Clays game --- Adrift ---

[Claycw]

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Date: September, 2243
Location: Deep Space Mining Vessel USFA-Q23

Sept. 3, 2243: Rude awakening
The USFA-Q23 speeds through deep space headed toward VXN-47, a planet in the Dannex 221-G Sector, to bring fresh supplies and relieve the current miners stationed there. All lights on the ship are off, leaving it completely dark except for the navigation system on the bridge and the life support monitoring equipment in the Cryo. Chamber where the crew are located.

A light begins flashing on the communications panel. As the ship’s computer begins processing the data coming in, the ship immediately drops from light speed and alters its course. Lights begin turning on all over the ship, the crew’s Cryo. Chambers begin to light up, and the long waking process begins. Meanwhile, the ship’s computer continues to prepare for the crew to awaken, the life support systems start up, the artificial gravity systems turn on, and the heating system begins to warm all levels of the ship.

Captain Voorhees is the first to awaken; he sits up in his Cryo. Chamber and tries to work the cobwebs out of his head. As he sits there, the rest of the crew begin to wake up. Captain Voorhees looks around. “Alright everyone, you know the drill. Get dressed and report to your assigned stations. We should be about 3 hours out.” Voorhees smiles as his crew begin to do as ordered.

Upon reaching the bridge, it is clear to Captain Voorhees and the bridge crew that they are nowhere near their final destination and in fact have been pulled out of hyperspace by the ships computer to respond to a distress signal it has received, which is protocol for every ship in the fleet. The captain presses a button on the console and begins speaking, his voice echoing all over the ship. “Ok everyone, change of plans, looks like the ship’s computer has picked up a distress call and we’re going to go see if we can offer any assistance. We should be in visual of the ship within the next 20-30 minutes, so everyone be ready.” The Captain then looks at Comm. Officer Rscott. “See if you can get them on the horn. I would like to know what kind of problems they are having before we get there.”

Captain Voorhees stands at the bridge’s main view window as the ship comes into view. “Jesus Christ, that is an old son of a bitch right there. The whole damn ship is dark. I don’t see any sign of activity on her at all. Have you been able to raise anyone yet?” RScott looks at the captain. “I have been trying for the last 25 minutes and have yet to get anyone to reply back to me. Could be that their communications are out as well.” Captain Voorhees is clearly unhappy with this response but knows that RScott is doing all he can do. “Alright Weaver, see if you can get us positioned to extend the docking bridge and we’ll go see if anyone’s home.”


Captain Voorhees stands waiting on the chamber to pressurize so that the airlock can open. Weaver, RScott, JCarp, and KRussel stand with him. The entry light turns green and the airlock opens. The five of them make their way across the docking bridge to the airlock of the other ship. As they approach, they can hear the mechanisms on the airlock release as it begins to open with an almost deafening screeching noise. “Fuck that is loud,” complained Jcarp, wincing and shaking his head as if he is going to shake the noise out somehow. Captain Voorhees steps in first, looking around. “Hmmmm, not much of a greeting. Weaver, see if you can find some lights. Rscott, check that door, and can someone tell me what the fuck that smell is?” Weaver moves across the room, feeling the wall for a switch as she does. “Found it, let there be light,” as she turns on the switch. As light fills the small room they begin to make out what appears to be dried blood all over the walls and the words “Turn Back!” written in what appears to be blood as well. “Alright everyone, look alive, we got some fucked up shit going on here. Let’s see if we can find anyone and offer any help that may be needed.” As the 5 of them enter the hallway, the madness from the pressure chamber seems to extend to the hallway and through the entire ship. Dried blood, holes from small arms fire and what looks like homemade explosives can be seen all over the walls. There are signs of a struggle everywhere they look. A deep, metallic moan permeates the ship as they make their way towards the bridge as if the ship itself is telling them they are unwanted here and should return back to their own vessel.

Making their way towards the bridge, they pass the Cryo. Chamber room. “KRussel, RScott, check the Cryo. Chamber. Weaver, Jcarp, come with me. Let’s see if anyone is on the bridge.”

Upon entering the bridge it becomes clear as to why this ship is stranded. Almost every console on the bridge has been destroyed. JCarp looks around. “Sir, over here! Looks like the distress beacon originated from this console.” Captain Voorhees and Weaver make their way over to the console. “Is there anything else?” Captain Voorhees asks. “I’m sorry sir, the display is broken. The only thing I can make out is the date the signal originated, but I am not sure that it’s displaying right because it says 2120.” Captain Voorhees looks at JCarp “Are you telling me this ship has been floating out here for over 120 years?” JCarp looks up at the captain. “I’m only telling you what the screen says, Sir.” Frowning, Captain Voorhees replies, “Well, looks like what ever happened here, we missed it. Gather up anything that may help us figure out what happened, and we’ll take it back to the ship.” RScott bursts into the room. “Sir, we found a survivor in one of the Cryo. Chambers! It’s a young girl, maybe 13 or 14 years old.” Captain Voorhees motions to Weaver and Jcarp. “Ok you two, finish gathering what you can and meet us in the Cryo. Chamber.”

As the captain enters the Cryo. Chamber, KRussel steps towards him. “Sir, all her bio signs read ok, and I have started the waking process. Problem is the date on the Cryo. Chamber shows she’s been in there for about 115 years, so I have no idea what is going to happen. She may be totally brain dead.” Captain Voorhees looks at the girl. “Just get her out and let’s get her to sickbay on the Q23. We’ll deal with the rest later. If she wakes up, maybe she can help shed some light on the madness that took place here.”

Weaver and JCarp enter the Cryo. Chamber, each of them holding a stack of data disks. “They are an older format, but I am pretty sure that we can salvage the information on them and hopefully see what happened on the ship.” Captain Voorhees nods, saying, “Well that’s all I can ask for. As soon as she can be moved, let’s get back to the Q23 and get off this piece of shit.” Soon the young survivor is ready to move and the 5 of them, along with the survivor now moved to a gurney, make their way back to the Q23 and disconnect from the ill- fated ship, letting it continue its lonely journey through space.

[Claycw]

Sept 8, 2243 10:15pm

Captain Voorhees stands over the motionless body of the young survivor, still in sickbay. “Ok doc, it’s been 5 days. What do you think? Is she ever going to wake up? Or was the abnormally long Cryo. sleep too much for her?” Juan Rayo walks over. “Frankly, Captain, I have no idea. As far as I can tell, she should already have woken up by now. Her bio read out is green, though there are some strange spikes here and there that I haven’t quite pinpointed, but nothing that I would think would keep her from waking up. We will just have to wait and see.”

Sept. 9, 2243 1:32pm

Captain Voorhees rests in his quarters when a call comes in from the bridge. “Sir, we have recovered the original distress signal from the ship. I think you will want to take a look at this.” Captain Voorhees heads towards the bridge. As the Captain enters, he sees Jcarp, Weaver, KRussel, and RScott standing over a display. “So what do you have?” Captain Voorhees asks as he walks up to see what they are watching. “You are just going to have to see this for yourself, Sir. Jcarp, rewind it,” KRussel says with a visibly shaken look on his face. As Jcarp hits play, a video appears of a woman crying “Please help us! Please! It’s killing everyone, the goddamned engineers have disabled the ship, we are adrift in space, there is no way off! It’s taking people over and killing others, we can’t tell who is who anymore, crew members are turning on each other killing anyone whom they think may be infected, it’s madness! We can’t, won’t survive much longer, please! If you are receiving this, please help!” As the woman on the video continues to beg for help, the Captain sees someone familiar enter the screen. It’s the young girl they brought aboard the ship. The captain watches as her figure distorts. Long tentacles form where her arms once were, stretching out with inhuman speed, grabbing the woman in the video. As she pulls the helpless woman towards her, a large gaping mouth forms where her abdomen once was. More tentacles form, wrapping her victim tighter and tighter. Another larger tentacle forms, speeding toward the screen and suddenly the image goes to static. The captain steps away from the screen. “Are you fucking kidding me! I did not just see that!” He then looks at his men. “We got to get that little cunt off this ship and now! We’ll jettison her out into space and leave her there to die! Let’s go!” All five of them begin to head towards sickbay. As they turn around, it is only then that they notice the girl standing in the entrance to the bridge. “JCarp! Sound the alarm!!” is all Captain Voorhees manages to get out before a large spike tentacle severs his head from his body. The little girl begins to change further, taking on the shape of many different beings at the same time, some of them very recognizable to the 4 remaining crew members and others, totally alien to them. “Jcarp, hit the blast door!” Weaver screams. Jcarp steps forward, pressing the button that closes the blast doors to the bridge just as a long tentacle shoots through his chest, tearing him in half. More tentacles begin flying around the room and the creature begins to change more, this time adding a macabre likeness to Captain Voorhees and Jcarp in the rotation. Krussel and Weaver duck behind one of the consoles on the bridge. “Listen, we’ve got to get to the weapons cabinet,” Weaver says as quietly as she can. “You go left, I’ll go right, and whoever gets there first blows the shit out of that fucking thing!” The two of them start making their way to the weapons cabinet, ducking behind consoles when available and dodging tentacles the best they can. Weaver reaches the gun cabinet first, pulling the cabinet open and grabbing the first thing she can see, then ducking back behind the nearest console. Krussel dives behind a console next to Rscott. “Fucking Christ we’re in some real pretty shit now!” KRussel yells as he slides closer to where RScott is sitting. “Dude you ok?” Krussel asks as he grabs his friend’s shoulder. RScott turns towards KRussel his eyes starting to bleed and his face becoming distorted “I’m fine Krussel and soon you will be too!” KRussel pushes backwards, kicking RScott’s Doppelganger in the face as he goes. “You were right Weaver, other crew members are already infected!” Just then a large clawed hand emerges from the mouth of RScott ,grabbing KRussel by the face and crushing his skull instantly. Before KRussel’s body can fall to floor, hundreds of tentacles envelope him, pulling him closer to what was once the young girl standing in the entrance. Weaver knows that her chance of survival is slim to none, but what she knows for a fact is that if she is going to go out, it will be on her terms. She leaps from behind the navigation console to behind the communications console. Reaching up with one hand, she flicks the all comms button, her voice echoing through the ship. By this time though, everyone aboard the ship is standing outside the blast doors trying to figure out what is going on. “Listen! I don’t have much time! The child we brought aboard the ship is some kind of creature that can mimic the looks and behavior of any living organism it devourers. It has already killed everyone in here but me, and had infected RScott, I suspect sometime after it was brought on board, so be careful!! I’m not sure, but I also think it has already infected…” a large tentacle grasps weaver around her throat preventing her from saying anything else, it then lifts her from behind the console and pulls her closer to its newly-formed maw that has appeared where a child’s head once was. Weaver pulls the weapon up that she had retrieved from the cabinet but instead of aiming at the creature she aims at one of the transpara-steel openings of the bridge. The first shot bulges out the window-like steel but ricochets the projectile back into the navigation console. The engines can be heard powering down throughout the ship. Weaver pulls the gun back up, shooting again at the same pane. The port bulges more and a small hiss can be heard near it. Alarms begin going off as the bridge begins to lose pressure. Weaver pulls the trigger one last time hitting the port again. This time the pane shoots out and a huge hiss follows as oxygen begins to be sucked from the bridge. The vacuum pulls Weaver, the creature, what used to be Rscott, and all the bodies in the bridge out of the ship and sends them tumbling into vast empty space.





The rest of crew stands in horror on the other side of the blast door, realizing that Weaver has just given her life to try and save them. They also begin to realize that with the bridge destroyed and the navigation systems knocked out, they are now adrift in space, and to make matters worse one or more of them may already be infected. The tension in the air is thick as everyone stands there looking at one another, wondering who might be infected. Juan Rayo speaks first. “Ok, we can settle this here and now. Everyone down to Sick Bay we will run a full Bio scan on everyone of us. If you’re not human, we will know soon enough.” As they make their way into Sick Bay, they discover the place in shambles. All the Bio. Sensors are destroyed. “Are you fucking serious!” Jellyfish exclaims, shaking his head in disgust. “Son of bitch! Ok hold on one second, there is another option,” Juan Rayo says as he makes his way over to a cabinet on the wall. “Yes!! Didn’t know about this one did ya fucker.” Juan Rayo turns back around holding a hand- held Bio. Sensor. “Hmmm, there is only enough charge in this thing to do one scan today, then it will have to charge for 24 hours. Bad thing about this unit is it’s not meant for mass use and only has enough power to do 2 full Bio. Scans, sometimes 3 if you’re really, really lucky. Then it has to charge for 24 hours.” Juan Rayo looks around. “Well, no better time than the present. Who wants to go first?”

[Claycw]

The players:

Name------------------Title----------------------Room#
IGJoe-------------------Mechanic---------------------6 DEAD - Creature
Equis-------------------Mechanic---------------------5
Murph--------------------Cook-----------------------14 DEAD
Kael----------------Information Systems Tech.--------19 DEAD - Creature
DanielElliot--------------Machinist---------------------8 DEAD
Gladguy----------------Lab Assistant-----------------21 DEAD
Jellyfish----------------Maintenance------------------16
Demon G Sides---------Head Cook--------------------13 DEAD - Creature
RussellMZ00------------Cargo Chief-------------------4
Oracle-----------------Heavy Equipment Op.----------7 Dead
Kwhit-----------------Chief Science Officer-----------18 DEAD
calistas----------------Lab Assistant----------------17
Juan Rayo-------------Chief Medical Officer----------11 Dead - Creature
Lazy Shiftless Bastard--Med. Tech.------------------12
Mike o'Malley-----------Med. Tech.------------------15 DEAD
Wisbechlad-------------Machinist--------------------3 DEAD
Conrad-----------------Heavy Equipment Op.---------2 DEAD - Creature
Ninyu------------------Chief Engineer----------------1 Dead - Creature
Raife-------------------Electronics Tech-------------20

Bill Dungsroman---------Lieutenant from USFA Warrent
Antifood----------------Corporal from USFA Warrent
Cormac-----------------Corporal from USFA Warrent DEAD


The Game

Truer words have never been spoken “You’re in some real pretty shit now!”

You’re stuck on the lower three levels of a ship that is adrift in space.

From what you could gather from what Weaver was yelling over the intercom one or more of you may not be who you think they are, but she was cut off before she could say who she thought was infected.

You have no real weapons to speak of; the only weapons you know of were stored in a cabinet on the bridge.

You can’t pilot the ship because the bridge was destroyed.

You can’t send a distress call because that is done from the bridge.


Rules:
This is a Hybrid werewolf/thing game similar to my last one

1: Turns: Each Day turn will start with a narrative of the nights events, if you received a PM about the previous night please refrain from posting anything about them until you have read the narrative from the previous night as you may inadvertently implicate yourself. Each Night turn will begin after the last test is performed and narrative written for that turn.

2: There are humans, creatures (chosen at random), and other roles that are only revealed to players that were randomly chosen. These players may choose to reveal their role or keep it to themselves.

3: Each Day turn those players that are alive vote for 2 players to test, if the player tested is human they get to remain in the game, if the player tested is a creature he/she is torched. If a creature is detected with the first vote a third vote is granted. Please bold your choices and make them in the format below.
Example:
TEST 1: Player1
TEST 2: Player2

4: When a player is torched you will be able to tell if the player was newly infected or had been infected a while.

5: You may perform Searches each Day turn, these actions are described below

6: Players may receive a PM describing an event that they witnessed or heard during the Night turn. If you do not receive a PM from me you can assume that your night was uneventful. I will not share these PM’s with any other player. Nor will I confirm or deny any written account that a player claims came from me. (I would ask that if you decide to share information that you are sent in a PM please use your own words and do not copy and paste my exact PM, if you paste my PM’s in the forum you may accidently get sucked out an air lock.)

7: At the end of each Day turn the Night turn takes place at which time the Creatures take a turn following the rules & action table provided only to them. Creature Rules are only known by players that are creatures. Players that have special abilities or have acquired a special item will need to inform me of their intentions.

8: The game ends when either the last creature is killed or the creatures have the majority.

9: Once voting is called and tallied that is it, there will be no changing it so be sure that your vote is represented correctly. I generally call the Vote when I see the last remaining vote posted. I will post voting ended in the forum. The voting cycle tends to run a little long during the initial phase of the game so do not be surprised if the Day – Night cycle do not follow real time in the beginning, as people get used to the game this should even out to a 1 to 1 turn.

10: Ties will be determined by a roll of the dice.

11: Post editing is not allowed where votes are concerned; please make a new post for all vote changes.

12: I would also recommend that you make your profile invisible during this game.

13: if you are not in the game please post elsewhere!


Searches:
There are items hidden on the ship that may prove very useful.
During each DAY turn you may search 2 objects marked with a number or 1 object marked with a letter. Or you may choose to search another player’s room for clues. You may not search a player’s room and an object in the same turn. When searching a players room you will search all items in the room by default. The Captains Quarters are not considered a players room and each object has to be searched individually.

You may do these in PUBLIC or by PM, if you do them in public then your findings are known to everyone if you PM me with your request your findings are only known to you. The results of your search will be posted or sent to you via PM at the beginning of the next Day turn.
Example 1: I would like to search Cabinet 3 and 9 in the equipment bay.
Example 2: I would like to search Box A in the Cargo Bay.
Example 3: I would like to search Box 1 in the Cargo Bay and Cabinet 9 in the Equipment bay.
Example 4: I would like to search Room 3 on the Lower Deck.

[Claycw]

Ship view
http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp318/claycw/Schematic_Small.jpg

Link to larger JPG File (http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp318/claycw/Schematic_Largel.jpg)

Link to PDF File with Players Rooms Listed (http://www.dna-motorcycles.com/PDFs/Schematic.pdf)

[ElGuapo]

Edit: deleted per request of the person running the game. :)

[Claycw]

Please post non player comments in the other thread.

[Ninyu]

I vote we test Juan Rayo and Kwhit first. If I was the creature I would infect them first due to their possible expertise in dealing with a situation like this. No offense to you two. Obviously the creature went to medical during the, uhh, festivities last night.

I'll check the ship's systems and see if the creature possibly messed with anything else on the ship.

[Ninyu]

Oops - one scan today

TEST 1: Kwhit

[DanielElliot]

I hope I can rig up something for that scanner battery, because that 24 hour charge time is just craptacular. Or maybe some kind of weapon. I'm going to search object A in the tech lab.

And I vote we scan Juan Rayo. If he's not clean, we're screwed.

TEST 1: JUAN RAYO

SEARCH 1: OBJECT A IN TECH LAB

(Is formatting it like that helpful?)

[Claycw]

Please bold your votes.

[Murph]

I second DanielElliot's notion -- we need to know we can trust the guy in charge of the scanning device.

TEST 1: Juan Rayo

[Kael]

Information Systems Tech Kael reporting. I am wearing a blue shirt and will throw away any red shirts in my wardrobe. I volunteer myself for scanning.

In the meantime I would like to follow my job description and begin immediately searching the Science Lab. Especially the computer system for any known information on identifying/dealing with these beasties. I would like to share any information I come across as publically as possible to minimize the risk of losing information in the case of my death/infection.

TEST 1: Kael
SEARCH: Science Lab object F (changed in a later post)

edit: switched this request to investigating the data disks is possible

ps special thanks to Claycw for running this game

[KWhit]

Chief Science officer KWhit here. I am fine with being scanned if that's the will of the crew. However, I know I am not infected, so I will place my vote elsewhere today in hopes of finding someone who is.

Test 1: Juan Rayo

[IGJoe]

Mechanic Joby21 reporting in. I'll see what I can find that may help get the main scanner repaired while the rest of you decide on who to scan. In the meantime, I'll agree to vote for the chief medical officer.

Test 1: KWhit
SEARCH: Maint/Eng Lab Object 1 & Object 2

[Equis]

I'm thinking about. Voting Juan Rayo as well, since he's in charge of the scanner and the like. Can he teach the rest of us to use it? So Scan Juan Rayo.

Also, I'm thinking a thorough search of the med lab and the equipment room is in order. Never know what sort of useful stuff you can find there. So search box H in the equipment bay. We can cover the less important rooms later. We should be doing this systematically.

Don't suppose those monsters can move things around eh?

[Equis]

In the meantime, I'll agree to vote for the chief medical officer.


Chief medical officer is Juan, dude. But good idea on the scanner thing. As the other mechanic, I'll see if can rig up a makeshift distress beacon. Anyone got any of thirds long range telemetry devices?

[IGJoe]

Leave it to a mechanic to confuse the two. Make that the science officer, then!

[Kael]

Considering how quickly the infection spread to those that investigated the abandoned ship we may want to consider more drastic containment methods. Weaver has set an example for us. Better that we all die here than these creatures be allowed to get to an inhabited planet, or spread to another ship as they have to ours.

I don't think we are at that point left. But there is more at risk here than our own lives and if we have to destroy the ship to kill these creatures, then we must do it.

First we need to know if their are other creatures on the ship, and how quickly do they spread. Were the 4 that fought on the bridge 4 separate creatures on the abandoned ship, or did the one creature (the girl) on the abandoned ship infect our crew? In other words, are they multiplying?

Chief medical officer is Juan, dude. But good idea on the scanner thing. As the other mechanic, I'll see if can rig up a makeshift distress beacon. Anyone got any of thirds long range telemetry devices?

I would warn against drawing other ships to us until we understand what we are dealing with. We don't want this contamination to spread. Remember that it left the distress signal on after killing its last crew.

[Juan Rayo]

I'm thinking about. Voting Juan Rayo as well, since he's in charge of the scanner and the like. Can he teach the rest of us to use it?

DAMMIT Equis I'm a doctor, not a teacher! but I will gladly show all and any of you how to use the scanner, this way also that thing won't be in a any hurry to kill little old me real fast. I also agree it makes sense to test me but I am telling you, it will be a wasted test.

As for that.. thing that we heard about, we don't know nothing about it's molecular structure, but as any organic based lifeforme, fire should be it's bane. We should make sure we all have the capability to light a torch or, god forbid, use our last liquor bottles (that's some strong stuff... ahem, I've been told) and a lighter.

Test Kwhit
Search A in sick bay

[Murph]

I'll help you search the sick bay...seems likely they might've left some clue as to who's infected while they were trashing the place.

Search 1: Containers 1 and 2 in the sick bay.

[Kael]

I would like to recommend that after we test the first person (and they are clean), everyone else be put into cryo. Then the tested person can pull them out one at a time (as the scanner recharges) to scan and free or torch.

[Murph]

I would warn against drawing other ships to us until we understand what we are dealing with. We don't want this contamination to spread. Remember that it left the distress signal on after killing its last crew.

It'll likely be a while before anyone could actually get here...if someone shows up while there are still enough of us alive to talk about it, it could be helpful to have a way off the ship.

'Sides, it does no harm to have the thing rigged up to broadcast, even if we decide not to turn it on right away. Equis, if I find anything you need, you're welcome to it, if it'll help with the beacon.

[Claycw]

Using a little mechanical know how the engineers rig up a make shift flame thrower in Sick bay, there is limited supply in the tanks and they or mounted in the wall so moving them is out of the question.

[KWhit]

Search Science Lab Object A

[Kael]

It'll likely be a while before anyone could actually get here...if someone shows up while there are still enough of us alive to talk about it, it could be helpful to have a way off the ship.

'Sides, it does no harm to have the thing rigged up to broadcast, even if we decide not to turn it on right away. Equis, if I find anything you need, you're welcome to it, if it'll help with the beacon.

Remember the beasts likely have the knowledge to put the distress signal we make to use as well. So if we build it and lose this battle they will likely spread to another ship.

Still I have no problem with it if we put everyone in cryo first (or everyone except for the clean person). Then we wait for a better equipped ship to show up, explain the issue and get their help sorting out the good from the bad.

[Raife]

Great, this is what I get for signing on for fucking mining resupply mission. "Go for a naval job", she said. "Hell no, you can get killed in the navy," I replied. Well ain't this a pretty paycheck.

Chief Rayo, we need to clear you and then we need to keep you under watch 24-fucking-7. Maybe you can find a cure for this alien bullshit, or at least start to understand it. Fuck if I will, I studied electronics systems for a reason. Biology is a damned maze of hypotheticals. At least with machines, you're dealing with set parameters.

I vote to Test Chief Rayo, and then I'm checking the captain's quarters for anything we might be able to use. Voorhees was a wily bastard, he's got to have something useful squirreled away up there. I'm searching 4 & 5 in the Captain's Quarters.

[Ninyu]

I'll help you search the sick bay...seems likely they might've left some clue as to who's infected while they were trashing the place.

If you see any goo or pieces of monster don't touch it. Don't even go near it. You don't know how it turns you. It could only take a couple cells to start the process. In fact, it might be wise to have a couple extra people keeping an eye on things while you search medical.

[Lazy Shiftless Bastard]

Remember the beasts likely have the knowledge to put the distress signal we make to use as well. So if we build it and lose this battle they will likely spread to another ship.

Still I have no problem with it if we put everyone in cryo first (or everyone except for the clean person). Then we wait for a better equipped ship to show up, explain the issue and get their help sorting out the good from the bad.

I fail to see how putting everyone in cryo is a good idea! If one or more of us are infected wouldn't they just pretend to be getting ready for cryosleep and then hop out when everyone else has gone in, giving them free reign over the ship? This sounds like an infected's idea!

Of course making sure the chief med officer isn't one of them is probably a good first choice.
Test 1: Juan Rayo
Test 2: Kael

And while everyone is wandering around'
I'll take my time searching room 17 on the middle deck.
Since it's right next to the med lab and we know the monsters were in there, maybe They were in calistas' room too. Or maybe I can find his secret supply of Belgian chocolates.

[Kael]

I fail to see how putting everyone in cryo is a good idea! If one or more of us are infected wouldn't they just pretend to be getting ready for cryosleep and then hop out when everyone else has gone in, giving them free reign over the ship? This sounds like an infected's idea!

Of course making sure the chief med officer isn't one of them is probably a good first choice.
Test 1: ElGuapo
Test 2: Kael

And while everyone is wandering around'
I'll take my time searching room 17 on the middle deck.
Since it's right next to the med lab and we know the monsters were in there, maybe They were in calistas' room too. Or maybe I can find his secret supply of Belgian chocolates.

Im not suggesting that everyone be sent off to go into cyro on their own. The entire group should ensure each member is locked up. When it comes to the last few Im willing to let the person who is proven to be clean make the call on the specific order.

Typically the first step to containing any contagion is quarantine and cyro seems a good way to do that. If my plan makes you suspicious of me Im happy to volunteer to be the first person placed in cyro.

Right now my fear is greater that the creatures will be moving around the ship attacking people freely. Even thought the cyro plan isn't 100% (what if the clean person picks a creature as the last person and the creature overwhelms him when the two are alone), it would seem to be much better odds than allowing them to wander around attacking us at their leisure.

[Murph]

What if these creatures resist cryo freezing? As soon as we're all frozen, one hops out at night, kills the one guy free, and then butchers the rest of us while we're helpless?

I say we're careful, stick together, and stay close to the flame thrower.

[Raife]

Or maybe I can find his secret supply of Belgian chocolates.

Sorry, I ate those before we went into Cryo.

[Kael]

What if these creatures resist cryo freezing? As soon as we're all frozen, one hops out at night, kills the one guy free, and then butchers the rest of us while we're helpless?

I say we're careful, stick together, and stay close to the flame thrower.

I am assuming that since the first one was found in cyro, was imobilized by it and had to be awoken before becoming active that cyro works on them. But it is an unknown. We are also assuming that the biometer can distinguish them from humans and that fire works on them. Right now all we can do is makes guesses based on the limited information we have. Hopefully I turn up something in the science lab to learn more about these creatures.

[Murph]

You make some good points. I forgot that part of the story, in all the excitement. I guess there's risk either way, so maybe your idea is safer.

[jellyfish]

I would like to recommend that after we test the first person (and they are clean), everyone else be put into cryo. Then the tested person can pull them out one at a time (as the scanner recharges) to scan and free or torch.
This is a great idea.

I fail to see how putting everyone in cryo is a good idea! If one or more of us are infected wouldn't they just pretend to be getting ready for cryosleep and then hop out when everyone else has gone in, giving them free reign over the ship? This sounds like an infected's idea!
Oh really? Not going along with Kael's great idea sounds like something an infected would do.
So...

Test1: Lazy Shiftless Bastard

But anyway, there still is a problem. What is the point of testing people if five minutes later they can become infected. We won't get anywhere this way as every day everyone becomes a suspect all over again. We really need a way to isolate those that tested clean so we can be sure they stay clean.

So how about if we all lock ourselves together in one part of the ship and then only let out those who test clean. Can we do something like that?

Also, my job is maintenance. That is just a euphemism for janitor isn't it? I guess I will go clean up the latrine or something and leave the searching of random containers to those more qualified to do so.

[Claycw]

Also, my job is maintenance. That is just a euphemism for janitor isn't it? I guess I will go clean up the latrine or something and leave the searching of random containers to those more qualified to do so.

lol - I will state everyones title was a roll of the dice.

[Lazy Shiftless Bastard]

Im not suggesting that everyone be sent off to go into cyro on their own. The entire group should ensure each member is locked up. When it comes to the last few Im willing to let the person who is proven to be clean make the call on the specific order.

Typically the first step to containing any contagion is quarantine and cyro seems a good way to do that. If my plan makes you suspicious of me Im happy to volunteer to be the first person placed in cyro.

Right now my fear is greater that the creatures will be moving around the ship attacking people freely. Even thought the cyro plan isn't 100% (what if the clean person picks a creature as the last person and the creature overwhelms him when the two are alone), it would seem to be much better odds than allowing them to wander around attacking us at their leisure.

Well all the cryo-pods are together in the same room, so everyone going off on their own wasn't exactly what I meant. More that if we're all climbing into cryo, are we all supposed to do it on the count of 3?

Having a random order where we lock up everyone one by one puts the infected ones in a smaller and smaller group of us. How many of us does it take to overpower one of them? What if they can wait until everyone is locked in the pods and then break out of theirs before they're fully frozen? There seem to be too many possible ways we could wind up just putting ourselves on a silver platter and handing it to them. I am not a fan of any plan that involves rendering ourselves helpless while there are alien monsters with unknown strengths running around.

[Conrad]

Oh man, I had a bad feeling about this trip. I told JCarp before we left I was thinkin' about some time off. That old lady back at Station creeped me the hell out, man, sayin' shit like she knew who I was and shit. Man, what are Carp's kids gonna do? Aww shit.

sighs

Whatever we have to do to get out of here, let's do it. Testing Chief Rayo seems like as good an idea as any. I'm afraid it's just a blind guess, but even if we're wrong, at least we'll have someone we can trust for now.

[Raife]

Locking everyone who hasn't been tested in the same room may not be the best idea, one of those things took out five experienced crew on the bridge in a matter of minutes. I like the general idea of keeping tabs on each other, but I don't think a communal area is the best solution. What we could do is isolate the upper deck and put the people we check up there. The Science Lab is up there, as well as the Library, so whoever is cleared can at least do some research. I could probably rig up some kind of electrified barrier that can only be deactivated from the upper deck. The main problem is that there are ventilation ducts and access tunnels throughout the ship, but there might be an emergency protocol that securely shuts those. We'd have to look into it.

[Lazy Shiftless Bastard]

Ha, wait a second, how did I conflate Juan Rayo with ElGuapo? The cryosleep is still messing with my head!

[Juan Rayo]

Ha, wait a second, how did I conflate Juan Rayo with ElGuapo? The cryosleep is still messing with my head!

Well, I AM guapo whlile he is only named that. Still, easy to see where you might get confused

[Raife]

Also, crewman Kael might want to see if there's a way to access the data on those disks.

[Kael]

Also, crewman Kael might want to see if there's a way to access the data on those disks.

Thats a great idea, i haven't thought about that!

If possible I would like to replace my previous request to search the science lab with the following:

SEARCH: The recovered data disks

[Claycw]

Noted and changed

[0racle]

Man this is some heavy stuff going on. Good thing I know how to operate. I feel Scanning our medical officer is a good idea. I also think I'm gonna search some of our lockers in the Equipment bay and see if there's anything there that can help us in our current situation.


Scan 1: Juan Rayo
Search: Equipment Bay 1 and 2

[Claycw]

As I thought the first day will take a bit to get rolling while most people have voted we still have several that have not, kinda in a holding pattern till then. I will be on for a while, if they get their votes in I will wrap up the todays turn and get the narrative written.

[Ninyu]

Guys -

I have bad news. I ran a damage report on the ship and it came back as follows:

Engines: Offline
Life support Systems: nominal
Navigation systems: offline
Chryo chambers: Chambers 1-12 unknown error, Chamber 13 Online and functional, Chambers 14-26 unknown error
Long range communications: offline

We have one cryo chamber still functional and no comms. I'll spend some cycles trying to figure out why the cryo chambers aren't working if that is what people want. This shit keeps getting better. *sighs*

[Equis]

A quick thought, if those things can infect us all, how do we know when we've gotten everyone of those aliens?

Also, if we're going to split up the crew, I don't much relish the thought of having those aliens run around the lower two levels, where all the essential systems and rooms are. They're clearly intelligent and who knows what they can do to the engine room and our flamethrower if we ain't careful. If anything, we should all remain on the upper deck and send the cleared ones down. We all can do research. Well, you all can. I'm a
mechanic, I read cogs and gears, not itty bitty letters.

[Kael]

Guys -

I have bad news. I ran a damage report on the ship and it came back as follows:

Engines: Offline
Life support Systems: nominal
Navigation systems: offline
Chryo chambers: Chambers 1-12 unknown error, Chamber 13 Online and functional, Chambers 14-26 unknown error
Long range communications: offline

We have one cryo chamber still functional and no comms. I'll spend some cycles trying to figure out why the cryo chambers aren't working if that is what people want. This shit keeps getting better. *sighs*

This gives us 2 posibilities. Either we are all up and awake, its not night, and the creatures are able to act freely enough to take out the chryo chambers while we all stand here.

Or Ninyu's report is incorrect.

[DanielElliot]

This gives us 2 posibilities. Either we are all up and awake, its not night, and the creatures are able to act freely enough to take out the chryo chambers while we all stand here.

Or Ninyu's report is incorrect.

It's possible the creatures did something from the bridge or elsewhere in the ship. They didn't necessarily have to have access to the chambers. How smart are these things?

[Gladguy]

Sorry, gang. I've been hung up in the loo. Coming out of damn Cryo sleep always gives me the runs for some reason. Anyways, I'm here now.

I agree with the logic behind scanning the CMO. I'm also a Lab Assistant, so I'll do a search of the Science Lab and see if I can find anything useful.

Scan 1: Juan Rayo
Search: Science Lab A

[KWhit]

Sorry, gang. I've been hung up in the loo. Coming out of damn Cryo sleep always gives me the runs for some reason. Anyways, I'm here now.

I agree with the logic behind scanning the CMO. I'm also a Lab Assistant, so I'll do a search of the Science Lab and see if I can find anything useful.

Scan 1: Juan Rayo
Search: Science Lab A

Dude, I'm already searching that.

[KWhit]

Okay, I'll change.

Search Science Lab B

[Mike O'Malley]

Scan Juan Rayo to see if his beauty is truly only skin-deep.
Search Object A in the Kitchen because I'm hungry.

[Demon G Sides]

Sorry guys. I went to the kitchen almost immediately after being un cryo'd. Figured you ugly lot would like some grub after such a long nap. Heard the screaming and came to help.

I vote to Scan Rayo and I'll search with Mike, except i'll go Search Object B in the Kitchen.

[russellmz00]

cargo chief russellmz00
searches: lower deck, equipment bay, G
test 1:oracle
test 2:conrad

on this flimiplast i used a lower color depth so i can red-out spots we are checking.
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3029/mapsearch.th.png (http://img200.imageshack.us/i/mapsearch.png/) (current up to demon's post above mine)
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3029/mapsearch.png

i suggest the next day we search as much of the lower deck as possible. start at the bottom then work our way topside. i'd do the cargo bay but there's no way in hell i'm going anywhere alone, and people are searching the equipment bay already.

also, can someone do me a favor and search my room (#4)?


/sniff

i always liked weaver. she tutored me so i could get a class two rating.

[russellmz00]

actually with the flamethrower, maybe we should start in sickbay and work out from there?

[jellyfish]

I am done 'maintaining' the loo.

Dude, I'm already searching that.


... and I'll search with Mike, except i'll go Search Object B in the Kitchen.

I am pretty suspicious of people who want to go searching with someone else. Seems like a great opportunity to get them alone and infect them, is all I am saying.

Anyway, never mind me, I am just a glorified vacuum cleaner operator. Sigh, I guess I will go find another mess to clean.

[Kael]

Guys -

I have bad news. I ran a damage report on the ship and it came back as follows:

Engines: Offline
Life support Systems: nominal
Navigation systems: offline
Chryo chambers: Chambers 1-12 unknown error, Chamber 13 Online and functional, Chambers 14-26 unknown error
Long range communications: offline

We have one cryo chamber still functional and no comms. I'll spend some cycles trying to figure out why the cryo chambers aren't working if that is what people want. This shit keeps getting better. *sighs*

The more I think about this the less sense it makes. I'll make my case:

1. Ninyu gets his original role and notes and posts in the thread at 12:27pm. There is no mention of system problems at this time. We can assume he didnt get the damage report (the alternative that he got it but didnt share it is equally damaging).

Ninyu doesn't make a search request during this post, but does want kwhit scanned. It's possible Ninyu didnt make a request to have anything scanned, or that he did through a PM. Though I think searching through PM's so no one else see's the result is suspicious.

2. Ninyu posts again at 3:34pm. Even if you assume that his initial post came before receiving his player notes you would assume that by this time he would have them. Again there is no mention of a repair log.

3. Ninyu posts at 9:20pm. This time he has a repair log. Out of all the people searching, he is the one who gets feedback and he didn't even a request to search anything? And his feedback happens to be to stop our most promising plan for stopping the creatures.

I dont believe any non-creature players have recieved feedback yet. So I dont believe Ninyu has recieved feedback yet. I believe his post was fabricated.

4. Now lets look at the post itself. This damage report covers odd systems. The high level system you would expect (engines, life support, navigation, communications) and then individual chryo chambers? Why are they reported as specific devices while everything else is as a system as a whole? And if we are reporting on broken systems why were so many others left off the list?

I understand that the chryo systems are life support and therefor may be important enough to be on this list. But we also lost everything in the medical lab, which would also life support, and none of that shows up. And none of the damaged devices on the bridge were covered in the specific detail the chryo chambers were.

5. There are capitalization inconsistencies in the damage report. Specifically the computer capitalizes Systems in "Life support Systems" but not in "Navigation systems". It doesn't capitalize any of the non-leading words in any of the other titles. Also sometimes the damage report capitalizes "Offline" as a status and sometimes it doesn't. This damage report was not generated by a computer, it was hand crafted.

It's possible the creatures did something from the bridge or elsewhere in the ship. They didn't necessarily have to have access to the chambers. How smart are these things?

6. We have a few indications of their intelligence. We know they resort to physical attacks, so they don't display any advanced weaponry, etc. And we know that the specific ones that we are dealing with were stuck on their last ship for 120 years. So they are unlikely to have any knowledge at all of present computer systems, let alone the ability to hack into them.

I will say that it is possible that they gain the memories and knowledge of those they copy/infect. So they could have gotten the computer knowledge from them. But I am the only member of the IS team on this ship, so to do that they would have had to have infected me.

Also, if we are assuming that they manipulated the ships computer system to make the chryo system error. Its a lot easier to make the chyro chambers simply show an error int he damage report, than it is to actually make them not work. Why would the computer even have access to crash the chryo units? Did the designer forsee a condition where someone on the bridge may want to kill everyone in chryo by crashing the chambers? I dont think it's likely that they are super-hackers.

7. All these things lead me to believe that Ninyu fabricated this damage report in an attempt to mislead us. The only reason I can find for that is that he is infected. The solution is simple, lets test Ninyu. If our test subject is already decided, then an alternative solution is that we can place Ninyu in one of the chryo chambers that he claims aren't operational.

[Ninyu]

The damage report is what I received directly from the "computer"

[Calistas]

Sorry, I ate those before we went into Cryo.

You bastard! I was saving those for the cruise into orbit. Nothing like watching the science monitors and munching on a nice biscuit.

Anyway, I should help out around here I guess.. Not that it will help, WE'RE ALL DOOMED! DOOMED, I TELL YOU!

Test 1: Juan Rayo
Search: Science Lab E

There has to be stuff we can use in the lab!

[Kael]

The damage report is what I received directly from the "computer"

You should probably delete that image, its a violation of the game rules.

[Ninyu]

You should probably delete that image, its a violation of the game rules.

image deleted

[Mike O'Malley]

That's complete crap, Ninyu. You violated the rules as Claycw stated them. Either you don't appreciate the mood and setting he's trying to create, or you do understand what he's doing and just want to "win" by being a complete douche.
If it's OK with everyone concerned, let's whack Ninyu ASAP so he can watch from the sidelines instead of screwing with the game.

[Ninyu]

Calm down. I honestly didn't think it was a big deal. Image deleted. Sheesh.

[Ninyu]

7. All these things lead me to believe that Ninyu fabricated this damage report in an attempt to mislead us. The only reason I can find for that is that he is infected. The solution is simple, lets test Ninyu. If our test subject is already decided, then an alternative solution is that we can place Ninyu in one of the chryo chambers that he claims aren't operational.

The damage report is what I received verbatim. *shows everyone the screen I pulled it from* Blame the programmers if some capitalization is off. *shrug*

You do realize if you put me in a non-functional cryo chamber it could possibly kill me. I'm not the one flinging wild accusations around out of the blue. I think you are trying too hard. Go ahead and scan me if you wish. But, I think your carrying on is suspicious.

[Kael]

As a reminder to everyone (not meaning to just pick on you Ninyu), coping PM's verbatim is also not allowed. You should restate what you receive in PM's in your own words.

[Claycw]

----This was the first day and some people are still getting adjusted to the rules---
If you copy a PM or take a screen shot of a PM that I send you your player will probably end up in the vacuume of space, use your own words to describe PMs that you are sent from me. And again I will not confirm any pm posted as being from me. Now back to the game.

[jellyfish]

The more I think about this ...
I vote we elect Kael king of the survivors as he obviously representes are best chance we have of remaining uninfected. Unless the reason he is being so smart is because his brain is being augmented by the monster that has already infected him. In which case we are all doomed. Nevermind. I am going to clean up some mess somewhere. In space, no one can hear you litter...

Also, I kind of feel like even though we are being hunted by evil monsters, we should still keep performing our routine duties. Otherwise, the whole thing is bound to just fall apart. Case in point; I still go around cleaning up after you guys. On the other hand, what has the ships cook been up to? I haven't eaten a decent meal since this whole thing started!

[Claycw]

Day 1 Test

Juan Rayo shows everyone the procedure for using the handheld Bio. scan device, once finished he hands it over to Mike O'Malley "I am telling you this is a waste of a scan but I understand your reasoning given my proximity to the child." Juan pauses for a few seconds, sighs and instructs Mike to begin the scan. Mike steps up and slowly scans Juan from head to toe then steps back waiting on the results; Mike holds the scanner so that everyone in the room can see. Equis stands holding the makeshift flamethrower just in incase the good doctors reassuring words turn out to be bullshit. Each second that ticks by feels like an hour, finally the scanner beeps twice and the screen flashes green. All signs read normal, no anomalies detected

Juan walks over to Mike and slides the scanner from his hand "See I told you, now I'm going to put this thing on its charger and get it ready for tomorrow's tests." As the Juan puts the scanner away he turns "Listen were all worn out, its been a long day and there's nothing more we can do on this till morning, let's finish all try and get some rest tonight ok?" The crew look at each other suspiciously then agree, They all had thought that pairing up or even getting in smaller groups would be a good idea then thought better of it since none of them trusted anyone around them, they soon decided that sleeping in their on quarters would be the safest bet.

[jellyfish]

So he had private access to the scanner right before he was scanned? Maybe he rigged it to make the next scan show negative results? No one else thinks this is at all suspicious. Is it because I am a mere janitor that no one takes my concerns seriously? If I was the head cook and announced my paranoid delu... I mean serious concerns, then I bet the rest of the crew would have taken me damn seriously! Sigh, I guess I am just really tired from cleaning shit all day. Oh, and also that monster thing. I guess a good night sleep will help sort this out. Yeah, monsters seem a lot less scary when you are all alone in your room and pretending that it is night time outside. Well, good night everyone. Don't let the bed bugs bite.

[Murph]

I'll have a good breakfast ready in the morning.

But my door will be locked. Someone here ain't who they say they are, after all.

[Ninyu]

Does anyone else think it is a bad idea to leave the scanner unguarded all throughout the night?

[Murph]

I do, but given that the charger is in a fixed spot, I don't see an alternative. How many people would it take to properly guard it from the...things? Two? Three? Five? And given that nobody trusts each other much...well, what's your suggestion?

[Ninyu]

We'd have to have three people guarding it at least. I guess that isn't too realistic. We need our sleep to keep our wits about us and we also need to keep doing our normal duties to maintain the ship.

*sigh* I don't know. Just stating the obvious I guess.

[Kael]

Day 1 public results:

IGJoe-------------------Mechanic---------------------6
Voted to scan Kwhit
Searched the Main/Eng Lab object 1 and object 2

Equis-------------------Mechanic---------------------5
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched the Equipment Bay object H

Murph--------------------Cook-----------------------14
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched Sick Bay object 1 and 2

Kael----------------Information Systems Tech.--------19
Voted to scan Kael
Searched the recovered Data Disks

DanielElliot--------------Machinist---------------------8
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched Tech Lab object A

Gladguy----------------Lab Assistant-----------------21
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched the Science Lab object A

Jellyfish----------------Maintenance------------------16
Voted to scan Lazy Shiftless Bastard

Demon G Sides---------Head Cook--------------------13
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched the Kitchen object B

RussellMZ00------------Cargo Chief-------------------4
Voted to scan Oracle
Searched the Equipment Bay object G

Oracle-----------------Heavy Equipment Op.----------7
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched the Equipment Bay object 1 and 2

Kwhit-----------------Chief Science Officer-----------18
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched Science Lab object B

Calistas----------------Lab Assistant----------------17
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched the Science Lab object E

Juan Rayo-------------Chief Medical Officer----------11
Voted to scan Kwhit
Searched Sick Bay object A
Scanned and found to be human

Lazy Shiftless Bastard--Med. Tech.------------------12
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched room 17 (calistas room) on the middle deck

Mike o'Malley-----------Med. Tech.------------------15
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched the Kitchen object A

Wisbechlad-------------Machinist--------------------3

Conrad-----------------Heavy Equipment Op.---------2
Voted to scan Juan Rayo

Ninyu------------------Chief Engineer----------------1
Voted to scan kwhit
Reported system damage

Raife-------------------Electronics Tech-------------20
Voted to scan Juan Rayo
Searched the Captains Quarters object 4 and 5

That leaves 4 crew members who either didn't do any searching today, or who have been sneaking around the ship in private: Jellyfish, Wisbechlad (who hasn't reported for duty yet), Conrad and Ninyu.

If you are human it is in your best interests to be searching as much as possible. Results are better shared (we don't want to waste time searching something you have already searched) and public.

Those sneaking about the ship in secret will be assumed to either be republicans or greedy flesh eating monsters (if thats not to redundant)!

[Conrad]

Sorry y'all, I kept my search to myself since I wasn't sure what kinds of stuff we would find and whether knowing what we found would be useful to the critter.

If you think we should do it all in the open, that's cool with me. I searched object D in Sick Bay, I'll let you know what I find. I'm hoping for some sleeping pills personally.

[Ninyu]

Kael -

Keeping track of all our movements so meticulously is sure making the monster's (s'?) job much easier. That is why I am keeping as quiet as possible until I know who to trust.

[DanielElliot]

we also need to keep doing our normal duties to maintain the ship.

*sigh* I don't know. Just stating the obvious I guess.

Do we? Seems to me that we're dead in the water until we can get a distress signal going, or someone happens to show up. Or we become just plain dead. Anything and everything we can do to stay alive should be on the table.

[Kael]

Kael -

Keeping track of all our movements so meticulously is sure making the monster's (s'?) job much easier. That is why I am keeping as quiet as possible until I know who to trust.

How would it make the monsters job easier? they already have full knowledge (I assume) and know who is good and who is bad. Any information that helps distinguish the good from the bad only favors those without information (us).

[Juan Rayo]

Well now I have a big red target painted on my firm, Brad-pitt-in-troya (according to our historical records) butt.

I'd ask some of you to bunker with me, but I don't trust any of y'all right now. I'll just make sure to lock the door and hope to be around in the morning.

As for the next scannings: whoever was closest to the first "infection" should be firsts to be scanned. Also, Ninyu and the others with their whole "doing my own thing in sikret" seem like prime suspects to me.

[DanielElliot]

Ninyu seems suspicious to me too. Everything he says seems aimed at secrecy and diverting attention from the threat at hand. Let's scan him tomorrow.

[KWhit]

If there's any type of bodyguard type role, Juan Rayo would make a good person to guard.

hint hint

[jellyfish]

You know I am really getting sick and tired of this whole upstairs downstairs shit! Just because I spent all day cleaning your fucking vomit and assorted disassembled-by-monsters entrails off the floors walls ceilings and every goddamn corner of this god forsaken hunk of metal, instead of messing around with all those fancy shmancy computers and other techno doodads and light emitting whatsits, so that makes me a prime suspect of being a monster, huh? Well let me tell you bastards something. The real monster here is not the dopplganger, and it didn't just arrive yesterday. The real monster here is you all, and it has been here since the day you first started thumbing your noses and looking down at the real hard working members of this crew. So go back to your fucking futuristic ivy-league educations and searching your weird boxes that make strange humming noises in the night while I continue working my fingers to the bone keeping this ship pristine so that no bits of dust might disturb your fucking sensitive fingers so that you can continue typing your fifteen plus words per minute, jackasses.

For tomorrow, I vote to Scan myself!
Oh look everyone, the janitor isn't measuring gauge anomalies and calculating flat spacetime solutions in his spare time! He must be a monster! Burn him! Jerks!

(As an aside, in the future, if you only get an A- in any advanced physics classes, you end up being a janitor in a spaceship. Study hard, kids.)

[DanielElliot]

That's great, Jellyfish. Anyway, could you empty the trash in my quarters?

[Gladguy]

Holy hell, man. Time to switch to decaf.

Y'know, while I was supposed to be working, studying for some Lab Assistant exam or another, I was goofing off on the interwebs and reading up on some old vampire tales. Seems in the olden days, vampires would draw suspicion away from themselves by drawing attention towards themselves.

I dunno... methinks our humble custodian doth protest too much.

[Kael]

Then who is going to unclog the toilets?

[Claycw]

-------dealing with a serve meltdown at work, been on it most of the day. I will have the update posted as soon as I am finished. Very sorry for the delay guys.--------

[russellmz00]

Then who is going to unclog the toilets?

hmmmm...
option 1 : toilet cleaning
option 2 : possible tentacle monster impalement

damn you, tyranny of choice!

added calistas search.
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3029/mapsearch.th.png (http://img529.imageshack.us/i/mapsearch.png/)

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3029/mapsearch.png

guys, can we hit the lower deck all at once? we don't know where anything is, so we might as well be systematic and make it easier to avoid double searches. the miner relief supplies might have cargo loaders or robot arms or bulldozers or something we can convert to weapons.

[Juan Rayo]

I am all for it.
I am also having fun with the morphine in my chambers, so, yeah.

[Conrad]

Fine by me as well, although I don't see double searches being a problem either way, assuming we keep the map updated.

Speaking of which, thanks for doing the mapping legwork, russell. If I find any liquor tonight you can have a nip.

[Claycw]

A night on edge

It was a restless night for the crew, as most of them spent the evening reliving the events from the prior day. Everyone met in the dining hall this morning and decided to do a search of the ship for items of value. Within a few hours, everyone returned with the items that they had found.

IGJoe found nothing more than a couple of pairs of work boots and some work clothes.

Equis found nothing in the compartments of the mobile generator.

Murph found some syringes, gauze, several tubes of lube, and a lab coat.

Kael searched for the data disks, only to discover that they must have been on the bridge with the ill-fated captain and the rest of the bridge crew.

DanielElliot found several data storage devices, a box of spare cable, and several nudie mags.

Gladguy found several large beakers and some core samples.

Demon G Sides found numerous pots and pans and other cooking utensils.

RussellMZ00 found a pair of gloves and some pliers.

Oracle found one of the lockers empty and the other containing some greasy clothes.

Kwhit found 4 microscopes and numerous slides with what look to be core samples.

Calistas found nothing.

Juan Rayo found charts on all the members of the crew that had been to sick bay.

Lazy Shiftless Bastard found several science books, some clothing, pictures of family, a box of energy bars, some personal pics of Calistas posing in the nude, and a deck of cards.

Mike O'Malley found cooking grease and spices of various types.

Conrad found numerous bunson burners, microscope slides, petri dishes, test tubes, beakers, and books on geology.

Ninyu found all his own stuff.

Raife found a swedish-made penis pump along with a book titled "Swedish-Made Penis Pumps: They're My Bag, Baby" written by Captain Voorhees and a letter from his mother describing a new summer camp that has just been put in on the lake where she lives.

[Kael]

I think we need a strategy for searching the ship. We could prioritize what we need and concentrate on searching all containers in the rooms we think are most likely to get us those things rather than checking random container willy-nilly.

We could prioritize from a list like this:

1. Weapons
2. Information
3. Communication devices
4. Detectors/Technology
5. Medical supplies

If we can determine which of these items we would most like to discover we can make a guess as to which room they are most likely to occur in and make sure we sure every object in that room.

Personally I think I would go for weapons first. Maybe the Equipment Bay is a good place to concentrate on? I also think the Science Lab has potential since it could provide both weapons and information.

Im holding off giving my search location until I hear what everyone else thinks. Im cool with other locations if thats what the group prefers (or letting each individual search different places), but I believe we need to work together to survive this.

Sadly I would feel more comfortable with our situation if someone died last night. If no one died then what did the creature(s) do? I have a hard time believing they spent the night sleeping quietly in their bunks.

[Raife]

Raife found a swedish-made penis pump along with a book titled "Swedish-Made Penis Pumps: They're My Bag, Baby"

This will be our ultimate weapon!

[Mike O'Malley]

Dude, seriously- fuck that. I'm cornering the market on spices and grease. Who's cooking the meals now, huh? Those rice cakes and ramen noodle cups are going to taste pretty crappy after a day or so.

EDIT: OK, it turns out we have two cooks and DGS ended up with some useful pots and pans. Murph, I will trade you these valuable spices for your various medtech things that I can probably put to better use than you making a roux out of them or whatever.

[Raife]

Sadly I would feel more comfortable with our situation if someone died last night. If no one died then what did the creature(s) do? I have a hard time believing they spent the night sleeping quietly in their bunks.

Who says anyone has to die? If one of us has been assimilated, they might just be quietly infecting people.

[Kael]

Who says anyone has to die? If one of us has been assimilated, they might just be quietly infecting people.

Yeah, thats exactly what worries me.

[0racle]

Greasy shirts, alright, now I'm a real Heavy Equipment Operator. I'm not the smartest guy on the ship, but possibly those core samples might be something someone sciency should take a look at. Dunno, maybe. I like the idea of continuing searching the Equipment bay. Hoping for something to use as a weapon was my thought and concern as well. I'll probably be searching there today as well.

[Calistas]

Those pictures are totally PRIVATE! ...and I'm the only one who found nothing :(

Anyway, is it voting time yet?

[Conrad]

The data storage devices DanielElliot found sound interesting. Do we have a way to analyze those?

[russellmz00]

I think we need a strategy for searching the ship.

...

If we can determine which of these items we would most like to discover we can make a guess as to which room they are most likely to occur in and make sure we sure every object in that room.

Personally I think I would go for weapons first. Maybe the Equipment Bay is a good place to concentrate on? I also think the Science Lab has potential since it could provide both weapons and information.

Im holding off giving my search location until I hear what everyone else thinks. Im cool with other locations if thats what the group prefers (or letting each individual search different places), but I believe we need to work together to survive this.

Sadly I would feel more comfortable with our situation if someone died last night. If no one died then what did the creature(s) do? I have a hard time believing they spent the night sleeping quietly in their bunks.

this is either a decent plan or a brilliant plan by our alien invaders to get us into the wrong place. i say we a) search the lower decks (equipment bay since me and some other guys got a start on it) and b) test kael. and since i came up with the lower decks idea to begin with and i'm supporting this idea, i'm willing to get tested too.



ninyu, did you search your own room? i don't remember you saying your choice out loud. can we trust he "found his own useless stuff"? unless all his stuff was in some other dude's room.

conrad reminded me he searched "sick bay, D." i am not sure if anyone saw him there or not.

i marked those two areas as purple.

jellyfish didn't search so that's one wasted search or he's keeping it close to his chest.
Wisbechlad, no search result either.



putting down the purple, i got to wondering. how do we know what we found was what we actually found? if i was a hentai i'd say i searched equipment bay, g and not mention if i found dozens of 5oz cans of tentacle-off.

and why the hell is the machinist's room so damn huge and the chief engineer's and cargo chief's so freaking tiny?


i search lower decks, equipment bay, A
i vote for kael

if someone else has a better idea of who to vote for i'm all ears and willing to change.

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[Raife]

Day 2 of bio scanner roulette...

I'm going to continue my search of the Captain's Quarters, he's got to have had something up there besides sex toys. I'm searching 1 & 6 in the Captain's Quarters.

For the scans, I'm voting we scan jellyfish, who seems to be overplaying the "I'm just a poor janitor" card, and his self-scan suggestion was to throw people off. For scan #2, I'm voting IGJOE for no other reason than because he's been pretty quiet. If we get a third scan, Chief Rayo again, because, as he said, he became a big target with scan #1.

Search: 1 & 6 in the Captain's Quarters.
Test1: jellyfish
Test2: IGJOE
Test3 (if we get one): Chief Rayo again

[Raife]

Also, IGJOE's I'll let you guys decide who to scan (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?p=1847358#post1847358) raised a flag for me.

[russellmz00]

same as my previous post but with test case 2/3:
i search lower decks, equipment bay, A
test case 1:i vote for kael
test case 2:i vote for russellmz00
test case 3:0racle

i'm pretty sure jellyfish isn't an alien since he drew suspicion on himself by not searching, is overly emotional, and i don't want to unclog the toilets myself if there's a false positive.

[Calistas]

Scan 1: Kael
Scan 2: igjoe
Scan 3: Juan Rayo

Search: Equipment Bay box B

And someone, please find something USEFUL!

[Equis]

I started with the Equipment Bay, So I'll continue there. Someone might want to consider the cabinets and lockers against the wall, but I'll go along with the rest of the boxes. Also, while the mobile generator may have contained nothing useful, I might be able to use to generate some power to any communications device we can jury rigged into a longe range telemetry beacon.

Search Equipment Bay, Box F - meet you guys in the middle.

As for the scan. Good to know that Juan isn't one of them, but if they're slowly going to infect us all, we can't be certain that he isn't one of them for long. I don't know the rate of which they can infect and how many night we can hold out without getting them. I work with a wrench, not a calculator.

Plus, I think Ninyu is mighty suspicious and acting all weird like with his previous statements and all. I don't know if he's just infected and attracting attention to himself or just plain old disagreeable. I like Kael taking charge and all that, but that leaves me mighty suspicious as well. Be good to test him first and know his voice of reason ain't just leading us astray.

Scan 1: Kael

The other guy? Well, I'm thinking it might be someone who's been quiet and all secretive like. Hasn't done much. I ain't convinced it's Ninyu, and I ain't convinced it's igjoe either. I'd offer myself up for a scan if anybody's willing, but I don't think me voting myself isn't going to help much but waste a vote. I'll wait a little before deciding on who's next eh, just to see who ain't speaking up too much cos you don't wanna draw attention to yourselves.

Also, Kwhit, what those core samples be? Anything informative there perhaps?

[jellyfish]

Morning, everyone. I would really like to apologize for my outburst last night. I guess the stress of this whole monster hunt is really getting to me. You see, both my parents were eaten by monsters.

My dad was a janitor in a mining outpost on an asteroid. A monster ate him while he was scrubbing a zero-g toilet. Just came right out from the toilet drain and swallowed him whole. Later that day a crew member discovered his dismembered leg still stuck in the toilet. My dad had space gout in his left leg. Yeah, moonrock candy was his one big weakness. The swollen leg was too fat to fit down the drain. If not for that we would have had nothing to bury.

My mom was a janitor in a mining outpost on one of those gas giant planets that orbit backwards around the star. I can't remember the name of it. Anyway, they were mining for methane gas. Now that is stinky work I can tell you that. She used to come home at night smelling just god-awful. I would pray she wouldn't try to kiss me or hug me or anything. Because that smell would stick to you and it would not come off. Even using all of the janitor tricks. And then the kids at school would just mock me mercilessly. Stinky stink and smelly face and whatnot. Man it stings even today just reminiscing about it. Well anyway, one day she set out to clean up some of the mess in the deep mine. That's where the methane gasses are extra pure. So she was vacuuming one of the shag carpets they keep down there with one of the new mark five hoover hydraulic cleaners. That is one smooth sucker I tell you. Just one stroke forward, one stroke back.. That's right, just like they teach us in advanced shag particle removal training. Then a monster ate her. We buried the blood soaked mark five. It was all we had left of her.

Well anyhoo, enough idle chatter for one morning. Back to cleaning. Those putrid waste heaps are not going to clean themselves, as my grandaddy used to say. He was also a janitor.

[Gladguy]

Large beakers? Damn. I was hoping to find the small ones. I can't assist in the lab with large beakers.

Anyways... I think we should all just continue to search the rooms we started with. It seems like most of us chose sectors of the ship which made sense to search: Science Lab, Med Lab, Equipment Bay, Captain's Quarters. If there's going to be anything useful, I'd suspect it'll be in those sectors.

As for who to scan, I'd like to scan Wisbechlad (if anyone can find him... is he hiding in his quarters?) and Juan Rayo again. We only get the third scan if we catch a monster. I'll hold off on my vote for Scan 3 until we get the results.


SEARCH: Science Lab C
TEST 1: Wisbechlad
TEST 2: Juan Rayo

[Ninyu]

Yes, I searched my own quarters. I am quite disappointed I didn't find what I was looking for. I could have sworn I put it in my quarters. I'll start searching my workshop next.

SEARCH: Maint/Eng Lab D
TEST 1: Kwhit - the science officer would be quite valuable to the aliens
TEST 2: Kael - if you are going to cast so many stones we need to prove you don't live in a glass house.
TEST 3: DanielElliot - I just want his nudie mags

[Mike O'Malley]

Scan Kael, though I think it's just too obvious
Search Sick Bay B

[Wisbechlad]

Sorry, RL, wife has been admitted to hospital...

Scan Kael, and Calistas

Search the cyro-whatjamacallem's (cyropods?)

[KWhit]

Test 1: Kael
Test 2: Lazy Shiftless Bastard
Test 3: IGJoe


I'm wondering if I should search another area today or study the core samples with the microscope. I'll probably look at the core samples.

[Kael]

Scanning me is fine. At this point getting a scan and learning who is human is almost as valuable as learning that they are a monster (since we dont lynch innocents).

I wonder if it is worth having "clean" people search one floor while the questionable people search another? Then as people are scanned and verified human they are moved to the clean level?

I do like the plan to concentrate on a specific area and search all the objects in that room. But I'll leave it to Juan Rayo to determine which room we should start with since he's the only once who has been tested clean.

[Conrad]

I agree with Raife, testing Rayo again sounds like a good idea. Kael seems as good a choice as any, but like someone else said, maybe too obvious.

Test 1: Rayo
Test 2: Kael
Test 3: IGJoe
SEARCH: Maint/Eng Lab A

[Demon G Sides]

Sorry about yesterday's missing. I was trying to cook a souffle, and I accidentally slipped and hit my head. Out cold (IRL reasoning being that I had a 13 hour work day and came home and passed out).

That being said, after reading what's been posted... Well, honestly, I think a lot of finger pointing is going on. As a quieter party, i've been listening to most of what you people have been saying, and I don't get why Kael is up for scanning, other than the suspicion that he's acting like a leader. I guess that's a somewhat good reasoning, but the reasoning for Rayo is much smarter; he's been tested once, and therefore less likely to be tested again, and therefore a smarter candidate for the infection.

And IGJoe, even though he also seems just as busy as I am around this ship, doesn't want to put anything into the conversation, perhaps to draw attention away from himself? Definitely suspicious.

Test 1: Rayo
Test 2: IGJoe
Test 3: Kael

I resign myself to that Third test in hopes that it won't be needed. I just don't get the reasoning behind it.

[Murph]

I think it's a good idea to keep an eye on Rayo. And while I see DSG's point about Kael, the fact that he's taking such a natural leadership tells me that we should know he's clean. It's not that I suspect him, necessarily, as that I don't want him leading us all to our deaths.

Test 1: Kael
Test 2: Rayo

I'll keep checking out the sick bay. Gotta be some clues in there.

Search boxes 3 and 4 in the sick bay.

[Murph]

Also, I'll happily trade the medical stuff I found for those spices. I can't do shit with these, you can't do shit with that.

[russellmz00]

we need to find all the infected, not just the new ones. we can't choose rayo every single day. i mean, we could, but in the end all that's going to do is make him the last human before the infected win.

going back to rayo might be a good idea since he's a prime candidate for infection, but not the very next day. plus, as hinted earlier, an infected might get caught if anyone is bodyguarding him. if i were an infected i wouldn't risk it.



Wisbechlad i think you need to search either two numbered objects or one lettered object in each room. the cryopod area has a bunch of numbered lockers in there so you need to pick two.

(sorry to hear about your wife. hope she gets well soon)

[KWhit]

Yes, I agree. I think we need to test Rayo again maybe tomorrow. Not two days in a row. Let's spread out who we test a bit more first so that we can smoke out (at the very least) one of the original infected.

[KWhit]

I wish to look at the core samples with a microscope.

Clay, can I still search if I do this? If so, I wish to search Science Lab D.

[Kael]

Im still stunned that Calistas was keeping nude pictures of himself in his room. Is that porn for narsisists?

Test1: IGJoe
Test2: KWhit
Test3: Ninya
Search: Science Lab Object E

[Juan Rayo]

We need to figure out some info from our first search (other than Vorhees had... interesting tastes...) lest it was all for nothing.

For the second day, scanning me again is sheer lunacy, a waste (again!) of a test. I say we scan someone else and I would say that Jellyfish's sudden change of...demeanor overnight makes him a suspect. Same goes for Nyniu, still acting weird.

But my main concern right now, if we believe that the creature might have infected someone and that there is now two of them, is how both CONRAD and DEMON G SIDES voted one right after the other to waste a Scan on me.

I will think about this for a while before casting my vote.

[Claycw]

you may search one numbered item if you perform another action.

I wish to look at the core samples with a microscope.

Clay, can I still search if I do this? If so, I wish to search Science Lab D.

[DanielElliot]

Although the janitor is clearly not handling the situation well, I think that's understandable. I mean, he's not nearly on our level in terms of education or, well, you know...

Ninyu, on the other hand, I'm growing increasingly suspicious of. I really think all his ideas feel like calculated attempts to get us off the trail of the creature. As for the second scan, I volunteer myself, just to put people at ease about my own trustworthiness.

I'll continue in the tech lab, and vote for Ninyu. I'd also like to see what I can find in these data storage devices.

Search 1: Tech lab object 1
Scan 1: Ninyu
Scan 2: DanielElliot
Scan 3: Demon G Sides
Action: Read data storage devices

(Edit: Whoops, forgot we're supposed to vote for three scans)

[jellyfish]

Hiya fellow crew members.

So I understand my lack of on the job transparency in terms of how I spend my hard working shift here floating between the stars has caused some discomfort. Yeah, when the science guys disappear all day they are likely discovering exciting new science things. But if that cleaning guy is out of site for five minutes then oh well, he's surely off stealing something, or turning into a monster, or what have you. Well, that's all just fine and dandy. Yeah, really okay. You see, I am used to this sort of treatment by now. I am not angry about it. No, ... not angry.

So anyhoo, I have been giving this whole thing the old think through. Yeah, just like you science types do all damn day and night. Yeah, thinking it over...All right then. You wanna know what I been doin' all day long. Well then, I guess I'll just have to tell ya all.

So right then. Early morning start cleanin' the lab. That's right. Gotta get last nights experiments out o' them test tubies. Sure thing, those test tubes are only 2 centimeters in diameter. I don't know how a certain lab assistant gets his 'experiment' thingie in there, but there ya have it. Don't you worry. I got 'em all clean and ready for re-fillin' tonight. Next medical. Not much to clean. Just sweep up all the empty morphine syringes lyin' about. Yeah, it must be like a god-damn war out there what with all them morphine syringes bein' used. What else would the chief medical officer be doin' with 'em. Right then, that's done. Off to clean that fancy big ol' chair in front of the information center. Yeah, there was a big ol' white stain right on the main console over there. I switched the information vocalizer back to the gruff manly voice we usually use. No reason for it to talk in that raspy female voice now that the information systems technician is done 'working' over there. Cleaned that stain right up for you. Next machine room. Yeah I got nothin' funny to say 'bout that. The machinist is all right. Okay, then to some latrine duty. Saw the electric tech guy hurry in there holdin' his gut and then runnin the hell out some minutes later. Hoo boy I'll tell ya, this job ain't easy. What you been eatin man? That thing took me like an hour to clean! Right okay, all part of the job. Next down into the cargo room. Gotta clean up in there too you know. Not much to clean. All nicely packed and hidden away. Yeah, that's right. I seen what you cargo guys got packed up down there. I see it all because I clean it all. Right then. Now that's an honest days work I tell you.

So there you go. Now you know every minute detail of my work detail. Haha. That's a good one. Nothing suspicious about that day. Just a hard workin' guy doin' his time. That's right. Well gosh darn, that really was some long day of work. I am just tuckered all out I tell ya. Right then. Off to bed I go. See ya all in the morning then. Don't worry none if you make some mess or somethin. I'll just clean it all right up first thing in the morning. Clean it all right up....

[Conrad]

For the second day, scanning me again is sheer lunacy, a waste (again!) of a test.

Calm down, Chief. No one wants to be tested. But you said yourself, correctly, that you'd be a prime target for infection. Testing you again is prudent strategy. Retesting in general is a good idea -- predictability will get us all killed.

[Demon G Sides]

We need to figure out some info from our first search (other than Vorhees had... interesting tastes...) lest it was all for nothing.

For the second day, scanning me again is sheer lunacy, a waste (again!) of a test. I say we scan someone else and I would say that Jellyfish's sudden change of...demeanor overnight makes him a suspect. Same goes for Nyniu, still acting weird.

But my main concern right now, if we believe that the creature might have infected someone and that there is now two of them, is how both CONRAD and DEMON G SIDES voted one right after the other to waste a Scan on me.

I will think about this for a while before casting my vote.

Wait, scanning you is suspicious? That's a pretty stupid claim, since the scanning is supposed to REMOVE suspicion, Juan. Hiding something?

And a scan is NEVER wasted. It'd be a perfect Infested strategy to grab soemone right after they've been scanned if we only went by that thought. So, congrats, you've basically just been de-founded on both of those claims.

Honestly. God forbid we vote to scan someone! ITS SUSPICIOUS.

[Juan Rayo]

Wait, scanning you is suspicious? That's a pretty stupid claim, since the scanning is supposed to REMOVE suspicion, Juan. Hiding something?

And a scan is NEVER wasted. It'd be a perfect Infested strategy to grab soemone right after they've been scanned if we only went by that thought. So, congrats, you've basically just been de-founded on both of those claims.

Honestly. God forbid we vote to scan someone! ITS SUSPICIOUS.

Not what I said. I said asking to scan me AGAIN is suspicious, and that you and Conrad both asked for it at almost the same time, and that now you are both jumping at my suggestion, and that your overreaction, you horrible disgusting thing from beyond the void of darkness under the black hole of ancient obscurity makes you very much a suspect. After all, while you ask me if I have anything to hide, you are the one looking pretty agitated when the idea of scanning YOU comes up.

Come on my fellow homo sapien sapiens, let's scan them and torch them already.

[DanielElliot]

Infested is a funny way to put it, too. Maybe thats how you guys think of yourselves, huh?

[0racle]

I think we should scan up Kwhit and Kael. I want our science guy to be intact cause I can't do that stuff. I just lift things. Kael is being extremely rational, and I wanna make sure he's safe, or that means I'm agreeing with alien scum. I'll keep searching our equipment bay, I feel at home there.

Scan 1: Kwhit
Scan 2: Kael
Search: Equipment bay 3 and 4

[0racle]

Oh I just thought of this. Maybe we should hold our third votes for only if we find out if the first one is infected. It might help us see who might be infected alongside them, considering they may be working together. Dunno, just a thought.

[Demon G Sides]

Not what I said. I said asking to scan me AGAIN is suspicious, and that you and Conrad both asked for it at almost the same time, and that now you are both jumping at my suggestion, and that your overreaction, you horrible disgusting thing from beyond the void of darkness under the black hole of ancient obscurity makes you very much a suspect. After all, while you ask me if I have anything to hide, you are the one looking pretty agitated when the idea of scanning YOU comes up.

Come on my fellow homo sapien sapiens, let's scan them and torch them already.

I'm not irate at being voted to be scanned by two people, I'm irate because you seem to think you're above being scanned.

Which, honestly, is much more suspect than anything I have said or done lately.

[DanielElliot]

I'm not changing my votes, but I *really* think we need to get to Demon sooner rather than later.

[Juan Rayo]

This is what I say:

Scan 1: Demon G
Scan 2: Conrad
Search: Kael's room

why Kael's room you ask? simple. I propose we all search each other's quarters, leave no room unturned. Might get us a clue and, if someone was indeed attacked and changed last night, we could concievable find evidence to it.

[Claycw]

Evil in plain sight
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The entire crew stands in Sick Bay discussing who should be tested next. Accusations are tossed backed and forth like a tennis ball in a championship match, each crew member seeming to make more sense for their choice than the person speaking before. After several hours of debate, it is growing late and a decision is finally met.

Juan Rayo goes to the cabinet and retrieves the Bio. scanner. Jellyfish stands holding the end of the make-shift flame thrower ready to torch anything if necessary. Juan motions the obviously nervous Kael over to be scanned. “This is a waste of a scan, I am telling you! You guys need to listen to me and scan IGJoe, Daniel Elliot, or hell even that goofy fuck Ninyu! Jesus you are the stupidest bunch of pricks I have ever seen!" Kael snaps as he walks up to be scanned. Kael stands there shaking his head as Juan begins the test; upon completing the test, Juan steps back to where the remaining crew members are standing. Within a few seconds, the scanner beeps and the screen turns red. The words "WARNING ABNORMALITY DETECTED" appear. The crew stands there for a few moments staring at the screen, unsure really what to do next. Kael begins to shake violently as his head begins to stretch and distort in a horrific manner, slits begin to form from his neck all the way to the tip of what was his head. Suddenly his entire head splits open revealing a huge maw with rows of teeth. The crew begin screaming at Jellyfish "TORCH IT!!! TORCH IT!!!" Jellyfish pulls the trigger on the flamethrower sending a stream of fire that instantly engulfs the beast. The creature lets out an unearthly scream as the fire begins to burn its flesh. It flails around the room for a few seconds, then drops helplessly to the floor. Soon it begins to bubble but only for a brief moment. (This person has only been a thing for short period of time.) "Holy fuck! did you see that shit!" Jellyfish exclaims. "Uh yeah, how the hell could we miss it! Be sure and clean that shit up when we're done here," Kwhit retorts.

After taking a few moments to gather their thoughts Juan motions over IGJoe and begins the scanning process. After a few seconds, he steps back to where the other crew members are standing to await the results. Soon the Bio. scanner beeps and the screen turns green. The words "All signs read normal, no anomalies detected" appear. IGJoe looks at Jellyfish and smiles, saying, "Easy there trigger, I'm good," as he walks over to where the other crew are standing. Juan looks at the Bio. scanner. "Good news, we have enough for one more scan so I guess I'll do this shit again just to appease you fucks." Juan motions over Gladguy. "You know the drill."

Juan stands still as Gladguy runs the Bio. scan on him; as he finishes, Gladguy steps back to where everyone is standing. Soon the Scanner beeps and the screen turns green. The words "All signs read normal, no anomalies detected" appear. Juan looks around at the crew. "Happy now? Let me put that thing back on the charger and maybe tomorrow you will scan someone worth scanning."

The crew takes what is left of crew member Kael and shoots him out the airlock, then proceeds to silently head to their respective rooms.

[Ninyu]

*gives a half-hearted salute as Kael goes out the airlock*

Poor bastard.

*walks back to his quarters*

[Demon G Sides]

God damn. I hate being wrong :(

[Mike O'Malley]

It was kind of obvious.

[Juan Rayo]

Sunnufa.
To think he had gotten in touch with me to ask me about creating a "human cabal". As you all saw, he was only recently transformed, judging by the, uh, duration of the, erm, bubble effect. In medical terms we reffer to it as "not lupus".

By the way, the idea to search the rooms was his and now I wonder if it was only a missdirection and there is actually nothing important at all to find by doing so.

OHHH.... Kael was also pushing heavily to scan Nyniu back when he wasn't a beastie...

[Conrad]

That was for JCarp.

I thought maybe Kael was too obvious, but apparently not. Poor bastard indeed.

scowls

[russellmz00]

It was kind of obvious.

it was? i would have put money he was going to come back clean! i mean, sure he took a leadership position, but we said we were going to test him. unless the infected took him out just to reduce our numbers. but even then they'd have more of an advantage if they took random people. unless their plan is to only infect the guy who's leading in votes, so that one human gets knocked off each day...

okay, get a grip russellmz00...he was a hentai for only a little while.

this may mean he was trying to get us to search the equipment bay...unless they wanted us to not do it and then sent kael to propose it, be caught, and tarnish that plan. or he did come up with a plan, they thought it was bad for them, then got rid of him...

so at what point were his words "his" words, as opposed to a mouthpiece for the infected?

for example:

Kael searched for the data disks, only to discover that they must have been on the bridge with the ill-fated captain and the rest of the bridge crew.

were the data disks spaced? or was he one of them? or both?

i altered the map to get rid of his choice of science lab e from this morning. i recommend someone take that up.

{wipes sweat off brow}

okay. voting for juan was a bad call. can we at least agree on that. the infected would have waited a little while before hitting someone we were openly talking about testing. since we're not going to test him a third time anytime soon he might as well have a target on his back.

so demon choosing him to test makes him more likely to be human since aliens would be making smarter moves.

i think jellyfish is human because methane is an odorless gas. an alien intelligence would probably know that. so we know his sob story about his stinky mom was bull, but human bull brought about by his sad stinky little janitor worldview.

ninyu's crazy but very public actions seem to indicate his humaness. i expect the aliens to be quiet suckers.

my idea is to test all the second least talkative group. the infected are busy plotting but staying in a bit to be above suspicion.


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in conclusion, i think juan's going to be turned into a monster, demon, ninyu, and jelly are too crazy to be turned, and that i'm doomed.

go team!

[KWhit]

Awesome. I'll have to look more closely at the voting history to see if anything can be learned by who voted to scan Kael.

[KWhit]

you may search one numbered item if you perform another action.

Okay. Then I want to look at the core samples with the microscope and search science lab #1.

[Demon G Sides]

Thanks for the vote of confidence Russel :P

[Lazy Shiftless Bastard]

Sorry I somehow missed the votes and everything today! I was off watching this oldie classic movie called "District 9" on holovid to take my mind off our troubles. I would've voted for Kael and someone else at random if I hadn't totally lost track of time!

(Honestly I didn't expect the next turn to finish before something like Monday, given the usual rate of these games and how long it took to start this one!)

I'll spend some time tonight searching lockers 1 and 11 in the cryo chamber room for anything interesting (unless it's too late for that!).

Also, to make the best use of what we've found in searches, we can now have a poker game! The prize? Nude pictures of calistas!

[Raife]

Also, to make the best use of what we've found in searches, we can now have a poker game! The prize? Nude pictures of calistas!

Score! I'll bring the penis pump.

[DanielElliot]

Surprised the hell out of me.

[Demon G Sides]

Shit, I forgot to search.

[Equis]

Whoa. That was fast. I didn't even get my second vote in, or third.

Shame about Kael, though not wholly unexpected. I think the aliens infected him cos he took an early charge at leadership and got punished for it. It's likely they infected him knowing we were going to test him cos that'll get rid of one our smarter guys. No one is going to infect jellyfish in that regard. But I do think that puts russell in danger. Either of being newly infected, or a really smart alien. I'm still more inclined to believe it's one of the more silent crewmembers though. Cos if I were an alien, i'll infect all the loud ones.

Then again, we still don't know how these things work.

So, what did everyone find in their last searches? Juan was searching Kael's room, anything interesting there?

[jellyfish]

Oh.....I see what's going on here...No one wants to infect the janitor. He is not worthy of being infected! Is that what you are all saying? So not only are the humans in this ship prejudiced against the hard working class, but apparently so are the monsters? Is that right? Well you know what? I don't even want to be infected so there! You can keep your slimy tentacles to yourselves. If anyone needs me, I'll be spending all day cleaning up after the grotesque charcoal remains of the latest victim. And then after that, oh I don't know, maybe clean a few toilets.

Oh and russell thinks he is so smart knowing all about the olfactory properties of various gasses. Well, that sounds like monster augmented intelligence to me. That's right russell. A regular human could never know so much as you claim. So I...
Vote to scan russellmz00

And now, back to the toilets.

[Calistas]

Hey! I took those pictures entirely for my wife's consumption! You all shouldn't be looking at me in stockings, toying with a feather boa! It's totally not my fault she's into that sort of stuff!

As for Kael - no surprises there. Next in line for testing should be anyone who didn't vote for Kael.

[Raife]

I'm not getting paid enough for this shit, but fine. One thing this did show us was that there is absolutely at least one creature among us and that the bio scanner actually works to find these things.

As for Kael - no surprises there. Next in line for testing should be anyone who didn't vote for Kael.

I think russelmMZ00, Calistas, and Equis are pretty well cleared for being infected based on their early votes for Kael, and IGJoe and Chief Rayo have been cleared by the scanner, but again, that doesn't mean they won't be infected in the future. All this really means is that the original creature, if there was only one of them, is one of the following people:

Murph--------------------Cook
DanielElliot--------------Machinist
Gladguy----------------Lab Assistant
Jellyfish----------------Maintenance
Demon G Sides---------Head Cook
Oracle-----------------Heavy Equipment Op.
Kwhit-----------------Chief Science Officer
Lazy Shiftless Bastard--Med. Tech.
Mike o'Malley-----------Med. Tech.
Wisbechlad-------------Machinist
Conrad-----------------Heavy Equipment Op.
Ninyu------------------Chief Engineer
Raife-------------------Electronics Tech

I know I'm clean, but that doesn't help you guys much. I don't really consider anyone who voted for Kael after the vote was headed that way to be any more above suspicion than anyone who voted for anyone else. I would suggest that the first scan always be someone on this list until we get a hit, and the second scan be someone from either that first list or this one:

IGJoe-------------------Mechanic
Equis-------------------Mechanic
RussellMZ00------------Cargo Chief.
calistas----------------Lab Assistant
Juan Rayo-------------Chief Medical Officer

Let me know if I missed anyone.

[jellyfish]

Whoa! I just woke up from this really weird dream. In it there was this 'other' me and he was wandering around in these like some kind of rooms and he was talking to these other people there about all kinds of weird stuff that I totally didn't understand like hardware and everything else. Yeah and some of you lot were there as well. And you were all also talking about this weird shit. And there were no monsters or nothing. It was weird. Did I say that already? Damn it all to hell this monster crap must really be freaking me out. Just gotta take a deep breath. yeah , that's right. Sweep stroke forward, sweep stroke back, dustbin stroke. Just focus on the job at hand and let the noise melt away. Sweep sweep dust, sweep sweep dust. Yeah, much better. Alrighty then, back to bed I go. Wake me if anything needs cleaning.

[Calistas]

Is it time to vote yet? Perhaps to keep things easy for "fate" he calls when voting begins and ends and anything outside those bounds doesn't count? :) ..that being said, Demon, Kwhit and Ninyu are next in line for me!

Oh, did we catch who Kael voted for? If he voted early, we can assume he didn't vote for a creature. Late - well, he may have voted for a creature to double bluff us...

[russellmz00]

Oh.....I see what's going on here...No one wants to infect the janitor. He is not worthy of being infected! Is that what you are all saying?

yes.

Oh and russell thinks he is so smart knowing all about the olfactory properties of various gasses. Well, that sounds like monster augmented intelligence to me. That's right russell. A regular human could never know so much as you claim.

you win, jellyfish. yo momma does in fact smell so bad, she made RIGHT GUARD® turn left.


get your searches in people. i don't know if some of you are doing it privately, but i was hoping to have more colored spots on my map by now.

i don't suppose we could study the hentai remains under a microscope instead of the core samples? i mean, we had the core samples before the infection, so would we get any useful info out of them?

I would suggest that the first scan always be someone on this list until we get a hit, and the second scan be someone from either that first list or this one:

i recommend we try doing all untested for at least one more test block.

after that, every other test block the second scan would be for the guys already tested. we don't know how fast the infection spreads or how many originals there are and i want to know who the original(s) are.

no real reasoning, just grabbing names that i didn't get an immediate reaction to:
vote 1: 0racle
vote 2: murph
vote 3: daniel elliot

[Claycw]

Discoveries Made

Everyone sits in the dining hall, eating a hot breakfast and discussing last nights events. It's bad enough that the man they knew as Kael had been turned into some kind of twisted doppelganger from hell, and even worse yet that one or more of them may still be infected. They all know that they have another long day ahead of them and are unsure of what horrors this day may bring.

With breakfast finished the crew heads out to search the ship for anything of value, within a few hours they all return with their bounty.

Equis - Returns with a funny looking device that is marked Sonic Emitter (This item emits a high frequency noise that will prevent creatures from attacking you - Very low battery life, may only last one night)

Murph - Returns with a box of large speculums, penile swabs, 3 flats of penicillin, some rubbing alcohol, a full box a Xlarge trojans and a half empty box of small trojans.

DanielElliot - Discovered Lost episodes of PTV that includes never before seen footage of "The Side Boob Hour" and "Cheeky Bastard"

Gladguy - Discovered a make-shift still made out of lab equipment

RussellMZ00 - Found a pair of glasses, an empty coffee cup and a hula girl doll.

Oracle - Found a hand held Torch (this item can be used against a creature during an attack possibly killing one and causing any others to
flee.

Kwhit - Found nothing and the examination of the slides yielded nothing of interest.

Calistas - Found a pair of fuzzy dice, a package of sunflower seeds, and a pack of camels.

Juan Rayo - Found some pictures of Kael's family, a pile of bloody clothes hidden in a hamper, a bottle of rum, a table fan, and a collection of choose your own adventure books.

Mike O'Malley - A box of Viagra, several bottles marked Swine Flu Vaccine, and a box of surgical masks.

Wisbechlad - Found a bunch of empty Cryo Chambers

Conrad - Found a box of Hydro-Spanders

Ninyu - Found various manuals on repair

Raife - Found a leather gimp suit and a book titled "Anal sex and you."

[Murph]

Well, we know for sure that Gladguy and IGJoe are clean...so I guess one should get the sonic emitter and one should get the torch. And we can probably assume Juan Rayo is, since the thing got Kael last night, and he was clean yesterday. Any chance I can bunk with one o' you guys? I don't much wanna be next.

Shame about Kael.

I don't know what to do with half of this shit I found, and don't much need the condoms since everyone here's a dude, and I just don't swing that way. So, here's all the stuff I found, up for grabs.

[Equis]

Equis - Returns with a funny looking device that is marked Sonic Emitter (This item emits a high frequency noise that will prevent creatures from attacking you - Very low battery life, may only last one night)


That's kinda cool. Think I'll keep this to myself. Who wants to share bunks? Bring the gimp suit.


Gladguy - Discovered a make-shift still made out of lab equipment


Awesome. Now we can get a party going.


Juan Rayo - Found some pictures of Kael's family, a pile of bloody clothes hidden in a hamper, a bottle of rum, a table fan, and a collection of choose your own adventure books.


Any clues to those bloody clothes?

[Murph]

Our noble janitor, so far, seems to be doing a whole lot of talking, and no searching whatsoever, and not much voting.

Neither Demon G nor Kwhit searched anything yesterday, but they've both pledged to search something tonight. IGJoe didn't search yesterday, but we scanned him and know he's clean, so I assume he had his attention elsewhere.

Even though they've pledged to search tonight, I don't have a better way of determining who to mistrust. And I work really closely with Demon G, so I wanna know he's clean.

Test 1: jellyfish
Test 2: Demon G Sides
Test 3: Kwhit

And I'll search these last few things in the sick bay.

Search object B in the sick bay

[Equis]

Anyway.

Thinking about it a bit further, I appreciate the vote of confidence from Raife, but I still have a feeling that monsters chose Kael precisely cos he was the first to step up and be leader. If their plan was to infect him, it was kinda risky and all what with most of us knowing that he'll be scanned sooner or later. They could have infected him and pointed him out, just so they can get rid of him. I guess that makes me a suspect, but what they hey, a scan won't kill me cos I'm human.

Either way, we know Juan is human, cos he tested well yesterday, and IGjoe is clean as well. I don't wanna scan Juan again. My vote this time round is for Russellmz first.

Scan 1: Russellmz

Mostly because he seems like the guy who's taking charge and keeping track of all the searching and movement. I ain't saying he's an alien, I'm saying that he's probably human and it'll be a good confirmation that he is, while he's cataloging our stuff. It'll be a weird day if the Alien is the one who knows most about where we've been searching and hiding out stuff.

Scan 2: Ninyu

Kael was pretty suspicious of Ninyu before the first night. One might think that if Kael was still alive and human, he'll be pushing to have Ninyu scanned as soon as possible. Could have been a good reason to turn him and off him. I'm sorry Ninyu, but if you're human, the scan won't hurt.

I can reserve Scan 3 for myself if anyone is interested or I'll just pick a random name later. Cos I have no idea who else might be all that suspicious.

[Claycw]

---- Ok seems some people are not understanding the search part of the game, the objects you choose to search are revealed to you on the next Day turn during the narrative. After the tests are complete the Night turn begins and you can no longer change your vote or your search options. You will know the Night turn is finished when you see the morning narrative, and you will know the Day turn is over when the test results narrative is posted----

[Ninyu]

By all means, scan me if it will make you all feel better. It just will be a waste of a valuable scan but, obviously, you can't take my word for it. How bloody are those clothes we found? You think we can have one of the docs take a sample?

Search: Maint/Eng Lab G
Scan 1: DanielElliot
Scan 2: Kwhit

[russellmz00]

useful stuff found in:
Equis: Search Equipment Bay, Box F
0racle: Search: Equipment bay 3 and 4

does this mean there's less chance of stuff in there or more?

they could have easily not showed us this stuff, that lowers their infection probability. unless they are hentai, in which case it's a trick to gain our trust. but i'm betting the aliens aren't in that much of a risk-taking move after we hit one of them.

found stuff
Equis-Mechanic-5
Oracle-Heavy Equipment Op.7

no search result
IGJoe-Mechanic-6

no search result after posting(!)
Jellyfish-Maintenance16
Demon G Sides-Head Cook13

Lazy Shiftless Bastard-Med. Tech.12 ? tried to search cryo 1 and 2 but too late ?
Kwhit-Chief Science Officer-18 ? core samples and science lab: no result ?


demon, jellyfish, what the hell? there's making bad choices and then there's wasting searches.

this is pushing me over to have them tested. i would prefer to be tested on the next turn, but here we are:

i search lower decks, equipment bay 16,17
vote 1: russellmz00
vote 2: demon g sides
vote 3: daniel elliot



i was thinking of how sweaver died. can we fix up a distress signal like mentioned above, set the ship on autodestruct, then dump a tested human into the cyro unit and airlock him? i want to live, but if we're down to like a handful of humans, at least we can save someone and kill the alien menace.

[russellmz00]

actually, i'll switch it to:

i search lower decks, equipment bay 16,17
vote 1: russellmz00
vote 2: daniel elliot
vote 3: demon g sides


my gut says the talkative guys aren't aliens. or maybe it's demon's cooking.

[IGJoe]

It's good to be cleared! I was getting worried for a moment there.

For safety's sake, I'll stick with Ninyu and search the maintenance / engineering lab again. I want him scanned, though, if we're going to be hanging around in the lab together! Kwhit receives my second vote!

Search: Maint/Eng Lab C
Scan 1: Ninyu
Scan 2: Kwhit

[Equis]

I'm going to continue searching in the Equipment Bay too.

Search Equipment Bay E

[KWhit]

Our noble janitor, so far, seems to be doing a whole lot of talking, and no searching whatsoever, and not much voting.

Neither Demon G nor Kwhit searched anything yesterday, but they've both pledged to search something tonight. IGJoe didn't search yesterday, but we scanned him and know he's clean, so I assume he had his attention elsewhere.

Even though they've pledged to search tonight, I don't have a better way of determining who to mistrust. And I work really closely with Demon G, so I wanna know he's clean.

Test 1: jellyfish
Test 2: Demon G Sides
Test 3: Kwhit

And I'll search these last few things in the sick bay.

Search object B in the sick bay

Not true dude. I've searched something every night.

But I'm fine with a scan if y'all want to go that way. I'm clean.

[KWhit]

Search Science Lab D

Test 1: Murph
Test 2: Ninyu
Test 3: Wisbechlad

[DanielElliot]

So were the PTV episodes I found in the data storage devices, or in the tech lab? Either way, I'm not too impressed with what I'm turning up in the tech lab. I'm going to see what I can turn up in the cryo room, maybe figure out what happened there. We still haven't scanned the two who are, IMO, the most suspicious ones here.

Scan 1: Demon G Sides
Scan 2: Ninyu
Scan 3: DanielElliot

Search 1: Cryo room object 1
Search 2: Cryo room object 2

[Gladguy]

Some reasonable thinking going on today. Looks like we've all shaken off the cryo cobwebs.

I don't get the monster-vibe from Demon just yet, but Ninyu gives me the willies. Or maybe that's Raife and his gimp suit. Either way, I'd also like to scan jellyfish. I think his jabbering, while humourous (silly Deltas), is suspicious.

As for my searches, I'm sticking with the Science Lab. Maybe there'll be some mash to go with this still.

Scan 1: Ninyu
Scan 2: jellyfish

Search Science Lab D

[jellyfish]

Hey, did anyone else hear that? It was like some kind of voice but there was no one there. It was like coming from inside my head. And it was saying stuff like, oh this is the day and this is the night and now I am sending you a narrative in the post, or something like that. What the hell was that thing? Did you guys hear it? Where the hell is it coming from. Come on Dammit! What is going on here?

[Lazy Shiftless Bastard]

Well we might as well all agree to scan Ninyu at this point, and I think I'll put in a vote for scanning Mike O'Malley because he voted early on yesterday for Kael while saying it was "too obvious." Attempt to vote for a fellow thing while also trying to dissaude others from doing the same thing? Or was it just because Kael was overworking himself and in the spotlight all the time? Only one way to tell!

Scan 1: Ninyu
Scan 2: Mike O'Malley
(Hypothetical) Scan 3: uh... DanielElliot

Search: Cryo room objects 11 and 10

[jellyfish]

Oh yeah, right, voting. I been so busy cleaning and scrubbing that I plumb forgot all about the voting.
Right, then I vote for Kael. That guy is seriously freaking me out!

[Demon G Sides]

Can we get an updated map? And can I get some reasoning as to why I'm being scanned? Do we really think that scanning everyone is going to assist in finding out who the infected are? I don't honestly think that's a great strategy. we should be looking at voting patterns and what's been found and hinted at throughout our time here. doing the "hey lets scan everyone once, maybe twice" is only going to get us killed off.

That being said, lets look at who voted for Kael, and who didn't. Daniel Elliot didn't vote for Kael at all, and then immediately afterward randomly turned on myself. Gladguy also didn't vote for Kael. Raife also didn't call for Kael's scanning. That's three candidates right there; everyone else voted for Kael.

So, lets see what else we've noticed about these three's specific voting pattern.

Daniel Elliot - Called for Juan Rayo, and actually the 2nd person to vote. Called for Ninyu, himself, and then Myself.
Raife - Called for Juan Rayo as well. Then voted Jellyfish, IGJoe, and Rayo again.
Gladguy - Called for Juan Rayo in the first vote. Called for Wisebechlad (random) and Juan again in the second vote.

So, what can we infer from these votes? That is up to you to decide, firmly, but this is how I take it; two of these there are potentials. They knew they were going to grab Kael, and as such, never voted for him; they wanted a strong gamble at the beginning, grab one of the leaders, and hope there wasn't a mutiny. They got shit luck, and as such, aren't up for taking another high profile. That's why I'd consider Rayo safe; its too obvious. Their other votes either went with the flow, or are seemingly random.

This may seem like me trying to cover my butt, but I honestly think we need to rethink our scanning strategy. Lets hit the targets that aren't acting rational, or at least are seemingly random in their strategies.

Vote to Scan:
1. DanielElliot
2. Raife
3. Gladguy

[0racle]

Guys last night I heard noises outside my room. Sounded like scratching, but I couldn't brace myself up enough to check it out. Dunno what that could be. Maybe the beast was down in my area last night. I know I'd feel safer knowing people on my bunks level were safe. The torch I found is up for grabs for a safely tested person after todays scans, would hate to give it up only to find out that they got turned in the night. I'll let you guys help me decide who to give it to.

I'm gonna keep searching the equipment bay. And I gotta vote to scan folks on my level.

Scan 1: Russelmz00
Scan 2: DanielElliot
Scan 3: IGJoe
Search: Equipment Bay 5 and 6

[Demon G Sides]

Oh! also; Going to Search Kitchen 5

[0racle]

After some thought I'd like to change the order of my scan.

Scan 1: danielelliot
Scan 2: Russelmz00
Scan 3: IGJoe
Search: Equipment Bay 5 and 6

[Juan Rayo]

we could probably sweep the lower deck and be done with it so we aren't jumping from one place to another like crazy.

Catching up on discussion will post my vote and search in a bit.

[Lazy Shiftless Bastard]

Oh yeah, right, voting. I been so busy cleaning and scrubbing that I plumb forgot all about the voting.
Right, then I vote for Kael. That guy is seriously freaking me out!

Someone hasn't been following the happenings onboard! Our space janitor is hitting the space sauce!

[0racle]

Methinks the janitor is actually not coping well. But I'm not a medic. He seems to be unhinged.

[0racle]

And before voting comes to a close I'd like to hand over my torch to Jaun Rayo. He was human yesterday. The noises I heard on my level last night doesn't make me feel safe giving it to anyone there. So use it well Jaun.

[Murph]

Not true dude. I've searched something every night.

So you did. My bad.

I'll change my vote for scan 3 (if possible) for Ninyu.

[Juan Rayo]

I want to search the cargo bay 10

I keep saying Nyniu is suspicious, so scan him while I get the torch ready!

Scann Nyniu
Scann 2 Daniel (so we can get a majority vote already)

[Ninyu]

Just remember scan THEN torch. Not torch then scan. Please.

[Raife]

Guys, the first scan is the most important because it gets us a third scan if we get a hit. RusselMZ00 was the first person to vote for Kael, which I think is a pretty good sign he wasn't infected. He may be infected now, but using the first scan on him when there are other more suspicious targets is like grasping at straws from a pile of test tubes.

Test 1: jellyfish
Test 2: Ninyu
Test 3: DanielElliot

Search: Captain's Quarters 2 & 3.

[russellmz00]

I want to search the cargo bay 10

I keep saying Nyniu is suspicious, so scan him while I get the torch ready!

Scann Nyniu
Scann 2 Daniel (so we can get a majority vote already)

where's cargo bay 10?

[russellmz00]

Search Science Lab D


Search Science Lab D

uhhhhh...




i was thinking of how sweaver died. can we fix up a distress signal like mentioned above, set the ship on autodestruct, then dump a tested human into the cyro unit and airlock him? i want to live, but if we're down to like a handful of humans, at least we can save someone and kill the alien menace.

ninyu, do any of those repair manuals tell how to fix cryo units?

[Gladguy]

uhhhhh...

Oh man... that's the second time I've done that. And I keep going up and double checking to make sure nobody else has chosen the same thing already. Sorry, boys.

How about Search Science Lab 3 and 4? Does that work?

And I'll throw in my provisional scan: Scan Demon G Sides

[russellmz00]

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[Demon G Sides]

And I'll throw in my provisional scan: Scan Demon G Sides

If anything this is just more confirmation that I've struck a nerve.

[Mike O'Malley]

I'll search D in the Med Lab and scan Murph

[Conrad]

Not much time to keep up today, but to get a vote in...

Search MedLab A
Test 1: Russell
Test 2: Ninyu
Test 3: DanielElliot

I'm still high on retesting, we should backtrack tomorrow.

[Claycw]

I told you we should have scanned Kael

Once again the crew gathers in Sick Bay to discuss whom shall be tested next. Except for the occasional outburst of Jelly fish jumping up and and shouting incoherently about voices in his head and how tough it is to be a janitor, everyone makes a valid case as to why they are choosing to vote for one person or another. In the end, it is Ninyu and DanielElliot that are chosen to be tested.

Juan gets the Bio. Scanner from the cabinet and Jellyfish makes his way over to the make-shift flamethrower mumbling under his breath, "Why the hell are we not testing Kael? Jesus, that motherfucker just creeps me out. Idiots I tell you, I am surrounded by idiots. Does no one here listen to me? No, no they don't, they just want me here as their slave to clean up after them like I'm their goddamn mom. I got your fucking mom, I got her right here hanging."

Juan motions over Ninyu. "Alright Ninyu, you're first." Ninyu walks up, eyeing Jellyfish the whole time. "Easy there man, let's not get all gung-ho with that thing alright?" Jellyfish stands there, clearly oblivious to his comments. "Alright let's do this," Ninyu says as he approaches Juan. Within seconds, Juan has scanned Ninyu and steps back to where the rest of the crew are. Soon the Bio. scanner beeps and the screen turns green. The words "All signs read normal, no anomalies detected" appear. Jelly fish shakes his head and says "Darn."

Juan then motions over DanielElliot. "Ok Daniel, you're up." Daniel steps up to be scanned asking, "For fucks sake, do we have to have Jellyfish operate the flame thrower? This makes me nervous as shit." Juan runs the scanner the full length of Daniel's body and steps back to where the rest of the crew are. Soon the Bio. scanner beeps again and the screen turns green. The words "All signs read normal, no anomalies detected" appear. "See! See! I fucking told you guys we should have scanned Kael, but nooooooooo, nobody listens to the lowly fucking janitor. What the fuck ever, I'll send a letter to all your mothers when this is over!"

"Well, that could have gone better. Hopefully we will have better luck tomorrow. Well, now that I have this handy dandy torch thanks to the kindness of 0racle, I think I'll head to my room and see the rest of you in the morning." And with that, everyone heads to their rooms for the night.


-------------------------End of Day turn----------------------------


Night turn begins now

[DanielElliot]

Kael?

[Murph]

He's crazy. Pay him no mind.

I also think we should've tested HIM, but what's done is done. We'll all hope that tomorrow goes better and that we all wake up...well, us.

[russellmz00]

Kael?

he's a few antigrav canisters short of a pallet, if you get my drift.
he's trying to scythe some transparent aluminum without a vibroblade, if you know what i'm saying.
his mind's looped a mag field.
there's a cold fusion reaction but no deuterium.

[Demon G Sides]

Well damn. One of my guesses was cleared. Sorry about that, Elliot.

[Wisbechlad]

Scan RussellMZ & Callistas. They are both from NZ. That's suspicious.

Search the showers on middle deck. Monsters with tentacles might like wet places.

[Calistas]

Ok, did I get a vote in? Not sure. Eep. Timezones....

I'll search Laundry 1 & 2 please.

Oh. If anyone wants to head to Vegas after this tour I'm MORE than prepared!

---Currently Holding---
- a pair of fuzzy dice
- a package of sunflower seeds
- a pack of camels

[jellyfish]

Well, uhhh...., euhh....
The best thing about these aliens is how they really give you a good clean-up challenge. I mean, all non-alien types with your diarrhea, and vomit, yeah,... But bloody entrails, and all those internal organs and whatnot,...now that takes a lot of cleaning to erase. Yeah, a lot of cleaning. So what I am supposed to do now? I got nothing to clean.

[jellyfish]

Hey, guys, I have been meaning to ask you something.

How do you know if you have been infected by an alien? Because whenever I go to pee, I get this terrible burning feeling down there, if you know what I mean. It's been this way for some time now. Like a real strong burning you know. Whenever I pee. Does this mean there is an alien inside of me? Do they make it burn when you pee? Is that how you know? How can I know? Can anyone help me?

[jellyfish]

Uhhh, ummmmm.

But don't scan me please.

If there is an alien inside of me I really don't wanna know. I don't want him coming out of me like with that other guy. Yeah, it will then be fun for me to clean. But no. I don't wanna know. If he is in there so let him just stay. I don't wanna know. So don't scan me alright? Please don't scan me. I am scared.

[jellyfish]

Hey, did I ever tell you guys about my grand-pappy. He was one of the greatest custodians of the MJE. Yeah, for those of you less educated types, MJE stands for modern janitorial era. Yeah, that is something they probably don't teach you in physics 101. No siree. Well, anyway, they got the glorious hisotry of janitors divided neatly into these three distinct epochs. You got you PCT, or primitive cleaning times, followed by the PQT, or post-q-tips, and then finally the mje which is where we all live and clean today. Moslty janitors habe been immune to the steady technological progression that has plagued the rest of mankind. But ohh, the glorious invention of the q-tip. Now that really turned things on its head. Once those bad boys had been discovered, no mess was to much! That was the real golden age of janitoring. A tall handsome man with a pair of q-tips was nigh on invincible and unstoppable. That must have been a great time to be alive. Of course it is all legends and fables now that we live in the MJE. Well, we still have some modern legends. And one of them is my very own grand-pappy. Now I am gonna tell you all about him.

What? What's that grand-pappy? All right I am a comin'.

Well, looks like a gotta go. Alright then, good night to all you fine folks and aliens. You keep messin' up the world and i'll keep cleaning it. Yeah, cleanliness is the greatest virtue. It is right next to godliness you know? That makes janitors like unto gods. Did I ever tell you the time my grand-pappy was actually mistaken for the god of destruction and eight sided dice. Whoo boy that is some story. Well, it started when....

What? Right grand-pappy I am coming already. Yeah I am coming.

I gotta go. Nitey nite.

[jellyfish]

Whoa. I just woke from the weirdest dream. In the dream I was butterfly dreaming I was the god of twelve sided dice. Then I awoke and realized I was just a butterfly. Then a monster ate me. Then I awoke and realized I was just a scared and lonely maintenance guy floating through space in a big piece of metal.

Sometimes I feel like someone else is controlling me. It is like they control where I move and what I say. And I hear these things coming out of my mouth and I don't how they got in there. Is that the butterfly? Will I wake up from this nightmare soon and see it was only a butterfly dream. Please let that be.

I am going back to sleep now.

[Ninyu]

Do we have a padded room to put Jellyfish in? He's liable to get jumpy and kill someone with a mop. Told you I wasn't an alien. Next time one of you jokers needs something fixed in your quarters it is going to the bottom of the list.

[DanielElliot]

We should be waiting for the night turn to end before announcing searches and votes, right? This is the creatures turn now. Or am I misunderstanding the rules?

[Claycw]

We should be waiting for the night turn to end before announcing searches and votes, right? This is the creatures turn now. Or am I misunderstanding the rules?


It is easier for me to keep up with that way. I am working on some RL stuff and should have the narrative up soon.

[Juan Rayo]

I think Jelly tries way to hard to appear crazy. I believe he might be trying to use the good'ol "insanity" defense, and that he is prime suspect for scanning.

[Claycw]

Another quiet night

The day begins with the crew meeting in the dining hall. As usual the topic of conversation is who among them might be infected and who should they test this night. After eating a hearty breakfast the crew heads out to search for more items that may be of value.

Soon the crew returns with everything that they can hold and spread it out over one of the tables.


IGJoe - Found several electrical motors, a soldering gun, zip ties, and some small screw drivers.

Equis - Found a pair of gloves, a small shovel, a monkey wrench, and some scratched up safety goggles.

Murph - Found some tongue depressors, cotton balls, several boxes of rubber gloves, blankets, and patient gowns.

DanielElliot - Found one locker containing shorts and a t-shirt, the other was empty.

GladGuy - Found core samples and a Popular Science magazine.

Demon G Sides - Found Chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, Cocoa, flour, sugar, marshmallow cream, and pre-made pie crusts.

0racle - Found Greasy overalls, greasy boots, and an old dirty cap.

Kwhit - Found a periodic table, test tube racks, test tubes, stand clamps, and a spring scale.

Calistas - Found unwashed dirty clothes one thing hidden in them is a blood stained shirt.

Juan Rayo - Searches room 10 and finds nothing but furniture.

Lazy Shiftless Bastard - Found 2 empty lockers.

Mike O'Malley - Found hundreds of petri dishes.

Conrad - Found bags of blood of various types.

Ninyu - Found a tool Cabinet filled with hundreds of tools.

Raife - Found a book on the Kama-Sutra, a Hockey mask in-cased in glass, along with a large machete on a wooden stand.



------------------Day turn Begins now---------------------

[Ninyu]

So, the bloody clothes can be examined? What size are they? Anything on them that would identify ownership?

[Murph]

Searching the sick bay has been way less productive than I'd hoped. :-( Might as well check the last few places though.

[DanielElliot]

I guess I'll continue in the cryo room. More importantly, though, I think I heard one of the creatures outside my quarters last night. I'm in room 8, and as far as I can tell, my only neighbor is...0racle. Either he already was infected and was leaving his quarters, or he got it last night and I heard the thing going in there. Either way, he needs a scan ASAP! I still get a weird vibe off Demon, too.


Search 1: Cryo room object 3
Search 2: Cryo room object 4

Test 1: 0racle
Test 2: Demon G Sides
Test 3: Jellyfish

[0racle]

I keep finding greasy clothes. I'm guessing noone likes to do their laundry and just stuffs it all in the lockers when they're done. If jellyfish likes cleaning so much, maybe he should start doing laundry. I got plenty of greasy clothes from these lockers for him to start with.

[DanielElliot]

I keep finding greasy clothes. I'm guessing noone likes to do their laundry and just stuffs it all in the lockers when they're done. If jellyfish likes cleaning so much, maybe he should start doing laundry. I got plenty of greasy clothes from these lockers for him to start with.

Maybe it's because you are eating their owners!

[0racle]

I don't like blood, makes me cringe. I'll search equipment bay 7 and 8 next. And since daniel thinks i'm it, i'll vote for me to be scanned as well. and jellyfish, at least maybe they can tell he's unfit for holding the flamethrower.

Scan 1: 0racle
Scan 2: Jellyfish
Scan 3: Russelmz00
Search: Equipment bay 7 and 8

[Murph]

There are a few who have drawn my suspicion. I've voiced some of it, but I vote:

Test 1: Jellyfish
Test 2: Mike O'Malley
Test 3: Demon G Sides
Search Sick Bay C

[Ninyu]

I think we need to be scanning the quiet under-the-radar people...

[Murph]

That's why I voted for Mike. He says nothing, ever...just shows up, votes, and disappears. Never gives any reasoning for his votes.

And he voted for me, which I thought was weird. And that was his only vote.

[DanielElliot]

Check the map, guys. I'm room 8. Oracle is room 7. The other rooms around us are empty. I heard something shuffling and slobbering and pondering various marinades for humans outside my door. It's extremely likely that what I heard was someone entering or leaving 0racle's room.

[Murph]

There are also people in rooms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Could've been going to or coming from any of those rooms.

[DanielElliot]

If it was going to or coming from one of those, and passed by my room, then it must live in the engine room or something, and could have been going anywhere. 0racle's room is the only room adjacent to me that we know is occupied. I think 4, 5, and 6 are too far away for me to have heard anything. If we assume that it passed by or came right up to my door, which is what it sure sounded like, then the only person it could have been going for is 0racle. The only alternative is that it wasn't going for a person, but was going to the engine room, equipment bay, or something else, and knowing that doesn't help us at this point.

[Gladguy]

More core samples? I think we've already sufficiently analyzed the ones we've got. 'twould be nice to find something, y'know, useful.

Anyways, it seems to me that Demon G Sides doesn't like being focused on. Each time I've voted for him, he's singled it out as if to deflect the attention back on to me. Either he's a monster, or just a sensitive little girly-man. I also think the monsters would stay away from jellyfish; he's just too entertaining.

I'm gonna cast my vote, then go cower in my quarters with my core samples:

Scan 1: Demon G Sides ('cuz he gives me the willies)
Scan 2: Mike O'Malley ('cuz he's wayyyy too quiet)
Scan 3: DanielElliot ('cuz I think he may be lying about the noise outside his chamber's doors)
Search: Science Lab F(unless, as usual, someone's already done it)

[IGJoe]

This soldering gun and these motors may be useful in the future. I am going to continue searching the rest of the maintenance and engineering labs for more parts.

Test 1: 0racle
Test 2: Jellyfish
Test 3: Kwhit

Search: Maint./Eng. Lab 8 & 9

[0racle]

I don't mind being voted for. But Daniel thats the same reason I voted for you yesterday. Heard the same noises and you were closest, so I totally understand.

[DanielElliot]

On the one hand, it's awfully suspicious that you didn't mention that when I first voted for you. On the other hand...you did mention it yesterday. So what do you think? Are they doing something in the engine room? Or one of the people in the next block of quarters?

[0racle]

I'm thinking that it means that it's someone down with us that might be the original beast. Dunno for sure though. Or he likes the taste of our engine fuel. My only two thoughts.

[russellmz00]

i'm going to try my luck with the cargo bay.

as a finder of lost things 0racle is a target since he was presumed human last turn.
demon searched the kitchen for equipment to study or find aliens. gladguy makes a point about mike.

i search lower deck, cargo bay O
scan 1: 0racle
scan 2: mike o'malley
scan 3: demon sides


/me paces cargo bay in my jammies

there are lots of places that the aliens are "searching". should we redo those if we catch one in our next test?

i am starting to be fascinated by operation screw you. is it possible to get myself into a cryo chamber then self-destruct the ship. maybe vent everything into space. prop wedge the doors open. then all i need is to open the cargo bay doors, pal. no, i can't be in cryo, i have to open the doors. maybe a deadman's switch. test someone, put him in cryo. make sure he spells my name rightin the newspapers, unlike half the people on this porn warehouse of a ship.

why haven't we caught an original yet? kael must have been a choice by the hentai to get rid of the leader. i don't know if i inadvertantly gave advice to the things, but now people are acting crazier than ever.

or that's what the voices inside my head say.

okay, ditch attitude and posting frequency. next round, i'm voting for the guy that votes last. or lazy shiftless bastard. always shirking his duty shift. never around whenever i need a band-aid or medicinal herbs in cigarette form. where is he? probably plotting.

just like everyone else on this ship.

[Ninyu]

Test 1: Mike O'Malley
Test 2: 0racle
Test 3: Kwhit

Search: Maint./Eng. Lab B

[Lazy Shiftless Bastard]

Sigh, empty lockers. If only it didn't take so long to force these stupid lockers open maybe I could search more than two in a day! Well, might as well make sure they're all empty I guess.

Search cryo room lockers 9 and 8.

I'll vote for Mike for the same reason as I gave yesterday, jellyfish to make sure he's just batshit insane and not an alien, and maybe 0racle to clear up this mightnight shuffler business.

Test 1: Mike O'Malley
Test 2: jellyfish
Test 5: 0racle

[Demon G Sides]

I'm going to vote for...

Test 1: Mike O'Malley
Test 2: Jellyfish

Mostly for the same reasons as other's have outlined. Mike's been awfully silent, and Jelly's a fucking nutcase. We don't really have much else to go on at this point.


Searching the Library/Reasearch area 1 and 2

[DanielElliot]

I'm going to vote for...

Test 1: Mike O'Malley
Test 2: Jellyfish

Mostly for the same reasons as other's have outlined. Mike's been awfully silent, and Jelly's a fucking nutcase. We don't really have much else to go on at this point.


Searching the Library/Reasearch area 1 and 2

The only reason you wouldn't pick a third test is if you know we won't get one, because you know you're scanning humans.

[0racle]

I think i'm gonna change my vote up a bit.

Scan 1: 0racle
Scan 2: Jellyfish
Scan 3: Demon G Sides
Search: Equipment bay 7 and 8

[Demon G Sides]

Okay... If that's really how this is going to play out... (Wow talk about grasping at straws elliot. Get turned last night? Afraid my 3rd can might be you, so trying to shift blame onto me? See how annoying this gets?)

Third Test: 0racle

[Demon G Sides]

((OOC QUESTION! Do you do tiered votes; a la each vote is technically independent of itself, and therefore if someone (Lets say 0racle in this instance) has votes scattered throughout the three 'tiers' (Scan 1 2 and 3 respectively), they don't count towards each other, only that specific scan, or is it that any vote counts as a 1 vote in that person's column? I"m guessing the latter, but it'd be nice to know))

[0racle]

((OOC answer as I see it. I've noticed that it's whoever gets the most votes overall gets scanned first, then second most votes is second, and third most gets third if we get it. I think so anyways.))

[Claycw]

Vote 1 only counts for test 1 - vote 2 only counts for test 2 - vote 3 only counts for test 3 if available.

[Claycw]

((OOC answer as I see it. I've noticed that it's whoever gets the most votes overall gets scanned first, then second most votes is second, and third most gets third if we get it. I think so anyways.))


Though that is not how I have been doing it, it does work out that way as well.

[Demon G Sides]

okay. Thanks a bunch :D

[DanielElliot]

Demon is so touchy about being tested. It doesn't hurt unless you are a slavering tentacle beast.

[0racle]

In Demons defense he's always been touchy. Can't keep his hands to hisself.

[Calistas]

We must be able to ID the blood or the shirt! DNA test or blood type or look at the name on the collar!

[Calistas]

1: demon g
2: jellyfish
3: kwhit

scan bloody clothes for DNA or blood type or match clothes to crew member

[russellmz00]

1: demon g
2: jellyfish
3: kwhit

scan bloody clothes for DNA or blood type or match clothes to crew member


20 spacebucks the space-genesequencer returns space-paper saying "kael," whose remains we spaced.

[Gladguy]

20 spacebucks the space-genesequencer returns space-paper saying "kael," whose remains we spaced.
Either that, or it turns up "core sample."

[Raife]

The hockey mask and machete I'm hanging on to. Let me sling this machete on my belt, and I think I'll put this mask on right now! Weird, I have this sudden urge to chop up teenagers... or aliens.

I'm going to continue my search of the upper deck and start checking out the library.

Test 1: jellyfish
Test 2: Mike O'Malley
Test 3: Oracle

Search: Library 1 & 2

[Equis]

Sorry guys, have been busy trying to see what I can do with the tools and other crap lyig around. Wondering if I can bud anyhing usef or make some repairs to the ship. I still think russellmz needs a scan for the reasons I outlined above. sorry russel, it ain't anything personal, cept if you're some tenticular monstrosity.

But 3 days in, some of the quiet ones deserve a scan as well. So today it's

scan 1: russellmz
scan 2: mike o'malley
scan 3: kwhit

cos the third scan is also reserved for making sure or tech guy is human.

[KWhit]

scan 1: demon sides
scan 2: mike o'malley
scan 3: 0racle

Clay, does my character think that I can do anything useful, scientific-wise with the blood stained shirt. Like with a microscope or test tubes or some such?

[Claycw]

all you have to do is state what you would like to do with the item, if your character is versed in that field you will have a better chance to yield results from it.

[Equis]

Can I make use of the tools Ninyu found, and with the safety goggles, make repairs to the ship's engines or cryo chambers?

[Claycw]

you can try many combinations with the stuff you find.

[Raife]

You guys are welcome to play around with the penis pump and BDSM stuff to see what uses you can come up with. I'll just leave them in the Science Lab.