The Syndicate

Dyslexicon wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:07 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:00 pm oh I mean which member would you like to be from here and roleplay as
Oh. Marmot would be a comfortable transition for me, I think.

That's who I chose in our latest game.

I don't regret it.

Kyle - did you miss me?

I basically ignore half the people in the early game of games that big. Can never get a read on or pay close attention to everyone.

juliets wrote:
speedchuck wrote:
Metalmarsh89 wrote:Hopefully you'll be around when I actually have time (and the player interest) to host this game.
On the one hand, I really want to play that. On the other hand, keeping up with 33 of you guys...
Not all of us are JJJ, Golden,MP or Sloonei. With that said, if you see all four of them in a game, watch out cause you're gonna want cliff notes.

In games like that, even I need cliff notes.

We've got a few people new to the site around at the moment, and mayhaps we should stick you in the chair, speedchuck!

Hey Dex..

How awesome is indiglo?

I'm going to Blue Man Group in a couple of weeks, they are coming here.

Most things I never get to see, because most people never come here.

An interrogation, you say?

Scotty, what is the name of your Russian contact? We know you have one. And where are you hiding the smuggled goods?

I'm not above waterboarding.

I also play the xylophone, ika!

Well, I did do a year of performance percussion while doing my law degree.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
S~V~S wrote:I know you love wolves. What about bears?
WHAT ABOUT SOCKS?!?!

Who could live in Minnesota without a healthy love of socks. I mean, its socks or frostbite, and who loves frostbite?

We should put ika in here next. My first question to him will be

Silverwolf or metalmarsh89?

Hi Silverwolf!

Where are you from?
How did you and ika meet?
Why wolves? What do they represent to you?
What is your favourite ever gambit that you pulled in mafia?
What is your favourite colour?
Who is your go to author?
If you could be super-skilled at one thing instantly, what would you choose?
How many gloves do you own?
Whats better - headstands or cartwheels?
Have you been overseas? If so, what is the favourite palce you've been? If not, where would you really like to go?

Scotty wrote:Let's say you're dealt a 3-5 suited in a 4-way pot, and the flop is an Ace-2-3. The guy before you bets the minimum after coming out hot with a min raise preflop. What do you do?

Not to pre-determine Quin's answer, but I would immediately google to figure out what game I was playing.

Quin wrote:It depends on the exchange rate.

I think I lose either way. I already lost once having to pay for a wedding over there.

Is that AUD or NZD?

Hi Quin

If you were a hat, what kind of hat would you be?

Why do you look so nervous?

What is your favourite mafia role you've had?

Have you ever been to Newcastle?

Are you looking forward to adding to our growing antipodean army here on the Syndicate? We seem to be multiplying faster than everyone else... next step, world domination. So, you in?

Hey Enrique

Where are you from?
What brought you to the game of mafia? What site did you start your mafia on?
What is your favourite food?
What is your favourite article of clothing?

I should have asked Matt what happened to the F before he left the hotseat.

The next victim of our hotseat is....

Enrique

Question away, people!

Poor Matt, grounded for killing his neighbour.

Typhoony wrote:
bea wrote:How bad do you want to smack tranq in the face now? Is it worth making the drive there? If you do, take pictures please? You know.....you couple prolly periscope it then charge forum peeps to watch it....that might sell, what do you think?
Hm...

How about a mafia game where I personally visit whoever is lynched and bitchslap them in the face?

Plot twist: Tranq is the only option.

Not necessarily. Ask MP what the site budget is?

Do you secretly wish you were Belgian?

Aapje or Tranq?

Typh, that appears to be you in NEW ZEALAND?

Noble is also my favourite LC smilie. Closely followed by my own golden smilie which I don't have here.

G-Man wrote:Is it easier to co-host with your wife or solo?

Don't answer this question Long Con! G-Man poisoned the chalice!

What is the longest con you have ever done?

Hey Long Con

Whats the favourite baddie gambit you've ever cooked up (whether it was successful or not)?

juliets wrote:surely he'll answer juliet...

Juliet has absolutely no connection to the Black Rock...

Feel free to finish off anything for sloonei, and in the mean time our next victim interrogatee is...

Long Con

To the extent that if I ever see an ad for anything with him in it (which happens a reasonable amount over here, since he crops up in Australian television a fair bit as well) I actually say to my wife 'oh look, Walter is in it'. Even LOTR I said that to her lol.

Why paprika?

It's just a really large relative of the cricket.

We have no giant spiders, we have no snakes. I think my wife infinitely prefers the wildlife in NZ to the horrendous stuff she grew up with in Australia. The only exception is the mostly harmless but horribly awful looking weta.

Hey N-where, some questions for you.

You've mentioned kid/kids - what have you got?
You've mentioned pet/vet - what have you got?
What about mafia has appealed to you, so far?
I know you can't speak to your alignment in the current game and otherwise you've been mafia every game. But even if you haven't yet been civ, what appeals to you more - being mafia or being civ?
Favourite alcoholic beverage?
Where did your user name come from?
Where is the crab with the cane and top hat!?
What's one thing you aspire to do in life?

PS - I definitely want to get btsc with you too. It's a great place to get to know people. As for what I look like in btsc - a more schizophrenic version of what you see in the thread. I like having someone to bounce my crazy tinfoil hat ideas off.

Next in the hotseat is....

Neverwhere!!!

Ask her your questions, go, go, go!

Niju/ninja/blooper - Could you please explain the origins of each of your different names and nicknames here?

Heiots, I already ask you questions all the time.

I'm not sure what to interrogate you on, but I guess some people won't know you, so how about:

Where do you live?
What do you do?
How awesome are you? (that's rhetorical)
What did you study at university?
What are your mafia origins?
Have you ever been lynched in a mafia game?
Will you ever come play mafia again?

I loved loved loved Octavarium, the first Dream Theater album I bought...

The second I got was a Dramatic Turn of Events. It was a disappointment. I just found it boring.

Define 'ties'...

I really don't think I do. Except possibly that I used to want to date a girl who probably moved from New Zealand to Ohio to avoid me. I never got that date.

GamerGuy

Whats your favourite way that people shorten your user name?
What is your favourite thing about playing mafia?
Have you had much of an opportunity to travel? If so, where is your favourite place you have travelled to?
What is your favourite pair of socks?
What is your favourite cake?

Bea has been trying to pee in a cup for 24 hours and she is still stuck in there.

Me and my wife did messenger too

we were in different countries.

What is your favourite mafia win?
Who copes with an untimely NK better - you or LC?
As a host, is there a particular power that you like so much you would always include it if possible?

Zombs

You are a puzzle fiend, where did your puzzle love begin? What is your favourite kind of puzzle?
What did MP do to convince you to play mafia?
Ooooh bea had a good one... if you came to visit me in NZ - what would you want to do?
Do you have a favourite hat?
You can go on a holiday for one week - where do you go?

I'll probably come up with more later but I'm not as inventive as others.

PS - I would love to have btsc with you too. You seem like a kindred spirit. Also, this is completely random - I've always wanted to meet someone from Orem, Utah. It's like my favouritest place name except Essen, Germany. No idea why

bea wrote:Golden!

1) Is the work censor still an issue?

Not in the same way. Nowadays I think it is less sensitive, and when it's really bad you might be able to let yourself on to the page anyway. I think if I was going to pages with a lot of cursing all the time, it might be being flagged and my manager might find out. But it's not soooo horrible as it was.

2) WHERE IS THAT GD FRACKING FLAG???

What game was that? King Arthur? Rabbit is a complete... genius. Was that King Arthur?

3) Now that me, you, JC and Timmer are here and Wabbit is back - can we pay him back?

Where is Timmer?? He should sign up for Roger Rabbit.

As for rabbit payback- the best payback is to be a civilian and lynch him when he is mafia.

4) Where was your favorite vacation?

My favourite vacation is the one I'm taking in a month. I love going to Anaheim and doing Disneyland, but for the first time I'm taking my wife. There will be ten of us in LA for two weeks (me, anita, my parents, my sister, my brother and sister-in-law and his three kids). Then the rest go home and me and Anita spend another week in LA and a week in San Fran. It's going to be completely off the scale awesome.

5) Where would you most like to travel to that you haven't yet?

New York and Washington.

6) How's stuff and things?

Soooo busy. I have real responsibility and stuff now. At work anyway.

7) What have you been up to since you've been gone?

A whole heap of stuff. Married life is I guess the big thing. It's been a really nice phase of life. But I've just made the most of life and enjoyed whatever I've been doing. I'm still working at the same place, only I'm more senioryish now.

8) What did you want to be when you grew up at age 8? 10? 15?

8: A bagpipe player. 10: Probably a cricket player. 15: That's when I realised law was the only thing for me.

9) What's the best advice you've ever received?

I'll come back to this one...

Turnip Head wrote:Favorite cereal? Favorite type of cuisine?

I can't wait to get to the states to break out the Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Over here, we have a range of very good mueslis. And if I have a bit of time in the morning, I'm not averse to making a bit of porridge.

And cereal pretty much is my favourite type of cuisine, honestly.

rabbit8 wrote:Golden, can I plan to not read all your walls of text in the Roger Rabbit game?

Sure, why not.

Doesn't mean I won't write them.

Turnip Head wrote:Welcome to the Syndicate, Golden!!!

Now, I consider myself a bit of a mafia old-timer, playing on sites like Lostpedia and The Piano; I took a big long hiatus before finally discovering all my old friends/some new friends at this incredible site. But, while people I know seem to recognize you, I don't think our mafia careers have intersected until this moment. So I have questions!

Where did you first start playing mafia, and how did you come to love it? I assume you love it. What kind of roles do you enjoy? Do you have any mafia performances that you are especially proud of? Any you are embarrassed of? And what are some of your favorite hobbies outside of mafia?

I first played at Spoiler TV (where it was modded to oblivion) and then joined RM shortly after. I signed up at the piano once, but my work had a swear filter at the time, and at the piano 9/10 pages would simply be blocked to me. So it was a waste of time. At RM, swearing wasn't as common but LT also had a setting I could turn on to turn the swears into asterisks, which I think she made just for me. Meant I could play there.

But that is where I came across online mafia. Before that, I played the basic parlour game a lot with the teenagers I taught in Sunday school. Mafia and me just get on well at a fundamental level. To say I love it isn't really putting it right. I just enjoy the challenge of figuring everything out on a fundamental level.

I prefer being a civilian, and I think my civvie performances are what I was known and remembered for at RM. I hunt baddies. Sometimes I hunt them well. Sometimes I'm way off base. I wish I could get into Death Note, because I reckon I have three baddies pegged

doesn't mean I'm right. But it's just my natural instinct to hunt them down. My least favourite is to be a mafia when there is only one mafia team, because I find it makes my attempts to hunt baddies less authentic (because, obviously, they aren't authentic). At least if I have another mafia team to hunt, I can keep playing my civvie game!

One thing I'm specifically proud of was a game in which I created BTSC with someone (that I thought/hoped was good) but after a little while I thought they were bad... so, I hatched a plan. I knew the baddies had a lynch switch, and I also knew that I couldn't be lynched the next day. I told her that my ability was that I couldn't be nightkilled after night three, which was the night before... leading her to think the only way they could kill me was by lynch. They switched the lynch to me, and I immediately knew my hunch was right and she was bad and told the thread so. From there we took out the baddie team in consecutive lynches and won. I was very proud of that because I knew that it was them taking my bait that won us the game.

A less proud moment was, there was a game where all the civs had gotten to the point where they knew who the baddies were, but one of them just would not die day after day. In real time, we literally spent about nine days trying to lynch her. And all the time she was claiming to be a civilian. It was early on in my mafia career, and I found that incredibly frustrating, and I spent nine days hounding her that she was mafia, not realising that being that aggressive for that long was going to come across as personal. It was early on in my mafia career, and I'm not sure how I'd react in the same situation again. But I'd like to hope I'd be more relaxed in a situation like that where the game was only going to play out one way, where the mafia were done... I wish I had been less aggressive and the endgame could have played out in fun. After all, what was I expecting her to do, just bow down and admit being bad? I'm not sure I'd had to be mafia at that point, and I didn't really see the other side of the fence.

So, if you don't know me and my playstyle, what you'll find is you will know me and my playstyle very soon. It doesn't take long. I don't expect to be quite as prolific or aggressive as in the past, simply because I have a lot less time to be. But I doubt you'll forget playing with me - for better or worse

Who's your favorite mafia player (besides yourself)?

There are so many... and for different reasons.

In my first ever game, I had BTSC with blindfaeth and he showed me the ropes. A game with blindfaeth is always a good game (except that he is probably the best at reading me of anyone). He was my first mafia friend, and so in many ways I still feel he is my best mafia friend. There is no-one I'd rather be civvie with. There's no-one I'd sooner hang out with on a mafia site.

Then I made so many friends who I loved playing with and just being friends with, and I risk missing people out (some are not even on this site), but sophie, SVS, Flyin High, Unfurl, Heiots, Doober, reywas, juliet, bea, matahari... I had some great times at RM just having BTSC with and hanging out with these people.

And then there are those who I have huge respect for, and who playing against is always a challenge when you are not on their side, and even when you are on their side. Guys like rabbit, the dutchies, and the sadly syndicate-absent manu. They make mafia games a very tough experience, but also a very fun experience, and I love them for it.

But I won't cop out, I'll answer the question with the person I'd most like to be playing in the same game as no matter whether they are for or against me. There is one person who I think I make the most effective team with, but who is also very good at deceiving me. Any game in which we both survive deep tends to be etched in my memory, and she is a great person to have on tap when you are hosting too. And any game where we are both civvie and we have each others backs - the mafia better watch theirs, because we are coming for you. That person is kate.

What is your favorite TV show?

Still Lost. I'm one of those who liked the ending, and can't work out what answers people think we didn't get.

I have a top five though. Survivor, West Wing, Fringe, Chuck. On any given day my ranking could change. The next answer might even sneak in...

What TV show would you want made into a mafia game?

Already done West Wing. That was fun. Next up on my list, Battlestar Galactica. And having been working on designing this game, I am so excited by how great a subject matter it is for a mafia game. I feel like it could really be great.

Honestly though, if I need inspiration for a mafia game, TV shows are what I turn to first.

Why are you named Golden?

I played World of Warcraft back when it first started, and my first characters name was Goldenaxe. I wasn't really active on the internet back then, but when I ended up signing up for forums and stuff, I shortened it to Golden. I guess the name golden is just a part of me now.

Do you prefer pi or pie?

Pi. Pies over here are usually savoury (I don't know that you guys think about pies the same way we do - we have mince pie, steak pie...) I'm not a big fan of most of the savoury pies. But I do make a mean curried chicken and apricot one which is my favourite thing to eat ever (its better than pi).

Do you enjoy dirty things (per Spacedaisy's suggestion)?

I don't like getting my hands dirty. At least not in a literal sense. Even as a kid I was never playing in the dirt.

But hey, if I roll mafia, I'll be getting my hands dirty

What is your favorite smiley here at the Syndicate?

I always liked this one

But I miss my :golden: one from RM

What is your favorite pastime unrelated to mafia?

Right now, it's watching the cricket world cup. But I don't have a huge amount of focus - I would get bored with only one favourite pastime.

Where are you from?

Wellington, New Zealand - or more accurately Lower Hutt. One of the most beautiful cities to live in on the planet. In my opinion

What is your quest?

I could take this so many ways. My quest in mafia is to get a win for my team... unfortunately often at the expense of myself. I think I do it wrong...

My quest in life is just to enjoy it as much as I can.

What is your favorite colour?

It's green. Sorry to disappoint you if you were hoping it would be gold.

What is the capital of Assyria?

Assyria has not been a sovereign nation since circa 225 AD, but I guess it's capital was probably Nineveh. On a related note, I've never been to Ninevah (although I have preached from inside a shark... onesie. About Jonah going to Nineveh.)

What is your favorite beer?

Monteith's Summer Ale. But if I was in the US (which I will be in a month) I'd be drinking Corona... because that's what my family-in-law drink (my wife is half puerto rican).

Do you enjoy dancing?

Not as much as my wife. She makes a fool of herself, and I escape. It's a good partnership.

Have you ever been to a Rush concert?

No, but I have watched Shine, in which Geoffrey Rush plays the piano.

Have you ever made money from selling your own artwork?

I can't imagine anyone would ever want to buy it. In fact, for some reason, none of me or my siblings have an artistic bone in our body. This is sad, given that my great great grandfather is considered one of New Zealand's greatest ever artists, and given he is one of the very few to have been able to paint the pink and white terraces, often considered the eighth wonder of the natural world, before they were destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

On the other hand, I very nearly made money once for playing music. I didn't cash the cheque.

Can I ask you more questions?

Sure, why not. Looks like you are going to anyway.

Which ocean would you most enjoy sailing/boating across?

Any ocean which is shallow enough that I can walk on the bottom without drowning if I fall out...

I travel over water by plane. I try to avoid boat as much as I can.

What's the tallest mountain you've ever seen or been on?

There are a few in New Zealand that are reasonably tall (and I've seen them all) but they aren't really very tall my world standards. One of them is Mount Doom, though, so there's that.

Do you enjoy answering questions?

I survive.

Do you enjoy questioning answers?

Why? Is there some kind of problem with that? Don't you like my questions?

What is the capital of Bulgaria?

Sofia. That one I didn't have to google.

What was the last movie you saw?

The Empire Strikes Back. My wife had never seen it. We watched it on the weekend. PS I did not kill your father.

How many times in one day do you tie up shoelaces?

If I can help it, zero. But usually one of them will come undone at some point. (Yeah, I'm one of those people who takes my shows off with the laces still done up and then wrecks my shoes putting them back on. What of it!)

Is this the end?

I feel like this is only the beginning...

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