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This has a different, fresh storyline to be discernible from the great games that Alpha102 has run, and will run again after this one.
America, 1923, prohibition is in full swing, and you simply cannot stand the current politics, the backstabbing, the poverty, and all that anymore. Europe, despite seemingly not being much in a better state, at least allows alcohol and has one lesser evil that made your life miserable: The Mafia. To flee from all this, you decide to scrape all your money together and get a cruise ship back to Europe, and try your luck again there.You had heard so much of the famous cruises across the atlantic that you, when the day finally came, were almost too nervous to board the MS BEAGLE II for your long ride across the sea. But yet you were there, all your saved up money spent on the ticket, two bags packed, and ready to spend the next three weeks at sea on the long journey to London.
The MS BEAGLE II was a smaller ship within the fleet of HMS, consisting of a crew of 15 and up to 50 passengers - nowhere near the size and scale of ships like the late RMS Titanic. But seeing how that one ended up, you weren't too sad to get across the pond in a smaller vessel.
The atmosphere was a mixture of joy and waryness. Most other passengers were failed prospects of the American dream, chased away by the harsh realities of the 1900s - a wild mix of people from all walks of life. At first you started to wonder at their reasons and intents for doing the journey, but after a bit you gave up pondering about that, as it didn't lead anywhere.
For a little while, all your worries and doubts went away, as the days passed with reading, playing Shuffleboard, and having a drink here and there - seeing how the prohibition didn't target open water.
And then it all went to hell.
Things started to break apart during the end of the second week, at first it didn't even seem like a problem: Two of the crew came down with what seemed like a normal infection or cold. A day later, most of the crew, including the captain, fell sick, leaving the ship outside of the control of anyone. Mostly due to booze you and the other passengers didn't feel too terrible about that, hoping for a quick recovery of the crew...which never happened. Upon nightfall two days later, every single soul of the crew had died, befallen what by then seemed like only one possibility: Poison.
Confused and helpless, you and the other passengers got together to form a plan. As a first measure a thourough search of the ship was started...only to discover one thing:
In a large storage container a huge batch of reclaimed illegal gold was found, possibly on its way to being smuggled over to Europe. An amount of gold that apparently some people went all the way to kill for. An amount of gold...that taken everything into consideration...might be a reason for even further deaths.
Upon this discovery, all remaining passengers came together in the main dining hall. The atmosphere was grim.
Everybody knew: There are people amongst us that will not stop at anything to get the gold. Everyone knew there was only one thing left to do: Decide upon who to throw overboard, in order to be safe from any more deaths during the night time. And who knows, there might be even larger powers at play than anyone thought...
(tl;dr: You're all passengers on a stalemate ship. The Mafia has put some of their people on the ship to get rid of the crew and wait for their own boat to transfer and steal the gold. All other passengers only have one chance: Try to kill Mafia members in order to be saved from being killed during your sleep...)
(oh and I am a shit story teller, there are so many loopholes here, don't even start... Remember: Am German and this is all not in my day-to-day language)
