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Re: HPN WW #18: Night 4.1
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Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:37 pm
by Catullus
Geoff you might want to sit down for this.
Re: HPN WW #18: Night 4.1
Posted:
Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:37 pm
by Geoff
oops
Re: HPN WW #18: Night 4.1
Posted:
Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:38 pm
by VHB
I commend Geoff's enthusiasm for the game.
Unfortunately you're dead. Blackmailed. Whatever.
Please make your way to ghostchat.
Re: HPN WW #18: Night 4.1
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Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:41 pm
by Ampersand
I agree with our fallen ghost slokra, though: of the three likeliest scabs on my list, efreet is the scabbiest.
I await his public response to the accusations and note (as ever) that my vote is provisional rather than final.
Re: HPN WW #18: Night 4.1
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Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:34 pm
by kit fox
efreet are you going to come in here and bang ears with us or what
lay it on us bud
Re: HPN WW #18: Night 4.1
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Tue Apr 19, 2016 9:17 pm
by Casimir
oo0o00oo0o0o0o0o whyyyyyy did you fuuuuuckin scabs killlll meeeeee ooo0000o0o0o0o0o0o0oo balls o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o
Re: HPN WW #18: Night 4.1
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:27 am
by efreet
ok so strikes against me that I see being made are: general quietness, big cat vote timing, compat mode back and forth. I'll try to explain those (but it will probably be underwhelming).
- quietness. I was legitimately out of town all weekend and while I did have internet access throughout I was pretty busy the whole time. I got back on sunday night and that is when I caught up on the thread and had a brief convo with kitfox about ecto.
- big cat timing. I'm a huge procrastinator in life and in werewolf, apparently. I was inclined to vote for big cat on sunday night (fwiw, which is probably not much), but didn't really have much to say along with the vote, so I wanted to have something to show and be not totally useless. I'm on MDT, so yesterday morning I got into work ~9:30am, read thread, did some actual work, spent some time figuring out number of mislynches we had and then voted at ~10:30am. During this time I communicated with stakeout stating my intention to vote for big cat.
- compatbility mode back and forth. Again came into work and caught up on thread and read what I felt were some weird posts (and votes for philippe then grammatron) by compatiblity mode. I voted for him with the intention of trying to explain his behavior. This was not a useful thing to do, as it just added more noise and weirdness.
tl;dr I'm bad at this. This lynch will be a mislynch but I've got no one to blame but myself. Sorry team.
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 4 ends 3:30 pm ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:40 am
by grammatron
Ronnie Balloon shuffles around the picket line, carrying his sign reading "HELL YES! WE WANT PISS!" He's feeling much better today now that the tuna salad sandwich fiasco has finally passed. Today he brought a peanut butter sandwich. No worries of getting sick there, thank god. He's thinking about poor efreet, who his beloved Eunice, gone nearly a year, thought so highly of. He hopes she wouldn't be disappointed to discover he's a filthy scab.
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 4 ends 3:30 pm ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:47 am
by kit fox
hey ronnie, where ya been?
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 4 ends 3:30 pm ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:50 am
by VHB
"Get Efreet in here."
"Who?"
"Efreet."
"Gee whiz, Wally, that sounds like a foreign name! Whatever happened to good American names, like Frank, or Joe, or Beaver?"
"Oh put a sock in it and just get Efreet in here and tell him he's out of the union. And tell Eddie to quit flirting with ma!"
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:52 am
by VHB
Ankh was tired. Truth is, they miss bottling the piss. It's a good, honest trade. But it's hard being away from the family for so long. The kids were starting ask why they didn't go to work in the morning anymore.
And it'd been so long since they'd all gone to the malt shop.
One little treat would put their minds at ease.
On the way home from the picket line, Ankh stopped in at the malt shop and bought a soda straight from the fountain for each of the boys. Coca-cola, twice over. Had to get the same, had to get them absolutely equal and identical, so they wouldn't give each other the business over one getting a little more than the other.
Yes, that was the way, Ankh thought, never noticing the blackmailers who'd been tailing for two blocks until they were right up upon him.
"We hear you're a Reds fan."
"Did you enjoy the all-star game this year? The whole lineup got voted in as starters."
"Sure was pretty nifty how that happened, wasn't it?"
"Gus Bell over Willie Mays? Go soak your head!"
"We know you organized that ballot stuffing effort back in Cincinnati. Sure would be a shame if people found out about that..."
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:00 am
by VHB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_GameAlso note that the Reds were renamed "Redlegs" during this period and, yes, it was due to the Communist-phobia of the time.
When fan voting to determine the game's starters was completed, seven Cincinnati Redlegs players (Ed Bailey, Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan, Don Hoak, Frank Robinson, Gus Bell and Wally Post) had been elected to start in the All-Star Game; the only non-Redleg elected to start for the National League was St. Louis Cardinal first baseman Stan Musial. Most baseball observers agreed that while the Redlegs were known to be a great offensive team with many outstanding position players, they did not deserve seven starters in the All-Star Game.
An investigation launched by Commissioner Ford Frick found that over half of the ballots cast came from Cincinnati, with the Cincinnati Enquirer printing up pre-marked ballots and distributing them with the Sunday edition of the newspaper to make it easy for Redlegs fans to vote often for their favorite players, while stories emerged of bars in Cincinnati refusing to serve alcohol to customers until they filled out a ballot.
Frick appointed Willie Mays of the New York Giants and Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves to substitute for Bell and Post, and to strip the fans of their voting rights; Bell was kept as a reserve, while Post was injured and would have been unable to play in any event. Managers, players, and coaches picked the entire team until 1970, when the vote returned to the fans, and to avoid a repeat of this incident, MLB officials evenly distributed the 26 million ballots to 75,000 retail outlets and 150 minor and major league stadiums, while a special panel was also created to review the voting.
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:00 am
by VHB
6 players remain, 4 workers vs 2 scabs
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:24 am
by Ampersand
Okay then.
I don't think this is a gamble at all: grammatron, before he goes down in the books as the greatest wolf this game has ever seen.
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:12 pm
by Ampersand
Here are my thoughts:
In every one of the most likely scab combinations, grammatron is a component.
Before efreet was reported, I felt that the best odds for nailing a scab would be reporting efreet, grammatron, or compatibility mode. Each one has displayed telltale wolf signs throughout the game: efreet's concerned aloofness, grammatron's roleplaying/late-voting indifference, and compatibility mode's blasé-attitude-to-desperate-grasping-at-straws. The revelation of efreet's innocence doesn't make the other two less likely scabs for me (in fact, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it's them working in conjunction), but I now suspect the actual combination is grammatron (the more sus of the two) and one of the current leading figures in town: catullus, stakeout, or kit fox.
After Cat announced in the thread that stakeout and kit are the only players she trusts, my suspicions that the scabs made up two of that trio faded away.
But-- one of them plus grammatron is mighty persuasive. It would explain both the sophistication of the scab's night actions (seasoned veterans) and the best dynamic for the endgame: Keep one scab out front leading the charge, while the other stays out of the way and pulls a goofy roleplay.
Most of my suspicions of ankh faded over the last day as his posts began to seem more and more genuine. This feeling seems to have been shared by the scabs, who took him out for either a) getting too close to the truth or b) a convenient framejob on stakeout and kit fox. If a), then stakeout or kit fox is the remaining scab, and if b), then it's cat.
But in any combination, one of them is grammatron.
If we nab a scab today, the last scab will be forced to narrow the suspect field once more, and (I believe) their identity should come clearer into focus. Otherwise, this game's over.
I recognize I just accused everyone left alive, but hey this is where I'm at. I've backchanneled with exactly no one over the course of this entire game. No one has reached out to me, and I've reached out to no one. Thus, I'm working entirely with what I'm reading in the thread, so if I'm missing any key information, well, I'd love to hear it.
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:16 pm
by Catullus
stakeout wrote:Ronnie's been coasting the last few votes. He's been piggybacking on someone and has been playing the aw shucks shit way too long. Catullus has been included on kitfox and I's convos but has only let him and I come to our own, admittedly wrong conclusions. I don't fucking know anymore.
I was wrong about phillippe and efreet too. IDK, I'm not sure anymore. We have gramma, compatibility mode, ampersand, you, me, kit fox. Of those, gramma and cm are my top suspects. But we also only have one shot here. This sucks.
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:18 pm
by Catullus
If stake and kit fox are scabs I'm going to be so mad.
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 1:48 pm
by kit fox
i'm not a scab but i cant say for sure about stakeout
grammatron still being alive isnt the calling card it once was but he is doing very little to discuss anything going on in the game. get in here and chat with us ronnie!!
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:30 pm
by ecto
o0o0o this is sad o0o0o
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:35 pm
by Catullus
I mean I'm like 100% sure it's not stake or kit fox.
Jesus...I'm going to go grammatron.
If we mess up this strike my husband sure will be sore!
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 5:38 pm
by john plainman
M A S O N
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:08 pm
by kit fox
jesus
lynch:stakeout
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:24 pm
by Catullus
Jeff from Minnesoda, what are you doing? We need everyone to rid us of these goll darn scabs!
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:39 pm
by grammatron
Ronnie can't believe the run of bad luck he's had. Not one day after recovering from the tuna salad incident, he hears over the radio that there's a salmonella outbreak linked to jars of peanut butter. His stomach is gurgling already. And then, if that wasn't bad enough, his union brothers appear to be turning on him. Imagine, Ronnie Balloon, loyal union member for nigh on a decade now, a scab! It's preposterous if you ask Ronnie. He wants nothing more than to work side by side in the piss factory with his brothers- and sisters-in-piss, for a reasonable damn wage and maybe a day off every now and then. Is that too much to ask?
Meanwhile, compatibility mode is playing very scabby, lashing out at people who vote for him, pulling the "oh sorry, haven't really been paying attention" nonsense, throwing in votes late in the cycle when it's safe to do so, and, of course, going after simple ol' Ronnie Balloon, as if it's still fashionable to kill grammatron for no reason. Ronnie's feeling dizzy. He wonders what the hell all that stuff he was just thinking about means and where it came from. Must'a been the peanut butter.
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:43 pm
by Ampersand
I think we should all eat the salmonella peanut butter at this point. -___-
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:04 pm
by Catullus
CM what is happening man
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:25 pm
by VHB
"Ronnie! Come out of the bathroom! I know you're in there! Don't think you can hide from me! This is your union representative!"
Ronnie remains in the bathroom, still attempting to recover from the last sandwich he ate.
"WE'VE HAD A VOTE AND YOU'RE OUT!"
*FLUSH*
"DID YOU HEAR ME?"
*FLUSH*
"QUIT DOING THAT WHEN I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU!"
"I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE AT THIS MOMENT, SIR!"
"NEITHER DO I! YOU'RE OUT OF THE UNION!"
*FLUSH*
Ronnie finally emerges.
"Well, at least I still have the Screen Actor's Guild."GRAMMATRON was kicked out of the union. He was an
ordinary factory worker. He was also the (deliberately?) ineffective president of another union, the Screen Actor's Guild. He would go on to not only lead it to ruin, but also the state of California as its governor and later on the whole country as President, until Ronnie was kidnapped by ninjas. There were no dudes Bad Enough to rescue him. As you might have guessed, his real last name was not "Balloon".
Re: HPN WW #18: Day 5 ends 9 p.m. ET
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:27 pm
by palmer eldritch
gg scabs
Re: HPN WW #18: SCABS WIN
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:31 pm
by Ampersand
Wore my good socks tonight.
Re: HPN WW #18: SCABS WIN
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:37 pm
by wendy
jfc you idiots
(not the scabs, the rest of you)