Good Cause Simulator: LiliS/AlcheME! (sunday)

[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. ]

Comments

YEAR 0 STATS

[idolpro]

Population: 50
Prosperity: 50%
Sustainability: 50%
Readiness: 50%
Status: Healthy
Species: Humans, and also bird-dragon people but they have hands.

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?

Re: ALLOCATE POINTS

[theyregooddogs]

The points will go to Readiness. They are not paying taxes or using the laser.

Also, they are going to use their theft and eventual shift into piracy of all kinds to inspire people to fight against the powers that are keeping people impoverished and starving. It is Robin Hood, it is Marxism, and it is going to go very well, thank you.

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[theyregooddogs]

I hate space.

Re: DISCUSSION

[stirtheblood]

"Humans, and also bird-dragon people but they have hands"?

...At least it seems like somethin' more interesting this time.

[heavenlyvisitor]

...

Should we become pirates, for the people...?

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

[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?

YEAR 2

[idolpro]

STATS

[idolpro]

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

!!: You are hit by a mining laser explosion! You lose 10 sustainability! JOHN DOE is burned. CRESCENT RISE breaks an arm.

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

[idolpro]

You may allocate your Space Pirate points to: All stats

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

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

hey guess what CRIME DOESN'T PAY

which is to say it does BUT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS ITS CUT. The tax man has docked at your station and he's out for REVENGE. (for the unpaid taxes, not for anything you did to him or anything.)

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

Things have started to get rather dire across human, and also bird-dragon people but they have hands 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.

YEAR 3

[idolpro]

STATS

[idolpro]

Population: 35
Prosperity: 80%
Sustainability: 40%
Readiness: 20%
Status: Arms and burns (treated)

CURRENT JOB: Space Pirate (Independent)
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

[idolpro]

You may allocate your Space Pirate points to: All stats

Whats a tax can you eat it
Will you use your job ability?

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

You're your own master now! Which means the people are like, looking to you to fix all these sicknasty sustainability problems they're having. And they're pretty worried about safety, too? Like, the whole government's after them now, and they heard the war's been getting worse because some dragons and humans with human ears doublecrossed The Others and also introduced deadly new weapons into the mix...

You...you might have a mutiny on your hands, if you don't make things better immediately. Somewhere to the tune of, oh, 60% sustainability and any amount of readiness more than the pitiful number you have right now.

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

There has been an outbreak of Phage on several planets and as a result of the war, [insert species] is 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.)

FINAL STATS

[idolpro]

Population: 35
Prosperity: 50%
Sustainability: 75%
Readiness: 40%

ENDGAME

[cascadingfailure]

You barely survived, but you did it! You manage to escape the ravages of the war, as diminished as you are, and you no longer have to fear the tyranny of those more powerful than you to boot.

You and your people are finally free.

Maybe you had to send some people careening into the dark abyss for lack of supplies in order for that to happen,

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

Proceed to ENDGAME.