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[GlyphGryph]

Mush: The Dawn
Humanity has encountered a terrible threat, and it's too late to stop it. It infects our leaders, or soldiers, our friends and our family, turning them into terrible creatures that seek our destruction.


Mush, Or How I Learned To Hate Humanity And Sabotage A Spaceship - The Review on Indiestatik

But we have one, final, chance. A dangerous mission. An untested ship. A ragtag crew, and a daring escape.

This is the Daedalus project, and if we succeed, we can save all of humanity. If we fail, we die - or worse. We must work together to overcome the odds, shake our pursuit, seize opportunities, and develop a cure. And we must do it despite the enemy being right here in our ranks, despite the fact that several members of our crew our undoubtedly already Mush.


Mush is a game... by the makers of Die2Nite, played out over the course of a few days to a couple weeks.
Similar in ways to Die2Nite, the forum Mafia we play in the lower boards, and games like SS13, you play as a crewmember with a limited number of incredibly valuable actions you can take per day, but the most important activity you engage in is communication. There's many things that need to be done on the ship, and since two of the players start as enemy agents working to undermine it's success, it's vitally important that many different things get done. From growing food, collecting oxygen, going on expeditions, researching projects, fixing stuff that breaks, shooting down pursuers, installing improvements, keeping up morale, and refueling the ship, there's much that needs to be done just to keep everyone alive. But we also need to double as detectives, carefully watching our crewmates, tracing their actions, keeping tabs on their status, always aware that they could have already been infected, and they might turn or kill us next.

It's a game of slow suspense and paranoia, hanging on the edge of defeat only to pull off a thrilling victory... or lose it at the last moment, if you've been outplayed and outmaneuvered by your adversaries.

It is not a quick game by any means. It is a game of careful planning, coordination, politics and vigilance. The bulk of your time should be spent not doing, but figure out what you and others can do to make your actions most valuable.

But it is a game with a lot going for it.



MASSIVE MUSH JUMP
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20131207T00&p0=1440&msg=Massive+Mush+Move

[GlyphGryph]

This is my first guide, and what I plan to post for every new game as my first post. If you have any suggestions or tweaks to this, feel free to share, and feel free to use on your own boats. (If we all use it, we'll know when we manage to get together by chance at least!)

Spoiler: RULES OF PLAY - Required for a good ship (click to show/hide)

Rules of Play (Requirements for a successful ship):
Please Read! Important for everyone, especially new players!
1. Communicate! This is the single most important aspect of the game. Individually, none of us can do more than small nudges and subtle improvements. We must work as a team if we are to survive, and we must communicate in order to form an effective team. The single most important factor in this game is communication - if you don’t talk, you are not helping. Talking is how we acquire the information we need in order to make the best use of our individual, limited action points. Sharing information is how we find the Mush. There is nothing more important.
2. Do not take unilateral action (avoid traps, keep coordinated)!. A great many things in this game exist almost solely to screw the ship over. If you are inexperienced, it is vitally important you avoid them - for example, using the microwave disconnects our comms system and destroys our bonus Neron research, and researching a Neron project destroys others. Even if you are experienced, we work more efficiently if we work together, and keep each other abreast of what is going on. Some roles may end up working more or less independently, and emergencies sometimes require immediate action, but you should at least let the others know what you are doing and why before you do it. The thing you are best at may not be the thing the ship vitally needs you to do.
3. Do not go idle in rooms without cameras or detectors! This is only important once the game actually begins, but every moment you spend outside of their comforting gaze is a moment where a Mush can spike you and turn you. Even if you don’t get spiked, the rest of the crew has no way to tell. If you spend too much time outside of the gaze of the cameras, esp. for no obvious reason or a weak reason, it will be assumed that you are Mush and you will eventually be killed - either you are generating spores in safety, or you are getting spiked by those who are..
4. Do not cook or eat food unless starving! Cooked food spoils and is lost forever if not eaten. We also have limited supplies on board, and we need to make it last. Characters can and will die of starvation if we aren’t careful, so it’s important we conserve our rations for keeping people alive and responding to emergencies.
5. Post in the status threads! It’s vitally important that we know who’s getting low on morale, who’s dirty, why, why people are off hiding in the bay room, etc. and so on. Without this knowledge, we waste action points. With it, we find and kill mush.
6. Read everything! I’ll be making other threads to start off with containing other guides, and suggestions on advancement. Other people will be saying things of value as well. Room logs are vitally important to spot Mush - we need to track comings and goings, camera installs, things picked up, etc. if we are going to find them.
7. Finally: Do your jobs! Everyone on board has a job to do. Don’t move around aimlessly, don’t waste AP, talk to your shipmates and find out what needs to be done, and then do it. Anyone who is not doing their job will be assumed to be Mush or a Griefer and murdered as soon as possible. If you aren’t helping the ship, you are acting against it, and we will need to stop you.

Spoiler: Phase 1 Priorities (click to show/hide)

RESEARCH - Antimush Research - There is nothing more important than getting antimush tech up and running. It slows down the Mush, and we need to slow them down as much as possible.
CAMERAS - Collecting and Installing Cameras[/b] - This is super important. There are three cameras on board. We need to find them and install them in Alpha Dorm, Bravo Dorm, and the medlab. This should be done as part of...
INVENTORY - Taking Inventory and Relocating Equipment - We need to know what we have and where it is before the mush hide it, steal it, or disassemble it. While you’re wandering the ship, announce what you see, and take it back to a Camera room if possible. If you two people get online with Terence, he can move stuff for free, which is a huge help early on - so try to coordinate with him, and get everything to as safe a place as possible. If you can’t move stuff, at least announce what is where in the Inventory thread. If you DO move stuff, announce where you moved it to and from.
EXCEPTIONS: Frieda should be scanning for planets and posting the results, Paola should be working comms, deciphering transmissions, and telling people to check out these threads.

Once we have made good progress on these asks, we can move on to phase 2.

[Kelroth]

http://mush.twinoid.com/theEnd/677
Made it until Day 10, then a piece of metal falls on me while I was sleeping, killing me instantly. At least I didn't suffer. 

Fun fact: I placed second, and I've been awarded the title of "Pointless Player". Basically the other players worked hard for me to reach so much honor! 

[Zangi]

Your google doc link is view only.  Unless I don't know how to use it.

[Iceblaster]

Signed up as Iceblaster...

Time to look around and see if it's fun.

EDIT: Oooooh... one of those games...

While the concept sounds fun, I'd have to say no to this as I'm not one to like this type of gameplay.

[Knave]

http://mush.twinoid.com/theEnd/677
Made it until Day 10, then a piece of metal falls on me while I was sleeping, killing me instantly.

Fun fact: I placed second, and I've been awarded the title of "Pointless Player". Basically the other players worked hard for me to reach so much honor! 

Ahh, you were Kuan Ti? I was Chao

EDIT: I was a converted Mush by the way, I don`t think many people suspected

[Kelroth]

http://mush.twinoid.com/theEnd/677
Made it until Day 10, then a piece of metal falls on me while I was sleeping, killing me instantly.

Fun fact: I placed second, and I've been awarded the title of "Pointless Player". Basically the other players worked hard for me to reach so much honor! 

Ahh, you were Kuan Ti? I was Chao

Chao? Really? 
I was hoping to ask you this! Since when you became a Mush?
We had really good fun on that ship, it has been my first but what a blast! I love this game.

[Knave]

Hua and Eleesha both spiked me right before we headed down for the 2nd expedition to find o2. When Hua got killed by the creature on the planet I quickly took the hidden Mush skill thinking I`d just ride out the trip to Sol

[GlyphGryph]

Your google doc link is view only.  Unless I don't know how to use it.

Sorry, I fixed it.

If you're interested in joining an attempt at a group ship, post your info in this file:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11FxZ5d66lIZly5D2fqiBcjjZFkWZDqNfUDEpsxClvso/edit

Make sure you actually want to play for the long haul if you want to join, because we are going to try our damnedest to last as long as possible

Although I think I may just join another ship for the moment, since Thanksgiving holidays are likely to be a killer, and do the group ship for my next game.

Aim for trying to pull it off in maybe... 10 days? If anyone wants to try and join, let me know in the next hour or so.

[GlyphGryph]

[double post]

[Shadowlord]

This sounds like fun, but where's the option to join a game (the guide says something about 'financing' it but I still can't find the option) and why do I only see four characters to choose from when I click play?

[Ygdrad]

I started playing as Kuan Ti just now, I have to say you can do very little per 3 hour cycle. I went and helped get the research for double turret recharge speed from 15% to ~60% and now i can't do anything.

Also, how do we get together in a game?

[GlyphGryph]

I started playing as Kuan Ti just now, I have to say you can do very little per 3 hour cycle. I went and helped get the research for double turret recharge speed from 15% to ~60% and now i can't do anything.

Then you likely significantly hurt the ship.

The thing you should be doing the vast majority of the time is communicating. Think of it like forum mafia - That game has 1 action per several real life days! The rest of the time is spent communicating. this is similar.

Note that by working on Neron projects you destroy the other two that are available. And the turret recharge tech is generally seen as worthless. I'd apologize for working on it and avoid touching it again unless people agree that's what should be worked on.

Shadowlord
When you click play, you get assigned a ship, and get to choose from the characters remaining (or a subset thereof). You join the game by selecting one of the characters and picking "join game".

[Girlinhat]

How do we actually play TOGETHER in a game?

[GlyphGryph]

We join at the same time. Usually there's two active ships in signups (from what I understand), so half of us (on average) will wind up on one, and half on the other, assuming we try to join at the same time.