The Syndicate

After two days of sick child hell, I'm close to throwing in the towel and asking to be replaced. Three hours of sleep two nights in a row and being spat up on every feeding has a way of wearing a guy down.

Forgive my absence and forgive me if I don't return before the vote. I saw the Cylon statement thing and anyone who doesn't say the phrase is a damn fool who is either selfish or bad. Quit dicking around and just say it.

I am a Cylon. Please cross my name off the list and whoever is keeping that list, make the names of those who said it yesterday a different color for organization's sake.

Pressure vote the worst looking holdout and make sure you've got two vote recipients from yesterday's lynch as backups in case there are any rezz ships still out there. We could have been done with the sorties by the deadline but not anymore. I'm so far behind at this point that I don't even know who to vote for.

A little past due but here goes:




Sortie List:

So say we all.

After a night of tending to a sick and fussy baby, I am behind again, not to mention tired. I'll spend the next 24 hours or so re-reading a few things and catching up on Day 4. It seems we have options today, which is nice. Let me check on our sortie status before starting my re-read.

Apologies, Polo. You are correct. I have LoRab self-voting her first vote instead of you. Just the product of hasty work. Once I don't have a sleeping baby laying on my chest, I will fix that. I have all my technicolors saved in a Notepad file so I just have to add new days and info without recreating the list or quoting myself each time.

Also, seeing as nobody ordered a sortie, I'll do another one:




Sortie List:

And now for my technicolor vote analysis. I'll try to actually analyze this during the hockey game. My plans went all kinds of pear-shaped today.

Given all the allegiance uncertainty floating about, I listed dead players as best I could. Let me know if you have a better way of listing the deceased.

DAY 1



DAY 2




DAY 3

A question for the host:
In comparing the lynch poll with your vote post for Day 3, I see that SokothQultuq's vote is not recorded on your Day 3 list. Is this a mistake or was his vote withheld for some reason?

Here is his vote:

SokothQultuq wrote:Keeping with my promise. I rolled a 10. So 3J it is..

I vote JaggedJimmyJay

Others have voted in a similar format as this.

If it is a mistaken omission, he voted in the thread between Epignosis and juliets.

I'm just looking for a yay or nay on whether his vote should appear on your list.

I'm going to go work on my technicolor lists but Sokoth's vote status is kind of important for accuracy's sake.

Here is an updated sortie rundown. Failed sorties are still blue and successful sorties are still red. Sorties that we're waiting on Golden the Coward to provide a result for are now in green. Let's get some people to sign up for the next couple please!

>May 8, 11:47 pm EST - ika, A1
>May 9, 5:47 5:49 am EST - ika, A3
>May 9, 11:49 am EST - indiglo, A5 LC, D5
>May 9, 5:49 pm EST - Silverwolf, A5
>May 9, 11:49 pm EST - Marmot, E3
>May 10, 5:49 am EST - SVS, B2 - SUCCESS
>May 10, 11:49 am EST - juliets, C3
>May 10, 5:49 pm EST - SW, F4
>May 10, 11:49 pm EST - indiglo, F5
>May 11, 5:49 am EST - Rico, E5
>May 11, 11:49 am EST - G-Man, E1
>May 11, 5:49 pm EST - juliets, B3
---Switching to 12 hour intervals---
>May 11, 11:49 pm 12:12am EST - Scotty, D6
>May 12 - 12:12 pm 12:34 pm EST - Bea indiglo - B6
>May 13 - 12:34 am EST - Marmot - F2 - SUCCESS
>May 13 - 12:34 pm EST - G-Man - A6 - SUCCESS
---Switching to 6 hour intervals---
>May 14 - 12:04 am EST - Scotty - C5 - SUCCESS
>May 14 - 6:04 am 12:00 pm EST - Marmot - C1
>May 14 - 6:00 6:10 pm EST - Epigdingus - B5
>May 15 - 12:00 12:11 am EST - Marmot - D2
>May 15 - 6:56 am EST - JJJ - D3
----
May 16 - 2:39 am EST - Snarmot - F6
May 16 - 12:42 pm EST - G-Man - E4
----
May 16 - 6:42 pm EST - ?
May 17 - 12:42 am EST - ?
May 17 - 6:42 am EST - ?
May 17 - 12:42 pm EST - ?




A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6
E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6
F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6

Awesome result guys, really. I wish I had gotten that write-up on Glorfindel into the thread sooner. Would any of you later LoRab or Nero voters gone that way even? I realize that we now seem to have a few more fish to fry but please don't forget about Glorfindel. I'm convinced he's a Toaster. Heck, even the civvie that was just mislynched was leaning that way.

Since nobody has submitted a sortie in a while,

GOLDEN THE COWARD ! Let's do :

And if Nero comes in last-second like and outs himself, we need another option. I'm gonna go with my gut on this one.

Vote = Glorfindel

All the time I spent writing that case can't go to waste.

But then Long Con goes and says that.

Am I crazy for still wanting to vote for Glorfindel? I mean I see the logic of voting for one of the six one-vote folk but I still think Glorfindel is bad.

Alright, well, I still feel pretty good about my Glorfindel case and I will most likely vote for him. That law is making this a frustrating lynch. Best case scenario if LoRab isn't a Toaster is that she's the secret role and has some kind of anti-town angle and she gets lynched. If she's just a civvie and bluffing, then we could be in for a whole lot of suck depending on her role.

Glorfindel wrote:

G-Man wrote:Finally he chastises Sokoth for finally forming some opinions because Sokoth takes aim at Glorfindel for what looks like a hasty "NO U" reaction.

Is that REALLY how you see that exchange my friend? I was chastising 'Sokoth' for precisely the opposite - I don't consider random, unsubstantiated accusations 'opinions'. I seriously doubt that anyone else here would. I AM genuinely trying to figure out this game and although I may be 'tinfoiling' for the first time I seriously think there is more to this game than the simplistic black and white view some people have adopted. Personally, I think what you've painted there is a pretty flimsy case almost rivaling the 'Two Face' accusation leveled at me in my last game here. Nonetheless, if that's the best you can do in finding a Mafia Team member, good for you.

One thing that has concerned me for some time time now is my initial exchange with IAWY. As I stated in the Sign-up thread, he was the reason I even signed up for this game. In the last game we played together, I defended him from the 'get go'. Given our history together, I find it extraordinary that he would make an accusation against me Day 1 like he did. After Dr Wilgy replaced him, gave him the benefit of the doubt and have heard practically nothing since. Then there was the exchange between IAWY and Magnus (Nerolunar). In retrospect, the whole 'No, you!' exchange doesn't really look as convincing as it did at the time. Distancing, perhaps...

Admittedly, by the time I got to the NO U I was feeling pretty cynical toward you. It happens when you case somebody. There's a point of no return in regards of suspecting someone. Once you cross that point you read them like a baddie no matter what the say. That's where I was with you at that point.

Apologies for the lateness of my Glorf case. It was my night to feed dinner to the baby and she's got a cold. Lots of fussing with dinner and some scary gaspings for air while I worked that post up. Looks like we'll be sucking snot out of her nose often tonight. Ah the joys of parenting.

Linki: holy crapweasels!

A preface is in order to understand where I'm coming from.

I don't usually look for teammate behavior until I have vote data pointing me in that direction. I also don't track people's meta because I've never been the best at it. When looking at Nutella, I saw individual behavior that looked bad to me. My theory on Glorfindel is built around similar observations.

Check out his post history.

His first four posts include the following:
-Whoops I missed the start of the game
-Whoops I didn't read the rules
-A slight civ vibe based on skim reading
-A funny post of no substance
-Whoops I missed the vote

Then two mechanics related posts, and an "I'm catching up (43 pages in) but totally lost" post, lowering our expectations for Day 2.

On Day 2, we get:
-a post where he says he feels good about Matt and Zebra
-a mechanics related post on Toaster allegiance
-another mechanics post
-an oy, complicated show lore + complicated game mechanics = headache post
-another mechanics post
-a big long post where he hands out some civ reads but comes up empty on suspicions

Then there is the post where he says he finds it hard to take IAWY seriously without explaining what that means. Does he think IAWY is bad or just acting differently?

Then a "don't call me a slacker" kind of post responding to my LRD vibe pickup. He says he's trying but it's hard but he's not very good at the whole forming baddie reads.

Then he takes two posts to help DrWilgy sort out what thoughts were about IAWY to help him better understand the situation he's walking into. Helpful for Wilgy but not the big picture.

He says he thinks LC might be trying to get lynched (agreeing with SVS) but that LC's sortie hijack makes him as unhelpful civvie at best and mafia at worst.

He votes Long Con Day 2 for "reasons already stated" but his prior post didn't even label LC as suspicious. He just viewed him as a liability to the civvies. The way he worded it is shady because, rather than restate his reasons, he puts it on the reader to go back and find his reasons on their own. Because, you know, it's easy to remember the mild suspicions of a quietish player in a game with 2,500 posts.

When Silverwolf presses him for justification of his vote during Night 2, he finds a handful of detailed points that made it a reasonable choice for him. Where was all this info when he cast his vote? Nowhere. When he voted, he said "reasons already stated," which alluded to a post that only covered maybe two out of the five points he unloaded at night.

Then you've got a bunch of empty banter and trying to pitch in with the sorties overnight and into Day 3.

Later there is a post where he agrees with JJJ, calls a few people civ, and throwing shade at Sokoth without committing to calling him sus. Then a post defending sig, a post clarifying his stance on mechanics, and a post where he thinks something JJJ proves his point about either sig or mechanics (I'm not sure which).

He apologizes to LC for his vote and lists a few players he thinks LC is wrong about. Finally he chastises Sokoth for finally forming some opinions because Sokoth takes aim at Glorfindel for what looks like a hasty "NO U" reaction.

Early on, he sounds like someone trying to figure out game mechanics but he focuses solely on Toaster mechanics. There's the complete lack of calling anyone suspicious three days into the game. Fluff banter to look helpful and pad that post count too.

Any one of these on their own would seem harmless but all three of them combined sets off alarms in my brain. Asking questions and discussing no -suspicion related issues without the willingness to put some skin in the game just feels wrong.

Does any of this sound reasonable or am I working up another Keyser Soze?

Nerolunar wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Nerolunar wrote:Time to vote. Lingering suspicion from IAWY and lurking but not contributing makes me want to vote for Dr.Wilgy. I did this last night despite forgetting it was an extended night

Vote DrWilgy

What does "time to vote" mean? We have seven hours left. Also, speaking of not contributing, you have made three posts on this Day.

Just time for me. I felt like voting now.

Despite my low post count, I have still yet to see Wilgy read anyone or try to get some ground in this game. I feel like he is flying low on purpose, and I expect a replacement player to start questioning and engaging in discussion. I think its weird for a replacement to enter a game and then do practically nothing.

And what about the handful of players who have been doing practically nothing since Day 1? Don't get me wrong, The BOTD will expire for Wilgy soon enough, but why focus on him when others have been doing the same for even longer?

I'm going out to mow. I'll finish my hunch on Glorf after dinner.

Epignosis wrote:Mongoose.

Are you sure she originated the phrase? I feel like that goes back to The Piano or Lostpedia.

Aw crapweasels, we missed it. And I see JJJ may have flubbed his too.

HOST: are sortie calls due at exactly six-hour intervals or must they simply be at least six hours apart?

I guess we'll find out if we get results for JJJ's sortie. This feels like it shouldn't be such a difficult thing to keep track of.


Who was it that used to say crapweasels? I can't remember.

Anyone put in for the noonish sortie? It just occurred to me. Let me go check...

Matt wrote:Snap. I'm not gonna wait.

S~V~S

She makes less sense then I do, and that's cause for concern.

Although I still have her on my Possible Civvie list, S~V~S is hanging onto that spot by a thread. She gave me good vibes because of the pressure she put on me early because it felt the same as in Spirited Away. In that game though, she kept the pressure on me beyond my first set of reads. There hasn't been the same kind of follow-up this time but I'm also not posting in haikus like I did during Spirited Away.

I saw some of your posts and maybe someone else's touching on her earlier. Since she was on my Possible Civvie list at the time, the issue of her wasn't on my radar. Can you give me a post or two to use as a starting point? I'll try to look her over once I finish my hunch on Glorfindel.

Long Con wrote:

Scotty wrote:Doing a drive by vote for sig.

Will not have too much time to respond today, and this poll is looking rather empty. I suspected him last night and still do. So there ya go.

You should put your dead red vote on its own line, as per the hosts's instructions.

G-Man wrote:Anyone know where BR, Drum, and Silverwolf are? I see Polo lurking but I don't think we've heard from the other three so far for Day 3.

I know where BR is.

Alright smarty pants, kindly ask her to get in here soon so she can participate. This day's been too light on substance and I don't want to see a deluge of crappy decisions being made at the deadline. We've lynched two Toasters (only one of whom stayed dead) so far and we need to keep that momentum rolling.

Any inkling on your top 3, JJJ?

Anyone know where BR, Drum, and Silverwolf are? I see Polo lurking but I don't think we've heard from the other three so far for Day 3.

G-Man wrote: POSSIBLY MAFIA
DFaraday
Glorfindel
Long Con
LoRab
Metalmarsh89
Sig
SokothQultuq
Spacedaisy

A formal ranking of last night's list is as follows:

1. Glorfindel
2. SokothQultuq
3. DFaraday
4. Spacedaisy
5. Sig
6. Long Con
7. Metalmarsh89
8. LoRab

I'm ready to put pressure on some of the quieter players because it's too easy in a full game to get a couple days in without giving many independent reads. Low posters and those who mostly agree or disagree with the opinions of others for too many days in a row ping me.

I'll go into more detail on Glorfindel in a little bit. I think there are a few things there that don't add up. I'm still mulling over SD's follow-up posts to her pouty reaction during late Day 2/Night 2. It feels like low-hanging fruit but low-hanging fruit is sometimes fresh.

I'll have to ISO sig to help confirm a few things in my notes. LC and MM are both long-term studies that give me headaches. LoRab is still on there because her recovery-mode posts aren't quite enough to squash my auto-sus of her after the posts that made some people see a possible Nutella connection.

A quick and dirty peek at my notes points me to these conclusions:

POSSIBLY MAFIA
DFaraday
Glorfindel
Long Con
LoRab
Metalmarsh89
Sig
SokothQultuq
Spacedaisy


NEUTRAL READ
a2thezebra
bea
Black Rock
JaggedJimmyJay
juliets
Nerolunar
Polo
Ricochet
Scotty


POSSIBLY CIVVIE
DrumBeats
Epignosis
Matt
ObscureAllure
S~V~S
Silverwolf


NO READ YET
DrWilgy
Vompatti

LoRab is still high sus due to my default sus of her. LC and MM both feel like they're up to something. Sig got strange Day 2. Otherwise, the rest are giving me Lazy Rotten Deborah vibes. Sokoth needs to start producing.

I'll try to sort out a ranking to my sus list in the morning.

An idea just occurred tp me when reading the sortie success post. Maybe there is one in each row? Only rows D and E left without one.. Try those rows first?

Heading to the birthday party. Lists when I get back.

juliets wrote:If Scotty's sortie was accepted at :04 should the rest of our sorties be at :04? :00 would be 4 minutes too early would it not?

As mentioned earlier, we don't know that his sortie was accepted. If we get results for it, then we'll know and we can schedule future sorties based on that. Hopefully we get confirmation well before the next one is due.

I realize it's the weekend and all but where is everyone? We had something like 1,000 posts over mothers day weekend, so why is a non-holiday weekend so quiet?

I'm going to post my revised lists again here before I leave for the evening. Maybe that can generate some more lynch discussion.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

G-Man wrote:Aww crap, I failed to note Indiglo's note at the bottom. Golden posted the night post at 11:35 p.m. Can anyone figure out the time dilation impact on our sortie scheduling? I'll give it a whirl after lunch here.

Scotty sent one in at 12:04 am, and Golden accepted it. That was 11.5 hours after the previous, so we must be back on normal time.

All I see is Golden the Coward posting this:

Golden wrote:On that note - I have a sermon to finish writing today and preach tomorrow, so don't expect me to be around much until after then. Have fun until then everyone. And someone answer Scotty's question, or direct him to read my posts thoroughly, would you? Cheers!

But he doesn't say outright that we're back on the normal schedule nor does he say that Scotty's sortie was accepted.. Does our sortie schedule run every six hours from the night post or every six hours as a set time like it had been before? If we're back to the previous time schedule, then we missed another one. The original schedule had us going 5:49 and 11:49.

Host: can you tell us if Scotty's sortie was accepted? If it wasn't, how early or late was he?

We need to get this figured out in case not all of the Toasters are vulnerable yet.

Off the top of my head, my top three suspects today are Glorfindel, Sokoth, and Spacedaisy. I have to read back through SD's big posts to see if what she had to say pulls her into a neutral read. Sokoth needs to start asserting himself and coming up with suspects. It's Day 3. The new player benefit of the doubt is officially over.

Linki: sounds good Epi. If our host straightens us out on the timeline, then we'll tweak your time here and there. I'll be at a birthday party tonight, so the earliest I could take one might be mid-day or evening on Sunday.

Aww crap, I failed to note Indiglo's note at the bottom. Golden posted the night post at 11:35 p.m. Can anyone figure out the time dilation impact on our sortie scheduling? I'll give it a whirl after lunch here.

Actually, MM, send that again at 12:04.

indiglo wrote: >May 8, 11:47 pm EST - ika, A1
>May 9, 5:47 5:49 am EST - ika, A3
>May 9, 11:49 am EST - indiglo, A5 LC, D5
>May 9, 5:49 pm EST - Silverwolf, A5
>May 9, 11:49 pm EST - Marmot, E3
>May 10, 5:49 am EST - SVS, B2 - SUCCESS
>May 10, 11:49 am EST - juliets, C3
>May 10, 5:49 pm EST - SW, F4
>May 10, 11:49 pm EST - indiglo, F5
>May 11, 5:49 am EST - Rico, E5
>May 11, 11:49 am EST - G-Man, E1
>May 11, 5:49 pm EST - juliets, B3
>May 11, 11:49 pm 12:12am EST - Scotty, D6
---Switching to 12 hour intervals---
>May 12 - 12:12 am EST - Scotty - D6
>May 12 - 12:12 12:34 pm EST - Bea indiglo - B6
>May 13 - 12:12 12:34 am EST - Marmot - F2 - SUCCESS
>May 13 - 12:12 12:34 pm EST - G-Man - A6 -SUCCESS

May 14 - 12:04 am EST - Scotty - C5
May 14 - 6:04 am EST - ??
May 14 - 12:04 pm EST -
May 14 - 6:04 pm EST -

(the times in italics are still tentative, and will depend upon exactly when Goldama posts the End of Night post.)



A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6
E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6
F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6

Golden wrote:A two-goal lead...

Good multi-tasking, G-Man

Amusing is more like it.

Preparing a sermon, you say? Vote: Cavil the Coward!


What a chain of events! We blast another rezz ship but we lose the sortie scheduler. RIP Indiglo. You were still on my possibly civvie list.

Is anyone tracking the sorties? I see we missed one this morning. Who's taking the next one? We must regroup and keep a schedule going since we haven't been told all rezz ships are eliminated. Did anyone come back with how many of those things there are?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Nice job G-Man on the Sortie!

Right back at you, Snarmot. Now stop giving off baddie vibes!

Awful period for the Penguins. Nothing seems to be clicking despite that goal.

Back to the votes. Long Con gets out to a 2-goal lead and then Matt votes Zebra. The next two votes come in for Nutella (SVS and SW respectively). All of a sudden we've got ourselves a fairly clear three-horse race.

The votes that look strangest from here on out based purely by looking at the vote order are:

#11- sig votes sideways for a Epi who hadn't picked up any votes because he was or seemed unlynchable with the rezz ships in play.

#12- Long Con doesn't vote to help himself but rather votes for sig. I'll have to check my spreadsheet for his reasonging (i'm on my smartphone and only took picks of my vote tracking) but I think it had something to do with sig voting for Epi. In fairness, sig's vote was weird.

#14- Scotty's vote could look like a bus attempt to help put Nutella well into the lead but I'll have to check my notes for his reasoning.

#15- Bea casts a sideways vote for LoRab. It's in the middle of the pack and maybe she assumed the Nutella train was going to run away with it. Timing wise and big picture wise, it does stand out a little.


#18- Polo casts a mid-to-late sideways vote for a self-voter that no one is paying attention to.

#19- SD's vote could do one of two things. It either brings Long Con within one vote of Nutella to play up momentum on that train or it's designed to put the kibosh on any Zebra train momentum after Rico's vote there. Or it could be both. Either way, it is notable especially given her tone.

#22- JJJ ties this race up. Always a gutsy call to create a tie so late into the voting.

#23- DF votes for Zebra. An attempt to reignite that alternative or just avoiding breaking the tie?

#26- Glorfindel votes last and bring LC within one, opening the reults up to shenanigans if certain roles are in play.

That's a lot of potential votes to examine and it's just my opinion. I need to look at my notes for vote reasons and other sus lines. I'd do it now but hockey.

A look at the first two days of voting is in order now that the first period of the hockey game is over.

Having torn a knee ligament before, I'm pretty sure the Tampa goalie popped one. That hurt to watch.

Votes were spread way out on Day 1, making it hard to look for shady votes without forcing a read. Six people picked up votes before anyone got a second. By the time we got to vote # 11, there were nine players with votes. Coupled with the fact that seven people missed the vote (possibly a punishment?) and two people failed to place their in-thread votes correctly, Day 1 was missing almost a full third of all possible votes. Finding anything in Day 1 is going to be hard but the second half of the votes will probably be more telling in the near term. That may require ISO'ing some of those players around their votes.

Day 2 is by far easier to parse but even then it may be too early to lean too heavily on vote analysis even though we flipped two Cylons. Once again, we start out with a spread, this time five votes for five different people. The oddball of the bunch being Vomp's self-vote.

The game is back on. I'll finish this during the next intermission.

An afternoon of work awaits me. I've been staring at my spreadsheet for a while, trying to determine shifty looking votes. I hope to share a few things before heading home. I'm trying not to get too wrapped up in it just yet, as three days of vote data is my gold standard. As long as I don't die tonight or get lynched tomorrow, you can bank on some technicolor vote analysis come Night 3.

Matt wrote:

G-Man wrote:And what's the deal with the absence of number seven? That still bugs me in an obsessive compulsive kind of way.

Number One, Cavil, "boxed" number 7 at some point before the series started. Being "boxed" is the closest thing a Cylon can get to death without actually dying...they are basically "turned off".

Linki - Ninja'd

Ah. So this Cavil guy is pretty cutthroat on the show I take it?

That would take time to get used to if I ever watch the series because I'm used to the actor as the hologram guy from Quantum Leap. Kind of like how the nerdy dad from Malcolm in the Middle became the evil dude on Breaking Bad.

Alright let's check out sector...

And what's the deal with the absence of number seven? That still bugs me in an obsessive compulsive kind of way.

As a list-making nerd, I couldn't help myself. Here's a list of players based on their color location in the OP:

On Board Battlestar Galactica

HUMANS:
Admiral William Adama
Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace
Lee 'Apollo' Adama
Saul Tigh
Galen Tyrol
Karl ‘Helo’ Agathon
Felix Gaeta
Anastasia 'Dee' Dualla
Cally Henderson
Sam Anders
Lou ‘Kat’ Katraine
Brendon ‘Hot Dog’ Costanza
Doc Cottle

TOASTERS:
John Cavil (number one)
Aaron Doral (number five)
Sharon ‘Boomer’ Valerii (number eight)
Sharon ‘Athena’ Agathon (number eight)

Not On Board

HUMANS:
President Laura Roslin
Gaius Baltar
Billy Keikeya
Tom Zarek
Ellen Tigh
Tory Foster
Romo Lampkin

TOASTERS:
Leoben Conoy (number two)
D’Anna Biers (number three)
Simon O’Neill (number four)
Caprica Six (number six)

?
[secret role] Might be human. Might be cylon. Might be stationed on Galactica. Might not. Who really knows.

Is there anything we can derive from looking at the role list this way? Lore people- can you tell us about any factions or interplay between these two groups that Golden the Coward might have brought over into the game?

Are people interested in discussing the grid or should I just wing it this time?

Anything thing Vomp says should be taken with a big grain of salt unless it shouldn't be.

And I'm caught up once more! The conversations going on at night are just at times. I'll post more at lunchtime. I just spent two and a half hours catching up instead of doing my work. I'll be crunching numbers up to my scheduled sortie. I'll have to pull up the latest grid to see what my options are.

Another six pages and I'll be caught up. I've been busier than I expected to day at work. I'm almost up to the point where the lynch poll closes.

Awesome result! But I'm confused (and bear with me if I'm repeating anything that's already been discussed, I'll be catching up throughout the day). Nutella died as a Toaster instead of being rezzed like Epi. If we're still hunting rezz ships, why did Nutella die? I had wondered earlier about the possibility that some Toaster models are linked with a certain rezz ship (assuming that Golden the Coward isn't just trolling us by allowing the grid search to continue needlessly).

Looking at the roles, Epi flipped as...

Sharon ‘Athena’ Agathon (number eight)

...and Nutella flipped as...

Simon O’Neill (number four)

Different colors, different locations, different lynch results? I can't remember what color goes with which location. Can someone refresh my memory please?

indiglo wrote:Amended sortie schedule:

May 12 - 12:12 am EST - Scotty - D6
May 12 - 12:12 pm EST -
May 13 - 12:12 am EST -
May 13 - 12:12 pm EST -


(That may be too many or not enough 12 hour slots, because once day 3 starts I assume we'll be back to 6 hours. But whatevs, it gets us started.)


Previous volunteers for these days were:

SVS
G-Man
juliets
Bea
SpaceDaisy

I don't want to assign these slots to anyone, as some are quite different from what you originally signed up for. But I'm sure many of us will be around tomorrow around noon EST to take care of the next sortie.


A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6
E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6
F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6

indiglo wrote:May 12 - 12:12 am EST - Scotty - D6
May 12 - 12:12 pm EST - Bea - Actually 10:12am for you - may not work for you b/c you're working days this week?
May 13 - 12:12 am EST - Marmot
May 13 - 12:12 pm EST -

Thank you for posting an adjusted schedule. Clever use of time dilation by our host to accommodate real life scheduling. I could have still called the 12:12 pm sortie today but it's all good. If you need someone to handle Friday's 12:12 pm sorite, I can do that one. I'll be at my desk eating lunch.

Off to catch up!

Alright, it's the end of the workday and I've got evening plans. I hope to check in later on tonight but there's another hockey game on tonight (and it's a Game 7). I am going with Nutella. A sliver of me wants to give her another day to prove herself but I'm out of time for the day and I just can't shake that Lazy Rotten Deborah vibe. I think Metalmarsh and Long Con could also be viable candidates today but I understand that MM is little more than a curiosity to a number of folks right now.

VOTE = NUTELLA

G-Man wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

G-Man wrote:Ahem.

I'm dumb.

G-Man wrote:As for Glorfindel, he's my Lazy Rotten Debra of the game so far. He's made 13 posts and a few of them are of the "catching up " variety. He posts a few civvie vibes, agrees with a lot of other people's thoughts, gets sidetracked into lore/mechanics discussions, and tells us who he won't vote for. What's missing is independent thought and any mention of his own suspicions. That's almost exactly what Debra did in Biblical Mafia, hence the term Lazy Rotten Debra.


linki: Indiglo, I can take the 11:49 a.m. again tomorrow if you need someone

Your points are noted. I'll consider making him an ISO priority.

There's a "Debra" in the Bible?

Epignosis wrote:Deborah.

Ah, yes. Deborah, not Debra. Sorry. Lazy Rotten Deborah. See? The experience of her in that game traumatized me so much that the correct pronunciation of her name has been stricken from my memory.

Am I losing my mind? Correct spelling, not pronunciation.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

G-Man wrote:Ahem.

I'm dumb.

G-Man wrote:As for Glorfindel, he's my Lazy Rotten Debra of the game so far. He's made 13 posts and a few of them are of the "catching up " variety. He posts a few civvie vibes, agrees with a lot of other people's thoughts, gets sidetracked into lore/mechanics discussions, and tells us who he won't vote for. What's missing is independent thought and any mention of his own suspicions. That's almost exactly what Debra did in Biblical Mafia, hence the term Lazy Rotten Debra.


linki: Indiglo, I can take the 11:49 a.m. again tomorrow if you need someone

Your points are noted. I'll consider making him an ISO priority.

There's a "Debra" in the Bible?

Epignosis wrote:Deborah.

Ah, yes. Deborah, not Debra. Sorry. Lazy Rotten Deborah. See? The experience of her in that game traumatized me so much that the correct pronunciation of her name has been stricken from my memory.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

G-Man wrote:

indiglo wrote:G-Man, I am also nervous of nutella, and of course, LC.

Is there anything specific on Metalmarsh that gives you pause?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I'd be interested in hearing your beefs with Metalmarsh89 and Glorfindel to round out your top four, since I've already examined the other two thoroughly.

A lot of my issues with Metalmarsh revolve around his lack of substance. I've been noting page #'s on my notes spreadsheet, so the information below relates to page #'s in the thread (assuming a thread set to 40 posts per page).

He starts out Day 1 with his usual silliness. Maybe it's because I was just in a game he hosted (hence he was a little more serious) that has me thrown off but his silliness seemed to run on too long. His early vote was odd and on page 15 he was asking some very easily answered questions and then more goofiness. More fluff and snark until page 29. That's when I first note him saying anything that I deemed useful. He was cautioning listening to what Epi was saying. This is after the lynch mind you. That means he coasted through Day 1 on a whimsical flying snark machine.

Some other things he said seemed off. He didn't believe that some Toasters could be civ-aligned, which makes a lot of sense for a complex game based on what seems to be a complex show. On top of it all, Golden the Coward speficially mentions that wincons are secret. His skepticism of the checkerboard grid plan was palatable to a point- Drum could have suggested that grid plot because it would miss the rezz ship(s) but it wasn't so sneaky at all. I also grew tired of him by page 37 because it seemed like he was content to just troll Ika rather than keep the game rolling forward.

I have very little on him during Day 2 just yet. All in all, he coasted, he poked, he shrugged, and he called it a day. I didn't see much helpful content and the whole sum of it makes me give him a hard sideways glance.

Hey MM, come defend yourself.

G-Man, how about Glorfindel?

Ahem.

G-Man wrote:As for Glorfindel, he's my Lazy Rotten Debra of the game so far. He's made 13 posts and a few of them are of the "catching up " variety. He posts a few civvie vibes, agrees with a lot of other people's thoughts, gets sidetracked into lore/mechanics discussions, and tells us who he won't vote for. What's missing is independent thought and any mention of his own suspicions. That's almost exactly what Debra did in Biblical Mafia, hence the term Lazy Rotten Debra.


linki: Indiglo, I can take the 11:49 a.m. again tomorrow if you need someone

indiglo wrote:@ G-Man - Good notes, thanks for sharing those. I don't remember MM's playstyle at all (assuming we've played together much, which I don't remember either, how sad) so is this pretty typical for MM? Or is he usually a more serious player?

A few months have passed since I last played a game with him openly (was he in EST Heist?) and I'm bad at tracking metas. I know he's goofy but I'm feeling disarmed by him so far.

As for Glorfindel, he's my Lazy Rotten Debra of the game so far. He's made 13 posts and a few of them are of the "catching up " variety. He posts a few civvie vibes, agrees with a lot of other people's thoughts, gets sidetracked into lore/mechanics discussions, and tells us who he won't vote for. What's missing is independent thought and any mention of his own suspicions. That's almost exactly what Debra did in Biblical Mafia, hence the term Lazy Rotten Debra.


linki: Indiglo, I can take the 11:49 a.m. again tomorrow if you need someone