BSG

Did you feel the burn on that jump, people? That was a jump and a half! Nice choice, Admiral! We'll be calling you Admiral Van Halen from now on. Admiral Kriss Kross, at least.

Doesn't the Sympathizer automatically end up in the Brig as well, since we've hit the Sleeper phase with a Resource in the red? Or am I not remembering how the Sympathizer works?

No, no, that's quite correct, it's just--

t flips loyalty card to reveal "You Are A Hottie Sympathiser"

So two strokes of good fortune here. First, I'm the Sympie. Ok, it's true, I'm a Cylon after all, but -- I'm a friendly Cylon! I can be like the ship's mascot or something! That'd be ok, wouldn't it? We can still be friends, right? ...Right?

Second stroke of luck is that this means I'm no more likely to be a (bad) Cylon as the rest of the crew. I mean, I get to look at my cards and from where I'm sitting I'm a lot less likely than the rest of you t looks suspiciously through bars - but of course I don't expect you to take it on faith.

Given me being human, that would mean that we have two Cylons currently running around and a quarter of the human team left somewhat ineffective. Thanks to my card draw, I have one huge drawback in here - I don't draw XOs. That means that in the normal course of events, the best I can usually do is to scout - and since I get a free Recon at the end of my turn, that's not as effective as it usually is.

For this reason, I'd like to make as much of an argument for my humanity as I can right now. Before this jump, with scouting missions and my Recon, I left no less than four jump icons on the top of the Crisis Deck. We've only had ten the whole game - 40% of our jump progress so far has been essentially under my control, and (as you can see) I've acted to propel us towards Kobol as fast as possible. A Cylon has no reason to do so - I could have buried those jumps without anyone being able to check up on me.

So I argue that there's clear evidence of my loyalties before the break. Having received the Sympathiser card, I've only one other card unaccounted for - which means there's only an 18% chance I could have drawn a Cylon card, and an 82% chance that you have a human in the Brig.

Anyway, I will (of course) not be trying to get myself out of here until the rest of you are comfortable with a free-range Boomer. That would just waste precious resources and take attention away from working out who the real threats are. I'll find ways to stay as useful as possible, and hopefully it won't take too long to give you guys reason to be confident in my loyalties. (Friendly Cylon! Really!)

The good news is, they've left me hooked up to the P.A. here, so I still get to talk to you all! Isn't that awesome?

And that is why I didn't post the sympathizer.

BSG

"You know, people who are innocent don't spend so much time yapping on about how innocent they are. You're in the brig for a reason, Cylon."

((please let me be clear the above is an in character roleplayey sort of comment and is not a player accusation. As we've only just hit sleeper phase, I have no idea who is or isn't a cylon.))

So, basically, there are for sure two cylons and they could be anyone? (Except me, of course.)

Assuming no cylons are about to reveal themselves, we're just waiting for my card draw, right?

I'm thinking because of my reroll, move to the Press Room, but play a scout as my action. What do people (and, by people, I mean humans) think? And, scout the crisis deck or destinations? I assume crisis given our location on the jump track.

BSG

So, basically, there are for sure two cylons and they could be anyone? (Except me, of course.)

More or less. It is possible that one player got both cards, but it's unlikely.

I think your suggested course of action is fine. t insert obligatory plug for XOs

Reminder, it costs one card to move from one ship to another. If you go to the Press Room, you'll want to choose a card to ditch.

BSG

Since you can only reroll on your turn, taking advantage of that makes a lot of sense.

I'd say that scouting the crisis deck would be more immediately useful than scouting the destination deck. We need to know what's ahead of us in terms of crises, since we WON'T even be capable of jumping again for at LEAST 3 turns (and that's hoping the next three crises have jump icons) let alone be able to jump without risk of population loss.

Scouting destination will eventually be useful, but moreso when we're further up the jump track.

And indeed, by scouting the crisis deck, you will be able to see if there are jump icons on the crisis cards you scout.

Moving to the press room--is it worth the card loss to get there? Since Boomer's not there to be drawing Yellow, I can see why you might want to take her place.

I have pretty sucky cards at the moment.

BSG

"You know, people who are innocent don't spend so much time yapping on about how innocent they are. You're in the brig for a reason, Cylon."

Hee. There is probably no faster way to look suspicious than to talk too much, especially about one's loyalties. Unfortunately, as is no doubt painfully apparent, I am simply unable to shut up about anything.

While I think of it too, Admiral, your choice of Destination went a long way to make me feel better about your loyalties, pre-Sleeper at least. If you can confirm it was the one left by the President, he'd be looking pretty good too.

bsg

Sorry for the delay in sending Helo's cards. I was running late for work this morning, and ran out of time with the sleeper phase and all. Helo has his card draw now.

Just when the game was getting a little dull and slow, now things will start to spice up!

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