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The Resistance: Return to Paranoia
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The Announcer
The Announcer

Jan-20-2017 08:24

Hello everyone. It's been some time since we've had a game of Resistance, so I'll be hosting one (without story) for everyone to enjoy. If you've never played before, feel free to jump right into the world of uncertainty and lies. I promise lots of fun. :)

The game takes place over a series of 5 "missions." The Resistance is trying to complete 3 missions successfully, while the spies are attempting to sabotage 3 missions. First one to 3 wins.

I will serve as game master. Once we get enough people to play (5-10 total), I will PM everyone their allegiance (either "Resistance" or "Spy"). If you are a "Spy," I will also PM you the names of your co-conspirators.

A "leader" will be chosen at random for the first mission. The leader has 2 important functions:
1) The leader will assign various "role" abilities to players. These are one-shot special powers a player can use to learn more information about someone.
2) The leader will assign players to the "team" for that mission.

Missions will have a varying number of players who are selected; the leader picks a team, then every player will vote on whether or not they approve the team by PMing me. Once all the votes are cast, I will post the voting results. If a majority approves the team, the mission starts. If not, the mission does not start, and the next player in line becomes the new "leader" for that round. This continues until either a mission is approved, or 5 consecutive mission teams are rejected (in which case the spies win automatically.)

Once a mission team is approved, those players will PM me their choice of action during that mission. Resistance players will ALWAYS choose to have the mission succeed by sending "Success," while spies have a choice: they can either elect to have the mission succeed (to throw off suspicion), or they can "Sabotage" the mission.

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Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Jan-25-2017 12:34

If she revealed herself as a spy to a spy then those two become linked together. If one is proved unreliable, then the other is dragged down too. This way once we eventually find out whether Sindy or Bela is a spy it'll only bring one spy down rather than two.

That's not to say Bela isn't resistance and got unlucky with Sindy of course, just that it's feasible that as a spy she might reveal herself to a resistor.

The Announcer
The Announcer

Jan-25-2017 12:35

Bela, when you're ready, please propose a team of four people.

DevilishWings
DevilishWings
Charioteer

Jan-25-2017 12:39

Well, if Bela is Resistance, then you're the spy. I got the boring card again and I'm Resistance, so that leaves two options for how things went down last round. At this point there are two options. Yeti and Sindy are spies. OR both Bela and Sindy are spies and Sindy is throwing Bela under the proverbial bus.

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Jan-25-2017 12:43

I'm struggling to follow a piece of your logic there; why can't Bela be a spy by herself?

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Jan-25-2017 12:44

What I think may have happened in the past mission:

1- Yeti is a spy, and sabotaged mission #1.

2- Yeti is a spy, and so was someone else on the first mission. He voted for the mission to go ahead, confident that he would find a way to communicate with the other spy before the final votes were required of them.

Then he published a long post stating that he would be voting SUCCESS on the mission. "Consequently I will of course be voting SUCCESS in this mission"

That should of course have give the green light for the other spy on the team to vote SABOTAGE without both of them risking detection at the same time. And since he couldn't communicate with spy #2 via pm, he did so in plain slight, on the thread. Smart move, Yeti :)

DevilishWings
DevilishWings
Charioteer

Jan-25-2017 12:47

Why would anyone in their right mind, while playing Spy, choose to reveal themselves to anyone other than another Spy? Would you do that?

Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jan-25-2017 12:47

I picked Sindy because she was next (I might have the player order stickied to my desktop; it helps!), and if she had been clean (which I now know she is not), we could have gone on teams together and been besties and stuff. No, now I get a shouting match.

There's probably a STRONG LEADER card still out there; I don't want it to fall into Sindy's hands. Since we have a very YES-y group here, I'll pick a team of myself, Sindy, DW, and Yeti. It's obviously dirty, so vote it down. That way, Sindy has to pick the next team for the same mission (won't get them Powers); it'll probably have her on it, so I'll vote it down. I'd like everybody else to do the same too, and let Lou or Autumn pick a team; there's no chance that they're BOTH spies, and we'll try to send out the best team possible then. This mission needs to have half the players on it, and it'll be very hard to make sure you only leave out only one Res player. If there's one suspicious player on the team that we could use SPOTLIGHT on, I'm open to suggestions.

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Jan-25-2017 12:51

1- Bela is a spy
2- Sindy is a spy
3- Bela and Sindy are both spies

Haven't got any leads on which one it is yet.

The Announcer
The Announcer

Jan-25-2017 12:52

Mission 2

Team Leader: Bela
Team Proposal: Bela, Sindy, Devi, Yeti

It is now time for the players to vote to either approve or reject this mission proposal. When you do vote, please send me a PM stating "Mission 2, Team 1: YES/NO."

24 hours :)

DevilishWings
DevilishWings
Charioteer

Jan-25-2017 12:54

It could very well be a trio including Yeti if the "secret but not so secret message" theory is correct.

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