The Syndicate

The game has started. All of you should just now have received a PM.

If you have questions, as always, let me and Sloonei know. Thanks again for playing!

Diiny wrote:I debated long and hard whether to make my avatar what it is

I think I made the wrong decision

Hahahaha, you made the right decision, that is awesome!!!!

T minus 1 hour.

Canucklehead wrote:Is this game taking the place of the next game in the hosting queue?

Good question!

No, since this game is a Special Game, the Full Game queue will continue uninterrupted. Long Con's A World Reborn is next in line, and will be going into sign-ups after this game gets going and Syndicate Mafia continues for a bit.

Epignosis wrote:So wait...I'm Rick Wakeman? What does that have to do with Talking Heads?

These hosts suck.

Hey, I said no talking about roles.

All roles have now been sent. If you have questions about your role, PM me and Sloonei.

The game will start Thursday, October 1st at 8:00PM Eastern time.

Thanks to all of you for signing up. We hope you enjoy it!

The role listing has been updated. There are now 26 civilians, 7 mafia, and 1 serial killer.

Roles will be randomized and sent out shortly.

Please do not discuss anything about your role with anyone other than your hosts (or BTSCmates, if you have them). If you have questions, let us know!

Sign-ups for Talking Heads Mafia (RYM #90) are now officially closed.

The game will start in exactly 24 hours, on Thursday, October 1st at 8:00PM Eastern time.

Congratulations, we made it 9 players over our minimum, and have 14 players from RYM signed up for this game.

10 minutes left!

HOME IS WHERE I WANT TO BE

thellama73 wrote:I am only in this game until October 24, so let's make it a bloody one. I want lots of death, okay? I want to see some of those legendary MP mod-genocides.

Sounds like it's time to introduce a bunch of RYMers to the llama gambit. :P

And I will not be afraid to modkill players this game, as always.

TinyBubbles wrote:i changed my vote to a yes, this game sounds too epic to miss

Yay! Glad to have you!

34.

There needs to be a Talking Heads-themed sandwich.

Great to have you, Llama! We're now at 33, accepting more for another half hour!

reywaS wrote:what kind of sandwich?

A yummy sandwich.

Only 45 minutes now until sign-ups close!

Just got home not long ago, made myself a sandwich, and now watching Stop Making Sense.

Ricochet wrote:This game is now almost as large as Biblical.

You could say it's just like David Byrne's big suit, ever increasing to absurdity.

bcornett is here!!!! Welcome sir! Hope you enjoy Syndicate mafia.

You all rock! Thanks for signing up, LC and bea! And likewise to Aces for being a replacement.

Just 11 hours and 15 minutes now until sign-ups close.

Fantastic! Glad to have you, rey. Now we're at 30.

25 hours until sign-ups close!

Bullzeye wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Bullzeye wrote:MP, when you finally get your PhD, you should have everyone refer to you as Dr. MP and you can go around referring to everybody as not a doctor :P

Haha, so whenever anyone calls DrWIlgy "Doctor", he has to say "I'm not a doctor!", and whenever anyone calls me "MP", I have to correct them with, "That's DR. MP to you, sir."

Even better, I'll allow you to insist upon The Doctor until I get mine.

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

Ricochet wrote:Genesis Mafia when? Because there's too many men, too many people, making too many problems.

Genesis Mafia would be cool. I can think of so many musical mafias that need to be made. I will do my best to rectify however many lacking mafia tributes (such injustices!) that I can.

Bullzeye wrote:MP, when you finally get your PhD, you should have everyone refer to you as Dr. MP and you can go around referring to everybody as not a doctor :P

Haha, so whenever anyone calls DrWIlgy "Doctor", he has to say "I'm not a doctor!", and whenever anyone calls me "MP", I have to correct them with, "That's DR. MP to you, sir."

Woo! Welcome to the game, NotADoctorWilgy!

I can't believe it's practically October myself! Where is this semester going?

Haha, not a problem. So, we're at 28. Keep it coming, folks! You have a day and 7 hours or so.

Bullzeye wrote:Actually I'm going to have to slip down to a maybe, sorry! I'm going to be away for the first week of the game and I doubt I'll have much time to get online at all. Plus with me not hearing back from my job interview til Friday at the latest (though I'm pessimistic anyway) I might be too busy to actually play. If you need a replacement a few days down the line, I will do it if I can.

Well, way to get my hopes up.

Seriously though, that's cool. Thank you! Replacements are definitely welcome.

Bullzeye wrote:So apparently this is a thing that is happening?

Thanks for signing up BR and Bullz! Rockin' it at 29.

Still accepting more!

Black Rock wrote:FINE!

Is this a David Byrne impression? :P

"DAMN THAT TELEVISION! WHAT A BAD PICTURE!"

Wow, it's K4J!!!! This is so awesome!! So glad to see you in another game! Welcome back.

Thanks for signing up, Elo and K4J! We are now at 27. Keep it coming, folks!

If you see this and you still are thinking about playing, don't forget you have until this Wednesday, September 30th to sign up. Sign-ups will be closed by 8:00PM Eastern time.

Alright, after talking with Sloonei, here's what we've decided:

Sign-ups will close at 8:00PM Eastern time on Wednesday, September 30th.

The game will start 24 hours later, at 8:00PM Eastern time on Thursday, October 1st. We will start with a Day 0. You will receive your roles sometime during that time frame.

We'll take as many players as we can get, so there is no real maximum. I will be PMing everyone here on The Syndicate shortly so that folks are aware. I'll need help from RYMers to likewise tell everyone over there as well.

sig wrote:Also as a newcomer to this forum, I can assure the others they are very laid back and this has been the best site I've found to play mafia on. I also still don't know all the lingo, but they are very patient in explaining it to me.

I'm glad you asked, since I was just typing up something regarding this! Now I can just quote your post. :P

I'm so glad that we've hit 25 players! That's our minimum. Nice going, everyone!

However, as much as I'm impatiently waiting to start this game, and I'm sure many of you are, I do not want to start right now. This game setup was designed for 25 since that's what I thought we would probably get, but it started as 19 (a speed game) before I changed it to a crossover setup, and it's very flexible. I already have roles in mind by which to expand it, in case we had increased demand. I firmly believe we will have increased demand. Worst case scenario and we do not, I at least want to leave open a bit of time to see if we do.

There are still some RYM folks that I want to make sure have had the chance to sign up over here and sign up before we start. I reached out to a handful or so privately yesterday, and if I think of any others who don't know about it I'll do so today. Jay and Sloonei have done a really good job of hyping the game up and disseminating information about it, but I want to be sure the word has spread absolutely.

The same goes for TS. I'm pretty sure there will be at least a few folks here who haven't signed up yet that want to play, or may want to play but haven't committed yet since they are in multiple games or unsure or whatever.

Thinking over it right now, I think I would like to leave sign-ups open another 3 - 7 (???) days. Let me hear back from Sloonei and we'll decide on a firm date ASAP, and then I'll post it immediately here.

I wanted to add... Golden covered some of the various abbreviations you'll see; I also happened to think of BTSC, since it's a common one and I don't think other communities really use it. It basically designates any kind of communication outside of the game thread, so mafia teams typically have it during days and nights, and civilians may have it if the role has an ability stating such.

Rbzmncaeaei wrote:greetings

Welcome!! Hope you enjoy mafia at The Syndicate. Are you for #team rym or #team syndicate?

I'm not sure I have much to add to what others have said! We love having new players around here and I'm really proud of the group of hosts and players we have on this site. As it is mafia, stuff gets heated as it inevitably does, but we from our start have instituted the Mod on Duty function (which is very similar to a mediator, but can also function just as a person to vent to) to help mitigate anything from escalating too big in the thread.

Many of us are good friends here. I started playing mafia back on Lostpedia and affiliated sites over 5 years ago now, loved the game, loved many of the other players, and so I introduced it to a bunch of my friends at ProgArchives where I had been a member for some time, and many of them hadn't played previously and grew to love it too. I created this community at a time when some of the LP-based player base started losing interest in mafia due to various reasons, and mafia was not happening at ProgArchives because it died off after I stopped hosting games (it wasn't a good site for mafia hosting from a functionality-level, that's for sure). As a result, the beginning of this site was a bit of a culture clash/melding between the two communities, one group which had an established mafia community across a few different sites (Lostpedia, Hedville, The Piano, RevolutionMafia) and had played for years, and another which had only played the two games I hosted a couple of years prior (ProgArchives), but since then I feel it's come to form a unique blend of the two cultures that I'm really happy with. I also recruited heavily from literally every part of my RL friend pool (high school, college, work, etc.), so many of my best friends play mafia here as well, and I know others of us have recruited similarly, so the player base isn't restricted to the two original groups, not by a long shot. Especially now with Roxy bumping into Thingyman on another mafia site and we've started building solid bridges between our site and other mafia communities, we've been introduced to many new mafia people with different perspectives this year... and I, for one, have loved it! I really can't express how excited I am to be a host for this first official crossover game!

The people are what keep me from investing so much of what free time I do have in this site and it wouldn't be what it is without them.

I feel like as a site we're also pretty open to new ways of looking at mafia games, although as Roxy and others noted, there are some norms here that I will be actively trying to break one by one over my coming games.

Everything you can want to know about the game setup should be in the Gameplay and Rules section on the first page (it will be included in the main game thread as well), but if you look it over and have any questions, definitely let me and Sloonei know, and feel free to always ask folks in the thread too, depending on what the question is. No one will be bothered by engaged players wanting to know more about how we do things around here, that's for sure.

espers wrote:hi

espers! Glad to see you again, hope you enjoy it.

RYM, you now have contributed 12 players. Much appreciated! We'll keep taking more though!

sanmateo wrote:hello

Hello, sanmateo! Very glad to see you playing another TS game, sir.

sig wrote:Okay thanks glad to be playing this game looks fun.

A quick question about Don't Worry About the Government, when a player PM's him/her will they then be revealed to each other, so if I entered BTSC with them would they know my role and who I was or just who I am?

Good question! I'm glad you asked.

I added an additional word to the role description to clarify: anonymous temporary BTSC.

Since the role does not select its target in this case (as is normal with every other time I've seen this role), it will actually be fully anonymous on both ends, and both DWAtG and the visitor will not know the other player's identity.

sig wrote:If sign ups are still open I would be happy to play.

They are indeed, nice to have you!

We need 3 more players, but will be accepting as many as we can get until we decide to start the game and sign-ups are moved to the Museum. I'll be PMing everyone before that occurs.

Ricochet wrote:We're still waiting...let's keep doing until, say, November?

But don't you want to start soon?

Seriously, we'll see how it goes. Once we hit 25, I want to make sure there isn't still additional demand out there before we get started. I'm guesstimating early October at this point.

Just an FYI, I'll have company (birdwithteeth11) from the 3rd through the 8th, but it shouldn't interfere with the game, especially thanks to my badass co-host.

Welcome, Choutas! Nice to meet you and glad to have you here. Hope you enjoy it.

Alright, it's the 26th and we're now officially into the window where we can start the game. Still not sure when it'll actually start, but we need to at least hit the minimum of 25 players first (we can definitely have more if folks really want in), and we'll go from there.

Matt F wrote:

NO FREAKING WAY!!!!!

Welcome back, Mr F!!!!!!

How have you been, sir? It's been way too long.

seaside wrote:I will play.

Awesome! Good to see you. Welcome, seaside!

MacDougall wrote:I am playing because it's a Talking Heads game.

Hello, MacDougall! Welcome to The Syndicate, sir, and hope you enjoy it here!

I think it's completely awesome that only a few days have passed and we already have 7 RYMers, so I want to just say that I really appreciate the effort so far! Keep rocking it, RYM, but rock it harder! Show me that you can indeed ball or circle (ball in two dimensions) by getting more people over here!

FZ. wrote:The hell with it, I just signed and that's that

If I have to, I'll come on at least once a day in the beginning. Hopefully, there won't be many days that I'm away

Booyah! Nice to have you, FZ.

Golden 2 wrote:Can Syndicate socks join in and create a third party ratio?

No existential crises will be allowed, sorry.

I wonder if RYM will take the lead 8:7 or if it will be pushed back in the TS direction.

Golden wrote:I'm taking the recent posts to mean "where are you ninja, and why haven't you signed up yet!!???"

That and where are the female RYMers? Apparently not playing mafia (except aether and dunya).

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:As the forum ratio evens out, the gender ratio gets wider. We need more girls in RYM mafia. :P

Indeed, this game is increasingly becoming a sausage fest. :P

Look, guys! rundontwalk is here!!

Welcome to The Syndicate, sir.

Replacements may be needed, so they are appreciated.

A big thanks to those of you who have signed up as a player or replacement already!

Fantastic! Welcome, Diiny! Hope you enjoy it here.

This is so exciting. 6 RYMers already. Can't wait to see who else will join us!

fingersplints wrote:I signed up for the replacement option because it's filling up fast. It depends on where Rox and I are at in our game, but I might be able to switch to playing later.

If it turns out that the demand for this game is higher than the 25 players currently planned, it is possible that Sloonei and I will expand the number of roles to accommodate players who want in. Either way, we're glad to have you in whatever capacity! Same goes for anyone else on the fence.

We will definitely not be rushing this game if we somehow receive 25 players soon. Due to my schedule, I cannot start sooner than the 26th, and I'm doubting that we will start even then. We'll play it by ear and Sloonei and I'll be sure to disseminate at both sites and via PM a few days before we plan on closing sign-ups, since I don't want to start before anyone who wants to play from either site has had a chance to sign up.

TheFloyd73 wrote:Came here from RYM, haven't played Mafia before. I'm looking forward to.

Yay!

Welcome to The Syndicate, and welcome to mafia! It's fun, you'll love it.

6:5 TS:RYM ratio, not bad. Keep it up, RYMers!