Space Monkey Mafia: GAME OVER!

[Mr Stoofer]

Space Monkey Mafia

GAME STATUS: Game Over! For full details click here.

The year is 6002. Peace and harmony is maintained throughout the Galaxy by a race of super-intelligent Space Monkeys, under the benign leadership of the Monkey Queen. The ultimate symbol of the peace is the Space Monkey flagship, the

Star Ship Simian

.

But a storm is gathering. The brutal Gorillas, hungry for power, are making a bid to take control of the Galaxy. The Gorillas will stop at nothing and use all means possible – preferably involving the utmost violence.

At STARDATE 2201.1012, an elite Gorilla Space Assault Squad attacked the

SS Simian

, determined to seize control of the Space Monkeys’ most valuable asset. The Gorillas were heavily armed and faced only moderate resistance from the peaceful Space Monkeys. They quickly took control of the lower decks and made their way to the bridge.

You are the surviving crew of the

SS Simian

. You are all that stand between the Gorillas and Galactic domination. You must make a last, desperate stand on the Ship’s bridge, to save the Galaxy. Although you face only a small number of the Gorillas, they are armed and well organised, while you have no weapons. The only way to defeat them is to use your combined strength to force them into the airlock one at a time. That would be hard enough at the best of times. But to make matters worse, the fog of battle means you cannot even see clearly who is a Space Monkey and who is Gorilla.

You must defeat the brutal Gorillas. The

SS Simian

must not fall into their hands. The safety of the Galaxy depends on you!

On the Bridge of the

SS Simian

(18)

bird1111
Bogre --> Thok
Cogito Ergo Sum
dahen
Fritzler
Glork
ibeasha --> petroleumjelly
inHimshallibe
klebian
MrBuddyLee
Nightson --> VitaminR
Phoebus --> spectrumvoid
PookytheMagicalBear --> AndrewS
Sarcastro --> Zindaras
Save the Dragons
SpeedyKQ
Twito
Twomz --> Masterchief

Day 1: Start - End
Day 2: Start - End
Day 3: Start - End
Day 4: Start - petroleumjelly's claim - End
Day 5: Start - End
Day 6: Start - End
Day 7: Start - Glork's claim - End
Endgame
Post game information: Roles, Setup, Mod notes.

[Mr Stoofer]

Co Mod: ChannelDelibird

RULES

[01] Votes must be in bold. If you do not bold your vote, it will not be counted.
[02] Please be attentive and unvote, if necessary, before casting a new vote. This is not required, but I’d appreciate it.
[03] Lynching will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, their pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will be unheeded. Feel free to post in twilight, though.
[04] You may vote: no lynch – majority votes of this kind are necessary to end the day without a death.
[05] If a deadline is reached with no majority, the day will end without a lynch.
[06] The game is not to be discussed outside the thread unless your role specifically states that you may do so – and then only at night.
[07] When I set a day deadline, the deadline lasts until I actually lock the thread.
[08] Once your death scene has been posted, you’re dead. You can make a single “Bah!” post but no relevant information.
[09] No small text. Don’t edit/delete previously submitted posts either.
[10] Don’t quote any PMs from me. If you do, I will destroy you.
[11] If you have a night choice to make, it is due by the posted deadline. I will not wait for you – if you do not submit a choice to me, I’ll make it for you and you won’t like it.
[12] If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 48-hour period, please post a notice to that effect in the thread. Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.
[13] Unlike other mods I am fallible. Please point out any mistakes I make gently. In particular, if I post a vote count that does not accurately reflect your vote, it is your responsibility to correct me. If you don’t your vote may be treated as it appears in the vote count.
[14] If you have any questions at all, please PM me or post the question in the thread.
[15] Remember, it’s a game and it’s supposed to be fun. Be nice to your fellow players and your mod. I have zero tolerance for abusive posts.

The Space Monkeys all have the following win condition:

You win when the all Gorillas have been killed and the

SS Simian

is safe once again.

[Mr Stoofer]

Please note that I have had to re-construct this thread from my notes, after the original thread was lost in the October 2006 Crash. The opening post, and the Day 1 opening scene, that appeared before the Crash were probably not identical to the version in my notes. But if you notice any differences they are of no significance, except stylistic.

We had completed night 1 before the Crash. Any and all choices and results from Night 1 will still stand in this game. Sorry SpeedyKQ!

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 0244.1027:

As the fog of battle clears, a scene of carnage unfolds before you. The bridge has been heavily damaged by laser fire from the deadly weapons of the Gorilla Space Assault squad. Through the hatch which leads onto the bridge, you can see the bodies of dead Space Monkeys who died trying to prevent the Gorillas from getting to the bridge.

But the onslaught continues. Amongst the wreckage, you can make out the charred body of

SpeedyKQ

on the floor, destroyed by a hail of laser fire. He was the Ship’s Doctor, and his death is another serious blow to the hopes of peace loving primates everywhere.

The fate of the

SS Simian

, and of the whole Galaxy, rests in the balance. Can the Gorillas be defeated?

SpeedyKQ (Space Monkey Doctor) - killed night 1.

[Mr Stoofer]

OK, I've got this thread up quicker than I thought I would. Day 1 starts again here.

Anyone who does not post in this thread, or PM me, within 7 days, I will assume has not recovered from the Crash and will be replaced.

With 17 left alive on the bridge, it will take 9 votes to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

btw, it's interesting that it's 10 to lynch instead of 9.

The key word in rule [13] is "gently".

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

MrBuddyLee: 7 (Twito, Fritzler, klebian, Nightson, CES, bird1111, inHimshallibe)
bird1111: 2 (ibeasha, STD)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
Glork: 1 (MrBuddyLee)
Bogre: 1 (Glork)

It will take 9 of you to throw someone out of the airlock

[Mr Stoofer]

This post was a vote count until I edited by mistake.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

MrBuddyLee: 5 (Fritzler, klebian, CES, inHimshallibe)
klebian: 2 (Sarcastro, STD)
Phoebus: 2 (Bogre, Nightson)
Bogre: 2 (Glork, ibeasha)
bird1111: 1 (Twito)
Glork: 1 (MrBuddyLee)
Nightson: 1 (dahen)
Sarcastro: 1 (Phoebus)

It will take 9 of you to throw someone out of the airlock

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

MrBuddyLee: 4 (Fritzler, klebian, CES, inHimshallibe)
Glork: 3 (MrBuddyLee, STD, ibeasha)
Bogre: 1 (Glork)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
klebian: 1 (Sarcastro)
bird1111: 1 (Twito)
Nightson: 1 (dahen)
Sarcastro: 1 (Phoebus)
Save The Dragons: 1 (Nightson)

It will take 9 of you to throw someone out of the airlock

Please note: I understand that life can be stressful but please watch your language when posting in the thread. See rule [15]. Let's have a good clean fight to the death.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count (unchanged)

MrBuddyLee: 4 (Fritzler, klebian, CES, inHimshallibe)
Glork: 3 (MrBuddyLee, STD, ibeasha)
Bogre: 1 (Glork)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
klebian: 1 (Sarcastro)
bird1111: 1 (Twito)
Nightson: 1 (dahen)
Sarcastro: 1 (Phoebus)
Save The Dragons: 1 (Nightson)

It will take 9 of you to throw someone out of the airlock

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

bird1111: 4 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES)
MrBuddyLee: 3 (Fritzler, klebian, inHimshallibe)
Glork: 2 (MrBuddyLee, ibeasha)
Phoebus: 2 (Bogre, dahen)
Bogre: 1 (Glork)
Sarcastro: 1 (Phoebus)
Save The Dragons: 1 (Nightson)

It will take 9 of you to throw someone out of the airlock.

I'm also thinking that the level of posting is too low, and that I should impose a deadline. Don't say I haven't warned you.

[Mr Stoofer]

Well, we're back again. As before, anyone who doesn't post in this thread within 7 days of this post will be replaced.

Post Crash Vote Count

bird1111: 4 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES)
MrBuddyLee: 3 (Fritzler, klebian, inHimshallibe)
Phoebus: 2 (Bogre, dahen)
Sarcastro: 2 (Phoebus, Glork)
Glork: 1 (ibeasha)
inHimshallibe: 1 (MBL)

It will take 9 of you to throw someone out of the airlock.

Once everyone has either checked-in or been replaced, I am going to set a deadline.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

bird1111: 6 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES, Fritzler, Nightson)
MrBuddyLee: 2 (klebian, inHimshallibe)
Phoebus: 2 (Bogre, dahen)
Sarcastro: 2 (Phoebus, Glork)
Glork: 1 (ibeasha)
inHimshallibe: 1 (MBL)

It will take 9 of you to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

...but dearest God of Mods, it would appear as though your most recent vote count has MrBuddyLee voting for both me and inHimshallibe. Is this a mistake or not?

Fixed (last 2 vote counts).

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

bird1111: 6 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES, Fritzler, Nightson)
MrBuddyLee: 2 (klebian, inHimshallibe)
Phoebus: 2 (Bogre, )
Sarcastro: 1 (Phoebus)
Glork: 1 (ibeasha)
inHimshallibe: 1 (MBL)
ibaesha: 1 (Glork)
Pooky: 1 (dahen)

It will take 9 of you to throw someone out of the airlock.

Now that everyone has checked in, I am setting a deadline:

Monday 27th November at 9am GMT

.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

bird1111: 6 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES, Fritzler, Nightson)
MrBuddyLee: 2 (klebian, inHimshallibe)
Glork: 2 (ibeasha, MBL)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
Sarcastro: 1 (Phoebus)
ibaesha: 1 (Glork)

Nine to throw someone out of the airlock.

6 days 23 hours 25 minutes to deadline!

[05] If a deadline is reached with no majority, the day will end without a lynch.

[Mr Stoofer]

Deadline extended to:

9.30am GMT Friday 8th December 2006

Usual post-crash rules apply: anyone who does not post by the deadline will be replaced.

Vote Count

bird1111: 7 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES, Fritzler, Nightson, inHimshallibe)
Glork: 2 (ibeasha, MBL)
MrBuddyLee: 1 (klebian)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
Sarcastro: 1 (Phoebus)
ibaesha: 1 (Glork)

Nine to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

bird1111: 5 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES, Fritzler)
MrBuddyLee: 5 (klebian, Glork, inHimshallibe, Pooky, Nightson)
Glork: 2 (ibeasha, MBL)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
Sarcastro: 1 (Phoebus)

Nine to throw someone out of the airlock.

5 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes until deadline.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

bird1111: 7 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES, Fritzler, klebian, Phoebus)
MrBuddyLee: 4 (Glork, inHimshallibe, Pooky, Nightson)
Glork: 2 (ibeasha, MBL)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)

Nine to throw someone out of the airlock.

3 days, 1 hour, 5 minutes until deadline.

So far

bird1111

,

Bogre

,

ibaesha

,

Sarcastro

and

Twomz

have not returned since the last hiatus. I'll be replacing them if they do not post before the deadline.

[Mr Stoofer]

petroleumjelly replaces ibaesha with immediate effect

Vote Count

bird1111: 7 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES, Fritzler, klebian, Phoebus)
MrBuddyLee: 4 (Glork, inHimshallibe, Pooky, Nightson)
Glork: 2 (petroleumjelly

replacing ibaesha

, MBL)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)

Nine to throw someone out of the airlock.

48 hours, 48 minutes until deadline.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

bird1111: 8 (Twito, STD, Sarcastro, CES, Fritzler, klebian, Phoebus, inHimshallibe)
MrBuddyLee: 3 (Glork, Pooky, Nightson)
Glork: 1 (MBL)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
Nightson: 1 (petroleumjelly)

Nine to throw someone out of the airlock.

24 hours, 39 minutes until deadline.

[Mr Stoofer]

Zindaras replaces Sarcastro. His vote stays on bird1111.

17 hours, 18 minutes until deadline.

[Mr Stoofer]

New Page Vote Count

bird1111: 8 (Twito, STD, CES, Fritzler, klebian, Phoebus, inHimshallibe, Zindaras)
MrBuddyLee: 3 (Glork, Pooky, Nightson)
Glork: 1 (MBL)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
Nightson: 1 (petroleumjelly)

Nine to throw someone out of the airlock.

13 hours, 43 minutes until deadline.

[Mr Stoofer]

End of Day 1 Vote Count

bird1111: 9 (Twito, STD, CES, Fritzler, klebian, Phoebus, inHimshallibe, Zindaras, Nightson)

MrBuddyLee: 2 (Glork, Pooky)
Glork: 1 (MBL)
Phoebus: 1 (Bogre)
Nightson: 1 (petroleumjelly)

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 3859.4729:

After much struggling, and several temporary power outages, bird1111 is bundled into the airlock. Just before the power finally shuts down for the day, Nightson slams his furry hand down on the

EJECT

button, and bird1111 is flung out into the cold vacuum of space.

It is not clear what actually kills the Gorilla: asphyxiation, the boiling of his blood, or the pressure imbalance which causes his whole body to explode after a few seconds. Whatever -- with the death of one of the Gorilla Space Assault Squad, the safety of the Galaxy is one step closer.

bird111 (

Gorilla

) - lynched day 1.

It is now Night 2. Please send choices ASAP. Day 2 will start once I have got all the replacements in place.

[Mr Stoofer]

Masterchief replaces Twomz. Thok replaces Bogre.

Now that I have replaced all the inactive players, I'd like choices by 9.30 am GMT Monday morning. Please PM me before then if that is going to be a problem.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 4859.4930:

After a short period of darkness, the lights come back on. And there is a new horror on the bridge, in addition to the piles of dead Space Monkeys. Near the Tech Winch is the outline of a dead ape. Apart from a few wisps of uniform, a couple of hairs, and set of dog-tags, it appears that

MrBuddyLee

has been completely vaporized. Close inspection of the remains reveals that his uniform was the characteristic dark blue of the Gorilla Space Assault Corps.

MrBuddyLee (

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 2.

With him dead, the Galaxy is a little safer. But it is not saved. There are still Gorillas on the bridge of the

SS Simian

!

It is now day 2. With 15 alive, it will take 8 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

petroleumjelly: 4 (CES, inHimshallibe, Thok, dahen)
inHimshallibe: 3 (Twito, STD, Fritzler)

Eight to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

inHimshallibe: 4 (Twito, STD, Fritzler, klebian)
petroleumjelly: 3 (CES, inHimshallibe, dahen)
Mastercheif: 1 (Zinderas)
Zinderas: 1 (Thok)
klebian: 1 (Pooky)

Eight to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Nightson has been prodded.

Having already made 4 replacements, I am likely to start modkilling players who go 7 days or more without posting, without giving me prior warning.

Click here

for the current Vote Count.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

inHimshallibe: 4 (Twito, STD, Fritzler, klebian)
petroleumjelly: 4 (CES, inHimshallibe, dahen, Glork)
Mastercheif: 1 (Zinderas)
Zinderas: 1 (Thok)
klebian: 1 (Pooky)
Twito: 1 (Phoebus)

Eight to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

The "Yes, Pooky can count" Vote Count

inHimshallibe: 7 (Twito, STD, Fritzler, klebian, CES, Zinderas, Pooky)
petroleumjelly: 3 (inHimshallibe, dahen, Glork)
Zinderas: 1 (Thok)
Twito: 1 (Phoebus)

Eight to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

inHimshallibe: 7 (Twito, STD, Fritzler, klebian, CES, Zinderas, Pooky)
petroleumjelly: 2 (inHimshallibe, Thok)
Twito: 1 (Phoebus)
Cogito Ergo Sum: 1 (Glork)
Glork: 1 (petroleumjelly)

Eight to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

inHimshallibe: 7 (Twito, STD, Fritzler, klebian, CES, Zinderas, Pooky)
petroleumjelly: 2 (inHimshallibe, Thok)
Twito: 1 (Phoebus)
Glork: 1 (petroleumjelly)
klebian: 1 (Glork)

Eight to throw someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

inHimshallibe: 7 (Twito, STD, Fritzler, klebian, CES, Pooky, Masterchief)
petroleumjelly: 2 (inHimshallibe, Thok)
Twito: 1 (Phoebus)
Glork: 1 (petroleumjelly)
klebian: 1 (Glork)

Eight to throw someone out of the airlock.

:arrow: I am going to have limited access until about 8th January. I'll check in whenever I can but this may be infrequent.

ChannelDelibird will be keeping an eye on the thread until I am fully back in the saddle. I'm not expectig a huge amount of activity from everyone over the holiday period.

[Mr Stoofer]

End of Day 2 Vote Count

inHimshallibe: 8 (Twito, STD, Fritzler, klebian, CES, Pooky, Masterchief, Glork)
petroleumjelly: 2 (inHimshallibe, Thok)
Twito: 1 (Phoebus)
Glork: 1 (petroleumjelly)

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 4911.9003:

As the struggling on the bridge of the

SS Simian

continues, inHimshallibe is forced into the airlock and the hatch slammed shut. He bangs violently on the view panel, pleading: "I'm the Ship's Mechanic! Let me out!"

But it is to no avail. Glork slams his furry hand down onto the eject button, sending another member of the Gorrilla Space Assault Squad tumbling out into the cold vacuum of space.

inHimshallibe (

Gorilla

) - lynched day 2

It is now Night 3. Deadline for Nightchoices: 9am GMT Friday 29th December. Please ask if you need more time.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 1200.7766:

Once again the lights come back on; and once again there is one less primate on the bridge. A quick head count reveals that

Zindaras

is missing, and presumably that small pile of dust near the Comms panel is his remains. It's quite hard to make anything of it, but there is enough blue to tell you that he had been wearing the uniform of the Gorilla Space Assault Corps.

Zindaras (

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 3.

With him dead, the Galaxy is a little safer. But it is not saved. There are still Gorillas on the bridge of the

SS Simian

!

It is now day 3. With 13 alive, it will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Cogito Ergo Sum: 5 (Thok, petroleumjelly, Glork, dahen, STD)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Cogito Ergo Sum: 5 (Thok, petroleumjelly, Glork, dahen, STD)
Masterchief: 1 (Twito)
Twito: 1 (Masterchief)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Masterchief: please take this as a public warning. Abusive language is not acceptable in this game, as I made clear in the Rules. Any more posts like 511 and you will be modkilled.

Vote Count

Cogito Ergo Sum: 6 (Thok, petroleumjelly, Glork, dahen, STD, Pooky)
Masterchief: 1 (Twito)
Twito: 1 (Masterchief)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

End of Day 3 Vote Count

Cogito Ergo Sum: 7 (Thok, petroleumjelly, Glork, dahen, STD, Pooky, Fritzler)
Masterchief: 1 (Twito)
Twito: 1 (Masterchief)

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 1100.4920:

No sooner had the day begun, than Thok rushed Cogito Ergo Sum and bundled him into the airlock. Others soon piled in; and within moments he was ejected into the cold vacuum of space.

But through the porthole a clearer view could be seen. The surviving crew of the

SS Simian

looked on in horror as they saw their crewmate tumble away from the ship. The last thing that the Galaxy needed was the death of another Space Monkey.

Cogito Ergo Sum (Space Monkey) - lynched Day 3.

It is now Night 4. Day 4 will start 7pm GMT Thursday 4th January.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 4004.6211:

The smoke and fog of battle on the bridge of the

SS Simian

is as thick as ever. It really is impossible to see who is an evil Gorilla and who is a brave Space Monkey. The ghastly mishap of yesterday, when gallant Cogito Ergo Sum was hurled to his death, is proof of that.

But there is no time to mourn. That can wait until the Galaxy has been saved from the dreaded Gorillas. It is every Space Monkey's duty to hunt out the Gorillas and eject them!

Day 4: with 12 alive it will take 7 votes to force someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Masterchief: 1 (Glork)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Phoebus appears to have left the site and has been replaced by spectrumvoid.

I have prodded Save The Dragons and Pooky. They are both active on the site. If they do not post by Monday they will be modkilled.

Vote Count

Masterchief: 2 (Glork, Twito)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Mod:

I'd like to request that the deadline for Pooky to post before being modkilled be pushed back 24 hours.

I'm really sick of prodding Pooky, in this game and others I have modded.

I'll give him 24 hours from this post (I doubt it will make any difference), and I'll even accept as a replacement anyone who PMs me before that deadline. If I don't hear anything, he's space-dust.

[Mr Stoofer]

AndrewS does indeed replace PookyTheMagicalBear

Vote Count

Masterchief: 4 (Glork, Twito, AndrewS, Nightson)
Fritzler: 1 (STD)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Masterchief: 4 (Glork, Twito, AndrewS, Nightson)
Fritzler: 1 (STD)
Nightson: 1 (spectrumvoid)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Masterchief: 5 (Glork, Twito, AndrewS, Nightson, dahen)
Fritzler: 1 (STD)
Nightson: 1 (spectrumvoid)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Masterchief: 6 (Twito, AndrewS, Nightson, dahen, spectrumvoid, petroleumjelly)
Fritzler: 1 (STD)

It will take 7 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

End of Day 4 Vote Count

Masterchief: 7 (Twito, AndrewS, Nightson, dahen, spectrumvoid, petroleumjelly, Thok)

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 1110.0703:

As the battle for the bridge continues, the Gorillas begin to get the upper hand. Soon the Gorillas are calling out to each other, regrouping for a final big push to destroy the Space Monkeys and take over the

SS Simian

, and with it the final hope for peace in the Galaxy.

As the Gorillas begin to hunt down the final survivors of their initial assault, attention turns to Masterchief. It's too dim to see, so he is asked straight out whether he is a crew member or not. "Yes, I'm a Space Monkey" he responds, rather unwisely, as those on the bridge gather around him. The result is as quick as it is predictable: he is bundled into the airlock and ejected to his death.

Ensign Masterchief was in fact an officer in the Gorilla Space Assault Corps. Not much is known about the training that officers receive at the Gorilla's Officer Training School, but it obviously includes impersonating the enemy. Perhaps they should introduce reading into the curriculum?

Masterchief (

Gorilla Ensign

) - lynched Day 4.

It is now Night 5 - choices please!

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE: 1383.8801:

You all know the drill by now... small pile of ash... no sign of spectrumvoid... scrap of blue uniform... must have been a Soldier in the Gorilla Space Assault Squad... one less Gorilla means a slightly safer Galaxy.

spectrumvoid (

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 5.

It is now Day 5. There are 10 survivors on the bridge of the

SS Simian

, so it will take 5 of you to shove someone out of the airlock.

__

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Save The Dragons: 1 (Thok)

And unless anyone can persuade me otherwise, it is indeed 6 to lynch.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Fritzler: 2 (Glork. petroleumjelly)
Glork: 1 (klebian)
Save The Dragons: 1 (Thok)

It will take 6 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Fritzler: 2 (Glork. petroleumjelly)
Glork: 1 (klebian)
Nightson: 1 (Thok)

It will take 6 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

I'll do a full activity check with prods as necessary tomorrow. Repeat offenders can expect a summary modkill.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Nightson: 2 (Thok, petroleumjelly)
Fritzler: 1 (Glork)
Glork: 1 (klebian)


It will take 6 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

I've prodded Nightson yet again. This is the third or fourth time I've had to do it. I think he deserves a modkill, which he will get if he doesn't post within 24 hours.

[Mr Stoofer]

Nightson, obviously; and STD is on thin ice (he's had multiple prods). Twito has been prodded once, I think. Apart from that everyone still alive is being good.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 9395.4746:

After being silent for some time, Nightson finally speaks, and as a result his life-support system will not be shut down. Yet.

However, there is a more serious problem for those still alive on the bridge. Among the systems badly damaged by the Gorillas' initial assualt on the

SS Simian

was the Ship's power plant. It is working intermittently, but can't keep going indefinitely without regular periods of down-time. The Ship's computer is controlling the down-time: if it detects a lack of activity on the bridge, it will shut down to conserve energy.

At this time, there has been no significant activity on the bridge for over 60 Monkey hours*. The computer has thus commenced power shut-down procedures, which can only be halted by a substantial increase in activity.

Translation - Deadline:

Tuesday 30th January 9.30am GMT

.

* 1 Monkey hour ≈ 59.7 Earth minutes.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Nightson: 4 (Thok, AndrewS, Fritzler, STD)
Save The Dragons: 2 (petroleumjelly, Glork)
Glork: 1 (klebian)

It will take 6 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

4 days, 23 hours, 3 minutes until deadline.

[05] If a deadline is reached with no majority, the day will end without a lynch.

[Mr Stoofer]

End of Day 5 Vote Count

Save The Dragons: 3 (Glork, Fritzler, klebian)
Nightson: 3 (AndrewS, Thok, petroleumjelly)
Fritzler: 1 (Twito)
Glork: 1 (STD)

There is a line which separates paraphrasing your role PM (which is allowed) and quoting your role PM (which is not allowed). Unfortunately, when that line is crossed the only thing that the Mod can do is modkill the offender. I hope that Save The Dragons will understand and agree that his post 777 falls on the wrong side of the line.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 2600.2004:

As the Ship's power-shut down procedures continue, it becomes apparent that there is a problem with the computer -- almost certainly caused by the extensive damage that it suffered during the Gorillas' initial assault. Suddenly there is a loud electrical "CRACK!", followed a moment later by a small explosion. As the lights go off on the bridge, the last thing anyone sees is a jet of flame shoot out from the Ops Console and engulf Save The Dragons. His death-screams are horrible to listen to, but fortunately they last only a few seconds.

Save The Dragons (

Gorilla

) - modkilled Day 5.

It is now Night 6. Please send in your choices.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 1903.1003:

Somehow, the Ship's auto-repair function has managed to eke out a little more power from the highly damaged Dilithium Crystal power plant. The lights come back on the bridge, revealing 8 primates left alive. AndrewS is nowhere to be seen. So presumably that small pile of dust by the Utility Drive Modulator used to be him. Apart from a few wisps of uniform, a couple of hairs, and set of dog-tags, it appears that he has been completely vaporized. Close inspection of the remains reveals that his uniform was the characteristic dark blue of the Gorilla Space Assault Corps.

AndrewS (

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 6.

With him dead, the Galaxy is a little safer. But there is still at least one Gorilla on the bridge of the

SS Simian

!

It is now day 6. With 8 alive, it will take 5 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Top of Page Vote Count

Not voting: dahen, Fritzler, Glork, klebian, Nightson, petroleumjelly, Thok, Twito

5 votes to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Top of Page Vote Count

Twito: 1 (Twito)

Not voting: dahen, Fritzler, Glork, klebian, Nightson, petroleumjelly, Thok.

5 votes to push someone out of the airlock.

STARDATE 1032.2094:

The Ship's computer has performed a scan and not detected any activity on the bridge worth worrying about. It has therefore initiated power shut-down procedures.

Deadline:

Friday 9th February 1500 GMT.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Twito: 2 (Twito, Thok)

Not voting: dahen, Fritzler, Glork, klebian, Nightson, petroleumjelly.

5 votes to push someone out of the airlock.

Exactly 54 hours until deadline!

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Twito: 3 (Thok dahen petroleumjelly)

Not voting: Fritzler Glork klebian Nightson Twito.

5 votes to push someone out of the airlock.

28 hours and 24 minutes until deadline!

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Twito: 4 (Thok dahen petroleumjelly Glork)

Not voting: Fritzler klebian Nightson Twito.

5 votes to push someone out of the airlock.

21 hours and 30 minutes until deadline!

[Mr Stoofer]

End of Day 6 Vote Count

Twito: 5 (Thok dahen petroleumjelly Glork klebian)

Not voting: Fritzler Nightson Twito.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 3204.3051:

With moments to go before the Ship's computer shuts down, Twito is finally bundled into the airlock. And as the lights begin to go out, klebian finally hits the EJECT button, sending Twito tumbling to his death in the cold vacuum of space.

Twito (Space Monkey) - lynched day 6.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE: 1939.2944:

The power on the bridge comes back on. And the ever-diminishing group of survivors looks around to see who has survived the blackout. There is enough light to see that Fritzler, dahen, Glork, klebian, Nightson and petroleumjelly are still there. But all that remains of Thok are two small adamantine pips, the insignia of a junior officer in the Space Assault Corps.

With the fog on bridge as thick as ever, the fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance...

Thok (

Gorrilla Lieutenant

) - vaporized night 7.

With 6 survivors on the bridge, it will take 4 of you to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 2 (Glork Fritzler)

Not voting: dahen klebian Nightson petroleumjelly

It will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock!

[Mr Stoofer]

VitaminR replaces Nightson.

[Mr Stoofer]

New Page Vote Count

klebian: 1 (Glork)

Not voting: dahen klebian petroleumjelly VitaminR Fritzler

It will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock!

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

Not voting: dahen Fritzler Glork klebian petroleumjelly VitaminR

With 6 on the bridge, it will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 1 (Glork)
Glork: 1 (petroleumjelly )

Not voting: dahen Fritzler klebian VitaminR

With 6 on the bridge, it will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count (unchanged)

klebian: 1 (Glork)
Glork: 1 (petroleumjelly)

Not voting: dahen Fritzler klebian VitaminR

With 6 on the bridge, it will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 1038.1063:

By now, the few remaining survivors on the bridge of the

SS Simian

know very well how the emergency power systems work. They know in particular that if 24 hours pass without any activity whatsoever, then the Ship's computer initiates power shut-down so as to conserve energy.

Deadline:

Thursday 1st March 9.30am GMT.

PS:

I might not be able to post again until Tuesday - I'm sure you'll all be able to survive without me until then.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 1 (Glork)
Glork: 1 (klebian)
VitaminR: 1 (petroleumjelly)

Not voting: dahen Fritzler VitaminR

With 6 on the bridge, it will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock.

Deadline:

Thursday 1st March 9.30am GMT

.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count (unchanged)

klebian: 1 (Glork)
Glork: 1 (klebian)
VitaminR: 1 (petroleumjelly)

Not voting: dahen Fritzler VitaminR

With 6 on the bridge, it will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock.

The deadline is currently

Thursday 1st March 9.30am GMT

.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 2 (Glork VitaminR)
Glork: 2 (klebian petroleumjelly)

Not voting: dahen Fritzler

With 6 on the bridge, it will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock.

1,382 minutes until deadline!

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 3 (Glork VitaminR dahen)
Glork: 2 (klebian petroleumjelly)

Not voting: Fritzler

With 6 on the bridge, it will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock.

***

STARDATE 2040.2103:

As the power on the bridge begins to fade, there is a scramble of activity. As petroleumjelly takes his hands off VitaminR and starts to push Glork into the airlock, dahen joins in the effort to squeeze klebian out of the ship.

This activity is detected by the Ship's computer who aborts the power shut-down procedure.

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 2040.2104:

As the battle on the bridge of the

SS Simian

becomes ever more bloody, someone manages to send a distress signal to Orang-utan Starfleet Command. The desperate message pleads for reinforcements. In particular, it asks the Orang-utans to enlist the help of their Tiger allies in the battle to save the Galaxy from aggressive Gorilla Imperialism. But even as the message is sent, it is obvious that help cannot arrive in time. If the

SS Simian

is to be saved from the Gorillas, it must be done by the Ship's surviving crew.

For more information on the Orang-utan - Tiger Alliance, click here.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 3 (Glork VitaminR dahen)
Glork: 1 (klebian )
VitaminR: 1 (petroleumjelly)

Not voting: Fritzler

With 6 on the bridge, it will take 4 to push someone out of the airlock.

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 3 (Glork VitaminR dahen)
Glork: 1 (klebian )
VitaminR: 1 (petroleumjelly)

Not voting: Fritzler

With 6 on the bridge it will take 4 to lynch!

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 2 (VitaminR dahen)
Glork: 1 (klebian )

Not voting: Fritzler Glork petroleumjelly

With 6 on the bridge it will take 4 to lynch!

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 2054.1111:

Although activity on the bridge has kept the Power Circuits active, the Ship's Dilithium Crystals are so badly damaged that the power has to shut off eventually. The virtual "day" emulated by the Ship's Computer cannot keep going forever...

With no eviction in sight, the Ship's Computer has taken the decision that, regardless of the activity on the bridge, it has to shot down the power to conserve energy. If an eviction looks in prospect, it may be able to eke out a little more power to enable that to happen. Otherwise...

Deadline:

Wednesday March 14th 9.30am GMT

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 2 (VitaminR dahen)
Glork: 1 (klebian)
VitaminR: 1 (Fritzler)

Not voting: Glork petroleumjelly

With 6 on the bridge it will take 4 to lynch!

48 hours and 42 minutes until deadline!

[Mr Stoofer]

40 hours and 49 minutes until deadline!

Vote Count on top of next page

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

klebian: 2 (VitaminR dahen)
VitaminR: 2 (Fritzler klebian)

Not voting: Glork petroleumjelly

With 6 on the bridge it will take 4 to lynch!

40 hours and 49 minutes until deadline!

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote Count

VitaminR: 3 (Fritzler klebian Glork)
klebian: 2 (VitaminR dahen)

Not voting: petroleumjelly

With 6 on the bridge it will take 4 to lynch!

24 hours and 32 minutes until deadline!

[Mr Stoofer]

End of Day Vote Count

klebian: 4 (VitaminR dahen petroleumjelly Glork)
VitaminR: 2 (Fritzler klebian)

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 1047.2051:

The battle for control of the

SS Simian

, and with it the future of the Galaxy, has entered is drawing to a close. Only a handful of survivors are left, exhausted by the relentless hand-to-hand combat. It seemed that today they would be too exhausted to force anyone into the airlock at all.

But with just a few moments to go before the power shut-down, Glork and petroleumjelly finally managed to put aside their differences and push klebian into the airlock, before collapsing with fatigue. And then, as the power was finally switched off, Glork pressed the EJECT button. There was only enough power left to open the airlock doors a crack, but it was enough. Within seconds klebian had asphyxiated. And as his final breath left his body, the Galaxy became just a little bit safer.

klebian (

Gorilla

) - lynched day 7.

It is now night 8. Choices ASAP please!

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 2941.4901:

The battle for the

SS Simian

has entered its final phase. As the Ship's computer re-boots the power, only four survivors from the terrible battle remain. Among the fog and debris, it is impossible to see any of Fritzler's remains, save for a small scrap of dark blue uniform where he had been lying before the last power shut-down.

On the Battle Comms Screen, you can just make out the images of an approaching squadron of Space Monkey Fighters, rushing to respond to the Gorilla attack. But they are at least 3 days' travel away - which means that cannot possible get to the

SS Simian

in time. By the time they arrive, the battle will be over and the fate of the Galaxy will be sealed. They will either be greeted warmly and allowed on board; or blasted into atoms by the Ship's powerful Quantum Cannons - the first victims of the Gorillas' unstoppable march to take over the Galaxy!

The fate of all creatures is in your hands. Do not fail us now!

Fritzler (

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 8

[Mr Stoofer]

STARDATE 2901.0305:

A few moments ago, the Space Monkey Fighter Squadron slowly approached the

SS Simian

. From the outside, the Ship was a mess. Vivid laser scars scored its bows and fins, while a large chunk of its underside was missing, as if gouged off by the jaws of some giant Space Shark.

The Squadron Leader nervously hailed the

SS Simian

, unsure whether the voice he would hear in response would be a Monkey or Gorilla.

For many minutes there was no response. The Fighter Pilots held their breath, not knowing whether the next thing they saw would be the terrible guns of the

SS Simian

turning on them.

"Repeat" said the Squadron Leader, "this is Squadron Leader, 17th Space Monkey Fight Squadron, do you read me

SS Simian

?"

And then, in choked voice, crackling with static, came the reply.

"This is

SS Simian

" said the voice, "Space Monkey Glork speaking. We've taken a lot of damage, and many dead, but I think we're going to be all right."

And across the Galaxy the cheer went up. The Evil Gorillas had been defeated and the GALAXY HAS BEEN SAVED!

GAME OVER: SPACE MONKEYS WIN!

[Mr Stoofer]

Survivors

Glork (Space Monkey)
VitaminR

replacing Nightson

(Space Monkey)

The Fallen

SpeedyKQ (Space Monkey Doctor) - killed night 1
bird1111 (

Gorilla

) - lynched day 1
MrBuddyLee (

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 2
inHimshallibe (

Gorilla

) - lynched day 2
Zindaras

replacing Sarcastro

(

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 3
Cogito Ergo Sum (Space Monkey) - lynched day 3
Masterchief

replacing Twomz

(

Gorilla Ensign

) - lynched day 4
spectrumvoid

replacing Phoebus

(

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 5
Save the Dragons (

Gorilla

) - modkilled day 5
AndrewS

replacing PookytheMagicalBear

(

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 6
Twito (Space Monkey) - lynched day 6
Thok

replacing Bogre

(

Gorilla Lieutenant

) - vaporized night 7
klebian (

Gorilla

) - lynched day 7
Fritzler (

Gorilla

) - vaporized night 8
dahen (

Gorilla

) - killed in endgame
petroleumjelly

replacing ibaesha

(

Gorilla

) - killed in endgame

[Mr Stoofer]

The Setup

Roles

(17 real roles plus 1 NPC):

1 Space Monkey Doctor (NPC – dies night 1 from Gorilla laser fire)
4 Space Monkeys (Mafia)
1 Gorilla Lieutenant (Cop)
1 Gorilla Ensign (back-up cop)
11 Gorilla Soldiers (Townie)

Role PMs

:

Space Monkeys

: Cogito Ergo Sum, Glork, Nightson, Twito

The 4 of you the surviving members of the crew of the

SS Simian

. The only other Space Monkey on the bridge, SpeedyKQ (the Ship’s doctor) has just died of his wounds. You may speak to the surviving Space Monkeys at night.

But the situation is not as bleak as it seems. Although they outnumber you, it appears that the Gorillas have all been separated in the confusion of the battle for the bridge, and will be unable to coordinate their actions. They also do not realise that they outnumber you and may be posing as Space Monkeys.

Although you have no weapons, you may spend night 1 modifying the waste disposal system into an offensive capability; and starting with night 2 you may use this to kill the Gorillas, one by one. From night 2, one of you must PM me with the name of another player whom you wish to kill.

In other words: you 4 are the mafia and the Gorillas are the town. But the Gorillas all think they are the mafia.

Please PM me to confirm. You win when the all Gorillas have been killed and the

SS Simian

is safe once again

On night 4 the makeshift vaporizer malfunctioned and they had to spend the night repairing it.

Gorilla Lieutenant (Scum)

You are a member of the Gorilla Space Assault squad, second-in-command of the mission to capture the

SS Simian

and slaughter the crew.

But in the battle for the bridge you have become separated from your team and exhausted all your ammo. With all the confusion, they will have to find you – I will tell you if that happens. Until then, you must do what you can on your own to defeat the Space Monkeys.

However, you are able to recognise members of your Squad. Each night, PM me with the name of one player and I will tell you if they are a Space Monkey or a Gorilla.

You win when all the Space Monkeys are dead and at least one Gorilla survives. Please PM me to confirm with your first night choice.

Gorilla Ensign (Scum)

You are an officer in the Gorilla Space Assault squad. You were third-in-command of the mission to capture the

SS Simian

and slaughter the crew.

But in the battle for the bridge you have become separated from your team and exhausted all your ammo. With all the confusion, they will have to find you – I will tell you when/if that happens. Until then, you must do what you can on your own to defeat the Space Monkeys.

You win when all the Space Monkeys are dead and at least one Gorilla survives. Please PM me to confirm.

Gorilla Soldier (Scum)

You are a member of the elite Gorilla Space Assault squad, sent on the mission to capture the

SS Simian

and slaughter the crew.

But in the battle for the bridge you have become separated from your team and exhausted all your ammo. With all the confusion, they will have to find you – I will tell you if that happens. Until then, you must do what you can on your own to defeat the Space Monkeys.

You win when all the Space Monkeys are dead and at least one Gorilla survives. Please PM me to confirm.

[Mr Stoofer]

For anyone who is interested, here are my thoughts on the game...

The Setup

This was a hard game to balance, because a huge amount depended on when the Gorillas realised that they were in the majority, and how that came about. It was possible that the Space Monkeys would make the revelation, in a way that made one or more of them appear to be almost certainly Gorilla.

I also wanted to keep the Gorillas in the dark as long as possible, with the idea being that their chances of winning or losing would depend very much on how quickly they cracked the setup. For that purpose:

• Obviously there was the whole SpeedyKQ bluff and his "death" Night 1.
  
• In addition, I decided that there would be no kill night 4, so as to introduce more confusion and reduce the number Gorilla nightkills - because the more Gorilla nightkills the more obvious it became who was doing the nightkilling.
  
• The role revelations had to be somewhat ambiguous, else it would be too easy for the Gorillas to spot what was going on as soon as there were 1 or 2 Gorilla deaths. And I obviously couldn't reveal power roles as anything other than Gorilla Ensign/Lieutenant ("Gorilla Cop" would have given the game away). In fact, none of the power roles died before the set-up was figured out, but I still had to keep to this rule. I did however on Day 5, in the morning scene, make it clear that spectrumvoid, who I listed just as "Gorilla", was in fact a Gorilla Soldier. I felt I owed the Gorillas that.
  
• I did not give too many power roles to the Gorillas because it would have made the fact that they were the "town" obvious.
  
• And of course there was the flavour of the front post and the PMs. This was the most difficult thing of all. I had to make it appear that the Space Monkeys were town and the Gorillas were scum, but I wanted to lie as little as possible. In the end I decided that I
  had
  to tell the Gorillas they were "Scum" in their PM because I was afraid that some players would not immediately recognise that they were being given a Traitor role.

As regards the last point, I should respond to this:

Of course, even if Gorillas are the uninformed majority, Stoofer's flavor makes absolutely no sense. For example:

You are the surviving crew of the SS Simian. You are all that stand between the Gorillas and Galactic domination. You must make a last, desperate stand on the Ship’s bridge, to save the Galaxy. Although you face only a small number of the Gorillas, they are armed and well organised, while you have no weapons. The only way to defeat them is to use your combined strength to force them into the airlock one at a time. That would be hard enough at the best of times. But to make matters worse, the fog of battle means you cannot even see clearly who is a Space Monkey and who is Gorilla.

1.) This explicitly says there is a "small number" of Gorillas
2.) This explicitly says that the Gorillas "are organized" (which is definitely not true)
3.) This explicitly says that Space Monkeys do not have weapons (which goes against an informed minority of Space Monkeys)
4.) This explicity says that the only way Space Monkeys can kill Gorillas are to force them out of the airlock (which also makes no sense, since two Gorillas have already been nightkilled)

Either way I look at it, Stoofer is lying in terms of flavor. So meh.

Sure, the flavour was misleading although none of those statements were literally untrue:

1.) In my mind, the Gorilla Space Assault Squad had about 15 members, of whom 13 were alive at the start of the game. That is a "small number" to storm a ship the size of the

SS Simian

. (Don't ask me how the commanding officer of the Squad got killed. I don't know.)
2.) The Gorillas were well-organized in the sense of being well trained and well drilled; it wasn't lack of organization that lead to them being split up.
3.) The Space Monkeys didn't have any weapons - the vaporizer was a converted waste disposal unit that didn't work every night. And they hadn't even converted it at the time I wrote that.
4.) Again, that was true at the time - they didn't convert the waste disposal unit until the end of Night 1. This was perhaps the closest I came to an outright lie and in hindsight perhaps I could have made it more ambiguous, changing "The only way to defeat them is to..." into "You will have to..."

As I say, the flavour was misleading, but I tried to avoid lying as far as possible.

My comments on the Game

This game unfortunately got overtaken by role/flavour claiming. As petroleum jelly said:

Not to mention the fact that the town has pretty much been relying solely on Thok's Cop claim, and now instead of using scumminess or bothering to reread, they are reverting to using role PMs. This game is pretty sad overall.

In fact, with hindsight I should have modkilled petroleumjelly for the amount of detail he went into in in his claim. But having let him get away with that, I couldn't punish players who did no more than he had done. Late in day 7 I sent VitaminR and Glork the Gorilla Solider role PM to try and balance this up. In the end I am glad that the Gorillas didn't win that way. I think PJ was right and that in the end it distracted them from properly analysing the game.

Next time I will make sure that the scum know enough about the townies role PMs to make this approach counter-productive.

Other mod comments

I found days 1 and 2 very interesting. Zindaras seemed to be the first to ventilate a thought that something was up. First he suggested that perhaps the Gorillas killed MrBuddyLee not knowing that he was a Gorilla. The he posted this:

There's way too much conflict here. MBL and bird were pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum, and I didn't see any way in which they were both scum.

But they were.

No one else seemed suspicious of the set-up at that time, and I wonder if the fact that Zindaras came in as a replacement enabled him to look at the situation more objectively than other players? Glork told me that it was this line of thinking that lead the Space Monkeys to kill Zindaras. Otherwise they would have killed Thok on Night 3 - and then just imagine how different the game would have been!

Personally, I think it was a mistake for the monkeys to have killed MBL. The fact that bird1111 and MBL were both Gorillas inevitably forced players to ask the questions that Zindaras asked above. petroleumjelly told me that that was a major giveaway for him.

They way the revelation came out was interesting. PJ's claim in post 530 was a classic that deserves to go down in history. I especially liked the beginning of post 534: "Oh, thank goodness".

I thought Glork handled the revelation process with his customary skill and almost came out of it as a confirmed Gorilla. Petroleumjelly even marked him down as almost confirmed for a short while.

Kudos to dahen for his breadcrumbing: very useful even if it did not work out quite the way he intended!

The whole Masterchief farce was a bit unfortunate. It should have been obvious from post 631, in which he purported to set out his PM in full, that he was a Gorilla - if that really had been his PM he would have been modkilled. But a townie who is that inattentive is just as dangerous as scum in the endgame, so he had to die.

dahen (post 888) wondered what it meant when I said, in Masterchief's death scene, that he could "impersonate the enemy". All I meant by that was that he had pretended to be a Space Monkey.

I think that the Space Monkeys then made another mistake by letting Thok live for so long. Glork told me that they believed that he would have doc protection. I don't like cop-lead games and so I specifically avoided putting in a doc, to ensure that the moment the cop claimed he would die. I even gave the Gorillas a back-up cop, safe in the knowledge that he couldn't survive for long either! It never occurred to me that the Space Monkeys would keep hunting in vain for the doc while letting the cop live. As Day 6 started, Glork told me in chat:

I feel like us SMs are responsible for the position we're in because we nearly killed the Cop, and we decided not to. I think we probably could have won by now otherwise

The vain search for the Gorilla Doc of course allowed Thok to confirm a bunch of Gorillas, find the remaining scum, and almost win the game!

[Mr Stoofer]

I enjoyed some of the questions/comments that I received by PM from players during the game, so I thought I'd post some of the more interesting/amusing ones. Unless otherwise stated I did not give any substantive response.

Lots of people, made comments when they got their role PM, asking if they had a night choice. E.g. Fritzler said:

do i get to kill anyone?

and when I said not:

you're mean

Other comments:

So basically im mafia....

oh joy. seperated.

I got asked a number of questions, such as:

If I can be privy to this information - if straightforward investigators exist, will I turn up as scum in said "scum/not scum" investigations?

Oof, this game is brutal.

Jelly premonition: If I am not lynched today, the Vig (guessing Glork) will take me out next. ><

A few questions:

1.) Do I have investigative immunity until I am recruited, by chance? I'm seriously doubting it since it's not explicitly in the role PM, but I've seen Traitor roles go both ways, so I have to ask.

2.) Will I be alerted if all the actual Gorilla scum group ceases to exist, so I'm the only one floating around? And if that happens, will I gain a killing power?

3.) How will I show up when I die? "Gorilla Soldier", "Gorilla", or something else? I have been considering claiming to have been culted if I come up "Soldier" explicitly, so as to help any remaining scum spread confusion.

Thanks.

PJ

I told him that I couldn't answer any of his questions.

I think it was pretty obvious that Masterchief struggled with the game. He asked me

can you tell me my role in plain english please?

I responded:

You are a Gorilla (scum) but you don't know who the other Gorillas/scum are

inHimshallibe amused me with his occasional commentary:

Just a funny observation on my part: I think I might be unknowingly suspicious of all my partners.



Just for kicks, I'm going to say that I have at least one scummate between Glork and MBL.

Space Monkey Mafia gives me fits, and kind of makes me want to go punch a hole in something. But it's terribly fun.

And if I've actually already sent you something like this a couple weeks ago, this message is only to drive home the point. Not knowing who my scumbuddies are drives me... yes, here's the pun...

bananas

. Definitely not a role I've ever had to play.

After 2 days petroleumjelly was obviously getting frustrated too:

Do I get a consolation prize if I manage to help lynch all the gorillas? This is preposterous. Of course, I will probably be killed tonight by whatever is left of the gorilla group (if anybody), or alternatively, killed by GlorkVig (unless he is also a Gorilla).

>< Not actually expecting an answer. Just venting at my precarious situation. Sorry. >.>

During Night 3, Thok asked:

Is it a safe assumption that in this game Scum=informed minority, Town=uninformed majority?

(I will accept the answers "yes", "no", or "I can't answer it but I'll make it a point to reference this PM at the end of the game")

This I think was a fair question, for the reasons which I told him in response:

There must be an informed minority vs. an uniformed majority. Otherwise it wouldn't be mafia.

Why do you ask?

He responded:

I'm trying to decide if the Gorillas are the uninformed majority.

The same night Pooky said this:

i'd be annoyed if the space monkeys were the actual mafia.

After he died, Zindaras sent me this:

Please tell me Glork's a gorilla.

I really want to know if I'm right about him.

And I'm also curious to know if my theory (none of the scumbags know each other) is correct.

In fact I was a bit sad to see petroleumjelly give the game away because I was enjoying receiving these PMs!

[Mr Stoofer]

4. I'd like to see if there were any random flavor clues to help out; I noticed the year 6002 (backwards year=> backwards game) and I think I sent some PM's to Stoofer about his avatar at some point (The Space Monkey's covered the Gorillaz).

There weren't any deliberate clues like that. I thought that any clues I planted would either be blindingly obvious or far too obscure -- I didn't know how to make them just obscure enough.

As for the dates - you are right that 6002 was chosen as being 2006 backwards. I had worked out a complicated system for calculating the "STARDATE" of each post, but in the end I couldn't be bothered to use. They were just random.

[Mr Stoofer]

I'm glad so many of you enjoyed this game. It took about 18 months from conception to execution, and you should be gad that I've not bored you with all the various versions I considered and rejected. Getting the balance right between misleading the town; making it possible for the town to work out the set-up eventually; and balancing the game was hard hard hard.

I'm still waiting nervously for petroleumjelly's comments.

[Mr Stoofer]

I'm still waiting nervously for petroleumjelly's comments.

Don't bother. This game depresses me too much.

[Mr Stoofer]

Best. Postgame Post. Ever.

This game was very hard to balance, PJ, and I couldn't give the Town too many power roles for reasons which I have already explained. With the help of SpeedyKQ, who helped me balance the game, we wavered between 3 and 4 scum and eventually plumped for 4. With a Cop and back-up I thought that the Gorillas had enough of a chance as it was. I also added in the night 4 no-kill in part to help the Gorillas by giving them an extra player - as such it was a classic example of Stoofer's 3rd Law at work.

Although the Space Monkeys ended up winning, for a long time it looked like the Gorillas were going to stroll home. You had figured out that the final scum were Glork and Nightson/VitaminR, and it was only something really special from Glork that managed to save the day (and the Galaxy).

Indeed, so sure was I that the Gorillas would win, that I had already designed Space Monkeys II (in which the Gorillas, aboard the

SS Simian

) attack the Space Monkey Homeworld). That has to go in the bin!

[Mr Stoofer]

Yes please. No sugar.

[Mr Stoofer]

I did think about including some sort of mad robot SK; although now I am Glad I didn't. It wouldn't have crossed my mind to reveal the true nature of the setup to the SK, but now that you mention it, it would be totally unfair on the SK if I hadn't.

[Mr Stoofer]

One thing that this game has confirmed for me, is my belief that when you mess about with the fundamentals of the game, everything else should be as simple as possible (i.e. no/few power roles), at least the first time you do it.

(Haven't decided whether to call that Stoofer's 4th Law...)