Juice is the Liberal Crime Squad's term for chutzpah, cojones, guts, ballsiness, and any other large number of unquantifiable concepts which mean the same thing: a person's ability to take risks in the Holy name of Liberalism (assuming Holiness wasn't right-wing nonsense), and the person's dedication to unthinking action (the Liberal way!). In LCS, any of a number of activities can increase your squad members' juice, but the largest increases of juice come from infiltration. Anyone in a squad receives an equal amount of juice whenever they perform an activity with that squad.
In gamer terms, juice is the collective experience of the squad member.
Purpose
Juice is important in Liberal Crime Squad because it controls a number of factors :
- Your Liberal Rank, from Society's Dregs to Activist and beyond — a cosmetic benefit only.
- The maximum number of followers you can have — your recruitment cap — which is a critical benefit and absolutely necessary to meet the increasing Conservative threat.
- A liberal needs to have high Juice in order to take over when the founder dies, 100 to be exact.
- Your stats go higher and lower when your juice does! Each rank above Activist gives a 10% bonus, and each rank above Civilian adds 1 to the stat.
Increasing juice
Juice is gained by anything which would make a right-wing Conservative think, “By Jove, that man is insane!” (because naturally, a Conservative would not be open-minded enough to say “man or woman or hermaphrodite or trans person”).
The generally safe activities like selling brownies or liberal disobedience are nowhere near as effective at increasing juice as the truly Liberal activities like murder, theft, and destruction of property during infiltration. These activities can increase a Liberal's juice, but only to a certain extent.
Losing juice
Some activities which are particularly degrading to a Liberal's freedom may actually decrease that Liberal's juice; most notable of this is prostitution, as a true Liberal should be no one's bitch!
Juice table
| Activity | Juice | Up/Down To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Service | |||
| Always | +1 | 10 | |
| Hacking | |||
| CIA break-in | +25 | 200 | |
| Other major hack | +10 | 200 | |
| Minor hack | +5 | 100 | |
| Finishing a Mural | |||
| Art skill roll : (3d6) | |||
| result : 3-5 | 1 | 20 | |
| result : 6-8 | 2 | 40 | |
| … | |||
| result : 18 | 6 | 120 | |
| Liberal Disobedience | |||
| Posting pictures or distributing fliers | +1 | 40 | |
| Other | +2 | 40 | |
| Getting beaten up by a mob | −10 | — | |
| Scaring off a mob with a weapon | +5 | 20 | |
| Beating up a mob | +30 | 300 | |
| Stealing a car | |||
| SUV or police car | +2 | 100 | |
| Prostitution | |||
| 1/9 chance and fail Average Street Sense check | −1 | -20 | |
| Avoiding a sting operation | +5 | 0 | |
| Getting arrested | −7 | -30 | |
| Dating | |||
| Getting ambushed by the dates | −5 | — | |
| Mixing up names when double dating | −10 | — | |
| Courtroom | |||
| Defending yourself very badly | −10 | — | |
| Defending yourself successfully | +10 | 100 | |
| Defending yourself very well | +50 | 1000 | |
| Being convicted without plea | +25 | 200 | |
| Prison | |||
| Being subjected to re-education | −50 | 100 | |
| Lover separated from contact (exactly one in prison) | -1 | -50/abandon | |
| Sleeper | |||
| Failed infiltration check | -1 | -3 (Made homeless) | |
| Completing sly/theft task | 10 | 100 | |
