The Thing! Day 1

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The Thing! Day 1

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The Science team is just having another day, until a team of Norwegians arrive and are shooting and throwing explosives at a dog. Alarmed by the helicopter and the gunfire and explosions, the team gets ready for a fight and to protect the dog. Tragically, it ends in bloodshed as one Norwegian points his weapon and gets ready to shoot (the dog). Garry shoots and kills the Norwegian while the other blows himself up and their helicopter.

Trying to make sense of this, the Science team sets out to make sense of why the Norwegians were belligerent.


The crew brings back the strange creature to study. As they're unloading, the dog stares, patiently. Later that night, Blair discovers something sinister...It can take over organisms at a cellular level and perfectly replicate them. However, news of this arrives too late for the crew to do anything...


Faced with horror they had just witnessed, and learning about The Thing's ability to mimic and that one member is likely already infected, the crew forms a plan...To blood test each other to find The Thing before it can convert the crew.

Day 1 starts when everyone confirms.

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1. Sonic
2. Charle
3. Loose
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5. Annie
6. Traf
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Re: The Thing! Day 1

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Confirmed! The long-awaited roles, yikes!

And for those who haven't played before, know that a negative bloodtest on D1 does not mean he/she is negative on D2 or later.. because BT has a tactical element as The Thing could lean more to convert an already tested player..

But we should test every day before lynching.

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Confirmed

Welcome back sonic - you are still sonic aren't you?
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Confirmed, thanks DDS!
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Loose Canon wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2026 2:14 am Confirmed

Welcome back sonic - you are still sonic aren't you?
Still me as of this post. But I could be infected tomorrow. Could you?
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I possibly could be infected tomorrow too - if this follows the film of infections when its dark.

If infected do we know and do alignments change??
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Loose Canon wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2026 4:20 am I possibly could be infected tomorrow too - if this follows the film of infections when its dark.

If infected do we know and do alignments change??
What i remember from the first game is that the Thing (cult leader) already converted one player before start (so we have 1 "original thing" and 1 "recruit thing" in play now). And that recruit knows..

If i remember correctly;

Only the original Thing can recruit (infect) more players overnight (one each night). And If the original thing is lynched his powers gets transferred into a recruit, who then becomes the next "original thing" (cult leader).

So what i remember is that If the cult leader is lynched, cult would lose it's recruitment for that night, then the new leader (the recruit or one of the recruits) would take over the next night, so there is 1 night without recruit in between (if we manage to kill the original Thing).

To win we also have a vig in play (Macready with the FT, short for "flamethrower"). When Mcready gets infected (recruited) somebody else (the Backup Vig) will find the FT the next night (if i remember correctly). It's Mac - Childs - Windows in that order. If those are 3 infected the FT is lost.

So in short: town has a night kill ability (vig) and cult doesn't, they only have 1 recruit power.

In the Original 1982 movie there are 12 main characters (and we have 10 players here), those 12 are (with the 9 townies from the first game in bold):

R.J. MacReady, the helicopter pilot
Blair, the senior biologist
Nauls, the cook
Palmer, the assistant mechanic
Childs, the chief mechanic
Dr. Copper, the physician
Norris, the geologist
George Bennings, the meteorologist
Clark, the dog handler
Fuchs, the assistant biologist
Gary, the station commander
Windows, the radio operator

One of them is already infected and The Thing knows who. Therefore there is no point in a mass claim as we can't find the original but the Thing would know who to recruit first (to avoid being torched, Mac - Childs - Windows in that order). That is, If DDS keeps the exact same set-up..

Also, one more thing, with the thing infection rate going on we only have 3 days max to win. Guess that's why we only have 2 back-up vigs..

Like the original movie, it's a game of mind chess to win

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Ok thanks i think i want everyone to confirm before flinging any snowballs
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Confirmed
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looking good, Im confirmed ✅
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Rewatched the thing for this, confirmed.
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I dont know if id watched all or part of it before. I think part, but watching all yesterday was a good watch as if id never seen any before
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So i can't remember the math in this setting, we need to torch someone fast or no. how does it work with 10
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confirmed.

and thank you, sonic, for that breakdown
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Read and confirmed 🙂
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Annie did PM me so im treating that as a confirm.



With 10 alive, it takes 6 for a lynch/BT
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Loose Canon wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2026 9:18 am Ok thanks i think i want everyone to confirm before flinging any snowballs
Time for those snowballs i guess..

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Yes, so important that we do a blood test every day before we lynch. Blood test only gives innocence/guilty of one person valid for a day, so we might just start as early as possible with that.

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And why exactly do you think id be good for the first bt mr ! after thanks dds?
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That was my confirmation, yes, thank you!

Seems to me any blood tested person will get sent to the top of the list the Thing will want to go after. *trails off* ...except they know that we know that they would so if they think that we wouldn't, they might.... 🤔

Like, I want to test sonic because he holds heavy influence with the crew. Problem is, a day 1 test is garbage to us day 2.

I'll be making close observations of the crew. Please humans, refrain from staring off patiently and suspiciously at one another for the time being. I also would request we stop any and all scuttling across the floor until the monstrous imposter is found.

Are we considering not kicking someone out of the research station tonight, or does the urgency of Thing conversion make today a definite lynch day?
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Loose Canon wrote: Tue Sep 22, 2026 7:26 am And why exactly do you think id be good for the first bt mr ! after thanks dds?
LOL, why not? that will give you a free pass round one while we are looking for the scum bags, unless you have dirty blood bud!
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I don’t know the rules say there are no downsides to blood testing and I think we want as much information as we can in the daylight. But I do think a reason for blood test testing loose is valid.

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OK or the reason of why not I suppose we do just have to start doing stuff don’t we? … as the generation why not I’m down

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Does anyone seriously think another player amongst us would consider me a good D0 recruit by the Thing given my recent track records in these games?

To untainted players my chances of having tainted blood right now are about the lowest amongst all candidates.
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Charle wrote: Tue Sep 22, 2026 7:01 am Yes, so important that we do a blood test every day before we lynch. Blood test only gives innocence/guilty of one person valid for a day, so we might just start as early as possible with that.

Blood Test Loose
I find this to be very "LOOK THERE (don't look at me)"... hmmmmm Charles could it be you?

Because: Charle is first out of the gate with immediate Blood Test Loose, then when Loose asks “why me?” the answer is basically “why not, it’ll give you a free pass while we hunt the real scum."?? Hmmmmm Charles....hmmmmmm that's such a big HHHMMMMMMMMM.

Whether that hmmmm is town being town or Thing being Thing is the whole game i suppose

@Charle: why don't you tell us first what you remember of your first Thing game? Do we lynch everyday? Do we use the FT everynight?
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Hi Sonic, I can't remember to be honest? Those are good questions, do we lynch everyday and kill someone every night? What i do know is that we should blood test someone everyday, then if clean, we can focus on the rest. You are welcome to blood test me then if you like. Was just thinking that if we test someone early in the day, then focus can move towards someone else.

Regarding the blood test, does it really make you a target for the Thing tonight? so FT might think Thing will focus on BT person, and so can Thing do the same and recruit someone else. We will never know.

Now i am also thinking, why you protecting Loose so early? Did you maybe recruit Loose and that's why you knew he would know in one of your first posts?
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