The Great Gatsby [Day 5]

#1

The Great Gatsby Mafia

Part 1 of a series of American Literature Mafia

A closed affair, good for, oh, probably a dozen guests or so, old sport.

#2

Guests

Boomslang
DFaraday
Dom
DrWilgy
Elohcin
Enrique
Long Con
Made
Neverwhere
nijuukyugou
Ricochet
speedchuck
TonyStarkPrime

#3

Read This

1. Role-claiming, info-dumping, and lying are all permitted. Reproducing or referencing private messages from the Host is not.
2. Roles, abilities, alignments and whatever else have been randomly determined.
3. No illegal BTSC.
4. No double-targeting.
5. No editing or deleting of posts.
6. If you are dead, please post off-topic using dead red.
7. If you are not dead but posting off-topic, please use off-topic green.
8. If you are not a participant but post off-topic, please use non-player blue.
9. If there is an issue, please PM the moderators on duty, Spacedaisy and Quin.
10. Votes are changeable until the deadline.
11. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

#4

Chapter 1

This morning an old friend telephoned asking to meet with me for lunch in Manhattan. I hadn’t seen him in years and didn’t even know he was in town.

“It would be great to catch up,” I said.

“Catching up is all I seem to be doing these days,” he said and laughed. I laughed too, but I hadn’t any idea what he meant.

“Then you must be an old pro,” I said. We made arrangements to meet this afternoon, and after I changed, I got in my coupe and drove through the Valley of Ashes. I was prevented from passing through by a number of people, mostly policemen and press blocking the road.

It was a ghastly scene all right. Not only was the body hanging from the advertisement, but someone had removed the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg and replaced his glasses after the abstraction. I had to turn away.

When I did I overheard a policeman announce to no one in particular that this awful crime was committed by more than one person. What evidence brought him to this conclusion I cannot say. All I wanted to do was drive back to West Egg. I thought to telephone my friend and cancel our lunch, but of course he was already at the restaurant no doubt waiting for me. I left a message explaining what had happened, asking for forgiveness, and that suggested that we could reschedule when I had regained my appetite.

It is now Day 1. You have 48 hours to find those responsible for this abstraction.

#5

Let us beat on, boats against the current, ceaselessly into the past!

#6

*insert generic start of game post here*

#7

It's a game! Yay!

#8

Hey everyone, [mention]Spacedaisy[/mention] and I are gonna be double-teaming the MoD position for this game. If you've ever got an issue you want to talk through or even if you just want to vent, come to us. We'll feed you snacks and pat you on the head and make it all better.

#9

Alright! Maybe I won't be lynched ot killed so soon this time. I haven't had much luck in games lately.

No Day 0. Diving right in. From the few who have posted so far, we should vote for boomslang. He seems like a suck-up -teacher's pet, if you will.

#10

Elohcin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:09 pm Alright! Maybe I won't be lynched ot killed so soon this time. I haven't had much luck in games lately.

No Day 0. Diving right in. From the few who have posted so far, we should vote for boomslang. He seems like a suck-up -teacher's pet, if you will.

Elohcin instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest.

#11

I'm super excited.

Eloh made a reasonable accusation too early on D1. She should be lynched.

#12

Changeable votes! *insert cheesy reunion scene* It's been so long! sniff

#13

"Fuck prohibition get money"
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

#14

A fine night for a games of honesty and betrayal. Anyone up for a swim?

#15

""I'm ready for it. That green light. I want it"
--Lorde"
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

#16

laugh.

i'm very funny

#17

Spoiler: show

#18

Long day of work for me. Hopefully when I return we'll have something of substance to talk about.

#19

Quin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:07 pm Hey everyone, @Spacedaisy and I are gonna be double-teaming the MoD position for this game. If you've ever got an issue you want to talk through or even if you just want to vent, come to us. We'll feed you snacks and pat you on the head and make it all better.

Also we will be back reading along with the game and we may occasionally check in with people so if you get a PM from us that's just our way of making sure everything is alright and that there isn't something we can do for you.

If there is ever a conflict with someone you feel is becoming personal, please feel free to reach out and vent to us. We are here to be an ear and resolve that kind of stuff as much as possible. Let's treat each other respectfully and have fun guys!

#20

Elohcin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:11 am Long day of work for me. Hopefully when I return we'll have something of substance to talk about.

Don't count on it.

#21

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:55 am
Elohcin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:11 am Long day of work for me. Hopefully when I return we'll have something of substance to talk about.
Don't count on it.

It's scary when I'm right.

#22

Oh boi, it seems I am late to the party. I apologise graciously to the host, and wish all player luck and cheers!

I don't suppose the food is already cold?

#23

Anyways, voting Enrique cuz he's mafia.

#24

Spoiler: show

#25

Didn't realize this was open. It's been a while since I've been able to claim. It feels good.

Remember mafia, God sees everything.

#26

Made wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:57 pm Oh boi, it seems I am late to the party. I apologise graciously to the host, and wish all player luck and cheers!

I don't suppose the food is already cold?

It was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn’t know that the party was over.

#27

Wow...at least I haven't missed much.

#28

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2017 6:47 pm Didn't realize this was open. It's been a while since I've been able to claim. It feels good.

Remember mafia, God sees everything.

Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty, unforgivably guilty — as if he had just got some poor girl with child.

#29

#30

nijuukyugou wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:51 pm

The notion originated with Daisy's suggestion that we hire five bathrooms and take cold baths, and then assumed more tangible form as "a place to have a mint julep."

#31

Is this going to be a game of posting gimmicks? Cause I got nothin

#32

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:29 pm Is this going to be a game of posting gimmicks? Cause I got nothin

Have you read The Great Gatsby by this man Fitzgerald?

Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.

#33

I do need to. I'll put it next on my reading list

#34

Here I thought I'd have a GAME to catch up on.

sigh. another game another gimmick from rico.

#35

Dom wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:12 am Here I thought I'd have a GAME to catch up on.

sigh. another game another gimmick from rico.

There was a slow pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool lovely day.
Before someone dies tonight...

Let's strike a little early. Wilgy, why are you town?

#36

Spoiler: show

#37

Voting Rico. Tell me, why should I move?

#38

speedchuck wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:50 am Voting Rico. Tell me, why should I move?

Spoiler: show

#39

Good point. We don't have many days. So why would I waste them postponing the lynch of a guy that I can't read? A guy who is purposefully lacking good contribution, and obscuring his alignment behind the veil of gimmicks?

I'd hate to waste more than one day on that.

#40

speedchuck wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:34 am Good point. We don't have many days. So why would I waste them postponing the lynch of a guy that I can't read? A guy who is purposefully lacking good contribution, and obscuring his alignment behind the veil of gimmicks?

I'd hate to waste more than one day on that.

Spoiler: show

#41

Rico, who do you think is mafia and why is it Enrique?

Also, how are we still on page one??

#42

Made wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:13 pm Also, how are we still on page one??

Erm nvm I guess

#43

Guess I'll be checking this thread on the way to Cincinnati. I'll even endure the motion sickness because I love you people so much

Hello, anyone who's here within the next hour or so

Linki - Hi, Made! Want a martini?

#44

#45

You know, I've never actually had a martini! Thanks bloops <3

So I just had a metagame-y idea: Since info dumping and claiming are allowed, if we all use a "password" derived from our role name and posted them in thread early, a false role claim from mafia would be immediately be apparent.

Thoughts?

#46

Made wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:47 pm You know, I've never actually had a martini! Thanks bloops <3

So I just had a metagame-y idea: Since info dumping and claiming are allowed, if we all use a "password" derived from our role name and posted them in thread early, a false role claim from mafia would be immediately be apparent.

Thoughts?

I hate the idea because the strategy seems cheap, and I don't think Mafia will have to worry about a small claim space. As we get to the late game, tactics like this become more important, but I always hate trying to break the game day 1.
That said, I won't fault anyone for doing it and I'll probably participate myself.

#47

Made wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:47 pm So I just had a metagame-y idea: Since info dumping and claiming are allowed, if we all use a "password" derived from our role name and posted them in thread early, a false role claim from mafia would be immediately be apparent.

Ideas like this are the reason that claims are often discouraged. Mafia can make good fakeclaims if they know what they are doing, especially in a game without public roles. Plus, massclaims just make the game suck.

So this wouldn't be that useful, it would be unfun, and it would be a substitute for actual scumhunting. kthx but nothx

#48

linki: I will totally fault people for doing it, especially d1

#49

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:12 am
Dom wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:12 am Here I thought I'd have a GAME to catch up on.

sigh. another game another gimmick from rico.
There was a slow pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool lovely day.
Before someone dies tonight...

Let's strike a little early. Wilgy, why are you town?

But I am not civ.
I am simply a doctor.
What made you pick me?

Made wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:47 pm You know, I've never actually had a martini! Thanks bloops <3

So I just had a metagame-y idea: Since info dumping and claiming are allowed, if we all use a "password" derived from our role name and posted them in thread early, a false role claim from mafia would be immediately be apparent.

Thoughts?

Epi is our host.
He probably gave fake claims.
Don't make me lynch you.

This would help baddies.
Assuming they have fake claims.
What say you dear Made?

#50

Made wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:13 pm Rico, who do you think is mafia and why is it Enrique?

speedchuck wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:34 am Good point. We don't have many days. So why would I waste them postponing the lynch of a guy that I can't read? A guy who is purposefully lacking good contribution, and obscuring his alignment behind the veil of gimmicks?

I'd hate to waste more than one day on that.

Someone shot Mr. Gatsby- who was it?