The Syndicate

timmer wrote:RIP and WB Epig! Sorry to see ya go, MP!

@DOM, if the death post appears to be written to the tune of West Side Story, does that mean Epig 1.0 was West Side Story? Is there a direct link between tune and role?

There's a reason it's there, but I can't confirm why or why not.

Scotty wrote:So before I cast a vote on who I currently suspect, I want to hear from all the crew that are apparently still in this game but are currently backstage sleeping together on the Equity cot.
@BirdwithTeeth11
@Bullzeye
@Devin
@Canucklehead
@Dream
@fingersplints
@MetalMarsh89 (I KNOW you're here, I see you voting on shit)
@TGG

And welcome to the game, Epi 2.0. Wonder if your strategy is going to be any different.

I guess @Dom the fact that Epi was allowed back in means his first role didn't have any special abilities that would give him more knowledge in the game? Because that would be, you know, unfair.

I have everything covered.

nutella wrote:Dom: the poll appears to be 24 hours long -- mistake?

Yes.

Cobalt wrote:

Dom wrote:MovingPictures07 has been replaced by Epignosis (2.0).

Epignosis cannot be lynched today.

Wait, what kind of system allows someone who dies to sub back into the game as a different role?

What even? Like, that's FOREIGN to me. How is that allowed?

It's fairly common practice here.

MovingPictures07 has been replaced by Epignosis (2.0).

Epignosis cannot be lynched today.

Golden wrote:Mine certainly mentions a number of civ roles - three in brackets at the end for starters. That match anyone?

Dom, once again, what are the rules here. If I solve it, posting my solved book would not be quoting your PM, but would it be within the spirit of your rule?

If you solve it, you may not post it.
But you might want to check it with me.

Do you want to read from a book?

Poll ended at Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:25 pm


Yes
19
Metalmarsh89 (2), Sloonei (3), Cobalt (4), nijuukyugou (6), sig (7), Golden (8), Gumshoe (9), timmer (10), Scotty (12), DFaraday (13), nutella (14), Long Con (15), TinyBubbles (16), Bullzeye (17), Canucklehead (18), Neverwhere (19), Black Rock (20), Bass_the_Clever (21), fingersplints (22) 86%
No
1
Epignosis (5) 5%
Maybe [dead/non]
2
Dom (1), JaggedJimmyJay (11) 9%
Total votes : 22

Lights up on a pub. Enter EPGINOSIS. He sits on a stool.

EPIGNOSIS: Barkeep?

Silence.

EPIGNOSIS: ...Hello?

Enter and exit multiple members of the ENSEMBLE

The lighting fixture above Epignosis sways, sways, and snaps, killing Epignosis.

Enter Ensemble. Gasp.
Enter Singer.
SINGER:
Life can be bright in civilian life
If you can fight with civilians right
Life is all right in civilian life
If you've got nothing to hide
Here you are free and you have pride
Long as you protect civvies on your side
Free to go after any baddie you choose
Free to make sure all of them lose

Everywhere grime in the mafia
Organized crime in the mafia (duh)
Terrible time in the mafia
Don’t forget Cobalt’s in the mafia
I think I'll go back to the thread
Build up cases ‘til the mafia’s dead
All the civs will give big cheers
When they’re alive at endgame to hear.

Epignosis has been killed. It is now day. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

Sloonei wrote:i don't think we're allowed to discuss our roles.

You may not claim a specific role, no.

If you don't vote in the poll, I will take it that you do NOT want to read the book.

Who killed Dom??

Poll ended at Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:19 pm


Bass The Clever
0
No votes
BirdwithTeeth11
0
No votes
Black Rock
0
No votes
Bullzeye
0
No votes
Cobalt
5
TinyBubbles (5), Scotty (6), Sloonei (12), timmer (17), nutella (20) 21%
Devin
0
No votes
DFaraday
0
No votes
Dragon D. Luffy
0
No votes
DREAM
0
No votes
Epignosis
0
No votes
Fingersplints
0
No votes
Golden
1
Canucklehead (11) 4%
Gumshoe
0
No votes
Hedgeowl
0
No votes
Long Con
6
Metalmarsh89 (2), Epignosis (8), Turnip Head (16), nijuukyugou (18), Gumshoe (21), Hedgeowl (22) 25%
MetalMarsh89
0
No votes
MovingPictures07
0
No votes
Neverwhere
0
No votes
nijuukyugou
0
No votes
Nutella
0
No votes
Scotty
0
No votes
sig
0
No votes
Sloonei
0
No votes
SVS
7
MovingPictures07 (9), DFaraday (10), S~V~S (13), Cobalt (14), sig (19), Long Con (23), Golden (24) 29%
Timmer
0
No votes
TinyBubbles
0
No votes
Turnip Head
0
No votes
XthAtGAm3RGuYX
1
XthAtGAm3RGuYX (15) 4%
Trick question, IT WAS LLAMA!!! [dead/non]
4
Dom (1), Heiots (3), Roxy (4), juliets (7) 17%

EPIGNOSIS: That LC... he sure is... a ... a....

SVS: A what??

EPGNOSIS: A baddie.

SVS moves to the apron SL.

MOVINGPICTURES07: What's that SVS?

She exits.

COBALT: Well...

LONG CON: That was weird.

MOVINGPICTURES07: What was that, Cobalt?

All leave, but COBALT and LONG CON.
A beat. Or Five.

SVS enters SL.

Blackout. All enter.
Lights up on a hanging body:
SVS

SVS has been lynched. She was Oscar Hammerstein II.
It is now Night 1. You have 24 Hours to send in your night PMs.

Gumshoe wrote:Question: what happens if time runs out and there is a tie?

I have a procedure.

Scotty wrote:Just got back from work and seeing Gentlemen's Guide. Man what a blah show that was. I've seen it twice now & wouldn't recommend it, even if it won best Musical.
.

I wholeheartedly disagree. But that's a conversation for another day (or PM). Love seeing someone so musically inclined. Next time I'm in NYC I MUST see Fun Home and Hamilton though.

Scotty wrote:I will post more of my Pm late tonight when I get off work, but i feel like we should hear from everyone today on their info and get it out in the open before lynchings come down. Probably better to get that out sooner rather than later.

Just remember you can't copy and paste the message or anything to that effect.

MP, I didn't know your dissertation was going to be posted in my game's thread!

Dragon D. Luffy has been replaced by Cancucklehead. She cannot be lynched today.

Golden wrote:Are we allowed to speak of our PMs in the thread at all?

Yes.

Scotty wrote:Dom, wtf did I just receive. It looks like you had a stroke when writing that. I feel like I'm missing something here...

nijuukyugou wrote:

Golden wrote:Are we allowed to speak of our PMs in the thread at all?

Ah shit, probably should've waited for the answer to this. Sorry if I screwed up!

You didn't.

nutella wrote:FTR, one of Dom's rules on the first page is "do not copy and paste messages from the host" -- to me this indirectly implies that it is okay to talk about them in passing. However, still, it's usually looked down upon/seen as bad form/at least not common I think around these parts to discuss host PMs so it might be a good idea not to, although I of course realize I already participated in that exchange because I thought it was interesting (god I'm never going to be able to use that word without being self-conscious now )

This.

You may talk about your PMs. You may brainstorm ideas about what they might mean. You cannot share verbatim what they said. You cannot copy and paste them. You can, however, say something like this:

My PM said something about Mary Rodgers and Assassins. What do you guys make of that? Do you think Mary could be an Assassin?

Neither Mary nor Assassins are roles in this game, only examples.

In short, go ahead and talk about your PMs, but don't directly share WHAT you received.

DAY 0

Which number do you fancy?

Poll ended at Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:54 pm


1
1
Long Con (8) 3%
2
1
Scotty (14) 3%
3
1
sig (18) 3%
4
1
TinyBubbles (10) 3%
5
1
Epignosis (6) 3%
6
1
DREAM (17) 3%
7
1
Metalmarsh89 (2) 3%
8
1
S~V~S (3) 3%
9
1
Bullzeye (7) 3%
10
1
Devin the Omniscient (29) 3%
11
1
Dragon D. Luffy (15) 3%
12
1
timmer (19) 3%
13
1
MovingPictures07 (9) 3%
14
1
birdwithteeth11 (30) 3%
15
1
fingersplints (24) 3%
16
1
Gumshoe (26) 3%
17
1
Golden (12) 3%
18
1
Hedgeowl (31) 3%
19
1
nijuukyugou (13) 3%
20
1
Neverwhere (25) 3%
21
1
XthAtGAm3RGuYX (11) 3%
22
1
Bass_the_Clever (27) 3%
23
1
Turnip Head (20) 3%
24
1
Cobalt (23) 3%
25
1
Sloonei (22) 3%
26
1
DFaraday (28) 3%
27
1
nutella (21) 3%
28
1
Black Rock (4) 3%
High School Musical (hosts/nons)
3
Dom (1), JaggedJimmyJay (5), Heiots (16) 10%
Total votes : 31

Enter DOM SL

DOM: Man, I can't believe how great everything is going! Everyone checked in, that gives me time to see a show... but what should I see? I mean, Hamilton's not open yet, so that's out. FUN HOME would be a dream, but tickets are hella dollars. Hand to God? Should I see Curious Incident again??

Enter ??? from trap door

DOM: Screw it, I'm seeing Fun Home.

??? Sneaks behind DOM, and stabs him in the chest.
Exit ??? SL

Enter ENESEMBLE

EPIGNOSIS: We've gotta throw this LC guy out of the show. He's not a real actor.

SVS: I'm not so--

LONG CON: Why, I oughta--

COBALT: Guys....

COBALT is pointing to Dom's body SL

SIG: Who would do such a thing!?

GOLDEN: What're we gonna do?

MOVINGPICTURES07: The only thing we can do....

I AM BACK FROM NYC (you could see me in the audience on Jimmy Fallon last night )

You have a host post coming, I promise! It won't be late again.

Day Zero - Act One, Scene Zero

the preface

Welcome and Bienvenue, welcome, everyone.

I will be your emcee for the evening. Before we begin the show, we will play a game.

Choose a number from the poll. Each number can only have one vote. You have 48 hours.
Enjoy the show.

Rules:

#1) No Illegal BTSC
#2) No role outing. No info dumping. However, feel free to lie about any role descriptions, you might learn about.
#3) Do not copy and paste messages from the host.
#4) Respect your moderator on duty: thellama73. Please utilize him if you get frustrated or otherwise exacerbated.
#5) Have fun.

The Book:
Act One, Scene Zero
Act One, Scene One
Act One, Scene One con't
Act One, Scene TWo
Act One, Scene Two
Act One, Scene Four
Act One, Scene Four cont'd
Act One, Scene Five
Act One, Scene Six

Player List:


Bass_the_Clever Posts
birdwithTeeth11 (Replaced by FZ.) Posts/Posts
Black Rock Posts
Bullzeye JJJ Posts
Cobalt Posts
Devin the Omniscient Posts
DFaraday Posts
Dragon D. Luffy (Replaced by Canucklehead) Posts/Posts
DREAM Posts
Epignosis Posts
fingersplints Posts
Golden Posts
Gumshoe Posts
Hedgeowl Posts
Long Con Posts
MetalMarsh89 Posts
MovingPictures07 (Replaced by Epignosis 2.0) Posts/Posts
Neverwhere Posts
nijuukyugou Posts
nutella Posts
Scotty Posts
sig Posts
Sloonei Posts
S~V~S Posts
timmer Posts
TinyBubbles Posts
Turnip Head SVS Posts
XthAtGAm3RGuYX (Replaced by G-Man) Posts/Posts



Alive:
BirdwithTeeth11
Bullzeye
Devin
DFaraday
Canucklehead
DREAM
Fingersplints
Golden
Gumshoe
Hedgeowl
MetalMarsh89
MovingPictures07
Neverwhere
nijuukyugou
Nutella
Scotty
Turnip Head



Dead:
SVS - lynched Day 1 - Oscar Hammerstein II
Epignosis - killed Night 1
sig - Lynched Day 3 - Starlight Express
Long Con - Lynched Day 4 - Frank Wildhorn
G-Man - Lynched Day 5 - Cats
FZ. - killed night 5
Tiny Bubbles - lynched Day 6 - Sweeney Todd
Sloonei - Killed Night 6
Black Rock - Lynched Day 7 - Merrily We Roll Along (corrupted)
Timmer - Killed Night 7
Cobalt - Lynched Day 8 - Parade
Bass_The_Clever - Lynched Day 9 - The Last Five Years

Sondheim and Brown – The Civilians (17 Roles)
Win Condition: must eliminate Team Wildhorn/Team Lloyd Weber and other opposing factions, if they exist.
Stephen Sondheim –
West Side Story – There’s a place for us, somewhere a place for us.

Gypsy – Everything’s coming up Roses. Mama Rose is a dominant woman who may or may not have destroyed her children, who knows? Gypsy can stop one lynch.

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum – Tragedy tomorrow, Comedy tonight!

Company – Somebody hold me too close, Somebody hurt me too deep. Bobby has commitment issues. On night 3, Company can establish anonymous BTSC with a player of their choosing.

A Little Night Music – And I shall marry the miller’s son.
Merrily We Roll Along – We’re opening doors!
Anyone Can Whistle – Everybody says don’t, everybody says don’t, everybody says don’t walk on the grass.

Sweeney Todd – It’s priest. Try a little priest. Have you seen Cannibalism THE MUSICAL, yet? You should. Sweeney Todd has one night kill to use throughout the entire game.

Sunday In the Park With George – Bit by bit, putting it together!

Into The Woods – No one is alone. A musical about consequences, responsibility, adulthood, and the human condition, this show may be my favorite Sondheim piece. Into the Woods will break any tie that may exist in a lynch poll. Upon this role’s death, all ties will result in a no-lynch. Into the Woods also may pardon one lynch.

Evening Primrose – I remember sky.
Jason Robert Brown -
Songs for a New World – Jenny’s afraid of water, I mean she swims and all, but still: she’s afraid of water.
Parade – Well, hey, sunshine! Sunshine? Looks like rain to me.
The Last Five Years – I stand on a precipice, I struggle to keep my balance, I open myself, I open myself one stitch at a time.
The Bridges of Madison County – And love is always better

Lloyd Webber – Baddie Team 1 (4 Roles)
Win Condition: Outnumber the civilians and eliminate Team Wildhorn and any other opposition, if it exists.
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Phantom of the Opera – The Phantom of the Opera is there, inside my mind.

Starlight Express - Starlight express, answer me yes This has to be one of the stupidest musicals ever conceived. Starlight Express is so bad that it blocks one player each night.

Cats - Memory, all alone in the moonlight

Wildhorn – Baddie Team 2 (3 Roles)
Win Condition: Outnumber the civilians and eliminate Team Lloyd Weber and any other opposition, if it exists.
Frank Wildhorn

Jekyll & Hyde - If I could reach you, if I could guide and teach youIt’s the classic tale—musicalized! Targets one player a night who must attempt to lynch another player. If that player is not lynched in three days, the targeted player will receive one extra vote in every lynch against them. Will show up as civilian upon lynching.

Bonnie and Clyde – I’d rather breathe in life than dusty air.

Independents (4 Roles)
Andrew Lippa – And we were having a wild, wild party!

Stephen Schwartz – I’ve gotta be someone who lives all of his life in superlatives. Schwartz writes some interesting material. He eavesdrops on his neighbors to see what they are saying and receives a snippet of BTSC every night. Wins if he is alive at the end of the game.

Oscar Hammerstein II – Some enchanted evening, you may find a stranger.
Richard Rodgers –If I loved you, time and again, I would try to say all I'd want you to know