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Pick your Poison: Punished for your prizes

@Lady Selune@Fetzen@Eklispe

The sheet is almost done. Right now I got 12 items for you guys to pick from.

Picking items will be done in PM in sequence: first choice: lady Selune, Ekilpse, Fetzan
and repeat for each choice. This is so that everyone has a chance to get items and also so people won't immediately pick the best items together. It helps add to the randomness.

Note that all items are linked to a curse, so before you pick think about the horrors that might come with it. Not all curses are funny.

I also want your guys opinion on the best way to do this. I'm willing to flex on the platform and where we will meet up. If the time zones become an issue, although I want us to not do it on the forums

I'd like it if we can use a platform that we can make considerable progress within an hour or a night-and chat based stuff allows us to do that- I think you all will feel me that while I like forum RP the length of time between post does seem to give large chances for it to fizzle out or people to drop. Willingly or not.

Roll20 is the immediate thing to come to mind, but if you guys know any other methods just let me know. It most likely will not involve a lot of maps and purely exist in text form. Just because, it's easier to set up and movement rules really won't be implemented. It will all work in "scenes"

I would like us to have at least 3 at all times, I'm ok with it becoming 5 people. If you are worried that won't have the time, no one will look bad at you for dropping out.

I don't DM alot in real time. I've done some zombicide games but that's it. So, expect me to be a bit absent minded. But I'll get the hang of it you guys can be patient with me.

Pick your Poison: Punished for your prizes

@Lady Selune

Well, sister. you guys can write your CS's now if you, motherfucking. like.

Name:

Personality:

History:

Stats:

Items:

you're allowed. 5 mundane items: this includes coat. backpacks, flash lights. Food. A simple dagger all that stuff.

Your items have to be thematically appropriate: if you're an office worker you ain't going to be carrying survival gear as you walked about.

you may however carry something useful in the civil world like say. A buss pass, maybe a laptop or an iphone. A credit card/pay pal with under 400 bucks on it. If you do have military/cop ties you may not have anything bigger than a hand gun to begin with.

even if you just say you lost your automatic in the multiverse jump. each ammo or clip takes up a slot too. Keep in mind that, since you may be in civils area too. Items that seem useful can be a real pain.

A guy walking around in low class body armor for example in broad day light with a pistol will properly alarm everyone around you and get the cops after you.

Are the basics. Keep it relatively short. You brothers can properly gauge short reasonably. But as a rough outline don't let put too much stock in it since your character will start in transporting to other multiverse. With earth being the first one. But a vague rule is try to keep it below 5 paragraphs.

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@Fetzen@Eklispe@Lady Selune

Shit, brother. It's all electric in the atmosphere to see you again. I'm all grins and carnival in my cranium to have you, motherfuck. on my battle boat.

I'm just working on the items now. I'm doing them in like. a CYOA deal. So it's more fun to shop them. But for now.

The point rules are: all your points start at 1 for free. You got 18 points to spend on your stats.

A new system is that: if you have an item and you gift or someone else takes it from you by killing you. They get the gift without the downfall of the curses.

You guy can be from any universe. Even established universes. Like you could be from mass effect but power wise you could only be one of the NPC's from standard throw away merc or gangs. Or you can be something totally original or whacky or whatever. It's all cool. Although you're character personality and background should be original.

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@Fetzen

I'm english, my crimson character. So, I'm working on Greenwich mean time.

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@Lady Selune

Sure can, sister. You can make him anything. A demon from an ancient china fairy tale. A dj from the future. A female knight from a world of goblins. Whatever floats your rectangular abstract concepts, my lady of the literacy.

The only limiter is low power.

We just need 2 more peeps for the portal to possibly open. If we can get more than that then its all, motherfucking. mustard.

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@Lady Selune

Shit, we got one interest pretty quick. Hey again sister. Glad to have you on the gallery of guns and gore.

Returning to the guild after a few years' absence.

Welcome to the waygate, sister.

Don't let shadows sink your down my online compatriot. If you carry the stink with you get foot rot. There are all sorts of kindred crawling in the cables here that are up to some old finger excercise and cheek stretching. If you wanna, flip the taste buds I'm always down to play sit and let loose some synapse in the PMs.

you might have to prod me because I got a wandering memory line.

Pick your Poison: Punished for your prizes

There is an old term, so old that the angry coot who scooted you off his lawn when you were a kid will sneer at you saying it. Worn out and world wary as the oldest of men but it's innards keep on ticking because the everyone ass it keeps on kicking. It is "What comes around, goes around" surprisingly enough for a saying that literally states getting about the average person don't bite the bullet on adventure or rapid events. There isn't really a lot "coming around" or even leaving when you have a 9 to 5 from the desk or to the door to door.

Like anyone, no matter your career or your level of content to your current life, sparks of something more come in and out of your mind. Sucks that you're about to get up close and personal with that saying, because you're about to experience it more on the nose than Rudolph after a bar brawl. Via strange fates, mystic misdirection, crazy convenience and a DM with more sperm than brain cells you've managed to come across an event that will give you great powers, and great fucking trouble.

Have fun!

What is this?

It's a role playing game where your character will be built by their choices. They have up to 4 choices but each one comes with a negative too. A curse if you will. The idea is that rather making you're character skills and powers from the ground up. You will instead be having a "normal" guy. Normal relative to their origins that is. Will benefit from their choices of goods and powers...and curses.

Why do this?

Because its fun RP'ing crazy shit with complications that people don't necessarily foresee.

What's the Adventurer?

Simply. A series of characters ranging from 1 to 5 will assemble into the world from their origins. Each character has been called by forces, fate, mishap or their own crazy artifacts to this world. Here, they will go on adventures. Some will be of their own making...but while they are not robbing banks or fighting each other the story is straight. A wizard called Maglais has threaded the universe together and with it space time is going crazy.

you, the few individuals to cross this threshold and gaining your chosen powers/item from them multiverse will have to stop him otherwise all the known universes to exist will start to condense into a single ball as gravity becomes infinite.

Simple stuff. Have fun, stop the bad guy. Fuck bitches, fight douches. Commit some precarious acts and do a bunch of shit you'd want to do if it have a higher chance of killing you than cyanide absinthe you in real life or didn't exist.

The platform:

This will take place in a form of RL chat. Maybe roll20. Maybe something as simple as a faster paced messenger system. There will be rolling but the system is mindlessly simple. But what I want is this.

Classical stats:

Strength.

Endurance.

Intelligence.

Will.

Charisma.

Dexterity.

You all know what these do. The stats will work the same as DnD. After you get a certain point of stats they give + points to your rolls or - points if they are too low. Simple as. This won't be roll heavy. You won't roll for normal activities and you're combat will mostly be narrative driven.

but roll checks will come at natural moments EG: lifting a crate (strength roll) Deciphering an ancient book (int roll) Dodging a knife throw (dex roll)

Simple stuff. If rolls make you nervous. They are just a way to both limit our characters but surprise us too. Crazy shit, both positive and bad can happen in rolls so see them has chance to test your limits and comfort zone.

The Curses and the Gifts:

The full list of gifts you can shop from will be put up with the game but the curses will be revealed after the choice. Each gift and curse is linked. Here are some basics ideas:

Hider

Gift:

Bag of Eye Balls

A large netting made out of human hair from brown to ginger and blond holds a constant amount of human eye balls. Their stems are still sticky to the touch and you swear you can see their iris's expand and detract as things come into vision. A single note always appears at the bottom of the bag, simply saying "An eye for an eye"

Effect: The bag holds 30 eye balls in total. The peering, ownerless organs are sticky at the back of their stems and can be planted on anything from yourself to walls and items. When stuck the eye balls gain telepathic vision with yours, allowing you to see from them.

If for some reason an eye ball is destroyed, lost, captured and so on it will disappear and reappear whole in your bag after 24 hours.

Draw Back: These eye balls are in constant pain from the hair net that they are doomed to fall in. If you don't clean them up, take care of them and help relieve them of the hell of constant irritation. You shall feel their pain too when you stick them down.

Curse:

Stupid Fucking Clown



God you hate this asshole but no matter what you do you can never seem to get rid of him for good. Stab him, shoot him, strangle him. You even set him on fire and threw him out of a 11 story building once and the bastard still comes back. Thankfully he doesn't always appear. The clown waits for you to mess up, from stumbling over to telling a bad lie to even hurting yourself he suddenly walks out of the corner of the room you never saw and starts laughing at you in that smug tone.

The worst part is, when he laughs at you. Everyone else does too!

Friend, foe, strangers. Even the comatose will rise out of their slumber to join in pointing and laughing at you for ten minutes straight. He does it to your jokes too.

Character Creation:

Characters are all expected to be low power. This means you can be say, a solder, a cop, an office worker. But you can't have exceptional equipment for the world you are in. If you have future armor, it has to be low grade and not immune to gun fire-although resistant is fine- you can be anything you damn well please.

You'll receive some starting stats. No one will begin as savant like in 1 skill. Even if that skill like reading or talking to people is more mundane than gun skills. You will get chances to increase skills with items or experiences.

Post limit will be 2 paragraphs.

End Note:

I'm not looking to break the mold. I don't want to show off that I'm such awesome story teller or have deep lore. I just want to DM a fun adventure for people to enjoy. Expect everything from monsters to criminals to drugs lord aliens if it will make the game more fun. There will be a risk of dying/injury.

I'll be the DM. My sole purpose is to mediate and help you guys enjoy the experience. If you have any questions, ask away. There are no bad inquiries.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

I really feel annoyed with people who fall in love with the perpetual victimhood thing they push themselves into. It's strange to me that people can enjoy looking weak for the sake of attention.

@Buddha

I have mental issues.

That's probably like, the second time I mention it on the net. The other times probably in PM if it was acting up.

I don't mean normal, common day shit like OCD or anxiety attacks. Which everyone seems to fucking have these days.

I know those kind of people and they do it because it's easier to use mental illness as a tool to make themselves valid in other peoples life than just making friends does. They are literally their labels, which is ironic because these people will probably fight the hardest for their labels to not be dictators of themselves vocally.

Then they're fucked because when they finally want to stop. Their entire influence is set up as a someone who has x, dosen't have x, is struggling with x. Soon enough, they get X or Y...you can't pretend to be crazy. It does shit to you, pretending to be mentally ill. Especially for long periods of time, fucks you up. Especially your self esteem and sense of identity.

Pretty soon in the confusion you don't know where you start and the insanity was meant to stop.

I know you are talking generally here. But mental illness was the go to, still is mostly. Then it turn into politics, race, sexuality. None the less, living in that contradiction has the same end effect.

Sgrub: Chapter One

@auspiciousPetal

roleplayerguild.com/topics/157776-heav..

if you remake. I might be in, these guys might be in too, brother.