The year is 2X22. The Earth is doomed. Humanity, on the verge of extinction. Rocky crags erupt with putrid magma where oceans once brimmed with life. The stars at night are choked by belching smog. War, disease, and disaster have ravaged all lands, leaving nothing but waste in their wake.
What remains of
Homo sapiens
knows that their time is limited. They have pulled together into a single, final cluster beneath the Earth's surface. While firestorms and radiation rage above, below the last scientists seek a way out. Not, to be noted, a solution - but
a way out
of this hellish existence. After decades of attempts, the only option left for this dwindling society is an artificial one.
The concept is simple, even if the technology is not. Create a digital reconstruction of every living person. Upload these copies to a shared server - PARADISE, they've named it. Wrap the server in armor, give it micro thrusters, solar panels, asteroid deflection systems. Then launch it into space, far from this dying planet. If our physical bodies cannot survive, then perhaps our minds will. They will be called the Ascended. Proponents of PARADISE - the flesh and blood eager to see their Ascended copies - are called Digitalists.
There is resistance of course, and rumblings of sabotage. There are those who feel a life inside a computer is no life at all. This PARADISE, they say, is false. An abomination. If we are destined to be snuffed out like a candle, then best to do it with poise, not clawing and screaming in the void just for a cruel facsimile of personhood. These rebels - these Fallen - have a plan to ensure that the death of our species is a dignified one.
It's simple. All the Fallen have to do is make sure
they
make it into PARADISE before all the Digitalists. Once there, they can destroy it from within; they can plant a trap that triggers only after the spacecraft leaves orbit, so that it is too late for any of the Ascended to do anything about it. The Fallen want to kill everyone - because, to them, everyone is already dead.
The scientists in charge of the project were foresightful and clever. They had devised a method of entry into PARADISE to give humanity's remnants a chance. Only in twos can uploads occur, and only by mutual agreement. Thus, trust becomes the defining and only way to secure a digital future.
But how can you trust when you don't know who wishes you to Fall?
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There are no eliminations during the day. Instead, there is a Trust Fall mechanic. To Trust Fall, one player must vote for another player, or indicate in some obvious way they trust them (see rule 3 under
Days, Nights, and Votes
). The player being trusted may then reciprocate. Together, both players will exit the game and their alignments will be revealed.
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Members of the Mafia cannot Trust Fall together.
The Mafia wins when they have both exited the game. The Town wins when the number of living Town players is less than or equal to the number of living Mafia players.
Spoiler: Role PMs
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 4:09 am
by numberQ
Due to a copy/paste error, the Mafia role PM had the Town win con. The Mafia win con now correctly reads:
[-]
You win when both Mafia players have exited the game.
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:43 am
by numberQ
Forgot to say that the game would begin after 8/10 confirmations, which we have just hit. Day start is imminent.
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:49 am
by numberQ
You may now post!
cool cookie and Infinity 324 have 48 hours to post in thread before I start looking for replacements.
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:54 am
by Tammy
Yo.
So when I confirmed this morning, Prism and Enchant had already confirmed so they're the team.
Go me.
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:57 am
by the worst
nice catch, easy game!
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:58 am
by PookyTheMagicalBear
Greetings and Salutations Lady Tammy,
I am glad that we have the opportunity to meet again - hopefully under better terms this time as the last time we met was not the best circumstances. It has been a long time since that fateful evening in the smoky antechamber and I am a reformed bear. I promise that this time I have only the best of intentions.
I know you may have doubts about my alignment but I assure you that this time I am aligned with the town and I will endeavour to prove myself to you with deeds and words both fair and noble such that I may win your hand in this dance.
I have heard a mutual acquaintance remark that you are perhaps the kindest and fairest of all the ladies who grace the court and have no difficulty at all proving both your alignment and hunting down the enemies who would do us harm - possibly even in the top 90%. I hope you are as aligned with this fair town as I am and that we might eventually reach a point in the game where you might trust me enough to allow me to sweep you off your feet.