The Syndicate

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

Snow Dog wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote:
Mongoose wrote:But if Mrs. Torrance had blocked Lloyd from serving then Snow Dog wouldn't have been served. Something else is going on here.

Kate, we haven't heard from you lately -- do you have any theories on the twin situation?
Was Snow dog served? I think the Port comment was a joke yes?
Yes. I was given a glass of port.

My mistake. I wasn't given such a specific drink. Do the Welsh enjoy port? or do you?

Mongoose wrote:But if Mrs. Torrance had blocked Lloyd from serving then Snow Dog wouldn't have been served. Something else is going on here.

Kate, we haven't heard from you lately -- do you have any theories on the twin situation?

Was Snow dog served? I think the Port comment was a joke yes?

Mongoose wrote:EBWOP: I think initially

Could this be the hotel itself changing shape? I wonder if it knew it was helping me or not. And if so, why would the hotel want to help ME?

This is really interesting, but wouldn't it be more likely that Mrs.Torrence role blocked? If she role blocked again last night then maybe no one else received a drink either. It looks like SVS and I both received a drink on Night 2, Mongoose almost got one Night 3, and I received another on Night 4, so since SVS and Mongoose didnt receive one Night 5 (if Bullz' theory is correct) then lloyd may have been role blocked again? Unless someone else got a drink?

As for people I trust, I don't know exactly who everyone is, but I have some educated guesses. Between Bullzeye, Mongoose, and Snowy however, at least one is false and I don't know who.

Definitely jealous of your weekend SVS! Sorry you chose to vote me, as I am not who you think and am not a threat to you. My win condition does not require killing people. All I know is that at least one person, maybe two will be very sad if they lynch me today. I am part of your win even if you don't know it.

Snow Dog wrote:
Bullzeye wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote:Has anyone else received a drink? I am curious to this, because I have yet to experience any drink symptoms. I have also now received a 2nd drink.
I've never had one, I'm beginning to think the barman doesn't love me! Actually I think I know what they're doing to people and if I'm right it would make sense that the same people are getting more than one rather than the barman working his way through all the players, which is why I was asking about it earlier.
I had a drink last night. Port and apparently I enjoyed it. Well as it was my only drink I was bound to. Any Port in a storm!

Ha, well the bartender didn't specify my drink. It looks like Svs, mongoose, and I are the only ones left who received drinks. If Bullz theory is correct then mongoose and svs should have received another drink. Anyone?

Has anyone else received a drink? I am curious to this, because I have yet to experience any drink symptoms. I have also now received a 2nd drink.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
Bullzeye wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
Bullzeye wrote:I'm gonna go with crazy lady because apparently that's what's in there. Having not seen or read The Shining it could actually be a room full of cakes and ice cream for all I know
You found the easter egg!
I... did? Awesome!
No, just kidding.

Well now that was just mean.

As much as I would rather have a surprise luau, I'm going with crazy lady.

Kate wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote:
Mongoose wrote:We can spread the vote out like Snow Dog said and then maybe the hotel will see we are a united front. Let's take back our power!

And we should all probably never be in a lifeboat together.

Word as much as I like ya'll, never entrusting you with my life. Remember the two tie votes that Snow survived? Llama said ties are decidedly randomly, so someone will be lynched. I guess we can lynch without guilt, but sadly someone will be gone.

Also, 11 minutes till this vote ends.

Linki - Snow said it.
Way to give it away with 10 minutes left.

*votes vomps*

What are you talking about?

Mongoose wrote:We can spread the vote out like Snow Dog said and then maybe the hotel will see we are a united front. Let's take back our power!

And we should all probably never be in a lifeboat together.

Word as much as I like ya'll, never entrusting you with my life. Remember the two tie votes that Snow survived? Llama said ties are decidedly randomly, so someone will be lynched. I guess we can lynch without guilt, but sadly someone will be gone.

Also, 11 minutes till this vote ends.

Linki - Snow said it.

Thank you for your reply Kate. I am still not getting a great read on you, but appealing to my sweeter side, by not voting me is an excellent strategy. I have to vote today, so am still going to go for it.

Votes Kate.

Linki- too late.

Mongoose wrote:How about we just all count to three and just vote. We can all hold hands and jump into the swimming pool at the same time.

Challenge accepted!

Ready....go!

Kate wrote:
Kate wrote:I don't need anyone specific to die, other than those that want to kill me, if any exist. So far the only person I know for sure who wants to kill people is you, MP. I'm sorry if that is annoying to you because you were "honest" about your conditions, but although I hate this saying...it is what it is.
Here you go Hedge.

Thank you for this! I kept trying to find a post. I wonder about your other statement as well. You have not seemed hesitant to lynch people this game, unlike others who seem to actively avoid it. So in that light if you are not going to revenge vote me, who are you going to vote for?

Kate wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
One thing I do find notable is that S~V~S and Kate haven't said a word to each other about each other so far this game. What that means I have no idea, but it is kind of interesting. They both can read each other insanely well. I'm sure I could think of other such similar things, but I wouldn't say anything immediately comes to mind as SUSPICIOUS or notable in that sort of way. Just observations that don't really tell much currently. But we still have some more time.

I think she said she liked my avatar

Seriously though, how do you read someone in this game? Isn't it all kind of dumb luck? I don't really have an opinion on her because I can't tell her affiliation because from the way the game is explained she doesn't really have one, nor does anyone else. Here's my official read: I think she's a player with a role. I haven't seen any indication that she has a partner, and if she does, its not me. I am not a Grady twin. I don't want to be lynched.

From rereading Kate, I noticed she has never said anything openly about her win condition. In general she has said very little. This post makes me curious. I do not know if MP's suspicions are correct, but with so few of us left, I think this is pretty likely. I am not sure about SVS. She and Kate seem to be playing very different games, but SVS, whether lying or not has been very open about her win conditions not being a threat to anyone. With this in mind I am probably going to vote for Kate.

Bullzeye wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
Mongoose wrote:I am going to be heartbroken if we kill off another good character. I don't want to lose Mrs. Torrance. I think I would lose a piece of myself.
This is an interesting statement. I have two people in mind to be a certain character. Was I wrong I wonder?
I'm wondering if I've been wrong about a person as well...

We are all now wondering... Hoo are you people?

Vompatti wrote:
Kate wrote:
Vompatti wrote:Are you suggesting it's Hedgeowl and Mongoose then? I'm not getting baddie vibes from either. I wish we didn't have to lynch anyone.
I'm not suggesting its anyone, I'm just saying its not me.
It has to be someone though.

You are correct, we all have to be some role, but I am not a twin. I can't speak for Mongoose. I think at this point its hard to define baddie. There are no more NKs, therefore I think it more accurate to say that we each have our individual baddies. Meaning those who prevent our win condition.

While my win condition does not require anyone's death, I had forgotten about the lack of Night power if we dont vote. For this reason I am going to have to vote today, but I've been doing some rereading to help figure out who.

Have others received drinks by now? Is this a nightly thing?

I feel that our delightful host is sending us a not so subtle hint.

Mongoose wrote:These are the characters that have been offed:

* Jack Torrance
* Stanley Kubrick
* Stephen King
* Dick Halloran
* Delbert Grady

I was looking at the Players List on Page 1, and noticed that no one has been NK'd since N1.

There are several scenarios for this, and more than one of these is probably occurring.

1) Until Nev died (during the Day 3 vote), he was very effective at protecting various players.
2) Wendy, who is still alive, is doing a rather awesome job of role blocking a murderer.
3) All the "murderers" have died off already
4) There were PMs missing from various players on N3 and N4. Those PMs could have come from a player who has a murdery ability.

In summation: do we think any of the remaining characters have the ability to kill off characters at night? Or: are defensive players just playing very smartly.

Hmm, these are really good questions. I had just assumed that when King was lynched that was why the killing stopped. Now I think many of us also thought that someone else might start killing as roles could have shifted. However, your points about role blocking etc. are worth noting. I think the chance of Nev and Wendy doing a combined role block, would require some pretty awesome luck. Not to say it isn't possible. Of your scenarios I am inclined to say 3, but we still don't know what Lloyd and the twins are up to. I think they are the last mentioned as potential "baddies." Of course after MP's lynch no one is going to admit if their win condition affects others lives.

Snow Dog wrote:Cozy fan tutte

I am also curious about this. Were you trying to imply something about the opera? Is it in the movie or book? Or is this Snow going cray cray? Since Mongoose's backwards writing we haven't had any weird public actions. Maybe that was a power of Jacks?

Linki - Word.

Vompatti wrote:How does one get the smell of beer off a rug?

Next up, how do I remove skunk smell from my porch? Yeah that happened last night and we all slept upstairs to escape the fumigation.

Snow Dog wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote:RIP MP. (Is this ok to say when they're "bad"?) Also, I am now realizing that first lynch of Epi really sucked for you both.
The hilarious thing is that Epi was role hinting like crazy and MP, failing to pick up on it, led the charge against him.

Wow, well none of us picked up on it either. We love bandwagon leaders though!

I am sticking with Mongoose and hiding in the servant's quarters. The hotel rooms would definitely get searched first.

RIP MP. (Is this ok to say when they're "bad"?) Also, I am now realizing that first lynch of Epi really sucked for you both.

Well that 'clever' post took me longer than I thought. Since he seems to be the only known threat currently, MP it is.

votes MP

Mongoose wrote:I'll be around most of today trying to "ferret out" any remaining baddies. I will try to have a "stoatly" reason for any accusations I agree with. I know my absence has made many of you quite despondent, so I will be quite active for the remainder of the show as I don't want you to think I am "weaseling" out of playing fairly. Let's just hope hedgeowl doesn't go out of "ermine" before she gives us some more of her trademark excellent analysis.

Cheers & Beers,
Mongoose

Hoo but Mongoose could have written such a Cardinal analysis? What a Lark! I can hardly Swallow, I am so choked up with emotion over your compliment.

People will be Raven about this for a while. Now let's just hope after this lynch no one one has to eat Crow!

Ok, so clearly the no lynching strategy isn't going to work. However, another consideration is the Night powers. All those that don't vote can't use them as someone pointed out. Since there are no more NKs this doesn't necessarily mean that someone is bad or civ for voting.

I can definitely see MP's frustration, but think Kate is right. He has openly admitted, like many of us, what his win conditions are and will probably be lynched for it since it represents an unknown threat to us. As he points out, obviously we can't all have conditions that compliment each other entirely. Therefore someone has to be lying or is laying low. I don't think MP is lying, but do think based on his own words that he and I do not have complimentary win conditions.

Maybe Mongoose, Bullz, and Vomps have more to say here?

thellama73 wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote: So I also thought, but further reading led me to find out that it is hotly contested between the lime and lemon. And now that I've tried it I prefer a lemon. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geral ... and_tonic/
Well, given that my favorite cocktail is the Gimlet, I have to disagree and stick with lime, but I suppose as long as you're staying away from that most horrible of all drinks, the Vodka Tonic, we are mostly on the same side of this war.

A truce!

(lemon hugs lime) Vodka and I have never been friends.

.

thellama73 wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
Nevinera wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote: This strategy could also work with my win condition. However, there is a risk for all of us. If someone is lynched anyway, then all of us will basically be putting ourselves out there. I haven't decide yet whether I am willing to take that risk, because dying is losing for some of us at least. Of course if someone makes a Gin and Tonic at the After-party the way I like, then maybe I'd get over it.
How do you prefer them? Or should I leave the tending to Llama?
I was wondering this as well. There are not a lot of ways to screw up a gin & tonic.
The type of gin is important for sure, but I recently discovered good tonic is a huge step up too. Also, making them with lemon is delightful.
Heresy. Gin & Tonic is always always served with a lime. If you want a lemon, get a Tom Collins.

So I also thought, but further reading led me to find out that it is hotly contested between the lime and lemon. And now that I've tried it I prefer a lemon. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geral ... and_tonic/

thellama73 wrote:
Nevinera wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote: This strategy could also work with my win condition. However, there is a risk for all of us. If someone is lynched anyway, then all of us will basically be putting ourselves out there. I haven't decide yet whether I am willing to take that risk, because dying is losing for some of us at least. Of course if someone makes a Gin and Tonic at the After-party the way I like, then maybe I'd get over it.
How do you prefer them? Or should I leave the tending to Llama?
I was wondering this as well. There are not a lot of ways to screw up a gin & tonic.

The type of gin is important for sure, but I recently discovered good tonic is a huge step up too. Also, making them with lemon is delightful.

S~V~S wrote:Well, so far so good, no night kills

So I plan a totally defensive vote, if I am forced to vote at all. I will vote to save myself, or someone I feel good about that is possibly being railroaded. Since I need someone ELSE alive to win, and don't know who it is, I feel that my best chance lies in as many people being alive at the end as possible. Including myself :nod:

If we choose to lynch no one, and someone dies anyhow, I will rethink this.

This strategy could also work with my win condition. However, there is a risk for all of us. If someone is lynched anyway, then all of us will basically be putting ourselves out there. I haven't decide yet whether I am willing to take that risk, because dying is losing for some of us at least. Of course if someone makes a Gin and Tonic at the After-party the way I like, then maybe I'd get over it.

thellama73 wrote:Dex, you are not allowed to vote for real options in these polls. I don't care how zany you are!

Well definitely getting gin, my favorite.

Nevinera wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote: Well, this is happening, so what the heck. Here's another vote for Nev. I cannot figure out why you want to go, but I am just as curious as to who you are.

votes Nev
Sadly, you will not be any less curious about my actions after I flip.
I'll be happy to explain after the game, of course!

But, but, but...

Bullzeye wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote:
Well it's true, we do have to lynch somebody, but this just seems so strange to me. Unfortunately, if what Nev says is true, then we won't learn anything much by his lynch. Kate, Bullz? What are your thoughts before the vote?

linki- jealous of bwt now!
I think Nev wants to die. Maybe he has to be dead to win, if that's the case I'll happily oblige him. If he was the hotel I can't think of any reason why he'd want his role to be obvious as I think it's probably not a friendly role. I'm actually going to vote for him, because he clearly wants it and I'm curious as to why.

Well, this is happening, so what the heck. Here's another vote for Nev. I cannot figure out why you want to go, but I am just as curious as to who you are.

votes Nev

S~V~S wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote:
S~V~S wrote:
Nevinera wrote:
Bullzeye wrote: Linki SVS: Seems you and I are in the same boat. I have no interest in lynching anyone who doesn't want me out of the way to win.
I've changed my mind, we should lynch bullzeye and SVS. I have secret information that almost guarantees that their win condition involves eliminating several of us.
LOL, thats ridiculous. You have no such info becasue it isn't true, at least not about me. And Bullz isn't acting all that bloodthirsty as far as I can see. Like I said, my win conditions don't involve anyone being dead. Quite the opposite, actually. So either, A, you got false info, or B, you are making it up, and I am going to guess B.

Also, I would like to discuss drinks. I was served a drink last night, but was not told what, if anything, it did. Just that i was thirsty and drank it. Has that happened to anyone else?
Yes it happened to me as well and I have no idea how to interpret it at this point.

Nev is clearly desperate to get lynched and blatantly lying, saying he's lying, and altogether seemingly going insane. I am not going to vote for him in this scenario. It just doesn't make any sense. Unless it supports your win condition, why would you vote to lynch Nev if that's his win condition. And if killing someone supports your own condition clearly you may be a threat to the rest of us.
No, he clearly replied to my question. If he is implying he needs to be lynched, I have no problems helping him. I think his string of posts is crystal clear. It does not hurt me to do so, so

Well it's true, we do have to lynch somebody, but this just seems so strange to me. Unfortunately, if what Nev says is true, then we won't learn anything much by his lynch. Kate, Bullz? What are your thoughts before the vote?

linki- jealous of bwt now!

S~V~S wrote:
Nevinera wrote:
Bullzeye wrote: Linki SVS: Seems you and I are in the same boat. I have no interest in lynching anyone who doesn't want me out of the way to win.
I've changed my mind, we should lynch bullzeye and SVS. I have secret information that almost guarantees that their win condition involves eliminating several of us.
LOL, thats ridiculous. You have no such info becasue it isn't true, at least not about me. And Bullz isn't acting all that bloodthirsty as far as I can see. Like I said, my win conditions don't involve anyone being dead. Quite the opposite, actually. So either, A, you got false info, or B, you are making it up, and I am going to guess B.

Also, I would like to discuss drinks. I was served a drink last night, but was not told what, if anything, it did. Just that i was thirsty and drank it. Has that happened to anyone else?

Yes it happened to me as well and I have no idea how to interpret it at this point.

Nev is clearly desperate to get lynched and blatantly lying, saying he's lying, and altogether seemingly going insane. I am not going to vote for him in this scenario. It just doesn't make any sense. Unless it supports your win condition, why would you vote to lynch Nev if that's his win condition. And if killing someone supports your own condition clearly you may be a threat to the rest of us.

Snow Dog wrote:I think I will test that theory whatever the answer and vote Nev.

Don't do it! This is crazy!

Nevinera wrote:After I'm lynched you will still all be confused. My suicide has a rational motive, and an extremely civ one.
I won't come back to haunt you. Unless the rules allow that? That would be cool :-p

This isn't the llama gambit right? Cause I don't think that would work in this game. Since we all have what I assume are different win conditions, I really don't know how to interpret your suicide as having an 'extremely civ' motive. I am 95% not inclined to vote for you. I know the tendency is to lynch people for their behavior if it smacks of the weird, unpredictable, and unexplained, because they're probably a baddie, but Nev's actions strike me as decidedly odd.

As for haunting, I have started to wonder if based on our theme there might be more than meets the eye for the dead characters. That would be one of the only ways I could consider Nev's actions rational at all.

Nevinera wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:Crap. This is tough. Yet again I feel I'm in a similar situation.

Now I realize the win conditions and roles are weird here, but I just can't get past the self-voting. Any baddie can do this in any game, especially in a game where the setup is strange and take advantage of people being rationally cautious, and continually avoid getting lynched due to a balls-to-the-wall approach. I realize there's a theory about insanity, but Nev has been saying for multiple day periods now what he has been regarding his win condition. The truth is that he voted Snow on D1, offering that Snow vote him in return, and then now he's gone off and voted for himself.

I'm contemplating that Snow and Nev could possibly have BTSC and be the Grady twins. Would make sense, wouldn't it? Not sure of that at all though. Given it's difficult to sense anyone else's intentions, and even though there is a possibility Nev might actually benefit from votes, there is always technically a possibility for something like that in a game with secrets. I wasn't sure I bought it with Snow Dog and I'm not sure I buy it now. I know for sure my win condition is NOTHING like that, and I don't see any role other than maybe the hotel that would benefit from something like that. Why would Nev do this perhaps? Well, another possibility is that he sees Snow Dog has survived twice now and seems a bit smug, so maybe he sees that it's an effective strategy. Regardless of the reasoning behind it, it doesn't change the fact that self-voting literally gets the civvie cause no better (even what weirdly constitutes a "civvie" cause in this game is STILL a civvie cause, of sorts), and especially now that it's Day 3, I find it a ridiculous civvie or baddie move regardless.

Add that I don't really have any reads on players due to the unconventional nature so far of this game and I wouldn't feel comfortable voting for Vomps, Bullz, or even Snow right now (though I might consider him second), or anyone else for that matter.

So... I guess I am voting Nevinera. With some hesitation... but I believe it's my best option given what's happened so far this day period and the previous two.

I will be back at some point tomorrow evening, whenever I can grab some internet.
Oh noes! You saw right through my clever stratagem. Me and snow are in cahoots; you should definitely kill him first though.
Cause lynching me is too dangerous. You've gotta believe me, we will all die :'(

So I really have no idea how to read Nev right now, cause this seems blatantly like the exact opposite of what we should do. I am surprised your reasoning led you here MP, but I understand the total lack of good candidates. If Nev is being honest and his win condition is aided by us lynching him, why would we do that? As llama has pointed out there are no traditional baddie civvie roles. Yes King was the most traditional baddie in the open, but we have no idea how the game will change us all. Since I don't know Nev's win goal I am a little nervous to vote him. You make an interesting point about the twins MP, but if Nev is one I don't think Snow is the other. Will spend some time rereading, which thankfully in this game is still possible.

Gah I am trying to catch up inthe spot of aservice I have right now, but theres too much to read. Back this afternoon.

Voted left cause its logical.

Llama i have to tell you all about the camp i am at in the adirondacks. It feels so appropriate for this game. One phone no wireless, signal if you stand at the right corner if th e deck....

I believe that internet is not reliable where I will be for the next 24 hours, so I am going to vote now. I am sticking with Snow Dog. I agree that I don't think it's a ploy to get votes, but his refusing to vote is definitely strange.

Votes Snow Dog

Nevinera wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:I'd much rather vote for the lowest poster than for Epig being a grammar Nazi, even though it is annoying. :P

Not sure I'll do that though. However, I will have to vote either tonight or tomorrow morning before work, as I won't be back in time.
Sigh. That's probably me.. I'm just really busy lately!

I'll be extremely overly free in a couple of days when my family goes to Texas for a week;
I'm sure you'll get tired of me posting then!

I'm not really sure what I should be saying though.
I never really know what to do or think until after someone's been lynched -
how people vote on things with no obvious outcome, and how they talk on day 0
just doesn't seem to have much to do with their alignment :-\

You can lynch me if you want though.
I'll probably try to get myself lynched in a few days anyway :-P

I am curious why Nev threw himself under the bus in his second post. Why do you want to be lynched?

Nevinera wrote:From the book (I've seen the movie, but don't remember it clearly), I suspect that the hotel has an ugly win-condition.
(I hope theorizing about wincons we *don't* know is alright, Llama?)

I'm particularly worried about the 'threats' floating around - I suspect that they actually indicate some hidden knowledge about outcomes. There are a couple of characters with 'secrets', and in particular I'm concerned what might happen if we lynch the hotel itself.

(I think the bartender probably has one of those powers that can do various things - most likely with names for each capability based on proper mixed drinks. Cause I don't think Llama could help himself ;-) )

The Overlook cannot be lynched, so do you mean NK'd?

Nevinera wrote:Well, I have very little to work with, and I'm not confident I'll be around before the poll closes, so I'm going to toss one out there.

Snow? I'll vote for you, because I don't think anyone else will. Feel free to vote for me too, it won't bother me.

This plan clearly didn't work. Forced Snow to try and tie the vote, which somehow protected him? Why would he vote for himself if he was unlynchable? Just to cast doubt?

Kate wrote:Llama, shall we lynch the grammar police for you? :P

Was this Kate's reason for voting Epi perhaps?

Mongoose wrote:Oh lordy. Voting time. I sure hope no one votes for him/herself, especially in a game that Llama is hosting!

MovingPictures07 wrote:I will be voting for the first person to self-vote.

If that doesn't happen, I'm tempted to vote for Epig for trying too hard to act like the grammar police, but I'm not sure I'll actually act on that desire. I'm sure something better will emerge... I hope.

S~V~S wrote:Death to Nazis, lol~ grammar or otherwise

But srsly GNs are annoying, but not necessarily bad. Also if the host is irked with him, he is less likely to be irked with someone else, like me.

I will not vote for a low poster, or for myself, but I would consider a vote for someone who intentionally does not vote, or who self votes.

It appears that Mongoos, MP, and SVS have declared themselves anti-self-voters. However, Snow's self-vote came too late for MP to act on it. Are you considering a vote for Snow today, MP, Mongoose, or SVS?

Mongoose wrote:Maybe I was voting Zany Dex in the wrong game. Vomps may have voted for you for a nonsense reason, but I don't think it's necessarily incriminating. We were all pretty much flying by the seat of our pants.

Zany Dex, are you bad?

Ah, using the Simon approach, direct and to the point. Well done Mongoose. I would also like an answer to this question Mr. Zany.

MP- I think you are confused. The posting contest is happening in the other game. Apparently, the host there thought the game needed more discussion. Thank goodness no one thinks that here.

Ok, I'm going to reread the thread, but I think ya'll are right, we ain't got shit to go on so far.

Nevinera wrote:
S~V~S wrote:Well, I think that jacks insanity, for instance, would have ratcheted up once he met up with Grady. I am guessing they were potentially set to become the baddie team, perhaps. Again, I think this may be an affinity check.

You seemed to imply that you thought this was a negative power, and I am not sure why that would be. Can you tell me what I am missing?
No, no, not a negative power. I think its existence implies a negative mechanic in the game - 'insanity level' reads to me like a form of accumulating value, not a characterization.
I think that people can, in various ways, get 'insanity points', and that with enough of them we start being forced to do things at night, or join the baddie team (by changing wincon), or something else.
I think that power is intended to be useless at the beginning and get more important later.

Maybe something like posting backwards is part of the insanification. Certain things that happen to us in the game that we can't control perhaps? I do wonder if this will happen to someone else or if these types of things will be different every day.

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