The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I'd say everyone who actually posted did at least somewhat well. :P

Yes. About that. I've never seen such inactivity. I quit writing down Night actions because I would have three or four regularly.

I was saddened by that myself. Even with my hectic RL and playing another game, I was able to post once per period as Stephen for a while there.

That's why Famine's win condition consisted of such higher numbers. I thought (given recent games) the post count gave him was reasonable.

Yeah, I agree, especially given the extreme buzz surrounding this game. I mean, look at Economics. I know it had me and Jay, but still. It had 19 players and over 4,000 posts.

That said, this will still go down as a fantastic game, Epi, and you should feel really proud of it.

Epignosis wrote:

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:FUN FACT: All the heathens names were Mordecai, Uzziah, Ruth, Deborah, Esther, Rahab. If you cut out all but the first letters, it spells MURDER.

I did that on purpose.

Mind fucking blown.

Ricochet wrote:And I don't think Epig explained it, but Samson became my "Angel of Death" after he died and he became my first target. He shared my win condition and was allowed to vote, but not post on-topic. He refrained to vote for a while, because all the lynches were straightforward, but the day Isaac and Mordecai got close, we stood by and, under my command, he made it a tie. Unfortunately, that completely backfired on us and got my killed afterwards.

And MM totally outed himself in the BTSC by signing as "MM89-Phone", right after Epig specifically sent us PMs in which he told us NOT to out ourselves.

MM's tale as Samson is so ironic, I can't even. Signed up as sock, still gets killed D1. Gets stuck with me in BTSC, like old mafia chums. Depends his win on me entirely. I lurked in the chat and jumped in his place during the Second Trivia Game, without warning. He gets the win after all, even though he lost D1. Epic.

That is SO AWESOME. I was wondering what the deal was with the Samson vote.

And I knew MM was Samson as he got lynched D1 for following my lead as Paul. I couldn't stop laughing. It was so Metalmarsh.

timmer wrote:Great game, Epig! Very challenging for us baddies with that fucking role that kept the days going when we got lynched, lol, but it was a worthy challenge!

And yes, some of our BTSC was VERY off-topic and hilarious, so if ANY of that was sent to that civ role, I'll die heheh...

Deborah is cleared out!

Yes, that role was crazy! I love the role, but I did think that was the biggest mechanic working against your team for most of the game.

I'm very curious as to the BTSC as well!

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I'd say everyone who actually posted did at least somewhat well. :P

Yes. About that. I've never seen such inactivity. I quit writing down Night actions because I would have three or four regularly.

I was saddened by that myself. Even with my hectic RL and playing another game, I was able to post once per period as Stephen for a while there.

juliets wrote:Epi, what did those deaths that said "smote by the Lord" or something like that come from? Were they you modkilling?

I am also very curious as to a few of the more random kills this game, like Phinheas's spear seemingly not matching the circumstances in the role listing.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:
And ot Juliets, my adaptation is partly in part to my wonderful teammates. From the jump I made them aware that I was a new player to the site, and needed to know common terminology so that I didnt out myself because of my vocabulary.
meant to be taken in context with the previous posts to appear as "No Gods. No Disciples. No Kings. No Partiarchs. No Prophets. ONLY HEATHENS!"

That's awesome. I was wondering what you were doing with those.

Oh, and DH, I could tell Nico was you, but I had no idea why you were posting so little. Now I get it.

Shout out to Rico as Belsh too since I think he was riding civvie cred for a while there, until the thread collapsed on him.

juliets wrote:TGG you did a great job at adapting to our style which is so so different from the mafia style you are used to.

Agreed 100%.

OH! And my D1 vote against Samuel as Paul. I wanted to shake the thread up. But as to why I chose Samuel over anyone else... it's because I could tell it was Daisy and I wanted to fuck with her.

thellama73 wrote:Golden once again blew me away with his civilian play. That guy is epic.

Seriously, HEathens, why didn't you kill Lot? I even made it so Deborah couldn't win unless you killed him, and you still wouldn't do it. It was driving me nuts!

Indeed, I am SO glad Golden got the win here. He and G-Man (and you, Llama) totally rocked the civvie cred all the way this game.

Ricochet wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Omg I totally can't keep up now that I'm back to my regular self.

MP, did I slip to you re: my identity? Did I slip to anyone else? Dead (pun) curious about this.

I actually had you pegged as Llama at first, but then realized Absalom was Llama pretty quickly, then had you as a ??? for a while. You did a good job. I could tell it was you about halfway through the game.

I'm not sure why, but I'm really good at figuring out who is behind the socks. I suppose I have to make up for my terrible civilian play somehow. :P

Halfway as in when I died? When I started defending for my life?

The only thing I abstained from was posting during the nights, over in America time, and posting music references, as much as I would have died to (cue my Aphrodite's Child exit). Otherwise, I started out wanting to play a different character under my sock (being more brazen, jokey), but ultimately failed and just played myself (posting a lot).

I forgot who called me a leader at some point. I wasn't, but thank you nevertheless.

Yep, I could tell it was 100% you once you had to start defending yourself hard. It reminded me of Donner Party.

Again, though, I had almost everyone else pegged correctly before you.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:
DAMN IT! SO CLOSE!

Good damn either way. I wasnt too shabby for a first time mafia huh?

For the record, we did kill Martha for the "hunny and dearie" posts.

Also I was pretty certain that Pilate was the last horseman, since we didnt know that stephen was actually the final one. Most notably because when I got silenced on Night 9, Pilate came after me right out of the gate. I figured he wanted to try and get me lynched when he knew I couldnt talk.

Furthermore, on day 10, I didnt vote to save myself because I thought Samson's vote wouldnt count, and the votes werent actualy tied.

Great game, Mr. X! I thought it was you because you posted OT green in a color that wasn't conventional, but it was confirmed when you started posting your .gifs that you love so much. :P

I was shocked when you got lynched, that was one of the few moments in the game where the tide turned in the civilians' favor. It definitely seemed like the mafia were going to pull the win here for most of the game, but there were a few crucial moments that all fell in the civilians' favor. Crazy game.

nutella wrote:Guess I should switch to my normal account like everyone else >_>

Wow those horsemen conditions are weird and confusing. Cool stuff Epi!

I really really really enjoyed this game. I don't know what else to say. It was great fun.


do we need to change back the passwords on the socks?

You played well. A lot of the civilians and baddies did.

I'd say everyone who actually posted did at least somewhat well. :P

No, I'm 99% sure Golden (aka Lot) was Amor.

And NOW I can finally say that I knew Balaam was G-Man and that's why I mainly thought he was faking the pictures in Economics because I saw civilian G-Man in full action here and he was SO DIFFERENT in Economics.

Ricochet wrote:Omg I totally can't keep up now that I'm back to my regular self.

MP, did I slip to you re: my identity? Did I slip to anyone else? Dead (pun) curious about this.

I actually had you pegged as Llama at first, but then realized Absalom was Llama pretty quickly, then had you as a ??? for a while. You did a good job. I could tell it was you about halfway through the game.

I'm not sure why, but I'm really good at figuring out who is behind the socks. I suppose I have to make up for my terrible civilian play somehow. :P

nijuukyugou wrote:And we would've won too, if it weren't for you meddling Horsemen :P This was sooooo much fun and soooo much work. Thank God I finished with real work like a week ago so I could dedicate a stupid amount of time to it, regardless of the end Well done, everyone!!

Very well played. I could tell it was you from near the very beginning, though, and I could see baddie Blooper at the end, which is why I kept going after you.

Oh, and you weren't in my winning faction either, so that helped. :P

Like Llama, my baddie catching instincts this game were actually pretty solid. I was pleasantly surprised.

I goofed when it came to Esther though because I KNEW it was Elo and I kept thinking she seemed bad, but told myself she must be civilian, since I always read Elo wrong.

I had every single sock pegged except for the quiet ones Barnabas, Hagar, and Rebecca.

I knew Pilate was LC from before the game even started because he made two posts in the sign-up thread that seemed totally LC-ish to me (and both made me laugh):

Pilate wrote:If I end up lynching a Civvie, I can just wash my hands of it!

Pilate wrote:

Belshazzar wrote:Malchus, Pilate and Johnny Depp of the Old Testament, don't forget to also sign up in the poll.

Thank you, Belsh! Or should I say... Llama!

Jacob wrote:Phew go civvies! Still pissed that I was so close and didn't quite make it to the end
And lol Absalom was a horseman, wow!! So I really want to learn more about them, what exactly was your win condition MP? (interesting that you all win even though you're dead -- but then I guess that makes some sense, with Death and all...)

I was disappointed at first when I received the Horseman role for Stephen, since I was hoping to continue playing as a civilian. I really was upset when I was silenced D2 and then killed N2 as Paul, but I figured it would happen, and it worked out well for me to play other mafia games thereafter and due to my RL. I sacrificed studying for a major test by posting as Paul early on and knew I couldn't keep that up for the rest of the game. :P

Funny story, I was actually busy most of D2, and was going to play it off as Paul being silent until EoD on purpose, but then I logged into my sock toward the end and realized I had been silenced.

As for my win condition as Stephen, my predecessor (Aces) had to split all of the players into three factions at the very start of the game. One was declared a winning faction and the other two were the losing factions. At endgame, I had to have more players alive in my winning faction than my losing factions. Every Night, I could switch the names of 0/2/4/6 living players, depending on how many Horsemen were alive. I did not know their identities. I couldn't move a player's name once they had died.

So I initially played pro-civilian and tried to adjust my list in accordance, but then I realized it would be too difficult to balance, and I quieted down, especially because of playing in the Economics game which just finished not that long ago.

I only started speaking back up and played a pro-civilian game once Deborah got lynched, since at that point, I knew my voting record made me appear WAY too good, and right around that time I couldn't move my names anymore, since Jonah had died. Consequently, I wanted to exert as much influence on the thread as possible.

Contrary to my list, I actually did go after Pilate, even though he was stuck in my winning faction at that point (even though I was going to swap him the same Night I could no longer move names), because at that point I knew I seemed super civilian to everyone, and with Deborah's flip, I felt the civilians deserved to win more so than everyone else. I figured I could still pull off a win, if I was lucky, even if I sacrificed Pilate, so I viewed it as a necessary sacrifice, since the importance of helping the civilians win this game was nearly as much as winning the game for my own sake at that point.

DharmaHelper wrote:

First, I was Paul. Civilian.

You loudmouthed bastard.

I was Nico/Famine, and my win condition was dependent on the number of posts at endgame.

Didn't you just love it?

I wanted to take advantage of the sockpuppet to play an entirely different game. Having played recently at NF, RYM, and spectated Game 3 of the Championships, I based Paul on one player from each of those, with of course some of my own antics thrown in there. :P

thellama73 wrote:Helo,
My name is Absalom and I'm a Horseman of the Apocalypse.

Epig, this is without exaggeration my favorite mafia game I've ever played. Your host posts were inspired, and the socks were so much fun.

I also think it's by far my best performance. I had to mark ten people at the beginning of the game I had to kill in order to win, and I personally led lynches on five of them. The fact that I managed to end the game with everyone trusting me, even though I have never been more manipulative, makes me super happy.

Well played, sir. Very well played. I thought you were a civilian up until the end. No idea that you were a fellow Horseman!

Belshazzar wrote:I'm not posting who I was yet. You all have three guesses.

Hello, Ricochet.

I had most of the players pegged by Day 2.

Alright. So, surprise surprise, I actually did play this game. I wasn't going to, since I intended on taking a long break from playing after Keeler, but I became refreshed after involving myself in mafia again at other sites, and I just could not miss out on how amazing this game looked.

First, I was Paul. Civilian.
Second, I was Mary Magdalene, but only VERY briefly, since I barely replaced in before she was lynched. Civilian.
Third, I was Stephen. Horseman.

I am so glad I was able to help the civilians win this game in what ways I could, but I'm even happier that I somehow managed to fulfill my Horseman win condition.

YES! Fantastic! Well played, all.

This was a really great game, Epi. Thanks for hosting!

I assume we can comment on endgame as either our socks or as our usual screennames?

ABSALOM, ABSALOM, ABSALOM!

Epignosis wrote:8 What follows is the psalm praising this event, because they had flown in headlong: 9 “Some days were dark. I wish that I could live it all again. 10 Some nights were bright. I wish that I could live it all again.”.

I stoke the fire on the big steel wheels
Steer the airship right across the stars
I learned to fight, I learned to love, I learned to feel
How I wish that I could live it all again

Judah wrote:

Lazarus wrote:I would like to study the gospels because who doesn't want to read about Lazarus.

They write cool songs about Lazarus.