The Syndicate

Alright, let's get this started already. I want plenty more players by the time I get back from my visit to San Antonio.

I guess I can play

oh sweet. Where you been, dude?

Mongoose wrote:oh sweet. Where you been, dude?

Super busy. Like all the busy ever. I worked for the past two weeks doing residential events at my uni - it was ridiculously exhausting but I met some great people and hopefully helped encourage some smart kids to go on to uni who might not have considered it before! I graduate on Tuesday and after that I'm free until September when my postgrad course starts so we're now in that very brief time of year where I actually have time to play mafia!

Taking summer classes but I guess I can give this a shot anyway! It will give me another reason to procrastinate doing my homework

Bullzeye wrote:

Mongoose wrote:oh sweet. Where you been, dude?

Super busy. Like all the busy ever. I worked for the past two weeks doing residential events at my uni - it was ridiculously exhausting but I met some great people and hopefully helped encourage some smart kids to go on to uni who might not have considered it before! I graduate on Tuesday and after that I'm free until September when my postgrad course starts so we're now in that very brief time of year where I actually have time to play mafia!

That sounds wonderful, Bullz!

Great to see you, Sorsh!

Alright, I'm back from San Antonio (for now)! Awesome, thanks for signing up, Bullz and Sorsha!

I'd love to get this game started ASAP this week; in fact, I pretty much need to due to scheduling reasons with my moving down and starting the PhD program and such. But if we can get more players before I start the game, that'd be incredibly preferable! So let's try to round up whoever we can in this very last stretch and as to exact starting date I'll play it by ear.

I hope everyone's getting appropriately psyched up.

Llama hath persuaded me, but I will be extremely unavailable - new baby coming in the next few weeks. At least there's no wall of text of powers to try to understand ☺

So yeah, I'm in.

Nevinera wrote:Llama hath persuaded me, but I will be extremely unavailable - new baby coming in the next few weeks. At least there's no wall of text of powers to try to understand ☺

So yeah, I'm in.

Yay, I get a recruitment bonus!

30 players. Can we start now?

Like, right now?

Not quite yet.

Can I get in or is it too late??

Kate wrote:Can I get in or is it too late??

You certainly can! Sign-ups are still ongoing, no limit on the number of players! At some point this week/weekend, I'll just be cutting off the time frame. I'll make sure to keep everyone updated.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Not quite yet.

How about now?

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Not quite yet.

How about now?

You sure you're ready?

MovingPictures07 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Not quite yet.

How about now?

You sure you're ready?

Alex, I was born ready.

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Not quite yet.

How about now?

You sure you're ready?

Alex, I was born ready.

Too bad, I'm not ready yet.

Seriously, it'll start soon, but I think we'll get a few other stragglers first.

(I hope anyway)

Actually, I don't think I'll start the game until every player currently signed up has watched the movie.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Actually, I don't think I'll start the game until every player currently signed up has watched the movie.

I've seen it enough times for everyone.

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Actually, I don't think I'll start the game until every player currently signed up has watched the movie.

I've seen it enough times for everyone.

I don't think I could ever see it enough.

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Actually, I don't think I'll start the game until every player currently signed up has watched the movie.

I've seen it enough times for everyone.

Me too!

Hello is me :P signing up

Can you believe, I have the movie in vhs, from back in the day, but I do not have a vhs player to watch it again

(Now to go see how this site works, cause I is new here )

Kate and unfurl and SVS and bea are playing????? I have tried to resist because I am traveling this summer but kate and unfurl and SVS and bea all in one game are too tempting for me to turn down. I have one last trip to take just for a weekend coming up in two weeks and I think I can manage it and this game. One other small thing though - I saw this movie but it wasn't really my cup of tea (stop throwing rocks at me, and do not kill me because of it) and I don't remember it real clearly so i may need some help if plot points become part of the game. All I remember is they fight a lot.

So MP, I'm in if you are still talking people.

Wow! All kinds of people showed up! Yay Kate, I did not ask cause i thought you would say no, so kudos to whoever did

And Unfurl!!!

And yay JC

Wow, awesome! Shaping up to be one hell of an absolutely amazing player list!

Kate! ^_^

We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression...is our lives.

Perhaps my favorite quote from the movie that is packed with memorable ones.
Yes, the almighty sock has somehow coaxed me out of the light back to here, because after trying to be a movie god or rock star, I found out I won't be...and I'm very very pissed off

JJLehto wrote:We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression...is our lives.

Perhaps my favorite quote from the movie that is packed with memorable ones.
Yes, the almighty sock has somehow coaxed me out of the light back to here, because after trying to be a movie god or rock star, I found out I won't be...and I'm very very pissed off

Agreed entirely on your selection and on the fact that the movie is packed with memorable quotes. Seriously, the dialogue is genius.

And so glad to see you've signed up! You won't regret it.

To this day I'm still impressed that Fight Club gets the most attention of all of Chuck Palahniuk's works. If you want to experience some twisted shit, read Lullaby or Invisible Monsters.

Epignosis wrote:To this day I'm still impressed that Fight Club gets the most attention of all of Chuck Palahniuk's works. If you want to experience some twisted shit, read Lullaby or Invisible Monsters.

Honestly, it's probably a combination of two things: Fight Club had a very successful film adaptation while the other two have not, and Lullaby and Invisible Monsters (I would think more so the latter) might be a bit too twisted for mass acclaim.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:To this day I'm still impressed that Fight Club gets the most attention of all of Chuck Palahniuk's works. If you want to experience some twisted shit, read Lullaby or Invisible Monsters.

Honestly, it's probably a combination of two things: Fight Club had a very successful film adaptation while the other two have not, and Lullaby and Invisible Monsters (I would think more so the latter) might be a bit too twisted for mass acclaim.

Considering Choke featured Angelica Houston and (of all of Palahniuk's books) Snuff is in production (God help us), I don't think "twisted" is the problem.

Invisible Monsters might be hard to film due to its nature, but if you've seen the

****SPOILER ALERT*****

Bruce Willis film called The Color of Night

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I think it could be done. Especially with all the CGI shit we have available now.

But to hell with all that- I would love to see Lullaby, my favorite Chuck P. novel get the silver screen treatment.

Heyyyyy

Is this one still open?

Good point, Epig. And yeah... about Snuff being in production.

Mister Rearranger wrote:Heyyyyy

Is this one still open?

Indeed it is! You in?

juliets wrote:Kate and unfurl and SVS and bea are playing????? I have tried to resist because I am traveling this summer but kate and unfurl and SVS and bea all in one game are too tempting for me to turn down. I have one last trip to take just for a weekend coming up in two weeks and I think I can manage it and this game. One other small thing though - I saw this movie but it wasn't really my cup of tea (stop throwing rocks at me, and do not kill me because of it) and I don't remember it real clearly so i may need some help if plot points become part of the game. All I remember is they fight a lot.

So MP, I'm in if you are still talking people.

S~V~S wrote:Wow! All kinds of people showed up! Yay Kate, I did not ask cause i thought you would say no, so kudos to whoever did

And Unfurl!!!

And yay JC

No one asked, I think it may have been divine intervention.

Dom wrote:Kate! ^_^

*squee*

I don't want to commit to a Mafia game for the next few weeks, but I'm down as a replacement.

juliets wrote:Kate and unfurl and SVS and bea are playing????? I have tried to resist because I am traveling this summer but kate and unfurl and SVS and bea all in one game are too tempting for me to turn down. I have one last trip to take just for a weekend coming up in two weeks and I think I can manage it and this game. One other small thing though - I saw this movie but it wasn't really my cup of tea (stop throwing rocks at me, and do not kill me because of it) and I don't remember it real clearly so i may need some help if plot points become part of the game. All I remember is they fight a lot.

So MP, I'm in if you are still talking people.

S~V~S wrote:Wow! All kinds of people showed up! Yay Kate, I did not ask cause i thought you would say no, so kudos to whoever did

And Unfurl!!!

And yay JC

*waves to JC and S~V~S *

So what I am currently thinking is to close off signups around Saturday and start the game then as well. I would now, but this game benefits from each player it gets and thus makes a better game for all of you, and I want to make sure that everyone who might want to play who hasn't signed up yet also gets the chance to. Plus, I have more time on the weekend.

That's the tentative plan, anyway.

k

MovingPictures07 wrote:So what I am currently thinking is to close off signups around Saturday and start the game then as well. I would now, but this game benefits from each player it gets and thus makes a better game for all of you, and I want to make sure that everyone who might want to play who hasn't signed up yet also gets the chance to. Plus, I have more time on the weekend.

That's the tentative plan, anyway.

I have an alternate suggestion. Start it right now.

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:So what I am currently thinking is to close off signups around Saturday and start the game then as well. I would now, but this game benefits from each player it gets and thus makes a better game for all of you, and I want to make sure that everyone who might want to play who hasn't signed up yet also gets the chance to. Plus, I have more time on the weekend.

That's the tentative plan, anyway.

I have an alternate suggestion. Start it right now.

Tempting...

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:So what I am currently thinking is to close off signups around Saturday and start the game then as well. I would now, but this game benefits from each player it gets and thus makes a better game for all of you, and I want to make sure that everyone who might want to play who hasn't signed up yet also gets the chance to. Plus, I have more time on the weekend.

That's the tentative plan, anyway.

I have an alternate suggestion. Start it right now.

This man is wise beyond his years.

I actually have to ask the almighty sock to stick by that, it would REALLY be beneficial for me to start sat. From now to Friday night is my last 48 hrs of hell, then I am free. In fact I came here to ask if we can not start till Sat lol

Hello, hi and welcome! I'm excited to play a game with so many people I've never had the pleasure of playing mafia with yet or that it has been a while. Yay!

Hi to Black Rock, Long Con, AceofSpaces, DharmaHelper, Boomslang, Keterman, Sorsha, Nevinera, Kate, unfurl, and JJLehto.

No worries, I decided it'll be Saturday. Sorry for the wait to those anxious (trust me, I'm anxious to host this), but I don't have too much extra time between now and then anyway, in addition to the previously stated reasons.

Thus, I'm officially decreeing Saturday morning as the cutoff time for people to sign up. Whether we get 0 or 9001 more players between now and then, we'll be ready to go regardless.

However, with that said, the record for biggest game thus far at this site was my previous full game, Bioshock, at 36, so I'd kind of like to at least break that if possible.

I'll create some multis and recruit them then.