Be Excellent To Each Other

Day dawns on the town of Roswell, and everyone gets up bright and early to hear the Mayor's annual State of the Town Address.

But... but... but... where is the Mayor?

People scurry hither and thither, trying to find him, but when he is discovered, it is not a pleasant moment.

The Mayor has been killed! He has been turned into a green pile of goo, identifiable only by his nearby glasses and pocketwatch, which somehow survived the alien death ray.

Alien death ray? What's that you say? Yes! There is a folder, a dossier some might call it, on his desk, and in it are details of an alien invasion, lead by aliens with alien death rays. Who'd have thunk it?

But there's more!

Nearby is a man, a man whose handiwork may well have compiled the dossier. Next to him lies a half-empty packet of cigarettes, and in his chest lies a great big carving knife.

Roswell is under attack from aliens, but perhaps there are also those within the town itself who wish to harm the innocent townsfolk.

Who will survive?

[playerlist]
Craster
Zardoz
Doctor Glyndwr
myp
The Rev Owen
Joans
Morte
Mr Dom
Malc
Grim...
kalmar
Mr Chris
Runcle
Bobbyaro
Mr Russell
LaceSensor
zaphod79
GazChap
Bluecup
Dudley
Goddess Jasmine
Shin
Mr Dave
[/playerlist]

It is Day 1. With 23 players alive, 12 votes are required to secure a lynch. 17 votes are required for no lynch. The deadline for Day 1 is Tuesday at midday.

So, did anyone have a troubled night's sleep and then woke up with a strangely sore bottom?

Hello.

Aliens!

Um - if we read the dossier, does it tell us who all the aliens are? That would be a pretty sweet way to run the quickest game ever.

ha have the aliens finally sent in a rescue mission for their AWOL comrades from the 50's? Going to be pissed off when they realise their buddies werent wearing their seatbelts.

oh hi.

What a wonderful day it is!

Malc

Cillit bang will never get those goo stains out

you've mistaken the TV as the window again.

So, effectively, the aliens are the mafia and the mafia are the cult?

I read it as the Mafia, Aliens and Townies were all separate?

Shh, this is a brand new original-style game.

I mean apart from the Aliens, the murderer, and the goo.

Malc

Unlikely. Dimrill isn't playing, after all

I quite like the Coen-esque Mafia sub-plot
Real life Mafia doesn't work like that, they'd need to start with a core of real family, trusted soldiers and that. But in this game, yes, they are effectively the Cult and could end up as a significant force.

Morning all. Sorry I'm late, there's something wrong with my toaster, and I ZOMG THE MAYOR!

Morning all. I am working (honest) but will keep an eye on the game too.

cant believe you killed off cancer man with a knife. You need a big fuck off helicopter fighter.

Someone needs to ask the cows what's going on.

(I watched Cartman Gets An Anal Probe last night. Appropriate.)

* Looks up from Nazi hooker orgy *

Oh THAT'S just sick.

Um... [vote-Comicalgnomes]... shit...

Well at least the aliens are returning our abductees.

Its quite interesting that its almost like 2 games running at the same time with the same group of people but two different goals and targets.

The Aliens vs the FBI and the town
The Mafia vs the cop and the town

And of course the SK vs everyone else

Killing roles on night 1 just looks to be the aliens and the SK , but after that the mafia can become deadly quite quickly , and if Mulder goes then Scully becomes an alien killing role

Er, this guy has 2 heads. Do we think he's alien or human?

Is it to the town's advantage if Mulder dies, then? So Scully can kill aliens?

Anyone got any ideas on what we should do now?

Pub?

Wait until everyone else logs on and see who looks dodgey?

Now that's a fucking plan.

Lynch someone.

Get 2 people up to near the limit, and see what they have to say for themselves.

IT doesn't really matter who it is for now.

I'd suggest (without looking at the list) the 10th and 20th people on the list.

Malc

Good morning.

So Grim... and Dudley

[vote:grim...]

Malc

I think the Scully alien-killing role is a bit of a wild card that'll only be interesting later on. Until then it's maybe better to have them work as a team to start off votes against evil aliens that are discovered.

Not a bad idea.

[vote: malc]

Not for another hour.

Eek, now it looks like I did that in retaliation. Without looking at the list, eh?

Malc's right. We've established in previous games that the Town needs as much information as quickly as possible, and we'll only get that with an early push for lynching.

I used a random number generator: [vote:LaceSensor]

Yeah, it is to be honest. With Mulder alive, he gets to find out if someone's an alien, but then he has to convince the town to lynch them. With Scully, if she finds an alien, she squishes it. And Mulder is the only one who cares about aliens, so we want them dead.

Although the Benevolent Alien is useful, I'd suggest getting rid of them all is more useful.

Still, we're not likely to deliberately off Mulder.

Shall I [vote: Dudley] to to cover all bases?

Also Mulder won't want the town to lynch them, because he doesn't know if they're the benevolent alien or not.

Poor Dudley

I'll go with the [vote:LaceSensor] though to get it underway, sorry nothing personal

Heh, I tried that one in a previous life. I was genuine but nobody went along with it.
Still, on that basis I will trust you, and to get things moving..
[vote:LaceSensor]

Only 1 benevolent alien, versus (maybe) 4 evil ones and the queen. If the Mulder player is playing the odds, at least early on, he or she might go for a lynch.

Guys, you need to get your vote blocks right. These wouldn't be counted:
(Although CG isn't playing so Dudley was just making a funny).

Ah, no spaces! Ok, [vote:LaceSensor].

I very deliberately made that typo in case voting for a phantom fucked up the counter.

Yeah, I guessed that was the case. I can't remember what it does when someone votes for a non-playing person. I think it just counts and tallies it anyway.

should we not wait for mr russ to role claim?

I seem to remember it did exactly that.

Don't I trim spaces? I'm sure I trim spaces.

Curio, have you got the votecounter working?


I don't trust the Doc's first message. "Look, this is what I'm doing because this is what townies are supposed to do - previous games have told us this". "I've used a random number generator because there's no way I could know anything about who I'm voting for".

Hmmm.

Actually that's a good point. Mulder's win condition is Benevolent Alien, not town! So there's two active reasons for him to NOT reveal an alien, just in case it's the good one.

Scully's condition is Town so ideally she should push for the town to lynch him, so she can get on with alien genocide

Well you could start voting for him and see what happens if we pit him against LS?

Okay, so Mulder's a complete liability - just like real life!