The Syndicate

Sorry, mission = trial. I’ve played like 750+ games of Avalon and it’s too ingrained in my vocab. And when I say “fail” I really mean “not guilty”

And 'botulism' is 'steak-and-kidney-pie'!

[mention]DharmaHelper[/mention] When did you play Avalon online? I played there a lot in 2014. That’s the site that brought me to mafia and this site, and I don’t remember who it was that did so

I am heading to bed. I am going to [VOTE: disapprove] aubergine to cleanse the palate of this automated crap, and I hope the next Head Juror will pick their jurors with some more thought.

Scotty wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:11 pm @DharmaHelper When did you play Avalon online? I played there a lot in 2014. That’s the site that brought me to mafia and this site, and I don’t remember who it was that did so

I played a bunch, but I can't remember an exact time frame of when it was. It was a while ago so it could've been 14, 15, 16, round about there.

Wish we had a Perceval type power role for the civs. Right now we’re all in the dark.

I feel like this game is stacked against the civs in a pretty big way. Especially without a hammer mission.

Scotty wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:17 pm Wish we had a Perceval type power role for the civs. Right now we’re all in the dark.

I feel like this game is stacked against the civs in a pretty big way. Especially without a hammer mission.

Yeah that's one thing i noted when reading things over ,the lack of the usual power roles. Hopefully we'll be alright tho.

Again probably the biggest tells will be once the mission/jury results start to come in.

[VOTE: APPROVE]

EdJou wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:26 pm[VOTE: APPROVE]

Quick note to EdJou, you can access the "vote" tag that the other players are using by clicking on the "Full Editor" button, selecting the "vote" grey box from the line of grey boxes, and writing APPROVE or DISAPPROVE inside the brackets.

It's a little overcomplicated, so it's not obligatory, but I wanted to explain why the hell everyone's saying the word "aubergine."

God almighty I hate that tag.

Why?

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:33 pm God almighty I hate that tag.

I think it's unnecessary and kinda dumb, but I want to go with the format that the majority of the players are comfortable with.

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:34 pmWhy?

Because I'm a grumpy old man and change is terrifying.


And also it used to be a much more offensive color and the word aubergine was offensively large.


It's better now, but again, I'm an old grumpy fucker.

One other thing I remember from my days playing Avalon/Resistance is that the early rounds are pretty crucial. Pass/Fail scenarios tend to snowball in the later rounds.

insertnamehere wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:31 pm

EdJou wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:26 pm[VOTE: APPROVE]

Quick note to EdJou, you can access the "vote" tag that the other players are using by clicking on the "Full Editor" button, selecting the "vote" grey box from the line of grey boxes, and writing APPROVE or DISAPPROVE inside the brackets.

It's a little overcomplicated, so it's not obligatory, but I wanted to explain why the hell everyone's saying the word "aubergine."

[VOTE: Duly noted] aubergine

It's really more for mafia. Because our polls don't keep track of vote order, it puts the word aubergine in there in order to make an easily searchable term that shouldn't come up in mafia. Makes it easier to identify vote order.

Clearly you don't play mafia with as many aubergine emojis as I do.

EdJou wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:59 pm Clearly you don't play mafia with as many aubergine emojis as I do.

EdJou has arrived!

EdJou wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:59 pm Clearly you don't play mafia with as many aubergine emojis as I do.

Edjou, will you be sticking around for mafia games after this, or is the Genius your main focus?

We’d love to have you around to cause a ruckus

I’ll give a garnet to the first person that PMs me honestly with their guilt. I won’t tell anyone, it’lL be between just you me and the voices in my head note: do not have garnet to give away

Golden wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 12:20 am

EdJou wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:59 pm Clearly you don't play mafia with as many aubergine emojis as I do.

EdJou has arrived!

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 12:36 am

EdJou wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:59 pm Clearly you don't play mafia with as many aubergine emojis as I do.

Edjou, will you be sticking around for mafia games after this, or is the Genius your main focus?

We’d love to have you around to cause a ruckus

Maybe. I haven't put any thought into that. I might, but I make no guarantees at this point.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:36 pm

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:35 pm

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:30 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:28 pm Ok, so do you guys know some simple strategies we can use?

It's tough cuz I don't want to spill too much of the beans and give criminals a leg up but it would be beneficial to get as many team nominations as possible.

Please clarify what you mean here.

Linki: Would anyone care if I turn off the linki for this thread, this is freaking annoying...

Seeing who people put on their team is very helpful, The more Head Jurors we can get to nominate teams, the more we can learn about who may be Criminal.

Oh boy it's Fire Emblem all over again


In all seriousness though I've also played The Resistance and it's prreeettty nuts. There's gonna be so many levels of wifom up in this bitch. I agree with DH's idea of cycling through head jurors to get information, even though that information may be indirect via wifom -- in fact in light of what Golden said about the planned disapproval skewing people's choices, it's pretty tricky if we want to disapprove everyone and try to analyze their picks. We could try it, or we could approve at some random time to throw them off.

[VOTE: disapprove] aubergine

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 12:44 am I’ll give a garnet to the first person that PMs me honestly with their guilt. I won’t tell anyone, it’lL be between just you me and the voices in my head note: do not have garnet to give away

I've never played any of these games that people are bringing up, but in any case...

[VOTE: disapprove] aubergine

I think this bird has already flown.

I’ll [VOTE: Disapprove] aubergine since it’s what the cool kids are doing.

Oh boy it’s the resisistance.

[VOTE: dissaprove] aubergine I’m not ready for a day one shitstorm

And with that, we have seven disapprovals.

[mention]EdJou[/mention], you’re up. Please nominate 4 people for a jury.

I nominate
EdJou
M Plus
Scotty
Daisy

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:14 pm I am heading to bed. I am going to [VOTE: disapprove] aubergine to cleanse the palate of this automated crap, and I hope the next Head Juror will pick their jurors with some more thought.

Ow

speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 8:40 am

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:14 pm I am heading to bed. I am going to [VOTE: disapprove] aubergine to cleanse the palate of this automated crap, and I hope the next Head Juror will pick their jurors with some more thought.

Ow

Well, you just did what was suggested. It sounded legit to me at first as well.

This jury looks fine. [VOTE: approve] aubergine

EdJou wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 8:38 am I nominate
EdJou
M Plus
Scotty
Daisy

[VOTE: Disapprove] aubergine

EdJou wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 8:38 am I nominate
EdJou
M Plus
Scotty
Daisy

Players have until 7:38PM CST to approve or disapprove of this jury.

This is a reminder that Head Jurors can vote to approve or disapprove of their own proposed juries.

Chucky m'boy

EdJou wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 8:38 am I nominate
EdJou
M Plus
Scotty
Daisy

mmmmm I'll have to think about this one

[mention]Spacedaisy[/mention] you're not mafia, right?

[VOTE: disapprove] aubergine
I like DH's reasoning of getting some data of who nominated who before we start passing missions.

also we do have open btsc yeah? idk exactly how we can use that to suss people out but we can try

anyway if I was going to approve something in the first round it would probably have me on it so it's not 4 total unknowns

[VOTE: disapprove] aubergine

nutella wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 10:54 am also we do have open btsc yeah? idk exactly how we can use that to suss people out but we can try

Seems like a good way for Mafia to get Civs on their side with some sweet and clever words. Beware agreeing to anything to someone who assures you they're Civ.

In normal Resistance IIRC approval/disapproval votes are instant and until revealed, secret, so doing it in the style of a lynch vote is another disadvantage for us, since Criminals I guess could either wait to vote, not vote at all, or vote based on whichever way the wind blows.

Long Con wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 10:57 am

nutella wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 10:54 am also we do have open btsc yeah? idk exactly how we can use that to suss people out but we can try

Seems like a good way for Mafia to get Civs on their side with some sweet and clever words. Beware agreeing to anything to someone who assures you they're Civ.

of course, but it could add another level of analysis. also they might take advantage of any alliances they had in food chain to leverage that trust

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 10:58 am In normal Resistance IIRC approval/disapproval votes are instant and until revealed, secret, so doing it in the style of a lynch vote is another disadvantage for us, since Criminals I guess could either wait to vote, not vote at all, or vote based on whichever way the wind blows.

We can wait to vote too. This allows us to look at the flow of votes in the thread, see who is deciding to vote, when, and why. There are advantages.

I think continually downvoting is advantageous to the criminals. Maybe I'm wrong.

EdJou wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 11:28 am I think continually downvoting is advantageous to the criminals. Maybe I'm wrong.

It is a legit strategy that you gain more information from team votes (who approves, who disapproves) than you do from running a mission. But at some point we will have to actually pass one to start solving who's good and who's bad.
Part of the reason I've disapproved twice is that I don't know who to trust yet, and if I'm not on the mission I especially don't trust it.