Good Cause Simulator: Heart Soldier Senshi (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

[idolpro]

Other Godzilla

Re: SPECIES DECISION

[crossmyheartandhope]

Space godzillas.

YEAR 1

[idolpro]

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]

While working in the mines, someone asks you to pass you a thermal detonator. Do you hand them the one with the SHORT TIMER or the LONG TIMER?

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

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

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YEAR 2

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STATS

[idolpro]

Population: 50
Prosperity: 70%
Sustainability: 40%
Readiness: 50%
Status: Healthy

CURRENT JOB: Space Cop
POINTS SALARY: 12
ABILITY: SEARCH AND SEIZURE: You can arrest one unit at will, and confiscate what they have on their person. This lowers their sustainability by 10 and increases your readiness by 10.

!!: On your last day in the space mines, you were hit by a deadly laser. By deadly laser I mean you all got a little singed, maybe mild burns a few places, though nothing sincerely deadly. Your sustainability lowers by 10%.

ALLOCATE POINTS

[idolpro]

You may allocate your Space Cop points to: Sustainability or Readiness

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

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

It's so, so cold. Aster 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 2

[idolpro]

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

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A tax collector docks at your station. You are under arrest for tax evasion. What do you do?

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

YEAR 3

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STATS

[idolpro]

Population: 50
Prosperity: 60%
Sustainability: 55%
Readiness: 42%
Status: Space Hypothermia (treated)

CURRENT JOB: Scientist (Medical)
POINTS SALARY: 20
ABILITY: SCAM: Use cheap inventions to fleece the shit out of another unit and gain 20 Prosperity. Maybe the inventions will explode but hey, whatever!

ALLOCATE POINTS

[idolpro]

You may allocate your Scientist (Medical) points to: Sustainability, Prosperity, and Readiness

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

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

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 3

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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 4

[idolpro]

One day, in your sleep, your entire family are accosted by ancient spirits that remove one hand. There's no wound left. You are simply dehanded, bloodily.

FINAL STATS

[idolpro]

Population: 80
Prosperity: 88%
Sustainability: 77%
Readiness: 12%

!!: 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]

SHIN HEARTZILLA is the guardian of the infected, and though they are almost completely unable to actually defend in the war against the Others or the mutants the Phage brought, they still stand strong and brave until the very end.

Along with some of the others, you manage to develop a cure, just in time for the blade of revolution to cleave you in twain - you never had a chance to survive in a galaxy like this.

Your epilogue was long and dismal, but it was for a good cause.

Proceed to ENDGAME.