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Last game, we had a tie that barely resulted in the game being played as Any All. That, combined with the fact that the EFL is starting their own Any All game soon, leads me to decide that this will be a normal game, with the Mafia as the evil faction. Plan accordingly. Still time to sign up! I'll be closing this out and kicking things off tonight. Also, join the Discord if you haven't! The following people (I think) are not in the server and will need to be to participate in the game: @a_Ferk @Riley_Couture (if you're in) @TheLastOlympian07 @JorgTheGoat03

We've gone with the same set of captains for the past couple seasons, and since they're still on the roster, I've elected to keep them. So, here we have it: C - Fernando Jokinen A1 - Roque Davis A2 - Robin Winter Congratulations to @Ahma, @Josh, and @Sonnet and thank you for your dedication to this franchise!

That's right @frescoelmo , I'm taking your thing to the next level. This one is openly clickbait. But people will click anyway, knowing it's clickbait, and be forced to read what I wrote out of curiosity. I guess I'll stop at this point because by now I've covered anything that would show up as a preview on Discord and it's starting to sound a bit like a Robbie post. So yeah, I'll try to make this worth reading at least. I believe in good content, regardless of the fact that this content has a bit of a bad intro. I don't have any specific ideas at the moment, and want to blitz through my earning so I have one less thing on my mind this week, so I figured it would be fun to look through last season's index and find things I found interesting. Let's take a look: -Aside from Gunnar and HHH, players whose numbers were probably a good deal inflated from playing on expansion teams, the top two point-scorers were defensemen. Blueliners don't usually get a whole lot of love in award voting and such, and it's interesting how Benny Graves got a ton of (well-deserved, mind you) credit for his offensive output while Downey and Tate really didn't (at least, from my perspective). -Apparently the league leader in shooting percentage (among actual players) was one of my guys, now-inactive Big Chungus. Seeing as he played max minutes and has a SC/PA gap as drastic as he does, I'm also very surprised that he barely even broke 100 shots. Maybe his SK rating of 40 was hurting his output. -Also, speaking of shooting percentage, big shoutout to ß-LAS RW1 for scoring 3 goals on 7 shots. -Leading the league in game-winning goals was, well, Sigard Gunnar. Which, given his goal output, isn't surprising--except for the fact that he played for LA. Gunnar scored 12 game-winners, and the Stars won 29 games. So, just over 41% of LA's wins came off the stick of Gunnar. -11 out of Micheal Gary Scott's 19 goals came on the power play. Meanwhile, Gunnar only ended up scoring 8 out of 60. -DC finished tied with Davos in the standings and ahead of Toronto and Prague, but--after a good list of expansion-team players--they've got a curious amount of players at the bottom of the +/- list. Enough, in fact, that they had four players come up before any player on a non-expansion team, and those players even finished significantly behind Prague's Seabass Perrin and his -14. Ricky Johnson, Xavier leFlamant, and Raleigh Ritchie all finished with a -24 (bad sim chemistry?) and Charles Drumm came up with a -18. ...yeah, this is 150 words alright. I could go on.

Claiming my third and final week of this with this post. Possibly more to come in the somewhat-near future if I've got the time or the motivation.

For the week ending 9/27! 1. We're off to a solid start! What are your first impressions of the season so far? 2. Are you happy with your role on the team? 3. Where do you see yourself as a league member in five seasons? 4. Who's your all-time favorite sports figure, in any sport? 5. What styles of music are you into? 6. Have you ever been in any online communities outside of the sim league world? What were they? @Ferda @BlueMaple @Jer_Lefebvre @Sonnet @McWolf @Velevra @turkey2349 @David O'Quinn @Ahma @Josh @PadStack @Rayzor_7

I set the link to never expire; guess Discord doesn't like me. I updated it in the original post but here's another link for convenience. For @Riley_Couture and any of our other friends in the UK--the "day phase" for this game (the one where players are actively encouraged to to participate in public) generally runs from 9 AM EST (inconsistently, more like whenever I wake up) to 9 PM EST (generally more consistently). If you've got a role with a night action (which is most roles), it's probably smartest to get things in after the day is over, though I do accept early submissions if you're up for them and you'll probably be awake to submit yours before I start the next day phase anyway. The only situation I can think of where it's somewhat "necessary" to be online at the start of the night phase is if you're placed in jail, or if you're the Jailor (a Town role which picks players to speak with each night, and kills those who they find suspicious). You can still work around that, though--if you'd like, you can write up a note for me to forward to the Jailor, or, if you end up being the Jailor, you can put up a list of questions for me to forward to each night's target and make your decision as to how to treat them when you wake up. Anyway, just let me know officially one way or the other whether this sounds good to you! (sign-up still open until whenever I close it tomorrow)

Every season I miss this in at least one round for some reason. Every single time. My apologies. F - Ola Vikingstad D - Alex Bridges I believe it's now @jRuutu on the clock.

What if some drama breaks out on Discord and the AGM isn't online? Or, what if someone messages a GM and they say, "yeah, that's not my problem; I have my AGM do trades." Conversely, drama can erupt if a GM decides to take something over and the AGM doesn't like it because "hey, that's my thing." Obviously, these are extreme cases, but it's a bad look. I think the thing that gets missed a lot here is that there's nothing stopping a GM from running their team like this already. If I hypothetically wanted to make Berocka do all the lines, I can do that--and if he doesn't want to, I can find a new AGM. There's certainly enough of a supply on the market that I'd be able to make it work. This is going to sound mean, and please don't take this as any sort of condescending or targeted statement, but if you'd like to convince the league (or the GM community) that this is a good idea, good luck. I can definitely see the benefit to this from an AGM perspective, but taking away or splitting the power of the GM in any sort of official capacity is never going to happen.

@Greg_Di has been skipped; make your two selections at any time you can. @frescoelmo is back on the clock

This works fine now but now my sig in particular looks weird--there's a big empty space that shouldn't be there. I think it's the hidden part throwing it off? Not sure on that though because other people have the same type of thing and it isn't doing that for them.

List of players: a_Ferk BarzalGoat Berocka bigAL Caboose30 Corgi34 Devise Doomsday gorlab JeffD jhatty8 JigglyGumballs JorgTheGoat03 Josh MMFLEX omgitshim Ricer13 Riley_Couture (?) TheLastOlympian07

It's the most wonderful time of the year! There'll be parties for hosting Marshmallows for toasting And caroling out in the snow There'll be scary ghost stories And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago You got that right, it's time for another Town of Salem game! First and foremost: Rules are here The wiki is here Now... CLICK THIS LINK (no, that isn't a rickroll) There's our first important update--we now have a centralized Discord server (the one formerly known as dead chat--if you're already in there, stay there)! After a bit of a debacle involving forum difficulties and a possibly unwarranted mod kill last game, I've elected to move all notifications to Discord. A few notes on that: -JOINING THE SERVER IS REQUIRED for all players. If you're not playing, you're still welcome in the server! -All notifications will be given out in that server, along with pings. You are responsible for checking Discord, at minimum, at the start of each day and night phase. -All players will be given a gray role that just says "Role". This is not one role but many--they all look the same, but do different things so as to automatically assign to different channels those who may conveniently be assigned to those channels. In many cases, this will simply be a placeholder role that does nothing but which is meant to blend in with the other roles. Don't try to figure out what's what, because they look entirely identical. That should do it for the first update--now for the second. As many of you know, I took a bit of a break from running these games because college started back up and I wasn't sure how much time I'd have, or when I'd have it. I was thinking about starting a game this week (as my schedule does seem to be fairly consistent, even if I've been busier) and that was made a bit easier by @chatfan036 offering to help out. So, for our second update: eagles is a co-mod for this game! Feel free to consult him as well as me for rules checks and the like. Now, for the usual closing bit: TRIVIA IS BACK! HERE IS THE LINK TO THAT -If you won the last game, you have an automatic 30% chance to receive a role of your choosing, if you'd like to request one. The winners of last game are listed below: -If you didn't win the last game, you can still request a role! Play trivia, and for each correct answer, you'll earn a cumulative 5% chance toward a role of your choosing, for a maximum chance of 20%. -If you won the last game, you can still play! This possible 20% chance will be added to your 30% chance for a maximum of 50%. -No, you do not need to do this if you don't want to. -If you'd like to play without requesting a role, simply write "Random" in the role request box. Vote for your preferred format up top and sign up down below, as always. Target start date: Monday night, assuming I'm not too busy doing homework or watching football (or both). (Apologies for the double ping for those mentioned as winners of the last game; I'm trying to make this look normal for both forum themes and failing miserably)

F - RJ Jubis F - Chad Magnum @IamMOOSE on the clock

Hey you don't know that he won't

Surprise Chicago cup run hype

@Quik and @Beketov would love to see this. @JeffD might remember you as well. That's only people from S1 though, we've got plenty of guys here who have been here for years upon years. Thanks for checking in! We've never met, but I'd love to see you back regardless ?

Damn I forgot to ping Bek for sims the minute the index went up. Next season I guess.

Miami better hope this is reversible

I'm just wondering why this is such a big deal. This exact thing has happened before...

One thing I don't like is the fact that NOBODY's full sig is visible unless you choose to expand it--at the moment, you can only see a bit of the top. I get possibly wanting to cut down on looking at huge sigs that take up the entire page but it kind of defeats the purpose of having one if you can't even really tell what it looks like without an extra click.

Says half of L and R. I was going to agree with this but

Full rosters; I'll edit this post as the draft progresses. Team Greg: F - Benny Graves F - Markus Nygren F - Squirrely dan D - Guy Sasakamoose D - Oskar Lagesson G - Greg Eagles Team Fresco: F - Mikko Lahtinen F - Groovy Dood F - SS Hornet D - Jeff Downey D - Roque Davis G - Raymond Bernard Team Berr: F - Brock Louth F - Patrik Tallinder F - Andrew Su D - Erik Killinger D - Hulk Hogan G - Grekkark Gyrfalcon Team Ruutu: F - Thomas Landry II F - Lewis Dawson F - Jim Bob D - Condor Adrienne D - Vladimir Pavlov G - Jimmy Spyro Team Moose: F - Kris Rice F - Phil Marleau F - Luke Thornton D - Lincoln Tate D - Hugh Jass G - Jacques Lafontaine Team Gustav: F - RJ Jubis F - Chad Magnum F - Ola Vikingstad D - Alex Bridges D - James Rose G - Rayz Funk (stupid dark mode)

sad David noises