Spies 2: The Recruitment Summary

[Judge Sam]

Spies 2: The Recruitment

Setup


21 players
3 Spies: Leo (Spymaster), Tyson (Lottery), Allison (Recruited)
- 1 Spymaster: Leo. (Could ask me one question every episode: Is [name] a [name of role]? I answer yes or no.)
3 Citizen Roles:
- 1 Psychic: Karl. (Told who would be night killed hours before it happened. Had the ability to stop it once, afterwards became a normal Citizen.)
- 1 Card Reader: Jenna. (Could guess all of the Spies each episode. If and only if she got every single spy right, would be told that she had all the Spies.)
- 1 Gambler: Tiffany. (Every round she would gamble on who she thought would be Imprisoned or Exiled with different rewards or losses and different restrictions/conditions.)
1 Role Given to the Highest Bidder:
- 1 Ballot Stuffer: Rashma. (Earned an extra anonymous vote every Exile.)
14 normal Citizens

Game length: 10 episodes, 36 real days
Twists: Ballot Stuffer Auction, one Spy Recruited at random at a Lottery after Exile #1, one Spy Recruited by choice of the Spies during Episode #3
Events: Dear Abby, Private Investigator, Survey Challenge
Voting History: www.geocities.com/bmw8906/
Opening Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYGudoh4pSk
Data Sheet: spies2.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=ext89234&action=display&thread=1156111208
What I Would do Different After: 4 Spies instead of 3.
Winners: Citizens

Quick Summary

This is a summary of a summary. For a longer summary, click here: spies4.proboards52.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=afterparty2394&thread=1203152069 . For a Day by Day Recap, click here: spies2.proboards24.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=ep109372&thread=1156467639&page=1


Leo begins the game as the only Spy. Early suspicions include Tyson and Winston. Because Tyson, then a citizen, doesn't believe that Winston is a spy, he defends him strongly, linking the two in most people's minds. Citizens Adriana and Karl are also skeptical of Winston's guilt, but never manage to organize an effective countervote. Tanner is disliked by many because of his brand of creepy sex talk.


Tyson is "recruited" as a Spy via random lottery at Exile. Jenna inherits Tyson's "Card Reader" role as the next number picked. Rashma buys herself the "Ballot Stuffer" vote with ten self-votes.


Leo stays under the radar. Tyson swiftly becomes more trusted among the citizens, particularly Davoni, although some notably disagree. Rodney: My suspicions for Tyson, at least, seem to be echoed with others. Perhaps we should target him for the next Exiling.


Rodney does not make his voice heard - something he is accused of repeatedly throughout the game of doing. Tanner continues to irritate many people and is imprisoned so that the spies can frame people like Roger (who Tanner clashed with) for his imprisonment. Although the spies do very little, the case against Roger gains ground.


Adriana is popular early on, appearing very sincere to many players. She makes a list of nine players whose heads are "in the game" but refuses to vote anybody on it. Both of the current spies are on that list. Despite this, the exile vote is between Davoni and Roger. Davoni, to save herself, claims to be a counteragent.

The anti-Leo and anti-Davoni movements start in earnest this round. Tyson and Leo are asked to name the third spy to join them. They first select Tiffany the Gambler, but she declines the offer. Their next choice is Allison who accepts.


Davoni's act of self-defense in the last exile has caused anger against her. Adriana: Congratulations Davoni! You tricked the best player Spies has ever seen... I fucking hate you right now... Nicole and Davoni are straight-up bitches... I want revenge. Davoni, you're messing with the wrong person.


At the next Imprisonment, Karl, the psychic, saves Adriana. Adriana uses her newfound cleared status to bring the role-claimers (Jenna the Card Reader, Tiffany the Gambler, and Karl the Psychic) together


Adriana creates a "I'm calling you out" thread where she bluntly voices her negative opinions about the entire cast. Nicole is particularly upset. Nicole: adriana, is moody, one day she is cool, the next she isn't. I just don't enjoy talking to her. The the thread she made, does she want us all to argue? This creates huge rifts across the burg, but very little is said against any of the three spies. The exile is split between Nicole and Anna, but an inactive is eliminated instead, having failed to vote or post conversations.

IMPRISONED

The next episode begins with major suspicions on Leo, and considerable suspicion on Allison too. Tyson is worried about a Leo backlash. Adriana's continued attempts to force information into the open give the spies more and more ammunition while continuing to divide the burg. While her own group remain fiercely loyal, others resent her attempts. Rodney: In my honest opinion, Adriana getting saved was the worst thing that happened in the game so far. A major anti-Leo alliance is established. Tyson joins it.


Leo is exiled and proves to be a spy. Davoni/Nicole/Antonio/Rodney all chat together for a few hours creating a secret solid citizen alliance called the Evil Mutant Pancakes (EMP). The next day Antonio sold them out. Most people have bought Tyson's lies about having started the vote against Leo. Allison, however, is suspected by both groups of citizens - the Adriana/Karl/Jenna/Tiffany alliance and the EMP. At this point these two alliances are the major powers in the game.


In what may be one of the most incredible turnarounds in the series, the Spies go from being investigated to imprisoning the Gambler. Three days before Leo was voted out, Tiffany used her Gambler role to bet on him being Exiled. She won an investigation which she planned to use on Allison. Through an intense series of conversations and digging with several people, the Spies managed to turn it around. In one of his conversations with Tiffany, Tyson reveals a faked "role" and tells her not to tell Adriana as he doesn't trust her to not give it away. Tiffany in return tells him about her "gambler" role and the fact that she can use it to investigate. Later it is revealed that they chose Allison. The spies immediately mark Tiffany down for imprisonment.

Davoni, who originally planned to exile Allison, now comes up with a plan to save Tiffany from imprisonment by sacrificing the two-round inactive Jenna instead. Davoni has no idea of Jenna's role. Tyson leaks the name "gambler" to her, hoping that she will use it against Tiffany. Davoni instead accuses Jenna of having a role, not realising that she actually does. This causes consternation in the Adriana camp. Tiffany is imprisoned despite Davoni's efforts. Adriana, oblivious to the fact that it was she who gave Tiffany away in the first place, blames Davoni and decides that it is "necessary" to take her out despite the possibility that Davoni may be a citizen.


In an extraordinarily close vote, Davoni is exiled and shown to be a citizen. A massive argument ensues between several citizens. The subsequent rift between the citizens would last until the final round of the game.


Jenna begins to suspect Allison. Jenna begins sweet talking Allison, claiming to trust her 100%, and gets Allison on her good side and begins manipulating her. Jenna tells Allison she will put Rodney in her Card Reader guess. When the cards are shown to the Spies and Allison is one of the names, Allison realizes she has been played. Allison: That little slut! Fucking lied to me!!!


RODNEY (on Adriana): SHE IS RUINING THE GAME WITH HER BITCHY DOMINATRIX WAYS AND PLANET-SIZED EGO. While Rodney is trusted by Derek, others find his unwillingness to speak to them annoying and suspicious.

EXILED

Jenna posts a dramatic fake quitting post in order to avoid Imprisonment. It doesn't work.A large section of the burg refuses to even talk to Adriana (who was saved by the Psychic four votes ago and has yet to be Imprisoned). Those who do talk to her include her long-term allies Antonio, Karl, and Tyson. Adriana demands a second list of suspicious people. Nicole, who had comedic keyboard problems in episode one and nearly got voted out in episode three, begins to assert herself. Nicole outright refuses: she's so freakin stupid, she wants a list from me, but i won't give her one, i tell her it's b/c i don't trust who she gives the info to, and she says i won't give it out. bold face f'n lie. i won't give her any info. she trusts the ppl i don't, how stupid will that be? then she says she won't give me credit for winning, dude, i was the only one to really push leo, well tyson did as well. she's so stupid


Allison fails to convince many people that she is a likely citizen and becomes a strong exile target. Derek, an erratic personality at best, continues his crazy streak. He is fairly convinced that Allison is a spy and correctly suspects that one of Tyson and Karl is a spy and the other was the psychic, but thinks Karl is the more likely spy. Rodney is so certain that he's about to be exiled that he removes everyone from Spies 2 AIM buddy list.


Tyson pretends to share Adriana's suspicions of Rodney and Allison, becoming convinced that the two spies cannot win by appearing to cooperate. Opinion is divided. On one hand, Tyson has never once supported or deflected suspicions from any of his spy partners. Not only that but any time suspicion is brought up on either Leo or Allison, he wholeheartedly agrees. Then he starts creating himself a giant push himself to get them out, even when it isn't supported. Tyson has been accused of not being a team player and ditching all his partners at the slighest suspicion. On the other hand, Tyson thinks what he did was best. And he did make it through the game not suspected.


The votes are: Allison (by Tyson, Karl, Adriana, Derek) Antonio (by Allison, Rodney, Nicole), Rodney (by Antonio, Anna). Antonio had deliberately revealed his alias to some (as a poorly performing Spy in the previous game). This gave him an incredible advantage and caused many not to suspect him at all. As a result, Nicole, Allison, and Rodney were able to use the accusation system for its intended purpose. Because they were a large group (1/3rd) who suspected him as a Spy and Antonio cheated to gain an advantage, they were able to use the extra votes to get him Exiled. This is the only time in the Spies series where accusation votes were used to change the outcome.

Tyson gives away his partner Allison by making it clear that a spy threw an accusation vote to save her. This has major repercussions in this episode as even the relatively inactive Anna now has Allison at the top of her suspect list. The spies imprison Adriana, the last "confirmed" citizen. Adriana knows that she is going, and is close to breaking down. Adriana: The longer this game goes, the more frustrated and angry I get. The more deliberately cruel I get too - I am now showing very nearly absolutely no decency or respect towards Rodney, Nicole, or Allison. So far as I'm concerned, Rodney and Nicole are the idiotic dipshits of the game.


Citizen morale is generally low with 2 Spies in 8 people. Despite Karl, Anna, Adriana and Derek all having correctly pinpointed Allison as a spy, few have any confidence in the others. There is a massive divide in the burg. Karl: Everyone I liked playing with is gone. The remaining 6 are tolerable at best, and fill me with homicidal rage at worst.


Karl is wary of Tyson for the first time in the game, but decides for now to "trust Adriana's judgement". Allison is exiled in a unanimous vote.






Julian, a Spy from Spies 1, is brought in as the "Private Investigator." He has no prior knowledge of the game and receives no additional information. He has no voting power. His job is to try and identify the last spy by interviewing the remaining six contestants and prepare a report. He rules out Anna and Nicole, is wary of Tyson, doesn't think it's Derek but "can't rule him out", but places at the top of his suspect list Rodney and Karl. He marks Karl as the spy on the grounds that Karl was the psychic but hadn't been imprisoned yet.


Tyson decides to try and "persuade" the spy to imprison Derek rather than Karl or Nicole. At this point Tyson believes that Derek is the greatest danger to him because of his suspicions of Anna and Allison. If Anna is exiled and cleared, Tyson believes that Derek will come to the conclusion that the last spy is him. Karl and Nicole still do not trust each other, especially Nicole, although both are also less trustful of Tyson than they used to be.


Derek is imprisoned in a surprise imprisonment that takes place a day early. Not realizing that this, Tyson accidentally gives away the real date of imprisonment to both Karl and Nicole. In a fit of paranoia he sends them a PM that Sam will describe as the "spyiest thing ever," reminding them of confirmed citizens who also got imprisonment dates wrong. Nicole's reaction: "I was just like, wtf?"


Anna is exiled in a unanimous vote and proves to be a citizen. Most were certain Anna was the final spy. The fact that she turns out to be a citizen shocks the rest of the Burg as they realize that their victory is far from assured. Tyson doesn't push for Rodney even though he claims to suspect Rodney more than Anna. This looks suspicious to Karl.


With Karl, Rodney, Nicole and Tyson left, Tyson sees his only possible imprisonment option as Nicole, since he believes either of the other two would give him away instantly. Both Rodney and Nicole's top suspects are Karl at this point. Karl, unbeknownst to Tyson, suspects Tyson more than either of the other two. With two people from Adriana's group (Karl and Tyson) and two people from Davoni's group (Rodney and Nicole), Nicole is Imprisoned.


There are only three left: Karl, Rodney, and Tyson. Tyson has claimed a Wheel of Fortune role and has been part of the trusted coalition for most of the game. Karl was the Psychic, a fact which he managed to hide from most people in the game. Rodney was a member of the enemy alliance. Recently he had completely detached from the game, playing along but talking to no one but his friends due to his frustration with the others. He recently engaged in the game again when he realized he was going to decide which side would win.


Karl plans to vote Rodney the night before votes are due, believing that they should have Exiled Rodney long ago and that Jenna was Imprisoned for putting him in her Cards. Rodney and Tyson vote for each other.

All three pairs - Rodney and Karl, Karl and Tyson, and Tyson and Rodney engage in heated conversation over the next day. With just six hours to go before the vote, Karl switches his vote to Tyson due to a variety of evidence, completely uncertain of whether he made the right decision. Tyson is exiled with two votes against one, losing the game with just six hours to go. He never once before had a vote cast against him before then. The final spy is exiled; Rodney and Karl have won the game.




Massive credit goes to David (aka Gerta, Tyson, Reicheru, Martha) for writing this up (except that one paragraph). I added pictures, formatted everything, edited it down, added some parts, and made it pretty. Thank you so much!