What is this?
This is a simulated reality, commonly known as a "Roll to Dodge", in which several participants perform tasks to their hearts desires. Though it is the intent to cause these "Players" to joyfully murder each other, that is not the sole possible outcome.
Where am I?
You are currently in a space between spaces between spaces, en route to be inserted into an area that dynamically encompasses several scenes from real, unreal, and transreal existences.
What is the purpose of this exercise?
We here at Ocean Corp. commonly design and produce various strange and unusual items to sell to physical beings, such as yourself. However, we find it difficult to test these designs ourselves, and as such must recruit such beings in order to prove the viability of our product in practice. In addition, we worry that small imperfections in the fabric of meta-reality may cause larger problems for the pan-multiverse down the line, so these tests have also been optimised to diagnose such imperfections and hopefully find a solution.
Why was I selected for this exercise?
We rolled some dice.
Anyway, it seems that you are approaching the destination, so simply fill out the following form:
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Visual Description:[/b]
[b]Non-visual Description:[/b]
[b]How did you get here?:[/b] (Fell through a dimensional hole, died, took an experimental teleporter, fell asleep, etc.)
[b]Stats:[/b] (All start at 0. For each level you lower a stat, you can bring another up one. Can go down to -2 and up to +4)
Kinesthetics:
Reactions:
Precision:
Toughness:
Adaptability:
Knowledge:
We will be taking five subjects for now. If the number of potential subjects exceeds that, we will draw lots and the excess will be vented.
((Yes, this is an RTD for me to test a few concepts I've been thinking on, and for you to gloriously murder each other in. This is my first real time GMing, so apologies if I'm actually horrible at it.))
Visual Description:
(http://i.imgur.com/nyigGqr.jpg?1)
Non-visual Description: A deeply religious Independent Puritan, as well as a great military commander, he sees himself as driven by God to victory. He was a cruel and effective Lord Protectorate of England before his unfortunate assassination, leading many campaigns against the cyber-scots and the Irish mechsuits, as well as several stunning victories over the Polonium-fueled Royalist tank regiment.
How did you get here?: Blown up by a Royalist plot after a reign of terror as Lord Protectorate of England, with a nuclear device constructed by Catholics. His divine Will was too strong to let his soul dissipate, and here seemed like as good a place as any.
Stats:
Kinesthetics: -1
Reactions: -2
Precision: -2
Toughness: 0
Adaptability: +3
Knowledge: +3
Special Item: Justice
Visual Description: Tall and strong, your standard knight Hospitaller
Non-visual Description: This guy thinks he's a knight from the crusades
How did you get here?: Picked up a magic sword next thing he knows he's here
Stats:
Kinesthetics: +2
Reactions: +2
Precision: -2
Toughness: +2
Adaptability: -2
Knowledge: -2
Special Item: Ripper
Visual Description: Average man, average height, average face. Utterly forgettable.
Non-visual Description: He's not a clever man
How did you get here?: He was on his way to kitchen for a snack and got lost.
Stats:
Kinesthetics: 0
Reactions: 0
Precision: -2
Toughness: 0
Adaptability: +4
Knowledge: -2
Special Item: Relativity
Visual Description:
(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/f/f7/Gunther.jpg)
Non-visual Description: Man too sexy for his shirt.
How did you get here?: He partied too hard!
Stats: (All start at 0. For each level you lower a stat, you can bring another up one. Can go down to -2 and up to +4)
Kinesthetics:0
Reactions:0
Precision:0
Toughness:0
Adaptability:0
Knowledge:0
Special Item: Blinds
Visual Description: Slightly taller than average height, and more Celtic than you’d expect in a Legionary
Non-visual Description: A veteran of many battles defending Britannia Rufus is a bit of lunatic and being a Legionary meant he never got the best education.
How did you get here?: Ever heard of one of the lost legions? Well Rufus got lost while in the lost legion.
Stats:
Kinesthetics:+1
Reactions: -1
Precision: -2
Toughness: +2
Adaptability: +2
Knowledge: -2
Special Item: Bad Idea
Visual Description: A Gorgon. Pale and with a bright smile, her upper body is covered in glowing indigo runes and her snake hair is long. Most of the snakes are a deep ocean blue.
Non-visual Description: Calm, patient, and having a serenity about her, she is mainly apathetic about everything and has a hard time forming emotional connections. However, she has demonstrated willingness to work together and a fondness for talking.
How did you get here?: She destroyed her own reality and her entire race. And then she kept the murder train going by opening a giant dimensional rift tiny dimensional trapdoor to this location.
Stats:
Kinesthetics: -2
Reactions: -1
Precision: +1
Toughness: -1
Adaptability: +1
Knowledge: +2
Special Item: Subversion
Visual Description:(http://i.imgur.com/nyigGqr.jpg?1)
How did you get here?: Blown up by a Royalist plot after a reign of terror as Lord Protectorate of England, with a nuclear device constructed by Catholics. His divine Will was too strong to let his soul dissipate, and here seemed like as good a place as any.
Stats:
Kinesthetics: -2
Reactions: -2
Precision: -2
Toughness: 0
Adaptability: +3
Knowledge: +3
Seems like Aigre's forgotten the three rules of success: Minmax, minmax, minmax.
Name:Misha
Visual: (http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/jnkkn1ucrp7euyhow1y8.png)
Non-visual Description:Bullets good, Slow but steady, who touched my sadvich!
How did you get here:Telaporting bread mishap
Stats: (All start at 0. For each level you lower a stat, you can bring another up one. Can go down to -2 and up to +4)
Kinesthetics: 1
Reactions: -2
Precision:-2
Toughness: 2
Adaptability: 1
Knowledge: 0
Suddenly, you all find yourselves in a small, pentagon-shaped room. Inset in each of the five walls is an automatic sliding door. The walls themselves are lined with whirring machinery and important-looking pipes. Above your heads are a series of catwalks, and above that is a glass roof, through which you can see space, and a familiar red planet; Mars.
In the center of the room, there is a great pile of corpses, all wearing what appear to be maintenance uniforms. Your hands are bound in front of you with electronic handcuffs, on which a display counts down from 5 seconds.
Ollie:
Clutched in your left hand is a rather massive and ornate handgun. [Adaptability: 3] You notice that on the side of the gun is a picture of a rather angry man in a nice... sailor cap or something?
Misha:
You appear to be wearing either a large backpack or a parachute. [Adaptability: 6] Before you can react, metal tendrils emerge from holes in the backpack, and tear apart your restraints. [Toughness: 2] This understandably freaks you out, and you fall right on your fat ass. You're now free, but laying on the ground.
Sir Jorge:
In one of you hands, you're carrying a small dagger, inscribed with glowing arcane symbols. Not a sword, but you can work with this. [Adaptability: 3] You get the feeling you could open things up with this.
Buster:
You would appear to be holding a small one-handed hammer, with a massive stone head. [Adaptability: 2] It feels too heavy to use effectively as a weapon.
Jürgen:
You have a small electronic device strapped to your chest, which glows with an internal green light. [Adaptability: 6] A small green bubble appears around you (which only you can see, though you might not realize) that appears to move with your thoughts. Neato.
A few of the corpses in the center of the room being to shudder and move.
(http://i.imgur.com/g0Nyfaw.png)
1 is Ollie
2 is Misha
3 is Sir Jorge
4 is Buster
5 is Jürgen
black squiggly lines are the corpsepile
Red lines are doors
(http://i.imgur.com/dt2LUTd.png)
I'm going to basically use X-Com's Time Units, so before you can do a new action you have to wait for the old one to complete.
Reacting is an action for some reason, so you all do that.
[Corpses Reactions: 1] Corpses will take 6 TUs to react.
[Ollie Reactions: 1] Ollie will take 6 TUs to react.
[Misha Reactions: 6] Misha will take 2 TUs to react.
[Jorge Reactions: 6] Jorge will take 2 TUs to react.
[Buster Reactions: 2] Buster will take 5 TUs to react.
So Misha and Jorge will act first the next round. they can either take and action right then or wait until conditions change before acting, effectively as a kind of "overwatch".
The time that various common actions take is listed below, once that time is up, that character can act again instantly, so turns might have several actions from one character and none from another. I'll just go down the list in chronological order until I come to a place where I don't know what a character's next action will be.
React: 1-6, depending on Reactions roll.
Melee attack: 1tu wind up, 2tu wind down, 4tu if 1 or 6, 0tu if 5
Shooting: 3tu to aim, 1tu to snapshot with -1, 0tu for each shot (with stacking -1 for each next shot), 2tu to adjust for recoil, 4tu if 1 or 6.
Movement: 2tu per few meters, 1tu if sprinting I’m not a mathematician.
Evade: 1tu
Wait: Until stated parameters, then act.
Other shit: I’ll think of it, then come up with something, probably depending on the roll.
Visual Description: (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/f/f7/Gunther.jpg)
How did you get here?: He partied too hard!
Stats: (All start at 0. For each level you lower a stat, you can bring another up one. Can go down to -2 and up to +4)
Kinesthetics:0
Reactions:0
Precision:0
Toughness:0
Adaptability:0
Knowledge:0
I need Blinds, for I'm too sexy for your eyes!
(http://i.imgur.com/97lwmN2.png)
Pull the blindfold down on my eyes and chill in the sun.
"It's a hot day put on my flip flop!"
You lie down and put the blinds on your eyes. [Knowledge+Adaptability: 3] Suddenly, you can't see anything! You briefly panic, then take off the blindfold. As you take it off, you briefly see that you were invisible.
Well, that's one mystery solved!
(http://i.imgur.com/62GX6ez.png)
Shoot corpses.
Improve Kinesthetics by one.
"Don't disrupt my firearm use with your unauthorised magical assaults! Oh wait... he's dead."
(I'll assume that you want to do a snap shot and not an aimed shot due to the close range. In the future specify this and if you're firing multiple shots, if you want to shoot as quickly as possible or take time to aim each shot.)
Try to figure out more about Doooodge.
Kill some more zombies using Ripper.
"Praise God for this great miracle, for he has given me power to destroy his enemies.
Tackle the knight!
Pursue the plastic one!
Spontaneously collapse due to overburdened connection.
TU+6:
Oliver Cromwell takes aim at the melee in the center of the room, an excellent choice for gaining more levels. He'll be ready to take a shot at TU+7.
In the middle of said melee, Ser Jorge is facing off against two Corpses, who are trying to tackle him and bring him down. They will collide at TU+7.
One Corpse breaks away to chase Buster.
[Corpse3 Kinesthetics: 3] VS. [Buster Kinesthetics: 3] [v_v Tiebreaker coin toss: Buster]
But Buster is faster than a shambling corpse, and it's left there looking confused and sad.
As this is all happening, Misha is pondering about Doooodge in a corner.
[Adaptability+Knowledge: 2] He thinks very hard. It's a backpack. It has many small hole in it, through which animated metal cables emerge, and are controlled by Misha's mind. Other than that, he has no idea. He is somewhat distracted, and will be back in the game at TU+9
We can level up?
Huddle with the other test subjects, and offer myself as a plastic meatshield.
(Just kill your fellow players, and you'll gain more power than you ever imagined.)
TU+7:
Buster easily barely outruns the running Corpse, into a corner of the room occupied by absolutely no other test subjects. Sorry.
However, he does run close enough to the southerly automatic door that it slides open!
[What's Behind the door?!: 2]
On the other side, buster can see a small, empty room with a neatly made wooden door on the other end.
[Knowledge: 4] Despite his plastic face, he can smell salty Ocean air though the door.
The Corpse once again sets it's rotting eyes on Buster, and again shambles it's way closer to him. It'll get to him on TU+9.
Meanwhile, in the center of the room, Things are about to get spicy.
Cromwell aims at the corpsepile, not bothering to aim too carefully, the blast should take care of that, after all! [Ollie takes pity?: Haha, who do you take me for?]
[Corpse1 Kinesthetics: 3]
[Corpse2 Kinesthetics: 6]
[Sir Jorge Kinesthetics+Adaptability: 6]
[Oliver Cromwell Precision+Adaptability: 2]
Ollie takes a shot and is knocked back a step, as the extremely menacing bullet whizzes harmlessly past, and extremely menaces the door on the other end of the room.
Sir Jorge strikes at one of the Corpses as it tackles him, the other Corpse stumbles and grabs hold of his leg.
As Ripper pierces the Corpse's flesh, a bubble of distortion opens from it, and grows to cover both Jorge and the Corpse he's engaged with. In a moment, they're both gone, along with the other Corpse's hands.
[Reality's Whim: 2]
The space where they stood is replaced with a chunk of earth, but the combatants are nowhere to be seen.
(Don't worry MidnightJaguar, you're not dead yet.)
[Corpse1 Toughness: 1] The shock of losing two hands causes the Corpse to collapse.
Remember that door that Ollie blasted open? Well [what's behind this door?!: 2]
Through the mangled remains of the door can be seen what appears to be a waiting room, with some potted plants, above-average paintings on the walls, and a comfy-looking chair in a small inset in the wall. at the end of the room is a heavily-reinforced metal door.
(http://i.imgur.com/Ep2bxOU.png)
Current Turn (Turn at the start of the next update):
TU+8
Corpse3:
Arrives at Buster’s position at TU+8
Ollie:
Idle, 1 Recoil
Misha:
Finishes pondering at TU+9
Buster:
Idle
Update for AoshimaMichio SOON™
Well, Jorge went MIA in a rather permanent manner, so I made a new character.
Name: Rufus Farrar
Visual Description: Slightly taller than average height, and more Celtic than you’d expect in a Legionary
Non-visual Description: A veteran of many battles defending Britannia Rufus is a bit of lunatic and being a Legionary meant he never got the best education.
How did you get here?: Ever heard of one of the lost legions? Well Rufus got lost while in the lost legion.
Stats: (All start at 0. For each level you lower a stat, you can bring another up one. Can go down to -2 and up to +4)
Kinesthetics:+1
Reactions: -1
Precision: -2
Toughness: +2
Adaptability: +2
Knowledge: -2
He has a bad idea that he’s keen to see to fruition.
Name:Adriana Inkscales the snake sage of reality.
Visual Description:a Gorgon Pale and with a bright smile her upper body is covered in glowing indigo runes her snake hair is long and most of the snakes are a deep ocean Blue.
Non-visual Description:Calm patient and having a serenity about them they are mainly apathetic about everything and have a hard time forming emotional connections but have demonstrated willingness to work together and a fondness for talking
How did you get here?:Destroying her own reality and her entire race before opening a giant dimensional rift in the sky of this location.
Stats: (All start at 0. For each level you lower a stat, you can bring another up one. Can go down to -2 and up to +4)
Kinesthetics:-2
Reactions:-1
Precision:1
Toughness:-1
Adaptability:1
Knowledge:+2
Special item:Subversion
Walk through the door, take a good look around, unbutton the shirt completely to show off my abs and lean against the doorframe.
"I'm here. I'm so fucking hot."
You open the loosely-made wooden door and confidently stride through. You are immediately hit by a wave of heat, a rocking motion, and a slight increase in gravity, as you find yourself on a moving train winding through an expanse of dry, dusty desert.
Most of the train's cars seem to be hauling wooden crates, or similar cargo containers. On this cart, you see a shiny-looking metal chest, and on the next car up, you see a metal door, just kinda hanging out.
It's hot out here, and so are you, so you dramatically rip open your shirt. Suddenly, a bright purple vortex appears on the next car down, and extrudes some Medusa lady and a roman Legionary. Just in time to observe your glorious bod, how wonderful.
What? How did those two get here? No matter, they can be subjects. Seven, Bad Idea. Like the spunk. Eight, Subversion. Have fun with those toys now.
In a flash of purple light, what appears to be a gameboy with a small keyboard wielded on running a command line is dropped into Adriana's hands, and a frag grenade is dropped into Rufus's hand. [Rufus Adaptability+Knowledge: 2] Huh, what's that? You get the feeling it's some kind of bomb?
[Adriana Knowledge: 3] This seems distinctly unsafe to you.
(http://i.imgur.com/EQtQNAR.png)
Break the door next to me, with no one in front of it.
Aim and fire across the pile of zombies, so the guy at 4 will catch the bullet if necessary. Careful aim, then repeated crazy firing.
Run across the room and try to open or bonk the wooden door.
Bonk any corpse that gets too close. Or snuggle them with my plastic awesomeness.
Assault the plastic one! Bleed his plastic blood!
TU+8
Cromwell takes careful aim at Corpse3. (3TU)
Buster finds himself fairly close to a Corpse at this very moment, so he decides to bonk it. The Corpse appears to have similar aspirations. (1TU)
TU+9
Misha finishes thinking about magic things and starts thinking about going through doors. [Knowledge: 4] That dummy opened a door just by walking near it, so you decide that you don't need to rip it off it's puny frame.
Misha walks to the northeast door. (1TU)
[Buster Kinesthetics+Adaptability: 3]
[Corpse3 Kinesthetics: 5]
[Buster Toughness: 5]
[Corpse3 Toughness: 4]
Buster brings Rubber in a disappointingly weak strike at the Corpse's crotch, which makes a comical *BOING* sound but little else, while the Corpse delivers a strong punch to Buster's plastic head, which the crash-test dumbass proceeds to ignore. (2TU)
TU+10
[What's behind door number four?: 3] [1]
As the door opens Misha blinks as he sees the corpsepile and the back of his own head behind it. the door leads to the door on the opposite side of the room.
(http://i.imgur.com/z2koJtS.png)
Current Turn:
TU+10
Corpse3:
Recovering from attack, TU+11
Ollie:
Aiming at Corpse3 TU+11
Misha:
Idle
Buster:
Recovering from attack, TU+11
Gunther picks a cd cover out of his pocket and flips it to Adriana.
(http://www.i-mockery.com/bad-albums/gunther/pleasureman-cover.jpg)
Stretching slightly and in a nearly monotone voice a ever so small hint of excitement in her tone.
Ah how intriguing and most likely entertaining. Hello all in attendance I am Adriana Inkscales the snake sage of reality,Please all say your names in reciprocation.
Broadcast this Loud and Clear across the map so everyone hears also Dodge any jerks attacking me.
You try to call on your magic to punt this message into everyone's heads, but as it turns out, there's no such thing as magic, or the supernatural, only cutting edge technology. So you can't do magic.
Instead, you broadcast that by yelling it really loudly. You think that the other two get the message.
You make a mental note to dodge anything that tries to murder you, but fail to have any premonitions about getting attacked sometime this turn.
Speak "I'm feeling good and I want to partaya" While pointing at Medusa and posing all sexy like.
You flirt with a Gorgon. You seem... successful?
Magnus Domini… (please hold translating rest of speech into English)… AAAAAAAAAAHHHH Where the hell am I. Ahh, wait a second . Theres a gorgon to my right, and Apollo just walked in through the front door, that means I must be holding Zeuses Thunder bolt.
Throw the Thunderbolt at the Gorgon. Say hello to Apollo.
Mere moments ago, you were wandering the forest, worried that you might be hopelessly lost. Then, you were suddenly surrounded by swirling purple lights, right next to a monster out of legend. Moments later, you found yourself on a platform that your mortal life could not a have possibly prepared you for, right next to Medusa and Apollo, and were told that you were "number seven" and handed a strange object that is probably highly dangerous. As Apollo immediately begins chatting up the Gorgon, you briefly consider these facts. [Reactions: 4] You then proceed to take the only reasonable course of action. That is, throw a live frag grenade at someone standing right next to you on a moving train.
[Rufus Kinesthetics: 3]
[Adriana Reactions+Kinesthetics: 1]
Adriana is looking at and talking with Gunther, and doesn't react in the slightest until a metal sphere flies into the side of her head. It's not a real injury, but it is annoying. The grenade clatters to the ground at her feet.
[Adriana Reactions: 6]
[Gunther Reactions: 6]
(http://i.imgur.com/p0ytiKP.png)
Bonk it true, Bonk it hard, Bonk it with passion!
Shoot the corpse I aimed at. Take stock of situation, am I being overwhelmed? If not, keep shooting. If so, open nearest door.
"Cowards!"
Go over watch, striking at an corpses that get close by and backing off into the portal if overwhelmed.
TU+10
Misha keeps standing around like a bloody idiot.
TU+11
Buster and the Corpse both recover from their attacks, but that's probably not important because Justice is being dealt to everything that moves!
[Oliver Cromwell Precision+Adaptability: 4]
[Oliver Cromwell Precision+Adaptability: (-1 for recoil) 4]
[Oliver Cromwell Precision+Adaptability: (-2 for recoil) 2]
Two bolter rounds rip through open space and directly impact the Corpse. A third one flies right past buster and into the lobby behind the door.
[Corpse3 Toughness: To resist bolter fire? Hahahahahaha.]
[Buster Toughness: (+1 thanks to meatshielding) 6]
The corpse is ripped to shreds, leaving Buster covered in gore and looking unimpressed in a very dummy way.
Behind Buster, in the room through the door, a section of wall is blown open and Nothing can be seen through it.
The room falls quiet. The corpsepile wiggles a bit, but does not appear to be a threat.
(http://i.imgur.com/EqwmY1Z.png)
Damn you Vulcan, you must have made a dud.
Run up and cower behind Apollo, ask him to kill the gorgon with his bow.
((For shame you snake racist! >:( ))
pick up Gunther my new...friend/love interest/idle curiosity whichever of the three and leave the area looking for intresting things as I'm leaving say this as I go leaving him in shame and the fact that he has proven himself to be a honorless racist.
In a completely disgusted and angry voice.
you vile racist how dare you judge me on the scaliness of my skin and not the quality of my character Martin Luther snake junior bravely sacrificed his own life so all of snake kind both humanoid and not would be treated equally you disgust me and you should be ashamed.
((Wait, let's rephrase that a bit.))
Kick the roman guy on the face if he comes too close The roman guy can talk to sole of my feet.
Pull Adriana with me to the beach. Close the door behind us.
"Honey, you're so cute! This is the land of forbidden fruit. Bananas, melonas, yeah. It's a hot, hot summer love. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8SqKdkZf0&t=40s)"
You vile racist, how dare you judge me on the scaliness of my skin and not the quality of my character? Martin Luther snake-
The hand grenade on the ground explodes.
[Shrapnel Assholeishness (Adriana): (+1 due to proximity) 3]
[Shrapnel Assholeishness (Rufus): (+1 due to proximity) 4]
[Gunther Reactions+Kinesthetics: 4]
Gunther manages to dive behind a handy chest-height crate, and is unharmed. Adriana and Rufus are too close to avoid the blast, and gain a few more holes.
Adriana takes an arrow to the knee. [Adriana Toughness: 4] She winces in pain, but should still be able to move.
Rufus Gains a bit more metal in his intestines. [Rufis Toughness: (-1 due to heavy wound.) 5] He doesn't seem to notice. The instruments of the gods cannot harm him!
[Train Toughness: (+2 because future train) 5] The train doesn't even flinch.
In a flash of purple light, a frag grenade falls into Rufus's hands.
(http://i.imgur.com/HWdjbN5.png)
Hop back in the portal and enter the new area striking at anything that gets near me
((I will survive like I always have, by doing nothing!))
You hop through the portal. And end up on the other side. Which is the same room as you were in before.
Shuffle over to Misha. Ask if it will be my friend and if it wants to go outside to play together. Point at hole in wall. Protect new friend from any aggressive corpses.
You scuttle on over to Misha, and point at the hole in the wall, through which Nothing is looking somewhat annoyed.
You drape yourself over his head, and he heads over to the hole, intent on adventure.
Out through the closest door. Open it a bit, peer round cautiously with my weapon ready, go through if no danger.
You ignore your fellows, and head through the last unopened door.
[5]
You look at yourself. Old Ollie sure looks handsome as ever. You peer over your own shoulder, and see that the rest of the room behind you is in the door as well.
(http://i.imgur.com/8uZOMw9.png)
Vulcan! This better not be another dud!
Throw another lightning bolt at the Gorgon. Just in case this one is not a dud get behind cover.
I still want to bring the snake girl to the beach with me.
I still want to bring the snake girl to the beach with me.
She will Let him do this.
Rufus throws another grenade at Adriana while she's staggered. [Rufus Kinesthetics: 6] [Adriana Kinesthetics: (-1 due to wound and staggering) 1] ...And beans her in the face again. [Adriana Toughness: 2] Adriana gets knocked over by the force.
Gunther is doing nothing until I get a more specific action. You're on a different train car, and Adriana is still being engaged and is still not rolling well.
Even if there were cover miraculously nearby, Rufus would not be able to get to it, as he put too much into his throw and tripped himself up.
(http://i.imgur.com/er773ey.png)
Edge round the hole, look through the door directly across the corpsepile from me.
((Will the real RTD have lots of non-euclidean buildings like this?))
You edge around yourself, and find yourself in the same place as you were before.
[Knowledge: 4] You see that Relativity is still laying where it was when it fell off of whatshisface's chest when he died. You feel an sudden desire to loot.
There are currently two doors equally directly across from you. One door that you blew open with your gun, and the other that those people just went through.
((Provided I ever get around to making a "real RTD" (look how long this update took!) I'll probably go for a setting more like ER, only anomalous shit where shit is anomalous.))
Hop through that cool portal thing I'm next to.
Into the hole we go!
Use my awesome toughness to protect friends from any danger.
[Nobody Knowledge: 1]
[Nobody Knowledge: 3]
Nobody doesn't really think about jumping into a hole containing nothing, and jumps into a hole containing nothing.
Nobody considers the hole containing nothing. It feels a bit uneasy about just jumping in, but no-one has ever done this before, so it must be fine, right? Nobody steps into the hole.
(http://i.imgur.com/3pQgacR.png)
ACTIVATE SUBVERSION by typing save me now! MAYBE IT'LL STOP GRENADE FROM GOING OFF ALSO CURL SELF UP AND TRY TO ROLL AWAY BASICALLY TRY TO MINIMIZE DAMAGE AND GET AWAY
HELP!!!
VULCAN! YOU BASTARD, I SAID I WANTED AN ACTUAL LIGHTING BOLT, NOT ONE OF THESE DELAYED ACTION MONSTROSITIES!
Try to open the big felt box and hide inside it. Just duck and cover like I'm a turtle in a 1950's public safety/propaganda film.
As soon as grenade explodes or it becomes obvious it won't explode, go and kick Rufus on face.
Gunther decides to walk back through the door to the beach and take cover there instead of hiding behind a convenient waist-high wooden crate again. Helpfully, this makes him immune to getting blown up!
Adriana rolls up into a little ball and desperately buttonmashes on Subversion while the grenade makes a stressful ticking sound.
[Adaptability: 3] She types in "Help pls" and hits enter a few times. It brings up a help page with a few commands, like "Find Device", or "Hack that Shit", or "Deactivate Grenade".
The grenade makes a beep that sounds suspiciously like "Now armed, please make your peace."
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Loot relativity. Go through any door not yet opened.
"Deserters!"
All the doors have been opened already. Three (!) of them just lead into this room. The one to the east leads to a nice lobby, and the one to the south leads to a generic room with a hole that leads to nothing in it.
My mapmaking isn't too bad, is it? ;_;
No, I just posted in a hurry. Go into the lobby, through the door there if there is one. Loot relativity still, and anything else of cash, sentimental or comedic value.
You damn Nobody as damn deserters, then proceed to loot your ex-comrades body. As you pick it up, Relativity opens up it's claws expectantly.
[Knowledge+Adaptability: 2] You guess that's kinda neat.
As for other loot... hmm, there might be something in that gross corpsepile...
[Roll to loot!: 5] Digging through the mass of dead bodies (respecting the dead, of course, you make sure not to damage them) you find...
[Random loot!: 22,10] A compound bow, made with the bones of the wailing dead, forever cursed to make this weapon awesome. It's arrows are made from the blood of children and virgins, which about covers everyone around here, so you can get more ammo by stabbing people with the sharp top part, which is pretty metal.
Satisfied by your well-armedness, you walk through the hole in the door to the lobby. Classy, yet cheerful music is playing. A comfy chair sits in a comfy corner, and a few portraits hang on the walls. At the end of the room sits a single, heavy, metal door.
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search for vodka, celebrate being alive before charging a random door.
You can not celebrate being alive, because you are not alive.
There is no sunshine when you're dead.
SELECT DEACTIVATE GRENADE!!!
oh God OH GOD KEEP CALM!!
As soon as grenade explodes or it becomes obvious it won't explode, go and kick Rufus on face.
Repeat.
try to move into the train car Gunther vacated and then try to find cover there.
[Precision+Adaptability: 4] Adriana somewhat erratically types "Dissaarm fgucking grhenadew", which subversion helpfully autocorrects.
With a slightly sad winding-down sound, the grenade disarms itself. Not to say that everyone isn't ducking and covering and cowering and panicking, but they sure aren't exploding.
Rufus and Adriana are both cowering on the floor, and Gunther is peeking in through the door, asking "Where's the earth-shattering kaboom?"
To himself, of course.
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