Shell Game (Night 2)

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

Workplace benefits package on MS be wild.

facts

[Firebringer]

Gambling will be allowed.

gambling is already allowed

Well now its even more legal

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

I should run a casino this game too

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

is it against the rules to bet imaginary pooky bucks on your town/scumreads

[Sunflower]

im in pookybucks debt i need to make some back

[Firebringer]

see under the current rules ur going to need mod approval to run a casino, under my town mayorship, permits aren't required.
All gambling instutions are sanctioned without needing approval.

Vote me for the true libertarian utopia

[morph the cat]

im in pookybucks debt i need to make some back

how so?

[Firebringer]

firing the cops

say no more. you have my vote. can't trust em

dont see ur vote on me!!!!

[Sunflower]

im in pookybucks debt i need to make some back

how so?

i put good money on my favorite duck and he didn't pull through. i was devastated

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

I have this idea for this casino [accuracy counter thing] where we can bet Pooky Bucks [imaginary points] on people's alignments.

so to participate all you have to do is list the entire PL as follows:

Strong Townreads: <Names Here>
Townreads: <Names Here>
Townleans: <Names Here>
Null: <Names Here>
Scumleans: <Names Here>
Scum: <Names Here>
Strong Scumread: <Names Here>

and whenever someone flips you gain/lose points based on accuracy of your last bet[readlist] with higher gains/losses based on the strength of your read.

[Firebringer]

im in pookybucks debt i need to make some back

how so?

were u one of the few on site who wasn't in the spec thread for Aureal game?

[Firebringer]

I have this idea for this casino [accuracy counter thing] where we can bet Pooky Bucks [imaginary points] on people's alignments.

so to participate all you have to do is list the entire PL as follows:

Strong Townreads: <Names Here>
Townreads: <Names Here>
Townleans: <Names Here>
Null: <Names Here>
Scumleans: <Names Here>
Scum: <Names Here>
Strong Scumread: <Names Here>

and whenever someone flips you gain/lose points based on accuracy of your last bet[readlist] with higher gains/losses based on the strength of your read.

Finally a good enough reason for me to townside when im mafia.
For all those delicious pookybucks

[morph the cat]

libertarian utopia

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Pooky. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Woofbringer. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

It didn’t seem like they did.

“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or sheep votes.”

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

I'll start;

Strong Townreads: Firebringer
Townreads: Save the Dragons, Shello and Goodbye, PenguinPower
Townleans:
Null: Everyone Else
Scumleans:
Scum: Firebagel, Morph The Cat, Sunflower
Strong Scumread:

[Firebringer]

@cabd tldr

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

what I really need is someone to tell me how many mafia there are so I can set proper odds

[Firebringer]

5

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

cabd buddy can you help your friendly casino operator out and let me know if this is a 5 scum or 6 scum game

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

5

you're just trying to lowball it to bankrupt me

[Firebringer]

Maybe I am, but where is ur proof

[morph the cat]

They only gave me three others, double traitor be wack.

[Firebringer]

What if theres 12 scum and this game is multiple ball

[Firebringer]

There is only one group-scum faction in this game.

Ignore this post, Cephrir is a liar.

[Dunnstral]

what I really need is someone to tell me how many mafia there are so I can set proper odds

5 is most likely for 22 players.

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

Maybe I am, but where is ur proof

i feel it in my bones