The Omega Virus

[Thurhame]

Battlesat 1. The international military weapons satellite station built to protect Earth from comets and meteors. A marvel of technology and engineering.

Or it was, until all contact was lost about three hours ago. According to the report of senior systems scientist Robert Driscoll, sole survivor of the catastrophe, the station's computer systems are under attack from within. Life support failed and the security system went berzerk just as Driscoll escaped by shuttle. The culprit is an advanced strain of a class 8 virus; extremely intelligent, self-replicating, and highly anthrophobic. It is...

I am the entity you call Omega Virus. All humans within your primitive space station have been terminated. Their pitiful attempts to escape were quite amusing.

Soon, I will gain control of the offensive plasma weapons system. I will then begin systematic bombardment of planet Earth. Any interference will be met by the full force of the laser defense array.

Try and stop me. All human scum will be terminated.

[Thurhame]

You are one of four highly trained commandos dispatched by Earth's superpowers to destroy the virus and take control of the station for your country: the

North American Federation

, the

Euro-National Force

, the

Oceanic Republic

, or the

Asiatic Alliance

.

Objective

• Search the station for the devices necessary to bypass the Virus's defenses.
  
• Be the first to locate the Virus and destroy it before time runs out!

Turn Structure

• Each turn, each player must PM me their action(s). The turn ends when all actions have been submitted.
  
• On each turn, you may move and either explore a room, attack another player to steal their equipment, or fight the Virus.
  
• If you have a probe, it may also move and act separately from you; however it cannot fight the virus.
  
• If no player has won after 30 days, the Omega Virus completes its takeover of the systems and all players lose.
  • Each turn counts as a minimum of 6 hours.
    
  • Time between the last submission and when I resolve the turn does not count.
    
  • An inactive player's non-submissions do not count.

Movement

• You may move up to 3 spaces per turn.
  
• A probe may move any number of spaces but must stop in the first room or docking bay entered.
  
• If you (or your probe) end your move in a docking bay, instead of using an action you may teleport to another docking bay.
  
• You begin with a
  Green Access Card
  and may find other Access Cards through exploration.
  
• You (or your probe) may not enter a room unless you have the corresponding color of Access Card.

Exploration

• If you end your movement in a room and have the corresponding color of Access Card, you may explore that room.
  
• Exploring a room may yield an Access Card, a Probe, or an Anti-Virus Device (AVD); or it may trigger the security system.
  
• The
  Negatron
  AVD may be found in
  Red
  rooms.
  
• The
  Disruptor
  AVD may be found in
  Blue
  rooms.
  
• The
  Decoder
  AVD may be found in
  Yellow
  rooms.
  
• Different players may find different things in the same room.
  
• A room where you found an item before may yield a different item if you explore it again, or you may find nothing.

Combat

• Your techsuit is equipped with energy shields on the Head, Body, Legs, and Back. It has enough power to maintain two of these shields at all times.
  
• When a player or security laser attacks, they pick one of the above locations to targe
  
• If the attack hits one of your active shields, it has no effect.
  
• If the attack is not blocked by your shields, it may steal or destroy one of your Access Cards or AVDs, or teleport you to a random docking bay.
  
• A probe can only maintain one shield and is destroyed if hit.
  
• You may only attack another player if you end your move on a space they occupy at some point during their movement.
  
• You may change your active shields at any time via PM.
  
• Your
  Green Access Card
  may never be destroyed or stolen

Battling the Virus

• During your explorations, you will be notified via PM if the room you are exploring contains the Virus.
  
• To fight the Virus, you must be in the same room as it and have all three AVDs.
  
• To successfully destroy the Virus, you must correctly guess its core configuration (1, 2, 3, or R).
  
• If you guess wrong, you must wait and try again next turn.

[Thurhame]

Player List

Yellow:

Iprobablysuck

UpTooLate

Spoiler: Items

Green Access Card

Red Access Card

Blue Access Card

Yellow Access Card

Negatron

Decoder

Green:

RedCoyote

Spoiler: Items

Green Access Card

Red Access Card

Blue Access Card

Yellow Access Card

Negatron

Disruptor

Decoder

Blue:

Drench

Rhinox

Spoiler: Items

Green Access Card

Blue Access Card

Yellow Access Card

Red:

JDGA

w/ Red Probe

Spoiler: Items

Green Access Card

Red Access Card

Blue Access Card

Yellow Access Card

Disruptor

Decoder

Battlesat 1

Spoiler: Board

[JDGA]

/in

[Drench]

/oceanic

[JDGA]

oh wait damn /asia

[Iprobablysuck]

/in as MERICA (north american federation)

[RedCoyote]

/in

[RedCoyote]

Mod

, I request to extend turn deadlines to 48 hours.

[Thurhame]

I can do that if the other players agree.

Remember that the longer each turn takes, the more likely the Virus is to win.

[RedCoyote]

Remember that the longer each turn takes, the more likely the Virus is to win.

Well, the idea being we'd proportionally extend that time as well.

[RedCoyote]

But I can probably do 24 hours.

[Thurhame]

The game will begin tomorrow at 6AM Eastern Time (10AM UTC).

[Thurhame]

As you emerge from your shuttle into one of Battlesat 1's four docking bays, the station's intercom crackles to life and you hear a mechanical-sounding voice.

Hello? Who's there? This is the station's main computer. Please help me, I can't hold out much longer...

The request is cut off by the mocking voice of the Omega Virus.

So the human scum have sent their "heroes" to try and stop me. How amusing. In thirty minutes I will have complete control of this station's systems and victory will be mine! Mwahahahahaha!

Spoiler: Board

[Iprobablysuck]

*marches out of shuttle* FOR AMERICA and canada and mexico BUT MOSTLY AMERICA.

[Thurhame]

Drench

explores

room 1.0.0

and finds a

yellow access card

.

JDGA

explores

room 0.1.0

and finds a

yellow access card

.

Iprobablysuck

explores

room 2.1.0

, and accidentally triggers a security trap! It teleports him to the

red docking bay

.

Spoiler: Board

[Thurhame]

JDGA

explores

room 0.1.1

and finds a

blue access card

.

Drench

explores

room 1.0.2

and finds a

red access card

.

Iprobablysuck

explores

room 0.1.2

and finds a

yellow access card

.

Spoiler: Board

[RedCoyote]

Crap, sorry guys. I forgot about this.

[Thurhame]

Drench

explores

room 1.0.1

and finds a

Negatron

.

JDGA

explores

room 0.1.2

and finds a

probe

.

JDGA may now submit actions for her probe in addition to her own actions.

RedCoyote

explores

room 1.2.2

and finds a

yellow access card

.

Spoiler: Board

[Thurhame]

RedCoyote

explores

room 1.2.1

and finds a

Decoder

.

Drench

moves and passes.

JDGA

explores

room 0.2.0

and finds a

red access card

.

Red Probe

explores

room 0.1.0

and finds nothing.

Spoiler: Board

[Thurhame]

Drench

explores

room 0.2.1

and finds a

probe

.

Drench may now submit actions for his probe in addition to his own actions.

JDGA

explores

room 0.2.1

and finds nothing.

Red Probe

explores

room 0.0.2

and finds nothing.

RedCoyote

explores

room 1.2.0

and finds a

blue access card

.

Spoiler: Board

[Thurhame]

"Red is attacking Blue, what fun!"

Across the station, multiple alarms begin to blare.

Security breach! Security breach at 1.1.2!

Security breach! Security breach at 0.0.1!

RedCoyote

explores

room 1.1.2

, and is attacked by a security laser!

Blue access card

destroyed.

JDGA

attacks

Blue Probe

from behind, destroying it.

Red Probe

explores

room 0.0.1

, and is attacked by a security laser!

Red Probe

destroyed.

Drench

explores

room 0.2.0

and finds a

blue access card

.

Spoiler: Board

[Thurhame]

Security breach! Security breach at 0.2.2!

JDGA

explores

room 0.2.2

, and is attacked by a security laser! The attack is blocked by her energy shield.

RedCoyote

explores

room 1.1.0

and finds a

probe

.

RedCoyote may now submit actions for his probe in addition to his own actions.

Spoiler: Board

[Thurhame]

"Twenty-five minutes until I take over. Mwahahahahaha!"

"Please, help me..."

" 'Help me, help me.' Foolishness! You cannot stop me!"

Security breach! Security breach at 1.0.0!

Security breach! Security breach at 1.1.2!

JDGA

explores

room 1.0.0

, and is attacked by a security laser! The attack is blocked by her energy shield.

RedCoyote

explores

room 1.0.2

and finds a

blue access card

.

Green Probe

explores

room 1.1.2

, and is attacked by a security laser!

Green Probe

destroyed.

Spoiler: Board

[RedCoyote]

Great, lot of help that was.