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So... I've been playing this browser game called Mush for way over a year now and the premise of the game as well as the game itself has a huge RP value. In the actual game, you assume the role of a particular character from a predetermined list and play alongside 15 other people to eliminate the Mush menace.
The Mush are people infected with a parasitic fungus that uses its hosts to achieve its goals which is spreading over to new hosts and, eventually, taking over entire galaxies.
You, alongside other brave heroes escape the Xyloph 17 base orbiting around Venus on the spacecraft known as The Daedalus and your mission is to save The Sol system of the Mush menace or to find Eden, an infection-free planet and start over, leaving your old home behind. However, two agents of Mush (selected randomly from the crew) managed to infiltrate the escape. One person among the crew is immune to the mush infection so they can be trusted.
The way this RP would be played out is similar to the actual browser game but with a lot more freedoms. First off, the characters won't be pre-determined. You will be able to choose your own skills (up to 4) and your own history. The Mushes also get up to 4 skills to choose from. Choose wisely as that could determine whether you win or lose.
The human winning conditions:
-eliminate all the traitors (mushes)
- research the retro-fungal serum
- return to the Sol system with the formula
- Find Eden (Bonus points for having the serum and pregnancies and for arriving on Eden disease-free)
The Mush winning conditions:
- Infect the entire ship (minus the immune one)
- Cause the ship to be destroyed, via rampage, infecting everyone and killing the last non-infected (causing the ship's AI to purge the ship via blowing it up
-Succesfully acquire the Hacker Kit and bring the ship back to the Sol system (the PILGRED reactor needs to be repaired)
- Succesfully infiltrate Eden (not everyone in your team will make it, however as at least the two or 3 alphas have to die first for the humans to believe their ship is Mush-free). This is the ultimate Mush win.
Of course, this would rely a lot on avoiding metagaming entirely. Everyone will need to work towards keeping the ship afloat. There will be hunters attacking, there will be planet expeditions for food, oxygen and fuel, there will be things to research, projects to build, morale to keep in check. Furthermore, certain rooms on the ship will have surveillance making it hard for the Mushes to infect some people. One person with the Tracker skill will have the chance to print a special document known as THE List which will reveal the name of at least one of the alphas. THE List won't work if the ship is mush-free. The immune person can't be the Tracker. There's a lot more things to talk about but I'll go more in-depth if anyone shows any interest in this.