Blatantly stolen from ElJeffe's Phalliad, we bring you the politburo thread! This is the secret inner chamber in which the highest ranking members of the communist party, the politburo, meet to discuss high policy.
The purpose of this thread is to make it easier for the politburo to communicate with each other away from the eyes of the Central Committee. Since it's not possible to send seven-way PMs, you get this thread. Here you can argue out when and on whom to use your powers, before eventually sending your votes in secret to
Votebox via PM.
Only politburo members and the General Secretary may read this thread. If you are not
currently a member of the politburo or the General Secretary,
stop reading at this point.
The General Secretary should post her veto and execution orders in the main thread, not this one.
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Current General Secretary:
ElJeffe
Soon, I'd wager.
EDIT: Now is soon.
So soon it's in the past.
I am going to throw out Lady Eri's name for surveillance. What does everybody think of that?
Lady Eri can participate, but she does not have a vote.
And yes, 4 of the 7 of you have to send in the same name, or nobody gets surveilled.
A waste of time if we manage to get her power test set up. Since that seems extremely unlikely, though, she might be a good choice.
Unfortunately, I feel like that also means that whenever we seer someone who is innocent, the spies will know who has been seered and will execute that person. So basically, as long as there is a spy on the politburo, whoever we seer will probably die.
Also, it's rather unfortunate that we can't differentiate between specials and revolutionaries, because the spies certainly can.
Wow, when you put it that way this whole thing sounds catastrophically depressing.
It seems like a waste of time to me. Her admitting that she was one of the fixers is almost confirmation enough for me, because I think if she was an impostor the true one would have come out (their power isn't really that great, it would be a good move to do). Not to mention we will be attempting to get her to prove her power tomorrow, which theoretically should be possible. Any villagers that don't go along with the plan will be tagged as suspicious, at the very least.
EDIT: Oh, so Gnasty posts before me. Well, I already mentioned this plan in the other thread, so it really is my idea originally. Hah!
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Since the capitalists most likely know our powers, should we tell everybody else?
EDIT: thorgot is right about the pointlessness of seering Lady Eri too.
Seer me first if you wish, but keep in mind it will do no good as it just will tell you 'special/rebel.' I would rather not waste a power we may only get for three rounds.
If there is anyone on the politburo who I say we don't seer this turn it's Ardor, because I think that spies will probably kill him tonight if he's innocent. If he does die tonight, I'd say he's a worthy target of seering (unless someone more suspicious comes up).
Also, Lady Eri: If I hadn't wanted to get elected I probably would have voted for precisionk. He's fun, and I think he demonstrated that he knows what he's doing with the G&T game.
Yeah, that seems problematic. If we have any revolutionaries in here, we will be handing them any specials we find.
Of course, that is really only a problem for tonight. Once Lady Eri is confirmed and the specials PM her, she can suggest known non-specials for us to check out.
EDIT: I'm forced to agree with Gnasty about precisionk. A lot of people are playing not just to win but to have fun, and precisionk is a reliable source of entertainment if he gets a position like this. Plus, he is actually a pretty swift dude. He's the one who figured out I was a mole in Red Scare Phalla.
If we're suggesting candidates for execution, why don't we select someone who has not posted much/at all?
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That's correct.
EDIT: I should have access for most of the day tomorrow, including near the vote, so I can be the Party Whip if I'm needed.
I already suggested Grundlterror in the main thread. He only has 1 post and I don't recognize him.
Well, we can be the ones to manipulate the vote so your power will work its magic.
I'm in favor. I presume Lady Eri will be making the announcement?
EDIT: Actually, I think I'll just go ahead and vote AcidSerra. I guess we should be split 4-4, then we can make adjustments either way as needed.
There are probably better candidates, but he never adds anything and he annoys me. (And he just voted for me).
EDIT: Nevermind, AcidSerra is a better candidate.
We killed him first last game, it's not very sporting to do it again.
I say Grundterror, unless he suddenly shows up and demonstrates some value.
So Grudnlterror?
EDIT: I think DarkPrimus is a good seering target.
We want to establish a network as soon as possible, yes? With Lady Eri (who is either on the level or taking a really stupid risk) as the center, yes?
Consider that anyone on the council is very likely to be assassinated. If we seer people in here, and verify their innocence, it is very likely that we will wind up losing a confirmed innocent to the capitalists, thus shrinking the growth of our network. If we seer someone on the outside, we're more likely to add someone to the network who isn't going to die.
Now, in the event that the Capitalists do have a member in the council, then whoever we seer is likely to be toast, anyway. But the existence of a spy here isn't a given, even if it's not unreasonable to assume.
At any rate, I'm not sure of the value of simply seering council members. There's not a whole lot that's really special about us, and in three days, the people in here are going to change, anyway. I think we're best off just seering those who we think are suspicious and potentially useful to the network.
And now I'm going to disappear to play some more God of War 2.
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Not a fool proof plan but it will probably prevent any rebels from executing members on the council if they are rebels here. The downside to this of course is that if there are rebels on the council they will manipulate this course of action. But I have given them enough to chew on for now, I will keep my own counsel on how I will 'clear' you all of being rebels.