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[Vector]

I believe, personally, that we won if a game worth talking about was played. It sounds like this game will give us some stories to remember.

[Mephansteras]

Indeed!

[Caz]

you and Caz betrayed it.

Expecting to be trusted while you're spending your time trying to below everyone up is really funny.

Fair, but did that justify juicebox and 4maskwolf dying, too? I honestly believe that you both would have killed me regardless of my actions, specifically because those two died, both of whom had done nothing to warrant untrustworthiness, no?

4mask was the saddest bit tbh, but if it was him dying also vs us all blowing up. He also tried killing n1 so it's not as if he wasn't playing. Mostly it worked out neatly (me and Toony having cross-bounties, and web necessitating the removal), but Toony surviving with 1k advantage wasn't so good either.

Not sure what juicebox has to do with me. ToonyMan botting him was half the reason I didn't trust him after I found out (other half being the accusations that seemed forced to me, the bounty, and obviously the action threats)

and I also prevented you killing Jim n1, so there's that (technically, heydude also helped... if only to clear the way so he could nk luckyowl @_@ (though I can't see any record of item choice so idk how 100% this is given shields and blasters etc. but you get the gist)

[Caz]

I believe, personally, that we won if a game worth talking about was played. It sounds like this game will give us some stories to remember.

It was definitely unique.

[4maskwolf]

you and Caz betrayed it.

Expecting to be trusted while you're spending your time trying to below everyone up is really funny.

Fair, but did that justify juicebox and 4maskwolf dying, too? I honestly believe that you both would have killed me regardless of my actions, specifically because those two died, both of whom had done nothing to warrant untrustworthiness, no?

4mask was the saddest bit tbh, but if it was him dying also vs us all blowing up. He also tried killing n1 so it's not as if he wasn't playing.

I did nothing of the sort.  Once it was determined we weren't going to commit mass suicide I didn't even submit a PM for N1 because I intended to take no action.

[Caz]

I did nothing of the sort.  Once it was determined we weren't going to commit mass suicide I didn't even submit a PM for N1 because I intended to take no action.

Really? then what is this?

4maskwolf    Alien    Exterminator        Alive    100        Kill Toonyman, Scan Caz and Icytea31    Stunned

You head back to your berth to start planning out your night. On the way, Jim Groovester passes you a two-shot Scanner, nods, and walks off.

As you stand in your berth getting ready you hear a slight buzz, and then your body collapses under you, paralyzed. You are stunned, and all plans you had for the night are moot.

A second buzzing sound fills the room and you black out.

When you awake, you can move again. You’re a bit stiff from the uncomfortable position you ended up in, but otherwise unharmed.

A light blinking on your communicator alerts you to a message you received overnight.

Bounty Offered: 1000 KOR for the death of Toonyman. Payment will be remitted upon confirmation.

[4maskwolf]

I did nothing of the sort.  Once it was determined we weren't going to commit mass suicide I didn't even submit a PM for N1 because I intended to take no action.

Really? then what is this?

4maskwolf    Alien    Exterminator        Alive    100        Kill Toonyman, Scan Caz and Icytea31    Stunned

You head back to your berth to start planning out your night. On the way, Jim Groovester passes you a two-shot Scanner, nods, and walks off.

As you stand in your berth getting ready you hear a slight buzz, and then your body collapses under you, paralyzed. You are stunned, and all plans you had for the night are moot.

A second buzzing sound fills the room and you black out.

When you awake, you can move again. You’re a bit stiff from the uncomfortable position you ended up in, but otherwise unharmed.

A light blinking on your communicator alerts you to a message you received overnight.

Bounty Offered: 1000 KOR for the death of Toonyman. Payment will be remitted upon confirmation.

...Oh yeah, I did want to kill Toony on N1!

Honestly I kinda stopped paying attention to the game the moment Truce Phase 1 happened so I forgot most of what I thought on D1.

[ToonyMan]

you and Caz betrayed it.

Expecting to be trusted while you're spending your time trying to below everyone up is really funny.

Fair, but did that justify juicebox and 4maskwolf dying, too? I honestly believe that you both would have killed me regardless of my actions, specifically because those two died, both of whom had done nothing to warrant untrustworthiness, no?

You're right, it wasn't justified. I targeted Juicebox along with Webadict because it was a power play. On one hand if Jim was good I wanted him alive as an ally, on the other hand if he was bad I would be denying his bounty. What I got instead was somebody else actually being there, which made me incredibly suspicious of Jim because I wasn't in on the PMs. I was even thinking of continuing my cooperation with Caz and we could eliminate Jim and Heydude, the only others with KOR, and be unstoppable. Of course I would plasma bomb Caz when she went off to kill Jim or Heydude instead, and then split the blame between myself and the surviving party so that Luckyowl and Shakerag wouldn't know what to do. I felt like that made my chance of a solo victory at least 50%.

But then Heydude stopped playing the game, and Jim never was playing the game. This would make it impossible to convince Caz to kill them with me. This post and this post ultimately stopped me from killing ever again.

I have not.   
What do you think the over/under is on there being actual counter-forces among the players as opposed to people just getting itchy and trigger happy last night? 

I've been wondering the same thing and I'm leaning towards there being some sort of scum team in this game.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that there are all these people preaching for a nonviolent outcome to this game, but then being as maximally efficient and violent when given the chance.

Toony would be at the top of my list for certain.  Caz is a maybe.  You and heydude are very low.

So, I decided to go into the airlock after all. I'm pretty sure Toony is going to come after me for sure now, so it would be quite the troll if he got no-selled.

JIM SAVE ME
This is my favorite PM in the game.

It was me...I was the scum team...

People feared me the most when I had no intention of harming them.

From a pure Meta perspective, it was balanced. It's a bastard game! Anyone could win. All of you could win. All of you could lose!

True.

As far as contributions go towards winning, I mean, you can be a completely useless townie in a normal Mafia game and win just as much as the players who properly suss out the scum and win the game. Or be the one useless scum team member who manages to somehow live to the end and win with the rest of the scum team who actually played well. Mafia has never been about rewarding good play. You can play great and still lose. It's about teams winning. (Even, occasionally, a team of 1)
In this game, it just so happened that the teams had to be formed by the players instead of me at the start.

True.

The way I would look at it is that this game was 11 SKs, except the SKs could win by cooperating, or sneaking out, or dying early enough to change wincons.

I wish some players actually had different objectives though, anybody's motivation could completely change through the course of the game, because alignment doesn't matter. Without a discernible scum team I feel like most people will gravitate towards cooperation, as shown here. Nobody wants to challenge everyone else if there's another way out, and the outliers who do, die.

I'm sorely tempted to assassin bot Toony, because I feel like he's gonna screw things up.

I would not fault you in the slightest if you did that and I would also not want to convince you not to do that.

My bro Toony is going full Qanon now.

But you know, Shakerag, he's actually correct, in that I am a telepathic cult leader/hivemind/whatever whose role appears as Exterminator even on allegedly infallible Intel and I've converted more people than there are phases in the game and ToonyMan is the only person who can see through my LIES

Which is hilarious given your sigtext.

Lmao you're right.
This has been a plan nearly ten years in the making!

This would legit be a hilarious twist for BP 4.

oh no

[RoseHeart]

It would be interesting to see a Mafia hosted that was somewhere between this one and a vanilla: RPG elements but a scenario that is more minimalistic and restrictive to allow for more known absolutes to play off of. Something less like playing with clay and more like playing with Legos, for an apt analogy.

[webadict]

It was me...I was the scum team...

People feared me the most when I had no intention of harming them.

"No! I must kill the demons," he shouted!
The radio said "No, ToonyMan. You are the demons."
And then, ToonyMan was a Zombie.

[Caz]

New game type: ultra-bastard

Role alignments and win conditions are not revealed until everyone is dead.

[Mephansteras]

New game type: ultra-bastard

Role alignments and win conditions are not revealed until everyone is dead.

Bwahahahaha. You're Evil, Caz!

[heydude6]

Finally got around to posting my side of the story. It seems like my actions confused a lot of you, so I hope this brings some clarification. It didn't make sense for me to just post PMs, but unfortunately this created a large post that can't be hidden by spoilers.

If you aren't interested in a summary, then feel free to scroll past this though I think you should read the Day 5 section at least. Jim didn't post his PMs for that day, but I did. I think they're pretty interesting.

The summary itself took up two three posts due to the character limit, but I should be making a third fourth post about my poster idea and thoughts on the game later in the day.

Spoiler: Day 1 and 2. Not much happen, and no particularly juicy PMS. Read if you want to know my thought process (click to show/hide)

Day 1

Not much happened. I got bandwagoned out of nowhere so I thought I would make one last contribution before I died. Thought the information of a pre-lynch flip would be useful in this kind of game. Chose my large tech, and then chose to target Tric since he was the player I felt who's absence would have done the least amount of harm. After the deed was done, I quickly realized quickly that Caz or Juicebox would have been better choices based on that criteria.

Somehow survived.

Night

Felt the atmosphere was pretty bloodthirsty at the end of the day. Decided to use my medium tech for a stun bomb to lessen the casualties. Went after Owl because I thought he was a third party who knew more than the average exterminator, and was opposed to us. I also wanted to thin the herd a little bit if it turned out that we would have to fight to the death after all.


Day 2

Still not much. When I first saw the announcement, I was convinced that the only possible way to win was to be the last man, so I bought a mind control ray. Didn't claim the stun because I didn't want everyone to know that I had no tech. Then all the RPG stuff started to happen and we had Jim's ship plan. Clearly, escape was possible, but how wasn't yet clear. The repair ship was too easy so I expected it to fail. If it did work, it would have been so unsatisfying.

Night

At this point I wasn't sure if I was going to try to escape, or if I was going to try to be the last one standing. I decided I was going to wait until the next day before I committed in either direction. I wanted to be prepared though. Money was needed either way, for my own use or to fund the next plan once the repair ship revealed itself to be a bust, so I did those mind control shenanigans.

Somehow survived

Day 3

It seems I was right to be paranoid. A ton of deaths, the ship was stopped, and our Great Leader Jim was reduced to bickering with Toonyman and LuckyOwl. Whatever semblance of hope we had yesterday had been completely crushed.

As you can imagine, I began thinking about how to kill everyone. Unfortunately, doing this only made me realize how terrible of a position I was in due to the bad decisions I made. I had no tech because I blew it all in the previous two days, and I was also the least trustworthy player because of what I did to Trickmagic.

I was only able to come up with two plans for winning the game. Buy a replicator and make an anti-tech and personal shield, or buy a plasmabomb and hope everyone else dies in a chain reaction. Neither was promising, so I ultimately had to give up on playing that way.

Spoiler: Some early PMs of me playing with the ship (click to show/hide)

Investigate Webadict's corpse. Look for evidence that confirms whether the plasmabomb nuke gambit was real.

You don't find any evidence that anything was wired to him. However, you did see Jim Groovester over here messing with the corpse earlier.

Look around and try to find life support. Ponder how easily I could destroy it

You find the life support system in the Power Room. It seems someone has rigged this room up with a Plasma Bomb.

Try to access the dark web with a computer. Turn off mindshield if I must. Check how much it would cost to have this universe’s equivalent of Boba Fett or the Mandalorian rescue us. I’m a bounty hunter, surely I know how to find my colleagues?

You do manage to get ahold of another bounty hunter you've worked with in the past. She's willing to try and help you out, but getting past armed security ships makes this a dangerous mission. She will do the job for 5000 KOR.

I didn't really have any plan yet so I just threw random ideas at meph to see how they would stick. This lead to me finding the life-support plasmabomb as well as the bounty hunter lead. I needed that last one honestly. It was the first piece of hope that I had seen that day, and was what finally made me believe cooperation was possible. Ironic considering the circumstances.

From there, I focused my efforts on lowering the bounty hunter's price and it was also when I started talking to Shakerag.

Spoiler: Bounty hunter stuff (click to show/hide)

Assessing confidence

What is my confidence in her ability to actually pull it off, based on my previous experience working with her?

She's pretty competent. Although without knowing exactly how strong the security forces are here it's hard to know for certain.

Fishing for intel and and a discount. I'm honestly pretty proud of how I went about this. This was the moment the game really clicked for me.

Call the ship repair company and introduce myself as a member of the internal affairs committee of the organization running the show. Tell them that it is my job is to investigate potential alien rights violations against innocent civilians and they may be entitled to legal compensation if the company exceeded the bounds of reasonable force when intercepting their ship. Security brutality is serious business after all.

Ask them investigative questions about how their courier was treated by the security team. Ask them about how the security team hailed them to make sure they followed protocols, and that kind of stuff. Eventually get into questions about the number ships as well as their ship class (fighters, corvettes, capital ships, etc.). If they fired on them, ask about the kind of weaponry they used, Anti-matter missiles are a war-crime after all.

Make sure to stress the danger of lying in a situation like this, and how a false claim can lead to them receiving fines worth thousands of KOR if the information he gives doesn't line up with other information gathered further into the investigation.

Assuming it all goes well, thank him for his time and promise to get back in touch a week from now. Then share the intel with my bounty hunter friend and try to determine if she still has what it takes based on the new information. Maybe ask for a discount for so graciously providing her with info.

"Oh! Oh, geeze, uh. I don't know, uh, the driver is in hyperspace now. Can't really talk to them much about it until they get back. Probably be a bit, you know? One system over and all. Uh, I know they said there were a couple of fighter looking ships blocking them? Don't think they were fired on, no. Mostly just told to turn around or else, you know?"

"Don't think I know anything else right now. I can have them call you when they get back, though?"

"We are a busy department that is constantly flooded with claims. If you were to call us, you would likely have to deal with customer service and be put on hold, and then get dropped after waiting for an hour anyway simply because we didn't have the time in our schedule that day. To minimize suffering and frustration, our organization prefers it if you were to give us a time and date when he would be available so we can work on arranging a timeslot to discuss your case ahead of time."

"Oh. Uh. Yeah. Sure." they give you a time that puts it at around the start of the next Hunt Phase. "The driver should be back by then."

Spoiler: Shakerag conversation (click to show/hide)

Preparation with Meph cause I didn't fully trust him at the time

Action

Return to life support room. Watch anyone who walks in and prevent them from stealing the plasmabomb

The actual convo

PM-to-Shakerag

Check the Life support room. I found something pretty unpleasant while looking around. You may not trust me since it's pretty clear that I killed in the Night-phase, but I'm the only person who isn't trying to lie about it.

Don't touch it and don't tell anyone else about this yet. I don't want the culprit to do anything before we figure out what to do with this.

We'll discuss it more once you return. This needs to be handled delicately. We'll get more info if the suspects don't know we're on to them. LuckyOwl is the only other person who didn't kill anyone btw.

I'll explain my night actions in the main thread later

Ok, I was kinda legit expecting a body, not that.   

Awful isn't it. Either this was the "deadman's" switch Web was talking about, or someone who was still alive planted it. Actually, we should check if some kind of timer is hooked up to this thing.

The most likely living suspects so [far] are either Jim or Toonyman. I can definitively prove to you that it wasn't me though.

Either Jim looted Web's corpse for the bomb and then set it up for life-support. Or Toonyman has been playing to kill this entire time and set it up as part of his plan. It feels like he's desperately trying to hide the fact that he killed Web with an assassin droid since his accusation against Caz is just inane.

The thing is, why life support though? It kills the culprit too unless they found some way to get a space suit.

Could it have been webadict before he died?  I thought he mentioned a plan to make everyone win.   And everyone dying would achieve that, I think?

Jim I kinda trust.  Don't have a solid read on Toony this game but meta read says he'd be quick to stab anyone in the back.

Everyone dying would have only worked on Day 1. It would be good if turned out that none of us placed the bomb though. It means we'd still have a chance of uniting and making it out alive together.

Toony does worry me though, but I do think I have an idea for how to calm things down in the main thread. Escape is not dead yet. With so many claimed bounties, we have at ton of money to fund our plans with if we can just work together. I'm currently working on trying to hire this universe's equivalent of boba fett to try to break us out. I'm keeping it under wraps though, because I don't want the gamemasters to find out again.

But we should probably make a blind-spot this time.

Spoiler: Plus some other random stuff I did (click to show/hide)

Check to see if Juicebox's corpse has been looted. Take whatever is on him

You find Juicebox's corpse in the morgue. He doesn't have anything on him other than his standard plasma pistol, combat knife, and Mind Shield. You can take all of those if you wish.

I forgot I even checked his body. Makes the second time I do this a bit hilarious in hindsight.

Action

Return to life support room. Watch anyone who walks in and prevent them from stealing the plasmabomb

Question

How long do you think we can survive if the power or life support is disabled?

Noted.

With only 6 people alive in a station this size, probably 3 days or so. Rough guess, you're hardly an expert on the subject.

Go to the morgue and cut open the least damaged body. Look for tracking devices and microphones and anything else they may be using to listen in on us.

It may seem silly since I don't know when they could have possibly planted them on us (we came here of our own free will, we weren't kindapped), but I want to make sure.

You don't find any chips or anything like that in the body.

Go to the plasmabomb in the life support room and check if it has a timer on it or something like that. How would someone have detonated this specific bomb? Could I take it and use it for my own purposes or do I have to find a missing detonator first.

Also, ponder the security of my methods of outwards communication so far. Will the GameMasters have heard me talking to the bounty hunter and repair company? Or did they only find out because they already had a security team guarding the base?

The Plasma Bomb seems to be wired up to explode using a remote detonator (as usual for them). This one also seems to be set up to explode if anyone tampers with it.

You're not too sure. Your communicator should be secure. An exterminator can't exactly afford to have just anyone listening in to their calls, after all. Of course, if you were right near a microphone or something while talking to them that might have been overheard.

You do remember Jim mentioning the rescue ship in the main Mess Hall, which you know for a fact is heavily monitored. It's also possible they have a security team on the lookout for any ships.

With progress made in PMs, it was time for me to finally post in the main thread and try to save this day.

The reactions were less than I hoped for, but as we can now see, I clearly made the right choice. It honestly scares me to think of how differently things would have ended up if had just been a little better off. I wasn't happy with the options I had earlier, but if I already had some of that gear, I probably would have bought what I was missing and still try to play the game. My one advantage was not being in the spotlight like Toony and Jim were, and I thought I could have at least survived one more night if I stayed silent.

I was even thinking of continuing my cooperation with Caz and we could eliminate Jim and Heydude, the only others with KOR, and be unstoppable.

It's funny how wrong I was. If Toonyman pulled off his plan, I don't think there would have been any means of stopping the bloodshed anymore.


With my post, we had transitioned to a different phase of day 3. Things had begun to calm down and we started trying to piece together what happened last night. I won't waste your time with a summary, I'll let my Pms speak for themselves

Spoiler: Advanced Assassin Bot Paranoia (click to show/hide)

To Meph

Go to TrickMagic's room and hide a note containing my bank account info in his pillow.

Write a note with the phrase "Guess I got Trickmagic's pill" and hide it on my person.

How much time until the next hunt phase?

Noted.

Real world time? 5pm Pacific Wednesday, so just about 23 hours from now.

I want to add a couple of things in addition to the bank account info dead-man's-note.

Explain my plan to hire a bounty hunting friend (give contact info of course), and write about my intel-gathering mission appointment.


So I've been talking to the ship repair company about the security fleet that intercepted their ship. I'm trying to learn details such as the number ships they have, what kind of weight class they're in, weaponry, etc.

If my friend has this kind of information, they'll be more likely to be able to successfully rescue us.

Anyway, I've posed as a member of internal affairs investigating security brutality, and I have an appointment to chat with our original driver at the start of Hunt phase. If you're reading this, then please carry out the interview in my stead. Tell them I was busy.

From what I've heard, the security forces have been quite courteous so far, but I think we can justify asking our questions if we just say that they are part of procedure.

Don't worry, you'll be fine.

Noted

To Shakerag

In case they kill me with an assassin bot before I transfer you my money, check my corpse.

It will have a note. This note will be part of a message. You have the other half of that message. Your half is:

-ow!

Add your piece at the end of my corpse's note.

It's probably unnecessary paranoia on my part, but I don't see the harm in it.


In other news, I checked the plasmabomb. We can't use it cause the remote detonator is missing. Someone else must have it. If it's Web's then Jim probably got it, but it could also be someone else's. The plasma bomb also has an anti-tamper mechanism that will blow up if it's disturbed. We may still be able to disarm it anyway, but I don't want to risk it.

Can't you tell? It's supposed to spell Pillow! Check Trickmagic's Pillow! I wonder if Shake would have been able to figure it out if I was actually killed?

Spoiler: My weird one-sided conversation with Shakerag (click to show/hide)

Asking for his opinion on my big post

What do you think? It's a lot of responsibility, but I believe it's the best way to unify everyone again. I'll send you my money if you agree to hold it.

You know, it honestly is good to have a confidant in this situation. It's frustrating constantly trying to make my case. I wish the others would just confess already.


In more important news, I think Jim's telepathy is referring to the bomb we found. It's probably trying to warn us to escape before it detonates. I think his hacking tool is our best chance at defusing it though.

The bomb is our final trump card though. It's a common enemy we can fight against.

The second part is a reference to this:

I'm receiving fragments of messages telepathically from somewhere. My guess is people in dead chat are trying to contact me but I can't rule out that the source is from somewhere else.

I received two messages. It's hard to explain what they are without quoting the PM directly. The first one is barely a message at all and is a few letters separated by ellipsis.

The second is much clearer. It mentions 'time left' and 'escape plan'.

I think there's a way to resolve this peacefully but seriously all of you need to stop killing each other.

Comment on Toony's stunbomb incident

I was sure that Toonyman killed Web, but working as part of a conspiracy with Caz was not something I expected. It also sucks that Toonyman only confessed because he got caught doing something bad, rather than because he changed his ways and wanted to co-operate with us. I doubt he'll give up his stuff, and even if he did people still aren't going to trust him.

With this in mind, I think Toonyman might be behind the life support bomb. He either planted it directly or looted the detonator off Web, though there is also a chance that Caz did the dirty work in this job.

I'm gonna try to consult the spirits on this one. It's silly, but it may work. We'll discuss it again when I get a response.

Spoiler: Other random stuff I did (Some of this is silly) (click to show/hide)

Here's how I contacted the spirits. Read out loud for best effect

My mind shield should be off by this point (I hope you didn't miss that, you didn't give your usual "noted" confirmations), but I will now meditate to contact the spirits. I am still in the life support room btw.


"Oh Humble spirits, how I beseech thee. Grant me your wisdom and aid this weak mortal mind! Before you is a device, that will cause us much doom. I we don't find the culprit, life support will go Boom.

"Three guilty minds could commit such a deed. Toonyman, Webadict, and Caz, could have betrayed us in this time of need."

"If Toonyman is the culprit, say 'T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T'

"If Webadict controlled it, say 'We We We We We We'

"If it's none of that Jazz, and the traitor is Caz, say 'Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z'

"Please grant my request, at my pleading behest. I hope when I talk to you later, I'll know who has the detonator"

"But if it's neither, say 'nee nee nee nee nee"

Noted and noted. We shall see if the spirits heed you.

[later]

While you take a few moments to calm your mind and focus on possible psychic communications you do sense a presence. It seems angry.

The rest of this stuff will be in chronological order

Check Juicebox's body for a used up shield. There shouldn't be one if he only faked killing him. Otherwise, he would have survived Toony's attempt.

His body does not have a personal shield on it. (Used or otherwise)

If only I realized that I had already done this


Jim Hacking tool Stuff

Jim hands you a used up Replicator.

As for the mechanics behind the tool, you can verify those with Mephansteras.

What did he mean by that?

I assume he just wants me to verify that Hacking Tools:
1) Can be made using a replicator
2) Can be used multiple times, though really tight security can damage them

If I get night killed, would I have still been able to do my phone call and pass the intel along to the bounty hunter? Or would the kill interrupt me?

You'd probably have time to contact them, unless you were waiting on something that happens during the hunt phase.

Turn off mindshield. Listen to telepathic messages

The mind-shield message Meph missed, this happened before the spirits stuff. I just wanted to put that at the top for a quick payoff.

Life support paranoia

Check the life support room again. Look for evidence of someone else coming here since I last went there (except Shakerag of course).

No evidence that anyone has done anything here. No way of knowing if someone walked in and just looked, though.

Actually, wait in the life support room. See if anyone decides to come.

Noted.

It was after this that I contacted the spirits

Another bout of life support paranoia. This time after I told everyone there was something there.

Hide in Life support. Watch who comes inside. If it's Toonyman and he tries to steal the bomb, "tamper" with it and blow us both up.

If someone else takes it, just sneakily follow them.

Noted

[heydude6]

Night

The Hunt phase came and things were mostly in a good place. People calmed down, all of the murderers confessed (one way or another), and it seemed like we were back on track to working together. My only disapointments were that nobody wanted to pool their money into the Shakerag world peace fund and it seemed like nobody had a plan. Of course there was my own, but it was probably too late for it at that point. Money had been spent. The only way to pay the bounty hunter now was if I got a big enough discount from the intel I was trying to collect.

Reluctantly, I decided to not kill Toonyman, Jim, or Caz. Though I still didn't fully trust Toony, what peace we did have was hard-fought and I wasn't going to throw it and whatever last chance we had at victory away over a principle.

The downside to this is that people may start to think I was bluffing from the very beggining. To salvage my reputation and try to keep a cooperative atmosphere going, I decided to keep up my end of the bargain and give my money to Shakerag. He would need it if I were to die for whaetever reason.

As for the rest of the night, I'll let the PMs speak for themselves. Some of them technically started slightly before the hunt phase, but the thread of conversation continued into it.

Spoiler: Airlock Lockup (click to show/hide)

The Familiar Jim Post Rehash

I know we don't see eye-to-eye, but things are getting desperate. Do you think your Hacking tool can be used to seal doors?

In spite of my best hopes, I still don't trust Toony and I wish we could deal with him without killing him. I'm hoping that locking him in his room might stop him from harming someone.

I haven't tried that but I'll work with Meph to see if that's possible. From a metagaming perspective I don't know if he'll let me get away with sealing people in their room. My concern would be that ToonyMan would either slip out before I can lock the door or ToonyMan would kill me before I could finish.

Anyway, it's just an idea. You can take it or leave it. The thing in life support is plasma bomb btw. Don't know who set it up, but my bet is either Web or Toony. I can prove it wasn't me though. It's been modified to explode if someone tampers with it, so we haven't been able to defuse it yet. Otherwise it still detonates remotely, there's no timer. Someone here has the detonator.

I know. webadict rigged it up. He wasn't lying about rigging the life support system to blow, but he was lying about how it was triggered. As you discovered it is by remote detonator.

I would suggest not tinkering with it. It's not hurting anybody in its current state.

I can lock doors it seems. I'll see if I can give it a try during the Hunt phase but if I feel like it leaves me too exposed I'm going to abandon trying it out.

We may not know if we can lock up Toonyman, but maybe it's possible to lock one's own door for protection?

I'm sure some things can still bypass that (plasma bomb comes to mind), but it might help against regular Night kills. I'd be a willing test subject, but you can also try it on yourself if you want.

I have a far better plan to keep myself safe during this phase. I'd willingly lock you in but I don't want to risk catching a NK by screwing around doing RP stuff where I'm not safe.

FYI during the first truce phase I found some closets and hiding spots. You might try heading to those, hiding, and doing absolutely nothing else during the hunt phase. That was my original plan for the last Hunt phase before I had the ingenious idea of trying to fake juicebox's death.

I have remote control over the shuttle bay doors. I can lock you in the airlock. It's less protection than what I would have, but I can do it remotely, after I reach safety. If it doesn't sit right with you being completely at my mercy, well, you can always take your chances elsewhere on the station.

I like the airlock plan. Let's do it. I should be able to do my phone call in there.

First new thing

You saw Jim's plan, and how I expressed the intention to go along with it even though he very well could just dump me into the vacuum of space.

Well, I'm still going to do that. As long as I can get cell signal in there at least.

So, I'll go inside the airlock and bring a tool that I can use to write on the wall. A marker or some chalk, something like that. Worst case scenario I'll use my knife.

Then, I'm going to inspect the room for recording devices. Cameras, microphones, that kind of thing.

Once all of those are securely destroyed, I'll begin my phone call with the delivery boy. It's the same internal affairs cover story, but I'll justify asking my questions as being part of procedure.

Once the call is finished, I'll call my bounty hunter friend and report the intel. I'll try to use it to lower the price. I'm hoping for 4000 KOR if security turns out to be relatively benign. If it goes well, I'll write down their number on the wall and say "Call them if you want to get out".

Noted. I'll let you know how everything goes once I have everyone's actions.

Hopefully I will at least get to do the interview phone call before I die. I would have liked my intel gathering mission to at least be a success.

You'll probably have time to do at least that.

LuckyOwl complication

I like the airlock plan. Let's do it. I should be able to do my phone call in there.

I'm going to offer Luckyowl the same airlock deal I offered you. I assume you don't have a problem with this since you said you trusted him.

I do trust Luckyowl, but I gotta say, it gives you too much power. If you wanted to, you could open the other end of the airlock and kill us both. And that's not even counting your other night actions.

I'm okay with risking my own life, but I worry that the temptation to kill may be too great even for you. I'm okay with you saving my life, and I'm okay with you saving owl, but not both of us.

I hope you understand. You can tell me which life you value more, and if that life is owl, I will respect your choice and go hide in a closest.

It is literally no skin off my back what you want to do. The offer is there. If you want to take advantage of it, you can.

I changed my mind about the airlock thing. I'm not staying in there, I'm just going to hide in some sort of closet and do my phone call there.

Noted.

You also get a message from the psychic contact:

"...ut...red...ire..."

Turns out it was Web telling me to cut the red wire. He was hoping I would blow myself up with the life support plasma bomb. Shows how much people liked me at that time.


LuckyOwl complication continued (Another new thing that Meph didn't even see since I forgot to CC. Sorry)

Did Jim hit you up about anything?

He did. I am currently in the airlock right now. I think putting 2 people in the same room is putting too many eggs in one basket. If some tries to plasmabomb one of us for example, we both die.

And why did you agree to enter the airlock?  If someone can just kill you with a plasmabomb? Are you sure Jim didn't buy a plasmabomb and is planning to kill us both?

If Jim was trying to kill us, he wouldn't need a plasmabomb. He could just open the other door and launch us to space.

The reason why I'm agreeing to do this at all is because I'm somewhat worried that someone is going to kill me tonight. For me, the choice is either die to Jim, or die to Toony or Caz. I at least somewhat trust Jim not to kill me. Also, I was the first person that clued him into the fact that he can lock doors. It would be quite dickish for him to stab me in the back like that, but I don't think that aligns with his character so far.

You aren't in as much danger as I am, so I think a risk like this is unnecessary for you.

But can he remotely open the other door and yeet you out to space? And Jim's spirit animal is a snake. I would be careful to say Jim's a trusting character. But you are right I'm probably the least in danger out of everyone. So it only makes me wonder...why did Jim contact me about this offer? I'm currently trying to interrogate Jim if he contact others about this offer. I only got silence so far. Hopefully he'll answer soon.

Change of heart (I got scared by something Toony posted)

So, I decided to go into the airlock after all. I'm pretty sure Toony is going to come after me for sure now, so it would be quite the troll if he got no-selled.

Alright. There's plenty of room in there. I've told Meph that I want to coordinate with anybody who wants to take me up on my airlock offer so just head over there and it should work out.

ToonyMan deduced correctly that I do have your bounty so I'm sure it will be an interesting object lesson in trust for you to spend the hunt phase in there.

Spoiler: Other stuff (click to show/hide)

Hey Jim. Let's interrupt our airlock discussion for a non-sequitur!

Did we get the same message? I can't quote, but I got a message that seemed to say

"I'm listening
Speak"

There were ellipses of course, but I found it very decipherable.

Yep, I got the same message.

Maybe we should try speaking in unison?

How about we both say "How clear is this?"

I'm game to try.

Let's pull out our ouija boards and start a seance.

Jim Groovester concentrates and says. "How clear is this?"

I do the same.

You get a response:

"...~...=...~...=...~...="

It seems a bit angry.

Following my promise

I hope you were able to clear out your pm inbox.

I'm going to transfer all 1000 of my KOR to Shakerag now.

Hehe. Yeah I'm getting caught up now.

And noted. I will notify Shakerag of the transfer.

Like I promised, I'm giving you my money now. Meph should okay it soon.

If I die, but my body isn't found, then Jim is the one who killed me. If I die by other means, then who knows.

I'm not killing anyone tonight and I hope you don't either.

Got a psychic message "...otec...Ji..."

Maybe "Protect Jim"? 

Probably.

I got a message too, but it’s indecipherable.

It was Webadict's "Cut the red wire"

Boring stuff

Can I show the used replicator jim sent me now, or do I have to wait for the end of hunt phase?

You kinda have to wait, since everyone is scattered during the hunt phase.

You receive another communication from the psychic presence:

"...1...11..."

If you want to know how the phone call went, just check my night PM which Meph posted. Tells you all you need to know. Somehow I survived again.

Day 4

Not as eventful as Day 3, at least from my perspective. The main challenge I faced was figuring out how to present my plan to everyone. The intel I got last night was basically useless (and after all that effort too), but thankfully Jim was going to get us real intel. I had a sinking feeling that the discount still wasn't going to be enough though. I needed a plan in case that happened.

Spoiler: Relevant PMs (click to show/hide)

Last night I had my phone call. It got interrupted by stun, but I was able to get back to it when I recovered. My contact wants me take some pictures of a hard to reach area, so I need to acquire a camera, and a remote-controlled robot to mount it on (You can probably guess which one). On the bright side, we’d be able to use it explore the mines as well.

Who's your mysterious contact?

My contact is a bounty hunter I worked with previously who I’m trying to hire to break us out. I thought it would be cool if I could have Boba Fett or the Mandalorian rescue us. Right now the price is too steep, but I’m trying to lower it by gathering intel on our location.

They want me to take pictures of the outer surface of the base outside. They want me to find entrances as well as to confirm the presence or absence of sentry guns. I don’t know our chances of finding those, but at the very least I can get them a picture of our airlock from the outside.

Anyway, I’m not opposed to sharing the plan, but we can’t do it in the main thread. Otherwise the Gamemasters will hear us and enact countermeasures like they did with the repair ship.

What's their asking price?

I can probably help out with photographing the exterior of the station. Exploring the exterior of the station is something I wanted to do to search for communications equipment that might be transmitting the camera feeds to the broadcast.

If you're wondering how, for the time being let's just say I have means to do this.

5000 KOR. It’s a lot, and was one of the reasons why I started the Shakerag World Peace fund. We might have been able to pay for it in day 2 if we sold our tech and didn’t spend any money, but that was way too much to ask for considering the climate. Meph really wants us to work for our golden ending.

Hopefully, solid intel will lower the cost, and worse comes to worse, I can always betray Toonyman for the bounty. Clearly you thought of it.

[nother PM]

Do you have access to a camera with which you can take photos? Or should I focus on acquiring one for you?

Currently I do not. Caz mentioned having one in the last truce phase I think.

According to meph, our communicator's have built in camera's. Like a smartphone but with all the picture quality improvements you would expect out of future-tech.

Well, I guess I do have a camera then.

I'm exploring the hidden console right now but I'll get started on exploring the exterior of the station in a bit.

Do I currently have any devices on me that can snap pictures? Also, based on my time with the advanced assasin droid I used to kill TricMagic, was there any option of using a live video feed and directly controlling it?

Not currently, no. Well, your communicator can, but it's attached to your gear.

Assassin droids are fully autonomous. It would require some tools to modify one to be remote controlled.

Steal a communicator from one of the corpses, let's say Trickmagic's. I assume I can use the camera on it. How is the picture quality?

We're talking Alien Tech here, so better than a modern smartphone, certainly.

That's good to hear. Do I now have the camera then, or is there something preventing me from using Tric's?

You'd need his passcode to get into the device as-is. You can also just strip it down for parts, of course, if you have something else to hook it up to.

Spoiler: The most important one (click to show/hide)

So, I think it's time for me to finally clue you into my plan for getting us out of here. To put it simply, I'm hiring the Mandalorian¹ to break us out of here!

As you can guess, such talent does not come easily. Meph demanded that I pay an outrageous sum for his² resources, which I'm currently trying to lower by gathering good intel. If you're wondering, Jim already knows about the plan, and has agreed to gather the kinds of info I need (entrances, locations of sentry guns, etc.) when he explores the outdoors with his space suit.

Unfortunately, in spite of the discount I expect us to receive for providing the intel, I'm still not sure if we'll be able to afford it. Which is why I want to ask you if you'd be willing to kill LuckyOwl and collect his bounty?

I know that's a big ask, but I want you to hear me out a little. Out of all the people on this space station, he's the only one that doesn't have money in his bank account (except me, but you'd have to convince Jim to do me in). Killing anyone else would lead to us losing access to their funds which we desperately need in order to be able to afford the Paranorian's services. The second reason to kill him is to keep the showrunners happy. I get the feeling that if no one dies at the end of this hunt phase, they're going to introduce enhanced "incentives" to try to make us start killing eachother again. It will likely be harder to escape if that happens.

That's everything I can say to make my case. Ultimately, the choice is up to you, and it is a real choice. The alternative is to see if Jim can come up with a way to get us out alive. He's currently looking for the antennae broadcasting the show, but what he plans to do with it, I don't know. I'm not sure he's thought ahead that far. My plan on the other hand is complete. It may be a bit of a challenge to convince the survivors to donate, but I only need to make a 1000KOR down-payment to actually call the ship over which I will do after getting the Intel. Once the thing arrives, I'm sure it will be easier to convince everyone to pay the remaining sum to complete the contract.

Tell me what you think. If you do decide to kill Luckyowl, tell me and I will NK him with you. I'll help break any personal shields of his or absorb hold-out pistol shots for you if you don't have anti-tech. Regardless of what you choose, don't tell Jim about what I said. I don't think he would approve of me advocating for murder. I hope you can at least understand my reasons for asking for this even if you disagree.

¹Or at least his paranormal-verse equivalent. The Paranorian maybe?
²Actually a her

Yeah. I think that Shakerag PM will come as a shock to a lot of you. It seemed like whatever good vibes we had yesterday were starting to wear off. Maybe I shouldn't have been so surprised by how the next night went.

Thankfully, we were able to avoid the dark topic of betrayal for the time when Jim came back with the Intel. It was good news. Right as one plan was about to die, a new plan was ready to take its place. There was no need to keep my plan secret anymore, though I wish I didn't send that Shakerag PM.

Spoiler: My Announcement (click to show/hide)

Hello everyone. I think it's time that I finally revealed what I've been working on. To put it simply, I've been trying to hire a bounty hunter to rescue us.

Unfortunately, they turned out to be a lazy SOB who only wants to airlift us of out of the hangar after we do finished doing the actual hardwork of taking over the base. I thought I was hiring a bounty hunter, but instead I got taxi.

Anyway, that's all. If we need an overpriced taxi, we can give him a call, but I think we have everything it takes to get out of here on our own.

There is a question I want to ask the spirits though.

"Is there a ship in there big enough to rescue all 6 of us?"

Minor correction, it turns out they'd be willing to pick us up directly from the shuttle bay. She recommends that we provide them with some method of tracking the two fighters though (or we could just blow them up).

The final fee, factoring in the intel discount is going to be 4500 KOR. Tell me what you think of all of this. It will at least resolve the logistical hurdle of spacesuit micromanagment. I still think it might be a little overpriced though.

Spoiler: Random Stuff (click to show/hide)

Jim's Intel so Dead chat can see

You get a message from Jim Groovester containing surveillance info about the large hanger he discovered on the other side of the asteroid. It includes notes, pictures, and some videos. (What follows is my synopsis of the information)

Looks like ship-wise they're pretty light. You only ever see a pair of security fighters go in or out at a time, and they look like they're doing fairly simple paired patrols. Maybe only a few pairs active at any time at most. Not too bad, given the distances involved. If you time things right, chances are there would be a long lag time between getting noticed and any fighters getting back in time to do anything.

Armed patrols are similar. You don't see all that many of them at once. Looks like they're not really expecting trouble, more there 'just in case'. They seem to do occasional sweeps of the area and then return to the hanger. Maybe 10 guards or so at most inside based on the numbers and timing you see for the sweeps.

The weapons systems are similarly light, and more anti-craft than anti-infantry. Your mining pod would get wrecked by them, but it's unlikely that a quickly moving person would be hit.

Cameras are a bigger deal. You see quite a few spots that look like they have cameras, and those have a pretty solid coverage. Very small chance of coming in undetected unless you can find a way to deal with those.

Then of course you have to actually get inside. You can safely assume that the few external hatches are closely monitored.

Last Time I talk to Bounty Hunter

Call my bounty Hunter friend and ask them what they think of all of this? Ask them if there's anything else they'd want. Try to make the case for a discount.

Don't reply to all please.

"Hmm. All right, that's a bit more doable. Some solid intel there. We can probably come up with a plan. Ok, 4500 KOR. Still need 1000 to be willing to start this.

I probably don't need anything else. If we time this right I can probably swoop in and grab you, as long as you can operate the hanger, but you'll need to figure out anything else you need on your end to make sure this goes well. Some way to track those fighters would be ideal so I can avoid them.

So, we going to do this or not?"

Which hangar are you picking us up from? The heavily guarded one in the mines, or the one in the shuttle bay?

"I assume the shuttle bay of the station you're on, unless you think you can take out that hanger. But you're the one paying for this. If you want me to swing by and grab you, I can try that. You want something else, we can do that. But if you want me to do something more dangerous like deliberately take out those fighters you're going to have to pay extra."

Wanted to get a feel for the system to see our chances of succesfully flying out of here

What do we know about the solar system we arrived in? How many orbiting planets are there?  Where is the closest one we are located in? How did we arrive here in the first place? How does the FTL work actually? Does each ship have a drive, or do we rely on warp gates?

It's a mostly uninhabited and generally unihabitable system. There are a couple of gas giants with moons and several asteroid belts. The star in this system is small and weak and the system seems to have had a lot of collisions between forming planets during its creation.

You are in the outer asteroid belt. There is a single gas giant (like Neptune) out past it, but that's it.

FTL works kind of like star wars. Most ships have drives, and travel is along mapped star lanes for known safe travel at those speeds.

Night

The day ended on a good note. All we had to do was come up with a plan to assault the hangar and we would be free. Jim provided us with exactly such a thing, but from my perspective it didn't seem like anyone was doing anything. I certainly wasn't. Were we too disorganized to act once victory was finally within our grasp?

No, that wasn't it. I just misunderstood things. It turned out the night was only going to be used to set things up. Since the main thread was empty, I didn't see all the things that were happening in the PMs. I wonder if it made anyone else worry?

[heydude6]

Day 5

Another nightmare! In spite of all possible reason, someone decided to kill again. It was Toony who died, so the target made some sense at least, but it had set us back so much! If we're going to assault the hangar we need to work as a team, but that's a hard thing to do when there are still people willing to shoot us in the back.

I ended up going into diplomat mode again, asking questions in order to try to figure out what happened. While I did that though, I started to make preparations in case the situation deteriorated.

Spoiler: PMs. One is Important (click to show/hide)

Go to Tooney's corpse and loot his unused shield. Then take a photo. If people are watching the body, then only take the photo.

Go somewhere else and then privately message the GMs:

"Unfortunately, it seems like there isn't enough money around to have us all escape together so I've decided to try to win. To prove it here's what I did to the man who shut down the comms."

*Send picture of Tooney's corpse*

"Unfortunately, I can't say I was alone in this. He was clearly running away from someone else when I shot him in the chest. Couldn't get a good look at my 'accomplice' though"

"I want my bounty though, and if you can't give me that, then at least my next target. I need all the time I can get to plan for the night, cause I think things are going to get *REALLY* violent now"

You get a short reply. "Very well, prove it. Turn the surveillance system back on".

Go to life support. Check if the bomb is still there, or has shown any sign of interference.

It is gone.

What's the range of mind-control?

About the full range of the station, maybe a bit larger.

Go to the mining ops area and see if Jim actually set up a replicator with space suits. Take a suit in that case and hide it in my room.

There are two suits sitting next to an activated replicator. You now have a space suit.


Jim also hands you a Mind Control Ray

Go to Tooney's corpse and loot his unused shield. Then take a photo. If people are watching the body, then only take the photo.

Woops, missed the looting part. His body has been looted.

I only tried to take credit for Toony's death for the money, but looking back on it, I think I could have used this situation to become the last person standing. After Jim's poster shenanigans, I kind of wish I did. But that was never going to happen. I was in a panic, but more importantly I didn't have the heart to do betrayals anymore. There was no way the me of the past could have come up with the intricate plan I have now, and the ghosts would have likely killed me anyway after pulling it off.

*Sigh* What could have been...


Caz ended up confessing to the murder (and owning an advanced targetting system), while LuckyOwl began to dig himself into a hole. I haven't said anything about this in the summary yet, but Luckyowl had been giving me wierd vibes since Day 1. If anyone was a traitor working for the corporations it would be him.

I hate saying that, since he played an instrumental role in getting Toonyman to confess in Day 2, but things were crazy in the heat of the moment. It was Jim's idea...

Spoiler: Jim's PM (He didn't post the day 5 Pms for some reason, so I think you'll be in for a treat) (click to show/hide)

Do you buy Luckyowl's explanation for why he lied about getting the space suit from ToonyMan?

I want to shoot him right now I am so suspicious of him.

I’ve been wanting to shoot him for a long time now. A part of me even thought that Owl is the traitor until Caz confessed. And I think the concept of a traitor is nonsensical.

I'm game to shoot him right now if you are.

K, let’s do it.

Meph, I want to shoot Luckyowl right now.

Sent Meph my PM in private, but I’ll do it again.

Meph shoot Luckyowl

If Luckyowl gets me be sure to loot my body before anybody else does.

Sure thing.

The deed was done and the bird was killed. He was innocent, an outcome that could have been easily predicted if one used logic, but we were having none of that today. When you eliminate the impossible, only the improbable remains. He really was that clumsy and terrible with words.

Jim and I had to deal with the aftermath though and tensions were still high.

Spoiler: After the murder (click to show/hide)

Thanks for the backup.

We gotta lead the assault now though. What was on Luckyowl’s body?

Still waiting for Meph to tell me.

But, yes, I absolutely attempted to loot Luckyowl the second his body dropped to the floor.

I'm going to try to hack Luckyowl's communicator and see if that gleans any clues about any possible accomplices he had. The mining pod should be loaded up so I want you to pilot it to the hangar while I ride in the back and do the hacking.

Understood.

How many space suits do we have? I took one from mining btw.

At least five. I have mine, the two I made from the replicator, and two that ToonyMan made. Luckyowl should have two unless he gave one to somebody else.

What do you think of Caz? I'm kind of suspicious honestly considering Luckyowl's behavior just now and during the entirety of the phase.

Jim by any chance, do you want me to shoot at something with the mining pod. Or should I just fly it?

Fly it for now. There are anti-craft turrets at the hangar and the mining pod will not last against them.

Spoiler: But can we trust Caz? (click to show/hide)

Gosh dang it. We look suspicious as hell. Is anyone gonna trust us now?

Regardless, let's proceed with the assault.

Don't worry about that. Luckyowl was being obviously threatening and we just pulled the trigger first. It's not a surprise that people get looted this game either.

Luckyowl should have had two space suits, one from me and one from ToonyMan, so he gave one away to somebody. My guess would be he has an accomplice, and if I had to take a guess it would be Caz.

Are we killing Caz then?

[Another PM]

He might have never gotten the Toony suit you know. Maybe Caz killed him and looted it.

[Editors note]
My pronouns were very confusing in this second PM. I meant to suggest that LuckyOwl never got the suit because Caz killed Toony before Toony could deliver it.

He might have never gotten the Toony suit you know. Maybe Caz killed him and looted it.

Somebody in dead chat sent me a message that ToonyMan gave Luckyowl a suit.

Are we killing Caz then?

It's tempting, and I doubt I would be wrong, but I want to hold off a little bit and see what the RP turns up first.

It might be time to go, even if it's just you and me.

Gonna check that Luckyowl didn't somehow sabotage the maintenance droids he gathered during the hunt phase.

Sure, let's check and then we'll get to the piloting. Clearly no-one else has any confidence after Caz's stunt.

The RP didn't turn up anything in regards to any accomplices of Luckyowl or anything like that.

I asked dead chat and they think seem to think killing Caz is a pretty good idea so that's what we're going to do.

You game?

I think killing Caz is going to be too much at this point. It’ll just be the 3 of us then. I don’t like how he has a kill confirmer, and Toony murder was way out of line, but I feel like if we kill him then we’ve already lost.

I’ll avenge you if something happens though, but I think we’ll be safe in the mining pod.


Meph, when are you going to start the Mining pod shenanigans?

But we were finally able to calm down and begin our assault

Spoiler: The Patrol (Colour Coded for Convenience) (click to show/hide)

Let's get this started!

I think killing Caz is going to be too much at this point. It’ll just be the 3 of us then. I don’t like how he has a kill confirmer, and Toony murder was way out of line, but I feel like if we kill him then we’ve already lost.

I’ll avenge you if something happens though, but I think we’ll be safe in the mining pod.


Meph, when are you going to start the Mining pod shenanigans?

Alright, whatever.

Meph, I head down to mining ops. Let's launch the assault.

Ok, please outline your plan. What are each of you doing?

Is this an all at once deal like a hunt phase or is it incremental?

At the very least, let's fly out there in the mining pod, land it out of sight of the hangar, and then take in the situation.

It can be incremental, or at least in chunks.

The Setup

At the very least, let's fly out there in the mining pod, land it out of sight of the hangar, and then take in the situation.

You head down to the mining ops center, get the droids into the hold of the pod, and head out into the mines.

As you move through the mines you see lights ahead. 5 of them, coming from the direction of the hanger.

Based on what the lights are and how they're moving are they crafts or personnel?

I want to know this too actually. Mind-controlling a driver is a great way to take out a troublesome vehicle.

Based on size and how they're moving, you think they are personnel.

How durable is the mining pod to small arms fire?

If it's only personnel and the mining pod is durable then we can just zap them with the mining pod, which is something I've wanted to do all game long.

If the mining pod is not durable then we should probably bail out since we have two plasma bombs in the hold here and the mining pod is slow.

It could probably take a few hits just fine, but sustained fire could be an issue. Think...bulldozer with an enclosed cockpit. Some parts can tank fire all day, others...not so much.

Are we fucked? How likely is it that they've already spotted us?

Well, they aren't shooting at you.

And the cockpit is probably not one of the safer parts, I'm guessing.

I have a stun bomb not rigged up to the maintenance droids. I think the least risk course of action is to blow it and then deal with any personnel left standing with our weapons.

How does that sound?

The Plan

I have a stun bomb not rigged up to the maintenance droids. I think the least risk course of action is to blow it and then deal with any personnel left standing with our weapons.

How does that sound?

We both have anti-tech so that should give us the time to mop-up. 5 people is half of the total staff at the hanger if I remember right.

Let me add another suggestion though. The stun bomb-lasts for quite a while. How about we capture one of them for interrogation and dispose of the other 4 in a way that doesn't damage their suits. The uniforms will make a great disguise and hopefully by having Caz and Shakerag participate in our infiltration we can restore a sense of harmony in the group.

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I think this can be the start of a great plan where we pose as the patrol and claim that we captured a mining pod filled with contraband. The 'perps' we stopped were Owl and Toony, and we tragically lost a member in the shootout.
I'm getting ahead of myself though. Right now, I'm just focused on the neutralization and acquirement of uniforms.

Meph, I'm going to drop out of the mining pod, prime the stun bomb, cover my genitals with my hands, then blow it. I assume since I can see their lights that the stun bomb is in range.

Once that's accomplished, I'm going to engage any targets left standing with my pistol.


heydude6, up to you how you want to back me up for any targets left standing after the stun bomb. Guns or mining pod are probably viable against a reduced amount of enemies.

If the stun bomb doesn't drop anybody we should probably reevaluate what we're going to do with a strong emphasis on running away.

In that situation, my plan B would be to send the mining pod in reverse and throw one of the two plasma bombs we have stashed behind us. As they move to follow us, we detonate it when they get close enough to the bomb and eliminate them all in one unblockable blast. Hopefully we would have travelled outside of the radius by that point.

Actually, we should probably set up the plasmabomb in a good and hard to see place before we alert them with a stun bomb. That way, they'll be less likely to spot it in case we will actually have to use it.


Meph, I will grab a plasma bomb from the pod and hide it in some little crevasse that the group is likely to travel near if they tried to make a beeline for us. Then get back inside the vehicle and be ready to run once Jim detonates his stun and the enemy seems unaffected. Clearly he should wait for me to finish my work before he detonates his stun.

If the enemy is stunned though, help Jim shoot anyone still standing (hopefully it's no one though). Then proceed with the space suit removal and interrogation plan I outlined earlier.


Meph. There's one last question I should ask before we do anything though. How visible are we? Does the mining pod have some bright and obvious headlights, or perhaps even natural sunlight? What is our light-source down here? Since this an asteroid, there should be no atmosphere and therefore no sound so visual information is the only thing we have to worry about.

If we're lucky, then they really might not have seen us and in that case we would be panicking over nothing. How far away are they actually?

Let's see what the stun bomb does for us before doing stuff with the plasma bombs. I have a thinking we'll probably need them at some point.

If the stun bomb doesn't do anything we can retreat back to the station where we have control over the entire station and Caz and Shakerag to back us up and have a more even firefight.

Gotta Improvise

The mining pod has mineral sensors that you can use to pilot it without lights, although it has those as well. Since you were planning an assault on the hanger I assumed you were running without lights.

You power up the stun bomb and set it off.

Two of the lights stop moving, but the other three quickly scatter and get behind cover.

How daring are you feeling, heydude6? It doesn't seem like the situation at the station is much better.

I think we should attack with the mining pod and one of the plasma bomb maintenance droids.

I can draw their attention and focus by shooting them with my pistol, which lets you come in over them in a high arc and zap them from behind with the mining pod.

We should unload the maintenance droids and send them back to the station.

We're committed to this now, but I think we should come back and fetch Shakerag and Caz after this firefight. We clearly need more guns.

All we can do now is fight for now though. Meph try to do what Jim says. While he shoots at the enemies, try to fly above them and flank before shooting them with mining pod. Hopefully, it's mobile enough for that, and if it isn't at least the bulk should be able to take a few bullets.

Meph, prior to heydude6 maneuvering I want to command the maintenance droids to go back to mining ops, except for one of the plasma bomb droids, which I will command forward to the enemy personnel. (Let's send the one carrying webadict's plasma bomb back with the other droids because it's funnier the more story that bomb has.)

Once successfully unloaded, I want to engage the enemy personnel in a distracting way.

If the bomb droid makes it to the enemy position and we haven't neutralized them with my distracting shooting and the mining pod, I want to wave heydude6 off, get him to clear out the area, and then detonate the plasma bomb.

Noted.

The next updates of what happens with you guys will happen this evening (my evening). So if you have any more changes to the plan, just let me know in the next 4 hours or so.

And then the others arrived and we had our final battle. The decision to not kill Caz was the right one, and together we somehow survived.


And that's it. My writing made the ending a bit anti-climactic but I'm happy I was able to get this done. It may be too much for you guys to read, but if anyone ever reads this in an archive, I think it will give them a pretty good idea of what was going on.

The only perspective we're really missing is dead chat's because I think Web Pmed Meph a lot. This took me half a day to do though, so I do understand why web might not do this. The idea still makes me sad.