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The Resistance: Return to Paranoia
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The Announcer
The Announcer

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.

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Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Jan-23-2017 22:51

May I ask why you have made this decision, Devi?

I would like to draw everyone's attention to a previous game of the resistance, Resistance: Operation Rose :

http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/post.spy?id=36578

As you may see, Yeti Face begins the game by stating that he is a spy, and (unsurprisingly), at the end, he does turn out to be a spy. Furthermore, DevilishWings was playing that game with him as well and was resistance, and suspected Yeti to be a spy. So why not suspect him now, and why choose him to be on your team?

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Jan-23-2017 22:56

Furthermore, Yeti uses his status as "spy" to affect (read: confuse) the players' decisions about who is a spy in the game and who is resistance.

And by giving him Opinion Maker, DevilishWings, you give him the ability to do exactly that: confuse our perceptions of who's who by being first to vote on mission plans publicly on the board, without anyone questioning why he is doing it in the first place.

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Jan-23-2017 23:03

Moreover, why would you assign Yeti to go on this mission given that he is so far down the name list that even if you did believe he was resistance, it does not make much sense to want to "gather information" about him so early on.

Many things are not making sense. I vote to abort mission.

My vote on this mission is: NO.

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Jan-24-2017 01:09

Public voting, hey? Okay, well since I know Jintan and I are spies, that means there's only a 1/3 chance either Bela or Devi is a spy. That's fairly good odds of avoiding the third spy, so I'll vote YES to this one.

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Jan-24-2017 01:22

That made a lot of sense. And from what I know only spies don't make sense.

Fatima Blusch
Fatima Blusch
Assistant Postman

Jan-24-2017 03:25

Now if only Molly was playing we would have our three spies and the game would be over. :)

Fatima Blusch
Fatima Blusch
Assistant Postman

Jan-24-2017 03:25

Oops!

Fatima Blusch covering for Sleuth Sindy.

Cathy Rose
Cathy Rose
Lucky Stiff

Jan-24-2017 03:29

Good one Sindy.

Yeti Face
Yeti Face
Pinball Amateur

Jan-24-2017 03:44

If anyone is more rotten than I it's Molly. I'd love to have her on my spy team.

Jintan
Jintan
Red-Nosed

Jan-24-2017 03:55

I am reading Yeti as resistance. His fishing skill isn't that bad, but i can do better.

And Devi picking Bela. If she and Bela are spy, that would lead us to a weird game. However, if only Devi is spy, and Bela isn't or vice versa. It will lead probably to same scenario that the mission outcome will fail with 1 sabotaging it.

But this crap only applies If Yeti is resistance. This is the only reading I have. No readings yet from Devi and Bela.

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