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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-28-2017 22:58

OK! So we have a team now for the mission. And really hope that the 1st team (including me, Sindy and AspenK) + shell will work. I expect that Sindy and Aspen are resistance. About shell, I still believe you. So hope that this team will work.

Jul-29-2017 07:36

Mission 3 Result:

Mission 3 consisting of Ty, Sindy, Aspen, and shell was a FAILURE.

The team members voted as follows:
???? SUCCESS
???? SUCCESS
???? SABOTAGE
???? SUCCESS

Sindy, leadership will now pass to you for the next mission.

Reminder of player order:
Sal Iva
Tyranomaster3
Sleuth Sindy
AspenK
Bela Talbot III
shell marple
Zara Bande
miss snopes

Jul-29-2017 08:06

Mission 4:

Mission 4 will consist of FIVE team members.

Sindy, the team leader, has been given two advantages to distribute to whomever she sees fit. They are:

OVERHEARD CONVERSATION: Owner of this card learns the allegiance of either the player above/below him/her on the player list via PM from the game master. (The player may share this information on the game board if they so wish, but are not required to tell the truth.)

OPEN UP: The recipient of this ability will have their allegiance revealed to a player of their choosing. Must be used immediately.

Sindy, please assign these abilities when you're ready, and then propose a team. Keeping one ability for yourself is acceptable.

However, if shell wishes to use STRONG LEADER, she must do so before Sindy distributes abilities or proposes a team.

Jul-29-2017 08:26

Spies are ahead 2-1 but we finally have some cards that are going to give us some useful information.

Do I have to wait for Shell to announce whether she's going to use strong leadership or can I ahead and play my turn?

Jul-29-2017 08:31

Since Aspen K is leader of the next team, I want to keep OC for myself and ask to have the allegiance of Aspen K revealed to me.

I'm giving OPEN UP to Ty. I'd like him to reveal himself to me, but of course that's his choice to make.

I'll pick my team after I have this information.

Jul-29-2017 10:03

btw - who is AK Vega?

Jul-29-2017 12:37

The Announcer has PM'd me AspenK's allegiance:

She is a SPY!

Jul-29-2017 14:08

And so it begins. Sindy, I guessed from the votes and her comment that AKVega was Aspen.

So my initial suspicions were that Sindy, Zara, and Ty were spies (Ty, after M2 failed). Nothing that has happened so far has disagreed with this theory, and Sindy's play looks like a clever way to vilify a Resistance member and get another spy on the M4 team. It should be interesting to see what Ty does now.

If Ty revealed his allegiance to say, shell, she'd know for sure who it was that sabotaged M2 and that could shed some light on the M3 team too. If you revealed it to me, Ty, I'd also be able to figure out the same. shell is the slightly more publicly trustworthy person, but if you are Resistance, I promise I will fight to have you on every team plus we'd know if shell and Sal are spies. We'll, I'd know, but I'll do my best to unravel the whole thing then from my point of view, and do my best to convince everybody of your Resistance-ness.

Jul-29-2017 14:16

And you, Bela, just confirmed to me that *you* are a spy.

Why on earth would I call NO CONFIDENCE on my own team that I could have sabotaged if I had wanted to? Because I had two other spies on my team? Why would I have put them on my team? If I was a spy, I would *not* have passed up that opportunity.

What you're saying makes absolutely *no* sense, Bela.

So, I guess the shooting match has begun - only this time we really are on opposite sides.

Jul-29-2017 14:54

Ty if you are Resistance please reveal yourself to me.
@ Sindy having too many things revealed to one player is a bad idea, if what you are saying is correct, then Ty revealing himself to me makes more sense. If you are lying and you and Ty are both spies( or even you just a spy) then revealing to you will only help the spies.