The Syndicate

So that's the game! Inactivity in the later phases killed the town, but both wolves did very well! Luckbox did a good job of spewing so that town wouldn't get any useful information out of his flip, while LC of course brought home the win. For the sake of transparency, here are the host errors I made:

- Accidentally giving EnderWiggin the role that RNG had determined should have gone to Esooa. Since both were vanilla town, this didn't affect the game at all, but I'm mentioning it anyway for the sake of transparency.
- A couple of technical difficulties - namely, not being able to set up the poll immediately D1, and me having to send DrWilgy his Role PM several times before it went through
- Forgetting to remove the Discord link from Luckbox's flip. This was really bad and could have cost the game, but fortunately DrWilgy and anyone else who happened to notice it were good sports and nobody clicked on that link. Still, I responded by editing it out, making the link expire, and making the wolfchat server more secure. In the future, I am definitely going to send Discord links separately from Role PMs, no matter how much more convenient the forum makes it to send them together.

And now for the typical questions - did you enjoy the game, was the hosting fair, and was flavor good?

@Alison
@DrWilgy
@EnderWiggin
@Esooa
@iaafr
@Kami
@Lime Coke
@Luckbox Inc
@MacDougall

Ultimately, the Mollies couldn't unite together in time, and in the meantime the Pinkerton Detective Agency was able to gather enough "evidence" to frame the Mollies for the murders. The Reading Railroad just had to pay off a couple juries, and the work was done.

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:41 pm

You are Michael Doyle! According to the pro-corporate Harrisburg Daily Independent, you were "the best-looking man of the lot" of the Molly Maguires who were convicted of the murder of two mine bosses in a sham trial in Mauch Chunk. Ultimately, you were supposedly at the heart of a conspiracy to murder the mine owners who were openly blacklisting miners who participated in the Long Strike, but the evidence was a witness under the payroll of said mine owners. You are one of the Molly Maguires and win when the moles in the Pinkerton Detective Agency are rooted out and eliminated.

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:31 pm

You are Edward Kelley! You were hanged in a prison in Mauch Chunk (now known as Jim Thorpe) because you were accused by the mine owners of killing mine bosses John P. Jones and Morgan Powell alongside three other men, but in reality this was a sham trial. Ultimately, you were executed in the largest mass hanging in Pennsylvania history. You are one of the Molly Maguires and win when the moles from the Pinkerton Detective Agency are rooted out and eliminated.

Meanwhile, Franklin B. Gowen sat in his office, content that the threats to his profit margins have been eliminated. He may have felt a little guilty hanging some innocent men, but it didn't matter when he could now lower everyone's wages, increase their hours, and spend even less on safety. With this much money, no one in Pennsylvania, not even the state government, would be able to stop him.

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:10 pm

You are Franklin B. Gowen! As the owner of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, you have a monopoly on the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, and despite it being illegal for you to own said mines, you're too powerful for the state of Pennsylvania to do anything about it. Your mines are known for their dangerous conditions, with hundreds of workers being killed yearly in mine accidents and children as young as eight doing dangerous work, and after an economic depression you tried to squeeze even more money out of your workers. This led to the rise of the Molly Maguires, a group of Irish-American miners who united against the terrible working conditions and demanded better working conditions. Seeing this as a threat to your profit margins, you decided to hire the Pinkerton Detective Agency to gather "evidence" to bust the Molly Maguires for once and for all. You are allied with the Pinkerton Detective Agency and win when the Molly Maguires have been eliminated or if nothing can stop this from happening.

The Mollies ultimately failed in their goals, and more miners would have to suffer under terrible working conditions. But their battles would inspire many other workers to stand up against the robber barons of their day, and they are still well remembered in the Anthracite Coal Region to this day.

Endgame has been achieved. The Pinkerton Detective Agency, consisting of Luckbox Inc and Lime Coke, has won!

Wolf chat: https://discord.gg/N3zsm3ySNc
Spec chat: https://discord.gg/K7ZpyhSkBE

Banners, courtesy of @Syn:
For Luckbox and Lime Coke:
For me:

And that's game!

Seems like everyone agrees

Will wrap this up shortly

@Alison
@DrWilgy
@EnderWiggin
@Lime Coke

With only a few miners still willing to stand up against them, the Reading Railroad knew they had nearly won. Still, there were a couple threats to eliminate, so they sent someone with orders to kill Thomas Duffy. When he returned home from mining, he didn't stand a chance.

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:49 pm

You are Thomas Duffy! You were hanged on Black Thursday in 1877 despite your connections to the murder you were accused of being extremely tenuous (you were only really accused of giving money to the supposed assassin) but since the corporation that you were unionizing against controlled the judge, jury, and witnesses, you didn't stand a chance. This engraving depicts you saying farewell to your friends and family as you are sent to be hanged in the largest mass execution in Pennsylvania history. You are one of the Molly Maguires and win when the moles from the Pinkerton Detective Agency have been rooted out and eliminated.

The propagandizing had been so effective that now, everyone on the street was calling to hang the Molly Maguires. This was now national news, so their last shot to save themselves was to find who was actually behind these murders. If they didn't take their chance now, Pennsylvania would be controlled by robber barons for the forseeable future.

It is now day 5. The phase will end Friday on 11pm ETC unless all players agree to end it earlier. This will be the last phase of the game.

@Alison
@DrWilgy
@EnderWiggin
@Lime Coke

The Mollies knew that their time was running out, but they also knew that they couldn't afford to make any mistakes at this point. Thus, they decided to stay in the mines once again, but they knew that they had to face the world tomorrow.

Nobody has died. It is now N4. It will end at the normal time tomorrow.

I'll allow a sleep vote if everyone agrees to it, though I won't be able to update today

@Alison
@DrWilgy
@EnderWiggin
@Esooa
@Lime Coke

Back at the mines, one person disguised as a foreman kept a very close eye on the exits, for the Molly Maguires had been very quiet that day. One man was the first to go out, and the next thing he knew, he was being shot to oblivion.

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:20 pm

You are Thomas Munley! You were accused of the murder of Thomas Sanger and was the first Molly Maguire to be hanged in Pottsville as a result, however this was largely due to the accusations of one powerful industrialist. You were born in Tullaghan in the north of Ireland in 1845 as Thomas Munnelly, however this name became Munley when you moved to the United States. You are one of the Molly Maguires and win when the moles from the Pinkerton Detective Agency have been rooted out and eliminated.

Very few Mollies were still alive, the newspaper stories were getting even more sensationalist, and more mining workers and foremen were disappearing left and right. If they couldn't find who was behind these events, their fight for better working conditions would all be for naught...

It is now D4. This has the potential to be the last phase in the game. The phase can be ended early if all players agree to it.

After all the sensationalist stories in the news, the Mollies decided it would be best to stay inside the mines for the day. They knew they couldn't keep going like this forever, but they needed time to plan out their next move.

Nobody has died. It is now N3, which will end 11pm tomorrow ETC.

@Alison
@DrWilgy
@EnderWiggin
@Esooa
@Lime Coke
@MacDougall

When looking over the notes left by their fallen ally, the Reading Railroad believed that James Carroll posed the biggest threat out of all of the Mollies. After paying off any potential witnesses that could testify against them, they sent an agent to Mauch Chunk to pose as a watchman while Carroll would return home from the mines. As Carroll was walking home, he saw someone he thought he recognized - and the next thing he knew, he was staring down a rifle. As Carroll lay dying, the agent left an AOH insignia at the scene in an attempt to frame one of the Mollies. At least the newspapers they had paid off would buy the stories, and that's all that matters.

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:58 pm

You are James Carroll! You were convicted for the murder of night watchman Benjamin Yost in one of the most screwed-up trials in American history. This is because Yost's actual murderer testified in the prosecution, and despite his wife testifying against him, a mistrial was declared due to a juror's death. In the next trial, the testimony that would've exonerated you couldn't be used, and you ended up being hanged because of a murder you didn't commit. To make it worse, the key witness against the Maguires, who was on the mine owners' payroll, was engaged to the sister of the murderer, preventing any justice from occurring. You are one of the Molly Maguires and win when the moles of the Pinkerton Detective Agency have been rooted out and eliminated.

Before they headed to the mines for the day, the remaining Mollies noticed that their numbers were thinning, and that the local newspapers were all printing stories with exaggerated reports of their violence that falsely accused them of murder. Now, some of the officials in the Reading Railroad were openly calling for them all to be hanged, and they knew that if they didn't stick together, they'd all be picked off easily.

It is now D3, which will last for 48 hours and ends on 12/19 at 11pm ETC.

@Alison
@DrWilgy
@EnderWiggin
@Esooa
@Lime Coke
@Luckbox Inc
@MacDougall

After Jack Kehoe's mysterious death, many people started to suspect James McKenna, one of Kehoe's closest friends. He was a friend to many of the Mollies after he arrived a couple of years ago, but many were suspicious of the way he was taking notes, and some thought his accent sounded a bit like a Chicago one. The Reading Railroad was happy to push for a hanging of an alleged Molly Maguire, and thought that taking advantage of Kehoe's death would case a further fracturing of the Mollies. However, when they double checked their notes, they realized that they made a big mistake...

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:17 pm

You are James McParland! Originally an Irish immigrant yourself, eventually you moved to Chicago and became a private detective. The owner of the Reading Railroad hired you to infiltrate the Molly Maguires, and eventually you did under the alias James McKenna. Your testimony was instrumental in getting twenty of the Molly Maguires hanged in the largest mass execution in Pennsylvania history. Eventually, your fame would lead to you being written as a character in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books. You are part of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and win when the Molly Maguires have been eliminated or if nothing can stop this from happening.

Some of the Mollies were shocked to find that someone they thought was one of their own was actually conspiring against them this whole time. However, for the first time they realized that they actually had the power to stand up against the corporate interests that wanted to destroy them. The fight was not over yet, but if they united together, nothing could stop them!

N2 begins now and ends in 24 hours.

@Alison
@DrWilgy
@EnderWiggin
@Esooa
@iaafr
@Lime Coke
@Luckbox Inc
@MacDougall

At the night in Girardville, Jack Kehoe returned to his tavern. However, when he went there he was not alone...

"I thought we were friends!"

"Sorry Jack, but I was part of the Pinkerton Detective Agency all along! I almost have enough evidence to hang the lot of you Molly Maguires, but without you in the way, it would be easier!"

In the night, a single gunshot was heard. Most assumed it was the sound of dynamite being used in the mines, but when the Molly Maguires arrived in the tavern before the long day of mining ahead, they were horrified:

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:37 pm

You are John "Black Jack" Kehoe! Originally from County Wicklow to the south of Dublin, you moved to Girardville as a kid. You would eventually become a prominent figure in the local Irish community, being selected as the delegate from the Schuylkill County branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and eventually you opened up a tavern (one that's still run by your descendants to this day), which was unheard of for Irish people to accomplish in the region at that time. Despite this, you never forgot your days in the mines, and your tavern became a congregation point for the Molly Maguires. You eventually gained a reputation as the "King" of the Molly Maguires which led to your execution, but you were posthumously pardoned by the government of Pennsylvania in 1979 (over 100 years after your execution) thanks to the efforts of your descendants. You are one of the Molly Maguires and win when the moles from the Pinkerton Detective Agency are rooted out and eliminated.

Meanwhile, the people in charge of the Reading Railroad rejoiced. They had taken down the King of the Molly Maguires! Meanwhile, they paid a few local newspapers in order to blame the killings on the Mollies, but the Mollies weren't convinced. Still, they realized that the fight for their lives was getting more intense, and if they couldn't put a stop to their boss's plans, they would all end up like Kehoe.

It is now D2. You have 48 hours to hang someone. Phase ends on 11 PM on the 16th, eastern time.

@Alison
@EnderWiggin
@Esooa
@iaafr
@Kami
@Lime Coke
@Luckbox Inc
@MacDougall

After a hard day of work in the mines, one of the miners was questioned for his loyalty to the cause. The death of Morgan Powell still reigned in the minds of the owners of the Reading Railroad. Ultimately, with the owners hating him and the other miners being unwilling to defend him, the sentence at Mauch Chunk was handed down: death.

leetic wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:26 pm

You are "Yellow Jack" Donahue! Unfortunately, there are no pictures of you remaining, so I'll just have to use this marker located in the place where you were executed for the killing of Morgan Powell, a man you never even met. Today, your descendants are still trying to get the government of Pennsylvania to posthumously pardon you, as the only reason why you were executed was because of the anti-Irish bigotry of thee day as well as the fact that the mine owners wanted you dead for organizing for better working conditions. You are one of the Molly Maguires and win when the moles from the Pinkerton Detective Agency have been rooted out and eliminated.

When news of the death broke out, the rage against the Molly Maguires and the Molly Maguires' rage against the Reading Railroad only grew further. Could they root out the threats before they all are executed?

It is now N1, which will last until 11pm tomorrow ETC. Effective immediately, @DrWilgy is replacing 112 as a result of the latter's inactivity.

Thanks to @Epignosis I was able to add a poll. The game can start for real now!

@Esooa
@112
@Alison
@EnderWiggin
@MacDougall
@Lime Coke
@Luckbox Inc
@Kami
@iaafr

All role PMs have been sent. If you have not received one, message me ASAP. I can't seem to add a poll right now, but in the meantime, D1 starts now. It will end on 11pm ETC on the 13th.

Players:

The living:
112 DrWilgy
Alison
Lime Coke

The dead:
Kami, hanged D1, John "Yellow Jack" Donahue, Molly Maguire
iaafr, shot N1, John "Black Jack" Kehoe, Molly Maguire
Luckbox Inc, hanged D2, James McParland, Pinkerton Detective Agency
MacDougall, shot N2, James Carroll, Molly Maguire
Esooa, shot N3, Thomas Munley, Molly Maguire
EnderWiggin, shot N4,Thomas Duffy, Molly Maguire[/color

The host:
leetic

Polls:
D1 D2 D3

After an economic depression in 1873, the mine owners decided to lower the already low pay of the anthracite miners by 20%, while safety conditions still failed to improve. The Irish-American miners decided enough was enough and started to organize and go on strike. The mine owners found that this was too big a threat to their massive profits to handle, so as mine overseers continued to mysteriously disappear they decided to take action. The would hire the private Pinkerton Detective Agency to infiltrate the miners' organization, find "evidence" to get them hanged, and break down the immigrant's way of organizing for better conditions. Will the Molly Maguires be able to handlle this new threat, or will the first attempt at unionization in America end in failure?

This game will contain 9 players, 7 Molly Maguires (town) and 2 members of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (mafia), and all roles will be vanilla. Nights are open and ties lead to nobody dying. Name/flavor claiming is banned. Phases are 48/24 with an 11pm ETC EoD, with a phase being extended by 24 hours if it overlaps with Christmas.

@Esooa
@112
@Alison
@EnderWiggin
@MacDougall
@Lime Coke
@Luckbox Inc
@Kami
@iaafr

Role PMs coming out shortly.