The Syndicate

My "best bro" from the tourny that I played with twice was Achromatic; unfortunately I haven't played with him since. I had to miss the season 1/season 2 combined finalists exhibition game.

There'll probably be a S1/S2/S3 game though. Maybe we'll all face off.

His methods are so similar to mine. I want to say we'd work well together, but I actually worry we'd just fight over thread dominance and put everyone else to sleep. :P

Sloonei wrote:Same here. I really wish I had played, even if it would have been far from my best.

In spite of this, you personally denied a huge pile of townies any chance of even starting to play in the game by kicking their ass in the qualifier.

I actually felt just like you, Golden. I didn't feel I played my best game, but I did feel like I contributed something meaningful to my team's win and I had no problems at all with the people who took the top 3.

I've secretly been salty for the last year because I never got to know my own position in the finale voting. I don't know if I was 4th place just outside the players recognized or if I received zero votes. :P

However the voting goes, you both did a great job in the tournament and represented your homes wonderfully (and kind of by extension, each other's homes). Next year it'd be fascinating to see Epignosis and MacDougall doing this.

MP showed in the scrimmage here too that he can hang with anyone too.

I was disappointed the scum killed Roman before he could eat any crow. I was looking forward to that. :P

It was a town slaughter with numerous significant contributors, so it's hard to say how the voting will go. It's pretty wide open. I have a feeling the power roles (Sorian and jelte) will have an advantage just because they always do, and I suspect Whiskeyjack will get votes. I think Golden has a shot though. One of the scum tried so hard to turn him into a mislynch and he didn't allow it.

The game is over, so we can let Golden in here now. Golden was vanilla town and part of the winning team.

Tough task for Sloonei to roll scum in both tourny games. That stinks, I am sure he wanted to get his town game out there at least once.

Oh neat, they didn't have this cool little EOD timer in the corner last year.

Silver looks like a scum who is desperate for a mislynch, and Golden is his choice target. Nobody is buying what he's selling though, because it's so transparently vacant of meaningful accusations. Even if Golden is scum there have got to be better things to attack him with that he has been obsessing over. It all reads so fake.

Except when it comes to Silver, who if town is just a baffling player to me.

If Sorian is scum I will laugh, because nobody listened to Sloonei on Day 1 about that.

There's a semi-reasonable chance either Sloosor or Golden could be lynched. I understand the suspicion of Visor more than that of Golden, but I am not as sold on it as some of them seem to be. I actually find myself agreeing with Roman most frequently.

I don't think Golden's self-vote antics look like a scum move.

Everything silver says is scummy. I get zero impression that he is thinking critically.

Golden should find himself in an interesting position this day phase. He was a vocal opponent of jelte (who has since claimed cop and lead the successful lynch of red-peeked Apoc). He actually seems like he's being scapegoated to me since a bunch of people suspected jelte before that cop claim beyond just him.

I am less secure in calling him town than I was before, but not because of the jelte read. I am more concerned with the post count -- busy is busy of course, but the pace of this game is intense and that's difficult for any baddie to keep up with.

Like I said on PWYW, I don't think the others at the time really gave you much of a chance when you asked for help -- you were victimized by ego more than anything truly about Mafia.

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:The ego clash of the first real-time day seems to have subsided and leveler heads are prevailing. I saw less of that in the qualifier games. I think letting out a little ego is sometimes necessary to play with an edge, but it can easily be taken too far and lead to either tunneling or directionless ruses. This looks like a formidable town group.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I'm definitely guilty of it sometimes too.

I was all over the place in Turf Wars when I let the ego have too much freedom.

The ego clash of the first real-time day seems to have subsided and leveler heads are prevailing. I saw less of that in the qualifier games. I think letting out a little ego is sometimes necessary to play with an edge, but it can easily be taken too far and lead to either tunneling or directionless ruses. This looks like a formidable town group.

Quin wrote:whiskyjack looks scummy to me

I think he looks like a slightly meaner version of me, at least in the early game.

I'm not sure they'd be so quick to lynch you, but you'd definitely infuriate them.

WhiskeyJack screamed town to me immediately and that hasn't changed.

My early take on Golden and Sloonei is town and less town respectively. Sloonei is leaving more room for doubt, but I still don't quite see anything bad -- just more of an absence of good.

Cool!

I think "silver" looks really bad on Day 1. I think they're on the right track to be considering that lynch, and I'd be surprised if it went awry.