This is the signup thread for Basic #83: Dinosaurs Lost in Time, an original-flavor mafia game for 12 players created by Cantripmancer and reviewed by ZeDorkSlipeur.
Signups will be open for at least 72 hours are closed.
• This game is intended to be heavy on flavor, but the flavor will not be relevant to the game beyond providing enjoyment to the readers.
• Good intentions aside, "heavy flavor" may not extend beyond the signup thread and game introduction. YMMV.
• I'm neither a history buff nor a dinosaur buff. I'm a fiction buff, so, again, YMMV.
Also, players get to choose the dinosaur they want to play as!!!
If you would like to participate, please /in with an indication of which dinosaur you would like to play as, as well as the number of games you're currently in. Dinosaur selection is on a first-come basis and is also dependent on who gets in, so if someone else has already claimed your favorite dinosaur, please note a secondary (and possibly tertiary) choice.
Abducted by Cyberchimps (/in)
1. Antny223 (0), Stegosaurus (mentored by Prophylaxis)
2. Nachomamma8 (?), Velociraptor
3. DCIII (1), Pterodactyl
4. Sir Karn (0), Carbonemys
5. UA lives (0), Brachiosaurus
6. greensleeves (1), Sinornithosaurus
7. Scrub (0), Nedoceratops
8. SirGrizz (2), Triceratops (mentored by Rhand)
9. Tom (2), Ankylosaurus
10. zemanjaski (1), Deinonychus (mentored by Void)
11. LoneWolfBlood (0), Spinosaurus (mentored by Shockwave07)
12. Rodemy (0), Tyrannosaurus
Wind whistled across the long stretch of desert between the rocky outpost and the shallow oasis lake. Sand shifted from point to point, miniscule nomads in an unending travail of journey and erosion. The sun, high in the sky, made the idea of shade seem dreamlike, as though the memory of twelve hours past had only been imagined.
Still, the lonely stegosaur ambled on, moving toward the lake in resignation, almost as though no other thought existed in his brain. In actuality, several elements ran through his consciousness simultaneously. One was that the thirst was still the single most pressing and important need at the moment; without water, the stegosaur knew that death was not far off. The eyes constantly roved, though, looking for the spare lizard or insect that would provide a snack. A steady influx of nutrients was necessary to ensure such bulky movement. Yet another part of his brain diverted his visual attention from the hunt to watch for the infrequent but always possible threat of a predator.
The sudden and distant metallic sparkle several miles to the north didn’t even register.
The large, hulking predators were usually easy to spot and easy to fend off. The predators that had to be guarded against were the smaller, stealthy dangers. The ones that snuck up and lashed into his hide before he knew they were there. Once those had breached his defenses, it took forever to shake them off, and the last time had ended in a bite to his leg that still pained him when he walked.
Something flashed in his peripheral vision and he paused, but when he looked, nothing was there. He waited a moment, as perfectly still as a four-ton slab of beef could, watching for further signs of danger. After a few minutes, he turned and continued his trek toward slaking his thirst.
When it happened, the stegosaur was really only aware of three things:
1. Something was in front of him when only seconds before nothing had been.
2. That something was unlike anything he had ever encountered, a spider-like animal with a myriad of blinking eyes all over its body and legs, hard, flat, shiny rock-like surfaces, and a soft, furry appendage on top that suddenly detached itself from the rest of the body and leapt onto the stegosaur’s back right behind the head.
3. The sensation of something encircling his neck and then a sharp prick of pain as something sliced through the top of his skull and embedded itself in his brain.
Then the stegosaur was gone, disappeared in a soft whump of air that rushed in to fill the space instantaneously left by the massive dinosaur.
The cyberchimp jumped back to the top of her rangewalker and, smiling the permanent grin that all cyberchimps are programmed to display in times of satisfaction, pushed the simple two-button sequence to return home. Then the desert floor was absent of stegosaur, cyberchimp, or rangewalker. As though they had never been there at all.
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Signup Thread
This is the signup thread for Basic #83: Dinosaurs Lost in Time, an original-flavor mafia game for 12 players created by Cantripmancer and reviewed by ZeDorkSlipeur.
Signups
will be open for at least 72 hoursare closed.• Good intentions aside, "heavy flavor" may not extend beyond the signup thread and game introduction. YMMV.
• I'm neither a history buff nor a dinosaur buff. I'm a fiction buff, so, again, YMMV.
If you would like to participate, please /in with an indication of which dinosaur you would like to play as, as well as the number of games you're currently in. Dinosaur selection is on a first-come basis and is also dependent on who gets in, so if someone else has already claimed your favorite dinosaur, please note a secondary (and possibly tertiary) choice.
Abducted by Cyberchimps (/in)
1. Antny223 (0), Stegosaurus (mentored by Prophylaxis)
2. Nachomamma8 (?), Velociraptor
3. DCIII (1), Pterodactyl
4. Sir Karn (0), Carbonemys
5. UA lives (0), Brachiosaurus
6. greensleeves (1), Sinornithosaurus
7. Scrub (0), Nedoceratops
8. SirGrizz (2), Triceratops (mentored by Rhand)
9. Tom (2), Ankylosaurus
10. zemanjaski (1), Deinonychus (mentored by Void)
11. LoneWolfBlood (0), Spinosaurus (mentored by Shockwave07)
12. Rodemy (0), Tyrannosaurus
Potential Harvest (/replace)
1. Burning Earth (0), Allosaurus
At the Other End of the Chronoscope (non-reveal /spectator thread)
1.
Dinos Gots Consciences? (/mentor)
1. Rhand (mentoring SirGrizz)
2. Void (mentoring zemanjaski)
3. Prophylaxis (mentoring Antny223)
4. Shockwave07 (mentoring LoneWolfBlood)
Signup Introduction
Wind whistled across the long stretch of desert between the rocky outpost and the shallow oasis lake. Sand shifted from point to point, miniscule nomads in an unending travail of journey and erosion. The sun, high in the sky, made the idea of shade seem dreamlike, as though the memory of twelve hours past had only been imagined.
Still, the lonely stegosaur ambled on, moving toward the lake in resignation, almost as though no other thought existed in his brain. In actuality, several elements ran through his consciousness simultaneously. One was that the thirst was still the single most pressing and important need at the moment; without water, the stegosaur knew that death was not far off. The eyes constantly roved, though, looking for the spare lizard or insect that would provide a snack. A steady influx of nutrients was necessary to ensure such bulky movement. Yet another part of his brain diverted his visual attention from the hunt to watch for the infrequent but always possible threat of a predator.
The sudden and distant metallic sparkle several miles to the north didn’t even register.
The large, hulking predators were usually easy to spot and easy to fend off. The predators that had to be guarded against were the smaller, stealthy dangers. The ones that snuck up and lashed into his hide before he knew they were there. Once those had breached his defenses, it took forever to shake them off, and the last time had ended in a bite to his leg that still pained him when he walked.
Something flashed in his peripheral vision and he paused, but when he looked, nothing was there. He waited a moment, as perfectly still as a four-ton slab of beef could, watching for further signs of danger. After a few minutes, he turned and continued his trek toward slaking his thirst.
When it happened, the stegosaur was really only aware of three things:
1. Something was in front of him when only seconds before nothing had been.
2. That something was unlike anything he had ever encountered, a spider-like animal with a myriad of blinking eyes all over its body and legs, hard, flat, shiny rock-like surfaces, and a soft, furry appendage on top that suddenly detached itself from the rest of the body and leapt onto the stegosaur’s back right behind the head.
3. The sensation of something encircling his neck and then a sharp prick of pain as something sliced through the top of his skull and embedded itself in his brain.
Then the stegosaur was gone, disappeared in a soft whump of air that rushed in to fill the space instantaneously left by the massive dinosaur.
The cyberchimp jumped back to the top of her rangewalker and, smiling the permanent grin that all cyberchimps are programmed to display in times of satisfaction, pushed the simple two-button sequence to return home. Then the desert floor was absent of stegosaur, cyberchimp, or rangewalker. As though they had never been there at all.
Dinosaurs are cool. Stegosaurus, brontosaurus but to be honest I can be flexible.
I would like a mentor.
Make a QT and ship it to me.
Awesome.
/in
Pterodactyl
1 other game
Editing posts feels wrong
Town Win % = 75%
Mafia Win % = 75%
Overall Win % = 75%
Completed Game Log
2014: Best Mafia Performance (Group)
2014: Most Improved Player
2014: Best Town Player
2014: Best Overall Player
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane Studios for the sigpic.
Spider-Man Mafia 3 (Off-Site: NGA)
Metroid Mafia (Off-Site: Mafia Universe)
And please ship it to me, as well.
{мы, тьма}
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
Zero Games
Turtles/Tortoises count as dinosaurs, right?
You can't be April O'Neal again.
Town Win % = 75%
Mafia Win % = 75%
Overall Win % = 75%
Completed Game Log
2014: Best Mafia Performance (Group)
2014: Most Improved Player
2014: Best Town Player
2014: Best Overall Player
I chuckled.
Do I have to choose a dinosaur replacing? If so, allosaurus
Also, in 0 games currently.
You don't have to, but you can.
# of games in-progress that you're alive in?
this is it currently.
currently in 1 game
I'm in zero games at the moment on MTG.
Nedoceratops
currently in 2 games
BURPerfectly Suited to Mindless Carnage, ThraximundarRUB
URBOckham's Mindrazer = Nekusar the MindrazerBRU
UBRMarchsea makes all the Men do Stupid ThingsRBU
GWBThe Best Offense is Defense, Doran 2.0BWG
XRDaretti, Artifact ShenanigansRX
RKrenko the Don of the Goblin MobR
GFreyalise and Elves have pet HydrasG
WArmy of the Heavens, Lead by the Angel of HopeW
BDrana, The Removal BloodchiefB
UAzami, Knowledge is PowerU
WBDaxos is Enchanting Enchantments to Enchant more EnchantsBW
GRI got 99 Permanents but Primal Surge ain't One, Ruric TharRG
GBNel Thot's Sacrificial SwarmBG
WRWifey's Wrath - Gisela Blade of GoldnightRW
WUPillowfort Tron - BrunaUW
XXThe TriadXX
Do you have what it takes to survive?
I'll treat these as different dinos for the purpose of this game.
Also, SirGrizz, both Void and Rhand have offered their services as mentors; feel free to PM one of them and ask if they will mentor you.