Alien Invasion II (recruiting closed, game starting shortly)

[purple gelatinous cube o' Doom]

Ok, now that we've completed A.I, it's time to start the next one. For those of you that are new, and haven't yet seen the rules here they are

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Y'all live in a cozy little town close to the middle of nowhere, and a group of aliens has decided to abduct members of the town to run their crazy experiments on up in the mothership. It's up to you to root them out before they abduct you all one by one during the night, and replace you all with life like copies.

Townsfolk: The simple people that the aliens have chosen to abduct. It is your job to decipher who among you are the imposters and destroy them.

Aliens: The slimy little green creatures that are selecting the unsuspecting to experiment on and make new discoveries.

Area 51 employees (Masons): The fabled area 51 has determined where the aliens will strike next by interrogating a stranded alien from their last venture to Earth. A group of these scientific minds have infiltrated the town and assumed the roles of residents.

Crazy escaped abductee (Fool): This person was abducted by the aliens but has escaped. The disturbing tests the escapee has been put through, has altered his mental state. He now thinks that he can identify the aliens, but the drugs they have given him are interfering with his rationalization

Agent Fox Mulder (Seer): Agent Mulder works for the FBI's branch of the unexplainable. He was also able to find out where the aliens were to attack through his various contacts. Through his various adventures with Scully, he has become very adept at blending into new surroundings and identifying aliens.

Big Freakin' Alien (Devil): The mother alien. All the little ones come running to her every night a drop of her infinite knowledge.

Town radio DJ (Baner): The DJ has read somewhere that the aliens don't like Country music, so every night, he will find some he wants to keep from abduction by playing country music outside their house.

The Twist:

There is a random chance that an abductee can escape their captors and make it back down to Earth. When this happens, one of two things can happen from this. One, the townsperson who makes it down was has not been probed and had their implant put in yet. Due to the drugs used by the aliens, they remember nothing of what happened and return as normal people. Two, the implant was successfully placed into the abductee, and you are sent back home. But, now the aliens have control of your mind, and your new objective is to protect the aliens at all cost, even sacrificing yourself as necessary. (essentially you have become anti-masons). Any Area 51 members that get abducted and have implants put in them automatically fail due to the preventative measures they have taken knowing how the alien technology works.

Regarding Fox Mulder and the crazy abductee, both start out as normal townspeople, and after being abducted some time during the game either remember who they are, or think they can identify the aliens.

I'm going to open registration for one week starting now, and see where things stand then. (registration will end Sunday June 17th). I will need a co-narrator for this, so if you're interested, please PM me. But, if Castaras would like to do it again, she gets preference.

One more thing. I'm tossing around the of having a secret rule for the game that the players may, or may not find out during the game. I haven't decided I will have one yet, or what it will be, but if I do decide to have it, I will let everyone know before the start of the game.

Participant list (33)
Akaziel
Alarra
Andre Fairchilde
Atreyu the masked llama
Bassetking
Castaras
Crystall_Myr
CurlyKitGirl
Dartonus
El Jaspero the Pirate King
Emerald Rose
Fleeing Coward
Flying elephant
Helgraf
Ink
inky13112
janusnori
Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins
Mordokai
Nimbleswick
pingcode20
Pwenet
radikalskippy
RocketBard
Supagoof
Rumda
Shadow
Vicarin
Voidhawk
Vonriel
Whitehelm
Xykon_fan
Zar Peter

My co-narrator for this game is going to be doilemaster

[janusnori]

Absolutely in again!

[Akaziel]

Yay! In again! That was fast...

[inky13112]

I have returned. (in)

[Helgraf]

Bleh. I'll give it another try, though I'm dissatisfied with the communication breakdown team alien had.

[Xykon_Fan]

May as well, I'm destined to give Castaras a run for her money on max WW games played in. Besides, these are fun, and it looks like an awesome game, and I've never played Alien before.

Thanks for running this!

[Shadow]

Well since I was the Radio DJ in the first one (that never got played....) and I didn't sign up for it's successor (because I forgot....) you can count me in!

[Nibleswick]

I hope it out better for me this time, last time I was drawn and quartered. I'll join.

[Castaras]

I'll sign up as a player, rather than co-narrator this time.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

pease let me play

[pingcode20]

I'm in this time.

[Fleeing Coward]

Count me in.

[Rumda]

I'm in again

[CurlyKitGirl]

I'll join.

[Skippy]

It sounds like fun!! I'm in!!

[RocketBard]

I've never played a structured game before, but I would like to try. I someone could PM me on how to play that would be great.

[Voidhawk]

Sounds cool! I've never played a structured game before either, but i'd like to play too if someone would PM me the rules.

[Mordokai]

I want in too!

I'm just not sure how this goes, but I think after reading first three pages of previous AI topic I get the point pretty much. Is there any special rules that I should be aware of?

[Zar Peter]

So, I would volunteer as co-narrator if you like but I have to say that my story writing is not very good.

If another one likes to co-narrate I would like to play.

[purple gelatinous cube o' Doom]

For those of you unfamiliar with the game please go here. http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7599
That is the rules for the game of Werewolf from which this game is based on. There are a few changes for this game, which are in the first post, but the basic game you need to know is there.

[Shadow]

Also, new players may wish to check out the stickied thread Werewolf Central in the Structured Games sub-forum.

If you have any questions after that, read through some of the game threads or just PM me.
I'd be happy to help.

[Mordokai]

Thanks for the links, I'm pretty sure I got everything figured out now, and am looking forward to start playing.

[Vicarin]

Looks fun. I'm in.

[Ink]

Hey, the last game was lots of fun. I'll play again.

[Voidhawk]

Thanks for the link, i get the rules now. I've played a version of this before, it just didn't have the Baner, Fool, or Devil. I'm definitely still in.

[RocketBard]

For those of you unfamiliar with the game please go here. http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7599
That is the rules for the game of Werewolf from which this game is based on. There are a few changes for this game, which are in the first post, but the basic game you need to know is there.

When I saw this, it looked like it would have been conducted over PMs, otherwise there wouldn't be a reason to accuse anybody. Is this assumption accurate?

[Xykon_Fan]

Well, there's a secret and public portion of this game. Every night, anyone with a role which requires a secret action PMs the narrator and co-narrator. Every day, everyone in the village (including villains, etc.) narrates what their character is doing, and points at someone (using red texting) to vote for who they think might be an alien and who they want to lynch by mob-violence. Now, you do have to lynch someone, or you will be auto-lynched by default. It's unfair, but it's the way it works. It creates what's known as "first-day reasoning"..."Well, we gotta kill someone, so let's kill someone relatively random!"

[RocketBard]

Well, there's a secret and public portion of this game. Every night, anyone with a role which requires a secret action PMs the narrator and co-narrator. Every day, everyone in the village (including villains, etc.) narrates what their character is doing, and points at someone (using red texting) to vote for who they think might be an alien and who they want to lynch by mob-violence. Now, you do have to lynch someone, or you will be auto-lynched by default. It's unfair, but it's the way it works. It creates what's known as "first-day reasoning"..."Well, we gotta kill someone, so let's kill someone relatively random!"

Oh boy, I hope I don't hang on my first day.

[Supagoof]

General rule of thumb...keep your role a secret until you know for certain who you can trust. Do that, and you'll be fine.

I'm in for sure. Rather then MIB role in this game, I think I'll go with ET this time.

Make that GT for Graklok Terrestrial.

Except Graklok won't fit into a bike basket. I'll need to think about this some.

[Bassetking]

I'm in.

Let's see how this one goes... We lost Bolt Vanderhuge to Aliens.... This time... Fridge Largemeat!