Duke Leto Atredies's page

I had a similar take on the creatures awakening in a state of primordial ooze, stumbling around in an unfamiliar environment trying to connect a tentacle to communicate with the other sentient beings resulted in an irrevocable symbiosis formation.

My hope was the geneticist would undo the deed so to speak.

Whatever DougFungus says! ;)

Crap. I was sure Sven was the creature geneticist......

Egads man....

twitch.....

I've gotta remain unbiased!

#teamDM who makes the other teams possible

Drunken stupor......until next game..

That was an edge of the seater!

"nobody else seemed to notice the human geneticist's hints'?."

.......hmmm

"Liar! That was never my argument. I stated that the reason you picked up the hints about Clive that Russ made was because you knew Clives nature, making you the last geneticist, and by extension a monster."

"That is the opposite of helpful Mike, by changing your vote you are making a choice. Robert surely Dash will change his vote if you convince him to do so. I will be the first person to vote for myself, if I am wrong about Sven, then you can all have a guilt free reprieve."

"You are a fool with your words, all of a sudden you say? That was not the case at all, it was after we had used the only actionable intelligence we had, and I knew that not voting would be suspicious."

"Do you really believe that trite argument is going to convince anyone?"

"I tell you all what if you vote for Sven and he is not the monster I will vote for myself the following time even if it cost me my life, as I can not have another innocent killed!"

"Are you still prattling on like a half wit? Such pride in making a new scientific term, I guess you can take the man out of the geneticist, but you can't take the geneticist out of the nunnlif...."

"My vote, although how quickly people forget I argued vehemently not to execute anyone and to let our geneticist do their work. I have been reluctant to vote with no information. However you knew Clive was a nunnlif because you are the last remaining geneticist, the nunnlif geneticist! "

"In that case Alexander you should be against Sven, he and Clive learned of Russ's identity especially when he began to drop subtle hints, and why did he nudge us in the right direction? To get you to trust him, but he knew that we would learn that Russ was a geneticist, after they murdered him, so he was right there to lead us by the nose to the clues. Think about it and you can plainly see it."

"Of course your claim is you didn't know who Russ was until after the fact, but that is another lie, and again your convincing use of the made up term, offered as evidence of nothing. I say we get rid of the nunnlif geneticist!"

Points to Sven....

vote for Sven

"I challenge you to a duel and then we will see who is who!"

"Actually it was you Sven the one who was self admittedly the very first one to be on to Russ when he indicated Clive. Did you notice it because of your great powers of observation, no assuredly not, you picked up on Russ's subtle clue because you also had determined Clive's identity, leaving no doubt in my mind that you are the creature geneticist. How clever of you to keep using that 'nunnlif', term to keep making it seem like you are a human and they are the other, but you sir are the other!"

"That's the way heroes work Dash doing the right thing even when it is not in their best interests to do so....I noticed you didn't confirm that you and Robert are roommates. I tried to protect Jimmy too he was a target early on."

"I have been wrong more often than not I pegged Maxerson as the combat trained and Jimmie as the geneticist. "

" Right now I suspect Sven is not just a creature, but a geneticist of the things, and that is how he first noticed and then killed Russ."

"OK Robert let's go with that, if Dash can confirm you and he have sorted out your mutual humanity in the privacy of your room, then that can help tremendously, now we are down to fifty fifty odds on getting a thing or a civilian."

"Leaving me to be suspect of Mike, Sven, and Alexander."

"Not one Robert, but two and the question is which two?"

"This has not went well at all, I am glad I was able to keep you from taking Jimmy from us sooner, that would have made this situation much worse, but now we have little left and I am out of clues and my mind cries for rest."

"Jimmy are you claiming combat training in that background of yours, best not to point that out. I thought maybe it was Alexander of all people."

The duke likes both Jimmy and Robert....so he votes for Avistan

"Russ told us it wasn't Maxerson, Mike. Remember: "I almost voted for Maxerson" or something like that?"

The brandy also seems to have taken some of the political-correctness subroutines offline.

"Yes! That is exactly the kind of thing I was trying to remember. Can anyone else confirm that Russ that clever geneticist did indeed clear Maxerson?"

"I am thinking that we have nothing but blind luck and random chance to go off of, perhaps if that is how life began, it is a fitting end."

The duke consumes to drink a little at a time his cigar long since extinguished.....

"I myself was sore tempted to examine the deceased to look for signs of how and what we are facing, but doing so would have caused suspicion, at this point we do not even know how these things kill. Back in the day the CIA had a heart attack gun, that fired a very small frozen classified liquid, jellyfish toxin, that degraded so fast is was basically undetectable, and so small it only left a red dot on the skin over the heart, natural causes."

"I got no clue who is who or what, as I said everyone seems normal to my eyes."

Now I am completely lost and do not have any idea who is who.

That's the fun part if people are putting out subtle cues and hints, they can't be too obvious to the creatures, so at the end of the day you don't know for sure.....ever...

The duke takes another snifter of brandy....

"I have known Robert a long time and the thought that he may already be dead is too much for me to bear, Jimmy I think is a target because of his occupational choice being socially incongruent with his overtly innate intelligence, I have seen this before in persons who came up in extreme poverty."

"Patience with me friends, this is a difficult decision."

"Ah Jimmy and Robert, don't make me choose, it is my fondest hope that you are each still the men that made this trip with me aboard the icebreaker 'Titanic', and I look at everyone and I have nothing to go on, not a single inkling of whom to suspect."

"Clive seemed as Clive to me the whole time, I had faith in Russ, that he had tested and re-tested Clive in order to say yes for near certain."

Duke is still trying to remember anything either geneticist may have said to him...

We still need you.

"Does anyone recall anything odd that either of our geneticists said that might be a subtle clue, anything at all?

The Duke continues with his cigar.....

"I have tried to even see if I recalled them using terms like friend or trust that might let us know who is human."

"We chose well in trusting in Russ...I was not completely certain until the thing was revealed in the throes of violent death."

Lites a cigar....

"The question now is how do we proceed?"

"Me thinks you do protest too much. Russ likely hit upon your true nature the first day, and being a scientists confirmed his conclusion the second day, making you either a monster or the most statically unfortunate person in recent memory."

"We all hope that Russ was certain when he clued us in,perhaps and hopefully he had time to test not once but twice thus his certainty was warranted."

"Let us wait until after the execution is done and a monster revealed only then will I be temporarily relieved, for after that it is only luck that will save us."

"Truly sorry although I am aware the geneticists were working under poor conditions and it is possible a false positive occured, unfortunately we have no way or time to run a second analysis to be certain."

"Mike, I too believed in that strategy, to trust in our fellow man, but now we have neither geneticist and really only one solid choice to move forwards, as for the files or not Murphy's law establishes clearly that the least desirable outcome will happen at the worst possible time, and so it has come to pass."

"I am sorry then Clive if you are truly unaware that you are no longer yourself, if perhaps you and your fellows agreed to reveal yourselves?"

"Do not be obtuse, had the test revealed a man then Russ would not have risked his life to pass on that information, he would have continued to test and only revealed information when the risk to himself was worth the chance."

"At this point, we have no other choice, I realize that Russ was a geneticist and who knows how clean of a sample and test he was able to perform, but as I said he risked his life to pass the information to us, so the only sensible thing is to vote based upon his suspicion."

Offers a drink to Clive

"Any chance you will tell us anything you might know before the votes get tallied?"

The Duke votes for Clive

I recall really enjoying a bunch of them. Eventually though I needed a break because the characters and games were running together for me....

I don't even know how many more went through.

"Actionable intelligence is the political word for what we are talking about now. The other part is do we use that and take an action or do we sit back and wait for them to snipe us one by one?"

"It is true let us not have Russ's death be in vain, he did indeed point the finger and in so doing he risked his life. I think it may be the best option we have at this time and really the lone piece of legitimate information we have."

"Robert, my friend I have not failed you, in fact by us not killing anyone we have improved our odds of outnumbering the things and possible long term survival."

This is crazy, I do not ever recall such an outcome in round one and two in either groups favor....

Meowselsworth, you might have to run another one for us! : )

"Now my hope of the geneticists helping us sort this out is gone, with that gentleman I am out of ideas for this evening, we are back to randomly voting for each other and hoping that a guardian among us can protect us at least a few times as this goes forward....."

"The other question is how did they know? How were they able to pick the people looking for them like that, just one, two?"

"Not at all, I merely state the obvious and would make the same attempt for anyone in this position, I in fact argued against the first killing, and now the second, it will take time for the genetics worker to obtain results, and he or she should be able to guide us in the third or fourth time without exposure."

"As far as I can tell Jimmy is being targeted for his economic status and there is naught else against him, the real question is who is helped by making certain the executions go forth?"

"I am in fact protecting us all, and putting my faith in my fellow man to be able to identify the creatures and combat them. We have lost one of our geneticists already, and killed an innocent man, our track record speaks for itself!"

"And yes cool heads prevail, unless we just want to give up now and wire us all together into that device."

"No one is speaking of drinking to excess, though in such a time as this men have been tempted."

"Once again we are wanting blood, I again refuse, I instead say we work together and tie the vote so that neither man be subjected to such an unwarranted death."

Votes for Sven

"Who else will help us stop a needless death?"

"Easy gentleman, we should respect her person as much as we can, I agree that we must have faith in our fellows, those who can ferret out the things and those who can defend us, we need each working independently, but together."

"We have two choices my friends, to trust in those of us who can aid in finding the truth, to put faith in our fellow man, or to randomly chance our way to find the evil and put them down, but every misstep we make strengthens the others. "

"Exactly! What separates the men from the monsters and from the animals? Being afraid and still choosing as men to not kill. Let us work together and see if we can not find some way to gain advantage. "

withdraws his vote

Sven stares at Duke Leto in disbelief. "The bodies of our comrades... friends we've lived with for weeks... nothing more than "messes" to you? "

"My point was the self serving absurdity of the condemnation leveled at the man himself, my language was intentionally harsh and justified in his defense. You are quick to now move on to vilify me when you are the one of beating the band wagon to find people to kill and still with zero provocation. You can expand and explain all you like and make a fancy speech, it does not make any difference to me other than to prove that you are bloodthirsty."

"How about we make a deal then? If you harm Jimmy and find yourself wrong you volunteer to go next?"

The duke votes for Sven

"Duke, I'll take some of that brandy now."

"Of course my good fellow."

"What goes here another vote based solely on socio-economic status, it is your own prejudices that are making a bad situation worse! If we can control ourselves and not form lynch mobs, we might survive this yet."

"I look upon you each and see no reason to suspect any among you, I will not go with group think against Jimmy due to his wages or due to which mess he cleaned first or last, such tomfoolery!"

"I believe that our loss of a geneticist is a difficulty that we will be hard pressed to overcome. Should there be another among us who can tell man from beast I hope that his or her voice is able to carry above the others so that we can at least hook a monster to the electric chair."

I played in a bunch of the games and they all have differences, but it is likely if you play in enough you will get a variety of roles and outcomes.

So don't get discouraged!