The Syndicate

I am going to quietly self-vote for today because I'm still lost, it's nearly 1am and I'm very tired, and I missed the last vote but don't want to again. Sorry for how much I've sucked in this game, hopefully who ever replaces me does better.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask to be replaced. I just can't keep up with this, I'm so busy and every day I get further behind. That is only going to get worse as time goes on so it's best if I drop out and let someone who can be active take over. I did say when I signed up I probably wouldn't have time for this game but I know that if I'd been less busy I really would have enjoyed playing this!

Does anyone else find that you can get so far behind in a game it's practically impossible to get back into it? I've been trying to catch up today but tbh I feel like I've just replaced in or something!

Gotrees wrote:

Clom wrote:Clom, also spelt Klom, was the twin planet (or sister planet) of Raxacoricofallapatorius.

Raxacoricofallapatorius is the home of those fat green farting aliens that everyone hates.

Clom was the home of that weird fat green alien from the episode where that one girl turns into a tile or whatever in one of the worst episodes of any show ever

FTFY.

Karn seems like a decent option.

Sorry I missed the vote! Got distracted by important stuff then just fell asleep. I will try harder but I did say originally I wasn't going to sign up for this because of how busy I am

I'm super struggling with this game and tbh I may end up having to ask to be replaced. Going to try to catch up and vote now.

zeek wrote:I'm not entirely clear on your suspicions of Made, is it because he is unclear about your posts? Like he's trying to force suspicion on you over nothing?

The problems I have with your explanation are:
I don't buy that you used a randomizer for on four options.
Logically, an accidental vote is a random vote.

Obviously, you can't answer these criticisms if what you say is true. I don't know you - maybe you just religiously follow a randomizer, even for small polls, but it is odd.

I have no problem with him using a randomizer on four options. If that's what someone wants to do, so be it. What I don't get is why he would take it so seriously as to change his vote from what he accidentally chose to what the randomizer said. As you say, an accidental vote is just as random. It's not like anyone would have known and said "Oh Dom voted x when his randomizer clearly told him to vote y. Super baddie move tbh."

zeek wrote:Poor formatting there, time to get my strength up with some pizza.

Great minds think alike. I just threw one in the oven myself.

Chris wrote:Wait, Metalmarsh is Newp?

No, he's a newt. Like the animal. He got turned into one during the Monty Python game and hasn't gotten better by the look of it.

zeek wrote:Just noticed MM has actually voted for me already. Very disappointing.

He did say you were getting his vote 'for now'. He might change it later, who knows?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Bullzeye wrote:I feel like he probably (read: blatantly) had info on the night poll. I don't think if he was bad he'd be so pushy about it though, which leads me to believe he's civ. What I do take issue with though is the 'avoidance of responsibility' line. This is only a game, people here don't owe each other anything.

Linki: Not that I know of, but it does look like there may have been info flying around last night.

I didn't mention it, but the fact that nothing has happened makes this all the more suspish. We went to the planet he wanted, seemingly, (he even says so here) but nothing is happening, nor have the hosts made any indication that we have visited a planet. It did seem that he had info, but it looks like a bluff to me. Either it was a lie (intentional or not) or this is something that might benefit him, but no one else, and not in a good way.

I hadn't considered that. You do raise a good point. There's no indication that anything bad or good happened as a result of the night poll, yet if you listen to Zeek you'd think the world was going to burn if we didn't choose his option.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:zeek, your behavior last night was quite suspicious. First you started the night off with this.

zeek wrote:Listen guys, I doubt I'll survive the Night so I will detail my thoughts on people today instead of safely waiting for Day 2. But not yet.

You never followed up on it. I'm not worried about that though, maybe you had different thoughts later on in the night. Or maybe you're a baddie. Anyway then you posted this.

zeek wrote:Listen guys, I doubt I'll survive the Night so I will detail my thoughts on people today instead of safely waiting for Day 2. But not yet.

Great, I agree 100%, let everyone make their own choice. But that's not how you acted later in the night. Far from it in fact. Your agenda was very clear that we should visit Alzarius. No explanation why. You completely reversed your attitude on the night poll. Here's an example.

zeek wrote:I am telling you all this is important. You don't have to trust me, you just have to vote for Alzarius. Voting patterns are everything if we fail to reach that planet. Voting everywhere because you like the colour blue is a complete avoidation of responsibility. We are choosing our destination, make it this one.

Enrique and Dom are my top suspects.

You're getting my vote for now.

I feel like he probably (read: blatantly) had info on the night poll. I don't think if he was bad he'd be so pushy about it though, which leads me to believe he's civ. What I do take issue with though is the 'avoidance of responsibility' line. This is only a game, people here don't owe each other anything.

Linki: Not that I know of, but it does look like there may have been info flying around last night.

DFaraday wrote:

Bullzeye wrote:

DFaraday wrote:I don't like infodumping, but Zeek seems really sure and I doubt a baddie would push that hard for an outcome with bad results.

More importantly, all of the Juliets bandwagoners (Elo, Bullz, Sabie) voted for Azure, so I'm suddenly feeling wary of that option. Hence, I'll switch to Alzarius.

Bandwagoner? Sorry she was a civ but tbh she looked to me like she was pretty much saying she'd vote for whoever someone else told her to, as well as buddying up to Epig in a major way. Didn't look civ to me.

That's fair, but Elo and Sabie offered pretty much no explanation, and so the fact that you're still voting the same way as them gives me pause. I'm more suspicious of them than you, though.

I didn't even look who'd voted, I literally just randomised and didn't care. It's only a night poll.

DFaraday wrote:I don't like infodumping, but Zeek seems really sure and I doubt a baddie would push that hard for an outcome with bad results.

More importantly, all of the Juliets bandwagoners (Elo, Bullz, Sabie) voted for Azure, so I'm suddenly feeling wary of that option. Hence, I'll switch to Alzarius.

Bandwagoner? Sorry she was a civ but tbh she looked to me like she was pretty much saying she'd vote for whoever someone else told her to, as well as buddying up to Epig in a major way. Didn't look civ to me.

Random voted for the poll, ended up with Azure.

Enrique wrote:Is there a particular reason why you have set yourself to appear as invisible on the forum? It makes it hard to tell whether I should expect a response at any given time.

This wasn't directed at me, but I and many people stay invisible precisely to avoid questions like this:

zeek wrote:You've been online for quite a while and not really posted. I'm not even saying it is suspicious, it was only meant as a retort to your comment on my hiddenness. (I've logged out, unchecked hidden and logged back in, but I'm still hidden for some reason. Must be cache or some shit.)

I often leave myself logged in all day and know that if I was visible there'd be at least one person per game who brought up the fact that I seem to be on a lot more than I post.

I've just moved back into uni and I'm just making a quick post to say check in and say you probably won't see much of me until late tomorrow.

Should have voted and gone to bed hours ago but kinda glad I didn't because I wouldn't have known what to do then. This whole thing with Juliets looks quite suspicious, she almost seems to suck up to Epi with the whole 'since you're so good at picking out baddies comment'. It also makes it as though he's responsible for her vote and is the one who should be held accountable if she ended up voting for a civ. Not to mention she's basically saying she'll vote where someone else tells her to when there's no reason to really trust anyone that much yet. It just doesn't look good to me so I'm going to *Vote Juliets* and leave for the night.

zeek wrote:How, umm, reassuring

You were asked to do it by someone in charge of helping to run the site in order to check whether the problem would allow people to cheat without consequence and therefore be quite a serious issue. You've been helpful, I don't see the hosts wanting to modkill you for that. They're nice people.

zeek wrote:You never know

It would be funny but I think such a tactic would only be used once before people just never speak to that player again.

Yeah this is Epi's newest tactic, thin the herd by tricking people into breaking the rules and then getting them all modkilled :P

Oh wait looking back I never actually voted MP in MP, but I was suspicious of him anyway. That suspicion wasn't provoked by Epig. My point still stands.

Epignosis wrote:

Bullzeye wrote:Busy day yesterday packing for uni and I'm still not finished! Going to be another fun day for me. I have been trying to keep up but only barely because I've had too much to do. I should be around more today though so if I get a chance I'll try to properly catch up.

S~V~S wrote:I thought a number of people were responsible for catching MP in Python, Epi, but whatever. If you say so

Is he actually claiming credit for that? Because I don't remember him having any major part in it. I would credit that lynch to you, BWT, and Daisy as well as MP's own actions.

Obviously I cannot lynch someone by myself. I initiated the proceedings against MP in (heh) MP on Day 1 before anyone said anything against him, and I pressed him, and pressed him some more. Until I gave him the rope and told him to start tying his own noose, the focus was on Made / Enrique / and thellama73. Check the links if you don't believe me.

Addendum: No, The Hobbit was a different game where I did the same thing.

So you were suspicious of him sure. But I think

Epignosis wrote:MP has gotten lynched in the past two full games on Day 1 because I called him on it.

is a bit of a bold statement. You weren't the only factor in either of those games. Maybe a primary factor in The Hobbit, I'll give you that. But I don't think two deaths in a row were entirely because of you, I know that in MP you had nothing to do with my vote for him and don't recall many people saying you'd influenced them. I'm not saying it means anything about you or your alignment, I'm just saying I don't quite think you can go around acting like some MP expert and claiming credit for things that you aren't really that responsible for. In my opinion MP's biggest tell is that when he's bad he makes his same huge posts but they don't actually say very much, I've used the phrase 'lots of words but not much use for them' in regard to him before. As a civ his dissertations generally tend to mean something. I'm not seeing bad MP either yet.

Busy day yesterday packing for uni and I'm still not finished! Going to be another fun day for me. I have been trying to keep up but only barely because I've had too much to do. I should be around more today though so if I get a chance I'll try to properly catch up.

S~V~S wrote:I thought a number of people were responsible for catching MP in Python, Epi, but whatever. If you say so

Is he actually claiming credit for that? Because I don't remember him having any major part in it. I would credit that lynch to you, BWT, and Daisy as well as MP's own actions.

Mister Rearranger wrote:

Made wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Yeah, I'm not buying this little back and forth at all.

You'll never make friends with that attitude!

I would like to agree with this, but Epi's a pretty cool cat.

I've got a lot of catching up to do; but first, how about a joke?

What do you call 2 twins who also happen to be medical professionals?

I imagine you would call them by their names if you were familiar enough with them, or refer to them as Dr whatever until invited to do otherwise.

S~V~S wrote: Especially on this site, where we can't link to the original post via the quote. Taking things out of their original context can change the meaning sometimes. When someone asks you to produce a quote, as I asked Made "where did Zeek say that", producing the whole thing is better, cutting and pasting parts of it out looks like you are trying to hide something. This is only my opinion, of course, but I am fairly sure other people have said similar things in other games.

And yeah, I have done the "edit instead of quote" thing in other peoples posts, too. For some reason it's easier for me to do that by accident on phone, so I try to avoid quoting on phone if possible. I usually catch it in preview, when I realize that my comments are in the text ~ it's one reason I avoid that trendy "replying in another color in the body of the quote" thing. I have only actually posted it once.

I'm worried now because I think I do this a lot and people must think I'm bad for it. Does what I've done to this post constitute cropping? I tend to chop bits out of quotes that I don't have anything to say to or aren't relevant to the conversation I want to have, mainly for ease of reading and so people know exactly what I'm talking about. Especially if I only want to respond to like three sentences out of an MP-scale post. It's not nefarious, just convenient.

keys56000000000 wrote:*peeks into thread*

Is it ok to post now? *sheepish*

I tried watching the reboot of Dr Who a few years back. I got to the episode where aliens invade London, an episode I was looking forward to since I am a born and bred Londoner. But then the aliens just farted all the time and it was just, sorry to say, stupid. I stopped watching at that point. I may well pick it up at some point in the future, since I think my wife would enjoy the show.

So I only experienced the one doctor, and to be honest I wasn't that captivated by his performance, so I obviously have no idea which option to pick.

Having said all that, I feel compelled to pick the Doctor played by Matt Smith, which I believe is #11. *votes*

Those would be the Slitheen. Most people agree they're stupid and I'm actually pretty sure they never show up again after 9's run. You should check out some of Tennant or Smith's work. Actually the fourth episode of the current series is probably one of the best ever and might be still available on IPlayer.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Bullzeye wrote:Yay, game begins!

MovingPictures07 wrote:Lol, fair response. Is the role listing going to be updated to 31 roles or are those 3 roles secret?

I know you have a LOT to do, so I'm only curious.

What if the other 3 roles are the Silence and they're totally there but every time we look away we forget? Also, why are my arms covered in tally marks?

Wow, nice theory. That's a definite possibility and would explain why they're not listed. Would that be a third mafia team then? If so, that's kind of scary, but might actually be kind of a good thing since the baddies will have a lot of competing factions to worry about, and won't focus on just ridding civvies. When I had three mafia teams in Classic Rock, there was more fighting among mafia teams than I expected, with the Satanists rising to an advantage among the ashes of the other two. So I wonder if that's what's going on here.

I was actually kidding at first! I suppose they could seriously be the Silence though, which would lend to the idea of them being bad.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Does anyone have any ideas as to what this poll might cause game-wise?

I know it could be unlikely we'll guess correctly, so it probably is sort of pointless to speculate, but there's really nothing wrong with discussing it, especially since it appears we can change votes.

I just assumed it was like a check in activity really.

Dana wrote:

Bullzeye wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Lol, fair response. Is the role listing going to be updated to 31 roles or are those 3 roles secret?

I know you have a LOT to do, so I'm only curious.

What if the other 3 roles are the Silence and they're totally there but every time we look away we forget? Also, why are my arms covered in tally marks?

I totally forgot about them, I definitely think this theory is pretty likely. They would make pretty awesome roles.

Yeah, that happens a lot. You probably stopped looking.

Yay, game begins!

Made wrote:

fingersplints wrote:What is the War Doctor?

Excited the game has started!

Doctor from the 50th anniversary special, if I am correct, he isn't even suppose to exist. The 9th doctor was suppose to be the war doctor but 9 refused to show up (or wasn't asked to show up) for the special??

Not quite right. From what I heard Ecclestone was invited to be a part of the 50th but decided it was best if he stayed away because he pretty much hates everything about the production. John Hurt (War Doctor) was always going to be that character, in 9's first episode he is implied to have only just regenerated. Also the things Matt Smith says about him in Name of The Doctor wouldn't make sense if he was talking about Ecclestone's character.

The War Doctor is who 8 regenerated into after deciding he needed to stop the Time War for good. He's the Doctor who wasn't the Doctor. Except he totally was.

Dom wrote:

birdwithteeth11 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:It's obvious Tennant will win the poll, but IMO for good reason. He was just so perfect for the role it's not even funny.

Give Capaldi a full season, and I bet my answer to this will change. But for now, I would agree.

You think so? I saw the first episode and found the writing to be quite awful.

Capaldi's first episode was no Eleventh Hour but I thought it was decent. The second, not so much. The Robin Hood episode was fun and the latest one was quite interesting IMO, while Listen is up there with Blink as one of the best ever. I think he's going to do a great job.

Dom wrote:

bea wrote:

Dom wrote:

birdwithteeth11 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:It's obvious Tennant will win the poll, but IMO for good reason. He was just so perfect for the role it's not even funny.

Give Capaldi a full season, and I bet my answer to this will change. But for now, I would agree.

You think so? I saw the first episode and found the writing to be quite awful.

I agree. There is a difference between the writing and the acting. I think the writing will catch up with the acting soon enough (I hope. ) I really did like the last two episodes though. Transitions are always difficult.

I really hated most of Smith's reign. I love Matt Smith, but I thought the writing was horrendous.

Anyway, I don't want to clog the thread with my pretentious 'Moffat Killed Who' rants.

Please, pretentious away. Really I think it's River Song who killed it though. Her plot was so convoluted and dumb that I barely even remember what happened in the season six finale or really what the overall point of it all was. I also think she kinda ruined Amy. Smith is still my favourite though tbh.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Lol, fair response. Is the role listing going to be updated to 31 roles or are those 3 roles secret?

I know you have a LOT to do, so I'm only curious.

What if the other 3 roles are the Silence and they're totally there but every time we look away we forget? Also, why are my arms covered in tally marks?

I think Tennant was good but part of me thinks he's also overhyped. He had a lot of the best episodes but he gets a lot of credit just for being good looking as well. Matt Smith got me back into the show after I'd sort of lost interest and missed most of season 3/4 and the specials. He had some lame episodes but also some of the most badass scenes. Eleven is totally my Doctor.