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{{quote|''{{smallcaps|WARNING: The scope of this game is narrower than that of real life. We have attempted to include [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|foul language, graphic violence, politics, religion, sexual references, adult situations, narcotics, prostitution, bodily functions and bad pickup lines]] , but Bay 12 Games recognizes that there might be omissions which will make some players uncomfortable. In light of these facts, use your discretion when making decisions about downloading LCS.}}''<ref>Although, considering just how outright 'horrible' those pickup lines and their responses are...</ref>}}
''[[Liberal Crime Squad]]'' is a freeware game made by Tarn Adams, maker of ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''. Tarn ceased development of ''[[Liberal Crime Squad]]'' in 2004, but in mid-2007 the Liberal Cause was taken up once again by Jonathan S. Fox, a forum regular at Bay 12 Games.
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As the name implies, LCS is a game about committing crimes in the name of the Liberal Cause (we need a slogan!), in the interests of making the world a freer and more tolerant place. Along the way, your noble cause will be opposed by many, including the police, extreme conservatives, and the nefarious Conservative Crime Squad (we also need a slogan!), who just want everyone to be safe and happy... [[Strawman Political|under the iron fist of a fascist government]]!
You and your liberal squadmates 'win' when your state's laws and regulations are rated L+ (Elite liberal) and the Government is Elite Liberal as well, and lose if the conservatives persuade those politicians to see things their way, and create a fascist police state (C+) where [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] is god. Don't let that happen!
There are a number of ways to persuade the people in power to see things liberally. First of all, you can free sweatshop workers and [[Destruction Equals Off Switch|destroy the machinery]] to cut into the conservatives' budget. You can also make T-shirts for fun and profit, and also to spread your liberal word far and wide. You can also kidnap and [[Brainwashed|brainwash]] numerous people, causing them to become '[[Deep-Cover Agent|sleepers]]' within their respective jobs, fighting for the liberal cause from the inside. You can of course also steal cars and cash to get around and to lubricate interactions with others, as these will become important parts of furthering the liberal cause as you progress.
The last 'official' release [http://bay12games.com/lcs/ can still be downloaded], and the latest open-source version can be found on [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/ SourceForge] the wiki [https://web.archive.org/web/20180811190337/http://lcs.wikidot.com/
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* [[AKA-47]]: Averted - it's a freeware game, there are no worries about gun manufacturers suing.
* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: Death Squad Officers summarily execute any criminals they catch.
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* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: Averted; the number of people a squad member can recruit is determined by their rank and certain skills, and the number of people the Squad can recruit total is technically infinite - recruiting people to recruit more people to recruit more people like some sort of guerrilla warfare pyramid scheme.
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: More skilled characters are more likely to live long enough to accumulate Juice, which directly impacts how many recruits a character can have under them.
* [[Badass]]: [[Took a Level In Badass|With enough juice and practice]], [[Badass Normal|anyone]] can become skilled enough to [[One-Man Army|mow down SWAT teams]]. Including [[Retired Badass|Retirees]] [[Never Mess
** [[Badass Driver]]: Anyone with sufficiently good driving skill. With 5 and a sports car, you can outrun everything. Driving (like all skills) caps at 20.
* [[Batter Up]]: Baseball bats are one of the many weapons available.
* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: Wearing the [[Dressing
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil|Being Tortured Makes You Liberal]]: The end result of any kidnapping not ended prematurely by escape, the police, or death of the hostage.
* [[Big Red Button]]: If one manages to sneak into a nuclear power plant, you may find a big red button that you can press to cause a nuclear meltdown. The catch? [[Guide Dang It|You need a certain skill to press the button]].
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** Sleeper agents. They act during their day jobs. Completely safe (since they are not part of the active LCS, they do not commit crimes), can shift public opinion depending on their profession, can smuggle items or money to one's safehouses (and, at 100% efficiency, they are never caught). Gain 1% or 2% efficiency at the end of each month. Plus some little extras (Cops can warn the LCS from imminent police raids, lawyers can defend liberals in a trial, and so on).
** Spray paint. It can win you the game for a mere 20$. Since crimes on site cap at 10, going somewhere, spraying 10 tags, going out, rinse, repeat, is an incredibly boring way to play the game, but is a surefire and almost foolproof way to win to victory.
** Shotguns. Common, inexpensive, easy to use, powerful, relatively simple to conceal (can be hidden under a trenchcoat), and the only firearms that are ''always'' legal no matter how liberal the gun control laws are, they're also single-shot-only, have virtually no critical hit chance, have poor armor penetration, and overall have substantially less [[Cool Gun|'cool' factor]] than assault rifles or
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: When an LCS squad wanted for murder counts in the thousands decides to do a rampage at the AM radio station, armed with M-16 and equipped with army body armor, they are [[Zerg Rush|met with waves of angry mobs with]] [[Torches and Pitchforks]].
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* [[Crapsack World]]: Starting the game in 'Nightmare' mode sets the game in an ultra-right-wing pseudo-fascist dystopia, complete with armored squads tasked to suppress 'Unacceptable Speech', Death Squads who deal with any crime, no matter how minor, by shooting it, and legalized slavery and child labor.
* [[Crowbar Combatant]]: Crowbars are one of the available weapons in LCS.
* [[Cursed
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: The CCS, your Conservative counterpart, is not only ignored by the police, army, and other government entities, but also can get some of the best weapons in the game regardless of weapon laws, and has exclusive access to the best armor in the game.
** They're implied to be either government- or corporate-funded.
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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]:
** Causing an alert will, regardless of the reason, cause the Conservatives to open fire and summon reinforcements. And one can cause alerts by simply plaing the guitar or hanging around in a club.
** The [[Exactly What It Says
** In general, Arch-Conservative Death Penalty laws makes execution the default punishment for any crime.
* [[Distracted
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Hostages not physically restrained at all times are prone to killing themselves, especially if they've been tortured.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: One of the available weapon at the Oubliette (called the Dwarven Hammer).
* [[Dystopia]]: Nightmare Mode starts you off in a hellish shadow of the USA where free speech is prohibited and suppressed by the Firemen, corporations run the country with legalized slavery and have full access to everyone's information at all times, pollution is sold as food (resulting in the poor starting to become mutants), the CIA have been replaced by the freaking ''Ministry of Love'', prisons are re-education facilities (not that it matters, as virtually everyone is sentenced to death, even down to crimes such as loitering and disturbing the peace), women have been reduced to second-class citizens, homosexuals are openly hated and prosecuted (one of the random newspapers shows the writer being ''shocked'' at someone who publicly lynched a homosexual being brought to trial for murder), virtually all government spending goes to the military, there is no immigration at all and anyone found in the country illegally is executed, the police have a division that is literally called the Death Squad (who go around shooting at any and all criminals with M16s and will execute anyone who surrenders to them), and the CCS (if present) is loved by the public. During a normal game, you might feel that the LCS's actions are unjustified. During Nightmare Mode, you will absolutely not. Even better, this is all bound to happen in normal mode if the LCS doesn't prevent public opinion from becoming conservative. Finally, if the USA stays in this state for too long, an Arch-Conservative Amendment repealing the Constitution and making the United States into the Confederate States (where instead of a president, Ronald Reagan is King for all time, Congress is made up of
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The LCS can go shoot random conservatives in a park, in apartments, take over the radio station for their own broadcast, press the [[Big Red Button]] at the nuclear power plant... But the LCS will NOT do any shootout at the hospital. [[Kick the Dog|The CCS, on the other hand, have no such restraints.]]
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: While gender is part of a character's stats, it's a Conservative notion and [[Purely Aesthetic Gender|has no effect on the game]]. [[Ho Yay|This means you're free to hook up any of your followers with anyone who needs seducing.]]
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* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: If free speech laws go arch conservatives, all swear words in the game are replaced by gosh dang it to heck vocabulary written between brackets.
* [[Hanging Judge]]: Conservative judges are called "Hangin' Judges" in game.
* [[Harder Than Hard]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Hollywood Law]]: Do well enough in court and you can be acquitted for dozens of counts of homicide, treason, and kidnapping in front of numerous witnesses.
* [[Human Shield]]: Every hostage taken during a raid automatically becomes one. [[Shoot the Hostage|Not that this stops you from getting shot at]].
** Corpses of fallen comrades being carried back to the safe house will end up stopping a lot of bullets meant for the carrier, in a more macabre version of this trope.
* [[Implausible Fencing Powers]]: While melee weapons aren't particularly spectacular at first, an experienced, skilled Liberal can [[Clean Cut|slice a tank in half with a sword]].
* [[Infinite Supplies]]: As long as you stay in the homeless shelter, your needs will be provided for. Anywhere else, and you will need to pay for rent and groceries. This is balanced out by the homeless shelter being impossible to upgrade, and effectively impossible to defend if raided.
* [[Instant Death Bullet]]: Gruesomely averted. Tales abound of players and their allies receiving near-fatal heart wounds which can be patched up on the scene by an LCS member with a decent first-aid skill... only for the character to later bleed out from the hole left in their heart by the bullet. (The coding reason for this is that the game tracks internal wounds, and since wounds to internal organs can't be treated by field medicine, it continues to hemorrhage, dealing damage until the character dies.)
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** Additionally, getting gun law to L+ (maximum liberalism) doesn't ban guns outright, it just prohibits them from being carried or sold in public places.
*** Which, ironically, is perhaps the one thing in this game that some [[Real Life]] liberals think ''still'' isn't enough.
* [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: Seduction is an excellent way to recruit for the LCS.
** One of the most effective ways to survive the game is to simply sleep with the ''entire justice system'' - boosting your seduction stat and hooking up with enough lawyers and judges virtually guarantees getting off lightly, even on charges of high treason and mass murder.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Some conservatives are member of the Conservative Crime Squad, and good with the guns they carry. And at C+ gun control laws, any random conservative can carry a 9 mm or .45 semi auto.
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** Actually, this depends partly on how the captor(s) treat the prisoner. If you beat the crap out of them constantly and refuse any verbal contact, for example, they're not likely to react very positively.
* [[Strawman Political]]: Played for laughs. The game treats [[Day of the Jackboot|Conservatives as evil fascists]] and [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified|Liberals as the second coming]]. Both liberal and conservative ideological tenets are deliberately exaggerated to the point of implausibility for the sake of comedy - the game's 'liberals' have such goals as ''granting animals full personhood'', and the game's 'conservatives' ''burn buildings where free speech has happened'' if not stopped.
* [[Suicide
** Each of these options has a potential downside, too - if a squad member with low Heart is fired, they might very well go to the police, while executing a squad member has a chance to cause a significant (and ''permanent'') stat drop in the person doing the executing.
* [[Super Lawyer]]: For a large sum of cash, you can hire an Ace Attorney, who will be inherently better than almost any lawyer you could develop on your own. However, hiring them risks causing [[Arch Enemy|their Arch Conservative]] [[Evil Counterpart|opposite number]] to assist the prosecution.
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[[Category:Roguelike]]
[[Category:Freeware Games]]
▲[[Category:Liberal Crime Squad]]
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