Flavor / Narration stuff in this post.
Player List in post #2
Mechanics & Rules in post #3.
PMs will go out Monday night to give a few more people a chance to sign up if they want, with Day 1 on Tuesday.
Questions / Clarifications in orange
PMs to either narvinye or Nerissa, or better yet both. I'm more likely to be able to respond relatively early, but we may need to consult on answers.
2404
Building Better Worlds
Weyland-Yutani (Brought to you by Wal-Mart) has discovered a Terran-class Paradise world, perfect for an idyllic new colony, without all the hassle of terra-forming. This planet’s location is proprietary, and in the interest of their colonists, they’ve kept the location secret to keep out squatters.
What’s more, they’ve developed and built the world’s most advanced and largest colony ship ever created. Instead of the costly and inefficient multiple mediocre AI’s currently being used in autonomous units, WY has designed the world’s most advanced AI, called Berry, right into the ship, enormously increasing the capabilities of ship’s systems and units. This increased capability and efficiency has decreased actual crew requirements to only three…A Captain, Executive Officer and Engineer, leaving valuable room for colonists.
Actual colonists have been chosen by various means, all free. A provisional council has been set up prior to departure to eliminate any confusion in the critical period after landing. WY has asked only that a moderate parcel of land be set off for its own use. Other than this, the company makes no demands of the colonists or colony.
The council was formed from quite a few interests, Secularists, Zealots, Socialists, and Libertarians. Of course, everyone knows there are WY Agents scattered amongst the council.
You wake groggily from cold-sleep to see one of the ship’s security ‘bots hovering over your couch. Something’s wrong here. The digital readout tells you it’s at least 3 weeks too early for landfall.
“Come with me please. This is an emergency. Your cooperation is required.”, the ‘bot spits outs in a monotone splatter of electronic noise. The smooth, silky voice of Berry is gone. Something is terribly wrong.
You are gathered with the rest of the Council, in the cramped Crew Galley and Lounge.
Captain Yaska has seen better days. His skin is ashen, and his movements are shaky. The situation he describes is even worse.
Genies (Genetically modified humans – outlawed for three hundred years on pain of death) have infiltrated the ship, and worse, sabotaged Berry.
All higher level functions and defense systems are offline, or secured from crew manipulation. Berry seems to have shut down all upper orders of AI functionality. The Bridge, Medical, Security, and Engineering Control are sealed, leaving only the Berthing Areas and Mechanical Access open for crew use.
And…there’s something loose in the ship, not human. Something fast, and very not friendly. The XO and CHENG were killed by it, cut in half. The Captain was wounded, probably fatally without Medical access, apparently by some kind of acid.
Night 0 NarrationNight 1 NarrationNight 2 NarrationNight 3 Narration
Posts
That is, if we have 50 players sign up by game start, the last 2 will be reserves, along with anyone who signs up after that point.
Player List
1. enlightenedbum -- Socialist -- Strangled Night 3
2. Nocturne -- Secularist -- Disappeared Night 3
3. One Thousand Dicks
4. HamHamJ -- Socialist, WY Agent -- Strangled Night 2
5. OptimusZed
6. gundam470 -- Libertarian -- Chest Burst Night 2
7. Savant -- Socialist -- Shot Night 3
8. Zandracon
9. Variable
10. Robos A Go Go
11. visiblehowl --Socialist -- Poisoned Night 2
12. ShadowThomas -- Libertarian, Genie Conspirator -- Spaced Night 3
13. Leitner -- Secularist -- Killed by Aliens Night 2
14. Sos
15. sterling3763
16. JebusUD
17. Dac Vin -- Socialist -- Killed by Aliens Night 1
18. Toxic Toys -- Libertarian -- Executed by Captain Night 2
19. Trust
20. Corbius
21. LoserForHireX
22. Kid Presentable
23. Mazzyx -- Libertarian -- Throat Slit Night 3
24. Slicer
25. MetroidZoid
26. Talleyrand -- Zealot -- Spaced Night 2
27. Garick
28. Institutionalised Pederasty
29. MadnessBA -- Zealot -- Throat Slit Night 2
30. Jason Todd -- Zealot -- Executed by Captain Night 3
31. Dunadan019 -- Socialist, Genie conspirator -- Spaced Night 2
32. TehSpectre
33. Gorilla Salad -- Secularist -- Poisoned Night 1
34. DasUberEdward
35. Salvation122 -- Libertarian -- Blown to Bits Night 3
36. webguy20
37. Fluffy, Our Beloved Flopsy Bunny Friend -- Secularist -- Disappeared Night 1
38. Lux782 -- Secularist -- Disappeared Night 3
39. kime -- Socialist -- Shot Night 2
40. Nitsua
41. MagicPrime -- Libertarian -- Disappeared Night 2
42. jimbo034
43. Honk
44. Phil G.
45. Coutts
46. Kid Presentable
47. Cleonicus
48. Astraphobia
49. Noneoftheabove -- Libertarian -- Chest Burst Night 2
50. Hylianbunny
51. Raiden333
52. Element Brian
53. Campy
54. Wildcat
55. chamberlain
56. boogeydyboo
We will create ProBoards for each faction and for the sub-groups. There will be a link in your PM to any ProBoards that are appropriate for you. Register under your PA name, please.
Day End
Oops, almost forgot. End of day will be at 9pm Eastern Whatever Time (I can't be bothered to remember if we're in DST or not). Posts time stamped at 8:59 count, ones time stamped 9:00 do not. No "day closed" post will be made. Expect on the order of an hour for narrations.
Sorry to make it so early, but I'm up early on weekdays these days, and I do need to try to get at leat 7 hours of sleep a night.
The Player Base
The council is made up of two pairs of opposing factions, who see this emergency as a perfect opportunity to make sure that their ideals are implemented in the governance of the colony. To that end, they each want to remove the influence of their opponents.
Scattered among those factions are WY Agents and Genie conspirators. Each of these groups has their own win condition separate from the faction they belong to. The game ends when either of these groups is eliminated.
Win Conditions (GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!)
The WY agents have a win condition that includes (but is not limited to) eliminating all genie conspirators. Conversely, the genie conspirators have a win condition that includes (but is not limited to) eliminating all of the WY agents.
One way or another, the game is over when either of these groups is eliminated.
If at game over, neither group has entirely fulfilled its win conditions, then the faction who has the largest lead over its opposing faction wins.
For example, if at the point when the last genie is eliminated the WY agents haven’t fulfilled the rest of their win condition, and the faction pairs have populations as follows A-4, B-2, C-8, D-9 (assuming A & B are opposing, and C & D are opposing), then A wins because 4-2 is a bigger lead than 9-8.
Voting
There will be three types of votes in this game. Death, Election, and Resource Use. In all cases, the last vote by a particular person will be counted. Explicit retractions are only necessary if you aren’t going to make a new vote before day end. Otherwise, your new vote will be considered a retraction of the prior one.
Death votes
This is a new mechanic, and it is quite different from what you are used to, so read this part carefully.
There will be no death vote on night one. However, on each night after that, the council may kill anywhere from 0 to n/3 of its members, where n is the number of surviving council members. How do they do this?
Each person may make a single vote. However, that vote may be a red vote FOR killing someone in particular or a lime vote AGAINST killing them. Votes against killing a particular person will subtract from the votes for killing them.
In order to be killed, a person needs to have a net total votes of 2, with at a minimum 3 total votes for them to die. EVERYONE who meets this criteria will die that night.
Examples
So, yeah… this could be a bloodbath and over in 3 days if you guys want it to be, or it could be a stalemate and go for 2 weeks. It’s up to you. Remember that each person may make one red vote OR one lime vote on a given night, not both. So choose carefully.
Election votes
On odd-numbered nights, there will be an election for “acting captain” (spoiler alert: the real captain dies ) That acting captain will have control of certain resources that will come into play as the game progresses. Acting captain votes are made in yellow.
The acting captain will be elected for two nights, and be protected from death from any source the night he is elected and the following night. He will be able to act in this capacity on the two nights following his election.
For example, if narvinye is elected acting captain night 1, he is protected on nights 1 & 2, and he acts on nights 2 & 3. On night 3 another election is held where either he is re-elected or another person is elected to replace him.
The acting captain will make his actions by public post in the main thread, and the results will be given in the narration.
Resource votes
From time to time, certain resources will be discovered that can be used to help the council to defend themselves. Unfortunately, these resources are limited, and some tough choices will need to be made as to how to allocate them. On any given night, there will be from 0-3 decisions that need to be made in this respect. Each person may make one vote on each decision. These votes will be made in cyan
Clarifications
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Sorry, no, just Aliens.
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Bring on the facehuggers.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
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It is a fun forum-based game explained in the OP here and the very basic Wiki here.
New faces are always welcome, so feel free to sign up even if you don't know a lot. Since this is a faction game, you will have teammates to help you out. The only thing it requires is a bit of time every day to keep up with what's going on and participate.
It's the forum's name for variants of Mafia games. Only typically they get a fair bit more complicated.
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Round 2
but they're listening to every word I say
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It was fantastic.
Right here.
The way the factions were set up was pretty balanced and fun.
Edit: Damn you EB, always stealing my thunder.
We rented it last week so we could have it fresh in our minds. Right at the peak action part of the movie, a spider or bug of some sort got under my shirt and started crawling on my arm (not sure what kind, I didn't actually see it, but from the feel, it was about the size of a fly)
To say I was a bit twitchy for the rest of the night would be an understatement.
Didn't help that the book I was reading at the time featured spider-like aliens that climbed on the back of human hosts and stuck a probe into their brain to control them.
Oh, and I'm not certain what the player limit is going to be off hand -- we've been looking at ways to scale it so we don't have to limit at 40, but we want to keep some reserves too. That decision will probably be made right before the start of the game. I can say for sure that it won't be less than 40.
Go Weyland Yuntani
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Mwahahaha
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