The Syndicate

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:19 pm

The Orb of Odin

In a castle in medieval Scandinavia, eight warriors are meeting around a rectangular table. They are members of a special guard that exists to protect the king of their land.

A week ago, they learned that a mighty sorcerer was plotting to take over the kingdom, and that some of the warriors may have been helping the wizard gain power. But they have no way of knowing who the traitors are.

And most importantly, they have another mission. Last night, one of the eight warriors was called to the Statue of Odin in the back of the castle. There, a ritual was done where the statue produced the Orb of Odin, a black orb with a symbol of infinite on it. Whoever shatters the orb shall have the power to kill one person instantly. The warrior was instructed to guard the orb with his life, and not let the traitors obtain it. No one knows which warrior was the one who received the orb.

The eight men stare at each other. Then, they decide to go back to their positions. Hopefully they will spot the traitors before they manage to kill the rest of the group.

Day 1 Begins!

we have like 20 hours i think to eod

eod is 9.20 pm your time baby

All righty, I'm back and there is no TV to distract me this time, I also have plenty of time so I think I'm going to do some serious work. Not going to bother answering any of the questions unless they're still relevant after I rethink my reads.

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:29 pm All righty, I'm back and there is no TV to distract me this time, I also have plenty of time so I think I'm going to do some serious work. Not going to bother answering any of the questions unless they're still relevant after I rethink my reads.

Do you like shepherds pie?

It’s actually relevant

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:29 pm All righty, I'm back and there is no TV to distract me this time, I also have plenty of time so I think I'm going to do some serious work. Not going to bother answering any of the questions unless they're still relevant after I rethink my reads.

i am unfamiliar with u so im sorry if im wrong

but i think the bolded sentence is scummy

how do i say this ... i feel like its a scummy thing to explain what do you plan to do before you do it

its not always scummy but i feel like ive seen scum often dedicate more effort than town in "following protocol" and like, explaining what they plan to do in so much detail. i think its a towny thing to not explain that much what do u plan to do

[VOTE: PSI] aubergine

sorry if wrong, id feel bad cuz i dont know u and it sucks when u dont know someone and u wrongly scumread them for being their normal selves

Is that what's for dinner, nook?

Aww tutuu you'd tell me if you got a long awaited mafia rand for your birthday, right?

No I wish

I had leftovers from a pretty good chicken casserole with corn/broccoli/bread crumbs/cheese/potatoes tho, so it’s all good

Damn that sounds amazing

nutella wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:38 pm Aww tutuu you'd tell me if you got a long awaited mafia rand for your birthday, right?

yessss of course i would tell you i dont hide stuff or lie about stuff im not a bad person and only bad people lie

tutuu wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:36 pm

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:29 pm All righty, I'm back and there is no TV to distract me this time, I also have plenty of time so I think I'm going to do some serious work. Not going to bother answering any of the questions unless they're still relevant after I rethink my reads.

i am unfamiliar with u so im sorry if im wrong

but i think the bolded sentence is scummy

how do i say this ... i feel like its a scummy thing to explain what do you plan to do before you do it

its not always scummy but i feel like ive seen scum often dedicate more effort than town in "following protocol" and like, explaining what they plan to do in so much detail. i think its a towny thing to not explain that much what do u plan to do

[VOTE: PSI] aubergine

sorry if wrong, id feel bad cuz i dont know u and it sucks when u dont know someone and u wrongly scumread them for being their normal selves

Reason I said that is because I keep quoting questions and trying to answer them in a way that makes sense, and then not being able to formulate an answer, so then I just give up. I'm pretty sure the problem is with my reads and not anything else, which is why I'm going to work on reworking my reads. I said the bolded because I didn't want someone to be like "hey PSI are you gonna answer my question" when after updating my reads the question isn't even going to matter.

Yeah it was pretty good

My wife also made homemade rosemary fries that were pretty solid

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:42 pmI said the bolded because I didn't want someone to be like "hey PSI are you gonna answer my question" when after updating my reads the question isn't even going to matter.

*Might not matter. I don't know for sure the question won't matter but it might not is what I mean

Idk if this is correct or not but I’m hard TRing PSI and might be willing to townshield her

Omg how can y'all not townread such radical candor

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:44 pm Idk if this is correct or not but I’m hard TRing PSI and might be willing to townshield her

nutella wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:23 pm Fuck being cagey with reads, dunya/nook dunya/marmot epi/esooa one of those is the team gg

Like you, I can also spew random pairings of players.

PSI/nutella, Epi/dunya, Mac/esooa


^^Them's the possibilities there folks

Guys I'd prefer to handle this by myself, I'm a Grown Up Mafia Player now (maybe) I should be able to defend myself from suspicion by now

Besides, pressure is good. It helps me grow. I need to learn how to react to it

I almost said if me and dunia were scum together we’d be chatting it up in scum chat but then I realized no we’d be doing it in thread kek

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:47 pm Guys I'd prefer to handle this by myself, I'm a Grown Up Mafia Player now (maybe) I should be able to defend myself from suspicion by now

Besides, pressure is good. It helps me grow. I need to learn how to react to it

I’m just expressing a town read

There might be a mafia game where I can towncore, but apparently this one aint it.

Fuck it marmot you can have a townread too

u can be in my towncore marmot

Lmao jinx you owe me a coke

awww were all so lovey dovey today

cos it's the 4th of december probably

The Tutii Effect

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:51 pm Lmao jinx you owe me a coke

pinch poke u owe me a coke

Omg you guys!!!

That was easier than expected

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:51 pm awww were all so lovey dovey today

cos it's the 4th of december probably

The Tutii Effect

You're excused.

God now I can't stop thinking about creamy cheesy broccoli chicken divan i gotta make something like that soon

When's Tutuu's Mouth opening?

nutella wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:53 pm God now I can't stop thinking about creamy cheesy broccoli chicken divan i gotta make something like that soon

I made a cheesy creamy broccoli gratin that was amazing today

I wish I took pics...

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:55 pm When's Tutuu's Mouth opening?

Tomorrow. Join www.boardgamearena.com

We're gonna play board games all night!

T_T

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:57 pm

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:55 pm When's Tutuu's Mouth opening?

Tomorrow. Join www.boardgamearena.com

We're gonna play board games all night!

I'll be house-painting most of the day, but I'll check in when I'm finished if it isn't too late to join.

Yay hope to see you there ❤

I'm terrified of scum tutuu cos I've never seen it before

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:36 pm

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:29 pm All righty, I'm back and there is no TV to distract me this time, I also have plenty of time so I think I'm going to do some serious work. Not going to bother answering any of the questions unless they're still relevant after I rethink my reads.

Do you like shepherds pie?

Found this in your ISO, somehow I missed this

Yes, but not exactly traditional shepherd's pie; the one my family always ate is mashed potatoes with ground beef and kidney beans. I've had the traditional kind before, but I don't really like it as much.

PSI has a very clam demeanor.

EBWOP: calm


Although I'm curious what a clam demeanor looks like.

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:28 pm

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:36 pm

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:29 pm All righty, I'm back and there is no TV to distract me this time, I also have plenty of time so I think I'm going to do some serious work. Not going to bother answering any of the questions unless they're still relevant after I rethink my reads.

Do you like shepherds pie?

Found this in your ISO, somehow I missed this

Yes, but not exactly traditional shepherd's pie; the one my family always ate is mashed potatoes with ground beef and kidney beans. I've had the traditional kind before, but I don't really like it as much.

Yeh, the one we make is ground beef and corn (sometimes spinach, sometimes kidney beans), mashed potatoes and some shredded cheddar melted on top. It’s pretty good!

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:44 pm Idk if this is correct or not but I’m hard TRing PSI and might be willing to townshield her

me2

Dunya: Epignosis: Esooa: Marmot: Nanook: Nutella: Tutuu: Right now I'm working off of the mindset that I was the mafia's target. The way the thread has developed makes sense around that mindset. So I'd say one of Dunya or Epi is probably mafia. If Dunya is mafia, her tunnel is an...interesting strategy, to say the least, so that alone makes me think it's less likely to be Dunya if I'm the target. But if I'm the target, Epi being mafia makes perfect sense, with the slight push on me on N0 and later voting me, and if I flip and mafia gets a NK most of the blame would go on Dunya and it wouldn't look that bad for Epi. So in that world, Epi seems the most likely one to be mafia.

My POE is now Dunya/Epignosis/Marmot. Don't think I'd vote outside of that.

Tutuu
Nutella
Nanook
Esooa
Epignosis
Marmot
Dunya

Oh yeah, also I read my own ISO for fun, and damn, I thought I'd posted more significant stuff than that. Jeez. I really need to stop trying to post when there's TV in the background, maybe it'll help me get the stuff in my head to go into the thread.

I realized that I have like, absolutely no reason to reasonably justify a townread for Nanook, but I physically can't put him lower than mild townread. I think it must be a super strong gutread, so I might just go along with it for now. Or maybe I'm being hardcore pocketed right now. Who knows.

Welcome to the nanook experience

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:19 pm
Right now I'm working off of the mindset that I was the mafia's target. The way the thread has developed makes sense around that mindset. So I'd say one of Dunya or Epi is probably mafia. If Dunya is mafia, her tunnel is an...interesting strategy, to say the least, so that alone makes me think it's less likely to be Dunya if I'm the target. But if I'm the target, Epi being mafia makes perfect sense, with the slight push on me on N0 and later voting me, and if I flip and mafia gets a NK most of the blame would go on Dunya and it wouldn't look that bad for Epi. So in that world, Epi seems the most likely one to be mafia.

My POE is now Dunya/Epignosis/Marmot. Don't think I'd vote outside of that.

I don't disapprove of your thought process here, but I don't agree with your premises.

My greatest skill in Mafia, if I had to choose one, is that I am an elusive lynch victim of either alignment.

My greatest flaw in Mafia, if I had to choose one, is that I am notorious for fucking up an endgame scenario for the civilians, especially this year.

So while I have given consideration to how I would use the setup to...ahem...set up civilians based on the mafia's prediction, I have given almost none to how I would approach this as a civilian, because I really don't care to think like that. I would say this setup slightly favors mafia early on because it encourages people irrationally to abandon textbook tried-and-true methods for preemptive strategies that can be toyed with.

This is a large reason why I suspect nutella. nutella is a skilled player, and as a civilian she should know how to catch mafia and that the setup plays into their hands early on. Instead she made a big fuss encouraging just what I described above.

[VOTE: nutella] aubergine

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:53 pm

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:19 pm
Right now I'm working off of the mindset that I was the mafia's target. The way the thread has developed makes sense around that mindset. So I'd say one of Dunya or Epi is probably mafia. If Dunya is mafia, her tunnel is an...interesting strategy, to say the least, so that alone makes me think it's less likely to be Dunya if I'm the target. But if I'm the target, Epi being mafia makes perfect sense, with the slight push on me on N0 and later voting me, and if I flip and mafia gets a NK most of the blame would go on Dunya and it wouldn't look that bad for Epi. So in that world, Epi seems the most likely one to be mafia.

My POE is now Dunya/Epignosis/Marmot. Don't think I'd vote outside of that.

I don't disapprove of your thought process here, but I don't agree with your premises.

My greatest skill in Mafia, if I had to choose one, is that I am an elusive lynch victim of either alignment.

My greatest flaw in Mafia, if I had to choose one, is that I am notorious for fucking up an endgame scenario for the civilians, especially this year.

So while I have given consideration to how I would use the setup to...ahem...set up civilians based on the mafia's prediction, I have given almost none to how I would approach this as a civilian, because I really don't care to think like that. I would say this setup slightly favors mafia early on because it encourages people irrationally to abandon textbook tried-and-true methods for preemptive strategies that can be toyed with.

This is a large reason why I suspect nutella. nutella is a skilled player, and as a civilian she should know how to catch mafia and that the setup plays into their hands early on. Instead she made a big fuss encouraging just what I described above.

[VOTE: nutella] aubergine

that's what i'm trying to push against though

I get you have a different idea of the optimal way to find mafia in this situation but I think it's incorrect

nutella wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:56 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:53 pm

PSINightmareEmpower wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:19 pm
Right now I'm working off of the mindset that I was the mafia's target. The way the thread has developed makes sense around that mindset. So I'd say one of Dunya or Epi is probably mafia. If Dunya is mafia, her tunnel is an...interesting strategy, to say the least, so that alone makes me think it's less likely to be Dunya if I'm the target. But if I'm the target, Epi being mafia makes perfect sense, with the slight push on me on N0 and later voting me, and if I flip and mafia gets a NK most of the blame would go on Dunya and it wouldn't look that bad for Epi. So in that world, Epi seems the most likely one to be mafia.

My POE is now Dunya/Epignosis/Marmot. Don't think I'd vote outside of that.

I don't disapprove of your thought process here, but I don't agree with your premises.

My greatest skill in Mafia, if I had to choose one, is that I am an elusive lynch victim of either alignment.

My greatest flaw in Mafia, if I had to choose one, is that I am notorious for fucking up an endgame scenario for the civilians, especially this year.

So while I have given consideration to how I would use the setup to...ahem...set up civilians based on the mafia's prediction, I have given almost none to how I would approach this as a civilian, because I really don't care to think like that. I would say this setup slightly favors mafia early on because it encourages people irrationally to abandon textbook tried-and-true methods for preemptive strategies that can be toyed with.

This is a large reason why I suspect nutella. nutella is a skilled player, and as a civilian she should know how to catch mafia and that the setup plays into their hands early on. Instead she made a big fuss encouraging just what I described above.

[VOTE: nutella] aubergine

that's what i'm trying to push against though

I get you have a different idea of the optimal way to find mafia in this situation but I think it's incorrect

What is my optimal way to find mafia?

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:53 pm this setup slightly favors mafia early on because it encourages people irrationally to abandon textbook tried-and-true methods for preemptive strategies that can be toyed with.

like, this is only true if the mafia are people who are being suspected for those "traditional" reasons, and so far that's only been the weak LHF kind of reasons that feel to me more like the easy routes for mafia to suspect townies for