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Jul-1-2015 09:01

The rival factions of the city of Shangri-La have been at odds for years. The Tigers seek to crush all opposition to the Prince’s rule, while the Tea Steepers are disapproving of the new Prince’s disregard for the peaceful traditions of Shangri-La.

To complicate an already fragile state of co-existence, quite a few nemesis hunters have gained the trust of both factions. Both factions, while obliged to be cordial to their new saviours, are feeling uneasy with what is apparently the new status-quo. The Prince’s soldiers have worked to ensured that the Monastery is off-limits to all visitors to Shangri-La, but this hasn’t stopped the Steepers from finding detectives sympathetic to their cause and collaborating with them �" and the Tigers know it.

With the haunting clickety-clack-clack of countless pairs of Polka Dot Pumps ringing in his ears, the Chief of the Tigers of Shangri-La resolves to destroy the Tea Steepers once and for all. The Tea Steepers, fully aware of the plans the Tigers have in store for them, put together a team of detectives to put their plan into action. The wise monks of Shangri-La (after a few brainstorming sessions with the Scholars of Shangri-La �" because you can never escape the Scholars of Shangri-La) know that there is but one way to protect their campaign against what they believe to be the Prince’s oppressive rule. However, the Prince’s Chief of Security has managed to sneak a few trusted informers onto the team.

Will the Steepers succeed? Will their champions succumb to the scheming of the spies? Will we ever figure out what's going on with Rasputin’s Egg? How many Sparkly Vests are the Tigers slowly processing to create�"? Whoa, I nearly gave the game away there. Anyway, let’s find out!

Jul-8-2015 07:43

Sorry guys, could only check my mail now, mission results coming at you. Give it 20 minutes :D

Jul-8-2015 08:19

So Riza did not use her SPOTLIGHT power in this mission? How odd.

Jul-8-2015 08:26

Mission 2:

"Lara, a cup of your finest tea.", Molly said. Trudging back to the tea shop wasn't exactly relaxing, and with Lara busy, they could look for the hat. "Nothing too stinky!", Riza called out to Lara as she turned to leave. Lara gave the group a strange look and hurried out.

They counted to ten; the hat didn't stand a chance!

"How nice of you to visit, Larry! What's the occasion?" Lara was clearly not busy making tea, stinky or otherwise.

"I thought you'd know! They said I was supposed to get a hat, but what, that's a code, right?"

"Larry?" Sal whispered to the other two.

"Here you go. I want my $4800 before tomorrow."

"It really is a hat. Huh. Oh, I have your money, the Chief seemed really anxious to get...this hat. They gave me a little money too; how about we get out of Shangri-La for a while? This place is way too creepy for me." Larry croaked. "See you tomorrow, I was supposed to get it to them immediately!" he said, running out.

Lara sighed a little. "Sure," she called out after him.

Three detectives charged out of the shop, in different directions, trying to find Lara's Larry.

Three detectives returned to the park, dejected, to convey the bad news to the other two.

Jul-8-2015 09:27

I didn't prompt her to, actually; did you mean to play the card, Riza? It can now only be played before next mission results, sorry.

The votes:

???SUCCEED
???SUCCEED
???SABOTAGE

The mission was a FAILURE.

Yeti Face is the next leader.

The List:

Molly Maltese
Riza Hawkeye
Yeti Face
Sal Iva
DevilishWings

Riza has the "STRONG LEADER" card as well as "IN THE SPOTLIGHT". If you'd like to use "STRONG LEADER", you'd have to do so before Yeti proposes a team or decides who gets the power card. "IN THE SPOTLIGHT" can be used after a mission proposal is approved, if you'd like to see what one player's action during that mission was.

Jul-8-2015 09:42

Mission 3:

“We must not lose heart, detectives! The war is far from lost.” the monk said, pacing up and down while the detectives listened. "Clearly, somebody informed the Chief of Palace Security about our little...recovery mission."

Steeper loyalists would recognise this young monk; he always greeted them when they visited the Monastery - he was the boy to know if you had a cowboy vest or two you needed to get rid of. “The Tigers have their spies here. We must install one of our own in their midst. I’d like for two of you to retrieve a Full Length Possum Coat from a sympathizer in Cairo. The Rug Merchant there has the coat we need. It has been...modified. You’ll know it when you see it,” he said, rather quickly.

“That coat, it’s a good one. Long,” Yeti mused.

“I’m glad we are in agreement, detective. Perhaps you can decide who should go. With that coat in our possession, we’d be very well-positioned to overthrow the Prince. Well-positioned indeed,” the monk said; for some reason, he sounded like he was trying to convince himself.

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Yeti, you’re up. Please propose a team of TWO players for Mission 2 (you may put yourself on the team). Once Yeti proposes his team, everybody will vote on whether or not they approve the team proposal by PMing me. If a majority approves it, the mission starts; if not, leadership passes onto Sal. Your power (which you can give to anybody, including yourself) is...

NO CONFIDENCE: Whoever receives this can, after a mission proposal has been successfully approved through voting, force that proposal to fail. This would move leadership to the next player on the List.

*Can be used at any time (after a team proposal has been successfully voted through).

Jul-8-2015 09:44

In this game, I’m Resistance. Whether you believe me or not is up to you.

I did something similar in the first game I played, and I think I have enough information now to do it here too. I read people, and what people write. And then I draw conclusions.

Try to see it as I see it. The second mission failed, which tells me that either Sal or Molly was the spy. However, I think it is Molly who is the spy. Here’s an insight into the jumble of things I am thinking.

DW’s post is highly suspicious. Why would DW immediately suspect Sal of being the spy on Mission 2 when it is equally likely that it could be Molly or myself? That seems odd to me. She does not even mention Molly. Also, I am “poor Riza” if the mission fails and blame gets pinned on me. Why am I not a suspect? There is nothing thus far to suggest that I’m not a spy, and the only reason DW would think so is if she actually KNEW I wasn’t a spy, because she herself is a spy. Was she trying to gain my confidence? Perhaps. Also, it sounds like she knew the mission was going to fail.

Secondly, DW also mentions that Yeti could be a spy. Frankly, Yeti confuses me with his back-and-forth strangeness, and I don’t know him well enough to read him, so I cannot be sure about him. Given I am suspicious of DW about her Sal comment, it leads me to think Yeti might be Resistance also. Though this conclusion I am less certain about for various reasons.

In the beginning, Yeti dismisses Molly as a spy because she has “assured him” of such. Though how Yeti can KNOW this fact on the basis of only her words, before the first mission even starts… I don’t know. It’s strange.

In the end, I feel very strongly that Sal cannot be a spy because people keep trying to make him out to be one based on no evidence whatsoever. I’d wager a million shiny pennies that Sal is Resistance, and so he’s the only one I’m willing to trust at this point.

Jul-8-2015 09:44

As to Yeti’s concern, had I used IN THE SPOTLIGHT on Molly this round, I would have learned nothing. But now I know something, and suspect several other things.

Also, I would like to add that it seems there may be some message/strategy conveying being done on the boards beyond what can be gleaned at first glance. So please read through things again.

Until I know more, I will recede quietly back into the shadows.


tl;dr -- Sal is Resistance. Molly is a spy. DW and Yeti are suspicious as heck. :)

Jul-8-2015 09:54

If you'd used IN THE SPOTLIGHT on Molly this round you would have either proved to everyone she was a spy, or allowed the Resistance to chalk up two wins. It would have been glorious. As it stands, you claim you know things but the rest of us know nothing and the Spies have gained one on us because of that. Consequently Riza, you are on my naughty list.

For the third mission I propose a team of myself and Devi - I'll go into more detail in the next post. I assign the power to myself.

Jul-8-2015 10:08

Devi and I are the only ones to have not been on a mission. Since I believe that either Riza or Devi is a spy, and I'm currently leaning towards that spy being Riza, I would like confirm Devi is resistance. If the mission is passed, Riza could use her power and so if the mission is sabotaged we'll know exactly who was responsible for it.

Jul-8-2015 10:14

I did notice that about Devi too, that she didn't mention me before but I think that can also be explained away by us never having played together. I guess I automatically empathized in my head and chalked it up to someone coming into the room for the first time and recognizing a few friends. Hence my "it's nice to meet you" message. ^_^

Riza, what in the bananas? If you were Resistance you just did the least Resistance-like thing of all. Particularly if you were teamed up with two people and you suspected one was a spy. STRONG LEADER is kind of a whatever tool, since it doesn't automatically put that person at an advantage. OVERHEARD CONVERSATION and IN THE SPOTLIGHT are some of the most powerful tools for rooting out spies in the game and I can't think why you wouldn't service the Resistance by using it, unless you knew that both of us would be voting SUCCESS and you are a spy. That is genuinely the only reason I can think of that you would think that tool couldn't be of any impact here. Feel free to jump in anyone, if you can see another reason or configuration that this action would make sense.

Otherwise, I'm highly suspect of Riza now, particularly since on the same baseless evidence she crucified some of these other members for, she's chosen a culprit and a Resistance out of her two companions. There's a small chance that she is Resistance and can't know that I am as well, but there's also a larger chance that she's a spy and now pinning the sabotage on me because she's protecting herself... and maybe Sal?

Excuse the excited ramble, my mind is working overtime now!