The Syndicate

I hate to be "that guy", especially since I was rezzed back in. But right now, mafia is just too much for me to handle. I'm too busy with all my RL stuff. So I will have to ask to be replaced. Sorry everyone!

I'm so ridiculously busy until Saturday that I won't have time or mental energy to participate or start catching up until this weekend. I apologize to the hosts, but I will be voting someone who doesn't have a vote. I'd vote myself for the sake of not missing a vote, but since I'm not on the poll, that's my only option.

Randomized and got Boogs. Sorry man!

Alright. Glad to be back!

I will try to catch up and read everything since I died, but I might not have the time. So any synopses or key points of interest I should pay attention to, you all feel free to point out.

I will start catching up tomorrow.

I highly doubt this is a rezz poll. I don't think it would make much sense to have one of those this early in the game.

I'm going with DJ, because of it being music-related.

Simon wrote:

birdwithteeth11 wrote:Alright. I guess I'm not looking at Made anymore. And while I still think Snow Dog is potentially bad, I think a Bass vote will tell us a lot more. If he's bad, we lynch a baddie. If he's civ, then I might start questioning what side of the fence MP is on.

Votes Bass

Are you telling the truth about being suspicious of Bass?

Why wouldn't I be?

Alright. I guess I'm not looking at Made anymore. And while I still think Snow Dog is potentially bad, I think a Bass vote will tell us a lot more. If he's bad, we lynch a baddie. If he's civ, then I might start questioning what side of the fence MP is on.

Votes Bass

I'm not sure what to make of Made's comment against Dom. Other than that it seems like an especially odd thing to say. Not sure if I'm going to vote in that direction yet though.

If not Made, then for sure either Bass or Snow Dog.

Made wrote:Hedgie and BWT should say more words

I'm trying to. But with the schedule I have right now, that might not change anytime soon. I'll do my best to be a bit more vocal though.

I'm still looking at Snow Dog. I have yet to be convinced that he isn't bad yet.

I wondered about BR a bit, but her explanation has since cleared her with me for now.

I could still see Bass being possibly bad. Need to look at him a bit more though.

Long Con wrote: Maybe MP was actually that overconfident that he had magically caught a whole baddie team, but it just smacks of convenience to me. Bass was the one who messed up, but that wasn't as important to MP as the fact that he saw that the thread would more easily go for FZ. The Civvie move would have been to lynch Bass first to be sure, since his alignment is the basis of the whole case, but not even MP voted for Bass.

It doesn't really smack of convenience to me. It smacks more of MP got his blinders on and couldn't take them off. And I don't think that's indicative of his alignment in and of itself.

I'm voting for Snow Dog. I still think he's possibly bad. And the result of this night poll doesn't sound like a good thing.

Yeah......so that happened. RIP FZ!

MovingPictures07 wrote:Snow Dog isn't bad.

Regardless of the fact that he's changed his mind so much? Isn't that somewhat illogical too?

Yeah, I'm leaving my vote on FZ now. I just don't like her lack of logic from before.

I think depending on how this lynch goes down, either Bass or Snow Dog (possibly both) would be good places to look in the future. Snow, is there a reason you seem to be having such a hard time making decisions in this game?

Alright. I think I'm going to drop my idea of looking at certain people just because they're "on a list". It seems a bit of an arbitrary way to try to be finding baddies when it's only Day 2. That kind of stuff usually doesn't mean anything until much later in the game, when you have additional evidence to corroborate some players and throw others out of the mix.

There are two people I am considering voting for today however: FZ and llama. I think llama has already been well expanded on, but the fact that he's had a lot of very joke-y posts (which is not unusual for him btw) that do not add anything to trying to nab baddies is something that bothers me.

As for FZ, I think this quote sums it up really well:

Ambray wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Maybe I'm just getting paranoid, but that question sort of bothered me, FZ. It seemed to indicate to me you don't care which one of them gets lynched.

I agree with this.

I don't think she really cares who gets lynched this time. I think that anything distracting away from herself and her teammates is good enough for her. And I believe MP to be a civ at this point.

Of the two, I believe FZ is more likely to be bad than llama at this point. The only way I would vote for llama over FZ is if I felt there was a chance that MP was going to get lynched, and voting for llama would help save him.

Votes FZ

Still catching up btw. Will post further thoughts as I go along.

MovingPictures07 wrote:BWT, to be fair, Boogs voted for me because at that moment in time, I had voted for him, and he's apparently busy. Made just voted for me right off the bat and never moved it. It doesn't help that the game started around a busy time for a lot of people (not faulting anyone for that though).

Why are you not looking at Llama voters?

Anyway, I know you've recently caught up, so I'm just curious to see what you'll find.

I need to work on a bunch of stuff today that I was ignoring yesterday and the day prior, so I'll be back... sometime.

I'll get around to it when I get the chance. I'm still trying to absorb everything since the game started. But as soon as I get more concrete thoughts, I'll be posting more.

What about the Llama voters?

Hmmmmm.....I didn't realize that Made and Boogs had supposedly voted for you for no reason then. By that logic, I guess I would have to look at them as well.

Idk. I'm used to there being at least some votes on Day 1 that are "joke votes" or don't mean much because we don't have a lot to go on at that point. But to me, it seemed like there were a lot more of them than normal. And I think a potential baddie could hide behind there being so many.

So we have Made, Boogs, and possibly everyone (not as sure about Ambray) who voted for Ninja. And maybe even Snow Dog since he did at first, and then took his vote off.

So basically, we have 7 people who fall under the category of either joke or bandwagon votes: Made, Boogs, MP, DFaraday, llama, Snow Dog, and possibly, but much less likely, Ambray.

It seems like possible baddie manipulation may play a part into it as well, since the votes were spread out enough. So that might be another thing to look into as well.

Linki: Alright, makes sense LC. I think I'll still be looking at sabie, however.

Who were all the people that voted for Ninja, and then moved their votes away later on?

I think of all the Ninja voters, the only one I'm probably not going to examine closely is Ambray. Since she actually put forth a case of her own for voting Ninja. Everyone else felt like an easy bandwagon to me.

Alright. So I am now finally caught up. And here's what I have so far.

-Ninja took quite a bit of flak for her post where she questioned why so many people were voting early on Day 1. And from what I gathered, llama got heat for seeming to be jumping on an "easy case". But I thought a lot of people seemed way too eager to vote for ninja, even with it being Day 1 and all. So I will be taking a good look at everyone who voted for her and got her lynched.

- Sabie and LC voted for me because I hadn't shown up. After I did show up, both of them continued to leave their votes on me. I remember sabie actively stating she was leaving her vote on me for missing the Day 0 poll. Honestly, if that's the only poll I miss, that doesn't mean anything at all. I've just been really busy this week and only had enough time/energy to check in once. I do find it odd that LC said he'd leave his vote on me because he "didn't feel the need" with Ninja ahead of me in the votes. But I'm more likely to give him a pass on it than sabie.

Yeah, that's all I've got so far.

fingersplints wrote:

FZ. wrote:How about MP? He seems a bit eager to please. He keeps seeing my point of view, and explains things. Not sure I've ever seen civvie MP do that. Can anyone share their thoughts about MP? Does it feel genuine to you?

He seems pretty normal to me.

MP "normal"? That does not compute.

Alright. I still haven't had a chance to catch up any since I last posted. Hopefully before work tomorrow, I will get a chance to.

Also, is each period only lasting 24 hours? Because I thought Day 1 wasn't ending until Friday. I'm incredibly confused about that.

Or simply stated, I'm really confused about everything that is happening right now. Because I haven't caught up yet. :P

Long Con wrote:I'll join in the BWT vote for now, until he tells me why I shouldn't.

Because no one person is apparently allowed to have more than two votes on them.

Checkmate. :P

I've just skimmed for now, so I haven't had much time to analyze anything yet. Also, I'm really tired right now, so I'm just going to go ahead and vote llama. Since he was the first person to vote for me, I shall return the favor.

Thanksgiving is my only day off this week, but I should be able to catch up and really start getting into this game then.