Day Five

[storyteller0910]

Morning came to New Canaan once more. A frustrated Colony braced for the worst, but when the group gathered in the shadow of the Town Hall electric chair, what they discovered was perhaps more surprising than anything they could have guessed.

Every soul that had gone to bed the night before had woken again at dawn. Day Five had begun, and for the first time, no one had died.

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Day Five begins now, and will end at 12:00PM on Thursday, December 20 (please note the extension of the Day, which is intended to get us back on a more intuitive schedule of Days and Nights). Have fun, and try to stay alive out there.

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On another note, I suck. If anyone witnessed my massive screw-up and hasn't done so already, please PM me immediately and do not mention it in the game thread. Once I know the extent of the damage, I'll figure out how to correct it. Sorry to those affected.

[Tragic]

*drive by Tragic*

Whoo! Something went in our favor! <3

(And this is where I put myself to bed early.. battling a cold for over a week now and am starting to get frustrated. Will have more to say in the morning!)

[CatInASuit]

Back again,

Good to see no-one died.

I also completely missed any fuck-up going on storyteller.

I look forward to reading about it in the forbidden thread.

[Drain Bead]

I know nothing and saw nothing.

That having been said....WOOOHOOOO! Finally, something goes right for once.

[sinjin]

w t!

[Santo Rugger]

So, to answer the question you posed last night, CatinaSuit, something funny happened to me the other Night. I don't know exactly what it is, and I'd rather not share what I do know about it, for now, until I can start to connect the pieces. I left a couple crumbs yesterDay, so those of you who have an inkling of what I'm talking about may be able to help me piece it together. I do have a very strong reason to believe that something similar is happening to at least one other player. I thought it might have been Roosh, based on something he said that I thought was a breadcrumb, but it appears not.

I wish I had more to share, but I really don't. I'm assuming for now that whoever is doing this to me is pro-town, because (to metagame) of what story said when he mentioned that there's a lot left to be revealed. To me, that sounded like a silent root for the town, and there's still a few tricks that are going to be delivered in the next Day or so into our collective toolboxes.

You guys can fire away at the questions, but I'm not going to state specifically what's been happening to me yet, because I don't think I'm ready* to help the town yet. As to why I'm saying this now, there are two reasons. YesterDay, I wasn't sure if I should keep it to myself or share it. Last Night, it could only have helped the scum. Today, I'm hoping others may be able to fill in some blanks, without revealing too much to the scum.

[Santo Rugger]

In other news, last night's no kill is very promising. To me, it means there is, in fact, a doctor type, or the Replicants went after a pro-town Replicant who was immune. I suspect the former. When the doctor guesses right, it means one of two things. Either the scum are very direct in their choice of a kill, and went after atarus last night, or they're on a hunt for the doctor and "found" him. I'm going to assume they were straightforward, and so was our doc. This means we've got a straightforward thinking scum team, and a doc that can outguess them. Kudos!

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

Huzzah!

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

I'm invigorated at the apparent Colonist boon of the Night.

Vote Captain Klutz

He is giving me a palpable body check in a way that I feel only a scum would attempt, and he is speaking with a sense of certainty that I feel is also indicative of scumminess.

I'll be building my case against him as the Day progresses, and I'm sure it will take a significant amount of determination and focus to counter his skillz.

[Parzival]

The no-kill is a good thing as well.

But I'm very curious about what happened to you, Santo. Can you give away which Night exactly it occurred? Night 3 was when you were 'confirmed', correct? Did it happen then or before that Night? And only once?

Note in response to something Capt. Klutz said in the Night thread:

My saying, "presumably Scum can talk at Night" was not entirely serious, but you had already jumped on me for assuming too much about the Nexus-9. Are you unhappy that I went in the other direction?

For the record, I'm pretty sure the Scum can talk at Night (save the N-9?) since it's the hallmark of mafia.

[Santo Rugger]

It was the Night before last. I was informed of it right before the Day 4 dawn was posted.

[Santo Rugger]

I'm very curious, too!!!

I can say that it wasn't violent, in fact, it was quite peaceful. Which is another reason I suspect pro town origins.

[Pollux Oil]

Sweet deal. ;D Any Day that starts without a death is a good day for the town.

And from what Rugger said, it looks like the Easter Bunny is back in Blade Runner form. Perhaps we can call it the Easter Runner? Or Blade Bunny?

[Santo Rugger]

It would seem so. But, like I said, it wasn't violent in any way, whereas the previous Easter Bunny enabled violence, albeit indirectly.

[kassia]

A Night with no kills is wonderful. Can't be in a pissy mood when you wake up to this! Maybe this will boost morale and add some life and discussion to the game.

[Parzival]

Just one more question, Rugger, if you will (okay, two):

You said this was 'happening' to you. Does that mean it repeated itself, or is there some effect that has continued from it?

If I'm reading this right, it is:

-a non-violent event.
-the result of a Night Action.
-indeterminate as to whether the agent was truly pro-town or not.
-continuous/has lasting effects(?)

[sinjin]

Ok, I don't think it's good for the colony to be talking about this all Day and a couple of people have picked up on it already. I'm the cause of the effect Santo is talking about. Paraphrasing: I'm the last surviving member of a group of R&D scientists that were working at a research facility outside of new Canaan. We were trying to develop an instrument that could tell the difference between humans and replicants rather than relying only on the psychological testing done by bladerunners. Of course, this being mafia, we were only partially successful.

The device we developed lookes like a gun (nice touch bastard mod). But it doesn't shoot bullets, it shoots nano-bots. The nano-bots are absorbed by the skin and cause side effects in humans: one of which is blue[/blue] urine. Replicants have no such side-effects. However, neither do somewhere around 50% of humans. And to make it even more diabolical I don't get the results directly. So I've been leaving blue[/url] croutons in first a post and later in my sig. off and on hoping to get a rise out of colonists with side effects.

I'm not going to tell you who I nano-ed or when because I think that will give too much info to the replicants*. I will confirm those who claim but I would appreciate it if those who are nano-effected keep the when to themselves so as to prevent pattern recognition. Oh and because it was developed by geeky chicken research lab-rats my device has a couple of nifty features not germane to the blue wee. This is one crazy game.

*[oog]Dio, apologies for FF. I was being a jerk[/oog]

[sinjin]

Dang

Story can you fix my blue tags above.

[CatInASuit]

sinjin said:

Ok, I don't think it's good for the colony to be talking about this all Day and a couple of people have picked up on it already. I'm the cause of the effect Santo is talking about. Paraphrasing: I'm the last surviving member of a group of R&D scientists that were working at a research facility outside of new Canaan. We were trying to develop an instrument that could tell the difference between humans and replicants rather than relying only on the psychological testing done by bladerunners. Of course, this being mafia, we were only partially successful.

The device we developed lookes like a gun (nice touch bastard mod). But it doesn't shoot bullets, it shoots nano-bots. The nano-bots are absorbed by the skin and cause side effects in humans: one of which is blue[/blue] urine. Replicants have no such side-effects. However, neither do somewhere around 50% of humans. And to make it even more diabolical I don't get the results directly. So I've been leaving blue

[/url] croutons in first a post and later in my sig. off and on hoping to get a rise out of colonists with side effects.

I'm not going to tell you who I nano-ed or when because I think that will give too much info to the replicants*. I will confirm those who claim but I would appreciate it if those who are nano-effected keep the when to themselves so as to prevent pattern recognition. Oh and because it was developed by geeky chicken research lab-rats my device has a couple of nifty features not germane to the blue wee. This is one crazy game.

*[oog]Dio, apologies for FF. I was being a jerk[/oog]
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One important question sinjin.

Did you take inject Hockey Monkey on the first day?

[Pollux Oil]

Okay, so lemme get this straight. You inject somebody at night. If they're human, they have a 50% chance of starting to pee blue ick ick ick ick ick but if they're a Replicant they have a 100% chance of not peeing blue. But you don't get the results directly, so do the people you injected have to tell you if they're peeing blue? If so, couldn't a Replicant just lie about the blue pee?

I wonder if your role counts as investigatory, i.e., would the Nexus-9 have a chance at blue pee.

(Seriously, I'm getting images of people wizzing blue Gatorade now. Ick ick ick ick ick.)

[Santo Rugger]

Well, I hope I don't have to shoot the boot for saying anything about this too early, minimizing its effectiveness. If you guys want to see my crumbs, though, look at my first and second posts from yesterDay. The first is a reaction to the night kill, which says, "Aww, piss." In my second post of that Day, I say that I "blew" it with Lisa.

I picked up on sinjin's crumbs as soon as I saw her sig line after it happened to me. Again, I tried to hold off for at least a Day, but didn't know what happened, so felt I had to share.

Sinjin, would you have any idea or information if the Nexus-9 can pee blue?

[Santo Rugger]

Another important question: Do those that don't pee blue know they've been nannoed?

[sinjin]

atarus said:

Okay, so lemme get this straight. You inject somebody at night. If they're human, they have a 50% chance of starting to pee blue ick ick ick ick ick but if they're a Replicant they have a 100% chance of not peeing blue. But you don't get the results directly, so do the people you injected have to tell you if they're peeing blue? If so, couldn't a Replicant just lie about the blue pee?

I wonder if your role counts as investigatory, i.e., would the Nexus-9 have a chance at blue pee.

(Seriously, I'm getting images of people wizzing blue Gatorade now. Ick ick ick ick ick.)

Think how I feel. And the italized part above is why I'm not saying who I nano-ed. If someone claims to whiz blue and I haven't nano-ed them they're liars aren't they?

And it's pretty clear in my pm that replicants do not have side effects, no mention of exceptions. It's purely a physiological effect.

[CatInASuit]

I'm reading this for the third or fourth time and I keep coming to the same conclusion.

Storyteller - you are a seriously sick man - Get help now.

[sinjin]

Cat: I'm not going to answer that.

Rugger: Only about 50% notice anything has happened.

[Santo Rugger]

catinasuit said:

<snip>Did you take inject Hockey Monkey on the first day?

Why is this important?

[Gir!]

Thank God (or reasonable facsimile thereof).

I have to go eat now. Meaningful, content-containing posts coming at some point, after I do some rereading.

[zuma]

I think you should tell us who you tested and what the result was, sinjin. Being able to clear townies shrinks the group that scum have to hide in. Also, waiting for someone to claim and only then clearing them just results in letting the scum know what their role is.

If you keep quiet at this point, then wake up dead, we learn nothing.

[sinjin]

zuma said:

I think you should tell us who you tested and what the result was, sinjin. Being able to clear townies shrinks the group that scum have to hide in. Also, waiting for someone to claim and only then clearing them just results in letting the scum know what their role is.

If you keep quiet at this point, then wake up dead, we learn nothing.

1) I don't know the results.
2) If I tell who I tested they can lie about the results.
3) I think you are confused. I don't want people to role claim, I want them to blue pee claim. I can then confirm that I nano-ed them if I did.
4) It's only about a 50% thing. So if I say I nano-ed someone and they don't claim they could still be a colonist. And the about is in my pm, I'm not the one hedging. I don't know if that means greater than 50%, less than 50% or what.
5) Story, I will get you for this, eventually, when you least expect it, when you think I've forgotten, when you've stopped looking over your shoulder. Never forgive and never forget.

sinjin; forever after known as the purveyor of blue pee

[episodeofblonde]

Whew. Finally some good news.

I will hopefully be able to participate more toDay, and after a good night's sleep I'll do my best to answer the questions thrown my way, and ask others a few of my own. This questioning is good - maybe with this kind of thinking we can turn this around.