Good Cause Simulator: sensitIV (saturday)

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[ You’re in a sleek room full of all kinds of sci-fi dials and knobs. You feel like you’ve been here a long time with these people around you, and that you have a lot longer to go before this is all over.

You can hear the distant sounds of the station creaking due to shockwaves from the fighting outside. What is going on in this galaxy? Well, it’s not very important to you. What’s important is surviving.

You have a job to do. ]

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YEAR 0 STATS

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Population: 50
Prosperity: 50%
Sustainability: 50%
Readiness: 50%
Status: Healthy

SPECIES DECISION

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Other: Dragon

YEAR 1

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STATS

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Population: 50
Prosperity: 50%
Sustainability: 50%
Readiness: 50%
Status: Healthy

CURRENT JOB: Asteroid Miner
POINTS SALARY: 10
ABILITY: MINING LASER: You can fire the mining laser, gaining 10 extra prosperity but with a chance to mildly injure every member of one random unit with the same job and lowering their sustainability by 10.

ALLOCATE POINTS

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You may allocate your Asteroid Miner points to: Prosperity or Readiness

Will you pay taxes this year?
Will you use your job ability?

EVENT 1

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The war against The Others rages around you - you're not sure why it started or how, only that one of your species' planets was completely wiped out, with no provocation. You can't help but feel you need to do something about this...but what?

Do you take action, or realize that there's not much you can do to affect things besides your job?

EVENT 2

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While working in the mines, you hear the sound of rushing water on the other side of one of the cavern walls. It seems distant. Do you attempt to use the mining laser to break through?

DISCUSSION

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YEAR 2

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STATS

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Population: 50
Prosperity: 60%
Sustainability: 40%
Readiness: 70%
Status: Unhealthy

A mining laser explosion hit your unit, causing HIGANBANA to BREAK AN ARM and LEVIATHAN to become BURNED. -10 Sustainbility!

Highest Stat: Readiness

CURRENT JOB: Independent Medical Operator
POINTS SALARY: 20
ABILITY: Poisons: You can reduce warfare...by releasing deadly poisons upon patients who refuse to recant their violent ways! This will target any units doing violent acts, and will cause them severe injury but prevents you from being affected by war-related events.

ALLOCATE POINTS

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You may allocate your Independent Medical Operator points to: Sustainability or Prosperity

Will you pay taxes this year?
Will you use your job ability?

EVENT 1

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Things have started to get rather dire across [ species name ] space. Pollution, famine, drought, disease and war run rampant. Your station itself is ramshackle and falling apart, its populace forming into factions ready to tear each other apart at the lightest provocation.

Something has to be done to get things back under control, even if you can’t make things better. But what? Perhaps getting ahead of the civil war curve and overthrowing the government yourself? Committing an act of mad science? Who knows.

EVENT 2

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Your species’ planets have a serious pest problem. Rodents (Large) and Locusts (Innumerable) ravage your crops and food stores, leaving people with nothing to eat. What do you do?

EVENT 3

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It seems like you're trying to declare independence...?

The local government doesn't like that, at all. You should probably pay your taxes. You know, to show you're still loyal.

Unless...? 😏

DISCUSSION

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YEAR 3

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STATS

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Population: 50
Prosperity: 120%
Sustainability: 35%
Readiness: 60%
Status: Arms and Burns (treated)

CURRENT JOB: Health Director Warlords
POINTS SALARY: 25
ABILITY: BIOLOGICAL WARFARE: You can unleash deadly viruses or bacteria or parasites or like, bioweapons, like you're fuckin' residenting some evils or something on an unsuspecting neighbour! This will cause severe damage to 2-3 units (you can choose one of them). Each use of the ability grants +40 readiness and reduces the population and prosperity of those hit by 20!

ALLOCATE POINTS

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You may allocate your Health Director Warlords points to: all stats

Will you pay taxes this year?
Will you use your job ability?

DISCUSSION

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EVENT 1

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As a result of your lack of maintenance, your station has ended up in a state of disrepair. It should be no surprise that when gravity season begins, the stress to the paneling causes the station to slowly start to come apart.

This could be a deadly disaster if left alone...but what can you do about it?

EVENT 2

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After a certain group made the decision to fight The Others with the Phage, derelict Others ships have been full of horrible space mutants, which now spread rapidly across the galaxy. They've reached your sector, and if the outbreak is not stopped they will consume all life here.

The war has died down, but this - is pretty bad. What do you do?

EVENT 3

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Dragon space is sparsely populated, but fortunately there’s enough War going on around everywhere that there’s plenty of refugees! It’s probably best to take them, but perhaps there should be some sort of screening process? After all, [species name] is currently at war themselves, and with all this disease going around it may not be safe…

But given how poor the state of the galaxy at large is, you do need these people to make sure things keep running and battles keep being fought and won. So...what is your proposal, for at least your station?

EVENT 4

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Pirates have taken over your station! They demand 5 prosperity points from you—if you don't pay up, you'll get shot.

FINAL STATS

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Population: 130
Prosperity: 188%
Sustainability: 170%
Readiness: 85%

!!: Your supply routes were raided! -10 Sustainability, -10 Readiness.
!!: An uprising is incited against you, and in dealing with it you lose 30 Readiness.
!!: A rebellion has wracked the sector, and you are caught in the middle of it. Every member of your family is SHOT X 3, loses ONE LIMB and receives severe damage to ONE ORGAN of the player's choice.

ENDGAME

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With the help of several others - those defending from the mutants and the Others and those researching the cure along with you, you manage to develop a cure for the Phage! There's not much to be done for those who are already mutated, but there's hope for the rest of the galaxy.

You might have had to do some unsavory things, and those may have led to you being shot nearly to death in a revolution,

but it was for a good cause, wasn't it?

Proceed to ENDGAME.