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Hello folks & welcome to my Liberal Crime Squad LP. For those not "in the know" LCS is a tongue-in-cheek roguelike game created by Tarn Adams of Dwarf Fortress fame and maintained and expanded by a variety of other folks. The game is in part inspired by the Symbionese Liberation Army revolutionary organization and the events surrounding the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. This is a casual forum and as such this is going to be a pretty casual LP. Post if you want to be "revolutionaryed" just as you'd request a dwarf in Dwarf Fortress. I'll probably just go by posting order and lots of people probably won't get a character because we're liable to get obliterated pretty early on! No resets, baby. Let's get to it! Splash screen!  Here's the high score screen featuring my practice run. We stabbed some conservatives and then died. RIP.  Going with the standard settings here. CCS = Conservative Crime Squad.  Picking Bernie Mode instead of Democrat Mode.  In the aftermath of the election, Sid Lincoln will lead a revolutionary countercurrent in Cleveland. It's a high order.  Next I select the history of our protagonist, which will also determine their starting stats. There are essentially 5 revolutionary archetypes here: the A) options build a master infiltrator, B) options build a potent armed combatant, C) options generally build a journalist-scholar, D) options build a streetwise survivalist, and E) options build a classic charismatic leader. Since the screenshots don't really show my selections, I just copied the text and bolded my selections below: Base stats at birth: 8 HRT, 3 INT, 1 WIS, 6 HTH, 5 AGI, 4 STR, 4 CHA Stats explanation: HRT is heart, which you might also call revolutionary spirit. INT is intelligence, essentially raw brainpower. WIS is wisdom, which is better understood as acceptance of and faith in conventional wisdom. This stat competes with HRT. HTH is health, essentially hitpoints (though as you will see, the injury system in this game is more akin to dwarf fortress than a simple HP system). AGI is agility--speed, evasiveness, dexterity--the key stat for most combat. STR is strength, helpful in certain types of combat, for breaking down doors, etc. CHA is charisma, and it is key for persuading and influencing others. 1. The day I was born in 1984… A - the Polish priest Popieluszko was kidnapped by government agents. (+2 AGI) B - was the 3rd anniversary of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. (+2 STR) C - the Macintosh was introduced. (+2 INT) D - the Nobel Peace Prize went to Desmond Tutu for opposition to apartheid. (+2 HRT) E - the Sandanista Front won the elections in Nicaragua. (+2 CHA) My parents named me Sid Lincoln. The doctor said I was a male. 2. When I was bad… A - my parents grounded me and hid my toys, but I knew where they put them. (+1 AGI, +1 Security) B - my father beat me. I learned to take a punch earlier than most. (+1 HTH, +1 Martial Arts) C - I was sent to my room, where I studied quietly by myself, alone. (+1 INT, +1 Writing) D - my parents argued with each other about me, but I was never punished. (+1 HRT, +1 Persuasion) E - my father lectured me endlessly, trying to make me think like him. (+1 CHA, +1 Psychology) 3. In elementary school… A - I was mischevious, and always up to something. (+1 AGI, +1 Disguise) B - I had a lot of repressed anger. I hurt animals. (+1 STR, +1 AGI, -1 HRT, +1 Psychology) C - I was at the head of the class, and I worked very hard. (+1 INT, +1 Writing) D - I was unruly and often fought with the other children. (+1 STR, +1 Martial Arts) E - I was the class clown. I even had some friends. (+1 CHA, +1 Persuasion) 4. When I turned 10… A - my parents divorced. Whenever I talked, they argued, so I stayed quiet. (+1 Stealth) B - my parents divorced. Violently. (+1 Martial Arts) C - my parents divorced. Acrimoniously. I once tripped over the paperwork! (+1 Law) D - my parents divorced. Mom slept with the divorce lawyer. (+1 Seduction) E - my parents divorced. It still hurts to read my old diary. (+1 Writing) 5. In junior high school… A - I was into chemistry. I wanted to know what made the world tick. (+2 INT, +2 Science) B - I played guitar in a grunge band. We sucked, but so did life. (+2 CHA, +2 Music) C - I drew things, a lot. I was drawing a world better than this. (+2 HRT, +2 Art) D - I played violent video games at home. I was a total outcast. (+2 AGI, +2 Computers) E - I was obsessed with swords, and started lifting weights. (+2 STR, +2 Sword) 6. Things were getting really bad… A - when I stole my first car. I got a few blocks before I totalled it. (+1 Driving, +1 Security) B - and I went to live with my dad. He had been in Nam and he still drank. (+1 Shotgun, +1 Rifle, +1 Psychology) C - and I went completely goth. I had no friends and made costumes by myself. (+2 Tailoring) D - when I was sent to religious counseling, just stressing me out more. (+1 Religion, +1 Psychology) E - and I tried being a teacher's assistant. It just made me a target. (+2 Teaching) 7. Well, I knew it had reached a crescendo when… A - I stole a cop car when I was only 14. I went to juvie for 6 months. (+1 INT, +1 Driving, +1 Security) B - my stepmom shot her ex-husband, my dad, with a shotgun. She got off. (+1 AGI, +2 Shotgun) C - I tried wrestling for a quarter, desperate to fit in. (+1 STR, +2 Martial Arts) D - I got caught making out, and now I needed to be 'cured' of homosexuality. (+1 HRT, +1 Seduction, +1 Religion) E - I was resorting to controlling people. Had my own clique of outcasts. (+1 CHA, +2 Persuasion) 8. I was only 15 when I ran away, and… A - I started robbing houses: rich people only. I was fed up with their crap. (+1 AGI, +1 Security, +1 Stealth) B - I hung out with thugs and beat the poo poo out of people. (+1 STR, +2 Martial Arts) C - I got a horrible job working fast food, smiling as people fed the man. (+1 CHA, +2 Business) D - I let people pay me for sex. I needed the money to survive. (+1 CHA, +2 Seduction) E - I volunteered for a left-wing candidate. It wasn't *real*, though, you know? (+1 INT, +1 Law, +1 Persuasion) 9. Life went on. On my 18th birthday… A - I got my hands on a sports car. The owner must have been pissed. (Start with a Sports Car) B - I bought myself an assault rifle. (Start equipped with an AK-47 and 9 magazines) C - I celebrated. I'd saved a thousand bucks! (Start with $1000) D - I went to party and met a cool law student. We've been dating ever since. (Start with a Lawyer recruited as a sleeper love slave.) E - I managed to acquire secret maps of several major buildings downtown. (Start with several downtown sites fully explored) (The Lawyer will be the same gender as the founder if the homosexuality option is chosen two questions previous.) 10. For the past few years, I've been… A - stealing from Corporations. I know they're still keeping more secrets. (+2 INT, +2 AGI, +2 Security, +2 Stealth, $500, Downtown Apartments Safe House) B - a violent criminal. Nothing can change me, or stand in my way. (+2 AGI, +2 HTH, +2 Rifle, +2 Pistol, 4 Armed Gang Members, 10 days of Rations, Crack House Safe House) C - taking college courses. I can see how much the country needs help. (+4 INT, +2 Computers, +2 Science, +2 Teaching, +2 Writing, +1 Business, +1 Law, $200, University District Apartment Safe House) D - surviving alone, just like anyone. But we can't go on like this. (+1 HRT, +2 INT, +3 HTH, +2 AGI, +1 STR, +1 CHA, +2 First Aid, +2 Street Sense, Homeless Shelter Safe House) E - writing my manifesto and refining my image. I'm ready to lead. (+2 CHA, +2 INT, +1 Writing, +1 Law, +2 Persuasion, +50 Juice, $50, Industrial Tenement Safe House) I live in Cleveland, OH, and it's about to experience real change.  Here are my stats.  And here we have the main screen featuring our slogan. I have $7 to my name and I live at the homeless shelter, time to found a revolutionary movement! 
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Sign me up to fight the conservative swine
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Nov 21, 2016 23:24
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Atrocious Joe posted:Sign me up to fight the conservative swine 
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Nov 21, 2016 23:27
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sign me up to be the ideas guy
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Nov 21, 2016 23:31
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If I can't eat the rich in real life I might as well do it here. Sign me up.
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Nov 21, 2016 23:40
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Marx guides my hand
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Part 2: Juice-building part 1: Getting started Sid Lincoln, codename Vox, starts out the game with zero juice. Juice is our revolutionary currency, our ineffable measure of badassitude, our lefty cred. Juice brings one closer to God. It is pragmatic to gain some juice early on to improve our stats, make ourselves more appealing to potential converts, and otherwise assure ourselves that none of us will squeal to the Conservative Authorities like a bitch-rear end punk. I mean, by us I mean "me" at this point because I haven't expanded the group yet, but you get the point. So I decide to head downtown and steal poo poo from a bourgie apartment building to build up some juice and some funds while also improving my infiltration skills. I head toward Dench Apartments. This will be our first raid!  Here's the exploration screen. 80% text with a 5x5 rectangle showing our squad's movement. gently caress yeah.  I note that the landlord's office is near the entrance. He'll get his eventually, but we're here to LIBERATE ASSETS today.  I go down the hall and immediately start picking locks. I do not give a gently caress.  First attempt: Failure.  Second attempt: Success. Satan is with us, today.  A deeply conservative Hangin' Judge and a Corporate Manager walk past as I close the door. Close call.  Heading up the stairs toward the penthouse suites  I break into more than a few apartments on the upper levels. Here I capture our first asset.  Capturing additional assets. Slim pickings, the Rich hide most of their wealth in banks like the cowards they are...  On the way down I pass some powerful Conservatives, and they nearly make me for a Liberal operative. Time to wind things down here.  I decide to hit one more apartment on the way out and stumble across the owner, a wealthy socialite. poo poo  I run for the exit and stumble into an encounter with a group straight out of one of those "X and Y walk into a bar" jokes.  The Liberals bail on me like the milk-fed curs that they are. Suddenly I'm in the midst of things, and the Conservatives get in a few licks. But they're fattened boss-parasites, not nearly as dangerous as their lean, frothing minions. I get out with only minor wounds.  I head over to the pawn shop to sell my take. Unfortunately, the circumstances do require participation in the Captalist market, but my worthy ends afford me broad latitude etc.  The pawn shop gives me $70. poo poo.  I check out the wares and decide to pick up spray paint on the way out. This is only the beginning.  So in summary our enterprising leader snuck into a couple apartments, stole some jewelry and a cell phone, and got beat up a bit for his trouble. I also gained two (2) juice. Lmao. Hopefully this serves as a decent intro to the raid mechanics. I have $57 and a bottle of spray paint, the world is my oyster. Vox Nihili has issued a correction as of 01:16 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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Nov 22, 2016 00:14
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burn the rich then eat them!
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smashthestate
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Let's do it.
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Put me in, coach.
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Nov 22, 2016 00:49
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Im a willing hatchetman for the liberal cause
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Nov 22, 2016 00:56
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Count me in, I will start the liberal crime wiki
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Nov 22, 2016 01:01
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Time to recruit an army of prostitutes and crack addicts that will be forged into a elite hit squad
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I shall stand with you on the barricades.
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Part 3: Juice building Part 2: Training Montage Going to be lighter on the screencaps until we get to the juicy stuff but let's keep moving! Vox is heading out to the local Corporate-owned Pomper Park.  No rest for the wicked, no time to heal wounds. We can rest when we are loving DEAD.  Vox goes around the tiny bit of open space that members of the public are allowed to access and spray LF LIVES all over the place. Hell yeah.  Vox runs into another Corporate Manager catching a Taxi (u can tell its not an Uber since the driver is Liberal) and spray LF LIVES right in front of his fat loving face.  He attempts to retaliate. Heh. Heh. (insert anime img of powerful punch having no affect whatsoever on our glorious hero)  Vox escapes easily and makes the news again.  Vox hits up the bourgie Dench Apartments again to spray paint and steal poo poo. He runs into a cool Liberal Judge and tries his hand at seduction. Whatever. WHATEVER.  Another low-key success. Page 6, moving on up!!!  Stats improving  Vox tries to head out to the Corporate Park again but the pigs have shut the place down. Looks like we're having more of an impact than one might have thought.  So instead Vox heads to the local NONUNION automobile plant for some sick sabotage and propagandizing. Vox is a loving ghost.  Smashy Smashy  FRONT PAGE BABY  Gonna assume this is what we spraypainted under LF LIVES in the factory.  Current stats--SOCIALIST THREAT ACTIVATED. Finally ready to influence some young minds and rebuild some old minds~ 
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sign me up to gently caress my way into the supreme court.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CI3lhyNKfo
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Nov 22, 2016 01:24
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I forgot to vote. Sign me up, this seems like the next best thing!
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Nov 22, 2016 01:55
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Vox Nihili posted:FRONT PAGE BABY so is lieberal graffiti always super effective or only in Ohio? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3WkIENVY_M 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:I shall stand with you on the barricades. And I shall wave the Socialist standard upon it!
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Nov 22, 2016 01:57
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Sign me up for to get cash, bash fash, and score gash.
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Mariana Horchata posted:so is lieberal graffiti always super effective or only in Ohio? I'm from Dayton and I say kill'em all with kindness  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAeyRcWyso Deal me in OP.
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Make me a liberal. 
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death to capitalism
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also lol it all happened but this year
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Part 4: A bumper crop of Liberal Converts Now that Vox has achieved sufficient Juice, he is ready to bring enlightened minds into the fold. Let's do it!!! First stop: the local internet cafe by the university.  Vox finds perhaps the only 40/yo female programmer in Cleveland. Unsurprisingly, she is a Liberal.  Vox also stumbles upon one of the few lines that seem likely to impress a programmer. They will meet again later.  Vox also works some magic on an engineer. They're generally useless, but I need to start with a number of prospects to get results.  Vox immediately tries the same line that worked with this type of person before. Why reinvent the wheel?  Vox seems to be gaining steam, now.  A 24 y/o man walks up to a 15 y/o girl in a public place and opens a conversation about politics & feminism.  The line works. Nothing about this situation is creepy or off-putting. Moving on!  Vox has the right line for everyone today.  The planned meetings begin. Things get a bit tougher here. Ease of persuasion seems to be inversely proportionate to a person's value to The Cause.  For example, teenagers are pretty easy to convince.  This Dancer could be a valuable asset. Tough, agile converts tend to kick a lot more rear end than your standard overweight goon.  Sometimes you get a middling result from these conversations. Persuasion, charisma, and other stats are bundled together in some manner for each roll, and an average result can still keep the ball rolling.  Oops.  I keep harassing brogrammers in the hope that we can convert a few good apples to the light.  Our first new member!  One of many failures.  Another attempt at seducing an important Lawperson. Ouch.  Still going out day after day to track down decent prospects.  Meanwhile, our first couple converts are getting their chops by exercising some Extremely Free Speech.  Around this point Vox went to go smash some Private Property at another factory. Things did not go so well. Ow.  However, Vox did escape. He continued his meetings. He brought together six like-minded Fellows at the abandoned Drill Factory (lmao) to begin with preliminary training and other preparations.  Stat dumps for the first six Liberals incoming!
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Part 5: Comrades We've made it far enough to cobble together a loose band of like-minded left-thinkers. Here's Vox again. Arm shot, so what?  Atrocious Jane, our first convert and a 23 year-old professional ballet dancer, has been engaging in some warm-up activism. Dodge, stealth, and street sense are all valuable skills.  Karla Sharks is a tough 50 year-old teacher with some decent stats. I hope that she will become one of our anchors and ideally find a few recruits of her own down the way.  Zikan is a street-smart 50 year-old yoga instructor. Look, we found some non-traditional recruits downtown, but they'll do, they'll do.  Bear Retrieval is a 53 year-old music critic with some very solid "stay at home" skills. He'll be another anchor if things go well. He's been helping to patch up Vox's gunshot wound.  Lemming is a 30 year-old computer programmer with a decent infiltration foundation. Right now he's stealing credit card numbers to fund the revolution--a true hero.  Zyla is a 24 year-old computer programmer with some decent stats. He's also been performing some activism in preparation for the Real Work Yet To Come.  So our founder is resting off his gunshot wound. Wow are our brave activists continuing the struggle during this interlude?  gently caress your $20,000 ceremony, bourgeois hetero scum!!!
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Put me in
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Please sign me up as a fashion designer who is promptly squirreled away to a non-criminal location to fund the revolution through endlessly making fancy dresses for the elite.
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I always saw this game as an open source Mother game but with politics as a theme.
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Could you please gender me correctly while keeping the name Atrocious Jane? I'm looking forward to dodging multiple shotgun blasts only to be brought down by a syringe.
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put me in, i need to help spread socialism
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:is that dudes name really tarn Yes.
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sign me up for the revolution
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That guy's name is Fiddlebottom lmao
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Atrocious Joe posted:Could you please gender me correctly while keeping the name Atrocious Jane? Done.
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Libertize me captain
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Part 6: A bad turn or two Our comrades are getting things together while Vox heals. Our programming specialists are actively HACKING NETWORKS for juice.  Good work.  Good work all around.  With Vox healed, we send the founder himself to snag a bigger car for operations down the road. He has the applicable security and stealth skills so it should be easy enough.  Going well so far...  poo poo.  This is fine, we just bail and try again later.  poo poo. Gang unit on our tail. Fight, flight, or surrender.  No weapon, no armor, the cops tend to shoot runners. Vox gives up and takes the shameful arrest rather than risking everything. Needless to say, this is v. bad.  Vox will now be working his way through the "justice" system. Though grand theft auto isn't as bad as a murder charge, it's still a serious crime. We have two options: fight or gently caress.  Lacking weapons and skilled hands to wield them, we decide on the latter. We will need to infiltrate the "justice" system by any means, ideally those that don't risk lives in our vulnerable organization. Seduction Krew is formed. Karla Sharks, Bear Retrieval, and Zyla are selected for their skill in seduction, persuasion, and in Zyla's case just overall juice and recruitment capacity.  We gear up Seduction Krew with cheap revolvers. You never know when the opportunity to kidnap a key Conservative might present itself.  Roll out.  Seduction Krew shows up at the court house. Given the presence of a metal detector at the entrance, we decide to loiter around in front and wait for Important People to walk by.  In no time our brave Liberals are mixing it up with the enemy.  Bear Retrieval is an inspiration to us all.  Karla Sharks is not.  Sharks is really striking out hard here.  Please try harder. Our lives are at stake.  Goddamn she is bad at this.  Sharks eventually comes through? Apparently?  Meanwhile, Bear Retrieval is moving forward. His date goes well. The trap is set.  Not the case for Sharks. Jesus Christ.  Bear Retrieval continues to make strides.  But time is ticking away. Only one month remains until Vox is put on trial.  Meanwhile, President Bob "Trump" Barrow signs 4 mega-regressive bills into law. Nothing we can do about this... yet!  The expenses involved in fundamentally undermining the court system are beginning to pile up. Thankfully, credit card fraud is keeping us afloat.  I decide I need to juice up our industrious Seduction Heroes to speed up the recruitment process. Just a quick trip to the local animal torture facility known as "Sabella Cosmetics." Even basic eco-militants can handle this sort of assignment. Free the bunnies, get the cred, get home safe. Easy.  Unfortunately as it turns out, Seduction Krew is woefully unprepared for even basic corporate infiltration. The situation quickly gets out of control. A security guard has our team at gun-point, and Sharks takes a nearby manager hostage.  The strategy works pretty well.  Sharks is merciless--she makes sure the manager takes the bullet for us. The squad pushes toward the exit.  However, as they escape it becomes apparent that Zyla also ate a bullet in the exchange. The 24 year-old programmer honestly had no place on a mission like this one, and he dies in Bear Retrieval's arms. We get his body out, at least. At the exit Sharks pushes the manager away--we have no interest in a screaming, fatally wounded prisoner. The surviving members escape.  The martyr's body is disposed of. Vox Nihili has issued a correction as of 07:48 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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