Rata Mall - GAME OVER THREAD

[RubberDuck]

@Talitha, it was a yes/no moment and probably had a % chance of success.

@pooky

It was my story, I just changed the word infect to cure, and removed references of the zombie virus. So it was that long and technically, I made it shorter

Coming in as a Replacement made it difficult. The only action mnowax did was to try and kill Zag on the first page.

[quote=mnowax]
Follow Zag into the Hardware Store[/quote] He PM'd to infect Zag in front of everyone, and then Ambic banned attacks in the first phase.

He picked up a kettle in the hardware store and did nothing else, so I was 2.5 phases behind at the point I replaced in and there were opportunities I would have taken right off the bat from the start that would have fundamentally changed the way I was playing.

Losing Terry in the Freezer made me look guilty as hell (Even though I was Evil) I then had to try been brazenly open for as long as possible which lead to some severe plot holes in my story that should have got me killed.

Honestly impressed I made it to the final three, and I had even been planning to chlorine gas the escape pods using Xaviers Bleach, but stupidly decided to chase down Talitha.

[Porochaz]

I tried making a chlorine bomb to kill all the spaceship people but was told I had to get the chemistry past groza post game.

[Primate]

I tried making a chlorine bomb to kill all the spaceship people but was told I had to get the chemistry past groza post game.

Oh my god that that's amazing.

[RubberDuck]

Vinegar or Urine would have done it.

I was going to pee into the kettle in the office escape pods and tip the bleach in, I didn't know Ariel was hiding in there, but she and tali both had gasmasks, so it may have been nothing more than finding out carla was in the room.

My best two fails at killing someone was I raided the cinema candy bar for peppermints and which i palmed off to Groza529 telling him it was my Potassium Iodide anti radiation medication which i took myself.

We then headed into the irradiated tunnels where there was a nuclear reactor, but Ambic removed the radiation after the time machine was destroyed.

The other one was I left an alcohol bottle full of metal shavings, window cleaner, hair gel and super glue in a cup with a can of pepsi in the barbers...

[RubberDuck]

I also turned on the gas hobs in the cafe to full (Heater and a Stove) and was going to put metal in the microwave on a time delayed start.

Just needed to get the gas going and Porochaz/Groza didn't fix the damn gas for me...


And deliberately crash the UFO into the mall, which Ambic confirmed would have taken out half the cinema.

[ambic]

Groza sabotaged the gas in the first game phase

[ambic]

So many paths ruined by that clever, clever move

[Porochaz]

Yeah not fixing the gas was a no brainer. Although I regretted it come bomb making time.

[Primate]

so ambic

1. Was the security guard a clone, and were they released during game time? (If not clones, what was up with the 3 random npcs)
2. What was on the vhs tape?
4. What caused the 2022 collapse?
6. How did John Thompson die? What was the radioactive coin he was carrying?
7. Is "Ben Nerrow" Xavier, John Thompson, or neither?
8. How did the Ufo Crash? Was there a second alien? (this one will probably be answered by the role pms)
9. Was the inability to move between rooms out of phase just a narrative conceit?
12. What was up with the gas generally, so many heaters.

[RubberDuck]

The other hidden details about my role as the Evil Zombie Queen.

My stopwatch of Dr Ben Nerrow could be used if I figured out it was an anagram of Derren Brown - a famous UK mentalist. I removed the Dr. and got as far as Rene Brown.
It would have given me the power to hypnotise other players.

I could also telepathically communicate and control the actions of my Zombies - Terry and Harry.

I was also able to psychically command FrankenMage not to attack me in the Eatery which is why it started having an internal battle - this was because Terry was already undead at the point he got fried in the freezer - yes, fried.

Xavier made a Frankenstein that I could give limited commands to. Primarily, "Don't attack me."

[RubberDuck]

I think I know most of those.

so ambic

1. Was the security guard a clone, and were they released during game time? (If not clones, what was up with the 3 random npcs)
He was a real guard, if you'd set off the bank alarm - the mall was to be raided by cops and guards.

2. What was on the vhs tape?
Proof of what destroyed the earth - aliens and my zombie virus - johannes win condition

4. What caused the 2022 collapse?
I did, along with the aliens

6. How did John Thompson die? What was the radioactive coin he was carrying?
The coin killed him, not sure on the later

7. Is "Ben Nerrow" Xavier, John Thompson, or neither?
No, See Derren Brown reference. Ben nerrow was just flavor.

8. How did the Ufo Crash? Was there a second alien? (this one will probably be answered by the role pms)
Xavier used an EMP

9. Was the inability to move between rooms out of phase just a narrative conceit?
Yes.

12. What was up with the gas generally, so many heaters.

A scripted gas event in case the game was slow.

[Porochaz]

Can you post the last couple of threads amb? I am missing the last part.

[RubberDuck]

VHS - The aliens wanted the secrets of time travel. Earth did not hand it over in time thus the aliens attacked. Dr Ben Nerrow's zombie virus occured at the same time and eliminated the rest of humanity.

Jia was an android (like westworld) sent from the future (Terminator) to destroy the time machine so that time travel could only by her team in the future.

Xaviers book still exists in the world. The phlogiston manual - instructions on how incomplete portal technology can be used with a red laser can be used for time travel.

[Porochaz]

Oh I actually knew... I told you I couldn't read, lol

[Primate]

13. could the time machine have been used by xavier or others, and if so, what for?

[Primate]

14. If you'd infected others with the zombie virus why couldn't you call in one of your millions of allies.

[RubberDuck]

Yes, Xavier needed a red laser and the phlogiston manual - He could have powered the red laser in the lab, used the barcode scanner that Jia took from the Hardware store, or the red laser pointer I ripped out of the eatery camera.

It would have allowed him to combine the portal and time travel technology - to do what, Porochaz or Ambic can explain (Because i have no clue)

[RubberDuck]

14. If you'd infected others with the zombie virus why couldn't you call in one of your millions of allies.

The real question is why didnt i try using the virus on a corpse that no longer has immunities...

[Primate]

I did wonder about whether stabbing mark would work, but at the time i thought of it I think we were in the cinema and you'd given the syringe away. Maybe I should have mentioned it anyway.

[RubberDuck]

The other detail about the Zombies, is they were 1D2 + bonuses if they helped me in combat.

While Harry was with me, in combat I was 1D4+bonus + 1D2+bonus.

Other players supporting combat was just a +1

So if I hadn't uselessly gotten Terry incinerated, I could have been 1D4+bonus + 1D2+bonus + 1D2+bonus.

[RubberDuck]

The players I could turn to zombies were Zag Mark, Nexus Cindy, BattleMage Terry, Primate Harry and Ariel Carla. Everyone else was immune to the virus and there was no way to tell who it could be used on.

I had 3 doses at start, and found a top up +2 doses in the barbers.

[Primate]

Holy shit as well, when you attacked CaptainMeme and ambic threw me into the combat as well, I just felt absolute panic.

The atomiser shot then having to cover for that, my god.

Tali picked up on it and kept mentioning it, but luckily that eatery phase was chaotic enough that other distractions came up. there was a lot of "important thing happened, then distractions, came up" honestly.

The other thing I did that i really should have made people go "hang on what" was when I

instantly

knew lacey had fallen down mr wok, not for rent, as she claimed. Still surprised no one challenged me on that.

[Porochaz]

I had no idea about the time machine but again probably because I didn't read properly...

[RubberDuck]

Holy shit as well, when you attacked CaptainMeme and ambic threw me into the combat as well, I just felt absolute panic.

The atomiser shot then having to cover for that, my god.

Tali picked up on it and kept mentioning it, but luckily that eatery phase was chaotic enough that other distractions came up. there was a lot of "important thing happened, then distractions, came up" honestly.

The other thing I did that i really should have made people go "hang on what" was when I

instantly

knew lacey had fallen down mr wok, not for rent, as she claimed. Still surprised no one challenged me on that.

When tali asked you to state whether you were supporting me or jia, I told you to claim you were supporting Jia, but you misread it and said outloud you were supporting me We got away with that because we caught Yvonne stealing, found her stash relocated and then GC pulled the commune with Xavier stunt which allowed us to weasel.

[Porochaz]

I got the portal and Frankenstein machine working pretty late on tbh. I did try and get the barcode scanner from the hardware store but it was missing. Beyond getting the canister that was a waste of a phase. I ended up watching diehard and running on the treadmill (which did give me +1 attack)

I wonder if eating the chocolate would have done the same as the doughnuts?

Why was there a treadmill in there anyway?

The gc stunt scared the shit out of me, I thought I was slowly going to be taken over or something.