Callahan Chronicle: A Quick End

[Callahan]

So basically what happened was, I was a sweater with a bit of thread coming loose. Then when other, more aggressive players saw that thread, they pulled and pulled at it until i was just a pile of it. They never stopped to think once, "Hey, this guy might actually be a citizen". Of course, many players from other teams loved me. They thought I was nice, and unquestionably innocent. Yet they could not, as I could not, stop what was to come.

I knew it was really over when Ariel and her special power posted in response to something in a thread negatively toward me. She was the avatar of a second chance, and she never even batted an eyelash when I begged her to choose me. Something about my team keeps them from changing their minds. I don't know if it was constant spy reassurance or the groupthink effect, where no one wants to cause conflict because they disagree, rather just go along to avoid it.

Anyways, once I dealt with the fact that I WOULD be exiled, I began sending people pms with last-day conversations for them to use to catch spies once i was gone. I was determined to catch one, whether I was dead or alive. Hopefully someone took it to heart and will actually use the information. I scattered the seeds, Sam. And maybe under the right conditions those seeds will crack open and grow into trees those spies can't jump out of.

I really did enjoy playing, but once again I betray myself, and appear more suspicious than I would have being an actual spy. It was a combination of this and the players style in my team that led to my downfall. Its by far not the first time I've gone down first, but almost always someone gets caught as a result. And that is my hope here. As I told Khaled, 1:1 citizen for spy trade off is not only good, its damn good.

I'm going to keep up with the game. I really want to see how it unfolds now that I've damned Yvette to dreaded "responsibility" and "accountability" which seems foreign to her.

Lets play Spies.

[Ariel]

Sorry, Callahan. =/

[Iris]

Yeah, Callahan was kind of cool, I wish he'd come back now for the after-game fun. Sorry, Callahan!

And now I'm laughing at Mei Yun's insistence that Ariel, Faith, me and Yvette have a "girl's night out" over the Callahan affair, since it seems I'm the only girl in the bunch.

[DC]

In one Spies game I was in a harem of females in which I was the only real female. Love it. See, this is why the real girls have to stick around. Maybe, just maybe, someday there will be a real female kickass alliance.

[Kirsten]

Jul 30, 2009 0:37:06 GMT -5 DC said:

In one Spies game I was in a harem of females in which I was the only real female. Love it. See, this is why the real girls have to stick around. Maybe, just maybe, someday there will be a real female kickass alliance.

Just for this, I will continue to play female characters. On the internet, there can be no kickass real female alliance without one of those "real" females actually being a man.

[Faith]

And I also am sorry for Callahan. When our team stuff gets revealed it'll actually show I wanted to change my vote off of him but I voted earlier in the afternoon of exile and didn't come back till after results were due. So yeah.

Jul 29, 2009 20:34:34 GMT -5 Iris said:

And now I'm laughing at Mei Yun's insistence that Ariel, Faith, me and Yvette have a "girl's night out" over the Callahan affair, since it seems I'm the only girl in the bunch.

We never did have that 'Girl's night out' lol.

[Jason]

There's no such thing as girls on the internet.

[Ed]

Jul 30, 2009 1:54:46 GMT -5 Jason said:

There's no such thing as girls on the internet.

Other than the porn.

[Jason]

A very valid point ;D

[Gretchen]

Jul 30, 2009 12:43:25 GMT -5 Ed said:

Jul 30, 2009 1:54:46 GMT -5 Jason said:

There's no such thing as girls on the internet.

Other than the porn.

I call Bullshit.

[DC]

Kristyn/Gretchen, they're just gonna be like "oh yeah? Show me your tits and prove it"

[Judge Sam]

Ivan is pretty cool and I was really bummed when he went out early. I haven't heard from him since like right after he got voted out. But I do see he logged onto the site like two days ago so maybe he's seen this.


He's from mafiascum and doesn't have an AIM unfortunately. His application sucked but when I sent him a follow-up he wrote tons which was great. As you can see in his confessionals and final words he was really into the game and wrote excellent confessionals. And his character Callahan was exceptional.


Here's some excerpts from conversations + application:

I'm so glad you like the priest (his choose your own role submission) haha, i've kinda seen how the characters have been done in the past so i just did what sounded cool. What I like about your game here is that you've made a standard mafia game into more story-driven and setting has more impact, unlike "here's your role. Go play." So I'm looking forward to it.


So, as a citizen, or town or whatever, what I do is make notes on everything that stands out. It can stand out as town, scum, sk, whatever. I usually keep a notebook or something for each game, but this game might need a bigger book!
So for example, someone shows interest in speeding up the lynch process fairly early in the game. I'll be able to look back in my notes and see "hey, this guy showed newbie tells before, maybe he's just impatient." or "oh, he's done suspicious stuff like this before, i'll keep my eye on him". I find this keeps my thoughts organized, and prevents me from going astray on witch hunts and following the crowd.


In games though, my attitude tends to get me in trouble. They usually think i know too much rather than i'm skilled and i get lynched early that way. Hopefully i can tone that down for this game because it would be a shame to be lynched before getting to the meat of it all.

(sam's note: bummer how that worked out lol. He also goes to a university a lot of my high school friends went to.)


Um, i can't remember but i found spies 5 on someones signature or something on a random forum. I checked it out and bookmarked it to see if you'd bring up any new games in the future. Then the night i applied a accidentally clicked on it and found a new game ready to go! Talk about luck.

(sam's note: that is awesome. I would love you so much if you put this in your signatures on other boards. It's really a simple way to get people into it:

image ~ i57.photobucket.com/albums/g221/SorintheSeeker/spies6newtitle_small.jpg

Spies 6: The Union ~ epic online mafia reality tv show, complete with episodes. Watch or apply for the next game! )

spies6callahan (1:23:11 PM): were you aware that robert was annoying when looking over his application?
spies6callahan returned at 1:23:18 PM
Sorin the Seeker (1:23:35 PM): robert is annoying? =)
spies6callahan (1:23:47 PM): incredibly so
spies6callahan (1:23:49 PM): haha
Sorin the Seeker (1:23:56 PM): how so?
spies6callahan (1:24:29 PM): ah, he just talks in circles. Asks loaded questions, doesn't listen.
Sorin the Seeker (1:25:29 PM): did he ask you a loaded question?
spies6callahan (1:25:35 PM): plenty
spies6callahan (1:26:27 PM): he's like "whats the difference between you discouraging my secrecy and encouraging yvettes?"
spies6callahan (1:26:45 PM): and i tell him "I never encouraged her secrecy, merely tried to understand her logic"
spies6callahan (1:27:05 PM): and he just doesn't understand this.
spies6callahan (1:27:10 PM): very annoying.
Sorin the Seeker (1:27:49 PM): it's only day 3 haha, i wonder how many hairs you'll pull out by 37
spies6callahan (1:28:00 PM): I hope he dies by then
spies6callahan (1:28:07 PM): even if he's a citizen thats not much of a loss
spies6callahan (1:28:09 PM): lol
Sorin the Seeker (1:28:14 PM): haha
Sorin the Seeker (1:28:31 PM): i've had some people vote out annoying people in the past just cause they are annoying would you ever consider doing that? =)
spies6callahan (1:28:47 PM): I may. Its definitely on the table.
spies6callahan (1:29:05 PM): especially since i was going to go for a lurker, and no one is lurking on our team anymore
Sorin the Seeker (1:30:17 PM): i know isn't that crazy though
Sorin the Seeker (1:30:21 PM): so many super-active people haha
spies6callahan (1:30:34 PM): good for you, hard for us
spies6callahan (1:30:43 PM): :-P


Sorin the Seeker (1:35:53 PM): what do you think about the drama on your team?
spies6callahan (1:36:14 PM): this yvette v robert is going to come to a head
spies6callahan (1:36:25 PM): I think i may have set off some of it
spies6callahan (1:36:45 PM): i'm not sure where everyone else ties in to it
Sorin the Seeker (1:38:35 PM): do you think there's any spy-ish behavior going on in your team?
spies6callahan (1:38:50 PM): that is the golden question dear host
spies6callahan (1:39:06 PM): either there is a lot, or none
spies6callahan (1:39:29 PM): i'm leaning none. I'm sure they're sitting back and watching right now.
spies6callahan (1:39:50 PM): we're already self destructive enough as citizens


spies6callahan (8:55:05 PM): so i guess you'll set up the losers lounge for me late?
spies6callahan (8:55:07 PM): later?
Sorin the Seeker (8:55:19 PM): yeah
spies6callahan (8:55:40 PM): cool i'm going to put up a hate shrine to yvette the steamroller
spies6callahan (8:55:48 PM): =D
Sorin the Seeker (8:56:41 PM): lol
Sorin the Seeker (8:56:55 PM): do you have another aim name we could talk on?
spies6callahan (8:57:20 PM): no =[ i'll just not log on this one anymore
spies6callahan (8:58:11 PM): i'll put some nice last words in my confessional for you too when i get a chance
Sorin the Seeker (8:58:59 PM): thanks =)
Sorin the Seeker (8:59:07 PM): i'm really bummed about your exit =/
Sorin the Seeker (8:59:11 PM): i really liked having you play
spies6callahan (8:59:19 PM): or we can act on the honor system and i won't talk to anyone, but thats hard to manage for you i imagine
spies6callahan (8:59:21 PM): i liked playing too
spies6callahan (8:59:27 PM): i wish it had lasted longer
spies6callahan (8:59:30 PM): you've got a nice game here
Sorin the Seeker (8:59:47 PM): the sucky thing is that in my experience, when i have awesome players go early, they say maybe they might consider playing again but then 4 months go by and then they go like "eh..." and don't play again haha
Sorin the Seeker (8:59:49 PM): thanks :-)
spies6callahan (9:00:03 PM): yeah i hope that doesn't happen
Sorin the Seeker (9:00:04 PM): it sucks! bad circumstances means i lose cool people like you sometimes
spies6callahan (9:00:06 PM): i'd play again
spies6callahan (9:00:26 PM): i didn't like how my team had two really aggressive players roll over me
spies6callahan (9:00:39 PM): but nothing you can do about that really



You rock Ivan!

[Kirsten]

I hope Callahan comes back.

[Gretchen]

Jul 31, 2009 10:26:55 GMT -5 DC said:

Kristyn/Gretchen, they're just gonna be like "oh yeah? Show me your tits and prove it"

Good point.

Ok there's no girls.

[Yvette]

Meh. I still don't feel bad about this exile at all, and I don't think anybody should. With what Callahan was pulling, he was absolutely the right exile. Everyone was quick to jump on our entire group after that exile with "I KNEW HE WAS A CITIZEN" but they had nothing to prove otherwise, so whatever.

It stinks to get exiled early, but you have to take it in stride. You come back stronger in the later seasons knowing how to improve and what might have gone wrong.