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Rotaretilbo
Mere Mortal
(id: Brandon Rebuga)

posted 01-04-13 08:29 PM CT (US) 1 / 1321

"Morning Mister Freeman," the guard called as he typed in
the access code to open the door. "It looks like you're
running late." With a pneumatic hiss, the door slid open and
Gordon stepped off the train and followed the guard to the
first of two heavy blast doors that divided the Black Mesa
Transit System from Sector C. The guard typed in an access
code for the blast door silently, and Gordon moved into the
short passage between the blast doors. The first blast door
slid shut with a slam, and after a few moments, the second
slid open, granting access to the test labs. Gordon Freeman
walked forward to the reception desk, where a security
officer sat looking at a computer with a scientist watching
from over his shoulder.

"Hey Mister Freeman. I had a bunch of messages for you, but
we had a system crash about twenty minutes ago, and I'm
still trying to find my files. Just one of those days, I
guess. They were having some problems down in the test
chamber too, but I think that's all straightened out. They
told me to make sure you headed down there as soon as you
got into your hazard suit." Nodding, Gordon headed over to a
personal-use terminal to see if those messages had been sent
directly to him.

However, as he initiated the terminal, another scientist ran
over, scolding, "Get away from there, Freeman. I'm expecting
an important message!" The scientist deactivated the
terminal and then walked back over to where he had been
watching several status monitors nearby. Gordon, being an
intern, turned around without a word and headed for the
lockers, but paused long enough to stop in the break room.

"Ah, hello Gordon Freeman. It's good to see you," a much
friendlier scientist at a vending machine greeted. Noting
something already in the microwave, Gordon decided to be
helpful and hit the auto-defrost. To everyone's surprise,
the casserole exploded.

"By God? What are you doing?!" another scientist, seated at
the table, yelled. Gordon shrugged and left, hoping no one
would make not of this incident on his record. Through the
locker room, he donned the only remaining HEV suit.

"Welcome to the H-E-V Mark Four Protective System," a
digital voice said into his ear piece. "For use in hazardous
environment conditions. High-impact reactive armor
activated. Atmospheric contaminant sensors activated. Vital
signs monitoring activated. Automatic medical systems
engaged. Defensive weapon selection system activated.
Munition level monitoring online. Communication interface
online. Have a very safe day!" Gordon made his way down the
corridor towards Test Lab C-33/a.

As he approached a security door, another security guard
caught sight of him. "Go right on through, sir," the guard
said as he turned to activate a retinal scanner. "Looks like
you're in the barrel today." The two bulletproof glass
security doors slid open, in turn, as Gordon made his way to
an elevator. The loudspeaker blared in his ear about some
irrelevant testing as he made his descent into the test lab
proper. Making his way past several scientists who greeted
him warmly, a security guard who said nothing at all, and
lots of expensive-looking equipment, Gordon finally made it
to the control facility for Test Lab C-33/a.

"Ah, Gordon! There you are. We just sent the sample down to
the test chamber," one scientist, whom Gordon knew as Doctor
Kleiner, explained.

"We've boosted the anti-mass spectrometer one hundred five
percent," an older scientist added. "Bit of a gamble, but we
need the extra resolution."

A third scientist noted, "The administrator is very
concerned that we get a conclusive analysis of today's
sample. I gather they went to some length to get it."

"They're waiting for you Gordon," Doctor Kleiner
interjected. When Gordon didn't immediately jump at his
command, he added, "In the test chamber." The third
scientist went over and activated the retinal scanner to
allow access to the test chamber elevator. As Gordon made
his way into the next room, a scientist began to call out a
greeting when a crash was heard from the left. Both
scientists ran over to repair the console that appeared to
have overloaded. Ignoring their cursing and muttering about
the damaged console and all the other bad things that had
happened that morning, Gordon called for the test chamber
elevator. Below, he moved through another corridor and made
it to the waiting room outside the heavy blast door that led
into the test chamber. Two scientists waited for him.

"I'm afraid we'll be deviating a bit from standard analysis
procedures today, Gordon," the scientist on the right
explained.

"Yes, but with good reason!" the scientist on the left
replied defensively, hinting at an argument that might have
transpired between the two previously regarding the
deviation. "This is a rare opportunity for us. This is the
purest sample we've seen yet."

"And," the right scientist added, "potentially, the most
unstable."

"Now, now," the left scientist chided, "if you'll follow
standard insertion procedures, everything will be fine."

"I don't know how you can say that! Although, I will
admit that the possibility of a resonance cascade scenario
is extremely unlikely..."

"Gordon doesn't need to hear all this! He's a highly-trained
professional." the left scientist interrupted. Gordon
appreciated the euphemism for the term intern. "We've
assured the administrator that nothing will go wrong."

"Ah...yes," the right scientist sighed, relenting at the
mention of the administrator. "You're right. Gordon, we have
complete confidence in you."

"Well, go ahead," the left scientist decided. "Let's let him
in now." The two turned and went to opposite ends of the
blast door, where two retinal scanners were placed -
simultaneous retinal confirmation was required to access the
test chamber itself. Inside was a massive machine, which
Gordon knew to be the anti-mass spectrometer, a device used
to measure the mass and contents of exotic materials which
had negative mass, such as the strange yellow crystal
samples the team had been working with lately. Once inside,
the foot-thick blast door slid shut again, leaving Gordon
alone in the test chamber. Gordon made his way along the
pathway around the edge of the circular chamber, and then
climbed up a ladder to the control terminal inside the
chamber, awaiting further instruction.

A shrill screech of audio feedback greeted him, followed by
Doctor Kleiner saying, "Testing...testing..." over the PA
system. The scientist cleared his throat noisily, and then
continued, "Everything seems to be in order."

"Alright Gordon," the third scientist from the control room
began, "your suit should keep you comfortable through all
this. The specimen should be delivered to you in a few
moments. If you would be so good as to climb up and start
the rotors, we could bring the anti-mass spectrometer to
eighty percent and hold it there, until the carrier
arrives." From his tone, Gordon could tell that this
particular scientist was upset that he hadn't done so
already, but Gordon had been given very specific
instructions to perform no tasks until instructed by a
scientist. Flipping open the cover guard protecting an
on/off switch and corresponding power light, he powered on
the rotors above the machine, which began to spin with a
loud, resonating hum. "Very good. We'll take it from here,"
the scientist added, as though Gordon were just some trained
ape.

"Power to stage one emitters in three...two...one," Doctor
Kleiner announced. Three roughly round prongs began to spin
around the focusing beam at the top as a yellow arc of pure
energy shot down the center into the receiving node. Smaller
yellow arcs occasionally shot out to connect the three
probes to the central beam as they spun. "I'm seeing the
typical phase arrays." The scientist paused, likely looking
at various readings. "Stage two emitters activating...now."
From the three probes, strange yellow waves of energy
dissimilar to the central arc shot down to meet the arc at
the receiver. The smaller arcs connecting probes to the
central beam began to shoot out more frequently, always in
sync with one another.

"Gordon, we cannot predict how long the system can operate
at this level or how long the reading will take," the older
scientist from the control room added, just a hint of
urgency in his voice, breaking Gordon from the enchanting
beauty of the beams of energy. "Please work as quickly as
you can."

"Overhead capacitors to one-O-five percent," Doctor Kleiner
read aloud. "Uh... it's probably not a problem...
probably... but I'm showing a small discrepancy in...
well... no. It's well within acceptable bounds. Sustaining
sequence."

"I've just been informed that the sample is ready, Gordon,"
the third scientist announced as a series of red lights
began to flash over the delivery lift. "It should be coming
up to you any moment. Look to the delivery system for your
specimen." Gordon again noted the condescension in the voice
of this particular scientist. Climbing down the ladder, he
made his way to the delivery lift, where a small cart with
the largest, most opaque yellow crystal he had seen yet
attached. "Standard procedure for a non-standard specimen.
Go ahead, Gordon." Gordon pushed the cart into the yellow
beam.

"Oh dear!" Doctor Kleiner gasped.

"Gordon! Get away from the-" the third scientist began to
yell.

"Shutting down..." Doctor Kleiner interrupted as an
explosion bloomed from the rotors.

"No!" the older scientist was heard to shout as a second and
then a third explosion wracked the rotors.

"Attempting to shut down..." Doctor Kleiner shouted as the
green glow permeated through the chamber and arcs of energy
began to shoot out at the chamber walls. "It's not...it's
not-it's not shutting down! It's...it's..." A beam of energy
shot straight into the control room, accompanied by screams
from all three. Suddenly, green arcs of energy seemed to
shoot from the walls towards the focusing beam, creating a
green ball of lightning, which briefly stabilized and then
shot green arcs back out in every direction. Gordon ran for
the blast doors, but they remained shut. Turning, he watched
as the green ball of lightning dissipated, leaving only the
central arc, which was now green and clearly unstable. All
around him, balls of yellow-green energy began appearing,
and things dropped out. The chamber was filled with the
sounds of foreign lifeforms, and then in a bright flash of
green, everything went dark. Gordon tried to catch his
breath and figure out where he was, but after only a few
moments, he saw another bright flash of green, and he was
back in the test chamber, albeit on the opposite side from
the blast door. Another flash of green, and he found himself
standing in a shallow pool of some kind of liquid on some
sort of alien terrain. The sky above was gaseous and a sort
of putrid pale green. Of most interest, two bipedal
creatures which somewhat resembled alligators in size,
shape, and texture, shared the pool with him. Instead of
mouths, they had four or five red tentacles centered around
a maw, which contrasted with their primarily sickly yellow
and black bodies. Before either could react to his presence,
another flash of green took him again to the pitch black. He
clutched his chest, trying to will his heart to stop racing,
when suddenly the floor began to glow a dull green. In front
of him were four mottled brown creatures, each with a large
central eye. The creatures were roughly humanoid, standing
on two legs and having two arms, albeit hunched over. As
Gordon took closer stock of these creatures, he noted that
each had a third, smaller arm sprouting from its chest. All
four wore green metallic bracers, and green metallic
collars, albeit, for what purpose, Gordon could not tell.
The lights began to flicker, and the creatures regarded
Gordon with as much surprise as he them. Unable to process
what was going on, Gordon passed out.

When he awoke, he was back in the test chamber, an alarm
blaring in his ears. Most of the anti-matter spectrometer
was destroyed, with faint arcs of electricity shooting off
in all directions from the shattered remains of the focusing
beam. The room was empty, save for himself. Large pieces of
rubble were apparent throughout the room where chunks of the
ceiling and rotors had come loose and fallen. Looking
around, Gordon found himself on delivery lift. To his right,
the blast door was partially open. He crawled through the
opening, where he found the body of the right scientist,
whom had objected to the testing. Holding down the bile that
rose in his throat, Gordon went to the door that led out of
the chamber. When it didn't respond, he tried the retinal
scanner hanging off the wall by its wiring, hoping against
all hope that he had been entered as authorized to access
this door. The door spit out a garbled mess, followed by
"Unauthorized personnel," but the door responded, opening
and closing several times before finally opening fully.
Outside, he found the left scientist attempting to perform
CPR on a clearly deceased security guard. Another scientist
lay dead beside him. Gordon ignored them, heading into the
corridor. Several more corpses awaiting him, with multiple
machines turned over. As he made his way down the corridor,
one such device exploded, splattering blood from a nearby
corpse everywhere. Horrified, Gordon raced to the chamber
elevator. The roof of the corridor had partially collapsed,
but Gordon crawled over the debris, and was much relieved
when the right half of the security door opened for him. The
hermetic seal of the lift shaft had mostly held up, and the
lift actually worked. The room beyond looked mostly
untouched from behind the door, but as he stepped in, he
found the two scientists from before, one collapsed and
bleeding internally and the other, whom Gordon knew as
Doctor Vance trying to aid his companion.

"Why did they do it?" Doctor Vance lamented. "We tried to
warn them!"

"I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade..." the wounded
scientist uttered, shaking his head in shock, "let alone
create one."

"Gordon, you're alive!" Doctor Vance gasped as he noticed
Gordon. "Thank God for that hazard suit. I'm afraid to move
him and all our phones are out. Please, get to the surface
as soon as you can and let someone know we're stranded down
here. You'll need me to activate the retinal scanners. I'm
sure the rest of the science team will gladly help you."
Gordon nodded and began to make his way to the door. On his
left, a bright green ball formed in one of the previously
empty glass tanks. As the ball dissipated, it was replaced
by an alien quadrupedal lifeform, roughly the size of a
large rodent. The thing made a sound reminiscent to mewling,
but then screeched and attempted to jump at him. As it
reared its front legs up, it revealed the large, toothy maw
on its belly. Gordon could only guess what it was for. "How
interesting...just look at that!" Doctor Vance commented as
he made his way to the retinal scanner, granting Gordon
access to the control facility. Inside, only the corpse of
the older scientist was present, though Gordon secretly
hoped that the third scientist had met with an untimely
demise as well. A beam of yellow-green energy shot through a
hole in the blast window that gave the scientists a view of
the test chamber. Gordon waited, and began to make his way
across the chamber once the beam had disappeared. It arced
in again, this time destroying the opposite door.

Not questioning his luck, Gordon made his way into the
facility proper.

It is Night 0.
Please send all actions to lollerquirrelz@gmail.com

"Also, I'm no clearer on what WIFOM is really, although I gather it's something to do with Thymole being gay..." -Sassenach
"I don't lie in my claims and I don't intend to." -WeeMicky
"OH MY GOD A DINOSAUR" -Peter Fallon

[This message has been edited by Rotaretilbo (edited 01-05-2013 @ 08:58 PM).]

THYMOLE
Mere Mortal

posted 01-05-13 00:10 AM CT (US) 2 / 1321

The response to the casserole is the scientists' response to friendly fire, isn't it? :P

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Pulse_of_Shift
Mere Mortal

posted 01-05-13 04:36 PM CT (US) 3 / 1321

What up with it, vanillaface?

Rick: POS is literally the best poster.
Lunatic: POS, you are awesome, can I marry you?

ColdCanuck
Mere Mortal
(id: Coldviper)

posted 01-07-13 08:18 AM CT (US) 4 / 1321

Exciting.

Sassenach
Impish Cherub

posted 01-07-13 11:09 AM CT (US) 5 / 1321

Rot, is it going to be necessary to have to read through all of these incredibly long writeups or will you just summarise all the useful info at the end ?

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side ? and ain't that a big enough majority in any town ?" - Huckleberry Finn

Rotaretilbo
Mere Mortal
(id: Brandon Rebuga)

posted 01-07-13 12:54 PM CT (US) 6 / 1321

I doubt any other write ups will be this long.

"Also, I'm no clearer on what WIFOM is really, although I gather it's something to do with Thymole being gay..." -Sassenach
"I don't lie in my claims and I don't intend to." -WeeMicky
"OH MY GOD A DINOSAUR" -Peter Fallon

FancyDante
Mere Mortal
(id: If_Was_A_Ville)

posted 01-07-13 01:52 PM CT (US) 7 / 1321

Master mind Sass, Worried about post length because reading just isn't important in Mafia.

Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 01-07-13 02:56 PM CT (US) 8 / 1321

I've pretty much never read a writeup anyone's ever put forward (sorry mods), so I'm certainly not going to read one that long.

Master mind Sass, Worried about post length because reading just isn't important in Mafia.

I know you're being tongue in cheek, but...

1) I don't want to read a wall of text that has largely nothing to do with the game.

2) I don't want to have to bother decrypting anything that isn't made clear in the "who died" summary at the bottom.

I'm sure relying on other people analysing it puts me in a weaker position game wise, but I'll take that if it means I have more fun

house won this

Plake
Mere Mortal

posted 01-07-13 02:59 PM CT (US) 9 / 1321

So you take away all the flavor and fun out of the game so you can have more fun?

...

WHYCANTYOUSE

FancyDante
Mere Mortal
(id: If_Was_A_Ville)

posted 01-07-13 02:59 PM CT (US) 10 / 1321

I know you're being tongue in cheek, but...

Then why the but.

I know the man meant no harm, but I shot him anyways.

WRP
Mere Mortal
(id: WRP_BEATER)

posted 01-07-13 03:25 PM CT (US) 11 / 1321

Flavour isn't fun. Analysing isn't either. I'm not even sure why I play mafias anymore.

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Herr Heir
Mere Mortal
(id: Heir of Elessar)

posted 01-07-13 03:31 PM CT (US) 12 / 1321

Flavor would've been fun if we were playing HGMM mafia.

Yes I'll be complaining about this throughout.

But seriously Rot, is reading the flavor going to be important?

"Chaos is a ladder." - Petyr Middlefinger

"I love it when Heir is scum and knows he's been rumbled, he goes a bit mad."- Newt_Gunray

"And on that day my respect for Herr grew four fold" - SirDante

Sassenach
Impish Cherub

posted 01-07-13 03:34 PM CT (US) 13 / 1321

I don't have any problem with loads and loads of flavour, just so long as I can still play the game effectively without having to read it all. Rot obviously enjoys writing it and that's totally cool, I'm guessing quite a few of us like to read it as well. I just can't always be arsed and wouldn't want to be at a major disadvantage because of that.

I'm sure it'll be fine though.

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side ? and ain't that a big enough majority in any town ?" - Huckleberry Finn

CarolKarine
Mere Mortal

posted 01-07-13 05:10 PM CT (US) 14 / 1321

it was basically the script of black mesa.

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SodaMister
Mere Mortal

posted 01-08-13 03:16 AM CT (US) 15 / 1321

I suppose Sass, to a certain extent, has a point. However, I don't care, because I adore well written, original flavor. Rot is certainly one of my favorite hosts because of that fact.

"I have this hysterical urge to move to another room and laugh when I hear Lordy say he has speculated and used some math..." -Major Helper
"God damnit, did I just make that an Australian demon?
-Sodamister
"I like my women like I like my English weather: cold and wet." -Henrz

Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 01-08-13 05:00 AM CT (US) 16 / 1321

So you take away all the flavor and fun out of the game so you can have more fun?

You're right Rot probably hasn't put together a fun game at all, we're probably just here for the flavour text.

Oh wait.

house won this

THYMOLE
Mere Mortal

posted 01-08-13 09:52 AM CT (US) 17 / 1321

It's not really original... Most of it is just the introduction to half life.

Must've taken a while to transcribe though.

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Rotaretilbo
Mere Mortal
(id: Brandon Rebuga)

posted 01-09-13 00:50 AM CT (US) 18 / 1321

Quoted from Herr Heir:
But seriously Rot, is reading the flavor going to be important?

Define "important". As has always been the case in my games, writeups will give a general idea of what happened at night, which will then be summarized in bold text. The flavor will give a slightly more in depth idea of what happened, but will not be necessary to play the game.

"Also, I'm no clearer on what WIFOM is really, although I gather it's something to do with Thymole being gay..." -Sassenach
"I don't lie in my claims and I don't intend to." -WeeMicky
"OH MY GOD A DINOSAUR" -Peter Fallon

Rotaretilbo
Mere Mortal
(id: Brandon Rebuga)

posted 01-10-13 01:00 AM CT (US) 19 / 1321

Night will end in 24 hours. Actions that are not received by this time will be treated as having abstained. Notifications have gone out to players who have not sent in an action.

"Also, I'm no clearer on what WIFOM is really, although I gather it's something to do with Thymole being gay..." -Sassenach
"I don't lie in my claims and I don't intend to." -WeeMicky
"OH MY GOD A DINOSAUR" -Peter Fallon

Rotaretilbo
Mere Mortal
(id: Brandon Rebuga)

posted 01-11-13 02:09 AM CT (US) 20 / 1321

As the Black Mesa personnel came together to try and discern
how to react to the resonance cascade failure and the military
invasion, they came upon the mangled corpse of a Vortiguant.
The corpse was riddled with spines and had been horribly
mutilated. The green collar read "X-8973". Ashrzr recounted
how someone had attacked him with a flamethrower in the night.
Plake similarly recounted that someone had shot at him.

Drone Subject X-8973 (Alex), a mafia faith prostitute, has been killed.
Someone tried to kill Ashrzr, but failed.
Someone tried to kill Plake, but failed.
It is Day 1.
There are 22 of you, so it is 12 to lynch.

"Also, I'm no clearer on what WIFOM is really, although I gather it's something to do with Thymole being gay..." -Sassenach
"I don't lie in my claims and I don't intend to." -WeeMicky
"OH MY GOD A DINOSAUR" -Peter Fallon

[This message has been edited by Rotaretilbo (edited 01-11-2013 @ 02:12 AM).]

FancyDante
Mere Mortal
(id: If_Was_A_Ville)

posted 01-11-13 02:17 AM CT (US) 21 / 1321

Three kills is quite a few to account for. Dumb statement but going to make it anyways, we're looking at multiple scum groups, which makes sense from half life lore.

Classic, survivors and millers should come forward.

As such I'm coming forward as a miller. Will claim flavor if needed.

Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 01-11-13 03:43 AM CT (US) 22 / 1321

Ah, that's the nice kind of small flavour text I can get behind

Can someone explain what a faith prostitute is? I'm still really old fashioned with my mafia roles.

we're looking at multiple scum groups, which makes sense from half life lore.

Military, Xen, and who else? Not that it really matters right now.

As such I'm coming forward as a miller. Will claim flavor if needed.

I think you should claim flavour, but you already know how I feel about millers. I won't argue the point here anymore than I did last game though, since apparently having millers and having them make early claims is fine here.

house won this

Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 01-11-13 03:44 AM CT (US) 23 / 1321

Three kills is quite a few to account for.

Also it goes without saying that if there's any vigilantes firing shots oh my god please stop.

house won this

Rotaretilbo
Mere Mortal
(id: Brandon Rebuga)

posted 01-11-13 04:46 AM CT (US) 24 / 1321

Prostitute is to Roleblocker as Hitman is to Vigilante. Faith simply refers to a 50% chance for the action to fail.

"Also, I'm no clearer on what WIFOM is really, although I gather it's something to do with Thymole being gay..." -Sassenach
"I don't lie in my claims and I don't intend to." -WeeMicky
"OH MY GOD A DINOSAUR" -Peter Fallon

Popeychops
"Cool" Huskarl

posted 01-11-13 05:59 AM CT (US) 25 / 1321

Interesting to note that the dead mafioso is unique to Half Life: Decay. Tempted to suggest we claim the first appearance of our characters, as it forces the scum to plan their fakeclaims immediately.

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Rotaretilbo
Mere Mortal
(id: Brandon Rebuga)

posted 01-11-13 09:15 AM CT (US) 26 / 1321

As discussion was just getting started, a muffled shot range
out, narrowly missing SirDante.

Someone tried to kill SirDante, but failed.
It is still Day 1.
It is still 12 to lynch.

"Also, I'm no clearer on what WIFOM is really, although I gather it's something to do with Thymole being gay..." -Sassenach
"I don't lie in my claims and I don't intend to." -WeeMicky
"OH MY GOD A DINOSAUR" -Peter Fallon

Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 01-11-13 09:40 AM CT (US) 27 / 1321

I wonder if all the scum have 50/50 roles. Seems rather unlikely that we've had 3 successful protections, and the writeups don't point to that.

Tempted to suggest we claim the first appearance of our characters, as it forces the scum to plan their fakeclaims immediately.

I'm for that in principle, unless someone has a very good reason not to.

house won this

THYMOLE
Mere Mortal

posted 01-11-13 09:44 AM CT (US) 28 / 1321

Never heard of decay before.

A third mafia group would be the zombie faction, of course. I'm pretty sure they're not of Xen, correct? They just appear and make shit go down.

(The headcrabs).

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Popeychops
"Cool" Huskarl

posted 01-11-13 09:50 AM CT (US) 29 / 1321

The headcrabs are biological weapons engineered from the inhabitants of Xen. They are used either by Nihilanth or the combine.

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and The Seas of Egressa (4.8) Voted Best Multiplayer Scenario of 2010
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"Hooray for Dear Leader-Comrade-Generalissimo-Presidente-Lord Protector Popey!" - Lord Sipia, on my benevolent, iron-fisted rule
"You're not Popeychops; you don't get to physics." - Moff, in response to a clumsy muon simile

FancyDante
Mere Mortal
(id: If_Was_A_Ville)

posted 01-11-13 10:29 AM CT (US) 30 / 1321

Well there for a second I was feeling left out because no one shot me, I'm glad I feel included now. Also thanks scum, for failing you're kill and helping the town Lol.

Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 01-11-13 10:38 AM CT (US) 31 / 1321

A third mafia group would be the zombie faction, of course. I'm pretty sure they're not of Xen, correct? They just appear and make shit go down.

Ah yeah. I'm assuming we aren't in HL2, so no Combine.

The headcrabs are biological weapons engineered from the inhabitants of Xen. They are used either by Nihilanth or the combine.

I'm pretty certain that the zombies attack combine in HL2. I can't remember them ever attacking a Vortigaunt in HL1 granted, but then I don't know if that situation ever arose. I don't think it's implausible to have zombies as a faction.

That said, all the kill attempts have been via gun, so they're probably out.

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posted 01-11-13 10:54 AM CT (US) 32 / 1321

I'm pretty certain that the zombies attack combine in HL2

That's because the combine advisors (the slug things) use the soldiers as pawns. The headcrabs and the vortigaunts are both controlled by Nihilanth in HL1. Headcrabs are not intelligent creatures, not nearly enough to be anything other than a cult.
They cannot be a mafia.

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posted 01-11-13 10:54 AM CT (US) 33 / 1321

The head crabs would attack the combine but the combine would still deploy them in the rocket things.

I think the headcrabs did attack everything in number 1, except they would only leap. I don't think they actually had the conversion mechanic (as in all zombies were scripted to be made). Could be wrong. It's of no consequence really...

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posted 01-11-13 10:56 AM CT (US) 34 / 1321

Er, maybe I'm getting my names mixed up. Which is the combine?

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posted 01-11-13 10:59 AM CT (US) 35 / 1321

I don't think they actually had the conversion mechanic

"What the hell are these things, and why are they wearing science team uniforms!"

They were converted from humans. You're correct about the combine, they would use headcrab shells against resistance strongholds. The combine is the enemy of HL:2, the combination of alien species rules by the advisors. The "Combine Overwatch" are the transhuman soldiers.

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posted 01-11-13 11:00 AM CT (US) 36 / 1321

My above quote is taken from the standard zombie wiki entry.

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posted 01-11-13 11:05 AM CT (US) 37 / 1321

They were converted from humans

I think he means a headcrab zombie in HL1 starts life as a headcrab zombie from a design perspective, not a story perspective (ie. any zombie in HL1 is spawned as such, not created by the actual in game act of a headcrab attacking a scientist).

In any case, it's a bit of a pointless debate - the attacks have all been by guns.

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posted 01-11-13 11:29 AM CT (US) 38 / 1321

What Jax said.

The main point behind that being that I do think they attacked everything, but the attacks were unlikely to be as memorable because they were just little body launches as opposed to conversions.

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posted 01-11-13 11:40 AM CT (US) 39 / 1321

Well that was fast.

Good luck all!

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posted 01-11-13 12:13 PM CT (US) 40 / 1321

HL1 starts life as a headcrab zombie from a design perspective

Surely this is irrelevant, as the storyline causality is all that matters in this game

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posted 01-11-13 12:14 PM CT (US) 41 / 1321

Also since it hasnt been said yet, I'll say it. Its not just three kills we're worrying with now, its 4, and one of them was a day kill. Lets hope it was a one shot someone wasted on me.

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posted 01-11-13 12:37 PM CT (US) 42 / 1321

Surely this is irrelevant, as the storyline causality is all that matters in this game

Yeah, but we were talking about whether the crabs attacked vortigaunts/whatever in HL1 (which I think would be enough to make them a potential faction maybe). Whatever. It doesn't matter

Also since it hasnt been said yet, I'll say it. Its not just three kills we're worrying with now, its 4, and one of them was a day kill.

Out of the people targeted - how many are regular targets for a night 0 kill? I take it you might be, but I don't know the others.

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posted 01-11-13 12:43 PM CT (US) 43 / 1321

Out of the 4 I'd say Ash and I are. Plake, and Alex definitely aren't.

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posted 01-11-13 05:06 PM CT (US) 44 / 1321

As part of my role, I am a miller. If by the time I return from my local swole factory people want a more in-depth claim, I will provide such.

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posted 01-11-13 09:07 PM CT (US) 45 / 1321

I've played about thirty minutes' worth of Half-Life (the first one) and didn't enjoy it (the controls bugged me). So I have no idea which roles indicate what. Having said that, I'd prefer not to name-claim just yet.

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posted 01-11-13 10:36 PM CT (US) 46 / 1321

I wonder if all the scum have 50/50 roles. Seems rather unlikely that we've had 3 successful protections, and the writeups don't point to that.

Even though it is unlikely for 3 kills to be blocked having a faith mafia would just be unfair to them although possible. I also doubt that the day kill would be 1-shot because it was prevented.

The high number of kill attempts suggests that they could be indicating something, for example the player has been converted.

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posted 01-12-13 03:03 AM CT (US) 47 / 1321

Interesting to note that the dead mafioso is unique to Half Life: Decay. Tempted to suggest we claim the first appearance of our characters, as it forces the scum to plan their fakeclaims immediately.

I'd say this is unlikely to work. Rot claims to have fixed the problem we saw in Diablo II Mafia where an early name claim was enough to totally doom the scum. I know that you're not calling for a name claim per se, just a 'what version of HalfLife do you turn up in' claim, but it amounts to the same thing. If the setup is designed to prevent that kind of thing from being effective then we're probably just going to waste most of the day getting people's claims without anything useful coming from it.

Also, I'm guessing there's quite a few like me who have no bloody clue about HL and couldn't answer the question.

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posted 01-12-13 06:08 AM CT (US) 48 / 1321

Well sass, in your case, doing a bit of research about your character will help the town. Besides, even if it's not effective at catching scum, it forces everyone to post and forces the scum to nail down what safeclaim to use now.

I propose that it's better than nothing. We can always move on afterwards if we've got a level of activity going.

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posted 01-12-13 06:18 AM CT (US) 49 / 1321

What would we gain from that anyway? For what we know, Rot could have given roles from both HL1 and HL2, both of which, by the way, I am not familiar with.

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posted 01-12-13 08:49 AM CT (US) 50 / 1321

What would we gain from that anyway?

Well for starters, it draws out the lurkers.

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