The Syndicate

I'm divided between feeling bad for those people, and laughing.

Leaning on the later.

So, [mention]Dr. White[/mention] sneaked in here while I wasn't looking, copied this game mechanic and forced 40 people in another game to follow it.

And put my name on it.

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juliets wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 5:51 am Haha I protected GMan and Enrique - Enrique twice. I almost protected Luna instead but I don't guess it would have mattered. Fun game DDL, I'm glad I decided to play after all. One thing I want to know though, from a strategy standpoint if you are about to get lynched and you have a power role is it the right thing to do to claim? I wasn't sure so I did. I should have known all the people who voted for me were bad since no one moved a vote after I claimed. I protected myself the night after I claimed - I should have waited and protected myself the next night. Oh well. Was fun anyway.

Usually it is. Getting lynched with a PR in such a game is worst case scenario. You only keep a secret if you think you can still get away without claiming. Like, your #1 priority is to not get lynched, and #2 is to not get night killed, so you claim to avoid 1, but you do that as late as possible to avoid 2.

In your case though there wasn't guarantee of survival, because mafia had janitors. So people could believe the doctor was Epi or Nutella and that you were lieing. This is why I put janitors in the game, btw.

Well to each their own I suppose.

If it makes you guys happy, Girl Genius has a lot of kills too. Though it should be slower overall because more players.

With that said, I do like to have more kills in games than the Syndicate average. I usually assume they will be dampened by doctors and roleblockers, though. And that usually happens. Meh.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:46 pm

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:42 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:41 pm I was convinced civilians were going to lose this for two reasons, but ultimately they had a shot.

Which ones?

First, I thought the setup was tough for the civilians. I don't just mean the mafia-to-civilian ratio + serial killer. The biggest weapon civilians have is never a role power. It's discussion. The theme removed the biggest tool the civilians had to find mafia.

Second, with four mafia and a serial killer who had to die twice, that leaves little room for error. When I killed Rico the cop, I thought it was over, since, in a game with no nuanced discussion, the cop would be the most practical way of a civilian win.

In the end, I think lynches should decide the direction of the game more than kills, and in this game, there were almost three times as many kills as lynches.

A correction, since multiple people thought the same thing: the serial killer could only survive a kill, not a lynch. It was designed to protect him against mafia but still leave him vulnerable to town.

But yeah, kill numbers were too much. Blame the loonies at my other forum for suggesting I added "more kill fun" and me for not knowing better and listening to them.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:41 pm I was convinced civilians were going to lose this for two reasons, but ultimately they had a shot.

Which ones?

Yeah next game I might use a different system than a coinflip.

This, is why I tagged Gman to play the game.

Made only missed one too, but the night was nearly over and he was about to miss the second, so I did it a little earlier, as to not give town a tip on who the SK was using activity.

He actually showed up on Discord when I was about to send Jack his role PM, but he asked to be replaced anyway.

Day/Night 4, specifically.

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:48 pm tbf, Wilgy went MIA from the thread for 4 days and wasn't replaced or modkilled. I was a little upset about that after Made got replaced, but eh, I understand now why.

He only missed a single day/night cycle.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:40 pm

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:36 pm Thanks for playing folks. I believe this was a huge sucess, and the majority of the players really got into the spirit of the game. Some things were not perfect, namely how subjective the text rules ended up being, and that the setup may have had a little too many kills, but for my first non-Burglary game in this site, I'm satisfied.

If I host this game again in the future, I'll probably make it a Heist, and maybe use a role matrix.

Yeah, this was gonna be my one comment. I think this format would work better as a heist. No complaints at all about the setup though. It was madness in the best sense of it.

Thing is, the Heist format was created after I submitted this game into the queue.

... yes, it took that long.

As for the replacement thing, i'm really against replacing people on late game, but if I hadn't, this awesome 2v1 day phase wouldn't have happened since I would have modkilled Made. Or it would, but without activity from Made, it could have ended in another tie, or best case scenario, two people piling up votes on a silent civ.

I decided to take the lesser evil here and broke my own estabilished rule. Can't say I regret it.

Thanks for playing folks. I believe this was a huge sucess, and the majority of the players really got into the spirit of the game. Some things were not perfect, namely how subjective the text rules ended up being, and that the setup may have had a little too many kills, but for my first non-Burglary game in this site, I'm satisfied.

If I host this game again in the future, I'll probably make it a Heist, and maybe use a role matrix.

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:30 pm Great effort Enrique! You deserved the win. The scum team knew it couldn't have been Lunalee because G-Man roleblocked her one night and the kill still went through.

Who killed me? vig or SK?

who was the vig?

Epi killed you.

LIST OF ACTIONS

Night 1

G-man blocks Sloonei
juliets protects dunya
dunya kills Nutella
Enrique kills lapluie
Epignosis kills Ricochet
Ricochet investigates dunya (fails because dead)

Night 2

G-Man blocks Mac
juliets protects G-Man
Epignosis kills dunya
dunya kills Epignosis (hides role, but gets no info because dead)
Enrique kills Kylemii

Night 3

Juliets protects Enrique
G-Man blocks Lunalee
nova kills Enrique (stopped by Juliets)
Enrique kills Sloonei

Night 4

juliets protects herself
nova kills Kenway
Enrique kills nova

Night 5

juliets protects Enrique
Enrique kills juliets

Photobucket was done for.

The image posting event was a huge success. The internet was filled with a new generation of gifs and memes and funny pictures of cats.

The assassins sent by Photobucket to sabotage the event had been wiped out. Although, not without a cost, having killed many of the members of the image posting society. But, ultimately, they had won.

Our heroes rested at their headquarters.

Meanwhile, on the top floor, a woman stared at a few files that were placed on a desk. The society had uncovered those files during the mission. At first, they thought they belonged to Photobucket, but then they realized those were plans to something much more sinister. Something that had to be stopped or it would bring a new age of darkness to the internet that it might never recover from.

She looked at the file again, and read the words "Imgur Paywall Plan".

What did the woman intend to do with those files?

A man opened the door behind her. She immediately turned to him.

- Enrique: Hey. What are you doing?
- Lunalee: I'm looking at the Imgur files. I think it's time we report them to the authorities.
- Enrique: Sure we do. What are you waiting for?
- Lunalee: I was hoping I could learn more from them first. But you are right. Let's do it.

...

*click*

*BANG*

Jack heard the sound of the shot coming from above. He feared for the worst. He grabbed his gun and ran to the stairs. Poor juliets had died last night, and nobody knew how to explain it since the Photobucket agents were supposed to be dead. He was a new recruit of the society, having replaced a member who had had to retire earlier. He had been exicted to join this amazing mission, but now he had realized it may have been a trap all along.

He entered the office. In front of him, the body of a dead woman laid on the floor, surrounded by her blood. Lunalee was not breathing.

Knowing his mission came first, he ran to the table. He quickly moved the objects on it. Searching. Searching.

They were not there.

He prepared to turn back and sound the alarm, but before he could, a blade pierced his back.

Jack heard the voice of a man he had thought he could trust. A man who had joined the operation to take advantage of the fall of Photobucket to strenghten a faction that nobody was prepared to face.

- Long live Imgur. - he said.

G-Man wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 8:46 pm

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I think I won't sleep tonight.

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:58 pm Dragon D. Luffy



:P

Enrique wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:27 pm

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Ok I've thought about it and you're technically right. The image didn't have edited text.

So I'm removing the punishment and leaving it as a warning.

I'm also editing the game's rules. From now on, no image may have more than 30 words in it, regardlessly of the category.

If you have any more concerns, please take it to private with me and the game facilitator. Thank you.

Enrique wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:59 pm

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EDIT: This was revised. See the next post.

So I hate to do that because I know you weren't trying to exploit anything (most of the words in the post are not game related).

But this post has way too many words, definitely way more than 30. And if I allow this kind of thing, I create a loophole where I'm allowing anyone to print screen any block of words they want and say what they want to.

So Enrique, as per the rules I've estabilished, I'm going to punish you for this by reducing the number of Text Images you will be able to post in Day 2/Night 2 to 4.

I hope you understand this is not personal. I hate punishing people but I have to enforce my rules or other players may feel I'm being unfair.

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:23 pm can we @ mention users in a post we want them to see?

Sure.

DAY 0



DAY 1

Who is a greedy person who wants you to pay money for 3rd party hosting?

DrWilgy (1) - lapluie
dunya (0)
Elohcin (0)
Enrique (2) - novaselinever, Quin
Epignosis (1) - Sloonei
G-Man (0)
juliets (0)
Kenway (1) - DrWilgy
Kylemii (0)
lapluie (1) - dunya
Lunalee (0)
MacDougall (2) - Elohcin, Ricochet
Made (0)
novaselinever (0)
nutella (0)
Quin (4) - nutella, Enrique, Lunalee, Epignosis
Ricochet (0)
Sloonei (3) - MacDougall, juliets, G-Man

MovingPictures07 (Host/Mod/NP) (5) - insertnamehere, S~V~S, JaggedJimmyJay, Dragon D. Luffy, MovingPictures07

DAY 2

Who dropped the pot of nutella?

DrWilgy (0)
dunya (0)
Elohcin (4) - Epignosis, dunya, juliets, Sloonei
Enrique (1) - Kylemii
Epignosis (2) - Kenway, Made
G-Man (0)
juliets (0)
Kenway (2) - MacDougall, novaselinenever
Kylemii (0)
Lunalee (0)
MacDougall (0)
Made (0)
novaselinever (0)
Sloonei (0)

Chandler Bing (Host/Mod/Dead/NP) (5) - nutella, lapluie, Scotty, JaggedJimmyJay, Dragon D. Luffy

DAY 3

Who was in league with dunya?

DrWilgy (0)
Enrique (0)
G-Man (1) - Enrique
juliets (2) - MacDougall, G-Man
Kenway (1) - novaselinenever
Lunalee (0)
MacDougall (4) - juliets, Sloonei, Lunalee, Made
Made (0)
novaselinever (0)
Sloonei (0)

Lizzy (Host/Mod/Dead/NP) (8) - lapluie, speedchuck, Epignosis, Kylemii, dunya, Scotty, JaggedJimmyJay, Dragon D. Luffy

DAY 4

Who doesn't like paprika?

DrWilgy (0)
Enrique (0)
G-Man (3) - juliets, Lunalee, Kenway
juliets (3) - novaselinenever, Enrique, G-Man
Kenway (0)
Lunalee (0)
Made (0)
novaselinever (0)

Blue and her friends (Host/Mod/Dead/NP) (6) - MacDougall, JaggedJimmyJay, Scotty, dunya, Dragon D. Luffy, Sloonei

DAY 5

Who murdered Ken in cold blood?

DrWilgy (3) - juliets, Lunalee, Enrique
Enrique (0)
juliets (0)
Lunalee (0)
Made (0)

Barbie (Host/Mod/Dead/NP) (7) - MacDougall, Sloonei, Scotty, dunya, lapluie, JaggedJimmyJay, Dragon D. Luffy

DAY 6

Who is the serial killer?

Enrique (0)
Jackofhearts2005 (1) - Lunalee
Lunalee (2) - Jackofhearts2005, Enrique

Wasn't there some plot involving Photobucket? What happened with that? (Host/Mod/Dead/NP) (9) - lapluie, Sloonei, Epignosis, Scotty, dunya, JaggedJimmyJay, Dragon D. Luffy, MacDougall, juliets

G-Man wrote: ↑Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:52 pm

June, 2017. The internet was living an era of peace and prosperity. New memes were born every day, funny pictures got posted on Facebook and Tumblr. All was well.

Until one day, the Photobucket Apocalypse happened.

It was a heinous act of evil unlike the internet had ever seen. Suddenly, billions of images were censored behind a paywall. 4-channers whined and children cried as their funny dog picrues were replaced by the sign of death: "Please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting".

It was not without hope, however. For a group of brave internet users decided to act to save what they held dear. They decided to make a big event, where everyone would post pictures in a high volume, updating them in decent hosting sites, in order to restore balance again.

But the Photobucket High Command learned of this event. And so, they ordered a few of their agents to infiltrate it, in order to take it down and make sure the dominion of the site over images would never end.

This is the story of this event. The battle for the right to post pics.