The Syndicate

JaggedJimmyJay

Players

Russtifinko - Klungo - mafia roleblocker - Survived

Dead

MacDougall - Gobi - vanilla civilian - Lynched on Day 1
Epignosis - Tiptup - vanilla civilian - Killed on Night 1
sig - Captain Blubber - vanilla civilian - Lynched on Day 2
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME - Bottles - civilian vanilla cop - Killed on Night 2
nutella - Gruntilda - mafia watcher - Killed on Night 2
TonyStarkPrime / Jackofhearts2005 - Boggy - vanilla civilian - Lynched on Day 3
M Plus 7 - Brentilda - civilian jailkeeper - Host Killed on Night 3
G-Man - Mr. Vile - civilian tracker - Killed on Night 3
speedchuck - Nipper - vanilla mafioso - Lynched on Day 4
Dragon D. Luffy - Banjo - civilian 1-shot vigilante - Killed on Night 4
Turnip Head - Leaky - civilian 2-shot psychic - Lynched on Day 5
Sloonei - Mumbo Jumbo - civilian inventor - Killed at end game
dunya - Gnawty - civilian doublevoter - Killed at end game

This game features only two factions: civilians and mafia.

Night phases are open. Mafia BTSC is constant.


Polls

Day 1


Day 2


Day 3


Day 4


Day 5

GENERAL RULES/NOTES

~ Role claiming and infodumping are legal.

~ All members of the winning faction will be declared winners, dead or alive.

1. The most important rule is to always remember that we are playing a game together on an Internet forum. Be kind and considerate as you are also being competitive, and be mindful of how your words might be received by others beyond the scope of a Mafia game.

2. Do not engage in behind the scenes chat (BTSC) with other player(s) unless your role gives you the explicit right to do so.

3. You may not edit or delete any posts in the game thread.

4. You may target yourself with night actions unless otherwise stated.

5. You may target the same player on consecutive nights unless otherwise stated.

6. [mention]juliets[/mention] is your Facilitator for this game. She's the best. If you're getting irritated, frustrated, or pissed off, then I encourage you to send her a private message. She'll talk through it with you. She'll keep an eye on the game as play proceeds as well.

7. If you're dead, then please do not post anything remotely on-topic in the game thread. If you want to make an off-hand and off-topic comment, use this dead-read color. Please do not abuse this privilege by posting frequently. You're dead.

8. The same goes for non-players, who should use this non-player-blue color. Keep it off-topic.

9. Votes can be changed at will.

10. Day phases will last approximately 48 hours and night phases will last approximately 24 hours. I will adhere to this as strictly as possible, but if life forces me to make adjustments then I will do so.

11. All roles will be revealed to the degree I deem appropriate when players are either lynched or killed.

12. I will use this font. You can use it too if you want. Just don't impersonate the host.

POST COUNT LIMITATION

As of the start of the game, all players may make no more than 25 posts during an active phase. This number may increase on an individual basis upon the acquisition of the much coveted Jiggies (an increase of 5 posts per phase per Jiggy). This limitation will not be lifted just prior to the end of a day phase. The purpose of this limitation is to allow everyone to keep up, and hurricanes at the ends get in the way of that. Adapt if you must.





What's a Jiggy?

“Hey...It's me, Mr. Jiggy! Now go and find a picture with a piece missing.”

Per the above quote, it would appear Jiggies are male. That is not relevant to this game, but now you know.

You may earn Jiggies throughout the game by at least two means:

1.) Wordplay

2.) Unique objectives within your role cards

Wordplay

Give me at least five 4-line rhymes in the style of Gruntilda (example below) in one day phase, and I will grant you a Jiggy. Easy as that. You can either notify me privately once you have five, or you can just number them publicly (if you want to do that, you don't have to).

Many tricks are up my sleeve,
to save yourself you'd better leave! --> 2 lines; I want 4 lines

You are not required to pursue Jiggies if you don't want to. The only prize is expanded post count allowance. All such bonuses are applied to phases after they are earned. Bonuses are permanent, and they stack.

I will make a public post at the start of each phase that indicates the maximum number of posts each living player can finish that day with. This means Jiggy earnings will be effectively public.

Sample vanilla role card:

You are Snacker.



You have no special abilities.

[insert Jiggy objective here]

You are aligned with the civilians and win the game when all mafia members are eliminated.

Role and character assignments:

Characters and alignment are related. The mafia have been given safe character claims drawn at random from a larger pool of possible civilian characters. Characters and roles are loosely related.

[mention]Dragon D. Luffy[/mention]
[mention]dunya[/mention]
[mention]Epignosis[/mention]
[mention]G-Man[/mention]
[mention]M Plus 7[/mention]
[mention]MacDougall[/mention]
[mention]NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME[/mention]
[mention]nutella[/mention]
[mention]Russtifinko[/mention]
[mention]sig[/mention]
[mention]Sloonei[/mention]
[mention]speedchuck[/mention]
[mention]TonyStarkPrime[/mention]
[mention]Turnip Head[/mention]



Day 0 begins now and will last 24 hours. Each player may post a maximum of 25 times during Day 0. All Jiggy pursuits, night actions, and voting will not take place until Day 1 and onward. You may begin posting.

If you have questions about anything at all, please send them to me privately. Thanks.

Also note that the rhyme scheme for any 4-line zinger can be AAAA, AABB, or ABAB.

My name is Clem and I'm here stay,
Though I'll have to repost in a bit,
I can't wait to say,
Let's get jiggy with it.

Guess I'm here to make some rhymes
Not much else to do in these times.
Hope to see y'all on day zero
But I'll be the day one hero.

I'm not good at rhyming stuff
Soon you'll all have had enough
I do not think that these four lines require a coherent meter
So you'll find I'm quite the cheater!

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

Wait, I plagiarized that. Anyone know from whom? My point is, I don't want to get lonesome and cry because no one is talking to the mod (me) so please reach out and vent, yell at me, or yell about Jay. I'm here to listen and help you even if you too are just lonely. Good luck everybody, this looks like a fun game.

Rhyming in English? I'm not sure if I even know how to rhyme in Portuguese!

Als, here is a great song from this game:

Pleased to meet you with a smile.
You can call me Mr. Vile.
I’m a civvie crocodile.
I’ll return here in a while.

We must examine all furrensic evidence
To determine if this is a strange coincidence
That jaggedjimmyjay has all the jiggies
And is the big bad wolf to all our little piggies

gnawty's got no fear
so baddies better run and hide
now everybody listen here
i'm ready to kick some fresh behind

Hey all, just checking in for now. Preoccupied with other items for the duration. Looking forward to playing this despite this post count limitation putting me in shackles.

M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:46 pm Hey all, just checking in for now. Preoccupied with other items for the duration. Looking forward to playing this despite this post count limitation putting me in shackles.

Though you have no time
And apparently no rhythm
Say it in rhyme
Or we’ll have to kill ‘em

Hello again to one and all!
I don't care 'bout jiggy-stacking
25 posts is enough to ball.
The game is on; now let's get cracking!

Linki: Boooooo MP breaking the rhyming streak! Poor form.

M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:46 pm Hey all, just checking in for now. Preoccupied with other items for the duration. Looking forward to playing this despite this post count limitation putting me in shackles.

Refusing to rhyme is kinda scummy
Also anyone who over rhymes/someone in first 3 is def mafia trying to be blendy.

Also fuck rhyming the whole reason i signed up for this game is since I don't wanna post why should I rhyme and be forced to post more.

You can rhyme
Or you can pout
But when it comes time
We’ll tell you get the fuck out

Super excited to play with some of the oldies again!
Currently drinking wine and cleaning so not 100% here ergo ignore about half of the grammar and spelling mistakes the other half I'd make even not tipsy.


Also let's not lynch sig day one in this game okay gang? Okay


Also also I'm packing/moving for job, finishing out school and dealing with army junk so activity may be weird for a bit.

At risk of sounding overly simplistic, role claiming and infodumping are allowed, and "the mafia have been given safe character claims drawn at random from a larger pool of possible civilian characters." So come Day 1, should we all just say our roles, then vote to lynch from among the roles that people double-claim?

Also, hard aree with sig on this: "Also fuck rhyming the whole reason i signed up for this game is since I don't wanna post why should I rhyme and be forced to post more."

Wow, I just noticed posts are numbered now. This is a whole new world, gang.

You’re misinterpreting how that will work
But points for the try
And not to be a jerk
But frankly anyone that doesn’t rhyme can fry

Rhymes are cool
But puns are better
It takes a man
To make her wetter

I feel kinda too lazy to try very hard with the verse
I'll probably give up cause it'll start making my posts worse
I don't follow what Russti said about role claims
I don't think the same role would go to two names.


Also posts have always been numbered....? What

I'll try not to lynch you this time sig
I feel bad about last time, regret is big
And I get that you signed up to post less,
so adding the rhymes in is unwanted stress.

You could always just post your thoughts as normal, k
And then add a little rhyme at the end yay
That's how you get around the rules, bae
Soufflé

Mmm my thoughts now include soufflé
I keep craving different foods today
If only it weren't such a damn chore
To make an excursion to the store

I actually don't care about the post count cap
Cuz most of what y'all say is crap
But any chance I get to rhyme
Is a chance to have a real good time

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:18 pm Rhymes are cool
But puns are better
It takes a man
To make her wetter

Holy smokes that's a big yikes
But I gotta say I really likes
I've been depressed cuz or the Rona
But now I have the weirdest boner

Lol Sig is mafia how fucking funny
To call MP "kinda scummy"
Is the sort of move Sig always makes
His scum game is just full of mistakes

Mmm I’m not rhyming

Russtifinko wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:08 pm At risk of sounding overly simplistic, role claiming and infodumping are allowed, and "the mafia have been given safe character claims drawn at random from a larger pool of possible civilian characters." So come Day 1, should we all just say our roles, then vote to lynch from among the roles that people double-claim?

Also, hard aree with sig on this: "Also fuck rhyming the whole reason i signed up for this game is since I don't wanna post why should I rhyme and be forced to post more."

no false

Looking at tits tits tits
Gives me fits fits fits
Taking shits shits shits
Rubik's Cube.

Mmm my posts are short
And my judgment is poor
I’ll rhyme my retorts
To try to get more

linki: ...

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:33 pm Mmm my thoughts now include soufflé
I keep craving different foods today
If only it weren't such a damn chore
To make an excursion to the store

I'm a fatass
I would eat botoxed grass
As long as I made it myself
Even though I hate shopping

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:00 pm

Day 0 begins now and will last 24 hours. Each player may post a maximum of 25 times during Day 0. All Jiggy pursuits, night actions, and voting will not take place until Day 1 and onward. You may begin posting.

y'all wasting moments with each rhyme. all that effort in vain for no benefit.

...lol whatever it was fun

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:35 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:00 pm

Day 0 begins now and will last 24 hours. Each player may post a maximum of 25 times during Day 0. All Jiggy pursuits, night actions, and voting will not take place until Day 1 and onward. You may begin posting.

y'all wasting moments with each rhyme. all that effort in vain for no benefit.

the rhymes, this man says, are meaningless
all that effort for your seeming loss
but soon he will see
from our clear jubilee

that fun is more important than any sort of quest for jiggy's

On a totally different note, we might help ourselves by numbering each post. It’d be nice to have a roadmap against bumping into the post cap.

If you don’t rhyme
You’ll quick find
You’re out of time
We’ll peel you to the rind

No it isn’t needed
And there’s no reward
But the idea has been deeply seeded
And some of us are bored

So quit your bitching
Cause rhyming is a hoot
No more belly itching
Or we’ll give you the boot!

day 0 post #2

it's all fun and games
for people who can rhyme
but totally lames
if you don't have the time

(or talent)

day 0 post #3

i've got lower back pains
and i haven't slept in days
but let's take a crack at this game
before we turn lame

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:46 pm Lol Sig is mafia how fucking funny
To call MP "kinda scummy"
Is the sort of move Sig always makes
His scum game is just full of mistakes

False,
Mafia
2 down

What rhymes with mafia?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:05 pm What rhymes with mafia?

Offin' ya?

Sloth in the...

Bothan, bruh

trough say wha?

Russtifinko wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:35 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:05 pm What rhymes with mafia?

Offin' ya?

Sloth in the...

Bothan, bruh

trough say wha?

These are good, I’m gonna copy ya.

4. I'll get my few general thoughts out before the Day 1 clock starts:

I have never played a game of this format before, but I did host the one previous attempt at a Light Game on this site. The post cap was higher, but the game ended up being much slower than intended. I think that was more an issue of timing than anything than anything else, but hardly anyone ever came close to hitting their daily post limit in that game. Mafia won easily. Some people said that with no built-in system to keep track of their posts, they felt their safest bet was to just stay quiet. That's why I propose we all keep track of our daily post counts ourselves for the time being.

Pacing and timing will be important too, I guess. There's no lifting of the cap late in the phase, so if any of us are inclined to save some bullets for the deadline in case anything crucial needs to be said at lynchtime, we should be cautious about that. Unless you have jiggy powers, maybe limit yourself to 20 posts for the first 46 hours or so, I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.

I also guess we'll finally see how I adapt when I can't ask why a thousand times a day.

If we've got any other strategic suggestions, put them out there. This is a new format with new challenges, but it doesn't need to be a gigantic disadvantage.

6 That was 5. I'm already terrible at this.