Good Cause Simulator: BARiTONES (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 - PICK ONE

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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

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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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As a result of your lack of maintanence, 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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While working on the mineral line, you notice a problem with a conveyer belt. You can either attempt to fix it, or leave it for the next shift.

DISCUSSION

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YEAR 2

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STATS

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Population: 40
Prosperity: 60%
Sustainability: 65%
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?

DISCUSSION

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EVENT 1

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Revenants 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, revenants are 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 2

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It's so, so cold. Absinthe 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, Revenants 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.)

EVENT 4

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

EVENT 5

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Your bravery/ingenuity/whatever has caught the notice of your employers! You have been offered a position as ASTEROID MANAGER.

. . . Actually, it's just that everyone else in the mines have quit and war is so heavy in this area they're really not looking to stay in these lands. That means you're going to effectively be the owner of this asteroid, but you're also super liable to die.

Do you accept? (If you don't, you'll be fired anyway, so you'll have to find a different job.)

YEAR 3

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STATS

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Population: 40
Prosperity: 65%
Sustainability: 50%
Readiness: 80%
Status: Healthy

CURRENT JOB: Space Pirate
POINTS SALARY: 10
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

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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

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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?

FINAL STATS

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Population: 10
Prosperity: 75%
Sustainability: 70%
Readiness: 90%

ENDGAME

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And you ran! You ran so far away!

And you got away.

You escaped, and it wasn't for a good cause, but literally who gives a shit?

Proceed to ENDGAME.