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The Resistance: Order of Socrates Restores Order
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nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jun-18-2012 11:08

Once again, turmoil is brewing in the underground crime world of New York. The city is slowly being taken over by La Cosa Nostra, the New York underground mafia. They are recruiting members at record numbers and they can be seen in every night club and bar scaring away customers. And now Joseph Hollis, the High Philosopher of the Order of Socrates, and mayor of New York, has learned of a secret plan by his rival faction, La Cosa Nostra, to go on a crime spree and make off with money, valuables, and ultimate control of various establishments in New York.

Mr. Hollis, being not only concerned with the livelihoods of the patrons of his city, but also with his rival faction gaining too much power, has decided to put together a team of trusted Order of Socrates resistance operatives to foil the plans of La Cosa Nostra. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of attrition lately, and certain people have been going to the highest bidder to offer their services as a spy working from within the Order of Socrates. Joseph is aware of this and he's put together the best possible team he can think of, but unwittingly will be inviting some spies for La Cosa Nostra to his team of operatives.

As long as the loyal Order of Socrates operatives can figure out whom amongst them is untrustworthy, their mission should be a success. But if they trust the wrong people, La Cosa Nostra will succeed and cause severe damage to the New York economy, while gaining enough power to take over the city.

Will the mayor and his team be able to restore order to New York? Or will the underground mafia, take over the city's resources? That's for you to decide in this version of The Resistance: Order of Socrates Restores Order


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Ms Helen
Ms Helen
Con Artist

Jun-29-2012 13:14

Anyone else think Biggie and Serges act like an old married couple at times? :)

Eden Zweig
Eden Zweig
Nomad

Jun-29-2012 13:16

"You both put very good arguments for why you've acted the way you've acted, and you're both intelligent guys. Its not hard to figure out how you were going to vote even before you did. Its deductive reasoning. " lol in that case you must be divine intelligence or something:)

Biggie you're abusing the fact that when something's possible say with 5% it is still possible.

Yeah so: that Serges and I have guessed one another's actions 4 times in a row is more probable than you lying?

I think the balance shifts on your side, cause your lies weigh a ton lol.


And no that doesn't leave you with Riza because you have no idea about Molly either. Do you?

So your belief in her is accountable in this game.

And your disbelif in Riza.

Yeah. Why not accuse them at the beginning then, cause practically you don't need anything else other than belief or disbelief.

Biggie believes this and that. That's the argument now?

Because Biggie knows :). Because Biggie has seen Serges' identity.

How about Serges' beliefs about you? Hasn't he used his card on you?

Add that to the chance of successively successful guesses of us alleged spies as team members, you go down.

Eden Zweig
Eden Zweig
Nomad

Jun-29-2012 13:53

(addition: I should make it clear that in the first paragraph with the quote from Biggie, I was only intending to say that that sentence sounded almost paradoxical. Because if, via deduction, Biggie can outsmart the people whose "smart"ness she thinks is the reason they acted the way they did, then their smartness just has no relevance to the game. So we couldn't have been successful, if our actions are predicted beforehand. Anyway this is not a part of the thing we're doing here. I just wanted to make it clear that I didn't mean anything bad :) Just so you know.)

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Jun-29-2012 14:17

I just got back from lunch, and had time to think about how the rest of the game is going to play out. Resistance players, it's a pretty dangerous situation we're in.

If Helen's mission did get approved, then we've lost.
If it got rejected, then here's where we're at:
3 Resistance players in a row become leaders (Riza, me, Eden), followed by Jason (spy) as the last one to propose a team. If it gets to him, then we lose. So, we need to make sure that at least one of the three proposals in the middle gets passed, knowing that if it's a clean mission, 4 spies will vote it down and only need ONE resistance player to doubt it to force a rejection.

But here's the catch: Marc and Biggie each have NO CONFIDENCE. So, once a clean mission gets passed, one of them votes it down. Then, if the 2nd clean mission gets passed, the other one votes it down. Which means:

Riza, me, and Eden EACH need to propose the same clean team. The spies can't auto-reject that team all 3 times. But the spies know that at this point, ANY shred of doubt will cause them to win. Which is why Biggie and the others are talking in terms of "unsure" and "believe". If they can get any ONE of us to vote on their side in the next 3 missions, then a good team gets voted down, and between Jason's last proposal and their 2 NO CONFIDENCE cards, they will win this game.

The only thing that changes that is the STRONG leader power, but if Molly uses that right after this mission, then the spies just need to NO CONFIDENCE the next 2 resistance-proposed missions, and the last 2 leaders are Marc and Helen (spies), meaning they win. The best time for Molly to use it, if at all, is after my proposal or after Eden's proposal. Either way, the rest of the teams would be proposed by Resistance members, which gives us some breathing room.

If Helen takes her power though, we're (no matter when she uses it) back to needed to approve all 3 resistance-approved teams.

That's where we stand, guys.

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jun-29-2012 14:50

I'm on my phone, but ms helen's mission was rejected. The no votes were serges, eden, cek, molly, riza, illicit.

Riza is up next unless molly uses her strong leader. Also ms. helen you have not taken a card from anyone and you're kinda supposed to do that as soon as you get it. :)


Ms Helen
Ms Helen
Con Artist

Jun-29-2012 14:52

Yes nic dear if you read back I did ask you about that but you moved so swiftly on it got overlooked :P

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-29-2012 15:00

Convincing plea Jay, too convincing. :)

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-29-2012 15:01

And for the record Biggie, if im going down you KNOW im dragging down whoever i can with me. :D

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Jun-29-2012 15:01

So, here's the list of votes:

Ms Helen- YES
Biggie528-YES
M. Lacrimosa-YES
Jason Arends-YES
Serges-NO
Eden Zweig-NO
Cekuray-NO
Molly Maltese-NO
Riza Hawkeye-NO
Illicit-NO

That fell EXACTLY on party lines, so to speak. The 4 spies all voted yes, and the 6 Resistance players all voted no.

I think we're going to be fine. Just remember, Molly, DO NOT STRONG LEADER YET. And Resistance, vote YES on Riza's, my, and Eden's proposals.

Riza, you know who to put on the team. I trust you to pick a clean set.

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jun-29-2012 15:06

I can't seem to overcome the wall of text on my phone, so could you please repeat your action with the card ms helen?

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