The Syndicate

For those unfamiliar with it, Frisky Dingo is a cartoon made by the same people who did Sealab 2021 and Archer. It's one of my favorite shows ever. You should all go watch it now.

Roles:

Team Crews - Kill all of Team Killface


Xander Crews/Awesome X - Billionaire playboy/superhero. Can send a message to the Xtacles once a night.


Grace Ryan/Antagone - Reporter for Force Ten News, and Xander's long suffering girlfriend. Searches for Sinn and Val. If all three find each other, they become an indy team: “The Sisterhood of Chaos”


Arthur Watley/The Dread Lobster - An employee of the Crews corporation and failed supervillain. Role blocks a player each night.


Nearl - The local retarded wino guy, actually Xender Crew's twin brother. If lynched, he flips as Xander Crews. If targeted by three or more Xtacles, he gains Crew’s power.


Val - Film student and former prisoner of Killface, now his sworn enemy. Searches for Grace and Sin. If all three find each other, they become an indy team: “The Sisterhood of Chaos”


Xtacles(6) - The backbone of the Awesome X fighting force, but lack coordination. Each select a name every night. Every name that gets two votes will be role blocked. Names that get three votes will be protected. Names that get four or more votes will be killed.
-Ronnie
-Kevin
-Mike
-Fat Mike
-Cliff
-Clint
If the civilians win and at least one Xtacle is alive, all Xtacles win.

Team Killface - BTSC - Outnumber the remaining teams.


Killface - Supervillain out to push the Earth into the Sun. Incredibly strong. His vote counts double.


Simon - Killface's son. Simon always mumbles, but can spread this condition to other players, insanifying them


Phil - Killface's employee. Manages to survive cancer, phitoxin and a crab claw through his torso. Will survive his first death.


Sinn - Killface's top servant, indentured servant that is. Searches for Grace and Val. If all three find each other, they become an indy team: “The Sisterhood of Chaos”


Wendell - Killface's henchman with no scruples. Formerly at the Department of Labor. Kills nightly

Team Chinatown - Indie - Kill all of Team Killface and have more surviving members than Team Crews,


Mr. Ford - His ass is everywhere. Gets a random player’s night power every night.


Dry Cleaner - Master of disguise (he's not really Chinese.) Role checks and lynches will reveal the wrong role.


Torpedo Vegas - Runs the death rabbits in Chinatown. Three nights per game can hold death rabbit fights, which players bet on. If they win, they get goodies, but if they lose they get lynch votes. Torpedo Vegas gets better stuff the more people who bet.


Hooker - Blabbity mouth hooker. Learns one player’s role each night, but can be blackmailed into learning the wrong role. If the person she targets chooses, she can be protected from night actions and to learn the wrong role. She will be unaware of this. Has BTSC with Old Spice.

Old Spice - Worked in a Chinese sweatshop before meeting Hooker. Each night, offer a player a radish. which they can eat to remove a lynch vote, or throw at someone to add a lynch vote. Has BTSC with Hooker.


Stan - Runs the Crews company when Xander is too lazy to do it, but has no real allegiance except to himself. Briefly masqueraded as Awesome-X. While he is alive, one of the Xtacles’ heads will explode every day.

Player List
1. Ika - Wendell - Lynched Day 4
2. S~V~S - Killface - Lynched Day 7
3. Epignosis
4. Timmer - Xander Crews - Killed Night 2
5. Nijuukyugou
6. Metalmarsh89 - Cliff - Lynched Day 1
7. TinyBubbles - Killed Night 3
8. Sig
9. Long Con - Exploded Day 3
10. G-Man - Killed by Killface and also exploded night 5.
11. Spacedaisy replaced by Russtifinko - Phil - Lynched Day 6
12. HamburgerBoy - Exploded Day 5
13. Roxy
14. Scotty - Exploded Day 2
15. Mac's Mom - Killed Night 4
16. Dharmahelper - Exploded Day 4
17. Elohcin - Killed Night 1
18. DisgruntledPorcupine - Killed Night 6
19. Cookie - Simon - Lynched Day 2
20. Made - Torpedo Vegas - Lynched Day 3
21. Movingpictures07 - Killed Night 4
22. Saberfish

The Story So Far
Day 0 - Killface Manor
Day 1 - The Crews Building
Night 1
Day 2 - The Xcaliber
Night 2 - Inventors
Day 3 - Las Vegas
Night 3 - Cat Party
Day 4 - The Annihilatrix
Night 4
Day 5 - The Hospital
Night 5
Night 6 - LARPstock
Day 7

RULES
1. No illegal BTSC with anyone, ever. Seriously.
2. No editing or deleting of posts.
3. No on topic talk from dead players. Please use Dead Red to post off topic.
4. No role outing. Infodumping should be handled with extreme caution.
5. No reproducing the host PMs in thread.
6. No jackassery. If you feel the need to be a jackass, send a message to the Mod on Duty istead of posting it in the thread. This is a big one.
7. Have fun!

Poor Killface. Nothing seems to be going right for him. He kidnapped the finest USC Film School had to offer to make his evil promotional video, and they've only let him down, forcing all the lovely mafia players to wait in the lobby while he metes out his vengeance.

But who to kill first? Brent, or the almost equally attractive Trent?
You have 24 hours to choose.

All roles have gone out. You may now post. PM me if you did not receive a role.

Oh man, I'm so frisky.

I guess I'll watch the show now.

Also, someone tell Hamburgerboy this game has started. He never opened the PM I sent him when he first signed up.

FRISKY FUCKING DINGO

thellama73 wrote:Also, someone tell Hamburgerboy this game has started. He never opened the PM I sent him when he first signed up.

I'm on it.

I haven't started watching this show yet either, but I will be doing the same. Looks zany and awesome.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Also, someone tell Hamburgerboy this game has started. He never opened the PM I sent him when he first signed up.

I'm on it.

Hey MP! Long time no see!
You still planning on getting killed really early in this game like you said a few hours ago?

Totally stoked to start playing this game! I’m pretty sure I’ve played at least one game with most of you, but if I haven’t, hello new guys! My strategy this game is going to be a little fast and loose, but I’m ready to wreck face.

Does anyone have any questions for me? Really nervous since I haven’t even seen a single episode of this show… Anybody know who Brent/Trent are? Killing one of them is gonna be an interesting decision, and I feel like I’d make a better choice if I knew more about them. Every Day 0 Poll is almost always nerve wracking.

Who wants to take bets on the first person to ask if anyone has poll info? At least there are only two options. Seems less likely there would be too much oddness with just two options to go off of.
The one problem I can see us running into pretty early is the lack of activity from some of the newer folks, but I’ll hold off judgement on that until more people start to trickle in or the days start to tick by, whichever comes first. Having inactive players (however intentionally) is only going to hurt the civs as the game goes on; having just won a game based on that, I don’t plan on tolerating it if I can help it. Everyone needs to pitch in.

This post is getting a little long but it’s late so it will probably be my only post of the night, better to make it count. Happy to be playing a full game again! I don’t think I could handle a 24/24 game again so soon after Watchmen. Ready to take my time and read everything carefully. Don’t expect me to fuck around with ISO’s or rainbow lists or whatever though.

Rainbow lists, as (inexplicably) popular as they’ve gotten, piss me off because they are annoying and serve no real legitimate purpose. Others obviously disagree, but I figure I’d best get my thoughts on the matter out early; I won’t hold it against anyone who wants to make one, but I won’t really hold those lists in a high regard either. But that’s probably my stubbornness influencing my game. I don’t adapt well to change. Now before I get too ramble-heavy, I’m gonna bounce outta here; bye guys!

Woooooooooooooo game! Still waiting on my ant farm keyboard

Brent and Trent are twins, and they both die. Let's go alphabetical.

Scotty wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Also, someone tell Hamburgerboy this game has started. He never opened the PM I sent him when he first signed up.

I'm on it.

Hey MP! Long time no see!
You still planning on getting killed really early in this game like you said a few hours ago?

Hey Scotty! I know right? Glad to be playing with you again after so long!

Indeed I am.

Glad you brought this up, since this will have relevance to my playstyle this game (nonetheless, I put it in green for OT):

For anyone who isn't yet aware, I have a wedding on the 8th, and a honeymoon from the 9th through the 14th. I am flying back to Ohio on the 5th. And I still have a substantial amount of PhD work to complete before then.

So...! I really wanted to play this game, especially because Llama is an amazing host, but I'll be taking a different approach, inevitably due to my RL circumstances. I likely wouldn't have committed to the game if Llama didn't really need players, as much as I wanted to play.

So expect zaniness. Seems fitting for the theme.

DharmaHelper wrote:Totally stoked to start playing this game! I’m pretty sure I’ve played at least one game with most of you, but if I haven’t, hello new guys! My strategy this game is going to be a little fast and loose, but I’m ready to wreck face.

Does anyone have any questions for me? Really nervous since I haven’t even seen a single episode of this show… Anybody know who Brent/Trent are? Killing one of them is gonna be an interesting decision, and I feel like I’d make a better choice if I knew more about them. Every Day 0 Poll is almost always nerve wracking.

Who wants to take bets on the first person to ask if anyone has poll info? At least there are only two options. Seems less likely there would be too much oddness with just two options to go off of.
The one problem I can see us running into pretty early is the lack of activity from some of the newer folks, but I’ll hold off judgement on that until more people start to trickle in or the days start to tick by, whichever comes first. Having inactive players (however intentionally) is only going to hurt the civs as the game goes on; having just won a game based on that, I don’t plan on tolerating it if I can help it. Everyone needs to pitch in.

This post is getting a little long but it’s late so it will probably be my only post of the night, better to make it count. Happy to be playing a full game again! I don’t think I could handle a 24/24 game again so soon after Watchmen. Ready to take my time and read everything carefully. Don’t expect me to fuck around with ISO’s or rainbow lists or whatever though.

Rainbow lists, as (inexplicably) popular as they’ve gotten, piss me off because they are annoying and serve no real legitimate purpose. Others obviously disagree, but I figure I’d best get my thoughts on the matter out early; I won’t hold it against anyone who wants to make one, but I won’t really hold those lists in a high regard either. But that’s probably my stubbornness influencing my game. I don’t adapt well to change. Now before I get too ramble-heavy, I’m gonna bounce outta here; bye guys!

Hello, DH!

Rainbow lists aren't popular.

This game is 48/24, right?

Agreed on nonparticipants, here's hoping we don't have any.

Just a heads up for y'all that haven't watched the show (like me), all the episodes in at least Season 1 are on youtube, and they're all ~10 min. I'm already on Episode 5. I'd recommend it to get into the game. Very dry humor, I love it!

yeah frisky dingo! have not actually seen the show in years though hopefully i'll catch some episodes on youtube or wherever. also congrats on the mod status ninja

MovingPictures07 wrote: This game is 48/24, right?

Yes, but Day 0 is 24.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Totally stoked to start playing this game! I’m pretty sure I’ve played at least one game with most of you, but if I haven’t, hello new guys! My strategy this game is going to be a little fast and loose, but I’m ready to wreck face.

Does anyone have any questions for me? Really nervous since I haven’t even seen a single episode of this show… Anybody know who Brent/Trent are? Killing one of them is gonna be an interesting decision, and I feel like I’d make a better choice if I knew more about them. Every Day 0 Poll is almost always nerve wracking.

Who wants to take bets on the first person to ask if anyone has poll info? At least there are only two options. Seems less likely there would be too much oddness with just two options to go off of.
The one problem I can see us running into pretty early is the lack of activity from some of the newer folks, but I’ll hold off judgement on that until more people start to trickle in or the days start to tick by, whichever comes first. Having inactive players (however intentionally) is only going to hurt the civs as the game goes on; having just won a game based on that, I don’t plan on tolerating it if I can help it. Everyone needs to pitch in.

This post is getting a little long but it’s late so it will probably be my only post of the night, better to make it count. Happy to be playing a full game again! I don’t think I could handle a 24/24 game again so soon after Watchmen. Ready to take my time and read everything carefully. Don’t expect me to fuck around with ISO’s or rainbow lists or whatever though.

Rainbow lists, as (inexplicably) popular as they’ve gotten, piss me off because they are annoying and serve no real legitimate purpose. Others obviously disagree, but I figure I’d best get my thoughts on the matter out early; I won’t hold it against anyone who wants to make one, but I won’t really hold those lists in a high regard either. But that’s probably my stubbornness influencing my game. I don’t adapt well to change. Now before I get too ramble-heavy, I’m gonna bounce outta here; bye guys!

Hello, DH!

Rainbow lists aren't popular.

This game is 48/24, right?

Agreed on nonparticipants, here's hoping we don't have any.

I keep seeing a shitload of them for something that's not popular

Noted, thanks Llama!

DharmaHelper wrote:
I keep seeing a shitload of them for something that's not popular

Only because Jay, Sloonei, and I spam them. Pretty sure nearly everyone else hates them. :P

nijuukyugou wrote:Woooooooooooooo game! Still waiting on my ant farm keyboard

Brent and Trent are twins, and they both die. Let's go alphabetical.

As to the D0 poll, I'm not going to overthink it. I'll follow this logic.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Noted, thanks Llama!

DharmaHelper wrote:
I keep seeing a shitload of them for something that's not popular

Only because Jay, Sloonei, and I spam them. Pretty sure nearly everyone else hates them. :P

You guys are going to hate the Rainbow List contest I have planned for later.

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Noted, thanks Llama!

DharmaHelper wrote:
I keep seeing a shitload of them for something that's not popular

Only because Jay, Sloonei, and I spam them. Pretty sure nearly everyone else hates them. :P

You guys are going to hate the Rainbow List contest I have planned for later.

I'm going to love it!

Voted Trent because he actually dies first in the show.

You guys should really color in the lines for once.

Scotty wrote:Voted Trent because he actually dies first in the show.

You guys should really color in the lines for once.

I voted for this because, I like ties

Does anyone have info on this poll? I'd wager DharmaHelper does.

Anywho... I'll vote for Trent because he's only almost equally attractive as Brent.

So, Team Crews only needs to kill team Killface, but it seems that we should also hope for Stan to die, because Xtacles' heads exploding is not exactly a good thing. IT says in his role that they will explode "every day"... I assume that doesn't include Day 0.

Quick rainbow list on Brent and Trent:
Brent
Trent

Clearly Trent is the way to go.

*votes Trent*

I followed suit with the purple mods.

Hey everyone, and thanks MP07 for the head's up!

I know nothing about this show. So I googled "Brent or Trent" and came across a poll on a baby name site. Trent was marginally more popular, and I agreed with someone who left a comment that Brent sounds kinda snooty. Like someone who thought he was too classy for Molly Ringwald in one of those 80s movies. So voting Brent, that guys gotta go.

A baby ate my dingo!

I know nothing about this show and tbph I prob won't be watching episodes of it on youtube or elsewhere.

I went to school with a Trent who was a real jerkface. I will be voting Trent even though I agree Brent does sound like a snooty name.

Yay I tied it up at 5 vs 5

DharmaHelper wrote:Does anyone have any questions for me? Really nervous since I haven’t even seen a single episode of this show… Anybody know who Brent/Trent are?

No

Long Con wrote: So, Team Crews only needs to kill team Killface, but it seems that we should also hope for Stan to die, because Xtacles' heads exploding is not exactly a good thing. IT says in his role that they will explode "every day"... I assume that doesn't include Day 0.

It actually starts Day 2. I didn't think it was fair to start exploding people's heads until they have at least had a chance to vote in one lynch poll.

What's the win condition of the Sisterhood of Chaos?

Xander Crews sends a message every night to six other Civs, so that's one of our biggest advantages. It would probably be best for him to 1) tell them all who he is, and 2) give a secret way for all the Xtacles to tell him, and each other, who they are. Like, make the 12th word of your second post of the day start with the letter F, or something equally hard to figure out. Then we will have a very solid Super Civvie team to base the whole game around. He could also set up a secret communication system wherein we can set up Xtacles coordination as well.

Yea, LC. Brilliant idea! Who needs BTSC when we can communicate right out in the open!

Btw, Xander, if you're listening: don't do that.

Long Con wrote:What's the win condition of the Sisterhood of Chaos?

Ask again later

Very tempted to vote val, Llama should totally use a mod color such as purple or maybe a nice orange color

Long Con wrote:What's the win condition of the Sisterhood of Chaos?

Made wrote:Very tempted to vote val, Llama should totally use a mod color such as purple or maybe a nice orange color

I don't like host colors. I always forget to use them, and it's hard to find colors that are readable on both liquidlime and prosilver.

Just checking in. I closed yesterday so apologies for not getting in here sooner. I echo what MP said regarding wedding stuff going on. Only I am flying to Ohio on August 1st. It is hard to say how active I will be from August 1 - August 14. Sorry guys. I'll do my best, but whatever happens I fully intend to have some fun here.

Never watched the show, probably won't. Sorry Logan.

I like rainbow lists well enough, I don't understand why people hate them. They are no different than asking someone to give you a list of who they suspect or trust. I don't make rainbow lists myself. Because I'm lazy. Too much time to change font colors. Can't be bothered.

I'm going to vote Trent, because I can.

I rarely ever pick the winning D0 poll option. This is refreshing.

Hey all! Ad a special welcome to all those I have yet to play with. It's good to have you on the syndicate. I am voting for Trent. I feel like the logical way to go about it is to go in order of who dies first in the show.

Elohcin wrote:Hey all! Ad a special welcome to all those I have yet to play with. It's good to have you on the syndicate. I am voting for Trent. I feel like the logical way to go about it is to go in order of who dies first in the show.

Atta girl

Long Con wrote:What's the win condition of the Sisterhood of Chaos?

Xander Crews sends a message every night to six other Civs, so that's one of our biggest advantages. It would probably be best for him to 1) tell them all who he is, and 2) give a secret way for all the Xtacles to tell him, and each other, who they are. Like, make the 12th word of your second post of the day start with the letter F, or something equally hard to figure out. Then we will have a very solid Super Civvie team to base the whole game around. He could also set up a secret communication system wherein we can set up Xtacles coordination as well.

But wouldn't that lead to the baddies potentially finding this info out too, due to the Sisters Of Chaos thing? One of them is a baddie. I would think that wholesale info sharing might be something to approach with caution. My experience with search roles is that it's pretty hit or miss. They may never find each other, but I am not sure I want all that info potentially travelling to the baddies. I think Xander should be more circumspect about his own identity.

So looking at the roles, I see a disadvantage in the Crews fighting force. Someone correct me if I'm just being paranoid. No group BTSC unlike the other factions..Adding on to the fact that two members can split off to form Destiny's Child, there's 6 Xtacles instead of 8. If harrumph man isn't eliminated before night 2, one Xtacle is dead every day? Sucks for them. They're already super uncoordinated, and they need 4 peeps to band together to kill someone. Seems rather unlikely, especially before the first few days, and if Xander is dead. He would need to know something by Day 3 or else his fighting force could be crippled beyond saving.

I don't even know why Val and grace are part of Xander's team, since their only action is attempting not to be. It's like going on a blind date with someone- you get this deep, too-good-to-be-true connection. She orders steak and a beer and you're like 'damn girl, she can put that away like the guys' then after dinner she gets up to the go to the bathroom and she never comes back.

I don't know, I would feel jipped if I were on Crews' team. Seems very circumstantial and luck-based that the Xtacles and nearl can put their head together in time to make an impact and have a fighting chance.

Am i just favricating the balance issues, and missing some points that make them seem more on the same page as the other teams?

gypped

S~V~S wrote:

Long Con wrote:What's the win condition of the Sisterhood of Chaos?

Xander Crews sends a message every night to six other Civs, so that's one of our biggest advantages. It would probably be best for him to 1) tell them all who he is, and 2) give a secret way for all the Xtacles to tell him, and each other, who they are. Like, make the 12th word of your second post of the day start with the letter F, or something equally hard to figure out. Then we will have a very solid Super Civvie team to base the whole game around. He could also set up a secret communication system wherein we can set up Xtacles coordination as well.

But wouldn't that lead to the baddies potentially finding this info out too, due to the Sisters Of Chaos thing?

Most likely

Scotty wrote:If harrumph man isn't eliminated before night 2, one Xtacle is dead every day?

Yes

Scotty wrote:Am i just favricating the balance issues, and missing some points that make them seem more on the same page as the other teams?

Very doubtful

Oh I get it, nice gimmick.