Mafia 96 Game Thread - Viva Las Vegas!

[Danner]

FINALLY!

I just finished the 2 hour airplane trip from hell.
It was just a simple flight from Copenhagen, Denmark to Trondheim, Norway.
With an unfortunate transit stop at the midway point, in

First, my plane from copenhagen got delayed by a full hour. Then we literally spent another whole hour sitting on the runway waiting for clearance to take off. The captain was rather frustrated. As was I.

When we finally landed in Oslo, apparently there was a bit of a snowstorm going on. With a massive amount of airplanes delayed, and just about no planes going anywhere. Luckily, that included my transit plane, so I didn't miss the transit plane. At least that was what they said as I left the first plane.. but the first thing I found out after leaving the plane was that my transit plane was now cancelled.

Cue me queuing in the worst line ever. 400 passengers from about 30 different flights, all delayed and not sure what was going on, all in line for two poor clerks handling every single rebooking in the entire fricking airport. Couldn't they have sent that kind of information in an SMS or something? What is this, 1985?

Several hours later, I finally got a new boarding pass for a later plane leaving at 8 pm. I was happy. For three minutes. Then that plane was cancelled too. I cursed very loudly in the main area of the Oslo airport at that point in time. This day was not getting any good.

New line of queue (3 more hours!) and I got yet another boarding pass for yet another plane. New plane scheduled to leave around 10 pm. Then delayed to midnight. At some point there were three planes scheduled for the same gate, at three different timeslots, and apparently being the same physical plane. Nobody knew anything, and the line to the information desk was still 3+ hours long.

Luckily for me, there is a hurricane hitting the northern parts of Norway tomorrow. So the airline decided to cancel all the flights going further north than Trondheim, rather than cancel mine. Which meant that I suddenly had a plane _and_ crew to operate it. Fortune looking up! The other two planes at the same gate (all scheduled to the same physical plane) wasn't that lucky, and had to sleep in the airport overnight. (They were supposed to get a free hotel, but again, 3+ hour line and it was already midnight).

So me and my other lucky fellow passengers who did get that plane boarded. And then we spend two hours sitting in the plane, waiting, in the runway. For various random crap. Someone had packaged a living dog in a suitcase. Someone had boarded the wrong plane (how is that even possible!?). The plane hadn't actually left anywhere for the last 6 hours, so it was all frozen up, and the defrosting crew had gone home for the night, leaving one unlucky sod to operate three different defrosting vehicles.

It is now 4 am. I finally got home.

I guess what I am trying to say is, if fortune is supposed to balanced out over time, I have a major casino jackpot waiting for me in this game.

Otherwise - this has to be all Blood Fox' fault.

vote: Blood Fox

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"... With an unfortunate transit stop at the midway point, in Oslo"

Geez, words missing annoying.

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TLDR: My 2 hour plane trip ended up taking 13 hours due to a snowstorm.

[Crissi]

No one got my 1776 reference. saad

[Blood Fox]

*ahem*

danner you're awful, incompetent and just shit at the game. why do you eve try still. *pretend i a mocking you for about 2 paragraphs of very broken English*

[Robozerim]

Hey, just got on. Been awhile, I need to figure out how I set up my spreadsheets and then catch up on what's happening. Until then...

Vote: Danner

Because he didn't tell me when the sign ups went up.

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And done. Doesn't take long to set up with only 11 players as opposed to the 25-30 we had awhile back.

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Eh I've been a cashier at a game shop for 5 years now, and I only mostly hate myself.


Also
Vote: Robo

Cause it just feels right

Ah, traditions. What would we be without them? Well, I'd be one vote against me less, that's for sure. Love ya too, duck.

[Blood Fox]

so fucking quiet i hate all of you

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vote everyone

[Virothe]

so fucking quiet i hate all of you

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vote everyone

Was busy at work today, I didn't get much chance to hop on. sorry D:

[Marack]

well... after the 1st bit of the game, I got distracted running some M+ on an alt and then some SC2 Co-op with a guildie.

I think the only think we can hope for in vegas is to survive the encounter.

[listo95]

*Pokes head out* Is anyone else even in this casino!? But I shall see everyone after sleep and turkey day festivities.

[Danner]

*ahem*

danner you're awful, incompetent and just shit at the game. why do you eve try still. *pretend i a mocking you for about 2 paragraphs of very broken English*

Did you, or did you not, organize the Oslo airport information desk flow?

I rest my case.

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*Pokes head out* Is anyone else even in this casino!? But I shall see everyone after sleep and turkey day festivities.

You'll find me in the bar

[Robozerim]

Well, we need to do something.

unvote vote: Graeham

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Anyway, I'll be gone for the next 10 hours or so because of work and such.

[Crissi]

yeah, I have no intention on actually lynching crackle so...

unvote

I predict it will be quiet for a lot of today cause Thanksgiving

[Danner]

@Robozerim:

I don't really like the Graeham train.
Unless he is very clever faking his sleep condition, that's likely part of his role.
And while that isn't alignment indicative, I know myself enough that I wouldn't have given a role like that to scum if I was a mod.

The Blood Fox train got free wifi.

[Robozerim]

Screw your American Thanksgiving! True Thanksgiving is in early October!

Which reminds me....when I was a child I remember occasionally hearing on tv people complaining that there's nothing good between Thanksgiving and Christmas, usually in the form of a dirty joke involving tattoos on a woman's thighs. As a kid, I thought that was wrong because of Halloween, but guessed not everybody liked that holiday. Knowing now that the Thanksgiving that they referred to was in November I have to call these people out as impatient, greedy assholes. Seriously, do they really need another major holiday between them when they're only a month apart? Not only that, but those are two of the best holidays, even.

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@Robozerim:

I don't really like the Graeham train.
Unless he is very clever faking his sleep condition, that's likely part of his role.
And while that isn't alignment indicative, I know myself enough that I wouldn't have given a role like that to scum if I was a mod.

The Blood Fox train got free wifi.

I could toss my vote back on you, I guess. You might be reading too much into it, he could have just been fooling around. It does say in the main post that the hotel rooms are for sleeping and that you can go around to the different locations. Besides, it says that only your movements declared in your QT thread will be tracked. I am leaning towards it just being a real life thing, possibly in relation to Thanksgiving. He ate a ton, he needs a nap, he's going to be busy, and he can see everybody after 24 hours real time.

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Anyway, I'm now going out the door. I am legitimately going to be away for the next 9-10 hours. Bye, everybody.

[dupti]

Unless he is very clever faking his sleep condition, that's likely part of his role.

So you believe he has to announce it in the thread when he wants to sleep?

If so:

And while that isn't alignment indicative, I know myself enough that I wouldn't have given a role like that to scum if I was a mod.

Could you explain why you'd give it to town instead?

[Kryllian]

It is now hour 9. Day shift is over. Evening shift is now working.

[Graeham]

FoS: Dupti
FoS: Robozerim

I have severe restrictions on what I can do during the day which is why I decided to be upfront about it and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in having those restrictions...but I do not want anybody else to confirm as much as they are likely to be TPR's as well.

[Virothe]

It is now hour 9. Day shift is over. Evening shift is now working.

Oooh evening shift

[Graeham]

Additional note: I can only post one sentence per post so when engaging me please bear that in mind.

[Crackleslap]

Soz gals annoyingly busy atm will be free in a couple of hours.

[dupti]

FoS: Dupti
FoS: Robozerim

I have severe restrictions on what I can do during the day which is why I decided to be upfront about it and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in having those restrictions...but I do not want anybody else to confirm as much as they are likely to be TPR's as well.

And you think people voting on you are suspicious because... why?

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Also you are the only one who has announced they are sleeping, unless someone else does, why do you believe other players have the same restriction?

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Just to clarify, I do not believe you have to announce you are sleeping.