The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote:A Progression of Thoughts

You are indeed one extraordinarily talented individual, my friend!

Glorfindel wrote:

Epignosis wrote:A Progression of Thoughts

You are indeed one extraordinarily talented individual, my friend!

Thank You

Someone has an item
Slooni reply part one
Part 2
Part 3

Some final
Thoughts
Pls hear them out

Y'all can post in text now if you want. Or don't if you don't.

All game actions

Gift giver items:

Six-sided dice

1 - Magnifying glass (1-shot tracker)
2 - Sturdy rope (1-shot double vote)
3 - Tickets to the hottest tourist attractions in Iowa (1-shot commuter -- cannot be targeted the next night)
4 - Lucky penny (If recipient is in a coin flip scenario the next day phase, they'll automatically win)
5 - An overindulgent spoonful of peanut butter (must spend next day phase speaking with tongue on roof of mouth)
6 - Questionably mixed cocktail (temporary insanification)

Day 4 poll for statistical purposes:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Gift giver items:

Six-sided dice

1 - Magnifying glass (1-shot tracker)
2 - Sturdy rope (1-shot double vote)
3 - Tickets to the hottest tourist attractions in Iowa (1-shot commuter -- cannot be targeted the next night)
4 - Lucky penny (If recipient is in a coin flip scenario the next day phase, they'll automatically win)
5 - An overindulgent spoonful of peanut butter (must spend next day phase speaking with tongue on roof of mouth)
6 - Questionably mixed cocktail (temporary insanification)

5 & 6 sound fun. What would 6 had done specifically?

Epignosis wrote:What would 6 had done specifically?

"You have received a questionably mixed cocktail. For the duration of this day phase, you may not speak normally. You must make a minimum of three recordings, and within them you must read at least one paragraph of text from here."

New poll.

Hell, Rico's English is better than that of most Americans.

Epignosis wrote:Hell, Rico's English is better than that of most Americans.

Uh, I think you mean *then* most American's.

Damn. Well played Epi, sorry Made. There was a part of me that just wanted Epi to win, but I also genuinely suspected Made more today. Great game, this was a ton of fun. Thanks Jay.

DharmaHelper wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Hell, Rico's English is better than that of most Americans.

Uh, I think you mean *then* most American's.

You made me look.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

Epignosis wrote:What would 6 had done specifically?

"You have received a questionably mixed cocktail. For the duration of this day phase, you may not speak normally. You must make a minimum of three recordings, and within them you must read at least one paragraph of text from here."

This reminds me of my Day 2 punishment. I had to roll an R in all of my posts (ended up only doing it twice, unfortunately). Being from Massachusetts, a rolled R is not something I ever dreamed of doing.
It was very hard.

I'd host Vocaroo Two.

Also, I'm curious to know what people's favorite posts of mine were.

Epignosis wrote:Also, I'm curious to know what people's favorite posts of mine were.

Weather Report and Queen Eloh were two of my favorites.

I was impressed by your versatility most of all though.

Epignosis wrote:I'd host Vocaroo Two.

Also, there's the matter of an MVP vote. This is technically the right of the players to decide even if might seem obvious. So send me your votes.

Sloonei wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Also, I'm curious to know what people's favorite posts of mine were.

Weather Report and Queen Eloh were two of my favorites.

Thanks! Those were mine too, although I love "Ode to Saturday." It's a nod to Jethro Tull. I may actually include that on an album, I like it so much.

Note: Vocaroo recordings have a lifespan. After a few months they are deleted, but that doesn't mean our game has to fade from memory forever. Every recording can be downloaded.

So as time permits, I will try to download the game. I have no technical savvy, but I can probably figure out some way to get it all together into a cohesive unit. Or something.

I don't know if SpeakPipe recordings can be downloaded. If not, I'll try to replace them with Vocaroo re-dos. I was the only one using them anyway.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Note: Vocaroo recordings have a lifespan. After a few months they are deleted, but that doesn't mean our game has to fade from memory forever. Every recording can be downloaded.

So as time permits, I will try to download the game. I have no technical savvy, but I can probably figure out some way to get it all together into a cohesive unit. Or something.

I don't use it myself, but Audacity is a simple DAW that should allow you to compile all audio files chronologically into one file.

I use REAPER myself, but it has more of a learning curve than Audacity.

I feel most badly about not playing this game due to my retirement, I might play Voc 2.

DharmaHelper wrote:I feel most badly about not playing this game due to my retirement, I might play Voc 2.

Do it.

Epignosis gets my vote for Most Valuable Performer. Well played sir.

I was really hoping you'd kill Epi following my death lol. I guess my read was right. Gg.

Laudatio

Epigdatio

I wasn't really following the game too much but I did have an idea in my head that the baddies would be more likely to speak according to a script, and from what I can remember from Epi's posts, I guess I was right

I just want to second what 3J said about Rico's hilarious posts. I was so sad when he got deaded because those news updates were one of the highlights of the game. Good job Epi on the songs too. It occurred to me at some point that the songs would be a good way for a baddie to avoid saying too much but they were so good it was hard to sustain that suspicion. Congrats on your win. Metalmarsh, I'm curious - it looks like you voted for Rico the day after giving him a gift which I would assume you did because you thought he was civ. What made you change your mind?

Everyone did a fantastic job with this game and I hope we have another. Maybe I will play if I can screw up the courage to download flash onto my Mac. Or maybe I can figure out Speakpipe.

A well-deserved win by Epi. I was afraid that you were mafia while I was alive, but had no reason to believe it to be true.

Thanks so much for hosting this, Jay! It was one of the best games I've played in a while just from sheer enjoyment level.

I'm sorry to let you all down, townies, but I had trouble getting a handle on any suspicions at the beginning of the game and I couldn't help attracting attention to myself. I'm not a good power role player.

Seriously, I cannot emphasize how much fun this game was for the short time I was playing it. Rico and Epi's recordings especially were just AMAZING. You all were awesome.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:I feel most badly about not playing this game due to my retirement, I might play Voc 2.

Do it.

And just got done listening to your final thoughts as a host, Jay; thanks for those. I definitely echo a lot of the comments as well. I always appreciate host recognition even when I played poorly and I know others do as well. Additionally it's always interesting to hear what the host was thinking about certain votes/events/players since they have an omniscient perspective. That's one of the reasons I really love hosting (setting a setup into motion, then watching all the players take their roles and give them life).

One thing I didn't get to talk about too much was differences between text-based mafia playstyles of folks and these Vocaroo RL-esque ones. I didn't feel there were any surprises (though I know some folks said that about Wilgy), but I have met Elo, Epi, and Wilgy before, so perhaps that tempered my expectations. It'd be really neat to play with some other folks who I have no experience with beyond the text-based format.

As to your noted difference between text me and RL me, that's understandable and I think accurate (though it's difficult to judge yourself). Having met DFaraday and some others as well RL throughout my mafia career, I have received a few comments that I'm not that different, and a few that there are noticeable differences; I always find it fascinating to observe similarities and differences in others that I interact with on here and to hear those observations about me from others as well. The rest of you probably caught onto differences with my playstyle/tone here as well. I can feel relatively at ease RL among folks I know, even if that means knowing them on here -- nonetheless my manner of communicating is just different in text I think, although I'm not quite sure how to quantify it. I was just thinking something similar this morning; my in-person conversations with my dissertation chair (in which I feel I sometimes don't say some of what I wanted to say, after the fact) are noticeably different from my emails (which I feel are too verbose and long-winded). I just always feel as though I'm much better at communicating via text (even though far from optimal). Even when I'm among people I know and can actually be myself, RL social interactions always make me a bit nervous (even if I've gotten 9001 times better at conquering that anxiety than I used to be). It's an entirely different story whenever I'm among strangers and/or have to be the one to initiate social conversation; in those situations, I'm much more reserved and completely lacking the verbosity that you all are used to seeing from me on the forums.

This setup was a bit intimidating for me for sure, but I'm just so glad I decided to play. Any butterflies I received while recording were really worth the cool dynamic it gave to the game; I would love to play another. Everyone else who was ever on the fence due to being introverted too should know that playing is totally worth it.

Quin wrote:I wasn't really following the game too much but I did have an idea in my head that the baddies would be more likely to speak according to a script, and from what I can remember from Epi's posts, I guess I was right

This was a factor in my suspicion of Rico, but then I completely threw it out the window when it came down to Epi and Made.