Spies 6 Flavor Compiliation

[Judge Sam]

(tons of the flavor can be found in the Public Grounds forum - spies6.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pub94095 )

For Spies 6 I tried to include a little more flavor surrounding the game, including expanding upon the theme of a 1940's auto factory where the workers are trying to organize. Here's a summary + links to everything added!

Setting the Scene: Tells you a little bit about the background of the story.

Who: Auto, Inc. and the Pinkertons VS. The Burg Union
When: 1940's
Where: The Burg, a small, but booming industrial town home to the nation's best auto factories
What: a conflict between laborers and management over working conditions
Why: greed for money. What else?


Happy International Workers Day! - All about August Spies and the Haymarket Massacre.


What is a Union? - background information on the US labor movement.

Unions Today - Includes shocking information about Wal-Mart! Lots of information on how professional union busters systematically destroy worker's attempts to organize.


A Collection of flavor resources


Imprisonment #2: You're Fired - The first Imprisonment story starts off the game with a story about the first union meeting.

+/- Voting Story Explanation - The story continues in this dialogue. Why the auto workers decided to use different voting shifts is explained in a cute back and forth conversation.


Instant-Runoff Voting Dialogue - A similar dialogue with the second voting shift, this expands upon the first.


Imprisonment #5: Gastronomical Guilt - The story action continues with two tales about how the union busters are disrupting the worker's attempts to organize.

Spies 6 Opening Video! - Contains lots of flavor in flash form.

Blueprint! - Stolen from Head Boss McNeal's private offices.

Instant-Runoff Voting in Today's News

spies11jane from the future - As part of Future Week, fictional characters from future Spies games came to visit. This thread tells the story of spies11jane who rly needs ur help findin the last spy!

A Lotta Power Summary - This isn't so much flavor but it's a really cool summary of the first challenge and who outlasted the rest.

[Judge Sam]

Here's the second half with tons more flavor.


Forum Mafia Round - This flavor is wrapped up into the game morphing into a standard mafia game for one round. The rules are funny though.


Two Newspaper Articles - Two current newspaper articles, one written during the game, and a bonus documentary that provides interesting information on the current fight against union busters.


Jailed! - A role, the Jailor, had some flavor mixed in. Here's what it said:

The corrupt law enforcement has snatched up someone and put them in a holding cell on made-up charges while they 'process the paperwork.' Basically McNeal and his management cronies want someone out of the picture for awhile, so they called in a favor from their cousin at the police station and got them to detain someone for a little while.

Stockholders Voting Shift explanation - A third dialogue story of a union meeting in which the characters explain why they chose to use different voting systems. Covers the previous two voting systems which didn't have a dialogue. Pretty interesting stuff!


Imprisonment #9 - Another Emotional Vote - Third entry in the Imprisonment story line that explains the story of the International United Brotherhood of Accomplished Auto Assemblers – Burg Chapter. In this section the union is about to gear up for the union authorization election, and the bosses want to get a 'no' vote anyway possible. To do so they incorporate a number of real life tricks and schemes.


Imprisonment #9 Bonus Footage - I was unable to include everything I wanted in Imprisonment #9 so I wrote this up adding extra scenes. Includes more real life tactics union busters do to squash union authorization elections.

Tale of Three "Murders" - A real life story about how anti-union people, including a sheriff and a judge, falsely accuse union men of murders. When the 'murdered' people return to town then things get interesting! (Not really, they just kick them out of town and continue prosecution.)


Imprisonment #11 - In Memoriam - The fourth Imprisonment story out of five took place in Memory Week. As such it goes back to before all this nasty stuff happened, when Good Boss Peabody ruled the factory and everybody was happy. Presented in poem form!


Unions Fight Back - Some good news for once! Another real life story.

Final Voting Shift dialogue - Sums them all up and explains the latest Borda count voting shift. A good summary.


Final Flavor Stories - A bunch of other short interesting material I was unable to find time to incorporate into it's own post. Check it out.

[Judge Sam]

And finally, we have a short explanation of alternate voting systems cause it turns out there's tons of better ones!