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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

Jun-19-2012 12:17

That's gonna be my problem K if I play again and I'm a spy.... If I don't post 12 pages of text analyzing what is going on, I'll be outed :-)

Jun-19-2012 13:12

seriously. And it has to make as much sense as the last time. :)

Jun-19-2012 13:47

YOURE ALL SPIES!!!!!!!!


:)

Jun-19-2012 14:32

The results of the vote on Serges' MISSION 1 Proposal are in.

Serges proposed a team of:
- Serges
- Eden Zweig
- Ms Helen

This mission proposal has been APPROVED by a vote of 6-4. The votes are as follows:

Serges YES
Eden Zweig YES
Jason Arends NO
Cekuray NO
biggie528 NO
Molly Maltese YES
Illicit YES
M. Lacrimosa YES
Ms Helen NO
Riza Hawkeye YES

The mission is now ready to proceed. Eden Zweig, Serges, and Ms Helen must PM me whether they vote to SUCCEED or whether they vote to SABOTAGE the mission.

** Remember Resistance members must vote SUCCEED, while Spies may choose to vote either SUCCEED or SABOTAGE

Jun-19-2012 14:33

**** ATTENTION PLAY AT HOME PLAYERS ****

It is now time for you to act. If you wish to play this game from afar, PM me with the following information:

1. Who do you think the four spies are?
2. Will this mission succeed or be sabotaged?

Because we are doing a play at home version, I will give ample time for other players to send me their votes before I post the results of the mission.

Jun-19-2012 15:16

Hmmm... this vote was closer than I would have predicted. Not sure yet what to make of that. I figured it would either pass easily, or get shot down big time.

OK, now to the exit polls. 4 people voted NO to the mission:
Jason Arends
Cekuray
Biggie528
Ms Helen

Personally, I'd love to hear why. Not in an accusatory manner, but just to understand the other players' concerns.

Also, I love that this mission is going through. By all indications, it should succeed, which means that the Resistance will have a 1 mission lead. As long as we pass Mission 4 (which shouldn't be hard since it needs 2 spies to fail), we only need to get a victory on mission 2 or 3 to put this thing to bed quickly. With Eden coming up next, I feel good about this.

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Jun-19-2012 15:20

I didn't delete anything nefarious. It was just a double post :-)

Jun-19-2012 15:31

I voted no for fact finding as per someone else (i cant remember who probably biggie? suggested) i at this point am only assured of my allegiances and though you'd say you and eden are not spies, for me at this early stage in the game- i only have word word for it. Know what i mean?

Jun-19-2012 17:03

Jason I have no frickin IDEA what you mean. You're probably playing that lovable clueless thing again, which to me means you could DEFINITELY be a spy again.

My reasoning was that I wanted to see how the vote fell. Probability wise, there should be at least one spy on that team. If its Serges, that means Eden is as well. If its Ms Helen, then the other two are probably not spies. Basically, I wanted to get a feel for how people voted.

Also, you said last time you were surprised when the first mission passed. So apparently that's not common and I thought it was a better idea this time, considering now I know what I'm doing.