The Syndicate

Ceres wrote:Clean as Eros' new diaper. Seriously, mate, you were on our recruiting list, but we thought you were Hinzy for while, so sadly, it didn't it happen. On the other hand, I would freeze whenever I saw your replies and think: Oh gosh! He knows who I am and he knows that I'm pulling a Thomas! Butt didn't happen. Huzzah! Also, it would have been fun to be on a team with Mata and Snowy for the first time. Next time, I suppose.

Big hugs to SVS and juliets yet again and of course, Goosey, Llama, Roxy, Hedge, Rey, DFaraday and Timmer (pity you weren't here longer).

Oh, and spelling a u-less 'behavior' was a pain in the arse k.

Helios wrote:Something something teeth
Something something something teeth
Something something teeth

I loved this. I loved them all really, but this one was the perfect offering from the person who wrote it~ it fit him.

You guys had Juliets rolling today with the Haikus

The last contest, Elvis, we sent out no prizes~ it was a six way tie, and we felt that putting that amount of vote manips out there would be too much.

And you guys, you know how hard it is to write a post when nothing is ever decided until 2 minutes before the poll ends lol??

I got to know quite a few people better, and I enjoyed that

American Gods

Beware~ here there be spoilers. This book was published in 2001


Role List:

Civvies:

Shadow: A man of mystery and loyalty, he sees much and says little. He has a range of powers at his disposal, and must use all of them at least once before he can use any a second time. *secrets* Knows Lauras role, can choose from a list of powers nightly must use all before using any one a second time~ Zeus/Snow Dog

*Speaking In Tongues: Make someone post in a foreign language of your choice.
*Go To A Costume Party: you may mimic someones power for use the next night (NOT steal or redirect~). You don't know what it is until the results (if any), non lethal only. If you pick a killer, nothing will happen
*Steal their Keys: Role block
*Disenfranchise: You block someones vote the next day, they are not aware of this
*Buy A Player A Drink At The Bar: Protect someone else from all night powers

Laura: *secret* Shadows wife, she is totally dead when the game starts, so she must post no more than 3 times during the day (including a vote post, although her vote does not count while she is dead), but may post freely at night. Since she is already dead, she cannot "die" and thus cannot be lynched or NKed until she gets the magic coin. One of Shadows Night Actions is "Buy a Player a Drink at the Bar and Protect Them Tonight". At the point that he uses that, he will gain BTS with Sweeney, and no civvie deaths will go through that night. Shadow gets the coin. Laura will get the coin the next night, and returns to life. Shadow is not aware of this. Shadow cannot be NKed while Laura is alive. Her votes will now count, and she can post normally. She can also post up to 5 times per day as "Laura" once alive, and "Laura" may vote. Athena/Lorab

Sam Black Crow: Believes that things are true and believes things that aren’t true and believes things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. She can make people believe things. Each night, she sends a set of explicit instructions to the host about what her target believes and what their topics of discussion in the thread are to be the next day, as well as their vote. Aphrodite/SpaceDaisyReplaced by Roxy day 4

Mad Sweeney He is a Leprechaun, he has something Laura needs, and has to find a way to get it to her *secret* Sweeney has the luck of the Irish and a Magic Coin, should he be targeted with a kill, it will be deflected back at the killer as an Insanity Curse. Once Laura gets his coin, he loses this ability, but gains BTS with Shadow. Hermes/Zany Dex

Mr Nancy Mr Nancy is a storyteller. Every night, he tells someone a story. They are so enthralled by that story that they must act it out in the thread the next day, only discussing the topic of the Story and nothing else. (Mr Nancy may choose an actual (very) short story, a video, a poem., etc. original or found on the webz) Atlas/DP

EostreEostre brings the world back to life in the Spring~ Shadow cannot be lynched while she is alive. She can bring any NKed player back from the dead once in the game, and will survive the first NK attempt on herself~ she cannot self rezz; has get out of death free card. *secret* Helios/Boomslang replaced by DP

Czernobog Czernobog is ferocious, and he is dark. His sisters, the Zorya, save lives. He takes them. Even nights he blocks, odd nights he kills. His kill can be blocked, but his block cannot. Pluto/BWT

Whiskey Jack Wisakedjak is wise, and can help you got where you want to go. Each night the host tells him things~ he may then choose to tell the thread, or to send a message through the hosts. He is immune to the Actions of the New Gods. Medusa/mata

Mr Ibis An American avatar of Thoth, Mr Ibis is a god of death, but also of balance. Each day, he removes someone from the poll. If he removes a civvie, the worth of his vote increases by one. If a baddie (or Hinzelmann), it decreases by one, and an Indy has no effect. He does not know the results, but may ask the hosts his vote count once in the game. He may not remove himself on Night One.Prometheus/A Person

Mr Jacquel As Anubis, Mr Jacquel is the judge of the dead. Every night he chooses a player who will receive a PM from the hosts naming the roles of that nights dead. If the player he chooses is one of that nights NKs, he will receive the roles himself. Otherwise, he may not self target. Ares/Moving Pictures replaced by A Person

Bast Bast protects from evil spirits, and brings peace to a restless soul. Every night, she chooses someone to protect. She has one automatic night protection, otherwise she may only protect herself once. For each civvie death she prevents, the worth of her vote will increase by one. If she saves three civs, she will gain another night protection. She will not know her results.Fortuna/Elochin

Horus Horus flies through the night skies watching. Each night he targets a player, and learns who targeted that player, as well as who was targeted by that player.

Apple Johnny Johnny passes out the fruits of his labor nightly~ his apples consist of the magical power of communications. He chooses two players to gain BTS for the next day and night. He may choose this power for himself only once in the game. Phoenix/Reywas

Bilquis Bilquis was the Queen of Sheba in another life, a woman of widom, power and sensuality, but that combo is something that does not do well in America, and she has been reduced to walking the streets. She is bitter, and shows it if lynched. She takes the last person to vote for her with her. Electra/JenBiondi

Zorya Utrennyaya - Eros/Epignosishas one block to use from contest day 4-5;one protection of others from contest night 6
Zorya Vechernyaya - Electra/Zany Dex (subs in Night 1)/Moviing Pictures/replaced by Eros night 7
Zorya Polunochnaya Are the Morning, Evening & Midnight Stars. They have BTSC, and between them they have a lynch save and a lynch switch, neither of which they can use for themselves*secret*they have a n automatic death save that will go into effect the first time any of the three is targeted with death or lynch used night 4 for Poseidon.
Poseidon/Borok

Indies

Low Key Lie-Smith Loki is a trickster. Every night he plays a practical joke on a player; he redirects their target, or makes them talk like a Swedish Chef, or post in the style of the Norse Eddas. If you have been pranked by Loki, you can never be his foeman; your vote against him will never count, nor will your night actions. He may, however, be foiled in various ways, and may not target the same player twice in the game unless all living players have been targeted. *Secret*Loki can win with Wednesday, The New Gods or the Spookshow. He cannot win with the civvies or with Hinzelmann. Persephone wins block in Day 1 contest Persephone/Roxy

Wednesday *SECRET* Cannot be NKed, no night targets have any effect on him. Anyone who targets him with any power is insanified the next day. Those targeting him will receive 2 PMs; "your *power* has failed." And "You have been insanified".

Wednesday is the All Father and the Cultmaster, and to win the game, the living members of his cult must outnumber the rest of the living players at any point in the game. Wednesday can start recruiting Night Zero. If a player is protected, the recruit will fail, and certain roles cannot be recruited. Lynched recruits will be revealed only as their original role. You cannot recruit a second member of a BTS group until you have recruited a member of every group (civvie, Baddie 1, baddie 2, Indy) unless all members of another group are deceased. His recruits share his win conditions, but retain their BTS should they have any and enjoy the use of their night powers.

Cult Members votes for each other and Wednesday do not count, and the Cults win condition are independant of other win conditions, so there could be other winners. Ceres, Phoenix, Mars

Info Known only to Wednesday: You can tell your minions or not as you choose (this knowledge may make for an ugly chatroom) the recruits still retain their original win conditions, but will only be informed of this should Wednesday be lynched or should any of them win through their original conditions
Apollo/llama

Baddies (Note~ Team powers like the New Gods offer, or the Spookshow ambush, cannot be blocked; the kill must be weilded by an individual and can be blocked)

New Gods

Gods only Americans can love, they have an Even Kill. *secret* Every Odd night, they can make an offer to any player not on their team. They offer a player +/-2 votes to forego use of their power the next night. Their target may refuse, but then will have a 75/25 chance of the New Gods stealing it instead (25% in favor of the new Gods). They may choose not to use this power on any given odd night.
Communication: Can wear the guise of another player *secret* On odd nights sends a message as Mr Nancy or Whiskey Jack Ceres/Lizzy
Technical Boy: He controls the internet, every night he sends a sql error to a player; neither their vote the next day nor night action the next night will count Hercules/Timmer
Media: She controls what you see, what you think, what you know. She gains power via popularity. *Secret* Sliding scale of powers based on thread mentions other than by her teammates, QUOTES DO NOT COUNT. Artemis/Mongoose

0 mentions = No power; 1-5 = Block One Vote, 6-10 = Alignment check; 11-15 = cast a curse; 16-20 =Block 2 votes, 21-25 = Blanket team protection (from all powers); 26+ Chaos~ randomly redirect all night powers other than your teams.

You are responsible for keeping count, we might double check you. You must use the blanket protection before gaining another one, and can cause Chaos only once in the game. I mention day 1; used pt night one to block Persephone; 18 mentions Day 2;

The Spookshow: They're Spooks, they know everything, hear everything, from the surveillance equipment in the back of their Black Suburbans and aboard their black helicopters. They kill Odd nights.*secret*They terrorize even nights. Every even night, they ambush a player. They "confiscate" whatever they have on them (like extra votes, etc) and lock them up for one day, and redirect their power the next night (choose a new target, you do not know what the power might be) so they cannot post or vote. The target DOES NOT KNOW they have been targeted.

Mr Town: Thinks ALL gods are just freaks with telepathy, he can protect himself or one member of his team each night from all blockable powers Vesta/Hedgeowl
Mr Stone: Drives a black car, puts the bodies in the trunk~ *secret* he knows the identities of all the night killed. He will appear as one of them should he die via lynch; every night he picks a player~ should the target be lynched, Mr Stone will choose the role from amongst the bodies in his trunk that they will appear to be. Pandora/Hedgeowl Hubby repl. by Elochin night 4
Mr Wood: Coincidentally, also drives a black car. Each night he picks someone up on "suspicion" and redirects their target, and next days vote, to someone else. Mars/DFaraday

SK:

Hinzelmann He loved his adopted American Home of Lakeside, WI. He loved it so much, he made a secret deal with it; nothing bad or harmful would ever come to Lakeside as long as Lakeside never really looked into the one young person who mysteriously disappeared each year with the arrival of Spring. Hinzlemann has the opportunity to kill every night, or to self protect, but he cannot do both on one night, and he cannot self protect two nights in a row. He CAN kill two nights in a row. Chronos/Dom

Mechanics:
Win with your team, dead or alive (except SK, lol)
Civs~ defeat Mafia & SK
Shadow, Laura, Wednesday have special conditions
Low Key: Secret
Mafia: Defeat civs, SK & Other Mafia

Pre Game check in players to submit their own roles picture
Non Death Night Powers go in Night Zero Along With Pregame poll
Secrets to be revealed unannounced based on predetermined secret events, deaths, etc. SECRETS CAN BE REVEALED ANYTIME AFTER DAY ZERO, so play your role as if it is already known if it has a secret

Phoenix wrote:I am reywaS, and my role was Apple Johnny.

I had planned on using my role ability to create a network of civvies via temporary BTSC, but I was recruited on Night 1. I was still planning on using the temp. BTSC to help us win, but it didn't really work out. I tried to give Apollo BTSC with Artemis with my Night 0 target, but it failed and caused me to be insanified on Day 1. Anyway, I think the only successful target of mine was giving Artemis and Medusa BTSC. Every other night my target either failed or I was blocked. I tried to give myself BTSC with Chronos on Night 5 I think, but it failed. Then, I finally was successful on Night 9 when I gave myself BTSC with Helios for Day/Night 10. Then, of course, I only got one PM to Helios because I was busy all day today.

Did Apollo tell you his role? Any night targeting of him resulted in insanity. That confused us that you targeted him, lol.

Roles etc coming up shortly.

I also want to especially thank those who did double duty, like Epignosis, Roxy, Elohcin, A Person, Borok, DisPro and everyone who replaced back it. It made the game work so much better~ I think we had 4 Electras lol

@Lizzy~ that pesky helios was more trouble than you realize~ he's the one who brought Chronos back

Helios wrote:I don't like Elvis.

Me neither, but it is a major Tennessee attraction, and when in Rome and so forth

Words of Wisdom From Wisakedjak

[center]Nothing is as it appears
There is a role who can decide who people will appear as when lynched.
All dogs go to heaven[/center]

S~V~S wrote:

Medusa seldom had any fear out walking at night. Several times she had been accosted by various ruffians, but one look at her, and they turned to stone. She had even made it a hobby for a while of intentionally walking in especially lawless places, and then following the inevitable news stories about the mystery sculptor whose sculptures of criminals appeared mysteriously overnight. She chortled with glee over those articles. But over time, that lost its fun. Now she only walked at night if she had somewhere to go.

So when she felt the hand grip on her shoulder, pulling her around, she was annoyed, but also dismayed to see a little old man. Smiling.

She waited for him to turn to stone, and was still waiting when he suffocated her and shoved her into the trunk of the car on the ice.

~~~~~

Chronos never hurried; he had all the time in the world. He took his time when he did things, and he did them right. The first time.

It irked him no end that all day long his phone had rung one time only. When he answered it, there was no one there. He HATED having to rush for anything, but after the fifth time his phone rang only once, he sat down right next to it (it was a landline~ what need has Chronos for a cell phone? ) and waited. he waited several hours, which was a novelty for him. He never waited for anything. Just as he was running out of patience, it rang. He answered it before it stopped ringing.

the horrible noise it emitted just blew his brains right out of his ears.

~~~~~

Medusa & Chronos are dead.

Words of Wisdom From Wisakedjak

[center]One bad team is down to one person
One bad team is totally intact
The night polls have actual results, and are not just place keepers[/center]

Words of Wisdom From Wisakedjak

[center]There is a recruiter role in the game
There is at least one dead baddie
The civvie protector has protected noone[/center]

Athena was bopping down the street, in a great mood. she was humming some old disco tune, dumb but catchy.

"Born, born, born to be alive!!"

Meanwhile, some crazy looking teenage kid with blood dripping from his face and fingers was standing behind the tree in front of her hotel in Grand Rapids, MI. He was a big kid, and it was a skinny tree, but as she walked down the block, she did not notice him. The Goddess of Wisdom, yes. The Goddess of Observation, nah, not really.

When she was almost there, she thought, "Maybe I won't go home, maybe I'll go to a Zumba class at the Y !!"

Words of Wisdom From Wisakedjak

[center]No one benefitted from the choice of Wisconsin
Prometheus was definitely who he appeared to be
One of the baddie teams has a rezz[/center]

Apollo wrote:I am pretty annoyed with how terrible I have been at reading people this game. I'm sorry, Prometheus.
I think the real question is, why is Artemis still alive?

If we go to Michigan, will we be stuck there because the part of it that's adjacent to Wisconsin is not adjacent to any other states? Will we be forced into Canada? I need to know the answers to these questions before I vote.