The Thing Day 3
 

After an uneasy sleep, MacReady and Doctor Copper prepare for their trip to the Norwegian base. The rest of the crew busy themselves in an attempt to occupy their minds.

The radio man Windows repeats the same line “Hello, hello? Do you read me? This is American Outpost 31. Does anybody read me? Over.” over and over again for an hour.
Blair, the team’s senior biologist locks himself in his lab, creating a computer program. He loads in numbers, variables, and equations for hours on end.

As MacReady finishes packing his gear into a hiking backpack, he hears a knock on the door of his shed. On the other end of the knock is assistant mechanic Palmer.

“Uuuuuhhhh, Mac? You might call me paranoid but…well, I saw Copper go out into the snow last night by himself.”

“So what?”

“Well…you might want to come take a look at the helicopter”

MacReady ran to the helicopter at full flight with Palmer dragging behind, lungs ravaged by the combination of freezing arctic air and marijuana smoke.

The rest of the men (besides Windows, Bennings and Blair) were already surrounding the helicopter.

“Mac, someone gutted the chopper”, Norris informed in a defeated tone.
“Whoever did it also got to the rest of the vehicles”

“Where’s Doc?”, asked Childs.

MacReady immediately started running towards the camp. He was followed soon after by the rest of the crew. It wasn’t long until they ran into Copper just outside of the camp. Copper didn’t say anything in the classical sense. But what came out of his mouth could be more likened to a howl that has been inverted.

“What the…”

“Shit he’s…he’s one of those things!”, shouted Nauls the cook.

Garry pulled his revolver out and aimed it at Copper.

“Do it!”, yelled MacReady.

A shot rang out that would be heard for miles around if only there were someone out there to hear it. Copper’s body fell to the ground, spouting blood over the snowy ground.

MacReady walked into the middle of the circle of shocked and horrified men.

“I don’t know exactly what we’re dealing with here. But whatever it is, it can emulate us. That thing had not finished turning into the Doc. But if we gave it any longer, who knows if we would have been able to tell. Whatever this thing is, it wants to hide. And wait. I don’t know how many of you are infected. But for now, nobody goes anywhere alone.”

The crew walks back inside, to see Bennings, slumped over on the ground, stabbed in the throat.

The silence lasted for what felt like minutes, until Palmer broke it.

“Did Doc do that?”



Deaths:

manasecret - Bennings (uninfected) - killed by the vigilante
Bond - Doctor Copper (infected) - killed by the mob

The aliens have grown in number.

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I leave you with this.































Damn you Vigilanteeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

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I see I get one goodbye post... how generous. But I also see how I can't talk about anything related to the game... so...

ANGRIST

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So.. Prof never voted against Bond.

They are in this together
And for voting off Green

I !vote Strangler!

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Honestly I didn't think it was Bond, but then again, I was out to save my own skin and I thought Angrist was my best shot at not getting killed because of the late surge in voting from Fox6 and others.

I still think its either Angrist or Yoda, or maybe both. Seriously though, after Bond got nailed i'm just confused, so I'm going to hold off on my vote and see if anyone else will show their hand.

EDIT: I just checked the other thread. I was teaching classes in the middle of the day and didn't see the VERY late surge for Bond. If I did I would have jumped on that shiznite to save my ass.

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You think I'm the alien? Interesting. Or are you just trying to take the attention off of yourself?

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I'm not completely surprised about Bond and I'm glad we got him out of here, but mana taking a hit makes it very interesting. I can't be too sure yet, so I'm holding my vote for a bit.

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Ok everyone who is human...

Respond to this message...

Get to the bottom of this...

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Snap, this is getting epic.

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Well thats part of it, sure. Regardless of whether or not I am an alien (I' am NOT), everyone seems to THINK I am, which will get me killed just as dead.

But the other part are the very carefully worded, and SHORT posts you make, but you might just be succunct. Typhoid is in the same boat as well with me.

I'm off the manasecret bandwagon. I think he's clean, for some reason.

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I always make short posts, unless I'm arguing.

Don't try sink me with your wreck of a ship.

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He was clean. Dude is dead! :(

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So Prof S.. doesn't vote against Bond
And votes against Manny..

bond was infected
Manny is dead but was uninfected..

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Oh yeah, guess I missed that one. Now you know why everyone thinks I'm an alien... I don't pay attention

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Special announcement:

GameMaster has been replaced...


BY VAMPYR!

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Hmmm... can I replace Neo?

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Haha sneaky but smart.

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I've been lurking and watching from nearby, and I can practically smell the alien on this guy.

I !vote Strangler!

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A vampiric alien? El Chupacabras?

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Haha, I love that you guys keep messing up the voting format but I guess it doesn't really matter.

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I sense the anger in your voice....

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No anger :p

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Maybe you can replace Neo.

!Clarification

Since we are going to do a new thread every day.
Could you also bring over the character list/deceased list so don't need to go in between several threads to find info.

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It's true, my long lost Survivor brother.

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Got to give bonus points to Vampyr for having a Dr. Cox icon.

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GameMaster, if you want to play, you can have Neo's role. I jsut didn't know if you were ever gonig to be in here.

I will update the OP with player list.

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The forum isn't really letting me edit my posts...

The players:

1. The Game
2. Professor S
3. Bond - Doctor Copper (infected) - killed by mob on day two
4. BLueFire
5. Teuthida
6. Swan
7. The Germanator
8. Neo/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

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A clever ploy, my friend. Ditch your powerless role onto me for something a bit stronger, eh?

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Ok, so somebody clearly wanted Manasecret dead, the question here is whether the vigilante just made a mistake, or has been infected in the first night and is now on the alien side.

What I noticed when people started voting for me, Fox6 and Bond posted within 20 minutes after eachother, both wanted me dead.

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Your identity is safely stored in the loyal vault of my mind, comrade. I have eagerly awaited your return for many moons. I smile with tears of joy now that you have finally come back to claim that which is rightfully yours.

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I know w alot of you think I'm guily, but to be honest, I'd have to be the dumbest alien ever looking at my post history in this game.

There's a better, more intelligent theory:

I find it odd that a lot of people jumped on Bond at the last minute. I didn't vote for Bond because I didn't think he was guilty, but the smart play would have been for the other alien to jump in at the last second and pile on an alien who they realize is about to be killed by the mob.

That way the real alien appears innocent by helping the mob kill his fellow alien, who was already dead just by numbers...

We know manasecret was innocent, but that leaves

Bluefire
Breakabone
Angrist

Who all piled on at the last second. My money is on one of them as being the alien.

If you look at Bluefire and Breakabone's posting times, they posted just minutes before the end of the round, making them the most suspicious.

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I'm going to bed and will follow my own reasoning.

I !vote Fox6

Now that I think of it, last night I dreamed about this game, we played it irl... or maybe we didn't pláy it... Creepy.

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I !vote Bluefire

He barely posts anything in the game and his last post was a last minute pile on of Bond, making him look innocent once he knew Bond was a lost cause.

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I am going to

I !retract Strangler.

Need to think about this some more.

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I !Vote The Game

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You, miss a little you miss alot. I know for a fact im not infected (yet?) so yeah ill just put that out there and uhhhhhh hope everyone makes the right choice....

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I vote for......


I ! vote prof. S

EDIT: this is an after thought, but what if the vigilante is an alien! dear god.....