Some things I'd like to highlight:
The Thing (including any infected host) wins if it manages to reach parity with the humans. The secret Government Agents win if they keep the Thing (or its infected host) alive and reach parity with the other humans (including the Thing and/or infected host).
The Thing and secret Government Agents are considered opposing 'packs'. Both cannot win together.
§1D - Failure to vote has NO consequence.
Use it or lose it. There may be benefits to not voting at all and randomly killing of your fellow humans until you have narrowed down a list of people suspected to be the Thing.
Lynching requires a minimum of 2 votes for the to-be-lynched person.
What happens if there is only a single vote? Or if multiple persons get one vote each? I would so love for this to happen and we can all find out.
§3D - Orders take place in the DAY EVENTS and are determined in the NIGHT EVENTS (before lynchings) except for hunts which comes after lynchings in the NIGHT EVENTS.
This shows the order that things happen.
§7B – Posting or quoting of PMs from the GM is not allowed - real or forged. Rephrasing information you know is allowed.
Sharing information may be beneficial and even necessary in certain situations.
- Hunters: May shoot and wound someone once per day. If the Thing is wounded, its identity is revealed. If a human is wounded he will not be lynched (if he was voted to be) and his vote will not count for that night only. Hunters win when the Thing is killed.
Want to shoot someone EVERY DAY? Sure. Want to stop a vote not going your way? You know who to shoot.
Of course, I don't know but people might not take kindly to getting shot...
- Psychics: May scan a person's mind once per day to attempt to determine their identities or roles. Multiple scans on a single person may be needed. Can work with a Psychologist to better determine someone's identity or role.
- Psychologists: May study a person once per day to attempt to determine their identities or roles. Multiple scans on a single person may be needed. Can work with a Psychic to better determine someone's identity or role.
If a person being scanned has more than one role then another scan on another day might be needed. If you can find a Psychic or Psychologist to complement you (must be different role from you) and you both scan the same person TOGETHER (must PM GM together) then you can find multiple roles. Otherwise a scan will always give the least important role first.
- Researchers: May study clues to the Thing's origins, behaviour, history, etc. once per day. Can work with another researcher for more relevant clues.
May prove more useful than realized.
- Secret Government Agents: Will attempt to stop the other humans from killing the Thing. May recruit someone to be a Secret Government Agent if he is the only remaining agent left. The would-be-recruit has a choice to join or not. Recruitment is only official and valid when done by a real secret Government Agent that fulfills the stated condition and validated by Headquarters (GM).
Of course you have to find the Thing first. Anyone can pretend to be a Secret Government Agent (or anyone else really). Secret Government Agents have to find each other and work together. A recruit who joins will be a full-fledged Secret Government Agent and count towards their parity. Why would anyone join? They have government resources (Black OPs) and if it comes down to life or death? Of course if they have already found the Thing and now just want to kill off the other humans...
- The Thing: Has a more successful attack against the quieter humans who don't speak much and keep to themselves. After a few successful attacks, can then successfully kill anyone.
Want to keep quiet and not attract the attention of a lynch? You now get a better chance of attracting an attack by the Thing (until it gains confidence it will seek out the weaker solitary humans first). The Thing chooses a quiet target - GM agrees, attack successful; GM disagrees, attack unsuccessful
After a few successful attacks, GM no longer needs to agree.
- Escape Artists: Will escape the first time he's lynched and then hide from lynching for a day. Will be vulnerable after that.
Hope you like the rules.
