The Syndicate

So it happened. The orcs found the Fellowship, collapsing on the small group from all sides Long Con was the first to go, struck by arrows from all directions. He collapsed to the ground as the orcs swarmed 'round the remainder of the group.


Long Con has been lynched. He was...


The game has ended. The mafia wins, the mafia being Elohcin, Epignosis, and speedchuck.

Thank you so much for playing everyone! Expect some more game details and goods to come tomorrow morning. I must now prepare to flee Middle Earth.

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 11:34 pm Oh and by the way one of the big reasons I thought rabbit was bad was he claimed Bilbo and that was my role. I just didn't know if it would be wise to come right out and say that.

In my opinion, I didn't see any reason to find that suspicious. All of the mafia members had alternate civilian role-claims in the case that a mass role-claim happened.

Unless you were Frodo or Gandalf, it mattered not who you were.

Thank you for hosting, Marmot. Congrats, to the Mafia team. As I said earlier, this game was a fitting end to my Mafia playing career here at The Syndicate. Thanks to all for the game.

Glorfindel wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:08 am Thank you for hosting, Marmot. Congrats, to the Mafia team. As I said earlier, this game was a fitting end to my Mafia playing career here at The Syndicate. Thanks to all for the game.

If you hadn't gotten a power role, I'd have made you the real Glorfindel.

Thanks so much for playing Glorfindel. It's been a pleasure to host for you, play you, get lynched by you, and make your acquaintance. I remember your first couple games playing here, and I really admire your resilience to come back and give mafia another go. I hope this isn't the end of our interactions together!

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:35 am

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:40 pm Spent line twenty minutes trying to make a rainbow list on mobile with quotes and smilies and my daughter closed the damn tab.

Fuck it.

Kyle and Mac are bad.

LC and Nutella are meh.

INH, Sloonei, Epi are good.

And of course Glor is good.

No actually I'm civ so I presume the rest of your reads are wrong too

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:55 pm GTH time as I prepare to be mislynched in two games;

Ambray - Scum
DFaraday - Town
DrWilgy - Town
Epignosis - Town
Glorfindel - Town
insertnamehere - Town
Jackofhearts2005 - Town
Kylemii - Town
Long Con - Town
novaselinenever - Town
nutella - Scum
rabbit8 - Scum
Sloonei - Scum
timmer - Scum

Not bad. Gotta work on my Epi game.

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:55 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:35 am

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:40 pm Spent line twenty minutes trying to make a rainbow list on mobile with quotes and smilies and my daughter closed the damn tab.

Fuck it.

Kyle and Mac are bad.

LC and Nutella are meh.

INH, Sloonei, Epi are good.

And of course Glor is good.

No actually I'm civ so I presume the rest of your reads are wrong too

I'll make sure to put a cop in the next game.

Maybe.

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:46 pm Speedchuck
DFaraday
DrWilgy
Timmer

Scum legacy.

Look basically I'm pretty good at this and you all should listen to me more.

Lots to be learned about scum Epignosis here too. As a short game this is one that really should be studied for meta. It's glorious. I have some really nice juice on Sloonei to use now. Juicy.

so? did you do it? did you get the hobbits to isengard?

Marmot wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:59 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:55 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:35 am

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:40 pm Spent line twenty minutes trying to make a rainbow list on mobile with quotes and smilies and my daughter closed the damn tab.

Fuck it.

Kyle and Mac are bad.

LC and Nutella are meh.

INH, Sloonei, Epi are good.

And of course Glor is good.

No actually I'm civ so I presume the rest of your reads are wrong too

I'll make sure to put a cop in the next game.

Maybe.

It was balanced man the game was lost for three reasons.

1. Epignosis is damn hard to lynch.
2. Sloonei is damn hard to lynch.
3. The strong townies in this game spent the early game building resentment against one another and I was very distracted.

I didn't see much of Elo's play so I can't comment but Epignosis did great.

Kylemii wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:07 am so? did you do it? did you get the hobbits to isengard?

Frodo is currently being used as Sauron's pillow.

frodo nooooo

didn't follow this game super closely after dying but gg mafia

so what happens in the sequel now since sauron succeeded

Kylemii wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:11 am so what happens in the sequel now since sauron succeeded

Series reboot.

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:06 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:46 pm Speedchuck
DFaraday
DrWilgy
Timmer

Scum legacy.

Look basically I'm pretty good at this and you all should listen to me more.

Lots to be learned about scum Epignosis here too. As a short game this is one that really should be studied for meta. It's glorious. I have some really nice juice on Sloonei to use now. Juicy.

Is there a difference between Sloonei's civ game and his bad game? It doesn't seem like it.

Also Epi you were outstanding.

juliets wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:19 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:06 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:46 pm Speedchuck
DFaraday
DrWilgy
Timmer

Scum legacy.

Look basically I'm pretty good at this and you all should listen to me more.

Lots to be learned about scum Epignosis here too. As a short game this is one that really should be studied for meta. It's glorious. I have some really nice juice on Sloonei to use now. Juicy.

Is there a difference between Sloonei's civ game and his bad game? It doesn't seem like it.

Also Epi you were outstanding.

Read my iso. I pointed out some good tells in this game.

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:55 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:35 am

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:40 pm Spent line twenty minutes trying to make a rainbow list on mobile with quotes and smilies and my daughter closed the damn tab.

Fuck it.

Kyle and Mac are bad.

LC and Nutella are meh.

INH, Sloonei, Epi are good.

And of course Glor is good.

No actually I'm civ so I presume the rest of your reads are wrong too

Good assumption.

Kylemii wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:11 am so what happens in the sequel now since sauron succeeded

We have to be the Third Age RPG characters.

Neat

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:51 am

juliets wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:19 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:06 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:46 pm Speedchuck
DFaraday
DrWilgy
Timmer

Scum legacy.

Look basically I'm pretty good at this and you all should listen to me more.

Lots to be learned about scum Epignosis here too. As a short game this is one that really should be studied for meta. It's glorious. I have some really nice juice on Sloonei to use now. Juicy.

Is there a difference between Sloonei's civ game and his bad game? It doesn't seem like it.

Also Epi you were outstanding.

Read my iso. I pointed out some good tells in this game.

One thing you were wrong about is that civ sloonei wouldn't have bailed out of this game.
I only stuck around as long as I did because I was bad. It was annoying to have to drop out of the game where I finally got a scum role card.

Epi was awesome, and speeechuck seemed to turn the tinfoil suspicion against our spot away without a major event. Good win, y'all.

Town's inactivity early on was a killer. I wanted to do something about it but that would have been stupid.

Long Con, who would you have voted for if you'd had time to vote in the end. You said you were saving it.

Welp. This one's going on my personal Wall of Shame.

The reason why I was so quiet was that I wasn't sure if LC was being bussed or if scum were framing him. TBH, he was my biggest suspicion, so I most likely would have voted for him out of everyone. Plus, I knew I was a goner anyway the next night phase.

I basically had no idea what the hell was going on for the entire game, so I have to give major props to the mafia. Hopefully, it'll go down in a less embarrassing way next time.

Civilians


Frodo - insertnamehere
Gandalf - Glorfindel
Merry - MacDougall
Pippin - Kylemii
Bilbo - juliets (replaced DFaraday)
Aragorn - novaselinenever
Gimli - Long Con
Glóin - Ambray
Legolas - DrWilgy
Elrond - nutella
Tom Bombadil - rabbit8
Bill the Pony - Jackofhearts2005


Mafia


Sauron/Samwise - speedchuck (replaced Sloonei)
Balrog/Borimir - Elohcin (replaced timmer)
Nazgûl/Glorfindel - Epignosis

Frodo - Frodo is the Bearer of The Ring. --- SECRETS --- Frodo may twice put the ring on to escape danger. If a day phase ends with any number of votes on him, he will don the ring to escape the lynch. If he is targeted with a nightkill, he will again don the ring to escape the nightkill.

Sauron - Sauron may search each night for The Ring, roleblocking his target in the process. --- SECRETS --- If Sauron finds the ring, he’ll take it for himself.


Note: The Ring does nothing for Sauron if he takes it. It only prevents Frodo from being able to use it again.

Night 1

Glorfindel - Do nothing

Sloonei - Search/Roleblock Long Con
timmer - Kill novaselinenever


Night 2

Glorfindel - Do nothing

Sloonei - Search/Roleblock DFaraday
timmer - Kill nutella


Night 3

Glorfindel - Kill insertnamehere

speedchuck - Search/Roleblock Glorfindel
timmer - Kill MacDougall

Since Glorfindel was roleblocked, the kill did not go through on insertnamehere. Had Glorfindel not been blocked, insertnamehere wouldn't have died anyway, but he'd have been forced to use the Ring.


Night 4

Glorfindel - Roleblock Epignosis

speedchuck - Search/Roleblock insertnamehere
Elohcin - Kill insertnamehere

insertnamehere was simultaneously searched and killed. Insertnamehere used the Ring to escape death here, but the search also let speedchuck take the Ring, preventing future use.


Night 5

Glorfindel - Protect juliets

speedchuck - Kill Glorfindel

It was circumstantial that Glorfindel roleblocked Epignosis when the nightkill failed. Had insertnamehere not roleclaimed, I'm very curious to have seen how that day would have panned out.

Marmot wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:15 pm It was circumstantial that Glorfindel roleblocked Epignosis when the nightkill failed. Had insertnamehere not roleclaimed, I'm very curious to have seen how that day would have panned out.

Wow.

That was a rare case of a civilian power role outing himself and bringing disaster to the civilians. Glorfindel was ready to take me down.

You will also note that I didn't carry out the kill for my team a single time. There's a reason for that.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:53 pm You will also note that I didn't carry out the kill for my team a single time. There's a reason for that.

Afraid to get your hands dirty?

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 10:31 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:53 pm You will also note that I didn't carry out the kill for my team a single time. There's a reason for that.

Afraid to get your hands dirty?

Afraid? No.

The roleblocker picked me. If I am bad, I have my quieter teammates carry out the kill. Eloh / timmer carried out most of our kills.

Thanks for the game! And thanks to Eloh for diving in to bail me out!

timmer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:31 am Thanks for the game! And thanks to Eloh for diving in to bail me out!

Hope you're feeling better? A concussion is scary.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:53 am

timmer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:31 am Thanks for the game! And thanks to Eloh for diving in to bail me out!

Hope you're feeling better? A concussion is scary.

Thanks yeah the belief is that I sustained a minor one... I was wobbly for a few days and had head aches for over a week. I'm feeling pretty good now though.

Marmot wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:16 am

Glorfindel wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:08 am Thank you for hosting, Marmot. Congrats, to the Mafia team. As I said earlier, this game was a fitting end to my Mafia playing career here at The Syndicate. Thanks to all for the game.

If you hadn't gotten a power role, I'd have made you the real Glorfindel.

Thanks so much for playing Glorfindel. It's been a pleasure to host for you, play you, get lynched by you, and make your acquaintance. I remember your first couple games playing here, and I really admire your resilience to come back and give mafia another go. I hope this isn't the end of our interactions together!

You’re a lovely fellow, Marmot. I wish you every happiness and success in everything you do. It may not be the end of our interactions - as it turns out, I’ve never hosted a game and would love to give it a try one day, sooo... Take care, my friend

Glorfindel, I wish I had gotten to play with you longer. Thank you so much for protecting me the night you got killed (boo hoo).

juliets wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:46 pm Glorfindel, I wish I had gotten to play with you longer. Thank you so much for protecting me the night you got killed (boo hoo).

Indeed, you have always been exceedingly nice to me during my time here and I appreciate that a great deal. I wish you too, every success and happiness both in your Mafia games and life in general. It was an honour to have protected you the night I died, think nothing of it! Take care, my friend