no harm in voting there.

Hopefully we'll get this down to the point where I'm the only inactive left.

In day 1 and 2? I thought you didn't read days 1 and 2?

And are you hoping you're the only inactive because you know you will be on the chopping block?

You're also hardly inactive Sloon-you're present and pushing forth discussion- you're just not as active as we know you have been in the past.

If anyone cares, I think of the 4 I listed, I think Bullzeye seems the most UTR (unless you count leetic, who has posted almost nothing of substance)

Scotty wrote:

Sloonei wrote:I went with Jan and leetic. I remember Jan making a few posts that kinda set off some minor alarms earlier in the game, and leetic seems to have disappeared from The Syndicate entirely so there's no harm in voting there.

Hopefully we'll get this down to the point where I'm the only inactive left.

In day 1 and 2? I thought you didn't read days 1 and 2?

And are you hoping you're the only inactive because you know you will be on the chopping block?

You're also hardly inactive Sloon-you're present and pushing forth discussion- you're just not as active as we know you have been in the past.

People were talking about Jan when I came in. I've reads bits and pieces of the earlier days, but not the entire thing.

I'm hoping to be the only inactive because this game is better off being populated by active players.

Are you still suspicious of me?

The thing with Bullzeye is that he's usually a fairly engaged player, and I kinda feel like for him to not have come back he must have just forgotten about or abandoned the game somehow, which seems unlikely if he were on a baddie team. His few posts from the beginning of the game were expressing regret that he was unable to keep up with the game, and it just strikes me as more likely that he had a vanilla civ role and never got into caring about the game. Hope he's ok irl

The fact that the last YT kill was Night 6 (thanks for clearing that up Quin) doesn't really change much for me, since Daisy posted once on Day 6 and could have sent in a kill despite having no idea what was going on, and her teamie could still be one of those people inactive since before then. So I think I'll still vote for some two of them (probably not bullz).

One other thing that gives me slight pause -- people have brought up that Epi probably doctors the teams when distributing roles, and he put MP and Daisy together as two out of three of a baddie team, despite presumably being aware that they were both extremely busy IRL. Perhaps he still expected them to be dedicated players especially if on a baddie team together, and I think (correct me if I'm wrong) he was pretty unfamiliar with at least Jan and Dunny as players, and may have hoped they would be more active to begin with? (Jan at least was for a little while and then disappeared )

Idk, this train of thought keeps going around in circles and will most likely not get me anywhere. But I'm starting to have a hunch Jan is the slightly more likely choice. I'm voting for him and Dunny.

Sloonei wrote:

Scotty wrote:

Sloonei wrote:I went with Jan and leetic. I remember Jan making a few posts that kinda set off some minor alarms earlier in the game, and leetic seems to have disappeared from The Syndicate entirely so there's no harm in voting there.

Hopefully we'll get this down to the point where I'm the only inactive left.

In day 1 and 2? I thought you didn't read days 1 and 2?

And are you hoping you're the only inactive because you know you will be on the chopping block?

You're also hardly inactive Sloon-you're present and pushing forth discussion- you're just not as active as we know you have been in the past.

People were talking about Jan when I came in. I've reads bits and pieces of the earlier days, but not the entire thing.

I'm hoping to be the only inactive because this game is better off being populated by active players.

Are you still suspicious of me?

Suspicious of you? Meh. More or less. I'm more suspicious of Bubbles' votes that you inherited as well as your shrugging it off.

I like your presence though I think, but it's still compatible for a Nanman. Not my highest suspect right now, but I'm not sold you are good either.

You can nap easily now, Sloonei, because you are no longer the highest poster of this game

nutella wrote:One other thing that gives me slight pause -- people have brought up that Epi probably doctors the teams when distributing roles, and he put MP and Daisy together as two out of three of a baddie team, despite presumably being aware that they were both extremely busy IRL. Perhaps he still expected them to be dedicated players especially if on a baddie team together, and I think (correct me if I'm wrong) he was pretty unfamiliar with at least Jan and Dunny as players, and may have hoped they would be more active to begin with? (Jan at least was for a little while and then disappeared )

Idk, this train of thought keeps going around in circles and will most likely not get me anywhere. But I'm starting to have a hunch Jan is the slightly more likely choice. I'm voting for him and Dunny.

Mayhaps. I think there is merit in Epi hand picking his roles, but I fail to see why especially these guys would be on MP's and SD's team. Is there anyone else that goes way back with them in history?

Bass, are you still suspicious of Quin?

Golden was suspicious of Simon at one time, contrasting his posts before Wilgy and Marmot died, with his posts after they died. Does anyone think Golden had a good point? (It seemed like a good point to me)

Scotty wrote:

Sloonei wrote:

Scotty wrote:

Sloonei wrote:I went with Jan and leetic. I remember Jan making a few posts that kinda set off some minor alarms earlier in the game, and leetic seems to have disappeared from The Syndicate entirely so there's no harm in voting there.

Hopefully we'll get this down to the point where I'm the only inactive left.

In day 1 and 2? I thought you didn't read days 1 and 2?

And are you hoping you're the only inactive because you know you will be on the chopping block?

You're also hardly inactive Sloon-you're present and pushing forth discussion- you're just not as active as we know you have been in the past.

People were talking about Jan when I came in. I've reads bits and pieces of the earlier days, but not the entire thing.

I'm hoping to be the only inactive because this game is better off being populated by active players.

Are you still suspicious of me?

Suspicious of you? Meh. More or less. I'm more suspicious of Bubbles' votes that you inherited as well as your shrugging it off.

I like your presence though I think, but it's still compatible for a Nanman. Not my highest suspect right now, but I'm not sold you are good either.

I m not sure what vote you are talking about or how I could do anything other than shrug it off. You find an action of somebody who was not me to be suspicious, but I know that person to bw town. I do not know what they were thinking, but I know they had no bad intentions. Shrug.

I continue to see the wisdom, at this point in the game, of voting the low/non-posters. I will likely vote Jan again. Unsure about my second vote.

Bass_the_Clever wrote:I'm cool with voting inactive people.

You posted this on the 9th day, when INH was killed by duel. You didn't vote. You missed the next lynch too, when Daisy was killed by duel. You posted today but haven't said who you think should be voted, just that you think we should be taking turns dueling (my interpretation). So, have you got anything to add?

I'm going to choose between one of the inactives mentioned and probably go with Nijuu again. She pops up once in awhile, and I think mid-inactives need to be looked at too.

I am sick and utterly unable to focus on this game right now. Ugh. Voting Dunny and leetic because Zuo Ci has shown good calls so far.

Boomslang wrote:I am sick and utterly unable to focus on this game right now. Ugh. Voting Dunny and leetic because Zuo Ci has shown good calls so far.

Which good calls, exactly?

I'm still not sure we should trust Zuo Ci. And I can't remember a call he made that was both overt and good. So, wondering about you after this post.

Also, where the eff is Mac?

He hasn't been heard from since Day 8. That's not a good look.

I went with Dunny and Ninja. I don't think we should discount Ninja and Simon when discussing inactives. They have been absent enough that missed kills wouldn't be a surprise, and I have thought Ninja looked bad for awhile anyway.

I'm vaguely falling asleep and don't want to forget the vote so voting now.

Voting Jan and Mac.

Jan because inactive and pingy when they were in the game.

Mac because he disappeared, and given that we are looking towards players who are no longer active, he seems to me to be a prime suspect. If the last kill was 6, and he hsn't been heard form since 8, I can't help but wonder if he forgot a night kill or 2 (as we're not sure about kill schedule) and never got back on track or was blocked and lost his will, or something. Anyway, Also, I suspected him before.

I think I'm going to follow suit and vote for:

Ninja and Jan

I mean, y'all can vote for me and all. I know I'm horribly inactive, but it's a bit of a waste (unless I win and get cool prizes, which is totally not a waste, yay!). But for self-preservation, I'll go with Dunny and Jan.

I'm going to step back from my Dom vote for today. Nothing's come of time and time again so I'll try something else by voting Dunny and nijuu. I'm putting some faith in Zuo Ci because I agree that he very well could be 3J, and nijuu because I've observed her in this game often placing votes for innapropriate reasons given the context of the game at the time.

If Bass doesn't vote again today (for the 3rd lynch in a row), I'll be adding him to the inactives list too

indiglo wrote:Also, in my head, I say Jan as a Dutch name. I hope that is correct.

I think he's Polish(?) so yeah I think it's probably pronounced with a y sound.

I agree with others about Niju, and I think she is also worthy of my vote in the future, as is Simon (his mid-active-ness plus Golden's points about him, let us not forget.) Also Lorab pointed out Mac and I'm definitely wondering about him.

Let's have Simon and that n name I don't know how to say.

Who is a threat to the Han? Appoint two for the duel.

Poll ended at Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:51 pm

Bass_the_Clever
0
No votes

Boomslang
0
No votes

Bullzeye
1
Scotty (5)
3%

DFaraday
0
No votes

Dom
0
No votes

Dunny
6
Zuo Ci (2), nutella (10), Boomslang (11), DFaraday (13), nijuukyugou (23), Quin (26)
21%

Jan
7
Scotty (6), Sloonei (8), nutella (9), LoRab (15), Matahari (17), indiglo (19), nijuukyugou (24)
24%

leetic
3
Zuo Ci (3), Sloonei (7), Boomslang (12)
10%

LoRab
0
No votes

MacDougall
1
LoRab (16)
3%

Matahari
0
No votes

nijuukyugou
5
DFaraday (14), Matahari (18), indiglo (20), Quin (27), Simon (28)
17%

nutella
0
No votes

Quin
0
No votes

Scotty
0
No votes

indiglo
0
No votes

Simon
1
Simon (29)
3%

Sloonei
0
No votes

Spacedaisy
0
No votes

Zuo Ci
0
No votes

Hua Xiong (The Host, the Non, the Dead)
5
Epignosis (1), Glorfindel (4), Golden (21), Metalmarsh89 (22), JaggedJimmyJay (25)
17%


Total votes : 29

Sloo Nei had fought against the forces of Nanman many times, and had enjoyed some success. Unfortunately, this made him a target for the Nanman king’s assassins, and his superior officers knew it.

They devised a plan to conceal Sloo Nei during the next engagement. Sloo Nei was draped in the garments of a beggar and situated with his sword just inside the city gates. When Meng Huo’s forces encroached upon the city, the besieged people feigned defeat and let the Nanman in.

As they entered in triumph, the order to attack was given, and soldiers came out of homes to do battle. Sloo Nei was prepared to fight too, only his weapon was tangled within his disguise. A Nanman soldier saw him trying to draw a weapon, and pierced his heart with an arrow.

What affect this had on others who despised the Nanman will be discussed presently.

RIP sloon.

Why should I duel, O scribe of the green text?

Look at that, we all stopped trying to lynch mac en masse and he stopped posting again!

So was there a night kill attempt?

Yes, it looks like the Nan took out Sloonei. But no Yellow kill... so that's at least good.

I actually think this day phase I'm going to go back through the known baddies that have lost duels, and look for connections between them and other players. With as little talking as is currently happening, I suppose looking back is going to be my best bet.

Bass_the_Clever wrote:So was there a night kill attempt?

3 nights, no vote. What's up?

Matahari wrote:

Bass_the_Clever wrote:So was there a night kill attempt?

3 nights, no vote. What's up?

little bro had open heart surgery for the second time in a year.

So how does everyone feel about young Simon?

I am likely to vote for some combination of Mac, Niju, Simon, and Jan/maybe leetic.

I put Simon and nijuu in the same category as people who at one point did contribute, but are now just dropping off their votes late for unspecified reasons. I'll read into them both and give my thoughts soon.

Does anyone have GTH's they'd like to share with the class?

In other news, I'm sick again. Or to be more specific, that weird stage where it could go either way and I just feel awful but I'm not hindered by it at all.

Is there a reason we trust MAc?