The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:48 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:32 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:28 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:23 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:15 pm "What if everyone is town" is a funny idea but annoying and a waste of time jn practice

The worst thing about this is that I'll have to hear "everyone is so dang townie! what if everyone is town and there's no mafia and the host is jerking our chain?" which I hear in every closed setup role madness game I play and shoot down every time because it's silly.

Except now it actually happened so people will take it seriously lol

Twice at the same time, even!

Well, GOC didn't have a mafia in the traditional sense but there was a hostile 3P making nightkills that town had to try and stop so it was at least a proper game. This is just weird.

GOC didn't have a mafia in the traditional sense?

Alison wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:27 pm So now we have a game explicitly declared bastard that contained no bastard elements and a game marketed as simply "mafia" that contains no mafia

I suggest we create a Game of Champions next year where only players who have not won a game on the Syndicate in 2021 get to sign up.

nutella wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:15 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:15 pm "What if everyone is town" is a funny idea but annoying and a waste of time jn practice

i've toyed with "what if everyone is mafia" ideas lol

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:15 pm "What if everyone is town" is a funny idea but annoying and a waste of time jn practice

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:12 pm I wonder how long it took our dear departed corpses to begin to come to terms with the idea that something just isn’t right.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:08 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:04 pm

Scirrus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:01 pm Am I just barking up the tree here?

@NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME @Poison @Long Con who do y'all want to yeet

I’m treating jay and Epi as a difference check

Why do you think marmot is mafia?

Terrible.

Epignosis is a civilian, Nanook knows it, and he is setting me up to take the fall (aided by the support he'd anticipate from Enrique).

There is zero reason to "difference check" Epi and I (if I am right that it means we're being treated as oppositely aligned). I hate it.

[VOTE: Nanook] aubergine

@Enrique I don't really blame you for your suspicion, but I hope you'll explore one thing on your own:

What has this game thread given us that should have my attention? I have taken what is in here, absolute table scraps, and tried to make reads with it. Yes, that includes Epignosis and our little spat. He and I have done that many times before, and usually he doesn't wait until the last minute to step off it. If he's been busy then fine; that's why I have been waiting for him to say whatever he will say.

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Scirrus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:01 pm Am I just barking up the tree here?

@NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME @Poison @Long Con who do y'all want to yeet

Scirrus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 8:49 pm Think Enrique is town, liked his response to my question

Poison's posting looks fine to me, same with fingersplints

JJJ's posting also looks town and his reasoning for his actions holds up imo

Marmot's focus on Nanook and JJJ's disagreement on "the role of mechanics in mafia" seems like like busy work to me.

Nanook is nanook? idk @NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME say something that will make you me TR you if you're town pls

The fact that Epi hasn't really bothered pushing anyone besides JJJ kinda concerns me

I don't know what to think of Grogu

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:17 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:14 pm Ok jay let’s gab

I have 7 posts left after this one, so I'm gonna have to be frugal about them and/or cram walls into all of them. A few takes I'd appreciate if you have opinions:

Epignosis
chardonnay
Enrique
fingersplints

Also, @fingersplints, looks like G-Man will be revealing all roles in this game upon deaths (per rule 10), so we won't have the old-school unrevealed night kills/modkills.

Marmot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 2:17 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:25 pm Gaming mechanics IS playing mafia and the attitude that mechanics are somehow separate from the “real” game is continually baffling to me

@NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME who was this post directed at? It looked like shading to me.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 5:22 am

Marmot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 3:46 am chard and Scirrus came to reasonable conclusions with their votes for me. I townread them.

What were their conclusions about you? Did they write those conclusions into posts?

Marmot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 3:46 amJJJ is posting in a manner he previously stated was uncomfortable. Not sure if that was a joke or a real feeling. He can surely explain. His vote for me is leaves a bit to be desired. Mild annoyance, he followed chardonnay's vote despite chard being listed in his "nothing" section.

Eh? What did I say I was uncomfortable about? Are you referring to my opener thing about post count? It’s not uncomfortable to make 20 posts

Your takes on the votes on you confuse me. I don’t think any of the three of us explained much of anything; we just threw votes down because why not.

But chardonnay and Scirrus came to reasonable “conclusions” while I “leave something to be desired”. I’m going to need you to expand if you could.

I don’t really care that chardonnay was in my “nothings”. So what.

Why was chard in your nothings is my question, and why did you follow his vote?

You started the game off with the statement that 10 posts feels like too much. Maybe it was a joke, maybe it wasn't, you tell me. Then here you are taking on a leader-like role in the game. My problem is that I don't trust your intentions. I know I'm town (and I'm vanilla, so Idc if I'm chopped today either), but I don't read your posts and see an intention to figure out if I'm town or not.

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I don't have a strong reason to townread Grogu, but I will shield them for shielding me.

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Enrique wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:45 pm Civilians need to be careful with their... OUR wording too!

Gonna be real though, I hate to see Marmot go on Day 1 so often, and if his weird understanding of the early votes for him is the thing that cements the wagon around him, I would like to avoid that lynch. I don’t see it as a scum maneuver, just a casual confusion.

To elaborate based on my own gameplay: my first post yesterday was going to talk about how at my first superficial read I didn’t get what chardonnay was doing/saying. So I re-read his posts and I thought, yeah, this makes sense, it’s actually fine, and decided to drop it from my own post. Maybe I wouldn’t word it as his vote deriving from “reasonable conclusions” but I think this is what Marmot means... the thread char spins isn’t hard to follow. Marmot does not share that view about Jay.

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You and I haven't played together in a while, but I am not a common early misyeet like I used to be. Actually, I've played like a dozen games in my return to mafia last year, and I don't think I've been yeeted before Day 4 even once.

That said, I'd prefer if you opted to read me for my content instead of shielding me for being a common misyeet. There's no read involved there.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:36 pm @chardonnay, you said you don’t find Epignosis suspicious. Do you find him trustworthy?

@Grogu, what do you like about Marmot?

@NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME, are you alive?

@Poison and @Scirrus

Could you talk a bit more about your views on Chardonnay? I ask because despite their relatively thick posts, I haven’t felt much of anything from them. Each of you seems to feel something good.

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Marmot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 3:46 am chard and Scirrus came to reasonable conclusions with their votes for me. I townread them.

Epignosis is trying to solve JJJ. I'll give him a townread for that. I want this to happen.

JJJ is posting in a manner he previously stated was uncomfortable. Not sure if that was a joke or a real feeling. He can surely explain. His vote for me is leaves a bit to be desired. Mild annoyance, he followed chardonnay's vote despite chard being listed in his "nothing" section.

Nanook shaded Jay for talking about game mechanics. No other reads. Big meh.


Nothing noteworthy from other players in my eyes as of yet (except for Grogu's TownWatch LLC, which I'm in the midst of applying for).