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The Announcer
The Announcer

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.

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Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jul-10-2017 07:01

I agree with Ty; we need to win 3 missions, sussing out who the spies are is supposed to be incidental.

Can I vote? It's a YES! :D

shell marple
shell marple
Con Artist

Jul-10-2017 07:37

I'm a little surprised, I was expecting Aspen, Bela, myself and then either Sal or Tyrano.
Why both of them?

The Announcer
The Announcer

Jul-10-2017 08:08

Mission 2, Team 3
Team Leader: Bela
Team Proposal: shell, Ty, Sal, Bela

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 3: YES/NO." 24 hours.

Tyranomaster3
Tyranomaster3
Bloodhound

Jul-10-2017 08:38

Bela, could you give me any reason for the team you pick? Actually, I prefer a team with me, you, shell and Sindy. Since I and Sindy were in the previous successful team. A team you pick is not different about the term "totally new" with the team Aspen picked. So please give me any reason to approve it?

Sal Iva
Sal Iva
Little Monster

Jul-10-2017 09:47

Zara, I have fallen behind on the thread. I played golf Friday and Sunday. A bite to eat at the clubhouse, a nap when I get home I have to catch up now. Since I'm also playing tomorrow, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week. I'm going to have to do my catching up today. I must say that at first glance I am quite confused by what I have read. People whose allegiance I was fairly sure of, have surprised me some and I'm in the process of reexamining things even farther back. I will do my best to get up to speed today and see if I can add my own thoughts to the thread as soon as I know what they are.

???????

Sumia
Sumia
Collector

Jul-10-2017 12:15

These resistance games seem intriguing and confusing. /true lurker, never been in a mission o3o

anywaaaay, back to the lurking, good luck everyone :*

Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jul-10-2017 14:12

When I expressed my thoughts on Aspen's team, I was okay with having Aspen on the team too because it was her pick and apparently even I can't be a total control freak. :P I don't really suspect Aspen of being a spy right now though, I'm ~80% sure she's Resistance. I think this team will be easier to read though. I was going to go with the same team minus Sal plus Aspen at one point though. I definitely wouldn't pick Sindy to be on a team right now though; I'm not out-and-out accusing her of being a spy, but I'm waaay more comfortable with this team. I don't know, this is how she always plays as a spy, although I will admit I don't know what her playing as Resistance would be like either. I even considered miss snopes, but that could be the previous game influencing me. With Sal on the team, I'm hoping you can all discuss (I will be away for the majority of the rest of this week - I'll still log in everyday and try to vote and punch out posts on my phone, so please try listening to me when my posts are short; I needed to start being concise at *some* point. :P) various ways he could use his powers. SPOTLIGHT is a pre-mission-vote card while KEEPING... is a post-mission-result card. I don't even mind if everybody thinks it should be used on me, although I would really prefer it if it was used on either Ty or Sal himself. shell seems very Resistance to me right now; if that's an act, kudos! :D There's not been much to go on (well, that's not true; it's just not been a long time), but I tried voicing a few unpopular opinions just to get everybody to talk a little more than usual and there were quite a few posts after that, which is what I've based my team pick on.

Oh, again: Ty, I picked this team swapping Sindy out for shell and I think it was you, Sal, and Sindy on that first mission. A variation, I agree, but one I think is more likely to be clean.

VOTE YES FOR ME! :D :P

Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jul-10-2017 14:17

Oh, also, using SPOTLIGHT would allow spies to coordinate their votes to their liking, while with KEEPING... they wouldn't know which vote will be looked at until after they've all voted anyway. But SPOTLIGHT makes the mission (SUCCESS/SABOTAGE) vote public while with KEEPING..., the user (i.e., Sal) will be PMd with the info and it would be Sal's choice to reveal or manipulate the info he gives us on the boards. But that wouldn't be so bad either, because it would link Sal and the person he uses the card on, and be great for future deductions! If Sal wants to use a card on himself though, it'd have to be SPOTLIGHT, because KEEPING... would just give him info he already has in a PM (if it's in a PM, what he shares with us on the boards needn't necessarily be true and if you're Resistance, Sal, you know that impacts you if you're trying to clear yourself).

Sleuth Sindy
Sleuth Sindy
Pinball Wizard

Jul-10-2017 14:53

I have a lot I'd like to say about this, but I'm going to keep my thoughts to myself as I don't want to be accused of trying to influence votes on this team in anyway.

Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jul-10-2017 14:56

Mission 2, Team 3: YES.

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