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Rolls
Being massively unprepared for something is an autofailure of proportional intensity - impossible difficulty. Being unprepared for something gives you a -1 - hard difficulty. Being somewhat prepared for something gives you a +0 - medium difficulty. Being especially prepared for something gives you a +1 - easy difficulty. Being massively prepared for something is an autosuccess of proportional intensity - trivial difficulty.
0: You failed catastrophically at your goal. Your mechanized grappling hook bounced off the top of the fence and hit you, making a loud sound which alerted the night watchman. Fail to overcome an obstacle, and create a new one or make an existing one worse.
1: You failed badly in a critical part of your goal. Your mechanized grappling hook gripped onto the top of the fence, but the motor failed and broke the rope, rendering the grappling hook useless. Fail to overcome an obstacle, and lose your preparation.
2: You failed to achieve your goal. Your mechanized grappling hook bounced off the fence and fell to the ground. Fail to overcome an obstacle.
3: You partially succeeded at your goal. Your mechanized grappling hook gripped onto the top of the fence, but the motor failed so you’ll have to climb up yourself. Partially overcome part of an obstacle.
4: You succeeded at your goal. Your mechanized grappling hook gripped onto the top of the fence, and pulled you up to the top of the fence. Overcome part of an obstacle.
5: You succeeded well in a critical part of your goal. Your mechanized grappling hook gripped onto the top of the fence, pulled you up to the top of the fence, and silently lowered you down to the other side after you hastily tinkered with it a bit. Overcome an obstacle.
6: You overshoot your goal. Your mechanized grappling hook gripped onto the top of the fence, and pulled you up so hard that you were launched all the way over the fence, landing a few feet away from the night watchman. Overcome an obstacle, but gain a disadvantage to overcoming the next.
7: You overshot overshooting. Your mechanized grappling hook gripped onto the top of the fence, and pulled you up so hard that you were launched all the way over the fence, landing behind a bush where the night watchman couldn’t see you, resulting in him not noticing anything. Overcome an obstacle, and gain an advantage to overcoming the next.

Characters, Actions
Roll to Escape is minimalist, so there’s a pretty wide range of allowed actions.
Your character, however, has to be human, at least when they start.
Also, expect acquiring magic or superpowers to take a lot of rolls.
Not that doing the above is a bad idea. It’ll probably be easier in the long run than having to prepare something for each obstacle.
If you want, you can do conditional actions. They can be conditional on the success of other player’s actions (ex: “Only launch my mechanized grappling hook if the night watchman is distracted by an animal noise, otherwise build a backup”), or on the difficulty of the action (ex: “Only build a mechanized grappling hook if it’s medium-difficulty or easier, otherwise practice building mechanical stuff”).
But if you do, be sure to say what you’ll do if the condition is false.
Not all actions require preparation.

Affecting Other Players
You can assist other players with their actions. You can do so directly (ex: by helping them aim their mechanical grappling hook), or indirectly (ex: by distracting the night watchman with an animal noise).
You can, in theory, do PvP (ex: by shooting someone with your mechanical grappling hook), but there’s not much point to striking first. It only slows you, and others, down.

Locations, Obstacles, Rounds, Chapters
Each location has a certain number of obstacles.
For a player to escape the location, they must overcome or bypass all of the obstacles.
Once they have escaped, they may still take actions, but they do not get a head start on the next location.
A round consists of one location, and ends when all players either have escaped, are dead, or have forfeited.
A chapter is a group of rounds. If all players are dead or have forfeited, the chapter resets to the beginning.

Player Cap, Waitlist
The player cap is 6.
When you die, or if the player cap is reached, you may choose to enter the waitlist.
When a chapter begins, players are taken from the waitlist to fill the player cap. Surviving players stay.

Players (6/6):
-- TricMagic
-- TamerVirus
-- Questorhank
-- Shadowclaw777
-- Coolrune206
-- MonkeyMarkMario
Waitlist (4):
- Naturegirl1999
- King Zultan
- Kakaluncha
- The Canadian kitten

Location: A picnic table.
Obstacles: None. The insane old man is not an obstacle.
Notes:
The insane old man is sitting in a rocking chair.
There is nothing on the picnic table.

Players:
None yet.

Location: A picnic table.
Obstacles: Social obligation to make conversation
Notes:
The insane old man is sitting in a rocking chair.
There is nothing on the picnic table.

Players:
None yet.

Name:
Goal:
Field of science that you excel in:
Your greatest creation/discovery:

Regular rolls use standard RTD results.
>= 0: You don't want to know. (may kill you)
1: Critfail
2: Fail
3: Partial success
4: Success
5: Crit
6: Overshoot
<= 7: You still don't want to know. (may make your goal harder)

However, gaining skill will push your rolls towards a 5 by 1 per skill level. You start with 1 skill level in the field that you excel in.
Your creation/discovery adds a +1 to all rolls involving it.

Combat rolls work as follows:

Every combat turn, both parties attack.
An attack consists of the attacker and defender rolling a d6. After modifiers to the rolls are applied, consult the following table:
Attack roll is 5+ more than the other's defense roll: Defender is dead unless defender has method of counteracting such
Attack roll is 4 more than the other's defense roll: Defender is mortally wounded and has -2 to all rolls
Attack roll is 3 more than the other's defense roll: Defender is severely wounded and has -1 to all rolls
Attack roll is 2 more than the other's defense roll: Defender is wounded and has -1 to all combat rolls
Attack roll is 1 more than the other's defense roll: Defender is grazed
Attack result is (4 or more) less than the other's defense roll: Defender can make a free counterattack.
Two grazes are equivalent to a wound. Two wounds are equivalent to a severe wound. Three wounds are equivalent to a mortal wound. Four or more wounds, or the equivalent, cause death.

Penalties for wounds only apply after the end of the combat turn in which they were dealt.

You may sacrifice your non-counterattack attacks in order to make a regular action.

Speedsters come in different tiers, with every character assumed to be a Speedster 0 unless otherwise stated. For each tier, the following buffs are granted: A bonus to all speed rolls, makes twice as many attacks per combat turn, and +1 to all defense rolls (due to being able to dodge attacks better). Note: if two speedsters fight, then combat is resolved as if the one with a higher speedster level had a speedster level equal to (higher level minus lower level) and the one with a lower speedster level had a speedster level of 0. This means that fights between equal-tiered speedsters will be resolved as if they both had a speedster level of 0. (Note: this rule technically applies for all fights, but due to the way the system is defined it has no effects unless both fighters have a non-0 speedster level.)

Players:

Glass
Name: Erin Quill
Goal: The furthering of arcanology (the science of magic) and the full harnessing of it to do anything you could possibly need it to do
Field of science that you excel in: Arcanology
Your greatest creation/discovery: Leylines, and that the energy they hold can be redirected with silver wires
Status: fine, has psychic powers (telekinesis, telepathy)
Location: Erin Quill’s laboratory (resides on leyline, contains scientist (has skill bonus to arcanology), contains metal crate, contains teleport pentacle to NRDL’s lab)
Inventory: A briefcase-sized silver pentacle with silver capacitor, an inch cubed of titanium, 10-pound spool of bronze wire, 10-pound spool of silver wire, 10-pound spool of gold wire, Dr. Adderson’s research notes as of Turn 18, several^2 rechargeable wands with quality batteries (can detect leylines, create light, cause telekinesis), several rechargeable wands with quality batteries (can knock people out), several^2 rechargeable wands with quality batteries (anti-undead), chemical formula of a hard-to-mass-produce rocket fuel better than theoretically possible, design of pentacle to summon the rocket fuel in container, design of a repair pentacle (works on anything as complex or less complex than a computer)

Rockeater
Name: Bernarnd Bonson
Goal: Make trasporation between one edge of the solar system to another take less then a day with multipal stops in the way
Field of science that you excel in:Rocket science
Your greatest creation/discovery:A way to build anti radiation magnetic field (GM note: "cheaper and lighter rediation shilding using magnets")
Status: fine, has skill bonus to all mental rolls
Location: Bernarnd Bonson’s laboratory (contains several fuel tanks full of the rocket fuel, contains pentacle to summon the rocket fuel in container)
Inventory: Designs for more efficient and sturdy solar panels, chemical formula of a hard-to-mass-produce rocket fuel better than theoretically possible, designs for a passenger area for a rocket (uses magnetism to counteract acceleration on the passengers inside, and does so well enough to allow the rocket fuel to be usable), designs for a rocket engine capable of using the rocket fuel, designs for an austere living module for outer space, Erin Quill’s research notes as of Turn 35, design of pentacle to summon the rocket fuel in container, generalized zoning plan for an asteroid living and manufacturing base, basic program for automatic rocket landing, blueprint for rocket manufacturing facility

NRDL (went into stasis for a few weeks on jan 5)
Name: Amadeus Nix
Goal: To create a benevolent AI God
Field of science that you excel in: Artificial Intelligence
Your greatest creation/discovery: Being able to map out empathic processes in a human brain and replicating it in a simulated brain.
Status: bedridden, does not have access to inventory
Location: a hospital bed (has access to his smartphone)
Inventory: A computer file containing a well-restricted (restrictions: only one set left) neural net AI named Bastet (higher-low-end ASI-level, running on a few hundred thousand dollars worth of highly improved hardware), a neural interface headset that allows communication with computers, several computer files containing various well-programmed narrow AIs, Erin Quill’s research notes as of Turn 35, very high quality narrow AI for extrapolating data to predict the future, efficient and effective lottery-winning AI, quality financial manager AI

ziizo
Name: Samuel Oak
Goal: Make pokemons real
Field of science that you excel in: genetic modification.
Your greatest creation/discovery: a prototype bulbasaur (can't use moves or evolve but is part plant and has the correct appareance.
Status: fine, skill bonus to creating fire dog pokemon
Location: Samuel Oak's laboratory (contains two assistants (both have skill bonus to genetic modification))
Inventory: A treatment to increase physical strength (all Pokemon have it), the prototype bulbasaur (now a Venusaur), a sample of Aggron DNA, a sample of DNA for an organism that goes through the Aron evolutions as it grows up, an Arcanine, a sample of Cubchoo DNA, a sample of Beartic DNA, a Golem, a Raichu (can make electric bursts), formula for a nonlethal poison (takes 4 rounds to knock opponent unconscious, can be absorbed through the skin), an Ekans, an Arbok, a Pidgeot, a Meowstic (psychic), a Raticate, a fire-dog (has bio-emitter flamethrower), a Sandslash, a Sudowoodo, a Wartortle (evolves into Blastoise in 1 turn), a Primeape, a Caterpie (evolves into Metapod in 2 turns), designs for an efficient bio-emitter, Dr. Adderson’s research notes as of Turn 29

sprinkled chariot
Name : John West
Goal  : Don’t mess with time. Also discovering Rlyeh.
Field of excellence : Archeology
Greatest discovery :  Decyphering language of elder thing
Status: fine, resistant to eldritch influences, eldritch power (+4 to eldritch rituals/spells/knowledge), he messed with time
Location: outside of the Egyptian pyramid (nearby is Nyarlathotep and ? ? ?), facing Dr. Adderson.
Inventory: A torch, a pamphlet written in the eldritch language that teaches people how to resist eldritch influences and contains an elder sign (protects from eldritch things)

Dustan Hache
Name:Dr. Adderson
Goal:Unlock the dormant potential of the brain for all to use.
Field of science that you excel in: Psionics.
Your greatest creation/discovery: psi-conditioning, a rigorous process that can (rarely) unlock latent psychic power.
Status: fine, guarded by several^3 robots, has psychic powers (telekinesis, telepathy and associated powers, precognition/postcognition/scrying, shield (+2 to defense rolls if he knows he is in combat), control animals, cannot be psychically mind-controlled by psychics strictly less than four tiers of power above him), eldritch knowledge/resistance (+2 to eldritch rituals/spells/knowledge/resistance), knows almost everything there is to know about the eldritch
Location: facing John West
Inventory: the steps of a revised psi-conditioning process that works on many more people (about 99.5% of people) and takes less time, Erin Quill’s research notes as of Turn 35, several wands of turn undead, several wands of unconsciousness

TricMagic
Name: Pen(Dr. Anamolate)
Goal: World Domnation
Field of science that you excel in: Nanotech
Your greatest creation/discovery: Sub-Space Communication Systems
Status: fine, skill bonus to all mental rolls, has several hundred thousand dollars in bank account
Location: Dr. Anamolate’s laboratory (ant-scale tunnel network underneath) (contains two arch-shaped portals, 2097144 queen antbots (capable of replicating itself every turn, capable of creating 9 worker antbots each turn, they have strong jaws and can secrete a binding agent strong as metal), 18874286 worker antbots, a nanoforge, a nano-scrubber (highly efficient CO2 breakdown, slow replication via seeds), true virtual reality headset, quality nano-builder (producing the VR headset), and a supercomputer (millions of TB of memory, hundreds of TB of RAM, tens of thousands of cores, modular, requires dozens of MW to work at full power, has subspace communication hub program, has firewall, has good killswitch for antbots))
Inventory: A nano-machine that increases people’s intelligence (skill bonus to all mental tasks), designs for a spider-like robot (capable of replicating itself every turn), designs for a dragonfly-like robot (can fly, turn invisible, capable of replicating itself every turn), designs for a queen termitebot (can tunnel, capable of replicating itself or creating 20 worker termitebots each turn), designs for a butterflybot (can fly, turn invisible, can inject a nano-virus that converts matter into 256 butterflybots after 4 turns, capable of laying an eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns) each turn), designs for a queen antbot (capable of replicating itself every turn, capable of creating 9 worker antbots each turn, they have strong jaws and can secrete a binding agent strong as metal), designs for a basic nanoalchemy machine, designs for a nanoalchemy kitchen, designs for a pillbug-bot (capable of replicating itself every turn, advanced sensory suite), designs for a nano-water purifier, designs for a nano-scrubber (highly efficient CO2 breakdown, slow replication via seeds) (patented) (city can use design for 5 years)

King Zultan
Name: Dr. Bob
Goal: Kill everyone with poison gas.
Field of science that you excel in: Chemistry
Your greatest creation/discovery: Chlorine gas
Status: fine
Location: in a remote wood with his RV/wooden fortress/cabin (surrounded by basic wooden wall with gate (gated community contains farm)) (near several talking deer allies (have gas masks))
Inventory: low-grade chemical kit, 1980s-era gas mask, spare filters for gas mask, several quality smoke bombs, several smoke bombs, an M9 and lots of ammunition for it, formula for a chemical that makes animals able to talk, lots of the chemical, several*2 quality tear-gas grenades, fairly large amount of gunpowder, formula for a chemical that makes animals slightly more willing to learn, several^3 pipe bombs

magmaholic
Name: Lero Yenkovich
Goal: Dissapointed in the non-existence of magic,he will make his own almost-magic. It will get him all the blackjack and hookers he craves,he thinks.LITTLE DOES HE KNOW
Field of science that you excel in: quantum mechanics
Your greatest creation/discovery: CATALYST BEAM!!!1! That is,an alien spacegun looking thing with a crystal tuning fork coated with a polarizing film in the middle instead of an antenna. It crystallizes the targets using magnetic fields,piezoelectricity,lasers,and the dense spiral grooves on the tuning fork which remain unpolarized,functioning like the double slit experiment thing on roids.
Status: fine, trapped in car by airbags
Location: Lero Yenkovich’s car (contains near-completely ineffective teleporter, portal gun) (near state line)
Inventory: Catalyst beam

Other things:
There is a pyramid in Egypt that holds eldritch things
There are lots of people with psychic powers, such as agents of various agencies like the FBI, CIA, and NSA, blue collar government and non-government workers, military and ex-military, and homeless people with psychic powers
All police forces in the state are equipped with psychics
The city police are widely perceived as incompetent
Forty-three clones of Master Monster are imprisoned (one has mind of a hobo)
Most people cannot be mind-controlled by psychics
128 dragonfly-like robots (can fly and turn invisible, capable of replicating themselves every turn) (shut down) are on a high roof in the starting city
32 queen termitebots (can tunnel, capable of replicating itself or creating 20 worker termitebots each turn) (shut down) are in a city dump
A butterflybot (can fly, turn invisible, can inject a nano-virus that converts matter into 256 butterflybots after 4 turns, capable of laying an eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns) each turn) (shut down), a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns) (shut down), a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 2 turns) (shut down), and a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 1 turn) (shut down) are on a different high roof in the starting city
Magic is becoming widely known
Moon contains 4 queen antbots and 37 worker antbots

Players:

Glass
Name: Erin Quill
Goal: The furthering of arcanology (the science of magic) and the full harnessing of it to do anything you could possibly need it to do
Field of science that you excel in: Arcanology
Your greatest creation/discovery: Leylines, and that the energy they hold can be redirected with silver wires

Shadowclaw777
Name: Allam Aarant 
Goal: To create artificial life that will allow humanity to become a post-scarcity society
Field of Science that you excel in: Synthetic Biology
Your greatest creation/discovery: Applying gamma radiation to your skin under lab conditions can actually be positive to the human body

Rockeater
Name: Bernarnd Bonson
Goal: Make trasporation between one edge of the solar system to another take less then a day with multipal stops in the way
Field of science that you excel in:Rocket science
Your greatest creation/discovery:A way to build anti radiation magnetic field (GM note: "cheaper and lighter rediation shilding using magnets")

NRDL
Name: Amadeus Nix
Goal: To create a benevolent AI God
Field of science that you excel in: Artificial Intelligence
Your greatest creation/discovery: Being able to map out empathic processes in a human brain and replicating it in a simulated brain.

ziizo
Name: Samuel Oak
Goal: Make pokemons real
Field of science that you excel in: genetic modification.
Your greatest creation/discovery: a prototype bulbasaur (can't use moves or evolve but is part plant and has the correct appareance.

MonkeyMarkMario
Name: Master Monster
Goal: Make an army of clones to take over the universe
Field of science that you excel in: bioengineering
Your greatest creation/discovery: Cloned most of my organs. (GM note: +1 to all defense rolls)