The Syndicate

Hello everyone and welcome to the first game I am hosting on The Syndicate (or, in fact, ever in recorded human history).

Here be signups for you to join during this witching hour, in order to lounge, relax and be taken on a little journey... to your self. So come join me, come talk to me, come love with me and maybe we can walk through fire together.



Thank you and I'll shut up now.

A reminder of what I'm proposing we play is the title of the game and the fact that nothing else about what I'm proposing we play is actually disclosed.


In addition, it would be helpful for me if you would also mention in your signup PM:
1) if deadlines no later than 12am (midnight) GMT (7pm EST if not mistaken?) would, generally speaking, be ok with you
2) if you would experience any issues, at home or work, viewing youtube videos in the thread (if posted in Host Posts, for instance)


Also, whilst I will not disclose all the gameplay rules and guidelines at this point, I will post the following snippet, which concerns Participation standards, in order to influence your best decision for signing up:

This game will impose participation and modkill standards.
Any of the following scenarios will qualify a player for both of these standards:

-- not posting at all in the game thread for an entire Cycle i.e. 72 hours (Day + Night)
-- failing to cast a vote in 2 Day phases throughout the game
-- in case any player happens to be invested with an ability, any combination throughout the game of failing to cast a vote during a Day phase and to send a Night action, if this cumulates sooner that the 2-Day missed vote scenario
-- specifically for players that rolled mafia, any combination throughout the game of failing to cast a vote and to pitch in in writing on the mafia team discussion during the appropriate phases, if this cumulates sooner than the 2-Day missed vote scenario

This thread is otherwise open for any discussion, apart from participation. (Or confirming participation, I should say.)

inb4 Golden wins

Not if I can st-oh wait I'm hosting.

I want to play a Rico game! But... Wilgy must refrain... Currently in one, and signed up for 2 more.

While I am all for esoterically themed games, I may have to hold back from this one. My birthday is coming up, which means making the rounds to all my relatives and in-laws. I've also got some meetings coming up for my Homeowners Association (I'm the Treasurer), which require me to walk the neighborhood reminding people to show up to our two annual meetings later this month. So, my time is going to be very limited the next two to three weeks and I don't want to relegate participation too far back on the back burner.

I will play but only if I get to be Viaticum.

G-Man wrote:While I am all for esoterically themed games, I may have to hold back from this one. My birthday is coming up, which means making the rounds to all my relatives and in-laws. I've also got some meetings coming up for my Homeowners Association (I'm the Treasurer), which require me to walk the neighborhood reminding people to show up to our two annual meetings later this month. So, my time is going to be very limited the next two to three weeks and I don't want to relegate participation too far back on the back burner.

Shouldn't they be visiting you on your birthday?

agleaminranks wrote:I will play but only if I get to be Viaticum.

Ech.

I am honored to be the Mod on Duty for this game. Amazing trio. RIP Esbjörn Svensson.

How about this one?

I love Esbjorn Svensson's playing in an erotic way.

Maybe you'd love playing Esbjörn Svensson in an erotic way, iykwiim

I am not sure I ready for that Vicvic :C

C'EST la vie

Jó estét.

Glad to see you, Polo! Welcome to The Syndicate.

Ricochet wrote:

Signup countdown*:

9

*only confirmed ("yes")

Don't forget, folks, that signing up as a "maybe" can count as offering to be a replacement and we could certainly use a few, just in case, come game time. There's no real pressure otherwise of committing to play, if you write yourself as such.

One small step for signup completion (8 more come onnn),

one
video for the Syndicate.

No music tonight for you. Sign up por favor.

Last seats to fill, hurry up.

Just kidding, still 8 to go.

Don't forget to set your participation clocks on E.S.T.

Ricochet wrote:

Signup countdown*:

8

*only confirmed ("yes")

Dedicated to those who might feel lonely, now that their game has ended.
(inb4 I write 1500 posts in this signup thread alone)

I will play!

A reminder of the sign-up procedure

Please PM me if you want to sign up. PM me as well if you want to sign up as a maybe.
It is not required to announce in the thread if you are playing or considering it.

and of how many tributes the doomsday device still requires.

Signup countdown*:

6

*only confirmed ("yes")

Oops. I didn't read the thread, I just saw a game, and I have no games to play, so I signed up.

Works for me!

More people should sign up for this game.

sig wrote:More people should sign up for this game.

I am Rick Oche and I approve this message!

I agree! This seems like a really awesome game, and E.S.T. was an amazing musical group. Let's all help Rico fill this game so he can have his first hosting experience ASAP!

HBD Polo!
Signup countdown still at 6 letz go.

Lemme now try to get some of them latino votes for my campaign, too.

I can play this now... Yay me!

I'm free to host this now, too.

Signup countdown*:

5

*only confirmed ("yes")

You know, the time I spent in prison was a worthwhile experience and showed me how music can sometimes bring cops, guards, personnel and inmates together for a brief, enjoying moment. It doesn't even have to be folk tunes such as Danny Boy, hymns that speak to the heart like Amazing Grace or classic hits such as Oops, I dropped the soap again or Warden, Imma [REDACTED]. Putting on some ol' time blues or dixie can work its magic just as well. The prisoners listen and reminiscence of past happy days. The troublemakers stop and pause. The guards stop and pause from clubbing the troublemakers. The cook starts whistling all by himself in the kitchen. The librarian starts tapping the rhythm with his fingers or improvising some piano trills on the edge of the books he's carrying. The warden starts panting and yelling at someone to go kill the source of this wretched noise. Y'know... togetherness.

So gather up, vigillantes, cops, freaks and superheroes and let's make this game happen. Say, in the upcoming week?

And so the Host resumed yet another evening of playing chess with Death, a divertissement between the two driven to such boring repetition, that Death would run out of small talk topics and end up asking the Host Hey you hyped for the Batman v. Superman movie next week to which the Host would reply Why the fark would I be and then Death would say How about them Ghostbusterinnas and the Host would just grunt Jesus Christ and move his rook forward. The Host even grew long tired of shapeshiting into former past instances to amuse himself, such as an anime-drawn creep obsessed with executing people by writing their names in a notebook or a handsome devil magnate, intent to scheme trickery and false leads unto others for his own pleasure and gain or an inmate meant to do whatever it takes to rise from the deepest, darkest cell. Tired times for this Host, indeed. Even the needle of his vinyl player started to scratch from overuse and carve into the discs he'd put almost each day, discs filled with magical sounds of either wild, frantic, spirited or suave nature, meant to seduce the humans into joining him. So the Host rather pulled his EyePod and put on a bit of a non-jazzy intermezzo, for once, a song to express the mood of the days that past and the days that linger on.


But on this Day, signs of resolution started to slowly, slooowly show up and the Host took notice of it right away. For indeed this period of infinite wait seemed to draw to a close, with only a few victi chosen ones remaining to hear the call and approach. Will it be of those among veterans or of those that are novice? Will it be the kind of players that would normally refrain from playing, but would now agree to do so in order to complete the circle? Will this Post reach an end anytime soon? The Host stood up, leaving Death to complain about him abandoning their game, to which the Host just said Zip it, looked with a noble expression, indeed the most of expressions, at the hill whence the last newcomers might reveal themselves, waiting to cheer upon their arrival and shout with utmost satisfaction ommmmmmeeeleeee-

Can I get two more PMs in my Inbox? We could aim to start sometime this weekend...

If I'd be capable of having emotions in general, right now I would be feeling sadness.

Ricochet wrote:If I'd be capable of having emotions in general, right now I would be feeling sadness.

When the Host woke up today, his game was still 2 more com'on short of commencing.

Then, later that Day, he received two more messages and his game was suddenly filled.

Alas his MoD is away on a trip, which means it could take another day or two to put everything in motion.

Besides, the Host also fell asleep, as expected of him.


The Host woke up and nothing had changed. Fortunately that still meant his game is full.

Is kazoo a jazz instrument?

wait this game is about jazz? ewww.

:P

I only kid.