Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- eternity:mystery_flaws [2017/06/12 03:04]
gm_amy
+++ eternity:mystery_flaws [2017/06/13 15:22] (current)
gm_amy [Mystery Flaw #6]
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 Towards the later stage of the game, both players and the prison population at large contracted MF#5 through the natural spread of contagion. The virus was airborne, and started to manifest symptoms at between 6 and 12 months. Although players and NPCs mostly experienced respiratory symptoms, other effects we doled out included faints, blackouts, dizziness, weakness, fevers, shakes, and, in the case of Zhar Ro, encephalitis((with thanks to the player who helpfully prompted the GMs by noting in their turnsheet that the virus had not affected anyone's brain yet)). The one common feature of infection was swollen lymph nodes, which the medics amongst you had sporadically discovered by the end of game. It was also detectable on blood tests, such as the ones in Dr Greco's study that the hackers found and the ones left running in Station Green that Dri Po was never able to retrieve.
+Those with MF#5 realised that Dr Greco liked them((at least at the start of game)), and found that Dr Greco would //always// treat them -- even Tel, despite making no effort to hide his racism. This was partly to encourage infected people to return to improve the monitoring information available, and partly to ensure they didn't mess things up by inconveniently dying of the horrible wounds you all inflicted on each other. Plus, being one of his initial infected trial subjects actually //did// make him rather fond of you.
 ===The Trial===
@@ Line 25: / Line 27: @@
 ===Asher Segal===
-[Morgan]
+Asher Segal was a civil servant, who had worked in both the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Justice, and whose was assigned to the b-Exagora project largely to keep an eye on Dr. Greco - who was dedicated to the project, but not entirely trusted not to be //weird// about it. He was known to have a deep-seated loyalty to the government, and a respect for the rule of law that extended to being willing to dehumanize criminals far enough to administrate this kind of trial without objections.
+Asher was not aware that the supply ship crash was planned. While he was aware that the personnel involved in the project were unlikely to be the government's highest priority, he did not expect them to be actively targeted by the supply ship crash.
+He'd been assigned to the project due to having a reputation for both competence and unwavering loyalty - and no-one higher up wanted to compromise the latter by letting him know just how little the government valued the lives of the personnel involved in the trial.
+For the first few months after the crash, he managed to convince himself it had been an accident, and that if he could just keep the prison under control until the next ship arrived, things would go back to normal. He didn't expect to survive if the prisoners started to revolt, but he expected to at least die doing his job.
+He was still desperately trying to maintain the status quo when Dri Po came to him and told him she and Agnostino Serpico had found out Dr. Greco was working on a bioweapon. Hoping to prevent the information spreading any further, he agreed to her request to take her out to Station Green to do more research, and while there, shot her.
+When he came back, Harper Lockwood, about the only prisoner Asher trusted, had covered the prison in graffiti about government involvement in the supply ship crash, and about the New Prima false-flag operation - neither of which were things Asher was previously aware of, and both things which profoundly shook his faith in the government, especially after Harper confirmed that they had evidence for both things.
+Feeling betrayed by a government he'd previously trusted implicitly, Asher allowed Harper to recruit him to the CPP, passed the relevant information on the bioweapon to the prisoners. He helped facilitate the riots, and to get the data out to Captain Sheer. He still fully expected to be killed at any point, but his criteria for making that //worthwhile// had switched from protecting the project to ensuring the people responsible were held to account.
+He remains //very confused// and not altogether happy that no-one has tried to punish him for his part in the project.
 ===Dr Greco===
 For his part, Doctor Benedict Greco was under no illusion as to the expendability of b-Exagora after the desired results were obtained. A military doctor ostracised for being "fucking creepy" and "plain weird", authorities designated him to b-Exagora without the expectation that he would return. He received samples of the vaccine and the virus and dutifully implemented the trial. He meticulously gathered results and compiled reports to be processed and relayed by Asher. He was floridly unsurprised by the crash of the supply ship, having already resigned himself to inevitable erasure in the name of secrecy. Isolated and without hope, he turned to ever greater eccentricity to distract himself whilst awaiting death, either from starvation, atmospheric failure, or at the hands of inmates. The story some of you heard at his first slumber party,
- //..." about a group of people trapped on a planet a hopeless distance from civilisation. They're all steadily dying of an illness that rises up from the alien ground. Something in the rocks they discovered too late. Something that rejects the ants on its surface. It doesn't matter: the people are doomed anyway. They invent means, more and more means, of entertaining themselves, of holding on to their sanity. They come up with more and more futile methods of entertainment. Nothing works."// \\
+ //"... about a group of people trapped on a planet a hopeless distance from civilisation. They're all steadily dying of an illness that rises up from the alien ground. Something in the rocks they discovered too late. Something that rejects the ants on its surface. It doesn't matter: the people are doomed anyway. They invent means, more and more means, of entertaining themselves, of holding on to their sanity. They come up with more and more futile methods of entertainment. Nothing works."// \\
 ...was only partly untrue.
@@ Line 36: / Line 53: @@
 =====Mystery Flaw #6====
+Mystery Flaw #6 was created by a player character, Xix Chil Ah, in the first turnsheet. It was a computer virus, entitled "Scalpelship.exe", which could infect cybernetics, reporting back information if possible and making any other hacking on infected systems easier. Xix Chil continued to upgrade and spread it in several more actions, and it was able to spread itself, so that by the time people were dying and generating new characters, it was available to buy at character creation. Mostly this flaw didn't end up activating, except to give Xix Chil random snippets from email conversations that infected characters were having, and on one occasion when a PC with MF#6 tried to attack Xix Chil using their cybernetics.
+At least two other characters had access to Scalpelship.exe, with the programme's utility outliving its creator and still finding employment in Eternity.
+=====Mystery Flaw #7=====
+This was also created by a PC, in this case Carol Winters, but in this case it was much rarer as it didn't spread autonomously and it was more difficult to install.
+When given the opportunity to operate on people's cybernetics, Carol altered them to detect when a trigger word was spoken (bird-themed: "albatross", "petrel", "grebe", "pelican", "cormorant"), it would activate and injure the owner. None of these kill-switches were actually activated during the game.
+=====Mystery Flaw #8=====
+We considered adding another one, but it didn't quite merit a distinct quality.

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

Page Tools