The Syndicate

Mmm I’m not rhyming

Russtifinko wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:08 pm At risk of sounding overly simplistic, role claiming and infodumping are allowed, and "the mafia have been given safe character claims drawn at random from a larger pool of possible civilian characters." So come Day 1, should we all just say our roles, then vote to lynch from among the roles that people double-claim?

Also, hard aree with sig on this: "Also fuck rhyming the whole reason i signed up for this game is since I don't wanna post why should I rhyme and be forced to post more."

no false

Mmm my posts are short
And my judgment is poor
I’ll rhyme my retorts
To try to get more

linki: ...

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:35 am
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:00 pm

Day 0 begins now and will last 24 hours. Each player may post a maximum of 25 times during Day 0. All Jiggy pursuits, night actions, and voting will not take place until Day 1 and onward. You may begin posting.
y'all wasting moments with each rhyme. all that effort in vain for no benefit.

the rhymes, this man says, are meaningless
all that effort for your seeming loss
but soon he will see
from our clear jubilee

that fun is more important than any sort of quest for jiggy's

Epi and Sloonei
Started off strong
I think That soon I
Will ask Sloonei how to pronounce his name also this line is too long

Poetry: I, too, dislike it,
As one of our muses said.
This makes me a hypocrite
But VOTE: TURNIP HEAD.

Sloonei’s voting —
Voting for me
At least he’s devoting
No energy

to pursuing a pretty meh case on Sig. seriously? Expressing anxiety over the possibility for a day one lynch? Rather meh. Not something I think the Sphinx of town Sloonei would feel the need to point out on day 1.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 1:32 am
nutella wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 1:30 am In post number three
I will [VOTE: MP] aubergine
This ain't the dog pee
I think I'd see
You said this elsewhere
Recently. Tell me if you care
How it worked out for you then,
And you really want to pursue that again.

nice enjambment

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 1:31 am 4. I voted for Tony (a while back, but I’ve been distracted) because I did not like the early rush of votes on sig.

Now please tell me why it’s a bad look for me to have placed my vote there in the first place.

voting for me = good. I think your out of the gate post against Sig was a little out of character (a kinda "I'm not voting for him, but here's why you should, but I don't like that people are voting for him), but in a 25 post limit day I also think there's reason to say what you have to say efficiently.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:02 pm 1.
sig wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:59 pm
M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:46 pm Hey all, just checking in for now. Preoccupied with other items for the duration. Looking forward to playing this despite this post count limitation putting me in shackles.
Refusing to rhyme is kinda scummy
Also anyone who over rhymes/someone in first 3 is def mafia trying to be blendy.

Also fuck rhyming the whole reason i signed up for this game is since I don't wanna post why should I rhyme and be forced to post more.
Let us begin with a vote for sig
Whose entrance was just too big
He huffed and he puffed and made a scene
But he just looks the opposite of green
sig wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:02 pm Super excited to play with some of the oldies again!
Currently drinking wine and cleaning so not 100% here ergo ignore about half of the grammar and spelling mistakes the other half I'd make even not tipsy.

Also let's not lynch sig day one in this game okay gang? Okay

Also also I'm packing/moving for job, finishing out school and dealing with army junk so activity may be weird for a bit.
“Let’s not lynch sig day 1” looks like anxiety being masked as banter.

I saw it. I don't know when you switched to me, so I can't really judge intentions. Goofy, maybe.

My time is running low I see
I don’t have much time though to rea-
d the things that have been said of me
why are we all voting for Mackie?

G-Man wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 1:43 pm Pardon my absence, dear friends, for I‘ve been
Busy with work all week and it’s crazy.
Showing up late on Day 1 is a sin.
Do know it’s not because I am lazy.
I work for a school district and although
Buildings are closed and the students waylaid,
District staff are all essential, you know?
I’ve had to work late so vendors get paid.
Tonight and tomorrow, reading’s my goal,
Discern which of you for whom I shall vote,
And not fall into a catching-up hole.
May today a baddie hang by his throat!
But alas, this day more work must be done
For the beast called Wildcat Foundation.

If Milton could see
This sonnet
He’d probably
Throw praise on it

Okay everyone voting for Mac is bad I’ve solved the game.

In fairness to Epi on Nanook, the math wasn’t working well for you.

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 3:51 pm
G-Man wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 1:43 pm Pardon my absence, dear friends, for I‘ve been
Busy with work all week and it’s crazy.
Showing up late on Day 1 is a sin.
Do know it’s not because I am lazy.
I work for a school district and although
Buildings are closed and the students waylaid,
District staff are all essential, you know?
I’ve had to work late so vendors get paid.
Tonight and tomorrow, reading’s my goal,
Discern which of you for whom I shall vote,
And not fall into a catching-up hole.
May today a baddie hang by his throat!
But alas, this day more work must be done
For the beast called Wildcat Foundation.
If Milton could see
This sonnet
He’d probably
Throw praise on it

I’m at five with this. I’d stick to the gimmick but for the fact that I have wayyyy too much to do to stick to the gimmick.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 4:06 pm I think I am unintentionally approaching this game differently. I can't "dig in" as Epi is calling for me to do, at least not in the way that I normally would. I do not quite know how my methodology will shake out in this game. It's going to be something different. I thrive on generating as much conversation as possible, and this game is designed to deter that exact thing. I need to take a more backseat analytical approach, probably. I'm out of my element.

Also I'm disappointed that Epi of all people didn't catch my entry joke. It was too obscure, i guess.

I'll probably vote for Mac. Or not. I don't know. speedchuck is uninspired. Maybe I'll go back to tony.

Do you think Epi is town?

Okay. Lynching Mac=bad. Anyone who voted for him=scum. Easy.

I think it’s Epi, Sloonei, and Turnip.

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 11:15 am Maybe not a great idea at night lol idk

why not night we can say as much as we want

(basically)

dunya wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 10:51 am
TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 7:02 am I think it’s Epi, Sloonei, and Turnip.
i agree on sloonei now, and probably nutella. i don't know why epi voted for mac, maybe he did and i didn't see why. i'll check. but his switch from sig to mac put them tied, which is ok in my books. and it was gman who tipped the scale then sloonei came on board at some point.

Epi said he wouldn't vote for Mac, took a simple answer from Sig to get off Sig, voted for Mac (I think) without comment. It's not a complicated case, but I'm willing to run with it.
There are one or two points in Epi's favor.

As far as Sloonei goes, I have no way to judge how he's playing. He's based his play on a strategic element I disagree with the philosophy on. I think he's presenting it as a preemptive defense, but it's unclear.

Look, obviously hindsight is 20/20 and I'm not one to complain about a bad lynch (especially given that I wasn't around), but it seemed to me pretty clear that Mac was town. Him getting lynched gives town great lead opportunities.

Sig is boring day 2, but there's room to discuss that.

M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 12:23 pm I, for one, would love to participate in GTH. I could spreadsheet the results too if no one else wants to.

I would but I don't think I've gotten the feel for the game. If a few other people start I could pick up some reads along the way.

Dragon D. Luffy scumish
dunya town
Epignosis scumish
G-Man town
M Plus 7 town
MacDougall dead
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME town
nutella scumish
Russtifinko town
sig town
Sloonei town
speedchuck town
TonyStarkPrime town
Turnip Head scumish

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 3:22 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 3:23 pm TonyStarkPrime:

Eh. Tiny thing in his favor. Won't mention what it is.

I would not lynch TSP today.
I'm assuming this tiny thing is related to the game that just ended. If so, would you like to mention it now?

For what’s it worth, Epi and Mac both (I feel) can get a sense on me early better than other players.

M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 3:21 pm How are you guys getting like 5 scum reads? That's a bit strange.

I typed it up and then forgot to send it, and then, completely out of spirit with GTH, changed DDL to scum before sending. I was the first one, other people seem to have picked up on this? I don’t know, I think he’s just south of null.

More directly to your question, I’d place a player as scum roughly if I’d take 3:2 odds on the bet. So with that threshold, that leaves room for theoretically up to 10 players in a game with up to four mafia. How many players do we have?

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 4:19 pm
TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 10:36 pm Okay. Lynching Mac=bad. Anyone who voted for him=scum. Easy.
Was this sarcasm?

No. I mean later I found out six people voted for him and odds are there aren't six mafia, but whatever.

Also, someone subtweeted me at some point and noted that it's highly unlikely that, assuming scum, the entire team was on Mac. It's hard for me right now to quite comprehend that idea, but I'm coming around. The lack of emergence of other trains is throwing me off.

Someone should be tracking jiggies
but that someone can't be me
if no one wants to, that's no biggie
it poses no benefit I can see

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 11:34 pm That’s nice and all but I have what is pretty likely a red check on him, so.

I’m bored of this heavy implication
Just tell me why
You think that, in my situation
I should vote for this guy

I disagree with the last thing I said. The onus is on Sig to claim or do something. Nanook need not reveal further information.

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 10:44 am You're making a loooot of assumptions about how nanook's role works, Luffy. Why are you doing that?

Guessing = good

Sloonei might be bad
But I think I’m wrong
To keep pursuing THead
Who Keeps chugging along

I just want y’all to know I’ve requested to sub out. This isn’t and shouldn’t be considered to be AI. Yes, I know I just said in the last game that subbing out is probably scum. Whatever.

As to my reads: I have no clue what’s happening in this game.
I think there are safe scum teams (speed, TH, G-Man) that don’t require much mental energy, but I think I’ve been successfully pocketed by TH. Sloonei and Nutella could round out something with Nanook. I don’t think there’s anything worth calling a towncore, but associative reads can carry pretty far I think. Lynch one scum.

Wait, is this multi quote feature new?
I’m not here to use it, but I disagree with Sloonei on Nutella.
How I interpret this conversation:

Nutella: hmm, I see no case on GMan
Sloonei: here it is
Nutella: still not seeing it
Sloonei: aha you have already said that you are not seeing it and yet you are still not seeing it?

My general impression is scum would love to seize the opportunity to pick a new town lynch, especially with a narrowing list. And if GMan is scum, the defense probably isn’t as brazen.

Look, the false narrative being spread here is that Nanook got Sig lynched. Largely, the lynch was motivated by indifference and would have occurred in any circumstance. It’s not like there were competing wagons and Nanook’s claim pushed one over the top, it’s just that there was a lynch and it happened. We are all at fault for not providing a better solution.

I do think it’s reasonable but not necessary to push for a claim from Nanook. I figured maybe he had tracked Sig to Epi or had some other indeterminate method of guilt.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 5:59 pm I have a sinking feeling but I can't figure out why so I'm just trusting my gut. Sorry if I'm losing a second straight game for town.

well ya did it again buster

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 6:07 pm It was right at the last moment when Russ asked how ties are decided that I decided my vote. That's not something the mafia player needs to care about. Superb finishing touch.

well I mean it sometimes is

Spec chat post count probably higher than actual game post count

huh something new added to the crazy mafia gimmicks idea list

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 7:44 pm huh something new added to the crazy mafia gimmicks idea list

tune into economists mafia, the sequel to philosophers mafia to see what this new this new gimmick could be! Coming late 2020/early 2021.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 9:00 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 8:43 pm And Jack, I can't read you for shit. I admit it.
Shame Tony had to get lynched for you to admit it.

me in the last game: "if I sub out I'm almost definitely scum"
me here: oops

I ended up reading almost everything after day 3 anyways

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