Liberal Crime Squad: Go forth to stop EVIL

[Organic Fapcup]

Hello, and welcome to some manner of a Let's Play. As you might guess, I'm playing Liberal Crime Squad.

Liberal Crime Squad is a roguelike/strategy RPG where you command a group of Liberals on a quest to turn the United States of America into a socialist paradise, while keeping the Conservative Scum from turning the country into a backwoods, yet corporate hellhole where Ronald Reagan is king and slavery and child labor is reintroduced.

I'll attempt to do a semi-serious narrative scratch that, but I don't promise quality, nor to do better than Tavern does at X-Com.

Without further ado, let's begin!

The lovely title screen. I'll be playing the latest version, so there might be a few glitches.

We'll be playing with National LCS and Nightmare Mode on. Nightmare Mode will make the game significantly harder. At least at first.

As the game puts it: Grinding is Conservative.

Our founder will be named Zebulon Buttman. Sex has some effect on gameplay, if relatively minor. Since this is a Liberal game, your character doesn't have to obey the oppressive gender binary - you can make xyr a ~genderqueer~. This will be fixed later.

The game will now present us with some questions, which will determine the founder's starting stats. I want the founder to be a charismatic, highly persuasive leader.

E - the Sandanista Front won the elections in Nicaragua. (+2 CHA)

E - my father lectured me endlessly, trying to make me think like him. (+1 CHA, +1 Psychology)

E - I was the class clown. I even had some friends. (+1 CHA, +1 Persuasion)

D - my parents divorced. Mom slept with the divorce lawyer. (+1 Seduction)

B - I played guitar in a grunge band. We sucked, but so did life. (+2 CHA, +2 Music)

B - and I went to live with my dad. He had been in Nam and he still drank. (+1 Shotgun, +1 Rifle, +1 Psychology)

E - I was resorting to controlling people. Had my own clique of outcasts. (+1 CHA, +2 Persuasion)

C - I got a horrible job working fast food, smiling as people fed the man. (+1 CHA, +2 Business)

B - I bought myself an assault rifle. (Start equipped with an AK-47 and 9 clips)

E - writing my manifesto and refining my image. I'm ready to lead. (+2 CHA, +2 INT, +1 Writing, +1 Law, +2 Persuasion, +50 Juice, $50, Industrial Tenement Safe House)

And so it begins.

We definitely need a slogan, so put some suggestions out there. If you end up joining the Liberal Crime Squad, I don't promise not to send you to your death.

 

[c-no]

Possible slogans (From Chris and/or the CWCki Forum):
Virginia is for Virgins
There are no elections
Above and beyond normal punishment
sponsored by Kraken Rum
JULAAAAY
ban all dads RIGHT NOW

How are those for slogans?

Edit: New Slogan suggestion
Enjoy the spaghetti

 

[Quail]

We definitely need a slogan, so put some suggestions out there. If you end up joining the Liberal Crime Squad, I don't promise to send you to your death.

'Trigger Warning: Liberal Crime', so we'll get news reports about how our brave SJW's made sure to warn the vile Conservatives of their imminent triggering by AK.

 

[Organic Fapcup]

We're back!

Here's our founder's stats. He's charismatic, persuasive and has a Liberal gun with ammo to spare. Unfortunately, he won't be using that gun. And... there's something highly oppressive in this picture. Have you noticed it?

Spoiler: TW: Fixed oppression

That's right! Zebulon was labeled as Male Scum, which is not only incredibly triggering but also extremely problematic. I fixed this problem by correcting xyr's oppressive gender label.

With that problem out of the way, let's look at the laws. As you can see, the laws, and most of the United States' Government are rated Arch-Conservative. This affects gameplay in several ways, as we'll see.

It's time to go forth to stop EVIL. The first thing to do is recruit some members for the squad.

Here's downtown Seattle. You'll notice the effects of the Arch-Conservative laws right away - some of these locations have different names and units depending on the laws. For instance, the Fireman HQ usually appears as a Firefighter Station, but with Arch-Conservative Free Speech laws, the normally peaceful Firefighters become Conservative Firemen, dedicated on burning away "unauthorized speech".

Right now, we're going to the Goodyear Condos.

"By the non-Christian deities! Liberalism truly has been forgotten!"
At the start of the game, you'll have a hard time finding Liberals and Moderates. Actions on most locations (such as the Fireman HQ or the Death Squad HQ shown earlier) cause public opinion to shift, which will slowly but surely turn the public more Liberal!

Once you find some Moderates (or Liberals, if you're lucky), you can talk to them and attempt to schedule a meeting with them, to further discuss various issues. Conservatives can also accept to discuss these issues, but unless your Persuasion skill is really high, they rarely accept.

Right now, I'm trying to get a Professional Thief to join up with me. They've got high stealth stats which come in handy for early site actions. They also always come disguised as other classes, such as Socialites and Critics.

This particular Critic wasn't disguised
I didn't break off the meetings with him, however, because he can help me train my Persuasion skill, and he's got Writing and Music skills, which could come in handy.

I go to the pawn shop where I sell the jewelry I Liberated from the apartment.

The rest of January is rather uneventful. As February starts, however...

We rob a bank.

We hire a thief.

We start our own newspaper.

And the Conservative Scum arrest our writer.

It is now the 7th of April. Next time, we try to bust out our writer, we do a few more site actions, and we attempt to start a Liberal rock band. We still need a slogan!





Current Team:

 

[exball]

A whole block a cheese.

 

[Dr. Tremolo]

Priest Jerzy Popiełuszko mentioned in a game? Never thought I'd ever see something like that.

 

[Organic Fapcup]

Welcome back! Let's rescue a writer.

I'm sending my thief alone. This'll either end really well or everyone dies.

First, I'll need a proper disguise. This kind policeman provides us with one.

Better.

And one for the writer.

Here we go, I found the cells.

The rescue is successful, for now. Notice how Raphael's cheap suit is Conservative red instead of Liberal green? It means the outfit isn't an appropriate disguise for the location.

Much better.

Though the Conservatives spot us (due to Raphael's nonexistant disguise skill) and raise the alarm, the squad escapes uninjured.

The HQ closed down, in response to our Liberal Rescue Attempt. The Bank being on high alert comes from the first robbery we pulled off.

Zebulon's squad goes to the Park to turn some Conservative Scum to the side of Truth and Liberalism. They attempt to convert a News Anchor, an important Conservative job who can turn Liberals to the Dark Side through Faulty, Tainted Logic and Backwards Thinking.

It goes unsuccessfully, but we got a cop to join the band instead. Could be worse.

The last time I checked the polls, I noticed only 18% of people would boycott companies using sweatshops. That's dangerously Conservative. We need to fix that.

We send our thief unarmed and naked to the sweatshop to break some machines and Liberate some workers.

It's shameful how the Cisheteroconservapatriarchy oppresses these poor immigrants. Let this image fuel your Liberal rage.

The sweatshop's equipment are the tools of the Oppressor. In order to bring about change, we must destroy them.

And when all is destroyed, we finally Liberate some workers from their cruel masters. The best part is, they join the team!

This is one of them. As you can see, his stats aren't particularly good - other than the low Wisdom stat. You should notice that his Juice (effectively experience points) are extremely low, at -20. If your Liberal's Juice ever reaches -50, he'll turn into a Conservative! Don't let that happen!



And that's it for now. Next part, we Liberate more Liberals, add more members to the band and make them better musicians.