The Syndicate

S~V~S wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Another possibility is that Boomslang has a tracker-like role card (doesn't have to be a straight up cop), thinks he saw LC killing last night (?), and is going after him as a result. And his GTH exercise is completely honest, having nothing to do with outside-the-thread information.

Another possibility is that we have no clue what he is doing.

Um, and gotcha re peeks. With the colors and I have heard that in some games there is a civ peek before the game or something to that effect, I was not sure they were the same thing.

Then it's more likely that he's pulling some sort of gambit... so hopefully this doesn't blow up in his face like my "I'm the cop except I'm fake claiming as a vanilla townie" gambit did.

Correct, yeah, in a typical Thingyman-Mafia Championship type setup (which has largely been adopted for these early Heist games), the cop receives a randomly selected "green peek", essentially a free role check but ONLY on a townie to start the game. The reason it's restricted to green randomization only is for balance reasons (otherwise the cop would literally start the game with a confirmed mafia down, and could potentially end the game completely after N2). But every time he sends in a "role check" in subsequent Nights, you could also say he's sending in a "peek", same thing really.

OK, imma stick with "role checks"

"baddies" sounds babyish enough

"baddies" & "peeks" is just too much, lol.

Lol, "peek" came from the "seer" terminology, I believe, so it makes thematic sense in that regard, as if the seer is peeking into a crystal ball or however you'd like to think of it.

I'm not sure why it would be thematically used with "cop" though.

Well, something super interesting happened, I spammed this spectator chat, so... sorry about that, and I'll be back later to see what the hell is actually going on. :P

Nub Boomslang. Would love to hear from postgame why he's doing this if even the Hosts don't know

Okay now Long Con is even throwing shade at Ricochet, please go ahead and get rid of him now.

The baddies are so winning this game.

The civvies have imploded. They're running in circles around each other

Turnip Head wrote:The civvies have imploded. They're running in circles around each other

Sigh

Every once in a while they mention the baddies, but for the most part they are all about lynching each other.

And they will lynch LC today and he (if he gets his shit together) could be important.

After the lynch I will change the poll to see if you all want to remain unspoiled, since BTS people are not in here.

Are you guys willing to divulge how many baddie teams there are?
I've assumed two since I know SVS very much prefers that option, but maybe you switched it up or something.

There are two. Plus the dead SKs.

As an added spoilery bonus, the identity of the two SKs gives us a clue as to the makeup of the two baddie teams.

Sorsha is bad.

Right?

Stupid civvies murdering my poor dear husband. I can barely watch. Where are all the players. Just vote and go? Shame on them.

Atleast you two will be together again.

Typhoony wrote:Atleast you two will be together again.

I prefer to be alive.

LC might survive this after all

OMG, he just might. lol

I can't even handle this. I want back in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn.

I am so jealous of the hosts right now. I want to host this game.

That's a bad player to lynch. Nub civs.

Wow, I did NOT expect that. That sucks.

Such a bad result.

Not that I didn't know what he'd flip.

The fact that there should be players around who know he's civ makes it even worse

Typhoony wrote:The fact that there should be players around who know he's civ makes it even worse

Yeah... that's not a role that should be getting lynched at this stage of the game.

I have been spending a huge chunkof this game thus:

I mean, that four way tied vote was the most epic thing ever from an objective perspective, I understood that...

But to be a civilian in it and see the two most civilianish-looking people be included?

That picture SVS posted is exactly how I felt. And somehow out of that tie we managed to get our only baddie lynch so far.

Put me back in the game, coach!

Must be a bad run when only the motherfucking serial killer did a better job than the civilians at lynching mafia.

I am still having problems getting past Tranq getting lynched after the known BTS civ vouched for him. It's like everyone is so in love with their own suspicions the evidence is not swaying them.

Psh my lynch was by far the worst one so far this game :P

Glad I was right about LC even though my shield never actually protected him. It is the thought that counts.

I would have never considered Golden's hinting on Tranq conclusive evidence, honestly. It didn't play that much into my mindset at all. Perhaps that's my mistake, but a number of people who have played hard and paid a lot of attention also seemed to miss that detail.

I was underwhelmed by a Tranq lynch, but I didn't think there was a better option available in the tally I was faced with at EOD. Nobody would have joined me on a DH wagon, and I don't even know if that'd have been advisable. The baddies have played well. Everything seems simpler from the perspective of being dead or especially as a host.

Yeah the Tranq lynch was not shocking to me for that reason (the Golden connection), but moreso that it was -ev compared to other lynch candidates. There was nothing to be learned about the game one way or the other, no matter how Tranq flipped. It was a filler lynch because players were scared to pull the trigger on anything more relevant.

My biggest regret from this game is that Wilgy sig'd a quote of mine in which I committed an ugly doublespeak error.

Long time no see. I was right about BR being bad. Lucky guess.

BR was a civ :P

Sorry, got my evil LP/TP women mixed up. I was right about LoRab being bad.

I think what surprised me about my lynch is that no-one even bothered to consider who might be my btsc partner. JJJ may not have found it to be conclusive evidence, but at least the idea of it being raised as evidence at all might have been helpful.

There were really only three people I vouched for in the game. JJ, FZ and tranq. I expected at least that someone might go down that road.

Golden wrote:I think what surprised me about my lynch is that no-one even bothered to consider who might be my btsc partner. JJJ may not have found it to be conclusive evidence, but at least the idea of it being raised as evidence at all might have been helpful.

There were really only three people I vouched for in the game. JJ, FZ and tranq. I expected at least that someone might go down that road.

I didn't care who your partner was.

Because I was the serial killer.

And also dead.

Dom has been invited. I am sure he will have... things to say ha ha

All of my reads this game have been garbage.

I think this is the game where we learn about each others games. It happens periodically, especially in a blended community like ours, I think.

Damn, I was wrong about Dom AND Long Con.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Damn, I was wrong about Dom AND Long Con.

Killing me was unexpected. I guess I'll have to read up.

very peeved i got NK'd. I don't know anyone's alignment who is alive other than one player-- can i say wo?

Dom wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Damn, I was wrong about Dom AND Long Con.

Killing me was unexpected. I guess I'll have to read up.

I really thought you were bad. Goes to show that I should always go with the opposite of what I'm thinking when I read you.

Dom wrote:very peeved i got NK'd. I don't know anyone's alignment who is alive other than one player-- can i say wo?

Put it in spoiler tags for those who wish to remain ignorant

Sorry you died Dom. MP was not the only person who thought you were bad... some of the baddies did too

Yeah, shame you died for sure, especially with that role. Nice inclusion of Light, btw, hosts.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Yeah, shame you died for sure, especially with that role. Nice inclusion of Light, btw, hosts.

We wanted to give the role checker some sort of drawback, so someone from Death Note with the Shinigami Eye Deal made the most sense. Misa would have made more sense thematically, but Light felt like the more iconic role.

Would have been fun as a serial killer role too though.