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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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DevilishWings
DevilishWings
Charioteer

Jan-29-2017 11:23

And that's it. Yeti has chosen another target. me. That makes it clear for me on who the spies are.

That being said. Sorry for not posting more and forgetting to vote again. This has been my first week back at work and today, after posting that I'm not sure how I'll vote I said I'd have time to read what you guys were writing, but I didn't. Sorry, not sorry. It's my birthday and spent all day playing with the kid and chilling, so... yeah.. not sorry.

That being said, back to the game. Now that Yeti is putting his target on me to not upset Cathy I'm pretty sure he's the spy. That means Bela is safe (I couldn't have randomly picked two spies on the first go, right?) and Sindy is lying. So.. yeah.. it rolls from there.

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Jan-29-2017 11:26

I'm not sure what you mean, Devi? I've suspected you, Cathy and Sindy since before Lou made his team proposal - I posted about it multiple times. The fact is if Bela isn't a spy, you are.

Sleuth Sindy
Sleuth Sindy
Pinball Wizard

Jan-29-2017 11:48

The sub-debate - Devi v. Yeti.

I still can't get a read on this. Devi likes to mix things up - she always votes "yes," but usually she plays an orthodox game. However, she did say at the beginning of the game:

"I meant that they make the game interesting. It would be boring if it all were plain vanilla, right?"

Was that an subconscious tell that she was about to do something unorthodox? I don't know.

Was Yeti's post about the mission succeeding a secret signal to another spy or was that just typical Yeti thinking that if he voted SUCCESS the world would follow in his footsteps - not pausing to think that, oh, yeah, this mission might not succeed.

Or are the spies still out there? Is Bela going to be clever enough to get herself in a position to sabotage two teams leaving the rest of us to suss out who the other two spies are?

I just don't know.

Lou Hoyle
Lou Hoyle
Babelfish

Jan-29-2017 12:12

I hope you all agree on this if nothing else, this has been a great round of resistance, Spies Bravo on your performances, so far.

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Jan-29-2017 12:25

Anyway, happy birthday, Devi. :)

Ms Helen
Ms Helen
Con Artist

Jan-29-2017 13:08

(Sorry to jump in just wanted to say this game is making an awesome read for people on the outside :) )

Also Happy Birthday Devi!!!

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Jan-29-2017 13:15

Oh of course, happy birthday Devi! :D

Sleuth Sindy
Sleuth Sindy
Pinball Wizard

Jan-29-2017 13:18

Happy Birthday Devi!!!!

Glad you had a great day. :)

DevilishWings
DevilishWings
Charioteer

Jan-29-2017 14:44

Thank you, everyone ! :)

What I meant, Yeti is that this is something you do quite often. You focus on bringing someone down, hounding them until they want to punch you and when you sense they've reached the end of tbe rope you slack off a bit and find another focus. That alone tells me you're a spy again.

Autumnsprings
Autumnsprings
Con Artist

Jan-29-2017 14:46

Happy birthday devi! 🎂

My proposed team is myself, Lou, Bela, and yeti.

Resistance has got to get a mission through successfully. We need intel and we need power. Getting a team through, hopefully successfully, is the only way that will happen.

I believe the spies are Sindy (being too melodramatic and overplaying it), Cathy, and Jintan.

I don't believe devi is a spy but in the interest of getting a mission through, I'm keeping her off. Yeti is the only one one I'm *really* unsure of but he has to vote publicly now so this early in the game, he may as well be resistance.

Bela told us at the beginning she wouldn't be able to log on as much because life was busy. (BTW I had a migraine and missed voting because I was sleeping it off.) If she set that up before the game even started just in case she got assigned spy that's some dedication since she'd have to fake being absent (and refrain from posting and analyzing) for long periods of time, which, let's be honest, isn't going to happen. Or she would have to come up with a reason her schedule suddenly cleared.

Lou has done nothing to suggest being a spy.

And I know I'm resistance.

Remember, if 5 teams are voted down, the spies win by default. This is team #4.

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