The Syndicate

Matahari wrote:Why is Russti on night 1, but everyone else on night 2?

That is weird. Maybe I'm in slow motion, or a time eddy or something. Was there time travel in Twin Peaks?

Russtifinko wrote:

Matahari wrote:Why is Russti on night 1, but everyone else on night 2?

That is weird. Maybe I'm in slow motion, or a time eddy or something. Was there time travel in Twin Peaks?

What are you two talking about?

Never mind, I seem to have caught up.

Snow Dog, in the red lettering at the top of the posts, Russti had a night 1, although we all had night 2. It must have been a glitch of some kind, because he is on night 2 now. It wasnt a mafia comment, just wondering why his header had not changed, so I probably should have asked that in OT.

Matahari wrote:Snow Dog, in the red lettering at the top of the posts, Russti had a night 1, although we all had night 2. It must have been a glitch of some kind, because he is on night 2 now. It wasnt a mafia comment, just wondering why his header had not changed, so I probably should have asked that in OT.

Yes. I see what you mean now.

dop·pel·gäng·er
[dop-uhl-gang-er; German daw-puhl-geng-er]
noun
a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.

game iz over? or what is happening?

Well that was interesting. The other game appears to be over, and INH said "If this were the real game..", rather implying that we are in the 'real' one here.

It appears that we're about to be joined by at least three other people who were on a team until today, at which point our block will be insufficiently large.
Russ got killed by the mafia before that was apparent, which suggests to me that there is still at least one mafia in our group,
and I'd be surprised if the incoming group didn't also contain at least one. I wish I knew what my win condition was :-\

S~V~S wrote:I don't know about anyone else, but I have received no instructions about whether I am to go here or what. We have another game getting ready to go into sign ups, as we thought this one was ending, lol. So any clarity would be good

I am similarly in the dark about what is going on.

Nevinera wrote:Well that was interesting. The other game appears to be over, and INH said "If this were the real game..", rather implying that we are in the 'real' one here.

It appears that we're about to be joined by at least three other people who were on a team until today, at which point our block will be insufficiently large.
Russ got killed by the mafia before that was apparent, which suggests to me that there is still at least one mafia in our group,
and I'd be surprised if the incoming group didn't also contain at least one. I wish I knew what my win condition was :-\

Staying alive would be good.

Snow Dog wrote:Staying alive would be good.

That does seem a likely prerequisite.

And the other game's thread has been renamed to 'The Waiting Room', so it's possible they won't all be joining us at once,
in which case our block can continue to keep us alive until the end.

I just brought it up in case changing circumstance necessitates a change in strategy soon. I won't do so unilaterally, don't worry.

Nevinera wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:Staying alive would be good.

That does seem a likely prerequisite.

And the other game's thread has been renamed to 'The Waiting Room', so it's possible they won't all be joining us at once,
in which case our block can continue to keep us alive until the end.

I just brought it up in case changing circumstance necessitates a change in strategy soon. I won't do so unilaterally, don't worry.

I will remain true and stick by our trio. In fact if either you and Llama win I will be happy. I think with more people arriving though there maybe a kill of one of us. I will not kill anyone of us though if I have the opportunity or means to ever. And I trust you two will behave in a like manner.

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7 players, 6 days, 1 survivor!

It is now Episode One. You have 24 hours to vote someone off the island.

Will do.

Roxy. Stick with us. Final four. They have a voting alliance.

Yeah, we have all new roles now, so what happened in the past is the past. Like kate says, they have an alliance, and have been picking off the poor newly dead like flies.

Not to mention one of themiat least is mafia since one of them kills each night.

Wait, they have had NKs too? They lynch off the newly dead every day with their alliance, how many NKs have there been? Shouldn't they have started NKing each other by now?

Oooohh, I just read all there "friends to the end" posts, lol. Whoever is the killer is gonna blame it on us. The new people.

You new people are very paranoid. Just relax and enjoy the Black Lodge. We are all friendly here.

S~V~S wrote:Oooohh, I just read all there "friends to the end" posts, lol. Whoever is the killer is gonna blame it on us. The new people.

Not quite sure how he'd get away with that, since people were dropping like flies before you joined.

I do suspect that there's one mafioso among you, since there's only one hidden in our group of three, and 'mafia' is plural..
but since it's not listed in the roles, and our expressed victory condition is 'last man standing',
our probabilities of victory are all higher if everyone else dies first.

If the mafia has their usual win condition, they'll prefer that outcome too until we're down to four, which means we may have NK assistance.

What do you think guys? I would lean towards picking up the first person to vote not-us and upsize the block.
It'll make the endgame a bit messier, but guarantee us a couple of days.
Mafia's odds do go up a bit, but so do ours..

If "mafia" is plural, does that mean the singular is "mafium?"

I would be happy to recruit Roxy or MP into our little gang. SVS and Kate are a little too cozy for my liking.

thellama73 wrote:If "mafia" is plural, does that mean the singular is "mafium?"

I would be happy to recruit Roxy or MP into our little gang. SVS and Kate are a little too cozy for my liking.

While one of them did pretty much singlehandedly civ-lynch me and the other got her off completely scott-free for it,
I don't think that really matters to the current game - I don't think they'd end up both mafia or anything,
and if one of them wanted to ditch the other and ride out the block I'd still go for it.

But if it really mattered to you, I suppose I could go for that. It does reduce the chances of us getting a taker though.

What's your opinion, Snow?

Nevinera wrote:

thellama73 wrote:If "mafia" is plural, does that mean the singular is "mafium?"

I would be happy to recruit Roxy or MP into our little gang. SVS and Kate are a little too cozy for my liking.

While one of them did pretty much singlehandedly civ-lynch me and the other got her off completely scott-free for it,
I don't think that really matters to the current game - I don't think they'd end up both mafia or anything,
and if one of them wanted to ditch the other and ride out the block I'd still go for it.

But if it really mattered to you, I suppose I could go for that. It does reduce the chances of us getting a taker though.

She did, I think she got bad info, tbh. I recognized her behavior, i knew she was not bad. And as a civ, you need to pull for the civs, even when they fuck up. Which she did.

I want to hear from MP & Rox before saying anything. Becasue if we have a 3/4 bloc, that is kinda boring. We may want to revert to every many for himself

Cause voting blocs just lead to betrayal So sad

S~V~S wrote:Cause voting blocs just lead to betrayal So sad

Oh we were always planning on that :-)

Of course you were, but all of you were planning on being the penultimate betrayer. I know how that works.

Like i said, lets see what MP & Rox say, if anything. At this stage an each man for himself free for all might be more fun than just sitting back and waiting to be betrayed.

Especially since, as you say, there are baddies

I think, given that the mafia has killed from the BEGINNING of this Black Lodge game and given the "voting bloc" idea, that it's incredibly likely one of Snow Dog, llama, and Nevinera must be mafia. Is this not a sound conclusion?

MovingPictures07 wrote:I think, given that the mafia has killed from the BEGINNING of this Black Lodge game and given the "voting bloc" idea, that it's incredibly likely one of Snow Dog, llama, and Nevinera must be mafia. Is this not a sound conclusion?

And one we have already drawn. But since civs don't win by killing all the mafia, the usual game plans are out.
The voting block is not related to that conclusion however, it is merely the best chance we each have at victory, mafia or not.

If snow dog okays it, would you like in, mp? Best shot at survival to the endgame, which gives us long enough to apply informational powers to figure out who is killing people.

Love to have you aboard, MP!

I doubt mp wants to appear clannish

Kate wrote:I doubt mp wants to appear clannish

Oh jesus, is he from PA too?

It's not my fault all the cool kids come from the same place!

thellama73 wrote:If "mafia" is plural, does that mean the singular is "mafium?"

I would be happy to recruit Roxy or MP into our little gang. SVS and Kate are a little too cozy for my liking.

Wow how quickly we forget the night I spent ripping my guts out trying to save you.

And nev I can't wait until end game to tell you what happened on night one. Since you know I wasn't bad you have to realize by now I didn't try to get you lynched on purpose.

Nevinera wrote:

Kate wrote:I doubt mp wants to appear clannish

Oh jesus, is he from PA too?

It's not my fault all the cool kids come from the same place!

Are you trying to say the lost nerds aren't the coil kids around here???

*cool...

All the coil kids are on vacation. Go do something recreational not involving a CPU.

Shoo~

Llama and Nev. I am cool with anything you decide.
Nev. I wish you well in this outcome. You have had some very bad starts in mafia so far and I wouldn't mind you winning at all. (If I don't of course) Hopefully there will be more than one winner.

Um....what happened to Matahari?

S~V~S wrote:All the coil kids are on vacation. Go do something recreational not involving a CPU.

Shoo~

Look I bought a data plan for this
Don't shoo me besises I'm just hanging in floerida w wifi right now w free wifi. I can and want to play. Srsly. I'm a play by the pool kind of girl

Right, I'm going to be out of the house most of the day, so I'd better vote now in case I am not back in time. Kate was nice to me in the other thread, MP is mostly absent, Roxy is in the hospital and SVS is trying hard to break up our happy family, so I am voting for SVS.

^All or one etc...so am I then.

Votes SVS

EBWOP All FOR one of course I meant

It occurs to me that this may not be a lynch. We are voting someone off the island..to where? back to the main game?

And where Is Matahari?

Kate wrote: And nev I can't wait until end game to tell you what happened on night one. Since you know I wasn't bad you have to realize by now I didn't try to get you lynched on purpose.

Well, I strongly suspect that, but I certainly don't 'know' it - our host has been playing with our heads a lot this game.

I play mafia completely rationally anyway, so you don't really have to worry about me holding it against you.
Watch out next time someone claims direct info that way though - you've just made it a realistic gambit to try :-)

I still think that a voting block with a negotiated expiration date is each of our best shot at personal victory.

thellama73 wrote:Right, I'm going to be out of the house most of the day, so I'd better vote now in case I am not back in time. Kate was nice to me in the other thread, MP is mostly absent, Roxy is in the hospital and SVS is trying hard to break up our happy family, so I am voting for SVS.

I'm going to vote for SVS also, since I agreed to vote with my block.. but you just painted a target on your back llama.
I hope you *are* mafia, because I'm pretty sure they're about to lynch you to end the block now.

Nevinera wrote: And one we have already drawn. But since civs don't win by killing all the mafia, the usual game plans are out.
The voting block is not related to that conclusion however, it is merely the best chance we each have at victory, mafia or not.

How do you figure this? I'm just curious. Because it seems to me a mafia is killing people every night. If this were an LMS game, would that not give the mafia member(s) an advantage?

Also, yes I am from PA! PA ftw.