The Syndicate

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I very much want to change my "Racketeer" rank/title thing to "Prisoner 509378".

Score.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Regarding P-Scores, no one's P-Score will be modified for this game, even though I'm a believer in the system. Everyone that did end up flake on participation, whether in the main game or in prison, gave me at least some indication of RL stuff happening or asked to be replaced. I don't feel any of you hung us up to dry or anything like that.

Thanks again to all of you; you made this a truly awesome hosting experience. I still can't believe it's over, even though it was exhausting.

Please keep chugging away questions; I'm sure there are things I've forgotten.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Spacedaisy wrote:I actually almost mixed up Quin and Sig. Since Sig was searching for the rookie cop and Quin was searching for his lover (Nero) I got them mixed up and we sent Sig and Nero a message saying they were lovers and found each other. Luckily, I realized my mistake before either of them opened it and we deleted the message. Oh, and Quin, I felt so bad for you. Your lover was alive all that time and you just couldn't find each other!

Lol, Epi's reaction, was "Fuck, Jay is a prisoner!"

LOL, yeah, Epi PMed me the moment JJJ started supatowning in the main thread and said something to the effect of "Fuck, JJJ is a prisoner. RIP my team."

G-Man wrote:Oooh! Can I have "The Decider" changed to "Prisoner 813142"? I will never forget this game. Like ever.

Ricochet wrote:

Sloonei wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Prisoner 509378 wrote:

Sloonei wrote: I laughed a little as soon as I saw Jay's first prisoner post the day of the jailbreak, and there were at least a dozen times I nearly typed Jay instead of "prisoner" in this game.

My strategy to get paroled:

Be as JJJ as I can possibly be. I'll be honest, on Day 5 I was just going for appearances. I didn't care whether my reads were accurate at all, I just wanted everyone to know exactly who I am and give me the parole with the promise that I'd give the kind of effort that is typical of me.

I'm glad it worked, but I also worried the other prisoners would be annoyed by my post-mania and try to stop me.

Oh no, I realized I have zero fat chances to challenge you. So I buddied you.

Actually, until we broke out of prison, I thought I landed with Diiny in my cell. Which was funny, because Dinny slipped on RYM that he was mislynched. Diiny played hard the first Days on CD-FIVEMOREINITIALS, so I imagined he'd work hard in Prison and Parole duty, too. But yeah, as soon as Day 5 started, I fully realized who I really partnered with.

Plus, I actually had a big schemng plan to pretend I'm Diiny and demand my parole, once prison break would occur... only for the Hosts to enforce the no-hint rule. D'oh.

I'm pretty sure they only told you not to hint at you truly are. There's no rule against hinting that you're somebody you're not.

I would have broken the "hint that I might have had a past in the main game" rule.

Ricochet wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I very much want to change my "Racketeer" rank/title thing to "Prisoner 509378".

Score.

You are also purple.

G-Man wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Yo, winners, check it out!



Wear it with pride.

Yassss numero 6!

Easiest one I ever achieved, too.

Maybe it was easy for you because you got out Night 5. Holy heck did we have to claw our way through some insane stuff! Yes, please please please open those Prison Yard threads. I want everyone to behold the insanity of that 10-minute post challenge.

Now, let good old Dr. Evil explain a few things...

When I was approached about joining this game in secret I knew that, for me to stay engaged, I had to play in character. The prison aspect sounded like it get get either dull or hostile or both depending on how well we did with those challenges. I gave MP and SD a choice of three characters I would play as:

-Dr. Evil (which they picked, probably because he was the only one with a prison pic)

-Gollum/Smeagol from Lord of the Rings (would have been fun but I probably never would have been paroled)

-Olaf from Frozen (I was secretly hoping they'd pick this one but I probably would have drove too many prisoners nuts and they'd have shanked me)


I played in character 100% of the time until those posting challenges broke me. I even PM'ed the hosts as Dr. Evil. It was fun.

On our first day in prison, I wrote a big long spiel about how the original prisoners should all stick together and make sure only original prisoners got paroled when the chance arose. It was called Operation Improbably Victorious You or Operation IVY. In true Dr. Evil form, this was wordplay because Operation Ivy was an influential ska-punk band in the late 80s that eventually became the 90s punk band Rancid. It was my version of the "Alan Parsons Project" that Dr. Evil created. I later created an acronym for the BUDDY System for the posting challenges but I can't remember what it all stood for. Go find it in the prison threads.

I tried to pick a fight with Scotty during the prison break so I could do the whole "Scotty don't!" bit to some length but he either wasn't around or wasn't interested. I also tried to do the "zip it" and "shh!" bits with a few people but it never lasted long enough. Oh well.

We original prisoners were tight. I'm proud of all of them. We worked so hard and a few of the newbies worked hard too, so major kudos to them as well! The prison, at times, felt like a sick and twisted team-building exercise. It was a trying ordeal but rewarding in the end.

No non-original prisoner got paroled. How cool is that? Operation IVY was actually conceived out of my own paranoia that non-original prisoners would eventually outnumber original prisoners and start shanking us. They outnumbered us soon enough but not enough of them seemed to care or organize enough against us. So thanks for that!

Did anyone figure out it was me behind the Dr. Evil shtick? I was half-worried that it would be too obvious because playing in character would stand out and I've developed a reputation for standing out through my posting methods.

Prisoner 509378 wrote:If we hadn't lynched the warden I would have refused to wear my winner's banner. I made that my personal win condition. :P

Spacedaisy wrote:Lol, Epi's reaction, was "Fuck, Jay is a prisoner!"

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I very much want to change my "Racketeer" rank/title thing to "Prisoner 509378".

Sloonei wrote:How long did it take you cops to figure out I was the Don? I assumed you had me on Night 2 or 3, whenever those failed arrests happened. I even asked Daisy if I'd be allowed to roleclaim because I didn't want the cops to have information that my family didn't. I was not allowed to.

G-Man wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Yo, winners, check it out!



Wear it with pride.

Yassss numero 6!

Easiest one I ever achieved, too.

Maybe it was easy for you because you got out Night 5. Holy heck did we have to claw our way through some insane stuff! Yes, please please please open those Prison Yard threads. I want everyone to behold the insanity of that 10-minute post challenge.

Now, let good old Dr. Evil explain a few things...

When I was approached about joining this game in secret I knew that, for me to stay engaged, I had to play in character. The prison aspect sounded like it get get either dull or hostile or both depending on how well we did with those challenges. I gave MP and SD a choice of three characters I would play as:

-Dr. Evil (which they picked, probably because he was the only one with a prison pic)

-Gollum/Smeagol from Lord of the Rings (would have been fun but I probably never would have been paroled)

-Olaf from Frozen (I was secretly hoping they'd pick this one but I probably would have drove too many prisoners nuts and they'd have shanked me)


I played in character 100% of the time until those posting challenges broke me. I even PM'ed the hosts as Dr. Evil. It was fun.

On our first day in prison, I wrote a big long spiel about how the original prisoners should all stick together and make sure only original prisoners got paroled when the chance arose. It was called Operation Improbably Victorious You or Operation IVY. In true Dr. Evil form, this was wordplay because Operation Ivy was an influential ska-punk band in the late 80s that eventually became the 90s punk band Rancid. It was my version of the "Alan Parsons Project" that Dr. Evil created. I later created an acronym for the BUDDY System for the posting challenges but I can't remember what it all stood for. Go find it in the prison threads.

I tried to pick a fight with Scotty during the prison break so I could do the whole "Scotty don't!" bit to some length but he either wasn't around or wasn't interested. I also tried to do the "zip it" and "shh!" bits with a few people but it never lasted long enough. Oh well.

We original prisoners were tight. I'm proud of all of them. We worked so hard and a few of the newbies worked hard too, so major kudos to them as well! The prison, at times, felt like a sick and twisted team-building exercise. It was a trying ordeal but rewarding in the end.

No non-original prisoner got paroled. How cool is that? Operation IVY was actually conceived out of my own paranoia that non-original prisoners would eventually outnumber original prisoners and start shanking us. They outnumbered us soon enough but not enough of them seemed to care or organize enough against us. So thanks for that!

Did anyone figure out it was me behind the Dr. Evil shtick? I was half-worried that it would be too obvious because playing in character would stand out and I've developed a reputation for standing out through my posting methods.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Spacedaisy wrote:I actually almost mixed up Quin and Sig. Since Sig was searching for the rookie cop and Quin was searching for his lover (Nero) I got them mixed up and we sent Sig and Nero a message saying they were lovers and found each other. Luckily, I realized my mistake before either of them opened it and we deleted the message. Oh, and Quin, I felt so bad for you. Your lover was alive all that time and you just couldn't find each other!

Lol, Epi's reaction, was "Fuck, Jay is a prisoner!"

LOL, yeah, Epi PMed me the moment JJJ started supatowning in the main thread and said something to the effect of "Fuck, JJJ is a prisoner. RIP my team."

How I wish I could have lived up to that.

Truth be told, for most of this game I played like a bag full of fresh dog shit. Being essentially unlynchable certainly affected my play -- I was much more aggressive and tried to be more deceptive than I usually would be since I stood no real risk of people suspecting me for it. I think I worked myself into a frenzy a bit too many times and it didn't yield the best results. But it was a learning experience!

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Are the results public of the last prisoner challenge?

Good question! You all failed; it was the Warden's death that got you in here. We realized we made it ridiculously difficult though, so it worked out.

Here were the results:

Cell 1 - S~V~S and Typhoony - 21
Cell 2 - G-Man and Metalmarsh - 7
Cell 3 - bea and DharmaHelper - 3
Cell 4 - juliets and timmer - 19
Cell 5 - a2thezebra and Scotty - 5
Cell 7 - Black Rock and Quin - 15
Cell 9 - ika and Silverwolf - 21
Cell 10 - indiglo and thellama - 0

Cell 6 was vacant and Cell 8 didn't apply because Sorsha's shanking that previous day meant Boomslang was by himself.

Silverwolf wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Are the results public of the last prisoner challenge?

Good question! You all failed; it was the Warden's death that got you in here. We realized we made it ridiculously difficult though, so it worked out.

Here were the results:

Cell 1 - S~V~S and Typhoony - 21
Cell 2 - G-Man and Metalmarsh - 7
Cell 3 - bea and DharmaHelper - 3
Cell 4 - juliets and timmer - 19
Cell 5 - a2thezebra and Scotty - 5
Cell 7 - Black Rock and Quin - 15
Cell 9 - ika and Silverwolf - 21
Cell 10 - indiglo and thellama - 0

Cell 6 was vacant and Cell 8 didn't apply because Sorsha's shanking that previous day meant Boomslang was by himself.

NIce, we rocked this one, LOL.

G-Man wrote:Did anyone figure out it was me behind the Dr. Evil shtick? I was half-worried that it would be too obvious because playing in character would stand out and I've developed a reputation for standing out through my posting methods.

juliets wrote:movingpictures or spacedaisy I'm looking for player 606 on the list of players and don't see him or her. Am I looking right at it? Who was it? S/he did our all nights on the posting challenges.

That was a2thezebra!

And she was my Consigliere.

If there was any of my civilians I thought had a chance to get paroled, it was her.

Ricochet wrote:Wait, did indiglo and llama never bother with the challenge or did they actually get zero points?! :o :hue:

linki: I realized it was zebra, when she slipped in my game.

indiglo was pretty active, but for whatever reason she tapped out the last two or so day phases, so she no-showed completely.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

G-Man wrote:Did anyone figure out it was me behind the Dr. Evil shtick? I was half-worried that it would be too obvious because playing in character would stand out and I've developed a reputation for standing out through my posting methods.

I definitely didn't. The only prisoner I had pegged correctly was Ricochet. I thought he was as obvious on Day 5 as I was.

I been thinking 920077 was Russtifinko. Clearly not!

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

I chose the thirty minute challenge and followed it up with the ten minute challenge deliberately. I thought, "Surely this second challenge will crush their spirits."

No spirit crushing occurred in my prison that day. No sir.

Ricochet wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

I chose the thirty minute challenge and followed it up with the ten minute challenge deliberately. I thought, "Surely this second challenge will crush their spirits."

No spirit crushing occurred in my prison that day. No sir.

I seriously expected you to follow that up with a one minute challenge.

Epignosis wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

I chose the thirty minute challenge and followed it up with the ten minute challenge deliberately. I thought, "Surely this second challenge will crush their spirits."

No spirit crushing occurred in my prison that day. No sir.

I seriously expected you to follow that up with a one minute challenge.

Bedroom antics stay in the bedroom.

Epignosis wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

I chose the thirty minute challenge and followed it up with the ten minute challenge deliberately. I thought, "Surely this second challenge will crush their spirits."

No spirit crushing occurred in my prison that day. No sir.

I seriously expected you to follow that up with a one minute challenge.

Bedroom antics stay in the bedroom.

MovingPictures07 wrote:This game really was a ball to host, even if it progressed totally differently than either of us expected!

Thanks again, all. I'm actually sad that it's over, despite looking forward to it toward the end here so I could get my "free time" back. :P

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

I chose the thirty minute challenge and followed it up with the ten minute challenge deliberately. I thought, "Surely this second challenge will crush their spirits."

No spirit crushing occurred in my prison that day. No sir.

I seriously expected you to follow that up with a one minute challenge.

Bedroom antics stay in the bedroom.

Someone nominate this for Sockys.

DharmaHelper wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

I chose the thirty minute challenge and followed it up with the ten minute challenge deliberately. I thought, "Surely this second challenge will crush their spirits."

No spirit crushing occurred in my prison that day. No sir.

I seriously expected you to follow that up with a one minute challenge.

Bedroom antics stay in the bedroom.

Someone nominate this for Sockys.

I don't think he uses socks anymore now that he's married.

DharmaHelper wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:That 10 minute challenge is legendary, prisoners. I frankly regret that I couldn't be there to help you through that madness, but you didn't need me.

I chose the thirty minute challenge and followed it up with the ten minute challenge deliberately. I thought, "Surely this second challenge will crush their spirits."

No spirit crushing occurred in my prison that day. No sir.

I seriously expected you to follow that up with a one minute challenge.

Bedroom antics stay in the bedroom.

Someone nominate this for Sockys.

I don't think he uses socks anymore now that he's married.

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

I suspected that was your real motive for dragging this shit out.

You got me.

Though if that were really true, I would have just let Day 12 happen and not ended it early.

Sloonei wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

I'm amazed that the top two games in post count can be games in which you didn't play.

That's because I still spam as a host.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Sloonei wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

I'm amazed that the top two games in post count can be games in which you didn't play.

That's because I still spam as a host.

Sloonei wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Sloonei wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).

I'm amazed that the top two games in post count can be games in which you didn't play.

That's because I still spam as a host.

Go team Hostface!

Epignosis wrote:This was my first time being bad in a long ass while. Felt good.

Sometimes.

You really kicked ass. You and Soneji were the MVPs for sure.

Speaking of which, I'm still amazed that Soneji's double arrest succeeded so many times despite being mathematically improbable.

MovingPictures07 wrote:So this game is now the 2nd most populous thread in post count throughout all mafia games, with the first still being Talking Heads (which I also co-hosted).