The Syndicate

Alison wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 4:32 pm I do think Sloonei has been townie.

Tangy is mostly town but the spurt of rapid fluffposting at the start could be designed to dominate the thread. That's my sole concern about them.

I lied, I would still like to know why I earned a town read from Alison.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:12 pm I’m caught up and have nothing important to say that hasn’t already been said.

Got yourself a healthy town squad?

[VOTE: hawkataine] aubergine hi welcome to the syndicate how are you?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:15 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:12 pm I’m caught up and have nothing important to say that hasn’t already been said.

Got yourself a healthy town squad?

I am raising no issue with the formation of town squads elsewhere.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:16 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:15 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:12 pm I’m caught up and have nothing important to say that hasn’t already been said.

Got yourself a healthy town squad?

I am raising no issue with the formation of town squads elsewhere.

Welcome to the squad.

I'd value your perception of Mac, Sloonei.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:17 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:16 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:15 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:12 pm I’m caught up and have nothing important to say that hasn’t already been said.

Got yourself a healthy town squad?

I am raising no issue with the formation of town squads elsewhere.

Welcome to the squad.

Sick!

nutella wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 6:24 pm

Kito wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 6:14 pm what the frick frack snick snack is going ON fellas

town

Is joke? Is serious?

Some of these Percy reactions to Cindy Kate solving remind me of my reactions when I played on 451.

What has happened here?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:18 pm I'd value your perception of Mac, Sloonei.

I don’t know. He looks like Mac. I don’t really feel like the ball is rolling for him yet, so I don’t have a sense of how to read him. I need to see Mac surrounded by more action.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:20 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:18 pm I'd value your perception of Mac, Sloonei.

I don’t know. He looks like Mac. I don’t really feel like the ball is rolling for him yet, so I don’t have a sense of how to read him. I need to see Mac surrounded by more action.

omg that's like sooooooooooo cool

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:20 pm Some of these Percy reactions to Cindy Kate solving remind me of my reactions when I played on 451.

What has happened here?

How do you mean?

The sheer volume of town reads this quick is making my head spin. I also noticed yours seem to be (at least where I'm up to in reading) solely syndicate player reads, these are meta reads?

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:24 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:20 pm Some of these Percy reactions to Cindy Kate solving remind me of my reactions when I played on 451.

What has happened here?

How do you mean?

The sheer volume of town reads this quick is making my head spin. I also noticed yours seem to be (at least where I'm up to in reading) solely syndicate player reads, these are meta reads?

I am just having a laugh at the culture clash, but I understand it. Sometimes first dates are awkward.

I can't speak for everyone, but I do know that I (and at least some subset of the Syndicate group) favors a POE-driven approach on Day 1. Most of what I do is about generating as many comfortable town reads as I can, because if successful it will constrict the mafia into a difficult or even unwinnable posture right away. I wouldn't say I that my reads are predominantly meta-driven, though they're probably influenced by it on some level. To this point the Syndicate players have simply made most of the posts, so it's been easier for me to make judgments. That's no slight on the PerC gang -- we should shut up sometimes.

On that note, Sonny seems okay.

I would not mind letting all the PerC’ers have the floor for a bit. What do y’all think? What do you want to know about us? Etc.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:28 pm

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:24 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:20 pm Some of these Percy reactions to Cindy Kate solving remind me of my reactions when I played on 451.

What has happened here?

How do you mean?

The sheer volume of town reads this quick is making my head spin. I also noticed yours seem to be (at least where I'm up to in reading) solely syndicate player reads, these are meta reads?

I am just having a laugh at the culture clash, but I understand it. Sometimes first dates are awkward.

I can't speak for everyone, but I do know that I (and at least some subset of the Syndicate group) favors a POE-driven approach on Day 1. Most of what I do is about generating as many comfortable town reads as I can, because if successful it will constrict the mafia into a difficult or even unwinnable posture right away. I wouldn't say I that my reads are predominantly meta-driven, though they're probably influenced by it on some level. To this point the Syndicate players have simply made most of the posts, so it's been easier for me to make judgments. That's no slight on the PerC gang -- we should shut up sometimes.

Cool, different fo' sure. Makes sense.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:31 pm I would not mind letting all the PerC’ers have the floor for a bit. What do y’all think? What do you want to know about us? Etc.

Nah, keep posting, we just need to step up some.

Would be good to know who y'all find easy/hard to read if it isn't circular.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 6:48 pm

Kito wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 6:42 pm If act has a read on gnome already she's a hot stinking liar

tell me more

Act is uncertain at best and tends to find Gnome scummy regardless. So yeah, it's true, if she had a read on Gnome it would be shady. That said, I like her play so far. Did I miss her give a read on Gnome tho? Thought she was raising why it was shady that Dana didn't find Gnome shady as that tends to be the default of those who don't know better.

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:38 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:31 pm I would not mind letting all the PerC’ers have the floor for a bit. What do y’all think? What do you want to know about us? Etc.

Nah, keep posting, we just need to step up some.

Would be good to know who y'all find easy/hard to read if it isn't circular.

Long Con is a read I probably don't get right much more consistently than random stats say I should.

I genuinely think only nutella has a >rand read on Long Con and there's some chance even that is luck.

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:38 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:31 pm I would not mind letting all the PerC’ers have the floor for a bit. What do y’all think? What do you want to know about us? Etc.

Nah, keep posting, we just need to step up some.

Would be good to know who y'all find easy/hard to read if it isn't circular.

I was partially speaking as a host. So far this has felt predominantly like a Syndicate game. I want y’all to have a chance to put your stamp on things/take the game where you want it to go. But to answer your question:

Jay and I read each other better than anyone else reads either of us. I’m not gonna force a read on him here. I’ll know it when I know.

I have no clue how to read Mac or Nanook. I think I know how to read nutella most of the time. I have correctly read Made and LC in the past but I won’t call myself an expert on them. I’ve been town opposite mafia Alison exactly once (that I recall) and I caught her, but it took a lot of work and we were both on sockpuppet accounts.

That’s all the folks I have enough familiarity with to have a sense of how capable I am at reading them.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:14 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 4:32 pm I do think Sloonei has been townie.

Tangy is mostly town but the spurt of rapid fluffposting at the start could be designed to dominate the thread. That's my sole concern about them.

I lied, I would still like to know why I earned a town read from Alison.

Good vibes at the time I made this post.

More recently I like that you agree with me on everything.

Reiterating my request to have Act post a readslist. I feel like she's been zoomed in pretty hard on Dana and isn't particularly inquisitive about the rest of the playerlist.

Alison wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:43 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:14 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 4:32 pm I do think Sloonei has been townie.

Tangy is mostly town but the spurt of rapid fluffposting at the start could be designed to dominate the thread. That's my sole concern about them.

I lied, I would still like to know why I earned a town read from Alison.

Good vibes at the time I made this post.

More recently I like that you agree with me on everything.

Which posts had good vibes?

MacDougall wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 7:07 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 7:07 pm 400 posts already, you Mafia-loving fiends! Anything interesting happen so far?

Im trying to make Guillo and Gavial engage for science.

Why those two?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:44 pm Which posts had good vibes?

No clue. I just scrolled through your early posting and got the sense that you were really cool and relaxed and wasn't forcing your entrance. That's what I mean by vibes.

I think I can point to at least one thing I liked from every Syndicate player other than this set: Long Con, MacDougall, Made.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:48 pm I think I can point to at least one thing I liked from every Syndicate player other than this set: Long Con, MacDougall, Made.

Point to an Alison thing

Is flippancy, or even trolling, standard for MacDougall?

I don't follow what he's doing, but he sure is making me laugh. I assume that's just him?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:49 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:48 pm I think I can point to at least one thing I liked from every Syndicate player other than this set: Long Con, MacDougall, Made.

Point to an Alison thing

She's softer on the town scale than most outside that set. I've liked a couple isolated moments, e.g. this reflected my feelings in the same moment and making some effort to develop | her Act suspicion instead of flatly pushing it as I figure she'd be more inclined to do with an agenda.

Low confidence but not nothing

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:52 pm Is flippancy, or even trolling, standard for MacDougall?

I don't follow what he's doing, but he sure is making me laugh. I assume that's just him?

Lol

Yes

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:54 pm

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:52 pm Is flippancy, or even trolling, standard for MacDougall?

I don't follow what he's doing, but he sure is making me laugh. I assume that's just him?

Lol

Yes

My kind of people!

Mac will certainly troll, but that doesn't mean we should shrug when he trolls and say "that's our Mac!"

He's regarded as a strong town player because he moves town games in a positive direction. He's going to have to do that.

Yeah mac was a champs finalist two years ago

But he will troll and be a goof

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:52 pm Is flippancy, or even trolling, standard for MacDougall?

I don't follow what he's doing, but he sure is making me laugh. I assume that's just him?

Mac is like me taken to an extreme

If I were to do a distrustfall I would gripe about Alison's read on Sloonei, so that's an agreeable moment of uncertainty from Sloonei that informs my view of him for the better.

Made wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 7:46 pm Gimmick poll! Should I....
A. Only post in pick up lines reads
B. All reads in third person romantic novel style
C. Post as Shitty couples retreat councilors
D. First date oversharer

🗳~~Vote now on your phones~~🗳

D. Post more, over-share all the things.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:48 pm I think I can point to at least one thing I liked from every Syndicate player other than this set: Long Con, MacDougall, Made.

What did you think about my take on Mac?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:49 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:48 pm I think I can point to at least one thing I liked from every Syndicate player other than this set: Long Con, MacDougall, Made.

Point to an Alison thing

I caught a mafia, does that count?

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:52 pm Is flippancy, or even trolling, standard for MacDougall?

I don't follow what he's doing, but he sure is making me laugh. I assume that's just him?

That's just his personality.

Alison wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 12:18 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:49 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:48 pm I think I can point to at least one thing I liked from every Syndicate player other than this set: Long Con, MacDougall, Made.

Point to an Alison thing

I caught a mafia, does that count?

No

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:48 pm I think I can point to at least one thing I liked from every Syndicate player other than this set: Long Con, MacDougall, Made.

I'm a likeable guy though.

Let's see.

nutella, Sloonei and JJJ and Tangy are widely townread for being textbook townie.

Gavial is also widely townread but his opinions are largely dismissed as that of a crank's.

Nobody is certain about Long Con.

NANOOK is brazenly slanking.

Alison has locked Martin town.

Both Alison and Mac have entered the game and instigated conflict, which they do every game, but people are cautious and uncertain about them, and unwilling to lay down a confident townread.

Yep, it's a Syndicate game.

Not fully caught up but so far I have 6 Percy's who haven't even posted yet =/ sad.

Sonny wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 12:27 am Not fully caught up but so far I have 6 Percy's who haven't even posted yet =/ sad.

Do you have any loose impressions of the Percys that have posted?

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:10 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 5:38 pm

Garden Gnome wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 5:19 pm Hi, I am a Gnome! I spend a lot of time in the garden so I don't go out on very many dates. I understand about feeling nervous and excited and about the need to have a healthy dose of paranoia because I too get pcoketed a lot by eager scum! They are so charming that I end up on and I am not even aware of all of the noisy howls It is very sad. I am looking for a sweet towny date and feel nervous and excited about finding romance, despite the presence of scummy scum scum!

I'm torn about this post more than I'd typically be for some early Day 1 thing.

Some part of me appreciates this pointed effort from Garden Gnome to reach across the site aisle to offer Dana encouragement, and the enthusiasm is nice. The language bears that sort of surface appearance that often gets people into trouble (e.g. scummy scum scum), sometimes rightly and often not.

Seeking opinions

You've probably already been answered but I'm here now, so; JaggedJimmyJay meet Garden Gnome. She not only encourages tunneling on her, she will pick up a shovel herself and assist your digging. Even if she posts something like "my welcome email said I was scum" it doesn't mean she is scum [true story, nearly]. Watch for her focus on solving, apparently. /not great at reading her

This is fascinating.

This comment serves no real purpose, but I just wanna say that "catching up" on this game was a breeze compared to what I expected when I saw 11 pages. Lots of short posts and easy-to-follow, direct conversation. So, I guess, if you find yourself on this page right now and think you can't get caught up on things, it's not nearly as bad as it might seem. And this is coming from the strongest advocate against catching up.

For sure... Long Con won't last very long though, because at least the Syndicate folks know me. I'm a slow starter. I don't generally get involved with all this POE/towncore creation on Day 1 that is all the rage. I just don't see it. I don't start suspecting people until... I do. I dunno.

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:59 pm

Sonny wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:52 pm Is flippancy, or even trolling, standard for MacDougall?

I don't follow what he's doing, but he sure is making me laugh. I assume that's just him?

Mac is like me taken to an extreme