Let's Play THE THING: INFECTION AT OUTPOST 31

## ★ ADAM'S CHALKBOARD ★

**Let's Play THE THING: INFECTION AT OUTPOST 31** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*The meta of 'just blame Laurie' is great.*"
―Laurie
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "don't be a cheating bitch."
* Who is going to *make it out alive* and who is going to be *a dog's dinner*?
* Hidden traitors, sabotage, betrayal. It's what we have for dinner round here, baby.
* Here comes the Lord of the Board!
* Apparently the comments have already decided we're going to be dropping the ceremonial greeting. I kind of like it, personally.
* Jon: "Is this what being in a sex cult feels like?" Who can say?
* JOKE OF THE DAY! Laurie had his eyes wide shut. Rosie objects to the early award.
* Brooke chooses Blair. They are sisters after all.
* Rosie is lying about her acquaintances to make herself interesting.
* Laurie chooses the one with the dog. They always go well for us.
* Laurie is Clark, Rosie is Fuchs, Carley is Garry, Adam is Childs, Jon is MacReady, Sullivan is Windows , Brooke is Blair. They all have card-changing powers of various kinds.
* Lots of impressions of Blair's impressions of Toad. And Sullivan's Michael Caine makes an appearance.
* We can play along at home if we don't want to know.
* Blair is already making a fuss. That doesn't normally go well for her. On the other hand, Brooke has murderous intent in her eyes.
* We found a little baby. We should kill it.
* Brooke/Blair has tiny little arms.
* Carley's suspicious by default right now.
* Bigblair.com!
* Carley: "I'm so nervous about this, because if it goes badly it's a reflection mostly on me!" Adam: "Sure is, bud."
* Our finely-tuned social deduction technique seems to be pointing and shouting 'Thing' until someone breaks. It's an option.
* Laurie: "I fucking *hope* I turn into a Thing!"
* Brooke does an excellent Blair impression. We may have finally broken her.
* Brooke: "Blair is generous. And grumpy."
* We are noting Carley's claim of non-Thing status, for the record.
* Thing 2! It ran off, sadly.
* Rosie has a suspiciously unlucky hand.
* Laurie: "Do I want to tie Rosie up?" "Rosie doesn't necessarily have a game face".
* The Thing is such a chill film, it's a surprise it makes for such a tense game.
* Jon to Brooke: "I can't tell if you are The Thing or you're just off the mark."
* Professor Fuchs has an interesting approach to science.
* Carley: "I'm going to be so upset with you guys if you betray me." Jon: "Always so wounded!" He's not buying it at all.
* Adam should probably choose his words more carefully. JOKE OF THE DAY!
* The failures are stacking up now.
* Laurie and Sullivan are arguing over an axe. Sullivan is giggly with conviction.
* Rosie and Sullivan being trained actors doesn't mean they're good liars, apparently.
* We can't trust the Petri Pals. Rosie claims to be the CEO - revealing angle.
* Jon to Carley: "Can we cross this bridge when we come to it, you psychopath?"
* Brooke confirms the unpleasant contents of the Fuchs petri dishes. Eeeeeeeew. It's worse than The Thing.
* The dice gods smile.
* Adam: "It doesn't prove nothing - it proves no Thing!"
* Laurie is genuinely frustrated, but that doesn't mean he's good. Doesn't mean he's bad, either.
* Jon: "Adam is very hard to read, socially." Laurie: "He loves a big reveal". Adam contends this is a drama school thing.
* Everyone is very stressed. Time to tie Laurie up.
* Sullivan: "You can really tell when Carley's not evil, because she gets so sad."
* Jon: "You think you can read Carley, but you can't."
* Sullivan to Brooke: "You are the best fucking Captain in the world!... This is why I'm your royal boyfriend."
* We're turning on one another, it's been a long time coming. We're getting close to the endgame.
* Everyone's paranoid but enjoying the game. Adam's thinking of the content, we're all too tense for the bits.
* Rosie's being furious.
* It comes down to the chopper choice, with Brooke as Captain.
* Adam: "Laurie, just to double check - if you had not enjoyed yourself in this game and were good, would you tank the entire...?" Laurie gives the most Laurie answer of all. Jon can imagine it, but Adam and Rosie say no.
* Carley: "There's no greater joy I get in this kind of game than in completely bamboozling and fucking with these two [Adam and Jon]."
* Carley: "Sometimes I can read Adam and sometimes he gets me." She might even cry.
* The ending is a killer even to watch! They're off to make friends again and buy Laurie a pint.
* Rosie: "Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Mrs. Long Con."
* Get on board - Laurie: "Except for you three, you're not allowed on board!"

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* Chalkboard is updated with a loss.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.
* No talking heads this episode - it's a long old episode.