The Syndicate

Hello, and welcome to Assassin's Creed Mafia!

A reminder of the rules:

Role and character claiming ARE allowed. A character's alignment in the video game(s) is not tied to their alignment in this game (i.e., Ezio can be mafia, Shay can be town, etc.), and alignments are randed after character assignment. There will be a hammer in effect this game--meaning that if a majority is reached before the deadline, the day ends early. If a majority is reached and I'm not around to end the day right away, screenshot the poll and send it to me. Discussion post-hammer is allowed until I end the day. The thread will not be open during the night. Only talk to other players about the game privately or during the night if I have explicitly allowed it. Days will be approximately 72 hours. There will be no replacements or subs, players that have to drop or flake out will be modkilled or otherwise dealt with at the GMs discretion.

There will only be two factions in this game, Righteous Warriors and Heathenous Spies. There are no conversion mechanics in this game. The GM will not lie but he may not always answer your question.

Host ISO: Nanook

Roster:

Dragomir
Epignosis
Funnygurl555
JaggedJimmyJay
leetic
Long Con
MacDougall
Master Radishes
nutella
Sloonei
speedchuck
tedxtr
ts account
TonyStarkPrime
Turnip Head

Your mod for this game is Juliets, you know the drill there.

In addition to normal Syndicate guidelines, I also enforce this rule:

I disallow excessive AtE (appeals to emotion).

I define excessive AtE to be statements that directly say or imply that something in the game is having a negative impact on someone’s out of game relationships or well-being.

If you feel like mafia is having a negative impact on your out of game well-being, please contact myself or a staff member.

Polls:

All Role PMs have been sent! It is now D1, which will end at a majority vote or by April 2, 7pm EDT. There are 13 of you lot running around, so it takes 7 for a hammer. Remember to screenshot the poll if you see the hammer before me!

Good luck, have fun, kill each other silly!

[mention]Dragomir[/mention]
[mention]Epignosis[/mention]
[mention]Funnygurl555[/mention]
[mention]leetic[/mention]
[mention]Long Con[/mention]
[mention]MacDougall[/mention]
[mention]Master Radishes[/mention]
[mention]Sloonei[/mention]
[mention]speedchuck[/mention]
[mention]tedxtr[/mention]
[mention]TonyStarkPrime[/mention]
[mention]ts account[/mention]
[mention]Turnip Head[/mention]

Bet, can finally play a game without being seriously behind.

Last time I was this early, the game was still called 'Hashashin's Creed'.

Wait, 13? I thought we had 15.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:31 pm Wait, 13? I thought we had 15.

JJJ and nutella are missing. I sent a PM to the host.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:32 pm

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:31 pm Wait, 13? I thought we had 15.

JJJ and nutella are missing. I sent a PM to the host.

Oh, okay. I was worried for a second we'd lost someone important.

I didn't pocket nutella that hard last game so my moral duty is to do that this game.

Afraid of baby yoda you must not be! Cute I am. Surprise for Nutella I must give!

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:47 pm

Back the fuck up six feet. Thank you.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:32 pm

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:31 pm Wait, 13? I thought we had 15.

JJJ and nutella are missing. I sent a PM to the host.

were they pre-modkilled?

I feel the need, the need for Creed

C'mon guys, I'm here, why are y'all not doing anything

leetic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:51 pm C'mon guys, I'm here, why are y'all not doing anything

Because you're here. We don't want you to see us doing anything

i'm genuinely unsure what's going on. We have two players who signed up for this game that aren't listed on the roster or the poll.

Leeeeeetic, rockin' in here like that like that gets ma blood buzzin' gets ma heart thumpin'

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:28 pm i'm genuinely unsure what's going on. We have two players who signed up for this game that aren't listed on the roster or the poll.

could there be a thematic reason for this? @ anyone who's familiar with the games? We waited a few extra days to get to exactly 15 players. I don't think it's likely that nanook would simply forget to include two people.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:30 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:28 pm i'm genuinely unsure what's going on. We have two players who signed up for this game that aren't listed on the roster or the poll.

could there be a thematic reason for this? @ anyone who's familiar with the games? We waited a few extra days to get to exactly 15 players. I don't think it's likely that nanook would simply forget to include two people.

Don't look at me, I played the first five hours of ACII before deciding that the series kinda sucked.

I bought Assassin's Creed for my switch and got bored after an hour I really wanted to like it too but there was too much talking for a game about silent killers

Also I had to get in my pirate ship every five minutes and go somewhere new

Hey guys

Usually much more has happened by now. This feels weird.

Right now, [VOTE: Sloonei] aubergine. He is usually one of the more active people who tries to get stuff going, but right now his only contributions have been setup speculation. I'm not really seeing him trying to get any meaningful discussion going so I have to be suspicious.

I'm thinking there's a real world facility or something like the game, jjj and nut are currently outside of their assassin avatars

leetic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:22 pm Usually much more has happened by now. This feels weird.

Right now, [VOTE: Sloonei] aubergine. He is usually one of the more active people who tries to get stuff going, but right now his only contributions have been setup speculation. I'm not really seeing him trying to get any meaningful discussion going so I have to be suspicious.

I would also say the same about JaggedJimmyJay, but he's Schrödinger's player right now. I'll join you on the Sloonei vote, he has three posts and they're all about an issue that's above his pay grade as a player. In A World Asunder, town Sloonei opened Day 1 with two town reads and a vote on a suspect. [VOTE: sloonei] aubergine

I also voted for long con.

Vote leetic

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:27 pm I also voted for long con.

Why did you do that?

leetic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:22 pm Usually much more has happened by now. This feels weird.

Right now, [VOTE: Sloonei] aubergine. He is usually one of the more active people who tries to get stuff going, but right now his only contributions have been setup speculation. I'm not really seeing him trying to get any meaningful discussion going so I have to be suspicious.

Nope. Initially I was confused and a little concerned that nanook had somehow screwed up. I double checked the signup thread and reread everything in here to see if there was something that I was missing. I was genuinely confused about the two missing players and considered that it was a host error and the game was going to need to be restarted. But then I resolved that was unlikely.

Other than that, I’ve been doing school junk today and not thinking about the mafia game that just started.

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:45 pm

leetic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:22 pm Usually much more has happened by now. This feels weird.

Right now, [VOTE: Sloonei] aubergine. He is usually one of the more active people who tries to get stuff going, but right now his only contributions have been setup speculation. I'm not really seeing him trying to get any meaningful discussion going so I have to be suspicious.

I would also say the same about JaggedJimmyJay, but he's Schrödinger's player right now. I'll join you on the Sloonei vote, he has three posts and they're all about an issue that's above his pay grade as a player. In A World Asunder, town Sloonei opened Day 1 with two town reads and a vote on a suspect. [VOTE: sloonei] aubergine

This is perhaps worse than the Leetic but it’s heart is in the right place

Dragomir wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:30 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:27 pm I also voted for long con.

Why did you do that?

His vote is silly.

I don’t object to leetic voting for me.

I have a soft mindmeld with leetic re: sloonei. However, I'm more suspicious of it because I do not think speculation of sloonei's nature is pro-town in any way. Since it is early enough in the game, this read is more of a town read on leetic than a condemnation of sloonei. I also want to point out TonyStarkPrime's callout of LongCon (and sloonei's somewhat, but Tony was not involved before this) which I think is not justified.

I can't make any more judgements until RVS is over, which is hopefully soon.

PS The submit and preview buttons are backwards.

To be clear: my entry posts were not intended as “mechanical speculation”, or at least that was not my primary mindset in making them. I was genuinely concerned that the host had made a mistake.

ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:38 pm I have a soft mindmeld with leetic re: sloonei. However, I'm more suspicious of it because I do not think speculation of sloonei's nature is pro-town in any way. Since it is early enough in the game, this read is more of a town read on leetic than a condemnation of sloonei. I also want to point out TonyStarkPrime's callout of LongCon (and sloonei's somewhat, but Tony was not involved before this) which I think is not justified.

I can't make any more judgements until RVS is over, which is hopefully soon.

PS The submit and preview buttons are backwards.

I don’t understand most of this post.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:40 pm To be clear: my entry posts were not intended as “mechanical speculation”, or at least that was not my primary mindset in making them. I was genuinely concerned that the host had made a mistake.

It's a problem, because you were framing it as a potential game mechanic, when I do not think discussion of that avenue is fruitful for town.

ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:45 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:40 pm To be clear: my entry posts were not intended as “mechanical speculation”, or at least that was not my primary mindset in making them. I was genuinely concerned that the host had made a mistake.

It's a problem, because you were framing it as a potential game mechanic, when I do not think discussion of that avenue is fruitful for town.

Why not?

I have no real investment in the topic as it is being framed. Again, I was trying to figure out whether or not the host messed up and the game would need to be restarted as a result of this.

But now this discussion exists, and you’ve said these things about it. So please explain what you mean.

If you say this was not your intent, then what exactly did you mean by this? I can't interpret it as anything else.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:30 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:28 pm i'm genuinely unsure what's going on. We have two players who signed up for this game that aren't listed on the roster or the poll.

could there be a thematic reason for this? @ anyone who's familiar with the games? We waited a few extra days to get to exactly 15 players. I don't think it's likely that nanook would simply forget to include two people.

ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:53 pm If you say this was not your intent, then what exactly did you mean by this? I can't interpret it as anything else.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:30 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:28 pm i'm genuinely unsure what's going on. We have two players who signed up for this game that aren't listed on the roster or the poll.

could there be a thematic reason for this? @ anyone who's familiar with the games? We waited a few extra days to get to exactly 15 players. I don't think it's likely that nanook would simply forget to include two people.

The intention of the posts themselves was not to speculate about mechanics. That particular post was me realizing that it was probably not a host error, and a search for answers among the folks who knew the theme better than I do. I don’t actually give a shit what the speculative mechanics might be. I just care that the possibility for mechanics exists.

Now explain why my mindset is not indicative of an honest civilian.

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:30 pm Vote leetic

leetic is my town bro because we're in a band together

it's called LEETIC AND THE BAND

/never forget

haha jk we're not town bros 'cause i'm a wolf

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:55 pm
The intention of the posts themselves was not to speculate about mechanics. That particular post was me realizing that it was probably not a host error, and a search for answers among the folks who knew the theme better than I do. I don’t actually give a shit what the speculative mechanics might be. I just care that the possibility for mechanics exists.

Now explain why my mindset is not indicative of an honest civilian.

Suppose you were given the information that a mechanic exists that removes the two players from the player list, they cannot be voted on or targeted with actions, and they cannot post.
Where do you go from there?

Funnygurl, please tell me you are not a wolf.

ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:38 pm I have a soft mindmeld with leetic re: sloonei. However, I'm more suspicious of it because I do not think speculation of sloonei's nature is pro-town in any way. Since it is early enough in the game, this read is more of a town read on leetic than a condemnation of sloonei. I also want to point out TonyStarkPrime's callout of LongCon (and sloonei's somewhat, but Tony was not involved before this) which I think is not justified.

I can't make any more judgements until RVS is over, which is hopefully soon.

PS The submit and preview buttons are backwards.

ts account is my wolfbro because never trust him you put him in your town pile and he breaks your heart

/never forget

Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:57 pm

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:30 pm Vote leetic

leetic is my town bro because we're in a band together

it's called LEETIC AND THE BAND

/never forget

haha jk we're not town bros 'cause i'm a wolf

Gimme a read on ts account.

ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:58 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:55 pm
The intention of the posts themselves was not to speculate about mechanics. That particular post was me realizing that it was probably not a host error, and a search for answers among the folks who knew the theme better than I do. I don’t actually give a shit what the speculative mechanics might be. I just care that the possibility for mechanics exists.

Now explain why my mindset is not indicative of an honest civilian.

Suppose you were given the information that a mechanic exists that removes the two players from the player list, they cannot be voted on or targeted with actions, and they cannot post.
Where do you go from there?

Funnygurl, please tell me you are not a wolf.

I go nowhere. That answers my question and I’m satisfied.

ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:58 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:55 pm
The intention of the posts themselves was not to speculate about mechanics. That particular post was me realizing that it was probably not a host error, and a search for answers among the folks who knew the theme better than I do. I don’t actually give a shit what the speculative mechanics might be. I just care that the possibility for mechanics exists.

Now explain why my mindset is not indicative of an honest civilian.

Suppose you were given the information that a mechanic exists that removes the two players from the player list, they cannot be voted on or targeted with actions, and they cannot post.
Where do you go from there?

Funnygurl, please tell me you are not a wolf.

awoo nwn im a wolf awoo OuO