Controlled Kaos, The Story:
Working to keep the world safe, Control is the name of a highly-secret US Spy organization. Control agents have the use of some fantastic technical gadgets and gewgaws to help them rid the world of evil.
Working against Control is Kaos, the international agency of bad guys. Kaos wants nothing more than world domination. Kaos stand against everything that Control works to protect.
Our story begins on a cruise ship, the Floating Point. Control had scheduled a lovely Booze Cruise as a reward for a successful year for the agency...but then Kaos discovered the plan. Using the latest in disguise techniques, two Kaos agents, Siegfried and The Craw, infiltrated Control and got themselves invited on the holiday cruise. Just before embarking on the trip, The Chief discovers that his agency has been compromised, and hastily arranges to finally--FINALLY--capture two of Kaos's most devious killers by having all members of Control similarly disguised for the trip, to hopefully protect them from Kaos and lure Siegfried and The Craw into a trap.
The fly in the ointment? The transmitters issued to the real Control agents to identify one another through disguise were lost in the US mail. Sadly, now the cruise ship is full of Secret Agents, bent on destroying one another, with the spies unable to identify one another by appearance. Each night, Kaos will assassinate one Control agent. Each day, the agents of both teams hang out, incognito, to try to figure out who the Kaos infiltrators are. The day ends when the players/Agents throw one spy overboard to their death.
KAOS, the badguys:
Siegfried - Kaos's evil mastermind can insinuate powerful drugs into the soup of one Control Agent at night in lieu of a kill one time. If the Control Agent is disgruntled, that player will convert to Kaos and become Shtarker. If that Agent is happy, Siegfried will have to assassinate them. Siegfried may continue with conversion attempts until a single conversion is made, or until he is killed in the game.
The Craw - This evil Kaos henchman has undercover agents all over the ship, and can learn from them the true role of any agent in the game at night. Sadly, his minions speak only Chinese, so when he dies, Kaos's ability to read the data collected by his minions dies with him.
Shtarker - The loose cannon of the bunch. He is Siegfried's "converted" Agent. He is also impulsive enough to have rigged a grenade to his body that will explode and kill ONE Control Agent at random if he is thrown overboard. If Shtarker is killed by Control Agents taking their shot, then he does not explode his grenade and only he dies. Shtarker can only be recruited from the pool of disgruntled Control Agents.
Control (aka, The Goodguys)
The Chief: Can look into the employer of one player a night. If he discovers a Kaos Agent, will be told only that he has found a Kaos agent. Any Control Agent, whether special or not, is just revealed as a Control Agent. If The Chief prefers, he can choose to PM another player at night rather than scan a player. The two will then be allowed to PM throughout the rest of the night.
Agent 13 - If he reveals himself during the day, he has the ability to shoot and kill any other Agent in the game. Agent 13's shot does NOT take the place of that day's overboard toss. If Agent 13 shoots Shtarker, Shtarker does not activate his grenade. Once Agent 13 takes his shot, he is a regular, unpowered Control Agent.
Hymie The Robot - Can protect any other Agent in the game at night. Hymie can also self protect. Hymie may not protect the same agent on consecutive nights. Hymie may elect to protect no one on a given night. If Hymie protects a Kaos Agent, he will not be destroyed, but the Kaos agents will learn who Hymie is. In this case, the reveal of Hymie to the Kaos Agents will be the last event to take place before dawn (in other words, Kaos will discover the result of their assassination attempt before they are told that Hymie protected one of them mistakenly, and then the games goes to a daylight turn.) Hymie will be unaware that he protected Kaos agents. Hymie will also block a conversion attempt if he is protecting such a target. Hymie will receive no feedback from the referee as to whether he successfully blocked a conversion or assassination attempt.
Larabee - Each night, The Chief's literal-minded but efficient aide can get the autopsy result of any dead Agent. (Yes, there's a secret Control Submarine picking up the Agents thrown overboard, and they're relaying the information to Larabee via semaphore. Larabee is the only Control agent who served in the Navy and can decipher it.)
Agents Maxwell Smart and 99 - These two Control Agents have worked with each other long enough that no disguise will hide the identity of one from the other. 99 and Smart may PM with one another throughout the game, and know each other's role.
6 Control Agents. - These guys are the remainder of the goodguys.
Due to budget cutbacks at Control, Expense Account Vouchers are no longer being rubberstamped by the accounting department. As a result, everything from dinners to ammunition expended in self-defense is being deducted from the paychecks of Control agents. This has caused 8 players--a set that includes both powered and un-powered Control Agents--to become "disgruntled". If Siegfried chooses to try to convert a Control Agent to become Shtarker, the conversion only goes through if the target was disgruntled. If the target was not disgruntled, they will be killed instead of converted. Even after conversion, Shtarker will continue to turn in expense reports to Control, so no announcement will be made of a conversion to the boat at large.
Rules:
No PM's between players with the exception of 99 and 86, who may PM each other freely, and The Chief, should he forego his scan at night and wish to communicate with another player.
All Kaos agents may PM one another freely at any time in the game.
No editing posts.
Voting is locked when a clear majority has been reached. Votes retracted after majority reached shall be ignored.
After a lynch/overboarding, it will be announced to all whether the victim was Kaos or Control. No other specific information will be given.
Brevity rules:
Abandoned by suggestion.
If there are any modifications, I will post them here.
Night turn sequence:
1. Kaos MUST decide whether to convert or kill.
2. Kaos PM's their target to me, with instructions on whether they'll do their one-time convert or a regular assassination. Kaos does not learn the role of any character they kill.
3. The Chief scans the guest manifest to figure out the role of any one agent, and PM's me his scan target.
4. Hymie self-programs to protect and PM's me his protection target.
5. Larabee gets the result of an autopsy on any dead player/Agent of his choosing.
Steps 1-5 take place simultaneously. If The Chief or Larabee is a Kaos target for death or conversion, he *will* be told the result of his scan.
6. The Craw is given the result of his scan of agents. (Kaos may PM their scan target early, but it will not be resolved until after their kill target is resolved.)
7. If Hymie protected Kaos Agents, Kaos will be informed of this.
8. Dawn.
SPECIAL CONVERSION NOTES:
The following rules apply to any player "converted" by Siegfried in-game.
1. If The Chief is converted he WILL NOT get the result of his current scan target for that night, if he has turned one in. Note that this contradicts speculation within the thread that the Chief would get his vision still. In analysis, the "village" losing their "seer" seems to be penalty enough here.
2. Any other powered player converted by Kaos immediately loses their Control-based power and assumes the power of Shtarker. The only exception to this rule is Max and Agent 99. If either is converted, they may continue unlimited PM conversation with the other until either or both are killed.
Current Players:
1. Austin Killed by Kaos.
2. tru1cy, innocent Control Agent, thrown overboard
3. Chaosraven Killed by Kaos
4. malchior, KAOS Agent
5. Remus West
6. stessier, killed by KAOS
7. Lassr
8. RevHempus71
9. Grundbegriff
10. pr0ner, Agent 13, died while suntanning in grenade explosion
11. Newcastle, Control agent thrown overboard
12. Unagi, Killed by KAOS.
13. Scoop# Shot by Agent 13, not a KAOS Agent
14. Sectoid (innocent Control Agent, thrown overboard)
15. Bakhtosh, KAOS Agent Shtarker
(Bolded names are players who have rollcalled their participation in this game.)
