The Syndicate

10 civs
3 baddies

3 power roles, the nature and identity of which will not be publicly revealed until death.

All roles will flip upon death.

A quick flick through the season one game thread could be useful, as the basic way the game works will be the same, but I won't be necessarily revealing the way things work unless it becomes game relevant - people will need to learn from game to game.

The power roles will be different, however.

First 13 sign ups are in. Say you are in and thread and vote in poll (when I get it up)! Go!

1. Quin
2. MovingPictures07
3. DFaraday
4. insertnamehere
5. spacedaisy
6. Dom
7. Scotty
8. G-Man
9. Epignosis
10. Sorsha
11. Soneji
12. Ricochet
13. Elohcin

I mean, I strictly told myself that I was going to take a break until Christmas but I mean...it's Lost.

I'm so in!!

This, sir, is killing me.

Maybe / probably not / probably yes / maybe / I don't even know / crap.

You want to play, rico! I know you do.

That was never in question. I even know who I'd want to be. 150%

But can I?

Can I?!

*looks at life with teary eyes*

Ricochet wrote:That was never in question. I even know who I'd want to be. 150%

But can I?

Can I?!

*looks at life with teary eyes*

Do it.

After getting Booned in Season 1 I need to redeem myself.

Once I saw the title of this game, I guessed you could say that I misplaced my self control.

In!

SCIENTIFIC FACT:

The Swan Station plotline in this season was the best thing Lost ever did. I'd seriously watch a recut of the season that entirely consists of just all the footage set in the Swan. Anytime the season left the hatch, it got mediocre, give or take the Mr. Eko episodes.

(I'm still annoyed at that actor for leaving the show.)

insertnamehere wrote:SCIENTIFIC FACT:

The Swan Station plotline in this season was the best thing Lost ever did. I'd seriously watch a recut of the season that entirely consists of just all the footage set in the Swan. Anytime the season left the hatch, it got mediocre, give or take the Mr. Eko episodes.

(I'm still annoyed at that actor for leaving the show.)

Mr. Eko was the shit. One of my top 5 favorite characters for sure. My favorites would go something like:
1. Daniel Faraday
2. Desmond Hume
3. Mr. Eko
4. Juliet Burke
5. Richard Alpert

MovingPictures07 wrote: Mr. Eko was the shit. One of my top 5 favorite characters for sure. My favorites would go something like:
1. Daniel Faraday

Now you've taken to buddying other players before the game even begins!

Golden wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote: Mr. Eko was the shit. One of my top 5 favorite characters for sure. My favorites would go something like:
1. Daniel Faraday

Now you've taken to buddying other players before the game even begins!

But it's true. A fact even. Daniel Faraday is the best character for sure.

insertnamehere wrote:The Swan Station plotline in this season was the best thing Lost ever did.

I completely agree. It's why I still say season 2 is my favourite. The Henry Gale in the Swan plotline, in particular, is my favourite 3-4 episode run the show had.

I do agree that the Swan Station plot was pretty awesome. Daisy and I just rewatched LOST (after I kept saying no for years because I didn't want to re-confront the finale, lol) and I'd now rank the seasons something like...

4 > second half of 3 > 2 > 5 > 6 > 1 > first half of 3

MovingPictures07 wrote:I do agree that the Swan Station plot was pretty awesome. Daisy and I just rewatched LOST (after I kept saying no for years because I didn't want to re-confront the finale, lol) and I'd now rank the seasons something like...

4 > second half of 3 > 2 > 5 > 6 > 1 > first half of 3

So close to mine. Probably everything except not having 2 first.

And I would call 'second half of 3' everything from Tricia Tanaka on. I think that's where it turned.

Mama's Family > Season 6

Golden wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I do agree that the Swan Station plot was pretty awesome. Daisy and I just rewatched LOST (after I kept saying no for years because I didn't want to re-confront the finale, lol) and I'd now rank the seasons something like...

4 > second half of 3 > 2 > 5 > 6 > 1 > first half of 3

So close to mine. Probably everything except not having 2 first.

And I would call 'second half of 3' everything from Tricia Tanaka on. I think that's where it turned.

What can I say? I just love everything about Season 4. It was perfect.

Yeah, I'd agree with that.

Epignosis wrote:Mama's Family > Season 6

Vote in that poll, Epi!

Golden wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Mama's Family > Season 6

Vote in that poll, Epi!

DFaraday wrote:After getting Booned in Season 1 I need to redeem myself.

I'm in. This time I don't wanna be the smoke monster kthnx

Scotty wrote:

DFaraday wrote:After getting Booned in Season 1 I need to redeem myself.

I'm in. This time I don't wanna be the smoke monster kthnx

Tcka tcka tcka tcka tckatckatckatcktcktck

MovingPictures07 wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:SCIENTIFIC FACT:

The Swan Station plotline in this season was the best thing Lost ever did. I'd seriously watch a recut of the season that entirely consists of just all the footage set in the Swan. Anytime the season left the hatch, it got mediocre, give or take the Mr. Eko episodes.

(I'm still annoyed at that actor for leaving the show.)

Mr. Eko was the shit. One of my top 5 favorite characters for sure. My favorites would go something like:
1. Daniel Faraday
2. Desmond Hume
3. Mr. Eko
4. Juliet Burke
5. Richard Alpert

Put John Locke followed by Benjamin Linus at the top, drop Eko and Richard, shift Daniel and Desmond down by 2 and Juliet by 1, and you've got my list.

insertnamehere wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:SCIENTIFIC FACT:

The Swan Station plotline in this season was the best thing Lost ever did. I'd seriously watch a recut of the season that entirely consists of just all the footage set in the Swan. Anytime the season left the hatch, it got mediocre, give or take the Mr. Eko episodes.

(I'm still annoyed at that actor for leaving the show.)

Mr. Eko was the shit. One of my top 5 favorite characters for sure. My favorites would go something like:
1. Daniel Faraday
2. Desmond Hume
3. Mr. Eko
4. Juliet Burke
5. Richard Alpert

Put John Locke followed by Benjamin Linus at the top, drop Eko and Richard, shift Daniel and Desmond down by 2 and Juliet by 1, and you've got my list.

I can dig it. Locke, Ben, and Sawyer are my #6-#8 for sure.

I haven't really thought about ranking them, but my favourites changed and developed over time, and were different at different times. My top 5 would probably be (in some order) - Locke, Hurley, Desmond, Sayid and Claire (I had a crush, don't judge me).

Hare to leave out Eko, Charlie, Sawyer, Jin, Sun, Daniel and Frank, though!

Golden wrote:I haven't really thought about ranking them, but my favourites changed and developed over time, and were different at different times. My top 5 would probably be (in some order) - Locke, Hurley, Desmond, Sayid and Claire (I had a crush, don't judge me).

I'd say Hurley and Sayid round out my top 10, but... it is tough to rank them for sure. Mine have changed too, for sure, except my top 2.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Golden wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I do agree that the Swan Station plot was pretty awesome. Daisy and I just rewatched LOST (after I kept saying no for years because I didn't want to re-confront the finale, lol) and I'd now rank the seasons something like...

4 > second half of 3 > 2 > 5 > 6 > 1 > first half of 3

So close to mine. Probably everything except not having 2 first.

And I would call 'second half of 3' everything from Tricia Tanaka on. I think that's where it turned.

What can I say? I just love everything about Season 4. It was perfect.

Yeah, I'd agree with that.

Season 4 was the only, IMO consistently good season. The rest all had parts that didn't really work. In Season 4, however, the flashforwards were awesome, the chopper crew were awesome, (although a little underserved by future seasons) hell, I even loved the boat. I honestly would have preferred a decreased episode order for most of the other seasons. I feel cutting down 4 or 5 episodes per season, maybe a bit more from the first couple, would have really helped out the show, even if we learned a bit less about the castaways. True, the meandering ways of those early seasons got us S.O.S. and Expose, but it also got us a hell of a lot more tedious repetitive character drama that filled time as we waited for either the really interesting characters to get screentime, or for the actual plot to progress.

The other Lost-based hill that I will die upon is that the final season should have had absolutely zero flashes, backwards, forwards, sideways, or otherwise. It would've allowed for the Temple to actually be interesting, (imagine if the castaways were there for 2 action-packed episodes instead of like, 5 interminable ones) for characters like Ilana to both serve a purpose and be disposed of properly instead of spontaneously exploding into irrelevance once they were no longer necessary to progress the plot, for the entire Jacob Vs. MiB plotline to be better fleshed out, and for the ending to feel like it mattered more.

Instead, they wanted a "twist".

And everyone overreacted.

insertnamehere wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Golden wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I do agree that the Swan Station plot was pretty awesome. Daisy and I just rewatched LOST (after I kept saying no for years because I didn't want to re-confront the finale, lol) and I'd now rank the seasons something like...

4 > second half of 3 > 2 > 5 > 6 > 1 > first half of 3

So close to mine. Probably everything except not having 2 first.

And I would call 'second half of 3' everything from Tricia Tanaka on. I think that's where it turned.

What can I say? I just love everything about Season 4. It was perfect.

Yeah, I'd agree with that.

Season 4 was the only, IMO consistently good season. The rest all had parts that didn't really work. In Season 4, however, the flashforwards were awesome, the chopper crew were awesome, (although a little underserved by future seasons) hell, I even loved the boat. I honestly would have preferred a decreased episode order for most of the other seasons. I feel cutting down 4 or 5 episodes per season, maybe a bit more from the first couple, would have really helped out the show, even if we learned a bit less about the castaways. True, the meandering ways of those early seasons got us S.O.S. and Expose, but it also got us a hell of a lot more tedious repetitive character drama that filled time as we waited for either the really interesting characters to get screentime, or for the actual plot to progress.

The other Lost-based hill that I will die upon is that the final season should have had absolutely zero flashes, backwards, forwards, sideways, or otherwise. It would've allowed for the Temple to actually be interesting, (imagine if the castaways were there for 2 action-packed episodes instead of like, 5 interminable ones) for characters like Ilana to both serve a purpose and be disposed of properly instead of spontaneously exploding into irrelevance once they were no longer necessary to progress the plot, for the entire Jacob Vs. MiB plotline to be better fleshed out, and for the ending to feel like it mattered more.

Instead, they wanted a "twist".

And everyone overreacted.

I do agree with a lot of this, and I absolutely agree that Season 6 could have been better served with more time devoted to it. Before my rewatch, I would have agreed with you completely; I hated the flash-sideways. I liked it better the second time around. I'd just say expand 6 into two Season-4-esque seasons of 6 and 7, and I think that would have been more ideal.

Just saving the world.

9 sign-ups in less than 24 hours. That's what I like to see.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:9 sign-ups in less than 24 hours. That's what I like to see.

I know, right? Just 4 more!!

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:9 sign-ups in less than 24 hours. That's what I like to see.

Lost does things to people.

Golden wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:9 sign-ups in less than 24 hours. That's what I like to see.

Lost does things to people.

It brought me and my wife together even.

Eloh may be in, but she's out like good writing was in season 6.

MovingPictures07 wrote:I do agree that the Swan Station plot was pretty awesome. Daisy and I just rewatched LOST (after I kept saying no for years because I didn't want to re-confront the finale, lol) and I'd now rank the seasons something like...

4 > second half of 3 > 2 > 5 > 6 > 1 > first half of 3

You put Season 1 second to last? It's my favorite.

DFaraday wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I do agree that the Swan Station plot was pretty awesome. Daisy and I just rewatched LOST (after I kept saying no for years because I didn't want to re-confront the finale, lol) and I'd now rank the seasons something like...

4 > second half of 3 > 2 > 5 > 6 > 1 > first half of 3

You put Season 1 second to last? It's my favorite.

It's still great, what can I say, but it has the most "look away" scenes for me (I'm squeamish) and some of the characters aren't developed as much as I'd like yet. I'm too impatient.

I think season 1 will always be my favorite because it held so much promise and we got to know the most important information about each of the main characters who hung around for the whole show. Everything was new- people, the Island, the music. So much was still open to interpretation without stalling the progress too much. The further into the series we got, the more defined things became, leaving less wonder and more 'um...okay.'

Without the luxury of re-watching pretty much any episode in six years, I'll go with 1>4>5>2>6>3

if this game has a mechanic where someone has to post "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes or the game ends and everyone loses, it would be my favorite game I've ever played on this site.

just a suggestion.

insertnamehere wrote:if this game has a mechanic where someone has to post "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes or the game ends and everyone loses, it would be my favorite game I've ever played on this site.

just a suggestion.

We survived much worse in the Turf Wars prison yard challenges but the thought of this makes me...

insertnamehere wrote:if this game has a mechanic where someone has to post "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes or the game ends and everyone loses, it would be my favorite game I've ever played on this site.

just a suggestion.

That's just the kind of evil thing I might do if it was a full game. But a bit too mean for a heist, maybe.

insertnamehere wrote:if this game has a mechanic where someone has to post "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes or the game ends and everyone loses, it would be my favorite game I've ever played on this site.

just a suggestion.

I could easily rehost this in a few years, when nobody remembers this suggestion.

Golden wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:if this game has a mechanic where someone has to post "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes or the game ends and everyone loses, it would be my favorite game I've ever played on this site.

just a suggestion.

That's just the kind of evil thing I might do if it was a full game. But a bit too mean for a heist, maybe.

Yes.... and I do not have any trips planned in the foreseeable future so I won't ghost this game

Sorsha wrote:Yes.... and I do not have any trips planned in the foreseeable future so I won't ghost this game

Welcome back!

Good to see you.

insertnamehere wrote:

Golden wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:if this game has a mechanic where someone has to post "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes or the game ends and everyone loses, it would be my favorite game I've ever played on this site.

just a suggestion.

That's just the kind of evil thing I might do if it was a full game. But a bit too mean for a heist, maybe.

If there is a chance, I wouldn't tell you.

One thing about my set up for these Lost Again games....

I'm not spoiling one bit about them in the sign up threads

You could call it... my constant.

Also, this lineup is looking awesome.

I'll play.

Wow! I wasn't expecting this to start so soon, but it works perfectly for me since the later we get into December the busier I'll be.

Just 2 more! Let's go.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Wow! I wasn't expecting this to start so soon, but it works perfectly for me since the later we get into December the busier I'll be.

Just 2 more! Let's go.

I hope it will start the moment Parks and Rec ends. That's the goal.