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I am attempting to create my first SB, namely a science fiction storybook based upon the John Campbell classic "Who Goes There?" which in turn was adapted into the 1982 cult film "The Thing" by John Carpenter.

If you are unfamiliar with the subject matter, I'll go over the basics:
Thousands of years ago an alien spacecraft went down in the arctic. Later, in the early 1980s, a Norwegian scientific crew uncover the spacecraft as well as a frozen specimen of an alien. Unknown to them, the alien is actually still alive, escapes and has the abbility to assimilate any lifeform. In short, it could now be anybody.

What I imagined could be interesting here, would be to insert us into a reasearch facility somewhere in the arctic and then release the Thing upon us. The fun the beginning, as anyone of us could be the thing.

I'm thinking I would just silently PM one of our participants that he/she is the thing and he/she would then try to survive and basicly try to avoid detection. While the rest of us try to figure out who is the thing...and who is not.

Plot:
Welcome to Outpost 44!
Established 3 years ago, Outpost 44 holds a crew of 10 people, varying from scientific personnel to basic labour. Located four clicks from the foot of Mount Bonaparte, the only way to and from the Outpost is by helicopter route. Every other week, new supplies are airlifted in to camp.

Standard lenght of shift: 6 months. Estimated time until completion: 3 months, 6 days.

Document transcript: January 7th. A man stumbled into the encampment in the early hours, he was exhausted and cold, surely suffering from hypothermia. Doc Eames has barely gotten a word out of him. He seems almost inhuman. Almost. - Author unknown.

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I will not be starting this SB until August (if we have enough), as I'm going on vacation for a while.