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  • WIL WHEATON: Long before I piloted a starship around the

  • galaxy and reversed the polarity seven times a day,

  • before breakfast, rookies, I was a huge

  • fan of science fiction.

  • From the escapist space operas of the pulp era to the

  • dystopian tales of the post-nuclear 20th century,

  • science fiction captured my imagination

  • and inspired my life.

  • Spoiler alert, I love games set in a

  • science fiction universe.

  • So today, on "Table Top", Ashley Clements, Allison

  • Scagliotti, Felicia Day, and Amy Okuda are here to join me

  • in a dystopian world where a corrupt government has made

  • life miserable for its citizens, so miserable some of

  • us are trying to take that government down.

  • But some of us are actually loyal

  • government agents in disguise.

  • We are about to find out who is a spy and who is a loyal

  • member of The Resistance.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • The Resistance is a deception game designed by Don Eskridge,

  • set in the distant future, where corporations have

  • subverted democracy and taken over the world.

  • Yes, the distant future.

  • [TING]

  • We are all members of a highly trained espionage team

  • attempting to bring down the machine.

  • Unfortunately, two loyal government agents have

  • infiltrated our ranks.

  • Now these spies will know who the other is, but the loyal

  • members of the resistance do not.

  • And that's the game.

  • We're trying to ferret out those spies, so we can be

  • successful.

  • The game is played in five rounds.

  • Each round will start with a new leader.

  • At the beginning of the turn, the leader will nominate

  • players to go on a mission.

  • If we like the composition of the team, we will vote to

  • approve the team.

  • We use these markers to represent our vote.

  • Once a team has been assembled, those players vote

  • in secret for the mission to succeed or for

  • the mission to fail.

  • Now, if you are a resistance member, you must vote for the

  • mission to succeed.

  • But if you're a spy, you can vote for the mission to

  • succeed or fail, as suits your nefarious ends.

  • For the resistance to win the game, they must successfully

  • complete three of the five missions.

  • Otherwise the spies prevail.

  • Which one of us is a filthy, vile, awful betrayer?

  • Who is loyal?

  • Let's find out.

  • It is time to play The Resistance.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: I'm Ashley Clements.

  • And I'm an actor, best known on the web for playing Lizzie

  • Bennet in "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries".

  • AMY OKUDA: I'm Amy Okuda.

  • And I'm an actress.

  • And I think most people on the internet will know me as

  • Tinkerbella from "The Guild".

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: My name is Alison Scagliotti.

  • I'm an actor and a Virgo.

  • Right now, I play Claudia Donovan on "Warehouse 13."

  • FELICIA DAY: I am Felicia Day.

  • And I do a variety of things with acting,

  • writing, and producing.

  • And they are mostly on the internet.

  • WIL WHEATON: Welcome to The Resistance.

  • You will be able to identify me as we play,

  • because I am the dude.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: Ah, yes.

  • WIL WHEATON: Amy is going to be the leader

  • in the first round.

  • And now we will find out who is loyal and who is a spy, as

  • I mix the cards up.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: Better get my game face on.

  • WIL WHEATON: Ready?

  • There you go, Felicia, Ashley, Amy, Scaggs.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: I'm talking about.

  • WIL WHEATON: Wil.

  • All right, everybody look at your card, find out if you are

  • loyal or a spy.

  • Everybody knows who they are now.

  • OK, so everyone close your eyes.

  • Now spies open your eyes and make eye

  • contact with each other.

  • FELICIA DAY: So I'm a spy.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: Finding out that I'm a spy, I'm a

  • little bummed out.

  • That makes my job a little harder.

  • My job is to now throw people off my scent.

  • But I think I'm up for the challenge.

  • WIL WHEATON: Spies, you all know who you are.

  • Close your eyes, please.

  • Now everyone, open your eyes.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: Her eyes didn't dilate.

  • This one's a spy.

  • WIL WHEATON: Wow, look at that.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: Wow, that was really quick.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: Your eyes were exactly the same.

  • FELICIA DAY: So easy.

  • So easy.

  • It's so easy.

  • I told you.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: The ladies doth

  • protest too much, methinks.

  • WIL WHEATON: Yeah.

  • FELICIA DAY: Oh, no, no, look at her face.

  • AMY OKUDA: It's not.

  • No.

  • I'm.

  • No.

  • WIL WHEATON: OK.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: This is not convincing.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: I made eye contact with this one as soon

  • as she open her eyes, and there was no dilation.

  • They were exactly the same.

  • Allison's pupils did not change at all the second she

  • opened them, as if they had just been opened.

  • So she's a spy.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: I'm a resistance.

  • Look, I'm wearing blue.

  • No, I'm totally a spy.

  • WIL WHEATON: Amy, you're the leader.

  • Who would you like to have go on this first mission.

  • You need to nominate two players for this mission.

  • Who would you like to nominate?

  • AMY OKUDA: Well, I would like to nominate myself.

  • WIL WHEATON: Of course you would.

  • AMY OKUDA: Because--

  • WIL WHEATON: Because you're a spy.

  • AMY OKUDA: No, I'm not a spy.

  • FELICIA DAY: I think you're a spy.

  • You're a spy.

  • Look at your little face.

  • AMY OKUDA: I'm not-- you guys, really.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: It's exactly what spies do when

  • they're the leader.

  • You nominate yourself.

  • AMY OKUDA: My game plan is to have someone believe me.

  • WIL WHEATON: So there, that's the gun you're

  • carrying on the mission.

  • Be careful with it.

  • [BANG, BANG]

  • And who else would you like to nominate?

  • AMY OKUDA: I mean, I don't know.

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: Look at her closed body

  • language, you guys.

  • FELICIA DAY: No, I know--

  • AMY OKUDA: It's so you.

  • FELICIA DAY: I'm just trying to find another one.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: She's the spy.

  • You're picking the spy?

  • ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI: That's just mean.

  • AMY OKUDA: Because I think she's a spy.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: Yeah, but she's not going to give it

  • away the first round.

  • FELICIA DAY: I think one of these two is a spy, because

  • you're so easy.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: Yeah, exactly, I'm so easy, so you

  • know I'm loyal, because I'm a terrible liar.

  • FELICIA DAY: Yeah.

  • WIL WHEATON: I'm suspicious of Amy just because.

  • AMY OKUDA: Everyone's always suspicious.

  • WIL WHEATON: Right, good, now that we've settled that, let's

  • vote, then.

  • So you've got an approve and a reject in front of you.

  • So just flip them over, and we'll see.

  • Majority will rule here, reject, approve, approve,

  • reject, approve.

  • ASHLEY CLEMENTS: Yay.

  • WIL WHEATON: Yeah, I don't want Amy on this mission,

  • because I think Amy's a spy.

  • So here are your cards, your success and fail cards.