The Syndicate

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:16 pm Dennis saying that having you around is like having Kate still in the game is the highest compliment I can give. Keep playing!

Sir yes sir! I signed up for that Felt game Kate was talking about earlier so I'm already on it.

I do this with just about every one of my games. There's a lot of little details that I try to put into the mix. Now I shall reveal what I can remember off the top of my head...


1) Yes, this game was inspired by the Warren Zevon song "Lawyers, Guns and Money." I went through a phase where I listened to his Excitable Boy album several times a week. One night it clicked and I started to try to piece together a story from the lyrics of the song. It mentions both gambling in Havana and hiding in Honduras, so I had to come up with a reason the main character of the flavor got from one place to the other.

2) This post in the sign-up thread, where Robbie explains to his dad about what happened to land him in Honduras includes lines lifted and interpolated from the song.

3) In the song, Zevon sings as a sort of protagonist, claiming to be an "innocent bystander." For the game, I decided to flip that around and make the bad guys the ones trying to help the guy out of a jam and the good guys the locals who just want peace restored to their town.

4) The game takes place in mid- to late-March of 1978. I worked in some historical details that point to that, if you can find them.

5) All of the songs that I included with my chop and night posts are songs that were either released as singles or were on albums released during the first three months of 1978. Some of the songs were released earlier than that ("Disco Inferno" for example) but were in the weekly Top 40 charts in late February or early March of '78.

6) All of the night post titles and the final chop post title are Cold War terms.

7) Puerto Cortes is a real city in Honduras. It was the closest port town in Honduras to Cuba, so I researched it and ran with it as my setting. I used Google Maps to identify the different regions of the city that the CIA team was searching through in the flavor. I have no idea how much of the city existed in 1978 though. It's now home to the 36th largest seaport in the world, according to Wikipedia.

8) In the 1970s, both the USA and USSR were investing in Central American countries like Honduras. That made it possible for the Russians to be moving about so easily in the flavor. The USSR contributed millions in infrastructure funding to Honduras, much of which probably benefited port cities like Puerto Cortes.


I'll add more to this later if anything else comes to me.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:18 pm Rondo i don’t think i will ever ever trust you

<3 except for when you have to

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:20 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:18 pm Rondo i don’t think i will ever ever trust you

<3 except for when you have to

Begrudgingly

I did enjoy Seanzie falsely believing I green peeked him for most of the last day.

Nah, Seanzie just felt obvitown to me from start to finish.

G-Man, thanks so much for the game. It was a fun setup that really did play with optimal tactics and I like that.

Soneji wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:51 am Current suspects :

Seanzie
Matahari
lucy


sabi to a lesser extent, but I've liked their posting outside of their interactions with Marmot

Two out of three ain't bad

Soneji wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:36 pm

Soneji wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:51 am Current suspects :

Seanzie
Matahari
lucy


sabi to a lesser extent, but I've liked their posting outside of their interactions with Marmot

Two out of three ain't bad

Yeah, I really regret that you got caught up in a soft elim. I think, from my perspective, I had an inherent mistrust of all suspicion of Seanzie.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:42 pm

Dennis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:41 pm I'm assuming we're allowed to talk about roles and stuff?

I was deputy, and I had checked Soneji, which is why so many people were TMI accusing me. I had TMI lol so I'm apparently not good at hiding it. But I did the same thing with Sabi and I didn't check them, but I also got TMI accused there so I was hoping y'all would just assume I was just not sure why people were voting

Eh it was you! Well played! I never figured it out, I had lots of theories but none of them were you.

It’s really hard exerting enough thread control to keep greenpeeks alive and I had the advantage of being able to claim to do it if necessary.

So who did you think deputy could've been? I thought cop was either SVS or Rondo. SVS randomly changed her suspicion on Neon saying something about just deciding Jack wasn't bad so Neon was good, and Rondo because Bea subbed about and suddenly my checks were gone.

Also think it's really funny how I ended up literally empty handed because all of my checks died, almost directly after.

Dennis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:54 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:42 pm

Dennis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:41 pm I'm assuming we're allowed to talk about roles and stuff?

I was deputy, and I had checked Soneji, which is why so many people were TMI accusing me. I had TMI lol so I'm apparently not good at hiding it. But I did the same thing with Sabi and I didn't check them, but I also got TMI accused there so I was hoping y'all would just assume I was just not sure why people were voting

Eh it was you! Well played! I never figured it out, I had lots of theories but none of them were you.

It’s really hard exerting enough thread control to keep greenpeeks alive and I had the advantage of being able to claim to do it if necessary.

So who did you think deputy could've been? I thought cop was either SVS or Rondo. SVS randomly changed her suspicion on Neon saying something about just deciding Jack wasn't bad so Neon was good, and Rondo because Bea subbed about and suddenly my checks were gone.

Also think it's really funny how I ended up literally empty handed because all of my checks died, almost directly after.

I had neon, Seanzie and svs in my mix.

By the end it was clearly not neon but I thought she could have checked Roxy for a while in there.

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:12 am By the end it was clearly not neon but I thought she could have checked Roxy for a while in there.

Chaos posting helps those not in the chaos solve the game :think:

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:13 am

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:12 am By the end it was clearly not neon but I thought she could have checked Roxy for a while in there.

Chaos posting helps those not in the chaos solve the game :think:

that…makes a surprising amount of sense

I would counter that this game theory probably works best if the chaos eventual subsided to logical progression..but in the end, sometimes a rabbit in a clown suit juggling lies while his walrus coworkers trivialize algebraic equations is what makes this stupid game of mafia great

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:34 am

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:13 am

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:12 am By the end it was clearly not neon but I thought she could have checked Roxy for a while in there.

Chaos posting helps those not in the chaos solve the game :think:

that…makes a surprising amount of sense

I would counter that this game theory probably works best if the chaos eventual subsided to logical progression..but in the end, sometimes a rabbit in a clown suit juggling lies while his walrus coworkers trivialize algebraic equations is what makes this stupid game of mafia great

*lies = pies

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:34 am

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:34 am

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:13 am

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:12 am By the end it was clearly not neon but I thought she could have checked Roxy for a while in there.

Chaos posting helps those not in the chaos solve the game :think:

that…makes a surprising amount of sense

I would counter that this game theory probably works best if the chaos eventual subsided to logical progression..but in the end, sometimes a rabbit in a clown suit juggling lies while his walrus coworkers trivialize algebraic equations is what makes this stupid game of mafia great

*lies = pies

sub to my walrus

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:13 am

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:12 am By the end it was clearly not neon but I thought she could have checked Roxy for a while in there.

Chaos posting helps those not in the chaos solve the game :think:

And hard for the wolves to have assurance that they know what to do.

I can tell people I hold multiple worlds in my head but at the end of the day the wolves will rely on the world view I’m putting in the thread.

Congratulations town! G-Man, your day and night posts were amazing, if they were a book, I’d want to read it. I hope you get your role madness game going in the near future.
I wish I hadn’t been bulldozed by rl, so I could have given my team more support, but it was a great game to read.
Dennis, you’re a natural!

Also props to @Dennis for a good first game. If only @Kate could be as good

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:11 pm Neon your game is great

Lameow I played horribly.

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:17 pm @Neon sorry for mixing you up with SPF

No biggie

Neon wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:11 am

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:11 pm Neon your game is great

Lameow I played horribly.

Thank you tho

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:52 am
If only @Kate could be as good

True. Step it up mom. You should've just fought back when the mafia killed you

GGs I'm so happy for everyone this game was a blast. Thanks to everyone who played I enjoyed playing with all of you hope we can play again

This game did a lot for my WiM even though I played bad.

Thanks for hosting GMan it was a blast ^^

Thank you G-Man!

Good game all and thanks for hosting gman

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

S~V~S wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:10 pm Thank you for not murdering me @Roxy

No prob. It was an effort just to just not have Dennis killed N 1. Mata and I went to bat bc we do not feel it is fair to target a new player (at the same hoping they will stick around and play again) for kill. Just not proper mafia etiquette in the og world. There was barely any discussion in chat I guess bc of rl. It's funny as I was trying to catch up on Lucy's elim day I was asking (begging) for advice or help but all she said was idk I now know it was bc she was in the game thread outing herself. She never told me in chat. but I guess a bit of this too: loved being bad with Mata as I can't remember it ever happening before. Vivax really tried but his sickness had got to him.

Thanks @G-Man it was a really great game and I did have fun. you were a great support to me and I appreciate it.

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:25 am

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

Larry went through two surgeries and should be released from the hospital early next week. <3 Thanks for asking. ly!

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:32 pm I did enjoy Seanzie falsely believing I green peeked him for most of the last day.

Nah, Seanzie just felt obvitown to me from start to finish.

I like how I correctly guessed you were the cop on D3 based on the incorrect assumption that you greenchecked me.

Thanks for the host Gman! GG Town, we won yaaaaaaaaa

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:25 am

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

It got me killed

Good game everyone!! Kudos to town for finding each other and whittling away at those wolves one-by-one.

@Dennis thanks for making this your first game!! You seem to gather the concept of mafia pretty naturally, which I think made it easier to townread you this game, your interest and ability in talking about mafia concepts and then applying them was fun to watch.

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:11 pm

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:25 am

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

It got me killed

Good game everyone!! Kudos to town for finding each other and whittling away at those wolves one-by-one.

@Dennis thanks for making this your first game!! You seem to gather the concept of mafia pretty naturally, which I think made it easier to townread you this game, your interest and ability in talking about mafia concepts and then applying them was fun to watch.

Thanks for tolerating me! It was, honestly, a wee bit annoyed that so many people were 100% sure I was town because then I'm an easy night kill target and I was actually really happy seeing myself in PoEs but I guess it'll come with time. Or maybe I'll be the easiest read ever who knows

Dennis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:36 pm

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:11 pm

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:25 am

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

It got me killed

Good game everyone!! Kudos to town for finding each other and whittling away at those wolves one-by-one.

@Dennis thanks for making this your first game!! You seem to gather the concept of mafia pretty naturally, which I think made it easier to townread you this game, your interest and ability in talking about mafia concepts and then applying them was fun to watch.

Thanks for tolerating me! It was, honestly, a wee bit annoyed that so many people were 100% sure I was town because then I'm an easy night kill target and I was actually really happy seeing myself in PoEs but I guess it'll come with time. Or maybe I'll be the easiest read ever who knows

Yeah now that’s a skill! But roll wolf a couple of times and fool people and you’ll find yourself in PoEs constantly.

Dennis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:36 pm

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:11 pm

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:25 am

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

It got me killed

Good game everyone!! Kudos to town for finding each other and whittling away at those wolves one-by-one.

@Dennis thanks for making this your first game!! You seem to gather the concept of mafia pretty naturally, which I think made it easier to townread you this game, your interest and ability in talking about mafia concepts and then applying them was fun to watch.

Thanks for tolerating me! It was, honestly, a wee bit annoyed that so many people were 100% sure I was town because then I'm an easy night kill target and I was actually really happy seeing myself in PoEs but I guess it'll come with time. Or maybe I'll be the easiest read ever who knows

It’s honestly a very tough balance and it’s so hard to get right. All part of the fun though.

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:11 pm

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:25 am

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

It got me killed

Good game everyone!! Kudos to town for finding each other and whittling away at those wolves one-by-one.

@Dennis thanks for making this your first game!! You seem to gather the concept of mafia pretty naturally, which I think made it easier to townread you this game, your interest and ability in talking about mafia concepts and then applying them was fun to watch.

I only hope I have infected him with my game play

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:01 pm

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:11 pm

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:25 am

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

It got me killed

Good game everyone!! Kudos to town for finding each other and whittling away at those wolves one-by-one.

@Dennis thanks for making this your first game!! You seem to gather the concept of mafia pretty naturally, which I think made it easier to townread you this game, your interest and ability in talking about mafia concepts and then applying them was fun to watch.

I only hope I have infected him with my game play

What's that supposed to mean

Dennis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:11 pm

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:01 pm

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:11 pm

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:25 am

S~V~S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:21 am Thank you G Man for a really fun game. I loved the theme, and your host posts were awesome!

I learned a lot this game about new ways to do things like the PoE I found super useful. I also learned sometimes you gotta be yourself, and it’s OK. I’m never gonna see the point of making lists of people I don’t suspect because “what if”, lol.

Sorry to the people I wrongly suspected, like Sabi and Soneji. I learned a lot from you as well.

Well played baddies, you had a rough batch of irl circumstances ( @Roxy how os your employee??) and you rolled with it. I greenread Roxy until the last day when I did that PoE thing.

I posted this in the Felt signups in error doh lol

It got me killed

Good game everyone!! Kudos to town for finding each other and whittling away at those wolves one-by-one.

@Dennis thanks for making this your first game!! You seem to gather the concept of mafia pretty naturally, which I think made it easier to townread you this game, your interest and ability in talking about mafia concepts and then applying them was fun to watch.

I only hope I have infected him with my game play

What's that supposed to mean

Welp, it’s time to get vaccinated