Roadside Picnic – Read the short story here.
http://www.cca.org/cm/picnic.pdf
The aliens came in the Night. Some people saw them but became ill and quickly perished; others heard them and still bear the scars, both physical and mental. Others, the Survivors, only know what they have pieced together from the fables of the deranged and the evidence left behind in the Zones. A Zone is recognized by the United Nations as a region where an alien vessel landed. It may seem at first glance to be an old shipping yard, a barren park, or a run down neighborhood, but it hides many deadly secrets. The strange radiation of the alien spacecraft transformed the plants, insects, and animals, even people, which were in close proximity. The Zone is a deadly place of quarantine, no one but UN authorized Scientists are allowed to enter the Zone. Trespassers are shot on sight by elite Military operatives. In the new Frontier towns surrounding a Zone, a black market has formed, based on the trade of alien technology recovered from the Zone. Smugglers are called Stalkers, and they take their job seriously. The town of ACville is a Class I Zone. You find yourself stuck here, unable to afford the cost of relocating, and the town is dying in poverty and disease.
You are a Military Operative. You have orders to find and kill all Stalkers before they release unknown horrors on the world. You may communicate with your squad privately.
You are a Civilian Scientist. You are here to research the unusual properties of items recovered from the Zone. The Military requires you to assemble once a Day at Dusk and report on who you believe is a Stalker.
You are a Stalker. You embrace the new technology and the dangers associated with it that have been left behind by the alien visitors. You have access to a limited assortment of Alien Technology that will be used at random intervals. Since the Stalkers are a very closely connected group they may communicate privately. Your group may choose to kill one person per Night after Day 1.
Stalkers are the equivalent of Mafia.
Military are communicating Innocents.
Civilian Scientists are Innocents that may NOT talk outside the game thread.
I (like a dweeb) left my pretyped intro at work with the game rules. But this plays like a normal Mafia Game.
You must vote each Day to lynch a suspected Stalker. You do so by typing IN BOLD, I vote to toss XXXXXX into the Zone.
If you do not vote, you will be thrown into the Zone and you WILL die.
You may not vote for yourself. You may not vote No One.
To change a vote say you retract your vote IN BOLD and revote.
There are special alien devices that will come in to play. Watch for my posts on those during the game.
Game Day 1 will end at 8PM EST on Monday.
GAME ON!!!
It is not too late to join! PM me to be added to this game up until 8PM EST Saturday.
http://www.cca.org/cm/picnic.pdf
The aliens came in the Night. Some people saw them but became ill and quickly perished; others heard them and still bear the scars, both physical and mental. Others, the Survivors, only know what they have pieced together from the fables of the deranged and the evidence left behind in the Zones. A Zone is recognized by the United Nations as a region where an alien vessel landed. It may seem at first glance to be an old shipping yard, a barren park, or a run down neighborhood, but it hides many deadly secrets. The strange radiation of the alien spacecraft transformed the plants, insects, and animals, even people, which were in close proximity. The Zone is a deadly place of quarantine, no one but UN authorized Scientists are allowed to enter the Zone. Trespassers are shot on sight by elite Military operatives. In the new Frontier towns surrounding a Zone, a black market has formed, based on the trade of alien technology recovered from the Zone. Smugglers are called Stalkers, and they take their job seriously. The town of ACville is a Class I Zone. You find yourself stuck here, unable to afford the cost of relocating, and the town is dying in poverty and disease.
You are a Military Operative. You have orders to find and kill all Stalkers before they release unknown horrors on the world. You may communicate with your squad privately.
You are a Civilian Scientist. You are here to research the unusual properties of items recovered from the Zone. The Military requires you to assemble once a Day at Dusk and report on who you believe is a Stalker.
You are a Stalker. You embrace the new technology and the dangers associated with it that have been left behind by the alien visitors. You have access to a limited assortment of Alien Technology that will be used at random intervals. Since the Stalkers are a very closely connected group they may communicate privately. Your group may choose to kill one person per Night after Day 1.
Stalkers are the equivalent of Mafia.
Military are communicating Innocents.
Civilian Scientists are Innocents that may NOT talk outside the game thread.
I (like a dweeb) left my pretyped intro at work with the game rules. But this plays like a normal Mafia Game.
You must vote each Day to lynch a suspected Stalker. You do so by typing IN BOLD, I vote to toss XXXXXX into the Zone.
If you do not vote, you will be thrown into the Zone and you WILL die.
You may not vote for yourself. You may not vote No One.
To change a vote say you retract your vote IN BOLD and revote.
There are special alien devices that will come in to play. Watch for my posts on those during the game.
Game Day 1 will end at 8PM EST on Monday.
GAME ON!!!
It is not too late to join! PM me to be added to this game up until 8PM EST Saturday.
