The Flash: Battle for the Gem Cities (Day 12)

[Marmot]

I am accepting applications for my sidekick until the end of Day 0. Whatever you see fit to tell me will be taken into consideration.

The only people who would want a sidekick are the ones who can't go it alone.

[ika]

Ooo, my turn to be confused. Pedit?

pedit is what i use on the ohter site and what we would call your linki

(it is also much easier to recognize)

[Epignosis]

I am accepting applications for my sidekick until the end of Day 0. Whatever you see fit to tell me will be taken into consideration.

The only people who would want a sidekick are the ones who can't go it alone.

I don't want a sidekick. A sidekick wants me.

[thellama73]

Ooo, my turn to be confused. Pedit?

pedit is what i use on the ohter site and what we would call your linki

(it is also much easier to recognize)

But why is there a monkey?

[Epignosis]

Ooo, my turn to be confused. Pedit?

pedit is what i use on the ohter site and what we would call your linki

(it is also much easier to recognize)

We English speakers use the word "Addendum." It's English, and not made up nonsense we have to explain to new people every time.

[DharmaHelper]

Ooo, my turn to be confused. Pedit?

pedit is what i use on the ohter site and what we would call your linki

(it is also much easier to recognize)

We English speakers use the word "Addendum." It's English, and not made up nonsense we have to explain to new people every time.

Surprised you're up so late Epi. Did not take you for a noctrunal person.

[Epignosis]

Ooo, my turn to be confused. Pedit?

pedit is what i use on the ohter site and what we would call your linki

(it is also much easier to recognize)

We English speakers use the word "Addendum." It's English, and not made up nonsense we have to explain to new people every time.

Surprised you're up so late Epi. Did not take you for a noctrunal person.

Don't know what "noctrunal" is, but my students don't know what "nocturnal" means.

I'm getting Biblical Mafia spruced up for sign ups.

[Marmot]

Ooo, my turn to be confused. Pedit?

pedit is what i use on the ohter site and what we would call your linki

(it is also much easier to recognize)

We English speakers use the word "Addendum." It's English, and not made up nonsense we have to explain to new people every time.

Surprised you're up so late Epi. Did not take you for a noctrunal person.

Epignosis did the same thing in Harry Stephen Keeler Mafia. His final post on the opening day of the game came at 11:10 PM EST (on a Tuesday).

That's right around the current time.

[DharmaHelper]

Ooo, my turn to be confused. Pedit?

pedit is what i use on the ohter site and what we would call your linki

(it is also much easier to recognize)

We English speakers use the word "Addendum." It's English, and not made up nonsense we have to explain to new people every time.

Surprised you're up so late Epi. Did not take you for a noctrunal person.

Epignosis did the same thing in Harry Stephen Keeler Mafia. His final post on the opening day of the game came at 11:10 PM EST (on a Tuesday).

That's right around the current time.

[Marmot]

Ooo, my turn to be confused. Pedit?

pedit is what i use on the ohter site and what we would call your linki

(it is also much easier to recognize)

We English speakers use the word "Addendum." It's English, and not made up nonsense we have to explain to new people every time.

Surprised you're up so late Epi. Did not take you for a noctrunal person.

Epignosis did the same thing in Harry Stephen Keeler Mafia. His final post on the opening day of the game came at 11:10 PM EST (on a Tuesday).

That's right around the current time.

Is this Flash Mafia or Dash Mafia?

[Epignosis]

Metalmarsh is a mammal.

[Marmot]

Epignosis is a moderator.

[Marmot]

Spacedaisy currently has the fourth most posts in this game.

[Marmot]

Spacedaisy currently has the fourth most posts in this game.

In fact, she is only one post away from equaling her total post count in Film Director Mafia, a game in which she lasted 6 whole days (before replacing out). However, it seemed she started a new job when that game started.

[Spacedaisy]

Does it scare you MM?

Ika, thanks for the explanation. see, you have to prepare me for what I'll see at other sites, lol

[Mister Rearranger]

Example of how swing shifts can suck: I slept for a small part of the day after I got out of work, so now I can't sleep and I'm refreshing the thread just to do something, even though I know I have to be in at a normal time tomorrow and should sleep.

Just the downside of being awesome at one's job.

[Spacedaisy]

I did say back at the beginning of the year I was going to make an effort to getting back to being super engaged mafia player Daisy, after all. I believe the phrase I used was, "bring it bitch." Then I promptly lost the Champions game, lol.

[Epignosis]

Example of how swing shifts can suck: I slept for a small part of the day after I got out of work, so now I can't sleep and I'm refreshing the thread just to do something, even though I know I have to be in at a normal time tomorrow and should sleep.

Just the downside of being awesome at one's job.

I'm a teacher. Every shift sucks. Especially when you get called in by your assistant principal to be told that you are responsible for students not turning in assignments and that you are only allowed from here on out to teach test preparation.

[Marmot]

I did say back at the beginning of the year I was going to make an effort to getting back to being super engaged mafia player Daisy, after all. I believe the phrase I used was, "bring it bitch." Then I promptly lost the Champions game, lol.

I used the phrase, "Voting SVS for no reason." in the Game of Champions and promptly lost.

[thellama73]

I did say back at the beginning of the year I was going to make an effort to getting back to being super engaged mafia player Daisy, after all. I believe the phrase I used was, "bring it bitch." Then I promptly lost the Champions game, lol.

I used the phrase, "Voting SVS for no reason." in the Game of Champions and promptly lost.

I have never won a single game of champions game, because I am not a champion.

But I'm more of a champion than this loser, Flash, from what I can gather about him from the game thread (I've still never heard of him and am not convinced he is a real thing.) If he's really a superhero, why no big budget blockbuster movie about him?

[Marmot]

I did say back at the beginning of the year I was going to make an effort to getting back to being super engaged mafia player Daisy, after all. I believe the phrase I used was, "bring it bitch." Then I promptly lost the Champions game, lol.

I used the phrase, "Voting SVS for no reason." in the Game of Champions and promptly lost.

I have never won a single game of champions game, because I am not a champion.

But I'm more of a champion than this loser, Flash, from what I can gather about him from the game thread (I've still never heard of him and am not convinced he is a real thing.) If he's really a superhero, why no big budget blockbuster movie about him?

Don't look at me. I have never heard of Flash before either.

[Long Con]

THE OLD ROGUES (6)

Their roles are as close to a "Civilian" Option that will exist in this game. They may be thieves and robbers, but they have a code of morals. As such, their only win conditions are to eliminate the vile New Rogues and stop Gorilla Grodd's rampage. If Grodd is dead, the New Rogues are dead, and any Old Rogues survive, they win the game.

So, these guys are put forth as the Civvies of the game (or "Townies" for the newcomers). They share the same win condition as The Detectives, with the additional caveat that they have to take out Grodd as well - something it seems The Detectives don't have to do.

THE INDEPENDENT ROGUES (6)

These characters wish to continue their schemes without being bothered. They will win simply by surviving until the end of the game.

Survival win condition, but The New Rogues need these guys (and everyone else) dead to win. So these guys will need The New Rogues dead to win, making their effective win condition the same as The Old Rogues and The Detectives. More Civvies.

THE NEW ROGUES (7)

As Central and Keystone Cities have developed over time, the villains who plague their citizens have become more and more ambitious. The New Rogues are, for the most part, concerned with spreading destruction and chaos around the twin cities, making a name for themselves by killing superheroes and villains alike. They must survive and eliminate all opposing factions to win the game.

These are the main baddies, these are the people whose deaths will mean the best progress for the Civvie win.

THE "ARCH-VILLAINS" (3)

Each of these characters have been The Flash's biggest threat from time-to-time. They have unique conditions for winning that the Rogues are not aware of at this time.

Probably good to kill these guys. Host: Do these guys count as an "opposing faction" for the New Rogues' win condition? Do the Independent Rogues?

THE DETECTIVES (3)

Wally West and the recently resurrected Barry Allen have joined forces to track down the newest foe threatening their home cities. Using their law enforcement and forensic talents, respectively, they will win if they uncover the mystery of the Gem Cities, and if they manage to imprison the New Rogues. They may choose to imprison the Old Rogues as well, but it is not required.

More Civvies, with an extra mysterious win condition. Civvie ninja here, too, so that's nice. Probably will want to avoid imprisoning Old Rogues, if my read of things is correct - a mostly shared win condition.

Just wanted to try and flesh out who we want to be trying to kill here. New Rogues and Grodd seem to be the main targets, but it's probably best to try and take out Prof Zoom and Zoom... just on general principle.

[Long Con]

The Flash isn't crappy. Super-speed is one of the best powers there is.

[DharmaHelper]

Always nice to get your ducks in a row, LC.

[blindfaeth]

That seems like an awful lot of baddies. Did Epignosis design this game? :P jk.

[S~V~S]

I did say back at the beginning of the year I was going to make an effort to getting back to being super engaged mafia player Daisy, after all. I believe the phrase I used was, "bring it bitch." Then I promptly lost the Champions game, lol.

I used the phrase, "Voting SVS for no reason." in the Game of Champions and promptly lost.

Picked mine, tell me when day 1 begins and we can actually do stuff.

We can do stuff now. Namely, day 0 is a period of time we can use to get a feel for players before day 1 so were less likely to mislynch. You're not trying to hide are you?

Regardless, welcome to our forum. Did you have a reason for voting L?

Hello friend, I don't think we've met before!


Oh, Comic nerd people, any clue what the letters might mean? How many Gems are there? 5? could that possibly be what the poll determines?

Hello!

Personally, I like the inferred theory from LC that the voted letter may be revealed to us from the secrets in roles. Ie, if you believe that theory, you don't want to vote for the less commonly occurring letters in the alphabet.

Also, did you see anything interesting in the roles to point out, since that was your self-assigned task from your first post?

I doubt that it's the letter thing. The last MR hosted game i played had secrets, and they were never revealed during the game. Considering that no blanks are currently given, I expect the secrets to remain-well-- secret.
My guess as it stands is teams.

And yeah bunch of interesting stuff, but i'm going to hold off on saying anything quite yet. As it stands I kinda don't want to touch the roles with a fifty foot pole....at least not yet....

Read the Host Posts, even if you read nothing else.

@LC: There will be tildes!

In reply to this:

So, first thing on my mind: *secrets* Wow, there are so many secrets in this game! The word *secret* is used, like, thirty times in the role descriptions. Prof. Zoom, Zoom, and Gorilla Grodd have secrets that are so secret that they need to be shown twice! That's some seriously secret stuff.

I haven't looked at the poll yet, but from reading the thread, it looks like we'll be choosing a letter. Barry Allen's dead role check power involves finding letters in secret roles... Host, will we be getting tildes for all the secrets?

This means revealable secrets. Although tbh it is impossible to read the question in that post if you are on the light color scheme, which I am for phone purposes. For this game, I might go back to dark, though.

Looks like last night was tons o'fluff and a few people trying to discuss the game in the wilderness. Seeing the win conditoons laid out like that makes these factions a bit easier to understand, I was thinking there were a lot less "civvies" than there actually are if you go by win conditions.

[Bullzeye]

I see this started just after I went to bed! I have voted A because it is one of the options on the poll and it's too early for me to think of a real joke.

[Roxy]

Thanks for the breakdown LC.

[blindfaeth]

That seems like an awful lot of baddies. Did Epignosis design this game? :P jk.

Oh, weird - re: Blacksmith's role and the host's rules, I don't think the baddies have BTSC.

[blindfaeth]

What are these gems you speak of?

Think i'm confusing this game with the Green lantern game someone else made.

I think SVS summed this all up nicely. Our host made it clear that there will be tildes. (I'm a fan of tildes, I adopted them for a while after I had BTSC with SVS early on in my mafia career. Some people thought I was SVS in a sock puppet game because of it :P )

Regardless, I'm not buying that you confused this game with a different one. You posted this on page one~

Having yet to check my role, i would like to check in, and say good luck everyone!
Reading through game mechanics now, will probably say something profound about them maybe, iunno.

If you were telling the truth, I'm assuming you just read the roles and rules, along with your role PM and the opening host post. I did a quick search on this site and green lantern doesn't turn up anything. Can you find and post a link to that game? How recent was it?

[blindfaeth]

Just an FYI, I changed my avatar, I know sometimes that can be confusing. BF "born this way" avatar = same player as BF "kid flash pony"

[Made]

What are these gems you speak of?

Think i'm confusing this game with the Green lantern game someone else made.

I think SVS summed this all up nicely. Our host made it clear that there will be tildes. (I'm a fan of tildes, I adopted them for a while after I had BTSC with SVS early on in my mafia career. Some people thought I was SVS in a sock puppet game because of it :P )

Regardless, I'm not buying that you confused this game with a different one. You posted this on page one~

Having yet to check my role, i would like to check in, and say good luck everyone!
Reading through game mechanics now, will probably say something profound about them maybe, iunno.

If you were telling the truth, I'm assuming you just read the roles and rules, along with your role PM and the opening host post. I did a quick search on this site and green lantern doesn't turn up anything. Can you find and post a link to that game? How recent was it?

http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com/viewto ... f=30&t=537

And I missed MR's post about tildes.

[Made]

oh and re: SVS, I read it, it's just i'm not sure how to approach it yet, I've yet to read Lc's comments on the roles tho.

[thellama73]

The Flash isn't crappy. Super-speed is one of the best powers there is.

Why don't they just kill him hen he is asleep?

[blindfaeth]

What do gems have to do with that game?

[thellama73]

What do gems have to do with that game?

We're battling for the gem cities.

[S~V~S]

What do gems have to do with that game?

We're battling for the gem cities.

Are you intentionally trying to confuse people?

[thellama73]

What do gems have to do with that game?

We're battling for the gem cities.

Are you intentionally trying to confuse people?

I think the host is. Wally West is from Keystone City, and Barry Allen is from Central City, neither of which has anything to do with gems.

Plus, there is a MONKEY in the roles? How is that not confusing?

[fingersplints]

Woo game ^_^

You guys were chatty while I slept

[DharmaHelper]

An interesting Day 0 so far.

[Long Con]

Looks like Llama is either Gorilla Grodd himself, or trying really hard to get Grodd's attention.

[Made]

What do gems have to do with that game?

I read gem city, so I thought gem collection like sonic and then I remembered reading something about gems (actually power rings) in the other game, green lantern, and thought it was this game.

Unless there actually is a game about gems, and i'm confusing Green lantern with that game....stand by, further research is required.

[Made]

Update: there hasn't been a game about Gems.... not sure where that leaves us...

[DharmaHelper]

Update: there hasn't been a game about Gems.... not sure where that leaves us...

This entire discussion has been the most useful useless discussion of all time.

[AceofSpaces]

Update: there hasn't been a game about Gems.... not sure where that leaves us...

This entire discussion has been the most useful useless discussion of all time.

This sums up every Day 0 ever.

I voted for S

[DFaraday]

I'm really excited for this game! I voted H because it didn't have as many votes as some of the others.

Also, has there ever been a Flash story called "Gorilla Warfare"? Because if not I feel like that's a huge missed opportunity.

[Long Con]

Also, has there ever been a Flash story called "Gorilla Warfare"? Because if not I feel like that's a huge missed opportunity.

http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/ ... la-warfare

[Roxy]

Looks like Llama is either Gorilla Grodd himself, or trying really hard to get Grodd's attention.

That, and spreading hate about The Flash - which frankly I do not understand. If he hates The Flash then why sign up and complain in every post?

I personally think MR has created a great game that will be fun to play!

[DFaraday]

Also, has there ever been a Flash story called "Gorilla Warfare"? Because if not I feel like that's a huge missed opportunity.

http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/ ... la-warfare

*Nods approvingly*

[Turnip Head]

Disclaimer: This will be a map game! A fairly straightforward one, but a map game.

So what's the deal with this map? How will the map affect the game's mechanics? Does the Day 0 poll have something to do with the map?