The Syndicate

Sloonei wrote:When did she protect me?

G-Man wrote:

Barry the Mechanic provided Jim "Sloonei" Goose with a protection Night 9 that Goose held onto until now. His -1 vote eliminated a 1-1 tie that would default to a baddie win.

The civvies have miraculously won the game!

G-Man wrote:Official Winners:

Dom
DrWilgy
indiglo
insertnamehere
JaggedJimmyJay
LoRab
MacDougall
motel room
MovingPictures07
S~V~S
Scotty
Sloonei


Ricochet has to be alive at the end to win. Epignosis spent more time as a baddie but I'm willing to extend credit to him since he did work hard to get his role eliminated. The Station Master was a civvie who only benefited the baddies while alive.

Sloonei wrote:I look forward to playing with you again whenever possible, Glorf!

Sloonei wrote:I look forward to playing with you again whenever possible, Glorf!

Night 1- a2thezebra (failed- neither Jessie nor Sprog)
Night 2- MovingPictures07 (failed- neither Jessie nor Sprog)
Night 3- NO SUBMISSION (also blocked by Quin)
Night 4- NO SUBMISSION
Night 5- MacDougall (failed- neither Jessie nor Sprog)

Night 1- Ricochet (not MFP)
Night 2- JaggedJimmyJay (not MFP)

Night 1- DrWilgy (not Scuttle)
Night 2- NO SUBMISSON
Night 3- JaggedJimmyJay (not Scuttle)
Night 4- Glorfindel (not Scuttle)
Night 5- Sloonei (not Scuttle and blocked by Quin)

Night 1- Sloonei (not Sarse)
Night 2- LoRab (not Sarse)
Night 3- Dom (not Sarse)
Night 4- MovingPictures07 (not Sarse)
Night 5- Quin (not Sarse)
Night 6- Glorfindel (not Sarse)

Poor guy never got to search because his partner (Scotty was the first lynch)

Poor guy got lynched first.

Night 1- NO SUBMISSION
Night 2- Checked for Roop (MP07)- still alive!
Night 3- Checked for Scuttle (Motel Room)- still alive!
Night 4- Checked for Sarse (MacDougall)- still alive!

Night 1- Ricochet (ineligible target)
Night 2- MacDougall (success!- negative vote used up Day 5)
Night 3- Glorfindel (ineligible target)
Night 4- JaggedJimmyJay (ineligible target and blocked by Quin)
Night 5- Quin (ineligible target)
Night 6- Motel Room (eligible target but blocked by Quin)
Night 7- Dom (ineligible target)
Night 8- Epignosis 2.0 (ineligible target and blocked by Quin)
Night 9- Sloonei (success!- negative vote used up Day 12 to clinch the game)
Night 10- Dom (ineligible target)
Night 11- Quin (ineligible target)

Pardoned himself Day 4

Night 1- Dom (successful but not needed)
Night 2- Sloonei (successful but not needed)
Night 3- JaggedJimmyJay (successful- thwarted a kill to amusing results)
Night 4- Sloonei (successful but not needed)
Night 5- JaggedJimmyJay (successful but not needed)
Night 6- Quin (successful but not needed)
Night 7- Epignosis 2.0 (blocked! but also not needed)
Night 8- LoRab (successful- thwarted a kill and also enabled LoRab to protect Sloonei the next night)
Night 9- Sloonei (blocked and also not needed)

Night 1- Ordered sanmateo to kill Epignosis (successful)
Night 2- Ordered Quin to kill S~V~S (successful)

Night 1- NO SUBMISSION
Night 2- Blocked Sloonei (ineffective)
Night 3- Blocked DrWilgy (successful); Ordered a2thezebra to kill JaggedJimmyJay (failed- protection)
Night 4- Blocked LoRab (successful); Ordered Epignosis 2.0 to kill MovingPictures07
Night 5- Blocked MacDougall (successful); Ordered Epignosis 2.0 to kill MacDougall
Night 6- Blocked LoRab (successful); Killed Motel Room himself
Night 7- Blocked JaggedJimmyJay (successful); Killed Scotty 2.0 himself
Night 8- Blocked LoRab (successful); Ordered Epignosis 2.0 to kill LoRab (failed- protection)
Night 9- Blocked JaggedJimmyJay (successful); Killed JaggedJimmyJay himself
Night 10- Blocked Dom (ineffective); Killed Insertnamehere himself
Night 11- Blocked LoRab (successful); Killed LoRab himself

Survived his first brush with death on Day 7

G-Man wrote:

Sloonei wrote:Did Quin know he wasn't gonna win?

At the very end, yes. I gave him the choice of dragging it out or just letting me end it tonight.

Scotty wrote:Yeah Glorf, you did well, and you held strong to your own integrity. Very well done.
I'm voting this for best mafia performance so far that ive sent this year, even if you were robbed. I hardly feel like I deserve the share of the win.

Look forward to playing with you all again in a future game!

Dom wrote:A SIX DAY GOD DAMN BATTLE IWTH QUIN IS SOMETHING I NEVER WANT TO DO AGAIN

G-Man wrote:The big takeaway here is that none of the BTSC-eligible civvie roles ever obtained BTSC. A certain baddie (you know who you are) kept bringing up the issue of 'too much BTSC making too many civvies known to each other.' Oh, if only you knew how hard I had to bite my tongue!

Looking back on it now, do you feel that I revealed too much information through the lynch and night posts? My posting style is like the old days of Lostpedia and The Piano. I've found I need to adapt that style for the folks here just a little more for the next game. I still think a balance can be achieved.

Also, Max got lynched before he had the chance to go mad. I regret never integrating Max or his family into the narrative, as they are the focus of the film.

For now, I must go to bed. I'll post a few other random thoughts and observations tomorrow. Feel free to post your questions. I will answer them!

Thank you all again for playing. This game exceeded my expectations on quality, duration, and excitement. Games are great because the players make it great. Thank you!

Sloonei wrote:You are my favorite host, G-man.

Scotty wrote:

Sloonei wrote:You are my favorite host, G-man.

When's the wedding?

Quin wrote:

Dom wrote:A SIX DAY GOD DAMN BATTLE IWTH QUIN IS SOMETHING I NEVER WANT TO DO AGAIN

You'd better hope I never draw a bad role card again then

I legitimately did think that if I were town, I'd be busting my gut to lynch you - I really do think you looked hella suspicious from the get go. :P

Dom wrote:

Quin wrote:

Dom wrote:A SIX DAY GOD DAMN BATTLE IWTH QUIN IS SOMETHING I NEVER WANT TO DO AGAIN

You'd better hope I never draw a bad role card again then

I legitimately did think that if I were town, I'd be busting my gut to lynch you - I really do think you looked hella suspicious from the get go. :P

If by get-go, you mean Day 6, then sure.

Quin wrote:

Dom wrote:Sloonei who are you going to vote for?

if they die who are you going to vote for?

if they die who are you going to vote for?


Quinn: Citation needed that Mac didn't like me.

Here.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:A few notes:

~ This is the first time I have ever seen a Mafia game go into "overtime" if you will. When LoRab locked the vote at the end of LyLo1, I was pretty shocked. Observing from the grave, I was pretty torn throughout LyLo1 and I think I'd have ended up at a Dom lynch. What she did was brilliant though, because it 1) gave the townies in play more time to consider the situation and 2) confirmed her as town. She eliminated herself from contention and sent the game to a new cycle with that information now in play. I didn't anticipate that at all and it was awesome.

~ Dom and Quin: both of you deserve so much credit for how hard you fought through LyLo (both of them). The end of this game is something everyone here should be proud of -- if you ask me that's what Mafia is all about. Evidence was in the thread, but in the end it still came down to sleuthing, deception, and inference: the core of Mafia. It was very exciting to watch, and I can imagine excruciating to experience. Neither of you backed down for a minute despite facing that kind of pressure for nearly a full week. Thank you both for that.

~ Sloonei and LoRab: your teamwork in the end was beautiful to behold. You found the evidence you needed cooperatively to clear each other, and then you did everything you could think of to sort out the other two. The final choice may have been the wrong one, but sometimes that's just how Mafia goes. You left no stone unturned and made the best decision you felt you could make. Nobody could ask for more.

~ Quin specifically: you deserve to win this game more than any single player I've ever seen lose. I say that with confidence; I've really never seen anything else like this (the closest thing being Russtifinko's hard luck finish in Talking Heads). You did everything you could possibly do to finish the town off, and frankly -- you succeeded. It was only very bad luck that did you in. It's times like this where I think we should remember that winning and losing isn't always about how well you play; sometimes it's about where the breaks fall. I am not going to rememeber this game as a Quin loss; it feels absurd to say that.

~ G-Man: you designed an extremely fun game with a great balance of complexity and simplicity -- everything was visible and solvable, but there was room for intrigue (as seen at the end). Your write ups were awesome, and those alone made my Neil Hartley nonsense worth it. Bravo sir.

~ Epignosis: it's understandable that you weren't to give it the focus you'd have liked, but there's no denying you still impacted both of your factions positively in each body. Elohcin killed your ass pronto out of fear, and in your return you were just obscured enough to make your team mate links muddy. That's what caused the whole Dom vs. Quin drama in the first place.

~ Glorfindel: you did a great job as a baddie player under pressure for as long as you were. It's a great example of a philosophy I've always had as a baddie -- it's not about avoiding suspicion, it's about surviving suspicion. It didn't matter that anyone was on to you because town didn't take care of you until it was very late in the game -- late enough that afterword there was literally zero margin for error. That is the definition of productive baddie play.

~ Elohcin: your best contribution was in the trail you left -- there was no conclusive connection from your end to attach you to Quin, which was a big part of his comfortable position for so long. That counts for a lot.

~ All the townies out there -- it was a cooperative team effort to maintain your motivation despite the poor start to this game which facilitated the comeback. Everyone played a part in that and I'm proud to have been a part of this town team.

~ Everyone: you were a part of the game of the year, IMO. Pat yourselves on the back.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I'm pretty sure you were the first to firmly turn against Zebra Mac. In hindsight we probably should have considered that more when you were nightkilled.

G-Man wrote:

Sloonei wrote:Did Quin know he wasn't gonna win?

At the very end, yes. I gave him the choice of dragging it out or just letting me end it tonight.

MacDougall wrote:I thought LoRab was May too.

LoRab wrote:Wow. We won. I seriously didn't know how this game would end. I was admittedly frustrated with my role because I had no way of knowing if it worked, or if I was blocked, so there was a lot of assuming going on. I also made some assumptions that I should have asked about early on. Like not realizing that my protection got used up as soon as someone had a vote at all. Not that it would have mattered long run. I also realize now I never asked if I could have given someone more than one protection at a time to store up. But, in the end, I used my role well.

Anyway. Well played all. Quin. Wow. You're a total FEB. well done. You had me guessing to the end and I really read you as civ. Dom, I am sorry, but you read bad. And quin playing a squeaky clean game didn't help. You fought valiently.

The tie was for a few reasons. One was to buy more time. The other was that it was a test of sorts. If quin had been one of the roles I could protect, dom would have been lynched. I was hoping no one Alive was railroad dude. I didn't take having been blocked into account (gman pointed that out after the fact).

Good game. Much fun.