GameNight! Episode 32 - The Resistance: Avalon

wow that's loud because here on game night we got seven players tonight we got mark nikki scott stephanie chris lincoln myself dave of course we're playing the resistance avalon from indie boards and cards and it's designed by don eskridge it plays up to 10 but we're only seven but i think we'll make it work only seven hey scott teach us avalon i would love to teach you avalon great i've had so much fun with this game i cannot wait to play um okay so avalon is a sequel of sorts to the resistance which is a kind of a werewolfy type game a lot of us have played werewolf so if you know werewolf there are good people and bad people on a team and in this case we're we're going to be knights of the round table including a couple special characters on the good team merlin and percival and then if um loyal servants of arthur who unfortunately don't have any special powers except to make sure that the good team wins so the object of the game is for the good team to win right we're all good right sure okay especially these these cards are going to be dealt out face down and everyone's going to get a roll and you're going to look at it actually i've got a um siri's going to tell us the beginning of the game he's going to explain it because it's actually quite complicated to memorize it as a bit of a hassle so i've got my recording here which will moderate the first minute or two of the game okay so you're going to be dealt one of these roll cards and that is going to be your goal so if you're good we want to go on all the quests and we want to win three of the five quests okay we start on quest one and that is the vote track which i'll explain in a minute there is going to be oh sorry i didn't mention that there are three bad guys boo uh one of whom is not special and he's a minion of mordred um and we've got an assassin and we have morgana okay and i'll explain all the special characters after i explain a little more in the mechanics of the game okay so everyone gets one of these roll cards we're going to look at it and we're going to know who we are and then i'm going to play the siri thing and there's like a kind of a bunch of things where the people identify themselves who who's on the bad team is going to know all the bad people okay and merlin is going to know who the bad people are wow okay and should i compare it to the werewolf i'll compare it to werewolf that is kind of somewhat similar to the seer nah you know what ignore that the merlin will know who the bad people are by virtue of seeing them with their thumbs up but everybody's eye's going to be close so merlin gets to know who the bad people are okay percival well then i guess i'm going to jump into the characters because it kind of makes sense percival knows who merlin is but morgana also appears as merlin to percival so when percival looks at merlin he will see two people with thumbs up put your thumbs up you know let's say i'm merlin and you're morgana yeah and you're merlin you're going to see first of all first of all if you're personable you don't know who one of us is merlin and one of them this is not only is morgana okay percival's job is to protect merlin okay now i'll explain how we win the game good team wins the game by completing three quests okay successful quests and i'll explain how that works in a minute bad wins if it's three bad quests okay um failed three quests failed okay um bad evil can also win if good successfully wins and then they assassinate merlin at the end of the game so the assassin character gets a one shot you're a merlin and if you are merlin bad team wins evil wins the game okay so every round every quest we're gonna have a leader and the leader will be started randomly at first and that person will nominate people to go on a quest in the case of quest number one he's going to nominate two people he or she gonna nominate two people to go on a quest so i'm gonna say well i know i'm good i'm gonna go on this quest and stephanie you and i are gonna go on the quest okay so that's the nominations now everybody at the table has these approve and reject markers okay and we all vote secretly well face down simultaneously and then we all reveal okay whether or not the quest is approved or rejected right i don't remember what happens in ties i guess we can't have a tie here right because we have seven people correct right sure so it's majority wins the quest goes on let's say we are approved stephanie stephanie and i are going on the quest we will each get one of these success cards and we will also get one of these fail cards and we secretly choose them on our quest and pick face down the other one will go away so this is your card my card give me your other card and put it there this is kind of what you do you kind of set these aside so you don't know like whose card's what and if someone sees one of these they don't know who's what so we shuffle these up we don't know whose card is who's did we pass the quest no we failed it all you need is one fail to lose the quest and so we basically failed clearly that was oh no one of us is bad because a good person cannot fail a quest if you are good you may not fail you always have to pick you always have to succeed good never okay right because you want to win if you're a bad kid if you're a bad character you have the option notice that in the first round i want some strategy you know now you know who one of us is bad right so if you're percival you know well that doesn't help you at all so the brilliant thing about this is it's got yeah so yeah that would yeah that would be an in the example that we gave that kind of would not be helpful for first of all okay so percival's job is to protect merlin as i said um so let's say okay we failed this one okay we move we mark that with a uh these are we have success and fail okay uh and that marks it moves the um it moves to the next question we and then the leader passes to the next person and then we go for three the quest has three people on it so we're gonna go two three three yeah uh and then in quest four in order for for the quest to fail uh two fails have to be played not just one not just one okay is that the same with this lesson no that was just one yeah it's just that one particular one so something i didn't mention um notice when we were approved the team so you and i were on the team let's say it was rejected by the group okay i am no longer the leader the leader passes to the next person and we advance this track to the number two sorry okay rich and dave would then be the leader and he puts the nikki in stephanie it's an all right female quest all right let's say we reject that team too it's catholic let's say we reject that team two we go into step three chris is rejected we go step four rejected we go to step five nikki oh if we rejected that then we automatically fail the quest so there's a little bit of oh and we're still on this yeah we have to get we haven't if we are if we fail as good to not nominate a team to go right so disorganized so the assassin gets a free assassination at the end is it a required assassination it doesn't really matter i guess well only if good wins through questing then the assassins the assassin has the chance to win the game for the bad team evil team by figuring out who merlin is and then the only other special powers in the game are just knowing stuff up front yeah the powers don't come into play during the game other than you have extra knowledge correct okay is there so does the evil team know who the evil team is or yes the good team will not know no oh the good doesn't know right everybody's good so everybody's going just like why would you think people weren't good yeah we're all good yeah yeah start out good i do have questions yeah so how does percival protect merlin just through picking would you like me to give a strategy sure first of all i have found that percival should act as merlin and be just kind of trying to trick the assassin okay of who myron is but there are also so many weird things in this game that i can't even say that as a general rule because i've seen a lot it go several different ways um if berlin is completely blatantly obvious then you know it's merlin but yeah maybe it isn't what about um if you can is there like discussion about like absolutely we can discuss anything we can discuss anything we want there's a negotiation i think i think we should actually just start i'm the merlin i checked him he's not um do we have a way to i know she's not merlin because she said she's numberland who uh we should nominate a leader or how do we do we have a randomization thing here do you have any differences or anything like that well you want to roll it like 10 times seven times it's a what is this that's not going to work oh you know what um here i can use the start player app what who's that created by um you can search for that you can search for that on the uh one but don't flip it up don't flip it over no look at it yourself and be quiet about it hold on i haven't seen mine yet are we allowed to look at it go ahead yes yeah okay can we keep it right yes don't show it are we these roles for the entire game yes this is it i don't know how this works the board's in the middle of the first is we play with the app reject all right so i'll be green okay oh perfect because i'm red have you not seen this see is it aldi all right here we go okay you're the first leader okay is everybody ready and they understand your character and yeah no yeah okay siri's gonna tell us to moderate the beginning of the game which is um helps out a lot everyone close your eyes and extend your hand into a fist in front of you ready you should have your eyes closed and fist out okay here we go minions of mordred not oberon i repeat not overrun open your eyes and look around so that you know all agents of evil so right now all of the minions of mordred but not oberon should have their eyes open and be looking at each other one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand minions of mordred close your eyes all players should have their eyes closed and hands in a fist in front of them minions of mordred but not mordred himself extend your thumb so that merlin will know of you so the minions but not mordred should have your thumbs up one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand merlin open your eyes and see the agents of evil merlin you should have your eyes open and looking at the minions of mordred one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand minions of portrait put your thumbs down and reform your hand into a fist merlin close your eyes all players should have eyes closed and hands and a fist in front of them merlin and morgana extend your thumb so that perseval may know of you right now merlin and morgana should have their thumbs up one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand percevel open your eyes so you may know merlin and morgana percival you should be looking at merlin and morgana one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand merlin and morgana put your thumbs down and form your hand into a fist percival close your eyes percival make sure your eyes are closed all players should have their eyes closed and hands in a fist in front of them everyone open your eyes all right awesome i love it all right i think she tells person will close the eyes twice why does she not trust herself maybe she knows something i don't know all right dave's the leader all right so i'm gonna choose me of course and might be trying to march on so all was good there you go what could go wrong what could go wrong so let's decide if we approve or reject that we're missing all right all right approved looks like it's approved all right all right so then they need a couple of those yeah they need one of each the success one fails and i get these i guess i should put all these face down i don't know what this is no that's his that's my choice for sure those need to be mixed right yes mixing mix what he said switched fails get rid of that all right all right this game's easy sure oh piece okay we're almost there look at that there you go yeah uh that's the next question okay so we have three people on this quest three people oh you know the first dude yes we're obviously good okay oh it was on the other thing okay and it's three people yeah well considering he rejected both of us he probably won't choose us i'm definitely choosing me what right he rejected me in mark lester but now he knows how reliable we are yeah what could go wrong they're ready to go kills the question i'm going to trust nikki and i'm going to trust mark because he seems trustworthy yeah there you go i agree i feel good about those of course i'm not sure about our leader so oh it's only one position that's true okay ready yeah and when you when you discard your cards give them back to me over here please thank you discards please all right let's see come on who's doing it yeah sure all right link congratulations oh i haven't done this now yeah and it's three people yep well they need a tone so you're talking about i'm just gonna win you mark and chris all four of you i know what could go wrong with that or you say scott all four of them are have succeeded right right yeah yeah so just ignore that let's point that out just ignore them ignore that side of the table oh you guys trust me i don't trust you either everything succeeded twice she said she needs to do what she needs to do fair enough we could just be setting her up all right yeah yeah well dave's not in it anyway we're just going to say what happened to the three amigos let's see what happens oh i think we're good fail success yeah we'll just call it a success fail success who gets the other one i do all right mark johnson what what's that supposed to mean wait a minute this is interesting i'm just looking at you to keep you from looking at those cards you're the only one i can think of who would accidentally track them here we go there's mine all right first come on there's nikki's got it we went what come on mickey yeah look at me not the do not trust me it's least yeah that's a fail right it's a fail this time well only because i don't think he's good enough i know i know mark's good for a show wait i mean it listens to you scott but i i think it's i thought i'm not i think it's nikki ish i'm not good she's a very sly player what no you're not a you are absolutely not the poker player yeah why would you say that all right well hey i'm in charge though yeah this lady poker player or not all right who are you gonna pick choose wisely all right well let's start with one good one for sure i agree with that all right agree add one more is that chris that's chris i like it hmm i guess we'll go there four right four four two fails required on this one yeah all right you're in it despite despite those things you said about me i might reject this anyway i haven't heard anything from lincoln so he's definitely suspicious he's suspicious he's too quiet ah i've approved everything what do you guys think that's suspicious all i've been given who is he worried about i know who he's worried about success success fail fail fail success real success all right chris who gets one chris this one's out oh i'm in charge of this yes you do there we are all right let's see hey you gotta keep going there's a little b4 there it is are you pointing at me i didn't do it come on what just happened i guess i gotta pick four of us yeah this is the final one and the single fail rejection well this is the winner take off a single fail right right really except for the assistant so basically you need to pick all of them right that's right yes okay so i think chris for sure is good okay you know i'm good that's been stellar i don't even know anymore about mark but he probably don't trust scott oh here yeah scott is the common factor i agree don't trust scott that's right dave myself right here if you want to win i think stephanie is good he can't even keep a straight face you're going to lose if you hand it to mark okay who's on this stephanie lincoln and marcus chris no not me no no no chris chris christendom unless okay still thinking yeah yeah oh well i rejected it but that didn't work failure yeah uh-oh i'm mostly worried about lincoln that's why i rejected it i if there were two worlds in the last werewolves if there were two class then one of you two is the other one they're agents of mordred if yeah all right all right minion's a portrait who gets it oh you're right you see him saying yeah yeah yeah and i when you said put it here for the win i believed you good like that yeah i think lincoln is the other one i don't think you need to mix them up yeah especially since both lincoln and i are agents of morgan yeah so which one of you was merlin you were merlin or okay i figured it was him and i was the assassin so if we were going to kill chris yes because i was like because you couldn't bring yourself your own wife no it their eyes were they're looking at each other i'm like okay so one of them is first of all and one of them is merlin who was percival okay so there you go i had to laugh after my little speech because i ended up with the only other bad non special i went from non-special to non-special but i switched sides you never rejected this yeah that's a quick one now you've probably seen everybody yeah yeah yeah yeah i know i voted down for i wanted that last one down oh i should have voted wait i know but i wanted you to be next once you said don't trust mark i'm like sweet let stephanie do it there's oh my god information to be gathered in the voting which i think we were going a little quick right to notice but i first got they rejected the very first one with me being bad right he knows right i put in a success anyway but when you both reject it i'm like oh well one of you is merlin yeah did you pick dave thinking he would succeed no matter what yeah i did a rejection first yeah and chris and nikki both did rejects in the very first one yeah were you remembered were you what i did what's his name personally i was a normal boring person she just doesn't trust you damn straight all right let's play again all right all right so had we loaded something down does this reset yeah every time we should be exercising a little bit you should i mean i'm voting well it's the first game first game you often let everything go because you try to find stuff out i don't much much in the same way that when you play werewolf sometimes the person you first nominate to die there's information to be gained from the voting yeah i agree i don't know absolutely preaching to the choir i'm voting those things down left and right we looked at each other and it was just like what i don't know it's just funny just funny so are we just playing a hole so yeah in my role i needed to pay attention to the voting because i need to find merlin right so i was positive i was i thought it was you too but he was way more skeptical on like it's chris so it's like if we are screwed then i know i know we'll win ah you almost i actually thought if i had an idea who the merlin was i mean i would always lift up a little i would yeah like it can talk faster i would almost put succeed instead of fail just to get it what do you think so far me wow you know what's nice about this fast it's so much faster well it depends this game will be a little slower now what you're doing but even when you get into the double triple or whatever you can still make selected content is that too five-person five-minute werewolf is awesome yeah all right i better look at my card for sure everyone close your eyes and extend your hand into a fist in front of you ready you should have your eyes closed okay open your eyes and look around so that you know all agents of evil so right now all of the minions of mordred though not overrun should have their eyes open and be looking at each other one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand minions of mordred close your eyes all players should have their eyes closed and hands in a fist in front of them minions of mordred but not mordred himself extend your thumb so that merlin will know of you so the minions but not mordred should have your thumbs up one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand merlin open your eyes and see the agents of evil merlin you should have your eyes open and looking at the minions of mordred one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand minions of march put your thumbs down and reform your hand into a fist merlin close your eyes all players should have eyes closed and hands in a fist in front of them merlin and morgana extend your thumb so that percival may know of you right now merlin and morgana should have their thumbs up one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand percent open your eyes so you may know merlin and morgana first of all you should be looking at merlin and morgana one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand merlin and morgana put your thumbs down and form your hand into a fist first of all close your eyes percival make sure your eyes are closed all players should have their eyes closed and hands in a fist in front of them everyone open your eyes you're right star player i am yeah sure all right just kidding don't get too late i can pick two people i'm gonna tell everybody right now i'm rejecting everything for this whole game until you don't it's gonna be a long game let me keep it on this side of the table all right reject and then myself cause i know i'm good all right let's see let's see you don't have to send yourself right no no you don't have to where you want rules right you're trying to show trust mission accomplished that's not amazing give me your other one this one's out yeah clearly what do you think should i stop now sure i know i think they're both bad it's the most genius move i've ever the most genius we've seen seen and there you go all right next all right he's best she's they know each other right because they saw each other in the middle of night and they were like they just i don't know how to pick how many we have we have to do three people all right well let's keep the band together all right um all right that's very interesting yep oh yeah my leadership mark new leadership that's right keep one of these yeah i didn't have one before you rejected the last one right yes and you rejected the last yes i did yeah let's see he can pick himself who he knows is good sure i'm gonna pick scott sure i'm not gonna pick myself because i want to see something wow but he is the guy managing it he was just the leader i guess technically i should be the one shuffling yeah is this is exactly what happened last game and then it was fail fail fail funny how that works so this makes sense yes i'm good we know that that much has been established you're a good hearted aldi's been good so far absolutely i'd choose between lincoln and i went we're both good i don't know let's take dave with this oh oh yeah all right that makes this part easy you know this is not gonna happen right that's fine we gotta get information out there somehow yeah no there we go well there you go congratulations nikki you're the new leader yeah she's wisely what why'd you approve that dave what i'm curious why you're proof that cause he's good i mean why wouldn't i prove it i was in he knows he's good okay we didn't approve it we're on still watching last time no the time when i'll be picked you right you rejected that one right so he rejected someone else in there either you i rejected him now we're three right yep three yep it's three of us no no she didn't pick him up i'm out i'm out sorry yeah not that's right nope rejected are you jax mark you give it a shot i'm very confused i pick myself three times give me those things i know one for sure oh yeah let's go with the two most trusted people at the table sure i'm gonna take dad with you i've been on two um wriggly yeah but me too anything he has been on two positive missions if you choose him and we reject it then we know you know nothing all right i've certainly lost you thinking you know i there you go it didn't matter what i chose it did not have fun storming the castle uh you can eat crunch here i'll just give you these you don't need any more right right they're good they don't even fail and this one's all good all good yeah is it are you managing this one oh right now i'm managing this one's out you pass it on down here so it doesn't flip over eventually all right let's get him over here who is the assassin are we done yeah oh my god oh my god how did you know how did you know yeah but i'd be that way anyway i just thought i would be that way anyway i thought she was totally gonna you were too gamey yeah you were too gamey but i would have done that regardless i had to decide i was gonna do it anyway but i believe halfway through that that was unfortunately a giveaway i'm like what'd you do and i couldn't back down what did you do what was percival me thanks a lot you didn't think that was merlin thanks a lot i did not i had no indication because i know nothing i'm an idiot right in the crowd and i figured it was dave yeah i'm the other idiot i realized it was what what did david what did dave say i don't even know i was you you played the same game you played mostly it's sort of like the standard werewolf thing i was being very vocal and active and that just made me a target yeah oh wow you should just bang real quick that's awesome i'm glad that nicki got it i didn't player right right when you're choosing excuse me all right one more time yeah sure do you know me too right yeah and did you know he's awesome hey did you know i was merlin uh no i didn't so why couldn't you be the assassin you got the luck in the draw luckily luckily nicki got it i figured we were doomed it's tough i didn't think you were your guys votes in the first round through gave me who i knew was good in the first round yeah i was pretty you noticed i i was waiting positive to net both these people know right you know i just i i was like negative negative negative you know those second the last the second vote was very telling remember i said let me see the votes right yeah all right i'm already lost i don't know i don't know why it was so telling i don't understand because there was like you voted no well here's the i know she was i knew either merlin and morgana i knew one of them he voted yes and she voted no yes for a obviously good team but i could think that he's evil believe me he voted weirdly in the third round which i'm like oh great now i don't know yeah but then it kind of did but then it became obvious after that you never know it's not obvious but yeah i just keep playing great so we lost yes where was that before yeah you don't like the pressure even faster this time i really do i think it's fast enough yeah i agree it's kind of funny actually everyone close your eyes and extend your hand into a fist in front of you ready you should have your eyes closed and fist out okay here we go minions of mordred not oberon i repeat not overrun open your eyes and look around so that you know all agents of evil so right now all of the minions of portrait but not overrun should have their eyes open and be looking at each other one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand minions of mordred close your eyes all players should have their eyes closed and hands in a fist in front of them minions of mordred but not mordred himself extend your thumb so that merlin will know of you so the minions but not mordred should have your thumbs up one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand merlin open your eyes and see the agents of evil merlin you should have your eyes open and looking at the minions of portrait one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand minions of order put your thumbs down and we form your hand into a fist merlin close your eyes all players should have eyes closed and hands and a fist in front of them merlin and morgana extend your thumb so that percival may know of you right now merlin and morgana should have their thumbs up one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand percent open your eyes so you may know merlin and morgana first of all you should be looking at merlin and morgana one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand merlin and morgana put your thumbs down and form your hand into a fist percival close your eyes percival make sure your eyes are closed all players should have their eyes closed and hands and a fist in front of them everyone open your eyes all right link all right good all right and when we turn them off so since we got such a sh i know good idea interesting the two ladies ladies ladies ladies ladies quests ladies love question sing that other song why would you i want to see more information they're suddenly telling you to play the fans what no questioning about their faces no i'm just a good boring character this time i got the boring guy again throwing away all right will this be the first game where we failed the very beginning i don't know success success of cake this game is easy this game is easy this game's so easy what could happen who's the king it's good to be the king all right so we need sleeves for the entire thing yeah just keep playing until it looks like i'm good are you i am a good short clean up no special character nope no i'm just an ordinary uh you don't even know who else i'm going to pick though i'm in it he's trusting he's in a wonderful village i think mark johnson likes like farming and i'm good hey and then i will pick well you know i'm good let's see if you're good oh i like it he wasn't in the first one he wasn't but he did pick me up i felt i feel i know i'm good so all right now do i am i gonna prove that i don't know oh look her up you got to pick yourself that's the beauty of it yeah well right success you rejected yourself i didn't reject myself i rejected something no i hope that wasn't because of me that power oh it did pass you're right i'm sorry that's not me that's you i'm not in it she's not interested you're inadequate you're just management you're in it i'm managing responsibility that's in this is out is that your end card that's my end card all right what is this that's a discard hmm they're all faces oh indeed you nikki or no that wasn't it and i voted against it i want that on the record he didn't want you to force him in the vehicle all right aldi nope dave is an ordinary average villager oh is this are you all right oh i'm i'm you're the kid i'm on what what are we on three three run three three this has to pass doesn't have to it should uh yeah i guess it kind of does we don't want to get down to the last all right well whatever you do don't pick stephanie i can't pick no why well i can pick stephanie no i think she tanked that last one on purpose she wasn't she wasn't she was choosing who was in it i think she knew who was in it so she knew that margaret lincoln was on the bad side that's my opinion so who was in this last one and lincoln started off by mark stephanie and you're good if you're good it's those three yeah uh no no no no it's you no no no if aldi is good then you are the three bad people no do not pick lincoln why it might have that way i mean nothing duh well we've already lost the game's over for the good side anyway inside what i'm just a symbol or so we're voting on these people no no i haven't i still got two months later i'm trying to think game has finally started to percolate a little bit yeah i mean i can't put the same team out there no no you absolutely oh a minute simple villager over there i don't know how many bad guys are in this game three a lot besides you i mean oh did i slip up i think he rejected the team she was on yeah cause i did not like my teammates she doesn't trust her teammates oh but look who's in charge just get your butt out right now yeah exactly it doesn't matter dave go ahead it still doesn't matter well because you don't trust me yeah i don't trust you you're crazy that means you're bad so give me that back no no give me it back dark side card laid dark side card laid card questions i changed mine you changed your what role like you said something to dave all right here's the deal i should not i should i want to take this ring off these two and it was good right it's probably two get this little tin i know it's like you can see thank you that was guy was certain i was good so why waste a vote on me that just seems to me the way you should do it stephanie picked these two no no you picked lincoln and mark i took him out now i picked lincoln mark and mark and aldi and you and you oh that's right lincoln so one of these two is bad this three yes so i can't pick that was lincoln right that was my logic when i put you on the team i couldn't pick lincoln or mark i am i see you're saying right if you want to keep following so are you good no no of course two people told you no i'm gonna pick nikki yeah and i'm gonna and i'll let you tell me who to pick for the third oh come on no you should have paid that do that who should it be you and me and who else and who should it be mark even though the one failed from before yeah the one had lincoln in it all right there was reason well you can't pick we can't pass clearly well if you pick chris we would pass that we have to pass that chris has done nothing this whole game he's just sat but mark has definitely been on a losing team yeah but if it's lincoln then it's not mark you don't pick lincoln or mark you pick chris no because there's there's here's the deal there's guaranteed not two bad people in the three vote let's assume the three vote has two good people and a bad person yeah that means there's two other bad people that didn't participate in that vote so the odds are chris is bad we have to vote on that makes sense i'm listening to ludolu this is gonna be awesome all right nicky don't let me down i trust i don't take it personally i trust him we're gonna win anyway that's probably pretty good i can kind of see those when you lift them up over your head but i don't know oh my god i totally should have rigged the set under the table and swapped him right now here's that queen space that would be so awesome underneath then if you're going to make yourself better so no one can see success clearly my card yeah right also mine i had two success cards look at that yeah that is how the game is played dave dave uh redirecting attention that's how the game is like why would i do that everyone knew mark was was potentially the bad seed well then somebody's changing are these they're everywhere i don't have one and chris gets to choose okay all right all right you get to choose four and there must be two fails they're musks thank you of course yourself there's one fail i'm awesome is that me or nikki that's you okay i don't agree with this it needs two mark and stephanie it needs two fails i'm doing some calculations in my head assume i know what i'm doing there's a no brain reject no brain rejection there's no here's the deal well here's the yeah because it depends maybe if if i believe chris is bad which you do it doesn't matter which four he picks it's a no brain reject for me it's only because it's the two failed one that gave me pause right but i still like nikki being in charge better what are you talking about i was on the mission with just one oh i'm looking at it backwards oh and i don't know about you well then don't put them in put them in we already have three successes one fail is not going to matter that's true look at that beautiful oh man that's true but where's the team this side outside the table three good guys one beautiful oh that's true those the minions of evil might vote this good team right now exactly oh oh i'm worried now i'm worried all three of you voted that down really scares me no there's problems over there no i'm scared if there are two fails in here then i'm really messed up no it's gonna be fine oh mark johnson except for that assassin if you played the game that well i'm gonna be very impressed you know i can't play this game that way oh that's the beauty of it until you do you're playing the ignorance card that's the beauty of you what are you talking about two fails is no good i don't like it i don't like it oh i don't like it she's gonna be hard come on it's perfect come on there it is congratulations oh interesting now except for oh yeah don't reveal your card how genius would it have been if i was the assassin wait wait wait wait wait wait we still have i know but i'm saying i want to play this what do you mean who are you who are you no i can't say you can't we're not we're at the point we're not going to do this afterwards because you're nice too lemonade no i'm not the assassin nice try yeah oh wait you didn't talk about it it was totally nikki oh crap i was gonna give you some i was gonna give you some evidence but you said don't talk about that listen don't talk about that you said don't talk i was trying to get them to talk so we could figure it out so it is and i knew it was nikki darn it until she said we went too quickly i don't know about you chris exactly because she was excited that's an and he was totally being obvious about merlin oh well darn typically we've talked a little more about it but whatever i will say this you guys definitely fooled me really yes no you did actually fool me just for example i mean i wasn't insured until turned four i i didn't know about that i thought well here's the deal i thought chris was bad for sure i didn't yeah and if chris is bad that means one of you is good yeah and i said and i thought i i picked on youtube just because you picked her and she picked you for the first vote and you didn't pick yourselves and that seemed like a werewolfy thing to do to me but i wasn't sure you were just no you weren't nobody she was pointing out things i knew the reason then she flipped her all along and she was like she was against all of us and she knew it was all of us and then she flipped into the i don't know yeah to save her more than more than yeah at the end she was three levels deep man oh i know you think you knew it was her yeah chris played the genius personal strategy of doing nothing he was observing yeah this is the shaving grace i needed the nothing character yes because she's so vocal about him like she's personable you know as miss directed no you were doing that all along when dave was doing it she was pointing out perfectly so as soon as she shifted i'm like okay maybe then it's not her that to me it was these two because he was saying that she shifted it off yeah well just like in in werewolf there's a point and since this is smaller than werewolf where the seer has to just lie tip their hands yeah otherwise you'd get to a situation like this where if if merlin happens to be controlling the vote that matters then the game is over right right because the good people can all vote up yeah outnumber well dave made it obvious it wasn't him his conversation at one point was like oh wow it's clearly not dave right you know i mean it was i was oh yeah yeah i decided i was gonna be brutally honest we obviously knew it was was i was decided oh not honestly i knew that he was nobody yeah he said nothing but that could have been my genes it could have been yours but it isn't that interesting that we played three games now and the third one it kind of the psychology changed a little bit like it's it's though you've got to get into the game and yeah i i play i haven't played this i played the resistance and my first game of resistance went exactly like the first game of this which is very it went really quick and straight up i don't remember who won or lost but it it takes a few games to sort of get into the because what you're doing ultimately is sort of like one of those weird logic puzzles where you have three people and one of them is lying and rather than try to find the liar you know the answer to that puzzle is always like stephanie would you say scott is a liar you know and you have to get that extra weird level deep yeah what do you think have you you haven't played any of these right uh no i haven't played i've played a little werewolf but nothing not the resistance or this before um it's interesting that this is clearly a game where you'd want to make a half an evening of it and play open play yeah yeah and start getting people's tails and start like seeing people trying various gambits like merlin getting out in front and being obvious and then trying to shift oh no i'm personable right i'm nobody what'd you think i enjoyed it all right well that's all like you i've played the resistance uh a couple of times two times one session you know multiple plays and of course it's just like this but they don't have special roles correct that's the thing that's they added for this right i've not i have not planned the resistance yeah i'm pretty sure so um that and especially that well assassin move at the end i could be wrong but i don't think resistance has that i don't remember i remember having this very clever thing was like you know that they that this requires two fails right helps you i don't know so many games went all the way to the last quest when we played it and i think the more you play the more that will always happen i think every game i play the resistance went to the end as well even that first fast one it still went to the very end our first game weekend because i'm like it's obvious they're going to remember positions right very very easily oh yeah because we voted down so when it's uh yeah you see three yeah chris in my mind was bad so that i i never thought and also well you totally well it's not gonna be three yeah you were totally arguing for chris yeah i like this game a lot i just go for that i just you know it's it's unfortunate in that case that it turned out that way because i feel the game it's a little bit easier to deceive and blur what your votes were um if it's not all it's kind of really nilly where it's not well it's just it's easier yeah when it's worse uh dispersed i mean you know it was totally obvious to us but it was not i know that but it seemed to me it was obvious to you know like the other guys that uh well i can tell you it wasn't to me yeah i know well i knew you were confused yeah that was what was hilarious you were the one i'm like dave's not getting and i don't understand why but uh but you know that i haven't i don't play these anymore really kinds of things because dave and i were in a werewolf game where it got very very uh contentious and it was nikki and stephanie and myself were the werewolves in this big werewolf game and we like we looked at each other like you don't have to tell the story that just if it is the three of you were my friends and you lied to me and let me down that's exactly right that's all i gotta say exactly i know it's part of the game but i i still hold the grudge to all three of you i must have blocked it out of my memory because i don't remember that it was a very important there was people lincoln and i got very nicki and i were like getting into it oh my god it was one of your games oh yeah okay oh my god he looked me right in the eye and was like he was so angry he keeps pointing me out it's absolutely positively dangerous there's no way i've you know because i voted to kill one of those at one point so that it was uh you know put doubt in the people's roderick was in there and yeah the gist of it was he was just really good he was so grounded he went to like this level that i thought well he would never get this dude for this game and it was brilliant it was brilliant but i was i was mostly mad because you fooled me right you actually genuinely fooled me what did you think of this i liked it i like that it's nice and short yep yeah absolutely because i i like playing rural but we played all weekend long but it's like day one 30 minutes in yeah you know and so three hours later well this is three hours especially at a con right where you've got 20 people it's elimination i will never play werewolf again what no i won't i'm going to tell you that no i think this is that i think this game is superior in every way i'm going to hold you there i don't know if it's superior in every way the fact that there's no elimination is here i can't believe it nomination is good but you have to think a lot more about your voting yeah the voting is actually right if i don't have to vote nearly i don't have to pay attention to the vote i don't pay attention to the voting as much as other people so here's the deal the game did you finish what you wanted to say about that i kind of interrupted him right in front here the game is always five turns regardless of number of players each of these plays for the number of players it says and you can flip it over to the other side five players so the game is always five turns it's just different how many people go in for the voting right right sure there's also a couple extra characters which we did not play okay oberon is they're optional um oh there is merlin does not know who they are oh that would be great um and i think there was one more they're just bad oh so there's not 100 percent sure i think that's no if we're evil and then there's a bad person that merlin is wet and tart like a moist tart i believe is you're playing and yeah i think there's an android i like it besides just asking if you like i think it's interesting to say like first of all do you like werewolf oh yeah i guess i like this game yes i love werewolf and yes i like this too it's it's although now that i've played five-person five-minute werewolf you're not going back no i actually it's just for when you're tired you know you sort of indicated yourself well i've not played werewolf in a lot of years just because i don't like the big giant you know i was never able to get in a game of like seven people oh like if we played seven player werewolf i think they'd be fine right but twenty person werewolf where they take july hours and you're eliminated and you just you sit down and watch some folks that just automatic dave is one of those guys that gets hammered a lot i stop playing yeah you become a target i turned to be a moderator metagame turns because as you can tell i get very vociferous and active and that in werewolf almost gets me killed when you're vocal in werewolf you died so that's why i don't i don't find werewolf fun anymore to me but yeah so i i like all the new characters i like ted's ultimate werewolf but but leia said i would play a small game but i won't play a big game so margaret's power is that his identity is not revealed to merlin right yeah and obviously um that helps the evil side that gives you an edge oberon's power is weird oberon is on the side of evil but he doesn't or she doesn't open their eyes to see who the other evil parrot so ron doesn't know who's on kind of the minions are oberon doesn't even know who oberon does not know who the evil side is okay and the evil side doesn't know who obama is that is right it actually says here adding oberon into the game will make the good side more powerful right because evil he won't know who to vote with right so what you could do to balance that if you wanted is you could have three blues and four bad characters with oh well that would change them i don't think you can mix them you can't because you need to yeah you need to have read the part about these tests yeah read the assassin rules as written because i was just taught it i don't know if i've read it that'd be great definitely assassinate merlin this whole time if requests are completed successfully uh the evil players will have a final opportunity to win by correctly naming which players merlin without revealing any character cards the evil players discuss yeah okay and the player with the assassin character card will mean sorry i totally wrecked it well i mean i had an idea right uh i had no idea about first of all i thought it was between these two okay well cool thanks for teaching us all right third time's stronger is always the better one anyway yeah well that's because we stop at that point usually no no but even when we have to redo it the redone one is never the better one it's never the one before that that's right we keep going till we do a bad one

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Can't make it this week, but definitely next week!