“Months ago, there was an outbreak of an airborne viral neuroinvasive pathogen that swept across the nation. Quarantine, with the exception of the most highly thorough procedures found in the military and the rare prepared hospital, failed. If you are not the president, and you weren’t infected, you are immune; and you were only one in ten people, and it most likely didn’t include the rest of your family. And if you’re still alive to hear this, you most likely killed your own family or ran for your life, and found yourself on this yacht in minor thanks to your own survival skills, and in major thanks to both incredible luck and incredible weaponry.
“Yesterday, we stopped waiting for more survivors to hear our repeating radio message, boarded up the barricades below deck, and left port. In the middle of the ocean, there’s no one else here but the eighteen of us below deck and the hundreds of infected who stumbled onto the deck as we retreated below and set sail.
“We’ve been contacted by the military, and the good news is that in a matter of days they will be able to approach the yacht by sea and eliminate the horde outside to rescue us. The bad news is that as the zombies in that 90% of the global population perish from mindless falls, poor judgment calls, and a heaping helpful of good old-fashioned gunfire, 25% of the 10% of us that were immune are actually infected. That means three or four of us are infected. And those of you who are, know who you are, and know who each other are. And if we’re to hold out until the military arrives, we have to figure out who you are, and we’ve got to kill you. And we’re going to.”
Left 4 Scum is large mafia variant based on the zombie survival video-game series Left 4 Dead. This game includes a number of changes to the normal mafia rule-set that make it more appropriate to the attitude and events of Left 4 Dead and the zombie apocalypse.
This is a game for 18 players.
Rules:
- I am MOD thy GOD. These are my COMMANDMENTS. Thou shalt put no other mods before me, and therefore inactivity in this game is not excusable by activity in other games. If you have a dispute with me, you will let me know privately through PM or instant messaging. I am infallible. That said, sometimes I will make simple mistakes to test if you are paying attention; if you believe this has happened, please address the simple mistakes in the thread in bold.
- Dead men tell no tales. Once you have died in the game, you are no longer allowed to make any more posts in the thread for any reason whatsoever unless you have replaced back into the game.
- The informed minority faction (normally the mafia) is the infected, who know who each other are but are not allowed to communicate with each other. The infected win if they control the lynch majority or nothing can prevent this from happening.
- The uninformed majority faction (normally the town) is comprised of survivors. A survivor wins the game if he is still alive when all infected persons have been killed. Therefore, the survivors must all work together to eliminate the infected or they have absolutely no chance to win, but must also make their own survival a priority.
- Each night phase, each infected player will be able to choose one survivor to incapacitate. If a player is incapacitated three times (on the same or separate nights, by the same or different infected players), they will die. You will not be told if two different infected players incapacitated someone during the same night, but both will count towards the target’s total allowed incapacitations.
- Each day phase, the survivors will be notified that certain players were incapacitated. The players can vote which incapacitated player they wish to revive collectively (the vote command is uncap: playername). Currently incapped players are still allowed to uncap.
- Each day phase, the survivors can vote on which player they would like to lynch (the vote command is vote: playername). Currently incapped players are still allowed to vote.
- The day phase will end when a majority lynch vote has been reached or when the deadline has been met. When the day ends, the player with the most votes to be uncapped will be revived, and all other incapped players will bleed to death. If deadline hits before a majority vote to lynch has been met, the day will end without a lynch. It is also allowed to vote for no lynch (vote: no lynch).
- In the even of a tie when voting to uncap a player, the player who reached the number first will be uncapped.
- Editing your posts is not allowed.
- Unvoting is not necessary before changing votes.
- Personally attacking another player is not allowed and may result in your being replaced or mod-killed.
- Communication about the game outside of the game thread is not allowed and will result in a mod-kill. Even infected players are not allowed to communicate with each other.
- You are allowed to quote your role PMs and you are also allowed to fake quoted role PMs, but you are not allowed to post screen-shots of your role PMs.
- Do not post in the thread during the night phase.
- You are required to post every 72 hours. If you fail to do so, you will be prodded. 3 prods will result in your replacement.
Sample Role PM:
Surviving Players:
- Cello_Marl
- Circus
- frozenflame751
- Gheb_01
- Kataefi
- KevinM
- McFox
- mentosman8
- Pythag
- Rockin (replaces Mediocre)
- Xiivi
- Vyse, survivor, lynched Day 1.
- Handorin (replaces Sold2), survivor, bled out Day 2.
- Macman, survivor, bled out Day 2.
- Ronike, survivor, lynched Day 2.
- The Marsh King, survivor, bled out Day 3.
- Chaco, survivor, bled out Day 3.
- Mayling, survivor, lynched Day 3.
- §teel
- Paradox
- If you are interested, please post in this thread.
Mmm, delicious eye.
