The Syndicate

tedxtr wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:55 pm

Bereft wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:54 pm I straight up thought ted was pushing villas for no reason and just not being towny

huh? what villas dood

i defended robyn yesterday, and pushed rondo / dizzy. didn't you think it could be dizzy at some point?

I literally never thought it could be dizzy. Who tf did you get that from?

tedxtr wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:53 pm who's played with rondo? can anyone confirm that he shows signs of hunting people that wolf read him?

I've played with rondo a little bit but not enough to give a definitive answer to this question.

But on this point, I still think 1475 answers more questions than rondo pushers give it credit for. I don't exactly understand your hangup, since I couldn't ever remember rondo just slotting gira or leetic as town at any point.

I would agree with a pyxxy push. Its too important at this stage to leave things open.

I have pyxxy/leetic as the same alignment rn.

I'm not making the effort to go backtranslate my posts, someone else can do it if they really want to, I don't $%#!ing know why I'm still in the thread rn.

I straight up thought ted was pushing villas for no reason and just not being towny. I dont know which this falls under, but it frankly doesn't matter since I highly doubt anyone is going to have the guts to seriously push me for a while besides ranmilia. My slot has escaped pressure the entire game contrary to what ran says, and yeah I know exactly why this is the case, its cuz I'm just vaguely towny like that, but its also ridiculously frustrating to have no plausible wolves push you at the same time as well.


But yeah maybe it was ranmilia all along. I still liked their townreading of robyn early on though.

And to be blunt I want leetic dead, but they've been acting as if they would literally believe any zany theory about whats going on setup-wise, that I've not touched the slot.

I still think TSP had an informed reaction based on 702 and 715 or whatever the numbers were.

I'm staying on TSP BTW.

I don't know why ted thinks the slot is town, but the alternatives FMPOV are rondo, and then worse, like leetic, ranmilia.

leetic wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:33 pm

Bereft wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:33 pm If you're asking why I'm giving up gimmick posting now, its because yeah no, this is worse than Schitt's creek right now.
I can survive alot, but I don't whatever tf this is rn, where we're apparently going to chop two town in a row with mostly town wagons just cuz they decided to AFK half-on-purpose.

What makes you think Dyslexicon is town?

Because I've played with Dizzy before, enough times to know that when they say they are obvtown, sure its not as obvious as they make it out to be, but they are in fact telling the truth for the correct reasons.

I've learned my lesson about Dizzy paranoia. It has never gone well, and will not go well here, especially because if you look at Dizzy's actual posts in this game, literally none of it is wolfy.
wtf are we doing rn.

If you're asking why I'm giving up gimmick posting now, its because yeah no, this is worse than Schitt's creek right now.
I can survive alot, but I don't whatever tf this is rn, where we're apparently going to chop two town in a row with mostly town wagons just cuz they decided to AFK half-on-purpose.

tedxtr wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:26 pm to me it feels like gira is right on the things that are right and he has a great position, but none of his wolf reads are villagery

this is a bit hypocritical, cuz i am expecting him to solve a game that i can't solve, or that others in here who i expect to can, but he just seems to be right on some reads that others are questioning and positions himself in a spot a wolf would wanna be in imo

Yeah.

But then I townread Gira for being frustrated that Mac isn't here even though I don't actually know why Mac townread Gira.
But yes this is why Gira is still POE'ed for me.

I'm kinda just done right now. ~ Bereft/Schweppes/not Schweppes

I have my energies absorbed by the family gathering, nothing seems to be occurring back at home, frankly I'm not being of much use anywhere in either place, so I'm going to stop making it complicated on the homefront.

I mentally take the tabasco bottle and place it over the bin. I expect myself to drop it but I don't. Why am I not dropping it?
I note that is the brick, cigarette, sword, and the disco ball that have pitchforks out for the kewpie doll.

It's over isn't it?

~ Bereft

I'm never betraying the kewpie doll, even if it means I bin the tabasco bottle. ~ Bereft

Can the masonry v neighborhood thing get clarified ASAP? I don't $%#!ing know what's going on in this game anymore and I still don't think its the bottle of tabasco. And no I actually cannot talk about what's prompted this. ~ not Schweppes

It does not sit well with me that the toy sword dropped attacking the ducky for the kewpie doll. ~ Bereft

Is it a masonry, or is it a neighborhood? Its also just $%#!ing impossible to defend anyone when they're AFK. Its still not the kewpie doll and I don't really give a $%#! over the fact that this is the one thing I'm not or more precisely can't really elaborate much on besides what I've already said. ~ not Schweppes

[VOTE: TonyStarkPrime] aubergine

Have to be at a family event. Don't want to go, but I have to. ~ Bereft

I don't think the orange juice carton, tabasco, or the kewpie doll, are wolf at all, like at all, at all, right now, and would still townread the toy sword.
I think the metal plate's behavior today is bizarre. I also think the interactions between the disco ball, the stuffed toy, the ducky, and the metal plate, imply half the group is unpartnered with the other half at a glance with no specific details.
Hence a predicament.

~ not Schweppes

With some exceptions, all of y'all keep looking like wolves with what are FMPOV blatantly anti-town pushes. ~ not Schweppes

I try to find where I put my thumbtacks. Maybe they ran out. I eventually give up on that idea and look for a pin, which I do find. And then I prepare to ... I decide against it. Completely not worth, not to mention, unsanitary. I go towards the refrigerator and take out the can of tomato juice. Surely Beezelbub can't tell the difference.

Then I spread it on the wooden table in the problem pentacle shape, bring out the candles, smudge a seal in the middle, and then I stop. I don't actually remember what the last step was, aren't there supposed to be unearthly screams of some sort? An unbidden electrical fire perhaps?

There's only really one thing I can think to write in the middle at this point, which I do:--

~ Bereft

I have an idea. What if I perform a Satanic ritual with these objects. I'm sure that'll help. I start moving things around anyway, since I need something else to do. ~ Bereft

At this point I just need affirmation that I'm not completely losing it. That what Im doing matters. Would help if they taught sentences, maybe even paragraphs, just teach the logic contained, and then engage. ~ Bereft

Wait no this is news to me. I did not know you knew Porscha was your innie.

I find it weird though, since this effectively gives us extra clears. Unclear. ~ Schweppes

The brick pretends its helpful by teaching words, but then it refuses to teach sentences, and then it proceeds to lecture about how the rest are "oh so unhelpful", and I'm frankly at the point of pitching out the window even though its still just a normal brick. ~ Bereft

The carton of orange juice is indeed essential to a healthy diet.

It helps me, and I suppose I help it, by like, giving it a chance to help someone? Well its def symbiotic. ~ Bereft

Sippppppppppp ~ Schweppes

As if the objects near me weren't enough, there was also the matter of the comfort object that had stopped pretending to be a comfort object.

[VOTE: gira] aubergine

Oh look another bizarre number out of absolutely nowhere, fabulous, my evening is going just great, 1475. ~ Bereft

~ Bereft

I'm not sure who's worse atp: the brick, the disco ball, or the metal plate.

The compass was my compass. I interpret the compass. Mere objects don"t have any right telling me jack$%#! about what happened with my compass. It's all wrong. I paid attention to compass's words. Not the lot of y'all, so kindly stop selling me $%#!ty wares.

The disco ball rolls over a little bit, showing a slightly different side. Smudged, but I don't hate it as much. Still though, I want it to do more. Its not the kewpie doll. ~ Bereft

When I get back home, I realize I'm still going insane.

The brick proposes to trash the tabasco bottle, the doll, the metal plate and myself, for what I can only assume are crazy reasons, only to have the metal plate propose that its out of plave, to which all I can think is, mhm yup its out of place, the other two objects look fine to me while the metal plate doesn't.
Feels like a cheap thought however. I clearly should take a walk and refresh my head.

~ Bereft

leetic wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:01 pm Questions for @Porscha (keeping track of these in a post so we can use our time with them more efficiently):

How did nutella die?
Are the threads out of sync? (e.g. did Night 1 start 24 hours earlier in the other thread?)
Do you know anything about the hidden votes?

If anyone has any more feel free to add them

This is getting pretty irritating.

1. By NK.
2. We know this to be true.
3. IDK, my best guess is that its the corresponding outies of whoever received most votes at work, but I certainly don't think Porscha would know.

None of this is that hard to puzzle out.

~ Schweppes

I'm exiting the elevator again. I'm not exactly ready to push forward in the direction I was heading this morning.

A defective ducky is not necessarily a bad ducky.
Maybe the disco ball is just insecure.
What if I'm just imagining an evil glint in the eye of the stuffed animal?

But the only way is forward, questions cannot be resolved otherwise.

[VOTE: Gira] aubergine
[VOTE: tedxtr] aubergine
[VOTE: TonyStarkPrime] aubergine

The kewpie doll is extremely spooky. It always move around when I'm not looking. It is however, a benevolent spirit. I have learned my lesson already and I will not unlearn it from attributing negative intentions where there are none. ~ Bereft

All names guessed are correct.

@Gira , you know what your pfp is, right? ~ Schweppes

You know who it doesn't apply to? The disco ball. The ducky. The kewpie doll. The stuffed toy. The carton of orange juice. The metal plate.

The kewpie doll loves to play coy, its been hanging in the wrong crowd at times, but I've already learned my lesson about kewpie dolls. Orange juice provides me with Vitamin C; I'm not going to touch it for now, I don't have much of a reason to. I wanted to trust the comfort object, that's what their whole purpose is after all, but I find that I don't. Not enough. And it gets worse from there. The ducky is defective for reasons that are known; it doesn't squeak, and I find myself getting less charitable to its aggressive cuteness. The disco ball, I won't even talk about how infuriating it is. The metal plate? Its a dull metal plate, what am I even supposed to do with it. It said, and I quote, 702 and 714.

The dream is so vivid that I'm questioning reality, and that's when I wake up.

~ Bereft

The toy sword raised itself menacingly towards the ducky I had previously pitched. The ducky it had already saber-rattled towards. The ducky that had confessed to the brick that it hated the toy sword because of, and i quote, 2004. To which the toy sword said something very clever, "if you were a good ducky, you'd hate me at least partially because of how I've waved myself around at you, but no, you hate me because of 2004, which is not only stupid, but makes you a bad ducky" And 2004 is indeed stupid, why take issue with the toy sword, when there was a carton of orange juice right there.

And for the tabasco? The disco ball, malevolent as ever, positively screeched at the bottle of tabasco for liking the owner that consumed it regularly. But you know what? Now that her belongings have burst into flames, and we all know that she was always a good person at heart, what does a harm-seeeking bottle of tabasco gain by enlivening its owner's day and crusading against the disco ball? There are other reasons why I like tabasco sauce, but the whole idea of engaging their owner is a fundamental one, one that not only applies to the bottle of tabasco, but the toy sword as well. It applies to the brick and the cigarette too. It applies to the compass.

These are those I feel I should trust.

My dreams are vivid. I feel somewhat sickeningly happy over my trust in her, even as I spectacularly failed at keeping her belongings safe. I must do better for her.

I think about my compass, who I suspect I've lost, and the bottle of tabasco. I think about the disco ball. I think about whether I was getting anywhere that evening.

Something hits. I crave more tabasco. I want to pick up the toy sword and wield it. But why?

It happens very suddenly as I prepare to go to bed. All of a sudden I hear her again. Why only now? Why not before? But its too late for this. Something goes wrong with the extension cord I plugged the desk lamp in with, causing an electrical fire. Her box is wooden. When I get back to it, it was already burnt. I hastily attempt to douse the fire, and somehow I manage, but I am still left with the remnants of her.

It wasn't anyone's fault, though I like to think it was her fault for going quiet.

~ Bereft

$%#!

I decide that perhaps if I'm so scared of losing my compass I should do some more staring at objects and inducing headaches. Sleep can wait.

~ Bereft

$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#!$%#! ~ Schweppes

$%#! ~ Schweppes

Frankly its embarrassing how much I let her control me. Everything would be going fine, then I'd find her having caught the canary so to speak. And then she'd throw a fit when I find out. And then I would feel bad. And the cycle just kept repeating.

But she's stopped screaming in my ear now. I know it's time to let go.

Oh, my compass, it reliably always pointed North and true.

I did not move the box with her things. I did not take a magnet and make the needle move.

I simply let them stay as they were. It will be missed if it is ever lost.

~ Bereft

I think I'm going to lose my compass overnight. ~ Bereft

The box of her things is getting burnt in a bonfire, I already know that much, even if I don't know that I personally will chuck it into the fire. Kinda done with having visions of them.

~ Bereft

It's time to drink more. Everything will resolve from here. I think.

~ Bereft