Day Zero1982, U.S. Antarctic research stationAn Alaskan Malamute makes its way towards the camp while pursued by a helicopter, whose occupants are actively trying to kill the dog with all the means at their disposal.
You head outside to see what all the noise is.
The Malamute runs directly past you and into your camp. A man holding a sniper rifle drops out of the helicopter, shouting frantic gibberish at you.
"Can you understand what he's saying?" you ask someone nearby.
"No, I think it's another language," comes the reply.
Suddenly the man takes sight and fires, wounding you in the leg.
"What the fuck!" you exclaim, falling to one knee.
Behind him, the Helicopter pilot seems to be readying some kind of bomb. As you watch, the Helicopter suddenly explodes, sending shrapnel everywhere.
The man with the rifle seems unperturbed by this event. He aims again, this time past you... at the dog?
He doesn't get another shot. Garry, the station commander, guns him down.
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Not knowing what to make of this, you head back inside after examining the bodies. No clues as to the men's strange behavior are found.
MacReady leads a recon team to fly over to the nearby Norwegian research camp, where you suspect the men are from. In the meantime, you spend the time as you always do, playing cards, watching television. The Malamute wanders the interior of the camp, watching you, before you irritably call for Clark to put him in with the other dogs.
That night MacReady returns. He brings back the strangest thing you have ever seen, a man, frozen, but twisted horribly, impossibly. MacReady reports that they found a recent excavation that this "body" seems to have come from.
You go to sleep, a sense of uneasiness upon you.
You are awakened by screams of pain.
In the night, the Malamute has transformed into a hideous monster, and has begun assimilating the other dogs in the pen. You manage to destroy it with a flamethrower unit.
Returning to the lab where the "body" was left, you find it is gone.
"If someone was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know the difference?"
Your first attempt to test the people around you is foiled. Someone got to the blood samples and destroyed them.
But another method is discovered. A method using a hot wire, and freshly cut blood.
"When a man bleeds, it's just tissue."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkNyC6MQMj0Twelve to begin with.
R. J. MacReady, Helicopter pilot
Dr. Blair, a station biologist
Childs, the station's mechanic
Nauls, the station's cook
Palmer, the station's backup helicopter pilot and mechanic
Dr. Copper, the station's physician
Vance Norris, the station's geophysicist
George Bennings, the station's meteorologist
Clark, the station's wrangler who takes the "thing" dog in when it arrives
Garry, the station commander
Fuchs, the station's other biologist
Windows, the station's radio operator
It is now
Day 1.It takes 7 votes to administer the test to someone.
In addition, Windows has the second test, used at his discretion, today. He may use this to clear himself. He must use this before the day advances or seven votes are reached.
Tomorrow at Midnight, Pacific Time, I will be advancing the game to night phase if seven votes have not been reached by then.Game Start.
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