Be Excellent To Each Other

It is Day Two, and everyone wakes, before going to their daily meeting in the Captain's Ready Room.

But oh no! On the way there they find a dead body in the Turbolift! It has been shot in the back with a phaser, set to KILLIFY! It's Goddess Jasmine!

She has on her person some scientific documents and a microscope.

Goddess Jasmine was a Civilian.

Mourning the death, the crew trudge to the Ready Room. Strangely, in it, on the table, is a Newton's cradle, clicking and a-clacking away. The material making up the balls looks odd, and a quick tricorder scan reveals that... OH NO! It's made up of the extremely condensed DNA of Alarm!

There is also a note.

Here is Alarm. I found him boring.
Perhaps he will provide more amusement like this.

Q

It gets worse. When a murmur goes around asking for the Captain to remove the offending item... he doesn't respond.

Because Alarm was Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Oh, it's ON!

[playerlist]
Mr Russell
DavPaz
myp it
Trooper
zaphod79
flis
nickachu
KovacsC
Bobbyaro
Slightly Green
Malc
Hero of Excellence
Joans
TheVision
NervousPete
Mr Dom
Craster
ElephantBanjoGnome
gospvg
[/playerlist]

With 19 players remaining, 10 are needed to airlock the heck out of someone, and 15 nolynch votes for no airlock action.

Day Two ends at 4pm on Thursday September 8th.

Oh bollocks... The captain is dead all ready

Rather a lucky hit by Q - I assume there's no way he could have known.

Poor alarm - however he didnt really take part yesterday - i'm more unhappy that GJ is gone.

And I agree with Gospvg's last post yesterday - we may have got Kalmar to post something before the day ended :-(

We also need to remember that there is now probably 2 borg out there and that they will keep recruiting each night

It might be harsh but as a day is 36+ hours long, is there an excuse not to post at all?

No there isnt - oh and one other thing the actions last night tell us if that whoever Alarm investigated was not a baddie (because we didnt lose any redshirts)

Are we still going to shove a quiet one out of an Airlock... unless we have other options?

Oh and another reason for asking people to post , yesterday alarm posted twice , one was "you've got red on you" , the other was "vote kalmar" thats it , no interaction with anyone else which suggests that Q's kill was simply a lucky hit.

GJ's posts were (to paraphrase)

"We should vote and not let things time out but we should wait for some people to talk"
"People need to talk"
"I think Q could be a fun character"
"I think we should go for someone who's not contributing like Kalmar"
"Can someone give me a vote update"
"I'll be away for a while but will check in later"

I wonder if the "Q could be fun" was what caused her to be targeted ? (someone else seeing that as a role claim)

We have plenty of other options , however I wonder if HOE even knows the game is on :-(

in that case.... [vote:hero of excellence] unless he speaks.

Oh noes ( Not the Captain I hope No.2 is up to the job but he's pretty fit if nothing else, I definitely prefer him with a beard.

Right, I'm going to get some food and possibly a drink. It's not too early in the 'day' for drink is it? That's the thing about space, every time I look out and see stars it feels like beer o'clock.

Still not much to go on at this rate. Just 2 stabs in the dark I'd assume. And also the away team will have discovered someone is not a baddie? If I've read the rules correctly. We're gonna have to flush out the Borg soon however before they take over the whole ship! Or we might get lucky and the Borg might have been roleblocked or the romulans might get them.. we don't know! I'm unsure on who to go for so far so I'll start with [vote:bobbyaro] because I don't trust him.

Well, that was a pretty horrific way to start the mission!

I wonder if the baddies know we are going for the quiet ones, so are purposefully talking a fair amount this time round?

Crappity crappity crap! Hopefully Riker & his beard are up to the task...
While I agree that HoE is being quiet, I would have thought that if he were a Romulan, his fellows would be advising him to post at least once. That makes me think he is more likely an innocent with no mates.
I was most puzzled by what looked like a bit of a bandwagon style rush towards the end of yesterday though...

I have no reason to change my mind from yesterday. [vote:Mr Russell]

Its possible , however the negative side would be that the Borg assimulated a Romulan (so they know the other Romulans) or a Bridge Officer (so they know the other Starfleet power roles).



Again possible however we've only killed one 'quiet' person its not as if we're all voting for HOE right now- and if doing that makes them talk then good , because the more they interact the more likely it is they will make a mistake , or will have a discussion with someone else that will give us information after the next death.

Two civilians and the lead goody. I bet the baddies are high giving over that.

I suggest that we all meet in Ten Forward and have jolly good look at ourselves

Some lucky hits there then... Wow.

I agree that Hero of Excellence would have had his band mates telling him to post more so I think he’s just a civilian... Unless he was turned into a Borg overnight?

Again, not much to go on today is there?

I don't remember there being any mirrors.

Well, I hope there's a Riker to take Picard's place. Three crew down and its only day two.

I will [vote:hero of excellence] in lieu of having any better leads, because quiet people still need to speak or be removed from game.

My little one has been struck down with what appears to be Space Measles, so I have to suspend my research until this evening.

Not the best of starts!

I hope Commander Riker is up to the job!

I think maybe there is something to the fact that the baddies won't be hiding in silence, so although it might be easy to knock off the quiet ones, it might actually lead to a baddie win.

And people overly pushing for elimination of the silent types, might be doing it because they have an agenda.

I don't feel any the wiser at the moment, I don't think we should be targetting HoE at the moment, (and I'm not sure who we should be targetting) but it would be nice if he could speak up!

Malc

I definitely have an agenda - an interesting game.

Indeed.

Now I have a habit of over analysing death descriptions, but does the fact that GJ was killed by a phaser strike anyone else as odd? Romulans use disrupters. Although, if they're hiding amongst the crew, they'd be using Starfleet weapons... hmmm.

You appear to have a habit of being an enormous nerd.

Coming from you... that hurts

Are you Data, you big nerd?

I don't think we have much to go on unfortunately, as we have no confirmed baddies to then analyse their posts, so today will be as much a pot luck day as yesterday.
However, I am still of the opinion that we have to airlock someone rather than timeout, but only have gut feel to go on.

I'm going to go back and think about all the conversations that happened yesterday and see who pings my baddie radar the most, back in a bit.

Where is the rules thread? Who had investigative roles last night, and have they found anything?

It's buried in the other rules thread. There's an away team that can investigate, but a red shirt dies if they find a bad guy, so I guess they didn't.

Oh, Curio has finally got his arse into gear and now the rules are in their own thread.

A passing space-time distortion has fixed that now. I reversed the flow of vertirons to the deflector dish and stuff.

Rules thread :

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7446

If you assume every role filed then last night for the goodies we will have had a doctor protect someone / an investigation (I have a question on who gets the info on that which i'll ask in the rules thread in a second) , a 'federation' roleblock / and another investigation.

The borg will probably have recruited.

A Q kill (which we have and also messed up one of the Borgs win conditions - well done)

The Romulans have killed & will have blocked someone

And finally Wesley will have had a chance to prove he's the cleverest person in the world (and since no-one vanished in a puff of light he's failed).

Nerd!!

So my link (above) is now wrong - and they are here : viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7694

0 – 1 Borg Queen
You are Borg. Resistance is futile. Each night phase you can choose someone to convert to The Borg. Almost everyone is a viable Borg host.
Primary win condition – Bjorn Again
Secondary win condition – Locutus


Yippee be buggered her secondary win conditions

Wesley has to get 5 right and can only guess 3 per night, so couldn't have done it on night one.

See?

EMERGENCY: KLINGONS!

SEND MORE WET WIPES

Wait - no it isn't.

It looks for the latest thread doesn't it? Which is now the rules thread.

http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/c ... php?t=7693 - this will work for todays thread only

Star Trek TNG Scum - Day Two
VOTE UPDATE

mr russell: 1 (myp it)
bobbyaro: 1 (nickachu)
hero of excellence: 2 (KovacsC, ElephantBanjoGnome)

Not voted: 15 (mr russell, davpaz, trooper, zaphod79, flis, bobbyaro, slightly green, malc, hero of excellence, joans, thevision, nervouspete, mrdom, craster, gospvg)

With 19 players alive, 10 votes are required for a lynch, and 14 nolynch votes are required to not lynch anybody.

http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/counter/

Yeah, it does.

Yeah, I know.

Shall we get on with the game now?

Er, [vote:Nickachu]

Shit a brick.

Sorry.

Fixed it. Now... anyone for a game of Parisi Squares?

So, after all that, and a little nap in my quarters. My pure gut-feel FoS is pointing at, DavPaz, Malc and Craster at the moment.
No particular reason at all to be honest, they just look shifty.

[vote:Malc]

It might help if you could point to things that make them seem shifty to you - gut feeling is fine but why should *i* act on your gut feeling ?

At the end of yesterday the main people I were considering to be bad were Alarm and Mr Dom - mainly for posting something but not really taking part , Alarm has already been proved 'good' and Mr Dom has some external influences which may make things more difficult to push for an discussion with him.

Not now but I do think we do need to come back to HOE at some time , because if we simply ignore them then they could be a great recruit for the Borg - its a 'free' person who if they really are not taking part could help swing numbers (not for this time but i think having a day run over 24 hours and *no* posts from a player unless they have announced some special circumstances first should be a modkill)

Okay, comment the first, why would a goodie try and out Data? This is a crazy thing to do, and only a baddie would even consider it fos kovacsC.


Comment the second. As EBG, states; three crew down ... three ... crew ... down. Three crew ... down. Except it isn't three crew down, it is one crew and two civilians. As a civilian, I know I am not a member of the crew. I am fairly certain the crew know the civilians aren't members. Who might not know who is crew and who isn't? Someone new on board? Someone who hasn't had time to acquaint themselves with the duty roster? Someone who is a Romulan?
[vote:ElephantBanjoGnome]

My reasoning for Malc is that he was been saying a fair amount at the start, but not really being interacted with. I think the baddies would be less likely to interact with each other for fear of being seen together, so posting without interaction with others is a slight smell. The only person he really interacted with was you...
Then he went quiet, until it looked like weight was started to come towards a Kalmar vote, at which point he switched votes and the bandwagon got going. I think it is very likely that the Romulans had a sigificant number of them voting for Kalmar yesterday, so looking at all those people is a good bet for today.

Nothing concrete, just a pattern that stood out when I thought back to the conversations we all had yesterday, and I have nothing better to go on.