The Syndicate

Yes, I am going to vote. Currently in a monsoon! It only rains on days I flat iron my hair.

Anyway, I think Kate may have been onto so?ething with her twin analysis the other day, so I am going to vote for my very dear Hedgie. And I'm so sorry if you aren't!

At this point I am lynched if I dont vote, although I Hadnt been planning to because i am like bullz with my night power. My vote will go to snow, bullz or mongoose. I am not sure which one of you is pretending you are someone you're not.

Ok bullz it is because while i dont know for sure who you are. i know who are not for my win.

I can't risk a late vote coming in for Bullz. I feel I need him alive so with regret I must vote Owl. The risk is too great if I don't. My hand is forced more or less.


Votes Hedgeowl

Hedgeowl wrote:Ok bullz it is because while i dont know for sure who you are. i know who are not for my win.

Interestingly the other two you mention are claiming to be the same person, I'm claiming to be someone else. I'm actually gonna put my vote on Snow because I'm no longer sure if he's the person I used to think he was, and while I doubt he'll be lynched I'd rather not go into the final night a fool.

Actually I suppose I haven't technically claimed to be anyone but given who I'm defending and why it's pretty obvious who I am isn't it?

Bullzeye wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:Ok bullz it is because while i dont know for sure who you are. i know who are not for my win.

Interestingly the other two you mention are claiming to be the same person, I'm claiming to be someone else. I'm actually gonna put my vote on Snow because I'm no longer sure if he's the person I used to think he was, and while I doubt he'll be lynched I'd rather not go into the final night a fool.

I've never pretended to be someone I am not. Either you ARE the person I need to win or someone else is. I haven't lied about a single thing.

ebwop

in fact I just voted to save you for heaven's sake.

Day 6:

Who's worse than being snowed in in a haunted hotel on Independence Day?

Poll runs till Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:07 pm

Bullzeye
1
Hedgeowl (6)
13%

Hedgeowl
3
S~V~S (4), Mongoose (5), Snow Dog (7)
38%

Kate
0
No votes

Mongoose
0
No votes

Snow Dog
1
Bullzeye (8)
13%

S~V~S
0
No votes

I am not from your country (host/mod/dead)
3
thellama73 (1), MovingPictures07 (2), Epignosis (3)
38%


Total votes : 8

Snow, you're not going to die anyway. I just have no idea whether to trust you or Mongoose any more. One of you is clearly someone I need alive and the other has either outright claimed to be or allowed me to believe it for most of the game.

As the day wore on into night again, things began to get weird. It was as if all the vague, imagined threats in the hotel had gotten sick and tired of subtlety and decided to come out to play instead.

Naturally, this was terrifying, and even the most stalwart of the remaining guests had difficulty keeping their composure. Finally, S~V~S snapped.

"I can't take it anymore!" she shrieked, and promptly started stabbing Hedgeowl with a kitchen knife she had picked up somewhere.

"What did I do?" asked Hedgeowl between stabs, in what most would view as an underreaction to her present situation.

The others, like sharks sensing blood in the water, came to S~VS's aid and soon, Hedgowl was no more.

"Man," said Bullzeye. "I really don't like this hotel. Let's not stay here next year."

Hedgeowl has been Lynched. She was the other Grady Girl. It is now Night 6, the final night. You have 24 hours to send in PMs if you think they will continue to do you any good at this point.

Kate you are amazing.

Snow Dog wrote:Kate you are amazing.

Yeah, amazing at not voting in the lynch and forfeiting her night power!

thellama73 wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:Kate you are amazing.

Yeah, amazing at not voting in the lynch and forfeiting her night power!

All part of our plan... Now somebody serve this lady some zombie wine already!

Snow Dog wrote:Kate you are amazing.

Thanks

Its a creepy scary party.

Kate wrote:Its a creepy scary party.

Indeed it is, but I tend to like that kind of thing

This party is so good I didn't even realise it was a party!

Hedgeowl wrote:I finally get to vote for Hawaii! No coats needed! ...in other news Snow Dog was strangely and oddly NK'd at the end of the game... Some suspected a Mod-kill

Wait, in this game Snowy was legit NK'd? You lost me a bit, but maybe it's just the caffeine not reaching my brain yet.

Last time I looked he was still alive~?

Mongoose wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:I finally get to vote for Hawaii! No coats needed! ...in other news Snow Dog was strangely and oddly NK'd at the end of the game... Some suspected a Mod-kill

Wait, in this game Snowy was legit NK'd? You lost me a bit, but maybe it's just the caffeine not reaching my brain yet.

Just a joke because of his poll answer.

Hedgeowl wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:I finally get to vote for Hawaii! No coats needed! ...in other news Snow Dog was strangely and oddly NK'd at the end of the game... Some suspected a Mod-kill

Wait, in this game Snowy was legit NK'd? You lost me a bit, but maybe it's just the caffeine not reaching my brain yet.

Just a joke because of his poll answer.

No joke!

Snow Dog wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:I finally get to vote for Hawaii! No coats needed! ...in other news Snow Dog was strangely and oddly NK'd at the end of the game... Some suspected a Mod-kill

Wait, in this game Snowy was legit NK'd? You lost me a bit, but maybe it's just the caffeine not reaching my brain yet.

Just a joke because of his poll answer.

No joke!

Hey Llama, new game idea! If you get someone to type in dead red when they are not dead, you are rezzed in their place.

The long night is finally over. The sun is out, the snow is melting, and coming up the road from sidewinder are a distant line of snow plows and police cars. Congratulations, you made it. Although you may have some explaining to do when the cops arrive...

I hope you all had a nice July 4th Ball.

Thank you all for a wonderful game! You wee all amazing participants and I couldn't be happier with the way things unfolded. Congratulations also to the four winners, S~V~S, Bullzeye, Snow Dog and Nevinera. I will be happy to answer any questions about the game (a list of all the roles, secrets and win conditions follows,) but for now, please enjoy this post-game analysis by Gene Shalit.

The Players:

birdwithteeth11
DEAD
Sanity: Sane
Role: Stanley Kubrick
Win Condition: Survive to the end and Stephen King is dead.

Bullzeye
ALIVE
Sanity: Moderately sane (2 insanity points)
Role: Danny Torrence
Win Condition: Survive to the end and Wendy Torrence is alive.
WINNER

Epignosis
DEAD
Sanity: Sane
Role: Jack Torrence
Win Condition: Survive to the end and Wendy and Danny are both alive.

Hedgeowl
DEAD
Sanity: Moderately sane (2 insanity points)
Role: Grady Girl 1
Win Condition: Survive to the end and the Overlook burns down.

Kate
ALIVE
Sanity: Moderately sane (1 insanity point)
Role: The Overlook
Win Condition: Be the last one alive or every other living play is insane.
Secret: Confers one insanity point per night. Three insanity points drives a player insane.

Mongoose
ALIVE
Sanity: Moderately sane (2 insanity points)
Role: Lloyd the Bartender
Win Condition: The majority of living players are on her team.
Secret: Serves drinks to two players each night, conferring one insanity point each. At three insanity points, they join her team.

MovingPictures07
DEAD
Sanity: Sane
Role: Delbert Grady
Win Condition: Wendy and Danny are dead and at least one member of his team is alive at the end.
Joined Lloyd's team on Day 3 and gained her win condition as well.
Secret: If he had found Jack, they would have formed a team with Jack getting a new win condition and a nightly kill. Since Jack was killed, he was allowed to search for Lloyd to team up.

Nevinera
DEAD
Sanity: Sane
Role: Dick Hallorann
Win Condition: Both Danny and Wendy are alive at the end.
WINNER

Snow Dog
ALIVE
Sanity: Moderately sane (1 insanity point)
Role: Wendy Torrence
Win Condition: Survive to the end and Danny is also alive.
WINNER

S~V~S
ALIVE
Sanity: Insane
Role: Stuart Ullman
Win Condition: Survive to the end and the Overlook doesn't burn down.
Joined Lloyd's team on Day 5, gaining her win condition as well.
WINNER

Vompatti
DEAD
Sanity: Sane
Role: Grady Girl 2
Win Condition: Survive to the end and the Overlook burns down.

Zany Dex
DEAD
Sanity: Sane
Role: Stephen King
Win Condition: Survive to the end and Stanley Kubrick is dead.

So I won right? I mean, I'm in the picture at all.

Awesome game I absolutely loved my role, I wish I had Tony with me in every game! Each night I got to ask Llama for a secret about a specific role, specific player, or general mechanic. The 'theory' I was coming up with about Lloyd wasn't really a theory, I found out the bartender's secret on I think night 4 and was going to bring it up in the thread as a guess at what the drinks do.

thellama73 wrote: but for now, please [...] be Gene Shalit.

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote: but for now, please [...] be Gene Shalit.

That is no less annoying now that the game's over.

By the way, I will make winners' badges tomorrow. Today I am tired.

Also I knew SVS' role for about half the game. On night 1 I got sanity check info regarding MP, then on night 2 I asked for a secret about SVS and was told she targeted MP the previous night. Wasn't hard to put 2 and 2 together after that.

Vomps and I had to get Stephen King to NK the Overlook to "burn it down," once he was dead we were able to search for Lloyd and join her team. We searched everyone but Mongoose and Snow, and then Mongoose went and led the charge against us. We just tried to lynch people we knew weren't Lloyd hence the hasty argument to lynch Kate. Also, the calling out of time at the last 10 minutes I totally didn't get until after the lynch, but figured out what Kate was saying.

Hedgeowl wrote:Vomps and I had to get Stephen King to NK the Overlook to "burn it down," once he was dead we were able to search for Lloyd and join her team. We searched everyone but Mongoose and Snow, and then Mongoose went and led the charge against us. We just tried to lynch people we knew weren't Lloyd hence the hasty argument to lynch Kate. Also, the calling out of time at the last 10 minutes I totally didn't get until after the lynch, but figured out what Kate was saying.

You had two insanity points at the end and would have joined Lloyd's team the next day, causing Mongoose and MP (and yourself) to win. The fact that Mongoose got you lynched was most unfortunate for all involved.

thellama73 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote: but for now, please [...] be Gene Shalit.

That is no less annoying now that the game's over.

By the way, I will make winners' badges tomorrow. Today I am tired.

Okay I'll stop now.

Seriously, I think it's hilarious that MP led the charge to get me lynched (and much less so that I tried to get him lynched). You must have been laughing your tail off from behind the scenes, Logan!

Since I didn't get to participate much, what was the purpose of the insanity points? How did that work out?

thellama73 wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:Vomps and I had to get Stephen King to NK the Overlook to "burn it down," once he was dead we were able to search for Lloyd and join her team. We searched everyone but Mongoose and Snow, and then Mongoose went and led the charge against us. We just tried to lynch people we knew weren't Lloyd hence the hasty argument to lynch Kate. Also, the calling out of time at the last 10 minutes I totally didn't get until after the lynch, but figured out what Kate was saying.

You had two insanity points at the end and would have joined Lloyd's team the next day, causing Mongoose and MP (and yourself) to win. The fact that Mongoose got you lynched was most unfortunate for all involved.

This is my best insane laugh.

Thanks for the awesome game Llama!

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote: but for now, please [...] be Gene Shalit.

That is no less annoying now that the game's over.

By the way, I will make winners' badges tomorrow. Today I am tired.

Okay I'll stop now.

Seriously, I think it's hilarious that MP led the charge to get me lynched (and much less so that I tried to get him lynched). You must have been laughing your tail off from behind the scenes, Logan!

Since I didn't get to participate much, what was the purpose of the insanity points? How did that work out?

Yes, it was very amusing, but I got pretty nervous when the only two people capable of killing were gone on the first two days.

The insanity points were how people joined Lloyd's team, and also one of the ways in which The Overlook could win. Of course, so few night kills made it hard for both of them.

Excellent work, llama lo!

Bullzeye wrote:Also I knew SVS' role for about half the game. On night 1 I got sanity check info regarding MP, then on night 2 I asked for a secret about SVS and was told she targeted MP the previous night. Wasn't hard to put 2 and 2 together after that.

I was also kinda hinting that I sent you the info~

Fun and unusual game Llama, I love the winning mechanics, really creative

Llama, this was truly an excellent outing for your first game! I was glad to be a part of it.

thellama73 wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:Vomps and I had to get Stephen King to NK the Overlook to "burn it down," once he was dead we were able to search for Lloyd and join her team. We searched everyone but Mongoose and Snow, and then Mongoose went and led the charge against us. We just tried to lynch people we knew weren't Lloyd hence the hasty argument to lynch Kate. Also, the calling out of time at the last 10 minutes I totally didn't get until after the lynch, but figured out what Kate was saying.

You had two insanity points at the end and would have joined Lloyd's team the next day, causing Mongoose and MP (and yourself) to win. The fact that Mongoose got you lynched was most unfortunate for all involved.

This is a bummer! I was rooting for Mongoose from beyond the grave!

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote: but for now, please [...] be Gene Shalit.

That is no less annoying now that the game's over.

By the way, I will make winners' badges tomorrow. Today I am tired.

Okay I'll stop now.

Seriously, I think it's hilarious that MP led the charge to get me lynched (and much less so that I tried to get him lynched). You must have been laughing your tail off from behind the scenes, Logan!

Since I didn't get to participate much, what was the purpose of the insanity points? How did that work out?

This was a huge bummer. We just had to go after each other, didn't we?

When I saw which role you flipped, I was like SHIT.

thellama73 wrote: By the way, I will make winners' badges tomorrow. Today I am tired.

Just kidding. Here you go:

Also, a couple of other things.

The night polls, starting on night two, had an insanity level assigned to each answer. If your vote matched your insanity level, you got -1 lynch votes the next day. This never had an impact because no one was ever lynched by a single vote or a tie after day 2.

On the first night poll, anyone who said they had no coat would have received extra lynch votes from the cold if the Overlook ever burned down. Again, it didn't come into play.

Finally, the easter egg was that if someone ever cast the second, third and seventh votes (room 237) in consecutive polls, they would have received a rez they could use on anyone. No one even got close, though.

thellama73 wrote:
Finally, the easter egg was that if someone ever cast the second, third and seventh votes (room 237) in consecutive polls, they would have received a rez they could use on anyone. No one even got close, though.

That is genius.

Well I said I'd explain my logic for wanting to be lynched. Though it's probably fairly obvious now.

I had no way to figure out who my people were, so my votes wouldn't help them.
The night kills were gone, so my protection wouldn't help them (as far as I knew).
The main danger to them was from our randomly lynching them.

So I made sure I was one of the three remaining lunches, dramatically improving the odds that neither of them aw lynched.
I did the math and forgot it since, but it almost doubled my odds of victory to eat a lynch myself, assuming essentially random lynches.

I would have waited and done it later, but I wasn't sure I could convince people to lynch me in one round.

Great game llama! I was pretty sure I couldn't win after king died so early but I gave it the old college try!

Kate wrote:Great game llama! I was pretty sure I couldn't win after king died so early but I gave it the old college try!

So what exactly could you do every day?

Mongoose wrote:

Kate wrote:Great game llama! I was pretty sure I couldn't win after king died so early but I gave it the old college try!

So what exactly could you do every day?

Yeah, Kate. That was bad luck for you. Sorry.

Mongoose, Kate was the other one insanifying people. If you two had ended up on the same team, you could have been really efficient at it.

thellama73 wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Kate wrote:Great game llama! I was pretty sure I couldn't win after king died so early but I gave it the old college try!

So what exactly could you do every day?

Yeah, Kate. That was bad luck for you. Sorry.

Mongoose, Kate was the other one insanifying people. If you two had ended up on the same team, you could have been really efficient at it.

Well poop on a stick. I had just as much fun not winning though!

Stephen King was interviewed on NPR this morning about his sequel to the shining, Doctor Sleep. Danny as a grown-up recovering Alcoholic.

"In a way, being scared is like sex. There's nothing like your first time. "

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/24/223105565 ... first-time

Hedgeowl wrote:Stephen King was interviewed on NPR this morning about his sequel to the shining, Doctor Sleep. Danny as a grown-up recovering Alcoholic.

"In a way, being scared is like sex. There's nothing like your first time. "

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/24/223105565 ... first-time

I got it today! Has anyone read it yet? If so, let's resurrect our book club thread!