Three more left! Let's review the endgame rules (side discussion/rules thread here):
- If all three are killed this round, the last player in the round to die wins.
- If two of the three are killed, the remaining player wins.
- If only one is killed, the one of the remaining two players with the most kills wins.
- If none are killed, we play round 7 tomorrow!
The permutations are tantalizing. With each remaining player having a different number of kills, an element of game theory is introduced: each survivor needs a different outcome to be victorious, and the consequences of their actions depend on their opponents' actions, which in turn depend on what their opponents think their actions will be, and so on. Kind of like deciding your wager amount in Final Jeopardy. Either that, or they'll all just try to comment a split second before 3:01. I guess we'll see how it plays out.
I'll take blood, carnage, and mayhem for $1000, Alex!
Speaking of Jeopardy, caption below what rbnlaw is saying to Fred's Brim. Here's one to get you started:
of something that scares me"
81 comments:
No initiation yet? Looks like we're going to have to tune in at 2:59 to see any action...
"What the hell are you smiling at, you don't even have a kill. And you call yourself an assassin?
Yeah I don't see any reason anyone would jump out before 3pm today. But you never know...
This is the day when you sit at work and hope nobody calls, nobody schedules any meetings, and nobody pulls the fire alarm at 2:45.
4-7s:
EVERY day is like that.
Very true Dusty. This game is just one more reason to hope for those things.
Having your license to kill revoked is such a bad feeling.
Who would of thought we would all have to still work in the afterlife.
I thought I would have more time to travel and catch up on some reading in the netherworld.
Yeah, I never pictured the afterlife as sitting around staring at my laptop screen, hitting F5 repeatedly.
This macabre game might have been more appropriate leading up to all Hallows Eve but by then we will all be deep into Fall Classic discussions since the Dodgers have now turned the tide.
Come out, come out, wherever you are!
Would someone end this so Neeebs can ditch his effeminate scarecrow/skeleton thingy avatar and go back to something more Spock-ish?
@DB
Makes me wonder which Afterlife we're in...
Assassin Analysis:
OK Folks, here's where we are at:
The first assassin to comment will be the initiator and will get a second "kill shot", if not killed by the initiator comment.
FB can't win if he and another survive, because FB hasn't yet figured out how to kill. He hasn't earned his assassin's "clip" yet.
But...FB's strategy could be to raise his head taunting GLG to dare to kill him, knowing that RBN will take him down on the next comment?
For FB to win, he would have to hope that GLG appears, with RBN taking GLG down, and FB coming in to clean up the mess. Only chance of that happening is a 3:00pm post, ending up with GLG, RBN, FB, in that order.
@ Mr. C
I think I've been in that particular afterlife since waaaay before I was "killed" in Assassins' Circle.
Brilliant, Neeebs.
Someone needs to write a dissertation on this.
Also, for what it's worth:
At the anticipated 3:00pm massacre, if the first one in doesn't get killed he gets a second shot to kill as the initiator.
So...I anticipate double shots at 2:59pm.
I think I'll have double shots at 2:59, too.
@Mr Customer: i highly estimate your levels of geekness. A tidbit of Greek lore is enough to make my day :)
By the way, since i was killed, i've had the flu. Is it punishment for my crimes?.
I had to go to the doctor this morning and gotta take lots of medication :(
@karina:
I think it's not the curse of the assassin, rather it's the curse of Chavez. He condemned all of the protesters with germ warfare and got everyone sick.
Hope you're feeling better, karina, patron saint of pessimistic Dodger fans
I spent a few minutes trying to map out all the scenarios, and it really started feeling like Week 16 in the NFL. Ultimately I gave up.
But remember, even if the Initiator gets killed, he can still take his target out with his kill shot post-mortem.
Let me run with you tonight
I'll take you on a moonlight ride
There's someone I used to see
But she don't give a damn for me...
EK: Is that in the rules??? I didn't think that was how it worked.
Neeebs, yeah it's in the rules - it's known colloquially as the "spite rule".
Wow, just like the War of the Roses. They can all die in the end and leave no victor.
I need a drink bartender. Do you have a Fuzzy Navel?
Hey rb...FB just texted me saying he's not gonna be able to post by 3pm. So I guess it's safe to come out.
GLG - rb just emailed me saying the same thing. So I guess you're in the clear too. Whew! What a relief knowing you can post freely now, no?
Is that trickery and/or chicanery?
Is there a rule against heavenly bystanders throwing up decoy messages?
Perhaps something from rnblaw or Freds Brim (no apostrophe) or Gagne's lucky classes.
Surely it would be today's most successful hijacking ... what? too soon?
"Lasagna's Yucky Classes"
No one will ever notice.
@ Keven C
Been there, done that.
So this place is really going to be haunted around 2:59?
*tumbleweed scuttles by*
Has anyone had a good red wine lately? Something in the Zinfindael or Syrah varietals?
@Neeebs it rained like sometimes it rains in the tropic: sunshine and rain drops. Walked through that, not much, around 12 blocks. Then it started raining more on the plaza where people were giving speeches and i was already sweaty and wet, walked 7 blocks more to my friend's house and got into a car with a full AC because my friend said "it was hot".Though i'm the only one out of 5 who got sick, everyone else partied all weekend long :(
I actually just opened a bottle of red half a second ago to prepare for this carnage. Just a regular old Italian still red table wine, though, nothing to write home about.
@Steve Sax Thanks for your get well wishes but the new medicines are not working yet, hopefully they will in a while.
Clock winding down...3...2...1...
I heard there might be a suicide pact and no one will show. Maybe we're all waiting for nothing?
@ Karina
Moral of the story: you should have partied.
I love Italian wines, love primitivo when done properly but that basically is zinfindael.
At my signal, unleash hell...
Hmmm...Keven C, I didn't figure that happening. If that happens, I guess we play again tomorrow.
suicide pack? Like Thelma and Louise?
My wife only lets me drink Chilean wines
Which of the 3 is gonna be the weak one and comment first?
I'm either too quick and dead or just right and alive
i see dead people
Dead.
oops pact.
2nd comment
hmm my clock is off
Damn. Looks like we play tomorrow.
and so is my patience
You guys shoot like stormtroopers.
The smoke is clearing...
All three survive.
Amazing.
...and nobody dies! Bullets everywhere, but they all whiffed!
yup, we play again tomorrow. It'll be a busy day. Here's our agenda:
7am puzzle
9am kill thread
3pm all hell unleashed.
Recap:
GLG peeks out as initiator.
RBN is slow to the draw as FB comments ahead of him. By virtue of FB's quick comment he misses RBN. GLG looks to get a second shot to kill FB but RBN's comment blocks GLG's kill shot.
Dust settles, all survive.
really....really? boooooo and not just because I am a ghost.
I say a new strategy should be in store for tomorrow.
This time all should die with early entries.
One of the least probable scenarios took the day.
This is fascinating, EK...lovin' it.
@Keven C "You guys shoot like stormtroopers."
Brilliant!
Raise your dead hand if you think the same thing will play out tomorrow.
So if I initiate, RB comes in and kills me, FB kills him and I kill FB with my second comment then FB would win? Is that the way I understood the rules?
Dammmmmit! I had him. He was right there.
Then the bill of some dude's cap deflected my shot wide and the ghost of Neeebs took one to his chest.
He seems to be OK.
Oh, and @Kevin:
Your stormtrooper comment almost got me in trouble. My meeting was ending, and right as my boss was saying something, I read the comment.
. . .and I laughed.
The three finalists all have former Dodger-related avatars. Coincidence?
Looks like Dusty gets another day of my ghoulish figure.
@Paul,
If you are willing to wait for shipping, you can't go wrong with this
http://www.millerwineworks.com/store/category.asp
Paul-
You should have a blanc de blanc in honour of the two similarly named Padres players who are just about to take out the Gints for us tonight.
GLG...sounds correct to me. If all players die in one round, the last one to die is the winner.
And the Last One to Die gets to sing along with Rancid!
GLG - yes, that scenario is correct. I think with only 3 remaining, the post-mortem spite kill can't impact the results - only if there are 4 or more remaining.
Thanks, EK.
Remind me to buy your ghost a drink when I get there.
Q7: Haven't forgot you or the half-drink I owe the good Doctor.
Dodger Thoughts tweets that "Ray Parker Jr. to play in live band at Emmy ceremony."
Maybe we need to get Ray Parker Hr over here to lay down a soundtrack for the AC. Cause he ain't afraid of no ghosts.
@Keven C 3:01p: your stormtrooper line made me lose my shit. Well played, sir!
Initiator!!
Oh, am I a bit early? Sorry. I'll save it for 9 a.m.
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