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Jul-1-2017 09:19

Hello everyone. I’ll be hosting another game of Resistance, and I encourage all lurkers from the previous game(s) to come out and play! We’ll keep it simple with just gameplay and no story this time. And if you’ve never played before, feel free to jump right in, because we all need more imaginary problems to worry about. :)

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.

Jul-8-2017 14:38

Sindy has used NO CONFIDENCE. Leadership has moved on to Aspen. Aspen, please propose a team of four people.

Jul-8-2017 16:00

Hmm. I kinda feel like I have been seeing the same names repeated and I want to mix things up a bit. Of course I will chose myself, I know I can trust me, but who else.

Jul-8-2017 16:07

I guess I will go down the line from myself. I have yet to make any observations about shell marple, so that could be good. Bela kinda strikes me as the spy type, but last game she acted the same way and she was resistance so I have got a good feeling about her. I pick a team of Bela, Shell Marple, and myself.

Jul-8-2017 18:26

Please select one more person, Aspen. :)

Jul-8-2017 19:03

Zara

Jul-8-2017 19:06

Sorry, I was so drunk with power I forgot to pay attention.

Jul-8-2017 19:24

Just wake up.

And seem we have a big chaos here. It's like you wake up and see the world changes dramatically just after a night. Lol

Jul-8-2017 19:40

Mission 2, Team 2
Team Leader: Aspen
Team Proposal: Bela, shell, Aspen, Zara

It is now time for the players to vote to either approve or reject this mission proposal. When you do vote, please send me a PM stating "Mission 2, Team 2: YES/NO." 24 hours.

Jul-8-2017 22:14

I'm on a team! :D Perseverance, folks! :D

Be right back with a vote, I need to check out what that first team was.

Jul-8-2017 22:28

As much as it BREAKS my heart to reject a team that I'm on, I have to do it because I can't trust this all-out new team. Let me tell you, if I were a spy, I'd happily go along with Aspen's "fresh new faces" plan because if this mission fails, it'd give me the most cover because there's so little overlap with the mission 1 team. That is exactly why I can't go with it as Resistance. What REALLY breaks my heart though, is that by voting this down I'd be passing up the chance to get powers as the first leader for the next mission, but the player on the list following me is shell, and that's some consolation because I believe shell is Resistance as much as I believe anything right now. I'm fine with a team with Aspen, shell, and myself on it, but adding Zara out of the blue (I know it's because you need to propose a team of FOUR) is not something I can go with right now (no offence to Zara, I'd just rather pick Tyrano or Sal at this point). Does anybody, by any chance, have a strategy based on the cards we could use if we were to go forward with this team? I'd love to be first leader, and I can even say that as first leader, I will keep a card for myself and probably give the other to shell.

Getting to my other point: Sindy. I'm all for swapping shell for Sindy because Sindy's setting off a few alarms for me right now. Sadly, I've never seen her play a game as Resistance, but this is more or less how she plays a spy. Also, thank you Aspen for your vote of confidence.

I'll trawl back through the thread and make a note of all the powers in play right now - if we have both SPOTLIGHT and KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON YOU, that's practically unheard of! :D

So...I have not officially voted yet, but I will within the hour.