The Wire Mafia Day 6 [4/13]

[StubbsKVM]

I have not seen it, but I took a quick look on wikipedia to see what it was about so I have an idea on what characters would be in it.

[lynx_]

So just a thought, as i wanted to say before, my guess is that we will get omar in the game and that he will be a serial killer or some sort of third party.

I presume this is some sort of meta-joke?

I believe that he is making a guess that the character Omar Little will be one of the roles in the game and guessing what sort of role might be attached to the character.

Sorry, I misread that post. I thought omar was a player around here.

What is your prefered method of getting the first things going on Day 1?

Missed this earlier. You'll see once I have some free time! :p

[thechuck51]

Vote Count 1.2

stubbsKVM (1) - Jonty125
safariguy5 (1) - kgb007
Comrade Kirk (1) - betiko
warlord5 (3) - safariguy5, superkeener
lynx_ (1) - rishaed
Jonty125 (1) - Djfireside
Iron Butterfly (1) - stubbsKVM

Not Voting: spiesr, lynx_, Comrade Kirk, warlord5, Iron Butterfly

With 13 Alive it takes 7 to Lynch

Deadline is Sunday June 16th at 10pm EST (11 days, 0 hours, 28 minutes remaining)

[kgb007]

unvote

[rishaed]

unvote

[spiesr]

unvote

unvote

Reasons?

[kgb007]

unvote

Reasons?

bc it was a joke vote? anybody got any ideas on how to really kick things off

You'll see once I have some free time! :p

maybe lynx_ knows?

[rishaed]

unvote

unvote

Reasons?

Do I really have to give a reason to unvote a joke vote when everything is pretty dead?

[superkeener]

I thought it had 5 seasons... but anyways, if you liked The Wire, check out Treme and Generation Kill. David Simon also had a hand in making them and both are great.

[StubbsKVM]

I actually voted for Iron Butterfly, not Jonty

I did give Jonty an angry look though.


Maybe those who've actually seen the series could give us an idea what roles may be out there.

[jonty125]

I did give Jonty an angry look though.

Is that inbetween FOS and sFOS or FOS and LFOS.

[StubbsKVM]

Just looked at it again and saw I have misread it. Apologies

sFOS? NFOS?

*looks it up but can't find anything*

It's my first time playing

It was actually an IGMEOY

[jonty125]

Just looked at it again and saw I have misread it. Apologies

sFOS? NFOS?

*looks it up but can't find anything*

It's my first time playing

It was actually an IGMEOY

FOS - Finger of Suspicion
sFOS - small Finger of Suspicion
LFOS - large Finger of Suspicion

[StubbsKVM]

thanks for clearing that up I could find the FOS but not the S and L parts

[lynx_]

Vote: kgb007

For real this time.

[StubbsKVM]

Vote: kgb007

For real this time.

any specific reason?

[betiko]

Vote: kgb007

For real this time.

you might want to follow that by some sort of explanation.

[jonty125]

What the others said, justification is expected.

[betiko]

Ib is definitely around, he s posted like 3 times today in another mafia game. I wonder if he still wants to play this one!

Oh and that replacement guy didn t even show up?

[Comrade Kirk]

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I think he's using his flavour knowledge to build credibility early on. I also think the fact that he mentioned Omar, but didn't theorise about any of the other charcters is interesting. Either he is Omar and wants people to assume that he isn't when he starts kiling people, or he is trying to get Omar to give himself away. Either way, I don't think it's a town play.

[Comrade Kirk]

Vote: Betiko

[jonty125]

[color=#FF00Vote: Betiko00][/color]

I think he's using his flavour knowledge to build credibility early on. I also think the fact that he mentioned Omar, but didn't theorise about any of the other charcters is interesting. Either he is Omar and wants people to assume that he isn't when he starts kiling people, or he is trying to get Omar to give himself away. Either way, I don't think it's a town play.

I have never heard such WIFOM. unvote, vote Comrade Kirk for voting based on shocking logic, speculating about one character's role is hardly scummy.

[kgb007]

Maybe those who've actually seen the series could give us an idea what roles may be out there.

In an effort to nullify lynx's vote and offer something meaningful, here goes...

So I recently watched season 1 and it's pretty fresh in my memory, this is my first time playing Mafia so i'm not 100% on all roles but from what I've read in the one of the other mafia games going on here..

betiko already mentioned the role of Omar, a possible SK, he did a lot of stealing from other drug gangs, also he did work with the BPD (baltimore police department) as a key witness to the murder of a witness to the original murder that kicked off the show - the opening scene refers to the aquittal of D (Avon's nephew) and i seem to remember a scene during the season where Omar was referred to as a "robin hood" of the ghetto by the police, for stealing drugs from the gangs and redistributing them to the less fortunate, not saying he IS a vig but a remote possibility? I definitely remember a scene where he just gave away some heroine to a woman with a baby who hadn't received her paycheck yet but i'm probably overanalyzing and reading too much into it for our game's purposes..

there's Avon Barksdale who was the leader of the drug cartel, I not sure of all the abilities but maybe GF? definitely mafia (DUH) Avon was basically the shot caller who had taken over the Towers in Baltimore has his turf to sell drugs, he was also involved in ordering several individual's murders

Stringer Bell was Avon's "first lieutenant" or right hand man and mafia as well, he executed a lot of Avon's orders, not sure what role he could fill - roleblocker, strongman?(just starting googling different mafia? again i have no idea what type of roles the mod gave out (except for mine of course)

I could go on to less prominent roles from the show's drug gang but how many mafia do you think we have in a town of 13? and maybe Omar as a SK?? are there any vanilla mafia or townies for that matter?

on the flipside..mcnulty is obvious, he's the main detective in the show, and the one who lets slip to the judge regarding Avon's drug operation, most likely our cop, would we have more than one cop?

or how about a detective? is there a fundamental difference between cop and detective for our game? (i don't know) They do refer McNulty as Detective McNulty as he works in the Homicide Division, maybe someone else who's seen the show or played more than 1 mafia game before can lend their experience..

other possible cops/detectives from the show that might be in our game, Greggs (lesiban cop in the narcotics group), Prez (starts out as a bumbling idiot who turns into someone very good at connecting the dots), Bunk (McNulty's partner in Homicide), Det. Freamon (cagey old timer randomly assigned to the detail from a useless department, I believe he was working as someone who would categorize items that were pawned with values greater than $50 before getting assigned to this detail because he did good detective work on another detail years ago when that good detective work exposed internal/politcal corruption only to be to be asked where he wanted and not wanted to end up after the detail, of course he got his least favorite choice as punishment for "following the money"

after some serious digging, we could have a docter, the only character who comes to mind from season 1 is Dr. Randall Frazier, a very minor character who works in the city morgue but the people were already dead by the time they got to Fraizer so maybe not??

a roleblocker could be Lietenant Daniels (in charge of the detail) or Deputy Commissioner Rawls (2 levels in the chain of command above McNulty in Homicide) maybe he could a townie GF? (do they even have those in mafia games?) or Burrell could be roleblocker/GF as well, I think he was only Acting Commissioner in season 1, and not made full time until season 2 but he was the one who got an earful from the judge about Avon and the drugs and assigned Daniels to head up the detail early on

back to my vanilla question - do we think it's possible that there are vanilla mafia/townies? there were several lesser drug gang members that were foot soliders, D, Bodie, Bird, Wey Bey come to mind..and other cops for BPD that might not have a role for game - i don't know how fun the game would be if all of the town were cops like they were in the show but again i'll defer to the more experienced

Bubbles is a drug addict that is also an informant of sorts for Greggs (lesbian narcotics cop assigned to the detail), he was always good for a laugh or two during the episode but i was gonna suggest he might be in the game only as vanilla but on second thought he could be a watcher too??

hope this is enough to start on..

[spiesr]

Vote Jonty, his responses to recent actions have given me the vibe that he is trying to jump on everything that comes up. If I extrapolate this, possibly unreasonably, it points towards him hoping that any of that sticks and a "lynch anybody but me" mentality. This vote is weak but should suffice at this time of Day.

[betiko]

Sorry for spoiling but... Forgot about avon, i remembered stringer as the godfather all the way..

But yeah, rawls is a major ass and there s lots of internal fights in the PD, i don t know how chuck reflected this in the game...

My guess here would be 9 townies 1 third party (omar) 3 scum. The reason why I think omar is in is because you can ask anyone who knows the show, they will all remember omar, he is very charismatic and he suits perfectly the role of a third party of some sort. By the way, i was surprised to see on spiesr s link that he is actually inspired by a real character who did the same in baltimore.

So comrade, any particular reason you get uncomfortable with an omar conversation?

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