TWG LXXII: The Chimera Code (Redux)

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

Defense Outpost 1C, 1245 Hours.

#000 quickly vaults himself to the top of the craggy rocks, and the great Alkem City salutes his eyes for the first time. "At last," he speaks, and searches the landscape. He begins to trek forwards and comes upon a metal, box-like installation. He halts to check for any traps. Sure enough, the hum and click of an autogun emerging from beside the installation. He leaps swiftly and carefully, cautious not to be seen on its camera eye. He lands precisely behind it, and destroys it with one swipe of his claws before it can even begin its search. "Quick," he concedes, "but not quick enough." With this he begins to investigate the installation for an access point. Removing some paneling, he comes across an manual interface with a electronic key slot. "Normals and their defense systems," he jeers. "Don't they realize the openings they give me?" He extends a single claw and inserted it into the key slot. Electric pulses ran from his claw into the opening, carrying the dreaded virus into the system. The defense system is tough, but he can make his way into a certain vital measure of defense.

"Yes...more than I need. Let's go."

With this, his legions begin to advance. Invisible behind the rocks, the massive hordes reveal themselves. Mutated organisms, unmanned weapons and war machines, vicious creatures born of the virus itself.

Thousands of them, thirsty for blood.

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Northern Watchtower, 1247 Hours.

The soldiers had their time to unwind, but now their rest is rudely interrupted.

A mighty rumbling shakes the earth, halting the friendly discourse among the members of Mobius.

“Hey, what the hell...?” Tair has scarcely uttered his surprised response before the room goes suddenly, inexplicably dark. The lights are out.

“What...what’s going on out there?” Psykit is quick to look out the window at the landscape outside.

“Possibly just a black out?” Tair replies.

“No, no, no,” says Ether, “blackouts never cause that kinda shock.”

There is a moment of silence before a piercing, metallic sound rips the air; a bright, bluish blast of light illuminates the company from behind. They turn around to witness an astonishing sight. The city’s shield generator has exploded, and they watch in stunned silence as the scorched generator core falls from the upper level to the ground, nearly bringing its casing with it. The soft, transparent glow of the shield dome begins to waft away, the city’s main protection now gone.

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"CLASS A ALERT. ALL PERSONNEL TO STATIONS."

Hardly a second passes by until they break and run to their stations. “Get all defense systems online now!” Ether commands. Sure enough, they are coming under attack: Tair spots dust clouds on the horizon. The source of the dust clouds soon becomes clear: an army of war vehicles, planes, and a vast array of fearsome looking creatures, all led by a single figure. Tair knew them upon sight. #000 and his legions had finally come for Alkem City.

"Sound general alarm!" he screams. "Tell everyone to evacuate!" Ran has already clambered to the control room, lifted the painted cover, and pressed the emergency alarm button. A piercing sirenlike wail emits from every speaker, fading out slightly to give way for Ran's panicked voice. "General Alert! The city is under attack! The shield wall is down! Everyone evacuate to the underlevels immediately! This is not a drill! Evacuate NOW!"


"All exterior defense units come in!" Psykit shouts into a headset as she speeds down a flight of stairs. "This is Mobius! We have a massive amount of incoming hostiles from the north! Use every weapon you've got! Do NOT let them in!"

Record end.
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The battle raged on for hours. The exterior defense units kept them off for a while, but #000 would not let his loyal army die for nothing. He eventually destroyed all their firepower and broke into the city. The city's armed forces were massacred. The shield generator was repaired in time to prevent further break-ins, but this left the remaining soldiers trapped inside with the Chimera....

Best storyline evar.


Game structure:

THE CHIMERA CODE: REDUX

19 players.

The Chimera Elite (Wolves)

#000: Master Wolf. Has the one-time use power to infect a human. This makes them seer red, and also makes them count as a wolf in the wolf/human count. The infected human must be dead in order for humans to win the game. This ability can be used during any phase of play and happens without the knowledge of the target. Seers GREEN.

Zade: Wolf Thief. Attempts to steal items from one person during the night. Seers RED.

Malakh: Wolf Scavenger. Searches the city for items at night and distributes his findings to other players. Seers RED.

Arun: Wolf. Seers RED.

2 Infected Humans: Lonewolf Masons. They are freshly infected, so they are still difficult for #000 to rein in.. They seer RED. By Night 5, they are told who the other wolves are and lose their kill ability.

Each night, both regular and lost wolves send in kill PMs. Since they represent 1/3 of the wolf population, there is a 1 out of 3 chance that the lost wolf kill will succeed.

Security Force Mobius (Special Humans)

Ether: The Mobius leader. A highly advanced biomech with impressive defense capabilites. (Guardian. Guarding protects a player from any kind of death except lynching and curse death.) Seers BLUE

Psykit: Ether’s partner and SIC of Mobius. Highly skilled at detecting both enemies and allies. (Seer. If, by the time the MW infects a human, the wolf thief was unsuccessful in stealing any items, the seer receives a PM saying a human was infected, unless she is infected herself, of course.)

3 Masons:
Ailian: Cursed Mason. On Night 3, the night of the eclipse*, she can seer someone. She dies Night 4. Seers GREEN.
Marth: Mason with the others. Seers GREEN
Jade: Mason with the above two. Seers GREEN.

*NOTE: During the eclipse, #000 loses his powers of concealment, seering RED to any seering method, and specifically being revealed as the MW if seered by Ailian.

Ran: Scavenger. Searches for items and gives the little gifts to other players. Isn’t he sweet? Seers BLUE.

Kain: Mystery Role!

Mavy: Mystery Role!

Tair: The crafty thief. Steals items from people and -- hopefully -- benefits his team. Seers GREEN.

ACSF Soldiers: 4 Regular Humans. Nothing special. They seer GREEN.


Scavengers/Items/Thieves!!!

Scavenging odds are as follows:

Human Scavenger:
4/12 chance of finding no items.
5/12 chance of finding 1 item.
2/12 chance of finding 2 items.
1/12 chance of finding 3 items.
Wolf Scavenger:
3/7 chance of finding no items.
3/7 chance of finding 1 item.
1/7 chance of finding 2 items.

Stolen items carry over to the next night, regardless of special effects.

Item odds are as follows:

12 of 20 items found will be shards, of which:
6 will be pure shards, and
6 will be tainted shards.

5 of 20 items found will be crystals, of which:
2 will be pure crystals,
2 will be tainted crystals, and
1 will be a natural crystal.

2 of 20 items found will be Soul Talismans.

1 of 20 items found will be Great Soul Talismans.


Item Descriptions

Pure Shard/Tainted Shard
~ Destruction Ability: Can vigi any player. You may choose yourself.
~ Protection Ablility: Can protect a player from any kind of death during the night, except curse death. You may choose yourself.
Only one ability can be used.

Pure Shard Special Conditions:
– If the MW is in possession of a pure shard, and is seered, the reading will return BLUE unless the seering was done using a crystal or higher item.
– If a wolf other than the MW recieves a pure shard and does not use or pass it in the same phase, the wolf dies.

Tainted Shard Special Conditions:
– If the MW is in possession of a tainted shard, and is seered, the reading will return RED unless the seering was done with a crystal or higher item.
– If a human other than a blue receives a tainted shard and does not use or pass it in the same phase, the human dies.

Pure Crystal/Tainted Crystal/Natural Crystal
~ Destruction Ability: Can vigi any player. You may choose yourself.
~ Protection Ablility: Can protect a player from any kind of death during the night, except curse death. You may choose yourself.
~ Revelation Ability: Can seer any player.
Only one ability can be used. Exception: Two abilities may be used from the natural crystal.*

Pure Crystal Special Conditions:
- If the MW is seered while in possession of a pure crystal, the reading will return BLUE regardless of seer method.
- If any wolf receives a pure crystal and does not use or pass it in the same phase, the wolf dies.

Tainted Crystal Special Conditions:
- If the MW is seered while in possession of a tainted crystal, the reading will return RED regardless of seer method.
- If any human receives a tainted crystal and does not use or pass it in the same phase, the human dies.

Natural Crystal has no Special Conditions.

*NOTE: When using a crystal, PM the name of two powers you would like to use and who you would like to use them on, putting the one you would like to use most first.

Players cannot physically determine a shard or crystal's alignment.

Soul Talisman
~ Resurrection Ability: Can bring any deceased player back into the game.
You can use this ability plus one ability from the following:
~ Destruction Ability: Can vigi any player. You may choose yourself.
~ Protection Ablility: Can protect a player from any kind of death during the night, except curse death. You may choose yourself.
~ Revelation Ability: Can seer any player.

Soul Talisman Special Conditions:
– If a thief steals this item and does not use it, the thief will be unable to steal the following night.

Great Soul Talisman
~ Resurrection Ability: Can bring any deceased player back into the game.
You can use this ability plus two abilities from the following:
~ Destruction Ability: Can vigi any player. You may choose yourself.
~ Protection Ablility: Can protect a player from any kind of death during the night, except curse death. You may choose yourself.
~ Revelation Ability: Can seer any player.


Great Soul Talisman Special Conditions:
– If a thief steals this item and does not use it, (s)he will be relegated to normal human status and be unable to steal items ever again.
– If four or more wolves remain, and the MW has infected a human, the player will be cured if a human uses this item.
– If three or less wolves remain, the MW gains an extra infection power if a wolf uses this item.

Phases

Nights end, at maximum, 24 hours after I send 1st Item Distribution PMs.
Days end 48 hours after Nights terminate.

During the night:
Seer/Guardian/Wolves send in PMs.
Scavengers receive First Item Find PMs.
Scavengers send Item Distribution PMs to host.
Thief attempt #1.
Theft notices are given to robbed players.
Scavengers recieve Second Item Find PMs.
Scavengers send Item Distibution PMs to host.
Thief attempt #2.
Theft notices are given.
Wolves/Blues send in PMs.
Item Usage PMs are sent.

Item passes take effect the following day, and items carry over to next night.

editing now.

*NOTE: The human thief takes precedence over the wolf thief on odd-numbered nights, and the wolf thief takes precedence on even-numbered nights. This is to resolve issues with the thieves targeting one player at the same time.

If the target has one item: The favored thief gets the item.
If the target has two items: The favored thief gets the higher ranked item.
If the target has three items: The favored thief gets 2 items.

During the day:
Seer readings/notices to thieves are given (thieves do not know on which attempt they stole items.)
Deaths/Resurrections are announced.
Votes are made and counted.
Lynch occurs.
Phantoms are awarded.


PLAYER LIST:


1. tupacodaman (tupacodaman)
2. aTzUeLo1191 (aTzUeLo1191)
3. Bynary Fission (MagmaGR)
4. u84 (u8477)
5. freakysnots (freakysnots)
6. travman301 (RBennie362)
7. jump_the_bullet (aksmooth77)
8. Xception704 (jungmour2009)
9. DarkManticoreX2 (darkmanticoreX2)
10. pntballa18 (Merlonifan28)
11. roundbox (tehroundbox)
12. Temote (Sumote)
13. jwcgator (jwcgator2)
14. iluswirl (iluswirl)
15. Litodude (Litodude)
16. gnr61 (basketcase1161)
17. Tps222 (Tps7910)
18. heavylee (heavyleah)
19. DrKirth (drkirth)

ROLE PMs WILL BE GOING OUT IN A FEW. SIT TIGHT.

[Xception704]

first.

CAN'T WAIT.

[aTzUeLo1191]

WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO its starting.

NOT WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO i'm human.

Will be on AIM for a bit longer adding the list of players if anyone wants to chat.

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

ALL ROLES ARE OUT, CONTACT ME IF YOU DID NOT GET A PM.

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The Northwest Sector, 2055 Hours.

Tair walks over to where Ailian and Jade are sitting, in the shadow of a ruined building. Marth stands guard while the others anxiously await contact from the other members of the squad.

“Here he comes,” Jade says. “What’s the news?”

“Good and bad,” Tair replies. “Good news: nearly everyone is safe in the underlevels. Security drones are in the ventilation systems, and we’ve got people in charge. The citizens are taken care of.”

“What’s the bad news?” asks Ailian.

“Well...I was in the turret holding off some of those creatures that were coming through a small breach to the left of our tower. I ran out of ammo before I could finish them all. There were six of ‘em left, and they all...they all transformed themselves. Changed themselves to look like the city’s soldiers! Two of them were acting weird though, like they were struggling to move...”

“Wait, wait, wait,” Jade interrupts. “So these things can disguise themselves as us?”

“Yes,” says Tair, “and it gets worse. Even if we find the rest of the squad, who can we trust? We all got split up, except for you three. Any one of them could be one of those things.”

“Damn it, he’s right,” says Ailian. “And they won’t attack out into the open. They’ll stealthily pick us off one by one. They’ll go for all the important people first. What will we do?”

“Hold on,” declares Jade. “I have an idea that might help...”

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The next day, an armor-cloaked figure stands on a hill in front of a reunited Mobius unit. The same armor is worn by all the soldiers, as per the plan.

“My friends,” the figure declares. All goes silent. “I'm sure you've all gotten the message the group sent about an important security issue that has come to our attention. As detailed by the message, we are all to choose new code names. You are to refer to others using these new code names only. Let us start with the gentleman in the back.”

“You can call me Raven,” he replies.

“I am Vale,” shouts another young man.

One by one, the names are read off: “Lain, Keevan, Auran, Shade, Axl, Visark....”

When all is finished the armored figure declares, “I am Mezera. Tomorrow we hunt, but tonight we sleep. I've secured a guard house for all of us, we will sleep there.”

The exhausted soldiers reach the guard house after what seems an eternity. They put their gear and weapons away and head to their individual rooms. "Take off your suits while locked in your rooms." Mezera says. "We cannot compromise our identities." The soldiers are too tired to say anything; their only focus is the soft beds that await them. "Good night!"

"Good night," They drone in response as they shut their doors.

Most of them sleep peacefully...
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It is now Night 1. Night 1 ends at 8:00 PM Central, Dec. 3rd.

1. tupacodaman (tupacodaman) Raven
2. aTzUeLo1191 (aTzUeLo1191) Vale
3. Bynary Fission (MagmaGR) Visark
4. u84 (u8477) Mezera
5. freakysnots (freakysnots) Avant
6. travman301 (RBennie362) Axl
7. jump_the_bullet (aksmooth77) Lain
8. Xception704 (jungmour2009) Keevan
9. DarkManticoreX2 (darkmanticoreX2) Gryphon
10. pntballa18 (Merlonifan28) Exer
11. roundbox (tehroundbox) Xander
12. Temote (Sumote) Vee
13. jwcgator (jwcgator2) Skech
14. iluswirl (iluswirl) Lia
15. Litodude (Litodude) Leto
16. gnr61 (basketcase1161) Arterus
17. Tps222 (Tps7910) Roivas
18. heavylee (heavyleah) Mavin
19. DrKirth (drkirth) Para-Medic

[roundbox]

If more than 4 people call human
bs bs bs

[DrKirth]

I claim human.

[Litodude]

Immediate claims for humans are, as we all know, retarded and makes yourself more noticeable instead of keeping you out of the way of trouble. a DUH

First order of business-

I didn't even read the roles(rofl) before signing up, but now that I have: What's the best course of action? Having the seer come out and guardian guard him? That would be an immediate fail plan as wolves have a -possible- 2 killings at night, thus wasting the guarding. Should we all just stay in the dark, safety, and wait for the phases to come, in hopes of finding the right items?

Thoughts please.

[Litodude]

Also, how are the Pure and Tainted Crystals "used"?

[Litodude]

Disregard that, I have dicks in my eyes and can't read.

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

Oh, yes, forgot a game mechanic!

Items can be used or passed to someone else. You must either pass or use the item; you cannot use it and then pass it.

[Litodude]

Originally Posted by Brilliant Dynamite Neon

Oh, yes, forgot a game mechanic!

Items can be used or passed to someone else. You must either pass or use the item; you cannot use it and then pass it.

seer only come out if someone claims they have a protection jewel? what u thank

[freakysnots]

I think the cursed mason should come out and build an alliance.

[DrKirth]

I dunno it just sounds like the MW would infect the seer the moment they came out

[Litodude]

I thought MW can only infect green humans, not blues.

[freakysnots]

[23:04] freakysnots: oh which reminds me to post something
[23:04] freakysnots: seer don't come out cuz u get vigi'd during day time
[23:04] freakysnots: and at night time both teams of wolves pwn you
[23:04] freakysnots: and guard can't defend both

Pretty obvious but I just feel like postin that.

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

Night 1 story up w/cheesy codenames.

bye bye

[jwcgator]

Skech ftw


ANYWAYS,

[DrKirth]

Pair O’ Pathetic Peripatetics

[travman301]

Woo it started! ^_^

[Bynary Fission]

Woo! At least it's started. This game looks like it's going to be great - too bad I have school now.


I'll get to reading all the new stuff and re-reading the old stuff when I get home (I tend to be very forgetful of complex things I read).