The Syndicate

Scotty wrote:Of course this call and response type challenge falls on a day in which I have early rehearsal, 2 shows, and looking to go exploring.

What the survivors don't know is that the pot contains an idol and whoever picks the pot receives immunity for tribal tonight.

Haha Scotty I'm willing to bet you don't do much 'sploring today. And cool about the idol in the pot. I wondered if both tribes were going to council tonight.

DrWilgy wrote:Womp womp. Man, LoRab is getting too good at killing me -__-

Aww I'm sorry you were deaded Wilgy but glad to have you in the spectator thread.

Ricochet wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Sup.

What did I miss?

Besides everything.

The tribes have the same number of people now (I think) but they just had a swap where people from one tribe went to another so they have a new tribal make-up for each. Dr. Wilgy got voted out of the Mamana tribe, I think because he did not show up until late in the day the other day and people thought he was silenced. They seemed to read that as lack of commitment. DH changed tribes into a tribe that had an agreed upon leader (SVS) so it will be interesting to see what shakes out there.

Now this is going to be fun! Wonder if DH is still going to try to be king.

Welcome Wilgy, sorry you got deaded in two games so close together.

I'm confused what technical difficulties Elo is talking about.

Scotty wrote:

juliets wrote:lol Scotty they are trying to make this difficult for you voting for their rocks in the thread. What if everyone doesn't come in to vote? lol

Ugh. They already voted for one each, why are they changing? They don't even know what the rock colors do!!!

Tell them they have to vote in the poll, one per option. If they want to change they can do it on the poll.

lol Scotty they are trying to make this difficult for you voting for their rocks in the thread. What if everyone doesn't come in to vote? lol

Interesting that Elo brought up INH. He won his bout I would think that would be a something in his favor. Will be interesting to see who they end up voting out - my money is still on Wilgy.

Something other hosts have done on the chatzy rooms is just have the bts team create them (everyone knows how to create a chatzy) and send you and Scotty the site. That way one person isn't creating them all.

I'm glad Atami is evening up the score. Looks like Wligy might be the one to go out of Mamana. We'll see I guess...poor Wilgy two games in a row.

Scotty wrote:One thing I'm learning from hosting the hard way- my time constraints need to be more prounounced. I shouldn't allow people to do shit right up until deadline. It already takes me over an hour to compile stats and actions, let alone writing the flavor so if Wilgy had been voted out a minute before EoN from a changed vote that would have seriously rustled my jimmies

What a lot of hosts do is tell the players their night actions have to be in an hour before night ends. That way there is time to do all those things and get the flavor written. Basically it's a 23 hour night for the players. You might want to try that.

I wonder if Elo realizes she is poisoned by the poisoner as well as having food poisoning. She doesn't indicate that she is double poisoned. Interesting.

So Scotty is the number of people affected by the food poisoning equal to the number of people who voted for that option on the other team or is it an even number affected for each team.

And yeah MP, I have a slightly modified "won't kill silenced people" stance. I helped kill someone who was at work the whole day once and will never forget the reaming out she gave us about how she did not have an opportunity to answer to her accusers. She was, of course, civ. I also felt bad for SVS for the same reason in the Blue v. Red game the other day. But as you say, it's a topic for the mafia strategy thread.

Awww Booms so sorry you were deaded. You did your best, thats all you can do.

Scotty wrote:

juliets wrote:Team Atamai is just dead today. And I can't figure out what's up with Wilgy unless he's just concentrating on GOC.

I'm sure they'll come alive 10 minutes before end of phase again like this past phase

I think I get it about Wilgy now. It looks like today was his anniversary. Not sure if he's married or it's his gf but he mentioned it was his 6th anniversary in the GOC. I've had so many anniversaries that I've just mafia'd right through, lol. Birthdays, anniversaries, you name it I've played mafia on it.

Team Atamai is just dead today. And I can't figure out what's up with Wilgy unless he's just concentrating on GOC.

Ricochet wrote:

juliets wrote: SVS's team is voting out MP cause he only signed up to help Scotty and really doesn't have time to play

That's no fun. Shouldn't vote offs be more tense than "we're voting the weakest link"?

When are they overthrowing DH?

Well, MP kinda volunteered to go and they really didn't have anyone they wanted to get rid of. Whats funny is DH thinks maybe MP, Epi or SVS will go because they all have big personalities and that really has nothing to do with it.

They are having small group bts each night within each team but I don't know if the people on DH's team are talking about overthrowing DH or not. They seem to be tolerating him.

Ricochet wrote:Sup.

What did I miss?

Besides everything.

You missed a wild first day that they were divided into teams. DH has declared himself the king of fuck mountain and demanded fealty from his subjects. They pretty much complied except Lorab said she was the queen and Boomslang doesn't seem too impressed. DH's team won immunity in the first challenge. The other team said S~V~S is their leader. They voted out sig on day 1 cause he didn't participate in anything. Yesterday they had a reward challenge and neither team won the fishing gear that was up for grabs. Today both teams have to vote someone out. DH's team is trying to decide between Boomslang and Wilgy and SVS's team is voting out MP cause he only signed up to help Scotty and really doesn't have time to play. That's the short and skinny of it.

Atamai didn't plan their bts out like the other group did - missed opportunity.

Scotty wrote:

juliets wrote:Is Wilgy silenced? I wouldn't think someone would have the power in this game but what do I know.

lol a player would literally hog-tie another player. That would be funny.

No. He isn't. He also didn't submit BTSC choices last night, much to the chagrin of a few people.

Interesting. I saw his name looking at the thread but he didn't post. I wonder if he's pretending to be silenced so as not to get the vote.

Is Wilgy silenced? I wouldn't think someone would have the power in this game but what do I know.

Too bad for Booms. He had the guts to stand up and ask the question about DH and the puzzle and now it's looking like he'll get the vote.

Scotty, do the people that have the immunity idol know that they have it yet?

It's amazing to me that these guys are not reading directions carefully. Team Mamana seems to think a tie of all black rocks will result in a coin flip.

OOOh a hidden immunity idol. Too cool. Do they know they are going to get it if they vote a certain way?

I wouldn't be surprised if DH poisoned him as he made that comment yesterday about Booms stepping up. Seemed like he regarded him as a weak link.

Was it the other team where someone implied they were a doctor? I am also surprised Boom hasn't said anything as someone could be able to help him.

I've played this game before with the rocks. DH's first instinct is right - the best way to play it is all yellow rocks if they are trying to maximize for both teams. I guess though that might not be the goal and like LC I think the original prisoners dilemma that I played had multiple rounds. And how funny DH thinks there is some power struggle going on in the other tribe. Still hasn't realized they are punishing inaction. Should be an interesting day. Scotty, maybe not as much work for you today.

So DH takes no responsibility for the puzzle. Interesting.

Scotty wrote:

juliets wrote:It's funny that the Mamana group isn't thinking about someone not participating being the one the other tribe votes out.

Maybe they forgot dog was playing lol

lol nobody else will get this joke if they read back this far

It's funny that the Mamana group isn't thinking about someone not participating being the one the other tribe votes out.

I think it's nice that Golden wants to have btsc with one of the newbies.

Oh nice! I'm a little surprised they requested each other but it's nice that they did.

Yeah Scotty I was a little worried yesterday when both threads had so many questions and activities going at the same time but you did a really great job at going back and forth between them. You can at least have a break to be with your gf during the night phases (except for setting up bts and counting votes - tonight's votes shouldn't be a problem though). I completely missed the instruction to them to ask for bts partners - did they have to stay within their tribe? I would imagine yes.

JJJ you should catch up. It was a wild day yesterday and tons of fun. I think this is a great game. Can't wait to see the next challenge.

Scotty wrote:

juliets wrote:I'm predicting the tribe will eject sig or MP unless they show up in these last few hours and really play the game.

Perhaps so. The real game players would probably not mind eliminating other game threats, but who knows? I'm sure MP wouldn't mind, since he knows he shouldn't be playing anyway with his PhD.

I guess what I'm thinking is at this point in the game they would want to keep people that participate in the challenges because it improves their chance that they don't have to go to tribal council if their tribe wins. I don't watch the show though so don't understand all of the strategy.

I'm predicting the tribe will eject sig or MP unless they show up in these last few hours and really play the game.

Scotty wrote:

juliets wrote:Scotty does Faraday have the puzzle? Or did he solve it?

He......just got back to me. It took him 2.5 hours or so to solve. I was perfectly clear that the timer started as soon as I sent him the puzzle so it's not like the sense of urgency is lost.

But he will most certainly lose the challenge for his tribe.

Oh wow. And I was so sure the other side was going to lose.

Scotty does Faraday have the puzzle? Or did he solve it?

Man, this game is out of control with people requesting actions all over the place! Poor Scotty.

Scotty DH is saying it's not his fault he didn't solve the puzzle. What's he talking about?

Scotty wrote:

juliets wrote:Oh did someone on the team solve it in 50 minutes?

No. DH took 44 minutes and gave up. He was confused by the question. I feel bad he didn't understand it, but I can't do anything about that. I know it works and I know the directions are there.

Yeah if you tested it on people you know it's fine. They really should have let speedchuck try it. Golden won't be on till this afternoon and he'll be at work where it may be hard to get the focused time necessary.

Edit: lol I don't think Epi read the directions about #4.

Oh did someone on the team solve it in 50 minutes?

Nice save though. Don't know whether they believed it but really it doesn't make that much difference. They don't know what she did which is the important part.

Scotty wrote:

juliets wrote:Scotty, do you want me to let the technical mods know to fix the players ability to edit their posts in the tribe thread? They shouldn't be able to do that as far as I know.

Sure, I just let Marmot know as well. Dunno why that's happening.

Oh, marmot is a technical mod so he'll fix it.

Scotty, do you want me to let the technical mods know to fix the players ability to edit their posts in the tribe thread? They shouldn't be able to do that as far as I know.

Oh wow he passed. It will be interesting to see if the other team can get it.

Wow SVS scores big in her ball throwing! Only one more hoop to get.

lol, DH calls leg 3 without even talking to the rest of the team about who should do what. The other team had a good idea about checking people's energy levels before deciding who should do what.

Congrats Scotty on your double Sockys win!!

Well dang, Soneji came on the site but didn't say anything in the thread. I wonder if he decided not to play.

I think the only people who will even be able to kowtow to DH will be the people in his own tribe. I mean, it looks like they are the only ones he could vote for.