The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote: I'm wondering that same thing, and that was my first thought. However, knowing Robert and his love of dice, I'm wondering if each weapon might correspond to a dice roll and we each are pitted against a random number of enemies. If we don't roll favorably enough perhaps a designated amount of times in a row to defend ourselves, then maybe we die?

This makes good sense to me. Especially since that's what he did with the vehicles at the beginning. Rolling of dice and such.

Using that thought process, I found this link to common RPG weapons and their stats:

http://driftwood.tripod.com/rpg/weapons_chart.html

Going through this list, spear seems to be the most balanced weapon. (Good damage:speed ratio.) So I'm thinking of going that route. I'm new to this whole thought process though (the D&D dice rolling stuff) so any additional thoughts/observations would be welcome. My geeky boyfriend helped me to at least figure out what speeds were good and bad, and what damage of 1d8+1 meant and all that nonsense. (You could go crazy over there! )

Also, do you think it would be wise for us to spread our votes around the different weapons? For a better chance of success? Or should we concentrate in one area that seems to be best/most balanced - giving us a better chance of success?

Again with the lynch non lynch?

I didn't want to think it but when BWT was grasping at straws I almost japed that he shouldn't really worry if he's civvie as most (all iirc) of the lynches thus far have not had the person with the most votes die right off or at all, and he'd more than likely survive....

however, I'm pretty sure he's mafia, so non BWT voter/latevoters, i.e. bandwagoners should get the
not to mention BWT his self has to be taken with a dumptruck full of salt from now on.

I wonder how much other rolls where there powers increase their numbers of votes factors into things, and the "secrets" of other rolls might also go a long way to explaining things as both "orco" and the she-ra counterpart character "try" to do good but sometimes cause more harm than good (in the cartoon iirc )

as far as a weapon goes....in AD&D it always seemed a good idea to have a balance of player rolls and weapons choices....so it might be a good idea to spread out the choices rather than everyone grabbing a spear or a sword, ya know???

welcome back the llama, i'm pretty sure u r a good guy....

and happy b day hosts daddy....yay for good drugs!!!! (don't steal ur pops meds )

Yes, seriously, what is with all the lynch switches.

I have a feeling its from artifacts we've allowed snake mountain to get because of all the votes we piled on. lol. Or maybe technologies the Horde conjured up. Naughty MP, did you switch the lynch to me cuz I'm on to you?

I'm trying to dig around and see what I can find to help us with this poll. Unfortunately, it seems I should have probably chosen a non-stridor vehicle day 1, and tried to win the race, because my info was not helpful at all. It told me absolutely nothing that would be helpful as far as the poll is concerned. I just knew about the problem in advance, but there's no "the ilkorts hate swords" or anything that would prove useful

TBH I'm even trying to read it for hidden stuff like maybe a weird choice word implying one of the options. Or a secret message or something. I just dont understand why it was classified as info Maybe there is nothing to FH's analysis for how people voted furlong and/or spider the other day, because it certainly wouldn't apply today. No one with info on Avion knows how to vote.

I'm gonna watch the episode it's based off of, we'll see if anything comes of it ~.~ Yay netflix.

this episode is useless, im going to bed

@Llama..so happy you are back.

Russtifinko wrote:Yeah voting BWT as well for reaso s previously stated (he STILL never told us what area his Stridit info wad for, wtf?). It seems like a moot point now anyway though.

To MP and He-Man, as I said to LT, I'm not sure how reserving judgment u til I reread his posts equated to defending him.

And as a side note, are there any players He-Man hasn't listed as a possible baddie? It's just funny to me, his posts read like lists of names

Ha, this is a baddie thing to say tbh. Do you want to tell me ALL the people I've 'listed?

Linki

Welcome back llama!

I think I'll choose the sword. Swords are cool.

blindfaeth wrote:
#2, I decided I would share the info I gained from the Stridor vote, since I think everyone knowing the info, including the baddies, is better than only a dead civvie knowing the info. I hope you can use it to your advantage. Basically, I was allowed to ask the Stridor to give me more detail about one area in the light hemisphere, so I chose Avion. The Stridor told me it was a towering city, and its mortal enemies are the Illkorts, and they have in the past emerged from underneath the mountains. They want to capture an "Egg of Avion" that allows the Avionian people to fly. If they are successful in removing said egg from their temple, the Avionians will no longer be able to fly.

Again, I hope I survive, but if not, I'm willing to risk it and post this in hopes it can be used for the greater good.

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I was wondering did you have any more information from your Stridor as to weapon choice?

blindfaeth wrote:Yes, seriously, what is with all the lynch switches.

I have a feeling its from artifacts we've allowed snake mountain to get because of all the votes we piled on. lol. Or maybe technologies the Horde conjured up. Naughty MP, did you switch the lynch to me cuz I'm on to you?

I'm trying to dig around and see what I can find to help us with this poll. Unfortunately, it seems I should have probably chosen a non-stridor vehicle day 1, and tried to win the race, because my info was not helpful at all. It told me absolutely nothing that would be helpful as far as the poll is concerned. I just knew about the problem in advance, but there's no "the ilkorts hate swords" or anything that would prove useful

TBH I'm even trying to read it for hidden stuff like maybe a weird choice word implying one of the options. Or a secret message or something. I just dont understand why it was classified as info Maybe there is nothing to FH's analysis for how people voted furlong and/or spider the other day, because it certainly wouldn't apply today. No one with info on Avion knows how to vote.

Are you serious about this or not? I can't tell. If you are, I'm obviously NOT Snake Mountain since they tried to kill me Night 1 if you recall. I'm also not on The Horde because I'm clearly not bad this game. If I was, there's no way I would have been continuously bringing up BWT as bad and then used the switch, I would have obviously saved that switch until I needed it. I know that's WIFOM, but your point here was equally WIFOM, so there you go. If you weren't serious, then OK, I responded anyway. Lol. I definitely think you were obviously hexed, so I'm leaning that way.

I have to say, my information for the Ice Mountains is also seemingly unhelpful, so that's possible.

I'm not even going to try and overanalyze this poll anymore; it's driving me crazy. I'm going with a mace because I think it's the coolest weapon, so naturally I want it the most.

Whoa. It appears I managed to survive a lynch attempt. Except it looks like it might be at the expense of BF, who I'm pretty sure is civvie...

And before anyone asks, no, I don't know how I survived this lynch. Although apparently anything I say is moot at this point, since I'd be surprised if anyone actually believes me.

And I kept forgetting about this (even with multiple people asking me), but I picked Ice Mountains with my Stridor info. The only thing worth mentioning about it is that apparently the Kulataks mine Eternium there. And Eternium is the strongest metal apparently in the MOTU universe, because it says anyone who wore a suit of armor made of the stuff would be nigh invincible.

Oh, and I'm picking halberd here. I went and looked at the stats for each of these weapons in the Gladiators section which Robert happens to run as well, and it seems to be the most powerful weapon. I get the feeling he's going to use the same dice/stats here as he does on that board.

Inspired by others, I checked my own d&d book. I liked the idea of something with reach, so I was thinking spear, but I changed my mind after I saw what a halberd looked like. Here's what the halberd desc says. (Ill see if I can get a picture posted)



"Normally, you strike with a halberds axe head, but the spike on the end is useful against charging opponents. ... You can use the hook on the back of a halberd to make trip attacks."

Idk it just seems the most useful to me. Has the ax head but its got the nice reach. And the point of the spear for charging. Also from the charts it appears to do the most damage, it's 1d10. All the others range from 1d6 to 1d8.

Linki w BWT.

Do you have a suit of Eternium, BWT? Is that how you survived?

P.S. Many thanks to everyone welcoming me back! What good freinds you are (except the evil ones)

Linki w blindfaeth: Halberds are cool looking and cool sounding, but in real lie they are utterly useless once your opponent gets closer than six feet away, so be careful there.

Snow Dog wrote:

blindfaeth wrote:
#2, I decided I would share the info I gained from the Stridor vote, since I think everyone knowing the info, including the baddies, is better than only a dead civvie knowing the info. I hope you can use it to your advantage. Basically, I was allowed to ask the Stridor to give me more detail about one area in the light hemisphere, so I chose Avion. The Stridor told me it was a towering city, and its mortal enemies are the Illkorts, and they have in the past emerged from underneath the mountains. They want to capture an "Egg of Avion" that allows the Avionian people to fly. If they are successful in removing said egg from their temple, the Avionians will no longer be able to fly.

Again, I hope I survive, but if not, I'm willing to risk it and post this in hopes it can be used for the greater good.

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I was wondering did you have any more information from your Stridor as to weapon choice?

No, my strider was clearly broken lol.

Linki, it's too late llama I already voted haha. But in any case, welcome back, I think you are civvie. Do you have any clue how you were resurrected?

MovingPictures07 wrote:

blindfaeth wrote:Yes, seriously, what is with all the lynch switches.

I have a feeling its from artifacts we've allowed snake mountain to get because of all the votes we piled on. lol. Or maybe technologies the Horde conjured up. Naughty MP, did you switch the lynch to me cuz I'm on to you?

I'm trying to dig around and see what I can find to help us with this poll. Unfortunately, it seems I should have probably chosen a non-stridor vehicle day 1, and tried to win the race, because my info was not helpful at all. It told me absolutely nothing that would be helpful as far as the poll is concerned. I just knew about the problem in advance, but there's no "the ilkorts hate swords" or anything that would prove useful

TBH I'm even trying to read it for hidden stuff like maybe a weird choice word implying one of the options. Or a secret message or something. I just dont understand why it was classified as info Maybe there is nothing to FH's analysis for how people voted furlong and/or spider the other day, because it certainly wouldn't apply today. No one with info on Avion knows how to vote.

Are you serious about this or not? I can't tell. If you are, I'm obviously NOT Snake Mountain since they tried to kill me Night 1 if you recall. I'm also not on The Horde because I'm clearly not bad this game. If I was, there's no way I would have been continuously bringing up BWT as bad and then used the switch, I would have obviously saved that switch until I needed it. I know that's WIFOM, but your point here was equally WIFOM, so there you go. If you weren't serious, then OK, I responded anyway. Lol. I definitely think you were obviously hexed, so I'm leaning that way.

I have to say, my information for the Ice Mountains is also seemingly unhelpful, so that's possible.

How dare you, I'm certainly not hexed

blindfaeth wrote: Linki, it's too late llama I already voted haha. But in any case, welcome back, I think you are civvie. Do you have any clue how you were resurrected?

Thanks! I don't know why I am back (I assume it's because I am too awesome to be killed by a stupid Webstor) but in any case I am glad to have returned.

Epignosis wrote:reywaS is going on a trip for about a week, but says he'll be able to keep up, just not at the usual level.

Well he can't be any worse than The-untamed.

thellama73 wrote:Do you have a suit of Eternium, BWT? Is that how you survived?

P.S. Many thanks to everyone welcoming me back! What good freinds you are (except the evil ones)

Linki w blindfaeth: Halberds are cool looking and cool sounding, but in real lie they are utterly useless once your opponent gets closer than six feet away, so be careful there.

No, I do not. But if I did have one, I wouldn't be surprised if it helped in that regard.

Also, welcome back too! I don't think I mentioned that yet.

Welcome back llama!!

So no one was lynched, actually. Looks like…
- BWT escaped the lynch somehow.
- timmer (maybe with some special abilities) could have had BF lynched all on his own, but that was blocked as well.

My opinion is that it was not a lynch switch (as juliets and others mentioned), but two separate variables. I think there are a lot of powerful roles among us…who wants a “vanilla” role, right? And, because of this, there are so many different variables taking place. We are trying to connect them all and it is confusing us. Let’s all take a look at the roles and the specific abilities we each have so we can try to better understand what’s going on during these lynches.

We need to figure out what specifically is stopping these lynches from occurring.

About the weapons, I think MP may be on to something (each weapon corresponds to a dice roll). I will do more research before I decide.

Well, personally i'd prefer to keep some lizard creatures at spear length as opposed to sword length.

AllAlongTheBoardwalk wrote:Well, personally i'd prefer to keep some lizard creatures at spear length as opposed to sword length.

I don't like the look of this. The last time we voted the same way, I died!

halberd

the speed ratio is also something to look at, cuz while the halberd might do the most damage it might also only have one attack every 3 rounds or something like that, whereas the mace doing less damage per di roll gets to attack more often.....just sayin.
btw i have no knowledge that it does/doesn't work this way....but the vehicle vote sug that it might work something like this.

can some one post the stats on all the weapons so the rest of us can see what the choices are in detail, tnkx ;p

also i asked but no one responded......how do i multi quote????

the speed ratio is also something to look at, cuz while the halberd might do the most damage it might also only have one attack every 3 rounds or something like that, whereas the mace doing less damage per di roll gets to attack more often.....just sayin.
btw i have no knowledge that it does/doesn't work this way....but the vehicle vote sug that it might work something like this.

can some one post the stats on all the weapons so the rest of us can see what the choices are in detail, tnkx ;p

also i asked but no one responded......how do i multi quote????

It has to be sword all day long.. I HAAAAVE THE POWAAAAAAAH

orsonkidd wrote: also i asked but no one responded......how do i multi quote????

same

orsonkidd wrote: also i asked but no one responded......how do i multi quote????

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orsonkidd wrote: also i asked but no one responded......how do i multi quote????

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orsonkidd wrote: also i asked but no one responded......how do i multi quote????

I would think...

I am, quite frankly, lost. I don't know what a 1d3 means, I don't know anything about Epig's dice, and I don't have any information about how these weapons are rated and why, and I don't think I can learn all this and put it in perspective in time to vote. Therefore, I am just going to follow someone that I trust so far in the game and hope they are right! I take total responsibility for my vote but I don't want to sit here and pretend like I know what ya'll are talking about.

Welcome back llama, I haven't re-read you yet but the right people seem to trust you so I'm assuming for now your rezz is a good thing!

I did re-read blindfaeth to see if I could find a reason why someone would want to lynch him. I didn't find anything significant but I did find, in two separate cases where bf talked favorable about MP including voting for him for the shield and voting for him to go into the castle (was it a castle? I don't know what to call it). Voting for MP to go in came right before BF all of a sudden voted for MP. So, I'm leaning with MP in thinking BF is under the hex.

I'm going to spend some time re-reading specific people and see if I can gain any insights.

Lol basically orson you will probably need to open a second tab. Click quote, copy and paste into the post you are working on, and repeat as many times as needed.

Linki I'm on my phone

juliets wrote:I am, quite frankly, lost. I don't know what a 1d3 means, .

1d3 means one three sided die is rolled.

2d6 meand two six sided dice are rolled

1d10+1 means one ten sided die is rolled and one added to the score

etc

thanks. on LP where i learned mafia there was a multi quote button....i thought there might be something like that here....but the copy paste thingy will work too.....im not really that functional on these things tbh...;p

and snowdog, no one likes a smart ass krypto lookin doggy, k? j/k.

orsonkidd wrote:thanks. on LP where i learned mafia there was a multi quote button....i thought there might be something like that here....but the copy paste thingy will work too.....im not really that functional on these things tbh...;p

and snowdog, no one likes a smart ass krypto lookin doggy, k? j/k.

I've never been on a forum with a multi quote button. So that's my excuse for being a smart ass.

LittleTiger wrote:To Multi-quote:

When you are composing a post, in the Full Editor or Preview window, you will see posts underneath the edit window. Those posts all have a "quote" button in the top right hand corner. Just click the quote button for each post you want to add into the post you are composing.

To see more posts per page (to facilitate multi-quote), go to Control Panel, Profile and change the Posts per Page to whatever you want.

Had to fix that glaring typo!

Is there such a thing as a three-sided die?

You guys can study AD&D all you want lol, I just picked the mace because it's cool. I can honestly say I've got virtually no idea what is going on in this game anymore, so I'm just going with the flow.

I chose spear, on account of it being the most balanced RPG weapon on that chart I linked to. Also it is now tied with sword (4 votes each), and that's kind of cool.

timmer wrote:Is there such a thing as a three-sided die?

The laws of science be a harsh mistress.

People typically roll a six sided die and count 1-2=1 3-4=2 5-6=3.

thellama73 wrote: People typically roll a six sided die and count 1-2=1 3-4=2 5-6=3.

Finally! Maths I can get behind!

Epignosis wrote:I''ll go with the spear. I don't want to gt too close to the enemy.

I call spousal shenanigans!!!

LittleTiger wrote:

LittleTiger wrote:To Multi-quote:

When you are composing a post, in the Full Editor or Preview window, you will see posts underneath the edit window. Those posts all have a "quote" button in the top right hand corner. Just click the quote button for each post you want to add into the post you are composing.

To see more posts per page (to facilitate multi-quote), go to Control Panel, Profile and change the Posts per Page to whatever you want.

Had to fix that glaring typo!

Thank you. Very helpful!

timmer wrote:Is there such a thing as a three-sided die?

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Yep

indiglo wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I''ll go with the spear. I don't want to gt too close to the enemy.

I call spousal shenanigans!!!

Yeah, Yeah. He was signed in and I didn't notice

Snow Dog wrote:

LittleTiger wrote:

LittleTiger wrote:To Multi-quote:

When you are composing a post, in the Full Editor or Preview window, you will see posts underneath the edit window. Those posts all have a "quote" button in the top right hand corner. Just click the quote button for each post you want to add into the post you are composing.

To see more posts per page (to facilitate multi-quote), go to Control Panel, Profile and change the Posts per Page to whatever you want.

Had to fix that glaring typo!

Thank you. Very helpful!

timmer wrote:Is there such a thing as a three-sided die?

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Yep

I mean no. 4 sided is the lowest. But you can just half a six sided.

Snow Dog wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

LittleTiger wrote:

LittleTiger wrote:To Multi-quote:

When you are composing a post, in the Full Editor or Preview window, you will see posts underneath the edit window. Those posts all have a "quote" button in the top right hand corner. Just click the quote button for each post you want to add into the post you are composing.

To see more posts per page (to facilitate multi-quote), go to Control Panel, Profile and change the Posts per Page to whatever you want.

Had to fix that glaring typo!

Thank you. Very helpful!

sweet!!!!!! i thnks i gots it

timmer wrote:Is there such a thing as a three-sided die?

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Yep

I mean no. 4 sided is the lowest. But you can just half a six sided.

thellama73 wrote:

timmer wrote:Is there such a thing as a three-sided die?

The laws of science be a harsh mistress.

People typically roll a six sided die and count 1-2=1 3-4=2 5-6=3.

I loves me some harsh mistress

i should have looked first and then chose the ax as no one else has yet, but i chose the mace cuz i think it will maybe have a better chance at multiple hits per round, if that is how its to be structured.
and i wanted to have a reason to use i know its a bat not a mace and their is no dead horse to beat, but.....there was no smiley for "whip the horses eye."

I also have no idea if the weapon choices mean anything. Would have gone with halberd for being the most obscure, but If it's worthless within 6 feet then a spear is the next closest thing.

I think it's amusing that we have been posting our reasons for picking certain weapons even though we really don't have any reasons

Russtifinko wrote: I think it's amusing that we have been posting our reasons for picking certain weapons even though we really don't have any reasons

I think I have very good reasons.

I went with ax because I like Dwarves and in fantasy works Dwarves typically use axes. That's basically the extent of my reasoning.