Neon Nexus Neon Nexus 2: Return to the City (Day 4)

[Jon]

Please note I have removed the ability to gift resources! Certain Roles, Kills, and successful Defends are the only ways to earn additional resources!

Link to the Role Dictionary

Special Conditions

• In this game using abilities is not free. Resources are used to pay for abilities.
• Each role is assigned a starting number of resources with which to use up front.
• City Roles will use their resources independently. You may use your ability unlimited times, provided you have the resources to pay for it, unless specified otherwise in the role description.
• Corpo resources are pooled together and can be used in any combination the Corpo agents choose collectively.
• When using Corpo abilities, the Corpo agents must notify me of the distribution of points. For example, if the total pool of the Corpo agents is 50 resources, and they choose to use an ability that costs 10 resources, they must declare whose resources are being used to pay for the ability use. The nightly kill from the Corpo agents does not cost resources.
• Resources from a killed Corpo agent are deducted from the Corpo pool.
• For abilities that automatically use resources, the resources MUST be present in the Corpo pool at the time of ability trigger. If there isn't, the ability will fizzle.
• Lone Wolf roles are assigned different starting resources depending on the role.
• For city roles, additional resources can be acquired by:
  • Certain role abilities
  • Eliminating players
  • Successfully defending another player
• For Corpo, additional resources can only be acquired via eliminations.
• Lone Wolves have special conditions with resources specified within their roles.
• Successful eliminations award the killing player all the remaining resources the killed player had remaining.
• Successfully defending another player will award the defender 5 resources paid to them by the city (and not tied to a player).
• Some roles' abilities are exceptionally powerful and cost more than the starting resources.

Win Conditions

The City – Kill the Lone Wolf and all Corpo Agents
Corpo – Kill the Lone Wolf and have as many Corpo Agents as City Roles
Lone Wolf – Be the last person standing
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Day 3 will open at 9:30am EST!

 

[Jon]

@Ben
@Local Hero
@Smacktard
@VashTheStampede

 

[Jon]

As day breaks, the local news plays once again.

More violence has broken out across our fine city. For more on the breaking news we go to our Senior Exanimate Pseudo Courier, Jawneh!

Good morning again humanoids, mechanoids, and cyborgs alike! Here to bring the news the freshest of news from the rotting side of life and death, combined by our quantum cluster of Ouija apps, it's THE DAILY MORTAL COIL! Brought to you by the one and only COURIEEEEEEERRRRR!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Much appreciated by the warm introduction as always. It is I, The Courier, bringing you the news from the recently departed, so fast, that rigor mortis has barely yet started!

Now, a sad piece of news first. An unfortunate incident had happened to your beloved Courier which led me to... Let us say, a more permanent relocation to the Great Beyond, but fear not! As I had found out, the two centuries of work my cybernetic body has bestowed upon me has given my the ability to LITERALLY SEND NEWS FROM DEATH! I kid you not! I am directly tapped into the quantum mainframe and can continue giving everyone more news for as long as the fusion reactors keep churning power!

I do have to appologize for missing yesterday's news update. Apparently I had to re-authenticate my neural drive as my credentials expired as I also expired. But now that it is solved, I am here to stay!

But enough about me! What's happening with the other dead folks in the dead thread?

Zell landed into the other side as it was rumored, foretold, and written in the stars. The ever elusive badge of honor for unaliving any live beings named "Zell 17" was given to the serial killer city bounty hunter shortkut, who is rivaling the body count of major evil corporations. But you didn't hear that last part from me! Zell himself said he was frankly surprised RNG didn't have him be dead before the game began considering the shiny badge. The queen of early deaths, Kat, did offer both condolences for Zell's demise, and jeers for thinking he'd be the first to die while she's around. What information did Zell want to offer to everyone that got him excited about his role finally being useful? The same information that your favorite Courier already brought to you from dimmerwit's mouth himself, was that dimmerwit was the Brain Hacker. Thank you for your service nonetheless.

In less shocking, but more explosive news, the super villain, the corpo's cooperatively disinclined, The Traitor! He sent both the bounty hunter shortkut and Cyber Detective Alu to the Recycling Bin. The aftermath in the dead thread was fairly tame, as the only one who was lamenting the death of innocent citizens was kut himself, while the chants for "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD" was still ringing in the background. The two had some discussion about Alu leaving hints and clues to point kut's wrath towards the evils, to which kut simply replied "I didn't read and just took a shot". It should've been a fairly easy kill as two of the three evils were literally held captive by Alu that same night, but kut went down the street and unalived Zell for the badge.

Our best friend from far north in the arctics, it's.... oh, he just flipped me off and walked away. Well, canadaguy is here now too. 100% blames me for the corpos demise, I'm sure.

AND THAT IS IT FOR THIS MORNINGS NEWS FROM THE DEAD! Thank you everyone for tuning in! Remember to adjust your brain chips to stream tomorrows live episode of THE DAILY MORTAL COIL into your mind! I've been your host, The Courier! Everyone have a lovely day in our beloved city.

 

[VashTheStampede]

The people demand Disco Mommy

 

[Ben]

... Did Kelly not kill anyone last night..? My assumption is Vash gave someone cemtex boxershorts, but didn't expect no Corpo kill at all.

The people demand Disco Mommy

He's not wrong.

 

[Jon]

You guys are complaining that it was a quiet night in the city?! Heathens...

Also, Courineh was hired from beyond the grave. And it was glorious (to me because I didn't have to write anything).

 

[VashTheStampede]

but didn't expect no Corpo kill at all.

100% expected, it was his only chance

 

[VashTheStampede]

Ben and I kindly requested Disco Mommy and were denied.

There will be consequences.

 

[Jon]

Amazing Citizen Jon awakens on this, four days removed from the horrors of the days of Viagra-Matrix pill took hold. But there was silence. Blissful, peaceful silence. Undisturbed nights' sleep was uncommon in this city apparently, but nonetheless, he slept flawlessly.

Jon walks to his balcony, wearing nothing but boxers, stretches and takes a deep, satisfied breath. A few stories below, a happy citizen makes eye contact with Jon and waves happily up at him. Jon waves back. For it was a glorious morning!

Just then, the citizen Jon was waving to explodes into a million pieces... Something even makes it to him on the balcony... Was that a finger?
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Local Hero was killed by the Traitor. Local Hero was the Neon Dealer!

 

[VashTheStampede]

Hopefully now you will see that I am serious

#DiscoMommy

 

[Jon]

Hopefully now you will see that I am serious

#DiscoMommy

 

[VashTheStampede]

 

[VashTheStampede]

 

[Jon]

Courier Jawneh with foresight!

But wait! What's this!? BREAKING NEWS! There are new freshly perished individuals right here waiting to be admitted in by The Great Yama!


The past night was horrible for our Local Neon Hero. He was a certifiably loved city dweller known to all, but alas, the evils did not believe he should live any longer. His only regret is that he could not actually use his power. But is very pleased he was part of the unfortunate event that lead to the demise of yours truly. How dare! But also very fair.

 

[VashTheStampede]

He's clearly in on it

 

[Jon]

He's clearly in on it

I just paid him in post-mortem Courier desires to write my script. Who am I to say no to indentured servitude?

 

[VashTheStampede]

But yeah, since Kelly didn't make a kill, that forces us firmly right into the ol Kingmaker Scenario, just like the gypsy woman said, just as the prophecy foretold.

Basically either Ben decides which "baddie" wins or we go the route of the Neon Lamb Chop.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Also I'm gonna tag @Smacktard cause I think tags don't work right when they're scheduled posts.

 

[Jon]

Also I'm gonna tag @Smacktard cause I think tags don't work right when they're scheduled posts.

Good to know. I know they don't work if you use the strikethrough. Did not know about published posts. I'll remember that for the future.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Good to know. I know they don't work if you use the strikethrough. Did not know about published posts. I'll remember that for the future.

Oh I'm not sure if it's the case, it's just a theory. But it would explain why I haven't gotten notifications.

 

[Smacktard]

Did Kelly not kill anyone last night..? My assumption is Vash gave someone cemtex boxershorts, but didn't expect no Corpo kill at all

I am just a peaceful scientist. One of my experiments accidentally leaked and caused the death of an innocent life. For that I am forever remorseful. I have since left the corporate world and dedicated myself entirely to bringing joy and happiness to the world...

...through summary analyses of MILF Manor Season 2.

 

[Smacktard]

But first we need to get rid of this murderous traitor wreaking havoc on the fine people of this city! He even killed a LOCAL HERO.

You can't get much more villainous than that!

 

[VashTheStampede]

I'm just not a big Bill Forsyth fan

 

[Ben]

Basically either Ben decides which "baddie" wins

You're both baddies to me.

or we go the route of the Neon Lamb Chop.

I didn't even know what that badge was for, until going to look it up just now.

Even though I keep telling myself to try to play it out until the very last people regardless, for the sliver of potential to turn it around for the city, I'm not thinking that's in the best interest of the community at large. There's no point making anyone salty over me having to pick who I die to, or who I try to trick.

Basically the only way I see me pulling out a win is if there's no vote today, Vash kills Kelly overnight putting it into a me/Vash day vote, where I could use my last Neon powers to remove his vote and get a lynch. But that feels shitty, so nah.

I honestly hoped you'd off me, instead of blowing Local's dick off, as he had 2 neon loads left to shoot and might have had more of a chance. Oh well.

EDIT: Considering I just gave my one card away I guess I'm on board with a truce.

I am just a peaceful scientist. One of my experiments accidentally leaked and caused the death of an innocent life. For that I am forever remorseful. I have since left the corporate world and dedicated myself entirely to bringing joy and happiness to the world...

...through summary analyses of MILF Manor Season 2.

Promise to clone me some MILFs, and maybe we all walk off into the sunset together.

Good to know. I know they don't work if you use the strikethrough. Did not know about published posts. I'll remember that for the future.

I'm pretty sure all the moderators were able to see the scheduled posts pending from when you set them up. I know shortkut reacted to your Courier update prior to it going out. I don't think it really mattered in this case, but I'll have to go digging around in permissions to see where that's defined. Being able to see scheduled posts in your own moderated forums makes sense, but I'm thinking it's global currently.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I honestly hoped you'd off me, instead of blowing Local's dick off, as he had 2 neon loads left to shoot and might have had more of a chance. Oh well.

I was torn on which one of you to asplode but it came down to a combination of Local's hoarded resources and the possibility of watching some MILF Manor together at the end of the world.

Felt poetic after yesterday.

 

[Jon]

I'm pretty sure all the moderators were able to see the scheduled posts pending from when you set them up. I know shortkut reacted to your Courier update prior to it going out. I don't think it really mattered in this case, but I'll have to go digging around in permissions to see where that's defined. Being able to see scheduled posts in your own moderated forums makes sense, but I'm thinking it's global currently.

I appreciate that. I had to use the scheduled posts this time but it sucks risking giving things away

 

[Ben]

...When you make a typo and accidentally create a "neon lamp badge"...





EDIT: Yeah, this was my intent.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Lamp's kinda hot though

 

[VashTheStampede]

I love lamp

 

[Ben]

So, @Smacktard, you want in on this enlightening turn of events?

 

[VashTheStampede]

It's been 4 minutes clearly he isn't interested

 

[Ben]

It's been 4 minutes clearly he isn't interested

He'd better be writing up my mother fucking motherfucking breakdown.

 

[Ben]

Also I guess it's also a question for @Jon whether he's cool with this ending in FRIENDSHIP?



Or whether he's going to force us to eat each other.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Or he just nukes us all

 

[Smacktard]

He'd better be writing up my mother fucking motherfucking breakdown.

Alright, you want disco deets, and I got them.

Spoiler: DISCO MOMMY

Kelle "Disco Mommy" Mortensen appeared in S1 of MILF Manor as sort of a villain character. In this season, all of the boys were the sons of of the women in the house. Disco Mommy was a hot commodity in the S1 MILF Manor, and was often bouncing between boys -- much to the dismay of her 20 year old son Joey, who was forced to watch her canoodle with his new friends.

Disco Mommy made a return for S2 of MILF Manor -- a season which I believe perfected the televised "older ladies dating much younger men" format. In this season, the MILFs and the young men are not related -- instead, it's the boys' fathers' who also appear at the manor to compete for the MILFs' hearts. Who will prevail -- the more athletic and naive boys, or their older but more experienced dads?

Disco Mommy makes her shock appearance in S2E3 -- a season characterized by the motto "MORE GIRLS, MORE BOYS, LESS GIRLS, LESS BOYS, LESS BOYS, MORE GIRLS, LESS GIRLS, MORE BOYS". This approach leads to some delectable drama within the MILF Manor by stoking the fires of drama, fanning the flames of promiscuity, and removing the useless wet logs.

Immediately, Disco Mommy causes some controversy by hopping in the hot tub and sucking the face off of a young man named Joey (not her son, who, I remind you, is also named Joey). This causes Joey's love interest to lose interest in him. But things are heating up, because Disco Mommy is kind of digging Joey's DAD, Anthony, an Italian-American restaurateur, who ticks just about every Italian-American cliche you could imagine. Kelle chooses the father-son combo for some menage a trois tantric yoga as a "reward" for winning a competition, or something like that.

This love triangle is short-lived, however. While Anthony is wining and dining Kelle, another MILF, Jamie, approaches Anthony and asks to speak to him alone outside. Anthony, who likes playing the host, leaves Disco Mommy to step outside and share a glass of wine with Jamie. It's at this time that Kelle learns that Jamie actually has a secret she'd been keeping from the rest of the house: Jamie actually has a boyfriend in the real world. Kelle, sensing an opportunity to eliminate some competition, approaches Jamie with a few other women and outs here. Jamie ends up leaving the manor, but Anthony distances himself from Kelle's crazy after this tantrum. LESS GIRLS.

Kelle's storyline goes a bit quiet, until two new men show up at the Manor. MORE BOYS. Kelle immediately has the hots for one of them: Connor, whose personality ad wit can best be likened to that of a unvarnished beechwood two-by-four. But this late-20s boy's got muscles, lemme tell ya. The two bond over their love for the gym, and wrestle tongues and stuff.

In between, some men/boys leave. LESS BOYS.

But suddenly, DRAMA! Shortly after, two new women enter the Manor! MORE GIRLS. One of them -- Rebecca -- is the most D to F I've ever seen. Anthony straight-up dry-doggy style-hump/massages her at the dining table while the rest of the Manor is kinda just chilling eating. It's weird. Anthony isn't the only one that takes an interest in Rebecca though -- Connor is right up in there, making out with her and grabbing MILF booty in the hot tub while Kelle sits inside and seethes about the Rebecca stealing the man she was sure she'd locked down.

Kelle confronts Rebecca (the first words Kelle exchanged were "Hey, bitch!" -- the nuanced of which went undetected by the two-by-four in the hot tub who basically replied, "Oh, hey"), and the Manor basically explodes. Three separate instances of intertwined drama all coalesce in this moment, creating the perfect crescendo of MILF cacophony. Kelle accuses the newcomer of stealing their (the MILFs') men; another MILF accuses Kelle of hypocrisy. Meanwhile, Kelly Mac is straight up just chilling making smoothies or some shit.

Again, Kelle drives another man away with her jealousy and public confrontations, and she's left to stew in her quinquigenarian singleness.

But the show runners of MILF Manor 2 could not let that slide. Oh no. THAT'S just how good they are. Guess what?

MORE BOYS.

TWO new men enter the household! One of them, Rob, is a bodybuilder in his early 60s. He's kind, no-nonsense, and most importantly, he sticks up for Kelle when another MILF, Barby, makes some snarky comments clearly directed at Kelle. Another fight erupts, and Barby accuses Kelle of latching on to Rob only so that she could remain relevant in the show. That comment seemed to hit home a little too hard for "Disco Mommy", who, after being snubbed by the younger men, seemed in that moment to suddenly be very aware of her age, of the fragile foundation of her D-list fame, of her fading desirability. For just a moment, all of her strength, abraisiveness, and confidence flickered, and revealed their reality: a facade.

The season ended shortly after this final confrontation, with Kelle and Rob choosing to continue their relation after the show, although their relation seems to have been shortlived. Perhaps we'll see Disco Mommy in S3. Or perhaps she's decided it's time to move on.


..................................

Postface: Kelle has some ICONIC facial expressions. She really nailed the daggers of death stare, the "bitch please" look, etc. Just the looks she'd shoot would crack me the fuck up. I've perfected imitating some of them. I may even be persuaded to share an example.

Seriously, you guys gotta watch this fuckin show it's hilarious

 

[VashTheStampede]

Disco Mommy has great energy and is into Italian-American dads. I must stan.

 

[Smacktard]

So, @Smacktard, you want in on this enlightening turn of events?

but back to game theory: there's no way we can do lamb chop unless Jon bends the rules. Vash kills you tonight, then me tomorrow. Game, set, and match.

 

[Smacktard]

Disco Mommy has great energy and is into Italian-American dads. I must stan.

Disco Mommy is too much for any of us mere mortals to handle.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Zell games have the built in thing where if there's no kills for like 3 days it's a draw, I think.

Dunno if Jon has a similar rule...

 

[Smacktard]

Zell games have the built in thing where if there's no kills for like 3 days it's a draw, I think.

Dunno if Jon has a similar rule...

I, for one, fully expect the traitor to honor an oath not to kill both me and Ben at once and win the game.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I'm not feeling a lot of trust from our corporate overlord

 

[Smacktard]

I'm not feeling a lot of trust from our corporate overlord

I am a man of science, and the data suggests that you are the biggest threat to the city with all of the death you have caused.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I am a man of science, and the data suggests that you are the biggest threat to the city with all of the death you have caused.

Ok let's not act like I'm some dangerous monster like the Bounty Hunter or anything

 

[Smacktard]

Ok let's not act like I'm some dangerous monster like the Bounty Hunter or anything

Hey, at least he took out some bad guys!

Well, a bad guy.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I should get some credit for putting an end to his killing spree and starting my own

 

[Ben]

but back to game theory: there's no way we can do lamb chop unless Jon bends the rules. Vash kills you tonight, then me tomorrow. Game, set, and match.

Yeah, I'm aware there's more moves to be taken and I was all for trying to push it out as far as possible, but that's the whole "kingmaker sucks" scenario.

I'm not winning unless there's no vote today and @Smacktard dies tonight. I didn't see that being likely to begin with.

Kelly wins if we vote out Vash today.

@VashTheStampede wins if we vote Kelly out today. Vash also wins if you vote me out today.

I do not see any outcome in which it resolves to force an actual stalemate, as any tied vote will just push it to the next night when I die.

So I'm buggered either way and have to decide who my favorite child is... Which might not be the one who spent a good chunk of the 2000s yelling "BenGay" at me...

I'd imagine this is a "fuck your rules as written" situation.

So either I guess I let Vash win as he comes out alive in more of the scenarios than not, or we call it a day.

 

[Jon]

Also I guess it's also a question for @Jon whether he's cool with this ending in FRIENDSHIP?

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Or whether he's going to force us to eat each other.

Or he just nukes us all

Let's put it this way, if this devolves into a Disco Mommy discussion, one of these two solutions better be agreed upon or I'm Hiroshima-ing the town.

Either way, it's up to you three to end it how you see fit, in my eyes. This particular game does not HAVE to end in lamb chop, but if that's the way you three choose to end it, it's not on me to manipulate the outcome. I'm fine with whatever you choose.

 

[VashTheStampede]

So I'm buggered either way and have to decide who my favorite child is... Which might not be the one who spent a good chunk of the 2000s yelling "BenGay" at me...

Thank goodness I was yelling Icy Hot

I guess I let Vash win as he comes out alive in more of the scenarios than not

See I was thinking the same thing

 

[Jon]

Also, keep in mind, one of my goals when making this game was to give solo's a real shot at winning on a semi-regular basis. They are overpowered as a result. I'd say that I accomplished that feat at the least as two different solo roles "technically" have won.

 

[VashTheStampede]

There goes Jon deflating my ego again lol