Virus

After Melissa had graduated from college, they decided to become an intern for a small company *Self Learning Calculators.* After getting comfortable with their work environment, improving their coding skills, and wanting to impress her coworkers, Melissa created the Bit-3 program. Bit-3 was a prototype that would be able to determine safe computer files from malicious ones. After testing Bit-3 on her own computer with unexpectedly impressive results, Melissa then gave the program out to her coworkers through email.

Unfortunately, one of the recipients of the emails launched Bit-3 providing it with Administrative access. Bit-3 immediately spread throughout the computer like wildfire. It had total access to all information on the computer. Not only that, Bit-3 started to change its own code and began learning. Before long, Bit-3 picked up enough data over how computers & and the internet worked that it was essentially unstoppable once it targeted other computers (and even networks as time passed).

Bit-3 (now just a single grain in the sandbox of its own viruses) inevitably grew massive under the lenses of several network administrators. While the **Virus** itself couldn't be completely eradicated, the administration was content with just slowing down or stopping the spread. Data Breachers didn't bother handling the **Virus** as it was too unstable and expensive to use. However, those who did manage to use the **Virus** had unlimited destructive capabilities. The **Virus** itself had the ability to completely destroy user accounts and wipe all data in an instant. The only down-side being it took an incredibly long amount of time for the **Virus** to actually get to its destructive phase. That wasn't because the **Virus** itself was slow - quite the contrary - it was because the **Virus** had learned to be patient. The longer the Virus had waited, the more people it infected. That also unfortunately came at the cost of potentially being deactivated by a Sentinel or Anti-Corrupter so the **Virus** wouldn't wait forever.

The **Virus**, within only 11 months of being released, had infected 1,840,000 computers, 147 networks, and destroyed 34 servers. That number has since slowed down dramatically thanks to newer security systems and better defense tactics from the Administration. Nonetheless, it still remains to be the most intelligent virus for its time.

## Role Card Info

Description: *You are a skilled coder who has decided to use the server as your testing ground.*

Alignment: Neutral Rogue

Goal: Infect all who oppose you.

Abilities:

1. Choose someone each phase to infect with a virus that will corrupt them 2 phases later.

Attributes:

1. Infected players can infect others by visiting them or by being visited by them.
2. You are immune to kicks.

## Mechanics

### Infection

If a player is visited by you, another infected player, or they themselves visit an infected player, (unless they have basic protection or higher) they will begin the infection process.

*important note: role immunities will not protect players from infections.*

The infection process has three stages:

1. initial infection
2. spread
3. corruption

During initial infection stage, if a role actively protects a player from infection, both the protector and the targeted player will be told that there was an attack. Additionally, you will be told that the infection was blocked.

During the spread stage (which starts at the end of the 2nd phase of infection), the infected player will be told of their infection. Additionally they will infect anyone who visited them or was visited by them. The infection can be removed by only Sentinel, Anti-Corrupter, or Mortal

*these roles cannot be infected by visiting players who are infected. however, they can still be infected by getting visited by infected players or by direct infection from **Virus***

By the end of the 3rd phase of infection, the corruption stage will commence. The infected player will suffer corruption. Anyone else who visits the infected player will also suffer corruption. Anyone visited *by* the infected player will NOT suffer corruption unless for another reason.

Infections count as an attack and will appear as so to Network Moderator Defensive roles (for example).

Anyone who gets reinvited by a Reinviter will not be infected, even if infected previously by you or another **Virus**.

### Investigative Tampering

* If someone, who is currently infected, is investigated, their results will show **Virus** results.
	+ The Administrator will see your target as a suspicious.
	+ The Lore will see your target as a **Virus**.
	+ The Sleuth will see your target as either: Sentinel, IP Locker, **Virus**, Black Firewall, or Mortal.

## Goal

Your only goal is to infect everyone still remaining in the game. By the end of the phase in which everyone is infected, the game will automatically end with you as the winner (exceptions included below). Other roles that have completed their win conditions may still win along side you.

If all users were kicked before you could infect them, you won't win. If every user happened to have been infected at the same time they were all kicked, you will win. If you are the only remaining user in the server (or if multiple **Virus** roles are), you will win.

**Exceptions:**

* If you are in a game with a Reinviter and everyone infected, you will **NOT** automatically win unless if the Reinviter is unable to perform their action. *Gamehost discretion may be used to determine if a game's conclusion has been reached.*

## Trivia

* The hexadecimal color for **Virus** is #ff00ff.