[Mars Colony] On the Edge of Success
Tim C Koppang:
Gregor,
Right. Exactly. Your public failures you can correct. Your lies, on the other hand, you have to make public first before you can regain the public's admiration. That's why, after a Scandal, all the Deception points move over to Contempt first. From there, if Kelly isn't kicked out of the Colony, she can begin to regain some of the points by solving problems. In play, Deception is a much more permanent decision than it may at first seem.
Shona was very lucky from the sounds of it. But two things make me happy. First, the game still seemed to work. You both had fun. Second, is this:
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One scene left and Kelly left Corruption alone. The final progress scene was on Poverty, and amidst the backdrop of interference from Earth and doubts on Mars that Kelly was going to walk away from the Colony, we got resolution. Kelly got Poverty up to 34 and rolled one more time...
... I think we were both pretty fearful of the outcome ...
...6 and 5. Success. Glorious, slam dunk, Poverty solved and Mars gaining fiscal and some political independence success.
You both still felt the tension generated by the dice -- maybe even more so because you didn't want to break Kelly's near perfect record. I played in a game where Kelly could do little else but fail. 1s were expected. The tension in the game then had to come more from the fear of rolling Scandals. We were both asking ourselves, "Can Kelly hold her web of lies together just a little longer?" But in your case, any failure at all would have been disastrous because you were so very close to actually stabilizing the entire colony. That's pretty cool if I do say so myself.
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