Greetings, Fellow Spies

[Iris]

Just a short note to say hello. i look forward to meeting the rest of you and starting to discuss strategy.

Go Spies!

[Pete]

Why hello there, Pete checking in and wishing everyone the best of luck with this

Go Spies!

[Almathea]

hey gang,

what a great surprise to wake up to! i havent played mafia in a while and got a bit obsessed reading the old spies forums

im gonna check in at my lunch, ive already thought of some neat strategies

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oh and i already see two familiar faces

[Almathea]

oh and hey, call me al! almathea was the name of a girl i knew way back in middle school, its a chore to type

[Judge Sam]

So cool to see you guys here!

Just as a clarification, here is what I will tell the others. First I will tell them that 'Alignments will be revealed at the live chat.' Which technically is true because some alignments (the citizens') will be revealed at the live chat! Anyway, at the live chat the plan right now is to simply announce in chat a message to the effect of: "If you don't know that you are a Spy, then you are a Citizen, because the Spies already have a few days head start on you."


So before that you can pretend not to know what's goin on, or that you don't have an alignment yet, or whatever you would normally do as a citizen.


Then I'm going to tell them that if they have a role it will be posted later this evening. You will get your spy roles if you have them at that point as well.

[Donald]

Firstly,

Greetings fellow spies! It is truly great to meet you and be one amongst each of you. I look forward to plotting, conniving, and working alongside each of you throughout the game.

I guess we could start brainstorming ideas on how we want to play the game. Nobody happens to have a Spy role created in the create a role thread, do they? I still need to read through that to pick up any possible roles I didn't see before.

And as we aren't supposed to know each other, I will pretend not to even know your usernames until after I see people in the main thread.

[Amelia]

Hey everyone. Good to be here and I'm sure we'll have a great time.

[Almathea]

wowee amelia, this is funny. ammy and ally te hee!

okay i was thinking;
we all should all work really hard at trying to look for mafia. i think people will spot us straight away if we dont care about getting spies.

brainstorm time!
for a strategy, i think also as a team need to have a system!

we need to plan who we are going to get voted out as well as who we are going to night kill! we could really dominate the game if we cause all out war and get them voting each other out

we should make a "threatometer" that shows who our biggest threats our - even if they are our close friends

we should also have a critiquing session, we say stuff like "you are doing enough looking for mafs" or "everyone thinks you look strange the way you avoid questions"

and also a relationship thread, where are our relationships with each other?

and also we need to be able to make it look like we are talking to each other like citizens, we could actually ask each other difficult questions on AIM, and we have to answer as if its a citizen asking us

then if we ever get asked what we think of each other, we can say "well i asked so-and-so who he thought was a spy and he said so-and-so"

we should do it once a round, make it a "question time"

justputting my ideas out there

[Almathea]

guys, i organise alot of rallies and stuff so i think i might get carried away with some of these ideas! ill post more about them soon.

what would you guys say to having like systems/regular things we have to do each day? like a critiquing thread, question time etc on top of having a "citizen database".

we should have regularity, but be able for irregularity - so maybe we should have an SOS thread and have same sticky it. the SOS thread will only be used in emergencies; if someone posts in it - it means stop wat you're doing, get on AIM asap

[Pete]

I like the SOS thread and the citizen database thread, but I would also like for us to have a spy database. It would be good to know who each others charecter 'suspects' and who in their mind is 'safe'. Similarily it can also be used to make sure your charecter doesn't suddenly know something they are not meant to. Obviously I will post absolutely everything I am doing at all times, but if someone that my charecter hardly knows suddenly knows some interesting details about me, or who I suspect or have doubts on....the more observant of citizens will have us nailed.

[Jaya]

6th spy reporting for duty...

Lot of good ideas here, I am sure hoping that I can help.

[Iris]

Wow, you guys are really organized, I'm impressed!

I am wondering if we can all post what time zone we're in as well as the times we're likely to be online. That could be useful information if one of us gets in a jam.

[Iris]

Oh, I'm good with the regular system stuff, but what would a "citizen" database do?

[Pete]

Well, in my mind it would contain who each person suspects (to the best of our knowledge) and what roles we think they may have etc. It would hopefully also shed light on cliques and mini alliances between players so we know not to throw suspicion about someone to their best mate.

[Iris]

Okay, that makes sense.

Did you guys see the thread in the board where Sam had people match the pictures with the names and guess what the characters would be like? It has me a bit worried because several people picked me and Donald as most likely to be spies, and one person even said they pictured us as a couple, ie aligned. That's a handicap to start out with.

[Donald]

ooh... I just came across the "match the name with the picture" threads and saw our pictures, haven't read into that yet, though...

That is definitely something we need to be prepared for. I think I'll act ignorant of the fact until somebody brings it up, though, in the game.

Side note: I'm surprised they pictured us as a couple. Looking at each of our profile pics, I would never guess that.

[Almathea]

exile thread each round - begin it the round before eg. exile thread4 in round 3.
imprisonment thread - same again
SOS thread - a lot of us could just lurk through the day but if an SOS message is posted it means "get on AIM now"
citizen database - who suspects who? keep this information to yourself, but its a good place to pick out patterns and mini alliances that we can exploit.
threatometer - who are the threats?

[Jason]

What's up, guys?? Just checking in; I'll start reading posts in depth a bit later tonight, just wanted to let you know I'm alive and that you have another spy up in this bitch

[Almathea]

eeee! so exciting!

Ally
Ammy
Jason
Iris
Pete
Donald
Jaya

Jaya and Jason would make a cute couple! similar names, and brooding faces

[Pete]

Wow seven of us, woot. I'm going to assume that is everyone
Nice to meet you all, lets win this thing.
Seven spies....my guess will be around 29-33 citizens, meaning a total of up to forty people. This is gonna get good.

[Jason]

Ok, I've now had time to read stuff!

It seems like everyone's really organised, so I have a confession to make... I'm not! Like... At all. So, I'll do my best to pretend I'm organised for the team, and of course I'll be really active the entire time, but I doubt I'll have many cool ideas like this.

I love the idea of a Citizen database but I think we should be careful with how much we put there/how much we take from it; like Pete said, if somebody knows something that they shouldn't have any way of knowing it looks really suspicious... Personally I want to know as little as possible about citizens that I haven't talked to or heard much from so I don't know that I'll read that thread just based on the fact that late in the game it can get hard to differentiate between what we know and what we're supposed to know.

[Almathea]

hmm okay, maybe we should have a "where citizen's stand"

we could add information to a thread; or by PM to one of us spies and compile like a chart!

the chart shows which citizens suspect which other citizens and spies; which citizens are most suspected; which citizens seem to be banding together without us there.

the chart could be huge benefit; it can make us less lazy eg. if we sign on to AIM we see someone on who we know suspects us - we make more effort to talk to them; we dispell any signs that we know more "hey, havent talked to you much yet! hows it going? " OR if they publicly announce things on the Burg about how much they suspect us - we know from the database (and from fellow spies) more about why they suspect us - it gives us more time to prepare ourselves for when we go onto AIM and we can answer difficult questions faster (it makes us look more innocent when we can give reasons for suspicious behaviour, rather than routing around); the database can tell us when to appear offline - ie. if we wont be able to answer some of our critics just yet, and they are online!

[Jason]

Now that I like!

[Amelia]

Ooh. I have to echo what Jason said. I'm not very organized either, but I can handle a chart if it's simple and straightforward how we add to it.

I thrive when I can work independently, but am also a really good team player. I usually play pretty solitary as it helps maintain the Citizen image, but I'll make sure I collaborate in our thread here as much as possible.

I will say that I will probably be one of the less active players. I'm not able to be on for regularly scheduled blocks of time. I can sometimes be very active, but other times life gets in the way, so I just want to be up front about that. This doesn't mean I'm not actively engaged in the game, just that I can't show it all the time.

OK. Enough about me. Let's Imprison some Citizens!

[Judge Sam]

To clarify:


At live Exile tonight I will announce that the Spies have known they were Spies since the beginning of the game.


Then I will say "If you were not already told, you are not a Spy."


I will NOT say

• That some of you guys found out 3 days ago and others yesterday.
  
  
• That that whole time you were talkin in Spy HQ
  
  
• That you were given your accounts before the game began
  
  
• anything else.
  

Just start of the game forward, really. Which is true!