The Syndicate

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:31 pm Go Chiefs

I promise the hold-up in the endgame post had nothing to do with that game, but I will also admit I am very nervous right now.

MafiaMenace wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:27 pm
MafiaMenace wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:49 pm
nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:48 pm
MafiaMenace wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:46 pm right now im townreading epi, but both epi and nutella created the whole "literally" debate

so i would like to say there can only be one scum in {nutella, epi}
if nutella flips civi then the next one from there would be epi
so you've already decided to lynch me tomorrow? I'd love to convince you otherwise
ive learned to stick with my guns
lots of shit happens when i dont

and many, many times ive let scum out of my grasps a minute too early
im not making excuses as to why the town lost tbh
its for my bad performance

I think you did well! There's just a bit of an experience gap since you're relatively new-ish to the game and our scum tend to be especially devious, but you ought to keep playing here.

reywaS wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:27 pm fun game regardless of outcome. Glad to be back, homies

Your commitment to the schtick was admirable.

Epignosis
1
9%
Voters: novaselinenever

Lunalee
1
9%
Voters: reywaS

MafiaMenace
0
No votes
Voters: None

novaselinenever
0
No votes
Voters: None

nutella
0
No votes
Voters: None

reywaS
4
36%
Voters: MafiaMenace, nutella, Epignosis, Lunalee

No Lynch
0
No votes
Voters: None

Eleanor Shellstrop (host/mod/non)
5
45%
Voters: Sloonei, sprityo, JaggedJimmyJay, ColinIsCool, G-Man

There was a half-second almost at the very end where there were 4 votes on Epignosis. Head-ass meat slabs at the end of a phase are never your friend, town!

Host Notes

Regarding the ratio. The short version: despite having played Mafia on-and-off for 13 years or so, I had never heard of Mountainous set-ups until Jay and Nova had a conversation about it. Oops!

The slightly longer version: when it was clear we were stalled short of my ideal size, I deliberated for a long time between 10v2 and 9v3, and consulting the available literature on balance (which some of it, I see now, talks about Mountainous — oops again) I couldn't settle on a good ratio. 9v3 felt like it might be overkill, but 10v2 felt like it was heavily skewed against the scum — catch one and, knowing how good these players are, the game could be immediately over. In the end I realize I hyped up the players we had (a compliment to you all) and while I can’t anticipate everything, I'm sorry if anybody feels cheated.

So 9v3 was not a decision made carelessly, but it seems to go against what's understood to be balanced, and again, I apologize. It’s not ideal, but I hope people still had some fun and walk away with lots of juicy notes on each other, if nothing else. Thanks again for playing, and don't forget the other games in sign-ups now!

Endgame

With the ice cream cartons culled, the Frozen Fiends were able to make their final strike ...

Spoiler: show

Congratulations to Epignosis (Bag of Frozen Vegetables), nutella (The Last Orange Popsicle), and sprityo, the mafia, for their victory.

reywaS has been lynched.

Spoiler: show

Locking...

15 minutes.

sabie12 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:39 pm
ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:23 pm
sabie12 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:17 pm I enjoy the the good place reference
Fork yeah.
holy forking shirtballs! See the new episode? I'm always like how can they keep going and they keep coming up with new ideas. Has there been a good place mafia? I feel like that show was made for mafia

I’d play it. Hopefully light on spoilers though.

sabie12 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:17 pm I enjoy the the good place reference

Fork yeah.

Sloonei has been killed.

Spoiler: show

It is now Day 4. Today is a MYLO lynch. You may elect to
not lynch. You have 48 hours to proceed.

Locking for a brief moment....

Day 3

Epignosis
0
No votes
Voters: None

G-Man
5
38%
Voters: G-Man, Lunalee, novaselinenever, Sloonei, reywaS

Lunalee
0
No votes
Voters: None

MafiaMenace
2
15%
Voters: nutella, Epignosis

novaselinenever
0
No votes
Voters: None

nutella
0
No votes
Voters: None

reywaS
0
No votes
Voters: None

Sloonei
1
8%
Voters: MafiaMenace

Ray Velcoro (host/mod/non)
5
38%
Voters: sabie12, JaggedJimmyJay, ColinIsCool, speedchuck, sprityo

Unlocked!

G-Man has been lynched.

Spoiler: show

It is now Night 3. Day 4 will begin in 24-ish hours at 9:00 p.m. EST on 1/18/2019.

Locking...

Lunalee wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:34 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:32 pm Just kidding. I meant the ice cream flavor. That exists?
Oh, Chicken Wing. Ew. And I thought mine was bad.

It was an April Fool’s joke, actually, but it’s the most WNY thing imaginable so I had to put it in.

Night 2 has ended.

Spoiler: show

It is now Day 3. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

Lunalee has replaced Spacedaisy.

Locking the thread a few minutes early.

Day 2

Epignosis
0
No votes
Voters: None

G-Man
0
No votes
Voters: None

JaggedJimmyJay
0
No votes
Voters: None

MafiaMenace
0
No votes
Voters: None

nutella
3
23%
Voters: G-Man, sprityo, MafiaMenace

reywaS
0
No votes
Voters: None

Sloonei
2
15%
Voters: nutella, reywaS

Spacedaisy
0
No votes
Voters: None

sprityo
4
31%
Voters: Sloonei, JaggedJimmyJay, Epignosis, novaselinenever

WaywardSon
0
No votes
Voters: None

Patrick Mahomes (dead/non/etc)
4
31%
Voters: WaywardSon, speedchuck, sabie12, ColinIsCool

Sprityo has been lynched.

Spoiler: show

It is now Night 2. Day 3 will begin in 23.5 hours at 9:00 p.m. EST on 1/15/2019.

Locked!

Less than 5 minutes for your vote to be final.

WaywardSon wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:33 pm
ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:22 pm WaywardSon has been replaced by novaselinenever.
Never even answered the PM. Ok no problem.

I never received another message — are you sure you sent one?

I may be misunderstanding you, either way, see my last PM.

WaywardSon has been replaced by novaselinenever.

Night 1 has ended.

Spoiler: show

It is now Day 2. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

MafiaMenace wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 2:14 pm so during the night we are absolutely allowed to talk about reads and even make them?
thats a big change than what im used to

The only rule is no biting!

Well, and everything else in the rules already. But yeah, smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Nope.

Elohcin has been literally lynched.

Spoiler: show

It is now Night 1. Day 2 will begin in 23.5 hours at 9:00 p.m. EST on 1/12/2019.

Day 1

Elohcin
3
25%
Voters: Sloonei, nutella, JaggedJimmyJay

Epignosis
0
No votes
Voters: None

G-Man
0
No votes
Voters: None

JaggedJimmyJay
2
17%
Voters: G-Man, reywaS

MafiaMenace
0
No votes
Voters: None

Nutella
0
No votes
Voters: None

reywaS
1
8%
Voters: sabie12

sabie12
0
No votes
Voters: None

Sloonei
2
17%
Voters: sprityo, Epignosis

Spacedaisy
0
No votes
Voters: None

Sprityo
0
No votes
Voters: None

WaywardSon
0
No votes
Voters: None

Tom Waits (host/mod/non)
4
33%
Voters: WaywardSon, ColinIsCool, Kylemii, speedchuck

Thread is LOCKED.

G-Man wrote: ↑Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:37 pm Lovely host, @ColinIsCool, what happens in the event of a tie? The OP and the rest of your ISO fail to expound upon the ramifications of such a scenario.

Good question! Ties are decided randomly.

ISO links in the first post. Let me know if anybody’s is broken!

I’ll be on my phone throughout today, but I’ll attempt to generate ISO links anyway.

WaywardSon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:33 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:44 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:07 pm There's only one MM around here, and it ain't MafiaMenance.
I was just looking at his profile this morning, he hasn’t been on since November
I would poke him but I dont want to break a rule.

He’s referring to another user here. If you have a means of contacting MafiaMenace, though, I’d allow you to give a nudge.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:15 pm
ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:10 pm I'm not sure why I can't get the poll to end at the right time, but it would be a help if you voted in the thread as well in the meanwhile. Poll ends at 9 p.m. EST Friday 10/11.
Full disclosure: I altered your poll time and changed it back. Check your time settings. Is the time right on your end? I don't know why your poll should be so off.

It was not! I've straightened it out though. Thanks!

Enjoy the extra 17 minutes.

Day 0

Who will win Super Bowl LIII?

Kansas City Chiefs
0
No votes
Voters: None

New England Patriots
1
9%
Voters: Sloonei

Los Angeles Chargers
0
No votes
Voters: None

Indianapolis Colts
1
9%
Voters: G-Man

New Orleans Saints
2
18%
Voters: Epignosis, JaggedJimmyJay

Los Angeles Rams
0
No votes
Voters: None

Dallas Cowboys
3
27%
Voters: Elohcin, sprityo, reywaS

Philadelphia Eagles
2
18%
Voters: nutella, sabie12

Clemson Tigers (host/mod/non)
2
18%
Voters: speedchuck, ColinIsCool

I'm not sure why I can't get the poll to end at the right time, but it would be a help if you voted in the thread as well in the meanwhile. Poll ends at 9 p.m. EST Friday 10/11.

Day 1: A Cold Dish

Most people would not look outside their window to see an unending barrage of snow and cold and think "I'll have ice cream," but Colin was not like most people. If you had developed some lactose intolerance traits recently, you would be even less inclined to stuff a bowl full of milk product into your mouth — and while Colin suspected his body could no longer handle it without discomfort, he was resolved to eat some anyway. Readers may ask, given these facts, why would Colin feel that way; why ice cream?

The answer he would have given, had anybody rang him up and asked, would have been, "Because I'm a grown-ass man and I can eat ice cream if I want to."

Armed with a sense of righteous indignation and a sweet tooth that threatened his upcoming dentist visit, Colin peeked through the freezer in search of the perfect treat. Even though he rarely ate ice cream, a carton inevitably managed to grab his eye whenever he shopped for groceries. He found himself to have an embarrassment of riches and rich flavors: Butterscotch Sundae and Americone Dream, Birthday Cake and Bills Brownie Blitz. He didn't want anything with fruit, and Chocolate was a bridge too far this evening. After several minutes of focused, sweaty deliberation, he had settled on the evening's choice: simple, down-to-earth, delicious Vanilla.

He grabbed a bowl from the cupboard, prepared his dinner — three scoops, plain — and sat in front of the television, spoon in hand. The talking heads were predicting which of the teams would win all the way from this weekend's Divisional match-ups to the Super Bowl. Several had supporters, but to Colin's surprise, most had coalesced around the Dallas Cowboys, a team Colin loathed as a matter of principle, by birthright. "That's okay," Colin said to himself in between shovels of ice cream, "let Jerry's team get good again. It'll make Josh Allen trouncing them in back-to-back Super Bowls at the end of his rookie contract that much sweeter."

Sweet, indeed, such a victory would be — and sweet is this ice cream, he thought. Almost too sweet. Something about it had stuck in his throat. He coughed once, twice, three times before he knew something was wrong. A weakness to lactose shouldn't cause a reaction like this, he thought. He stumbled up from the couch, carrying the bowl with him into the kitchen. The coughs continued, rising in intensity, as went to get a glass of water. One big whoop caused him to drop the bowl on the floor, and then he himself fell, his body trembling. From the other room, he could hear that Chantix commercial with Ray Liota, until his own guttural wheezes drowned the sound out; as he shut his eyes, his last thoughts were of Goodfellas, and of Josh Allen.

An uncomfortable, long silence followed. The ice cream cartons heard everything, of course, but they didn't understand why Colin was now dead on his kitchen floor. Slowly they emerged, and their law enforcement conducted a forensic analysis. Its results shocked the freezer community: Vanilla had been tampered with, coaxed into acting as a poison. Any attempt at figuring out what inspired him to commit such an act of cruelty would be for naught, as Vanilla had sacrificed his own life, walked into his own point of melting, just so that Colin would die.

The next weeks for the ice cream cartons were a difficult and messy affair. The police determined that a group of Frozen Fiends had put Vanilla up to it, but couldn't say who they were or why they did it. After investigators failed to find a perp, much less an organized mafia, neighbors realized they couldn't trust one another — not with murderers out there, walking free. Freezer meetings on public safety turned into shouting matches turned into physical altercations. Families moved and friendships disintegrated. Ice cream cartons began arming themselves, prowling the streets with weapons, some of them aching for a reason to shoot. Things could not continue, not like this.

A plan emerged. A plan that was dangerous, a plan that could destroy them all, a plan that could be hard to live with if not executed to perfection. As difficult as it was, the town had no other idea what they could do. The modern judiciary had failed to save them, but maybe old-fashioned justice would prevail. A lynch would take place, and then another. They would exile their neighbors to melt in the sink one-by-one, until the last guilty party had been sentenced to death for their crimes. They would sate their taste for justice, or at least for blood.

Of course, the Freezer Fiends saw all this. They watched the ice cream cartons struggle and curse and collapse as a society. They knew they could use these lynches to their advantage — after all, they were better at opening the freezer door than most of these ice cream cartons, so they could help whittle the numbers down all the while. Go ahead and look for us, the Frozen Fiends said, chase your justice down. Chase your return to normalcy, your age of innocence. But don't be surprised what chases you back.

It is now Day 1. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:02 pm I'm from Alabama. The mod/host/non option is a bit on the nose.

If Bama wants to beat the Raiders, they should try getting past Clemson first!

Role PMs have been sent out. If I fucked something up, please let me know!

Check in on the poll for Day 0 and mingle. Day 1 begins 1/9/2019 at 9 p.m. EST.

I will be sending out role PMs when I return from an appointment in a couple of hours. There will be a check-in poll posted which has no relevance to the matter at hand. When the thread is unlocked, Day 0 will begin and last until 1/9/2019 at 9 p.m. EST, at which point Day 0 will begin.

Vanilla Mafia

ColinIsCool

Victors:
Epignosis - Frozen Bag of Vegetables
nutella - The Last Orange Popsicle

Dead at Endgame:
Lunalee - Elf Trash
MafiaMenace - Mint Chocolate Chip
novaselinenever - Rocky Road

Deceased Players:
Elohcin - Cotton Candy - Lynched Day 1
sabie12 - Blue Moon - Killed Night 1
WaywardSon - Replaced by novaselinenever Day 2
sprityo - Ice Cube Tray - Lynched Day 2
JaggedJimmyJay - Chicken Wing - Killed Night 2
Spacedaisy - Replaced by Lunalee Day 3
G-Man - Coffee Bacon - Lynched Day 3
Sloonei - Cherry Garcia - Killed Night 3
reywaS - Super Hero - Lynched Day 4

Rules

1. Everyone is vanilla, but nobody is Vanilla.
2. This is a closed set-up. There’s not that much to dump, anyway, but I figure you’d like to know. Player roles and alignments are revealed on all deaths.
3. Please do not edit or delete posts.
4. Please do not engage in BTSC (Behind the Scenes Conversation, or discussing ongoing game strategy and the like) outside of the appropriate channels provided to you and with anybody who isn’t your BTSC partner(s) assigned by the host.
5. Don’t do any other weird shit that goes against the nature of the game. This is Mafia, not … some other thing.
6. Please be respectful of all players and their desire to have some fun. We’re all friends here; remember the person behind the other monitor, and don’t be a dick.
7. If you are experiencing problems with the game of the butting-heads variety and want to vent, or want someone to send your Soundcloud to, speedchuck is serving as our faithful moderator. I think he’s got the plague, so if he isn’t responsive, feel free to give me a buzz and I’ll see what I can do.
8. Dead players and other zombies that feel the need to comment must post in dead red, or I’ll kill them again. Non-players can post in blue, but if you’re not playing, why didn’t you sign up in the first place, pal?
9. You can post off-topic in OT green if you want, but I’m not a stickler about that.
10. This is the host color, which I’ll post in unless it’s screwy on mobile. Please don’t use it, because it’s all mine!
11. Votes are changeable right up until the deadline. The EOD (end of day) tally will be found in a separate thread.
12. Day phases last 48 hours, Night phases 24, with the exception of Day 0. My hope is to have phases consistently change right around 9 p.m. EST, but should unforeseen difficulties arrive on my end, I’ll do my best to broadcast as such.
13. You can ask any questions you want in the thread. If I feel it merits a public answer, I will provide one, but remember that this is a closed set-up.
14. All players, alive or dead, will be declared champions should their team fulfill the standard Mafia win condition.
15. Ice cream does not contain pasteurized egg yolk, but frozen custard does.

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