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[Persus13]

This is a Let's Play succession fort game, except with Liberal Crime Squad instead of Dwarf Fortress=.

Spoiler: What is Liberal Crime Squad? (click to show/hide)

The best authority on Liberal Crime Squad is Johnathen S. Fox. Here's what he has to say on it.

Liberal Crime Squad is a satirical open-source text-based modern strategic political RPG with bad pickup lines and bad graphics. You play as the founder of a left-wing terrorist cell devoted to saving the United States from its descent into Conservative Insanity though writing to newspapers, volunteering, playing protest music, seduction, flag burning, graffiti, hacking, kidnapping, torture, murder, brainwashing, and other common and uncommon activist activities.

LCS was originally created as a side project by Tarn and Zach Adams (Bay 12 Games), the brothers behind Dwarf Fortress. They last updated the game in 2004; I picked the source code up in 2007, and in collaboration with more than a dozen programmers and writers from the community, we have managed to release intermittent updates since then.

Please note that LCS is unbalanced, unfair, unfriendly, and inappropriate. Its interface is an artifact of cancerous feature creep on top of the historically important but very old 1983 RPG Oubliette. It's also awesome, so you should download it. Any questions or suggestions about the game can be submitted in this forum, and check out the wiki for a likely out-of-date but still pretty useful reference.

The latest version can be found here

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

• Game turns last for 2 months in-game
• You will have 72 hours to take your turn or you will be skipped When your done with your turn, upload the save file, write a narrative (preferably with screenshots) and post it.
• When you take a turn, name a character after you that hasn't been taken and have them lead. If said character dies, your turn ends prematurely.
• Don't be Conservative scum and purposely kill off player characters or the entire squad. Otherwise, it's your turn and you can do whatever you want.

Settings:
Personally I'd like to play the game in 4.07.0, Nightmare Mode, Regular CCS, and Let Fate Decide Founder Stats. However, you may disagree.

Players:
1. Persus13: Turn 1 DONE
2. ed boy: Turn 2 DONE
3. NES630: Turn 3: DONE
4. theprofileth SKIPPED
5. LordBucket
6. GreatJustice

[ed boy]

I'm throwing my support behind nightmare mode. I also support strong ccs from the start. I abstain from voting on the founder stats.

[theprofileth]

I am in
I am fine with nightmare mode and normal CCS however I really dont want random crap stats T.T though I guess it makes it more FUN!!! for our glorious liberal founder 

[Persus13]

I am in
I am fine with nightmare mode and normal CCS however I really dont want random crap stats T.T though I guess it makes it more FUN!!! for our glorious liberal founder 

So for Founder stats there are three possibilities.

1. Let Fate Decide the stats.
2. All of us vote on the stats
3. I choose the stats.

Personally I'd like 1, but I'm willing to be persuaded to pick another one.

[theprofileth]

Yeah I guess just go with let fate decide, as it really would be too much of an advantage for the starting player if they got to choose compared to everyone else's random joe.

[Persus13]

Okay, we settled then?

[LordBucket]

Signing up for a turn.

[theprofileth]

So when does this start?

[Persus13]

Well, I've played through the first two months, I just need to get my screenshots and the save up for ed boy. Sorry for the delay.

[theprofileth]

Good to hear eagerly awaiting my turn 

[ed boy]

If the save for me isn't up by midnight tonight (UK time) I'll have to defer my turn, I'm spending bank holiday weekend in Ireland and won't be able to do my turn from there.

[Persus13]

Liberal Crime Squad Succession Game: Turn 1

Stats:
Liberals Indoctrinated: 9
Conservatives Killed: 4
Funds Taxed: 3711
Funds Spent: 551

No liberals lost or conservatives kidnapped. I was mainly targeting certain places, and working to get money. Also, of the three guys doing missions, one had to head to the hospital, the others healed slowly, so that caused me to lose some time. Ed boy, I suggest you take over Jacob as your character.

Save:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9v5zh3r49t1bfqh

Spoiler: Insight into a Revolution (click to show/hide)

The day I was born in 1984 the Macintosh was introduced. The Doctor said I was a boy. My parents named me Ransom Keital. When I was bad, my parents grounded me and hid my toys, but I knew where they put them. In elementary school I was at the head of the class, and I worked very hard. When I turned 10, my parents divorced, violently. In junior high school I was obsessed with swords, and started lifting weights.Things were getting really bad and I tried being a teacher's assistant. It just made me a target. I knew it had reached a crescendo when I stole a cop car when I was only 14. I went to juvie for 6 months. I was only 15 when I ran away, and I got a job working fast food, smiling as people fed the man. Life went on. On my 18th birthday I bought myself an assault rifle. For the past few years, I've been writing my manifesto and refining my image. I'm ready to lead. I live in Chicago, IL, and it's about to experience real change.


These are dark days for the liberal agenda, but I am willing to lead it to greatness. Arch-Conservative president Joe Hoffman, doesn't know what's coming. Today the beginnings of a Liberal crime squad begin that will show the people the horrors of conservatism. I plan to lead, but I plan to do so under an assumed name. Ransom Keital doesn't invoke terror or awe. Instead I shall choose the name of Perses, the titan lord of destruction....Shoot! The business cards I made refer to me as Persus! I'll have to stick with this misspelling. Now, to fight for the Liberal Cause!

I have reviewed my assets. I have high intelligence and charisma, and I already have 50 juice in the eyes of the liberal cause. An I am fairly good at things like writing, business, and swords. However, I have only $57, an AK-47, and I live in the housing projects.

Spoiler: January (click to show/hide)

For my first mission, I have decided to travel to the Radish meadow Vegan Coop. How can you lead if you have no one to lead? I have also adopted a slogan to promote what I put first in mind.

Shoot. I didn't realize that my AK-47 was too conspicuous until I got to the coop. The day was wasted.

The conservative scum has even gotten to this place, once a hallowed part of the liberal agenda.


Nevertheless, I found 5 hippies willing to meet up with me.


And they decided to keep meeting me. Flush with success, I decided to go off and make some money to pay for my apartment.


I was successful at first, but then an Art Critic spotted me and I ran for the exit.The next day at the pawnshop, I discovered I had netted $3, a cheap suit, and 2 counts of breaking and entering.


By this time I had made my decisions from meeting with the hippies. Hannah's heart was in the right place, but she wasn't too smart.

Daphne was a better person for the squad, and so I let her join. Noah wasn't a good pick, but his skill with the ladies led me to keep meeting with him, hoping for it to rub off.

 Noah wasn't a good pick, but his skill with the ladies led me to keep meeting with him, hoping for it to rub off. Adolph and Roz also didn't have what I wanted, and so I set out for the Crack house, after assigning Daphne to sell T-shirts as a way to benefit the liberal cause.


There I found several mutants that I worked to recruit to the cause.


Jacob and Donald became my next two recruits and they became a team of their own, while I was the chess master orchestrating the affair.


Their first mission didn't go well.


The next day I saw the newspaper had a small blurb mentioning us between two ads and a fraud case in Florida. While the conservatives were trying to keep our existence under wraps, it wouldn't stay that way. Donald was so badly injured he had to depart for the free clinic. I had Jacob write to newspapers while he healed. And our latest recruit, a former prostitute with a gifted voice, was put to work volunteering. Then I went off to revenge myself on the conservatives. It didn't go well, as I was shot by a security guard. I decided not to risk such dangerous enterprises in the future. So instead I set out to recruit more followers. I wasn't exactly in top shape.


Especially when a liberal judge wasn't interested in the cause


So after a visit to the crack house to recruit some mutants, I rested. I rested until the end of the month, where I checked the expense reports. We had made almost $300, half of that from T-shirt sales.

Spoiler: February (click to show/hide)

I noticed Jacob was well enough to send out again while I wrote letters to the newspapers. He started with the Garment makers and managed to get us a headline in the Post.


So I sent him again, and again, and again. One time he returned with a sweatshop worker who had small skill in first aid. However, eventually the conservatives put the place on high security, so he set out for another target. He made quick raids on the cable news station and the plastic factory, before I got Daphne to make him a black robe and sent him to the Halls of ultimate judgement. He did pretty well.


So he kept returning for the rest of the month. Once he picked up some corrupt evidence. Eventually I too was well enough to make a trip to the garment makers. However I ran after being accosted by 4 security guards. So I went to recruit more men for the cause. I soon discovered that I did not have enough street cred to recruit.


And so I started making trips to the Latte stand to kill conservative scum. When that closed down, I headed for the park instead.


However, It didn't work out the way I'd hoped.


So I stayed home to heal, and began realizing that I needed a break. I had been injured several times in the last month, and I needed someone else to lead. On March 1st, I decided to transfer leadership to another member of the liberal crime squad, so I could rest, and not just refine my image, but prepare a plan for the future.




As February ended, I discovered congress was acting on legislation. While none of the bills passed, it gave me hope to see that almost half the house of representatives was willing to roll back the arch-conservative nightmare.

Stuff I didn't mention: Buying spraypaint, as well as two guitars for those play street music.

[GreatJustice]

I'm up for it, though I have to ask how to get the screenshots.

[ed boy]

I'm afraid I don't have time to individually upload each picture and stick them in the right places, so I have a text update here with the version with pictures in a downloadable word document.

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Update with pictures

Spoiler: Update without pictures (click to show/hide)

March 1st. 2009:
My name is Jacob Jackson.
 
The conservatives have been a menace for longer than I’ve been alive. It was them who enslaved the poor, them who polluted the water and them who corrupted society into the foul mess that it is today. But they made a mistake. They made me strong, they made me angry, and they made me their enemy.
I was not alone. I had been recruited to the Liberal Crime squad, a group of radical leftists. Together, we had attacked and killed the conservative swine, but it seemed like our efforts had no impact. But I had my eyes on something bigger. I had my eyes on doing something that would shake the entire country.
 
 
Persus was the one who started it all. None of us knew his real name; none of us knew where he had come from. But he had come, and he had Liberated us from out oppression. He was wounded, and he had passed the command onto me, but it was clear that I was no leader. It was still him that inspired us.
 
Daphne was a kind lass who had a mind as quick as her feet, but she did not belong on the front lines.
 
Sabrina was a girl who knew her way around a guitar, and could cause quite the stir with her music.
 
Kenneth was a mutant like me, and Sabrina’s partner in music.
 
Jesse was another mutant one with quite the tailoring skill.
 
Carl had been a modern-day slave, making clothes sixteen hours a day. He was still suffering from his years of abuse, and we needed to support him through it.
 
The other Carl was another mutant, who was a failed law student, though he still knew his way around the books.
 
And finally there was Jane, the third in our musical trio. Where the others were the performers, she took the business side of things.
And so I took my first orders as leader of the Liberal Crime Squad. The first order of business was to split up. Persus was wanted for murder, and he in danger. At any point the door could come crashing down, and the police would execute us all for being in the same room as him.  I had to separate him from the others. There was only one person I trusted to stay with him while he was wounded, and that was me. He would come with me to the Abandoned toy factory. The others would keep their noses clean.
March 2nd, 2009:
Once we were set up, Persus was happy to continue writing letters. I made sure he had a rifle to defend himself if something happened while I was gone, and left to head to the homeless shelter. I wanted to spread the liberal word.
March 3rd, 2009:
I needed more mobility to get around. Going by foot just wasn’t cutting it. We didn’t have enough money to buy a car, and I didn’t know how to steal one. I needed to find someone who could. I set off to the park.
Although I didn’t end up finding a locksmith like I wanted, I did find a man who was more magnetic than any other I had met. Thor McPhail was his name.
 
Similarly, Paige Riffle was full of Liberal vigour, and she happened to know a thing or two about locks.
 
March 4th:
I decided to head to the internet café, to see if I could find anyone who knew about science.
I talked to a bunch of engineers, but with no success. I decided that the best thing to do would be to take some courses at the local university.
March 14th: I’ve finally learned enough from the university to feel confident putting it to the test. I headed off the the housing projects. I felt bad to steal from the poor and impoverished, but I knew that they would be better off supporting us. I cracked all the locks and stole what little I could, which was not enough.  However, I was able to gain two new recruits in Thor and Paige.
 
March 15th:
The three of us hit up the university apartments. Lots of loot to be had there, and I was able to show them a bit about lockpicking. However, we were spotted and had to run away.
March 16th:
I asked our tailors for police uniforms. They set to work while we hit up the downtown apartments. Breaking into the doors wasn’t a problem, but avoiding conservative eyes was. Although we weren’t caught in any rooms, we couldn’t keep out cool and were outed.
Match 17th:
I decided we needed some wheels. I set the three of us to fan out, and we each tried find a car. It would be a sports car or nothing.
March 19th:
Paige managed to hotwire a car:
 
March 20th:
With out new-found mobility, we went to the nuclear power plant. How I would love to melt the whole place down, but instead we had to satisfy ourselves with smashing their displays.
 
March 21st:
We went to the power plant again, this time wearing our uniforms. A fake badge and all eyes turned away from us.
 
March 22nd:
To the police station we went today. We were able to free so many oppressed from its lockup.
 
March 23rd:
We went to the Army base today. They have mountains of equipment lying about, but it’s all behind doors that we couldn’t open.
March 24th: Army base again today. We were able to get past the first set of doors and grab a M4, but the rest of the doors were beyond us.
March 25th: Jackpot. M4s and body armour for all. We looted to army base of everything short of the armoury. The ordinary soldiers gave us no notice, and the canines were charmed to the liberal cause.
 
March 26: We went to the pawnshop to sell loot and buy amminution. We were fully stocked and had $4500 left over.
March 27th: Fully armed and armoured, we went to the crack house to try and eliminate the gangs that controlled it. Though there were only three of us, and we were not very good at shooting, out uniforms let us pick our battles and we fought where we outnumbered them.
March 28th: We went to the homeless shelter, to see if we could round up some other supporters for the liberal cause, but none seemed promising.
March 29th: We went to the CEO castle. Upon arriving, it was clear that our army uniform would not pass here, so we left
March 30th: We returned to the CEO castle, this time wearing police uniform. We tried to get into the safe, but it was beyond us.
 
March 31st: We donned the body armour again and headed for the power plant. This time, we were here to recruit a lab tech.
Over the whole of march, we were up by £1344.
April 1st: We moved from the toy factory to the fertilizer plant to avoid police attention.
April 2nd: We went to the cable news station. However, the body armour gave us away and we had to retreat.
April 3rd: We went to the news station again, this time wearing police uniforms. We had much more success, putting on a wildly popular show.
 
April 4th: We snuck into the prison, but couldn’t get past the locked door.
April 5th: We kitted up in body armour and rifles again, and went to thin out the gang members at the crackhouse again. We were also able to gain a new LCS member that day – Bartholemew Tailboys, lab tech. He was immediately put to work teaching science.
 
April 6th: We went to the Plastic factory to cause trouble. However, we realized too late that army bodyarmour was unsuitable.
April 7th: To the crackhouse again. We needed to juice up. However, a rifle mistake alienated everyone and we retreated.
April 8th: Crackhouse again.
April 9th: Crackhouse again.
April 10th: To the abandoned Toy factory to avoid heat buildup
April 11th: It looks like the toy factory is not secret enough still. We rented a downtown apartment for maximum secrecy. We were able to stay for free.
 
April 12: We all headed to the university to get even more science learning under our belts.
April 23rd: We started repeairing and cleaning the clothes and armour we had.
April 28th: The three of us headed to the nuclear power plant. We picked the lock to the side door, stepped through and realised that army body armour would not be a good disguise here. We retreated.
April 29th: We came back the next day wearing police uniforms. M16s stashed in out packs. Again we picked the lock to the side door, and we crept through the building, until we finally arrived at what we came for – the controls to the power plant.
 
This is what I had spent the past two months trying to do.  I tried to remember what I could of my crash course in science…
 
The tension between the three of us was so thick it was almost suffocating…
 
And then it paid off. The reactor overloaded.
We rushed outside the building and played the part of police officers, reassuring everybody that everything was under control. Once we made it to the car, we floored it.
 
This is the moment of change for the LCS. Previously, we were just another gang, a negligible blip in the murder rates in a poor part of town. The news took no notice of us, our message could not be spread, and the public would wallow in silence. Now things change. We have struck a great blow against the conservative establishment. Across the country, the world even, the name of the Liberal Crime Squad will be known. The oppressors will try to denounce us, will channel the media hate machine against us. Already they are emptying their dictionaries, calling us murderers, thieves, even terrorists. But we are none of those; we are Liberators, and the LCS will prevail.
But it will not prevail with me in charge. My days have come to an end. I was never a leader of the LCS. I neglected out members, treating them as nothing more than cattle to support my personal efforts. My role as leader is over, the position shall pass to one of my lieutenants.  I will stay with the LCS, but I shall not try to lead again. I have done what I wanted, struck a great blow against the nuclear filth that pollutes the country. Even if I die now, I shall die a victorious martyr, for the winds of change are blowing, and the LCS will be victorious.

I suggest the next person take over as Thor McPhail or Paige Riffle.

[NES630]

Alrighty, my turn... expect a post tomorrow.

I'm not a fan of images, so I'm going to try and be really descriptive instead.