The Syndicate

one is never finished with skyrim

Banners courtesy of Syn. These are looking pretty fresh if I may say so. Get them while they’re hot:

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And for @JaggedJimmyJay and I:

DaisyCloud wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:36 pm imma loan shark now

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Now as fun as this game was, I think it’s time we had a talk about the appalling display of racism you all put on a the beginning of this game:

Shame on you, Syndicate. Argonians are people too.

I'm super happy that all of you played, but I was really really happy that @Scotty signed up and crushed it this game after such a long time away.

It was fantastic to see you back in action.

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:11 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:09 pm This is almost irrelevant with the volume in games these days, but this one came in as the 8th longest in Syndicate history, around 30 posts behind Talking Heads.

8th longest in site history, but the 5th longest in the last year.
Technically (technically) the thread is still going

So

We can make it the longest if we have the patience

The official tally ends when the game ends, unfortunately.

This is almost irrelevant with the volume in games these days, but this one came in as the 8th longest in Syndicate history, around 30 posts behind Talking Heads.

8th longest in site history, but the 5th longest in the last year.

I can’t forget to thank @JaggedJimmyJay. I asked for a hand with balance and handling deadlines, not even thinking about how moving parts were included in this game. I could not have managed this thing alone.

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:31 pm
Marmot wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 1:58 pm
Made wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 1:54 pm
Marmot wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 12:16 pm
TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 5:02 am
Timsup2nothin wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 3:54 am
TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 3:07 am I’m sorta not confident that falcon is a hot but a lot of things suggest it is so if he thinks he can convince me it’s not by entering the thread and doing towny things that’s be nice
If he does what is your alternative?
buck up and read mac's iso
Don't do it, it's a trap!!!
This has big “Im scum and pretty sure we’re gonna win this game” energy

I did get a red check on myself last night.

This was a joke based on this post and this post TSP had already made about Mac's ISO.

Also, this was correct. I discovered Daisy's race on Night 2. I glanced at the OP, saw only one Dunmer, and used LoMo's ability to reveal the rolecard of the Dunmer Conjurer.

But that was my role, so I received my own rolecard as a result.

My favorite moment of the game tbh. It you could have seen the look on my face as I sent that result...

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:29 pm Kyle thought about holding the kill, but Sloonei reminded him that it's compulsory, and would be randomized if he didn't pick a target.

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:22 pm It's hard to say so in hindsight, but do you think I'm still yeeted when I was if Gavial didn't accidentally get a track on where I went (or rather where I didn't go)? I think I at least survive another day, which also would've increased our chances of winning.

Good game town! It's probably karma that a 3P finally accidentally assisted in a town win rather than stealing it from them

I feel bad about this. I was so excited for the cloak to work.

Long Con wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:51 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:18 pm My heart broke when Tim killed Kyle. He can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Tim did that with every intention of hitting a civilian. That completely changed the complexion of the endgame. Before that, I thought Kyle was going to win, or Kyle and Tim were going to win together.
That's exactly what I said a few pages ago... no way Tim intended to help us like that. Kyle was ironically TOO townread for his own good.

It was lame to be the only vanilla town in a game of JOATs.

There were a couple roles similar to yours! Bo had no night action at all. Stupid Sexy Moghedien and Syn were other “visit any shrine and get a result” type roles.

the idea for the journal entries in the flavor posts was completely inspired by @Epignosis in Fallout II.

DaisyCloud wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:35 pm oh dang. tim could have won if we let him kill 1 more time.

@Timsup2nothin ♡♡♡

I'm sorry I voted to lynch u.

I would have let u kill me tonight. u should have said.

it was fun playing with u. it seemed like you chose to help town. thanks for choosing town.

I had actually ruled in private that that would not be the case. I realize his rolecard says that, but I wasn't going to allow a shared victory in those circumstances. The "Three kills and retire from the game" win condition was put there with the idea that he'd hit the target without the game being otherwise resolved.

After Radiohead, I wanted to make a game where the mafia team had a shared pool of abilities, rather than everyone being assigned their own ability. I'd also just kind of always wanted to run a general Elder Scrolls themed game, and the idea for shrines jumped out naturally to me as a thematic fit for that mechanic. And I liked it so much that I decided it worked for the whole game.

I wanted to make it another game that blended the old school syndicate style of playing without relying on claims with the newer trends centered around playing with claims. There were both direct and indirect claim deterrents. The Razor was obviously a direct deterrent. Indirectly, there were so many abilities out there, and so many of them only incidentally useful, that the potential benefit of claiming was relatively limited unless the information was very pertinent. Players would be receiving some information on their own, but it would not really be useful enough to necessitate sharing on its own. And then there were also a lot of abilities repeated across both alignments, just to muddy the waters a little bit more. The game was a bit convoluted by design.

Syn's role was the only one that I felt could have been exploited to be more powerful than it was intended, but that was nullified some because he was killed the instant he claimed it, so maybe it really wasn't all that powerful in the end.

I felt like the game played out well and everyone had a fair shot at winning. I welcome feedback.

DaisyCloud wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:23 pm Sloonei this was an awesome idea for a game! I loved being a joat. I only ever randed joat 1 time before this. I love choosing and having options as town.

I am a huge fan of lore in mafia games too. I high key want to play this game now. lol, I was on the wikifan site for this game learning about my character and the other players characters and such.

JaggedJimmyJay thank u for co-hosting and answering pms and all of that too.

I hope I play another game like this with similar concepts.

this game has alot of twists and turns.

I'm glad you had fun. I loved designing and hosting it.

DaisyCloud wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:18 pm oh my goodness!! I would have loved to be chaos champion. I wanted to visit chaos shrine on nite 1. I wish I had made absolutely sure my pm was sent.

I tried it again and got pies. lol

lol. You made me laugh, at least.

My heart broke when Tim killed Kyle. He can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Tim did that with every intention of hitting a civilian. That completely changed the complexion of the endgame. Before that, I thought Kyle was going to win, or Kyle and Tim were going to win together.

Since so many of you could not resist the allure of "Chaos", I'll explain how that worked:

There were several possible outcomes of visiting Sheogorath's shrine. All of the options were assigned a range of numbers between 1-100, and when someone visited the shrine we'd RNG a result. 1-55 was "posting curse". 55-100 featured, in uneven intervals, several much more useful things like "1-shot investigative ability", "double vote", "remove self from the poll", etc.
But the best option, which just barely missed being landed on Night 1 (by TSP) was the Wabbajack. There was 3 or 4% chance that a player visiting Sheogorath's shrine could receive the Wabbajack, a new Artifact, and become Sheogorath's Champion. The Wabbajack would grant the player a nightly redirection ability. I was rooting for it every time one of you went for chaos.

Remaining player rolecards:

DaisyCloud:

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Enrique / Vulgard:

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Gavial:

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Long Con:

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TonyStarkPrime:

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Dead chat: https://discord.gg/wYT2wPTzSC
Mafia chat: https://discord.gg/8e38m8BsGu

Day 8

Timsup2nothin has been killed. He was the Imperial Merchant, and Molag Bal's Champion. The Mace of Molag Bal has been destroyed.

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Role: Imperial Merchant
Race: Imperial
Alignment: Rogue (Self-aligned)
Available Shrines: All

Molag Bal’s Champion. Each Night you can access a Shrine of your choice. For every player other than yourself visiting the same Shrine as you each Night, you get a +1 charge counter. Additionally, up to 1 other player visiting the same Shrine as you on any given Night will have their access to that Shrine reset; they will be able to access that Shrine immediately regardless of any designated role restrictions on their access to that Shrine. You cannot be blocked from accessing a Shrine.

You wield the Artifact the Mace of Molag Bal.
When the wielder of the Mace of Molag Bal has a charge total of 3, they may perform a nightkill. Nightkills with the Mace will always take place at Molag Bal’s Shrine. Performing a kill resets the player’s charge counter total to 0, though they can receive up to 1 additional counter on a Night that they perform a kill if another player (other than their victim) visits Molag Bal’s Shrine the same Night.
For each kill you perform, you begin each day with 1 vote subtracted from your total in the poll (unless it is LYLO), up to 2 subtracted votes.
The Artifact will remain in your possession as long as you remain alive. It will be destroyed upon your death.
You may not kill other Champions. If you attempt to kill a Champion, nothing will happen and your counter total will remain intact.

You win the game by performing 3 nightkills. You must kill at least one member of each faction to achieve this win condition. You can win alongside the Mafia team if you survive to a Final 2 scenario in which you and a Mafia member are the only remaining players. If you achieve this win condition prior to the game being otherwise resolved, you will be removed from the game and announced as a winner. The game will continue in your absence. You will be unable to vote via Azura’s Star in this instance, as you will not be dead.
Alternatively, you may win by surviving to the end of the game. If you are one of 2 remaining players, with the other player being Town, you will win alone.

With all threats eliminated, Town wins the game.
Thank you all for playing.

Night 7

Kylemii has been killed. He was the Altmer Noble, a member of the Order of the Revenant. The Artifacts Volendrung and Mehrunes' Razor have been destroyed.

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The Mafia team has been eliminated. The Rogue remains active.
It is Day 8. You have 48 hours to eliminate somebody.

Day 7

[Flavor pending]

Master Radishes has been eliminated. He was the Redguard Alchemist.

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It is Night 7. You have 21 hours to submit your night actions.

Thread locked. Results will have to wait til i get home.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 9:45 pm Deadline will be at the normal time (7 PM EST). The poll has been updated to reflect this.

Bonus announcement: I can't make that deadline I just set.

Day will still end at 7, you all may just need to wait an extra hour for the results if Jay's also unable to handle it.

Deadline will be at the normal time (7 PM EST). The poll has been updated to reflect this.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 10:24 pm I set the poll to run "indefinitely". I was unsure which option would be preferred: Allow Day 7 to run for 48 hours with a deadline at this time on Monday, or keep the deadline at the same time, thus shortening this phase by 3 hours. I'll allow you all to vote on your preference. Please PM me with your preference (either here or on discord). Please do not discuss this vote in any way in the game thread. Whichever options has received more votes in 24 hours will be put in place. Again your options are:
48 hour day phase ending at 10:20 PM EST.

~45 hour day phase ending at the usual time.

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@DaisyCloud @Vulgard @Gavial @Kylemii @Long Con @Master Radishes @Timsup2nothin @TonyStarkPrime

Reminder to everyone to vote on the phase length/deadline time for this phase if you have a preference.

I set the poll to run "indefinitely". I was unsure which option would be preferred: Allow Day 7 to run for 48 hours with a deadline at this time on Monday, or keep the deadline at the same time, thus shortening this phase by 3 hours. I'll allow you all to vote on your preference. Please PM me with your preference (either here or on discord). Please do not discuss this vote in any way in the game thread. Whichever options has received more votes in 24 hours will be put in place. Again your options are:

48 hour day phase ending at 10:20 PM EST.

~45 hour day phase ending at the usual time.

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Night 6

Scotty has been killed. He was Fargoth, the Woof Elf Commoner.

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It is Day 7. You have ~48 hours to eliminate somebody.

Flavor and role details have been added to the Day 6 post.

In other news, I will be working tonight and JaggedJimmyJay is currently traveling by silt strider to Gnisis, so it is unlikely that either of us will be capable of ending Night 6 on time. The start time of Day 7 will likely be delayed by a couple of hours. My apologies. Thank you for your patience.

Day 6

Marmot has been killed. He was the Dunmer Conjurer, a member of the Order of the Revenant.

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It is Night 6. You have 23 hours to submit your night actions.

It appears we will be late to post the results at the end of this day phase today. I apologize for this. The thread should be treated as locked after the deadline. I'll get the results to you all as quickly as possible.

Night 5

Jackofhearts2005 has been killed. He was the Nord Scholar.

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It is Day 6. You have 48 hours to eliminate someone.

Day 5

lost monkey has been eliminated. He was the Nord Warrior, a member of the Order of the Revenant.

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It is Night 5. You have 23 hours to submit your night actions.
The thread is locked for the duration of the Night.

Neither host will be available at the time of tonight's deadline. Expect some lateness. We apologize. I will try to sneak away from work to get a flavorless announcement up as soon as possible, but I can make no guarantees.

It has been brought to my attention that TonyStarkPrime was absent from the poll yesterday (Day 3). This was a host error.

An error in the poll has been corrected.

Night 3

BoKnows has been killed. He was the Orc Bard, and Malacath's Champion.

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KZA has been killed. He was the Breton Apprentice.

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MacDougall has been killed. He was the Breton Monk, a member of the Order of the Revenant.

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It is Day 4. You have 48 hours to eliminate someone.

@Qwags is eligible to cast a vote in the poll today. He may not post in the thread.
Night action results will be sent out momentarily, my apologies for the delay.

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@Vulgard is replacing @Enrique. Please not discuss this event.

Thread is locked for the remainder of Night 3. You have 22 more hours to submit your night actions. Reminder to send actions to both hosts.

Day 3

Moghedien has been eliminated. He was M'aiq the Liar, the Khajiit Wanderer.

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It is Night 3. You have 23 hours to submit your night actions.
It is the hour of Dusk. The thread will remain open until 8 PM EST.

Day has ended. Stand by for results.

@Alison is no longer eligible to vote in today's poll.
@NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME is eligible to vote instead. Please do not discuss this event.

All players, living and dead, should take care to remember that players may continue to have an impact on the game after their death.

@Master Radishes is replacing @Quin. Please not discuss this event.

Night 2

Syn has been killed. He was the Vigilant of Stendarr.

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It is Day 3. You have 48 hours to eliminate someone.

@Alison is eligible to cast a vote in the poll today. She may not post in the thread.

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@Moghedien is replacing @Stupid Sexy Flanders. Please do not discuss this event.

The deadline to submit night actions is in just over 1 hour. Day 3 will begin 1 hour after that.

Thread is locked for the remainder of Night 1 (22 hours).

I have also updated and clarified a few rules on the front page. Feel free to review those.

Day 1

Seanzie has been eliminated. He was the Argonian Mage, and Meridia's Champion. The Artifact Dawnbreaker has been destroyed.

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It is Night 1. You have 23 hours to submit your night actions. Please submit actions to both Sloonei and JaggedJimmyJay.
It is the hour of Dusk. The thread will remain open until 8 PM EST.

Host post incoming shortly.

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