The Syndicate

I'm going to do a host read here and say they'll rejoin us after N1 at the very latest. Having people sign up for your game and then be unable to do anything is pretty lame.

Alison wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:55 pm I'm going to do a host read here and say they'll rejoin us after N1 at the very latest. Having people sign up for your game and then be unable to do anything is pretty lame.

In Assassin's Creed the out-of-thread people were doing things. They just weren't in the thread. They joined us like... Day 2 or 3, maybe? But only for one phase, and then retreated back to their home on Mt. Olympus or whatever.

Alison wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:55 pm I'm going to do a host read here and say they'll rejoin us after N1 at the very latest. Having people sign up for your game and then be unable to do anything is pretty lame.

Maybe they’re saying the same thing about us...

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:42 pm @nutella you were one of the out-of-thread demi-gods in Assassin's Creed. What can you tell us about that experience?

I don't remember a ton of detail but we had a discord, we could read the thread and discuss our thoughts, and we had daily choices on smaller or larger ways to influence the game (such as giving a certain player a power buff or something) and then a few phases in we entered the thread for a day and helped town solve the game and then left again

Trustworthy Liberal, Quin, Hyena, and Turnip Head are the four horsemen of the nanookpocalypse.

This is actually the sequel to The Search For Quin.

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:04 pm This is actually the sequel to The Search For Quin.

last time he was just on the beach. let's check there.

Who has played with Vulgard before?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:06 pm Who has played with Vulgard before?

I think just the people he mentioned on the first page from G-Man's game -- Poison, TSP, and LC.

Oh and a few of us were technically in the MU anniversary mash with him but that only sort of counts. He was 3P but I remember he looked pretty towny.

That would include me, Mac, Hyena, Poison, and TL.

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:07 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:06 pm Who has played with Vulgard before?

I think just the people he mentioned on the first page from G-Man's game -- Poison, TSP, and LC.

Interesting. LC was quick to jump on the idea of Vulgard being mafia.
[mention]TonyStarkPrime[/mention] [mention]Poison[/mention] what are your thoughts on this game's version of Vulgard compared to the version you saw in the previous game?

Syn's description of themselves as "agitating" is bothering me and I can't put my finger on why. I just think it's a little weird for someone to describe themselves/their mafia play that way. I also can't explain why that's mafia indicative though. (My best theory is that it's setting up an excuse for awkwardness/discomfort by implying that his posts always rub people the wrong way? But I don't really believe that even as I write it and it feels like a rationalization of a gut read more than anything.)

hey hey hey

i'm bummed 'cause both mikey and thesunfan rejected me and didn't join this game so i'm alone and that eerily resembles my real life but like it's fine though

we shall WIN THE GAME

[mention]MacDougall[/mention] i am TOWN thanks just in case everyone votes for me like that one time where i was a townie pirate but all y'all killed me twice
thanks
ik you'll have my back

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:27 pm i'm bummed 'cause both mikey and thesunfan rejected me and didn't join this game so i'm alone and that eerily resembles my real life but like it's fine though

we shall WIN THE GAME

You’re not alone, we’ll solve this game together fgal!

What’s nutella’s alignment?

Alison wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:24 pm Syn's description of themselves as "agitating" is bothering me and I can't put my finger on why. I just think it's a little weird for someone to describe themselves/their mafia play that way. I also can't explain why that's mafia indicative though. (My best theory is that it's setting up an excuse for awkwardness/discomfort by implying that his posts always rub people the wrong way? But I don't really believe that even as I write it and it feels like a rationalization of a gut read more than anything.)

I'm nothing if not self-aware. This is my first off-site/other-community game, but on CFC I've gotten into pretty frequent conflicts due to my play. I tend to only get cleared because someone mechanically confirmed it, not because of personality.

I don't really have an opinion on awkwardness. I'm just cognizant of my play style and how it might conflict. In the one game I played with Nutella I only lived because she cop-cleared me.

I'm not especially aggro or anything like that. I just don't really play like expected, and my response when people tell me to do certain things is usually "no," and that gets wolf-read easily.

I like this entrance from FG. The energy reminds me a lot of town tutuu.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:19 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:07 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:06 pm Who has played with Vulgard before?

I think just the people he mentioned on the first page from G-Man's game -- Poison, TSP, and LC.

Interesting. LC was quick to jump on the idea of Vulgard being mafia.
@TonyStarkPrime @Poison what are your thoughts on this game's version of Vulgard compared to the version you saw in the previous game?

Three courtesy posts aren't really much to go on when making that comparison. I locked Vulgard town on Night 1 in that game, so we'll see if that happens again.

[VOTE: Syn] aubergine

I want to push here right now. His post bothered me and he responded to it with a beetlejuice.

Syn do you have any opinion at all on the way the game has opened/the stuff that has happened so far?

Alison wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:55 pm I like this entrance from FG. The energy reminds me a lot of town tutuu.

Describe the energy of wolf tutuu.

lol. yeah I think FG and tutuu have some similarities!

I don't really feel like I have any read on Vulgard or Syn one way or the other.

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:00 pm I don't really feel like I have any read on Vulgard or Syn one way or the other.

Who do you have reads on?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:03 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:00 pm I don't really feel like I have any read on Vulgard or Syn one way or the other.

Who do you have reads on?

You

Friends, pretend I'm JaggedJimmyJay for a moment and allow me to assure you that Sloonei is undoubtedly town.



Cue him questioning where my trademark tinfoil of him is.

I don't like Alison's thin read on Long Con, I don't think it's reasonable to townread him for such a thing this early.

I like Sloonei, though. I like how he's already hardcore solving, and he's doing that in a way which doesn't come across as forced.
To answer his question -- I'm honestly not sure how to answer it at this point, because my playstyle tends to be pretty fluid. I usually try to find mafia and/or town through macro reads, and when I want to push a mafia, I case them, like I did last game. This means that I am invariably stumbling around blind on day 1 and only later developing the ability to find people's alignments with higher confidence.

TL;DR Focus on macro reads, gets better as the game goes on, usually.

I think somebody said I'm a Champs player. I'm not. I was a backup for the qualifier, and that's it.

Vulgard wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:05 pm I think somebody said I'm a Champs player. I'm not. I was a backup for the qualifier, and that's it.

My mistake!

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:04 pm Friends, pretend I'm JaggedJimmyJay for a moment and allow me to assure you that Sloonei is undoubtedly town.



Cue him questioning where my trademark tinfoil of him is.

Checks out, I’ll buy it.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:43 pm

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:27 pm i'm bummed 'cause both mikey and thesunfan rejected me and didn't join this game so i'm alone and that eerily resembles my real life but like it's fine though

we shall WIN THE GAME

You’re not alone, we’ll solve this game together fgal!

What’s nutella’s alignment?

she seems nice and is a mod so i'ma say lawful good

anyways we're polar opposites so i'ma deliver the hot™ take that no one thought they needed and say you're a WOLF
got 'em

Alison wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:58 pm [VOTE: Syn] aubergine

I want to push here right now. His post bothered me and he responded to it with a beetlejuice.

Syn do you have any opinion at all on the way the game has opened/the stuff that has happened so far?

What does "a beetlejuice" mean? I saw the movie once like a decade ago.

We're 7 hours in to D1, so not really. Sloonei and LC have Good Vibes.

I'm curious about the four who can't be in the thread, and if any of them are wolves or guaranteed town. Being able to establish an immediate towncore would be rad. But I doubt Nanook would make it that easy for us.

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:07 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:43 pm

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:27 pm i'm bummed 'cause both mikey and thesunfan rejected me and didn't join this game so i'm alone and that eerily resembles my real life but like it's fine though

we shall WIN THE GAME

You’re not alone, we’ll solve this game together fgal!

What’s nutella’s alignment?

she seems nice and is a mod so i'ma say lawful good

anyways we're polar opposites so i'ma deliver the hot™ take that no one thought they needed and say you're a WOLF
got 'em

I typically identify with true neutral. Sometimes LN, sometimes NG

[VOTE: Syn] aubergine

I checked again and they have done nothing within their five posts. These posts were all spent on talking about themselves, their first post was a comment about the OP (which is not really game-related and is unlikely to out you as mafia when you talk about it as mafia), and they come across as trying to seem relaxed in the thread. Which is probably why they are spending so much time on "settling in."

I liked nutella's start, but I have some respect for their wolfgame, so I'm not going to pull an Alison and make a weakly supported solid townread on her out of nowhere.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:27 pm People have squinted at me for saying that I have "genuine" reads in the past, as if every read I share as town is supposed to be genuine.

So with that in mind, here's a read of unknown sincerity:

Vulgard is mafia.

Was that just a segue, or have people really squinted at you for that? Squinting = suspicion? Suspicion for claiming genuineness?

Not really feeling Funnygurl's posts either. They feel too shitposty. Like, not in a way that comes from town. Does she always do that?

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:09 pm

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:07 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:43 pm

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:27 pm i'm bummed 'cause both mikey and thesunfan rejected me and didn't join this game so i'm alone and that eerily resembles my real life but like it's fine though

we shall WIN THE GAME

You’re not alone, we’ll solve this game together fgal!

What’s nutella’s alignment?

she seems nice and is a mod so i'ma say lawful good

anyways we're polar opposites so i'ma deliver the hot™ take that no one thought they needed and say you're a WOLF
got 'em

I typically identify with true neutral. Sometimes LN, sometimes NG

I put some thought into it for myself the other night, and decided I'm Neutral Good. I used to think I was Chaotic Good, but I had a different idea or definition of Chaotic, and didn't consider it solely as an opposite to Lawful.

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:07 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:43 pm

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:27 pm i'm bummed 'cause both mikey and thesunfan rejected me and didn't join this game so i'm alone and that eerily resembles my real life but like it's fine though

we shall WIN THE GAME

You’re not alone, we’ll solve this game together fgal!

What’s nutella’s alignment?

she seems nice and is a mod so i'ma say lawful good

anyways we're polar opposites so i'ma deliver the hot™ take that no one thought they needed and say you're a WOLF
got 'em

I mean, posts like this one. This just looks like a really forced joke, and I'm not sure why it exists. "Haha, I'm so random?" Or "Haha, look, I'm relaxed and harmless!"
I'm leaning toward the second.

Votes are changeable, right?

Vulgard wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:09 pm [VOTE: Syn] aubergine

I checked again and they have done nothing within their five posts. These posts were all spent on talking about themselves, their first post was a comment about the OP (which is not really game-related and is unlikely to out you as mafia when you talk about it as mafia), and they come across as trying to seem relaxed in the thread. Which is probably why they are spending so much time on "settling in."

I liked nutella's start, but I have some respect for their wolfgame, so I'm not going to pull an Alison and make a weakly supported solid townread on her out of nowhere.

what kind of opportunistic hogwash is this

Of course my posts are going to talk about me when I was responding to someone specifically asking me about my play style. Bro what

i am now a tuutuu

hi vulgard i see you think i'm FAKE but guess what............................

even if you're right i'ma NEVER CHANGE

Syn wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:12 pm

Vulgard wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:09 pm [VOTE: Syn] aubergine

I checked again and they have done nothing within their five posts. These posts were all spent on talking about themselves, their first post was a comment about the OP (which is not really game-related and is unlikely to out you as mafia when you talk about it as mafia), and they come across as trying to seem relaxed in the thread. Which is probably why they are spending so much time on "settling in."

I liked nutella's start, but I have some respect for their wolfgame, so I'm not going to pull an Alison and make a weakly supported solid townread on her out of nowhere.

what kind of opportunistic hogwash is this

Of course my posts are going to talk about me when I was responding to someone specifically asking me about my play style. Bro what

I don't like making this comparison, but I just used one post for it and moved on. That's not really what happened with you.
Meh. I know this isn't a great read, but it's something.

actually my first real read is that vulgard is fishing 'cause look at their read on alison too

you're gonna need more to catch alison as a wolf she's a goat

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:14 pm actually my first real read is that vulgard is fishing 'cause look at their read on alison too

you're gonna need more to catch alison as a wolf she's a goat

What do you mean by "fishing?"
And I don't know that. I haven't seen Alison play at all.

Syn wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:12 pm

Vulgard wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:09 pm [VOTE: Syn] aubergine

I checked again and they have done nothing within their five posts. These posts were all spent on talking about themselves, their first post was a comment about the OP (which is not really game-related and is unlikely to out you as mafia when you talk about it as mafia), and they come across as trying to seem relaxed in the thread. Which is probably why they are spending so much time on "settling in."

I liked nutella's start, but I have some respect for their wolfgame, so I'm not going to pull an Alison and make a weakly supported solid townread on her out of nowhere.

what kind of opportunistic hogwash is this

Of course my posts are going to talk about me when I was responding to someone specifically asking me about my play style. Bro what

I also seem to recall Alison doing something similar. What stopped you from calling her comment "opportunistic hogwash?"

Syn wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:12 pm

Vulgard wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:09 pm [VOTE: Syn] aubergine

I checked again and they have done nothing within their five posts. These posts were all spent on talking about themselves, their first post was a comment about the OP (which is not really game-related and is unlikely to out you as mafia when you talk about it as mafia), and they come across as trying to seem relaxed in the thread. Which is probably why they are spending so much time on "settling in."

I liked nutella's start, but I have some respect for their wolfgame, so I'm not going to pull an Alison and make a weakly supported solid townread on her out of nowhere.

what kind of opportunistic hogwash is this

Of course my posts are going to talk about me when I was responding to someone specifically asking me about my play style. Bro what

I agree, Syn didn't drive the conversation to be about himself, he was responding to questions and suspicions about him.

Vulgard wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:22 pm

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:14 pm actually my first real read is that vulgard is fishing 'cause look at their read on alison too

you're gonna need more to catch alison as a wolf she's a goat

What do you mean by "fishing?"
And I don't know that. I haven't seen Alison play at all.

"i don't like this entrance" "i don't like that entrance" "i don't like that read" when we're at rvs stage

it looks like you're trying to form reads and give an appearance of wolf hunting when a) it ain't really the time for it and b) your suspicions are of little substance atm

(Despite the Lisa avatar, I guess I see "Syn" as a masculine name. Correct pronouns?)