The Syndicate

When the game started I honestly thought we had it in the bag because nobody is ever going to lynch Simon. I was surprised it nearly happened.

I was pleased that my D1 Sloonei vote sustained the slot for so long. Serge, you may not have had the opportunity to post much, but the posts you did make were splendid. Your catch-up reads were especially beneficial. I knew you were never getting lynched at that moment -- you sealed the slot's viability.

Way to be, team. Wish I could have been there for the whole ride. Thanks sprityo and Serge for filling in.

Hey y'all,

Regrettably I have decided it is necessary for me to request replacement in this game. I expected to have some trouble with graduate school starting right now, but I can already tell that it's going to be worse than "some trouble". I doubt I'll be able to keep up with the thread consistently, and you'll be better off with someone who can. I need to focus on my work for the foreseeable future, and this is a distraction I can't have. That's no slight on the game or its players though. It'll be tougher yet when my heist begins.

This is the first time I have ever asked out of a game. I hate to do it. I appreciate the effort I have seen thus far though; maintain it through the finish. My parting advice is this: ensure you use every single nugget of evidence in this thread to your advantage, even if you think it seems small. Analyze dead baddies for their interactions. Cross reference claims and assertions against thread data within the ISOs. Analyze. Intuit. Play hard. Work together. I know these things sound obvious, but I can't count the number of times I have watched towns waste solving opportunities right in front of them. Replacement: do me proud, sir/ma'am -- I'm doing this with the expectation that you'll be better able to contribute than I.

Have fun everyone. Hopefully I can play again relatively soon.

Epi said in a recent hosting effort that he doesn't like ties being randomized and that he won't do it that way anymore. Beyond that no clue.

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:54 pm Jay, is there anything else you can specifically say re: Sloonei that might help me see what you're finding suspicious? I read what you had to say, Diiny echoed those thoughts, and I went back and reread Sloonei's posts, particularly those in the exchange in question, and I'm not seeing it. I feel as though Sloonei responded pretty much in-kind with what was thrown at him.

I think his initial reception of the silly "alien" accusations looked dubious, like someone swatting away accusations instead of someone exploring accusations (the latter is something I associate with high-facilitation players like Sloonei). I don't see much evidence in the rest of his posts that he is trying to solve the situation. He wrote off the initial two (LC and Jack) and barely went at speedchuck.

I don't pretend this stuff is severely damning, but it's what has most caught my attention this Day 1.

What do you mean by "in-kind" in your description? How does that project to a supportive take on Sloonei like yours?

I am thoroughly underwhelmed by a Bass lynch. This is laziness. I can on rare occasion understand lynching a total lurker on a Day 1 wherein the participate rate is abysmal and there's nothing to work with, but this one hasn't been bad. There are plenty of posts, though I admit that I haven't read them all yet.

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:47 pmI feel good about half the players at the moment, including almost all of the active players, excluding you and Elo.

What's holding you back from voting Elo or I?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:31 pm

Diiny wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 8:29 pm MP: Why did you agree that jay is a neutral read and then say he's the scummiest non-lurker? I've read your explenation which makes me question why you agreed with me that he was neutral.

And I do have the weirds for MP but now more people have showed up and I need to grill them.

And now that there are other bandwagons forming I think I'm safe in saying that I completely agree with JJJ re sloonei. When I was scum with him in AOL he was very much off topic and then defensive. It's what I bussed him for, anyway. It's not much to go on, but for day 1 it's voteable. Considering him for my vote. Also makes me feel safer re JJJ.

Gonna grill these guys before voting though.

Would you say that this is an accurate description of my posts in this game?

I may vote Bass to save myself if I have to, but I'm also still at work and can't really engage wih stuff.

I wouldn't call you off-topic, but I would call you defense-oriented. Your posts are rather Sloonei-centric. You have a unique opportunity as the subject of much dialogue in this thread to generate some manner of reads, but I don't know that I have seen an effort. You wrote off LC and Jack, and gave a vaguely negative assessment of speedchuck.

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:39 pmWhy is that gross? We have a bad habit of letting lurkers live way longer than they should around here. I can try to generate discussion until I'm blue in the face in the hopes of uncovering something I think is shifty, but if at the end of the day, I still think this is the best way to cast my vote, how is that gross? Should I force myself to feel suspicion against someone that I don't?

It's someone that I'm actively scum reading.

I'm not suggesting you should force yourself to have suspicions. I am suggesting that it's hard to believe that you don't have them naturally.

Sloonei, suspects, go.

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:31 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:28 pm MP, I don't have time to sift through your already insane post count (good lord, man) to find explanations. Why Bass? Please answer with brevity.

Basically what I said here still applies. I don't have an active suspect, so I'd rather lynch a non-poster who has a record of signing up for games and occasionally never showing up. I've thoroughly worked through my thoughts on other players in the game, namely the other wagons but also a few others (yourself included), and do not find any of them worthy of a vote at this time.

You're telling me you have made 100 posts on Day 1 so you can conclude with a lynch of someone with zero posts? That's gross.

What exactly is an "active suspect" in this context? I'm trying to understand how you can have dedicated so much thought to the game already, as is necessitated by your post count, without drawing a stronger conclusion than "vote a lurker".

MP, I don't have time to sift through your already insane post count (good lord, man) to find explanations. Why Bass? Please answer with brevity.

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:47 pm I don't see what everyone else is seeing in Sloonei.

What did you see in sloonei Jay?

Not that much, honestly, but one has to place a vote. Time is quite limited in these 24/24 games. I don't think the "alien" accusations are especially interesting, but I also think Sloonei's responses looked like someone swatting at flies instead of someone engaging a new game in townmode -- being accused over something dumb tends to create more of an active response from high-facilitation townies of Sloonei's character than what I saw.

I clicked the Sloonei button in the poll. It's right up there. Okay that's all my time for now.

More posts, gang. I can't facilitate effectively this time. Someone do it for me. Go. The deadline is in barely 4 hours.

Oh sorry: WHY?

Simon wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:40 pm Hi everyone. I'm here.

My idea is that some people voted for their role instead of their favorite character.

Hey Simon!

Why do you think some people might have done that?

Long Con, could you expand on your feeling that Sloonei's "alien" comment was weird? WHY?

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:37 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:30 pm What's the new poll?

Just want to know if we're supposed to vote for ourselves as a sort of nameroll? I don't know how you guys mafia around these parts so apologies for any stupid questions that seem obvious.

It's the voting tally. Vote for the person you want to lynch. You can also state your vote in the thread if you want.

Sloonei, your responses to basic-tier poop flings of the Day 0/1 variety strike me as timidly playful. You answered them literally but did not attempt to explore the accusers themselves. WHY?

Diiny wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 8:22 pm gah no roleclaiming/outing really goes against my instincts

how have you found adapting, JJJ? iirc that's how the majority of games are played here

It's probably close to 50/50 now with heists and some recent non-heists. Core hunting tactics reign using data visible in the thread, and whatever content generation tactics time permits to maximize that data. Make Mafia happen and the rest works itself out.

I've never played any SF game. Since I'm The Jay, gimme Dee Jay.