Space Madness Round 3 - Space Murder

[Dylflon]

We all knew that nothing interesting was going to happen in the other round so here's the nest one:

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Nobody on the ship was saying much of anything. The paranoia was setting in too thick. Combine noticed through his ocular enhancement that the rest of his shipmates were sweating much more than normal. Combine saw how the others looked at him. He was the only cyborg on board. He realized he was going to have to do something drastic.

Flunkie was starting to get nervous. It was almost his turn to take the pee test and he had snorted snow much Dust that he’d probably be high for a week. He had his backup plan worked out. If the STISO tested him, he would simply have to murder him. Yes, that would do. Who could argue with him? The STISO is kind of a jerk and nobody really likes him. Why, it would be the sanest thing anyone had done all day. Then it happened. Unannounced, the cyborg man yelled at the top of his lungs and executed the most amazing triple backflip any of them had ever seen. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stood still for a few moments until Jeepnut broke the silence.
“Okay, I’m pee testing the cyborg next”

The Professor had just run out of tea. This whole space ship charade had become a bore. He wasn’t feeling too chipper about living either at that point. He stood up and announced, “Living has become quite droll”, and then shot himself in the head. His blood splattered into the tea of Dyne, Teuthida, and George Washnigton. George Washington was quite upset by this turn of events and when to go change into his casual suit. Upon opening the closet he noticed that depressed fellow Angrist’s body stuffed into the closet, several of his bones broken. Before he could protest, he felt a cold blade slip between the columns of his spine. Well actually, he didn’t feel it because it dismantled his nervous system. With his last thoughts, he dreamed of Martha.

Elsewhere on the ship, Mario Lover rooted frantically through a large box. He removed articles of clothing, food, journals until he finally uncovered his stash. Guns. Beautiful guns.


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Shorter narration today but come one. I have to go to the beach!


Player List:

01. Aladuf
02. Yoda9864
03. Swan
04. Dyne
05. Teuthida
06. Bube
07. GameMaster
08. jeepnut
09. uber_paddler
10. Typhoid
11. flunkie44
12. thatmariolover
13. Combine 017


The Dead:

Vampyr
The Germanator
Fyacin
Professor S
Angrit
manasecret


Round ends tomorrow at 10am PSt/ 1pm Eastern

GET YOUR VOTES IN!!!

[uber_paddler]

Ok, so Aladuf, Yoda, Swan, Bube, GameMaster, and Typhoid are all unaccounted for at the time of the murder. Interesting.

[jeepnut]

Thirteen left. I wish I knew how many of them are still crazies...

[Swan]

As do I


I don't trust that stoned Flunkie

[uber_paddler]

Yeah, but if you were crazy then you wouldn't need to get stoned, now would you?

[Combine 017]

Being crazy and getting stoned probably made a new high for him. Hes not just stoned. Hes crazy stoned.

edit: I did a backflip :)

[Dyne]

Oh no, guns? What if you shoot in the wrong place and the vacuum seal is broken and we all freezedry up like shrimp?

First cheating, now guns.. thatmariolover is totally crazy. :p

[uber_paddler]

Yup, seems like one crazy bastard to me.

[thatmariolover]

Come now, come now! Let us not be hasty, friends.

Is it crazy to want to be able to protect yourself? I submit that it is in fact, not crazy to seek protection. Certainly, I brought these weapons aboard for reasons most of you wouldn't approve of. But regardless of how they got here, the fact is that there are guns on the ship, the ship is full of a bunch of crazies, and I intend to defend myself.

Is that insanity?

[Aladuf]

You're all crazy! I'm going back to work now :(

[Yoda9864]

Ok, so Aladuf, Yoda, Swan, Bube, GameMaster, and Typhoid are all unaccounted for at the time of the murder. Interesting.
I was deep in force meditation trying to figure out the mental status of everyone on board.



...re-clips lightsaber to belt...

[Combine 017]

Its not that crazy. As a Combine Soldier I am equipped with a standard issue Pulse Rifle. Hes not the only one with a gun. I say we divide the room in half, split us up into 2 groups and try to weed out the crazies. Anyone whos with me come to my side of the room. (no crazy people please)

[Teuthida]

Boil another pot of water posthaste! We already lost one comrade to an empty cup. I refuse to lose another!

[Angrist]

I shouldn't have run from my past. :(

Looks like somebody thought I knew too much? That's cool. :D It will be interesting to find out who it was. :)

Angrist out.

[jeepnut]

Alright. I'd be willing to bet my sanity that Angrist was killed by the crazies. Angrist last round was casting suspicion on Flunkie44 and was then killed. I'm going with Flunkie for this round.

!vote Flunkie44

[flunkie44]

Alright. I'd be willing to bet my sanity that Angrist was killed by the crazies. Angrist last round was casting suspicion on Flunkie44 and was then killed. I'm going with Flunkie for this round.

Really? I'm not crazy, so we should vote you out next round, then, eh?

I still don't get how this is all tied back to me. I haven't done anything in this game but wonder where my damn butterflies went, but now I won't even get the chance to ask, with the captain dead.

!vote jeepnut

[jeepnut]

I wouldn't say that if I were you. Just sayin'.

I still don't get how this is all tied back to me. I haven't done anything in this game but wonder where my damn butterflies went, but now I won't even get the chance to ask, with the captain dead. :(

Classic "What did I do?" response of a guilty person.

[flunkie44]

Classic "What did I do?" response of a guilty person.

Classic "I'm covering up something" accusation of a guilty person.

[thatmariolover]

Alright guys, I've solved this game almost beyond a doubt (Edit: Wrong about a few parts possibly). I realize this in and of itself is going to sound insane, but I ask that you at least think it out. Really think about it before you label me insane.

Meta-game version:

We're not insane. Not one of us is insane. Dyflon is sending out a PM to a random person each round that makes them the vigilante. They get two kills in order to make it seem like there's a third party group doing a kill each round as well.

The only way to beat the game and make sure the 'sane' people win, is to stop killing. If you get a PM telling you that you're the vigilante, DO NOT USE IT. I've spoken to two different people who say they were PM'ed and given the vigilante role for one round, both separately told me they got two targets. Kind of a big Edit: apparently if you don't use your vigilante kills you yourself die. Maybe a single sacrifice is all that's required to stop the killing?

In turn, DO NOT VOTE IN THESE THREADS. Dyflon didn't post the rules in the first thread for a reason. I believe this is because we're not required to vote this time around.

Dyflon isn't telling us who among the dead was bad or who was good during the narration because we're all on the same team!


Roleplayed for you guys:

-Picks up the Ships Intercom-

You're scared. It's natural. But I can give answers.

We're not crazy. None of us ever were. We're under the influence of a space alien called a Dyflon which is sending out telepathic suggestions. You see, Dyflons feed off of fear and aggression. This Dyflon picks one person and sends them an impulse to kill two people. He then moves onto another target, to keep confusion high, again sending the impulse to kill two people. I've already spoken with two of the Dyflon's targets. It's unmistakable.

In turn, we look to each other to receive our blame. And we ourselves kill someone off because we're afraid. Don't you see!? The Dyflon is making us act crazy! Killing each other out of fear is insanity!

The only way to defeat the Dyflon is to ignore these impulses. If you get the impulse to kill, IGNORE IT. DO NOT GIVE IN. And in turn, the kills will stop because when the Dyflon's hunger is not sated, he will move on. If we band together, we can do this. We can stop the killing, stop the insanity. But the only way to do it is to stop the killing.


Please, if you kill me because you think I'm insane, I beg that you remember what I have said later down the road. Eventually this is going to be a last man standing game, and you'll all be losers. Because this ship can't be piloted by just one person. The only way we can make it out alive is together.



A HUGE EDIT:

I may have been mistaken, at least partially. Aladuf will explain more. But if he's right, there's really no way to win?

[Aladuf]

That sounds pretty good TML but I was the vigilante for one round and the rules stated are that "if you don't vote then you, yourself are eliminated" So according to your rules if we stop voting then we get voted off which would make the game unbeatable.

[thatmariolover]

I agree... It makes the game unbeatable.

Does anybody else have anything they want to share? Or any ideas?

What if a single vigilante sacrificing himself is enough to stop any more vigilantes from popping up?

[Bube]

It's the weekend again, so we all know that there won't be a lot of posting. It would be nice if this round was given double time.

What really scared me about this game is manasecret getting killed. After what he revealed last game - nobody voted for him, but still he was killed. I'd bet my Space Madness-life that there's a person (or group) who doesn't want the truth out. And the same thing happened with Vampyr as well. He had a few theories. And he got killed too..

I !vote Swan because he didn't give any reason for his vote against manasecret last round. I don't know if he's crazy or not, but I think he's special. :)

[thatmariolover]

What if there's somebody with the special ability to choose a Vigilante each round? In which case, they need to stop.

[Yoda9864]

I need to get my blood lust sated somewhere :devil:

!vote TML

I think you're trying to get the sane people to not vote someone out so that the crazies get free reign over us.

[Yoda9864]

Alright. I'd be willing to bet my sanity that Angrist was killed by the crazies. Angrist last round was casting suspicion on Flunkie44 and was then killed. I'm going with Flunkie for this round.

You make a good bet. You can never lose considering that we won't know if he was killed by crazies until the end of the game.

[Combine 017]

TML I already took what you said into consideration, and discontinuing to vote might actually work. But wheres the fun in that? Besides, I can land the ship, maybe not perfectly, more of a grinding halt along the ground, but its better than dive bombing a planet.

[Swan]

Damn right I am special. I am the bloody engineer. In all my years of fixing up the ships of course I have learned to fly it.


I am your last hope.

[flunkie44]

I hate that sig. So perverse and wrong.

[Swan]

I hate that sig. So perverse and wrong.

That is why I do not look at it.

It's not even really hot or anything

[Typhoid]

You're all talking like madmen. The whole lot of you.
With your assumptions, judgements, and slander for no reason.
You cannot solve life. There is no answer to survival, other than surviving.
Plain and simple.
You cannot wage war on a God, nor can you wage a war on ideology.
Someone, wants us to die.
Someone is deeming us not fit enough to live.
It's our job, to ourselves, to figure out who this person is, and eliminate them, before we eliminate ourselves.

Maybe the crazies already died.
Maybe now we're going insane with our own assumptions, and cabin-fever, and killing ourselves just because we got looked at funny.

[Swan]

What would happen if everybody had a vote against them?


One vote for everyone? Would it revert to a random number generator

[flunkie44]

You're all talking like madmen. The whole lot of you.
With your assumptions, judgements, and slander for no reason.
You cannot solve life. There is no answer to survival, other than surviving.
Plain and simple.
You cannot wage war on a God, nor can you wage a war on ideology.
Someone, wants us to die.
Someone is deeming us not fit enough to live.
It's our job, to ourselves, to figure out who this person is, and eliminate them, before we eliminate ourselves.

Maybe the crazies already died.
Maybe now we're going insane with our own assumptions, and cabin-fever, and killing ourselves just because we got looked at funny.

That's it. Typhoid's crazy.

[Typhoid]

What would happen if everybody had a vote against them?


One vote for everyone? Would it revert to a random number generator

You can't rationalize with killing.

The thing is, we're all crazy.
We start off sane, and then resort to mass-murdering everyone in cold-blood.
The only way out is suicide, and as that went for the professer, it makes you seem goddamn crazy.

There has to be a way to end the madness.

[Combine 017]

You can't rationalize with killing.

The thing is, we're all crazy.
We start off sane, and then resort to mass-murdering everyone in cold-blood.
The only way out is suicide, and as that went for the professer, it makes you seem goddamn crazy.

There has to be a way to end the madness.

We could kill you. That would at least end the madness for you.

[Swan]

We could kill you. That would at least end the madness for you.

Or we could kill you!

[Typhoid]

We could kill you. That would at least end the madness for you.

Actually, that wouldn't end the madness at all.
Especially for me.
If anything, that would make it madnessinger.

[Combine 017]

Actually, that wouldn't end the madness at all.
Especially for me.
If anything, that would make it madnessinger.

Nuh uh! Cause you would be dead.

[Typhoid]

That would be madness.

[flunkie44]

Madnessinger. :lolz:

[Teuthida]

Gentlemen, gentlemen. Here, have some chamomile tea. It'll calm you folks down.

[flunkie44]

I thought we were out of tea?

[Teuthida]

We are? We are?! WE ARE?! NOOO!!! Urge to kill...urge to kill risin-

Wait a minute...

Phew, there's another crate of it behind this obscene box of murderous bloody weapons.

[Swan]

That is not tea....



I filled tea bags with dirt....

[flunkie44]

What about the Dust? I seem to like Dust.

[Combine 017]

Put some Dust in the dirt tea and then maybe it will taste good.

[Swan]

YOu would know...your androidicus junkie

[Typhoid]

Okay, action needs to be picked up.
People need to be hurt.
Ties need to be cut.

There needs to be more action.
More feeling.
More emotion in your voices, chaps.
Somone must fall.
They must pay.

!Vote Flunkie44.

[flunkie44]

Vote count:

Flunkie44 - 2
jeepnut - 1
Swan - 1
themariolover - 1

[Combine 017]

YOu would know...your androidicus junkie

Did you read what I said, or did you just look at Dust and the fact I had said it. I said nothing of doing it. As a Combine Soldier I am prohibited from using unassigned drugs. And im not an android. Im technically a cyborg, but only by definition.

Anyways... insolent worm monkey!
!vote Swan

[Aladuf]

Alright. I'd be willing to bet my sanity that Angrist was killed by the crazies.

You're so very wrong.

[Combine 017]

You're so very wrong.

Aladuf... you... you killed agrist!?!?!?... I can live with that.

[Teuthida]

You murderous murdering murderer!

Any cucumber sandwiches left?

[Aladuf]

Aladuf... you... you killed agrist!?!?!?... I can live with that.

I neither confirm nor deny internet rumors.

[Teuthida]

What is this æthernet of which you speak? Is it edible?

[Aladuf]

It's a series of tubes, of course you can't eat it silly!

[jeepnut]

Tubes are quite edible actually.

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/images/mac-cheez1.jpg

[Aladuf]

Well played.

[Dyne]

Tubes are quite edible actually.

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/images/mac-cheez1.jpg

Yeah, but they're not in a series. :( Bugger.

[Teuthida]

It's a series of tubes, of course you can't eat it silly!


So it isn't a large vehicle for carrying goods and materials either? You have intrigued dear boy. Intrigued me to the point of blinding pain of the pancreas. Please, tell me more of these tubes.

Tubes are quite edible actually.

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/images/mac-cheez1.jpg

Ah, my daily intake of cheese has been greatly reduced since the onset of my travels. Where can I find these tubes?

[flunkie44]

Yeah, but they're not in a series. :( Bugger.

They can be. :mischief:

[jeepnut]

So it isn't a large vehicle for carrying goods and materials either? You have intrigued dear boy. Intrigued me to the point of blinding pain of the pancreas. Please, tell me more of these tubes.

Some tubes let you post videos of yourself so you can be ridiculed by people from all over the world.

[Aladuf]

They can be. :mischief:

:gay:

[flunkie44]

Alright, this is just getting too hilarious now (not talking about any posts.. just the whole game overall).

:lolz:

[Aladuf]

Alright folks, it's time to cut the bullshit here. Through some PM's with another member of the game I along with him have come to a conclusion that there's only ONE crazy person in this game and it is the leader himself Dyflon. I suggest if you haven't voted that you vote for him and if you have voted then to change your votes, who knows we may have a LOT of winners this game. So, with that being said:

!vote Dyflon

[jeepnut]

So it isn't a large vehicle for carrying goods and materials either? You have intrigued dear boy. Intrigued me to the point of blinding pain of the pancreas. Please, tell me more of these tubes.



Ah, my daily intake of cheese has been greatly reduced since the onset of my travels. Where can I find these tubes?

There's probably some easy mac in this ship somewhere. We just need to find a microwave.

[Typhoid]

There's Canadians on board.
There has to be some KD somewhere.

[jeepnut]

!Retract Flunkie44

!Vote Dylflon

[Dyne]

I hate to do the whole bandwagon thing, but I totally agree with the Dylflon vote. :lolz:

!vote Dylflon

[flunkie44]

!retract jeepnut

!vote Dylflon


:lolz: :lolz: :lolz: :lolz: :lolz:

[Typhoid]

Dylflon - 4
Swan - 2
Flunkie44 - 1
themariolover - 1

[Teuthida]

This actually makes sense.

!vote Dylflon

I do hope the ship doesn't implode on itself as a result. At least not until I get to taste the cheesey tubes.

[jeepnut]

Dylflon - 4
Swan - 2
Flunkie44 - 1
themariolover - 1

Just about to post that.

[jeepnut]

I'm off to bed all. Hopefully this plan works.

[GameMaster]

!vote Dylflon

[Combine 017]

I dont like the sound of this Dylflon vote. I think its time to take action and get this ship down to ground level. *equips gun* I'm heading for the bridge! Someone cover the door with the other guns and prepare to take out any crazies on the other side. Ive been cooped up in this room long enough. Even if I cant get this ship down I want to get to the escape pods before The Dylflon blows us to hell. And as Germy said, its not very nice.

[flunkie44]

I dont like the sound of this Dylflon vote. I think its time to take action and get this ship down to ground level. *equips gun* I'm heading for the bridge! Someone cover the door with the other guns and prepare to take out any crazies on the other side. Ive been cooped up in this room long enough. Even if I cant get this ship down I want to get to the escape pods before The Dylflon blows us to hell. And as Germy said, its not very nice.

:lolz: Germy's dead.

[thatmariolover]

!Vote Dylflon

[Aladuf]

You don't trust me Combine? After I put all of my trust into you in the LAST ROUND OF THE LAST GAME, THE VERY SAME DECISION THAT LED TO OUR VICTORY!?!? It's time to break out of your comfort zone, we're surrounded by danger, you've gotta go into this shit balls out. :D

[Combine 017]

:lolz: Germy's dead and im crazy.

I know, thats why he would know hell isnt so nice.

You don't trust me Combine? After I put all of my trust into you in the LAST ROUND OF THE LAST GAME, THE VERY SAME DECISION THAT LED TO OUR VICTORY!?!? It's time to break out of your comfort zone, we're surrounded by danger, you've gotta go into this shit balls out.

Ya well, we wernt going against a higher being last time. Besides, ive already got my own plan, im heading to the bridge. Theres no rules stating I cant leave this room. I also dont want everyone to see my shit balls.

[Teuthida]

I dont like the sound of this Dylflon vote. I think its time to take action and get this ship down to ground level. *equips gun* I'm heading for the bridge! Someone cover the door with the other guns and prepare to take out any crazies on the other side. Ive been cooped up in this room long enough. Even if I cant get this ship down I want to get to the escape pods before The Dylflon blows us to hell. And as Germy said, its not very nice.

Why is this the first I hear of escape pods? How large are they exactly? My tail has a habit of falling asleep if I have to remain in a chair for too long. Unless of course there is a hole for my tail. I am tired of spaceship manufacturers not taking into account other appendages one might have.

[Aladuf]

Ya well, we wernt going against a higher being last time. Besides, ive already got my own plan, im heading to the bridge. Theres no rules stating I cant leave this room.

Go on your way then, who am I to stop you? But I must say, by not heeding my advice you are being a bit....crazy.

[flunkie44]

I shit balls and I'm crazy.

Germy would be proud.

[Combine 017]

:lolz: hahaha :p I do not shit balls

Go on your way then, who am I to stop you? But I must say, by not heeding my advice you are being a bit....crazy.

I heeded your advice, im just not taking it. At the moment. And last game I was absolutely sure you were not an other, I cant be sure your not crazy this game.

[Bube]

This has turned into true space madness. I am completely lost. And nobody's giving any info about themselves. Why can't we all just get along?!

[jeepnut]

We've been talking through PMs. Basically we learned that there is no way we can win this game unless we stop playing.

[Dylflon]

Voting is 100% definitely required.

Also, I forgot I ahve to work at 10 am today. So the round is extended to 4pm PSt , 7pm Eastern!

[Dylflon]

Oh, by the way.

I'm not playing and I can't be voted for.

There will be at least one winner in this game, I assure you.

Unless you're just voting for me to end the game because I guess I could do that if you want and nobody would win. You have 6 hours to change your votes.

[Dylflon]

And to finish the triple post before I rush off to work:

The narration for next round is where I intended to explain the acutal mechanics. Some of you are right about some things. So try not to dismantle the game before then.

I know this one has been weird but it has helped a lot in figuring out how I'm going to run future games. (All the mechanics being witheld is not a future plan btw).

[flunkie44]

!retract Dylflon

!vote Swan

[Teuthida]

There can only be one survivor. We are doomed (http://youtube.com/watch?v=fqcn_TPu4qQ).

!retract Dylflon

!vote Swan

[uber_paddler]

Wow, what the hell happened while I was away?

[Aladuf]

ugh, bullshit. I think we did figure it out, but in order to play by the rules...

!retract Dyflon

!vote Swan

[thatmariolover]

Very well. If it must be done, it must be done.

!retract Dyflon

!vote Swan

Wow, what the hell happened while I was away?

I did a bang up job of trying to figure the game out and made everybody paranoid. :p

[Dylflon]

ugh, bullshit. I think we did figure it out, but in order to play by the rules...

!retract Dyflon

!vote Swan

What bullshit? Are you mad that I made a game where you can't vote off the guy running the game?

Why would that ever be a mechanic?

[thatmariolover]

What bullshit? Are you mad that I made a game where you can't vote off the guy running the game?

Why would that ever be a mechanic?

No, I think he's scared that the game is unbeatable because he missed the part of your post about somebody winning.

I really don't want a last man standing kind of end myself. But if that's what the game has planned, then so be it.

Regardless I look forward to the narration.

[jeepnut]

*Resume senseless killing*

I guess we're all voting for Swan now? Wouldn't want to go against the grain here.

!retract Dylflon

!vote Swan

[flunkie44]

I am doomed. :(

[GameMaster]

!vote Swan

[Combine 017]

I was voting for Swan before it was cool.

[Swan]

Wait what...what the shit happened?



....Bastards




!Vote Swan

[flunkie44]

Shouldn't this round be over by now?

[Swan]

There is 7 minutes for you all to correct your mistakes

[Combine 017]

There is 7 minutes for you all to correct your mistakes

Ok ill correct my mistake.

!retract Swan

!vote Swan

When I said correct I meant update.

[thatmariolover]

I can hardly wait to read the conclusion...

[Dylflon]

Okay, I'm back from work. I will narrate now.

[Aladuf]

What bullshit? Are you mad that I made a game where you can't vote off the guy running the game?

Why would that ever be a mechanic?

I'm not mad, I'm a bit confused by this game because it makes no sense. Last night I found out that there are two vigilantes, the small things in this game that are weird like that feel too unexplained.

[uber_paddler]

Sweet, can't wait for the next chapter.