The Syndicate

Typhoony wrote:I was also on the winning baddie team Gman. I believe Bree was on it as well, do not remember the fourth member though.

Found my game spreadsheet. The winning team was Bree, MP, Shinny, Tranq, and you. Them's some quality players if I do say so myself.

Typhoony wrote:One of my favorite moments was during Zeldas game on Piano, she took about 3 days to write a post on average... So we played some short conceptual mafia games of our own. I believe both LC and me hosted one.

Oh man, I remember that! It was some kind of vampire game. I was slated to host Secret Mafia after that game finished but it took for-freaking-ever. Back in those days, we only ran one game at a time but people were begging me to start sign-ups for Secret. I didn't play Zelda's game but I remember hearing a lot about those mini-games you guys did. That's what you call taking a lemon and making lemonade.

I seem to remember the nasty mafia moments more so than the funny ones. Maybe that's because drama seems to follow me in mafia forums (or at least it did until I signed up here).

Anywho, without racking my brain too much, a few things stand out in my mind:

1) I concur that MP meltdowns are amusing, even if you are the one getting peed on.

2) I laughed my butt off more or less the whole way through Economics Mafia. Does that make me a troll?

3) Making my dirty bet with MP in Watchmen was amusing. That might make me more of a bad person than a troll though.

4) I seem to recall that The Office Mafia on Lostpedia was a hilarious game. Probably because we made a lot of "that's what she said" jokes.

5) Way back in the dark ages on STV, I remember one of my first games (Pirates of the Caribbean) was probably amusing to the civvies. I received my first ever baddie role (Jack, the Monkey). I was still very new to mafia and the games there incorporated lie detector roles, so everyone was making civvie claims on Day 1. Not being aware of the mechanic or its standard use, I resisted and argued against such a simple way for a lie detector check. That had a number of people looking my way early on. I tied for the lynch but won the coin flip (the other player was civvie) and pretty much everyone made up their minds that I was bad at that point.

The other baddie team let me survive the night (why not serve up an easy lynch). Mad and desperate, I offered the civvies a parlay: I was willing to reveal the identities of my teammates if they would let me live. I even ratted out one of my three teammates in an attempt to win people over. I didn't. They lynched my baddie butt and I revealed who my team had been theorizing for a few civvie roles. Two of my teammates actually got pretty far but they lost in the end. The other baddie team won pretty handily. For about a year after that game ran, they called what I did "Pulling a G" because no one had ever seen anything like it before.

I thought I was being chaotic and keeping with the spirit of the game ("Don't trust a pirate"), but I was probably just being a sore loser. Some of the civvies and certainly the other baddie team must have thought it was a hoot though.


6) When I hosted Secret Mafia 2, there was a sad but funny occurrence. One baddie team was stacked with great powers and a recruiter role. They even recruited two or three players to their team. Somewhere along the way, it all came unglued and they gradually imploded. The other baddie team won that game. I believe MP was one of the winners. I couldn't believe the struggling baddie team pulled it off. The other team really did snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.