The Syndicate

Leslie Knope wrote:I wish I had made it more clear that I wanted you guys to go after Donna before I died. I pretty much handed her to you guys. Good game, everyone!

PS: This is all Jerry's fault.

Deep down you are just very sad that I get to spend romantic weekend in Sedona with JR and you don't. Suck it Knope.



(Nice to have you back Trev. )

You did really good. Cracks of you started seeping through the more invested you got.

Donna was a lot harder for me than i thought she would be. I'm so not as cool as she is, but we are on our way into town for breakfesr and massages so at least operation Treat Yo Self! Is off to a smashing success!!

Not gonna lie epi, i was *not* looking forward to that post.

Well played guys. You kept me on my toes the whole game. I was paranoid my baddie stink would get too strong eventually.

Daisy and my sweetie were the best teammates ever! And i got to be on a team with my sweetie which was super fun.

Golden, thank you so much for stepping in. From where we were sitting, you kinda delayed the inevitable and you were a wild card curve we hadn't planned on happening in the 11th hour while we were trying to wrap this thing up before our anniversary weekend. You gave the civs the best chance they could have had when you stepped in.

I think dom getting sick worked in our favor a lot. Please get better domdom. Omg. You guys i can finally talk like me!!!! That was so hard!!

Civs should be proud. They didnt make it easy on us at all.

Ok. Andy it is. Thanks tom!

I'm thinking i got played by one of you two. Just not sure which of you is playin and which of you is real. Andy looks bad for being around at the end and you are quick to point it out once night ended.

The walls are closing in and I can only trust one of you. I need sleep. That is what I'm currently thinking.

Unfortunately I will be tied up during lynch end time so I'm going to vote jr. I think bobby did some great work with anylizing his very wordy and brain hurting posts. His vote for bobby without adressing bobbys points against him ruffles my feathers. Of all of our options, this feels like the best one we have to end this thing.

I'm sorry if I'm wrong.

Wow. A lot happened while I was getting the rest needed to keep the wonder that is Donna Meagle looking so fly!

Well done with analysis Bobby!

Wth jr? I have to agree with Tom, this vote doesnt look great at all.

I haven't played my best game. For sure. I'm so sorry to my remaining 3 teammates for that.

One of which I do believe is Andy. Andy, I believe you are civ despite your look. I know I'm civ. That leaves one of the other three in my mind.

Tom has obviously been replaced. At this stage in the game, he could be civ or bad. Honestly, I'm not sure. I can see both sides of this and it's a coin toss to me.

J-R posts walls of drivel that doesn't say much or do much and hurts my brain to read. He hasn't changed a bit this game. These posts hurt my brain, reading them hurts my brain.

Bobby came in in the 11th hour and actually read that wall of crap. I have to hand it to Bobby, reading it must have been painful. I'm just not sure what his motives are. Was it baddie distancing? Was it trying to throw shade on a dumb role play civ? Was it honest genuine civ hunting? I'm not sure.

And in linki - Bobby is back. "For Aguilara's sake" Why did I have to read that phrase again?

Bobby - do you think all of this makes JR mafia?

So, i got called away from the game about 4 hours earlier than I was expecting to have to leave. Got home late, got 3 hours sleep and have been running ever since

It occurs to me that I ran out the door without voting. I'b back to do that quick. I admit I've not read since I last posted as I have been and continue to have to deal woth other priorities at the moment.

Voting Jerry. I'm sorry, this has been an even more busy than usual week.

I am here. Not avoiding answering Ben or Andy's questions, I just haven't been able to get here to speak. Joe's charity work as well as my real estate business has kept me quite busy the past two weeks.

I did then, and do now believe that one of the two of Leslie and Jerry were bad. At the time I voted, Jerry felt the most sincere to me. I was gravely incorrect in that read. I wish I had been able to come back at the end of the last lynch to read how Leslie was posting as opposed to how Jerry was posting, that was not in the cards for me that day. The lynches end at the absolute worst time of day for me.

I was wrong about Leslie. I'm having a very difficult time seeing anyone who would get my vote more than Jerry. I feel into the easy thinking that sweet, goofy Jerry couldn't possibly be anything more than how he appears on the surface. That is a mistake I don't plan to make a second time.

Looking at our numbers there 9 players remaining. 2 of them are Mafia. So at this moment in time, we have 7 civs to 2 mafia.

If we lynch a mafia, we get to be 7 civs to 1 mafia. Mafia Night kill and we are down 6 civs 1 Mafia.
If by some sad twist of fate, we lynch a civ, we are down 8 civs 2 mafia - Mafia Night kill, we are down to 6 civs and 2 mafia. Still a majority going into the next lynch. It's getting tight for sure, but it's not yet lynch or lose. One of the two of them seems to be playing us.

I don't think that Leslie and Jerry are on the same team one of them has to be bad, and I think it's Leslie. She started the doom and gloom. She's saying she sounded more sincere than Jerry even though, technically, our numbers grow tighter today than they were yesterday. And continue to do so every day. Jerry sounds frustrated in his role play, and like his role play, feels like the easy scapegoat.

I'm placing my vote on Leslie.

Andy Dwyer wrote:well it's all to do with how the lynch went down. jerry's votes looked like distancing to me and i think chris' flip is more indicative of a bad jerry than a bad leslie

That is super for sure understandable, and honestly, I expect most people to go after Jerry because of it. But you've gone pretty much since day 1 ballz to the wallz on Leslie. How is this last cycle more damning to Jerry than Leslie in *your* eyes? This is important to me as I try to figure stuff out which of the two are lying to me.

Bobby -I know it's hard to understand sometimes, but I am not bad for asking for clarification. I just want to understand where everyone is coming from. For all I know, you could be bad. I'm still trying to figure all that out ya know? BTW - I do really like your candy.

Bobby Newport wrote:

Leslie Knope wrote:RIP Ann, you sweet, beautiful, naive, exotic princess.

I still think that Chris was trying to save Jerry and that they were both trying to distance themselves from each other. We got one, so I'm voting for the other this time around. Hopefully we knock out two of these bastards in a row.

I won't have access to a computer for most of tomorrow, but I should be on one all day Friday to keep up on new developments. For now, I'm parking my vote in Jerry's spot.

I like when things are called. I like when elections are called.* I like when I called Chris bad. I like that I called you his partner.

*In my favor of course.

Leslie brings up a reasonable point that the Chris and Jerry votes could be seen as distancing. Why do you think that is not the case and that Leslie and Chris are partners?

Andy Dwyer wrote:lynch jerry
then leslie

You've been asking us to lynch Leslie forever. Why do you now want us to lynch Jerry first?

Andy Dwyer wrote:jerry why do you distrust ben

Or is this getting more to the reason you want Jerry first now? I get that Andy, I really do. I have town read on Ben as well.

Andy - if you had one lynch to lead, who would it be against and why? I feel like you have insight to give that most people blow off because "Andy is scatterbrained." and for as much as Ron has tried to corral your attention and widen your scope, it's somehow fallen a bit short. For April. For Pawnee. Help us out kid. I know you got it in you.

I'm going to go ahead and vote Chris now. I really don't see a point in delaying this any further.

well.....he came out of hiding and started talking....

Ann Perkins wrote:I find it interesting that 2 of the people I am suspecting, Donna & Craig, voted to tie up to the vote on Leslie. But... Mafia wouldn't all vote to save Leslie, right? Has Donna/Craig/Leslie even communicated with eachother in this game?? I mean, if Mafia has a day chat, they might forget to talk in THIS day chat.
In any case, I'm going to start the day with a vote on Leslie. I wouldn't mind a Chris lynch today either.

Sorry I wasn't able to check in at the end of the day, was out with the fam. There was no "unvote" option yesterday, so I couldn't unvote Ron; Ron definitely has stepped it up yesterday, in my eyes, in towniness. I know other players always thought he was town, but I'm just not used to players roleplaying x.x throws me off. Ron questioning me, and accepting some answers but not others to things I have said/done really helped me getting over my tunnelvision on the guy. Sorry Ron
ps. you DID claim Citizen twice :P



Chris, can you give us a read on Leslie & Donna?
Donna, can you give a read on Chris & Leslie?
Leslie...? Same thing.

I voted for Jamm because Ron had made a comment about "faxing the quiet ones to get them to play." Of the people who were quiet, Jamm was the most suspicious to me. I honestly had no idea what happened after I voted till I read back post lynch.

I think Leslie came off the last lynch looking town. She's always been second tier town, behind April and Ron in my list and that hasn't changed.

I had Chris placed middle of the road day 2, but day 3 is looking a little different. His posts read frantic and scattered. Like he knows he's caught. I think that's a good vote today.

I agree with Ron that Bobby Newport has the air of finding a "new life" so to speak. Tom is still far too quiet this late in the game. I know I'm a bit in the "pot/kettle" club, but I do try to put some quality into the posts even if I can't have the quantity.

J-R is so immersed into his role play that all I can think when I read his posts is "thinking requires having a brain. I doubt one exists here."

Jerry's quiet vote on Chris as well as not addressing how he was almost lynched is disturbing.

For me, today it's between Jerry and Chris. I'm leaning more toward Chris though, I think his posts feel more, as April would say, gross than Jerry's.

I hear ya Ron. Concider this a fax.

Vote = Jamm.

I will try to be back closer to vote end to see if more develops. But the office is about to be crazier than a night at the snakehole lounge soon.

Ron Swanson wrote:

Donna Meagle wrote:I thought I had been doing that April, but I will try again with less role play.

I feel pretty great about you, Ron and Ben being on the side of good.
To a lesser extent I would say Ann and Leslie.
Chris and Jerry round out the middle of the pack for me.
J-R's posts hurt my head.
I have growing concerns about Tommy one post as well as Chris's fixation with "evil Leslie."
Jamm and Bobby have dropped off the face of the Earth so hard that I forgot about them until I looked at the list. That's never good, but it's the holiday weekend so I hope they come back around.

There is no Chris fixation with "evil Leslie".

But since you mention Chris:

What. Do people. Think. About. Him.

Andy not Chris. Morning Meagle is not quite right till her hair is done and her makeup on.

As for Chris, he is blendy. He posts a lot, but I'm having a difficult time remembering what he is saying off the top of my head. Excellent role playing though.

Nothing super solid, no posts or anything, just where my gut is sitting at the moment.

I thought I had been doing that April, but I will try again with less role play.

I feel pretty great about you, Ron and Ben being on the side of good.
To a lesser extent I would say Ann and Leslie.
Chris and Jerry round out the middle of the pack for me.
J-R's posts hurt my head.
I have growing concerns about Tommy one post as well as Chris's fixation with "evil Leslie."
Jamm and Bobby have dropped off the face of the Earth so hard that I forgot about them until I looked at the list. That's never good, but it's the holiday weekend so I hope they come back around.

April, girl i love you, but step off a bit. Donna plays by finding her trust first. Yea, i talk about how i feel about peeps. I don't make cases,, i read them. And make judgments based on said trust.

If your opinion of me is soley based on a weak day 1 vote and the fact that i am not, nor will i ever be a case making player, girl.......do what you gotta do.

Meagle Thanksgiving was ugly. Lavondrius showed up. WTH? Lavondrius????!!!

April - I know my vote was pretty lame. I tried to address that and also put my fellow lame posters on notice with my post. Meagle is like a fine wine. She hangs in the fringe and gets better with age.

Ron - I can see why you are worried about Ann. You raise very good points. My gut, at the moment, tells me she is ok. But I do see what you are saying.

TommyH - where the hell have you been? #Iamplayingmafia #sileneisnotanoption. #mydevicesloveme #treatyoselfislonlywhenthere'snofriends.

Honestly, I don't buy into the idea that paying close attention = high posting. I think it's easy to
stay quiet and still pay attention. I'm just as worried about our vocal players as our quiet players. And I know I'm a questionable person.

Andy seems singularly focused on the idea of Evil Leslie to the point where I'm curious as to where the role play ends and where the game starts. That said, we have a long day phase and maybe Andy had too much pie at Thanksgiving so he is all sugar high.

Ok, things are blowing up here faster than Kanye's last breakdown. I'm voting Bill.

Looking forward to hearing more from my fellow quiet players going forward while I work on stepping up my own game.

Meagle out.

As i said before, at this point, I'm inclined to think April is coming from a genuine place.

Ron and Ben are pretty all right in my book too.

Leslie, Ann and Andy seem ok, but I am less convinced of them than the others.

I can see a vote for bill. That guy has that creepy uncle thing going on and that kinda gives me the willies.

I have big giant i dont even knowes about most everyone else.

This whole Lil Sebastian thing is messed up.

The entire town has gone crazy. Some idiot rear ended my Benz while I was at the salon and now I have to take the baby to the hospital.

At the moment, I trust April's claim. She might be moody, but she's a smart kid.