The Syndicate

Wilmington it is!

DharmaHelper wrote:Now all we need is a consensus on which city to move to and invade, and for safety's sake EVERYONE needs to vote. I think if people miss the vote, its possible they just stay here. Which would suck.

Who wants to go to Willmington?

Even if only five or six of us vote, that's still a decent sized group and we might stand a chance at surviving. I have no strong feelings about any particular place so I'll just go where everyone else wants to go.

Leamiteo wrote:So sorry that I didn't a) wake up on time this morning to vote before work b) remember to vote during lunch break and c) just got home. I'll take more care in the future!

As far as the vote goes, I don't know, it might be fun to check out other places! But I still don't even know what the heck is going on here. But I do see your point DH. Good thinking! What do others think? Is there a preference?

Also, does anyone know how will lynches work?

I think DH's plan makes a lot of sense, assuming he isn't some nefarious sneak trying to lure us all to certain doom. I'm not sure about lynches but my current theory is that we pick two people (I'm guessing Kate was randomised since DH was unanimously voted) and they fight, with the loser maybe dying? Though that would mean four deaths per day based on how the groups are likely to be split.

DharmaHelper wrote: The main reason I want to make sure we all pick a unified option is so that in the future we are not forced to fight (and therefore die) because one city has a majority rule. If we all go to the same place we have a cushion of 8 votes to give to someone NOT from our city, giving us some security when it comes to fights.

This is actually a decent point. Surely other cities will consider the same, so I think it really does benefit us at this early stage to keep an eye out for each other.

DharmaHelper wrote: If we stay here, we have no idea how many people from how many different cities are coming to New Castle. But we have home field advantage in that anyone who decides to come to us has no idea what to expect when they get here. We also make sure that New Castle stays in control of New Castle, and that our city (and our thread) Do not get overrun.

The one thing is that people coming here will probably see this discussion. Perhaps it'd be best to go somewhere else where folks don't know we're planning to work together?

If we go to another city, we have no idea how many people are there or how many other city folks have the same idea, but we have at least some plan of attack and we would learn the lay of the land a bit more as opposed to if we remained here, and were therefore isolated from any of the other threads/discussions.

I would imagine other threads have had the same amount of discussion and similar topics to us. But as you indicated, there's no way to know and we'll learn more by moving on.

We decide which city we'd like to move to, and move there en masse, leaving New Castle behind for now. Once in our new city with the 8 of us that remain after my fight with Kate, we are likely to ensure at least one person who is not from New Castle fights the next fight, if we all buckle up and vote together *(And if we all vote..cough cough)*. From there, hopefully we can press our advantage and numbers until we reach a tipping point and the fights are less of an issue.

I think I mostly agree with this. As long as I feel I can trust the rest of you I'm willing to go with this plan. It makes a lot of sense.

Ideally, I would also argue that discussing an alliance with another city would be most helpful at least in this early stage of the game. 8 votes is nice, but 16 would be better.

I dunno, I don't see how well that would work. Remember Sherlock? :P

DharmaHelper wrote:Can I make a proposal?

Assuming we all survive the night, it would be in our best interests collectively to stay together. If that means we all want to move, we all move into the same new city. If we all elect to stay, so be it. But we should work together and vote together from here on out. In this way we can ensure that we do not needlessly endanger ourselves moving forward.

Hmm... I don't see why not. What's the worst that can happen? I was probably just going to choose a random place to go to anyway, none of them really mean anything to me.

Thinking about it, if there really are three other groups, I doubt there'll be four lynches a day. So I think this poll isn't a straight up lynch unless there's different polls in the other threads or something.

I'd offer to vote someone else to unlynch you if you're having second thoughts but it doesn't look like it'll make a difference. Voting you anyway then since you volunteered and there's not really any other option

Maybe whoever we vote will fight someone else and the loser of the fight is essentially lynched? The main downside I see to this is that there's probably going to be more than one fight. There were 36 players signed up, right? Nine in here means there are probably four groups assuming an even division.

Wow, okay, this seems interesting and different... I guess, like others have said, maybe everyone else is in their own hometowns for now?