1841

That’s awesome - I’m almost sorry we caught it! Not giving me the Overheard Conversation card is what sealed Klem’s fate in my mind. You have such little reliable info that Thongsy saying I’m Resistance via the card is incredibly hard to overrule with a hunch.

1842

Well, I mean, Google Sheets do it for me. I just copy/paste.

1843

And if triggercut hadn’t played the Open Up card for me, we’d probably still be arguing I think. Even the way he did it screamed ‘Guilty!!’ to me! He said he was thinking of opening up, then he backpedaled and said something about a possible 3-way reveal that would “help” more. I figured he’d just reveal his card to one of his Spy buddies and waste the card for us.

1844

Kl3m, what was your plan if Thongsy had outed you? I was kind of thrown for a loop because you had just slow played a mission to build trust but if had done the more typical play of checking the mission leader there is no way you are on team 2 and that would have made the earlier slow play a waste…

1845

I have to apologize to my fellow spies for being terrible at the game. It was my first try though, I learned much.

1846

Don’t worry man, I think you did a fine job. It’s hard to shake suspicion some times…

You DID sound like you were admitting defeat when you said you were left to sit around and watch, but that’s it :P

1847

I’m sorry too for having said a couple of silly on the toilet things that were worse than saying nothing. I just wanted to play!

And that morning when I read the whole thread, there seriously were whole pages I hadn’t even skimmed.

1848

I had no plan, sad to say. I’d have likely hurled suspicion at Thongsy and hoped for the best. But it seemed like Thongsy had enough doubt about things in general that it might work. For sure it was a tense few hours between waiting for Dave to vote (and hoping he was on board with the plan) and then immediately giving the Look At Me Card to Thongsy.

In retrospect I should have slowed down at that moment and let more discussion happen. I could have both got direction and generally taken the pulse of Resistance. For whatever reason I just got hurried to make the play and move on. Now I can see that if I had given the card to rowe33 we’d have likely won the game easily because we’d have staked Dave but made the remaining spies all but invisible.

I was pretty concerned with how my Spy buddies would look at me if the plan failed. I played loose with my spy-Dom three times in succession, which was a risk for all. I guess I could have claimed Spy myself and then left Dave in play…

1849

I didn’t really suspect you for the most part, not until triggercut was officially cleared. And I’m sure we all appreciate you not playing the NC card in the end to prolong our collective agony of waiting!

1850

Oh, don’t apologize at all. This game is really hard in general. A lot of things are very situation dependent and there are very few “obvious” moves without having played before. In the past we’ve had a lot of resistance teams sunk when a resistance member makes a move that other resistance members thought was an “obvious” spy move. Same thing happened in this game. The Resistance did a really excellent job of leveraging the cards they got and a couple nice educated guests and social perception.

It is a hard game for sure the first time through (and the 5th) and you did a good job. When the other three spies are mixing it up actively, it doesn’t hurt to sit back in the background a bit. I really was confident that you would slip into team 5 until the Resistance made some great plays (taking me + clyve instead of excluding us both and trigger’s open up).

1851

Lantz, I actually had to re-check the spy list a couple of times to remind myself that you were a spy. Great job!

1852

Yay, we won!! Good game everybody! That was exhausting at times, but damn if it wasn’t exciting. I’m game for some Avalon later this week!

Memorable moments for me. Probably the same as most of us:
-rowe33 sniffing out the the hidden spy message from Kl3mnop and crafting a double spy theory for mission 2. This was just such a great play, both for the spies and for rowe to take notice. It was actually really hard for me to believe it could be true, even long after the theory was floated but it made a lot of sense and it was hard to ignore.
-Kl3mnop giving Overheard Conversation to Thongsy, helping us establish a high degree of confidence in a Resistance member. Rowe being Resistance was the cornerstone of so much of my thinking throughout the game. It was such a bold move for Kl3m that really should have paid off more than it did, but then suddenly backfired completely with the Keeping a Close Eye on You going to Lantz.
-triggercut playing Strong Leader and giving Open Up to rowe. This was a great play that helped us get a circle of trust going. There was so much uncertainty and in-fighting between the Resistance members right before this point, but this was a key moment that turned everything around. Like clyve and rowe, I was certain that triggercut was a spy, and then I was floored when it turned out he wasn’t. Right at the time of the reveal, I was gaming with friends in a spot with no internet connection (playing Avalon, actually) and I had to wait the entire night to figure out the results of the Open Up card.
-triggercut floating the idea of picking an existing team and adding him for Mission 4. This didn’t occur to me until he mentioned it, which made the lightbulb click for me that we could do mission 4 and we’d be pretty much guaranteed to pass it. Then he went and picked a different team with Kl3mnop on it and I couldn’t believe it. It was his idea in the first place! In hindsight, it probably wouldn’t have mattered with the team he picked, but it was a nervous time for me.

1853

“That’s a great idea. I’m too stupid to do it though” might as well be my theme song…;)

1854

This might be my favorite post of the game. I can’t believe you wrote all that out, you psycho.

1855

I especially love that he wrote that all out and I don’t think has a single mention of who he thinks are Spies - an admirable gambit though!

1856

Haha thanks!

1857

I want to hear from Trigger why he flip-flop trusting me but not Rowe than trusting Rowe but me until I proved myself to him. That was just very weird and which if I didn’t know Rowe was Resistance I would’ve thought he was a spy by flipping so much.

As for Klem, I really just wanted to believe in him. So I was defending him early on and with that ballsy move to give me the card to be able to check him out. And I thought Rowe was just being paranoid, which he was a bit in suspecting me and trigger cause we voted down the third mission team. Same with Bobman, he always kept saying, I voted this vote cause the other guys were my spies suspect or something. And he kept changing his suspects which lead me to believe he was trying to ferment chaos. It really triggered a red alert for me towards bobman. Even after he tried to clear my name, I just couldn’t trust him.

clyve was very talkative in the early game and him mention us suspecting he was a spy early on cause of the previous game made me think he was more of a spy at that point. As we can see, Dave Perkins somehow always ends up a spy. And when he was asking for his list of suspects he never gave his own when asked. Which made me think he might want to give it hidden so that he wouldn’t have to point fingers at his fellow spies.

Anyways, good game. I am a bit tired after two weeks and apparently 1500 posts of back and forth. We do need a little break from it and I’m sure by Thursday I’ll be hyped to start it up again.

1858

I was only asking people i thought were spies :) I thought it was neat to read. Kl3m just evaded it entirely haha

1859

I see. I saw it as a spy tactic trying to get a gauge on who the Resistance thought were spies at that point.

1860

Nobody is safe from suspicion :P