Good Cause Simulator: BAD END=DEAD END (saturday)

[idolpro]

[ 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

[idolpro]

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

SPECIES DECISION - PICK ONE

[idolpro]

Human: They’re human and shit!

Humans But Some Sort Of Animal (Less): Kemonomimi! Choose an animal.

Humans But Some Sort Of Animal (More): Furries! Choose an animal.

Insect Hivemind: Scary monsterbugs that all think as one!

SYSTEM X4-100: Many AI! One groupthink digital space!

Revenants: A bunch of ghosts. Or maybe slimes? Slimeghosts! But for some reason they need all the stuff living things do...and they can die?

Floaty Gross: Docile floating gas bladders. They’re very cute! Don’t make them angry.

MAGIC.JPG INC: Shitty fairies! Don’t trust them! They’re a megacorp and get mind altering glitter everywhere!

Effervescent Flora: Plantlife, but with an attitude.

SPECIES DISCUSSION

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YEAR 1

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STATS

[idolpro]

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

[idolpro]

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

[idolpro]

Your station, and the people living in it are all rather poor. You can’t stand to see the suffering - something needs to be done, you think. There’s a major shipping lane nearby...perhaps you could take a self defense vessel and relieve those merchants of their goods?

EVENT 2

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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?

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

YEAR 2

[idolpro]

STATS

[idolpro]

Population: 65
Prosperity: 68%
Sustainability: 50%
Readiness: 47%
Status: Healthy

CURRENT JOB: Space Pirate
POINTS SALARY: 10 + 20 carried over from last round
ABILITY: PIRACY: You can threaten up to 3 other units to take 30 points of any combination of stats from them. If they cannot or do not pay the full amount, they will be shot.

ALLOCATE POINTS

[idolpro]

You may allocate your Space Pirates points to: Population, Prosperity, Sustainability, or Readiness

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

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

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 2

[idolpro]

It's so, so cold. Hope will find themselves unable to speak coherently, mumbling and shivering constantly, as they fumble in pain at trying to complete the simplest of tasks. They now have SPACE HYPOTHERMIA.

EVENT 3

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There has been an outbreak of Phage on several planets and as a result of the war, Ghostslimes are hardly able to combat it effectively. This Phage spreads quickly, and horribly mutates its victims into hateful monstrosities bent on the consumption of all organic life.

It has spread to your station, but you have the chance to initiate quarantine protocols - or just outright eliminate those suspected to have the Phage. The former option will cost 30 prosperity, and the latter 15 Population and 15 Sustainability.

Or perhaps you have another, better option? After all, fixing the problem here doesn’t fix it everywhere else.

You could also do nothing. (This is not advised.)

DISCUSSION

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YEAR 3

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STATS

[idolpro]

Population: 65
Prosperity: 48% (pending negotiations this will change)
Sustainability: 85%
Readiness: 52%
Status: Healthy

CURRENT JOB: Space Pirate
POINTS SALARY: 10 + 10 carried over from first round
ABILITY: PIRACY: You can threaten up to 3 other units to take 30 points of any combination of stats from them. If they cannot or do not pay the full amount, they will be shot.

ALLOCATE POINTS

[idolpro]

You may allocate your Space Pirate points to: all stats

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

DISCUSSION

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EVENT 1

[idolpro]

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 2

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A mysterious ship has docked at your station today. They call themselves the Hand, but what are they the hand of? The RULER%TITLE’s right hand? The hand of DEITY%NAME? The invisible hand of the ECONOMIC%SYSTEM?

All you know is that things seem to have become colder and darker around the station since they arrived. And news reports throughout [insert species] space indicate that there’s started to be reports...of missing hands. Entire hands, just removed! Without a single trace.

Do you begin the work of removing these Hands, whatever they might be? Or do you let them stay? Do you, perhaps, engage in their handcraft?

EVENT 3

[idolpro]

[Species name] 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?

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

[cascadingfailure]

You joined with those who would aid you and others like you, and in return you fought as their protectors.

You were felled during the revolution alongside them, of course - there's no need for people like you in the new galaxy - but you held the line long enough to see the end of the war and the development of the cure that would save everyone.

You died, but it was for a good cause.

Proceed to ENDGAME.