The Wander Island Incident - Night Four - Five For One [13/21]

Night Three: Founder's Demise

Following Airey’s shark feeding, the Assembly quickly settles on two other individuals as prime suspects of being his co-conspirators. The argument of who out of Sai and Not The Author to lynch is hotly contested, but in the end Sai’s greater contributions to the debate and Not The Author’s combative stance sealed the latter’s fate.

As he was forcibly dragged up to the railgun by the mob, Not The Author was defiant and uncooperative, and it took several Assembly members’ efforts to wrangle him into the RAILGUN CHAMBER.

“Fuck all of you and your cowardly, hypocritical, short-sighted decisions. I was going to change the world, all of humanity, for the better! You’ve doomed my efforts, and thereby set us all back a good century. I hope you’re fucking satisfied, you thoughtless, bloodthirsty mob. AND FURTHERMO-”

The RAILGUN CHAMBER clangs shut, muffling the rest of his ranting to an indistinguishable buzz. TehPilot stands over the button, glancing around for approval before doing their duty.

WHAM

Shortly thereafter, the Admin Core’s display lights up green once again.

Stock Photo Pending File Photo Retrieval

Not The Author was Dr. Lucian Julius Mandragora, SCIENTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE AND MONOMIN FOUNDER.

As one of Monomin’s founding members, Dr. Mandragora’s pioneering vision and relentless drive to expand the boundaries of human knowledge was the impetus that drove Monomin far beyond mere military hardware development and industrial research. Several ethical… missteps had led to his not-entirely-voluntary recruitment, but he’d made the most of the situation, leading Monomin to be the premier research institution in the world.

While administrative duties took up some time—too much time—he also found space to pursue his own research interests, chief among them the technology he perceived to have the single greatest utility to the future of humanity: quantum entaglement and the possibility of faster-than-light communications. He was about a year into a groundbreaking project when the INCIDENT began, and it constituted an unacceptable interruption to his vital work. Thankfully for Lucian, his private lab was directly connected to the Admin core – all he had to do was come up with distractions that would allow him to sneak into his lab during the night to get some actual work done. It wouldn’t do to allow these nefarious INFILTRATORS knowledge of or—science forbid—access to his research.

Not the Author’s role action was called RELEASE THE KRAKEN. Each night he could INVENT BONUS NIGHT FLAVOR that would appear during (and influence all night action flavor during) the following night.

As a MONOMIN FOUNDER and COMMITTED SCIENTIST (who hated this distraction from his own work) he was aligned with the MONOMIN RESEARCH FACILITY STAFF and would have won when they defeated the INFILTRATORS and any other threats to Monomin, thereby ending the INCIDENT.

The Assembly, dumbfounded that that had been the famed and famously reclusive Dr. Mandragora, retreats to their quarters once more.

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NIGHT THREE has begun! Please have your actions in in your Quicktopics or over Discord in the next 48 HOURS, so by 4am CET on Sunday, September 16. Due to personal circumstances, Night 3 has a snowball’s chance in hell of ending before Monday, September 17 at the earliest.

LIVELIST

1. Solaris
2. Jacquerel
3. Numbers
4. Coldblooded
5. Schazer
6. Seedy
7. TehPilot
8. Palamedes
9. Granolaman
10. x1372
11. Sai
12. Robust Laser
13. beruru
14. LordlyHour
15. SleepingOrange