House M.D. Mafia - Doctor Test Round - Feel free to jump in!

[Antihero]

ah, neat. being a pretend doctor sounds fun.

/in

[Antihero]

recruit MattP to this.

[Antihero]

and lalaladucks

[Antihero]

get an mri of his head

[Antihero]

also, any psychiatric symptoms?

[Antihero]

my moneys on brain tumor

[Antihero]

I ate what I usually eat. Bologna, deli ham, tuna and my weekly treat of mcdonalds. I love the mcrib.

slightly elevated cholesterol

no kiddin'

[Antihero]

I want to eliminate embolism first. There has to be a reason the guy already is on heart medicine.

the ace inhibitor's probably for the hypertension

[Antihero]

ok well i guess there goes tumor. swelling makes me think meningitis maybe...?

do a spinal tap

[Antihero]

there's no mafia involved in this. this is just the diagnosis part (which is getting integrated into the mafia game kuroi's running soon)

[Antihero]

(this should probably be in mish mash)

[Antihero]

pbpbpbbbtbttbtbt
youre already out of my league

clarification: what in the spinal tap told me cns was damaged? (white blood cells...?)

[Antihero]

/sigh

i still kinda' think it's meningitis and the fucked up kidney is just the result of sepsis maybe (?)

it's simple enough where it passes the "everyone's heard of it" test. the spinal tap came up positive (for ... something apparently) and youve got all the neurological symptoms.

no report of a headache when asked about pain...

take patient's temperature

[Antihero]

"No. Please don't call my wife! This isn't the first time something like this happened. I didn't want my wife to know because she wanted me to go to the hospital earlier. I've been having muscle spasms and it's weird. My mind isn't telling my body to go to the right places. When I go to grab the spoon in the cupboard I grab the fork. It's embarrassing. "

no psychiatric symptoms, huh?

... butthole...

point out that the wife is probably exposed to the same toxic he was and that it may have been related to the two miscarriages

that should get her in here.

[Antihero]

- The bug bite on his penis. Kind of embarrassing, but I didn't want you to get the answer so easily. Most of you ignored it so that's whatever, but I wanted something misleading.

when i heard that, west nile crossed my mind. that was a good red herring.

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[Antihero]

Anti you failed me

I TOOK PHYSIOLOGY 5 YEARS AGO
WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?

[Antihero]

Well the difficulty seems right.

i agree

[Antihero]

Guys, I have one more idea: How would you feel about upping the votes required to 80%... or dare I say, immunity to the player who first diagnoses and treats the patient?

whoever is better at the ddx mechanic is going to have a pretty significant upper hand in the mafia game.
getting a good diagnosis at lylo could be an automatic win for scum. conversely a townie fucking up and making themselves disliked at lylo is an autoloss (which would bug the shit out of me if i were town and lost that way).

come to think of it, it's pretty antitown to even engage the ddx mechanic at lylo. maybe drop that part of the game when it gets to that point?

[Antihero]

How about one of us is chosen randomly to be the patient, and if we kill the patient he dies?

ew....

[Antihero]

Short list of ideas and criticisms that I came up with. It needs to be much more clear about what is and is not being done with investigations, like the house for instance. It needs to be very clear what the rules are on certain things like that, or with certain things and how that will affect gameplay, like the confidentiality thing. It's a house flavor, so some people might expect that to be okay, what others think the medical side of it makes it not OK, and it can cause some confusion. Also, I'm against the D20 thing. It would work for something like a tabletop house game, but not for a for Mafia game, random this is probably bad here. Also, last question, how does this actively tie into a game of Mafia? Is the mafia attempting to get the patient killed? Because unless they are, I don't really see how this mixes with Mafia all that well. Diagnosing the patient becomes much more important to everybody that catching scum is, and if there is no opposing goals to the alignments, there's no real way to figure out who is scum. I think there has to be some kind of conflicting goals between the mafia and the town.

Maybe give scum the ability to sabotage tests to give false results and thus mislead people into false diagnoses and treatments.

ew, no that's bad