So, for those not familiar, Transmetropolitan is set in a cyberpunk/dystopian city. All of the characters reside in The City, an enormous metropolis somewhere in the US, and the center of culture and politics. The
wiki for it gives a pretty good overview, but it's not necessary to play the game (I'm taking serious liberties with the story anyway), but I do highly recommend the comic. As does Sir Patrick Stewart - it's a favorite of his. How can you not trust Jean-Luc?
Players:
1.
Masterpiece - The Cat - Killed by villagers, day 2
2. Gareth
3.
J - Channon Yarrow - killed by villagers, day 3
4.
Method of Madness - Mitchell Royce - Killed by mafia, night 1
5.
cesium133 - Spider Jerusalem - killed by mafia, night 4
6. Loki
7. ev4n
8.
Game and Watch Forever - Yelena Rossini - killed by mafia, night 2
9.
Linds - Fred Christ - killed by mafia, night 3
re-posting the cast for reference, it's just behind a spoiler to keep things less cluttered.
The Filthy Assistants (Masons)
Channon Yarrow: You're Spider's bodyguard, but he's nowhere to be found. In the meantime, you can protect one player per night. You can use this ability once on yourself.
Yelena Rossini: You can investigate one player per night. If you find Spider, he is automatically protected for that night (and that night only - you'd try to stick with him, but he's an asshole).
You cannot communicate with each other in PMs, even if Player!Yelena discovers Player!Channon.
The New Scum (Villagers)
Spider Jerusalem: The election is only days away. Your columns are being censored, if they get released at all, so you've given up trying to enlighten the shiteating rabble, and gone off the grid. You spend most of your time jerking off, taking drugs from babies, and shooting random political consultants with your bowel disrupter - if you can't beat 'em, you may as well make them shit their pants.
You have no special powers, but if you're the last Scum left standing, your side wins - even if both presidential candidates have survivied. They really fucking hate you.
Mitchell Royce: Spider's frustrated editor, boss, and sort-of-friend, you can PM the moderator to find out where Spider is, but she'll just tell you to fuck off.
The Cat: You smoke too much, you filthy mutant feline. You can lick your asshole once per night. Or as much as you want, really, it doesn't matter to the game.
Malandra Newton: You're a good person, and probably the only honest cop in The City. Sucks for you.
Fred Christ: Small-time rock band manager, turned activist, turned cult leader, turned traitor. Get your shit together, you fuck.
The Presidents (Mafia)
The Smiler/Gary Callahan: You're a fucking sociopath. You loathe The City and all its citizens, but your carefully constructed facade allows you to present yourself as a desirable alternative to The Beast, who has held the Presidency for two terms. Your VP is a clone, your campaign manager is a pedophile, and you totally don't give a fuck. You like oppressing people. The presidency is your ortolan.
The Beast: You're a hedonistic monster, but you're kind of an honest one. You don't give a wet shit about your constituents - you just want to get through the day, and remain in power because it's comfortable. You like being comfortable, and you fucking deserve it. You're better than the scum on the streets, and it pisses you off when they bother you with petty shit like 'poverty' and 'help! help! I'm being repressed!'
You've decided to work together because neither of you wins if Spider and his followers are alive - you can communicate in PMs at night and send your filthy moderator the name of someone to be assassinated.
Rules:
1. Though the theme of the game naturally lends itself to excessive swearing and debauchery, that doesn't mean you get to be a shithead to other players. Keep your nasty in-character, non-personal, and light-hearted. I don't actually expect this to be a problem, but figured it couldn't hurt to say.
2. Days are 48 hours, nights are 24 hours.
3. During the day, post your votes in bold text. If you change your vote, try to remember to edit the first one so they're easier to keep track of. You can change your vote, or your night action (if you have one), as long as you do it before the cut-off time.
If you don't vote or use your night action before the time is up, I'll assume you're abstaining. If there's a tie in day votes, no one gets switchbladed.
4. Posting in the game thread during the night is fine.
5. I'll reveal the roles of players as they're killed off.
6. I'm starting with Day 0, because it sucks to be arbitrarily killed off before the game even starts.
7. Dead scum only tell tales to dead scum, and only in private. (so if you want to PM with a dead player about the game, that's fine. Not that I could stop you, anyway, but it's cool).
Day 0
Free and fair elections - the cornerstone of American democracy! Too bad that's bullshit - at least if you believe the columns of famed misanthropic journalist Spider Jerusalem. According to him, your two presidential candidates - The Beast (incumbent), and The Smiler (challenger)- are both raging pieces of shit with slightly different flavors.
The candidates have conspired to shut down the feedsites that publish Spider's columns, but the damage may already have been done. As the candidates scramble to rehabilitate their images during these final days before the election, the people of The City are starting to finally rise up and demand the Truth. And if the candidates can't kill off Spider and his known associates before election day, they might actually get it.
Spider himself has gone underground, but that doesn't mean he and his allies aren't still out there, undermining the candidates, inflaming the people with passion for justice and Truth (rather than venereal disease, for once). They're pissed that they can't find him, and some support him only begrudgingly, but that doesn't mean they'll stop fighting the corruption of the election.
48 hours to post, vote, or abstain.
