The Syndicate

Do we have eight players who haven't voted yet?

I'm not happy with this Matt lynch, I don't like many of the reasons for voting Matt, and I also don't like that we have a few players who scattered their votes, especially if these people don't think Matt is scum.

DharmaHelper wrote:Poll has ended. Post will be up after I have sorted some of the grunt work.

Which obvi includes a lynch switch to Zebra or Dom?

What an unfortunate voter turn-out.

You say "tunneling" yet I provided a number of specific (in fact more specific than normal for me) reasons why I felt you were bad and you didn't respond to a SINGLE one of them, instead focusing on the Death Star pretending that was the only thing I mentioned. I already said why I haven't voted for you so feel free to ignore that as well.

Consider it ignored. And don't forget Zebra didn't vote for me, folks, despite me being her biggest scum read.

Are we allowed to still post during the night phase?

bcornett24 wrote:Are we allowed to still post during the night phase?

If you wish.

Okay RYM has this thing where sometimes we can other times we can't depending on the game setup; just wanted to be sure.

MovingPictures07 and the rest of the Syndicate movie party watched the bootleg version of Star Wars intently, as the action heated up. While obviously not the “original” trilogy, it was hard to determine whether the changes in the movie they were watching were due to it being a bootleg, or George Lucas’ own mad machinations. For one thing, the special effects were way off, and there was a great deal more Australian accents in this cut of the films.

The opening act at least took place on the same planet as the originals: Tatooine, the home planet of the franchise’s hero Luke Skywalker and his ill-fate Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. The original films revolutionized the hero’s journey, turning a bumbling water farmer into the galaxies most powerful Jedi. For all its faults, this version of the trilogy at least seemed to be adhering to that all important detail. The wonky imagery of Tatooine flickered on the screen as Luke and his family were introduced, and a guy who looked nothing like Mark Hamill joked with his Uncle (in this cut, a man who looked about the same age as Luke) about nerf-herding.

“It’s a good movie so far,” said a2thezebra. “But I can’t help but think something is missing.” The rest of the group quietly nodded in agreement, fixated on the exposition that was being presented. Golden chimed in shortly afterwards.
“Hey, does the cast look familiar to you guys?” Only when he pointed it out did everyone begin to notice that indeed, many of the cast bore striking resemblances to those in attendance.

“That’s totally cool…but also weird. But cool.” said Simon.

“I don’t see it.” Epignosis opined, looking up briefly after checking his abysmal fantasy football scores.

“You’re just mad ‘cuz your guy was one of the dumb Bothans that got killed in like the first three minutes of the movie.” Retorted Simon, sticking his tongue out to drive home his point.

“I just wanna say,” Matt F piped up, raising a hand from the bowl of popcorn he’d been monopolizing. “I think it’s really cool of you guys to invite me back to the Syndicate, and not to have lynched me Day 1 on one of my first games back in a long time.

He was referring of course, to the small game of in-person mafia they had played to warm up for the Star Wars marathon. DharmaHelper had won, naturally, by completely manipulating everyone into an absolute panic over sig, Enrique, and bcornett. Just another example of how amazingly intelligent and talented DharmaHelper was.
“Hey check it out! Matt, the guy that looks like you is on screen. That’s cool!” Eloh pointed at the screen, and sure enough, Matt’s Star Wars doppelganger was in the next scene.

“That’s funny, I don’t remember the Sarlaac Pit this early.”

Deep within the twisting sandy deserts of Tatooine, Matt F did battle with the fearsome Sarlaac! The gnarly, wormlike creature lashed out at the man before it, screeching and hollering its terrible battlecry. But Matt was trained for combat, and trained well. He moved like lightning to avoid the Sarlaac’s attacks, launching a literal volley of his own in response. For a while it seemed as though these two titans would do battle against the backdrop of a John Williams score for eternity, until at last the Sarlaac got a lucky shot in, wrapping one of its wicked tendrils around Matt’s leg. As he screamed in agony, Matt was taken into the mouth of the beast.

“Well,” said Matt F. “At least they got that part right.”

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Meanwhile, deep within his own madness, DharmaHelper plotted his next move.

"The original trilogy is sacred! They will rue the day they messed with the ORIGINAL TRILOGY!"

Matt F has been lynched
He was Bobba Fett
It is now Night 1 on Tatooine
Night 1 will last 24 hours, during such time you must send BOTH hosts your Nightly PMs.

Later peeps! No hard feelings, that was fun trying (and failing) to defend myself. Peace out and good luck town!

Golden wrote:I never much like votes that are off the viable lynch options. At this point, it seems to me that only votes for Matt or Enrique are meaningful. But I guess some people may have sold their votes.

I'll say right now I did not sell my vote, and you're part of the reason why Bass ended up not being a viable lynch option in the first place. I get that you're satisfied with a Matt lynch (and not an Enrique lynch) as well but at this point Matt just got too WIFOM-y to me. None of his actions in the past 24 hours make sense from a scum perspective as well as town, and that combined with so many lazy votes for him is why I didn't go for him.

linki @ Matt - "Consider it ignored." Whichever alignment you are, if you don't want to be lynched so quickly and easily again, don't ignore other players while constantly acting like they are ignoring you. It's nothing short of disrespectful.

linki @ flip - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That makes way too much sense.

We were blessed by Simon's wishes.

Thanks guys for killing Boba Fett for me.

wow...just...wow

Good work! Taking down a baddie.

Matt, you had me seriously doubting my read at the end there. Good defending, good asking for a lynch save. You played that end of day marvellously.

Hey Simon, we got Boba Fett! What's next?

@zebra - Fair enough. I had to count it as a possibility. I'm just sharing my own world perspective. I don't think Bass was lynchable today. I think its wise that we have a decent discussion of him in this next phase, though, so that a possible bass lynch isn't an afterthought.

Matt F wrote:

Brilliant exit.

Matt F wrote:

Later peeps! No hard feelings, that was fun trying (and failing) to defend myself. Peace out and good luck town!

Okay, I can't be mad at this. Happy trails Matt and thanks for the good luck!

DharmaHelper wrote: there was a great deal more Australian accents in this cut of the films.

Damn it Bobba Fett was the main reason I signed up for this game.

I'm not a fanboy but the role was so cool.

Well nice work town.

Well not bad for Day 1, though I don't like how quickly Matt's wagon developed and the amount of low posters who voted for him.

linki: No he isn't Golden read the EU

Matt* not Golden

The irony, he used the wifom statement did exactly what he said a scum would never do because it would get them lynched. Granted he wasn't scum but, that is about the next best thing, if not better.

I still don't like how 5 of the votes on Matt were from people who have little to no participation.

Nice to lynch a killer. From the hosts perspective I bet they're sad to lose such a fun role day 1.

Wow, LOL, what a result! Nicely done, that is a great role to have gone.

See you in another game, Matt, I was looking forward to playing with you.

Now back to writing, then sleep, then catching up sometime later tomorrow.

Not-canon!

I decided to buy the new 'canon' Star Wars book set after the Return of the Jedi.

I'm 100 pages in and I already can barely cope with any more of it. I'm not sure why I did it.

Black Rock wrote:Nice to lynch a killer. From the hosts perspective I bet they're sad to lose such a fun role day 1.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Damn it Bobba Fett was the main reason I signed up for this game.

I'm not a fanboy but the role was so cool.

Well nice work town.

It was the opposite for me. I signed up hoping for the simplest Full Mafia possible, and the whole credits dealio seems like a bit much to wrap my head around Less to worry about from now on.

Golden wrote:Not-canon!

I decided to buy the new 'canon' Star Wars book set after the Return of the Jedi.

I'm 100 pages in and I already can barely cope with any more of it. I'm not sure why I did it.

Don't worry Golden. With at least one new Star Wars movie planned every year from now until forever, you won't have time to read the crappy novels!

DharmaHelper wrote:

Black Rock wrote:Nice to lynch a killer. From the hosts perspective I bet they're sad to lose such a fun role day 1.

I know. I've been there.

Golden wrote:Not-canon!

I decided to buy the new 'canon' Star Wars book set after the Return of the Jedi.

I'm 100 pages in and I already can barely cope with any more of it. I'm not sure why I did it.

I had such high hopes after they didn't butcher Marvel, but I'm not impressed with this new Star Wars stuff.

and it will always be my canon

Black Rock wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:

Black Rock wrote:Nice to lynch a killer. From the hosts perspective I bet they're sad to lose such a fun role day 1.

I know. I've been there.

I'm primarily handling credits and Night actions, so oh well.

The Jawas are selling an item:

Polydroid:

Use this droid to test the speech pattern of those you don't trust, and find out if they are telling the truth. Very unstable, will fall apart after one use. Jawas statements will appear as though they are civilian.

PM the hosts with your bids during Night 1. Highest bidder wins the item and may use it any time.

Wow, sick! Good job everybody. Toward the end there I was actually convinced he was good. Pretty appropriate he died on Tatooine, too, with sarlaacs being native to there and all.

In theory he's still alive, though, because sarlaacs digest their prey in an agonizing process over 1,000 or 10,000 years (I forget which). The scuttlebutt at the cantina is that if you listen closely when the wind blows from the east, you can still hear his screams....

I'm catching up. This is where I've read up to... you all are talking way too much-- and that means a lot coming from me.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
So, the tl;dr version... everyone, what do you think? Zebra: Town or Mafia?

Really early to say... and I'm not sure I see the point in a lot of GTH reads and endless ISOs that, in my opinion, are quite superfluous on Day 1, but I guess I'd say town... for now?

Bass_the_Clever wrote: Haha this is a great post. I love when I get read as bad when I've been busy. And been barely able to keep up. The post about MM was made because someone said something about what is meta is or something like that. I said the stuff about MP because ita how I felt sorry it read "fake" to you.

Haha

Matt F wrote:I'm at the top of page 16 right now, catching up. Looks like I already have 5 votes. Swell.

MP - I think Dom is bad for throwing his vote on me the way he did without even conversing (at least Zebra and Golden have actually spoken with me), but right now I'm throwing a vote on Enrique to save myself. Please peeps, I implore you to vote Enrique with me because I am civvie and I don't even know wtf happened here today.

I am pressed for time... tbqh. I made a rushed vote because I was rushed.

a2thezebra wrote:

Roxy wrote:I hate doing this but I randomed my vote from people I mentioned in my previous post and got Matt.
Sorry nothing personal but rl has its demands atm.

That's...convenient. And Dom's vote was lazy. If anything's going to persuade me to vote for someone besides Matt it's these strange Matt votes.

Or I'm busy.

Catch up was easier than anticipated!


Very nice lynch result.

Wow...awesome result. Now I know what to do with a quiet Matt.

That was quiet Matt?

Actually, I take your point Eloh - in terms of the fact he focussed on very specific things and didn't talk about much else. I think you are right, that was quite quiet for Matt.

Wow not bad team. Not bad at all.

Nicely done all you Matt voters.

/slips in through the back door :P

SO glad Matt turned out to be a baddie, I was still reading through the thread when the poll closed which is why I didn't vote, for what's worth i probably would've voted Matt too, not for the death star vote which seemed innocent enough (it DID sound like a cool option), but for his saying golden wasn't arguing with people yet and also because he looked like he was trying to move the conservation towards specific people eg. the people who voted Alderaan (yes including me)
and Enrico sounds sincere to me so I don't really agree with the suspicion on him. his comment about sig being two faced triggered some alarm bells though
anyway hope to see you next game Matt

I missed it D: Forgive me everyone... What happened?

Bubbles wrote:/slips in through the back door :P

This is how the rebels beat death star 2.

Forgive me Guys but am I to understand there is some criticism of me voting down MattF (a bad guy) without having made a whole bunch of wild accusations for the entire first day phase when there are some players that didn't even vote at all? For what it's worth, I only realised when I came on this morning how close the deadline was and decided to go on instinct (something which has in the past stood me in good stead - I'm sure Sig will vouch for that...).

DrWilgy wrote:I missed it D: Forgive me everyone... What happened?

Me too. Sorry I missed everything.