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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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nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jun-18-2012 11:09

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 mission teams are rejected (in which case the spies win automatically.)


nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jun-18-2012 11:09

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.

The mission team makeup and rules will be posted once we see how many players join.

Once the team members send me their actions, I will post the results of the mission. You will know if the mission succeeded or failed, and you will know what the actions were, but you will NOT know who chose what action; they will be revealed at random.

After the mission results, a new round starts with a new leader and so on and so forth until either 3 missions succeed or 3 missions fail.

The name of the game is information and MISinformation. The resistance is trying to figure out who the spies are, so that missions don't get sabotaged. The spies are trying everything they can to avoid detection, so that they can be chosen and sabotage missions.

You may talk about ANYTHING on the message boards involving the game. However, if information comes to you from me in a PM, it is YOUR CHOICE what to do with that information. You can keep it to yourself, you can be honest, or you can lie.

YOU MAY NOT PM OTHER PLAYERS ABOUT THE GAME! All discussion must take place here in the message board so that everyone is privy to it. Spies can NOT talk privately about strategy! The only PMs sent regarding the game should be to or from me, as the game master.

I am now looking for interested players... post below if you would like to be involved in "The Resistance"! We need 5-10 players to get a game going.



nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jun-18-2012 11:16

For this game, we will also have a "play at home" version. Which means if you don't want to actually play in the game, but would like to follow and have your own little challenge, you can do so.

Before each approved mission goes, "play at home" players can PM me with:
1. Who they think the spies are
2. Whether the mission will succeed or fail

You will receive 1 point for each spy identified correctly. And 2 points if you predict the correct result of the mission.

The "play at home" winner will be announced at the end of the game with the final game results.

For this reason, participants in the game are NOT to tell anyone in all of Sleuthville their allegiance or give any inside information. The only info available will be what appears in this thread.

Happy Resistancing :-)

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jun-18-2012 11:19

IN!

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jun-18-2012 11:20

Oh I just want to mention as well that Serges already has a reserved spot in this game too, in case it fills up before he gets here.

Molly Maltese
Molly Maltese
Old Shoe

Jun-18-2012 11:20

Somebody pack my ermine furs, I'm in!

Riza Hawkeye
Riza Hawkeye
First Nomad

Jun-18-2012 11:21

Count me in. :)

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-18-2012 11:21

You all are in need of a handsome and confused individual to be swooned at.

Luckily i am here and in ;)

Ms Helen
Ms Helen
Con Artist

Jun-18-2012 11:34

Definitely in, although I have no clue what I'm doing :s

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Jun-18-2012 11:43

IN.

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