WWLXX: At the Prison of Ice

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Loslote

Agreed. McCaber's game was just painful. Let's try to avoid tons of reveals and false-reveals and counter-reveals and such. They pretty much just make major headaches. And like Nienna said, it's not really helpful.

Miss Lottie, with all due respect, you seem to be confusing our serious emergency with one those online games your generation indulges in!
I confess, however, I sometimes play those games myself for recreation after hours of strenuous research. It just so happens I was part of the very game you mention, and my subjective impression was that the reveals actually were quite helpful - the villagers defeated the wolves, remember?
Not that I advocate any rash actions by specially talented people, if such be among our crew - not now, at least, while we still know very little about our situation. But the time may come.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Miss Lottie, with all due respect, you seem to be confusing our serious emergency with one those online games your generation indulges in!
I confess, however, I sometimes play those games myself for recreation after hours of strenuous research. It just so happens I was part of the very game you mention, and my subjective impression was that the reveals actually were quite helpful - the villagers defeated the wolves, remember?
Not that I advocate any rash actions by specially talented people, if such be among our crew - not now, at least, while we still know very little about our situation. But the time may come.

Yes. They ended up being helpful. Mostly because no one knew what was going on. And remember, we skipped over the wolf in the batch, Morsul, and left him alive for much longer than he probably would have lasted otherwise. Plus, I had already written "for Morsul was the Agent" in my poem, and when I finally figured out what had happened, the poem was already ruined.

[Nerwen]

Well, here's the bad news: whoever smashed up the equipment did a very thorough job. I've had another look, but I getting it working again would be impossible, as far as I can see. So, we're on our own. Just confirming that.

Originally Posted by Inziladun

Now, to the business that troubles us most. While I am a servant of empiricism by trade, my mind has always been rather imaginative. Certainly it seems the disppearance of the captain, and subsequent murder of the one best equipped to aid us in returning to habitable lands, are related. Why? I don't believe in such coincidences. But why would one of our own, whose fate is bound with ours at this juncture, wish to commit such acts?

Academic quarrel? You scientific types get carried away sometimes... *nods darkly*

Originally Posted by Loslote

Yes. They ended up being helpful. Mostly because no one knew what was going on. And remember, we skipped over the wolf in the batch, Morsul, and left him alive for much longer than he probably would have lasted otherwise.

Yes, I play those games too. Just because the baddies chose to give themselves away in one game doesn't mean they will again– and definitely doesn't mean it'll work that way in real life.

[Pitchwife]

Another possible motive - somebody's interested in sabotaging scientific progress. Hmmm, let me think... militant defenders of popular mythology who want to stop us from finding out the truth about Father Christmas? Somehow this doesn't look very promising...
Anyway, it's good to see some more of our colleagues participating in the discussion. Unfortunately, I must retire for a while and pickle some specimens, but I'll be back later in the Day, hoping for something more to go on by then. Oh, and I'd volunteer for having a look at the cargo holds, since I suggested it, but frankly, I don't care to go down there alone while a murderer's hiding on board.
See you later!

[Macalaure]

Pretty much nothing but academic disputes dominating the discussion so far. Not very thrilling. Obviously, our scientific efforts have to take the back seat now and finding out who killed our lead engineer has to be of primary priority. If we don't solve that problem first, all our results won't ever make it back into the civilised world.

I agree with Pitchwife that the murderer(s) are most likely among ourselves. However, the prehistoric equations I discovered have not yet led me to the slightest clue concerning their identity. I shall be back when there is more to go at.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

Pretty much nothing but academic disputes dominating the discussion so far. Not very thrilling. Obviously, our scientific efforts have to take the back seat now and finding out who killed our lead engineer has to be of primary priority. If we don't solve that problem first, all our results won't ever make it back into the civilised world.

I quite concur. Survival must take precedence over science, when the two are in conflict with one another.
Having very little in the way of evidence, we are reduced to analysing one another, looking for suspicious behaviour.
Let's see....

Mnemosyne was the first to speak up about the current situation. The comment about 'conspiracy theories' seemed a bit odd, considering no one else had mentioned the possibility of the existence of something of that nature. Nothing else particularly strikes me about her.

Nogrod was going on about 'energies' that could power the world with zero harmful emissions. Oddly enough, I think I heard that fellow Nog on a talk radio show once. Coast To Coast AM With Art Bell, or something like that.

Pitchwife has seemed level-headed thus far, trying to keep us addle-brained scientific types on focus in dealing with the issues of the murder and our ship's plight. And black humour, to boot.

Loslote and Nienna: Nothing of note.

Nerwen , our mechanic, says the damage to the ship is irrepairable. Most unwelcome news. All the more pressing then, is our goal to solve the death of the engineer and the disappearance of the captain.

Terribly little to go on, I'm afraid. It would be helpful if the rest of our group would sound off.

[Mnemosyne]

Inziladun, clearly you have failed to read up on your popular culture. Whenever any environmental expedition is sabotaged (as this one clearly is; anyone with an axe to grind against our engineer would have waited until after he'd fixed our ship) it's always evil capitalist corporations at work. Unless it's written by Michael Crichton, in which the environment itself is being carefully manipulated by evil environmentalist corporations to create the appearance of disaster and thus get the people to surrender more power to them.

As far as the role discussion goes... that's basically everyone's attempts to get something productive done on a Day One scenario. Since we're not given too much new material to chew over, I can't think of any other productive pot-stirring methods. At the same time, what else is there really to say, except, "Don't Reveal"?

*sigh*

Not much to be done, really. I can never get a feel for anyone off Day One, and the "what if this suspect's a gifted?" paranoia is doubled because the gifteds, like the baddies, know each other--giving the teams one more similarity that my addled pate really can't afford.

Fortunately the Day is young.

So in the meantime, I will leave you* with this poser...

What's less helpful: people filling the gamethread with mindless Day One bantering drivel, or people filling the gamethread with mindless platitudes about gameplay that everyone will agree upon anyway?

Gosh, where's a good controversy when you need it?

*not really

[Roa_Aoife]

*Unlocks weapon cabinet and loads a rifle*

All right people, let's not beat around the bush. Someone here is a killer, and we need to figure out who before they get the rest of us. For now, no one wanders off alone. Pairs, trios, whatever, just make sure you're with someone at all times. You eggheads over there- knock off the scientific debate. We have more important things to concern ourselves with.
[/in character posting]


Okay, now that that's out of the way: Early Day 1, I know, I know, but can we please get down to business? Yes *gasp* it's wolves. There are three of them. "Oh, how do you know that?" "This isn't an online game you know...."

Blah, blah, blah. Yes, it is. Thank you, Nienna and Loslote, for getting to the point. Can the rest of stop giving the wolves banter to hide in? For the record, I have nothing against in characterness, and everyone should have some fun with their character (I intend to), but when it gets in the way of game play it's going a bit too far.

I'm looking at you, Pitch. *eye to eye motion* Really, "no wolves in the artic sea..."

Edit: Crossed with Mnemo