Oregon Trail: The PhallaRules
Every month, you may
!vote to leave one person behind for the bandits to find. You retract this vote using
!retract. On odd months (1, 3, 5 etc.), there may be a decision to vote on. Use
!vote A,B,C to decide or to change your mind.
Do not share your Role PMs using screenshots, forwarding, quoting, or any other means. You can share information from other PMs sent to you by the moderator.
In fact, here is the vanilla PM, which was sent to everybody:
A Settler
You're a settler. Watch out for rattlesnakes!
You will win the game if the caravan reaches Oregon.
Do not use anonymous means of communications. If you create a proboard for a group of people, send us a link, please.
If you are dead, do not post in this thread, except to say, "Aw, shucks, golly!" There will be a dead thread.
This Game
Some people may have special abilities. They should send the targets of their abilities to
Bandwagon. Send questions or clarification requests to thorgot
and robothero.
There is no conversion, resurrection, or randomness in this game. Abilities, both new and old, are present in this game.
Nothing is revealed upon death, with a single exception, because the covered wagons must keep rolling. You will find out how many bandits are left every four months, starting with the Month Four narration. Every other part of the narration is just for flavor.
The decision
!voting can have real consequences.
Voting closes at 11 PM EDT. PMs and posts marked 11:00 or later will be counted for the next month instead. The first day of voting will end on Thursday, at 11 PM EDT.
Travelers
- LaOs was shot and killed by Bandits Month 2.
- FirstComradeStalin was left behind Month 7.
- Rend was left behind Month 4.
- cj iwakura was impaled by a wagon tongue Month 2.
- TehSpectre was shot and killed by Bandits Month 3.
- Romantic Undead (formerly Seriously) was shot and killed by Bandits Month 8.
- Variable
- romanlevin was left behind Month 8.
- IreneDAdler was shot and killed by Bandits Month 5.
- Lord Cecil Eaglelaser was bitten by a snake Month 3.
- Zzulu
- visiblehowl was shot and killed Month 6.
- FunkyWaltDogg was shot and killed by bandits Month 8.
- Fluffy, Our Beloved Flopsy Bunny Friend was shot Month 1.
- giltanis was left behind Month 6.
- Squashua was left behind Month 2.
- Frosteey was consumed by parasites Month 7.
- enc0re
- Medopine (formally Dyscord) was left behind Month 8.
- Aldo contracted smallbox from a dead woman and was shot by Bandits Month 1.
- PsychoLarry1 was shot and killed by Bandits Month 6.
- iamtheaznman was left behind Month 5.
- Infidel was shot by Bandits Month 1.
- cheez (formerly Gim) was left behind Month 3.
- B:L was shot to death Month 2.
- Green was shot to death Month 5.
- AngelHedgie
- PRËTËNTIÖüS took a dive off a cliff Month 5.
- chamberlain had a deadly experience with lightning Month 6.
- Reatheran
- Lord_Aetos was shot and killed by bandits Month 7.
- Niceguy Myeye (formerlyFreeAgent (formerly Oboro))
- Zot (formally MrBallBaggins (formerly durax)) was shot and killed by Bandits Month 6.
- Grundlterror
- DevoutlyApathetic drowned and was shot by bandits Month 4.
- Saburbia was shot and killed by Bandits Month 2.
- Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud was left behind Month 1.
- Raakam
- precisionk was shot by bandits and withered away Month 7.
- gundam470 was shot and killed by Bandits Month 4.
Posts
The Map
Opening Narration
Month 1 Narration
Month 2 Narration
Month 3 Narration
Month 4 Narration
Month 5 Narration
Month 6 Narration
Month 7 Narration
Month 8 Narration
The Map
And so the journey begins. Forty steadfast travelers and their families have banded together to travel from somewhere west of the Mississippi to somewhere even further west of the Mississippi: Oregon. The road will be long and hard. Children will go nights without food, disease will spread from wagon to wagon, and a guy in a buffalo suit might end up watching you from a distance while you bathe. But in the end, we will reach our destination. A new frontier, a new home, and a new beginning. A fresh start for everyone.
Or will we?
Unbeknowest to both robothero and thorgot, the caravan leaders, an unsavory group had infiltrated the ranks: Bandits. Bandits with only two things on their mind: murder and robbery. While the general populace was ready to hold out through the winter, and had enough ammunition to put the buffalo to extinction, killing other men and women was not something they were readily prepared to do. There were tough decisions to be made; and there is still a long, long road to travel.
The First Month begins.
On the first month of the journey, the caravan leaders have posed the following questions regarding our rations:
1. Filling rations.
2. Meager rations.
3. Bare bones.
The bandits have also left a notice in the middle of the camp:
4. Bandit Compromise: Surrender now and nobody will be killed. (Everybody except the bandits dies.)
Please choose which option you wish to follow in yellow. Each option has both positive and negative effects to the caravan, so weigh the choices wisely. Also, don't forget to vote on who we should leave behind in red. retract in lime.
they don't it be like it is but it do
!#2 (meager rations).
We can always hunt for more food later, but we don't want to run the risk of 1 (running out of food) or 3 (running out of good men).
It is the Way of the middle that I choose.
Ah, double darn. The grocer put the lard pone on top of the egg pone.
Howevah, Ah do declare that Ah also second this notion.
!#2 (meager rations).
!I vote 1: Filling Rations!
And yes, Vote 2. The OP says these votes have very real consequences. Maybe filling rations give us a +1 to roadblock/evilbandittrap or something, meager seems like a +/- 0 and bare bones a negative of some sort? and then there's maybe a stockpile of food that goes up or down depending on how much we've used up already and how many players are alive. That's my guess, at least.
Anyone have a suggestion as to how this could work?
they don't it be like it is but it do
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
It's my first time as well.
!#2, as it's hard to tell just what the rations would be modifying.
Yep, I am a new hand at this caravan.
!vote 1 for good morale.
I'll go with !vote 2 this time and see what happens.
I wonder if we'll get to decide on whether or not to hunt later on, and whether we can improve our chances on hunting.
I would say meager rations right now, but I'm going to hold up and think on it.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Thanks for the update.
!Vote Raakam.
I've got a good feeling about this one.
Need to toughen you bankers up some if we're ever gonna see Oregon, lean and hard is the way.
Here, I'll bring you a peace offering, !vote Raakam, cool?
Honestly, I'm much more pissed at the cake than anything else. I don't even really like cake that much, but it ruined me regardless.
Interesting... are you suggesting that there are specials that require a certain level of nutrition to survive?
they don't it be like it is but it do
I'm just calling people pansey's cause I like doing things like that.
Anyone remember to pack the paprika and cumin?
!vote 2
No cumin or paprika. Sorry.
What'r those?
All we have is salt, saltpeter, and a guy named Peter who tastes salty.
Well damn. Let's whore Fuzzy out to Indians for some of their spices. I hear them redskins do sumpin purty 'mazin' to buffalo.
Check your village PM image again.
We need to conserve food until we find an abundance of wild bear, deer and buffalo. Also, we need 50 boxes of bullets, just because.
Bullets = $$. You always stock up on bullets so you can hunt down everything that moves outside of town and trade the meat for wagon parts which you can sell to other travelers for mucho moola.
No hush up, so I can get some rest. I'll think about the rations tomorrow.
I do believe we'll have an opportunity to make it by hunting (the real key to victory in this game).
[size=+1]Diet so we can buy it![/size]
!vote #3
It's only the first month, people, let's just work on getting the ball rolling before we start panicking about food or handing it out to whoever wants it.