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The Resistance: Guarding the Prince's Gala
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Riza Hawkeye
Riza Hawkeye
First Nomad

Jul-5-2012 12:23

It is rumored that the ornate palace gates of Shangri-La have finally been opened to the public for the first time in known history. The Prince is making his debut into the public eye with a brilliant gala hosted by the Prince himself: an exclusive invitation-only event attended only by the most prominent and affluent people from countries all over the world.

Some commoners have been invited to this rare event--but not as guests. The Prince's most trusted advisor has particularly collected special operatives to patrol the event: the world's brightest, swiftest, and most skilled. You will be entrusted with making sure that everything goes off without a hitch. But there are those who would rather see the event go down in flames, along with the Prince himself.

Five minutes before the event is scheduled to start, a report of a most alarming nature reaches the operatives' ears. There has been a breach in the ranks. Some spies have infiltrated the group! But since they have never seen each other's faces, there is no way to tell whose allegiance is true. The team has been compromised, but there is still a chance to save the evening.

The operatives' job this evening is to make sure the Prince's gala goes off without a hitch. If he is pleased at the end of the night, they will be rewarded handsomely. Sources say he is forgiving of small mishaps, but when pushed too far...

The Prince's reputation is at stake. Will his gala be a phenomenal success, or will it succumb to the sabotage of the spies? Stay tuned to find out in this installment of The Resistance.

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Adam Carter
Adam Carter
Big Winner

Jul-10-2012 23:48

Serges, I get your point too. I can totally understand that its possible for this mission to fail. But honestly, how will picking people who we know nothing about make this any better? This round is set up so that, if it fails, we will have a high % chance of finding out who the errant spy was, with much less finger pointing than the last game. If I had picked 3 unknown players to join me (or even, 4 other players altogether) I would have been greatly increasing the chances of a failure, as with untested people we know nothing about, any one of them could have done it and placed the blame anywhere else. The cards I was dealt were insufficient in covering all the bases in that scenario.

I am confident in my team. Either that we will succeed, or the culprit will be exposed if we don't. I couldn't have felt that way about any other team selections, which is why I picked as I did.

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jul-10-2012 23:57

Serges, I am not 100% confident that the first team was completely clean either. BUT from my position, if the same team goes plus Jason and Adam uses in the spotlight on Jason and one of the other two sabotage the mission, because of my power, I have a good chance of knowing who that was. Adam's actions here scream nothing but Resistance to me. They made sense for someone who was in the dark and only had the first mission results to go on. If the next mission fails.... then we have a lot of information. If it succeeds, I think the Resistance can be fairly confident about the allegiance of at least me, Adam, and Molly because it would be idiotic for a spy to succeed two missions with the critical fourth mission out there. And we'd also be up 2-0 at that point and pretty much have this thing in the bag.

Also your statistics memories are wrong. The first game we played... the first mission went to the spies. Second game went to Resistance. And in my vast research on The Resistance dorky forums I read a strategy document for the spies (which I think I posted a link to in the first game) where bullet point #1 was do not let the Resistance win the first mission. You even said yourself that when you play as a spy, you are often willing to out yourself or another spy very early in the game, and when you do so, the spies win. Personally, if I were a spy and on the first mission, I would sabotage it even if it meant outing myself. Because it puts the Resistance behind and they need to really have their ducks in a row the rest of the game because probability wise that is the easiest one for them to win.



Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jul-11-2012 01:54

Jay you sound so reasonable, so understanding and so rational.

And i totally dont trust you. :)

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jul-11-2012 02:21

Jason, I don't think he sounds reasonable, understanding, or rational at all. Because in my head, being a Resistance member, Adam's moves were completely 100% what he should have done. And knowing that he is going to play his IN THE SPOTLIGHT card on you and knowing that I have the KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON YOU card... well if this next mission fails we'll have outed at least one spy. If you post on the board SUCCESS and the mission fails, I get to use the card to see either Molly or Adam's vote. So I'll know which one sabotaged it. And I highly doubt the spies would intentionally vote succeed on this mission and make it 2-0 for the Resistance because that would almost ensure a loss for them. So worst case scenario is this mission fails but we out at least one spy in the process.

Somehow Serges is not on board with this. Strange...


nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jul-11-2012 03:02

OK I really need to go to bed now, BUT OMG OMG I just realized what Adam was saying. Serges' whole justification for giving Andi and Vulkie the cards he did was to get "new" players into the game and he chose Andi over Andrew because he knew her better and he was also going for players that were higher on the list.

Umm.... if I recall correctly... Adam Carter has never played this game before, has he? And he was #3 on the list of mission proposals. And no offense to Andi but if my memory serves me correctly Adam and Serges have a long history of "knowing" each other to the point of Adam acting as Serges' legal counsel on many occasions.

*hyper*

So Serges, mayhaps you can explain why establishing confidence with Adam Carter, whom is new to this game, and whom you know extremely well outside of this game, never crossed your mind?

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jul-11-2012 03:05

Also... that should have been who not whom. I can't vouch for my grammar at 6:00 am.

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

Jul-11-2012 03:17

I also want to address this post from biggie that I missed earlier:

"Nic is smart enough to know that if she didn't put the same amount of insanity into this game as the first, she'd be giving herself away in two seconds."

Tis true. I can't deny it. And in the event I am a spy, I will be doing the exact same thing or I would be outed in a micro-second. Unfortunately... as much as I had hoped and crossed my fingers and held my breath before reading my PM from Riza, I am not a spy this time. My hope is one day in this game that I am a spy and biggie is also a spy and I'm pretty confident we would kick ass and take names. :-D

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

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Battered Shoe

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biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-11-2012 05:09

Hell yeah nic!

Well just have to settle for kicking ass as resistance members, like we did in the first game (once you learned the error of your ways)!!

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