Mini 1054/The Illusion - Creation (Over)

[JDodge]

The Illusion

Part I - Creation

"Director, the Host is ready. Preparing direct line."

The facility was a flash of pure white; crisp, clean, sleek, and numerous other adjectives. Seven people lay in what are perhaps best described as white coffins without lids, hooked to numerous sensors. They were shackled in, awaiting the beginning of the Experiment. Standing watch over them was a tall, thin woman holding a clipboard; her long, fiery red hair providing a stark contrast to her pure white lab coat.

"Director, direct line ready. Stabilizing subjects."

She pushes a button on a nearby console. An odd, purplish fluid flows through some tubes into the seven subjects.

"Subjects ready. Prepared for transfer."

On the other side of the room, sitting at a desk surrounded by screens, sits a middle-aged man. He thanks the woman as his finger hovers over the large, red button on his desk.

"Ladies, gentlemen, we stand here on the dawn of a new age. The new wave of entertainment; a vacation into the vast, unused brainspaces of the modern man. Begin the experiment!"

He pressed the button.

The coffin-beds tilted as a large needle protruded from the wall. The needle pressed through the skull, directly and deep into the brains of the subjects.

You are the subjects. It feels as if you're being sucked through an impossibly thin tube. The pain is immense. You black out as you feel the last of yourselves slip away...

Daydream Believers & Homecoming Queens (4):

UncertainKitten

(replaced animorpherv1)

Zang
Chronopie
TonyMontana

Talking to Ghosts (3):

gandalf5166, The Jaded, Town Vanilla
GhostWriter, The Tightrope Walker, Town Bomb
xvart, The Warrior, Town Bomb

[JDodge]

Backup Mod: Flameaxe

D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Rules

Actions n Stuff:

1) The primary directive of The Illusion Experiment is increasing the enjoyment people experience in their day-to-day lives. Have fun.
2) The Director's word is law. The Director reserves the right to change these rules at any time, with the exception of rule #1.
3) All communications with the Director must be taken to private messaging channels.
4) Place all votes in the format of

Vote: X

. You do not need to unvote before changing your vote.
5) Do not quote any information you recieve over private messaging channels from the Director. Failure to do so will result in your expulsion from The Illusion.
6) Do not discuss The Illusion while you are outside of The Illusion. You will be taken offline and severe "disciplinary action" will be taken against you and your closest family members.
7) If you have been taken offline from The Illusion, you may not have any communications with the people still inside The Illusion.

The Reward is More Deadlines (PLEASE READ, VERY IMPORTANT!):

8) Each game day will have automatic two-week deadlines. Extensions will be granted on a case-by-case basis.
9) If no majority has been reached at deadline, the person with the plurality of votes will be lynched. There is no no-lynch.
10) You must post at least once every 48 hours. You will recieve a prod if you do not. You will have 24 hours after the prod to post in-thread, since that will have made 72 hours since your last post. Failure to do so will result in an alternate being brought forth to replace you in the experiment.
11) Extended (more than 48 hour) leave must be declared via private messaging channels to the Director.
12) Night phase will have a deadline of no more than 72 hours. No submission will result in no action.

Wild Setupberries (MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PREVIOUS!):

13) This game was designed based on a random design principle. All roles have been chosen randomly from a list of 24 possible roles. Vanilla is on the list thrice.
14) Alignments have been assigned to roles randomly. Everyone has been given a 1 in 3 chance of being mafia.
15) If there is no mafia in the game, the game will go on until it can no longer continue.
16) If the game would have more than 2 mafia, the mafia has been split into factions which may or may not include serial killers.
17) Any mafia consisting of at least 2 does not have a kill unless they have drawn a killing role.
18) If at any point after day 1 the town feels that there is no mafia within the game, they may vote to end the experiment. If there are any anti-town forces still alive at that point, the town loses.

You win when any anti-town forces are dead (should they exist).

[JDodge]

Role PMs are going out now. Confirmations will begin soon.

[JDodge]

In-thread confirmations are now. Gogogo.

[JDodge]

You all awaken, in a meadow. You take a look at your surroundings. The sky is a deep, deep purple, and the grass beneath your feet is a silver-blue. Near you is a river of translucent, greenish water; it flows towards a large cliff, which goes down as far as the eye can see. In front of you are seven houses, and a screen; towering above them all is a tower, which appears to be filled with sand.

GREETINGS. I AM THE COMPUTERIZED ASSISTANCE TERMINAL, OR CAT. ME-OW.

I WILL BE YOUR GUIDE IN THE ILLUSION. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THERE MAY BE A BREACH IN THE ILLUSION'S SYSTEMS, LEADING TO A POTENTIAL HIJACK OF THE HOST. EMERGENCY PROTOCOL 7 HAS BEEN INITIATED. BEGINNING INSTRUCTIONS.

ANYONE AMONGST YOU MAY BE ONE OF THE HIJACKERS. UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE DIRECTOR TO DETERMINE WHOM. YOU MUST ALL WORK TOGETHER TO DECIDE WHOM THE HIJACKERS ARE. IF YOU HAVE REACHED A MAJORITY DECISION, THE PERSON WITH THE MOST VOTES WILL BE CAST OFF INTO THE GAP, WHICH IS THE ABYSS TO YOUR RIGHT. YOU HAVE UNTIL THE SAND IN THE HOURGLASS HAS RUN OUT TO MAKE A DECISION. THIS WILL GIVE YOU ONE FULL DAY. AFTER EACH DAY, YOU MUST RETIRE TO YOUR ASSIGNED CABINS.

IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE INSTRUCTIONS, PLEASE OPEN A PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS LINE WITH THE DIRECTOR. YOU MAY DOING SO BY PRESSING THE "PM" BUTTON ON THE COMPUTERIZED ASSISTANCE TERMINAL INSIDE YOUR CABIN.

THE SAND IN THE HOURGLASS WILL RUN OUT AT 11:45 PM EDT, FRIDAY OCTOBER 1ST IN REAL-TIME. GOOD LUCK. DAY ONE HAS BEGUN.

[JDodge]

I'll get on the prods and whatnot later.

[JDodge]

VOTE COUNT

gandalf5166 (2) - Chronopie, GhostWriter
Chronopie (1) - xvart
TonyMontana (1) - Zang
Zang (1) - TonyMontana

Not Voting (5) - animorpherv1, gandalf5166

WITH 7 ALIVE IT TAKES 4 TO REMOVE

180 HOURS TO DEADLINE

PRODS SENT TO GHOSTWRITER, XVART, ZANG, ANIMORPHERV1

[JDodge]

VOTE COUNT

gandalf5166 (3) - Chronopie, xvart, GhostWriter
xvart (1) - gandalf5166
TonyMontana (1) - Zang
Zang (1) - TonyMontana

Not Voting (1) - animorpherv1

WITH 7 ALIVE IT TAKES 4 TO REMOVE

175 HOURS TO DEADLINE

[JDodge]

I'll get back to you guys at some point in time tomorrow.

[JDodge]

FINAL VOTE COUNT

gandalf5166 (5) - Chronopie, xvart, GhostWriter, Zang, TonyMontana
xvart (1) - gandalf5166
TonyMontana (1) - Zang

Not Voting (1) - animorpherv1

gandalf1566 has been taken offline. Official designation: The Jaded/Town Vanilla

It is now night one. Actions due by 1:20 PM EDT on Sunday, October 3rd

[JDodge]

Nobody was taken offline in the last night cycle. It is now Day Two. Six alive, four to lynch.

[JDodge]

Any news on that Ani replacement?

Do we think the lack of kill is some lame attempt by scum to make us believe there is no scum?
I have no plans on giving in anytime soon.

UncertainKitten replaces animorpherv1

MOD:

Does a scumteam of two get a kill, if one of them dies?

No

[JDodge]

I promise I will start

actually modding

at some point in the near future (aka over the weekend). Bear with me.

[JDodge]

I believe that to be a lynch, and I will process it tomorrow. Locking until then.

[JDodge]

GhostWriter has been taken offline. Official Designation: The Tightrope Walker/Town Bomb

Xvart has been taken offline. Official Designation: The Warrior/Town Bomb

It is now Night Two. Actions due by 10:30 PM on Saturday, October 23rd.

[JDodge]

Nobody was taken offline in the last night cycle. It is now Day Three. Four alive, three to lynch.

[JDodge]

Nobody has been taken offline. It is now night four. I will do my best to give you a final vote count at some point in the near future.

[JDodge]

With Zang controlling 2 of the 5 votes, making it impossible to make a non-unanimous lynch without him, I'm going to go ahead and call it now (as I probably should have yesterday).

Have a rolesheet.

PMs will be posted at some point in the near future, thanks for bearing with me as I saw if it was possible for me to maintain interest in modding (it's not).

[JDodge]

So, it was an all town game. Again. Didn't you do that before?

I think you're thinking of JDodge's all-scum game.

I was wondering whether he really randomized alignments in this game, or just wanted to run an all-town game... probably the latter, but only he knows.

It was the first. I had screenshots, but I lost them in the computer move. Shame, really. Was disappointed with the way the setup turned out and almost re-randomized, but that would have ruined the point.

[JDodge]

Double town bomb in an all town game, with a miller, a flavour cop, and a double voter...

Yeah...

I'd have re-rolled.

But then it wouldn't be random, it would be "random until I got what I wanted", which wasn't the point - the point was overall to see if a game with entirely random roles was playable, and the same for alignments. I think it still has potential in the right hands (i.e. not mine).