The Thing Day 4 (delete the other one)

[Dylflon]

The men hurriedly dragged the body of the imposter Doctor Copper into the operating room of the medical bay. Blair quickly set to work dissecting the specimen. Upon slicing it open, the team discovers that this body had a near working set of organs, though some of them didn’t quite look like organs yet.

“These things make a perfect genetic copy. A few more hours and we would never have been able to tell that this wasn’t the Doc”, stated matter-of-factly.

Right then, MacReady burst into the room holding up bloody tattered rags.

“These are Doc’s clothes. I think these things have to tear through your clothes before they take you. Like we saw with Clark”

Childs stood in the doorway, armed with flamethrower. This would become very handy in a minute.

Blair had an assistant reach into the incision which has now clamped down on the assistants hands and had apparently sprouted teeth. The assistant screamed as blood spouted from his wrists and eventually collapsed, dead.

Everyone in the room ran to get behind Childs.

“Should I do it?”, asked Childs.

“BURN IT!”, shouted the rest of the men in a terrified harmony.

Childs let loose with the flamethrower and the alien let out a scream that didn’t seem to be coming from anywhere in particular. It was like the sound a spider makes when you set it on fire but all over.

In the midst of the burning, Copper’s head which now hung over the back of the table, began to split off from the rest of the body, in the way that silly putty extends and separates when you pull it apart. The imitated head of Copper proceeded to prout spider-like legs and new eyes that protruded from its chin.

This spider head walked out from around the table, but with nowhere to run to, it was exposed for all to see.


“You have to be fucking kidding me”, Windows exclaimed.

Childs let loose on the spider head and it convulsed about before finally attaining its final form as a burning pile of goo.

It was at that time that some of the men noticed that people were missing from the room.



Dead:

Professor S - Original Alien -killed by the vigilante

The Game - anonymous researcher - killed by the mob

The aliens have grown in number.



Player list update:

1. The Game - anonymous researcher - killed by mob on day three
2. Professor S - Original Alien - killed by mob/vigilante on day three
3. Bond - Doctor Copper (infected) - killed by mob on day two
4. BLueFire
5. Teuthida
6. Swan
7. The Germanator
8. GameMaster
9. BreakABone
10. Typhoid
11. manasecret - Bennings (uninfected) - killed by vigilante on day two
12. Green - Clark (uninfected) - killed by mob vote on day one
13. Yoda9864
14. Angrist
15. Fox6
16. Vampyr
17. thatmariolover

[Dylflon]

Clarification just in case:

when the vigilante takes out the mob vote leader, the vote takes out the person in second place.

[Teuthida]

Poor Mr. Game.

[BreakABone]

We have 3 humans dead
And 2 aliens
But we did get original alien.

[The Germanator]

Damn, it was the Professor. I thought he was being a bit too obvious, but oh well, good job everyone else for picking him out. This looks familiar...

http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0288-1/%7B8C3C48D7-9828-4940-A7F6-8E78960ECE25%7DImg100.jpg

[BreakABone]

Damn, it was the Professor. I thought he was being a bit too obvious, but oh well, good job everyone else for picking him out. This looks familiar...

http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0288-1/%7B8C3C48D7-9828-4940-A7F6-8E78960ECE25%7DImg100.jpg

It's like Deja Vu...

Now we have to assume, he corrupted one person per day which means he corrupted 3 people. We killed one.. meaning a minimum of 2 left.

[Teuthida]

!Clarification

Was the original alien the only one infecting others or do newly infected aliens also have the ability to infect so that can grow exponentially?

[BlueFire]

Hahaha... I knew it. :P

[Dylflon]

!Clarification

Was the original alien the only one infecting others or do newly infected aliens also have the ability to infect so that can grow exponentially?

Clarification request denied.

Just know that there are balancing rules that have been in effect since the beginning to make it fair for both sides.

[Yoda9864]

!Clarification

Was the original alien the only one infecting others or do newly infected aliens also have the ability to infect so that can grow exponentially?

If the aliens were able to grow exponentially, the humans would not stand a chance.

[Dylflon]

Also, there are hidden mechanics in this game, all of which will be revealed at the end.

Everything is pretty well balanced but it would be easy for either side to run away with this one. All depends on who is the most on the ball.

[BreakABone]

Also, there are hidden mechanics in this game, all of which will be revealed at the end.

Everything is pretty well balanced but it would be easy for either side to run away with this one. All depends on who is the most on the ball.


Well we got two aliens so far

So humans got to be on a roll here.

Granted.. we also lost 3 humans but eh.

[Teuthida]

Aw ok...well trying out different scenarios. Figure at the very least there are 3 aliens. At most, 8.

And poor Mr. Game's character didn't even have a name. Too sad.

[Angrist]

I was going to say "the vigilante did a better job this time than the last", but then I realised he killed somebody that was going to be killed by the mob anyway. Although he probably didn't know either that the mob would kill the second in line. :) And he probably was afraid of killing of an innocent guy again, so no problem.

Anyway, interesting. Darn that Professor. :D

Who says there was only one original alien? It says "Professor S - Original Alien", not "THE Original Alien", so I'm thinking there can be more than one. It would be pretty hard/depressing for one alien to infect/kill off 15 others. I very much doubt the game would have ended if we had killed the Prof in the first night.
I was under the impression that the aliens could infect one person per night, but as Dylflon says, this probably varies, depending on the progress of the game.

[Professor S]

ACCCCPHHHfff!!

YOu tHinK YOO huv WoN? THIS iS MeeeeerLY BeGinnNing. I aM MAnY and Many are OnE. BeWareE thE fuTurE!!!!!


**DEAD**

[The Germanator]

This next vote is going to be tough. Not too many leads that I can think of. Still thinking of a few people, but not quite ready to vote yet.

[BreakABone]

Yeah kind of tricky.
No one is gonna be as obvious as Strangler.

[Swan]

I think I may have an idea of one of them.....but its a very small hunch

[Angrist]

This next vote is going to be tough. Not too many leads that I can think of. Still thinking of a few people, but not quite ready to vote yet. You're behaving a little strange, don't you think? Other than that, I have my reasons:

You're the lead.

I !vote The Germanator.

[The Germanator]

Fair enough. Somebody's got to be voted for...And since you were one of my leads, then....

I !vote Angrist

[BreakABone]

Cat fight!

[Typhoid]

Ladies, let's settle this in some pudding.

I too - thought he was being overly obvious. Sort of sad, really.

I shall have to consider who to vote for, since I don't even have any hunches.

balls.

[BlueFire]

I !vote Angrist

[Dylflon]

Special announcement:

This round will end one hour earlier than usual (10 am PST/ 1 pm Eastern) so get your votes in.


And the next round which ends on Saturday will end two hours earlier than normal (9 am PST/ 12 pm Eastern)

[Fox 6]

Cant we have a vampire type rule with the lead alien? You know kill the head guy you kill them all :p

[Swan]

!Vote for Angrist

There we go

[Fox 6]

I ! vote for Angrist

[Dylflon]

Special actions for this round and next still need to come in half an hour before the round ends.

[Yoda9864]

I don't like BlueFire's one sentence posts/rare postings. Doesn't givemuch to go on. That makes me nervous.

I !vote BlueFire

[Typhoid]

I ! vote for Angrist

[Vampyr]

The aliens have become tricksy, and smelling them has become rather difficult....

[Angrist]

Wow, 5 votes for me. :eek:

Here's my plead:
Have I ever made a wrong vote? Look at the last 2 days, my votes were crucial in the killing of two aliens. That can only make sense if I have been infected this last night, which is possible, but I can tell you I haven't.
If you look at the previous days, you'll see that the guys who we now know are aliens, tried to gang up on me every day, but it never worked. :)

Germanator on the other hand first voted for me in the last round, then changed it into TheGame, who we now know is innocent. And the day before he was less revealing, but at one point both he and Bond voted for Manasecret, who got killed off innocently. Fair enough, after that he changed it in Professor S, but maybe that was a trick... or he wasn't infected yet at that time.

And then something else: please look back at who (especialy the aliens) voted for who. It can be pretty interesting.

I stay with my vote on The Germanator.

[BlueFire]

I don't like BlueFire's one sentence posts/rare postings. Doesn't givemuch to go on. That makes me nervous.

I !vote BlueFire

I'm the silent type! :p

umm.. Angrist is making a convincing argument.

But I'm not sure if I want to retract my vote now...

eh, what the hell

I !retract Angrist

Need to think though

[BreakABone]

I think we start a new line of thinking...

I !vote GameMAster.

[Angrist]

Either BaB doesn't trust me anymore, or I have reasons to distrust him. Interesting development.

I have nothing to add to my post above. :)

[Angrist]

Ok now that we have less than 30 minutes, I dó have something to add.

I am the Seer. Every round I can inspect somebody, revealing his name, if he has powers and if he's been infected.

In the first round I inspected Bond, who had just been infected. We killed him off in the next round. That round I inspected BaB, who is the Guardian (sorry for revealing BaB, but I don't trust you anymore). The next round we killed off Professor S, and my suspicion was as good as yours.
That round I inspected Germanator. He is "assistant mechanic Palmer", has no special powers, but is infected. That's why I'm voting for him.

On the topic of BreakABone: we were allies for 2 rounds, he trusted me. This round, he has been acting weird and I seriously think he's been infected, although I have no proof.
The thing is: if I die, he gets my power. Or so he told me. He'll be able to protect ánd inspect people. Not the kind of thing you want on the alien side.

So there it is. If you kill me now, you'll have a much harder time winning the game. I have néver (in the end) voted for somebody that wasn't infected, I've always been right.
I ask your trust for one more round. Do so and you will see that Germanator is infected.
(Since it's in the last 30 minutes, the aliens hopefully can't chagne their target, so if I survive, I'll probably be still human in the next round.)

[Teuthida]

Almost forgot it ended an hour earlier.

I !vote Germanator

We found alien microbes on some rock from Mars or something like that right? And the way these aliens breed... Someone named Germy would have to be infected.

[Vampyr]

I !vote Germanator

[BreakABone]

Just to make sure

I !retract GameMAster

I !vote Germy.

Hey he made me a marked man.

[Dylflon]

I reinstate GameMaster and he doesn't play.

If GM and mario lover don't post this upcoming round, they're out.

Also, voting closed.

[Vampyr]

Unless I miscalculated, tie.

:O

[BreakABone]

Unless I miscalculated, tie.

:O

I say kill them both off.

Show their real colors.

[Yoda9864]

Son of a..... I forgot that voting closed an hour early today. Probably wasn't the best time to go pick up some groceries. Looks like no harm done though since Germ has been voted out.

[Vampyr]

But so was Angrist. :(