Anniversary Game 1 - Classic Syndicate [Day 9]

[Scotty]

I am so excited!!! Thank you guys for making this happen!!

Great opening post...good luck all

I just can’t believe this post exists AND I’m replying to it.

oop, Golden also started by quoting another post.

Ruh roh raggy

[Spacedaisy]

DOG = SIG HAHA
my autocorrect STILL DOES it

I seriously cracked up reading this.

[Quin]

Are aubergines not old-school enough for this game?

[Scotty]

I'm voting Scotty. Justice for dog.

>reads this
>looks at my profile picture
>rereads this

[NotAnAxehole]

I'm voting Scotty. Justice for dog.

>reads this
>looks at my profile picture
>rereads this

ok, this only ever comes from mafia.

[Scotty]

Are aubergines not old-school enough for this game?

They’re still in the tail end of {vote} tags, like a small, squatty little man whispering it.

[Sloonei]

That being said, I actually think sig coming out and throwing caution to the wind with regards to his spelling and grammar is townie, if not reckless. Could be WIFOM, but that role is incredibly restrictive to my *vibe* which comes with autocorrect errors and incomplete sentences. So I get it.

The grammar police role is mafia. Making typos does not benefit town.

[Scotty]

That being said, I actually think sig coming out and throwing caution to the wind with regards to his spelling and grammar is townie, if not reckless. Could be WIFOM, but that role is incredibly restrictive to my *vibe* which comes with autocorrect errors and incomplete sentences. So I get it.

The grammar police role is mafia. Making typos does not benefit town.

thanks professor.

I’m just not sure mafia sig comes out and brazenly exclaims what he does. I agree that if everyone talks in complete sentences like I am acutely aware you are doing, that role becomes useless.

It just sounds too robotic. And I, for one, am not a robot.

Though…I can’t prove that.

[Spacedaisy]

Are aubergines not old-school enough for this game?

They’re still in the tail end of {vote} tags, like a small, squatty little man whispering it.

I will now forever imagine a little man creepily whispering "aubergine" every time I see someone's vote. Thank you for that. It will be like my very own sweaty, bald, Peeping Tom stalker in every mafia game I read.

[G-Man]

Visions of Day 1’s of old are running through my mind. I’m not inclined to just let it go in the undisciplined manner of yesteryear. I need more meat to chew on from everyone first. I’m thankful that my night away coincided with Night 0 instead of the first half of Day 1.

[G-Man]

That being said, I actually think sig coming out and throwing caution to the wind with regards to his spelling and grammar is townie, if not reckless. Could be WIFOM, but that role is incredibly restrictive to my *vibe* which comes with autocorrect errors and incomplete sentences. So I get it.

The grammar police role is mafia. Making typos does not benefit town.

Valid point indeed! But the civvies have an adverb checker, so we should play it old school like when lie detector roles were still in vogue and pressure everyone to post a unique adverb. Anyone who resists must die.

[Scotty]

That being said, I actually think sig coming out and throwing caution to the wind with regards to his spelling and grammar is townie, if not reckless. Could be WIFOM, but that role is incredibly restrictive to my *vibe* which comes with autocorrect errors and incomplete sentences. So I get it.

The grammar police role is mafia. Making typos does not benefit town.

Valid point indeed! But the civvies have an adverb checker, so we should play it old school like when lie detector roles were still in vogue and pressure everyone to post a unique adverb. Anyone who resists must die.

Indubitably

[Scotty]

Trying to avoid the mafia grammar police is not worth the effort and is too inhibitive.

Sorry fam

[Sloonei]

That being said, I actually think sig coming out and throwing caution to the wind with regards to his spelling and grammar is townie, if not reckless. Could be WIFOM, but that role is incredibly restrictive to my *vibe* which comes with autocorrect errors and incomplete sentences. So I get it.

The grammar police role is mafia. Making typos does not benefit town.

Valid point indeed! But the civvies have an adverb checker, so we should play it old school like when lie detector roles were still in vogue and pressure everyone to post a unique adverb. Anyone who resists must die.

I’ll try to slyly coax adverbs out of everybody.

[Quin]

English was my best subject and I don't know what an adverb is.

[Scotty]

English was my best subject and I don't know what an adverb is.

I think GMan’s suggestion is a great idea and believe everyone should put it in action. I was going to call him out on not using an adverb with that post, but I went back and he used “verily” as his first word this game, so I gave him a pass. GMan is someone that is not scared to be adverbized.

It’s your turn Quin

[Sloonei]

English was my best subject and I don't know what an adverb is.

A word that modifies a verb descriptively

[Quin]

I'm sexily typing an adverb.

[Michelle]

English was my best subject and I don't know what an adverb is.

A word that modifies a verb descriptively

Good morning, am I late for the English class?
Professor Sloonei, I'll gladly take notes!

[Michelle]

Votes should be expressed in the thread though, like this:
[VOTE: Vivax] aubergine

Let the little man whisper!

[Michelle]

[VOTE: Dfaraday] aubergine

[Golden]

I am so excited!!! Thank you guys for making this happen!!

Great opening post...good luck all

I just can’t believe this post exists AND I’m replying to it.

oop, Golden also started by quoting another post.

Ruh roh raggy

Bea throws one eye at me and you throw no eyes at me. When will someone throw two eyes at me I'm waiting for full two-eye treatment.

But also, I got three eyes on you. Beat that.

[Golden]

Reads

Sig: town

There endeth the list of my reads.

[Golden]

Technical question about new era (sorry if I missed this in the rules, don't see it).

Are votes required to be declared in the thread? Eg, for right now, is Notanaxehole's vote on Scotty counting, or not counting?

[Spacedaisy]

It's not required for it to be counted in the tally, but it is considered good form to announce it in thread because we don't have ordered voting any longer. That got lost in the infamous update. So if voters use vote tags, it includes the small man whispering aubergine and we can then search for the word aubergine, which will isolate the votes in most games, though now we have said the word aubergine so much, we will have muddied it a bit for today. It's a workaround to be able to see the order votes are placed in.

[Golden]

Thank you (now that you spell it out I remember it).

[DharmaHelper]

That's an awful lot for me to read.

[Vivax]

History would dictate that I should vote a no-poster here, but history also says you shouldn’t march on Russia in the winter. I think that’s crock, see? You just have to wear thicker outer layers and bring more rations. I have it all figured out! While other poindexters might put their head down and wait until summer to make an offensive push on the oppressive czar of the day, I confidently proclaim “naw,” get on my bike and ride forth, baby. Instead of following the narrative “learn from the past’s mistakes,” I choose to “make mistakes in the future.” I choose to never make new beginnings by always postponing the endings.

Life is a haiku made up of an infinite spew of lines.

Anyway, [VOTE: Bea] aubergine

Interesting that I had a similar thought during one of my latest games a month ago or so.

Spoiler: show

On September 12 2022 15:44 Vivax wrote:
The only fact being an endless conundrum of self-reinforcing expressions within expressions

Kinda inspired from this, or at least it comes closest:

Spoiler: show

I'm voting Scotty. Justice for dog.

>reads this
>looks at my profile picture
>rereads this

ok, this only ever comes from mafia.

Could you elaborate on the why ?

[DharmaHelper]

I swear to God I'm going to ascend to Modhood just to modkill myself if another mothertrucker says aubergine one more time.

[Vivax]

I swear to God I'm going to ascend to Modhood just to modkill myself if another mothertrucker says aubergine one more time.

Are you flamboyantly declaring your intent to dastardly sacrifice yourself spectacularly ?

What happened to the last person that tried to feed you vegetable soup ?

[DharmaHelper]

I swear to God I'm going to ascend to Modhood just to modkill myself if another mothertrucker says aubergine one more time.

Are you flamboyantly declaring your intent to dastardly sacrifice yourself spectacularly ?

What happened to the last person that tried to feed you vegetable soup ?

This happened:

[DharmaHelper]

Right, so Sig is obviously mafia, right?

I would say it is something to consider.

I'm not a fan of changing votes. I like to take the day to interact and observe without being hasty.

Sig says votes are changeable. I don't see how he could have known this before voting. I can only find him sus right away as his hasty vote would most likely land on a civ.

Yeah if only there were a role that explicitly stated (hey look guys, adverb. I'm multitasking!) that votes were changeable.

Maybe Eloh missed that part, though. I guess if it were an indie role or a mafia role, and Eloh were a civ and had no reason to read up on the mafia/indie sides of things, that could be it.

But if that role were not an indie or mafia role, and Eloh were a mafia or an indie and would have reason to be more focused on that side of the board, I could see a world where Eloh might forgo reading up on the civ side of things.

[Vivax]

We got two TRs on sig from Scotty, then Golden. I'd agree with them I think.

I wonder why Eloh didn't post more when confronted with two townreads that went against his considerations that sig could be mafia.
Eloh's explanation for sig sus reads a bit stretched too. Would be my early whiff for a start.

[LoRab]

Popping in. I’ll be driving most of the day, and so I can do so safely, will not be posting and driving. But I will try to check in on stops.

Note well use adverb above, as well as in this sentence.

[sig]

That being said, I actually think sig coming out and throwing caution to the wind with regards to his spelling and grammar is townie, if not reckless. Could be WIFOM, but that role is incredibly restrictive to my *vibe* which comes with autocorrect errors and incomplete sentences. So I get it.

The grammar police role is mafia. Making typos does not benefit town.

It’s also only a one shot, so not a big deal.

[sig]

English was my best subject and I don't know what an adverb is.

An Ad verb is a very that’s fallen for capitalism and started to advertise its verbyness.

[Elohcin]

Votes should be expressed in the thread though, like this:
[VOTE: Vivax] aubergine

Let the little man whisper!

I will HAPPILY use an adverb, but it may take me a while to get used to the vote tag thing. Have patience.

Right, so Sig is obviously mafia, right?

I would say it is something to consider.

I'm not a fan of changing votes. I like to take the day to interact and observe without being hasty.

Sig says votes are changeable. I don't see how he could have known this before voting. I can only find him sus right away as his hasty vote would most likely land on a civ.

Yeah if only there were a role that explicitly stated (hey look guys, adverb. I'm multitasking!) that votes were changeable.

Maybe Eloh missed that part, though. I guess if it were an indie role or a mafia role, and Eloh were a civ and had no reason to read up on the mafia/indie sides of things, that could be it.

But if that role were not an indie or mafia role, and Eloh were a mafia or an indie and would have reason to be more focused on that side of the board, I could see a world where Eloh might forgo reading up on the civ side of things.

So, rule number 5 says the "votes are changeable. MAYBE." Then, I did read the roles including Moveable Votes, but didn't understand it. I was looking at it like a RULE and not a ROLE, probably b/c I had been in the car all day traveling. But I just had a lightbulb moment looking back at it now after a good night's sleep! So, I definitely get it now.

I no longer suspect sig atm. We shall see what's to come.

[DharmaHelper]

Votes should be expressed in the thread though, like this:
[VOTE: Vivax] aubergine

Let the little man whisper!

I will HAPPILY use an adverb, but it may take me a while to get used to the vote tag thing. Have patience.

Right, so Sig is obviously mafia, right?

I would say it is something to consider.

I'm not a fan of changing votes. I like to take the day to interact and observe without being hasty.

Sig says votes are changeable. I don't see how he could have known this before voting. I can only find him sus right away as his hasty vote would most likely land on a civ.

Yeah if only there were a role that explicitly stated (hey look guys, adverb. I'm multitasking!) that votes were changeable.

Maybe Eloh missed that part, though. I guess if it were an indie role or a mafia role, and Eloh were a civ and had no reason to read up on the mafia/indie sides of things, that could be it.

But if that role were not an indie or mafia role, and Eloh were a mafia or an indie and would have reason to be more focused on that side of the board, I could see a world where Eloh might forgo reading up on the civ side of things.

So, rule number 5 says the "votes are changeable. MAYBE." Then, I did read the roles including Moveable Votes, but didn't understand it. I was looking at it like a RULE and not a ROLE, probably b/c I had been in the car all day traveling. But I just had a lightbulb moment looking back at it now after a good night's sleep! So, I definitely get it now.

I no longer suspect sig atm. We shall see what's to come.

[Scotty]

Votes should be expressed in the thread though, like this:
[VOTE: Vivax] aubergine

Let the little man whisper!

I will HAPPILY use an adverb, but it may take me a while to get used to the vote tag thing. Have patience.

Right, so Sig is obviously mafia, right?

I would say it is something to consider.

I'm not a fan of changing votes. I like to take the day to interact and observe without being hasty.

Sig says votes are changeable. I don't see how he could have known this before voting. I can only find him sus right away as his hasty vote would most likely land on a civ.

Yeah if only there were a role that explicitly stated (hey look guys, adverb. I'm multitasking!) that votes were changeable.

Maybe Eloh missed that part, though. I guess if it were an indie role or a mafia role, and Eloh were a civ and had no reason to read up on the mafia/indie sides of things, that could be it.

But if that role were not an indie or mafia role, and Eloh were a mafia or an indie and would have reason to be more focused on that side of the board, I could see a world where Eloh might forgo reading up on the civ side of things.

So, rule number 5 says the "votes are changeable. MAYBE." Then, I did read the roles including Moveable Votes, but didn't understand it. I was looking at it like a RULE and not a ROLE, probably b/c I had been in the car all day traveling. But I just had a lightbulb moment looking back at it now after a good night's sleep! So, I definitely get it now.

I no longer suspect sig atm. We shall see what's to come.

methinks the baker might be baking up some sugar-free excuses here

[Elohcin]

Y'all should know to give me a little leeway before suspecting me, especially when I've been away for so many years. Did you forget that I only married into intelligence? Though I overthink and internalize everything IRL, I'm ultimately a doer and not a thinker. That is why Epi and I mesh so well together.

[Elohcin]

And, I'm not lying about the role thing. I didn't understand the movable votes until I reread the roles this morning after reading DH's comments. I must have more tired than I thought last night b/c everything was much clearer this morning.

[thellama73]

Reads

Sig: town

There endeth the list of my reads.

My only town read so far is Scotty. I don’t have a baddie read yet. Stay tuned.

[thellama73]

Y'all should know to give me a little leeway before suspecting me, especially when I've been away for so many years.

No mercy for the cakemaker!

[DrWilgy]

Good morning.

My name is DrWilgy and I am most definitely a doctor. Pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[thellama73]

I have an idea of who the mafia is, but it's not who I'm voting at the moment. Though, the person I'm voting may also be mafia, who knows.

I do not like this post, nor do I like the vote for Bea. Mind you, I think voting for Bea in general is reasonable because people always tend to trust her, which makes her dangerous on the occasions when she is mafia, but Axey’s vote came without explanation and was a pile on after a (marginally) more justified vote.

Also, why would you not vote for who you think the mafia is?

[DrWilgy]

Hello, my name is DrWilgy and I am most definitely a doctor

[VOTE: Scotty] aubergine while I appreciate you, copyright infringement is a supersrs crime.

*Lick*

[DrWilgy]

Oh. Scotty has 3.

*Revoke lick*

Taste like overcooked onions anyways...

[VOTE: sig] aubergine

*Lick*

[DrWilgy]

Pedantic Pink
Gets a one shot role check, but they can only use it on someone who has made a grammatical or spelling error. You must quote the post where the error can be found in your night target PM to the host. If your chosen post does not actually contain an error, your role check fails and it cannot be used again.

Also given my tendency to not A. Double check my posts 2. Care about grammar that much and C to play on my phone this role definitely feels targeted against me.

*Lick*

[DrWilgy]

Bea: *Lick*
G-Man: *Lick*

[Vivax]

Wilgy, did you see Scottys copycat post before or after you posted your copyrighted intro ?
Your posts sort of seemed to be in catch-up mode of progression but the order of your reactions wouldn't make much sense.