The Syndicate

birdwithteeth11 wrote:You know, I was wondering why we hadn't seen a host post and why it was still daytime. Then I looked and realized the poll ends tomorrow, not today. Whoops!

Haha, I did the same thing, I dashed into the thread on my break to vote!

Voted for thellama. I'm a man of my werrrrrd.

The way I look at this setup is like dis: we are essentially a live version of one of those elimination games where you list 50 rock bands, give each ten points and then people subtract 1 from one band and add one to another. etc. Eventually, bands start hitting zero and they get removed from the game.

If we've got some kind of health value and a fight level, and they get affected by fighting, each of us has to decide how to survive the elimination game. For instance, never fighting in the rock band example would mean you safely stay at "ten points" while others go up and down. That would work for awhile as others died off before you ever fought. But eventually, you'd be the guy with ten points surrounded by 100 pound behemoths. Think of it like playing Texas Hold 'em and folding every hand. Eventually the blinds will kill your stack even if you never play a hand...

So different people will likely come up with different strategies. Those who already won a fight would likely like to fight again soon, since they have an edge now. Having lost my fight, I'm inclined to not fight this time, for example. But for those voting, the question becomes... do you hand those who want to fight the chance to fight, or do you force people who don't want to fight to fight to cull the herd?

Crazy game.

DharmaHelper wrote:In case anyone was curious, the Out Of Towners (people not from Wilmington originally) currently have a 9-7 vote majority.

Oops, quote fail. I hate my tablet sometimes.

[ QUOTE ]

Did your fight level go down then? Are you a zero now?[/quote]

I'm still at 1.

birdwithteeth11 wrote:
Or better yet, throw me in the ring with him. I'll teach him a thing or two about saying mean things to strangers.

If it comes to it, I'll oblige

DharmaHelper wrote:What do all the newcomers think about llama's suggestion that Wilmington natives just kill off any tourists that happen to wander into town?


@Bullz, I was just told that I won.

I think llama has likely earned my vote in the poll, frankly.

Sorsha wrote:What happens when you fight? Are you just told if you won or lost?

How were fighters chosen where you all came from? Any volunteers?

I basically did what BWT says he did, I said "this is fight club, imma fight" and then I got 3 votes or so in the poll. I can't remember the votes for my opponent as a few people may have been tied, but I ended up fighting SD, who won. I lost but wasn't seriously hurt.

My guess is that MP has assigned us all some kind of health value, and as we lose fights we may lose health. Since I'm told I wasn't seriously hurt, but others were apparently "seriously hurt" there must be some kind of mechanic to determine it all. The modern equivalent of rolling twenty-sided dice, etc?

birdwithteeth11 wrote:I just have one thing to say for now:

YO WHATTUP BITCHEZ?!?!?!

I'm going to read through all of this thread and then I'll comment a bit more.

SVS: I won my fight btw.

Linki

'sup, bro?

FWIW, I fought SD in Penns Grove, and lost.

DharmaHelper wrote:Not giving Tyler the same information that everyone else gets would not make sense, in my mind. It would make him too easy to flush out, and I don't think MP would allow that.

Well, I'll leave deciding whether it's important to the coppers out there, I just figured it was worth pointing out. I've had games in the past, though, where I've questioned something that others seemed to understand and it revealed that I was a baddie in that I didn't have the same info in my role pm that they did.

Oh, and MP, you've got the permissions wrong in this thread, too, buddy!

Hedgeowl wrote:
I saw that, but it didnt mean anything to me. So you think other people are in a different hometown?

Over in Penns Grove, we chatted a bit about the fact that it seems to be in everyone's best interested to figure out who Tyler Durden is, since the policemen need to find him to win, and we all win if we survive to the end. If Durden is found early, maybe that handicaps project mayhem etc and helps everyone win.

So, for whichever of you may be policemen, I would like to point this post out. Hedge is no longer here to reply about it, so I'm putting this post here as a marker until maybe hedge can respond to it later, but.... Hedge doesn't seem to understand about the hometown thing. I checked with MP about referring to roles in this way and he said it is acceptable, so, without going into too many specifics... My original thread was Penns Grove, NJ. I understood the reason I was there because of my role pm. You guys should have understood the name of your first thread based on your role pms.

So all I'm saying is... Tyler Durden could very well not have a hometown since he is a fictional part of the narrator's brain. It's potential that hedge didn't understand about the hometown reference because of a role pm that doesn't have one. Since the policemen search for Durden every night, I thought I would put that out there. Food for thought.

timmer wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Good job, Boogs! Welcome, new people! Don't get comfortable.

Why aren't you on the poll?

Scratch that, I can't read, lol.

thellama73 wrote:Good job, Boogs! Welcome, new people! Don't get comfortable.

Why aren't you on the poll?

Well, hi!