Post by Judge Sam on Jul 27, 2009 0:00:08 GMT -5
Recap: From Jason and Pete’s point of view.
Okay so normally at the Finale I go through everyone’s confessionals and write up a quick game recap that covers everything and includes funny quotes. As you can imagine with 32 people that takes forever and a half.
Instead, this time around I am going to recap the game from Jason and Pete’s point of view, episode by episode, revealing many of their tricks, gameplans, confessional quotes, and mindsets. As Jason and Pete were the two best Spies the game has ever had (for different reasons) this should be very illuminating! None of you had any idea about their secret plots and plans and I hope to begin the process of revealing this to you all.
Throughout the game they were completely and utterly unsuspected, more so than any other Spy in all of history. Both of them were immediately put in to the “cleared” category at the start of any discussion and were just plain assumed citizens the entire game. Jason in particular, having won the “most trusted” vote in Episode #4 (only 2 other Spies voted for him, even if they didn’t he would have won the prize) AND having won the most trusted vote in Episode #10. Jason was a phenomenal Spy to a degree I’ve never before seen and doubt I will again.
Jason was extraordinary because of his consummate skill, masterful gameplay, and ability to pathologically lie for months on end. He is truly a Spy superstar and deserves praise for his abilities more than anyone had ever before.
Pete was the most inactive player that lasted through the game, rarely if ever contributing anything of any worth citizen-wise. He preferred to spend his limited time writing up 2,000-word essays in Spy HQ about events he had no clue about because he was never around. He never got on AIM or post in the Burg, especially during the most important final week where he just plain out hid. During this time, while he was on vacation, he posted daily in the Spy HQ. His cowardly strategy of never playing the citizen game worked wonders to keep him completely unsuspected.
So let’s go back and draw back the curtain to an entire side of the game you’ve never seen – the game from Jason and Pete and the Spies’ perspective! I like to call this story: “Jason and the Seven Crappy Dwarf-Spies versus Dwindling Numbers of Confused Citizens.”
For the Spies, the game began on Day -3. They were e-mailed their Spyhood and invited to discuss things on the message board beforehand. While Almathea was talking about her ill-fated master-strategy Question Club (more on that in Episode #1 reveal), Pete talked about his plans to manipulate the Spies: “For me, this game is more then just being a team with my fellow spies, its about manipulating them as well. I have to, or at least will try my hardest to be the controller of the spies and have them think the same way I do, whether it be getting who I want gone in imprisonments or having them stand up for me should my name come up in suspicion.”
6 of the Spies were getting to know each other when Jason finally showed up. He hadn’t checked his e-mail until only 18 hours before the game began! Meanwhile, Judge Sam suggested one player might want to be an ‘inactive Spy’. No one took him up on his offer but Pete remarked: “I agree in it being a good idea, and, it might be something we want to consider....but, at the same time, would anyone even be willing to do that? We have a chance to really play this game hard...personally I'd find it hard to play that way but, who knows. I know first hand that sort of strategy can work....”
Also, believe it or not, on Day -1 Iris created a False Role List thread in which to brainstorm possible fake roles. Yes, the “anonymous benefactor” was over a MONTH in the making! It got clearance from every Spy and even a little help from Judge Sam himself (though to my credit, my advice was not taken.)
Fast forward to day 1 where only 3 hours in and *already* we could have two Spies caught right out of the gate! A major incident took place which shook the foundations of the Spies, and may have caused them to either be more hesitant in their play, or be ready to bus each other. Iris had accidentally left the spies6 chatroom which contained Pete, Jaya, Iris, and Robert when:
spies6Robert (12:51:08 PM): Invited iris back.
spies6iris (12:51:14 PM): Thank you! Duh...closed the window and lost it.
spies6pete (12:51:17 PM): wb iris
spies6iris (12:51:53 PM): Thanks. You guys might as know I'm technologically clueless. I almost deleted my Spies 6 account last night.
! Iris almost deleted her Spies 6 account “last night” ?? Before she even had it? Worst yet, the players in the game were about to find out that the Spies already knew they were Spies very soon!
Immediately after Iris’s error the chat room went silent for three minutes. Freaking out, Pete hilariously typed:
spies6pete (12:54:04 PM): hi guys, sorry just had to run to the loo
spies6Robert (12:54:22 PM): You mean you had to discuss what you was going to say with your fellow spies before talking?
spies6Robert (12:54:26 PM): We're onto you pete.
spies6pete (12:54:55 PM): well considering as we dont know our roles yet
spies6Robert (12:55:06 PM): That's just what a spy would want us to believe.
The Spies (and me!) were freaking out. If Iris is gone from this then heat will also go on Pete and Jaya for not pointing it out and for changing the subject! That’s three Spies and we’re only three hours in!
I was intensely interested to see if Robert had caught this, but I had no idea if he did. He hadn’t posted conversations or a confessional yet and I just can’t come out and ask him! Fortunately he IM’ed me and when I asked him if there were “any highlights in spies6 chat?” he didn’t mention it. Phew. But was it safe, especially when others saw the chat?
Robert did however mention that he had enacted a plan to get himself Imprisoned! Apparently he wanted to fake breadcrumb a role because “it’s a roleless’s job to attract the nightkill.” I was confused, as Robert sent in an amazing application and I was looking forward to him playing. Little did he know he had a good chance of getting his wish as the Spies were freaking out that he would find out about Iris’s massive day 1 slipup! They wanted him gone immediately.
The most hilarious part was that Robert started a thread in the Burg which contained all of the spies 6 chats: spies6.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=burg90999&action=display&thread=428 . And there it is, Iris’s slip. Right smack at the very top.
Pete: “I should have hung [Iris] up to dry, but I want to keep as many spies in for as long as possible, and by being nice I might have just been dragged down by Iris mistake”
At this point, three days into the game, Pete declares he’s had enough with the paranoia, obsessive gameplay, and tension and is going to be away for the next two and a half weeks to do school exams.
Meanwhile, Jason enacts his Citizen mindset he would use throughout the game: “So... I'm not a spy, I'm a citizen that knows who the spies are and is at peace with citizens being imprisoned and exiled...”
It’s day three, and things are not looking good for bubbly, talkative, throws-suspicion-around-at-every-single-person Almathea. She might as well have written SPY on her back.
Jason: “Alma has stabbed herself in the heart... I'm not going to stick my neck out there; she's a liability until she calms down. Am I perhaps overstepping my bounds by being openly for getting rid of her?? Maybe...”
So things don’t look good for Almathea, and she’s about to go down for the count. Jaya, feeling patriotic to the Spies, unfortunately casts a vote to support Almathea. Although it could be explained away Jaya is unable to do so. It looks like Almathea might be saved for a little bit but Ariel finishes her off.
Meanwhile, Iris accidentally got caught up in a Yvette/Robert/Faith/Ariel/Iris plot which would unnecessarily constrict and restrict her in the future. Despite that having nothing to do with why Robert was Imprisoned, the players are convinced “there has to be at least one Spy in there” and by happenchance there is!
More Spy suspicions:
spies6Jenya (1:55:05 PM): I just talked with Ellis and Paris for a half hour
spies6Jenya (1:55:19 PM): They seem to be genuinely interested in finding spies I think.
spies6Jenya (1:55:45 PM): They want to vote either Almathea or Jaya I think, most likely Almathea."
spies6Jenya (5:31:34 PM): Oh. We need to talk about Pete.
spies6Jenya (5:31:43 PM): He has been very lurky.
spies6Tiberius (5:32:05 PM): yeah pete has always made me 0-0
spies6ellis (5:32:07 PM): Well apart from random lurkery
spies6ellis (5:32:10 PM): what about Pete?
spies6Jenya (5:32:22 PM): If there is a spy just watching all this and cackling, it is possibly Pete.
spies6Jenya (5:32:30 PM): Because he really hasnt had to lift a finger.
spies6jason (5:32:34 PM): I can see that
spies6ellis (5:32:42 PM): I don't know, he also seems confused
spies6jason (5:32:44 PM): But... I don't see any reason to think he's a spy for it really
spies6ellis (5:32:49 PM): although I'm not by any means convinced either way about him
spies6Jenya (5:32:51 PM): We need to make him talk more I guess.
Iris also votes alone, accidentally. Pete writes a long 1,000-word personal report on his few interactions in the Spy HQ, this would be a recurring theme.
Meanwhile, Donald is the Spy Jailer and Jason is the Spy Destiny Deflector. Donald takes away Gretchen’s PMs.
Episode #2.
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Paris takes the heat from a strange voting change at the last Exile and is about to be Exiled for his ‘connections’ to Spies he doesn’t know about. Paris suspects Almathea and Jaya and tries to get them eliminated, even as he suspects they are Spies.
Jason in Episode #2: “Iris - Her clock is ticking. People are sure that either Yvette, Faith, or Iris (Or any two of them) are Spies. Well, it's only a matter of time before people insist that we start voting them out, in fact, it could happen next exile for all we know (And I think there's a good chance that it will). So, even if Iris survives, which will be difficult, when Faith or Yvette goes she's that much closer to being caught, and when the other one goes... Iris is dead.”
Jenya tells Jason her role. Pete is getting massive suspicion. Donald is getting suspicion. Iris is suspicious. Almathea is gone, and Jaya is about to be Exiled. So is Paris.
Donald is busy, Pete is very busy and almost pulled out, Amelia will never have much time the whole game, Paris just got a 10-hour a day job and will have almost no time on the computer and almost quit. Jason spends his nights on WoW instead of Spies. The Spy team is in absolute shambles.
Amelia starts suspecting Donald. Pete pleads for negative votes from his fellow Spies at Exile: “Yeah, looks like I am a target, no surprise, seeing as I havent been here at all.” This despite the fact that he voted Almathea, said he suspected other Spies, and pre-voted Jaya 12 hours before people starting pushing on her for Exile. Paris and Jaya are Exiled.
Episode #3:
Donald: “3 of us gone in 5 lynches? We're doing horrible. We need to get our act together and turn the game around. Let's get a team chat some night soon.”
The Spies really never chatted with each other as a group. They had one in Episode #3 and I think once maybe around Episode 6? None of them were on AIM much with the exception of Jaya and Almathea and Jason. Jason and Pete had a few AIM chats together as Spies, especially at the end of the game, but that’s about it. The Citizens are owning hardcore.
Meanwhile, as a result of one of Rey’s stunts that I have no idea what happened, Pete goes from fairly suspected to completely cleared in the span of one hour, no thanks whatsoever to Spy activity. Lucky indeed! I don’t even know what happened, I think Rey made a last minute push to exile Pete, and somehow that makes him a citizen because Jaya went? No clue, but all of a sudden Pete is as good as cit. Judge Sam prays in vein that Pete takes this newfound citness and uses it to his advantage. Instead Pete does absolutely nothing for the following 11 episodes and rides it to the end.
Pete tells his strategy privately: “I'm not sure how much longer I can pull this lurking off, I certainly am not planning on it being a strategy of mine,”
With nearly every Spy save Jason (and now Pete just recently) having massive suspicion, and nearly every Spy List containing most of the Spies and not many Citizens, Judge Sam is feeling down: “argh, I'm just depressed that the Spies are so bad. It's fuckin round 3 and there's like 10 confirmed citizens. They ahve no chance in hell. And they are already doing the thing where they log on, check spy hq, talk once or twice, then just leave, never signing on AIM never pretending to be citizens never making cases. It's just so bad.”
Judge Sam summary: “ep 1. everyone: alma is a spy. iris is a spy.
ep 2.: everyone: pete is a spy. oh and probably donald. let's exile jaya! and paris! (practically every single suspect is a spy)
ep. 3: hmmm... donald screwed up. lots of people: let's vote for donald. some others: oh wait, what about amelia! she's a spy. people in background: iris.. uh... still a spy! (good news: pete is a citizen!)”
Jason: “it seems like EVERYONE has gotten suspected but me so far, and everyone's in trouble... you're right, it's completely unparalleled...”
In Imprisonment #3 there is a somewhat surprising choice in Mei Yun, someone who was suspected recently. Why was Mei Yun Imprisoned? Mei I’ve been waiting to tell you for two months because I know you desperately wanted to know. Here it is! Here are the two lines of chat that got you Imprisoned:
spies6jason (12:41:25 AM): SO who is next on your radar? Not to move on to killing more spies too soon or anything
spies6MeiYun (12:43:02 AM): if we merge im gonna grill georgia/*DONALD*
spies6MeiYun (12:43:23 AM): if we dont im gonna continue with *IRIS* and maybe *AMELIA*
Having just lost 3 Spies, the prospect of having someone suspect 3 more was unbearable. As Jason posted in the Spy HQ: “Mei Yun must go!”
Jason also posted a bunch of advice which aimed to get the Spies back on track.
Jenya sends out a PM suspecting Yvette to both Jason and Pete. Pete: “My heart goes out to this girl, she really thinks she is doing the right thing and looking for spies and being a good citizen. LOL. Aside from mentioning Donalds name, though briefly, I think we have here one of the least helpful cits in the history of the game.” Jason: “Yeah, Jenya really is a nice person and her ideas are good, they just happen to be wrong... I got that PM too, lol, it's awesome!! Maybe she'll get Yvette exiled for us.”
Jason decides to take matters into his own hands, and in his first major play, starts the push to get rid of Yvette by starting a thread. Iris: “I'm just pointing out something I've been worried about though. If/when we successfully get Yvette exiled, Faith and I will be the only ones left. I have enough people on my side now where I think I can successfully fight Faith to the death...but when she dies too, my head will be on the block. I don't know what to do about this...I guess we'll just have to plan that eventually I'll be a sacrifice for team Spy, and you guys should bus me at that point to get some town cred.”
Pete: “I would like to know why people think one of Faith, Iris or Yvette is a spy....I mean I know it has something to do with the Robert vs Yvette fake thing, but, I dont get the justification for why it has to be one of those three.....”
Jason: “yeah, Pete, that's basically it. It's a lucky guess that happens to be correct -_-“
Pete: “Why is it that this game the cits have been so extraordinarily lucky? Every random guess, every time they mis-analysise something, they turn out to get a spy anyways.....I am still fuming at the shear luck of these cits (they will think its because of their awesome skills....grrrr, I give up)”
Both Jason and Pete are of the opinion that all of the Spies caught so far are lucky guesses. Pete: “this is NOT a smart bunch of citizens (in fact I personally think its quite the opposite) it just so happens that they have managed to get lucky. Very lucky.”
Meanwhile, Amelia guesses 64 pins at the future challenge and, even though it was not her intention at all to screw it up, garners tons of suspicions. During the alphabet challenge, Jason casually and hysterically screws everyone up.
Yvette gets Exiled and the Burg turns into an argument-fest right before the Spies’ eyes. Jason: “I had no idea that would work THAT well. I was expecting to create some chaos, get people yelling at each other about Yvette, and maybe, JUST maybe actually exile her...
Not only did people yell before the exile... after... was phenomenal! And of course Yvette is gone. The Spies FINALLY have the momentum again. We can harvest these misgivings like bountiful autumn corn yields. I'll say more about this later but for now I'm going to dance around singing songs of evil sinister spyingness.”
While Yvette going was very sad, at least it’s not another Spy haha.
Amelia votes for Donald and tries to connect Donald and Kirsten. Donald ends up getting tons of heat and more suspicion for changing his vote and Iris makes a risky vote-change as well. Apparently the Spies thought Donald was in danger despite it being 13-4 Yvette. My personal opinion on Donald: he did really well in one-to-one chats, but was still pretty suspicious. Unfortunately for him and many of the Spies his RL was busy at the time and so while he did do alright in that back-and-forth thread with Kirsten, it wasn’t enough to save him. Apparently he was “just about to start playing hardcore” right after he was Exiled but literally everyone says that so I don’t put much stock into it. =P
Pete: “Myself and Jason. I have always stated I think he is the best spy our team has, and he will be so critical to our success, I am sure that the other spies are realising this too...which is good, they wont drag him down should they fall.
Which, I think they might. Correction Jason and I think they might. We already started planning on what to do if that was the case”
Donald decides to Jail Iris (after forgetting to post a Jailor choice for Episode #3 -_-): Iris on why she should be Jailed: “1. It could help me.
2. If I go anyway, it could buy you some cit cred.
3. People may be reluctant to vote me off if I can't defend myself after what happened to Yvette.
4. It can make Levi look very, very bad.”
Pete: “now we work on saving Iris....which I personally think is a waste of time. Some of the things she has said and done (and this is BEFORE the last minute vote change thing) are really bad, its just I dont have the heart to tell her she is looking even worse then she thinks. Maybe I will vote or even campaign for her next? Maybe. After all, all successful spies sacrfisie THREE of their own team, dont they?
(No, Pete, they dont)”
Iris continues preparing and perfecting her role claim. Jason plans for his made-up role power-up in which he can “deflect two people” but in reality he can only deflect one. This will cause him lots of trouble and drama in the upcoming episodes as you’ll see. Jenya tells Jason that she plans to give two people Immunity from Imprisonment and she is going to test Jason by forcing him to deflect both. Oh Jason has told Jenya of his role by this point, a very risky move seeing as it’s only Episode #4 and he wants to stay in for the rest of the game. It was a bit reckless… he said he did it just because he was bored, but it will prove beneficial to him down the road.
Iris wants to have Jason claim he received a gift but thankfully Donald nixes that plan: “Also, I don't think we should tie Jason with you. Jason is the one spy we have that seems to have been in good standing with most players for most of the game. If we're going to risk anybody to help save you, it should NOT be Jason.”
Meanwhile, because of Future Week the Spies are told they get to make TWO Imprisonments this Episode! They get excited and start picking Khaled and Mei Yun for Imprisonment #3. It takes them a little bit to get the joke that one of the Imprisonments they pick will be for Imprisonment #5, two episodes in the future. For this Imprisonment they choose Khaled. But when they realize he will be told of his fate, they think he is too smart and will use it to his advantage. They switch to Ariel. Then to Gabriela.
Donald pipes up just to be different: “Ed's got strong townie vibes, but he's also the main proponent of Ariel possibly being a spy. Jenya also pushed a little that Ariel could be a spy, maybe if one of the players who suspected her dies... A spy must be covering her tracks!” And as many of the Imprisonment went, everyone just agrees with Donald and switches.
Episode #4
Jason: “I just realized something... I was voted a reward from the entire Burg. I'm essentially the most trusted Citizen in the Burg. I'm a Spy. I used the role investigation on someone, believing their behavior suggested they had a role. I was right.”
Jason uses his role investigation from being voted most trusted as a result of the challenge to figure out Khaled has a role. He then goes to Khaled and tells him he role investigated him and finds out exactly what the role is.
Pete continues his two and a half week absence and his grand scheme of Spy lies with this, the entirety of his confessionals for Episode #4: “Urgh. I am NOT lazy. I AM doing things. I AM here....its just...not as much as I'd like to be. I keep promising a return to the game, and I have a real reason. However....the real reason is not good enough, in fact ANY reason is not good enough. I am going to PLAY THIS GAME. I will from now on.”
Imprisonment #4 rolls around and Gabriela is determined to be too dangerous and intelligent. Jason: “Gabriela - She's talking sense. She was the one to end the chaotic drama and fighting last night after the Yvette exile, which spoiled some of our fun and lessened Citizen feuds that could have exploded into several rounds of us all being safe. None of us really have her in our pocket, either.”
Though things were looking up for the Spies last round when the push on Yvette eclipsed suspicions of Amelia and Donald, and Donald did well in defending himself from Kirsten. Things are about to get worse. Iris: “People either trust me fully and will go to bat for me, or believe that I'm a Spy. The belief that I'm a Spy has shifted largely from the Robert/Yvette thing to my last minute vote on Yvette in the last Exile.” Donald: “Whenever I really talk with somebody, i make them believe I'm citizen. AWESOME!
Needs improvement: I'm mostly suspicious because I don't post my thoughts and opinions publicly enough, or hardly at all. I need to do this more.”
Exile #4 rolls around and a late-game push by Ellis and others on Kirsten develops. Jason and Pete both sit in a chat room as Ellis, Kirsten, and one other person I forget who discuss whether they should push for Donald. It’s 30 minutes until Exile and neither Pete nor Jason say a word… they just are silent as the other citizens finally come to a conclusion to push Donald after much discussion either way. Another failed opportunity for Jason and Pete to help their allies.
Episode #5
Things are looking down. Only after 4 episodes and 4 spies are gone. Something like 18 Citizens remain. -_- People begin to suspect Amelia for tunnel-visioning on Donald. Unfortunately, after Ed goes, things continue to look down. Faith, William, and Iris are on the chopping block and there may be a last minute push for Iris.
Judge Sam on Pete: “I am just so insanely frustrated with Pete right now. He has the potential to play well but I haven't seen it in 4 episodes so I'm not holding my breath.
Here's the short and sweet summary. Like 3 days in Pete all of a sudden has exams so for the next 2 weeks he's out of commission pretty much. He manages to keep up well considering. Then he tells me he's back but 3 days later, after nothing, oops he was still busy. Ok. Then this Episode he's "back" but then disappears for another 4 days. What the fuck.
Okay all of this is fine but basically he is, as of this moment, insanely shitty at Spies but thinks he is God's gift to the Spies. This is because due to absolutely ZERO SKILL OR INPUT ON HIS PART he has been somehow half-cleared because of the Jaya vote. Him voting for 2 Spies didn't hurt either. I'm not that upset about that because it was sort of necessary. It's just so infuriating that he NEVER DOES ANYTHING and yet thinks he is some mastermind at this game due to insane luck.
He has the perfect opportunity to launch himself from this point of citizen-ness and hasn't done a damn thing. The worst part is that he is constantly insulting the other Spies - which by the way he is never around so god knows how he even knows this - about how terrible they are. And has plans to bus so many of them. And talks to Jason about how "awesome" those two are and how all the rest are complete shit and UGH. Jason is 500 million times better than you.
That pisses me off lol. I hope he turns it around and he might able to if he gave one whit about this game but right now it's not happening. Arghhh.”
Sam on Spies and AIM: “I want the Spies to do well but they are inactive even by Citizen standards. =/ it's so sad. and it's not inactive like they never come to the site, but with the exception of Jason they NEVER get on AIM. holy crap!!! AIM is like the most important thing. amelia has an excuse but pete and iris it is just wretched. how do they expect to play the game whatsoever if they don't build relationships on aim?? it's like they are playing mafia with 15 german speaking students who speak english half the time. they don't even know what is going on in half of the game!
it's so frustrating with pete and iris. pete spent two hours writing up 1,000 words on everyone. that's nice i guess but pete never actually *plays* the game so what good does that do??
it is so frustrating to see iris get on the board like 5 times a day yet not ONCE get on aim and TALK to people. what the fuck?
why do spies do shitty things like this it's insane???”
Pete writes, and this is not a joke, about 5,000 pointless words in the Spy HQ over 3 hours about everyone’s current status in the game despite having little actual information at all. It does nothing.
After the group decides that The Bus Stops Here, Jason unnecessarily and pointlessly throws Amelia’s name into suspicions for no reason.
Jason gets out of Jenya’s test by simply not talking to her by Imprisonment. Jason really wants to Imprison Jenya soon… this role talk is making him nervous, and Jenya is constantly suspecting and interrogating his actions. Jason learns of William’s role by conning Tiberius into spilling it accidentally.
At Exile, the votes go back and forth. Iris understandably is shaken, and despite the fact that she will only get three votes at Exile… decides to go forth with her role. In a highly comedic fashion.
Episode #6
Who the heck knows what Iris’s role was whatever it was was uneffective to say the least. (Recall that she had been crafting this role since the start of the game!) Despite Sam publicly posting that confessionals would not be seen, less than 48 hours later Iris decides to claim that she could let someone see one. She claims that Amelia got a gift without notifying Amelia beforehand.
Now remember, these Spies do not ever talk with each other on AIM. Amelia is completely out of contact and barely caught up with anything. It is very interesting to me to see how Amelia will react… will she “work with the team” and take a hit for them? Or is the claim so completely unbelievable that she has to say she didn’t get one and Iris is a liar?
I’m personally hoping she says Iris is a liar but Amelia decides to take one for the team. The Spies tell her she might want to because they don’t have any information that it is completely unbelieved. And so Amelia immediately becomes completely thought of as a Spy.
This is Forum Mafia Round. Iris disappears after her claim… only coming on the boards once or twice to post half-hearted lies. At Imprisonment, Amelia wants William and his Eugenicist role gone but that would implicate Jason, who was just told. Jason and Pete decided to axe Ellis, a smart member of the confirmed citizens group. Then Imprisonment roles around and Sam hopes and prays she comes back and says this simple sentence: “I made up that fake role entirely just to get out Imprisonment! I’m not telling you my real role.” Oh what wonders that would have done… but the group does not even give Iris 10 hours to talk before lynching her on the spot. Was probably for the best because Iris disappears for another week. She said she was sick (for the previous two weeks) and there was a laptop issue.
Episode #7
So it’s Spy Amelia, Jason + Pete versus 17 Citizens! Surely they can pull it off! -_-
There’s tons of Jenya-Jason-Khaled role drama (and some with William) but it’s all so confusing we’ll have to detail it in full in the after game. Jason does a pretty good job jumping through all of Jenya’s test hoops though.
For Imprisonment #7, they still want Jenya gone as they have for awhile, but with Sam Lies Week they get to pick a real Imprisonment and a fake Imprisonment. William has to go (and his role has been leaked by now) so he gets picked for the real one. Jenya gets picked for the fake one because she supports Amelia (sort of a double fake-out) and because of role stuff with Jason.
Jenya is fake Imprisoned, and within seconds Rey spills her role publicly. He gets all the heat but Jason manages to spill tons of information too in a post in the Burg.
At this point Jason and Pete are not suspected by anyone whatsoever. (Do not listen to that one time Ellis said he suspected Jason for about four days right after being eliminated before recanting it and firmly believing the opposite for the remainder of the game. Saying you suspect one person once for four days does not mean you ‘got’ them.)
So Amelia looks like she’s going down the tubes but she does a great job with keeping up her nonchalant Burg posting. She’s rarely if ever on AIM but her steadfastness does convince some including Jenya, Kirsten, and maybe one other person I forget. She claims she told Mei Yun of her gift, and dodges Kirsten’s rule-skirting questions hwhich helps. Meanwhile everyone is getting sick of Rey and starts a case up on him (he has been a confirmed cit up until this point) I’m not sure where that came from as they had been ridiculing Ariel for the last 3 weeks for pushing Rey. And I’m not sure if any Spies had a significant role in fanning the flames. They were pretty dead set in wanting Amelia out.
Jason continues on his mad quest to Imprison Jenya: “Jenya's time has run out. She must die. William, too, although he's not as much of a threat because people won't trust him/listen to him as much. If Jenya wants to turn the tide on me she can; people will follow her. I can't have that for obvious reasons (There's something about getting Exiled that seems non-beneficial to me in this game) so i must survive this round as Amelia almost certainly dies, and get rid of Jenya next.”
Jason raves in a late-night confessional: “DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE! I'm going to leave a trail of flailing, battered citizens. I'll massacre the Burg. They must suffer for they have awakened the mighty Mofo within my evil side of doom. There will be no more nice Spy in this game. There will be no more dormant peasantry. NO DAMN IT! You're all going to be obliterated.”
Clueless Amelia tells the Burg that her and Jason’s conversations have been in-depth, despite the fact that Jason told others that his conversations with Amelia were very short. This would cause a small problem when Kirsten discovers this in Episode #13. Jason: “Did you clear that with me first? Just last night I told people that our chats DIDN'T go in depth or have much substance. Now you're basically putting me in a position where I have to either stick my neck out and cover for you and probably die with you or call you on it and bus you. Sorry, but when it comes down to it I've got to protect my own interests.”
Meanwhile Mirela pushes Thor and the Spies jump on eager to save Amelia. Thor goes. William goes. Amelia: “I absolutely love you guys! *spycookies* “ Jason: “I think you're saved for a few rounds at least, maybe the entire game, now!” Pete: “With any luck, this could be the beginnings of the greatest come back in spies history.”
Episode #8
Jenya’s new trust of Jason saved her from this Imprisonment. Rey: “One thing i'd like to point out. I'm 100% confident there are no spies left from Team Clusterfuck.
I've said this time, and time again. I hope that you can trust this when I flip citizen.
We are 100% spy clean. Seriously, the two spies that were in our group voted together.”
Jason: “So... why not Imprison Jenya this round?
Because she makes awesome cases. Against Citizens.”
At Imprisonment, Amelia is on vacation. The Spies unanimously choose Tiberius but are informed shortly after that Tiberius is Immune as a result of Challenge #7. Jason posts in the thread several times but does not say who he wants Imprisoned. As a result, Oswald is Imprisoned.
There’s a huge upcoming special event… Pete decides to plan for it: “This, like, EVERYTHING ELSE, the spies have done, is all talk. We come up with some great ideas, and if we only implemented half of them, we'd be spinning these guys around in circles...we can easily be in that position but we need to do what we say.”
It’s time for the Consensus Decision Making Exile. Jason is the emopath. Amelia, in desperate trouble, does not even show up to help herself. Lame.
In the 5.5 hours of Exile things start out heavy on Amelia. Only a few people really defend her… but at around 1.5 hours in, talk suddenly turns to Rey. The Spies are able to keep the discussion on Rey and after awhile it appears inevitable. Despite that, the Spies have some misgivings… fearing they are putting themselves too much out there to save Amelia. It’s getting late and both Spies desperately want Rey gone and it teeters back and forth for a half hour… as they push and push for Tiberius to change his vote…
Finally Rey is eliminated and the Spies celebrate.
sPIEs6Jason (06:35:02): Oh no, Jenya wants to make other rehashed points to Gretchen
spies6pete (06:35:11): oh sod her
sPIEs6Jason (06:35:29): Is this real? Is this a nightmare?
sPIEs6Jason (06:37:13): I'm not going to stay to listen to her counter...
sPIEs6Jason (06:37:21): I really need to get some sleep
spies6pete (06:37:28): please stay a few more minutes
spies6pete (06:37:30): see how tib votes
sPIEs6Jason (06:37:36): I'll give 5 mintues :/
sPIEs6Jason (06:37:53): I know who I want to Imprison next now next two times in fact
sPIEs6Jason (06:50:30): If she says no...
spies6pete (06:50:42): there we go
sPIEs6Jason (06:50:50): !!!!
sPIEs6Jason (06:53:36): Victory!!
Overjoyed with relief after a strenuous and stressful 5.5 hour Exile and exhausted, Jason goes to post his conversation with Pete in his confessional (like all good players should!) However what was about to ensue was the most dramatic, eye-popping, heart-beating beyond-stressful moment of the game for all of us. Jason posts his entire AIM conversation with Pete straight into the Burg (the Episode #8 voting shift topic to be exact).
The Spies and I totally freak out as all of the Spies were just publicly revealed in the Burg. Thank the lucky stars, for some reason I visited the board of my own accord, immediately honed into Jason’s reply in that thread, and saw the error. I was able to delete it 58 seconds after he posted it and before Jason was able to edit it. Pete says he saw it randomly so who else may have seen the blunder? Five or six people were online… and everyone was freaking out.
Jason: “I JUST POSTED A SPY CONVERSATION TO THE BURG I NEED TO DIE RIGHT NOW!!!”
Pete: “OH MY WORD YOU POSTED OUR SPY CONVERSATION ON THE BURG AND HAD TO BE DELETED BY SAM, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHO SAW IT”
Sam: “woah... that was really close lol. I don't think anyone saw it, personally.”
A dramatic night ends on an even more insane dramatic note.
Amelia pipes in the next morning: “Wow! 5.5 hours? That must have been grueling. Well done again, guys. Do you backs hurt yet? I mean for carrying me?”
Episode #9:
Jason plans to keep some people in the game for the end: “we want to keep the less active, more quiet people like Roxy, Khaled, Levi, or Gretchen in at the end because they'll have less information than us and won't be as aggressive.” At this point it is Jason, Pete, and Amelia versus 11 Citizens.
The Spies are furious with the lengths it took to Exile Rey and are looking for revenge via Imprisonment. Jason: “KILL GEORGIA FOR KEEPING US UP SO DAMN LATE!?!?!? or... KILL JENYA FOR BEING SO DAMN PARANOID!?!?!? or... KILL TIBERIUS FOR ALSO KEEPING US UP SO DAMN LATE!?!?!?!?”
Ariel is eventually chosen. Pete: “me and Jason were talking and we couldnt really see a reason to keep Ariel in the game. No-one really suspects her, she has her reservations about both me and Jason (and obviously Amelia too), she is of an intelligence level which could be worrying AND people arent looking at her with the 'Rey is a citizen' thing as much as we would like.”
Amelia’s survived two Episodes with little Spy meddling… can she survive a third? The spies plan to target Khaled and Gretchen. Jenya tricks Jason pretending that there is a role that can investigate someone and sends the Spies into a tizzy for a few days.
Jason plans out the rest of the game: “Amelia is GOING to go. Jenya's to the point where Spy or not she'd vote Amelia over a lesser suspect. And looking at my voting record.... It's pretty bad. I need to vote for a Spy again soon and by helping push the vote I'll look better hopefully.”
Jason: “Basically, we need 4 misexiles to win the game. Gretchen, Boris, and Khaled are all great potential misexiles. We need to be considering who our final Exile is going to be and who we should Imprison. Currently Levi is someone I definitely want in the final round. If we leave him as one of the Final cits when it's 2-2 we'll be golden; I think he'd vote for anyone else over Pete and I if we play our cards right... We just have to decide on a good final Exile and let the rest fall into place. My biggest concern is... Kirsten would be a great final exile. It'd be suspicious that she's still in the game at that point, and Levi would be predisposed towards voting her over Pete and I because she went after him for such a long time.”
Meanwhile momentum starts to gather on Boris and it looks like Amelia might skirt by for a third time. Levi, Kirsten, Jenya, and Tiberius at the moment are thinking about it.
In the end, suspicion swings back to Amelia who does not even vote at her own Exile. Judge Sam: “I feel kinda like, you guys stuck out your neck a little bit, worked to help amelia out, and she didn't even cast a vote to save herself. That takes lame to a whole new level.”
Episode #10
It’s now Pete and Jason versus the world, but wasn’t it always? The six other Spies, while nice people, to put it succinctly, sucked. In this game they played terribly. FOUR Spies were picked out out of THIRTY TWO people right off the bat in the first four Episodes. That’s so insane. The next Episode Iris made the worst role claim ever devised and dragged Amelia into it with her.
The Spies never even pretended to work with each other (except Jason/Pete), never had any AIM chats, and with the exception of Almathea and Jaya and Jason, spent an extremely small amount of time on the game even for Citizen standards. So with 6 (or 7) terrible/mediocre Spies, can the Spies truly declare the real victory? That’s something to debate but I might note that neither Jason or Pete was suspected by ANYBODY, the entire game. They would not have been Exiled had Imprisonments been abolished and we were on Exile #20.
At this point nobody suspects Jason or Pete and they trust them so much they are elected #1 and #3 most trusted players in the game.
spies6jenya (11:50:50 PM): Pete nailed Alma, Jaya, Iris, Amelia
spies6jenya (11:51:04 PM): He seems to listen and process well
spies6jenya (11:51:15 PM): He was great to talk with about Yvette, he almost changed my mind on it.
spies6khaled (11:51:17 PM): 4/5 spies? That's an insane tactic if I ever saw one.
sPIEs6Jason (11:51:34 PM): Lol yeah that might be a little too insane to even consider
Pete has been invisible from the game for months, almost never posting in the Burg, and never coming on AIM. He spends the little time he plays posting to himself in his confessional and Spy HQ on events he has no clue about what is truly going on. But if everyone is confirming him of their own accord, does he really need to change their minds? Clearly his complete inactivity hasn’t bothered them up until now, so why should he start? He’s putting his votes against Citizens and obvious Spies.
Jason has been a mastermind every day of the game since the beginning. Yes he lurks a bit, and lets the super-active Citizens fight amongst themselves, but why interfere when they are working to his ends? He remains completely trusted by everyone and not suspected in the least.
This is actually what scared me at this point in time. Jason + Pete… have no chance of being Exiled. Everyone trusts them. Why the hell are they still around? I was truly surprised no one brought up that question… especially when the numbers started getting smaller and smaller. These are two people who will never be Exiled, have voted countless number of Spies, and who are voted by the group as most trusted. One even has a role! Why the hell have they not been Imprisoned yet?
I think the answer lies in a few things. One, Jenya had a half-Immunity ability which she claimed to have used on Jason occasionally, without full knowledge of this role, others might have just assumed he was protected at the right times. Second, the Spies picked perfect but strange Imprisonments the whole way through. A lot of them weren’t explainable. Plus, other superCits like Jenya and Kirsten were kept around. By hiding amongst the superCits they deflect that argument a bit. Third, people just wanted to trust someone. They had to start off their suspicions by crossing some people off the list. They started off by crossing off Jason/Pete… and got addicted to the idea.
The rest of the game would go smoothly.
Imprisonment #10: Tiberius must go. The Spies wanted him out for awhile and it’s his time.
People wonder how Pete got his two conversations since he was utterly inactive. Pete claims he had a conversation with Jason which they have to fake.
Pete, Episode #10: “this round I have been on limited computer access and so I only truely played the game on the last night. I started the night off with talking to Jason and getting his take on the events and who were worried about my 'second conversation' from last round.”
Pete claims to be a “strong player behind Khaled’s boot” for his 30 minutes of AIM conversation.
Khaled gets Exiled for not doing anything in the game and the Spies just watch.
Episode #11
It’s Memory Week! One problem: Pete’s Time Capsule entry sucks. Pete: “The future week messages are going to be making a comeback and, guess who decided to encode his message ONLY to forget to tell people what the code is. Leaving me with a message which could be taken in any way shape or form, anyone savvy enough will take one look and say "well you could tell us any code and it will imply anyone, youve essentially just done nothing" which is absolutely correct.
I made a huge miscalculation and now suddenly, I am going to drop from 'very likely cit' to 'very likely spy' and unless I am extremely good at one the spot lying, I will be an exile target quite quite soon.”
Personally I think Pete’s time capsule entry was really suspicious (you’ll have to look at it later), but no one notices.
Pete: “this game has been quite easy to be a spy, because, I am quite good at manipulation, especially in AIM chats, which is weird considering I dont do that many”
Jenya on Jason: “spies6jenya (2:50:21 PM): If you're a spy your play has been unorthodox and genius”
Jason: “The thing about Jenya is that she really is a good player. She has strong suspicious, notices minute details, and pursues her suspicions to the fullest. Unfortunately for her, though, fate has dictated that the Master Mofo's brightest Spy Pupil, Jason, win this game, so she's fighting a losing battle.”
For Imprisonment #11, it’s gonna be Jenya all the way baby. FINALLY JENYA WILL BE OUT OF MY HAIR! Jason thinks. Pete: “Weve already talked about it, in length and in short. We both agree it is Jenya's time to go, and that is that.” Jason: “Yes yes yes, VOTE JENYA! JENYA MUST DIE!!! NO MORE EVIL SCHEMES OR DOUBLE CROSSING OR PARANOIA!”
But the next day brings changes… Jason: “Okay, given that Jenya basically is considering us the two most Confirmed Cits in the game... Do we dare keep her??” Hours before the deadline Jason decides to take a risk in keeping Jenya and getting rid of Roxy. Pete: “If we do win, I want to win with some style....yes, we could potentially be throwing away a very easy spies win” Jason: “We'll always be remembered as the Spies with Balls, no matter the outcome”
Jason and Pete feel by keeping in loose cannon Jenya they are playing more risky and could lose.
Pete, Levi, Jenya, Mirela, Georgia, Kirsten, Boris, Jason, Gretchen are the Final Nine. Jason, Jenya, and Pete form a final three citizen alliance. Boris and Gretchen are getting heat.
Almost everytime during the few times Pete logged on AIM, he posted in the Spy HQ wanting updates and to be told what to say. If he didn’t hear anything back he wouldn’t get online. Example, Pete: “So before I come online… I know this is almost a scaredy cat approach to playing this game, but, I want to get everything correct… Jason.....can you please bring me up to date with new events in the last 24 hours?”
Dead Spies send helpful, friendly messages to Jason and Pete during Memory Week. The Loser’s Lounge sends messages to the people in the game clearly implicating Jenya as a Spy. The LL people are FURIOUS that their 100% sure conviction that Jenya is a Spy is not being discussed. I would quote a specific message but there are (this is not a joke) literally 100s of angry messages like this in the LL against Jenya and Mirela as the “obvious Spies.” Everyone in the LL thought they were the two Spies.
Meanwhile, back in the game, stuff happens. But I won’t mention it here. Why? Because this is a summary from the Spies point of view on how they Spy-ed it up… and all of that interesting stuff has nothing to do with them. Cause they sat back, tread water, and watched y’all go at it for weeks. Good for them! =)
Jenya posts a topic asking “So I wondered how likely it is that both Pete and Jason are spies” and doing some testing involving random.org. Judge Sam, privately: “100% That made me laugh.” Pete: “You know, I feel kinda, sorta, maybe a little bit, bad about running rings around her , but come on! It's truely the funniest thing Ive done in an ORG ever.” Jason: “I do too, because she really IS a good, smart player... But we're just too awesome to be caught”
So Boris goes.
Episode #12
We’re at the Final Eight and still nobody actually suspects any Spies. It is at this point that Pete went on vacation. That’s fine of course vacations are fun. What’s not fine is that he is able to get a tentative internet connection, but instead of playing the game he retreats to spending ALL his limited time posting in his confessional and Spy HQ instead of playing the game! Yes, he made something like ten posts, nearly one everyday, privately and not publicly in the Burg. He even logged on AIM once (invisible, of course) to talk to Jason. Wow. Talk about the most epicly lame finish to a lame overall game.
Imprisonment #12. Georgia is no longer useful. She has worked hard nonstop all game, going it solo, to find the Spies… but unfortunately was not able to land on Pete or Jason. Jason: “Vote: Georgia. The main reason is that neither of us believes she's exileable, and if she is, it'd be a VERY hard thing to pull off. Basically at this point we're Imprisoning whoever we can't get rid of via other means because we can't afford to have non-Exileable Cits at the end... that makes the two of us more Exileable which is bad.com”
Exile time. More non-Spy action.
Jason: “So... tonight a Citizen goes. It's looking to be between Levi, Kirsten, and Mirela, Gretchen... Basically everyone that we can afford to lose. Gretchen is almost certainly going tonight though.”
Jason has lots of fun playing with the cits during the tenseness leading up to the soon-to-be Gretchen Exile. Jason: “The amazing SEXY ORGASM OF CITIZEN SUSPICION GOING ON HERE IS AMAZING!!! Most amazing things are in fact amazing, after all. Holy hell. Mirela is convinced of Kirsten and Jenya. Levi is convinced of Mirela and Gretchen. Jenya's too paranoid to be convinced of anything but won't be voting for Pete or myself.... Everything... So... Wonderfully perfect... Can we maintain balance? Must we fire the starboard thruster or are we okay?”
There’s a few minutes where Amelia saying that she and Jason talk a lot and Jason saying they don’t comes back to send Jason’s paranoia into hyperdrive… even causing him to post a “if I go…” thread in Spy HQ… but that’ dissipitates quickly.
Episode #13:
No one continues to suspect the Spies. At all. I can’t state enough how insane this is. Every game of Spies I’ve seen, they seem to be picked out at the end quite easily. In this game LITERALLY NO ONE suspected ANY of the Spies, even at the final five! That is so mind-blowingly insane. Some citizens had four choices to choose two Spies from, and they didn’t even choose a Spy. The loser’s lounge, so arrogantly and unabashedly confident of their Spy-hunting abilities, collectively decide that the final two Spies out of five are: 9 votes for Levi, 9 votes for Jenya, 3 votes for Kirsten, 0 votes for Pete, 0 votes for Jason. ZERO! Don’t ever let anyone ever tell you they were “onto Jason/Pete” or thought Jason or Pete was a Spy ever, because they weren’t, and ALL of them never once voted for Jason or Pete the entire game or after the game in polls as a Spy when they had the opportunity to every time. =)
So in the last episode, Pete is still hiding like a coward, Jason is still owning everyone, and no one seriously suspects them. For the first time in the whole game their names actually come up but that’s only because there are literally no other options. Unfortunately, people think they may not be Spies due to a retarded assumption about some stupid random team divisions two and a half months ago that mean nothing. Why they continued to even factor that into anything after repeatedly being asked not to from the very start boggles the brain. The logic that “if there were 5 Spies, Alma wouldn’t have gone” is mind-scrambingly inane. Alma sucked hard, so she got votes by the smart Spies. Simple as.
And that brings us to now!
Okay so normally at the Finale I go through everyone’s confessionals and write up a quick game recap that covers everything and includes funny quotes. As you can imagine with 32 people that takes forever and a half.
Instead, this time around I am going to recap the game from Jason and Pete’s point of view, episode by episode, revealing many of their tricks, gameplans, confessional quotes, and mindsets. As Jason and Pete were the two best Spies the game has ever had (for different reasons) this should be very illuminating! None of you had any idea about their secret plots and plans and I hope to begin the process of revealing this to you all.
Throughout the game they were completely and utterly unsuspected, more so than any other Spy in all of history. Both of them were immediately put in to the “cleared” category at the start of any discussion and were just plain assumed citizens the entire game. Jason in particular, having won the “most trusted” vote in Episode #4 (only 2 other Spies voted for him, even if they didn’t he would have won the prize) AND having won the most trusted vote in Episode #10. Jason was a phenomenal Spy to a degree I’ve never before seen and doubt I will again.
Jason was extraordinary because of his consummate skill, masterful gameplay, and ability to pathologically lie for months on end. He is truly a Spy superstar and deserves praise for his abilities more than anyone had ever before.
Pete was the most inactive player that lasted through the game, rarely if ever contributing anything of any worth citizen-wise. He preferred to spend his limited time writing up 2,000-word essays in Spy HQ about events he had no clue about because he was never around. He never got on AIM or post in the Burg, especially during the most important final week where he just plain out hid. During this time, while he was on vacation, he posted daily in the Spy HQ. His cowardly strategy of never playing the citizen game worked wonders to keep him completely unsuspected.
So let’s go back and draw back the curtain to an entire side of the game you’ve never seen – the game from Jason and Pete and the Spies’ perspective! I like to call this story: “Jason and the Seven Crappy Dwarf-Spies versus Dwindling Numbers of Confused Citizens.”
For the Spies, the game began on Day -3. They were e-mailed their Spyhood and invited to discuss things on the message board beforehand. While Almathea was talking about her ill-fated master-strategy Question Club (more on that in Episode #1 reveal), Pete talked about his plans to manipulate the Spies: “For me, this game is more then just being a team with my fellow spies, its about manipulating them as well. I have to, or at least will try my hardest to be the controller of the spies and have them think the same way I do, whether it be getting who I want gone in imprisonments or having them stand up for me should my name come up in suspicion.”
6 of the Spies were getting to know each other when Jason finally showed up. He hadn’t checked his e-mail until only 18 hours before the game began! Meanwhile, Judge Sam suggested one player might want to be an ‘inactive Spy’. No one took him up on his offer but Pete remarked: “I agree in it being a good idea, and, it might be something we want to consider....but, at the same time, would anyone even be willing to do that? We have a chance to really play this game hard...personally I'd find it hard to play that way but, who knows. I know first hand that sort of strategy can work....”
Also, believe it or not, on Day -1 Iris created a False Role List thread in which to brainstorm possible fake roles. Yes, the “anonymous benefactor” was over a MONTH in the making! It got clearance from every Spy and even a little help from Judge Sam himself (though to my credit, my advice was not taken.)
Fast forward to day 1 where only 3 hours in and *already* we could have two Spies caught right out of the gate! A major incident took place which shook the foundations of the Spies, and may have caused them to either be more hesitant in their play, or be ready to bus each other. Iris had accidentally left the spies6 chatroom which contained Pete, Jaya, Iris, and Robert when:
spies6Robert (12:51:08 PM): Invited iris back.
spies6iris (12:51:14 PM): Thank you! Duh...closed the window and lost it.
spies6pete (12:51:17 PM): wb iris
spies6iris (12:51:53 PM): Thanks. You guys might as know I'm technologically clueless. I almost deleted my Spies 6 account last night.
! Iris almost deleted her Spies 6 account “last night” ?? Before she even had it? Worst yet, the players in the game were about to find out that the Spies already knew they were Spies very soon!
Immediately after Iris’s error the chat room went silent for three minutes. Freaking out, Pete hilariously typed:
spies6pete (12:54:04 PM): hi guys, sorry just had to run to the loo
spies6Robert (12:54:22 PM): You mean you had to discuss what you was going to say with your fellow spies before talking?
spies6Robert (12:54:26 PM): We're onto you pete.
spies6pete (12:54:55 PM): well considering as we dont know our roles yet
spies6Robert (12:55:06 PM): That's just what a spy would want us to believe.
The Spies (and me!) were freaking out. If Iris is gone from this then heat will also go on Pete and Jaya for not pointing it out and for changing the subject! That’s three Spies and we’re only three hours in!
I was intensely interested to see if Robert had caught this, but I had no idea if he did. He hadn’t posted conversations or a confessional yet and I just can’t come out and ask him! Fortunately he IM’ed me and when I asked him if there were “any highlights in spies6 chat?” he didn’t mention it. Phew. But was it safe, especially when others saw the chat?
Robert did however mention that he had enacted a plan to get himself Imprisoned! Apparently he wanted to fake breadcrumb a role because “it’s a roleless’s job to attract the nightkill.” I was confused, as Robert sent in an amazing application and I was looking forward to him playing. Little did he know he had a good chance of getting his wish as the Spies were freaking out that he would find out about Iris’s massive day 1 slipup! They wanted him gone immediately.
The most hilarious part was that Robert started a thread in the Burg which contained all of the spies 6 chats: spies6.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=burg90999&action=display&thread=428 . And there it is, Iris’s slip. Right smack at the very top.
Pete: “I should have hung [Iris] up to dry, but I want to keep as many spies in for as long as possible, and by being nice I might have just been dragged down by Iris mistake”
At this point, three days into the game, Pete declares he’s had enough with the paranoia, obsessive gameplay, and tension and is going to be away for the next two and a half weeks to do school exams.
Meanwhile, Jason enacts his Citizen mindset he would use throughout the game: “So... I'm not a spy, I'm a citizen that knows who the spies are and is at peace with citizens being imprisoned and exiled...”
It’s day three, and things are not looking good for bubbly, talkative, throws-suspicion-around-at-every-single-person Almathea. She might as well have written SPY on her back.
Jason: “Alma has stabbed herself in the heart... I'm not going to stick my neck out there; she's a liability until she calms down. Am I perhaps overstepping my bounds by being openly for getting rid of her?? Maybe...”
So things don’t look good for Almathea, and she’s about to go down for the count. Jaya, feeling patriotic to the Spies, unfortunately casts a vote to support Almathea. Although it could be explained away Jaya is unable to do so. It looks like Almathea might be saved for a little bit but Ariel finishes her off.
Meanwhile, Iris accidentally got caught up in a Yvette/Robert/Faith/Ariel/Iris plot which would unnecessarily constrict and restrict her in the future. Despite that having nothing to do with why Robert was Imprisoned, the players are convinced “there has to be at least one Spy in there” and by happenchance there is!
More Spy suspicions:
spies6Jenya (1:55:05 PM): I just talked with Ellis and Paris for a half hour
spies6Jenya (1:55:19 PM): They seem to be genuinely interested in finding spies I think.
spies6Jenya (1:55:45 PM): They want to vote either Almathea or Jaya I think, most likely Almathea."
spies6Jenya (5:31:34 PM): Oh. We need to talk about Pete.
spies6Jenya (5:31:43 PM): He has been very lurky.
spies6Tiberius (5:32:05 PM): yeah pete has always made me 0-0
spies6ellis (5:32:07 PM): Well apart from random lurkery
spies6ellis (5:32:10 PM): what about Pete?
spies6Jenya (5:32:22 PM): If there is a spy just watching all this and cackling, it is possibly Pete.
spies6Jenya (5:32:30 PM): Because he really hasnt had to lift a finger.
spies6jason (5:32:34 PM): I can see that
spies6ellis (5:32:42 PM): I don't know, he also seems confused
spies6jason (5:32:44 PM): But... I don't see any reason to think he's a spy for it really
spies6ellis (5:32:49 PM): although I'm not by any means convinced either way about him
spies6Jenya (5:32:51 PM): We need to make him talk more I guess.
Iris also votes alone, accidentally. Pete writes a long 1,000-word personal report on his few interactions in the Spy HQ, this would be a recurring theme.
Meanwhile, Donald is the Spy Jailer and Jason is the Spy Destiny Deflector. Donald takes away Gretchen’s PMs.
Episode #2.
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Paris takes the heat from a strange voting change at the last Exile and is about to be Exiled for his ‘connections’ to Spies he doesn’t know about. Paris suspects Almathea and Jaya and tries to get them eliminated, even as he suspects they are Spies.
Jason in Episode #2: “Iris - Her clock is ticking. People are sure that either Yvette, Faith, or Iris (Or any two of them) are Spies. Well, it's only a matter of time before people insist that we start voting them out, in fact, it could happen next exile for all we know (And I think there's a good chance that it will). So, even if Iris survives, which will be difficult, when Faith or Yvette goes she's that much closer to being caught, and when the other one goes... Iris is dead.”
Jenya tells Jason her role. Pete is getting massive suspicion. Donald is getting suspicion. Iris is suspicious. Almathea is gone, and Jaya is about to be Exiled. So is Paris.
Donald is busy, Pete is very busy and almost pulled out, Amelia will never have much time the whole game, Paris just got a 10-hour a day job and will have almost no time on the computer and almost quit. Jason spends his nights on WoW instead of Spies. The Spy team is in absolute shambles.
Amelia starts suspecting Donald. Pete pleads for negative votes from his fellow Spies at Exile: “Yeah, looks like I am a target, no surprise, seeing as I havent been here at all.” This despite the fact that he voted Almathea, said he suspected other Spies, and pre-voted Jaya 12 hours before people starting pushing on her for Exile. Paris and Jaya are Exiled.
Episode #3:
Donald: “3 of us gone in 5 lynches? We're doing horrible. We need to get our act together and turn the game around. Let's get a team chat some night soon.”
The Spies really never chatted with each other as a group. They had one in Episode #3 and I think once maybe around Episode 6? None of them were on AIM much with the exception of Jaya and Almathea and Jason. Jason and Pete had a few AIM chats together as Spies, especially at the end of the game, but that’s about it. The Citizens are owning hardcore.
Meanwhile, as a result of one of Rey’s stunts that I have no idea what happened, Pete goes from fairly suspected to completely cleared in the span of one hour, no thanks whatsoever to Spy activity. Lucky indeed! I don’t even know what happened, I think Rey made a last minute push to exile Pete, and somehow that makes him a citizen because Jaya went? No clue, but all of a sudden Pete is as good as cit. Judge Sam prays in vein that Pete takes this newfound citness and uses it to his advantage. Instead Pete does absolutely nothing for the following 11 episodes and rides it to the end.
Pete tells his strategy privately: “I'm not sure how much longer I can pull this lurking off, I certainly am not planning on it being a strategy of mine,”
With nearly every Spy save Jason (and now Pete just recently) having massive suspicion, and nearly every Spy List containing most of the Spies and not many Citizens, Judge Sam is feeling down: “argh, I'm just depressed that the Spies are so bad. It's fuckin round 3 and there's like 10 confirmed citizens. They ahve no chance in hell. And they are already doing the thing where they log on, check spy hq, talk once or twice, then just leave, never signing on AIM never pretending to be citizens never making cases. It's just so bad.”
Judge Sam summary: “ep 1. everyone: alma is a spy. iris is a spy.
ep 2.: everyone: pete is a spy. oh and probably donald. let's exile jaya! and paris! (practically every single suspect is a spy)
ep. 3: hmmm... donald screwed up. lots of people: let's vote for donald. some others: oh wait, what about amelia! she's a spy. people in background: iris.. uh... still a spy! (good news: pete is a citizen!)”
Jason: “it seems like EVERYONE has gotten suspected but me so far, and everyone's in trouble... you're right, it's completely unparalleled...”
In Imprisonment #3 there is a somewhat surprising choice in Mei Yun, someone who was suspected recently. Why was Mei Yun Imprisoned? Mei I’ve been waiting to tell you for two months because I know you desperately wanted to know. Here it is! Here are the two lines of chat that got you Imprisoned:
spies6jason (12:41:25 AM): SO who is next on your radar? Not to move on to killing more spies too soon or anything
spies6MeiYun (12:43:02 AM): if we merge im gonna grill georgia/*DONALD*
spies6MeiYun (12:43:23 AM): if we dont im gonna continue with *IRIS* and maybe *AMELIA*
Having just lost 3 Spies, the prospect of having someone suspect 3 more was unbearable. As Jason posted in the Spy HQ: “Mei Yun must go!”
Jason also posted a bunch of advice which aimed to get the Spies back on track.
Jenya sends out a PM suspecting Yvette to both Jason and Pete. Pete: “My heart goes out to this girl, she really thinks she is doing the right thing and looking for spies and being a good citizen. LOL. Aside from mentioning Donalds name, though briefly, I think we have here one of the least helpful cits in the history of the game.” Jason: “Yeah, Jenya really is a nice person and her ideas are good, they just happen to be wrong... I got that PM too, lol, it's awesome!! Maybe she'll get Yvette exiled for us.”
Jason decides to take matters into his own hands, and in his first major play, starts the push to get rid of Yvette by starting a thread. Iris: “I'm just pointing out something I've been worried about though. If/when we successfully get Yvette exiled, Faith and I will be the only ones left. I have enough people on my side now where I think I can successfully fight Faith to the death...but when she dies too, my head will be on the block. I don't know what to do about this...I guess we'll just have to plan that eventually I'll be a sacrifice for team Spy, and you guys should bus me at that point to get some town cred.”
Pete: “I would like to know why people think one of Faith, Iris or Yvette is a spy....I mean I know it has something to do with the Robert vs Yvette fake thing, but, I dont get the justification for why it has to be one of those three.....”
Jason: “yeah, Pete, that's basically it. It's a lucky guess that happens to be correct -_-“
Pete: “Why is it that this game the cits have been so extraordinarily lucky? Every random guess, every time they mis-analysise something, they turn out to get a spy anyways.....I am still fuming at the shear luck of these cits (they will think its because of their awesome skills....grrrr, I give up)”
Both Jason and Pete are of the opinion that all of the Spies caught so far are lucky guesses. Pete: “this is NOT a smart bunch of citizens (in fact I personally think its quite the opposite) it just so happens that they have managed to get lucky. Very lucky.”
Meanwhile, Amelia guesses 64 pins at the future challenge and, even though it was not her intention at all to screw it up, garners tons of suspicions. During the alphabet challenge, Jason casually and hysterically screws everyone up.
Yvette gets Exiled and the Burg turns into an argument-fest right before the Spies’ eyes. Jason: “I had no idea that would work THAT well. I was expecting to create some chaos, get people yelling at each other about Yvette, and maybe, JUST maybe actually exile her...
Not only did people yell before the exile... after... was phenomenal! And of course Yvette is gone. The Spies FINALLY have the momentum again. We can harvest these misgivings like bountiful autumn corn yields. I'll say more about this later but for now I'm going to dance around singing songs of evil sinister spyingness.”
While Yvette going was very sad, at least it’s not another Spy haha.
Amelia votes for Donald and tries to connect Donald and Kirsten. Donald ends up getting tons of heat and more suspicion for changing his vote and Iris makes a risky vote-change as well. Apparently the Spies thought Donald was in danger despite it being 13-4 Yvette. My personal opinion on Donald: he did really well in one-to-one chats, but was still pretty suspicious. Unfortunately for him and many of the Spies his RL was busy at the time and so while he did do alright in that back-and-forth thread with Kirsten, it wasn’t enough to save him. Apparently he was “just about to start playing hardcore” right after he was Exiled but literally everyone says that so I don’t put much stock into it. =P
Pete: “Myself and Jason. I have always stated I think he is the best spy our team has, and he will be so critical to our success, I am sure that the other spies are realising this too...which is good, they wont drag him down should they fall.
Which, I think they might. Correction Jason and I think they might. We already started planning on what to do if that was the case”
Donald decides to Jail Iris (after forgetting to post a Jailor choice for Episode #3 -_-): Iris on why she should be Jailed: “1. It could help me.
2. If I go anyway, it could buy you some cit cred.
3. People may be reluctant to vote me off if I can't defend myself after what happened to Yvette.
4. It can make Levi look very, very bad.”
Pete: “now we work on saving Iris....which I personally think is a waste of time. Some of the things she has said and done (and this is BEFORE the last minute vote change thing) are really bad, its just I dont have the heart to tell her she is looking even worse then she thinks. Maybe I will vote or even campaign for her next? Maybe. After all, all successful spies sacrfisie THREE of their own team, dont they?
(No, Pete, they dont)”
Iris continues preparing and perfecting her role claim. Jason plans for his made-up role power-up in which he can “deflect two people” but in reality he can only deflect one. This will cause him lots of trouble and drama in the upcoming episodes as you’ll see. Jenya tells Jason that she plans to give two people Immunity from Imprisonment and she is going to test Jason by forcing him to deflect both. Oh Jason has told Jenya of his role by this point, a very risky move seeing as it’s only Episode #4 and he wants to stay in for the rest of the game. It was a bit reckless… he said he did it just because he was bored, but it will prove beneficial to him down the road.
Iris wants to have Jason claim he received a gift but thankfully Donald nixes that plan: “Also, I don't think we should tie Jason with you. Jason is the one spy we have that seems to have been in good standing with most players for most of the game. If we're going to risk anybody to help save you, it should NOT be Jason.”
Meanwhile, because of Future Week the Spies are told they get to make TWO Imprisonments this Episode! They get excited and start picking Khaled and Mei Yun for Imprisonment #3. It takes them a little bit to get the joke that one of the Imprisonments they pick will be for Imprisonment #5, two episodes in the future. For this Imprisonment they choose Khaled. But when they realize he will be told of his fate, they think he is too smart and will use it to his advantage. They switch to Ariel. Then to Gabriela.
Donald pipes up just to be different: “Ed's got strong townie vibes, but he's also the main proponent of Ariel possibly being a spy. Jenya also pushed a little that Ariel could be a spy, maybe if one of the players who suspected her dies... A spy must be covering her tracks!” And as many of the Imprisonment went, everyone just agrees with Donald and switches.
Episode #4
Jason: “I just realized something... I was voted a reward from the entire Burg. I'm essentially the most trusted Citizen in the Burg. I'm a Spy. I used the role investigation on someone, believing their behavior suggested they had a role. I was right.”
Jason uses his role investigation from being voted most trusted as a result of the challenge to figure out Khaled has a role. He then goes to Khaled and tells him he role investigated him and finds out exactly what the role is.
Pete continues his two and a half week absence and his grand scheme of Spy lies with this, the entirety of his confessionals for Episode #4: “Urgh. I am NOT lazy. I AM doing things. I AM here....its just...not as much as I'd like to be. I keep promising a return to the game, and I have a real reason. However....the real reason is not good enough, in fact ANY reason is not good enough. I am going to PLAY THIS GAME. I will from now on.”
Imprisonment #4 rolls around and Gabriela is determined to be too dangerous and intelligent. Jason: “Gabriela - She's talking sense. She was the one to end the chaotic drama and fighting last night after the Yvette exile, which spoiled some of our fun and lessened Citizen feuds that could have exploded into several rounds of us all being safe. None of us really have her in our pocket, either.”
Though things were looking up for the Spies last round when the push on Yvette eclipsed suspicions of Amelia and Donald, and Donald did well in defending himself from Kirsten. Things are about to get worse. Iris: “People either trust me fully and will go to bat for me, or believe that I'm a Spy. The belief that I'm a Spy has shifted largely from the Robert/Yvette thing to my last minute vote on Yvette in the last Exile.” Donald: “Whenever I really talk with somebody, i make them believe I'm citizen. AWESOME!
Needs improvement: I'm mostly suspicious because I don't post my thoughts and opinions publicly enough, or hardly at all. I need to do this more.”
Exile #4 rolls around and a late-game push by Ellis and others on Kirsten develops. Jason and Pete both sit in a chat room as Ellis, Kirsten, and one other person I forget who discuss whether they should push for Donald. It’s 30 minutes until Exile and neither Pete nor Jason say a word… they just are silent as the other citizens finally come to a conclusion to push Donald after much discussion either way. Another failed opportunity for Jason and Pete to help their allies.
Episode #5
Things are looking down. Only after 4 episodes and 4 spies are gone. Something like 18 Citizens remain. -_- People begin to suspect Amelia for tunnel-visioning on Donald. Unfortunately, after Ed goes, things continue to look down. Faith, William, and Iris are on the chopping block and there may be a last minute push for Iris.
Judge Sam on Pete: “I am just so insanely frustrated with Pete right now. He has the potential to play well but I haven't seen it in 4 episodes so I'm not holding my breath.
Here's the short and sweet summary. Like 3 days in Pete all of a sudden has exams so for the next 2 weeks he's out of commission pretty much. He manages to keep up well considering. Then he tells me he's back but 3 days later, after nothing, oops he was still busy. Ok. Then this Episode he's "back" but then disappears for another 4 days. What the fuck.
Okay all of this is fine but basically he is, as of this moment, insanely shitty at Spies but thinks he is God's gift to the Spies. This is because due to absolutely ZERO SKILL OR INPUT ON HIS PART he has been somehow half-cleared because of the Jaya vote. Him voting for 2 Spies didn't hurt either. I'm not that upset about that because it was sort of necessary. It's just so infuriating that he NEVER DOES ANYTHING and yet thinks he is some mastermind at this game due to insane luck.
He has the perfect opportunity to launch himself from this point of citizen-ness and hasn't done a damn thing. The worst part is that he is constantly insulting the other Spies - which by the way he is never around so god knows how he even knows this - about how terrible they are. And has plans to bus so many of them. And talks to Jason about how "awesome" those two are and how all the rest are complete shit and UGH. Jason is 500 million times better than you.
That pisses me off lol. I hope he turns it around and he might able to if he gave one whit about this game but right now it's not happening. Arghhh.”
Sam on Spies and AIM: “I want the Spies to do well but they are inactive even by Citizen standards. =/ it's so sad. and it's not inactive like they never come to the site, but with the exception of Jason they NEVER get on AIM. holy crap!!! AIM is like the most important thing. amelia has an excuse but pete and iris it is just wretched. how do they expect to play the game whatsoever if they don't build relationships on aim?? it's like they are playing mafia with 15 german speaking students who speak english half the time. they don't even know what is going on in half of the game!
it's so frustrating with pete and iris. pete spent two hours writing up 1,000 words on everyone. that's nice i guess but pete never actually *plays* the game so what good does that do??
it is so frustrating to see iris get on the board like 5 times a day yet not ONCE get on aim and TALK to people. what the fuck?
why do spies do shitty things like this it's insane???”
Pete writes, and this is not a joke, about 5,000 pointless words in the Spy HQ over 3 hours about everyone’s current status in the game despite having little actual information at all. It does nothing.
After the group decides that The Bus Stops Here, Jason unnecessarily and pointlessly throws Amelia’s name into suspicions for no reason.
Jason gets out of Jenya’s test by simply not talking to her by Imprisonment. Jason really wants to Imprison Jenya soon… this role talk is making him nervous, and Jenya is constantly suspecting and interrogating his actions. Jason learns of William’s role by conning Tiberius into spilling it accidentally.
At Exile, the votes go back and forth. Iris understandably is shaken, and despite the fact that she will only get three votes at Exile… decides to go forth with her role. In a highly comedic fashion.
Episode #6
Who the heck knows what Iris’s role was whatever it was was uneffective to say the least. (Recall that she had been crafting this role since the start of the game!) Despite Sam publicly posting that confessionals would not be seen, less than 48 hours later Iris decides to claim that she could let someone see one. She claims that Amelia got a gift without notifying Amelia beforehand.
Now remember, these Spies do not ever talk with each other on AIM. Amelia is completely out of contact and barely caught up with anything. It is very interesting to me to see how Amelia will react… will she “work with the team” and take a hit for them? Or is the claim so completely unbelievable that she has to say she didn’t get one and Iris is a liar?
I’m personally hoping she says Iris is a liar but Amelia decides to take one for the team. The Spies tell her she might want to because they don’t have any information that it is completely unbelieved. And so Amelia immediately becomes completely thought of as a Spy.
This is Forum Mafia Round. Iris disappears after her claim… only coming on the boards once or twice to post half-hearted lies. At Imprisonment, Amelia wants William and his Eugenicist role gone but that would implicate Jason, who was just told. Jason and Pete decided to axe Ellis, a smart member of the confirmed citizens group. Then Imprisonment roles around and Sam hopes and prays she comes back and says this simple sentence: “I made up that fake role entirely just to get out Imprisonment! I’m not telling you my real role.” Oh what wonders that would have done… but the group does not even give Iris 10 hours to talk before lynching her on the spot. Was probably for the best because Iris disappears for another week. She said she was sick (for the previous two weeks) and there was a laptop issue.
Episode #7
So it’s Spy Amelia, Jason + Pete versus 17 Citizens! Surely they can pull it off! -_-
There’s tons of Jenya-Jason-Khaled role drama (and some with William) but it’s all so confusing we’ll have to detail it in full in the after game. Jason does a pretty good job jumping through all of Jenya’s test hoops though.
For Imprisonment #7, they still want Jenya gone as they have for awhile, but with Sam Lies Week they get to pick a real Imprisonment and a fake Imprisonment. William has to go (and his role has been leaked by now) so he gets picked for the real one. Jenya gets picked for the fake one because she supports Amelia (sort of a double fake-out) and because of role stuff with Jason.
Jenya is fake Imprisoned, and within seconds Rey spills her role publicly. He gets all the heat but Jason manages to spill tons of information too in a post in the Burg.
At this point Jason and Pete are not suspected by anyone whatsoever. (Do not listen to that one time Ellis said he suspected Jason for about four days right after being eliminated before recanting it and firmly believing the opposite for the remainder of the game. Saying you suspect one person once for four days does not mean you ‘got’ them.)
So Amelia looks like she’s going down the tubes but she does a great job with keeping up her nonchalant Burg posting. She’s rarely if ever on AIM but her steadfastness does convince some including Jenya, Kirsten, and maybe one other person I forget. She claims she told Mei Yun of her gift, and dodges Kirsten’s rule-skirting questions hwhich helps. Meanwhile everyone is getting sick of Rey and starts a case up on him (he has been a confirmed cit up until this point) I’m not sure where that came from as they had been ridiculing Ariel for the last 3 weeks for pushing Rey. And I’m not sure if any Spies had a significant role in fanning the flames. They were pretty dead set in wanting Amelia out.
Jason continues on his mad quest to Imprison Jenya: “Jenya's time has run out. She must die. William, too, although he's not as much of a threat because people won't trust him/listen to him as much. If Jenya wants to turn the tide on me she can; people will follow her. I can't have that for obvious reasons (There's something about getting Exiled that seems non-beneficial to me in this game) so i must survive this round as Amelia almost certainly dies, and get rid of Jenya next.”
Jason raves in a late-night confessional: “DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE! I'm going to leave a trail of flailing, battered citizens. I'll massacre the Burg. They must suffer for they have awakened the mighty Mofo within my evil side of doom. There will be no more nice Spy in this game. There will be no more dormant peasantry. NO DAMN IT! You're all going to be obliterated.”
Clueless Amelia tells the Burg that her and Jason’s conversations have been in-depth, despite the fact that Jason told others that his conversations with Amelia were very short. This would cause a small problem when Kirsten discovers this in Episode #13. Jason: “Did you clear that with me first? Just last night I told people that our chats DIDN'T go in depth or have much substance. Now you're basically putting me in a position where I have to either stick my neck out and cover for you and probably die with you or call you on it and bus you. Sorry, but when it comes down to it I've got to protect my own interests.”
Meanwhile Mirela pushes Thor and the Spies jump on eager to save Amelia. Thor goes. William goes. Amelia: “I absolutely love you guys! *spycookies* “ Jason: “I think you're saved for a few rounds at least, maybe the entire game, now!” Pete: “With any luck, this could be the beginnings of the greatest come back in spies history.”
Episode #8
Jenya’s new trust of Jason saved her from this Imprisonment. Rey: “One thing i'd like to point out. I'm 100% confident there are no spies left from Team Clusterfuck.
I've said this time, and time again. I hope that you can trust this when I flip citizen.
We are 100% spy clean. Seriously, the two spies that were in our group voted together.”
Jason: “So... why not Imprison Jenya this round?
Because she makes awesome cases. Against Citizens.”
At Imprisonment, Amelia is on vacation. The Spies unanimously choose Tiberius but are informed shortly after that Tiberius is Immune as a result of Challenge #7. Jason posts in the thread several times but does not say who he wants Imprisoned. As a result, Oswald is Imprisoned.
There’s a huge upcoming special event… Pete decides to plan for it: “This, like, EVERYTHING ELSE, the spies have done, is all talk. We come up with some great ideas, and if we only implemented half of them, we'd be spinning these guys around in circles...we can easily be in that position but we need to do what we say.”
It’s time for the Consensus Decision Making Exile. Jason is the emopath. Amelia, in desperate trouble, does not even show up to help herself. Lame.
In the 5.5 hours of Exile things start out heavy on Amelia. Only a few people really defend her… but at around 1.5 hours in, talk suddenly turns to Rey. The Spies are able to keep the discussion on Rey and after awhile it appears inevitable. Despite that, the Spies have some misgivings… fearing they are putting themselves too much out there to save Amelia. It’s getting late and both Spies desperately want Rey gone and it teeters back and forth for a half hour… as they push and push for Tiberius to change his vote…
Finally Rey is eliminated and the Spies celebrate.
sPIEs6Jason (06:35:02): Oh no, Jenya wants to make other rehashed points to Gretchen
spies6pete (06:35:11): oh sod her
sPIEs6Jason (06:35:29): Is this real? Is this a nightmare?
sPIEs6Jason (06:37:13): I'm not going to stay to listen to her counter...
sPIEs6Jason (06:37:21): I really need to get some sleep
spies6pete (06:37:28): please stay a few more minutes
spies6pete (06:37:30): see how tib votes
sPIEs6Jason (06:37:36): I'll give 5 mintues :/
sPIEs6Jason (06:37:53): I know who I want to Imprison next now next two times in fact
sPIEs6Jason (06:50:30): If she says no...
spies6pete (06:50:42): there we go
sPIEs6Jason (06:50:50): !!!!
sPIEs6Jason (06:53:36): Victory!!
Overjoyed with relief after a strenuous and stressful 5.5 hour Exile and exhausted, Jason goes to post his conversation with Pete in his confessional (like all good players should!) However what was about to ensue was the most dramatic, eye-popping, heart-beating beyond-stressful moment of the game for all of us. Jason posts his entire AIM conversation with Pete straight into the Burg (the Episode #8 voting shift topic to be exact).
The Spies and I totally freak out as all of the Spies were just publicly revealed in the Burg. Thank the lucky stars, for some reason I visited the board of my own accord, immediately honed into Jason’s reply in that thread, and saw the error. I was able to delete it 58 seconds after he posted it and before Jason was able to edit it. Pete says he saw it randomly so who else may have seen the blunder? Five or six people were online… and everyone was freaking out.
Jason: “I JUST POSTED A SPY CONVERSATION TO THE BURG I NEED TO DIE RIGHT NOW!!!”
Pete: “OH MY WORD YOU POSTED OUR SPY CONVERSATION ON THE BURG AND HAD TO BE DELETED BY SAM, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHO SAW IT”
Sam: “woah... that was really close lol. I don't think anyone saw it, personally.”
A dramatic night ends on an even more insane dramatic note.
Amelia pipes in the next morning: “Wow! 5.5 hours?
That must have been grueling. Well done again, guys. Do you backs hurt yet? I mean for carrying me?”Episode #9:
Jason plans to keep some people in the game for the end: “we want to keep the less active, more quiet people like Roxy, Khaled, Levi, or Gretchen in at the end because they'll have less information than us and won't be as aggressive.” At this point it is Jason, Pete, and Amelia versus 11 Citizens.
The Spies are furious with the lengths it took to Exile Rey and are looking for revenge via Imprisonment. Jason: “KILL GEORGIA FOR KEEPING US UP SO DAMN LATE!?!?!? or... KILL JENYA FOR BEING SO DAMN PARANOID!?!?!? or... KILL TIBERIUS FOR ALSO KEEPING US UP SO DAMN LATE!?!?!?!?”
Ariel is eventually chosen. Pete: “me and Jason were talking and we couldnt really see a reason to keep Ariel in the game. No-one really suspects her, she has her reservations about both me and Jason (and obviously Amelia too), she is of an intelligence level which could be worrying AND people arent looking at her with the 'Rey is a citizen' thing as much as we would like.”
Amelia’s survived two Episodes with little Spy meddling… can she survive a third? The spies plan to target Khaled and Gretchen. Jenya tricks Jason pretending that there is a role that can investigate someone and sends the Spies into a tizzy for a few days.
Jason plans out the rest of the game: “Amelia is GOING to go. Jenya's to the point where Spy or not she'd vote Amelia over a lesser suspect. And looking at my voting record.... It's pretty bad. I need to vote for a Spy again soon and by helping push the vote I'll look better hopefully.”
Jason: “Basically, we need 4 misexiles to win the game. Gretchen, Boris, and Khaled are all great potential misexiles. We need to be considering who our final Exile is going to be and who we should Imprison. Currently Levi is someone I definitely want in the final round. If we leave him as one of the Final cits when it's 2-2 we'll be golden; I think he'd vote for anyone else over Pete and I if we play our cards right... We just have to decide on a good final Exile and let the rest fall into place. My biggest concern is... Kirsten would be a great final exile. It'd be suspicious that she's still in the game at that point, and Levi would be predisposed towards voting her over Pete and I because she went after him for such a long time.”
Meanwhile momentum starts to gather on Boris and it looks like Amelia might skirt by for a third time. Levi, Kirsten, Jenya, and Tiberius at the moment are thinking about it.
In the end, suspicion swings back to Amelia who does not even vote at her own Exile. Judge Sam: “I feel kinda like, you guys stuck out your neck a little bit, worked to help amelia out, and she didn't even cast a vote to save herself. That takes lame to a whole new level.”
Episode #10
It’s now Pete and Jason versus the world, but wasn’t it always? The six other Spies, while nice people, to put it succinctly, sucked. In this game they played terribly. FOUR Spies were picked out out of THIRTY TWO people right off the bat in the first four Episodes. That’s so insane. The next Episode Iris made the worst role claim ever devised and dragged Amelia into it with her.
The Spies never even pretended to work with each other (except Jason/Pete), never had any AIM chats, and with the exception of Almathea and Jaya and Jason, spent an extremely small amount of time on the game even for Citizen standards. So with 6 (or 7) terrible/mediocre Spies, can the Spies truly declare the real victory? That’s something to debate but I might note that neither Jason or Pete was suspected by ANYBODY, the entire game. They would not have been Exiled had Imprisonments been abolished and we were on Exile #20.
At this point nobody suspects Jason or Pete and they trust them so much they are elected #1 and #3 most trusted players in the game.
spies6jenya (11:50:50 PM): Pete nailed Alma, Jaya, Iris, Amelia
spies6jenya (11:51:04 PM): He seems to listen and process well
spies6jenya (11:51:15 PM): He was great to talk with about Yvette, he almost changed my mind on it.
spies6khaled (11:51:17 PM): 4/5 spies? That's an insane tactic if I ever saw one.
sPIEs6Jason (11:51:34 PM): Lol yeah that might be a little too insane to even consider
Pete has been invisible from the game for months, almost never posting in the Burg, and never coming on AIM. He spends the little time he plays posting to himself in his confessional and Spy HQ on events he has no clue about what is truly going on. But if everyone is confirming him of their own accord, does he really need to change their minds? Clearly his complete inactivity hasn’t bothered them up until now, so why should he start? He’s putting his votes against Citizens and obvious Spies.
Jason has been a mastermind every day of the game since the beginning. Yes he lurks a bit, and lets the super-active Citizens fight amongst themselves, but why interfere when they are working to his ends? He remains completely trusted by everyone and not suspected in the least.
This is actually what scared me at this point in time. Jason + Pete… have no chance of being Exiled. Everyone trusts them. Why the hell are they still around? I was truly surprised no one brought up that question… especially when the numbers started getting smaller and smaller. These are two people who will never be Exiled, have voted countless number of Spies, and who are voted by the group as most trusted. One even has a role! Why the hell have they not been Imprisoned yet?
I think the answer lies in a few things. One, Jenya had a half-Immunity ability which she claimed to have used on Jason occasionally, without full knowledge of this role, others might have just assumed he was protected at the right times. Second, the Spies picked perfect but strange Imprisonments the whole way through. A lot of them weren’t explainable. Plus, other superCits like Jenya and Kirsten were kept around. By hiding amongst the superCits they deflect that argument a bit. Third, people just wanted to trust someone. They had to start off their suspicions by crossing some people off the list. They started off by crossing off Jason/Pete… and got addicted to the idea.
The rest of the game would go smoothly.
Imprisonment #10: Tiberius must go. The Spies wanted him out for awhile and it’s his time.
People wonder how Pete got his two conversations since he was utterly inactive. Pete claims he had a conversation with Jason which they have to fake.
Pete, Episode #10: “this round I have been on limited computer access and so I only truely played the game on the last night. I started the night off with talking to Jason and getting his take on the events and who were worried about my 'second conversation' from last round.”
Pete claims to be a “strong player behind Khaled’s boot” for his 30 minutes of AIM conversation.
Khaled gets Exiled for not doing anything in the game and the Spies just watch.
Episode #11
It’s Memory Week! One problem: Pete’s Time Capsule entry sucks. Pete: “The future week messages are going to be making a comeback and, guess who decided to encode his message ONLY to forget to tell people what the code is. Leaving me with a message which could be taken in any way shape or form, anyone savvy enough will take one look and say "well you could tell us any code and it will imply anyone, youve essentially just done nothing" which is absolutely correct.
I made a huge miscalculation and now suddenly, I am going to drop from 'very likely cit' to 'very likely spy' and unless I am extremely good at one the spot lying, I will be an exile target quite quite soon.”
Personally I think Pete’s time capsule entry was really suspicious (you’ll have to look at it later), but no one notices.
Pete: “this game has been quite easy to be a spy, because, I am quite good at manipulation, especially in AIM chats, which is weird considering I dont do that many”
Jenya on Jason: “spies6jenya (2:50:21 PM): If you're a spy your play has been unorthodox and genius”
Jason: “The thing about Jenya is that she really is a good player. She has strong suspicious, notices minute details, and pursues her suspicions to the fullest. Unfortunately for her, though, fate has dictated that the Master Mofo's brightest Spy Pupil, Jason, win this game, so she's fighting a losing battle.”
For Imprisonment #11, it’s gonna be Jenya all the way baby. FINALLY JENYA WILL BE OUT OF MY HAIR! Jason thinks. Pete: “Weve already talked about it, in length and in short. We both agree it is Jenya's time to go, and that is that.” Jason: “Yes yes yes, VOTE JENYA! JENYA MUST DIE!!! NO MORE EVIL SCHEMES OR DOUBLE CROSSING OR PARANOIA!”
But the next day brings changes… Jason: “Okay, given that Jenya basically is considering us the two most Confirmed Cits in the game... Do we dare keep her??” Hours before the deadline Jason decides to take a risk in keeping Jenya and getting rid of Roxy. Pete: “If we do win, I want to win with some style....yes, we could potentially be throwing away a very easy spies win” Jason: “We'll always be remembered as the Spies with Balls, no matter the outcome”
Jason and Pete feel by keeping in loose cannon Jenya they are playing more risky and could lose.
Pete, Levi, Jenya, Mirela, Georgia, Kirsten, Boris, Jason, Gretchen are the Final Nine. Jason, Jenya, and Pete form a final three citizen alliance. Boris and Gretchen are getting heat.
Almost everytime during the few times Pete logged on AIM, he posted in the Spy HQ wanting updates and to be told what to say. If he didn’t hear anything back he wouldn’t get online. Example, Pete: “So before I come online… I know this is almost a scaredy cat approach to playing this game, but, I want to get everything correct… Jason.....can you please bring me up to date with new events in the last 24 hours?”
Dead Spies send helpful, friendly messages to Jason and Pete during Memory Week. The Loser’s Lounge sends messages to the people in the game clearly implicating Jenya as a Spy. The LL people are FURIOUS that their 100% sure conviction that Jenya is a Spy is not being discussed. I would quote a specific message but there are (this is not a joke) literally 100s of angry messages like this in the LL against Jenya and Mirela as the “obvious Spies.” Everyone in the LL thought they were the two Spies.
Meanwhile, back in the game, stuff happens. But I won’t mention it here. Why? Because this is a summary from the Spies point of view on how they Spy-ed it up… and all of that interesting stuff has nothing to do with them. Cause they sat back, tread water, and watched y’all go at it for weeks. Good for them! =)
Jenya posts a topic asking “So I wondered how likely it is that both Pete and Jason are spies” and doing some testing involving random.org. Judge Sam, privately: “100% That made me laugh.” Pete: “You know, I feel kinda, sorta, maybe a little bit, bad about running rings around her , but come on! It's truely the funniest thing Ive done in an ORG ever.” Jason: “I do too, because she really IS a good, smart player... But we're just too awesome to be caught”
So Boris goes.
Episode #12
We’re at the Final Eight and still nobody actually suspects any Spies. It is at this point that Pete went on vacation. That’s fine of course vacations are fun. What’s not fine is that he is able to get a tentative internet connection, but instead of playing the game he retreats to spending ALL his limited time posting in his confessional and Spy HQ instead of playing the game! Yes, he made something like ten posts, nearly one everyday, privately and not publicly in the Burg. He even logged on AIM once (invisible, of course) to talk to Jason. Wow. Talk about the most epicly lame finish to a lame overall game.
Imprisonment #12. Georgia is no longer useful. She has worked hard nonstop all game, going it solo, to find the Spies… but unfortunately was not able to land on Pete or Jason. Jason: “Vote: Georgia. The main reason is that neither of us believes she's exileable, and if she is, it'd be a VERY hard thing to pull off. Basically at this point we're Imprisoning whoever we can't get rid of via other means because we can't afford to have non-Exileable Cits at the end... that makes the two of us more Exileable which is bad.com”
Exile time. More non-Spy action.
Jason: “So... tonight a Citizen goes. It's looking to be between Levi, Kirsten, and Mirela, Gretchen... Basically everyone that we can afford to lose. Gretchen is almost certainly going tonight though.”
Jason has lots of fun playing with the cits during the tenseness leading up to the soon-to-be Gretchen Exile. Jason: “The amazing SEXY ORGASM OF CITIZEN SUSPICION GOING ON HERE IS AMAZING!!! Most amazing things are in fact amazing, after all. Holy hell. Mirela is convinced of Kirsten and Jenya. Levi is convinced of Mirela and Gretchen. Jenya's too paranoid to be convinced of anything but won't be voting for Pete or myself.... Everything... So... Wonderfully perfect... Can we maintain balance? Must we fire the starboard thruster or are we okay?”
There’s a few minutes where Amelia saying that she and Jason talk a lot and Jason saying they don’t comes back to send Jason’s paranoia into hyperdrive… even causing him to post a “if I go…” thread in Spy HQ… but that’ dissipitates quickly.
Episode #13:
No one continues to suspect the Spies. At all. I can’t state enough how insane this is. Every game of Spies I’ve seen, they seem to be picked out at the end quite easily. In this game LITERALLY NO ONE suspected ANY of the Spies, even at the final five! That is so mind-blowingly insane. Some citizens had four choices to choose two Spies from, and they didn’t even choose a Spy. The loser’s lounge, so arrogantly and unabashedly confident of their Spy-hunting abilities, collectively decide that the final two Spies out of five are: 9 votes for Levi, 9 votes for Jenya, 3 votes for Kirsten, 0 votes for Pete, 0 votes for Jason. ZERO! Don’t ever let anyone ever tell you they were “onto Jason/Pete” or thought Jason or Pete was a Spy ever, because they weren’t, and ALL of them never once voted for Jason or Pete the entire game or after the game in polls as a Spy when they had the opportunity to every time. =)
So in the last episode, Pete is still hiding like a coward, Jason is still owning everyone, and no one seriously suspects them. For the first time in the whole game their names actually come up but that’s only because there are literally no other options. Unfortunately, people think they may not be Spies due to a retarded assumption about some stupid random team divisions two and a half months ago that mean nothing. Why they continued to even factor that into anything after repeatedly being asked not to from the very start boggles the brain. The logic that “if there were 5 Spies, Alma wouldn’t have gone” is mind-scrambingly inane. Alma sucked hard, so she got votes by the smart Spies. Simple as.
And that brings us to now!
