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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.

Jan-31-2017 06:17

Unless, Devi, as I'm beginning to suspect, you didn't put two - but three spies on your team. Now *that* would be quite a spy coup. But of course that couldn't possibly be. Any more than it could possibly be that a spy would out him/herself to a resistance player.

And now the power cards fall into the hands of a spy and so we will have absolutely no information to go on in this mission either - which makes me wonder if Autumnsprings didn't put three spies on her team.

Jan-31-2017 06:49

I'm sorry Cathy, but if you can't trust me, I can't trust you.

Jan-31-2017 09:24

Mission 2 consisting of Autumn, Lou, Bela, and Yeti was a FAILURE.

The team members voted as follows:
???? SUCCESS
???? SUCCESS
???? SUCCESS
Yeti SABOTAGE

Yeti, leadership will now pass to you for the next mission.

Reminder of player order:
DevilishWings
Bela Talbot III
Sleuth Sindy
Lou Hoyle
Autumnsprings
Yeti Face
Cathy Rose
Jintan

Jan-31-2017 09:25

MISSION 3

Yeti is the leader for Mission 3.

Mission 3 will consist of FOUR team members.

Yeti, the team leader, has been given two advantages to distribute to whomever he sees fit. They are:

OVERHEARD CONVERSATION: Owner of this card learns the allegiance of either the player above/below him/her on the player list via PM from the game master. (They player may share this information on the game board if they so wish, but are not required to tell the truth.)

NO CONFIDENCE: Receiver of this card can veto a successful vote on a mission proposal, causing it to fail and forcing leadership to move to the next player on the list.

Yeti, please assign these abilities when you’re ready.

Jan-31-2017 09:42

Fear not fellow resistors, I was just pretending to be a spy when I used SABOTAGE on the last mission. I'm really a fully fledged, card carrying, member of the glorious RESISTANCE. With that out of the way it's time to divvy up the powers, so:

1) I'll keep OVERHEARD CONVERSATION for myself, and use it on Cathy Rose.
2) I'll give NO CONFIDENCE to Devi. See, I'm not so bad am I?

I'm not planning to put Cathy on my team whatever the result, we had a really good team last round, so let's re-run that only this time it'll be a SUCCESS as I won't be pretending to be a spy again. So:

Autumn, Lou, Bela, and I.

Since I'm the OPINION MAKER I'll get my vote out of the way in this very post:

YES

As a final note on the voting on missions point; I'll be voting YES to every line up from now on. Hopefully though we can all just vote YES to this one and get on with winning the game for the Resistance.

Jan-31-2017 09:49

Yeti has chosen to use OVERHEARD CONVERSATION on Cathy. I will PM Yeti with Cathy's allegiance.

Yeti has chosen to give NO CONFIDENCE to Devi.

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Mission 3

Team Leader: Yeti
Team Proposal: Autumn, Lou, Bela, 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 3, Team 1: YES/NO."

24 hours :)

Jan-31-2017 10:12

Huh, looks like Cathy is resistance. Well I can't be right about everything. Devi and Sindy are still spies though.

Jan-31-2017 10:12

:| Whatever, Yeti. Cathy, he doesn't have it in him to be a double agent; like I said: whatever, Yeti.

Yeti's picking the next team; if it's got him on it, vote it down. If it has Sindy on it, down. We need to hold on to the NO CONFIDENCE card for teams that are actually sketchy because we need to get every mission right now if we're to have the tiniest chance of seeing this through. He's going to get a bunch of powers, nothing we can do about it. Forget about it. The more I think about it now, the surer I am that DW is Resistance. (She picked that team, she wouldn't put herself with another spy, for NO reason if she was one too). And that either Cathy or jintan is the third spy. I can't say for sure, but as far as suspicions go, yeah. Surprise, surprise, the three of them are up next; so I have a feeling we'll end up having to vote down their teams until we get to DW. DW, since we only need 4 people for the next mission, pick a team of Lou, Autumn, yourself, and me. We HAVE to get this right; I will not vote for any other team. If you (DW) can get propose this team and we all vote it through (to the fifth Resistance member, please help us vote it through; I know it can be hard to trust a team you're not on, but if you have an objectively more convincing argument, I will sit out. We can still win this.), I will get the powers for the fourth round, and we can all hopefully figure out who the fifth Resistance member is. If we make it past the third round, it actually won't matter who we pick, because if it passes, it was all Res and no matter who the fifth person is, there won't be *two* spies on the team. If it fails, there's no fourth round anyway, LOL. This is as solid a plan as we will ever have. The only thing that could influence this is how Yeti distributes his cards. Let's try to stay sane.

Jan-31-2017 10:15

[Wrote that ^ up before the Announcer's 9:24 post]

Jan-31-2017 13:06

Well damn. And believe me I want to use a much stronger word.

Yeti, I hate you. No life boats. No sparkle ponies. Sabotaging my mission. Phhhhbt.

Meanie butt.