The Syndicate

MP took a call and listened to the information he was given, "And everyone agrees?"

He nodded, "ok, I'll take care of it myself then. He deserves that much at least."

A short while later he sat down next to Scotty at the bar and motioned for the bartender to give him a beer.

Scotty didn't even look at him, he knew what was coming. "So it's official, huh?"

"Yes, unfortunately."

"Why couldn't they even give me just a little more time? This is ridiculous!"

"We're running out of time, Scotty."

"But you believe me, don't you?"

MP didn't answer, just took a swig of his beer. Scotty understood what that meant. He gave a deep sigh and guzzled the last of his own beer, "Guess it's time to pay the piper then. I hear he's got a peck of pickled peppers with my name on it."

MP never could quite understand Scotty's sense of humor, so he just remained silent as Scotty paid his tab and left the bar to turn himself in.

--------------------------------------------------

Meanwhile, in prison...

The Warden sat behind is large mahogany desk with classical music playing lightly in the background. He was shuffling through the stack of papers in front of him when a blaring siren went off. He knew instantly it meant trouble in the Prison Yard, so he leapt from his seat and rushed out just in time to see the guards subduing a group of prisoners with billy clubs and tear gas. When the gas had cleared and the inmates were back in their cells, there were two bodies left laying in the prison yard. The Warden glared at his guards and ordered, "take care of this mess," before heading back to his office. He would have to write up a report on the deaths of Prisoner 219747 and Prisoner 153930. He hated writing reports.



Scotty has been arrested. He was Messaggero, a member of The Sockfaced Famiglia.

Prisoner 153930 has been shanked. He was Dragon D. Luffy.

Prisoner 219747 has been shanked. He was Golden.

It is now Night 9.

You have 23 hours to send in your night actions.

Who failed to arrest someone?

Poll ended at Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:45:13 pm


Black Rock
0
No votes

chaindeath
0
No votes

Dom (Draconus)
3
Nerolunar (13), Turnip Head (15), Sloonei (16) 18%

Epignosis
3
sig (4), Soneji (10), Scotty (11) 18%

Nerolunar
0
No votes

Prisoner 509378
0
No votes

Quin
0
No votes

S~V~S
0
No votes

Scotty
6
S~V~S (2), Black Rock (6), Quin (8), Prisoner 509378 (12), chaindeath (14), Dom (17) 35%

Elohcin (Serge)
0
No votes

***DON'T VOTE HERE*** (sig is now dead)
0
No votes

Sloonei
0
No votes

Soneji
1
Epignosis (9) 6%

Turnip Head
0
No votes

Inspector Lestrade (hosts, non-players)
4
MovingPictures07 (1), Ricochet (3), Spacedaisy (5), nijuukyugou (7) 24%
Total votes : 17

Prisoner 509378 wrote:HOSTS:

If this is something you're able to clarify: would you, under any circumstances, allow a player to intentionally get modkilled?

No, though naturally a player could intentionally break the rules (by role outing) and there technically wouldn't be any way for me to know whether they did it intentionally or not, so other than those kinds of situations, no.

To further clarify, there's no way I would let the Seemer benefit from their role use in the event of a modkill. A Seemer, if modkilled, would flip as Seemer.

Quin wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:These rules should be 100% clear:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

RULES & PROCEDURES

Rules
4. No role outing of yourself or anyone else. This includes all statements of fact regarding your or someone else's role, such as "I am The Don" or "Spacedaisy is Beat Cop", etc. This game is open setup role madness and incompatible with role outing, thus making it not fun when players engage in it. Absolutely don't do it.
5. No dumping information you received from the Host (whether role-related or not) into the thread. This includes statements that more often are seen as implications, rather than statements of fact (role outing). An example would be declaring that "I have reasons to believe MovingPictures07 is Beat Cop" without elaborating. If you suspect someone to be a certain role or alignment, use in-thread reasons to back up your assertion or speculation, even if your reasons are sourced from information you gained outside of the thread. If you are unsure if what you are about to say constitutes info dumping, please PM the hosts first before making the post. If you fail to do this and your post does violate information dumping, then you and your faction will be punished.
6. You may, however, alignment claim truthfully or falsely, although it is not necessarily recommended.

Role outing and strong role hints of any kind will not be tolerated. They potentially break the game.

Can I still post my role-guess for Epi using game-based facts without breaking any rules?

My internet absolutely shit itself, and I'd have had this posted like 20 minutes ago if I could. I'm basically done but I'm gonna wait on MP.

As noted in Rule 5., it's totally acceptable if players use in-thread reasons to speculate on why players might be certain roles. For example, you can say "I think MovingPictures07 might be such and such role because he's strongly defending Spacedaisy and it seems they might have BTSC given this post" or whatever.

The problem arises when players make statements about their role that otherwise would not be surmised by normal thread behavior. Like, sig's "Message" statement couldn't possibly be interpreted as anything other than "I am heavily hinting that I am the Messaggero".

Thanks for asking. Hope that clarifies. If not, let us know.

Dom wrote:thx

Yeah, that's my bad, not sure what I was thinking. Then I read back over my post and realized, 'Hey, that's not right...' :P

sig has been modkilled (for breaking the rules). He was Messaggero, a member of The Daisy Crime Syndicate.

It is still Day 9.

These rules should be 100% clear:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

RULES & PROCEDURES

Rules
4. No role outing of yourself or anyone else. This includes all statements of fact regarding your or someone else's role, such as "I am The Don" or "Spacedaisy is Beat Cop", etc. This game is open setup role madness and incompatible with role outing, thus making it not fun when players engage in it. Absolutely don't do it.
5. No dumping information you received from the Host (whether role-related or not) into the thread. This includes statements that more often are seen as implications, rather than statements of fact (role outing). An example would be declaring that "I have reasons to believe MovingPictures07 is Beat Cop" without elaborating. If you suspect someone to be a certain role or alignment, use in-thread reasons to back up your assertion or speculation, even if your reasons are sourced from information you gained outside of the thread. If you are unsure if what you are about to say constitutes info dumping, please PM the hosts first before making the post. If you fail to do this and your post does violate information dumping, then you and your faction will be punished.
6. You may, however, alignment claim truthfully or falsely, although it is not necessarily recommended.

Role outing and strong role hints of any kind will not be tolerated. They potentially break the game.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:Posting this again for the HOSTS in case they overlooked it before.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I know no question has been asked, but we have received questions about this via PM, and I want to clarify for all prisoners and main game players, since this hasn't been clarified.

Although Warden has access to the sockpuppet, Daisy and I do as well. For Prison Yard trials to be effective and timely, as well as to obfuscate the Warden's identity, your hosts have posted using that account in the prison. In addition, many posts by Warden in prison have thus far been direct or twisted quotes from Shawshank Redemption.

So while prisoners and main game players are more than welcome to hunt for Warden using whatever methods they wish, Daisy and I personally advise against reading too much into Warden's posting timing, language, etc. in prison threads as a sole basis for hunting down that player.

HOSTS:

Did you post using the warden's sock account in this game thread at any point?

Good question.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:

Sloonei wrote:Dom and Elohcin aren't on the poll.

Their predecessors are.

HOSTS: Might have been an error?

linki: Dom replaced Draconus

This is fixed. Yes, it was an error, I've got too much I'm trying to do at once and accidentally used the predecessor names.

"Did you see this?" Daisy held up a newspaper and tapped the headline.

"Yeah, Syndicate got invited to participate in another Championship, it's pretty exciting. Probably the best thing for our business since prohibition," MP answered.

"I think the impact is even better right for this very moment."

"I don't get what you mean."

She grinned, "Controlling the rowdy crowds means the cops are too busy to arrest anyone. This is very good news for us."



????? has escaped arrest by the Police.

It is now Day 9.

You have 48 hours to find a policeman. Good luck, goons!

Who is a policeman?

Poll ended at Mon Mar 28, 2016 6:26:48 pm


Black Rock
1
Quin (6) 7%

Boomslang
7
Sloonei (2), Scotty (4), S~V~S (7), Prisoner 509378 (9), Elohcin (10), chaindeath (13), Black Rock (14) 47%

chaindeath
0
No votes

Draconus
0
No votes

Epignosis
0
No votes

Nerolunar
0
No votes

Prisoner 509378
0
No votes

Quin
2
Turnip Head (5), Boomslang (12) 13%

S~V~S
0
No votes

Scotty
0
No votes

Serge
0
No votes

sig
1
Epignosis (8) 7%

Sloonei
0
No votes

Soneji
0
No votes

Turnip Head
0
No votes

Inspector Gadget (hosts, non-players)
4
MovingPictures07 (1), Ricochet (3), nijuukyugou (11), Spacedaisy (15) 27%
Total votes : 15

Prisoner 509378 wrote:Hosts:

If you're able/willing to answer: when the police chief's double-arrest ability takes effect, does he/she have free choice over who the second player arrested is?

Yes.

thellama73 has been arrested by the Police. He was ?????.

indiglo has been arrested by the Police. She was ?????.

It is now Day 8.

You have 48 hours to find a policeman. Good luck, goons!

The families gathered once again together, to discuss who might be a cop. There was a lot of disagreement and MP and Daisy watched from an office window above the warehouse floor where they were gathered. "Who do you think it will be today?" Daisy asked.

MP shrugged, "I've given up trying to anticipate what this crowd will do."

"And hope that they hit the mark."

On the floor the conversation flowed on until finally they began to coalesce around Turnip Head. He defended himself, but to no avail. The mob had decided. Turnip Head left the room, headed for the police department where he would turn himself in. He was only a block away when a shadowy figure stepped out, "Stop!"

"The families decided, if I don't go now, they will kill me."

"No, they won't. We won't let this happen. Come with me."

Turnip Head hesitated, but in the end he valued his freedom, so he followed. After all, he was too pretty to survive in prison.



Turnip Head has not been arrested. He is ?????.

It is now Night 7.

You have 48 hours to send in your night actions.

Who is a policeman?

Poll ended at Thu Mar 24, 2016 6:36:23 pm


Black Rock
0
No votes

Boomslang
5
Epignosis (8), Nerolunar (9), Soneji (11), thellama73 (13), sig (15) 25%

chaindeath
1
Boomslang (7) 5%

Draconus
0
No votes

Epignosis
0
No votes

indiglo
0
No votes

Nerolunar
0
No votes

Prisoner 509378
0
No votes

Quin
0
No votes

S~V~S
0
No votes

Scotty
0
No votes

Serge
0
No votes

sig
0
No votes

Sloonei
0
No votes

Soneji
0
No votes

thellama73
0
No votes

Turnip Head
10
S~V~S (3), indiglo (5), Prisoner 509378 (10), Quin (12), chaindeath (14), Black Rock (16), Dom (17), Sloonei (18), Scotty (19), Elohcin (20) 50%

Carlton Lassiter (hosts, non-players)
4
MovingPictures07 (1), Ricochet (2), Spacedaisy (4), nijuukyugou (6) 20%

Total votes : 20

indiglo wrote:Alright sir, let's ask. (want to take bets on whether or not we'll get an answer? )


@ Hosts - If the Seemer posed as the Secret Role, would the true role card get flipped? Or would the Seemer have to write up a fake role card?

The latter.

Ricochet wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Effective immediately, Dom is replacing Draconus.

Effective immediately, Elohcin is replacing Serge.

One... two...

One fish, two fish.

Scotty wrote:Hey @HOSTS!

Can the cops hypothetically arrest Prisoner 509, or is he immune from that?

Wonder if that can be answered.

Prisoners who are paroled and enter the main game can be lynched, arrested, and targeted with night actions, just like any other player.

If prisoners are just temporarily released (prison break), however, they cannot be lynched, arrested, or targeted.

Silverwolf walked along the sidewalk, lost in her own thoughts. Things turned upside down since ika had gone to prison. She had been so sure, but in the end he was proven to be a family member. And now no one would listen to her. Things just seemed so murky. She just felt lost. Unfortunately she was unaware of being tailed. And as she rounded a poorly lit corner, the man following her grabbed her elbow and whirled her around. "Time to go downtown," said the policeman with a twisted smile.



Silverwolf has been arrested by the Police. She was ?????.

It is now Day 7.

You have 48 hours to find a policeman. Good luck, goons!

S~V~S wrote:
@Daisy or MP~ The Don needs a majority of his voters to be from his own family to be lynched. Does that count prisoners from his own family? If this was already asked, sorry, I missed it. Also, does that still apply in the case of purchased votes? Will you even answer these questions ?

That does not include prisoners, unless those prisoners have been pardoned and remain in the main game.

Yes, it does apply for purchased votes.

"It's been six days now."

"And?"

MP shot a frustrated glance at Daisy, "It doesn't bother you that we have only seen one cop taken out?"

For the first time, Daisy didn't reply with confidence, "I'd be lying if I said it didn't."

MP looked at her in surprise, this was not the answer he expected.

"It hasn't been going as well as I'd like. In fact, I am concerned we are in real danger of losing. Both of us."

"So what do we do?"

"What we've always done, take another person out and hope for once we get it right."

MP nodded, "I got word who they chose this time, it's ika."

"Well, let's see if we finally hit a cop."



ika has been arrested. He was Stool Pigeon, a member of The Daisy Crime Syndicate.

It is now Night 6.

You have 23 hours to send in your night actions.

Who is a policeman?

Poll ended at Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:50:49 pm


Black Rock
0
No votes

Boomslang
6
Prisoner 509378 (11), Sloonei (13), Scotty (14), indiglo (16), S~V~S (17), Epignosis (21) 29%

chaindeath
0
No votes

Draconus
0
No votes

Epignosis
1
ika (6) 5%

ika
8
Quin (8), Silverwolf (9), sig (10), Soneji (12), Boomslang (15), chaindeath (18), Black Rock (19), Turnip Head (20) 38%

indiglo
0
No votes

Nerolunar
0
No votes

Prisoner 509378
0
No votes

Quin
1
thellama73 (7) 5%

S~V~S
0
No votes

Scotty
0
No votes

Serge
0
No votes

sig
1
Nerolunar (4) 5%

Silverwolf
0
No votes

Sloonei
0
No votes

Soneji
0
No votes

thellama73
0
No votes

Turnip Head
0
No votes

Don Orville (hosts, non-players)
4
MovingPictures07 (1), Spacedaisy (2), nijuukyugou (3), Ricochet (5) 19%
Total votes : 21

S~V~S wrote:OK, that needs to be fixed, sorry.

Fixed.

ika wrote:

Silverwolf wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Counting to 5 and leaving the game thread when you get upset is definitely an excellent habit to develop.

For me it's 100

for me its 17 :P

Is that your favorite number or something?

Silverwolf wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

ika wrote:

Silverwolf wrote:I realize this site has a mod on duty function, but if we don't get in these heated battles, it's not nearly as easy to read a person. I agree with no personal attacks or insults but there is no reason we can't have these types of discussions because it does make it easier to not only get a read but for others reading it to get one as well.

This is mostly the point i was makign when SF made his announcement. This is mafia so heat will be brought and should be taken, i tend to use this kind of dicussions myself to get reads. I dont get personal unless someone else starts it, i see on this site i wont be happened so i wont. if it ever got to that poitn for me i would leave the game for a bit. silver has taught me to do that when i get upset

Counting to 5 and leaving the game thread when you get upset is definitely an excellent habit to develop.

For me it's 100

Lol, same here.

ika wrote:

Silverwolf wrote:I realize this site has a mod on duty function, but if we don't get in these heated battles, it's not nearly as easy to read a person. I agree with no personal attacks or insults but there is no reason we can't have these types of discussions because it does make it easier to not only get a read but for others reading it to get one as well.

This is mostly the point i was makign when SF made his announcement. This is mafia so heat will be brought and should be taken, i tend to use this kind of dicussions myself to get reads. I dont get personal unless someone else starts it, i see on this site i wont be happened so i wont. if it ever got to that poitn for me i would leave the game for a bit. silver has taught me to do that when i get upset

Counting to 5 and leaving the game thread when you get upset is definitely an excellent habit to develop.

Silverwolf wrote:I realize this site has a mod on duty function, but if we don't get in these heated battles, it's not nearly as easy to read a person. I agree with no personal attacks or insults but there is no reason we can't have these types of discussions because it does make it easier to not only get a read but for others reading it to get one as well.

Especially over the internet, it can be difficult to detect someone's tone and level of intensity with regards to emotional content, hence the need for the function, whether for venting or arbitration.

Nonetheless, if you are not upset, then that's great. If you (or anyone else, for that matter) ever gets upset to that degree, well, just know that the function is there for you.

ika wrote:i belive that if things are being heated (as they seem to be getting right now) that it should be monitored, i dont think anyone really got into a personal territory overall. If it did reach that for me or silver we would be telling the ohter in here ot go talkt o mod on duty, we both know our limits on it.

I don't remind the thread in order to single everyone out, rather, as a precaution for folks to make sure they remember to utilize the function if anyone reaches that point; I've seen and participated in too many instances where that was not the case.

So if you feel as though you or SW have been called out by my announcement, it was the furthest from my intention to do so. No one's pointing fingers or questioning judgment here; I just want to make that abundantly clear.

Epignosis wrote:I too am going to take a break. Because I have children and Smash Brothers tournaments around here are a thing.

Kick their butts for me.

Hey all! I forgot to remind you about the Loan Shark, but remember that they will always be offering votes all the time. Each Night/Day cycle is attributable to that Day's lynch.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Host Announcement:

The Loan Shark for The Sockfaced Famiglia is now accepting offers for Day 6 votes.

The Loan Shark for The Daisy Crime Syndicate is now accepting offers for Day 6 votes.

Instructions:
1) PM Sockface Loan Shark or Daisy Loan Shark and request the number of votes (either 1, 2, or 3) you would like to request. You may request votes starting now up until the end of Day 6.
2) The Loan Shark will then return your PM telling you only if he has confirmed your request. If he has denied your request, you will hear nothing.
3) If he has confirmed your request, you will receive the number of extra votes to be cast in secret only for Day 6. If you do not elect to use them during Day 6 by PMing your host, your extra votes will vanish.
4) Regardless of whether you used your votes, after Day 6's completion, the Loan Shark will then tell you the terms for payment, which you must complete.

Do NOT engage in BTSC to the Loan Shark sockpuppet accounts. The Loan Shark means business only. He doesn't want to hear about your bullsuit.

If you have questions, let your host know.

Nerolunar wrote:Thanks.

Nero (and everyone else), when you use the spoiler tag, make sure you "quote" tag it first, otherwise it'll be impossible to see on the default background.

I added quote tags for you here, Nero:

Nerolunar wrote:EBWOP

The spoiler should be readable now

Spoiler: show

Black rock - town

Boomslang - scum

Chaindeath - scum

Draconus - scum

Epignosis - town

Ika - town

Indiglo - town

Nerolunar - town

Prisoner 509 - town

Quin - scum

SVS - town

Scotty - town

Serge - town

Sig - scum

Silverwolf - town

Sloonei - town

Thellama - town

Turnip Head - town

"Freedom! Sweet freedom!" Prisoner 740359 yelled as he ran outside the building. He high-fived Prisoner 509378.

"Sorry, 740, I have more work to do. You go on ahead. I'll meet up with you later," Prisoner 509378 explained.

Prisoner 740359 didn't understand why a prisoner would want to spend one more second looking for cops. "Suit yourself, homie50. If you do find more cops, tell them hello for me... with a STABBING!" He laughed maniacally, then ran off.

Suddenly, a S.W.A.T. team busted through the doors of the building. "Get back in your cells, maggots!" the Warden commanded, as the S.W.A.T team threatened the prisoners with death if they didn't move quickly. "Took y'all long enough," he remarked at his backup.



Prisoner 509378 has been paroled! He will remain in the game.

Prisoner 740359 has also been paroled! However, he has fled the game... and completed his win condition! He was Ricochet.

Prisoner 379949 has been killed in a shooting (for being inactive). He was Tranq.

Prisoner 513538 has been killed in a shooting (for being inactive). He was Diiny.

Prisoner 980854 has been killed in a shooting (for being inactive). He was RadicalFuzz.

The remaining prisoners have been rounded up by the Warden and taken back to Syndicate Penitentiary.

It is now Day 6.

You have 48 hours to find a policeman. Good luck, goons!