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Jul-5-2012 12:23

It is rumored that the ornate palace gates of Shangri-La have finally been opened to the public for the first time in known history. The Prince is making his debut into the public eye with a brilliant gala hosted by the Prince himself: an exclusive invitation-only event attended only by the most prominent and affluent people from countries all over the world.

Some commoners have been invited to this rare event--but not as guests. The Prince's most trusted advisor has particularly collected special operatives to patrol the event: the world's brightest, swiftest, and most skilled. You will be entrusted with making sure that everything goes off without a hitch. But there are those who would rather see the event go down in flames, along with the Prince himself.

Five minutes before the event is scheduled to start, a report of a most alarming nature reaches the operatives' ears. There has been a breach in the ranks. Some spies have infiltrated the group! But since they have never seen each other's faces, there is no way to tell whose allegiance is true. The team has been compromised, but there is still a chance to save the evening.

The operatives' job this evening is to make sure the Prince's gala goes off without a hitch. If he is pleased at the end of the night, they will be rewarded handsomely. Sources say he is forgiving of small mishaps, but when pushed too far...

The Prince's reputation is at stake. Will his gala be a phenomenal success, or will it succumb to the sabotage of the spies? Stay tuned to find out in this installment of The Resistance.

Jul-12-2012 16:37

I follow nicnics logic...its a shame that the last mission was no-confidenced. Although the votes were alarming, we had somewhat of a deadlock on figuring out who did what between the cards/abilities we were equipped with. At this point we have nothing better to go on. I'm going to vote yes on this mission, because I'm comfortable with adam, nicnic and I together. I can be checked and vulkie can be checked by either or. This is really the best strategy we have to go on.

Jul-12-2012 16:48

Jason, to answer your question about voting yes and then using NO CONFIDENCE, I think I did that twice in the first game. Basically I did it to vote yes (in case I was the swing vote) see how the voting came out and then had the ability to veto it. If I thought it looked OK then the mission goes through. If something looked weird I knew I could veto it.

We also have to remember that Molly has STRONG LEADER, so if she is resistance and we get ourselves into a bind, Molly can take over as leader for a fifth mission.

Also Adam, just to make sure you are aware of this, if five consecutive mission proposals are voted down, the spies automatically win. So the Resistance has to approve the fifth mission proposal no matter what. Which is somewhat what is making me uneasy about voting this one down. The next three on the list are kind of unknown and I don't know if I can trust that we will get a better line up than this one (with our powers and having the first mission succeed with at least three of us on the team.

And Jason... in this mission, even if Adam uses IN THE SPOTLIGHT on someone, if they are a spy they will probably have to sabotage and out themselves anyway because it's going to be hard for the spies to win if they are down by 2 at this point.

Jul-12-2012 16:56

Nic i see your point but i still find it odd because that last mission was kind of win-win for anyone whos resistance, if there HAD been a sabotage (which would have been unlikely since i believe everyone on that last proposal including myself is resistance) but if there HAD been a sabotage it would have revealed one spy. And its not a smart strategy for a spy to win an early mission at the cost of their cover being blown. And thats whats so suspicious because the spies here are voting cleverly and waiting to either get missions voted down for an automatic win, OR theyre waiting for those last 3 team proposals to pull in for a win. It gets harder as the missions go on, needing 1 sabotage to needing 2. Either way i hope this mission is spy-free and passes, id feel better about whos next on the player order if we have a 2-0 lead over the spies.

Jul-12-2012 16:58

You know there really isnt any excuse as to why i was such a bad spy. I guess i possibly just suck at this game in general. Its much harder being resistance. At least the spies know who is who. :/

Jul-12-2012 17:00

Yea. I mean I don't want to jump the gun on anything and accuse people (I was mostly screwing around a few days ago when I was accusing Serges of being a spy), but I really think he probably is. Which also means there is a good chance that one of his original proposed mission members was as well. Molly, Adam, Vulkie.

If Adam is a spy, then so is Vulkie. And Serges would NOT have put both Vulkie and Adam on a mission knowing they were both spies. So that leaves either Vulkie or Molly. And considering Serges derailed the last mission that had Molly on it, it's probably Vulkie. Which means there is probably a spy on this mission, if we assume that Serges is a spy.

I still think we let it go through. Adam can use his IN THE SPOTLIGHT on Vulkie. If he outs himself, at least we know. If he doesn't, we are up 2-0. And if Molly sabotages it, I'll be able to look at her action.

I think this is the best option facing us at the moment considering the last mission was kabashed and the next three leaders are unknowns at this point.

Also, I'm fairly certain the spies are voting yes to avoid detection.

Jul-12-2012 17:08

Yes nic getting a 2-0 lead on the spies right now is a priority since theyre voting cleverly. Though seriously why was Biggie the only one to vote no? Either shes a spy who wasnt thinking and figured there would be more no votes. Or shes resistance and going by the rule of "Im not on the team, i vote no" Its 50/50 with her and im unsure. And i agree 100% about Jay being a spy.

Jul-12-2012 17:15

All I can say, is that if I were Resistance, and I were in biggie's position in the game, I would have voted No on the last one too. She's not on the team. She has no powers. I wouldn't just say yea go for it and assume that the four were clean.

That is also another reason why the spies are voting yes. So they don't out themselves if they vote no. But honestly most of the Resistance people should probably be voting no at this point because we could seriously be duping them.

So biggie's NO vote makes more sense to me (as Resistance) than having an almost unanimous YES.

That being said, not everyone can vote no to every mission they aren't on. So some of them obviously believe what is being spewed here. But I can understand being Resistance and voting No.

Jul-12-2012 17:37

Makes sense i guess. But if shes resistance then all 4 spies voted yes to keep their covers. And yeah the 'im not on the team, so i vote no" thing only works for so long before that plays to a spy advantage of voting missions down.

Jul-12-2012 17:37

Or all three spies voted yes if there was a spy on the team proposal, which i dont think there was personally.

Jul-12-2012 17:39

Here's my effort to explain the "No confidence" move, though it seems moot since the consensus is that I'm a spy (which is a shame, but if I have to martyr myself for a Resistance victory, so be it.)

3 or 4 spies voted to approve the previous mission team. Yeah, it's possible that the spies are voting "cleverly" to avoid suspicion, but let's look at the scenarios...

A) That mission was clean (0 spies on it). The spies knew that mission was clean, and knew that meant the resistance would have a 2-0 lead in the game. To me, that seems like a doomsday scenario, especially with the Resistance advantage in mission 4 looming over their heads. So, I don't buy multiple uncoordinated people subscribing to the "vote yes to avoid suspicion" theory, because the game would pretty much be over for them at that point.

B) That mission was dirty (at least 1 spy on it). The spies knew that the public consensus was that the team would be approved (heck, even I was convinced to change my vote to "yes"), so they decided to sit back, vote with the pack, and let the mission fail, which would mean a shot at winning.

I believe that scenario B is more likely than scenario A, so I burned my power to keep the game Resistance-biased. You can talk all you want about the powers Adam gave out meaning the Resistance is in prime shape, but only one of those powers gives PUBLIC information. And right now, that's the information I trust.

So, assuming the last team was dirty, who's the spy (or spies)? Frakked if I know yet. I'm pretty comfortable saying Jason is probably clean in this game. Nicnic is her usual analyzing self, but if I were in her shoes and dealt a spy card, I'd do the exact same thing to avoid suspicion. Molly hasn't given me anything that leads me to believe she CAN'T be a spy yet, so jury's still out there. As for Adam, Vulkie vouched for him, but it's not impossible that they're in cahoots.

That's my 2 cents. At least read it, even if you distrust me.