The Consequences [Concluded]

[Stildawn]

I really dont see how sitting on a city bench reading the paper, could be seen as offensive in anyway shape or form lol.

[GeneralHankerchief]

It's a bit tough to find, but eventually you see an open city bench and park yourself on it, opening up the paper.

The front page section has the usual claptrap about Congress and the healthcare push, etc. There are also items about them beginning an investigation to see where $15 billion slated for military research and development went, global warming, the winter weather surge all across the country, and the fallout from the Christmas terror plot.

You have already read the local section.

The business section contains the usual boring information about the stock market. The recession is still impacting most companies. There is a small item about Systech Industries' rise to prominence over the past several months, but the biggest feature by far is on the incoming all-out war between Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

The Sports section has a feature on the Cardinals' injuries in Week 17, as well as the usual items on the Suns and Coyotes.

The Entertainment section has a box office report on Avatar doing so well and an update on Tiger Woods.

You have already read the Classifieds.

[Seon]

15 billion dollar for military research? Hmm...

[Stildawn]

Well that told us nothing lol.

I say we go to a dairy and get some food n supplies before anything else...

[Language please - GH]

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Well that told us nothing lol.

We could be where the money went.

[Stildawn]

Lol I doubt it... what are we 15 billion dollar man lol.

GH... Can we check the classifieds again to try find a hyponosis performer? I think we could get some pretty valuable info from that....

Perhaps go to a phone booth and look one up in the yellow pages?

[Splitpersonality]

I think we need to look around and see what stores are in our immediate vicinity so that we can plan our shopping, job hunting, and explorations accordingly.

Agreements?

[Stildawn]

Yep thats quick and easy...

Take a look around.... observe your surroundings

[GeneralHankerchief]

Office buildings. People. A couple of trees.

[CCRunner]

I still say we check out the experiment. We're gonna need cash sooner or later and this is our only way to get it at the moment

[woad&fangs]

But if the psychologists are in pairs of two with hands of blue, we run away screaming like madmen.

FIREFLY reference

[A Very Super Market]

GH seems to really want us to go to that experimental lab. I say we do it.

[Splitpersonality]

GH seems to really want us to go to that experimental lab. I say we do it.

but then what are............ the consequences?!


:clown:

i vote we do it

[CCRunner]

Make our way to the psychological experiment and inquire about what exactly it entails.

[Stildawn]

Good order CCRunner

[A Very Super Market]

but then what are............ the consequences?!


:clown:

i vote we do it

YEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Jolt]

Can we now go to the police? At the very best we'll be able to unmask a ethnically and morally wrong experiment on people.

[miotas]

What if we are one of the scientists involved in the experiment?

[Mithrandir]

seems I missed a page or 2 :laugh4:. orders to follow,.

[Mithrandir]

. There are also items about them beginning an investigation to see where $15 billion slated for military research and development went,

and the fallout from the Christmas terror plot.

. There is a small item about Systech Industries' rise to prominence over the past several months, .

Let me guess, these are important GH? :laugh4:

Get a cop of coffee in a local coffeeshop which isn't too crowded so you have time to talk to the waitress, strike a conversation so you can learn all about the Christmas Terror Plot and see if she knows anything about Systech. Tip well, use your hazelbrowneyes to charm.

[Myrddraal]

I agree with the first and last Mith, but I think the Christmas terror plot is from reality, i.e. the guy who tried to blow himself up on Christmas day.

[Subotan]

Can we now go to the police? At the very best we'll be able to unmask a ethnically and morally wrong experiment on people.

We're not going to the police. Imagine what would have happened if Gordon Freeman had asked the police or the Black Ops for help. That's right, we'd all be dead. So I don't want to hear anymore of that hating on Dr Freeman, hear me?

Speaking of crazy scientist adventures, we need a name before we sign up for this test. I propose the name "Calvin Hobbes", since John Smith is the worst pseudonym ever.

[Thermal]

I don't agree with the experiment, but if you guys insist, you can ask around shops personally for jobs and at least find out why there is a shortage of jobs, if there is one.

Also, GH only mentioned that job once, I don't think he really wants you to take it, its yourselves that really want to take it.

[Subotan]

I don't agree with the experiment, but if you guys insist, you can ask around shops personally for jobs and at least find out why there is a shortage of jobs, if there is one.

Doubtful. There is a recession.


Also, GH only mentioned that job once, I don't think he really wants you to take it, its yourselves that really want to take it.

GH doesn't want us to do anything.

[Thermal]

Which is why I said that to this


GH seems to really want us to go to that experimental lab. I say we do it.

:grin:

[Subotan]

Ah. My mistake :beam:

[GeneralHankerchief]

Checking the newspaper for the address of the buiding in which they conduct the experiment, you walk a couple of blocks and arrive. You take the elevator to the 9th floor. It arrives, and you are about to step out.

Are you sure you wish to proceed?

[Thermal]

:sweatdrop:

I would italized no now if it were me, but I'm out numbered by people that like the idea of being guinea pigs. :beam:

But I guess, well at least it would be interesting even if we die or something.

[Beskar]

yes, proceed.

[Myrddraal]

I just like to remind nobody in particular that our orders were to inquire about what exactly it entails, and not to accept to take part in anything. :sweatdrop:

[Splitpersonality]

Yes, I too thought that was the plan... to inquire not to take part.

[Beskar]

We are doing that, the "yes, proceed" was me thinking of walking in to inquire, etc. Not actually to do the experiment. I think there is writeup about what is inside, etc, first.

Being a subject of psychological experiments myself, any legal and ethical study is basically so harmless, it is on the point of "fail". If this was the 1960-70's or something, then we might have to actually worry about anything harmful. (such as thinking we were killing a person, when we didn't and it was a recording)

[Mithrandir]

Walk out the elevator and tell the receptionist you're the new psychologist, ask where you have to go to work on the experiment.

Hey, that's what any cool movie hero spy person would do. Let's get a little crazy with this

[Subotan]

If asked about your qualifications, say you have a Degree in Biological Psychosomatological Science from the People's University of Pyongyang

It's so impressive, she'll just accept it.

[Stildawn]

I wouldnt trust a degree from North Korea lol.

[Mithrandir]

If asked about your qualifications, say you have a Degree in Biological Psychosomatological Science from the People's University of Pyongyang

It's so impressive, she'll just accept it.

Nice! small adjustment:

If asked about your qualifications, say you have a Degree in Biological Psychosomatological Science and that Systech sent you

[Centurion1]

systech not a real comapny and it obviously used this 15 billion.


ask the women if this is the systech building if she says no, wink and make out as if you were joking

[Double A]

Check wallet

Wouldn't a better idea have been report your amnesia case to the cops? While we were still in Surprise?

[Beskar]

You know, with the amount of fail in some of these orders, I am surprised GeneralHankerchief doesn't partly just give up. :beam:

[Subotan]

Nice! small adjustment:

If asked about your qualifications, say you have a Degree in Biological Psychosomatological Science and that Systech sent you
Clever. Mixing the useful in with the implausible.

systech not a real comapny and it obviously used this 15 billion.


ask the women if this is the systech building if she says no, wink and make out as if you were joking
Uh, no. We already tried potential molestation as a tactic, and it didn't work.

Check wallet


We already know how much we have in our wallet.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You walk through the door and the receptionist greets you, asking if there is anything she can help you with.

Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE you wish to proceed?

[pevergreen]

Hes trying to make us stop and not get the massive loot for defeating the boss.

Yes, proceed as ordered above

[Double A]

They did this in Phantom Hourglass when you were about to get a question right. And 146 rupees.

GO! Come on! We'll get a purple rupee! I mean 50 bucks!

[Beskar]

Proceed and enquire about the psychological experiment. Ask her if she knows any information, if she doesn't and direct you to the location where it is. Go to that location and speak to psychologist. When you see the psychologist, enquire about the psychological experiment, the nature of it, request the participant information sheet to read, and check it has been approved for ethical study, making sure it follows ethical guidelines which all legitimate psychological experiments have where the participant can quit the experiment at any time.

[Double A]

What's the inventory right now?

[Mithrandir]

Yes, proceed. Pretend to be a psychologist working on the research. If asked about your qualifications, say you have a Degree in Biological Psychosomatological Science and that Systech sent you

[GeneralHankerchief]

You enquire about the psychological experiment.

"Ah, yes," the receptionist says. "I'm sorry, but that's been completed a few hours ago. Don't worry, we didn't get very many participants though and we'll be doing it tomorrow if you're still interested."

You exit the building and find yourself back on the streets of Phoenix.

Heh heh heh... :evilgrin:

OOC: I'm really not going to worry about sleep or anything like that in this game, so just kill what takes a few hours and it will magically be tomorrow.

[Double A]

Go throw some rocks at a baby carriage.

Yes I'm serious.

[Myrddraal]

Veto Veto Veto!

This is sabotage! Where are those mod powers when you need them, I need to edit a post...

[Beskar]

There are four different types of people playing this game.

- Jason Bourne: This character is Jason Bourne, you are are guiding him through working out this plot.

- Naive: These people have no regard to what the situation could be, and probably end up in a body-bag very quickly.

- Worriers/Overly Cautional: These people would make you believe the bus was infested with man-eating plants, your water bottle is poisoned, underwear gnomes has stolen that close to your skin. These guys ultimately want you huddled in a cardboard box all game.

- Clowns: Argubly, these people could be argued not to be playing the actual game other than cause mischief and messing up plans by randomly coming up, spraying alll bystanders with a golden shower and leave everyone else to pick up the pieces.

[Stildawn]

Looks like we wont be back tomorrow.... Since we'll be arrested for throwing rocks at babies lol.

[Mithrandir]

Report to the nearest police station and figure out who you are. If they'll wont help you, fart in their general direction and call their father a hamster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA) to get arrested for a night so they'll have to look you up in the system.

[pevergreen]

Looks like we wont be back tomorrow.... Since we'll be arrested for throwing rocks at babies lol.

My name...is Michael J. Caboose...and I...hate...babies!

[Beskar]

We seriously need to come up with a system.

I suggest a system. A group of players who seriously want to contribute Jason Bourne style, take turns with the orders, so there isn't any conflict between them and the game runs smoothly. They can also discuss overall plan together.

This also keeps away those annoying clowns, the worrywarts and Mr. "Hi, Police Officer, I just transpass and stole from that house over there when I lost my memory, could you help me?"

[Splitpersonality]

We seriously need to come up with a system.

I suggest a system. A group of players who seriously want to contribute Jason Bourne style, take turns with the orders, so there isn't any conflict between them and the game runs smoothly. They can also discuss overall plan together.

This also keeps away those annoying clowns, the worrywarts and Mr. "Hi, Police Officer, I just transpass and stole from that house over there when I lost my memory, could you help me?"

I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I don't think you nor anyone else should get any priority over anyone ele regardless of your ideas. I think that actual discussion is preferable to us running around spy_style when we ae CLEARLY NOT a suave smooth talking spy, we're a normal fraking guy.

[Mithrandir]

We seriously need to come up with a system.

I suggest a system. A group of players who seriously want to contribute Jason Bourne style, take turns with the orders,

Good plan!

I'll start:
Report to the nearest police station and figure out who you are. If they'll wont help you, fart in their general direction and call their father a hamster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA) to get arrested for a night so they'll have to look you up in the system.

[Double A]

Seconded.

[Beskar]

I will do what GH did in my Mafia game if you continue. :cry: :cry:

[Centurion1]

Uh, no. We already tried potential molestation as a tactic, and it didn't work.

in what way shape or form did my suggestion sound like molestation? seriously, if systech makes you think of sex.......:dizzy2:

[pevergreen]

in what way shape or form did my suggestion sound like molestation? seriously, if systech makes you think of sex.......:dizzy2:

I suffer from a rare disease. Sexlyxia.

[Centurion1]

^
heehee

[Double A]

I suffer from a rare disease. Sexlyxia.

Tell the police also the guys suffers from sexlyxia if/when they arrest him.

My vote goes to Michael J. Caboose or Calvin Hobbs.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You pick up some rocks but don't see any baby carriages. After about ten minutes, you release your rocks in frustration.

[Beefy187]

I think we should move to least likely area to bump in to babies.
We don't want some of our split personalities throwing rock at bright future.

Now heres a theory. What if the amnesia is because of our split personalities?
Perhaps one of our identities (Maybe GH) was trying to break into the house or something and we took over.

[CCRunner]

Explore the area, being careful not to offend anyone or do anything the least bit illegal. If a baby carriage is found, drop, don't throw, rocks. Take note of any signs that would give any hints about anything

[Myrddraal]

I think finding a police station would be a good idea. We can't just keep wandering forever. If we were Jason Bourne people would be trying to kill us by now, and we would be having flashbacks.

[Jolt]

Indeed.

Ask directions for the nearest police station and once there report you are suffering from some kind of amnesia, and you have no idea who you are.

[A Very Super Market]

I wonder if we're some sort of well known criminal or something, and the old lady was just too blind to realize, or too willing to give us a second chance. Systech probably doesn't care about us.

[Jolt]

What if we're just some regular guy who was abducted and took a hit to the head and was left in a random house?

Yeah, it'd be funny for us dodging the police for no reason.

[Beskar]

It would be an amusing twist if going to the police station = you find out who you are, you go home, you live happily ever after.

If we go to the police, I highly suggest we don't mention the waking up in some one elses house.

[Beefy187]

What if we're just some regular guy who was abducted and took a hit to the head and was left in a random house?

Yeah, it'd be funny for us dodging the police for no reason.

For what reason? We still have our 100 bucks so it can't be robbery.

And didn't we start at the second floor of the house?

[Stildawn]

I second the police idea.... we dont know anything, so nothing is assumed lol we should just act like we would if it happened to us in real life lol...

Who said GH made a evil game lol.

[ULC]

Just my two cents - I think at this point we would qualify as someone with dissociative identity disorder, based upon how we been struggling to come to one line of thought, and I am not talking about from our perspective so much as everyone elses' within the game.

The quickest and surest way to make sure that everything gets done is to elect one of us to italicize after discussion. If we want to proceed with any solidity, we need to establish rules, and one should be if you are not the Elected "Executor" of this group consciousness' will, you do not attempt to force an action upon all of us. Those doing so will be shunned by the rest of us.

Thus, in the spirit of my own rule, I Vote: Mithrandir as this games executor, considering he usually is the most level headed out of us so far and has come up with ingenious ways that won't cause everyone to scream in panic and flee from us.

Mithrandir: 1 (YLC)

[CCRunner]

Report to the nearest police station and figure out who you are. If they'll wont help you, fart in their general direction and call their father a hamsterVery level headed ~;p

I disagree with the idea of a set leader. We can have leaders certainly, but leaders in the 'first among equals' sense. Meaning they have ideas but don't act on them without the consent of the group.

A better system imo would be to have an order italicized only with 3 or more people approving. Although I'm sort of being hypocritical since I just did something without any input from anybody else... not like we had anything but time anyway for now and more info can only let us make a better decision.

[ULC]

Very level headed ~;p

I disagree with the idea of a set leader. We can have leaders certainly, but leaders in the 'first among equals' sense. Meaning they have ideas but don't act on them without the consent of the group.

A better system imo would be to have an order italicized only with 3 or more people approving. Although I'm sort of being hypocritical since I just did something without any input from anybody else... not like we had anything but time anyway for now and more info can only let us make a better decision.

That was the idea of "Executor". We essentially hold him in the office based upon the consent of the group as a whole, and at anytime he can be removed. He presents his idea, we vote on it - we get X number of votes, he gets to put his action through.

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You are in downtown Phoenix. There are lots of tall, office buildings, most of which haven't shut down for the day despite the psychological experiment being over. Some of these buildings have cafes and eating establishments located inside them to provide for their workers. Standalone restaurants and diners, however, are rare here given the high value of land in this part of the city. You will have to go a few blocks outside the city to get anything aside from office buildings.

To the west is the road back to Surprise. The city goes very quickly from city to outskirts to road.

To the south is the industrial section of Phoenix. Warehouses and some open spaces are more common here.

To the east is more city, and eventually residences and suburbs.

To the north lies the more uptown part of the city, where you will get more individual shops and areas.

[ULC]

You are in downtown Phoenix. There are lots of tall, office buildings, most of which haven't shut down for the day despite the psychological experiment being over. Some of these buildings have cafes and eating establishments located inside them to provide for their workers. Standalone restaurants and diners, however, are rare here given the high value of land in this part of the city. You will have to go a few blocks outside the city to get anything aside from office buildings.

To the west is the road back to Surprise. The city goes very quickly from city to outskirts to road.

To the south is the industrial section of Phoenix. Warehouses and some open spaces are more common here.

To the east is more city, and eventually residences and suburbs.

To the north lies the more uptown part of the city, where you will get more individual shops and areas.

Wait, what? Please tell me this is a Freudian Slip.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Not at all. It basically means that even though the experiment has ended for the day, the normal workday has not yet finished and thus people are still active.

[Csargo]

Find coffee shop and order a cup of coffee. Sit down and enjoy your beverage, God knows you deserve it.

[CCRunner]

I vote we just take a nap until tomorrow's experiment :shrug:

Doesn't seem to be much stuff for us to do otherwise

[GeneralHankerchief]

Before you look for a coffee shop, you need to pick a direction first.

[Beefy187]

No alcohol or anything which prevents us functioning on clear head if we are in public.

If we are alone, alcohol might be a good idea for a experiment on our self. Maybe one or two of us will be silenced.

[Csargo]

Head north to find coffee shop

[ULC]

Not at all. It basically means that even though the experiment has ended for the day, the normal workday has not yet finished and thus people are still active.

Yes, but your implying that those running the experiment would be running the town, or that the town as a whole is part of the experiment.

That is a rather big implication you have yet to outright deny.

[miotas]

He was just saying that the experiment ended before the normal end of the work day, remember, we are only getting info on what the character can see.

[ULC]

He was just saying that the experiment ended before the normal end of the work day, remember, we are only getting info on what the character can see.

That is a rather odd way to put it though. It would have been easier and clearer to say "There are lots of tall, office buildings, most of which haven't shut down for the day.", which simply indicates that the work day has not ended. Why implicate the experiment at all?

[GeneralHankerchief]

Because that's not how I write.

And yes, there is absolutely no connection.

[ULC]

Because that's not how I write.

And yes, there is absolutely no connection.

:sweatdrop: Apologies if I offended, I was just investigating, not critiquing.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Don't worry, no offense taken. :yes:

Going to bed now, expect an update as soon as I wake up tomorrow.

[Csargo]

COFFEEEEEEEEEEEEE :angry:

[Myrddraal]

I think having one person with the italic power is against the spirit of the game, but I agree that it would be good if we all waited for one or more people (depending on the importance of the order) to agree before we italicise it.

I'm keen for reporting to the police.

I'm still keen for investigating the psychological experiment, perhaps with the hope that we could chat to a psychologist who could help us out. Perhaps a better idea would be to get the number of a psychologist from a phone book and call them from a phone box, that eliminates all danger that the experiment could involve.

[Splitpersonality]

I think having one person with the italic power is against the spirit of the game, but I agree that it would be good if we all waited for one or more people (depending on the importance of the order) to agree before we italicise it.

I'm keen for reporting to the police.

I'm still keen for investigating the psychological experiment, perhaps with the hope that we could chat to a psychologist who could help us out. Perhaps a better idea would be to get the number of a psychologist from a phone book and call them from a phone box, that eliminates all danger that the experiment could involve.

I sort of agree with tye more group mentality, perhaps we can each vote on a plan to execute, not a person to plan. or at least require a margin of 3 or 4 aye's before going through.

Another psychologist would be a smart idea, but can we find one.

[Mithrandir]

Why wouldn't we find a police station?
We're supposed to act "normal"...

Yes we woke up in someone elses house, but we took nothing eventually, he took something from us.
So he'll won't press charges -> no need to fear the police.

Police has information we need and is supposed to help us. Nothing yet indicates that this world we are in is a whole lot different than the one we are living in (except I'm sorta famous with old ladies for my passion for camels).

So, I vote : find the police, explain and if they'll wont help us whatsoever, get arrested for something very minor so they HAVE to look us up in the system.

Remember, I am the only one so far who has actually done something really good for us so far (making friends with the old lady)... :eyebrows:

[GeneralHankerchief]

You make your way uptown and eventually find yourself a coffee shop. It looks comfy enough; a decent place to kill an hour or two. Coffee is $1. Would you like a cup?

[Mithrandir]

Yes, ask the waitress where the nearest police station is and head that way. Once there, explain your situtation to the police and ask for help. If they'll wont help you despite your politest efforts, do a minor thing to get arrested and thrown in jail for a maximum of one night so they'll have to find out who you are in the system.

[Beskar]

Also buy a coffee first, and then ask what Mithrandir said.

[Mithrandir]

Also buy a coffee first, and then ask what Mithrandir said.

That was the yes part of my post ~:)

[Winston Hughes]

We should try to raise enough cash to get to Las Vegas.

Start by selling the I-Pod, then move on to burglary, mugging, and other crime as necessary.

[Myrddraal]

Nothing yet indicates that this world we are in is a whole lot different than the one we are living in (except I'm sorta famous with old ladies for my passion for camels).

I'm having trouble seeing how this world is any different to the real world.

[A Very Super Market]

If we did have some sort of criminal record, getting arrested for one day would result in our arrest for years...

[Stildawn]

A risk Im willing to take lol.

[Beskar]

That was the yes part of my post ~:)

I was just making sure, Camel Master Mithrandir.

[Mithrandir]

If we did have some sort of criminal record, getting arrested for one day would result in our arrest for years...

Well, if we had a criminal record, we deserve to be in jail anyway :2thumbsup:

So, now we have 4 people agreeing to talk to the cops. Let's do it :2thumbsup:

[Subotan]

Borrrring. XIII never needed no police.

[Mithrandir]

Red XIII (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Red_XIII) ?

[Double A]

If we elect a leader to tell GH what we're doing, that will kill the game.

Regardless, I was going to post something along the lines of what Gandalf said, except it'd end in chatting up the waitress. We gotta kill a day somehow!

[Stildawn]

Yes, ask the waitress where the nearest police station is and head that way. Once there, explain your situtation to the police and ask for help. If they'll wont help you despite your politest efforts, do a minor thing to get arrested and thrown in jail for a maximum of one night so they'll have to find out who you are in the system.


Its already been ordered... lol and in case you dont know... GH doesnt care what we say he takes the first order... period. lol

[A Very Super Market]

I don't think GH wants it to end so inglouriously either. I suppose that if we start doing ridiculous things, he'll just defuse it by saying "The abortion clinic is nowhere to be seen", or "Your attempts to imitate a baboon fail miserably, and the crowd claps politely at your decent rendition of "Carmen""

[Stildawn]

Yep... Like he did with the baby carriage, but he still followed that order... So yeah... We are already going to police station, once he gets back online and does the write up.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You enjoy your cup of coffee.

$1.00 has been removed from your inventory.

After finishing your drink, you ask the waitress about the nearest police station, and she points you in the direction of three blocks north and one block west. You thank her and head to the station.

At the station, you are taken care of by one Officer Purvis, a friendly-looking black man in his 40s. He seems moderately frustrated that you have no ID or memory, but still tries his best to help out. "You say you woke up in a house in Surprise with no idea how you got there?" You nod. "Well, the best thing I can do is get in contact with their PD and see if they can pass along some information. In the meantime, you're free to take a seat and grab a cup of coffee."

You take a seat, cringing over the fact that you had to pay for coffee not 15 minutes ago. Officer Purvis is busy contacting the Surprise Police.

[Stildawn]

See not that bad so far haha.

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

See not that bad so far haha.

I bet we are a serial killer. :laugh4::laugh4: and this is going to get us thrown in jail

[Beefy187]

Lets get our self cuffed. Just incase we go on Jason Bourne style rampage which will get us in even more trouble.

[Stildawn]

I think if we were a bad criminal I believe police stations share information on stuff like that, so if they dont know who we are already then I bet we are only something minor if at all.

[Subotan]

Red XIII (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Red_XIII) ?
Nah. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XIII_%28comics%29)



You take a seat, cringing over the fact that you had to pay for coffee not 15 minutes ago. Officer Purvis is busy contacting the Surprise Police.[/I]
We're boned. :shame:

[Double A]

Why? It was only a dollar.

[miotas]

I don't think GH wants it to end so inglouriously either. I suppose that if we start doing ridiculous things, he'll just defuse it by saying "The abortion clinic is nowhere to be seen", or "Your attempts to imitate a baboon fail miserably, and the crowd claps politely at your decent rendition of "Carmen""

It would seem you are right about that, seeing as GH conveniently wrote the write up so that the part about committing a small crime was left out.

[Double A]

Can we ask the officer if he is a good cop or a corrupt one?

[Subotan]

and the crowd claps politely at your decent rendition of "Carmen""

I can play Carmen on Tuba :yes:

[ULC]

The city of Suprise is just...to full of win...I cannot stop laughing...the "Surprise Police"...

*falls down dead from asphyxiation*

[Double A]

I can see it now...

A man is walking down an alley, with the intention of hawking some stuff he just nabbed from the old Johnson place... when suddenly, two men with guns jump out of the shadows!

"SURPRISE! It's the police! Put your hands up!"

The man runs in the direction from whence he, came, when another jumps in front of him.

"Surprise! Hands up!"

He runs into the nearest building, and right when he enters the door a big guy hits him in the head with a 2x4.

"Surprise, [preemptive edit - GH]!"

[ULC]

I was thinking in a more MPish direction, but okay.

Man walks in and is greeted by a surprise party, which are then immediately tackled by police in funny outfits from various nooks and crannies, and are arrested on the grounds that they were "doing it wrong", was what was kind of going through my head. Suprise Police = Grammar Police. Just the absurdity of the notion...

[Double A]

You'd be surprised as to what they really do.

[Myrddraal]

The pause in the write up is GH giving us an opportunity to do something else.

How's this for a potential precautionary order (if you approve I'll italicise).

"Tell the officer you're dying for a smoke and step outside the building. If nothing happens in a few minutes, cautiously go back in to where we left the officer. If the officer comes out to get us in a friendly manner (i.e. not about to arrest us) pad our pockets as if looking for something and shrug and say 'I can't find my smokes'."

This is so that, in the case that The Surprise Police might tell him to arrest us, we can make a dash for it. If they don't, we haven't lost anything.

[CCRunner]

I like it. Just be sure to add the "run like hell" part if he does try to arrest us

[Stildawn]

Yep I agreed with that .... Post it... But yeah add the run like hell bit...

[Double A]

Tell the officer we're dying for a smoke and step outside the building. If nothing happens in a few minutes, cautiously go back in to where we left the officer. If the officer comes out to get us in a friendly manner (i.e. not about to arrest us) pad our pockets as if looking for something and shrug and say 'I can't find my smokes'.

If he tries to arrest us, run like hell.

Should I use the 1st person singular, 1st person plural, or 2nd person when writing these?

[CCRunner]

1st person plural makes the most sense/is easisest imo. Plus it's what we have been doing so if GH had a problem with it he'd have said something by now :shrug:

[Splitpersonality]

Maybe instead of a smoke we could've gotten some air, but whatever tomatoes tomatoes.

[Double A]

Because we can't not find our air.

[Beskar]

I like how we gone to talking to the police to save the day, to running away as fast as possible with imaginary cigs.

I think we should go to a mental asylem and admit ourselves.

[Thermal]

I like how we gone to talking to the police to save the day, to running away as fast as possible with imaginary cigs.

I think we should go to a mental asylem and admit ourselves.

That's what happens when about 30 people are all controlling 1 person.

[Splitpersonality]

Because we can't not find our air.


We can stand there, wait a minute or two then go back in, and if he comes out we're still standing there breathing..

I don't understand why we need to "not find" something as a cover when we could've just aid "NEED AIR" and went to breathe.

But i'm just nitpicking now.

[Double A]

After reading ATPG's write up in his game, it seems like SysTech is from the Resident Evil universe. Someone else can figure it out, I'm gonna go to bed.

[Myrddraal]

Catching some air isn't a very good reason to leave the cop who's helping us out. Needing a smoke is somehow more socially excusable because it's clear we are addicted and need a smoke.

What I'm trying to say is; if someone stands on a balcony in the pouring rain people think that someone is a freak. If someone stands on a balcony in the pouring rain sucking on a cigarette people don't give a second glance.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Citing the need to smoke, you excuse yourself from the station for several minutes. No officer comes to get you, so you cautiously make your way back in and resume your seat. Several more minutes pass. Eventually, Officer Purvis walks up to you.

"Sorry, friend," he says, "but Surprise PD is reporting nothing out of the ordinary. I'll tell you what I can do, though. If you want to, we can take your fingerprints and check to see if there are any matches in the database. Maybe that'll give you some answers."

[Stildawn]

Do it... Do it... If we were really wanted they would have got us by now.

[Chaotix]

We should do the fingerprint scan, but be ready to bolt if we see any sort of damning evidence... I have a feeling we might get taken into custody if something illicit is revealed about our identity.

[Thermal]

we can take your fingerprints and check to see if there are any matches in the database. Maybe that'll give you some answers."[/I]

Very guided by GH, this could be his opportunity to show us what we really are and I get the feeling it won't be positive. :juggle:

[Splitpersonality]

Well we came here looking for answers, for better or for worse I believe things will work out, at least for now ;P


I say we do it :bow:

[CCRunner]

As long as we get back in time for the experiment!

[rhawn]

Go to the nearest convenience store and buy a pack of menthol cigarettes and a lighter. Smoke while walking back to the police station to check on results of fingerprint scan.

[Stildawn]

Dude you forgot to mention actually doing the scan lol.... Can that please be added in GH?

[CCRunner]

He sort of implies it at the end... hope that counts

[GeneralHankerchief]

You agree to getting fingerprinted, with Officer Purvis assuring some results in about 20-30 minutes. In the meantime, he directs you to a convenience store two blocks away to where you can buy cigarettes and a lighter. You make your way there, and purchase the objects without incident.

$20 has been subtracted from your inventory.

The items "pack of cigarettes" and "lighter" have been added to your inventory.

Lighting up your first cig on the way back, you start coughing like mad, but still manage to suck it all the way down. You're about to start your second when Officer Purvis calls you in, saying the database check for matches is done.

[Beefy187]

Stand up as if to greet the officer. Put one of your hand in the pocket where your lighter is. Quickly check the exits first and the surrounding, if there is anything out of the ordinary. Do this before you listen to the result.

[Myrddraal]

We're obviously not a smoker.

[Jolt]

This might be the part where we'll turn into Jason Bourne. A schizophrenic one, but one nonetheless.

[Mithrandir]

I think it'd be best for society if we turn out to be guilty, we let ourselves get arrested with a fair trial.

Who knows what attrocities we commited...

[Beefy187]

I think it'd be best for society if we turn out to be guilty, we let ourselves get arrested with a fair trial.

Who knows what attrocities we commited...

I agree. If we are to die, we die by trial and justice.
Worst we can do is running for our life and getting gunned down.

[Mithrandir]

Should make an intresting write up if we get to court, and after that, it'd be like an episode of OZ.

[Thermal]

$20 was a lot of money to lose.... :shocked:

[GeneralHankerchief]

Sorry guys, just moved back to school so I'm a bit busy at the moment. Look for an update in a couple of hours.

[Double A]

While we're throwing around theories...

What if we're an ex SysTech employee, and we found out something we REALLY shouldn't have, like they plan to assassinate the president, and take over the country, or the CEO is Magneto, or that soilent green is people.

And if the cops are somehow being paid by SysTech to find us, we're pretty boned.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You check around for odd occurances, finding nothing. "All right, friend," Officer Purvis says, "Unfortunately, we don't have *any* matches, not even partial ones. I'm not sure exactly where you came from, but it's like you never existed before today. We've got you in the system now, which will help if something comes up in the future, but for now we can't help you anymore. Best of luck in the future." You shake the officer's hand and leave the station, disappointed.

By the time you walk back downtown, it will most likely be time for the psychological experiment. Where would you like to go now?

[Splitpersonality]

We're a clone, or a synthetically created human.

If no one else got that by reading the officer's words, then there it is.

or at least I"m leaning towards that.

There is also a slight possibility that we were created with the sole purpose of being some sort of spy, and this psychological experiment might bring that out in us, but that is only mindless speculation.


I vote we go to the psychological experiment now.

[Beefy187]

We can speak the language without a problem.
Do we have the same accent as the natives?
So we seem to be American at least.

Btw, does everyone have to register their finger prints in America?

[Splitpersonality]

Btw, does everyone have to register their finger prints in America?

No, as far as I know this is just the criminal database.

If we're not in the criminal database that means that we're not criminals, but what the officer said was very.... specific... too specific to let go I think.

[Beefy187]

We're a clone, or a synthetically created human.

If no one else got that by reading the officer's words, then there it is.

or at least I"m leaning towards that.

There is also a slight possibility that we were created with the sole purpose of being some sort of spy, and this psychological experiment might bring that out in us, but that is only mindless speculation.


I vote we go to the psychological experiment now.

I agree that he was too specific, especially if not everyone has to register their finger print.
But I didn't get the clone part. What makes you say that?

Perhaps this is a parallel world. Not everything is the same as the world we know.

Anyway, I also vote we go to the psychology experiment.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Go downtown and do the experiment.

If the experiment is what caused it, then at least we have a record now.

[A Very Super Market]

Well, in this version of the world, people seem to be a lot more conformist. Maybe that has to do with universal fingerprinting?

[Splitpersonality]

But I didn't get the clone part. What makes you say that?


"It's as if you didn't exist before today."

Something that is entirely viable.

You don't know WHO you are, WHERE you are, or HOW you got there. A clone would not have memories, as they would be freshly created from just raw materials, you can't MAKE memories in the human mind, we're not that advanced in science yet...


If you look at sci fi, it could also be a product of teleportation or time travel.


Modern teleportation theories state that we would have to clone ourselves, in a different location, and then immediately terminate the original copy, so that your "consciousness" is transferred to your new consciousness.

Perhaps something went wrong and we didn't have our memory transferred successfully?

[CCRunner]

A clone would also have the same finger prints as whoever they were cloned as though wouldn't it?

[Splitpersonality]

Not necessarily, the fact that there are not even "partial matches" gives this lots of reason as well...

There should be at least a couple of partial matches over nothing... Perhaps we're an alien from another planet then? :laugh4:

[Beefy187]

If we are from the future (and if everyone is registered on the data base) we should be on the data base unless we are more then 100 years apart.

From the Croatoan message and Rosetta Stoned, we know for sure that we have some message to deliver. Aliens and Future person maybe, but what would the clone have to say?

[Splitpersonality]

If we are from the future (and if everyone is registered on the data base) we should be on the data base unless we are more then 100 years apart.

From the Croatoan message and Rosetta Stoned, we know for sure that we have some message to deliver. Aliens and Future person maybe, but what would the clone have to say?


But everyone is not registered in the database... it's a criminal database, ergo we wouldn't be there unless we're a criminal in the future.

[miotas]

Wow, all I got from the write up is that we aren't a criminal.

[ULC]

A clone would also have the same finger prints as whoever they were cloned as though wouldn't it?

No, not at all. Fingerprints are complete individual.

It's also possible that we are a chimera - a clone of several people combined into one. We could detect this pretty easily, in a relative sense.

[ULC]

Hmmm...on second thought IT IS a good possibility we may be a clone of several people. The Rosetta Stone was sought in Alchemy as a means for immortality and perfection.

Think about it, and it starts to make a little sense. If we are, then we'd be at peak human capability - I think we should test ourselves a bit, see how strong, enduring, or fast we are.

[Splitpersonality]

Think about it, and it starts to make a little sense. If we are, then we'd be at peak human capability - I think we should test ourselves a bit, see how strong, enduring, or fast we are.


Are you suggesting we fight the cop?

[Thermal]

I think more, find a jogger and race him, see how we do :grin:

[Beefy187]

Find a gym maybe?

We'll lets head for the Psychology test first. Then once we make it out of there alive, we can test our theories.

[Myrddraal]

I think we might be constructing an elaborate theory out of not very much, although it does look like a hint from GH.

We don't need to be a clone to have "not existed". We could be some kind of Jason Bourne style military experiment (which obviously wouldn't be listed on any database, and might explain the hole in the defence money).

I'm really intrigued about the house we started in. We started in the basement of some random guy's house, who seemed surprised to find us there. The lights were off, so it seems likely that someone put us there. It's just a very weird situation.

[Thermal]

Find a gym maybe?

We'll lets head for the Psychology test first. Then if we make it out of there alive, we can test our theories.

On the basics of 'if' I think gym would be a bad idea, dispite having problems finding one, it is likely you'll need membership or will at least have to dish the cash in some way or another. We're only getting $50 for the experiment, were not wasting it just to see if we can break walls. Its much easier just to go up to something inanimate and punch it. :yes:

[Myrddraal]

Thinking more about the room we started in. This room is the only concrete thing we have about the time before we woke up. All this stuff about clones and psychology experiments could be just hot air generated by GH to see how we react. I think we should head back to where we started, preferably with a friendly police officer in tow, to try and explain the situation to the owner of the house and hopefully get permission to question him about his basement.

EDIT: This plan might be difficult unless we can get the police on board. The guy had a shotgun and wasn't very friendly.

[Beefy187]

On the basics of 'if' I think gym would be a bad idea, dispite having problems finding one, it is likely you'll need membership or will at least have to dish the cash in some way or another. We're only getting $50 for the experiment, were not wasting it just to see if we can break walls. Its much easier just to go up to something inanimate and punch it. :yes:

True. But it would be a better investment then a Cigarette.
If we are to investigate our physical level, we should do everything.


Thinking more about the room we started in. This room is the only concrete thing we have about the time before we woke up. All this stuff about clones and psychology experiments could be just hot air generated by GH to see how we react. I think we should head back to where we started, preferably with a friendly police officer in tow, to try and explain the situation to the owner of the house and hopefully get permission to question him about his basement.

EDIT: This plan might be difficult unless we can get the police on board. The guy had a shotgun and wasn't very friendly.

Was it the basement? In that case, its less likely we ended up there during robbery, but rather teleported there.

If we can get the police to help, I think its definitely worth it.

[Double A]

Or maybe *they* wiped the short-term memory, temporarily, from the guy with the shot gun. Like in Men in Black with those flashy things. None of us (except GH :clown:) know what this world is like, aside from it being right about now if the newspaper is to be correct. There are just little add ons, like your typical sci-fi game universe, or even non-sci-fi game (Resident Evil and almost all zombie games come to mind for some reason).


Not necessarily, the fact that there are not even "partial matches" gives this lots of reason as well...

There should be at least a couple of partial matches over nothing... Perhaps we're an alien from another planet then? :laugh4:

My vote goes to alien. Maybe we have telekinesis or can shoot fire out of our butt.


No, not at all. Fingerprints are complete individual.

It's also possible that we are a chimera - a clone of several people combined into one. We could detect this pretty easily, in a relative sense.

But if we were a clone or a chimera we'd have a match in the database. After all, a clone is an exact copy of someone.

[Splitpersonality]

Okay, let's say we are an alien.

Were we not sent here with a mission, a purpose?

Would alerting the police that something odd is going on come back to bite us in the :daisy: at some point?

Likely yes if we went around doing alien things :P

[Double A]

I didn't say we were an alien, that's just the coolest theory. :tongue:

[Jolt]

See? Where's the "OMG WE'RE GOING TO JAIL ITZ TEH END" guys now? Nothing happened in the Police.

Simple. Since the police hasn't helped, we'll go do the experiment and if no new information comes out of it, we go to the hospital and we find ourselves a doctor to whom we explain the amnesia.

[Double A]

Flick a wall with your finger. If nothing happens slap it. Then punch it if it doesn't hurt.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You make your way back downtown and return to the building in which they're doing the psychological experiment, getting in a quick smoke before you enter the building. Dragging down that nicotine is starting to come easier to you now.

Taking the elevator back up, you enter the office and greet the receptionist. "Welcome back, sir, the experiment will begin in a couple of minutes. In the meantime, feel free to take a seat over there with the rest of the participants. Help yourself to some coffee, too." You silently swear to yourself. It seems like coffee is available everywhere in this town for free and yet you still managed to pay for a cup.

******Status update******

Stage completed: Exploring Phoenix

Inventory:
- Wallet with $67
- Backpack
- mp3 player with "Rosetta Stoned" loaded on it
- Slip of paper with "Croatoan" written on it
- Pack of cigarettes (semi-used)
- Cigarette lighter

Feedback:
A mixed bag. Some of your decisions early on in the stage were absolutely atrocious, most notably alienating the kind woman from the bus, who could have been a potential resource. You've made up for it later on though, by trying to find out when you are (the real-time present day) as well as taking the proper steps to try and establish your identity. Even though those attempts were unsuccessful, at least it's a start. In addition, after some questionable purchases, you're on the road to earning some additional money in the form of the psychological experiment.

You also seem to have begun smoking. Only time will tell how much this affects you in the future.

(OOC: This will most likely be the last update for tonight.)

[Double A]

I'm gonna draw the line and say no alcohol.

Also:

Throw the cigarettes into the garbage can before you get addicted. If you want one, punch yourself in the stomach and the the :daisy: over it.

We REALLY don't need to waste money. Or die of lung cancer.

[Thermal]

I'm gonna draw the line and say no alcohol.

Also:

Throw the cigarettes into the garbage can before you get addicted. If you want one, punch yourself in the stomach and the the :daisy: over it.

We REALLY don't need to waste money. Or die of lung cancer.

Seconded

I think we should chat to the participants while were waiting, see there background and why they are doing the experiment, but also if they know anything more about it than yourself.

[Stildawn]

I wonder if GH actually has a plan for this game lol or if its all just made up along the way haha, maybe by doing this game he is conducting a experiment on us lol.

[Chaotix]

Hmmm...on second thought IT IS a good possibility we may be a clone of several people. The Rosetta Stone was sought in Alchemy as a means for immortality and perfection.

Think about it, and it starts to make a little sense. If we are, then we'd be at peak human capability - I think we should test ourselves a bit, see how strong, enduring, or fast we are.


This is from a little far back, but I still think it's relevant.

The stone you're thinking of, YLC, is the Philosopher's Stone, not the Rosetta Stone.

The Rosetta Stone is a massive, ancient stone tablet that was found in Rosetta, Egypt, by British invaders. The stone had the same message written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptian common language, and ancient Greek- it was erected by one of the Ptolemies. Basically, the presence of three languages that said the same thing allowed linguists to decode the grammatical structure and vocabulary used for each one. It's currently in the British Museum in London, I saw it just 2 years ago.

Still, the Tool song itself is probably our real clue, not just the title. I think it's plausible that our character could be a clone. Also, whose brilliant idea was it to make him start smoking? :laugh4:

[ULC]

This is from a little far back, but I still think it's relevant.

The stone you're thinking of, YLC, is the Philosopher's Stone, not the Rosetta Stone.

The Rosetta Stone is a massive, ancient stone tablet that was found in Rosetta, Egypt, by British invaders. The stone had the same message written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptian common language, and ancient Greek- it was erected by one of the Ptolemies. Basically, the presence of three languages that said the same thing allowed linguists to decode the grammatical structure and vocabulary used for each one. It's currently in the British Museum in London, I saw it just 2 years ago.

Still, the Tool song itself is probably our real clue, not just the title. I think it's plausible that our character could be a clone. Also, whose brilliant idea was it to make him start smoking? :laugh4:

*epically facepalms*

And I say I studied history...

[Double A]

I was wondering why you thought the Rosetta Stone did that... and I haven't had "high school" history yet.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You throw your cigarettes in the garbage before they can do any further damage to you. It's probably a good thing you did so so early, as the period of withdrawal will be almost nonexistent.

As you make your way back from the trash can, you notice three other people also seated for the first time. No doubt they are here for the experiment as well. One of them is a college student; stringy, with somewhat long hair. He's listening to some music on his mp3 player right now. Another is an attractive, but over-made-up female in her mid-20s. She is constantly checking her watch. The last person there is a gentleman in his mid-60s. He is wearing glasses and is very well-dressed.

You will only have time to talk to one of these people before you are called in. Alternatively, you could say something to all three of them which will serve to break the ice, but you will not get to know anything more about any of them in this case.

[ULC]

Is it possible to ask a passing question to one, and then focus on another?

[Double A]

The college guy is probably here to get booze/drug money, that chick's probably a bimbo, so I say we talk to the old dude.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Is it possible to ask a passing question to one, and then focus on another?

No. If you pick one, you have to focus on that one.

[Chaotix]

I vote we talk to the girl, and use the exact same tactics we did on the old lady. :laugh4:

[Double A]

And then we can take her $50 after we're done!

[ULC]

And then we can take her $50 after we're done!

:inquisitive:

I'm not following this line of thought, and I'm not sure I want to...

[Beefy187]

We aren't a criminal. We don't have to get into crimes just yet.

The lady is obviously a trap. Lets go for either college student or the old gentleman.

[Splitpersonality]

i vote old man, and use the same tctics as old ldy :laugh4:

or maybe we should seduce the college student, you know what thebsay about those long scruffy haired guys :P

[pevergreen]

GH: Do we find any of the three sexually appealing?

[Thermal]

If the old man is willing to do this hes probably senile. I think the college student would be as gormless as yourself, attractive woman, mid twenties might have a different take on things? :grin: Plus shes pressed for time, sounds a bit more interesting than the others? If she is a bimbo (heavily made up) it might have us figure out why her of all people are taking a psychological experiment also.

[Double A]

If we talk to the old man, at least we'll get a funny reaction.

[ULC]

How about we actually get to know one of these people, instead of sizing them up based upon whether or not they might want to get lucky.

:wall:

[miotas]

I say old man.

[Chaotix]

Alright, I see where most of the opinion lies here. Let's get this game going again, there's been no orders all day.

Strike up a conversation with the old man. Ask him about what made him decide to take this psychological experiment. If he asks us the same thing, then claim we are a little short on cash, and thought this would be a good idea. If he is initially cold and aloof, then compliment his clothing to try and warm him up.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Deciding that talking with the elderly gentleman would be the most interesting/productive, you strike up a conversation with him. After shooting the breeze for a bit, you ask him why he chose to take the experiment.

"Well," he says, "I need the money. I had a good, solid job for most of my life. I worked in real estate. So all of my hard work and saving went down the drain pretty quickly once the housing bubble burst. Didn't help that my agency was bought out by some research firm that had no connection with real estate, either. Got to love the M.O. of these mega-corporations, eh? Whatever happened to specialization?"

The man seems like he could go on talking about boring white-collar issues for a while.

[Splitpersonality]

Perhaps ask the specifics about the research firm which bought out his agency?

[pevergreen]

$5 its systech.

[Thermal]

$5 its systech.

Yeah it makes sense.

Ask the old man if he knew what research firm bought out his agency and if he knew what they were planning to do/build there. Try not to butt in if hes on a rant and be respectful. Also ask him if he knows anything more about what the psychological experiment entails.

[GeneralHankerchief]

"I can't remember its exact name; it was just another faceless entity to me, the kind of company that controls a bunch of other companies that are more familiar to the American public. Sort of like Berkshire-Hathaway, although I know it wasn't them. Maybe Aperture Science? No, wait, that's a name my grandson's been talking about a lot lately. I'm sorry about that. As for what they wanted to do, who knows? I got canned very early on after the acquisition. Old guy like me, been with the company for a couple of decades? I had no chance of surviving that merger. None. So that's why I'm stuck here, doing this experiment because it's a guaranteed 50 bucks. My grandson needs a birthday present in a couple of weeks and this is going to pay for it."

Before the man can say more, the four of you are ushered into the next room by a very professional woman. She looks to be in her early 40s, but is still mildly attractive.

"Greetings and thanks for coming," she says. "My name is Angela Larson and I'll be helping administer the experiment today. This shouldn't take more than two hours and complimentary refreshments will be provided at the end, along with your $50. I'm now passing out what is pretty much a consent form to all of you, signifying that you agree to take part in the experiment and will not hold us liable for any damages, however unlikely, that may arise from your participation. I urge you to read over it and ask me any questions before you sign."

She passes you the piece of paper and a pen. The overly made-up woman signs immediately. The other two participants are taking a bit more time.

[Jolt]

Take a brief look at the consent paper.

[Mithrandir]

Wink to the middle aged woman.

[Subotan]

Maybe Aperture Science? No, wait, that's a name my grandson's been talking about a lot lately.

:2thumbsup::2thumbsup:
I'm getting an Aperture Laboratories mug in the post :smash:

[GeneralHankerchief]

The first part of the consent form is just that: "You agree to give consent to... etc." Nothing particularly interesting. The second part is the liability form. It reads "By agreeing to take part in this experimental study, you hereby waive all rights to hold the Madison Psychological Research Institute liable for any such damages incurred by the study, and agree that the Madison Psychological Research Institute is not responsible for any effects that the study may have on your being.

Below that is the signature line, and below that is a bit of fine print. "Certified ethical by the American Psychological Association."

[Beskar]

Hehehe, I noticed GeneralHankerchief added a certified ethical mention from my previous mentioning.

Sign it John Smith and take the test.

(back to where I said we should call himself John Smith and there was implied agreement, since no one disagreed)

[Jolt]

I think we should sign "José Mourinho". That name will quickly increase our odds of success at everything.

[Subotan]

Hehehe, I noticed GeneralHankerchief added a certified ethical mention from my previous mentioning.

Sign it John Smith and take the test.

(back to where I said we should call himself John Smith and there was implied agreement, since no one disagreed)

Ahem.

All the way back to page 10...


Speaking of crazy scientist adventures, we need a name before we sign up for this test. I propose the name "Calvin Hobbes", since John Smith is the worst pseudonym ever.

I presumed that the silence to my proposal meant there were no objections. Therefore, we're called "Calvin Hobbes"

[Splitpersonality]

Does it really matter what we're named? It seems like a trivial matter...

Just sign the :daisy: thing...

[Subotan]

It does matter. Partly because I picked it, but also becaue John Smith is the most obvious fake name ever.

[Beskar]

No it isn't, I actually know two real John Smiths.

Also, that was the joke of it.

[pevergreen]

Pretty sure I suggested we are named Michael J. Caboose and I got a second.

:beam:

[Beskar]

You know, the best name would be: Splitpersonality.

[miotas]

It does matter. Partly because I picked it, but also becaue John Smith is the most obvious fake name ever.

And Calvin Hobbes isn't? Especially a Calvin Hobbes who's going to do a psychological experiment?

[Stildawn]

Seriously... Who cares about the name.... Lets move on shall we lol.

[Beskar]

Might as well write: Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, John Watson, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Noam Chomsky, Russell Spears, Harvey Saches, etc.

[Beefy187]

I think we should sign "José Mourinho". That name will quickly increase our odds of success at everything.

:laugh4:

[Subotan]

Pretty sure I suggested we are named Michael J. Caboose and I got a second.

:beam:

Mine was first, and Double A was seconding something else:snobby:

[pevergreen]

Mine was first, and Double A was seconding something else:snobby:



My vote goes to Michael J. Caboose or Calvin Hobbs.

My name has a middle name. :smug:

[GeneralHankerchief]

You sign the paper and hand it back to Angela, who finishes collecting the rest of them. She disappears into the next room for a moment and reemerges with several more sheets of paper. They are grouped together by staple.

"What follows next is the written portion of the study," she says. "Please answer all questions honestly. Failure to answer every question will result in a forfeiture of the $50. Once you are done, just let me know and I will collect your answers. Once everyone is finished, then we can move on to the practical portion." She passes out the questions and motions for you to begin. The questions are as follows:

1. You are a healthy adult adrift at sea with no hope of immediate rescue. Two other people are adrift with you: Another healthy adult with whom you have a friendly relationship, and a child whom neither of you know who is starting to feel the effects. The three of you are starving. Which one of you do you choose to sacrifice to buy the other two time?

2. A cataclysmic event is happening planetwide. You have a well-stocked bunker and will manage to survive indefinitely, but the bunker can only hold five people aside from yourself and there are several people vying for the spot. Whom do you choose, keeping in mind that your party may be the only people on Earth that survive the cataclysm:
- An elderly professor that has won several community awards, but refuses to go without...
- His wife, who is past childbearing age and refuses to go without her husband
- An infertile professional chef
- A 32-year-old ex-Marine, who was dishonorably discharged
- A 27-year-old male computer programmer who originally dropped out of med school
- A 51-year-old handyman/mechanic, who may or may not be able to still have children
- A 19-year-old pregnant crack addict
- A 33-year-old single mother, who refuses to go without...
- Her 7-year-old daughter, who will go without Mommy but will probably never be the same
- A Catholic priest

3. Ignoring the inherent paradoxes, if you had a time machine and were allowed to go back in time to prevent one person's assassination from happening, who would you choose and why? Keep in mind that the world you are coming back to will not be the same because of your actions.

4. Would you rather spend five years with the love of your life and then die, fully content, or live a full lifetime without ever experiencing love?

5. How did you feel about the ending of "The Sopranos" and how would you have ended the show? You may ask a neighbor or the test facilitator if you are unfamiliar with the show.

6. Define success.

7. You and your 18-year-old son are traveling in a foreign country. You are going through Customs when the inspectors find a high-potency illegal drug in your son's suitcase. He has been in trouble with this drug before. However, in this country, the fine for possession and smuggling is much steeper and your son will spend a long time in prison. Do you cover for your son and take the rap or let him suffer the consequences, knowing this may well be the last time you ever see him?

(OOC notes: First of all, even though your character is suffering from a case of amnesia, assume he still has the ability to answer Question #5. Secondly, orders-givers may answer however many or little questions they want to, in any order, but the game will not progress until all questions have been answered.)

[Stildawn]

Oh god this is going to take us an age to answer with our split personality. lol

[GeneralHankerchief]

Oh god this is going to take us an age to answer with our split personality. lol

Consider yourself lucky; I originally had this sucker at 20 questions before cutting it down. :evil:

[Stildawn]

You answer number 6 first....

Success: an event that accomplishes its intended purpose

[pevergreen]

1. ourself

2.
- A 33-year-old single mother, who refuses to go without...
- Her 7-year-old daughter, who will go without Mommy but will probably never be the same
- A Catholic priest
- A 27-year-old male computer programmer who originally dropped out of med school
- A 51-year-old handyman/mechanic, who may or may not be able to still have children

3. JFK

4. Tis better to have loved and lost (live for 5 years)

5. Don't answer yet

6. See previous post from Stildawn

7. If he was trying to smuggle it, don't cover, if it was planted, cover.



My reasoning for the 5 others is that we would then have a handyman (Could be a woman :tongue:), a computer literate person, a religious person, a child and a woman.

I'll leave 5 and 6 to someone else. :bow:

[Stildawn]

I answered 6 lol... Straight from google.

[pevergreen]

Noticed that after I'd posted. :wink:

[Stildawn]

I love it how you just didnt bother waiting for others... to be honest it had to be done lol.

[pevergreen]

We need action.

If i start making stupid decisions and people get angry, I'll stop without having consent first.

[CCRunner]

So... anybody watch the Sopranos?

[pevergreen]

All I know is that it ends just too early.

[A Very Super Market]

Tony Soprano (Protagonist) heard his door bell ring. He opens the door and the screen fades to black.

That's it. There is a lot (A lot) of other stuff that happens, but we only really need to know the ending. In my opinion, I think it's cheap.

[CCRunner]

So, answer to the question would be something like this?

It sucked. I'd have ended it in a non-sucky way.

:beam:

[Myrddraal]

Although I'm an advocate of discussion, I fully appreciate what pever has saved us all from here.

[Myrddraal]

I think we should tell the old man

"I have something really important to tell you, I'll tell you after the experiment"

This would be some kind of insurance against having our memory wiped again, perhaps the old man would alert the police that we had not emerged from the experiment?

[miotas]

The Sopranos is about organised crime isn't it?

Maybe after he opens the door, rather than fading to black, [insert rival here] could shoot him multiple times.

[Subotan]

You sign the paper...

With what name? :whip:


You answer number 6 first....

Success: an event that accomplishes its intended purpose
Lamest definition of success ever. What about if you succeeded in preventing someone else from succeeding? And what about serendipity?

[miotas]

Lamest definition of success ever. What about if you succeeded in preventing someone else from succeeding?

In that case your intended purpose would have been to stop them succeeding, but yes, it's is a very boring and literal definition, I agree. When I first read it I thought it meant in a general success in life kind of way, and the first answer I thought of was "happiness", I was kind of disappointed when I seen that a dictionary definition had already been submitted.

[Beskar]

Here is my answers, which have some more thought to them than some of the suggestions.

Number 5 is missing, as I haven't got a clue what it is. Some one else could fill this in.

1. You are a healthy adult adrift at sea with no hope of immediate rescue. Two other people are adrift with you: Another healthy adult with whom you have a friendly relationship, and a child whom neither of you know who is starting to feel the effects. The three of you are starving. Which one of you do you choose to sacrifice to buy the other two time?

You can survive a long time without food, however, the most immediate concern is infact water, considering how you are ironically surrounded by it. Also, if you are adrift, your most immediate concern would be getting out of the water and getting dry, as you would die from hypothermia long before the need of food. Depending of where abouts you are, attempting to kill another bad idea in itself, since you would have to expend energy in doing the feat which would mean you wear out in a shorter amount of time and this would kill you, also, any blood in the water would attract local wildlife, including sharks and other predators.

So the best course of action would be not to sacrifice anyone.

2. A cataclysmic event is happening planetwide. You have a well-stocked bunker and will manage to survive indefinitely, but the bunker can only hold five people aside from yourself and there are several people vying for the spot. Whom do you choose, keeping in mind that your party may be the only people on Earth that survive the cataclysm:
- An elderly professor that has won several community awards, but refuses to go without...
- His wife, who is past childbearing age and refuses to go without her husband
- An infertile professional chef
- A 32-year-old ex-Marine, who was dishonorably discharged
- A 27-year-old male computer programmer who originally dropped out of med school
- A 51-year-old handyman/mechanic, who may or may not be able to still have children
- A 19-year-old pregnant crack addict
- A 33-year-old single mother, who refuses to go without...
- Her 7-year-old daughter, who will go without Mommy but will probably never be the same- A Catholic priest

First, you would have to meet the criteria of what is needed. Your biggest concerns would be:
1) Healthcare
2) Repopulation/Reproduction.
3) Rebuilding.

First is the elderly couple. They would not provide anything productive and would only be a hinderance. Will not contribute anything.
Ex-Marine who was dishonorably discharged - is young enough to be fertile.
Infirtile chef - well, this will contribute nothing.
27-male computer programmer who was in med school. He is young enough to be fertile and live a while, he has medical skills available.
51 handyman/mechanic, while not possibly being firtile, he does have skills which are needed and can be taught on.
19-year old pregnant crack addict - There would be any crack, which would pose a cold turkey situation, but they could be cleared up and they can reproduce and obviously not inflirtile.
33-year old mother - which can still have children most likely.
7-year old daughter, the future is in the children.
Catholic priest: a vow of celebracy, male, no other information. Will contribute nothing.

From this list, the old couple are obviously a bad choice. The catholic priest is a bad choice. So those are simple to write-off.

The 19-yr old, the single mother and the daughter are all obvious choices to take.
The 27 ex-med student is obvious to take.

Then it leaves a choice between skills or sperm. Well, being male, there is enough sperm, so it is the matter of skills, which appears to be the Handyman/Mechanic. The Marine would have to do the honourable thing.

So the five choices -

- A 27-year-old male computer programmer who originally dropped out of med school
- A 51-year-old handyman/mechanic, who may or may not be able to still have children
- A 19-year-old pregnant crack addict
- A 33-year-old single mother, who refuses to go without...
- Her 7-year-old daughter, who will go without Mommy but will probably never be the same


3. Ignoring the inherent paradoxes, if you had a time machine and were allowed to go back in time to prevent one person's assassination from happening, who would you choose and why? Keep in mind that the world you are coming back to will not be the same because of your actions.

It would be the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Because of his efforts to expose the corruption and the regime in Russia under Stalin, which could shape the future of socialism and communism, which could have ended up stopping the Cold War.

Also, this would have the most miminal impact. While there are some major assassinations in the past, some of the obvious ones would be a bad idea to stop.

Most famous assassination of all would be Julius Caesar at the hands of Brutus. Changing this result would vastly change history in such a way, it would probably be recognisible today without much thought to whether it would be for the better or worse, and if you stopped it, Julius Caesar might have disbanded the Senate of Rome, which could destroy the principles of a republic which would shape the foundation of important events such as the America Constitution.

J. F. Kennedy was round up in a bunch of scandels, and would have most likely ended up impeached or imprisioned, which would have put America in conflict, and with the Cuba Missile crisis which would be occuring during this... I think annihilation of the world through nuclear arms is a bad consequence.

There again, are many other people. Martin Luther King Jr. is now forever memorised as being the great person he was, he inspired others to take up the mantle spread equality and opportunity to a discriminated class.

Sometimes, when looking in History, great men can die. However, the conquences of that can be greater, because of the impact they have had on the world.



4. Would you rather spend five years with the love of your life and then die, fully content, or live a full lifetime without ever experiencing love?

Living life to its fullest, or being in the paradise of being fully content is a gift people rarely can recieve and it is the most prized gift of all. Would be the first option.

6. Define success.

While searching "define: success" in google might produce the result of "an event that accomplishes its intended purpose." In-line with the emotive questioning, this is obviously the answer not being looking for, but infact "Define success in life."

This leads to theorical issues such as what purpose of life, to become successful. This is usually based on the simple biological "reproduce", to religious "Follow the will of Allah", to consumer capitalism "Make a billion dollars then blow it all on planes, boats, fast car and women".

Life is what you put into it. Therefore, your success can only be measurable by your own standards of what it is to achieve it.



I'll allow some one with kids to answer number 7.

[Beskar]

My reasoning for the 5 others is that we would then have a handyman (Could be a woman :tongue:), a computer literate person, a religious person, a child and a woman.


The priest shouldn't even be in there, the priest is one of the plainly obvious "not to select".On the bright side, he believes he will go to eternal paradise, so it is not like he would care about dying anyway.

[miotas]

Discussing it further seems a bit silly since the first italicised orders have already been submitted, except for number 5 of course.

[Beskar]

I really hope not.... because some of the answers were not answered properly, thus, we would not even get the $50 because of them.

I think giving an explained answered to who you would save doesn't equal "JFK" which looks more like a Jersey-based Fried Chicken establishment.

[miotas]

Well the time travelling question was the only one not answered properly since it asked for a why, the others had aceptable answers.

[Beefy187]

We can always cross out our answers. I didn't see anything stopping us from doing that.

We have to be careful about what age we are in. If we are good American living in a modern age, JFK wouldn't be too bad as a choice.

As for the five man in the bunker question, I would've choose Priest instead of Marines in Beskars list. After few years living in the bunker, there could be heaps of trouble. Priest looks like the one who can resolve the problem. Marine who was dishonorably discharge could know couple of handy skills, but I don't think its worth it to keep him, considering the risk of him getting abusive and all in the future. But denying him, may cause him shooting us off.

This psychology test reminded me of a story I saw on TV. So I present the robot theory.

Some corporation does series of tests (including psychology) to the people who wanted to be hired by it. While many retires by insanely inhumane tests, protagonist passes them all perfectly. But at the end, it turns out that the protagonist is a robot designed to imitate humans. However, since the protagonist was not able to show the emotions which ordinary people would, corporation who made her (and was testing her) shut her down.