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Actions use 1d6. You know the deal but if you don't I shall list the results:
1: Poor luck causes your project to disintegrate. Depending on what this project was, this may result in additional collateral damage as everything collapses around you.
2: No progress is made. A different approach may be called for.
3: Something is made, but not good enough. May require refinement or acceptance.
4: Success. A reasonable amount of progress is made, whether this be sufficient or not.
5: Amazing progress. We honestly didn't think you had it in you.
6: As above but the result wields its own will on reality.

Each turn you may use two actions, one Primary and the other Secondary. You may not do two primary actions or two secondary actions in a turn.
Primary: Acting; creation, works, and violence.
Secondary: Sensing, research, diplomacy and command.
EITHER: Traveling.

A turn is around 10 days. Divine beings could easily fight for several turns without stopping, but mere mortals will become exhausted after only a single round of combat.
Mortals and other creatures act on their own, but will often require a Secondary action to be prodded into action.

Certain actions require no roll: observing or examining when there's nothing hidden to be noticed, traveling terrain which you're well-adapted to navigate, or other actions which are trivially easy for you in specific.
For example, a sea creature will have no trouble swimming across the ocean where a terrestrial creature would have more of a challenge.

Actions which challenge another player will be resolved by an opposed roll, with the one who rolls higher coming out on top. This does not require that the targeted player use their Action to defend themselves; in cases where two players mutually attack one another, there will be two separate opposed rolls.
Attacking an Immortal may prompt an automatic and instinctual counter attack unless the recipient specifically suppresses that response.

Name: What shall I call you?
Body: What form do you take?
Essence: What power fills you? What spheres drive you?
Purpose: Why are you? What goals will you seek?

Tricmagic the Demon
Horizon the ??

Don't be toxic or I'll modkill you.
Days are 48 hours, nights are 24 hours. Or shorter with hammers / everyone sending actions.
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You may post after hammer until the thread of locked. Further votes will not be counted.

Private chats will be through forum PMs. When the game is done I'll archive the messages in this thread.
To organize PMs as a little thread, make sure to change your options in Profile > Modify Profile > Personal Messaging.
Display Personal Messages: As a conversation.
Save a copy of each personal message in my sent items by default: on.
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There are two mafia. The rest of the players begin as town.
Mafia may communicate through forum PMs. Make sure to cc me!
Mafia win when the number of living mafia players equals or exceeds living town players.
Town win when all mafia players are eliminated.
Town who acquire the Murder Crown have their alignment changed to Mafia Ally. These players win and lose with the Mafia, but otherwise act as townies.

One Mafia begins with the Murder Crown.
The other Mafia begins with one of the three Town Power Hats. Note that Town Power Hats cannot be used by Mafia.
Two townies each begin with one of the remaining two Town Power Hats.
One townie begins with the Ghastly Gibus.
The remaining townies begin with one generic hat each.

During the night, you may use one of the abilities granted by your hats, if you have any, or you may perform one of the following three actions:
Mug: Select a player. You steal a random hat from that player, unless they Turtle. If other players Mug the same player as you, you learn their names and a random mugger wins the ensuring brawl, taking one hat from everyone involved.
Graverob: Select a hat which belonged to a dead player. You steal it. If other players attempt to Graverob the same hat, it goes to a random one of you and you learn their names.
Turtle: You cannot be Mugged. You learn the name of whoever attempts to Mug you.

Mugging and Graverobbing are corrupt actions. If more than half the alive players use corrupt actions, the Murder Crown will Awaken.
The Awakened Murder Crown gains the ability to Mafiakill one random player if it's owner performs a different action, and will immediately jump to a random player if its current host dies.

Regardless of your alignment, if you possess four hats at once, you immediately win and everyone else loses. All hail the Hat Tyrant!
If the day begins and one or more players currently possess three hats, all players will be informed that it is currently HATLO.

Murder Crown
A pure golden crown with a menacing aura. The one who wears it sees visions of the Hat Baron and is filled with a murderous rage...
If your alignment is Town, it becomes Mafia Ally permanently upon obtaining this hat.
Mafiakill: Select a Player. That player dies at night.
If more than half of living players perform the Mug or Graverob actions, the Crown Awakens, automatically Mafiakilling a random player when you perform a different night action, and automatically attaching itself to a random player should you die.

Police Cap
A blue cap with a badge on its front. The bill shades your eyes, helping you focus.
If your alignment is Mafia, this hat shall deny you its power.
Inspect: Select a Player. You learn that player's alignment as of the morning.

Doc's Bowler
A black bowler hat. Its hard, yet soft felt bolsters your confidence.
If your alignment is Mafia, this hat shall deny you its power.
Heal: Select a Player. That player is safe from Mafiakill this night.

Vigilante's Beanie
A worn-down yellow wool beanie. Years of caked sweat drips down your head, filling you with a grim sense of duty.
If your alignment is Mafia, this hat shall deny you its power.
Vigkill: Select a Player. That player dies at night.

Ghastly Gibus
An utterly dilapidated and shameful top hat. Only the truly desperate would wear this. Yet, it possesses an odd power within...
If you target another player with a night power, or another player targets you, that player obtains a copy of this hat.
No player may possess more than one copy of this hat. If you would obtain an additional copy through any means, that copy is instantly deleted.

Frilly Hat
A pink ladies' hat, adorned with delicate frills.
No special properties.

Froggy Hat
A green hood marked with a frog's face.
No special properties.

Cowboy Hat
A beige Stetson, battered by dust and bullets.
No special properties.

Power & Pulse is a PvP RTD where mages fight mechs. Each has somewhat complex mechanics which might get out of hand if there's a lot of them on each side, so this time I've decided to mix in a bit of Grunts (an RTD by my lovely arch-nemesis-for-life, Ozarck).
Missions will consist of one "hero" player on each side, while other players fill in as expendable soldiers with considerably less plot armor.

While playing as a Grunt character, you earn progression points from killing enemies and dying. These may be spent on respawning as more powerful classes.

When you do a thing, roll 1d6.
1: critfail. 2: failure. 3: partial failure. 4: success. 5: critical success. 6: overshoot.
Narratively, this more determines your luck and the conditions; you won't suddenly become incompetent or insane if you roll a 1 or 6.
Your character's Traits may give some rolls advantage or disadvantage. A 6 is treated as being better than a 4 and worse than a 5.

Characters and equipment taking damage is "chunky salsa" rules, but Grunt characters will die more easily where Mages or Pilots may be merely injured.

Mages are hero units and thus there can only be 1 per Mission. More powerful versions of the Mage class have more powers and cost more AP.

Mages require Mana to perform Simple, Focus, and Complex powers. By default you have 3 maximum mana, and this mana decreases by 1 each turn on which you use these powers. You can never lose more than 1 mana per turn. If you don't use mana on a turn, it refills to full.

Powers can be Passive, Simple, Complex, or Push.
Passive: These powers always work, even when at 0 Mana. They've just become a part of you.
Simple: These powers don't require much focus to invoke, but do use up mana. You may use as many different Simple powers in a turn as you like.
Focus: These powers require focus to use. You can only use one Focus (or Complex or Push) power per turn. They do require Mana.
Complex: These powers require careful effort and will result in a d6 roll. You may only use one Complex (or Focus or Push) power per turn. They do require Mana.
Push: Calling beyond yourself, upon deep and hidden powers. Results in a d6 roll, like Complex, but on a critfail or overshoot a big scary table of magical effects will be rolled on. You may only use one Push (or Focus or Complex) power per turn. Like Passives, Push powers don't use Mana (you're not harnessing your own power) and may be used when at 0 Mana.

Unlike previous games, using Push does not automatically refill your mana, it works the same as Passive (so if you use only Push and Passives, your mana will refill, but using Simple or Complex powers will result in losing 1 mana as usual.)

Note that mech cockpits are entirely insulated with an anti-magic material Gnospellium. In order to use powers (teleportation, mind control, etc) directly on a Pilot or the inside of a mech, you will need to physically tear a hole through the armor first.

For this game you'll be expected to post your character sheet with your action post. Please keep it up to date. I'll tell you what needs changing on your sheet in [brackets].

Put actions in bold text. Please only post one action post per turn, if you change your mind you can edit or strikethrough a previous post.

Put out-of-character text in ((double parenthesis)).

Advancement Points: (You start with 2 AP when you make your first character, and gain 1 whenever you die or kill an enemy. You keep AP between lives.)
Favor Points: (You start with 0, and may gain some at mission end depending on performance. You keep FP between lives.)

Name:
Physical Description:
Personality: (optional.)
Backstory: (optional!)

Faction: (Haemic Corp for mechs, Starhammer for mages)
Class: (Pick any non-hero class and pay the AP cost)
Traits: (Pick one positive OR two positive and one negative)
Health: (Fine to start)

Equipment:

(If Mage or Pilot, list powers / mech details here)

Turn Order
The round progresses like this:
First, the enemy side submits their actions.
Then, the players may submit their own actions taking into account the enemy's plan.
The player characters then act first, before the enemy.
To aid in planning, this combat system is deterministic. Any random or unpredictable elements come into effect only at the end of the round.

Action Points
As expected, units generally need to spend Action Points to perform various Skills, and cannot do more on their turn than they can afford in AP. The exception is if a unit performs exactly one Skill on its turn, that Skill may exceed that unit's available AP, with the remaining cost being subtracted from that unit's next turn.
If this and/or other causes of AP loss result in starting the turn with 0 AP, that unit is Stunned. Stunned units may only use 0AP Skills.

Meter
Certain Skills may cost Meter to use. Meter is a single resource 'bar' shared between the whole party.
At the start of each fight, the Meter starts at the sum of every party member's Crisis stat, and Meter does not carry over between different fights.

Style
When submitting an action, in addition to specifying the mechanical side of the action (Slash Soldier 1, Dodge) you can also provide narration of what happens (Alice thrusts her sword into the knight's breastplate, leaving a big dent, and jumps back before he can retaliate).
This will be rewarded by increasing your Meter, which can be used for more powerful Skills.
You will gain 1 Meter for every character whose turn you narrate. You can even do this for the enemy round, gaining meter for describing the enemy's attacks against your own characters. I reserve the right to increase the reward for notably awesome submissions.

Damage Types
Damage from attacks comes in three different Types: Pierce, Impact, and Sweep. These are good for high single-target damage, disruption of the enemy turn, and fighting groups respectively.
Pierce: Damage dealt is not reduced by the target's armor. Though the attack will still be nullified if Armor is greater than the Pierce damage.
Impact: Damage dealt is reduced by armor. For any HP damage done, the target also loses AP on its next turn, potentially being Stunned and losing its turn.
Sweep: Damage dealt is reduced by armor. Can hit multiple targets with the same attack, so long as their combined Armor is lesser than the Sweep damage.

Combined Types
Certain more powerful attacks might combine Types. SweepImpact, SweepPierce, and ImpactPierce all inherit the benefits of both damage Types.
SweepImpact: Can hit multiple targets if combined armor is lesser than SweepImpact damage. Also, each target loses as much AP as HP.
SweepPierce: Can hit multiple targets if combined armor is lesser than SweepImpact damage. Damage is not reduced by Armor.
ImpactPierce: Damage is not reduced by Armor, and HP damage dealt will also damage AP.

Damage Elements
In addition to type, damage also has an Element, such as Fire or Lightning. Damage without a stated Element is Physical.
The Element itself doesn't have an effect on what the damage does, but certain targets may be resistant or vulnerable to certain Elements.
Immune: Takes no damage.
Resistant: Damage is halved.
Susceptible: Damage is upgraded to a Combined Type of the attacker's choice.
Vulnerable: Damage is increased by 50%.

Rolls
Sometimes you may need to roll on an Attribute. The die size depends on the difficulty of the task, and the roll is a success if you roll the Attribute's level or lower.
Rolls which take place in combat always happen at the very end of the round.
Endurance: Ability to keep going when injured or exhausted.
Toughness: Ability to resist injury, preventing it from happening in the first place.
Agility: Speed and precision.
Strength: Lifting and overpowering.
Crisis: Doing cool but impractical things.
1d4: Easy.
1d6: Moderate.
1d10: Difficult.
1d20: Very Difficult.
1d100: Heroic.