For the finale: Recap

[Darla]

I know it's so early to be thinking about the finale, but I know how much work you put at the end, Sam, forming the recap. So I'll write down what I remember here throughout the game (or as long as I'm in it?)

Round 1:

- 10 Fingers icebreaker/Never have I ever

- Spies5Caela (10:54:25 PM): Any ideas for our first victim (It will have to be second imprisonment i think)
which resulted in Subhi calling her out in the burg and Caela role-claiming immediately after to the chat (giving details to Katie)

- Darla wins the tiebreaker (woot)

- Frantic witchhunt for inactives, only to find everyone is present and accounted for

- Donnie talks to the West Side gang and asks them to vote together, a move which Vince and Angus find extremely suspicious

- Cookie and Shikuza fight heatedly right after roles are given on the issue of whether Sam would give a role or a Spy label to an inactive. Samantha later (round 8) says "that argument with her and shiz is the most retarded i've witnessed"

[Darla]

Round 1 continued:

- Angus mentions in a chat room that he believes Paige has a role: The Hooker. He believes this role is a spy role meant to roleblock citizens. Shizuka, Vince, Samantha, and Darla consider his announcement reckless since he never discussed it with Paige first, and denounce him for exposing Paige to possible imprisonment. Angus adamently defends his public announcement as necessary and vital.

- Guile calls players out for being too eager to vote for Caela, considering the popular "exile an inactive first!" sentiment that originally swept through the burg.

- Caela (possibly??) breaks the Big Rules by revealing her identity in a chat room

[Darla]

- John and Paige show up just for the exile, leading people to believe they might take an active interest in the game, but disappear without contributing after the exile ends

- Caela is exiled and leaves in one of the most hilarious exits ever

- Caela confirms her Punisher role by having Sam verbally punish Guile, who rhymes with pile.

[Judge Sam]

Thank you I will use this.

[Darla]

Round 2:

I can't tell if anything big is happening.

- Various players are posting suspicions in the burg.

- Finger pointing activity

- Notably MIA players - Delilah, Desmond, Finn, Paige, John

- Imprisonment delayed

- Katie argues that Caela lied about her role; the rest of the Burg disagrees

- Imprisonment fails

[Darla]

Hey Sam, could you please do me a favor and sticky this at the top of my confessional?

[Darla]

Round 2:

- FoS suspicions point to Guile, Katie, Shizuka, and Skittle. Point away from Brody, Cy, and Vince.

- Katie role-claims. Vince decides to not block Katie's vote and block Guile's instead.

- Majority of players don't believe Katie's role claim and think she's a spy with or without a role.

- John shows up to chat and is told by every player that he needs to participate more. Somehow this offends him, but he refuses to resign and let a more dedicated alternate take his place.

- The day before exile the vote appears to be between Paige and Katie, with a few lone gunmen shooting at other targets

- Skittle and Darla fight over whether Katie or Paige should be exiled (Skittle: Vote for either; Darla: Vote for neither)

(8:39:15 PM) spies5Skittle: if me voting this way makes me look like a bad cit or like scum im sorry but i gotta vote my heart and not someone elses
(8:39:27 PM) spies5Darla: try voting with your brain first?

[Darla]

Sticky this sticky sticky sticky sticky please.

[Darla]

HUZZAH! Thanks Sam.

[Darla]

Round 2:

Votes split. Luke receives 5 votes, Cookie/Desmond/Skittle receive 4 votes, John/Shizuka/Jillian/Katie receive 3 votes - out of 31. John, Delilah, and Finn receive penalties. John's penalties plus his 3 votes from Beatrix, Cy, and Marshall give him the majority to be exiled. No one in the burg is sorry to see him go. Angus's goodbye poem in the Field is just a short Haiku.

- Paige is replaced

- Players waffle on whether Katie should be exiled immediately or given time to defend her role claim. In the end, only Sophia, Cookie, and Luke vote for her.

- Sam reveals new parts of the chart and explains that the boxes represent Spies and the lines represent when they learn of another's identity.

[Darla]

Round 3:

- Angus and Skittle have some bizarre conversation where Angus tells Skittle he's voting for him, then drops hints to some kind of inside information.

- Brody admits he accused Skittle at exile 2.

[Darla]

Round 3:

- Vince is imprisoned. Angus makes his longest goodbye poem to date.

- Most people aren't surprised to see Vince go. Subhi accuses some of those who aren't surprised of being hostile and suspicious.

- Judge Sam announces elections will be held. Many people begin to campaign without even knowing what they're campaigning for.

- Council 0f 9 Elections - You are encouraged to lobby for the support of your fellow gang members so that they will vote for you to be elected to the Council. This may include making ribbons, banners, advertisements, buttons, false promises, and grandiose statements. (I LOVED that, Sam)

- Chain challenge. East Side completely dominates, earning plasma screen points, smashing chains left and right and making links as fast as they can.

- Poor Otto and Apollo try in vain to lead their morale-less teams to victory, much to the amusement of the East Side

[Darla]

Round 3:

- Council Of Nine Election Results:
West: Donnie, Otto, Sophia
East: Darla, Angus, Samantha
South Central: Apollo, Beatrix, Evie

- Beatrix is caught in an embarassing sex scandal and is removed from the Council. East Council members decide to give Beatrix's seat to Jiselle.

- Brody posts his suspicions on Marshall, who is noticably lurking and refuses to discuss his suspects with anyone. Marshall's main defense is "eat a dick and die". Players agree that Marshall is a newbie, but are divided on whether he is a newbie Spy or Citizen.

- Marshall and Leticia are the major suspects at exile. Most Council members vote on these suspects. Darla, Jiselle, and Apollo stray and place their votes on different suspects.

- Darla wins the investigation.

- Jillian and Leticia accuse Darla of being a Spy. Darla has a mini-meltdown from juggling defending herself and the stress from the upcoming council vote and the investigation.

- Marshall is exiled by a majority council vote. He is citizen #5 to be taken out of the game.

[Darla]

Round 4:

- Darla investigates Jillian and is mildly surprised to learn Jillian is a citizen.

- Darla receives a note from the Messenger asking her to give the results of the investigation. Skeptical, Darla decides it is Jillian's decision to make, not hers.

- Luke declares his true love to Carly and proposes to her.

- Carly and Sophia fight in the Burg over who is the bigger bitch.

[Darla]

Round 4:

- Desmond finally makes an attempt to play the game and for some inexplicable reason (I'm so biased in these recaps) Luke feeds him things to say like Desmond is his personal parrot. Suspicions center around Luke and Desmond and whether they are spy partners, a spy preying on a gullible citizen, or a citizen trying to help a disinterested citizen.

- Katie and Shizuka advocate to exile Darla without giving her time to work with the citizen she investigated. Cookie, Leticia, Evie and Sophia agree and try to push Darla's exile.

- General fun and hilarity ensue in late night group chats.

- The Messenger contacts Jillian. They agree not to reveal the Messenger's identity to Darla.

- Brody is imprisoned. In a series of posts immediately before, he accuses Darla of being a Spy for not posting in the Burg that Brody was a Spy to see who comes to him.

- Darla tells Cy that she investigated him and found out he's a citizen, so she can keep a closer eye on him

- Sophia becomes a major exile target through her fence-sitting and strange comment at the end of exile 3, where she blames her constituents for her Marshall vote

[Darla]

Round 4:

- A bunch of shit I don't know about happened with Sophia role claiming to Angus. Angus somehow already knew who the roleblocker detective claim belonged to.

- Some other shit I don't know about happened with Carly teaming up with Angus to push votes onto Sophia

- Sophia posts right before exile that she is a Spy and she wants Angus to be imprisoned

- Sophia is exiled. The burg's first Spy is caught.

[Darla]

Round 5:

- Spies 1-6 meet for the first time.
I just edited this now, in round 12. When I first posted it, it read "All the spies meet for the first time

- Some stupid drama with Cy: Cy and Darla discuss Carly. Cy posts in public chat:

spies5Cy: darla will be behind a carly lynch

Darla adamantly denies she ever said such a thing to anyone. Cy says he meant to post that in his confessional instead. Carly doesn't believe Cy and posts that Cy must be a Spy.

- Darla confesses to Carly that she faked Cy out and told him she investigated him.

[Darla]

Round 5:

- Darla posts publically that she lied to Cy about investigating him

- People continue to accuse Cy of being a spy for his slipup

- Testing for the challenge to follow exile 5 (presumably)

- Guile forms a plan to accuse Xavier of being a spy to see who changes votes, but ditches the plan after Carly and Darla talk her out of it

- The Messenger has Jillian contact another person previously messaged to gauge how curious this person is about the Messenger
After the fact edit: This person was Xavier

[Darla]

Round 5:

- Carly changes her picture to that of a jackel and runs around the burg yipping like crazy.

- Otto and Apollo jokingly form the Dreamboat Alliance based on a viewer's love for them:

spies5Apollo: Wait why would I have to use my irrresistble eyes on Sam?
spies5Jillian: To distract him!
spies5Jillian: What kind of man are you? You must help a damsel in distress.
spies5Darla: also you plled Apollo back in, he must be irresistabl drawn to your charms
spies5Apollo: Clearly. Otto and I have a secret dreamboat alliance.
spies5Darla: hahahaha
spies5Apollo: And of course I'll help you Jillian. I just didn't know why :-P
spies5Darla: the watchrs will be thrilled
spies5Otto: yeah
spies5Otto: apollo and I are dreamboats
spies5Otto: however, I'm more of an "irrational" favorite
spies5Jillian: I half agree.
spies5Darla: but it's not a secret dreamboat alliance anymore, just dreamboats
spies5Jillian: Apollo is a dreamboat.
spies5Otto: the apollo half?
spies5Otto: haha, yeah
spies5Jillian: Otto is a boat.
spies5Otto: hahahaha
spies5Darla: a dinghy
spies5Apollo: lol
spies5Otto: damn, that's hateful
spies5Darla:
spies5Otto: remind me to send you an invite to the player haters ball
spies5Darla: what does tat even mean
spies5Jillian: Apollo = dream, Otto = boat. Apollo + Otto = Dreamboat.
spies5Darla: My irrational favorite is Otto. He makes me swoon. I would have been all over that. And Apollo is a dreamboat even if he does make stupid posts. And I like Mr. Tribble for obvious reasons.
spies5Apollo: Yes for stupid posts
spies5Otto: apollo, you're apparently the sexy stupid one
spies5Darla: the are so weird
spies5Darla: hahahahahaha
spies5Apollo: Guilty.
spies5Otto: yeah, or both



- Cy is exiled. Sam reveals he was Sophia's original partner.

- Cy's fellow Spies decide Cy is a sinking ship? They don't defend him publically at all? They vote for him to be exiled?

- The burg fails the bomb diffusing challenge. The Spies win extra rewards.

[Darla]

Whoopsies, got behind.

Round 6:

- Guile and Desmond are imprisoned. Before she signs off, Guile, the Eugenicist, names 6 players (Angus, Luke, Carly, Apollo, Otto, Subhi) who knew of her role and its details.

- Angus, Luke, Cookie, and Leticia reveal they knew of Desmond's role of Roleblock Detective.

- Luke tries to explain that all of the suspicious things he previously did in the game was to cover up Desmond and Guile's roles.

- Darla and Luke fight in chat. Darla refuses to speak to Luke and Luke sulks like a child for several days later.

- The burg is conflicted over whether to exile Skittle, Shizuka, or Subhi

- Skittle causes a stir by saying he has no major spy suspects and will vote by "throwing a dart" at the group of players he feel isn't contributing

- Apollo and Darla accuse Subhi of being a spy. At exile time, Subhi only receives 5 votes, all from himself for not voting.

- Skittle and Shizuka each receive 10 votes total (2 of Skittle's are penalties) and tie. At the revote, Cookie pushes players to vote for Shizuka on the grounds that spies would have wanted to accuse Skittle. Shizuka is exiled but her identity is not revealed.

[Darla]

Round 7:

- The Shootout officially begins.

- Subhi accuses everyone and their mothers of framing him of being a spy. He posts that Shizuka flipped citizen (even though there was no cardflip) and Darla and Apollo must be spies. Half an hour after he posts what Otto refers to as "the scummiest post this game has seen so far", Beatrix posts that she is the Dealer, she has investigated Subhi, and he is a Spy.

- Players question the validity of Beatrix's role, as it looks too good to be true, and debate whether to exile her before the shootout ends.

- Carly and Angus have a major blowout. Carly accuses Angus of being a Spy on the grounds that he hasn't worked with Katie to prove his role. Katie later reveals Angus hasn't worked with Katie because Carly has been making Katie work with her instead.

- Evie accuses Skittle of being a Spy on the grounds that he tried to "use" her Council of 9 vote in round 3.

- Carly posts an unsigned message from the "Medic" in the burg claiming that they trust Carly and that Carly should be left alone.

[Darla]

Shootout continued:

- Angus is suspicious of his beautiful attack poodle, Carly. He and Darla post their suspicions of her in the burg.

- The burg exiles Subhi as a result of Beatrix's "investigation". In a surprise twist, Sam says they have 48 minutes to vote out a new suspect. The result is chaos: Leticia attacks Luke, Luke and Finn defend Carly, Katie attacks Carly. In a vote where 12 of 20 players receive votes, Carly is exiled.

[Darla]

Shootout continued:

- Suspicions continue to circle around Leticia. Jillian, who knows Leticia is the Messenger, continues to build her case on Evie and encourages other players to vote for Evie. Maggie, who also knows Leticia is the Messenger, gets drunk and tells jokes in chat as exile time approaches.

- Leticia role claims to Otto and Paige in hopes that they will change their votes and not exile her. Paige is told an hour beforehand but forgets and thinks she was told 6 minutes before votes were due. She keeps her vote on Apollo. Otto and Leticia put their votes on Delilah instead of Evie.

- Leticia is exiled and suspicions fall on Paige and Maggie who knew of Leticia's role but did nothing to prevent her exile.

- Paige morphs into Rambo and tells the burg she is taking over because everyone's an idiot. This is one of the funniest moments of the game.

- Delilah is suspected and disliked by many because of her sarcastic posts, lack of solid suspicions on other players, and her rotten attitude.

- Otto uses timestamps to prove Paige knew of Leticia's role an hour before exile, not 6 minutes before as she claimed.

- Apollo makes a strong case against Angus in the government files.

- Darla is furious at Maggie for not preventing Leticia's exile.

- Paige is exiled.

[Darla]

Round 8:

- The shootout officially ends.

- Paige flips Citizen.

- Subhi flips Spy.

[Darla]

Round 8:

- Jillian is imprisoned.

- Cookie comes to spies5chat and says
spies5Cookie: hey Darla
spies5Darla: hi
spies5Cookie: who else knew that Jillian was your investigee?

provoking discussion on why Maggie would tell Cookie that Jillian was Darla's confirmed citizen

- Otto posts he believes the Maggie exile is too easy and tries to switch votes to Angus.

- Katie talks to Beatrix and catches her contradicting a detail about her role claim. The votes switch to Beatrix.

- Players submit rumors

[Darla]

Round 9:

- Apollo is imprisoned. A broken-hearted Judge Sam threatens to switch allegiances from the Spies to the Citizens.

- Darla posts suspicions on Otto

- Players consider exiling Skittle

- A signal is seen in the burg!

[Judge Sam]

So, finale time in 1 or 2 episodes, and as usual the first thing to get cut when time was short was my thoughts/summaries. So can I use this as a guide for the recap? I'm going to do it episode by episode instead of day by day, and I'm cutting out the confessional quotes so hopefully it doesn't take as long. But this would be a great guideline.

[Darla]

Aww the confessional quotes are the best part. I made this for you, Sam; of course you can use it.

[Maggie]

Apr 20, 2008 15:48:17 GMT -5 Darla said:

Maggie, who also knows Leticia is the Messenger, gets drunk and tells jokes in chat as exile time approaches.

False. I never logged onto my AIM or visited the boards drunk this season.