The Syndicate

Holding...

I just can’t read don’t worry

Fuskdall wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:49 am I just can’t read don’t worry

Read me

Interesting exchange, seems likely one mafia in martin/quokka and feel quokka looked more villagery here and martin has been steadily trending down a while.

My Shell wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:05 am Interesting exchange, seems likely one mafia in martin/quokka and feel quokka looked more villagery here and martin has been steadily trending down a while.

Why?

My Shell wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:15 pm For those who apparently still cannot be bothered to read my posts

I shot nutella last night and she is alive


I had softed about shooting counter if we had d2 v flip

I believe her survival increases her chance of being wolf

How many times do I need to say this to be acknowledged

in that case you were roleblocked because I'm still alive
or you're lying

Akemi Homura wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:58 pm nutella's AtE with :i knew this was going to happen" "should never have subbed in" is NAI according to Alison, but I'm no longer RPing as Alison...

not ate really
I understand people pushing on my slot considering how poorly it seems to have played before I replaced in
I think some people pushing me are doing it in an opportunistic manner and I'm trying to sort it out

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:15 am

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:03 am Day 1
Boringboi [5]: My Shell, Quokka, PonySparkPrime, Maid, dodo
nutellaphant [5]: Fuskdall, MartinWP69, NurseWilgy, Boringboi, Akemi Homura
dodo [1]: 1337
My Shell [1]: Paprika
NurseWilgy [1]: nutellaphant

Day 2
Paprika [4]: NurseWilgy, 1337, My Shell, nutellaphent
nutellaphant [4]: Akemi Homura, MartinWP69, Fuskdall, Quokka
Akemi Homura [2]: Maid, PonySparkPrime
My Shell [1]: Paprika

Voted for nutellaphant twice:
Fuskdall, Martin, Akemi Homura

Voted for nutellaphent once:
Quokka, NurseWilgy, Boringboi

Voted main counterwagon to nutellaphant twice:
My Shell

Voted main counterwagon to nutellaphant once:
Quokka, PonySparkPrime, Maid, dodo, NurseWilgy, 1337, nutellaphant

Voted away from two main wagons once:
1337, Maid, PonySparkPrime, nutellaphant

Voted away from two main wagons both times:
Paprika

Has not voted for nutellaphant (living players):
1337, Maid, My Shell, [nutellaphant], PonySparkPrime

i like how this looks like you're preflipping me as mafia
i honestly think it's slightly town indicative because mafia would probably have trouble implicitly preflipping someone they know is town as mafia

i honestly like maid today. i think maid's town
quokka/martin's interaction looked really weird and out of place. the aggression on both sides also seemed random to me. potential w/w distancing move

oh and they are voting each other
let's see if they actually stick to their guns
I kinda want to wagon both now

Nothing here makes sense

My Shell wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:05 pm If a town doc protected her I am perplexed honestly, why

unless she is actually able to save herself but self targeting is probably not allowed by OP

So my next thought is she has ability to survive death automatically

a doc protecting her is an odd calll i agree

speculating on a secret setup doesnt feel conducive yet

but ftr, i was told that i was rb'd

Marmot is a wolf by the GTH rule

Quokka wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:25 pm Akemi has seemed town this day phase for me, her claim of an anti-town role that gets a boost if you win the roleplay award is believable to me based on what I know. Despite not understanding 1312's reads I trust him because of the miller claim and the fact that he was fishing for the vig and thought it was Made doesn't seem scummy. My Shell has claimed vig and that claim I believe will selve resolve sooner or later.

That leaves the POE to me (excluding nutella who I am voting) as PonyStarkPrime, Martin and Fuskdall. And between those, Fuskdall seems the towniest, followed by Martin and then PSP. If nutella flips town somehow we will have to re-evaluate everything but for now this is how I see the game.

akemi looked awful day 2, i don't think claiming an anti-town role makes up for it

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:15 am

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:03 am Day 1
Boringboi [5]: My Shell, Quokka, PonySparkPrime, Maid, dodo
nutellaphant [5]: Fuskdall, MartinWP69, NurseWilgy, Boringboi, Akemi Homura
dodo [1]: 1337
My Shell [1]: Paprika
NurseWilgy [1]: nutellaphant

Day 2
Paprika [4]: NurseWilgy, 1337, My Shell, nutellaphent
nutellaphant [4]: Akemi Homura, MartinWP69, Fuskdall, Quokka
Akemi Homura [2]: Maid, PonySparkPrime
My Shell [1]: Paprika

Voted for nutellaphant twice:
Fuskdall, Martin, Akemi Homura

Voted for nutellaphent once:
Quokka, NurseWilgy, Boringboi

Voted main counterwagon to nutellaphant twice:
My Shell

Voted main counterwagon to nutellaphant once:
Quokka, PonySparkPrime, Maid, dodo, NurseWilgy, 1337, nutellaphant

Voted away from two main wagons once:
1337, Maid, PonySparkPrime, nutellaphant

Voted away from two main wagons both times:
Paprika

Has not voted for nutellaphant (living players):
1337, Maid, My Shell, [nutellaphant], PonySparkPrime

hmmm

can we just chop a wolf

these reads are so arbitrary based on that list

be the thread state you want in this world fuckdoll

sorry that was rude

nutellaphant wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:14 pm

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:15 am

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:03 am Day 1
Boringboi [5]: My Shell, Quokka, PonySparkPrime, Maid, dodo
nutellaphant [5]: Fuskdall, MartinWP69, NurseWilgy, Boringboi, Akemi Homura
dodo [1]: 1337
My Shell [1]: Paprika
NurseWilgy [1]: nutellaphant

Day 2
Paprika [4]: NurseWilgy, 1337, My Shell, nutellaphent
nutellaphant [4]: Akemi Homura, MartinWP69, Fuskdall, Quokka
Akemi Homura [2]: Maid, PonySparkPrime
My Shell [1]: Paprika

Voted for nutellaphant twice:
Fuskdall, Martin, Akemi Homura

Voted for nutellaphent once:
Quokka, NurseWilgy, Boringboi

Voted main counterwagon to nutellaphant twice:
My Shell

Voted main counterwagon to nutellaphant once:
Quokka, PonySparkPrime, Maid, dodo, NurseWilgy, 1337, nutellaphant

Voted away from two main wagons once:
1337, Maid, PonySparkPrime, nutellaphant

Voted away from two main wagons both times:
Paprika

Has not voted for nutellaphant (living players):
1337, Maid, My Shell, [nutellaphant], PonySparkPrime

i like how this looks like you're preflipping me as mafia
i honestly think it's slightly town indicative because mafia would probably have trouble implicitly preflipping someone they know is town as mafia

I an not

PonySparkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:30 pm

Spoiler: show

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:25 am

Quokka wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 2:11 pm This four wagon formation bothers me, I don't have confidence today is a hit either due to that. Between the four I would rather nutellaphant because of yesterday and the fact that their entrance was unreadable. I don't understand why they are suspecting Martin either.

[VOTE: nutellaphant] aubergine

Mafia

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:34 am

Maid wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:06 pm

Akemi Homura wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:44 pm

nutellaphant wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:43 pm nothing paprika has done today has really swayed me on them either, but I didn't manage to read the last few pages in-depth.

Paprika's eod was fine.

One of you or My Shell was saved yesterday, if you're town, find scum in My Shell.

Is this what I think it is? Because if it is I want to wolf read this mindset.

Maid wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:07 pm [VOTE: Akemi] aubergine

Mafia

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:37 am

Akemi Homura wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:36 pm I can't guess who's behind Paprika unless it's exactly DrWilgy. Sorry to be antifun.

I can vote My Shell or nutella today. Maybe dodo.

I just realized I scumread the ladies lol

Salad

these reads are so arbitrary based on that list

I missed the part where I said they were “based on that list.”

your exercise looks like you made a list of all players' votes related to voting for nut

you then called two people mafia and one person salad



If those reads are based on the list, I see no correlation, as the players involved are in separate categories.

If those reads are not based on the list, I'm curious, what was the point in the exercise?

the reads are clearly
based on the posts that he's quoting ???

sure, but i want to know are they completely unrelated from the list he made

the alison quote is from Day 1

Right so I don’t feel like I am close to having anything figured out, and the thread also felt like it was dead and going nowhere, so I decided to just be weird for the night to see what would happen.

Maid tried to engage me and got frustrated and yelled at me. It felt authentic. I called them town.
Quokka instantly started shading me for it and either used it as confirmation bias to strengthen a real and existing scum read on me, or is a wolf who needs me in their POE so they didn’t actually give it any thought and just blanketed me in shade because that’s what the gameplan is.
Fuskdall didn’t really talk to me. At all. Why fuskdall? Why?
My Shell made one post declaring me a suspect. They did not elaborate.
TopSellingPants decided to read motives into my posts that didn’t exist. It feels town.
Nutellaphant acknowledged that my vote counting looked town because they assumed I was assuming a wolf flip from them, but then reverted back to the scum read that has existed on me since they entered the game, now insisting for some reason that Quokka and I are teammates.

I wish fuskdall had engaged with me, but I read them as town otherwise. I’d still like to know why they didn’t.
I think the natural response to my behavior is frustration and confusion. I think it would be possible to interpret my behavior as suspicious, but I also think that that is the conclusion that the mafia team would have to reach. In a sense, I was daring them to do it. I thought My Shell’s response was the weakest in that sense. I did not like it.
Quokka’s makes a bit of sense from a frustrated townie, but I wouldn’t rule them out as a suspect. I’ve had a few other mild pings from them. Those GTH reads I shared in the middle of my one-word post episode were genuine.
I struggle to read TofuStuffingPan because I can’t tell how much of their bluntness is just roleplay, but at some point I need their reads to actually go someplace.
Nutellaphant seemed to take my behavior as confirmation that I’m bad, and on that note I’d like to point out that they still have not explained why my pursuit of them over the last three game phases has been “opportunistic.”

PonySparkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:41 pm your exercise looks like you made a list of all players' votes related to voting for nut

you then called two people mafia and one person salad



If those reads are based on the list, I see no correlation, as the players involved are in separate categories.

If those reads are not based on the list, I'm curious, what was the point in the exercise?

I called a post “salad” because it contained a salad. Why would I call an entire person “salad”?

The point of bkth exercises was to help me better understand what has happened in the game so far and also to function as devices for conversation.

PonySparkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:49 pm sure, but i want to know are they completely unrelated from the list he made

the alison quote is from Day 1

After charting the votes, I started looking into people I had concerns about. I was not looking for anything in particular. I was just looking.

I made no assumptions about nutellaphant’s alignment. I just wanted a table of votes that would be easy to read so that I (and maybe anyone else) could better assess the bandwagons to determine whether or not nutellaphant was actually saved, or if they’re just another civilian being piled on.

Results were inconclusive, surprisingly. But it’s still information and we can still make use of it moving forward. It would be cool if people could comment on it now that they can stop worrying about what I’m doing.

I feel a lot better about martin all of a sudden

sorry about the roleplay, i'm not a very confident player playing as a supremely confident player and it feels weird

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:02 pm I made no assumptions about nutellaphant’s alignment. I just wanted a table of votes that would be easy to read so that I (and maybe anyone else) could better assess the bandwagons to determine whether or not nutellaphant was actually saved, or if they’re just another civilian being piled on.

Results were inconclusive, surprisingly. But it’s still information and we can still make use of it moving forward. It would be cool if people could comment on it now that they can stop worrying about what I’m doing.

its pointless to put yourself in green because other players reading it cannot take for granted that you are town even if you are

PonySparkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:15 pm

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:02 pm I made no assumptions about nutellaphant’s alignment. I just wanted a table of votes that would be easy to read so that I (and maybe anyone else) could better assess the bandwagons to determine whether or not nutellaphant was actually saved, or if they’re just another civilian being piled on.

Results were inconclusive, surprisingly. But it’s still information and we can still make use of it moving forward. It would be cool if people could comment on it now that they can stop worrying about what I’m doing.

its pointless to put yourself in green because other players reading it cannot take for granted that you are town even if you are

It helped me visually

I'll be disappointed and surprised if both nutellaphant and My Shell are town. I may still even suspect them a little of being teammates.

However, in reviewing the thread last night, and particularly duskfall's posts, I found that there hasn't really been a conclusive argument made against nutellaphant. That's not the most inspiring thing ever. I am not absolving them of suspicion, and still do not like several posts from that slot. But I think we'd all be better off if there was something real there.

Who's got the case?

After I found out that Martin had a reasoning, I think I can see this as an attempt to solve.

Maid wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:37 pm After I found out that Martin had a reasoning, I think I can see this as an attempt to solve.

Why did you think I didn't have a reason yesterday?

I am back to first days, rereading

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:38 pm

Maid wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:37 pm After I found out that Martin had a reasoning, I think I can see this as an attempt to solve.

Why did you think I didn't have a reason yesterday?

You didn't explain yourself

PonySparkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:10 pm I feel a lot better about martin all of a sudden

Me too these posts make up for earlier I think.

Can anyone tell me why do you read Akemi town?
They have a few posts on page one for which I don't see a town mindset behind.

MartinWP69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:27 pm I'll be disappointed and surprised if both nutellaphant and My Shell are town. I may still even suspect them a little of being teammates.

However, in reviewing the thread last night, and particularly duskfall's posts, I found that there hasn't really been a conclusive argument made against nutellaphant. That's not the most inspiring thing ever. I am not absolving them of suspicion, and still do not like several posts from that slot. But I think we'd all be better off if there was something real there.

Who's got the case?

There is reasoning I have been over a thousand times, it is not 100% solid but tell me if you have a stronger case on anyone else

Maid wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:58 pm Can anyone tell me why do you read Akemi town?
They have a few posts on page one for which I don't see a town mindset behind.

I do not

Looking forward to another chaotic EOD where Nutella survives yet again

Let us chop Nutella and everyone give names of who should be shot in the world she flips wolf and in the world she flips town

Actually with numbers already it is probably needed to holster if we misyeet

This game is too hard for village

A few people made brash assumptions about my motives and intentions when I was being weird, but no one was more aggressive in this than Quokka.

The allegation that I was "twisting their words" was amusing and hyper-defensive from my point of view. I was saying and doing as little as possible, so I couldn't fathom in what way I was twisting any words. I was saying the least amount of words possible by design and letting the rest be filled in around me. I was left with the impression that Quokka was twisting their own words on my behalf. I requested a read from them, and they wrote a relatively meticulously paragraph summarizing several points about me and then mentioned that I am in their POE, but at no point in that paragraph did they explicitly state what they believed my alignment was. The mention of a POE does imply suspicion, but a player can be in the POE without necessarily being read as mafia. That's the nature of a POE list: if everyone in it was mafia then the game would be over. I wanted a read, a clearly defined stance, and Quokka did not supply that right away. They did after I stuck my tongue at them, though. But that's when they started accusing me of twisting their words.

The notion that I was "swinging back and forth wildly and it doesn't make sense" was also funny to me. I don't know what Quokka perceived as my starting or end points from which I was swinging. I also don't know why "swinging back and forth" would be problematic in this instance. And lastly, "it doesn't make any sense" should either be entirely self-evident, or not a concern at all. I am saying as little as possible here, and it should be obvious that I'm doing this by design. So obviously I'm not making sense. I'm not even attempting to make sense. Quokka attacking me on those grounds is like condemning a giraffe for having a long neck. It looked silly, like a player who felt compelled to accuse me of something no matter the circumstances.

The last post in this sequence actually got me to crack a smile. "You are either scum trying to mischop me" and "You are probably mafia trying to push me off nutellaphant here by baiting me into a 1v1 and I won't let you" are both wildly and exuberantly overreaching assumptions about my motives and my gamplay on a very basic level.
If I was "trying to mischop" Quokka here, if that was my specific and intentional goal, I'd take a much easier, much more direct, and much more conventional route. Again, my only goal here was to say as little as possible and let others react and fill in their own gaps. I was letting others play Mafia Mad Libs, I guess. I am saying negative things about Quokka here, but they absolutely do not have the strength necessary to compel a group of people to vote for them. It's downright goofy that they would construe that as any sort of effort to inspire a bandwagon. My behavior is deliberately not motivational. What sane person is going to read this exchange and think "Martin's making some cogent points, I better vote for Quokka"?
"You are probably mafia and trying to push me off nutellaphant" is another wild overreach. I didn't do that. I didn't request that Quokka heighten their suspicion of me. I certainly didn't do anything that would indicate a preference for people not to vote for nutellaphant. All I did was dig back into the thread and offer a couple GTH reads on some posts that stood out to me.
I would also like to point out that both Quokka and nutellaphant responding to my weirdness by accusing me of being partnered with the other and attempting some convoluted form of distancing. Is that a coincidence? Or am I one of the scum team's targeted mis-eliminations today?

In fact, when I saw Quokka's POE for the first time last night, my immediate impression was that they were mafia. It necessitated that the mafia team outside of nutella must be in me/fuskdall/TopSecretPortfolio, and that almost certainly isn't right. Does anyone think that POE has a chance of being correct?

I am not TRing Quokka, and I see no one wants to vote Akemi.

[VOTE: quokka] aubergine

Sir you write too long posts

Let's keep this wagons formation we have now:

MartinWP69
2
25%
Voters: Quokka, nutellaphant

My Shell
1
13%
Voters: 1337

nutellaphant
3
38%
Voters: Akemi Homura, Fuskdall, My Shell

Quokka
2
25%
Voters: MartinWP69, Maid
No

My Shell wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:26 pm Sir you write too long posts

No.