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The year was 2009.

Conservative President Steve Spencer ends his second term with approval ratings in the high 70's, and was succeeded by hardcore Arch-Conservative Travis Maclaren.

With Conservatives sweeping into power in the House of Representatives and Senate, and a Conservative majority in the Supreme Court of the United States, commentators hailed it as the beginning of a new Conservative era.

President Travis Maclaren had asked the new Congress to move to quickly to rubber stamp his radical Arch-Conservative agenda. The left seemed helpless to stop the imminent trampling of Liberal Sanity and Justice.

In that dark time, the Liberal Crime Squad was born...

Current Safehouses: Homeless Shelter, Old Cox Paper Mill, Smitty Meat Factory.
Current Location: All Liberals are at the Smitty Meat Factory.
Current Vehicles: White 1995 SUV.
Notes: All LCS members currently have $500 each.

President: Travis Maclaren
Vice President: Bob Quirk
Secretary of State: Mark Doyle
Attorney General: Chris Shrapnel

House
122 Arch-Conservatives
136 Conservatives
73 Moderates
63 Liberals
41 Elite Liberals

The Senate
25 Arch-Conservatives
35 Conservatives
18 Moderates
15 Liberals
7 Elite Liberals

http://lcs.wikidot.com/political-system <--- That's a good list of what Liberals want and don't want, as well as a short tidbit on what each law does at Conservative and Liberal status.

Abortion Laws: Conservative
Animal Research: Arch-Conservative
Police Behavior: Arch-Conservative
Privacy Rights: Moderate
Death Penalty: Moderate
Nuclear Power: Conservative
Pollution: Arch-Conservative
Labor Protection: Conservative
Gay Rights: Moderate
Corporate Law: Conservative
Free Speech: Moderate
Flag Burning: Liberal
Gun Control: Conservative
Civil Rights: Arch-Conservative
Religion: Moderate
Drug Law: Conservative
Election Reform: Arch-Conservative
Immigration: Arch-Conservative
Women's Rights: Moderate

If you want to get public opinion, you should search for an opinion poll.

You should also decide on a slogan in your spare time.

Also, this first post is kind of big, but most first posts are.

0: Your attempts at being Liberal have backfired horribly, probably causing your death, the death of your allies, and explosions for no reason. You need negative modifiers to roll this.
1: You have messed up horribly making things exponentially worse than they already were!
2: Whatever you were trying to do failed. Try again next round?
3: Neutrality. You've screwed up in a way that the situation hasn't changed at all.
4: You succeeded, but still failed in some way, shape, or form. Still, you succeeded!
5. You've done whatever you tried to do, no fuss, just a job well done.
6: You've did your action with style and flair, causing extra awesomeness and bonus Juice gain!
7: You're too Liberal for your own good. You may have caused Conservative after-effects! You need bonus modifiers to get this.
8+: Your actions are truly Elite Liberal. You're so incredibly badass that whatever you did probably killed all Conservatives in a 5 mile radius. You need bonus modifiers to get this.

Similar to Juice in the real Liberal Crime Squad, it'll add bonus modifiers to everything you do. Everyone begins at zero Juice and it goes up by performing Liberal actions. It goes up to a maximum of 1000. There will be different stages of juice gain.

-1 to -50 Juice - -1 modifiers to all rolls you do! Can only get to this level if your actions are Conservative enough or a high-ranking Conservative performs a psyche attack! If you somehow get below -50 Juice all actions will be -2!

0 to 25 Juice - No modifiers to anything you do. All players start at this.

26 to 50 Juice - Every roll you perform will have a 50% chance of having a +1 bonus!

51 to 100 Juice - All your rolls will have a guaranteed +1 bonus.

101 to 500 Juice - All your rolls have a +1 bonus with a 50% chance of becoming +2.

501 - 999 Juice - All your rolls are +1 with a 80% chance to become +2.

1000 Juice - All your rolls are guaranteed +2 and you gain the prestigious title of Elite Liberal.

Note that certain Conservatives have their own version of Juice, and will get bonuses accordingly. If you ever fight an Arch-Conservative you may even be facing +2 modifiers!

Name: Your Liberal's name.
Profession: Your job before you devoted your life to the Liberal Crime Squad. Optional.
Background: An optional background for your character.
Appearance: What your Liberal looks like.
Perk: See the spoiler below!

 When you create your character, you can choose one Liberal perk for your character. These are not preset and can be anything from +1 to fighting Police Officers to -1 to getting hit. Be creative! There are some examples below.

Ninjality - +1 to using Swords or Daisho.
Conspiracy Theorist - +1 to rolls against Agents.
The name is Bond - -1 to all rolls of Conservatives trying to detect you.

Etcetera, etcetera. Feel free to make up whatever you want. If I think it's too overpowered or such, I'll let you know.

 You do not start with Skills, rather you must earn them through repeated use. For example, using an SMG for a long time will make you proficient with them, granting bonuses to using them. Break enough Conservative spines with your bare hands and you'll become a black belt in no time!

 During battle between the forces of Liberalism and Conservatism, there will be two rolls made.

The first roll is the 'accuracy' roll. The attacker and the defender will both roll 1d6, and whoever gets the highest number will hit/dodge accordingly. In the event of a tie, the dice are rerolled until someone wins. Naturally, it is affected by perks and skills that would affect hitting and dodging.

The second roll is the 'damage' roll. This uses the earlier established dice rules, so if you roll a 0, expect the bullet to ricochet off their head, rebound off the ceiling, and hit you in the groin. Conversely, if you roll an 8, expect your shots to turn into Flaming Bullets of JUSTICE, blowing your target into a gory mess.

On a related note, damage is handled realistically, like most other RTD's these days. No HP system for you!

Name: Aiden Marcusson
Profession: Judo Sensei!!
Background: Born with an interest in anything Asian, especially martial arts, Aiden started to learn martial arts at an early age. His favourite was, and always will be Judo, though.
Appearance: Long, straight back hair, dark green eyes, and a pale complexion.
Perk: Martial Arts: +1 to melee chance to hit, +1 melee defense

Name: Sayyid Al-Harani
Profession: Programmer
Background: An Arab immigrant, Sayyid was singled out in his Conservative workplace for looking like a "Terrorist". he came to america looking for enough money to help his family, due to all the democratic revolutions.
Appearance: Arabic decent, black hair, green eyes and a trimmed beard.
Perk: Computer expert: +1 to using computers.

Name: Jake Read
Profession:White Bill Cosby
Appearance: Short brown hair, blue eyes, Redneck beard mustache combo (:
Background: Ever since Jake was 12 he always talked super awesome!
Perk: Knowing what the jazz is all about: +10000000000 to all socialization rolls.

Name: Kraut
Profession: Mercenary
Background: Born in 1976, Kraut was Hired by a Conservative CEO to protect and defend the CEO residence, He was usually regarded as the "Aimmeister" because of his Shooting skills, but after discovering a document one of them CEO's left on the ground, he just took his pay for March and left, joining the LCS
Appearance: Short Grey hair, Heavily scarred face, half blind left eye
Perk: Sharpshooter Mercenary : Can buy guns from other Mercs, Liberal or not, +1 to firing at medium or long ranges

Name: John Adams
Profession: Former Elite Liberal Senator.
Background: John Adams is 31 years old. Originally, John was a Liberal Senator. However, due to the Conservative corruption, John has been kicked out and has decided to join the LCS.
Appearance: Somewhat like a generic handsome American actor. Dark blue eyes, black suit (with a card saying "I AM NOT AN AGENT"), black hair, black shoes, black pants, black... blacks.
Perk: Convincing Arguments: Able to freeze conservatives up in Convincing Arguments, similar to a guitar attack, just without the guitar. Additionally, he gets +1 convincing in friendly conditions around other Liberals. (You may remove the +1 if you think of it overly Liberal)

Name: Kobrag Innsmouth.
Profession: Slaughterer at an Abattoir
Background: A very angry and yet flirtatious douche
Appearance: Long brown hair sweeps down to his shoulders, he hides his brown-black eyes with transitions lenses and has overtly Germanic/jewish features. He wears an Ensiferum fan-shirt,  a long leather coat and ballloning black jeans tucked into high leather boots. 
Perk: Cattleman: +1 to knife use.