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* "Researchers whose names were in the Test Group" would be the player names that the sample objects are named after.
  
 
==Past proposals==
 
==Past proposals==

Revision as of 17:32, 2 December 2020

Started on the 30th November 2020, with Kevan as the Outsider:

Welcome to Outpost 38! You're a group of scientists and specialists being flown in to an Acheron Antarctic Research Group station on the McMurdo ice shelf, to take over from a team who've just reached the end of their six-month contract there. You'll be generally responsible for running the base through the winter, with the biologists among you scanning and cataloguing the core samples that have been collected from under the ice, and investigating any interesting discoveries that may arise.
Players are Researchers. Five of you are Human, and two are secretly shapeshifting alien Things that replaced a couple of the team a few days after you all arrived at the research station. The Things are coordinating telepathically with the Hive Mind buried deep below the ice sheet. During each night they are easily able to reach and kill another member of the team.

Players

In turn order, players of this game are: 1. Bais; 2. Clucky; 3. Josh; 4. Raven1207; 5. Jake Eakle; 6. P Scholasticus; 7. TyGuy6.

Rules

No Dice

Players may not use public random methods such as die rolls to influence their decisions in the game.

Rulings

  • "Researchers whose names were in the Test Group" would be the player names that the sample objects are named after.

Past proposals

Reverting to Type (0 Hours, Failed)

Proposed by Kevan:

When cornered, a Thing will lash out instinctively, abandoning its disguise to do so. A Physical Proposal can only kill a Researcher if it also nominates two Researchers as Aggressors. When such a proposal is resolved and its target was a Thing: its true nature as a Thing is revealed, and an Aggressor of the Hive Mind's choice becomes Wounded. (A Wounded Researcher cannot be chosen as an Aggressor in future.)

P Scholasticus, Raven, Clucky, Josh, TyGuy were FOR, Jake AGAINST. The Outsider cast a VETO.

No Dice (-2 Hours, Passed)

Proposed by Kevan:

Players may not use public random methods such as die rolls to influence their decisions in the game.

(The -2 Hours was part of a negotiation, this being prompted that the DNA Testing proposal valued at 3 hours should be adjusted to 5 if players were free to roll dice to assign objects and resolve other decisions, which the group disagreed about.)

Josh, TyGuy, Clucky, Bais, Raven, P Scholasticus were FOR, Jake AGAINST.

DNA Testing (5 Hours)

Proposed by Clucky:

Each Researcher gets a object called "<name> DNA sample" where <name> is their player name.
During the day, a Researcher (the Tester) holding three or more DNA samples may announce they are performing a test and destroy all DNA samples which they are holding (the Test Group). When they do so, the Hive Mind must (at their earliest convenience) privately inform the Tester if any of the Researchers whose names were in the Test Group are Things.

Spitball Ideas with value Estimates

During the night phase, instead of killing a Human as usual, the Hive can instead kill *2* Things and secretly recruit a Human to be a new Thing. The next day lasts +6h longer.

Est. Value: -1 hours

The night kill can only target a Thing. If a night kill happens, the Hive secretly recruits a Human via PM to become a Thing, and the next day lasts +3h longer. If an ex-Human wins as a Thing, it is considered a minor form of victory. If an ex-Human loses as a Thing, it is considered a major form of loss.

Est. Value: -3 hours

A single test kit as an object that starts on the table (so you have to spend 1h on a further physical proposal to assign it); it's single use, and only the user is told the outcome.

Est. Value: 2 hours

Every Researcher has a DNA vial; as a future physical proposal, a subset of DNA vials can be tested to determine if any of those vials are associated with a non-Human player (which is announced publicly by the Hive).

Est. Value: Too high

Make Bais the Medic. The Medic can heal all scars for anyone else by DM to that person. Each person must then randomly determine for themselves (exactly once) whether they have scars, with a 25% chance for a Human, or a 50% chance for a Thing. As a physical proposal, someone can be inspected for scars, and that person must reveal whether they have them.

Est. Value: 2 hours

One Human is promoted to Intergalactical Heretic that is aligned with Humans and wins with them. As long as the Intergalactical Heretic is alive, the team that would have lost would win and the team that would have won would lose.

Est. Value: ???

Create physical item, Portal of Rebirth, which can only be used by spending 12 hours, and returns a selected dead Researcher to life.

Est. Value: ???

A Scientist (the Tester) holding three or more DNA samples may announce they are performing a test and destroy them all. If they do, the Hive Mind must privately inform the Tester if any of the Scientists whose names were in the destroyed set of DNA samples are Things prior to resolving the next proposal."

Outsider offered 3 hours for it

Things can not do their nightly kills. The Research Center becomes unstable. During the day, all Researchers must choose X-2 Researchers and agree a pawn to survive the next day.(Where X is the number of current Researchers). Any unchosen Researchers die at the end of day.

Est. Value: ???