The Syndicate

Quin wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Long Con, what did Quin realize that I was lying about?

I was referring to 3J's name being included in the Casual Friday post.

...I did not see this.

Mongoose included 3Js name in the casual Friday post, and I urged her to fix it. You said, "I noticed and thing but I shouldn't say anything."

I assumed you saw what I had. What did you notice?

I had a Masochistic blast watching all the dialogue about how Overalls could unstrap a strap, etc. No one ever explicitly asked me if it was narrative color or not (although Epi et al guessed), so I just sat back with Dom and our delicious popcorn.

I'll post the one he sent me, juliets.

@Epi - I realised it was 3J as well, but I didn't see his name. I just noticed the similarities between 3J's and the Casual Friday's posting style.

juliets wrote:What were the rules on the messages Long Con could send? Did they mean anything or were they just gibberish?

He can post some if he likes - I didn't give him really clearly defined boundaries except to have fun with it and not to overtly out himself. He sent really weird messages or sometimes they just sounded cryptic. Once, he wrote it out backwards. Beautifully done!

I am sorry I could not play more mongoose I am still sad for having to miss one of your games, I hope you host lots more.

Long Con wrote:

Mongoose wrote:To all my players - thank you for your endless patience. It had been 2 years since I hosted last, and a lot of the Status Quo had changed around here, but I failed to update my game accordingly. This twee artifact of a game was perhaps not what you were expecting, but I hope you had a lot of fun. It was a bit tough hosting with the kind of schedule I have (having so much litigation at work), but I relished every minute and it never felt like a chore.

I have made awful mistakes every time I've hosted. It's just part of the fun!

Thank you for saying so - people spend so much time playing the game - I just wanted to do right by these folks.

Mongoose wrote:A mysterious message for you:

"Meow."

You wake from your slumber to the diminutive sound.

"Meow. Meow. Meowmeowmeow."

The sounds multiply, and you feel the bed beneath you begin to dissolve. Startled fully awake, you try to sit up.

"meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowme-"

Your bed is dissolving into tiny, bug-sized kittens! Groping out wildly, you try to grab the bedframe, but it dissolves as well, and you find yourself squeezing a handful of microkittens. Each kitten flattens its ears and hisses angrily as you tumble into the vortex of fur and tiny, pinlike claws.

You land with a thud on your back, on a wide expanse of black leather. You feel yourself begin to grow, laying prone, and as your perspective grows, you realize you are on a giant dentist's chair. You continue to grow until the chair is just your size, and you realize your hands have grown through leather straps, binding them down.

A blinding light turns on, shining down into your eyes, and you hear a stern, echoing voice:

"?em fo kniht uoy od tahw ,niuQ"

You feel compelled to answer:

"!edud ,tey tsuj tsil ym ffo uoy dessorc t'nevah I"

You awaken with a gasp, and the tiny scratches all over your arms leave you wondering what is real...

I'm pretty sure these are references to when I discussed my cat with 3J in the beginning and getting my wisdom teeth out. The latter was what made me think it was LC, because we talked about it in another game. Funnily enough, it was not when he asked me the same question in thread as the question he asked me in the PM. I'm very stupid.

Mongoose wrote:

Long Con wrote:

Epi - Thanks for pointing out so politely and promptly the biggest screw up I made in the game, so I could remedy it ASAP. I really appreciated it!
JJJ - Thanks for being so cool about the aforementioned slip up!

I just left the site like I wasn't around.

I super appreciated everyone being cool little beavers about it!

You guys, I have to tell you that Long Con had the most fun mysterious messages that he would craft up to send you. I was heartbroken when he got blocked or couldn't send one or two of them (I think someone died the other time).

Felt Mafia 2 [Night One]: The Confusing of JJJ
As Night fell, your eyes became tired and heavy, and you just wanted to rest them for a second. The next thing you knew, you were walking along the edge of a cliff next to a grove of blue, fluffy pine trees. Peering closer, you are surprised to see the pine branches part, and a ghostly marmot wrapped in chains of light reaches out to you, intoning, "Yooouuuu accuuuuuuused meeeee...."

Gasping, you take a step back, and the soft marshmallows that comprise the cliff's edge crumble beneath your feet, and you are falling, falling, and it's raining gleaming diamonds all around you, and you realize that you are the diamonds, tumbling through the darkness and each facet creates a new and more prefect harmony with the whole. Your song echoes out into the vast inky reaches, and it comes back, swirling around you in iambic pentameter:

How sweet, to know the truth behind the face / The face that hides, forsooth, and stays apace / The funky daytime rumble that we seek / Is trapped and deigns to crumble, lost and meek

And you awake... or is all of this a dream, and you have just tasted reality for the first time, even as the wispy fragments vanish from your consciousness...?

Felt Mafia 2 [Night Two]: Elohcin's Vision of Confusion
"Meow."

You wake from your slumber to the diminutive sound.

"Meow. Meow. Meowmeowmeow."

The sounds multiply, and you feel the bed beneath you begin to dissolve. Startled fully awake, you try to sit up.

"meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowme-"

Your bed is dissolving into tiny, bug-sized kittens! Groping out wildly, you try to grab the bedframe, but it dissolves as well, and you find yourself squeezing a handful of microkittens. Each kitten flattens its ears and hisses angrily as you tumble into the vortex of fur and tiny, pinlike claws.

You land with a thud on your back, on a wide expanse of black leather. You feel yourself begin to grow, laying prone, and as your perspective grows, you realize you are on a giant dentist's chair. You continue to grow until the chair is just your size, and you realize your hands have grown through leather straps, binding them down.

A blinding light turns on, shining down into your eyes, and you hear a stern, echoing voice:

"?em fo kniht uoy od tahw ,nicholE"

You feel compelled to answer:

"!mulpragus ,tey tsuj tsil ym ffo uoy dessorc t'nevah I"

You awaken with a gasp, and the tiny scratches all over your arms leave you wondering what is real...
This one didn't go through because Elohcin 1.0 died.

Felt Mafia 2 [Night Three]: Scotty's Long Con-fusion
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I'd like to think that we should have seen some sort of "Confusion" on another player by this point if that role were active. But I have seen no indication of confusion.

I think one of those 2 is Denim Suit. I don't know which.. I don't know which.don't know which.


I think this Denim Shirt angle is a long shot.

Felt Mafia 2 [Night Four]: Quinfusion!
Reused because it didn't get seen the first time.
"Meow."

You wake from your slumber to the diminutive sound.

"Meow. Meow. Meowmeowmeow."

The sounds multiply, and you feel the bed beneath you begin to dissolve. Startled fully awake, you try to sit up.

"meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowme-"

Your bed is dissolving into tiny, bug-sized kittens! Groping out wildly, you try to grab the bedframe, but it dissolves as well, and you find yourself squeezing a handful of microkittens. Each kitten flattens its ears and hisses angrily as you tumble into the vortex of fur and tiny, pinlike claws.

You land with a thud on your back, on a wide expanse of black leather. You feel yourself begin to grow, laying prone, and as your perspective grows, you realize you are on a giant dentist's chair. You continue to grow until the chair is just your size, and you realize your hands have grown through leather straps, binding them down.

A blinding light turns on, shining down into your eyes, and you hear a stern, echoing voice:

"?em fo kniht uoy od tahw ,niuQ"

You feel compelled to answer:

"!edud ,tey tsuj tsil ym ffo uoy dessorc t'nevah I"

You awaken with a gasp, and the tiny scratches all over your arms leave you wondering what is real...

Felt Mafia 2 [Night Five]: Confuse the likes of Epignosis
The main degree of topiary vented through the tiny hole back in the other end of the rafters (slightly left) can be summarized, polarized, and when it's time to remove the annals of clay from within (and without), one must keep in mind all aspects of where, when, and how many times must I tell you to sally forth with intense strength (of mind) of character references to years past and years here and now we sing fruitfully as did/didn't the tribal antiquities we have collected and dissected as though the simple surgical means were (and were not) the finest wines and juiciest grapes.

I feel like a chewed strip of rawhide.
Failed due to roleblock.

[Night Six]: Confusion is the East; and Juliets is the Sun!
"They gave me a 3.67 rating!" he exclaimed irratio-

"Crab cakes don't actually contain that much," Darlene sniffed smugly as sh-

"Uncanny... the spider mites seem to be working together!" The lead scientist peered clos-

"Schminty!" Carl grinned goofily, cramming as many as he cou-

"Could it be? Can it be possible? Kablammo!" Followed by a quiet nod, and tigh-

Quin wrote:

Mongoose wrote:A mysterious message for you:

"Meow."

You wake from your slumber to the diminutive sound.

"Meow. Meow. Meowmeowmeow."

The sounds multiply, and you feel the bed beneath you begin to dissolve. Startled fully awake, you try to sit up.

"meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowme-"

Your bed is dissolving into tiny, bug-sized kittens! Groping out wildly, you try to grab the bedframe, but it dissolves as well, and you find yourself squeezing a handful of microkittens. Each kitten flattens its ears and hisses angrily as you tumble into the vortex of fur and tiny, pinlike claws.

You land with a thud on your back, on a wide expanse of black leather. You feel yourself begin to grow, laying prone, and as your perspective grows, you realize you are on a giant dentist's chair. You continue to grow until the chair is just your size, and you realize your hands have grown through leather straps, binding them down.

A blinding light turns on, shining down into your eyes, and you hear a stern, echoing voice:

"?em fo kniht uoy od tahw ,niuQ"

You feel compelled to answer:

"!edud ,tey tsuj tsil ym ffo uoy dessorc t'nevah I"

You awaken with a gasp, and the tiny scratches all over your arms leave you wondering what is real...

I'm pretty sure these are references to when I discussed my cat with 3J in the beginning and getting my wisdom teeth out. The latter was what made me think it was LC, because we talked about it in another game. Funnily enough, it was not when he asked me the same question in thread as the question he asked me in the PM. I'm very stupid.

Haaaaa, no, it was random. I originally wrote it for Elohcin.

...

Oi... good game. I was absolutely destroyed lol. I didn't know how to react to ddl not defending himself, and I guess that cooked my goose.

I was sure that JJJ was bad because I referenced his Confusion THREE DIFFERENT TIMES and he still wanted to lynch me.

Remember that time my hair was flooofy and red and Logan and I coordinated like whoa.



Thanks again for playing Felt Mafia II (Things Alison Likes Part II).

Quin wrote:I was an embarrassment in this game. I am sorry.

Please take this as a sign that for the next five or six games, you should consider believing the opposite of each and every one of my reads.

You're welcome for removing you from the lynchpoll. :P

That was probably the best thing that could have happened to us. We stumbled onto a Wilgy lynch, and Boooooosh (and/or kakow).


Thanks for the game Mongoose! I had a blast despite not living very long. But I was soo wrong about Made and Sorsha, it may have been for the best I was killed when I was.

Epignosis wrote:I think Made did a great job being bad and he should know it.

I concur whole-heartedly. Well-played Made.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Quin wrote:I was an embarrassment in this game. I am sorry.

Please take this as a sign that for the next five or six games, you should consider believing the opposite of each and every one of my reads.

You're welcome for removing you from the lynchpoll. :P

That was probably the best thing that could have happened to us. We stumbled onto a Wilgy lynch, and Boooooosh (and/or kakow).

That and removing llama from the Day 2 lynchpoll.

Maybe I'll continue that strategy from now on. Rather then remove players I trusted, I removed players I found to be polarizing topics of discussion. That led the game in other directions, which I think proved beneficial.

Also, I had planned on removing Sockface from the poll for Day 3 so that he couldn't self-vote. :P But he subbed out of the game that night, so I removed Quin instead.

1. Make crappy reads.
2. Get dead.
3. Win game.



Good game mafia, great job civilians, and thanks for a wonderfully fun game Mongoose. I always appreciate when a game is light hearted and creative like this one was.

Long Con, sorry for trying to force you into a woodchipper. It was an accident. i think I recall you mentioning that you'd received a weird message. You intended it as a hint, I took it literally to mean it couldn't be you. Derp.

I thought after I got DDL, I would succeed in doing my job and drawing the Night kill.

Mafia, why didn't you kill me?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:1. Make crappy reads.
2. Get dead.
3. Win game.



Good game mafia, great job civilians, and thanks for a wonderfully fun game Mongoose. I always appreciate when a game is light hearted and creative like this one was.

Long Con, sorry for trying to force you into a woodchipper. It was an accident. i think I recall you mentioning that you'd received a weird message. You intended it as a hint, I took it literally to mean it couldn't be you. Derp.

THREE hints! Tell the truth - did you really read the Con-fusion PM?

Long Con wrote:Felt Mafia 2 [Night One]: The Confusing of JJJ
As Night fell, your eyes became tired and heavy, and you just wanted to rest them for a second. The next thing you knew, you were walking along the edge of a cliff next to a grove of blue, fluffy pine trees. Peering closer, you are surprised to see the pine branches part, and a ghostly marmot wrapped in chains of light reaches out to you, intoning, "Yooouuuu accuuuuuuused meeeee...."

Gasping, you take a step back, and the soft marshmallows that comprise the cliff's edge crumble beneath your feet, and you are falling, falling, and it's raining gleaming diamonds all around you, and you realize that you are the diamonds, tumbling through the darkness and each facet creates a new and more perfect harmony with the whole. Your song echoes out into the vast inky reaches, and it comes back, swirling around you in iambic pentameter:

How sweet, to know the truth behind the face / The face that hides, forsooth, and stays apace / The funky daytime rumble that we seek / Is trapped and deigns to crumble, lost and meek

And you awake... or is all of this a dream, and you have just tasted reality for the first time, even as the wispy fragments vanish from your consciousness...?

Hint 1 wrote:I can understand how you would be confused, JJJ. Sometimes the truth is as difficult to find footing in as a cliff edge made of marshmallows... but everything I have said is true.

Hint 2 wrote:I voted JJJ... this funky daytime rumble deserves a shakeup.

Hint 3 wrote:I just wanted to be your friend, and our friendship would rain down like beautiful diamond facets, glinting in perfect harmony... or something like that.

... along with a couple of references to you being "confused"... can you blame me for suspecting you?? These things should have triggered some sort of memory.

Epignosis wrote:I thought after I got DDL, I would succeed in doing my job and drawing the Night kill.

Mafia, why didn't you kill me?

Why was that your job? Sassiness?

Long Con wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I thought after I got DDL, I would succeed in doing my job and drawing the Night kill.

Mafia, why didn't you kill me?

Why was that your job? Sassiness?

Drawing the night kill.

When you are vanilla, that is your job.

Scotty wrote:

Long Con wrote:Call out the remaining three baddies. I shall do the same. Whoever is more right shall be declared the victor.

My picks: Quin, Boom, and Wilgy.

Long Con wrote:Boomslang, JJJ, INH. I chose INH because you took Wilgy. He's my wild card addition.

Scotty, you are the winner! Buuuuut we both sucked.

@Epi: Ah, I see. Quite sassy.

I did read it, but I clearly didn't retain it. Or revisit it. It came so early that I forgot the details.

Long Con wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:FYI: I earned a lynch immunity on the canine carrier express. We are allowed to discuss prizes. It is active today and only today. Do not waste your votes on me. I'll be back later.

You're lying. You didn't activate the lynch immunity last night. You get more value from it by making us believe it's active now, then you activate it in the future without saying anything.

So, JJJ, were you telling the truth?

I told the turht 100% on my lynch immunity prize. I used it when I said I did. I expected SOMEONE to try and second guess me in classic WIFOM style, but people mostly just took me at my word.

INH, were you honest about it?

Was there a #8 prize winner that night?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:...you're arguing with a person who thoroughly analyzes every word in a game thread over and over.

I thought I could count on you.

Long Con wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:...you're arguing with a person who thoroughly analyzes every word in a game thread over and over.

I thought I could count on you.

Yeah that's just it. The game thread is my area of focus. It's common for me to forget about roles.

Yes I was being truthful. Maybe the one good move I made in this game since it helped to open up the Wilgy lynch.

I can't believe that whole war started over "I didn't think he was being serious".

I got your hint right away LC, and was glad to get it as I still had the axis of evil in my head and wasn't sure about you because of the llama lynch.

Long Con wrote:I can't believe that whole war started over "I didn't think he was being serious".

I think "you should be able to tell the difference" sent me so far down the tunnel that there was no hope.

I also thought both of my Friday posts were transparent even without the quoting error. What can ya do.

I can't believe that you were responsible for the Boomslang survival, nijuu... you knew that Elohcin was mistaken about her roleblock on Quin being the reason, and you still went after him:

nijuukyugou wrote:Quin: First to break the tie. Not a good look (again, considering what we know). Seeing a lot of back and forth between him and JJJ in the most recent pages that I'd like to look more closely at. OH and that weird comment after Eloh posted? The one about claiming she's the blocker with her comment? Weird comment, no matter how you slice it: if bad, sounds defensive and frustrated after missing a kill. If good, why point out someone you think is the blocker?! Might as well paint a target for baddies.

nijuukyugou wrote:I'm brain-dead exhausted and have done about all the reading I can handle for the day. I'm down with a Quin vote. Not ignoring the weirdness as stated and as transpired in the thread.

You scum.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I also thought both of my Friday posts were transparent even without the quoting error. What can ya do.

The one with the quoting error would have tipped me off anyway, what with the Long Con accusation in there.

Sorsha was the bussing champion of 2016 and is well on her way to defending her crown.

Major props to Epi for that read. I think that secured the win.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Sorsha was the bussing champion of 2016 and is well on her way to defending her crown.

Major props to Epi for that read. I think that secured the win.

I agree. We were considering her untouchable before Epi lit into her. Really good job sorsha.

Long Con wrote:

Long Con wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:FYI: I earned a lynch immunity on the canine carrier express. We are allowed to discuss prizes. It is active today and only today. Do not waste your votes on me. I'll be back later.

You're lying. You didn't activate the lynch immunity last night. You get more value from it by making us believe it's active now, then you activate it in the future without saying anything.

So, JJJ, were you telling the truth?

I told the turht 100% on my lynch immunity prize. I used it when I said I did. I expected SOMEONE to try and second guess me in classic WIFOM style, but people mostly just took me at my word.

INH, were you honest about it?

Was there a #8 prize winner that night?

Yes, and a number 10!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Quin wrote:I was an embarrassment in this game. I am sorry.

Please take this as a sign that for the next five or six games, you should consider believing the opposite of each and every one of my reads.

You're welcome for removing you from the lynchpoll. :P

That was probably the best thing that could have happened to us. We stumbled onto a Wilgy lynch, and Boooooosh (and/or kakow).

That and removing llama from the Day 2 lynchpoll.

Maybe I'll continue that strategy from now on. Rather then remove players I trusted, I removed players I found to be polarizing topics of discussion. That led the game in other directions, which I think proved beneficial.

Also, I had planned on removing Sockface from the poll for Day 3 so that he couldn't self-vote. :P But he subbed out of the game that night, so I removed Quin instead.

I loved how you approached removing folks. It really did help steer discussion.

Mongoose wrote:

Long Con wrote:

Long Con wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:FYI: I earned a lynch immunity on the canine carrier express. We are allowed to discuss prizes. It is active today and only today. Do not waste your votes on me. I'll be back later.

You're lying. You didn't activate the lynch immunity last night. You get more value from it by making us believe it's active now, then you activate it in the future without saying anything.

So, JJJ, were you telling the truth?

I told the turht 100% on my lynch immunity prize. I used it when I said I did. I expected SOMEONE to try and second guess me in classic WIFOM style, but people mostly just took me at my word.

INH, were you honest about it?

Was there a #8 prize winner that night?

Yes, and a number 10!

*leans forward expectantly*

Long Con wrote:

Long Con wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:FYI: I earned a lynch immunity on the canine carrier express. We are allowed to discuss prizes. It is active today and only today. Do not waste your votes on me. I'll be back later.

You're lying. You didn't activate the lynch immunity last night. You get more value from it by making us believe it's active now, then you activate it in the future without saying anything.

So, JJJ, were you telling the truth?

I told the turht 100% on my lynch immunity prize. I used it when I said I did. I expected SOMEONE to try and second guess me in classic WIFOM style, but people mostly just took me at my word.

INH, were you honest about it?

Was there a #8 prize winner that night?

I used it on Day 6, instead of Day 5, so I lied by one day.

Ah, so many winners. I should have counseled Mongoose to leave it on survival mode for the civs instead.

I think she got it right.

Long Con wrote:

Mongoose wrote:
Yes, and a number 10!

*leans forward expectantly*

Boomslang on 8 and Sorsha on 10!

What were the other prizes for the labyrinth game?

Epignosis wrote:What were the other prizes for the labyrinth game?

1st place was an Invisibility Cloak. If it went to a Civ, it would protect against NKs. If it went to mafia (which it did - Sorsha), it could be used either as an Anti-Block (mandating her action went through even if blocked) or could protect against any night action (yogi's choice, but you had to choose when using it).

2nd place was a +1 vote.

Because there were so many winners, I didn't have a 3rd place prize.


The Chambray was mentioned in an item in the sign-up thread and also where I initially posted the game in the sign-up room, so that was the clue to mention that - it would have triggered the third and final item giveaway.

The Labyrinth Game was triggered by you all selecting the Meditation Labyrinth as a destination.

Mongoose wrote:


Because there were so many winners, I didn't have a 3rd place prize.

Ricochet wrote:

Mongoose wrote:


Because there were so many winners, I didn't have a 3rd place prize.

You shoulda played, son! (as in the actual mafia game)

I'm so pleased so many NPs played the Labyrinth Game!

Mongoose wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Mongoose wrote:


Because there were so many winners, I didn't have a 3rd place prize.

You shoulda played, son! (as in the actual mafia game)

I'm so pleased so many NPs played the Labyrinth Game!

When I play, civilians don't win, so they're welcome.

Mongoose wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Mongoose wrote:


Because there were so many winners, I didn't have a 3rd place prize.

You shoulda played, son! (as in the actual mafia game)

I'm so pleased so many NPs played the Labyrinth Game!

it was fun

My record is now an astonishing 3-0 in Mongoose-hosted games. Keep 'em coming!