The Syndicate

@Master Radishes what do you make of our new guests? I'm a big fan of them so far

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 7:29 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:11 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:46 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:55 am

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:54 pm Actually why not [VOTE: pyxxy] aubergine

I might be a bit paranoid from our last game, where I mistook a confusing babble of mech talk in our lovely BTSC with towniness but it was in fact just small talk at a work function with my coworker pretending to acknowledge we have things in common like softball and escape rooms but when I invite him out to a function he just ghosts me

I totally made up that scenario btw. No one ghosts me. No one.

and now you're voting one of if not my toppest town

Explain your pyxxy town read. That were diametrically opposed on D1 reads isn’t new, but I was recently spurned by a pyxxy that is very similar in tone here so my recency bias is flashing on my dashboard

as crazy as I sound saying this

I think my tone is always the wrong way to read me, and actually my content is quite readable

Ok tone is the wrong word here- (there was a reason you were a finalist for hardest to read for the Sockys)- but the content of that mech talk last game is what I'm saying I was spurned by. The tone is not as relevant, as you can fit both a rotten egg and a prized turkey in a garment bag and it'll still look like a garment bag

yeah I absolutely agree that last game as scum, mech talk was a crutch given the poll options special power nonsense, since I knew I needed to be active and fill and direct the DK elsewhere

you'll see that my ankle is fine in this game, no hobbling

Long Con wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:52 pm I liked 'nets'.

yeah fwiw my brain read nets and I think mostly got the intent so, compliments to your brain KJQ

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:36 pm Nets = Meta lol I was typing fast because I have to get back to work. Busy weekend for me.

...

fk

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:24 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:08 pm

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:52 am

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:01 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 9:46 pm

gims wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:42 pm

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:04 pm Hmm I guess I didn’t think of it that way. Yeah maybe it is a softball question. Well nevermind I guess I don’t like it anymore. It felt like a good observation but there is a possibility if they’re scum together it was manufactured. Great now I’m paranoid.

haha

I think this early paranoia might be townie of you

1) play much with KJQ? is this a meta read on her style?

2) shoot I forgot my second question

3) oh right. have you played with Mac before?

This feels like a very purposeful post rather than what it’s trying to appear as; it looks very self aware. I see this more in scum trying to look towny than town just being silly.

this is townie

disagree, because KJQ hasn't posted since

I would expect KJQ to follow this up by asking about my playstyle or explain that she doesn't solve that way e.g. via playstyle analysis or w/e and instead goes more on pure reads from herself

because we look here and she's happy to use a playstyle read on Gims

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:41 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 1:31 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:29 pm

gims wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:50 am good morning thread

I have a couple of reads, I have a pretty busy day so I'll get to that probably after d1 is called

I do appreciate the warm welcome from people here, you all sound really nice

I have some tentative townreads on porscha and scotty but I have other leans that I'll elaborate when I can

Do you usually solve by identifying town first?

why did you ask this

I didn’t mean to post without my reply but my phone had a mind of its own.

I think it was a good question to ask because it is very town indicative of gims to find town as his way to solve who is scum. But this is replicable so I’m not locking him as town yet just wanted to give my input on it since the only person ii know is gims here.

but didn't ask the rest of the player list about my playstyle

hedge 1: KJQ felt it was nice to offer a playstyle history on the player she knew was also new to us here at TS, and playstyle reads are not how KJQ normally plays

hedge 2:

Spoiler: show

KJQ maybe hasn't read since. so in a meta sense, which I'm spoiling by saying this, I would look very closely at how KJQ re-enters to attempt to notice if she had been reading in the meantime. which again I'm ruining by posting this but I don't hold info like Abi

Hi sorry but how do you expect me to follow up and ask (you) questions when you deliberately did not interact with my post regarding my read on you? I think you are posting this in way bad faith but I can’t tell if it’s omgus or scum trying to find a way out of being correctly scumread by someone they don’t know yet thus can’t fight back against because they have no nets to use against me.

I am sorry for what may be an infuriating sentence

it's not my playstyle to interact with reads about me

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"how do you expect me to follow up and ask (you) questions"
That's not what I said. My point was that you didn't ask the thread about my playstyle. Which felt contradictory in playstyle to you offering insight on Gims' playstyle.

"they have no nets to use against me"
What should I know about your playstyle, so that I can use it against you?

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:00 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 9:44 pm

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 8:50 pm vote: jack

while I don't have an alignment read on Jack, I get the feeling that pressuring him on D1 is not going to be fruitful

I have no explanation for this besides my gut

Eh I’d he’s a wolf I’ll kill him and then it’ll be profitable

bet

only you are allowed to prod Jack

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:46 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:55 am

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:54 pm Actually why not [VOTE: pyxxy] aubergine

I might be a bit paranoid from our last game, where I mistook a confusing babble of mech talk in our lovely BTSC with towniness but it was in fact just small talk at a work function with my coworker pretending to acknowledge we have things in common like softball and escape rooms but when I invite him out to a function he just ghosts me

I totally made up that scenario btw. No one ghosts me. No one.

and now you're voting one of if not my toppest town

Explain your pyxxy town read. That were diametrically opposed on D1 reads isn’t new, but I was recently spurned by a pyxxy that is very similar in tone here so my recency bias is flashing on my dashboard

as crazy as I sound saying this

I think my tone is always the wrong way to read me, and actually my content is quite readable

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:00 am Town

Jack
Kay
Porscha
Pyxxy
TSP

Shrug

MR
Roxy
Falcon

Sus

Gims
Wilgy
LC
Scotty

find me the town in my sus pile

what's your track record for correctly reading Roxy? ever sniped her being scum?

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:52 am

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:01 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 9:46 pm

gims wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:42 pm

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:04 pm Hmm I guess I didn’t think of it that way. Yeah maybe it is a softball question. Well nevermind I guess I don’t like it anymore. It felt like a good observation but there is a possibility if they’re scum together it was manufactured. Great now I’m paranoid.

haha

I think this early paranoia might be townie of you

1) play much with KJQ? is this a meta read on her style?

2) shoot I forgot my second question

3) oh right. have you played with Mac before?

This feels like a very purposeful post rather than what it’s trying to appear as; it looks very self aware. I see this more in scum trying to look towny than town just being silly.

this is townie

disagree, because KJQ hasn't posted since

I would expect KJQ to follow this up by asking about my playstyle or explain that she doesn't solve that way e.g. via playstyle analysis or w/e and instead goes more on pure reads from herself

because we look here and she's happy to use a playstyle read on Gims

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:41 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 1:31 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:29 pm

gims wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:50 am good morning thread

I have a couple of reads, I have a pretty busy day so I'll get to that probably after d1 is called

I do appreciate the warm welcome from people here, you all sound really nice

I have some tentative townreads on porscha and scotty but I have other leans that I'll elaborate when I can

Do you usually solve by identifying town first?

why did you ask this

I didn’t mean to post without my reply but my phone had a mind of its own.

I think it was a good question to ask because it is very town indicative of gims to find town as his way to solve who is scum. But this is replicable so I’m not locking him as town yet just wanted to give my input on it since the only person ii know is gims here.

but didn't ask the rest of the player list about my playstyle

hedge 1: KJQ felt it was nice to offer a playstyle history on the player she knew was also new to us here at TS, and playstyle reads are not how KJQ normally plays

hedge 2:

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:07 am I am...not at all in a game playing mindset here.

Someone call me scummy and vote me so I'm forced to wake up and play

your scrubby

[VOTE: badish] aubergine

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:45 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 9:44 pm

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 8:50 pm vote: jack

while I don't have an alignment read on Jack, I get the feeling that pressuring him on D1 is not going to be fruitful

I have no explanation for this besides my gut

Kombucha can help with that biome

Are you saying this because Jack is probably town? Orrrr you saw his pfp in your burnt toast this morning?

explicitly no read on Jack (and I'm starting to read again from this post)

I just feel that in this game and when I wrote the post. pressuring him will not provide material that can determine his alignment. can't explain it purely gut feeling

hello I'm back and reading

gims wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:19 pm I can tell exactly what the post was, I think

nice

and it turns out I misread the tone of the word "Mac" so the original intent of my question was misguided but you've salvaged it into something useable

gims town who's next

gims wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:42 pm

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:04 pm Hmm I guess I didn’t think of it that way. Yeah maybe it is a softball question. Well nevermind I guess I don’t like it anymore. It felt like a good observation but there is a possibility if they’re scum together it was manufactured. Great now I’m paranoid.

haha

I think this early paranoia might be townie of you

1) play much with KJQ? is this a meta read on her style?

2) shoot I forgot my second question

3) oh right. have you played with Mac before?

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 8:50 pm vote: jack

while I don't have an alignment read on Jack, I get the feeling that pressuring him on D1 is not going to be fruitful

I have no explanation for this besides my gut

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 7:50 pm

sprityo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:58 pm

Epignosis has died!

He was:

Spoiler: show

(Just kidding, he's our moderator for the game)

DrWilgy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:53 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:40 pm [VOTE: Wilgy] aubergine

violence it is

[VOTE: Pyx] aubergine

[VOTE: Wilgy] aubergine

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 1:18 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:55 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:46 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:43 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 3:21 pm

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 2:57 pm Okay I don’t really understand the fight stuff but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

Hi! It’s super easy!

You want fight? Fight.

You have small number? You fight first.

Defender don’t want fight? Send a tasteful poem back.

Defender do want fight? Fight.

Basically if we all fought each other all the time and always declined the fights, we could have a free 50 words to converse with the attacker. But if we hypothetically all fought and lost against each other, this would be a straight VT game. Since fighting doesn’t seem to affect the NK.


Someone correct me if I’m wrong
And fight me

he's cooking

Hi pyxxy, I’m a terrible chef and eat out a lot

Does this mean you agree with my assessment?

yes

given the activity I don't think we'll be able to get away with level 1 strats like town fake-fighting town for a free message

although given #s, there's a decent chance it would work out well. my gut hedge is I'm not sure role info will be super crucial D1/D2 and I would rather we decide each day to collectively beat the shit out of someone who we want to roleblock

1 Q that I don't understand, if attacker commits but defender doesn't, is that an attacker win -> defender is rb'd night+day?

Yes to your Q

Also I think it’s a hilarious hypothetical concept that if we all target me, for instance, and beat the shit out of me, I can give you each a private message. Just the hilarity of you receiving the message ‘Ow’

I’m sure there’s a way to game this.

But more importantly, I’m really trying to find the biggest reason to watch. Because my interpretation is that if I’m attacked, I know who’s attacking me anyway, but now I’m like on stilts as opposed to being barefoot. +4 sounds like a minimal improvement when we’re both rolling a d20

ohhhhh
"Visit a player and watch to see who visits them during EOD"
I thought watching also worked at night. Which I guess would be overpowered but idk maybe everyone moves at night or something so it balances out that way

yeah this seems odd

unless the idea would be scum dogpile their NK before NKing them, in order to block self-prot or other prot or w/e

the NEXT idea would be watching a person we all agree to dogpile, to guarantee that everyone goes through with it aka scum wouldn't want to RB their scummate

less confident: maybe some roles have rewards for fighting, watching, winning, etc. maybe there's a 3P that needs to win X fights. I'm not sure what the setup can hold. was kinda hoping the Epi flip would be more revealing

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:49 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:47 pm hey I made it too hot damn

Why is your title Jeff Probst? This is making me biased in your favor and that seems unfair lol

this is because Scotty is an ageless creature born from the depths to host network TV until the rest of humanity is long gone

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:46 pm

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:43 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 3:21 pm

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 2:57 pm Okay I don’t really understand the fight stuff but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

Hi! It’s super easy!

You want fight? Fight.

You have small number? You fight first.

Defender don’t want fight? Send a tasteful poem back.

Defender do want fight? Fight.

Basically if we all fought each other all the time and always declined the fights, we could have a free 50 words to converse with the attacker. But if we hypothetically all fought and lost against each other, this would be a straight VT game. Since fighting doesn’t seem to affect the NK.


Someone correct me if I’m wrong
And fight me

he's cooking

Hi pyxxy, I’m a terrible chef and eat out a lot

Does this mean you agree with my assessment?

yes

given the activity I don't think we'll be able to get away with level 1 strats like town fake-fighting town for a free message

although given #s, there's a decent chance it would work out well. my gut hedge is I'm not sure role info will be super crucial D1/D2 and I would rather we decide each day to collectively beat the shit out of someone who we want to roleblock

1 Q that I don't understand, if attacker commits but defender doesn't, is that an attacker win -> defender is rb'd night+day?

I intend to use this gif as much as possible

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 3:21 pm

KayJayQueue wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 2:57 pm Okay I don’t really understand the fight stuff but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

Hi! It’s super easy!

You want fight? Fight.

You have small number? You fight first.

Defender don’t want fight? Send a tasteful poem back.

Defender do want fight? Fight.

Basically if we all fought each other all the time and always declined the fights, we could have a free 50 words to converse with the attacker. But if we hypothetically all fought and lost against each other, this would be a straight VT game. Since fighting doesn’t seem to affect the NK.


Someone correct me if I’m wrong
And fight me

he's cooking

ive made it