You find yourself in a strange place, unsure of how or why you arrived here. You vaguely recall signing your name to something long ago, but the memory is fleeting and distant and you are unable to hold onto it long enough to recall the memory in full. Suddently, a voice intonates.
"Greetings and welcome to the Karma Temple. You have been selected for Digital Devil Phalla Experiment Mk II which will commence momentarily. While the internal processes are being written, please take a moment to peruse the guidelines and rules specific to this experiment on the console in front of you."
Suddenly, the large spire in the center of the room springs to life, and the terminal in front of you begins scrolling data:Citizens of the Junkyard, welcome to the Karma Temple. Upon arrival, your internal structures have been rewritten and you have been infused with Atma. You now each have strengths and weaknesses as befit your Atma, but your goals are unchanged from what they always were: destroy your enemies, devour the other clans, and reign supreme over the Junkyard.
“Note, Citizens, that upon activation of your Atma, an anomaly was detected in Karma Temple routine $A_N which may cause destabilization and have dire effects on both the Karma Temple and the outlying Junkyard. Please return here each night and input your query results; we will investigate the most popular query request and will provide data regarding that target the following day. Thankfully, the process that lead to three anomalies in the previous experiment has been resolved. This is a new process and a new anomaly, but there is only one."
You recall a strange light that appeared only hours earlier, and you now feel a stirring deep within you, as if the Karma Terminal’s words have triggered something inside you. It only takes moments, but your eyes flash with a new hunger and your primal desire for supremacy has overridden all other impulses...
Welcome to the Junkyard.
Each day begins and ends in the Karma Temple but the bulk of each day is spent in the Junkyard, fighting.
Everyone has been PMed information about their roles and abilities.
Rules, short version:
- Don’t share role PM information in the thread or privately.
- No images.
- No abstentions; individuals with a private attack must use it every night. All participants must vote every night.
- You are not allowed to vote for yourself.
- You must have at least two on-topic content-filled posts per game day.
- All voting and actions must be in by 10PM EST every night.
- Vote using the following syntax: query: Drez and retract using the syntax: retract: Drez.
- All actions occur simultaneously.
- Victory is achieved if your clan exists and no other clans do.
- Narration/Results for each day will indicate attack attempts and failures and will reveal the clan affiliation of any dead participants. No other data will be revealed.
- Please PM me if you would like clarification on a rule or mechanics or anything. I will clarify the info for the thread if necessary.
- You may make one goodbye post if you die, but no more than that.
- Dead players may not converse with active participants on any game-related matters.
- IF YOU ARE NOT A GAME PARTICIPANT, DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD!
Other information and rules
- Narration/Results for each day will indicate attack attempts and failures and will reveal the clan affiliation of any dead participants. No other data will be revealed.
- Agi = fire attack, Bufu = ice attack, Zio = lightning attack, Zan = wind attack. All of these have equivalent potency in terms of this phalla.
- There are no "opposite affinities." Fore example, someone may be able to nullify both Agi and Bufu, and an attack ability in either does not necessarily suggest a weakness in the other.
- That said, no one has an attack ability that also matches their elemental weakness.
- All individual abilities MUST be used EVERY night and MUST be sent BY the individual. NO proxy ability PMs allowed via clan or otherwise. Failure to use an action will result in eradication.
- The gender of your character is irrelevant for the purposes of this experiment.
- Everyone not in your clan is your enemy. Of course, the enemy of your enemy…
- Action order: Protections trump all other actions and elemental attacks trump devour attempts. Otherwise, all actions are simultaneous.
Karma Temple Registrar
01.
cj iwakura - dead - The Embryon - Night 01
02.
Ardor
03.
B:L - dead - The Maribel - Night 02
04.
FreeAgent - eradicated - The Wolves - Night 02
05.
Gleve - dead - The Solids - Night 01
06.
durax
07.
Abysmal Lynx - dead - The Embryon - Night 03
08.
the wook - dead - The Solids - Night 02
09.
Grundlterror
10.
Squashua
11.
DevoutlyApathetic - devoured - The Solids - Night 02
12.
precisionk - devoured - The Embryon (Serph) - Night 01
13.
AkimboLegs - dead - The Wolves - Night 01
14.
SpeedySwaf - dead - The Brutes - Night 03
15.
Zot
16.
visiblehowl - eradicated - The Wolves - Night 01
17.
scarlet ave.
18.
Green - devoured - The Vanguard - Night 03
19.
SojakFA - dead - The Brutes (Varin Omega) - Night 01
20.
jdarksun
21.
Neville - dead - The Vanguard - Night 01
22.
Fembot - dead - The Maribel - Night 01
23.
Jester313 - eradicated - The Maribel - Night 01
24.
Zoltanis - dead - The Brutes - Night 02
25.
CJTheranprecisionk's live body was devoured
AkimboLegs's corpse was devoured
DevoutlyApathetic's live body was devoured
the wook's corpse was devoured
Abysmal Lynx's corpse was devoured
Green's live body was devouredNarration LinksRegistration PhaseIntroductionNight 01Night 02Night 03Night 04 + Epilogue (Night 05)
As of this posting, all role PMs have gone out, and it is now game on.
Day One will end at 10PM EST tomorrow (Monday, 8/19).Experiment DirectivesDirective RS01: You may not divulge your role in public or private communications.Directive RS02: You may not divulge or hint at your strengths, weaknesses, abilities, or skills in public or private communications.Directive RS03: You may not name your targets publicly.Directive RS04: You may not divulge your clan affiliation at any time.Active directives: RS04Inactive directives: RS01, RS02, RS03
NOTE: I realize some of the abilities the Karma Terminal has messaged you may be a bit complex.
Please query the Karma Terminal privately if you have any questions or concerns regarding your role or abilities. PLEASE SEND ALL PMs to "The Karma Society" NOT "Drez."
One last rule, and this one is the most important of all:
HAVE FUN!
Posts
edit - nm i saw the first 10 but not the second
Welcome to Junkyard, bitches.
hay guys, i am teh vigilante - seer and gard me!
(Junkyard, trash talk, anybody?)
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Holy shit!
I thought I was the only one!
Whoa, whoa
Let's not be too hasty, here
Yeah man, that's pretty messed up.
...
Any volunteers?
Maybe I should read up on the source material.
Clarification: I see stuff about the 4 elements, and attacks, but how do I use them? I don't see anything about it in the rules. Do I send a PM, or is it public? I'm confused.
- Attack abilities are private actions. PM them to this account.
- The clans role PMs I sent out had all abilities on the one PM. The roles I indicated only attribute to the person attributed to that role. Yes, you ALL received the correct PM, but not everything on the PM relates to you individually.
This seems like prime Day 1 bandwagon fodder to me
query: visiblehowl
Woooo First Day Bandwagon!
query: SpeedySwaf
Let's kick ass and query some random guy, turn 1!
And with that, I go to sleep.
I believe that we should look who voted in tangent with this person
I believe we should vote for that person
I believe Zot shall die
query: Zot
You do realize that mob vote != death, right
And is it too early for the Boy George jokes? I can wait a day if needed.
I'm going to have to agree, do you know whats in Soylent Green?
Only an anomaly would want something with that much chemicals and preservatives in it.
query: SpeedySwaf
t:neville do you really want to hurt me?
You are aware that Green posted first? Being that your logic is flawed, I'd query:Grundterror
He actually said we should vote for the person that followed the lead of the first vote...
SO very true. My bad.....
Y'know, I do to!
It's weird. I see it in my dreams. One moment I'm hanging out, talking to this dude in blue military fatigues, then the next thing you know, BAM! Eradicated.
...Meh, it's probably only a dream.
Anyway, hopping on the bandwagon.
query: Visiblehowl
In the mean time: query VisibleHowl
Why? Cause he was all cowardly and didn't contact me in FireFly phalla. I shall grudge like no grudge before!
It's sad that I exempt Grundl because he kidnapped and abused me for a day....
Perhaps this will be for the best.
Alright then, query: visiblehowl
Don't worry, it won't hurt. Much.