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Title: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 04, 2015, 05:00:04 pm

You are unbalanced. You know it. Your mind is broken in some serious manner, and you are on the edge - the edge of falling into oblivion, or sending them all to oblivion in your place. the edge of splintering into a million pieces, of losing it altogether. the edge of catastrophe. But you fight against it. You have something  you want, something you care about, something to do. And you will not let madness defeat you.

Madness is not without it's allure, however. Madness gives you power. Power over reality. Even in your saner moments, you believe this to be true. And the worse your affliction, the stronger the power, and so, you are drawn toward your mind's poison, against all reason. Quite literally.

Spoiler: Character sign up (click to show/hide)

Name:
Brief description / bio:Human only, please.
Affliction: in what way is your mind broken?
Passion: What/Who is it you care for?

I will be using random.org for die rolls, and my own terrible, terrible judgment for any modifications to those rolls. terrible, terrible judgment.
I will be tracking some statistics to help determine the general course of events. This is NOT minimalist. I will edit this post for clarifications and additions to the ruleset as issues arise. Hope this is fun and interesting.

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There is no way this could possibly go wrong.

Title: The Mad
Post by: Ozarck on February 04, 2015, 05:00:28 pm

Current Players

Spoiler: wipeout1024 (click to show/hide)

Name: Annie Lee Baker
Brief description / bio: Annie was a soccer mom who saw all children as her own.  but when her children died in a freak accident, she went crazy, and went into a self-imposed exile.
Affliction:  Annie has lost all memory of her natural children, and is obsessed with every child she sees. Additionally, Annie has a terrific fear of the outside, other people, and all forms of transportation (except her feet.)
Passion: She loves children, and seeks to protect them from all harm.

Spoiler: blazing glory (click to show/hide)

Name: Starn Gundar.
Brief description / bio: Starn was part of an experiment testing human reactions to small changes, every time he went to sleep, or in some cases, when he leaves the room, everything in the room/testing area would be slightly changed, wall paper a slightly different shade then it used to be, the page title of a book to be slightly changed, something small turned upside down, etc, Starn became obsessed with finding the changes, when the testing was aggressively accelerated due to a new project leader, various new tests including changing things simply when he looks away, completely pushed him over the edge, after murdering a careless scientist who had a bit too much to drink and entered the testing area, he escaped.
Affliction: Starn believes that anything, so long as he can't see it, will change in function or form, this also applies to himself since he can't see all of himself all the time.
Passion: Stability, safety and routine.

Spoiler: deathsword (click to show/hide)

Name: Jack Harper
Brief description / bio: A man in his 40s or 50s, who lived in the streets for most of his adult life, enduring all that entails. Upon spying upon a shady deal in a back alley, he discovered things too terrible for man to know, of ancient conspiracies and black ops.
Affliction: Firmly believes he has come across an ancient conspiracy spanning several nations, governments and organizations,
Passion: Truth, honesty, knowledge

Spoiler: Xantalos (click to show/hide)

Name: Stan Nolan (you don't have to go by it, but he does have a last name
Description: Stan's about 30ish, but he looks older. He's near bald and what hair he has left is grey. He looks just like an old man, and smiles often and freely. He does look rather disquieting though. ((Look at Harry Baldman's avatar and picture that, only he's 30ish.)) Stan was a relatively normal guy until he got hit by a car one day and went into a coma. When he came out, he was ... different.
Affliction: Stan discovered the truth in his long sleep: nothing really exists. All of reality is but an illusion, a vision. He's unsure if other people exist, and as he sinks further into insanity he'll grow less and less sure of that fact, but he knows that the physical world is nonexistent.
Passion: Stan wants to do something meaningful, which is obviously difficult when nothing is real. He also wants to enlighten other people, but that's a secondary concern.

Spoiler: Salsacookies (click to show/hide)

Name: Jeremy Lane
Brief description / bio: A former undercover cop and now small time mall guard, his years in experience have given him a steel will and an athletic build. Him being tall and tattooed like a biker adds to his intimidating appearance, but those who know him out of the job say he's one of the nicest people you will meet.
Affliction: His years as an undercover cop have had him face some very disturbing events, and occasionally participate to keep his cover. His is almost able to keep this in check, but if he let's his guard down, a whole otherworld of horror washes over his real world, and his ability to tell reality from hallucination is blurred until he, or someone else, gets him to calm down and think rationally.
Passion: He likes being around his friends and doing well on the job. He believes doing at least one good thing a day for someone other than yourself makes life much more bearable and livable, as well as making the other guy's day better too.

Spoiler: SaberToothTiger (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Greaves
Brief description / bio: A short man with dark hair and brown eyes. He is quite thin, and cannot stop blinking.
Greaves was always interested in explosives, and now, with a mildly successful business (a *legal* room sized fireworks factory in his backyard - the landmines are a hobby, one he'd rather they not know about), he finally can sleep knowing that every one of them will perish if they try to get him.
Affliction: Heavy Paranoia.
Passion: Protecting his parents and children from any (imaginary or not) harm.

Spoiler: The Lost (click to show/hide)

(Nicholas1024) Alexander Cerden
Brief description / bio: A young man who started off as something of a daydreamer with his head constantly in a book, he was drafted to be a soldier (or whatever passes for it in this universe), and the horror from the resulting wars (or equivalent) he experienced drove him to take refuge in the stories he's familiar with.
Affliction: When stressed he'll start showing traits and the personality of a character from his books... though whether it's a hero, villain, or even a mythical beast varies.
Passion: Protecting his family, regardless of what that means.

(Pencil_Art) Name: Darek Herman
Brief description / bio: Darek was almost driven mad through people always picking on him, whether it be over the internet, at school, or just in the general public. What really made him crack was conscription into the army. As expected, he was soon brought back due to disabilities.
He is a tall, dark haired man, with blue eyes and pale skin.
Affliction: Darek has a wandering mind, and often thinks of random fantasy or science fiction creatures. He sees ghostly apparitions of the objects of his mind, such as young dragons, an alien exotic man eating plant, or something else. They appear to solidify the more insane he gets.
Passion: Darek values respect above all else.

(Harry Baldman) Name: Joseph Free
Description: a tall, dark-skinned, dreadlocked man in his thirties wearing ratty clothes. Twitchy, fearful, with a darting gaze and a nervous manner, he looks and acts very much like a junkie. His speech often trembles, and he struggles to make eye contact with people he speaks to. It is readily apparent that he hasn't slept much in the last decade or so.
Affliction: he sees the devil following him everywhere that he goes, tainting all he does, pursuing him for a thing he once did that, he knows for certain, cost mankind as a whole its eventual spiritual salvation. His life now consists of trying to escape and ward off his constant pursuer, as he knows atonement to be entirely impossible.
Passion: The grand scheme, the fate of humanity as a whole, world peace, progress.

Spoiler: Waitlist: Currently empty (click to show/hide)

I may add people in as they come, or may need a charcter limit. We'll see

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Nicholas1024 on February 04, 2015, 11:28:53 pm

This sounds interesting, I think I'll join.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander Cerden
Brief description / bio: A young man who started off as something of a daydreamer with his head constantly in a book, he was drafted to be a soldier (or whatever passes for it in this universe), and the horror from the resulting wars (or equivalent) he experienced drove him to take refuge in the stories he's familiar with.
Affliction: When stressed he'll start showing traits and the personality of a character from his books... though whether it's a hero, villain, or even a mythical beast varies. (Whether they're characters from actual books or made up ones is up to the mod.)
Passion: Protecting his family, regardless of what that means.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 04, 2015, 11:48:31 pm

Is this multiplayer?

If so, I am interested and might join.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 05, 2015, 01:58:15 am

It is multiplayer indeed. Welcome Aboard, Pencil.
Nicholas, your character is acceptable. Achievement Get! Player One.
Edit: as for characters your character might adopt, feel free to add a list of personal preference novels and the like. this universe is close enough to our own that the literature will be generally the same, ... perhaps. But what do you know? you're mad! Mad I say!

I should mention an update schedule. Currently I am planning to make turns daily or every other.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 05, 2015, 03:38:04 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Darek Herman
Brief description / bio: Darek was almost driven mad through people always picking on him, whether it be over the internet, at school, or just in the general public. What really made him crack was conscription into the army. As expected, he was soon brought back due to disabilities.
He is a tall, dark haired man, with blue eyes and pale skin.
Affliction: Darek has a wandering mind, and often thinks of random fantasy or science fiction creatures. He sees ghostly apparitions of the objects of his mind, such as young dragons, an alien exotic man eating plant, or something else. They solidify the more insane he gets.
Passion: Never letting anyone bully him ever.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 05, 2015, 04:34:27 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Annie Lee Baker
Brief description / bio: Annie was a soccer mom, but when her children died in a freak accident, she went crazy, and went into a self-imposed exile.
Affliction: Annie sees every child as one of her children, and she is driven to protect them from harm, which usually goes into such extremes, such as kidnapping them.
Passion: Her children.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 05, 2015, 07:13:13 am

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Starn Gundar.
Brief description / bio: Starn was part of an experiment testing human reactions to small changes, every time he went to sleep, or in some cases, when he leaves the room, everything in the room/testing area would be slightly changed, wall paper a slightly different shade then it used to be, the page title of a book to be slightly changed, something small turned upside down, etc, Starn became obsessed with finding the changes, when the testing was aggressively accelerated due to a new project leader, various new tests including changing things simply when he looks away, completely pushed him over the edge, after murdering a careless scientist who had a bit too much to drink and entered the testing area, he escaped.
Affliction: Starn believes that anything, so long as he can't see it, will change in function or form, this also applies to himself since he can't see all of himself all the time.
Passion: Things that are, and consistently remain, normal.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Teneb on February 05, 2015, 01:17:02 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Jack Harper
Brief description / bio: A man in his 40s or 50s, who lived in the streets for most of his adult life, enduring all that entails. Upon spying upon a shady deal in a back alley, he discovered things too terrible for man to know, of ancient conspiracies and black ops.
Affliction: Firmly believes he has come across an ancient conspiracy spanning several nations, governments and organizations,
Passion: the Truth, and disrupting the "conspiracy" in any way.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 05, 2015, 07:50:25 pm

I'm going to make a few slight modifications to some of your profiles and add them to the OP. Please review these edits and let me know if you disapprove. I will probably get a turn up this evening (probably before some of you see the changes - it shouldn't affect Turn One much though.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 05, 2015, 08:20:05 pm

No complaints here.

You appear to have forgotten Nicholas's passion though.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 05, 2015, 09:45:24 pm

Prologue

Spoiler: The Storyteller (click to show/hide)

The sails whipped in the wind, thrusting the ship powerfully through the waves. "The quary is nigh, mateys!" Shouts Second Lieutenant Alexanderos C'Erden, favored son of the Duke himself. "Be on yer guard, though, bloody mermaids of the starboard bow! Fetch the harpoons, and mind their poison! It's deadly!" the ship sways rhythmically below him, but C'Erden pays no heed, eyes fixed purposefully on the horizon, where the triple masts of the enemy stand tall against the fading sun. Soon, he thought, soon.

But near at hand, the mermaids, bolder than usual, attacked! Climbing the sides of the ship, they were upon the crew, mercilessly slaughtering the men - officers, conscripted, and slaves alive. C'Erden screamed in fury, and lunged into the melee, calling his troops to rally about him. A fierce battle ensued, metal clanging on metal, thudding on flesh the screams of men and mermaid rising sharply in pitch, then falling away, to a gentle, rhythmic weeping as the battle ended as quickly as it begun.

"Well done, men!" C'Erden called. He patted one soldier on the back, and the soldier turns toward him, tears streaming down his strangely young face, a curious hiccoughing sob coming from his throat. "Buck up, brother, we have work to do!" Turning away, he goes to inspect the wounded, and their faces turn toward him, tears streaming down their similar faces as they sob uncontrolledly. C'Erden says a few words of comfort, then turns to the officers to organize the clean up and the chase. the officers look back in fear, their identical faces streaming tears as they weep, hiccoughing though their sobs as C'Erden towers over them, baffled and suddenly afraid.

He turns once again, and looks to the wheelhouse, the galley, anything to avoid those fearful faces. He looks to the sails whipping in the wind .... no ... not sails ... curtains ... gently wafting in the breeze from the open window. He looks past them to the masts of the ships, now recognizeable as the tall buildings across the river, in the capitol.

The crying doesn't stop as Alexander comes to a moment of stark clarity, and he turns, looking for the source of the sound. The young girl sits on the edge of the bed, arms wrapped tightly around her knees as she watches Alexander's mad antics cause havoc with the decor of the room. Pictures are tilted or knocked off the walls, a dresser is turned on it's side against the door, blankets are hung upon the ceiling fan, and dolls are scattered about in various stages of mournful distress. A call comes from the hallway, accompanied by a knock on the door, and a rattling of the doorknob. "Alex, is everything okay?"

Spoiler: the Fantastic (click to show/hide)

The monster towered above the houses along the way. it's foul breath seeped through it's teeth in short, ragged bursts as it scanned the deserted uldings, looking for something, anything to devour. Darek knew that if it spotted him, it would bear down on him with speed and ferocity, and wouldn't stop until Darek lay broken at it's feet, barely a snack for the great beast. He kept his head down, as he sneaked from one pile of debris to the next.

A sudden sound of concrete crumbling drew Darek's eyes sharply upward, fearing that the building against which he cowered was about to collapse on him. Heart pounding, he watched as the second story tilted slowly, a wall giving way and collapsing into the alley nearby. Darek wasn't safe yet, as another sound, aprimal sound,welled up withing the beast.

Darek looked up again, further, above the collapsed wall, above the edge of the roof, where four claws gripped the eave, up the long, scaly neck, eyes fixating on the jagged grin, the black, soulless eyes of the Enemy. the Enemy's mouth slowly opened, and Darek's doom was assured. "Dinner's ready, son. Come on down when you're cleaned up, okay?" Darek screamed, then blinked, looking into the kind, wrinkled eyes of his father, waiting patiently in the doorway to his room. Heart pounding .. Darek tried to focus on the moment, while shadows and spectres taunted him from the edges of sight, and his dad stared. "Son?"

Spoiler: The Protector (click to show/hide)

She scribbled furiously, putting all her rage into her pen, the ink, the paper. That school board would know the atrocities that bus lady committed. No child was safe with a woman like that in the driver's seat. But before Annie could finish the sixth page, an alarm beeped, pulling her away. "Dinner" she muttered, and walked into the cluttered, dark little kitchen, pulling her chicken pot pie out of the oven to cool. A knock came on the front door, but Annie ignored it. It came a gain, twice, three times, four. Then it stopped, as it should, and the sound of feet descending the front steps assured her that they were going indeed.

As she sits down to her cold pot pie, hours after it had come out of the oven (she had been distracted by another letter, this time to the city about crosswalks), the sound of laughter draws her. she rises slowly, reluctantly, and walks haltingly to the window. Taking a deep breath, she pulls the curtains aside and peers out into the late afternoon sun. the playground across the pond was nearly deserted, but two small children ran and giggled, playing a game only children would understand. Terror fills her - the images of animals in the woods, falls into the pond, or worse begin flooding her mind. She couldn't go out ... it was too much!

but ...
but ... she couldn't leave them to their fate, she just couldn't!

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Sweat rolled down Starn's face, and it had little to do with the heat. He was out, out! they were after him, he knew they would be after him. or would they? nothing is certain, nothing is real. But what if they were? In a strange, gut wrenching way, he hoped they were chasing him. It couldn't all be a dream ... could it? Starn walked quickly down the street, looking for something, a way out, something familiar. He saw so many faces he couldn't recognize - that itself was strangely comforting - the city was always full of faces he didn't recognize.

Ahead, Starn sees a sight that fills him with ... hope? He dashes into the fast food joint, it's familiar sights, sounds, and smells calming his still too rapid heartbeat. The sweat on his face dried slowly as he waited in line to order, repeatedly touching himself, checking his pockets, straightening his hair, shifting his feet, to be sure he was still there.

finally, Starn is standing before the register, staring at the cashier. Was she the same one that was there when he came in? He can't remember. She speaks. her voice sounds familiar, it must be the same girl. the words were the same as always, and Starn pulls out his wallet, and counts. He counts again. And A third time, and comes up with the same number each time. "May I take your order?" She asks?

Spoiler: The Investigator (click to show/hide)

Jack hauls himself into the dumpster. He begins to look, feverishly, for something, anything. The smells of half rotten food don't disgust him any longer - they haven't in years. but then, neither does the smell of almost warm food draw him. food wasn't the reason he was here today. Hunger gnawed at him, but something gnawed harder, and another urge drove him forward.

Scraping food off a moist and sticky paper, he scanned it quickly. This. Another piece of the puzzle. He stuffs it into one of the pockets of his overlarge coat. He continues on, digging deeper. There must be more. He digs until his fingers scrape roughly against the bottom of the dumpster. Nothing. Jack sits back, nearly oblivious to the filth, eyes darting back and forth rapidly. he needed more information. the clues must be somewhere!

Climbing out of the dumpster, Jack makes his way back to the shelter, and barely objects when e is ordered into the shower. He washes quickly, but lingers in the shower, tracing patterns on the wall in the soap. He is angered when he is interrupted by the next man in need of cleansing, but gets out and dries quickly, dressing in the bath clothes that were laid out for him before taking his clothes to the laundry in the basement. It is here, as he is loading the machine, that Jack notices that something is missing. The paper! Who took it? Another bum? The shelter? Someone else? Anger and despair well up in Jack, forcing him to act.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 05, 2015, 11:46:38 pm

The Fantastic:

As his vision melted back to normal, he saw the concerned look on his father's face, who had likely borne witness of his screams. He quickly tried to apologize.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, Father. I don't know what came over me." He said, as he stood up.

He stood up and shook his head to try and rid himself of the shadows in the edges of his vision.

"Don't worry, I'll be right there." He said to his father as he started organizing his room.

Clean up my mess of a room and come down to dinner. Try to keep a hold of myself as I do so.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Nicholas1024 on February 06, 2015, 12:04:37 am

Spoiler: Important fact (click to show/hide)

This looks like it's going to be awesome.

Also, books I like include The Lord of the Rings, the Dresden Files, the Discworld series, the Redwall series, the Dark Sea Annals, the Dragonkeeper Chronicles, the Three Musketeers, the Chronicles of Narnia, and there's a bunch of video game/comic stories that I could add if more characters are needed.

As reality snapped back into focus, Alexander shuddered slightly, before putting a hand to the bridge of his nose and shaking his head, trying to ward off the memories.

"Ah... yes, I'm fine. Just got a little bit carried away for a moment.", he called back, before returning his attention to his daughter seated upon the bed. What was there to say? His... episodes were getting more frequent, and this one had been worse than usual, judging from the state of the room. He knew his family worried about him, but how could he convince them it would be fine when he couldn't convince himself?

"I'm sorry, Kay.", he said, pulling the blanket from the ceiling fan and wrapping it around her shoulders. "I just... I... didn't mean to scare you.", Alex managed, the words sounding lame even to him as he gave her a gentle hug. "Let's get this room cleaned up, alright?"

You can still see the doubt in her mind... the fear for me that she tries to hide. This must have been how Sam felt when I... I mean, when Frodo was falling under the effects of the preciousss... No. Have to keep this in check, at least in front of her. I can't scare her more.

Heading over to the door, Alexander roughly dragged the dresser to an upright position, pulling it out of the way of the door, if not quite to its former position. A quick circuit around the room restored the frames to the walls, if not entirely straight, and more importantly, collected all the scattered doll pieces. Depositing them on the bed, he asked Kaitlyn,

"That should be all of them. Do you want to help me put them back together?"

TLDR: Run damage control. Comfort the girl and repair the room.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Xantalos on February 06, 2015, 12:40:39 am

Ooh, interest activate!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: STAN (no last name given)
Description: STAN's about 30ish, but he looks older. He's near bald and what hair he has left is grey. He looks just like an old man, and smiles often and freely. He does look rather disquieting though. ((Look at Harry Baldman's avatar and picture that, only he's 30ish.)) STAN was a relatively normal guy until he got hit by a car one day and went into a coma. When he came out, he was ... different.
Affliction: STAN discovered the truth in his long sleep: nothing really exists. All of reality is but an illusion, a vision. He's unsure if other people exist, and as he sinks further into insanity he'll grow less and less sure of that fact, but he knows that the physical world is nonexistent.
Passion: STAN wants to do something meaningful, which is obviously difficult when nothing is real. He also wants to enlighten other people, but that's a secondary concern.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 06, 2015, 01:15:45 am

((I like the titles.))

Starn counted the money and felt somewhat at peace in this place, he looked up to order, she was still the same, was he normal again?

He ordered and handed over the money, and waited in a corner.

Order food and wait.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 06, 2015, 03:17:45 am

"No, I must move on, I must try..."
"I can't!! I cannot let them be hurt!
Annie tried to overcome her fear and get outside.
Get to the children!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Salsacookies on February 06, 2015, 06:55:25 am

Name: Jeremy Lane
Brief description / bio: A former undercover cop and now small time mall guard, his years in experience have given him a steel will and an athletic build. Him being tall and tattooed like a biker adds to his intimidating appearance, but those who know him out of the job say he's one of the nicest people you will meet.
Affliction: His years as an undercover cop have had him face some very disturbing events, and occasionally participate to keep his cover. His is mostly able to keep this in check, but if he let's his guard down, a whole otherworld of horror washes over his real world, and his ability to tell reality from hallucination is blurred until he, or someone else, gets him to calm down and think rationally.
Passion: He likes being around his friends and doing well on the job. He believes doing at least one good thing a day for someone other than yourself makes life much more bearable and livable, as well as making the other guy's day better too.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Teneb on February 06, 2015, 09:28:04 am

Giving into rage, Jack shudders in place. It seems not even this shelter is safe from Them anymore. He glances around (have to keep Them from noticing, always keep Them from noticing), taking in the faces, the atmosphere of crushed dreams and despair (under Their crushing heel). He doesn't notice anyone who might now be inspecting his prize, but They are good at this, sneaky, conniving, and always everywhere.

But... maybe They had yet to find his secret stash. He had to check, for if They found it, all would be lost. Because then They'd KNOW, and if They KNEW then no hope would be left for those who seek the Truth.

Approaching the loose tile beneath which the Proof is hidden, he casts quick looks around, before lifting it and looking within.

Check the stash

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 06, 2015, 09:38:38 am

Aw, I was going to sign up yesterday, but couldn't think of any character concepts.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Joseph Free

Description: a tall, dark-skinned, dreadlocked man in his thirties wearing ratty clothes. Twitchy, fearful, with a darting gaze and a nervous manner, he looks and acts very much like a junkie. His speech often trembles, and he struggles to make eye contact with people he speaks to. It is readily apparent that he hasn't slept much in the last decade or so.

Affliction: he sees the devil following him everywhere that he goes, tainting all he does, pursuing him for a thing he once did that, he knows for certain, cost mankind as a whole its eventual spiritual salvation. His life now consists of trying to escape and ward off his constant pursuer, as he knows atonement to be entirely impossible.

Passion: to ward off the devil's influence and halt its relentless pursuit, Joseph tries to perform altruistic acts and do as much good with as little compromise toward evil as possible. This helps. Temporarily.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 06, 2015, 09:46:24 am

Making a sheet...

Name: Greaves
Brief description / bio: A short man with dark hair and brown eyes. He is quite thin, and cannot stop blinking.
Greaves was always interested in explosives, and now, with a mildly successful business (a *legal* room sized landmine factory in his backyard), he finally can sleep knowing that every one of them will perish if they try to get him.
Affliction: Heavy Paranoia.
Passion: Protecting his parents and children from any (imaginary or not) harm.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Sign-ups open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 06, 2015, 08:28:08 pm

Quote from: Nicholas1024 on February 06, 2015, 12:04:37 am

[unspoiler=Important fact]This looks like it's going to be awesome.

Yes, yes it is.

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Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also, books I like include The Lord of the Rings, the Dresden Files, the Discworld series, the Redwall series, the Dark Sea Annals, the Dragonkeeper Chronicles, the Three Musketeers, the Chronicles of Narnia, and there's a bunch of video game/comic stories that I could add if more characters are needed.

ooooookaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy. I, uh. Hmm. Well, I have to be honest here: I've read none of those. I haven't even HEARD of some of those. Guess I'll go with my usual, for characters: Atlas Shrugged, Anne of Green Gables, And, of course, the Tw- the twi .... teh one with the spark .... Gah! I can't even type it, ahahahahahahahahahahahah.   ;D


In other news: I'll edit you new guys a bit, if necessary (haven't read them yet), check that everyone has posted, and make a new round.

One last thing: if you have trouble coming up with a character, the DSM  is a good resource for finding your imbalance, and your passion is something off worth to you, independent of the disorder: you would care about this if you were healthy, or if you had a completely different disorder, or if you had TWO disorders, or whatever.

EDIT: I notice a lot of "the world isn't real/ I have hallucinations" afflictions. Salsacookies, are you wedded to your character's issue? I can make it work, but I am going to have to decline additional characters with illusion issues.

Also, welcome to the game everyone, Welcome back blazing glory, Xantalos, and Harry Baldman. I look forward to DM'ing you again :D The ending of our last game still torments my dreams, and I SOOOOOOO want to resurrect that one.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Salsacookies on February 06, 2015, 10:10:28 pm

sorry, I've been playing the Evil Within, and I just liked the idea of an evil, twisted otherworld to go through. I'll go ahead and drop out, if that's okay, I just really want to have that concept, but I understand that this place is bloated with that sorta guy. Good luck, I'll be reading, and may make another character in the future.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 06, 2015, 10:53:02 pm

No need to drop out, Salsa. We'll run with it. PM me a bit more of what the game you played is like, and we'll get you started.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Xantalos on February 06, 2015, 10:55:55 pm

((Ooh, excellent, I didn't fuck up the character app like last time! One thing though; my character's first name is in all caps. For ... reasons Harry Baldman would likely know.
Right, Stacy?))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 06, 2015, 11:29:11 pm

pm me an explanation, please. or now, I am leaving it as is, as your characters all have mundane origins, more or less. Feel free to keep the single, all caps name as Stan's personal self image. he can refuse to acknowledge any other name, and use that one in character. and if I like the explanation, well ....

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Xantalos on February 06, 2015, 11:32:11 pm

((Actually now that I think about it, the contrast between that'll be a nice contrast between his more sane and insane periods. It'll be good as is.
http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/STAN))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 06, 2015, 11:39:53 pm

I have occasionally wanted to break into ER. Someone's sig piqued my interest. I feel it would take some time to read enough of it to satisfy my curiosity and get me up to speed enough to post a character, though.

Take heart, gang, I am working feverishly on the actual turn, and will have it up tonight for sure, including you new guys, except SaberToothTiger, unless he get's his bio before I get the turn.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 07, 2015, 01:07:27 am

Spoiler: the Storyteller (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
As reality snapped back into focus, Alexander shuddered slightly, before putting a hand to the bridge of his nose and shaking his head, trying to ward off the memories.

"Ah... yes, I'm fine. Just got a little bit carried away for a moment.", he called back, before returning his attention to his daughter seated upon the bed. What was there to say? His... episodes were getting more frequent, and this one had been worse than usual, judging from the state of the room. He knew his family worried about him, but how could he convince them it would be fine when he couldn't convince himself?

"I'm sorry, Kay.", he said, pulling the blanket from the ceiling fan and wrapping it around her shoulders. "I just... I... didn't mean to scare you.", Alex managed, the words sounding lame even to him as he gave her a gentle hug. "Let's get this room cleaned up, alright?"

You can still see the doubt in her mind... the fear for me that she tries to hide. This must have been how Sam felt when I... I mean, when Frodo was falling under the effects of the preciousss... No. Have to keep this in check, at least in front of her. I can't scare her more.

Heading over to the door, Alexander roughly dragged the dresser to an upright position, pulling it out of the way of the door, if not quite to its former position. A quick circuit around the room, with Jospeh watching cautiously rom the now opened door, restored the frames to the walls, if not entirely straight, and more importantly, collected all the scattered doll pieces. Depositing them on the bed, he asked Kaitlyn,

"That should be all of them. Do you want to help me put them back together?"
 The child looked into Alexander’s eyes, her sobs stilled, and nodded slowly, reaching for a leg, a torso, and some stuffing. “Oh, Alex …” Joseph sighs, and goes, leaving the door slightly ajar as he does.

Some time later, room darkened, child sleeping comfortably, Alexander closes the door behind him and turns toward the hall. He knows he must talk to Joseph and melissa, and soon. Their love for him made him strong, but … but it pput them in danger. He just couldn’t bear if anything … he looks down the hall, toward his room, warm, familiar, and … safe. Then he looks toward the stairwell, down which the voices of fhis brother and sister-in-law could be heard. Maybe … maybe this can wait til tomorrow. To sleep, perchance to dream, or down the rabbit hole to meet the Red Queen - no! Down the STAIRS, to meet his FAMILY?

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Darek stares, speechless, at his father. “I’m not hungry!” He snarls, more forcefully than he intended. “Son,” his father begins, gently. “Just leave me alone!” Darek yells. He shoulders his way past his dad, stomps down the stairs, and out the door, slamming it behind him. Darek walks for some time, burning with embarrassed shame and regret. “I’m sorry, dad” he mumbles to himself. A couple teens nearby break out in laughter, and Darek looks sharply up at them. Did they hear him, talking to himself? They think this is funny? He stares for a moment, as a dark, unnaturally thin figure fades into being in the shadows behind the teens. The world darkens suddenly, as if the setting sun fell behnd a bank of storm clouds, and Darek shudders.

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:6
“No!” Annie screams.  Annie’s fear for the children absorbs and is heightened by her fear of the outside.  She fumbles for a minute with the deadbolt and chains, tears falling unnoticed down her cheeks, dripping on her bare feet. Finally! The door opens and she runs out into the yard, tripping and scuffing her knees. Her eyes dart toward the forest - were those bushes moving? What could be there? Fear lends her speed, and she dashes around the pond. The children notice her about halfway around. Their puzzled expressions turn slowly to nervousness, their laughter stilled. Annie runs toward them, and they turn and run toward their house “Mom, mom! Dad!” they call. Annie catches up, and sweeps the children into her arms, up the deck stairs, and through the kitchen door, which she slams behind her before lowering the kids to the floor. “It’s okay, it’s okay,” she repeats, holding each of their faces in turn and hugging them tightly.

“Oh my God! Tom!” She hears.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
 “I’ll have the number four please. I always have the number four. Light on the lettuce, extra sauce, no ice in the drink. I don’t like how it melts.” Starn laughs a little nervously, maybe a little too loudly at that. He carefully counts out exact change and places it on the counter, with the coins stacked on top of the bills. He slides the stack forward with his fingertips, and moves to the end to the counter to wait. He arranges a stack of ketchu packets while he does. Outside, the wind picks up, and the door opens, letting another person into the resteraunt. How many does that make? Stan wonders? How many were there before? He can’t quite remember. Heh counts. Seventeen. Six workers, and eleven customers. “Number fifteen?” A voice calls, and Starn’s food is there, on the counter.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
Giving into rage, Jack shudders in place. It seems not even this shelter is safe from Them anymore. He glances around (have to keep Them from noticing, always keep Them from noticing), taking in the faces, the atmosphere of crushed dreams and despair (under Their crushing heel). He doesn't notice anyone who might now be inspecting his prize, but They are good at this, sneaky, conniving, and always everywhere.

But... maybe They had yet to find his secret stash. He had to check, for if They found it, all would be lost. Because then They'd KNOW, and if They KNEW then no hope would be left for those who seek the Truth.

Approaching the loose tile beneath which the Proof is hidden, he casts quick looks around, before lifting it and looking within. Before he touches the tile, he hears footsteps. Nervous, Jack stands quickly, and shuffles away to a stall. He closes the door, lowers the seat, and sits on the reservoir, placing his feet on the seat so as not to be seen by the intruder.

Other Stories Begin

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

The nurses are nice, stan thinks, as he calmly eats the food before him, more out of habit than hunger. What need, hunger, if the body is illusory, after all? He smiles suddenly, thoughts chased away rom this linbe of thought by the antics of the Stutterer and the Repeater, across the table. Of all his companions in this place, he liked these two the most. Stan would do anything to bring back the Stutterer’s lost love. But, back to what? He wonders. Perhaps instead, the Stutterer would be happier going on to her? Something about this idea appeals to Stan, but something about it horrifies him, too. After all, what if … what if this world IS real? It’s nonsense, of course, but … what if? Ah, what does it matter anyway? Does anything matter? Stan must know! If something, anything really matters, the nStan can Make A Difference. Stan could Change the World. Another smile comes to his face as he contemplates this, for a moment the thought that the world is an illusion is far from his mind.

“Mr Nolan? Mr. Nolan?” No response. A sigh. “Stan?”
“Oh! Yes, nurse?” Stan greets her warmly, with a big smile. Her eyes soften. Did she smile in return? “Stan, here are your meds for this evening. Won’t you please take them? Stan looks down at the two red pills in the tiny paper cup.  Stan frowns slightly at the pills, then looks up into those gentle, deep blue eyes, and the illusion settles a little more firmly in his heart.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Jeremy stumbles out from the bar, a little inebriated, but happy enough. His friends waved in farewell, and the four of them parted ways. The bright streetlights glared in Jeremy’s eyes, but he didn’t mind. It hid the darkness, in more ways than one. Through the fog in his mind, a fog of alcohol rather than of horror, Jeremy guides himself carefully down the street. It’s cold out tonight, and the sharp wind wakens his senses a little. He wraps his coat a little tighter around himself and peers up at the streetsign. Six more blocks. An easy walk. He crosses with the light and with a few other pedestrians, who appear to take no more note of him than of any other. Perhaps one smelled a little on his breath, perhaps not. It didn’t matter, really.

Jeremy is drawn out of his reverie half a block further along, though. What brought him up so suddenly? He wonders. Think! He looks slowly around, senses heightened again, but somehow … indistinct. Suddenly, he realizes - a sound in the alley. His police teaining and senses come to the fore, and he listens. A muffled voice? Some quiet movement? What drew his attention. He peers cautiously into the alley, and the darkness peers back. Not eyes withi9n the darkness - the darkness itself. Jeremy can feel himself slipping. He has to get away! He needs the light! He needs to get home! But … but why do his instincts tell him to stay and investigate?

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

He was thirsty. When was the last time he had a drink? He must drink … needs to keep his health up, or else … he forced his mind away from that line of thought. The thirst dragged him up, out of unconsciousness. How long? He wondered, struggling to sit up. He looked around through half-lidded eyes, carefully examining everything. Danger was everywhere, he knew that. But it was in some places more than in others. He could fix this! He just had to, had to, had to what? Keep going. He knew he’d find what he needed. He had to!

A bus trundled by. Joseph watched it for a moment, then jerked his eyes away quickly, realizing with horror what he had done. He wasn’t watching the bus, he was looking in the windows. And someone had looked back. Oh God, he may have tainted someone! He had to keep moving. He crossed the street as he approached a church - best to stay away, lest he taint even what little hope that edifice represented. Or lest he fall victim to the trap his Pursuer might have laid within. Not all churches were on the side of Good - even the believers knew that.

“Hi there!” the voice was cheerful, bright, and attractive. Joseph risked a look - at her feet, at her waist, at her arms, a glance at her hair, then away quickly. Comfortable jeans, tennis shoes, a bright red coat, soft brown hair. “I heard you say you were thirsty. I have some soda here, if you want some?” She made the question sound like an invitation, like a child calling to a skittish kitten. “I have an extra sandwich too, I can’t eat all thaat my mom packed. Here” A plastic wrapped sandwich - ham and cheese, is looked like - appeared in his line of sight, a delicate thumb visible on top, a wrist disappearing into thered coat sleeve. Joseph’s eyes were drawn upward, almost against his will …

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 07, 2015, 01:18:40 am

"No," Joseph says firmly. "No, thank you. I am fine."

Look at this person accosting me. Try to get some distance between me and her.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Xantalos on February 07, 2015, 01:45:36 am

STan looks at the pills for a disquietly long period of time before abruptly looking up into the Nurse's eyes and sighing.

"And what do you say they'll do to me, Nurse? You know they aren't real, right? It's just ... just a pretence, really. A fable to mask the truth that no one really wants to see. I can't decide if I'll go along with it, Nurse, it's not an interesting question. But for your sake I'll attempt to come to a decision. I'm fairly sure you're real."

Muse on the futility of going along with all this before ultimately swallowing the pills and then eating the paper cup in small, nibbling bites. Observe the Stutterer more closely as I nibble on my cup of nothingness.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 07, 2015, 02:27:43 am

"Oh my god, oh my god, I'm so sorry. I thought they were in danger."
Attempt to explain myself.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 07, 2015, 03:49:10 am

Darek apologizes to his father, than tries to clean up his room. Again.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 07, 2015, 04:11:30 am

((Why's she saying number 15? Is it an ordering system for customers or has the name of the food changed?))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 07, 2015, 04:30:35 am

Quote from: Pencil_Art on February 07, 2015, 03:49:10 am

Darek apologizes to his father, than tries to clean up his room. Again.

you're outside, several blocks away, looking at a group of teens. You gotta get home first, if that action is on your mind.

Oh, new character item: goals. if you have a short term or long term goal (like getting home or revealing the conspiracy) announce it in bold thusly: Goal: post next update. It will be an action that other actions feed into. This isn't necessary, but it might help with some character development or deconstruction. heh, heh, heh.

Quote from: blazing glory on February 07, 2015, 04:11:30 am

((Why's she saying number 15? Is it an ordering system for customers or has the name of the food changed?))

you are the fifteenth customer of the shift for that particular register.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Salsacookies on February 07, 2015, 06:44:31 am

GOAL: Get Home.

Ignore it and walk home as quickly as possible. Keep repeating that "It doesn't exist."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 07, 2015, 06:58:13 am

Set down with my food and start eating it.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Teneb on February 07, 2015, 09:07:21 am

GOAL: Unveil the conspiracy

Peep over the stall door to see the intruder

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 07, 2015, 11:32:47 am

Finished my sheet.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 07, 2015, 01:07:47 pm

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on February 07, 2015, 11:32:47 am

Finished my sheet.

Okay, I'll have you in tonight's round.
I think I can handle nine players. I have a couple tools set up now to help me organize information, and that'll help make the turns a little quicker to post.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 07, 2015, 11:29:23 pm

I've been waiting for Nicholas1024 and Pencil_Art to post. Either way, a turn will be up within the hour.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 07, 2015, 11:56:17 pm

Darek walks home quietly, evading the tall figure.

Goal:

Quote from: Pencil_Art on February 07, 2015, 03:49:10 am

Darek apologizes to his father, than tries to clean up his room. Again.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 08, 2015, 12:37:09 am

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Masering his rising fear, Darek walks quickly past the teens and the aparition behind them. It’s just a fantasy, anyway. Or so he tells himself repeatedly as he makes his way around the park and down some side streets, back home. Standing at the back door, Darek takes a breath and steadies himself, before pushing open te door and stepping into the kitchen. “Dad?” he calls. He hears someone shift in the dining room, and the sound of the TV coming from the living room.  A little nervous abot apologizing, he calls again “dad?”
“Darek?” His  father’s voice comes from the living room.
Goal:Apologize to father,. Clean room.

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
Wipeout1024
"Oh my god, oh my god, I'm so sorry. I thought they were in danger."
Annie lets go of the children and explains that something was in the woods. A look of uncertainty enter’s the woman’s face, as the kids rush to her and wrap their arms around her waist. She looks toward the window nervously. “Danger?”

At that moment, a man looms in the doorway behind the woman. “What’s going on here?” “She says something was ater the kids!” the man looks at Annie suspiciously, but makes his way to the window. “Kids, go wash up for dinner.” He orders, and they comply withouot complaint. “I don’t see anything out there. Who are you, anyway? And why are you in our house?”

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Starn takes two  napkins and uses them to take the tray of food. He places thetray on a clean table, wipes the seat seven times, and sits. Starn dumps the fries and arranges them, irst by color, then by length, then by thickness, then by shape, each time removing one fry and consuming it. In this way, he passes the evening, though every time the door opens, he fears it may be a cop, come to arrest him for his crimes. By closing time, Starn still sits, half a Soda brand beverage sitting before him, with four straws now poking out of the lid, the fry carton and the burger wrapper each folded neatly on the tra beside it. “We’re closing, sir, may I take your trash?”

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:6
Jack peers over the top of the stall, and watches as the intruder, back to Jack, settles in front of a urinal. Jack is still in that position when the guy turns after doing his business. He spots Jack, and his brow furrows. “The #$%& you looking at?”
GOAL: Unveil the conspiracy

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
The pills in thecup fade out of Stan’s reality, and the cup follows. A … greying … begins to discolor the nurse’s hand as well. Stan is distantly aware of a commotion brewing behind him, when something causes the illusive room to tilt, and the specter of the nurse rushes forward, to fill Stan’s vision. Real or not, Stan’s back sends some convincing signals to him that he hurts.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:6
Jeremy closes his eyes for a moment, and repeats, firmly: “It doesn’t exist, it doesn’t exist.” He opens his eyes, and sure enough, the apparition is nowhere to be seen. Jeremy turns and runs, rushing home as quickly as he can, ignoring whatever instinct urged him to investigate.  Arriving home, he rushes through the door, up the stairs, and to his apartment, locking and deadbolting the door behind him. Diving under the covers, he hides his head under his pillow and continues repeating “it doesn’t exist, it doesn’t exist, it doesn’t exist!”

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Joseph stares into this woman’s eyes, not really seeing her at all. Unable to speak, Jjoseph’s whole body goes stiff with terror at the young lady’s touch. She speaks, but, though he hears her words, their meaning is lost on him. The smell of sulpher rises into his conscience, and dark igures, still small, still far off, dance at the edges of sight.

Another Fate Is Set In Motion

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Edward added some magnesium to the little bowl on his workbench, and mixed the concoction carefully. It looked about right. He took a tiny portion and placed it on the test plate, careful to place the rest of the mix well to the side, covered with a leather apron. He turned to the materiels cabinet and unlocked the drawer containing the matches. He lit one, used it to light a long, thin candle, extinguished the match in the ever-present bucket of dirty water eneath the bench, and extended the small flame of the candle to the pile. The pile erupted in a geyser of bright sparkling light, burning quickly donw to embers. Yes, the formula is right. Edward began looking for a container to store the mix in while he prepared the housings for this batch of fireworks.

The shed door opened with a creak, and Edward instinctively reached or his knife. Wipping around, knife cluched tightly in his fist, he is horrified to see his son in the doorway. “Michael!” He yelled. “you are NOT to be in here!”
“Momma says you havea customer,” Michael stammers, stepping back reflexively.
“Out, out!” Edward demands firmly, sheathing his knife. “Tell her to leave him on the porch.” Edward’s eyes narrowed. “She didn’t let him in, did she?”
“I … I don’t know,” Michael says, eyes wide. He then scampers away, not to the door, but around theside of the house. A moment later, Edward hears the gate bang. A fear rises in his chest - they might get him. Just who is this so called customer, anyway?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Nicholas1024 on February 08, 2015, 12:59:51 am

((Sorry, was busy for most of today.))

Head downstairs to talk.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 08, 2015, 04:14:02 am

Goal: Neutralizing any threats or getting the stranger to fuck off.

Hide the sheathed knife under my shirt, and carefully look out of my shed. Step out and lock the shed behind me and take the key with me. Afterwards, I shall head to the porch.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 08, 2015, 04:29:35 am

Goal: get breakfast, avoid suspicious characters. Like this person right here.

"S-s-sorry, I must- I must go..."

Leave! Assess my location. Find exits. Look for cafes or eateries or something!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 08, 2015, 05:52:39 am

GOAL: GET BACK HOME
Introduce myself, and explain that I was bring the children back inside.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 08, 2015, 07:08:40 am

"Fine.

Leave, resist OCD urges to put away trash myself in a orderly manner.

((Chances are Starn wouldn't be wanted by the police due to the dubious experiments he was put under probably not being official.))

((Unless the world is just that horrible.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Salsacookies on February 08, 2015, 10:04:08 am

Try to go to bed

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Teneb on February 08, 2015, 11:20:45 am

Do not answer and wait in the stall for the guy to leave

(also, you got Jack and Stan's names confused there)

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 08, 2015, 12:49:28 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on February 08, 2015, 07:08:40 am

((Chances are Starn wouldn't be wanted by the police due to the dubious experiments he was put under probably not being official.))

((Unless the world is just that horrible.))

what evidence would there be that the experiments were anything but harmless and voluntary? differently colored wallpaper? newspapers with different headlines? It's not like there are half eaten corpses lying around the office, entrails carefully spelling out "these people were abducted for nefarious reasons!" Starn is wanted, and he knows it. :D

Quote from: Deathsword on February 08, 2015, 11:20:45 am

(also, you got Jack and Stan's names confused there)

did I? oops. Edit: Fixed,  Ithink.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Xantalos on February 08, 2015, 12:59:23 pm

"Painisillusoryactionsarebutadreamimustnowlookupandbeholdthetruth" STAN babbles.

Goal: Find the source of whatever pain I'm suffering.

STAN rises up to his feet and casts his gaze out into the unknown, hoping to see something, anything.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 08, 2015, 08:20:40 pm

Waiting on Pencil_Art. I have the rest of the turn ready. You guys enjoying it so far?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Salsacookies on February 08, 2015, 09:36:05 pm

Yes, very much. Can't wait for my guy's inevitable break-down, it's gonna be epic. And Horrible.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 08, 2015, 10:17:20 pm

Quote from: Ozarck on February 08, 2015, 08:20:40 pm

Waiting on Pencil_Art. I have the rest of the turn ready. You guys enjoying it so far?

More or less, not sure what to do right now.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 08, 2015, 10:22:11 pm

Apologize to father.

Goal: Clean up room.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 08, 2015, 10:26:00 pm

Quote from: Salsacookies on February 08, 2015, 09:36:05 pm

Yes, very much. Can't wait for my guy's inevitable break-down, it's gonna be epic. And Horrible.

It will be. heh.

Quote from: blazing glory on February 08, 2015, 10:17:20 pm

More or less, not sure what to do right now.

rememeber, one of your primary goals is to conquer your insanity, and become normal. for you, in particular, you have an issue to resolve: how do you respond to your recent actions? Most people in real life don't handle killing someone very well. In fact, studies have shown that even most trained soldiers tend not to shoot to kill if possible. And PTSD is a thing for a reason - we are NOT designed to kill our own. Not really.

turn coming very soon, now that Pencil_Art has posted :D :D

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 08, 2015, 11:00:55 pm

Spoiler: the Storyteller (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Alexander headed downstairs to talk. As he descends the stairs, he gets smaller, and smaller, until he has to first climb, then drop, down the stairs. He steels himself against this inconvenience, and hikes the mile or so to the living room, looking up at the towering figures of Joseph and Melissa. “We have to talk” he says, and, surprisingly, they both hear and turn their heads to him. “Keep your head, Alex, this is going well. Melissa isn’t even wearing red. You can do this.”

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Darek walks to the living room, looks at his dad, then looks down. “Sorry ‘bout earlier” he mutters. “I’ll go clean my room now.” Then he heads upstairs and shoves some stuff into his closet and sorta straightens his sheets and blankets, putting his pillow back at the head of the bed, kicking a garden gnome out the window in the process. There. Clean. I guess.

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
Annie’s explanation seems to satisfy the couple, more or less. At lesat they aren’t calling the cops or screaming at her, like some parents. They seem a little skeptical about the supposed threat though.

“Look, I think you’d better go. But first, we need contact information from you, full name, address, telephone, mkay? We’ll give you a number to reach us at next time you think the kids might be a little too close to the scary spiders and grasshoppers in the woods, mkay?” Annie doesn’t like the father’s tone, but considering that she intruded into their home unnanounced … it’s understandable. Still, a little gratitude for saving their kids’ lives would be nice. Not that Annie, REALLY believes there was something out there. It was just in her head, after all, rihgt? Maybe. Maybe.
GOAL: GET BACK HOME


Wipeout1024

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
“Thank you, miss.” Starn says, carefully pushing thetray toward her before standing up, straightening his trousers, and wiping his hands on each other once, twice, three times, four, five, and done. He grabs a napkin and uses it to open the door. Once outside, he folds the napkin into quarters before placing it carefully in the bin, trying not to touch the bin at all. Starn looks around, carefully examining the street. Cars have moved, and the rain has increased a bit. Starn tries to remember the clasiification for this kind of rain. Sprinkling? Drizzling? Dripping? The different cars and darkened sky ithc at his mind - every slight change is troubling - but they are well within “normal,” so Starn is able to keep the thoughts relatively quiet. Now … where to?

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
Jack doesn’t answer, directly. He does mutter to himself, though. “He’s one of them. He’s after my stash. He is part of the lie. He lies!” And, overcome with rage, Jack rushes out of the stall at the man. [3 v 4] Jeremy lands the first blow, but the guy was looking or a fight, and slams him up against the stalls. The two scuffle for a minute, before the man lands a solid punch to Jack’s stomach, dropping him to the floor.  Jack crawls toward his stash, intent on protecting his only leads to the conspiracy. The man sees the loosened tile, and lifts it. “This? this trash? And he laughs and snatches the stash of newspaper clippings, torn pages of books, and other flimflam up, holding it above his head.“Sicko. You want this? huh? Yes? Well, come get it!” It is only when he lifts his arm above his head that Edward notices the tattoo on the inside of his upper arm, a Spiral with an X through it and three  eyes located radially around the edge. The Mark!  ((I called Jack bot h Jeremy and Edward this time, lol))

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
"Painisillusoryactionsarebutadreamimustnowlookupandbeholdthetruth" STAN babbles.
Stan recites this mantra, but the pain is real. Very real. It isn’t the pain that convinces Stan of reality, if only for a moment. It is the smell. The smell of the woman he has collided with, mixed with the smell of cheap, institutional gravy and artificial butter and rasperry jelly now dripping down his collar. Stan lifts himself off the nurse, and helps her up as well, before turning to the source of the commotion. Predictably, the source is a fight amongst several of the inmates. It doesn’t look like the fight is winding down, either, and the two orderlies in the room are overmatched trying to break it up. Shouting can be heard from all sides, some articulate, others incoherent, some simply howls, and Stan and the nurse are right in the middle of the room.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
The screams make sleep impossible. Jeremy cluthces his head, and repeats “itisn’trealitisn’trealitisn’treaitisn’treal” until his voice begins to merge with the sounds of anger, the sounds of fear, the sounds of raw pain, pounding on him from all around, from within. The sceams coalesce, and one image, part memory, part … who knows?  .. comes into focus. Jeremy stands up, unable to resist, and stares with horror at the apparition kneeling  at the foot of his bed, bleeding and sobbing. So young .. she shouldn’t be suffering so. Jeremy reaches for the gun at his hip. It would be a mercy to kill her. So much pain.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
"S-s-sorry, I must- I must go..."
Joseph dashes out the door of the little café he found himself in, slightly smushing the sandwich in his hand against the glass door as he pushes his way out.
“Good by, it was niceto meet you!”

Joseph looks about, spying several eateries, some shops, a hot dog cart, a few offices, and some clearly labeled street signs. It’s late evening, overcast, and chilly. He is in a fairly large town or a small city. He takes a long sip from the straw sticking out of the large disposeable cup in his left hand and looks again at the slightly damaged ham and cheese sandwich in his right, as he walks, avoiding eye contact with any pedestrians, who all seem content to leave him alone, each busy wit htheir own (doomed)lives, their own thoughts.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:6
Knife tucked away, Shed locked and bolted, key secured, Edward storms off around the side of the house. The brightly colored hangings on the porch flutter slightly in the wind as Edward rounds the corner, past the large sign in the front yard declaring boldly “Fireworks!” and up the stairs. He spots the man, idly browsing one of the shelves of sparklers. The man spots Edward as he climbs the steps, and goes back to rowzing, perhaps mistaking him for another customer.
“What do you want?” Edward demands roughly.
“Oh, are you the owner? My family is going to a picnic and I was looking for an ass-“ ((looking for an ass? Goal achieved))
“We’re closed.”
“But-“
Edward grabs a wooden pole leaning against the wall.
“Edward!” His wife sounds a little shocked, a little pissed.
“Hey man, easy, I just wanted some fireworks, I’m going.”
Edward manages to not hit the guy as he storms off.
“Edward, that was ridiculous. What’s wrong with you?” His wife demands, from over by the checkout table. “We don’t even close for two hours. You have to stop this.”
 

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Xantalos on February 08, 2015, 11:42:34 pm

"...apologies, nurse."

Stan turns to the commotion.

Head over there and find out what they're fighting about.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 09, 2015, 01:02:04 am

Goal:Find a place to live.

Starn looks for somewhere to live until he can figure out what to do.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 09, 2015, 01:38:25 am

Settle down to a hopefully peaceful dinner.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 09, 2015, 02:30:21 am

GOAL: GET BACK HOME
Give my contact information, and go home.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Salsacookies on February 09, 2015, 06:49:58 am

GOAL: Save her. Get her to the hospital.

Throw the gun away from me, and go find my first aid kit

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 09, 2015, 09:41:33 am

Did I buy the sandwich and drink? Or did the woman give me these?

If she did, return them immediately and without error. Maintain mortified expression.

If I did, continue on. See if there isn't anyone who looks like they need food more than I do nearby. If not, continue eating. Keep moving.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 09, 2015, 10:41:50 am

I don't trust her, she may be one of them. Why, oh why did I marry her?
"We close now. The shed has a broken lock, and I need to fix it."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Teneb on February 09, 2015, 12:33:38 pm

"You will never take me alive!"

Empowered by the forces of TRUTH and RIGHTEOUSNESS (not really), Jack charges the man.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Nicholas1024 on February 09, 2015, 04:30:39 pm

((One thing I'm wondering, will there be any sort of external factors involved here that would make us want to try using our "madness powers"?))

Goal: Get through the conversation and get to sleep without a major incident.

This isn't so bad... if things go poorly, all I need to do is find the candy... or was it a potion... that would make me grow back to normal size. Normal. Come on Alice... Alex, focus. Sometimes the rabbit hole contains nothing more interesting than a rabbit, there's nothing to be scared of.

Having momentarily regained his composure, Alexander responded, "Yeah, I'm alright for now. I've been trying not to lose my head, but things have just been a little hectic lately. "

Floundering a bit during the lull in conversation, he asked the obvious, "So... what happens now?"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 09, 2015, 05:06:52 pm

Quote from: Nicholas1024 on February 09, 2015, 04:30:39 pm

((One thing I'm wondering, will there be any sort of external factors involved here that would make us want to try using our "madness powers"?))

heh.
heh heh.
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MaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 09, 2015, 05:24:31 pm

Spoiler: the Storyteller (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3

Goal: Get through the conversation and get to sleep without a major incident.

This isn't so bad... if things go poorly, all I need to do is find the candy... or was it a potion... that would make me grow back to normal size. Normal. Come on Alice... Alex, focus. Sometimes the rabbit hole contains nothing more interesting than a rabbit, there's nothing to be scared of.

Having momentarily regained his composure, Alexander responded, "Yeah, I'm alright for now. I've been trying not to lose my head, but things have just been a little hectic lately.  Hey, do you think you could hand me that vial - err - water bottle?"
 Melissa offers the bottle and Alex reaches up with both hands. After a moment of struggle, he manages to tilt it without spilling it or being crushed under it, and drink. He then grows to normal size and feels a moment of hope, quickly dashed as he grows much too large for the room. Shifting uncomfortably, he knocks a standing lamp over. Fortunately it doesn’t break, and he manages to upright it without overturning either chair the couple sit in, nor the tv or anything else.
Floundering a bit during the lull in conversation, he asked the obvious, "So... what happens now?"
“Alex …” Joseph begins with a sigh. “Just get some sleep, you look exhausted. And try not to knock down the house on the way.” The wry smile he gives you and the chuckle Melissa responds with take the sting out o the rebuke. “o-okay. Thank you.” Alex turns to go, but get’s lodged in the door. ”Uh … could you give me a hand?” Joseph looks at him oddly for a moment, but sighs, gets up, lants a hand firmly in Alex’s back, and pushes. He doesn’t stop pushing, though Alex slides easily through the door. Instead, Joseph continues to push him, up the tairs, down the hall, and to his room. “Good night, Alex.”

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Darek leaves his clumsily cleaned room and heads to the dining room, where he finds a plate of food, covered with a towel to keep it warm. It isn’t. The pixies pulling on his ears and hair, knocking his peas across the table, and splashing in the little pool of gravy in his mashed potatos make for a less than peaceful meal. Full, thoug perhaps unsatisfied, Darek examines the mess the table has become. “Stupid pixies.”
 

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
Annie starts to think, but panic wells up in her at the thought of having these eole know anything about her. “I can’t tell you that! I don’t even have a phone anyway! I’m nobody, leave me alone!” She backs up, fumbling for the door, but finding the kitchen sink instead. “I’m going to call the police, Tom.” The woman says. The man nods at her, and stays put in the doorway as she leaves to another room.
GOAL: GET BACK HOME

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Starn considers his options. He still has his apartment on Cherry Street, he thinks. If his memory is of THIS reality, they let him maintain that. He even got to go there one weekend a month. He might still be friends with Sam, who lives over on Sixth, and John and Sarah would tke him in, bt they live about sixty miles from here. Starn cats his eyes around. There’s always the homeless shelter, or … he eyes an alley, imagining grey coated figures huddled around a barrel fire, warming their fingerless gloves and talking about … whatever it is homeless people talk about around barrel fires.
Goal:Find a place to live.
 

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
"You will never take me alive!"
Jack charges the man, a feverish look in his eye [3 v 5] and gets a boot in the gut for his effort. He wheezes and falls to the ground.
“That all you got?” the man sneers.
It’s at this point that another figure enters the bathroom. “No fighting in the shelter. You both know the rules. I’m going to haveto ask you both to leave. Now.”
 

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
"...apologies, nurse."
Stan turns to the commotion. Two of the inmates are tugging at a nearly empty tray, the former contents now coating their clothes, the table, the floor. Three of the inmates are wrestling against the two orderlies with varying degrees of success, and several inmates are simply screaming, more than one rocking back and forth in their seats, two standing straight up with their heads tilted back, another pacing quickly in a corner. This last paces in such short arcs that he is very nearly spinning in place. Some of the others are starting to get violent now, and a tray whizzes by Stan’s face, not particularly close, but not far, either.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:6
Jeremy looks at his hand, mortified to see the gun there. “No!” he cries, throwing it across the room at the window. It soundlessly passes through, tumbling as it goes. Jeremy runs to the bathroom, ulls open the cabinet, and hauls his medical kit back to the bedroom. He rushed to the girl, dumps the contents on the bed, and reaches for her, intent on stopping the bleeding. She looks up at him and screeches, shoving his hands roughly away as she scuttles backward toward the wall, trailing blood across Jeremy’s bed. His hands come away bloodstained.
GOAL: Save her. Get her to the hospital.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
“Wait a minute … Did I buy this sandwich and drink? Or did that woman give me these?” Joseph thinks back . He ws talking ot this woman, she offered him some food, and he froze up for a moment - it’s hard to remember exactly what happened there. But ater he came to, he ran, and the food was in his hand … Oh God. Joseph runs back the way he came. Which eatery was it? He is spared the search as he recognizes the lady as she comes out from one of the café’s a short distance away. Mortified, and showing it in every feature, he approaches. “Miss. I’m very sorry, but I cannot accept these rom you. Thank you for your kindness.” He thrusts the food into her unwilling hands and dashes off, the hunger gnawing at him even more sharply than a moment ago.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:6
“I don't trust you, you’re one of them, aren’t you? Why did I even marry you?” She looks a little shocked again, thogh not surprised. “You can be such an ass, Edward.”
"We close now. The shed has a broken lock, and I need to fix it."
“Fine. You want it closed, YOU haul all this stuff back to the storage room!” She stomps off into the house, calling for the kids as she goes.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 09, 2015, 05:35:41 pm

Run!

Then get a hotdog. No! Two hotdogs! Give one to a hobo if possible.

Eat the other one.

Run!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Salsacookies on February 09, 2015, 05:40:01 pm

"Don't be afraid! I'm trying to help! You're hurt, I'm trying to stop the bleeding!"

Call the police, and tell them there's a medical emergency at (Insert home here). A girl's bleeding, and I'm trying to apply first aid, but she's resisting.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 09, 2015, 05:59:33 pm

GOAL: GET BACK HOME
Relent, and give my contact information.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Teneb on February 09, 2015, 07:28:57 pm

Attempt to abscond with the contents of the stash

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: blazing glory on February 09, 2015, 08:09:59 pm

Go over to Sixth and try to find Sam.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 09, 2015, 10:23:42 pm

for the curious:

Spoiler: perhaps I should spoiler this as it contains a little info about round five's die rolls (click to show/hide)

die roll        1   2   3   4   5   6
frequency   3   5   4   9   6   12

(for five turns, including the  present one)
that's right, you've rolled 6 as often as you've rolled 1,2,and 3 combined.

on that note, I think my biggestcurrently-most-obvious-to-myself weaknesses as a GM lie in making sure a roll of three represents a marginal or partial success and making sure a six has a satisfactory overshoot/side effect. Two's fours and fives are easy enough, and ones ... hee hee heeheh heh hehahHAHAHAHAHA-HeRK!

erm. where was I? Oh, right, game mechanics. This is fun

By the way, please don't let my rather cryptic reply to Nicholas1024's question deter you from asking questions or making comments or the like. I enjoy a good laugh, so all questions and comments are welcome. Who knows? you might actually get a useful response once in a while too.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 10, 2015, 04:59:03 am

((Nuuh! The [ i ] was my thoughts!))
Haul this shit into the storage room. Return to the shed and look for any holes in the walls or the door.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 10, 2015, 02:10:42 pm

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on February 10, 2015, 04:59:03 am

((Nuuh! The [ i ] was my thoughts!))

((you mean you said what you really thought out loud? That - that's just crazy, man. are you insane?))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Nicholas1024 on February 10, 2015, 04:42:01 pm

Well, that could have gone worse. The bed's a bit small at the moment, but it isn't too bad.

Sleep.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Xantalos on February 10, 2015, 06:55:18 pm

STAN has a perfect idea!

Loudly explain to everyone present how what they're fighting about doesn't exist anyway so there's no need to fight. Like, can't we all get along, man?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 10, 2015, 09:59:12 pm

Wash the dishes.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together (Waitlist open!)
Post by: Ozarck on February 10, 2015, 10:52:55 pm

Spoiler: the Storyteller (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Morning finds Alex well rested and normal sized. [3] The sun shining in his eyes hurts. Sun? Sun! Alex scrambles back away rom the window, wrapping himself in his blankets to protect from the horrible, burning orb. He cats about wildl. There is no escape - the ray of sun pierces the room, blanketing the door in golden light. Wait, the closet!

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Darek takes all the dishes into the kitchen and runs some water in the sink while he goes back and wipes down the tablle, chasing errant peas all over the room. HE then heads back to the kitchen and begins placing dishes in the soapy water. They squeal and giggle as he submerges them. “Ow! Too hot” complains a saucer. This reminds Darek of Fantasia for some reason, which is odd, since the characters he sees are cleaerly from Beauty and the Beast. Too late now, though - the water overflows th sink and the mops begin to dance. The front of Drek’s shirt and pants are wet, and his shoes are soaked. At least the dishes are clean.
 

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
“N-no, no, don’t do that! H-here!” Annie hastily grabs a pen from the cup on the counter and hastily writes down her information on the nearest piece of paper. “I-I gotta go. Nicetomeetyougoodbye!” Fumbling with the door, Annie manages to get outside and down the steps into the yard before the panic sets in again. She’s so exposed.
 

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Starn walks two blocks, to the nearest bus stop, and waits. Fouteen minutes, thirty two seconds later, he is on the bus, heading to Sixth. Starn checks himself over several times. Everything still seems to be there. Twenty One minutes, twelve seconds later, he reaches his bus stop. Two hundred and ninety three steps later, Starn is knocking on the door where he believes Sam lives. Two minutes six seconds later, the door opens. “Hey Starn, this is a surprise! Kinda late for a visit, though. What’s going on?”
 

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Jack lunges for the man, trying to snatch the papers from hi, but is shoved roughly back. “Look what you did! You got us both kicked out! I’ll see you outside, punk!” He yells, and storms away. A door slams, and another. Jack gathers the very few scraps of paer he has left, under the watchful eye of the shelter manager and another worker who came at the sound of shouting. He is then ushered to the door, whch closes firmly behind him. He hears a deadbolt slide into place.
 

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
Stan starts shouting about how it isn’t real. This has the expected result, and there is a gradual sift in the fight in Stan’s direction. He get’s shoved, jostled, and generally banged about. Convinced that the fist coming his way is, in fact, not, Stan is rather alarmed when it does, in fact, make contact with his nose, sending him reeling.
 

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Jeremy grabs the girl, and pulls her forward, trying to hold her down firmly. She kicks him, and he slaps her. “Hold still, damn it! I’m trying to help!” The girl holds still as Jeremy roughly bandages her. Very still. Too still.
 

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Joseph turns to run, and trips over one of the metal chairs at the outdoor tables. Oops. He limps away, looking for a hotdog cart. The ankle doesn’t seem serious. He stands in line at the nearest cart, wincing slightly, and fishes in his pocket for money. He comes up with nothing. Uh. Shoulda foreseen this little snag. When’s the last time Joseph went to a bank? Or … worked? Being on the run from Satan kinda puts a crimp in one’s budget, a little.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
After about an hour of hauling, all the fireworks are carefully stored and Edward heads to the shed. While inspecting the back wall, he hears his kids voices, then the car doors, then the engine. The shed seems secure.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 10, 2015, 11:42:50 pm

Get a better change of clothes.

Goal: Put the wet clothes in the laundry, and go to sleep.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 11, 2015, 12:45:43 am

a heads up, guys. I'll be working 12 hour shifts Thursday through Saturday for the foreseeable future, so updates during that time will likely slow or cease. the other days I should still be able to post, however.

((why, when typo-ing shift, does it always leave out the f? never the t, noooooooo.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on February 11, 2015, 01:06:47 am

((Man, I must be the most boring player so far, how many 4's have I gotten?))

"I kinda need a place to stay, can you help me out?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 11, 2015, 04:54:23 am

Investigate the noises.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 11, 2015, 05:07:18 am

Aw, jeez.

Look to see if there's potential odd jobs to be had anywhere.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 11, 2015, 06:09:24 am

Kick that motherfucker in his nonexsitent groin! Shout loudly about the particulars of nonexistence as I do so.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 11, 2015, 06:36:37 am

Go home.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: XXXXYYYY on February 11, 2015, 08:35:15 am

Oooh. Interesting. Don't have any ideas right now, but this seems like something I'd like to read.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 11, 2015, 09:37:42 am

Look around to see if Their agent is around

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 11, 2015, 08:28:25 pm

Not that she's bandage, let's get her to a hospital.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 11, 2015, 11:16:41 pm

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Leaving the kitchen, water still spilling out of the sink, Alex sloshes upstairs and changes out of his wet clothes.” May as well do a full load” he thinks, and gathers an armful. He heads to the basement, where the washer is, and begins stuffing clothes in.
“My kitchen! ALEX!!!”
He cringes. His mom’s voice is terrifying. At least Alex is dry. He has a feeling it isn’t going to remain that way.

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
Annie runs. The twilight darkness fuels her speed. The shadows reaching for her from the woods threaten to consume her, if she is too slow. Out of breath, she arrives at home at last and slams the door behind her. What a horrible day this has been. She shuts the blinds, pulls the curtains, locks the doors, turns on some lamps, and curls up in a blanket on the couch.
 

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Is this really Sam? Did he always have a beard? Were his eyes brown?
"I kinda need a place to stay, can you help me out?”
Sam looks really uncomfortable or a moment, then smiles. “Sure, sure, come into the living room. Here, havea seat, Starn. You look kinda rough. Let me get you a bite to eat, and we’ll make up a spot on the couch for you.” With that, Sam disappears into the kitchen. After a minute, Starn hears a hushed voice coming from that direction. “…***…,,, he’s right here ,,,.,.,*** my living room …..”

So many changes have happened today, Starn just needs something to remain the SAME. Nothing in here is familiar! It’s all wrong! The couch needs to be four inches left, the coffee table needs to be two inches forward! That shelf! Starn Begins frantically moving things around, trying to get them in the right order once more, an order he isn’t sure he can even remember.
 

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
The agent! He has Jack’s stuff! Did he leave to report back to his overseers? Where is he! Jack need not look for long. Or at all, really. Luckily, he’s still there, right in Jack’s face, and yelling. Not hard to find at all.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
“Id dob reaw! Doffing id reaw!” Stan sobs in anger. The guy who punched him has darted around to the oter side of a pillar, intent on another fight, but Stan won’t let some imaginary support column stop him, and charges straight through. Or rather, straight into the post. A very loud TONK! Is the last thinkg he hears.

Pain. So much pain. Mostly in the face, but there are other regions announcing their existance through agony as well; the back gives off a dull, throbbing ache. His right hand is quite sore. There is a sharp, biting pain in his left thigh. At the moment, this is all of reality Stan is aware of. Whether he believes in it or not does not even enter the question.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Jeremy reaches for the still body lieing bandaged on his bed,  but all he comes up with are the bandages. The body remains in place for a moment, then fades, sinking into the bed as it does, leaving behins smears of blood on the walls, the bedding, and the window glass. An echo of screaming remains at the edge of Jeremy’s hearing as well. He couldn’t save her. He couldn’t sace her then, and he couldn’t save her now.
 

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
Looking about, Joseph sees one of those blue plastic newspaper vending mach9ines that holds those community announcement papers some cities hand out for free. Inside are magazines for cars, ousing, and … yes! one for jobs as well. Joseh pockets one of these, and looks around a bit more, hoping to find something immediate. And yes! “PART TIME DISHWASHER NEEDED. INQUIRE WITHIN.” On a diner window across the street.

Jospeh muses for a moment, and realizes there are also entreprenurial opportunities, such as lea removal, hedge trimming, and for when it gets just a little colder, snow shoveling. Of course, these require a little start up money for tools, and customers tend to be found in the suburbs rather than downtown. On the other hand, it’s a busy enough area that a good busker could potentially make a semi-decent living here.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
Ed walks around the side of the house just in time to see the car leavethe driveway. Huh. Wonder where they’re going.
 

posting earlier than usual because I have to get up early tomorrow.gonna be a long day, and we'll see if I get back online tomorrow night. Next post may be Friday, May be Saturday. We'll see. (I hate mornings. Pity me :'(

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 11, 2015, 11:56:14 pm

Clean up the mess.

Goal: Apologize to mother.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 12, 2015, 12:05:03 am

STAN's thoughts are a mass of ows and I shouldn't be ow-ing.

Concentrate on the truth! This doesn't exist, so it must be a clever trick being performed on my senses! Reveal the reality of the scenario and banish this false pain back to the ether!

Goal: Gain metaphysical control over the illusory reality. Like Neo, except STAN.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on February 12, 2015, 02:47:48 am

Quote from: Ozarck on February 11, 2015, 11:16:41 pm

Next post may be Friday, May be Saturday. We'll see.

((Shoot.))

((Little advance warning, I'll be inactive for the latter half of tomorrow, fully inactive for the day after, and inactive for most of the day next.))

After a few minutes Starn realises the futility of his actions, he hadn't been here in what? 6 months? 12?

After this, Starn also realises how suspicious his friend is being.

Open the window and jump out.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 12, 2015, 05:24:57 am

Run back to the house and check for my children.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 12, 2015, 06:02:06 am

Sleep.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 12, 2015, 07:03:59 am

Okay. Calm down, that was years ago, and I was on the job. I saved hundreds of people with my work.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 12, 2015, 09:26:13 am

Try and land that dishwasher job. Seems easy enough.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 12, 2015, 09:32:58 am

Ignore the yelling, kick him in the crotch, recover Evidence

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Nicholas1024 on February 12, 2015, 09:25:55 pm

Waking up rather rested, Alex was unpleasantly surprised by the harsh glare from the sun.

Ugh, this is a pain. None of the nocturnal creatures are traditionally good, unless...

...

That could work.


The twin suns of Tattooine are blinding, to say nothing of the heat. Hopefully I won't need to go outside until the evening.

Wincing from the glare, Alex hurriedly shut the curtains, before taking a moment to sit on the shaded part of his bed and remind himself what he needs to accomplish today.

Decide on a favorable story to tell, reduce the glare via curtains, and try to remember just what I need to do.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 12, 2015, 10:27:24 pm

I have the rolls and such, just need flavor text and fallout.

This was a rather ... bipolar ... round. Heh.

I should be able to post tomorrow. I will try to make a point to do so.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 12, 2015, 10:49:00 pm

Oh deer.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 13, 2015, 09:37:52 pm

Spoiler: the Storyteller (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Alexander tries to mitigate the burning he feels from the sun by becoming a native of Tatooine. He gets as far as setting a second sun in the sky before his plan disintegrates under the doubled intensity of light pouring into his room. His skin begins to sunburn even under the blankets. Any exposed skin begins to actually blister at this point. Panicked, any thoughts of plans or events beyond escaping the damning light flee from Alexander’s mind. 

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Darek walks quickly up the steps to face his fate. His “never be bullied” passion kicks in while mom is lecturing him about doing chores properly, and he yells back. A heated argument ensues, while Darek tries to clean the water with a Spongebob. His incessant giggling doesn’t help matters, and his father gets into the conversation on his mother’s side. Looks like Darek is going to be grounded for the week, with extra chores on top.
Goal: Apologize to mother.
 

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
Annie sleeps deep and dreamlessly, and awakens the next morning full of energy. She begins bustling about the house, intent on cleaning, finishing several letters to the editor, and maybe even applying for that school crossing guard position she has her eye on. Or starting a daycare for the underprivileged!
 

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Starn realizes something is terribly, terribly wrong - with the curtains. He fiddles and adjusts them just so, but he can never get them to hang exactly right. Perhaps it’s the ties. The knots might need to be bows? Starn is distracted by the arrangement of movies in the entertainment stand, and begins sorting frantically, all while an inner voice screams deep inside: “Get out!”
When Sam reenters the room, Starn looks up and panics: “You aren’t Sam!” He exclaims. “I mean you are, but you aren’t.” His horror grows. “You aren’t the Sam I know. What have you done with him?! Who are you? WHO ARE YOU?!” AS Starn stares, Sam’s clothing appears to change quickly, from one outfit to another in rapid succession. His hairdo, the angle of his chin, the shade of his eyes all seem to alter, too, until Sam becomes nearly unrecognizable, though in some way, still the same.
 

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
Jack scores a low blow to his nemesis, ending the argument with cold, hard facts, delivered to the brain the quickest way possible - through the genitals. The man acknowledges Jack’s superior debating skills by bowing forward, hands resting firmly on the very point Jack last scored. Jack’s papers flutter out of the man’s grasp, and are his to collect. He does so quickly, and scampers off into the night, secure in this one small victory against the forces of Secrecy, Control, and Oppression.
 

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
I … Am … STAN! Stan concentrates with all his might on this one fact, but it fails to deliver. In fact, he begins to doubt this one hard truth. Is he? Is he really? All he knows is the pain. This is terrible. Banish it away, banish it away. The more Stan tries to deny the pain, the firmer it’s grip on him becomes. Pain has become the center of this person’s world and the light by which he sees.
 Goal: Gain metaphysical control over the illusory reality. Like Neo, except STAN.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
Jeremy takes several deep, shuddering breathes. “Okay. Calm down, that was years ago, and I was on the job. I saved hundreds of people with my work.” Jeremy concentrates on remembering the positive things he saw, took part in, and caused. It helps. Before long, the memory of the apparition loses it’s hold on him, and he feels stronger, better. This happened. It was horrible, but it is over, and it hasn’t destroyed all that is good.
Salsacookies

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
Joseph enters Freddies Fine Diner and asks to see the manager about the dishwasher job. He is told to wait, and sits at the counter. A coffee is placed by his elbow and he is left alone while the diner life goes on about him. A light flickers somewhere in Joseph’s peripheral vision.

Then another flickers. No, it isn’t the lights. It is some indistinct figure, passing between Jospeh and the lights, but somehow always staying out of direct sight. Joseph’s heart begins to race. Not one figure, but two, three, several, and they flit into sight, darting around the customers, drifting between the staff members, and disappearing into the kitchen, or emerging from it. They are dark, but They go unnoticed by all, except Joseph. As his horror grows, he sees a figure approach, a figure that appears to be at the center of these dark beings’ activity, a figure from which and to which each of them seems to go. A portly man, grease stained and balding, the green smoke of Greed, Sin, and Decay pours out of his mouth, his nose, and his eyes. He looks at A stricken Joseph, and he smiles.

Joseph flees, throwing napkin holders and dirty dishes at the figure, screaming, shouting, or muttering, he can’t tell. Perhaps all the noises are in his head, at this point, and nothing comes out his mouth. None of this seems to faze the figure, who just comes on, slowly. Joseph finds himself fin the kitchen, where he upends carts, scatters dishes, and tips a pot of soup, anything to get some distance between him and the consuming beast. He throws some cloths onto the fryer, where they burst readily into flames, buying him enough time to escape out the back door, past a filthy dumpster, and into the alley beyond. HE runs, not looking back at all until he is blocks away, too afraid to find that some of the strange shadows had followed him this far.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:6
Ed runs inside, calling his kids’ names, but no one responds. Angry, scared, and uncertain, Edward dashes back and forth through all the rooms of the house, yanking open closet doors and tossing their contents out, hoping to find his kids. He overturns beds, pulls the sofa away from the wall, and even tips over the computer desk, hoping they were there. They were not. They got them! They got to her, and she took them to Them! His parents! Were they safe? Did they know? Were They coming for them too?
 

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 13, 2015, 09:40:03 pm

Trash the equipment I wasted, and head to bed. I'm exhausted

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 13, 2015, 10:49:01 pm

Finish writing the letter.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Nicholas1024 on February 13, 2015, 10:49:12 pm

One frantic dash to the closet later, Alex tried recollecting himself.

Well, that backfired. At this rate I'm going to have to wait in here until the evening... or perhaps fast-forwards it.

Hide in the closet with the door just barely cracked open, draw a crescent in the air with my finger.

(Relevant: http://okami.wikia.com/wiki/Crescent)

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 13, 2015, 10:57:55 pm

Apologize to mother

Goal: Go to sleep.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 14, 2015, 12:23:26 am

Nonononono how can I be pain? How can pain think and feel and reason how can pain be without me to feel it how can I be if I'm not I no I must be meISTAN not painnotpainnotpain overcome it consume it devour it digest it!

Devour the pain and digest it in my subconscious! Grunt vigorously while doing so. I'L SHOW REALITY WHO'S BOSS!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 14, 2015, 03:34:45 am

Goal: obtain money.

Look around. Is there anyone following me? If yes, run.

If no, consider further options. Less conspicuous methods of getting money. Hedge trimming, for instance. Where could I obtain hedge trimmers on the down low?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 14, 2015, 05:46:12 am

Go to the nearest gun store and get me a pistol. Afterwards, hide it somewhere safely in my house, so that only I can find it.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 14, 2015, 11:18:37 am

Search for a new hideout, hopefully a warm one. On the way, ponder on the Agent's tattoo.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 14, 2015, 03:30:56 pm

Spoiler: the Storyteller (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
One frantic dash to the closet later, Alex tried recollecting himself.
Well, that backfired. At this rate I'm going to have to wait in here until the evening... or perhaps fast-forwards it.
Alex cracks the door to the closet and draws a crescent in the air with his finger. A noticeable inky form appears in the air, and, sure enough, one of Tatooine’s suns dips below the horizon. Alex hesitantly puts one paw outside the closet, and it doesn’t burn. Relieved, he pads out into the bedroom, sniffing he air, and yowls a little. Then he scratches behind his ear, trying to dislodge a flea.

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Abashed, Darek manages to sputter out a heartfelt, if poorly expressed, apology. He’s been trying to apologize so much today! Neither parent seems fully satisfied, but they let the matter drop, content to let Darek finish the chores and go to bed. He awakes the next morning, poorly rested, thanks to the interminable giggling of that stupid sponge and that even stupider starfish.
 

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Annie manaes to put everything she wanted to say into the letter ot the school board, and puts it in an envelope, seals it, and get’s ready to mail it. She realizes after a short search of the usual places that she has no stamps.. She is going to have to walk halfway across town to get some. Annie peeks out the door window in uncertainty.
 

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Jack makes his way to a nearby factory he knows of. It’s pretty big, and not thoroughly guarded. There is enough activity there that he can sneak in unnoticed if he acts like he belongs. He manages to make it inside, and works his way down into the basement, where an unlocked utility room provides an out of the way spot to set up shop. He tucks himself away behind the boiler and begins spreading what remains of his evidence out, taping it up to the walls, and arranging it according to the pattern he saw in the tattoo on that man’s arm. If he can arrange it just so, he can get more clues. He just knows it.

“You there!” Jack remains very still, hoping the intruder wasn’t talking to him. “The second floor women’s toilets are filthy. Someone had an ‘accident.’ Go take care of it.” Jack waits a moment. “Well?” The voice demands. Jack peers around the corner of the boiler, and, sure enough, a greying man with an air of authority is looking right at him. Apparently, this hide-out is somewhat well known amongst the employees here. “get going!”
 

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Losing a second battle with pain, Stan falls unconscious again. He awakes an unknown time later, drugged and bandaged. Disoriented, Stan sits up, then, after a wave of nausea passes, he stands. Wobbly, he almost makes it out of his room, when a nurse stops him. She calls to another nurse, and the two of them gently but firmly lead him back to bed. It hurts to think, so Stan doesn’t. He lets his attention wander as the nurse turns on the tv to some random sports channel. The noise mixes in with Stan’s thoughts and memories, each image chasing another in and out of the darkness in his mind.
 

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Jeremy tosses the bandages and the sheets into a trash bag, and then hauls the bag outside to the dumpster. It is all he can do to climb the stairs back to his apartment and drag himself back to his room. He falls into bed. He drifts toward sleep, the girl he saw before lying next to him. She still screams, but softly now, almost comfortingly. And she bleeds not. It is this that fills Jeremy’s dreams this night.

When he awakes, the girl is nowhere to be seen. He is not exactly rested, but he does feel better than he did last night. Looking into the mirror in the bathroom, he is not sure he looks any better than he did last night. A sight catches his eye, and Jeremy starts. Is it that late? Afternoon already? What day is it? If he has work today, he’d better hurry.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Joseph walks, not daring to look to see if he is followed. His thoughts are interrupted by an outburst of laughter from not far away. Glancing up, he spots four men in the trash littered alley adjacent to the one he walks down. Two are sitting on a metal stairway up to a landing before a closed metal door, and the other two stand at the bottom of those stairs. Two of them are smoking. Jeremy’s sudden start, draws the eye of one of the men sitting on the steps. “Well, well, well. What have we here?” He asks, drawing the attention of the other three. Suddenly, four sets of eyes (he hopes it’s only four) are on Joseph.
Goal: obtain money.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Ed grabs his keys and heads out to the … shoot. His wife took the car. The nearest gun shop is six miles away. Ed plans: He could walk now. He might get there by closing. He could steal a car and get there on time. He could wait for tomorrow.
SaberToothTiger

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 14, 2015, 03:35:40 pm

"Nobody in particular. If you don't mind, I'll be getting outta here before bad things happen."

If they don't come after me, leave.

If they do come after me, sprint away!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 14, 2015, 04:23:48 pm

Quick! Get ready for work!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 14, 2015, 04:34:42 pm

Fuckit, just ... just be comatose for a while until I feel better.

((The Xantadice strike once more!))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 14, 2015, 05:24:17 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on February 14, 2015, 04:34:42 pm

Fuckit, just ... just be comatose for a while until I feel better.

((The Xantadice strike once more!))

yeah, I was kinda having a hard time writing for :Try not to hurt - roll 1. you hurt yourself more. Ignore pain, roll 1 pain ignores you. Still, funny. heh.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 14, 2015, 05:28:40 pm

((I have a quote somewhere in my sigtext that states I essentially only roll 1s and 6s.
It still holds true :P))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 14, 2015, 05:29:52 pm

"Alright, I'm on it."

Find way to the toilet and clean the mess.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 14, 2015, 05:48:12 pm

Get some stamps.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 14, 2015, 06:08:03 pm

Run to the store.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 15, 2015, 09:01:31 pm

6/9 posted. Enough or a turn this evening. still waiting to see if the others post before I put it up, though.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 16, 2015, 12:36:56 am

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
Annie prepares to head out. She dresses carefully, gathers her belongings, takes a deep breath, and steps out the front door. It’s raining a little, but not too badly. She steps inside and grabs an umbrella. Nervous about lightning, slippery roads and reckless drivers, and hooded figures, she swallows a bit, but steps forward, walking briskly toward the post office.
 

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
"Alright, I'm on it."
Neglecting the janitor’s jumpsuit hanging on a peg on the door, Jack steps out into the hall and picks a direction. He walks purposefully, as if he knows where he is going. The man seems satisfied, and walks off in another direction, intent on other duties.

Jack obviously doesn’t know where he is going. He figured it’d be easy enough: up a flight or two of stairs, down a hall, find a bathroom. Three machinery rooms later, surrounded by noise and steel, he is certain this building was laid out by the Conspiracy, just to frustrate him.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
Stan drifts in and out of consciousness for a while. After a time the pain fades, though it doesn’t fully disappear, in particular from the back of his head and his knee. He awakes, though he is not entirely sure he is fully awake. Objects seem to fade in and out of his consciousness as he loses concentration on them - a paper on a table, the flowers in a vase, his own fingernails. It’s surprisingly disconcerting, considering his obsession with nonbeing.
 

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
Jeremy showers in a hurry, and dresses quickly. He is four blocks away before he realizes he dressed as one of his old undercover identities instead of as a security officer. This realization triggers a second: he is going the wrong way to work. Rushing back to change, Jeremy knew he would be late, whatever he did. He dresses, properly this time, and sets off once more.
 

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
"The damned, the Damned! You are looking at a curse! I’ve doomed us all. The worst has happened!"
Joseph grabs the nearest by the shirt and screams. “Do your worst, I’m already dead, and so are you!”
The smoke coming out of his mouth swirled, and imps chittered in its wake. “you! You are with them!” The man shoves him roughly away. “Man, get off my shirt! Wat chu on about? Guy’s nuts, yo!” Jospeh stumbles and falls on his rear, horrified. The two sitting stand, and the four step forward, one laughing wickedly, as smoke billows around their feet, threatening to cconsume Joseph. A dark shadow makes one of them seem larger, as if he is posessed by a greater being, one who fits but poorly within this one’s shell.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
Ed takes off at a run, determined to arm himself properly, even though what he cares about is already gone. An hour later, quite winded, he enters the gun store, with fifteen minutes to spare. “Evening” the proprietor says. “Just havea few miniutes before I close, can I help you with something?”

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 16, 2015, 01:00:13 am

"Ack! It's too late!"

Try to run! Escape! Flee!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 16, 2015, 02:19:37 am

Have breakfast.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 16, 2015, 09:38:51 am

"Could you get me a Colt Trooper Mk. V and .357 Magnum ammo?"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 16, 2015, 10:11:44 am

Retrace steps to hideout, put on janitor's clothes and find a mob, then resume quest for great cleaning.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 16, 2015, 10:24:03 am

GOAL: Mail the letter.
Continue going to the post office.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Nicholas1024 on February 16, 2015, 11:21:32 am

Alright, that worked out reasonably well. Now, what to do next...

Inspiration striking him, Alex dragged his canvas and some paints out of the closet, resisting the urge to gnaw on the wood as he did so. Holding the brush in his mouth as he thought, he ultimately decided on drawing a trio of cherry trees in full bloom.

Draw!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 16, 2015, 05:20:06 pm

Odd. It might be ... am I creating these objects as I look at where I imagine they would be? Then what would happen if I attempted something like ... this?

Through concerted mental effort, try to make a potato appear in front of me.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 16, 2015, 08:08:27 pm

Off to work.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 16, 2015, 11:58:05 pm

Spoiler: the Storyteller (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Alright, that worked out reasonably well. Now, what to do next...

Inspiration striking him, Alex dragged his canvas and some paints out of the closet, resisting the urge to gnaw on the wood as he did so. Holding the brush in his mouth as he thought, he ultimately decided on drawing a trio of cherry trees in full bloom.

It was pretty impressive that Alex managed to get most of the paint on the canvas instead of the floor. He even managed to get three roughly circular shapes with some sticks coming out the bottoms, amidst the smudges, smears, and pawprints. Alex sat back with an air of triumph, and put his paw in the air, wuffing quietly.

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Darek dresses and heads downstairs for breakfast. As he opens his bedroom door, he gets a whiff o bacon and eggs, and his stomach rumbles in anticipation. He descends and makes his way into the dining room, where his parents greet him warmly. His sister ignores him, but that’s normal. He may not be well rested, but after a good meal, he is energized. Which is good, considering …
“Dishes” his mother staes, firmly.
“And when you are done there, the lawn.” His Father says as concisely. “And then, come see me.”
“y-yes sir.” Alex states, gathering the dishes.
 

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
The rain really begins to drag on Annie as she walks. It does nothing for her nerves, and so she steps into the first MacWendell’s she come’s across. It isn’t particularly crowded at this time, and what crowd there is is mostly older folks, meeting for breakfast, sipping their discount coffees and telling each other stories of days gone by. There is a young mother with two small children inside, the boy crying a tad too loud, and the girl sulking, hunkered down in the corner of the booth with a little pout and anger lines on her forehead. Outside, the rain begins coming down in buckets. Not literally, of course - it just rains very hard. This weather, the restaurant … this reminds nnie of something, but whatever it is flees her thoughts as quickly as it entered them.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Jack begins to retrace his steps, but he must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, as he ends up in the front office. A receptionist notices him, orders him to take a seat in a professionally friendly voice, and, a moment later, hands him a clipboard with a form on it, and a pen attached by a string. Jack glances at the form - Name, address, phone, email, previous work history, education … what? What is this?
 

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
Odd. It might be ... am I creating these objects as I look at where I imagine they would be? Then what would happen if I attempted something like ... this?

Stan tries to make a potato appear before him. He has a difficult time even getting a lasting image of a potato to stay in his mind, let alone in his hand. While he is concentrting so hard, a nurse comes in, pulls up a wheeled hospital bed table, and places a meal on it. It has a brown oval lump with some greenish brown viscous liquid on it, a puddle of light green, withered peas, and an off-white mash with more of the viscous fluid lumped into a divot in the mash, each item inside a depression in the stale green tray on which this delectable tret is served. A plastic fork and knife, wrapped in a napkin, which is itself wrapped in a white band taped to itself, sits alongside. And, of course, the little cup of syrupy peach slices sits in one corner. A carton of apple juice with one of those straws yo upoke through the lid, if you don’t crumple it instead, appears opposite the peaches. A banquet, to be sure! It’s almost too horrible not to be real.
 

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
It’s almost as if his wardrobe mistake was prophetic. Not eight blocks from home, Jeremy hears a painfully familiar voice. “Hey Johnny! Is that really you?” Jeremy hesitates to turn around and face this voice, but he does.
“Frankie?”  Shocked, voices begin echoing in Jeremy’s head. This man … those were not good days.
“What are you doing in this neighborhood? And look at those duds! What are you, a cop now?” Frankie laughs at his joke - he never learned of Jeremy’s real identity, which was definitely a good thing.
 

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
"Ack! It's too late!"
“Darn right it’s too late!” One of the men says, laughing roughly. He grabs Jospeh roughly, and pushes him at another guy, who grabs him the same, while a third kicks him in the ass with the side of his foot.
“You loser. What chu yammering on about? You aint got the balls to cause us grief.”
Shove, grab, poke.
It goes on like this - push, trip, lift, push - for a few minutes, the men laughing - grab, spin, shove - a bit as they toy with him. At last, one of them hoists Joseph by the collar and the waist of his worn jeans, walks him at a brisk pace toward the entrance to the alley, and shoves, and Joseph naturally falls into a line of trash cans, tipping htem with a clatter. The men all laugh, then walk back to their steps without another glance. Jospeh climbs out of the garbave, and staaggers off, dizzy and a little disoriented.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
"Could you get me a Colt Trooper Mk. V and .357 Magnum ammo?"
The shopkeeper reaches under the counter and pulls out a clipboard, slapping it firmly on the counter. It has a form on it, and a pen slid up under the clip, chain long broken, but still dangling off the end.
“Fill this out. Come back in five days. We don’t sell guns and ammo together.” The man says, the well worn spiel rolling out as the man moves. “Be quick about it, would’ya? I gotta close up soon.”
 

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 17, 2015, 12:49:08 am

Well will you look at that, a potato! Well, the illusion of a potato anyway.
Do potatoes even exist outside of the illusion? Then again the tactile sense of eating is naught but a dream so I suppose food is an illusion as well. That said, I had something there. If I can get further and control it better, maybe I can tear it asunder and see what truly is. To start ... let's make this better-looking.

Try to make the dinner better with the powers of the Matrix STAN. More appetizing and such.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 17, 2015, 01:17:45 am

the illusion of an imitation of a potato-like substance. score one for unreality.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 17, 2015, 01:19:36 am

STAN: 0.34
Unreality: 947,538,827,383,649,000,373,121

I'll get him next time!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on February 17, 2015, 01:37:54 am

Jump out the window without opening it.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 17, 2015, 03:03:37 am

Try to remember, and continue on.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 17, 2015, 05:45:58 am

Fill out the form truthfully.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 17, 2015, 06:55:44 am

Act how I did when I was with him on the job.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 17, 2015, 11:16:36 am

Approach the receptionist

"Sorry lady, I already work here, I just took a wrong turn while trying to remember where I left my tools. Sorry to bother you."

Jack hands over the clipboard and tries to find the way back to the hideout

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 17, 2015, 01:17:40 pm

Walk away from this meaningless interlude. These men were lost causes already.

Do I live anywhere? Or is it the homeless life for me?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 17, 2015, 06:30:25 pm

Quote from: Harry Baldman on February 17, 2015, 01:17:40 pm

Walk away from this meaningless interlude. These men were lost causes already.

Do I live anywhere? Or is it the homeless life for me?

good question. Let's find out. I was wondering when this would come up.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 18, 2015, 08:28:55 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Annie remembers the sounds o fighting in the bck seat. She shouted, as one does, and the sounds dimmed, though they never really went away. Long rides were always like that. It was frustrating, but it was normal. Annie’s mind was elsewhere, anyway. The traffic was bad today, and people were goingtoo fast for the conditions. Much too fast.  Annie’s heart raced, her hands clutching the wheel tightly. The bright lights in the other lanes were stabbing into her eyes, sharpening her headache, nd increasing her rustration. She yelled again. Then she screamed. Then …
Then nothing.
Then a loud honking.
Then a hand on her wet shoulder.
The lights in the other lane were not as bright, but her headache was splitting, and not all the wetness on her face was from the rain. Annie let’s herself be guided out of the road (why was she in the road? That’s not sae at all!) and into a building where she sits, numbed by … what was she doing?
 

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
I’m in a lot of troule he thought. [color=yellow ]Sam knows. He knows, and he called someone about it. It’s the police. They’re going to be here soon. I have to get out.[/color] He eyed the window, and in his panic, the thought of crashing through flitted across his mind.
”Starn?”
He’s gonna do it. He stands, and moves forward. He’s gonna crash right through. He unlatches the lock. He’s gonna have to pick all those shards out of himself.
”Starn, what are you doing?”
“He slides the window up. Sam’s gonna be even madder. Starn sticks one leg through, bends down, and swings out.
”Starn, Stop this. Come back in here. Be reasonable.”
He’s gonna have to tuck and roll, when he hits with all that broken glass around him. He stildes to the ground, one foot touching, then the other. He adjusts his pants, brushes off his shirt. He has to run! He turns and careully slides the window down.
”Be sure to lock it behind me, Sam!” Starn waves as he walks off, checking his pockets for all the bits he had in there, counting his fingers and wriggling his toes.
 

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
"Sorry lady, I already work here, I just took a wrong turn while trying to remember where I left my tools. Sorry to bother you."
”Oh! No, I’m sorry, I must not have recognized you. Here, let me help you get your bearings.”
Somehow, the receptionist is impossible to resist, and Jack gets a long tour of the building, though not of the entire complex. In the process, the woman gets Jack’s name out of him - not his given name, of course, he hadn’t used that in years. But the name Jack Harper is now on her clipboard, along with the notation “Janitor - 3rd shift. Plant A.”
Back at the custodial closet / utility room, the lady excuses herself to her duties and leaves Jack to his. He goes inside, changes into the uniform and closes his eyes for a moment. It onoly just occurred to him that he’d been up all night - long enough for the office ot open and a receptionist to come in. Looks like the toilet will have to wait for the next guy. It’s not like he’s getting paid overtime, after all.
 

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Well will you look at that, a potato! Well, the illusion of a potato anyway.
Do potatoes even exist outside of the illusion? Then again the tactile sense of eating is naught but a dream so I suppose food is an illusion as well. That said, I had something there. If I can get further and control it better, maybe I can tear it asunder and see what truly is. To start ... let's make this better-looking.
Stan concentrates hard, wiping a drip from his nose idly on his sleeve as he stares into his breakfast with the intensity of a man who thinks only his concentration is holding reality together at all. Fter a while, the food does start to look better, thoguh how exactly is hard to say. Pperhaps the mash is smoother, creamier. Perhaps the peas are brighter, fuller. Perhaps the aroma is richer. Maybe Stan is just getting hungrier. He picks up the fork and pokes the mush a bit, then takes a tenative bite. Suddenly Stan realizes he hadn’t tasted the … the “potato” … before he tried this experiment, so he couldn’t tell if it tasted better or not. He ponders trying again, but as he looks down a the plate, the whitish goop has disappeared, leaving but a smudge in the bottom of the dish. Huh. Unreal, indeed. He thinks as a bit of pea disappears as well, going to the same fate as the potato.
 

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Jeremy tries to remember his undercover persona, but the years have left it a bit stale. He opts for surly silence, giving out words a few at a time until he gets his bearings. Frankie notices his mood, and makes a comment, but doesn’t seem to mind much. He chats a bit randomly, talking about sports and the weather and other generic stuff. He doesn’t talk about any of their old acquaintences though.
“So .. you never said what’s up with that outfit.” He remarks idly, as they wait in line for a coffee, several blocks out of Jeremy’s route to work. Maybe he should call in, to let them know he is gonna be late. Or absent.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Losing control a little, Joseph tosses the trash cans around in a rage, causing the men to chase him down the block. They catch him, and, as per the rules of back alley minor bulleying everywhere, tossed him into a Dumpster. Or rather, a Trash Co Brand trash disposal unit. Not as roomy, not as well maintained, but just as filthy. He struggles to climb out and thinks, once more of home, and family. It was a long time ago and far away. A galaxy away, it feels like. Maybe one of his relatives would take him in, if he went back. Maybe. He wasn’t too kind the last time he was there.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Ed looks at the form, and at the shopkeeper, who crosses his arms and shifts his weight, eyeing Ed sternly. Ed pulls out the pen, and hesitates. Somehow, he just can’t fill the form out. If he did, they would know about it, and they would have an excuse. They already took his kids.

At this thought, anger courses through Ed.
 “Look, I’m sure we can come to an arrangement.” He says, trying almost successully to keep the anger from his voice.  “I’m sure you have a … special plan, for privileged members of a, shall we say, a Premium Club? Expidited delivery, reduced red tape, that kind of thing. For the right price, of course.”
 “Get out of my store before I call the police.”
 

Hey, I may or may not keep using color text in the turn posts. If I do, don’t expect them to remain consistent. Since I write the updates in MS Word, and the colors don’t port over. If you DO prefer a particular color for your chatracter, put it at the end of each post like thus: ((green))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on February 18, 2015, 08:57:31 pm

Run.

((Orange.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 18, 2015, 09:19:31 pm

Now attempt to dematerialize the illusion of the tray!

((Navy, perhaps?))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 19, 2015, 03:49:02 am

Exit the store. Return home.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 19, 2015, 05:52:44 am

Go to the bathroom and tell the mall I'm sick today

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 19, 2015, 07:06:11 am

Try to get my bearings, and remember where I am.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 19, 2015, 09:55:24 am

"A long time ago in a galaxy far away..."

Spend some quality time in the dumpster. Look for something vaguely edible in here. Is it warm inside the dumpster, perhaps? And if so, is the source looming hellfire by any chance?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 19, 2015, 09:59:05 am

Resist sleep. Clean the toilet. Otherwise suspicion might be drawn.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 19, 2015, 11:59:54 pm

Do my chores.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 22, 2015, 08:58:07 pm

Spoiler: The GM: Case - Insomnia Attack! (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
after several days of hard work and very little sleep, you stare at the screen willing yourself to comprehend the mad babblings of your asylum. You cannot. The days of non-sleep catch up to you, and you begin to nod off, right in the middle of a video of cats falling off of things. You are unable to comprehend your charges, let alone guide them to another point of awareness. Sleep you must. Sleep you will.

This isn't an excuse for not having posted yet, in part because I warned you guys before that my weekend schedule might be thin. Rather, consider this an encouragement: there is hoope! I do fully intend to make a turn tomorrow when I am rested. meanwhile enjoy these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CkaSd2QjRE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CkaSd2QjRE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUqENctOvo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUqENctOvo)

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 23, 2015, 11:20:17 pm

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Darek spends the morning cleaning the garage, mowing the lawn, and pulling weeds. He ignored the gnomes, pixies, and orcs that jeered at him from every corner. By lunch time, he had worked up quite a hunger. Hearing his mother call him in or lunch, Darek returned the tools to the garage and turned to head inside, stomach rumbling. Standing between him and the door to the house, however, was a particularly ugly goblin, a bit bigger than himself. It stares menacingly at him, daring him to come closer.

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Annie looks around at the stret. She remembers the McDonalds, and a letter. Where she is now is a bit fuzzy, but she can’t be far from the McDonalds. It looks like she was headed further into town, though. She feels a little woozy. Finding herself in the middle of the street has shaken her, and made it difficult to get her bearings. She thinks she can find the post office from here, if she can get up. Her hands begin shaking violently, and she is on the verge of tears.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Starn runs from Sam’s place. He gets several blocks away before he runs out of breath. Placing his fingers to his neck, he tries to count the heartbeats, but he cannot get a stable measurement. His anxiety goes up, and he runs again for a while. Exhausted, he stops and sits against the wall of a convenience store for a bit to catch his breath and his thoughts. No sounds of pursuit reach him at the moment.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Jack stifles a yawn and climbs the stairs to the second floor custodial closet, where he fills a bucket and gathers a few supplies. He sits down for a minute to tie a shoe, and wakes to a hand shaking his shoulder roughly.
“Hey! What are you doing in here? Who are you?” Bleary eyed, Jack looks up at another janitor suited man. The real morning janitor. Or is it?

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Stan stares hard at the tray for a while, but it remains stubbornly in place. He does deveop a splitting headache though. And he starts feeling hot and feverish. On a ‘positive’ note, the room around him seems to fade away a bit, and ‘reality’ begins to spin.
 

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Jeremy calls in to let the mall know he won’t be coming in today. Turns out, he wasn’t expected anyway. He has no shifts until the weekend. Three days. That’s good. Frankie and I have some business to attend today anyway. He thinks. There are some punks getting a little too rowdy down Elm Street, and they need to be taught a lesson. Jeremy frowns. The punks were assholes anyway, so they deserved a little roughhousing, b ut he wouldn’t do it if he had his way. But a cover is a cover, and he had to sell it. He was after  something bigger than the lowlifes like Frankie that he waas in with now.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
"A long time ago in a galaxy far away..."

Joseph shivers a bit as he explores the contents of the bin. It’s cold in here, and, tyr as he might, he just can’t seem to find a comfortable position. And Hollywood made dumpster diving seem so easy. He does find something that reeks awfully, and is pretty mushy, like it used to be food. His stomach rebels at the thought of trying it, though.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
“I’ll be back. Just you wait!” Ed snarls, before turning toward the door.
“That’s it. I’m calling the police.” The man behind hims says, and reaches for his phone.
 

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on February 24, 2015, 12:00:38 am

Rest for a few minutes and head to my apartment.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 24, 2015, 12:34:53 am

((XANTADIIIIICE
I'll have my action up later, I gotta go find my whatsamathingy to reality or whatever it is.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 24, 2015, 01:08:59 am

Roll between the Goblin's legs.

Goal: Knock out the goblin.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 24, 2015, 02:32:18 am

Calm down, and continue on to the post office.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 24, 2015, 11:13:27 am

"Me? I'm... I'm a new janitor. They said... that they needed an extra janitor to... keep up with the mess. Sorry I just... dozed off there."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 24, 2015, 11:23:08 am

Try it. Agony of the body, go.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 24, 2015, 04:27:04 pm

"Let's go rough up some punks"

GOAL: Keep Cover

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 24, 2015, 04:37:19 pm

Run out immediately and sprint through a few alleyways towards home.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 24, 2015, 06:57:44 pm

Marshal myself! Drive this false dizziness and stuff back into the abyss!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 24, 2015, 11:29:56 pm

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Darek rolls under the goblin’s grasping reach, colliding with it’s legs as he tries to go between, knocking the thing off balance a bit and into a metal shelving unit. Several boxrs fall off onto the golin’s head and shoulders. It looks a bit pissed, and maybe a little dazed.
 

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
The helpful stranger who helped Annie out of the street keeps her company for a while, and after a bit, she calms down. The man’s presence seemed to soothe her rather than agitate her, as most strangers do. Perhaps it was the shock, keeping her other anxieties at bay. Annie convinves the man that wshe is capable of moving on, and apologizes for the trouble. He leaves her to herself, and she walks the rest of the way to the post office without incident. She purchases a roll of stamps and mails her letter to the school board, feeling a sense of triumph - she had conquered herself today.
 

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
It is late when Starn arrives at his apartment - very late. He fumbles for his key, and attempts to it it into the slot. It won’t go. Looking carefully, he sees that he used the wrong key, and the next one fits perfectly, easing his fear that the contents of his pockets had changed on the way home. Stepping inside, he locks the door behind himself and collapses on the couch, too tired to undress or go to bed. He is unconscious in moments.

The next morning, he awakens with a drad sense that something is terribly wrong. Something … maybe the apartment? He can’t quite grasp what it is that is wrong, but he is certain something is out of place.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
"Me? I'm... I'm a new janitor. They said... that they needed an extra janitor to... keep up with the mess. Sorry I just... dozed off there."

The other janitor just grunts, wheels the mop bucket out of the closet, and heads off. Looks like he considers Jack someone else’s problem.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:3
The room remains grey, but it doesn’t disappear. A nurse comes and goes, but in te normal way, not in and out o reality, but in and out of the room. Stan’s headache doesn’t get worse. The room still tilts, but it isn’t spinning as fast now.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
"Let's go rough up some punks"
Frankie laughs. “Now you’re talking. But no, listen. All that’s under control. Things are different now. You been gone a while, things are different. But you can still help. You remember Bobby? I need you to get in touch with him. Yeah, no, it’s not like that. No he isn’t in trouble, we just, look, we just have a proposition for him. A mutually beneficial arrangement. It’ll work out you see? That other thing? Water under the bridge, man. Water under the bridge.”
GOAL: Keep Cover

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Joe raises the nasty mush toward his mouth. He makes the mistake of breathing in before he takes a bite, and the smell makes him gag before he can taste it. His body clamps down and refuses to invite the vile substance inside. In the dark recesses of the trash bin, something chitters in what Joe can only assume is amusement at his plight. Looks like homelessness is harder than he thought.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
“Forget it, you’re not worth it!” Ed mutters as he heads out the door. Darting though alleys, vacant lots, and a couple back yards, he makes it home without incident. The car is still not in the driveway, and no one answers his call inside the house. The message light is on on the home phone, though, blinking twice, then of then twice. Two messages.

It has been interesting seeing he different ways in which each character responds to their issues and situations. At times, I am concerned that I am not providing enough of a dynamic situation for some of the characters, but I think some of that involves play style too. Do you guys have any feedback or suggestions for improvements? So far, I am positively encouraged by the consistent participation of 8/9 of the players (I think Nicholas1024 droped out, though his slot is still there if he returns). Some times I think I enjoy this game more than anyone else. That was true in Roll to Alien as well :D

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 24, 2015, 11:43:25 pm

Deep breaths. Meditate. Steady the spinning.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on February 25, 2015, 12:17:29 am

Look at the clock.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 25, 2015, 02:13:32 am

Seize the chittering thing. It sounds edible!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 25, 2015, 07:12:11 am

Look at the time.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 25, 2015, 07:18:37 am

Go to the hideout. Sleep.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 25, 2015, 11:01:05 am

((I am bit sad about the thoughts/speak in there, because setting it aside "because you're crazy" doesn't really have an application with being overly honest with paranoid people. Other than that, is fine.))

Activate the answering machine and back out a few steps.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on February 25, 2015, 03:12:32 pm

Knock it out with a blow to the head!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 25, 2015, 05:48:02 pm

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on February 25, 2015, 11:01:05 am

((I am bit sad about the thoughts/speak in there, because setting it aside "because you're crazy" doesn't really have an application with being overly honest with paranoid people. Other than that, is fine.))

Are you talking about when your character told his wife about not trusting her? I did that as a side effect of rolling the six. :P [/GM cruelty] It was how he got his point across that he wanted the store closed and was angry. For Edward, saying it was unintentional - he wanted it private, but somehow it came out. that happens with people often enough, even paranoid people, especially ones with wife and kids. (I'm no real expert on mental imbalance though.) With the storekeeper, it is the opposite - the rolls of one caused severe negative reactions.

As for the level of paranoia your character exhibits: it hasn't really risen strongly yet, in part as a a response to the actions you have posted, and in part due to rolls. Had your character's crazy index risen a bit more, he might have simply refused to walk into the store to begin with, suspecting a plot by THEM to get him registered. I actually have a metric for crazy / sane, as well as one for control / powerlessness, and one for the level of effect on the real world that each person's madness causes directly. look at Salsacookie's character for a good example of somewhat heightened direct effect, and Xantalos' for near zero effect :P [/Gm Cruelty] I think Harry's character perhaps has the most direct craziness effect (that is, how he perceives the world, not how the world is affected by it). Him or blazing_glory. [/Game mechanics exposition]

That said, I am sure my characterization could use some improvement, and will work that way. Keep hinting in what direction you think your character will react to negative stimuli, and i will be better able to write that way. All of what I have said here is just to give an idea of what is in my head about this game, not to force anyone to act in a given way or to think about their character in a given way.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 25, 2015, 06:45:27 pm

"So, just to clarify, have a talk with Bobby? Alright, I'm sure I can do that. Where's (he/she) at?"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on February 26, 2015, 10:16:45 pm

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Darek looks around wildly for a moment, then grabs a two by four off the workbench and swings! The two by four passes right through the illusive creature, and Darek hits the shelves, jarring them a bit more. One comes crashing down. The goblin staggers upright and grabs Darek by the shirt. Wait, didn’t Darek’s shot go right though it? Unfair! The goblin pushes Darek back a few steps, and his shirt starts to tear.
 

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll:5
Annie  looks at the clock on the wall of the post office. It is digital. The numbers are written in green. As she watches, the numbers change from 10:02 to 10:03 A.M.
 

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Starn looks at his clock, mounted on the wall in the living room over the television set. It is analog. The second hand turns steadily, without the stop-start tick of some clocks. As he watches, theh second hand passes the curly six at the bottom of the circuit. The long hand points between the 2 and the 3, and the short, fat hand  points at the 10. 10:02 A.M.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll:6
Jack returns to the hideout and stretches out on the makeshift bed. No one saw him enter the room. He sleeps soundly for some time When he wakes, he realizes he hasn’t eaten in some time, and is very hungry.
 

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll:1
(I’m so sorry. Heh. Heh heh heh.)
Stan attempts to meditate to regain calm and focus, but the insant he tries to take a deep breathe, a sharp pain arcs in his side. It drives thought out of his head, and makes focus nearly impossible.

Nothing is going right. Nothing works. I have made no difference in my life, let alone in the lives of others.

Greyness.
Sometimes an image appears in the fog, insubstantial, unclear. Occasionally, a face arises - a memory? A current reality? An illusion? Whatever the truth, it is far from this insubstantial being’s grasp. A name wanders across the being’s consciousness - what is left of it. STAN. I AM STAN.

And just like that, the name is gone again, and the identity - lost in a sea of … nothingness.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
“So, just to clarify, have a -"
“Oh shoot, I didn’t realize it was this late. Listen, I gotta go. You still got my number? Gimme a call tomorrow, we’ll get this going real good. You’re one of the good ones, Johnny.” And with that, Frankie is off, leaving a twenty on the table with his bill.
 

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll:2
Jospeh roots around in the dumpster, chasing noises. They seem at one time to come rom this corner, then that - no, under that bag! Or inside it. Maybe a little lower. Ouch! What was that? Just a can. Doesn’t look like he’s bleeding. Now it’s overhead? On top perhaps? Now it’s behind? Above .. hter and there? More than one? Where, where, where?
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll:4
The answering machine doesn’t explode. Neither of the messages self destruct. One is from another parent at the kids’ school, asking Ed’s wife to call her about some meeting or something. The other is from Mom. She rambles a bit, asks if Ed is alright, tells him she worries, and to call her. She sounds a little nervous.
 

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on February 26, 2015, 10:26:23 pm

Inquire about applying for a job.
GOAL: End the exile.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on February 26, 2015, 11:10:09 pm

Get up and get some food.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on February 27, 2015, 12:46:32 am

Goal: HUNT.

Try eating that semi-edible thing that I don't know the exact nature of again. See if that draws the creatures out.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on February 27, 2015, 11:54:57 am

Go out in the streets. Forage.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on February 28, 2015, 04:04:32 am

The being that was once STAN floats almost serenely in the soft greyness of unconsciousness for what seems to be an infinitely long time.

After an eternity of a finite length, it turns to its surroundings.

where am

Wake up.

XAAAAANNNNNTTTTAAAAADDDDIIIIICCCCEEEE

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on February 28, 2015, 07:32:07 am

GOAL:
SAVE MOM.

Take one of my many dispensable phones and call Mom.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on February 28, 2015, 10:01:30 pm

Goal: Take care of Frankie

Go to the police station to tell them I met with Frankie, and see if they could do something about it

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 02, 2015, 09:59:27 am

Quote from: Xantalos on February 28, 2015, 04:04:32 am

XAAAAANNNNNTTTTAAAAADDDDIIIIICCCCEEEE

:'( if you roll a one this time it's over - Stan will be lost in limbo, mind shattered beyond repair, for the rest of his natural life.  :o Neat, huh?  ;D

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 02, 2015, 10:31:19 am

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Annie steps into line at the counter and waits for whatfeels like an eternity, but isn’t. Finally, her turn comes, and she asks for an application for a job at the post office. The lady departs to the back or a minute that feels longer, and returns with a manila envelope, thick with papers, and labeled “forms: application packet.”
“Fill these out and return when you have done so. Now, understand, if you do get hired, it may be for a route in another city nearby. We may not have anything secifically in this town.” She looks at Annie with a certain sympathy. “Good luck with that application.”
Annie takes the packet, and the weight of the thing in her hand feels discouraging. But at least it’s a start!

GOAL: End the exile.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Starn shambles into the kitchen, cracks open the fridge, and begins pulling out items. The fridge is surprisingly well stocked, considering hat Starn doesn’t use it frequently. On the other hand, it has become nature for Starn to ensure that exactly the right items are always on hand. He has a list and he follows it rigidly. After assembling his ingredients (an omelet this morning), he marks off the items on the list on his fridge. Hmm. Not enough to need to run to the store today.
The omelet is thick and rich and satisfying.

There is a knock on the door.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Jack heads out to the streets and makes his customary rounds. He stops at a soup kitchen for a bowl of soup and some bread, which he wolfs down. He then spends the rest of the evening collecting information - flyers, newspapers, bubble gum wrappers that hadn’t made it into the trash, a burger wrapper that had - each one was a clue, and he would use the mall to crack the conspiracy and reveal the horrible truth to the world, whether it was ready for the truth or not.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Unseeing, Stan opens his eyes. Images appear and disappear from his sight without meaning or purpose. Time is a foreign concept in the off white dullness that is his reality.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Jeremy heads to the police station and asks to file a report. He is told to sit and wait for an officer, and he takes his place on a hard wooden bench. Soon, a man in uniform invites him into an interview room.
“Now, I understand that you have some information for us about a crime?”

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Joseph pulls the  nasty thing out of an outer pocket, and tries again. It’s still horrendous. He manages to get some of it in his mouth before he retches violently.

The good news it that this causes the chittering to grow louder. The bad news( aside from the fact that Joe may never get that taste out of his mouth, his throat, his brain) is that he is becoming increasingly sure that the chittering things are not corporeal, nor edible.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Ed grabs the lockbox from the bedroom closet, pulls out one of his burner phones, and dials. The phone rings. And again. And again. At last, his mother’s voice answers. ‘’Hello, Greaves residence.”

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 02, 2015, 10:33:07 am

Check to find out for sure.

IF they're truly not corporeal, run like hell and find a restaurant food disposal to eat out of or something.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 02, 2015, 11:15:10 am

Fill out the packet.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 02, 2015, 11:38:48 am

Go back to hideout. Cross-reference new clues with the old ones.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 02, 2015, 06:01:59 pm

Answer the door.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on March 03, 2015, 06:17:07 am

"MOM!"
*dramatic camera pan*
"WHAT HAPPENED?"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on March 03, 2015, 06:39:03 am

Tell them about my meeting with Frankie

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Pencil_Art on March 03, 2015, 10:05:53 pm

Knock him out!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 04, 2015, 02:41:36 pm

Spoiler: The Fantastic (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Darek struggles wit hteh goblin, but it proves the stronger of the two of them and leaves him dazed on the garage floor as it turns and stalks menacingly into the house. Darek hears the sound of objects clattering to the floor from the kitchen.

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Annie takes a seat, and spends the next six hours carefully going through the packet, filling in all the inormation to the best of her ability. It is mind numbing really. She finishes with the parts she can, but still needs to get a copy of her birth certificate, medical records, and a couple other things like that. The clerk calls out that the lobby will be closing in ten minutes.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Starn looks up from a sink full of dishes. He walks over to the door, and swings it wide. The police officer on the other side takes one look at Starn, and steps back, unlatching his gun in it’s holster, and resting his hand on it.
“Mr. Gundar, put down the weapon, please. This doesn’t have to go down this way.”
Surpised, Starn looks at his still soapy hand, and the large kitchen knife still clutched in his hand. This can’t be. That wasn’t there before he opened the door. It changed, he knew it changed! It wasn’t like that!

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Jack returns to his closet unnoticed and begins assembling his information. Cross checking from an editorial in the Homes and Gardens section of a paper three weeks old with a Time magizine by-line and an ad from a flyer with some serious stains on it, Jack is led to the sports section of a paper from months ago. Yes! a lead, at last! Whatever it is, the conspiracy involves the Knicks. It must be! A trail, at last!

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
The police seem uninterested in the conversation Jeremy had with a gang member. Nothing illegal had een said, and no investigation was ongoing regarding him at the moment. The ydo ask abot his work as a security guard, and get Jeremy’s address and contact information. He get’s the feeling that they are nottaking this seriously.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Joseph, roots madly around the bin or a moment, at last getting his hands on one of the chittering creatures. Corporeal. Real. He holds it up toward the light coming from the gap between the lid and the wall of the bin to get a better look. Its fur is dark and filthy, its teeth are long and sharp - good thing it didn’t bite him - and its eyes are red and fiery. It turns its head and stares straight into Joe’s eyes, tail and paws curling around his arms as its eyes grow larger and hotter, boring into his soul. The black tendrils of smole that were its limbs crawl up his arms and around his head, seeking entrance through eyes, ears, nose, mouth. Not corporeal! Not corporeal at all! As Joe panics and climbs out of the dumpster, two more latch onto him, and he is unable to run, but falls to the ground, struggling.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
“Now Edward, calm down. Everything is fine, just fine. You don’t have to worry. But son, I’m worried about YOU.” She pauses for a moment beore going on. Edward grows suspicious. They might be listening in. they might already be there at Mom’s. “Samantha called, she said you were having a spell. Come home. Let’s talk. We can get you back on the right path. Nip this problem in the bud before it hurts you. Come home.” The stress in her voice makes Edward’s mind spin. What is going on? Mom knows better. It isn’t a sell. They must be there, controlling wht she says. They want to bring him in! But why?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 04, 2015, 02:43:52 pm

Exhale. Scream. Fight. Run.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 04, 2015, 02:47:41 pm

I am but a nematodic being of sight and sensation in the murky puddle that is my illusionings of reality. Set things in order by inventing time for myself.

((Well then, time to manually rebuild my psyche :D))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 04, 2015, 07:19:07 pm

Put on the janitor uniform and get cleaning. Must blend in.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 04, 2015, 08:05:11 pm

((Huzzah, my affliction makes its first major change.))

"No no no no this isn't happening!"

Drop the knife, try to charge into the police officer and run outside.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 05, 2015, 01:40:49 am

Leave, and go home, and get my birth certificate.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 08, 2015, 11:19:05 am

I have five responses. I am going to post a turn today-tonight. Go ahead and post your response if you haven't and it should get in this turn.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on March 08, 2015, 11:31:59 am

Maybe this didn't actually happen. Didn't think about that. Give them my information and enjoy my day off

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 08, 2015, 06:52:43 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Annie stands to leave, walks to the door, and freezes, hand on the push bar. Unable to move, emotion washes over her, tears trickling down her face. She can’t stop crying, and she doesn’t even know why. The traffic outside moves along at an orderly pace, and across the street, the park is being abandoned as darkness decends, parents gathering up their children, lovers strolling casually toward their cars, dogs being reigned in from chasing ducks. Annie shakes, seeing none of it.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Starn throws the knife at the police officer, screaming. He slams the door and gasps, closing his eyes against the sudden change. It wasn’t real … it wasn’t real. He squeezes his eyes shut tightly, imagining the world as it SHOULD be, then stands, aces the door, takes three quick breaths, and opens it. The officer is still there, weapon drawn and a look of fear and anger in his face. He shouts something, loud and repeatedly. The knife sticks out of the wall behind him. Then suddenly, it doesn’t. A hole remains where the knife was, though, and the officer’s tie is now blue, instead of black. Footsteps are heard on the stairs of the building, rushing toward this floor.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Jack reaches for the jumpsuit, but his hand is drawn back to the paper. One more connection. And … there! A new clue! A pattern is developing. But where does it lead? The food, the water? Microwaves? Jack mutters. It’s there, just out of reach. It’s there! Why the Knicks? Ahah! A race of supersoldiers, being developed within the sports industry! Sports drinks, secretly tainted with growth serum to be tested on the populace! Mass human trials in the real world. They were creating monsters!

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
The Nematode reaches. Time is a tricky thing, always sliding away, sometimes lingering, never fully known. The Nematode pulls the concepts of time and space from the illusion which intrudes on his being. The concepts stabalize, and structure for the illusion is achieved, though skeletal yet. Up, down, back, forward, left, right, past, and future are accepted as conceptual entities. Meanwhile, the sensations of the illusion move and flicker as before, though the sensations have changed in some unknown way.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
“Johnny Lang. 421 East Hart Street.” Jeremy follows this with the number to a burner phone he carried for this assignment, and leaves, satisfied that the investigation is starting to turn up some results. Memories of theft, graffiti, beatings, and smoky, drunken evenings with a volatile gang spoils the day. Jeremy goes home and broods, trying to cast the unpleasantness from him.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Joseph screams. That almost counts as exhaling, right? But he is unable to flee, and his struggles are weak. The smoke engulfs him, and presses inward. And with it, voices, whispering, murmering, howling, demanding. They are dim yet, and too confused to make sense of, but they are pressing in …

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 08, 2015, 07:38:13 pm

Calm down.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 08, 2015, 08:15:01 pm

Starn grasps a cylinder behind him, imagining it to be a flashbang grenade, pulls the pin with his thumb, throws it and leaps as far as he can to the left.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 08, 2015, 10:04:44 pm

It is not complete yet. Implement matter, and gravity.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 09, 2015, 12:34:54 am

Try to ward off the evil with thoughts of escape combined with violent struggling. Ignore the voices!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 09, 2015, 11:12:16 am

Be appropriately horrified by discovery. Put on uniform for alibi and keep cross-referencing clues.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on March 09, 2015, 06:00:26 pm

"Can't come now, I think I've been tailed."
Hang up and walk to mom's.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on March 09, 2015, 06:11:30 pm

Try to push those thoughts back down, I don't need those popping up. Set up a cooking show to watch.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 11, 2015, 02:47:45 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Annie settles her nerves enough to step outside. That’s about as far as she gets though. Panic threatens to overwhelm her, and she stands on the sidewalk, struggling to gain her composure.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Starn pciks up a salt shaker from off the table and throws it at the officer. It remains a salt shaker. The officer. Replaces his pistol and pulls out a taser. (5) And Starn goes down , his body completely under the control of the electricity coursing through his muscles.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Jack is horrified that They are poisoning the water for nefarious purposes. I mean, poisoningthe water is one thing, but for nefarious purposes? That just crosses the line, man. Lost in thoght, he dresses for work and heads out with the mop bucket.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Stan focuses, and a white, amorphous ball of matter comes into focus. He practices keeping it consistent by lifting it, and dropping it, observing gravity and matter interact, over and over. Tiem and space fade into the background as he lifts the pillow and drops it … again and again.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Jeremy watches cooking shows late into the night. He drifts off to disturbed dreams to the harsh glow of the screen and the chipper mutterings of the hosts.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
The evil gets inside, and Joseph’s thoughts of violent struggle increase. Dashing out into the street, he looks for some escape from his torment, some outlet, something to strike down, to end the agony.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
"Can't come now, I think I've been tailed."
Edward hangs up, and leaves the house, taking a circuitous route to get to his mother’s home. On the way, he spots a man behind him more than once. Looks like he hasn’t shaken them after all.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 11, 2015, 04:28:25 pm

Punch self in the face repeatedly to get the evil out!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 11, 2015, 05:34:47 pm

Mop it up! While at it, look closely at the cleaning water to see if it was tampered with.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 11, 2015, 06:24:18 pm

Give up for now.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 12, 2015, 12:20:19 am

...ah. It's a facsimile. A way for people to interact with the world without really understanding its true complexity.
...
I should stop now.

Get up and walk around the room. Am I in a padded cell?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 12, 2015, 01:49:24 am

Steady myself.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 16, 2015, 06:41:37 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Annie steadies herself, a crystalline focus and determination hardening in her core. The worl is crisp, clear, and steady, and she WILL succeed. The pain and sorrow disappear behind the wall build long ago to cage just this monster, and in a moment, Annie has forgotten she had ever had a weak moment, at the post office or earlier in the day

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Starn passes out from the shocks and awakens some time later, strapped to a bed. He loloks about, and through bleary eyes sees white uniforms and flashng lights. Several voices are overheard as well, but Starn is uninterested in the words. They wold change in memory anyway, so why bother remembering? A rattling sound accompanies a jolt, and Starn is tilted up, then leveled out and moved headward into an enclosed space. Something cold is pressed to his chest, and he feels a sharp prick on his lower arm. Then the feeling of motion returns, and the white uniform next to him reaches out to steady itself as hanging equipment sways to the movement.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Jack mops like an overpaid, unsupervised employee with unlimited access to overtime: slowly, sloppily, and with no real intent to get things clean. It seems to work, as people actually compliment him on a job well done, for some reason.

Meanwhile, Jack studies the mop water carefully and notes that, yes, it has been tampered with. This looks totally unfit for human consumption, in fact. Jack carefully reads the label of thecleaner solution he uses and, sure enough, there are hazardous material warnings on it, particularly regarding harm done if swallowed or gotten into the eyes. Boy, they have some nerve!

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
...ah. It's a facsimile. A way for people to interact with the world without really understanding its true complexity.
...
I should stop now.

‘Up’, around’, and ‘room’ are concepts concerning the space and time Stan has been studying, but interacting with them proves difficult. While attempting ‘up’, he finds himself sideways and downward, and while attempting ‘about’, he finds himself flopping arhythmically and without progress. Stan discovers a touch more about matter and gravity through this experiment, so not all was a loss.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2 (I really wanted this to work, too )
Bleeding and bruised, Joseph stops hitting himself after a while, due primarily to exhaustion. The voices laugh, and demand that he try again, only this time, he must punch someone else.

“silly mortal, receiving pain brings us inside. Giving pain drives us out. You keep giving pain to yourself, thus driving us out and inviting us right back in. You must deliver us to another. Only then can you begin to atone for your sins. Perhaps you could even right your wrongs. Look around. Surely someone nearby is worthy of some pain. It’s for the greater good, Joseph. For the greater good.”

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 16, 2015, 06:48:46 pm

Apply Up and Down to my limbs in such a manner that I stand up. We'll take it slow, I guess.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 16, 2015, 06:57:16 pm

Quietly test the straps.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 16, 2015, 07:05:52 pm

Quote from: wipeout1024 on March 05, 2015, 01:40:49 am

Leave, and go home, and get my birth certificate.

Do this.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 16, 2015, 11:05:34 pm

((It's funny, in a way STAN did see behind the illusion. Only the sight of what was really there nearly destroyed his psyche.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 17, 2015, 01:08:06 am

"No no no no no!"

Joe is less than coherent at this point.

Run faster than the voices can keep up, leave them behind, scattered along the streets.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 17, 2015, 10:30:46 am

Be appropriately appalled. Pretend to not have read the labels, in case they catch on.

((Jack is, strangely enough, doing pretty well for himself.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on March 17, 2015, 06:28:50 pm

Do what you will. I am dreaming

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 18, 2015, 11:00:16 am

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Annie returns home and rummages through her papers, finding not one, but three birth certificates. One is hers, and two share her last name, but she doesn’t recognize the first names.
Hmm. The long walk must have made Annie dizzy. She sits shakily on the nearest chair for a minute.

It is a known fact that teeter totters or see saws, or whatever you call them) as well as merry go rounds are amongst the most unsafe things that kids could play on, besides rabid animals and child predators’ doorsteps. That anyone would build such monstrosities is a horrifying mystery. That the playground next to the post office hasn’t bulldozed theirs is a crime. It’s a tragedy waiting to happen.

Annie puts her birth certificate in her purse alongside the massive form she filled out at the post ofice. Ready to return it the next day.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Starn tests the straps holding him to the gurney. They seem sturdy enough, but they appear to be fastened loosely, as if whoever strapped him down wasn’t expecting him to attempt to remove them. It seems that he could free himself if he is careful to be unnoticed. Starn dislodges an IV from his arm in the process. This is quite painful, and his eyes blur, thoug he doesn’t cry out, whether from shock or from courage he couldn’t say.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Several employees walk past as Jack is reading the labels, heading to their lunch break. Well, so much for feigning ignorance. Speaking of lunch, it has been a while since Jack ate, and he is pretty damned hungry.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Like an epileptic marrionette, Stan moves, first one limb, then another, finally uprighting himself shoulders first, legs working their way together, arms dangling, head bowed. Gravity constantly tugs at him, seeking to pull him back Down, but with constant minor adjustments, Stan can remain vertical.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Jeremy is walking down a long, poorly lit, narrow corridor. On each side are doors, mostly closed, and some windows, looking out onto darkness. As he passes one door, he hears angry shouts and crying sobbing from inside. Passing a window, he sees nothing but blood, dripping down the pane. Passing another door, this one large and metal, as of a shipping container, it swings open and he recoils from the bodies inside, some still moving. Jeremy becomes aware after some time that he is being followed. The doors behind him are opening, and the sounds coming from them increase - the figures inside shambling, running, striding, crawling out after him. No matter which locomotion they use, they seem to remain in the same relative location behind Jeremy - a runner never advancing before a crawler, a shambler never falling behind a strider. Even the bodies that do not move seem to somehow always be right behind him. And they all are gaining. Jeremy turns back forward, and only now he sees that he is no longer ahead of the figures, but is amongst them. Some are sobbing, some are screaming ,some are shouting at him, clawing, punching, dragging at him, accusing, beseeching, staring, bleeding. Revulsion and panic rise inside of him, thretening to overwhelm him.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
"No no no no no!"
Joe is less than coherent at this point.
He uickly crawls forward, then rights himself and runs out into the street, trying to shout down the voices. The late hour prevents him from being run over, but Joe is unaware of this as he runs, casting off voices as he goes. He runs for as long as he can, going nowhere, anywhere, somewhere they are not! As he runs, and the pain fills his lungs, the voices fade and reduce in number until only a few are let. Exhausted, Joe doubles over, gasping for breath and coughing dark bile and smoke from inside. As he coughs, his head begins to clear. It seems to be working. He seems to be able to drive them off, for the moment, though some remain, chittering in his head and taunting him.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 18, 2015, 11:40:12 am

Go out and forage

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on March 18, 2015, 11:42:00 am

I sank deep into them, and found a grate going down into a dark tunnel. I open the grate and slip through
(Is this okay?)

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 18, 2015, 11:47:47 am

Shake the last remnants of evil from me. Shake them out vigorously.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 18, 2015, 12:58:47 pm

Quote from: Salsacookies on March 18, 2015, 11:42:00 am

I sank deep into them, and found a grate going down into a dark tunnel. I open the grate and slip through
(Is this okay?)

as an action to suggest? This is fine. However, understand a couple of things.
1) you are now attempting to directly influence a dream. This has mental consequences. (Hardly surprising in a game like this though.)
2) dreams are generally highly symbolic (when they are not highly random). This means that every word choice has a meaning. Words like sink, down, dark, and tunnel are highly suggestive.

While i make no claims to being a dream analyst, I have some familiarity with language and word association. Misinterpreting your action will be fun.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 18, 2015, 03:21:21 pm

((As seen with my own actions.))

Stay like that for a while until I get enough practice with standing up that I don't have to concentrate on doing so.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 18, 2015, 04:32:35 pm

Take a nap.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 18, 2015, 09:03:56 pm

Try to undo the straps.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on March 21, 2015, 02:39:55 pm

Try to lose him by speeding up.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 23, 2015, 05:28:59 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Annie slept fitfully that night, dreaming o a long hospital hallway, filled with children on cots, on the floor, standing in clumps or alone. She passed one child with a lollipop stuck in her ear, and another boy holding his detached arm out, telling a doctor that it was the wrong one, and didn’t have enough green scales, like a lizard. Two girls seemed to be stuck together at the waste, one’s feet dangling out the side, while the other girl’s arm was pinned inside the fusion. They were asking for ice cream. Further on, the wounds grew more gruesome, and less random, with blood becoming evident on skinned knees, bruised elbows, broken bones, lacerations and worse. The random babble of a meaningless dream gave way to sobs, complaints, and silence. Vacant stares haunted Annie as much as the sight of the blood did. She awoke in the morning covered in sweat, with deep purple bags under her eyes - remembering little but troubled nonetheless.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Starn closes his eyes and wishes the straps away, as if they were never there to begin with. Believing that confidence is the key to success, he acts as if the straps were truly gone and tries to stand. The straps hold, and Starn’s thrashing earns him close attention by his attendant, who leans heavily on Starn’s chest to keep him still. “Hold still, you’ll hurt yourself, mister. It’s going to be okay. Tell me, what’s your name?” She talks soothingly but firmly, almost maternally. Starn can’t help but to trust her a little.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Jack leaves “work” and heads out to his familiar hunting grounds - the soup kitchens around town. It is a long walk, however, and he manages to make it to only one before they all close. He gets a small meal of soup and bread - enough to keep him going, not enough to fill him. He is unable even to get a customary doggie bag to take with him today.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Stan enacts a reasonable plan to attempt to train himself to act in this new reality. Unfortunately, it takes more concentration than he currently has to remain vertical. Somehow, each time he concentrates on one aspect of gravity, mass, balance, and direction, another slips from his grasp. In a more lucid moment, Stan discovers himself slumped in a “corner,” - a meeting place between two vertical surfaces - on his knees, half tilted forward, with his chin resting against the wall and his head tilted upward, staring at a … is that also called a corner? That place where THREE planes meet?

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Jeremy sinks into despair, forms grasping him from all sides, pulling him apart. He tries to close his eyes to it all, but they are held open by tiny little hands, and the light glares into him, revealing every stain in his soul. Jeremy tries to escape somehow, anyway, but the chains wrapped about him are tight, leading back into the flesh of his tormentors - those he tormented, and those he couldn’t prevent from being tormented. The bars of his cage wouldn’t bend - he could not escape the things he had done, the things he had seen.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Joe begins thrashing about violently, nearly convulsing in his attempt to rid himself of darkness. The vigorous motion, the pain, and the hacking cough that accompanied it all served to expel the smoke and the voices until inside, nothing remained but silence. Silence and wheezing. Joe lay on the concrete, staring at the streetlight above him, and the dimness beyond where the night sky probably is. After some time, Joe reflects, perhaps unwillingly, on the events of the day. It had not been a pleasant one. Nor a fulfilling one, he ponders, as his stomach joins his lungs in uttering their protests against his current lifestyle.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Edward increases his speed, and loops a few more times to lose his tail. It is of no avail, as he sots the guy again not two blocks before arriving at his parents’ place, this time sitting on a back porch with a beer in hand. The man raises a hand in greeting as Edward runs by. He saw Edward seeing him!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 23, 2015, 05:30:42 pm

((it's always interesting to me when someone's action succeeds when I want it to fail, or vice versa. How I have to play something when I have such a good idea for the opposite is a curious challenge. Thanks guys, for your patience with my slow update speeds :D)

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 23, 2015, 05:40:56 pm

Rest.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 23, 2015, 05:51:59 pm

Oh jeez. Just take it in for a little while, staying where I am. Wrap my mind around the concepts I find myself being assailed by.

Goal: Reaquaint myself with the illusion and learn how to interact with it selectively.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 23, 2015, 06:12:30 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on March 23, 2015, 05:51:59 pm

Oh jeez. Just take it in for a little while, staying where I am. Wrap my mind around the concepts I find myself being assailed by.

Goal: Reaquaint myself with the illusion and learn how to interact with it selectively.

I can't help but laugh a little at the image of Stan, slumped in a corner (and facing said corner), head tilted back, arms dangling by his sides (and pressed against the walls), contemplating mathematics and physics much the way a newborn might. I wonder what the next roll is going to bring to Stan?

Of course, the other characters' situations are pretty amusing too - Joe thrashing the evil out of himself is a work of mad genius, for sure.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 23, 2015, 06:17:25 pm

Loudly lament the situation. If nothing happens, head to the hideout.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 23, 2015, 06:20:02 pm

((Yeah, if I do manage to rebuild my knowledge of reality though, I might be able to selectively shut off pain or something. More likely forget how to walk and break both my legs, but still :P
I'm guessing I'm in a padded room right now?))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 23, 2015, 06:34:29 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on March 23, 2015, 06:20:02 pm

((Yeah, if I do manage to rebuild my knowledge of reality though, I might be able to selectively shut off pain or something. More likely forget how to walk and break both my legs, but still :P
I'm guessing I'm in a padded room right now?))

You still haven't developed the concepts of soft and hard yet. Ahahahahahahahah! Also, you have a near permanent sensitivity to certain background pains due to the fight in the cafeteria from long ago (headaches, hip,and knee if I remember correctly). Overcoming that pain will be a huge part of your character's development if he succeeds.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 23, 2015, 06:37:37 pm

What? You mean some things are more dense than others?
WHAT THE FECK ARE YOU SMOKING MAN

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 23, 2015, 06:46:17 pm

"Starn."

Starn imagines that the ambulance will suddenly crash, due to a car on the other lane suddenly swerving into it.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on March 24, 2015, 09:25:01 am

Stare at him.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 25, 2015, 02:04:34 am

Dumpster diving, part the second! Try outside a restaurant.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 25, 2015, 12:10:04 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Annie spends most of the day on the couch, watching daytime tv. Talk shows, Soaps, infomercials, that kind of thing. Mostly she just lays there, taking it in, sinking into a blue funk.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
"St-" Starn begins. He is cut off by the violent swerving and tire squealing of the ambulance. Fortunately or Starn, the nurse’s position leaning on top of him prevents him and the bed he is strapped to from falling over in the cramped back of the ambulance. He does get a bloody nose from te nurse falling into him, bashing his face with her forehead. “Oooowwwww” Starn and the nurse say in unison, to the melodic background cursing of the driver. The sirens go on, and the ambulance picks up speed.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Outside the soup kitchen, Jack complains about the food. Random passersby look at him funny, but most avoid eye contact. A few, especially women and anyone with small children, find other routes around his location. A couple of the other recipients of the food chime in a little about their situation and the quality of the hospitality they are receiving, though they are divided on this. “These people go out of their way to help us when we are down. It’s rude to bite the hand that feeds you.” “Oh yeah? Look who’s all high and mighty! I wouldn’t feed this swill to a dog! It probably costs them less than fifty dollars to feed us. They could afford to put a little effort in!” “Look who’s talking about effort! Get off your ass and at least try to get a job, you bum! Expecting everyone to do everything for you like some kind of King!” “I have a medical condition” “assface isn’t a medical condition!” “You son of a -“

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Left passes. Stan falls fishward. Someone turns out the macaroni. It’s going to be a looong pillowcase back to reality.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Joe eventually gets up and heads off toward a restaurant. He fishes around for a bit, and comes up with half a pack of moldy bread, still in it’s wrapper. What luck! There are almost three whole buns in this pack! Nearby, a fight seems to be breaking out amongst some folk in front of a shelter.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
“You lost, fella?” the man calls, after Ed stands there glaring for a minute. “You’ve been by my house three times already. Where you trying to get to?” He seems civil, but wary. Something about Ed’s attitude seems to make this guy a little uncomfortable.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 25, 2015, 12:39:40 pm

Eat a bun. Don't mind the mold - even if I remove the visible stuff, shit's already proliferated throughout.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 25, 2015, 01:42:17 pm

Abscond before a brawl starts.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 25, 2015, 01:58:57 pm

Try to get up on all fours and stay there for a while.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 25, 2015, 05:26:59 pm

Get my medical records.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on March 25, 2015, 06:12:16 pm

Fight my way out of my regrets. They can't hold me back, no matter how hard they try

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 25, 2015, 07:48:45 pm

Suddenly one of the ambulance's tires blows out.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on March 26, 2015, 04:12:00 pm

"Just enjoying the scenery, pal."
Go away from him.

Title: Yay! Thursday Update. I'm so great.
Post by: Ozarck on March 26, 2015, 08:57:31 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Annie drags herself off the couch and rummages through her desk drawers for a bit before locating all the medical information she has on file. It’s not a complet medical record, she’d have to talk to a doctor about that, but it’ll do.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
The ambulance arrives safely at the hospital at last, and Starn is carted out the back of the ambulance and wheeled inside. He overhears a conversation between one of the irst responders and someone in white from the hospital. Something about electrical burns, contusions, and a bloody nose. And then a whispered conversation, interrupted by a quick glance his way, and then a hasty move away rom him, out of earshot.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Amused and a little entranced by the results of his complaints, Jack realizes just a touch too late that real trouble was brewing. Fists are raised, and voices get louder. Pushing happens, and Jack is right in the middle of it. He gets hit in the face by a plastic bag reeking of garbage. It’s soft, though, and does no damage.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
At last! Up and down become apparent once more, and Stan finds himself on his hands and knees. Balance is restored. Literal balance, as in, his inner ear is no longer making the world twist and turn every time he moves his head. Time and space resolve themselves in a sparkling moment of clarity, beore muddying a bit, though not back to the morass they were but moments ago.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Being attacked from all sides, Jeremy strikes back. He struggles wildly, pushing, hitting, kicking, occasionally biting, and the images begin to falter. Some look betrayed, some look fearful, some fight savagely on, bt the chains become less and less, and Jeremy finds himself alone again in a dark hallway, the images of the past locked behind doors, seen but through windows, or lining the walls in picture frames. A few still cling to him strongly, but not enough to keep him from moving forward, toward the dim light he sees ahead.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Walking away from the dumpster, Joe pulls out a bun and is about to eat, when the raised voices around him cause him to look up. Unfortunately, he looks up a little too late, and a body collides with his. He is unharmed, but in his fright, he lost hold of the bag. He didn’t se ewhere it went. The bun he was about to snack on is still in his hand, though, if a bit crumpled. The jostling apears manageable at the moment, too, so he doesn’t seem in immediate danger for his life.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
"Just enjoying the scenery, pal."
In a hurry, and still concerned about a tail, Ed runs quickly away, hoping to regain his anonymity before heading back to his parents’ place. He runs a bit longer than he means to, and ends up rather winded two miles away. Mom’s probably wondering where he is by now.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on March 26, 2015, 09:01:41 pm

Excellent! Now slowly try to rise to my feet, using the wall as support.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on March 26, 2015, 10:02:56 pm

((Looks like I'm not ready for altering reality.))

Try to get out of the straps.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on March 26, 2015, 10:04:58 pm

Go to the post office.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Harry Baldman on March 27, 2015, 03:58:01 am

Eat the bun! Then search for the bag! Then run away!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on March 27, 2015, 06:06:36 am

Become worried that was an attempt on his life by Them. Flee in terror.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on March 28, 2015, 07:37:53 am

Shed the rest of my restraint, and move toward the light.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on March 29, 2015, 03:50:47 am

Go to Mom's place.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on March 31, 2015, 08:43:45 pm

((There may be no update this week, depending on how I feel tomorrow. If there is not, we will resume after Easter, for sure.))
Edit: added a second right parenthesis for symmetry.
Edit two: added the 'y' to "may"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - turn 24
Post by: Ozarck on April 08, 2015, 04:38:51 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Annie takes one step outside and her heartbeat races. The overcast sky threatens death by lightning and thunder, springtimem hail and sleet, floods and the sniffles. She feels the panicked need to find her kids and get them inside, before a Kevin Costner movie breaks out the storm breaks.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
While the doctor and nurse are distracted, Starn manages to free himself from the cart at last! For a moment, it’s as if time slows down, and Starn sees the situation clearly. Doctor and nurse ten feet away to the right, the ambulance behind, a cop car behind that. People coming and going from an entrace twenty feet to the right, and the doors to the emergency entrance right before him. He could maybe, just maybe, make an escape, if he were very careful. And Starn is very careful.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
Jack Screams in terror, grabs the thing that hit him, and runs off, knocking several of the combatants over on his way through. He runs blindly for a while, not daring to look behind, but certan of one thing - the sound of pursuit.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Try as he might, Stan can’t manage to get upright. He’s sure he has the mechanics for it in his head, but his limbs just won’t ully cooperate, and his inner ear starts acting up again, leaving him dizy and disoriented on the floor. At least he knows it IS a floor, though. Things could be worse. Or they could be not at all.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Jeremy tries to shake off his regrets and burdens and to move into clarity, but thye continue to cling to him. Instead, he moves into a dim awareness and sorrow as he slowly opens his eyes to his apartment. The weight of his past settles again on his shoulders as if it seeks to drag him back into dark unconsciousness, but it leaes him all to conscious of the world around him in all it’s misery and shame.

Spoiler: The Damned (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Joe stuffs the bun in his mouth whole. It bulges in his cheek and nearly chokes him. Just as he starts to chew, trying to work bits of it down to a more manageable mouthful, the chaos in front of him gets more dangerous, and he turns to flee, having no time to search for the rest of his meal. He runs a little way before he realizes he is running behind someone else. Hey! Tht guy has his bag of buns! Looks like he is going in the right direction after all.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
At last, Ed makes it to his parents home, and sneaks in the back door, wary eyes darting all around to detect any surveilance. Satisfied that he is at last unobserved, he enters the kitchen, where his mother and father look up from a late cup of cofee, mom reading a magazine, and dad scanning te sports section of the day’s news. Ed is sure this is at least the fifth time his dad has read that section today. “Oh, Eddie, there you are, dear. We had begun to worry.” She looks to Father for confirmation of their distressed state, but he barely glances up from the paper. “Son,” He says in greeting.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Xantalos on April 08, 2015, 04:44:47 pm

((RNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG))

Lie there for a while. Recover mental stability.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Salsacookies on April 08, 2015, 05:30:40 pm

Continue to bury my past. Put on a feel good show to help with this effort

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: wipeout1024 on April 08, 2015, 05:38:48 pm

Calm down.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Ozarck on April 08, 2015, 07:21:32 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on April 08, 2015, 04:44:47 pm

((RNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG))

Lie there for a while. Recover mental stability.

((at this point, it was more pysical disorientation than mental. A mind/body synthesis issue, if you will.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: blazing glory on April 08, 2015, 07:23:13 pm

((Careful? I'm not careful, I've been bumbling around the last few turns.))

Stay on the cart, nudge it towards the vehicles as far as I can go, once someone inevitably notices, get off the cart and make a run for the police car.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Ozarck on April 08, 2015, 08:52:33 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on April 08, 2015, 07:23:13 pm

((Careful? I'm not careful, I've been bumbling around the last few turns.))

Stay on the cart, nudge it towards the vehicles as far as I can go, once someone inevitably notices, get off the cart and make a run for the police car.

((In Starn's mind he is careful - what with always checking to see that reality hasn't shifted and all that. Of course, he is also rather insane, so careful is relative.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Teneb on April 09, 2015, 05:54:02 am

Look at whatever was grabbed. Don't stop running.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: SaberToothTiger on April 10, 2015, 08:22:31 am

"Father."
Look around calmly. Things are sure safe in 'ere.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Ozarck on April 17, 2015, 10:51:17 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Annie tries to catch her breath and think, and to an extent, she does. But the images of destruction remain forefront in her mind, babbling incessantly, urging her to ACTION. She isn’t quite frozen in fear, nor is she running down the street babbling madly, but she feels a great need to do something.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Starn remains on the cart and stealthily attempts to evade the prying eyes of the doctors by using the cart to get to the anonymous safety of the parking lot. A little girl walking hand in hand with her mother sees him wiggling the cart away. “What’s the funny man doing, momma?” she asks. Her mother takes one look, and hurries er daughter inside. Panicked, Starn leaps off the cart and runs to the police cars, where he is, naturally, taken down, again, and cuffed, before being led right back to the art and the ambulance. “Easy, there, fella. We’ll get this sorted out. It’ll be okay.” A gruff voice says, as Starn is led to his doom. Soon, the cart, and Starn are wheel inside, and into an elevator with several doctors and two police officers. The air is tense, and few words are spoken.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Hey, why’d someone hit me in the face with a nasty bag of buns?

Jack runs. He seems to leave his pursuer behind, but he keeps going anyway. Before he knows it, he is at the river, running over the bridge

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Try as he might, even the task of lying still is beyond Stan. He flops and wiggles, and keeps trying to get to his feet. He knows it’d be best to wait for his brain to catch up to his limbs, but he just can’t sit still. He can’t get up either, so he ends up just sort of flopping about for a while, making strange grunting noises. Huh. Well, it seems his voice is coming back, anyway.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Some random comedies and a show about friendship on the Lifetime channel ugh, why did I watch that? provide welcome distraction from Jeremy’s worries, and he feels a bit better after a few hours. Restless, but awake and sober.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
"Father."
Ed is calmed by the familiar environment. The clock ticks away like an old friend, and Father and Mother go about their business as usual, mom fussing over Edward, and Dad stoic as always. Ed eats something, and accompanies them to the living room for some late evening television, before both parents head off to bed, leaving Ed to his own devices. “you know where the spare room is, and there are towels and wash-clothes laid out for you.” His mom says before kissing his forehead and going upstairs.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: wipeout1024 on April 18, 2015, 01:06:57 am

Start praying.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: SaberToothTiger on April 18, 2015, 05:57:37 am

Go to my room and sleep cheerfuly.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: blazing glory on April 18, 2015, 06:08:34 am

((I was under the impression the cars were empty.))

Wait until I'm being wheeled out of the elevator.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Teneb on April 18, 2015, 11:44:48 am

Stop and see if loot is edible. Ponder about bums eating buns.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Ozarck on April 18, 2015, 02:38:16 pm

Quote from: wipeout1024 on April 18, 2015, 01:06:57 am

Start praying.

any preferred deity, or just "whoever's up there, hello?"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Xantalos on April 18, 2015, 05:57:13 pm

((Quick, time to elucidate my fail!))

Excersise my voice. Try to speak some rudimentary words.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: wipeout1024 on April 18, 2015, 06:30:29 pm

Quote from: Ozarck on April 18, 2015, 02:38:16 pm

Quote from: wipeout1024 on April 18, 2015, 01:06:57 am

Start praying.

any preferred deity, or just "whoever's up there, hello?"

Hmmm, I guess she'd pray to God.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Salsacookies on April 18, 2015, 10:42:40 pm

See what time it is

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Ozarck on May 08, 2015, 10:18:07 pm

I apologize for the unannounced hiatus. I hit a rough spot for a little while there and didn't feel like thinking much. Please post your interest level in continuing. If I have enough interest this weekend, I will get the next round up Sunday night, and we will go from there. If it takes a little longer for people to post their interest, I will update later this week. If little to no interest, I will abandon the game.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: blazing glory on May 08, 2015, 11:27:35 pm

More non minimalist RtD's running, the better.

Besides, I want to see if Starn ever manages to deliberately alter reality.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Ozarck on May 08, 2015, 11:58:32 pm

Me too, BG, me too.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: wipeout1024 on May 09, 2015, 03:14:57 am

I am highly interested in this continuing.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - back in session
Post by: Xantalos on May 09, 2015, 03:23:47 am

Hey, no trouble. I'm interested in continuing, of course - I find the nematodal mind of what was once STAN interesting to RP.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Ozarck on May 10, 2015, 05:57:31 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Annie prays fervently for a while, not really about anything in particular. But it works, and she calms down. It’s still raining though.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
Impatient, Starn attempts to flee as the elevator rises. This earns him a sedative, administered while everal hold him down, and for the rest of the ride Starn is unable to move at all. He is wheeled eventually into a room. A nurse asks someone to the side “are you sure this is okay? One of them might hurt the other?”
“No, I doubt tht will happen. The other is harmless, and this one is sedated for now. Hmmm,” some papers shuffle. “We might need to put him in a room alone when he recovers though. Anxiety and paranoia. Yes, he COULD be a danger to himself or others. But for now, he’ll be fine. Watch him closely though.”
One more voice offers it’s thoughtful and reasoned input.
“P-p-potato?”

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
Jack pulls a bun out of the bag. Actually, he pulls all the buns out - they’re stuck together. He goes to take a bite but fumbles and drops the lot in a puddle. A nearby dog runs over and gobbles about half the package. Ugh. The rest …. It COULD be edible yet. Soggy. Dirty. Rejected by a street dog. But edible-ish. Maybe.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Stan works his rusty voice for a while. Is that what he sounds like? Weird.
“M-m-manners? Fffffiiiissshhhhh? B-b-abananananananananabababanana?”


“P-p-potato?”

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
Jeremy looks a t the clock. 9:51 A.M.

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
Ed goes to his room and tries to sleep. He begins to doze, when he hears a sound. Is that an intruder? He walks downstairs to check, but finds no one. Nervous, he returns to his room and tries again. Sleep is long in coming, and fitful. Twice mor ethrough the night he finds himself awake, staring out the window looking for the Watchers, or downstairs with a bat in hand, looking for the source of noise. He never does catch them though. Perhaps it was his imagination. Or perhaps not.  He doesn’t know. He awakens in the morning unsettled and tired. And also worried sick about something. But what? It’s hard to remme- his kids!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: wipeout1024 on May 10, 2015, 06:25:13 pm

Walk to the post office.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Xantalos on May 10, 2015, 07:43:41 pm

I-I-I-I nnnneed hhhhhhellllp, ppplllleeeeaseeee.

Articulate my desire for assistance for anyone who can hear me.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Teneb on May 10, 2015, 10:03:28 pm

Mourn the bum buns. Build a funeral pyre for them. Also so They can't get a DNA sample from you.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Salsacookies on May 11, 2015, 10:47:27 am

See what's going on in the news

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: blazing glory on May 11, 2015, 07:51:00 pm

Mumble through the sedatives.

"Nah..who cares about the paper..I'll be fine..

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Ozarck on May 12, 2015, 08:06:08 pm

wonky internet today. will update tomorrow, I think.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on May 13, 2015, 02:36:09 pm

Call my wife and demand her to return home.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - turn 27
Post by: Ozarck on May 15, 2015, 11:42:34 pm

Spoiler: premptive apology (click to show/hide)

I apologize in advance for the format and somewhat clipped writing style this round. Thinking and caring are a bit challenging these days, but I don't want to let you guys down. The quality might suffer a touch, but on the bright side, I am going to try to include more hijinks and real effects from your insanities for a bit. Nothing major today, but .... we'll see.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on May 10, 2015, 06:25:13 pm

Walk to the post office.

6 Annie marches directly to the post office, storms in, and lays all the requisite forms and identification items on the desk, ignoring the line of customers she bypasses on the way in. The man behind the counter looks at her in surprise, white eyebrows arching into invisibility behind his equally white bangs. "What's all this?" he asks.

Quote from: Xantalos on May 10, 2015, 07:43:41 pm

I-I-I-I nnnneed hhhhhhellllp, ppplllleeeeaseeee.

Articulate my desire for assistance for anyone who can hear me.

2 "P-potat-to. N-no g-go-o-d. P-po-tat-o." Your audience seems sympathetic and encouraging.

Quote from: Teneb on May 10, 2015, 10:03:28 pm

Mourn the bum buns. Build a funeral pyre for them. Also so They can't get a DNA sample from you.

1 You fish around in the nearby alley for some combustables, but come up with only soggy cardboard and a copy of Highlights for Children that has seen better days. Nothing lights. It rains on you. A shadow moves in the alley. Is that Them? It must be!

Quote from: Salsacookies on May 11, 2015, 10:47:27 am

See what's going on in the news

3 Wars and rumors of wars. Violence, a human interest story about chickens in the city, and more tragedy and violence. you think you recognize a couple of names. It gets a little muddy, in there.

Quote from: blazing glory on May 11, 2015, 07:51:00 pm

Mumble through the sedatives.

"Nah..who cares about the paper..I'll be fine..

3 You mutter a bit. The guy nearby responds. You have the most delightful, intellectual conversation. or some reason it makes you hungry for hash browns or fries or something.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on May 13, 2015, 02:36:09 pm

Call my wife and demand her to return home.

3 You call your wife. You call her all sorts of names. In your head. You're pretty sure you only said those things in your head. In fact, she doesn't answer though. Her sister does. "She says you are having one of your episodes. She's not coming home until you are reasonable again. What? I'm not going to say that! ...No, you know what he can be l- ... fine Shesaysshelovesyougoodbye" Click.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: blazing glory on May 16, 2015, 12:50:12 am

Fall unconscious.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: wipeout1024 on May 16, 2015, 03:50:27 am

Say "This is for my job application."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Teneb on May 16, 2015, 06:20:12 pm

Decide that since the bun can't be destroyed, it must be avenged. Its destruction was clearly their ploy. Search for a piece of clothing to tie to head. Adopt codename Homeless Snake.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Xantalos on May 16, 2015, 09:18:29 pm

Hmm. Attempt to communicate my sense of helplessness.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Salsacookies on May 16, 2015, 09:37:55 pm

Well, that's lovely. Let's grab a pizza

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on May 23, 2015, 06:36:21 am

Ponder about what my wife considers reasonable.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Ozarck on May 23, 2015, 12:40:19 pm

Spoiler: the Protector (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
"This is for my job application."
A manager walks out from the back room just as you are saying this. It’s like fate has conspired to get you what you want today. She looks at you a little oddly, but invites you back for an interview. After some minutes, as she is sifting through your files, she pauses. “Hmm. Tell me about this car accident. It looks like you spent some time in the hospital afterward, and … oh my. Oh dear.”  A variety of emotions crosses her face as she continues to read.

Spoiler: The Clockwork (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Starn goes out like a light. He slips into a state somewhat like sleep, though more still, more … empty. A state where nothing changes, nothing concerns him, and nothing reaches him.

Spoiler: the investigator (click to show/hide)

Roll: 3
The only cloth that Homeless Snake can find is on his body. He COULD tear up his shirt for a bandana. It’s cold out though, and the shirt is pretty ragged as it is. He does spy, off in the shadows, a figure that must be one of THEM. The destroyers of buns, the enemy of the sane, the poisoners of sports drinks everywhere.

Spoiler: The Quantum Nihilist (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
“I … need … help.” Stan calls out, slowly. It takes forever to form the words. As he does, Stan’s eye turns toward the figure which shares his space. It, too, is supine on a bed, and it seems unresponsive. It moves not at all during Stan’s struggles, and speaks nothing. Exhausted, Stan falls silent, just as a nurse enters the room and begins to check machinery, turn down the bedding, and examine each of the occupants o the room, briskly.

Spoiler: the Tormented (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
Jeremy dresses, and heads out into the bleak world, down the street, to the nearest Pizzaria, where he dines in the late morning quiet. The pizza is filling and satisfying. For once, the demons are kept at bay.
 

Spoiler: The Explosive (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
It’s the same old story: show respect to the customers. Use full sentences and courtesy when selling fireworks, keep all the dangerous stuff locked away from the kids, keep anger in check, and try not to make a big deal about some super conspiracy threatening to destroy us all, all the time. Also, flowers. God knows why, but flowers and chocolates seem to help. Oh and the usual stuff about feelings and listening and respect and spending time with her and the kids and so forth. Sometimes she can be so unreasonable about what is reasonable.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Teneb on May 23, 2015, 01:01:54 pm

Stalk after the shadowy figure, must find the truth.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Xantalos on May 23, 2015, 04:40:46 pm

Quickly, draw in a breath and keep on repeating 'help'. I honestly forget what I was trying to get help for, but keep saying it anyways.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: wipeout1024 on May 23, 2015, 05:15:17 pm

Talk about how I've been trying to move on.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: blazing glory on May 23, 2015, 05:44:36 pm

Explore the empty unchanging void.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Ozarck on May 24, 2015, 04:04:48 am

Quote from: blazing glory on May 23, 2015, 05:44:36 pm

Explore the empty unchanging void.

there's so much .. I just ... I don't even ... what?

You're crazy, man. crazy.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: blazing glory on May 24, 2015, 04:07:23 am

Well that was an enlightening experience.

Try consciousness instead.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Ozarck on May 24, 2015, 07:32:34 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on May 24, 2015, 04:07:23 am

Well that was an enlightening experience.

Try consciousness instead.

No no, we have to see this out. That wasn't an update, just gm commentary :P Next turn, you can try consciousness, heh heh heh. Ahahahaha.


Besides, it'll be fun to write.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on May 25, 2015, 04:10:25 pm

Buy a... no, no, no... THREE chocolate bars AND some flowers! That will calm her down, obviously. That crazy woman, that.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - the award for slowest updates goes to .
Post by: Ozarck on June 03, 2015, 03:16:18 am

Quote from: Teneb on May 23, 2015, 01:01:54 pm

Stalk after the shadowy figure, must find the truth.

(2)  Jack attempts to sneak after the shadowy figure, but trips over an old broken pallet. The figure looks directly at him, and approaches, menacingly. Why is that guy wearing sunglasses at night, in an alley, in this neighborhood?

Quote from: Xantalos on May 23, 2015, 04:40:46 pm

Quickly, draw in a breath and keep on repeating 'help'. I honestly forget what I was trying to get help for, but keep saying it anyways.

(6) Stan begins crying out for help. He keeps this up for a while, and a nurse comes in. She sees he is conscious, and begins talking to him. He keeps repeating the word though, having forgotten what he wanted. (6) He remembers that he was trying to convey a sense of helplessness and trying to refocus his shattered mind, having regained something of a linguistic ability. This revelation doesn't stop his babbling, but he does get the sense that the nurse recognizes his helplessness. She even sits by his bedside for a while, talking soothingly to him.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on May 23, 2015, 05:15:17 pm

Talk about how I've been trying to move on.

(5) As Annie bares her soul, the look on the man's face changes, and he starts nodding sympathetically. "I'm sure we can work something out, Ma'am. I think we might have a position for you, with the recommendation that you take advantage of one of the programs available through the government. We'll call you with our decision in the next couple days." He stands and shows Annie out of fhis officec gently.

Quote from: blazing glory on May 23, 2015, 05:44:36 pm

Explore the empty unchanging void.

(2) Starn succeeds. Turns out, it's empty. And unchanging.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on May 25, 2015, 04:10:25 pm

Buy a... no, no, no... THREE chocolate bars AND some flowers! That will calm her down, obviously. That crazy woman, that.

(6) Ed rushes to the general store and picks up several bouquets of flowers and a stack of chocolate bars. he barely notices the total at the register, and balances his loot carefully as he walks back home - still without a vehicle. Once home, Ed arranges the booty on the dining table careully, perking up one sagging flower, and swivelling this one and that til they stand in perfect array, the chocolates tastefully arranged below. He stands back and admires his work. This should make her happy, he thinks. Then he yells up the stairs, calling her name for thirty seconds before a nagging thought in the back of his head catches up to him ...

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 03, 2015, 07:43:25 am

Oh, right. She's kind of not here.
Call for a taxi towards my wife's sister's home. Remember to take all the loot with me.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 03, 2015, 08:26:36 am

Thank him, and begin walking home.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Xantalos on June 03, 2015, 08:30:47 am

Try to tell this to her.

"Please ... talk ... with ... me. Just ... came back ... to talking."

Essentially try to talk with her in the hope that the act of conversing will spur my development towards normal condition.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: blazing glory on June 03, 2015, 09:31:42 am

Consider the void, then, with an unstoppable random little thought, think about the power of change bleeding into the void.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Teneb on June 03, 2015, 12:02:53 pm

Arm self with pallet for inevitable confrontation

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Ozarck on June 03, 2015, 03:03:25 pm

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 03, 2015, 07:43:25 am

Oh, right. She's kind of not here.
Call for a taxi towards my wife's sister's home. Remember to take all the loot with me.

(2) That's odd. None of the three taxi services in town answer the phone. You try a couple times, to no avail.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 03, 2015, 08:26:36 am

Thank him, and begin walking home.

(6) He looks a little uncomfortable at the tears of gratitude and the hug, which, upon reflection, you realize went on a little too long. You then head home, so caught up in your excitement that you pay little attention to your surroundings. The honks of irritated motorists barely catch your attention as you cross streets against traffic, and the odd looks mothers give you as you babble randomly at their children bother you not in the least. You get home, let yourself and the child inside, and make a cou0le sandwiches for yourself and your guest.

Quote from: Xantalos on June 03, 2015, 08:30:47 am

Try to tell this to her.

"Please ... talk ... with ... me. Just ... came back ... to talking."

Essentially try to talk with her in the hope that the act of conversing will spur my development towards normal condition.

(5) This simple string of words unlocks a flood of language in you, and your dialogue with the nurse becomes more alert and focused. Of course, the conversation doesn't last long, but not because of fogginess. No, the simple matter of your voice being rusty and your throat sore slow you down in the end. the ice chips help, and when she leaves, you settle back in the pillows, feeling more in control than you have in a long time.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 03, 2015, 09:31:42 am

Consider the void, then, with an unstoppable random little thought, think about the power of change bleeding into the void.

(2)The void. it remains empty and unchanging.

Quote from: Teneb on June 03, 2015, 12:02:53 pm

Arm self with pallet for inevitable confrontation

(4) Pulling apart the pallet, you grasp one of the longer, sturdier two by fours with both hands, and turn on your opponent, who pauses and evaluates the situation. He doesn't appear armed, and seems to think better of a direct attack. he doesn't leave, though, but starts to move more warily.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 03, 2015, 03:51:36 pm

Try again.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Salsacookies on June 03, 2015, 04:10:55 pm

Sit down and enjoy my pizza

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Xantalos on June 03, 2015, 04:16:41 pm

Excellent. Rest now. Don't dream.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together - returning from hiatus?
Post by: Teneb on June 03, 2015, 04:36:10 pm

Launch the pallet at the assailant. Aim for the torso. Rush into assailant immediately afterwards for an attack.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 03, 2015, 06:15:46 pm

Bring the child back to their parents.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 05, 2015, 06:23:46 am

((Missed the update for some reason.))

Slowly come back to reality.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on June 06, 2015, 01:39:36 pm

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 03, 2015, 03:51:36 pm

Try again.

(1)
"the service you have requested is not available at this time. Please await contact by the local authorities. Do not resist, and they will not be harmed. -beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep-"

Quote from: Salsacookies on June 03, 2015, 04:10:55 pm

Sit down and enjoy my pizza

(1) A pair of masked men burst into your apartment, knocking your table over as you leap to defend yourself. You note the pizza sliding gracefully down the wall, landing with an audible plop behind the overturned table as you grab up a folding chair to swing at the nearer attacker.

Quote from: Xantalos on June 03, 2015, 04:16:41 pm

Excellent. Rest now. Don't dream.

(3) You close your eyes and settle back. You don't dream. You don't sleep, really. More like relax and doze. Your mind skitters fitfully over half formed concepts and vague notions, sapping much of the benefit from your attempt at rest.

Quote from: Teneb on June 03, 2015, 04:36:10 pm

Launch the pallet at the assailant. Aim for the torso. Rush into assailant immediately afterwards for an attack.

(1) He acts first, and as you swing your makeshift weapon, he rushes in, blocking your swing. The pallet slips from your grip and flies off to the side. You catch a glimpse of it, and another glimpse of a fist swinging right before it connects with your temple.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 03, 2015, 06:15:46 pm

Bring the child back to their parents.

(4) After a pleasant lunch, you begin to grow a little weary, and seek to bid goodbye to your guest. Opening the door, you usher the child outside, and walk down the street with him, seeking his parents, or at least the spot where you met him. You get several blocks along, when the child lights up. "Playground!" he shouts, and runs off. you stand at the corner looking after the child in perplexity, seeing no parents nearby.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 05, 2015, 06:23:46 am

((Missed the update for some reason.))

Slowly come back to reality.

(6) As you slowly awaken from nothingness, you suddenly snap into full focus and sit up with a jolt, sleep paralysis notwithstanding. You are instantly focused, seeing everything in the room with a sharp clarity - too much clarity. every detail, from the ugly stain on the curtain, to the slightly unrhythmic breathing of your roommate, to the faint smell of strawberry scented shampoo underneath the layers of disinfectant, and the random beeps, whirrs, and clicks o hospital machinery. It is all clear, but none of it is familiar, and you have no reference from which to determine if everything is as it was, or as it should be.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 06, 2015, 03:07:36 pm

They're onto me.
Run into my shed and construct as many explosive things as possible and place booby traps near the entrances to my house. Look for anyone shady to buy a gun off-of.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on June 06, 2015, 07:15:22 pm

Struggle

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on June 06, 2015, 07:39:42 pm

Follow through with my swing.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 06, 2015, 07:53:24 pm

Starn buries his face into his hands.

No..I can't be in this place...too different..

Attempt to mentally stabilize myself.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 07, 2015, 07:14:20 am

Retrace your steps, to where you found the child.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on June 10, 2015, 10:16:53 pm

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 06, 2015, 03:07:36 pm

They're onto me.
Run into my shed and construct as many explosive things as possible and place booby traps near the entrances to my house. Look for anyone shady to buy a gun off-of.

(4)Ed modifies some of his fireworks, stuffing them extra full of gunpowder. He then sets them in strategic places around the house, rigging ignition switches primed to go of when doors are open, windows raised, or certain objects moved. He then makes a few discrete phone calls, but the best he can get is an old hunting rifle a certain outdoorsman of his acquaintance might be willing to part with, If Ed can get out to his cabin to pick it up. Cash only, Of course.

Quote from: Teneb on June 06, 2015, 07:15:22 pm

Struggle

(6)Jack thrashes violently, striking out blindly in a panic. After a few moments of intense struggle the shadowy figure crashed back into a wall and slumps a moment before staggering up and dashing off. Jack crashes into the wall opposite. Winded, he shakes his head to get his bearings and watches the man fade from view.

Quote from: Salsacookies on June 06, 2015, 07:39:42 pm

Follow through with my swing.

(5) It's a good hit, and the man goes down like a sack of unconscious. Blood flies, and maybe a tooth. the other man now pulls out a knife and lunges.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 06, 2015, 07:53:24 pm

Starn buries his face into his hands.

No..I can't be in this place...too different..

Attempt to mentally stabilize myself.

(2) Starn tries to focus and become calm, but every beep makes him twitch, and he keeps opening his eyes and looking at something in the room. Were those curtains that color before? Is the time on that clock right? Has it gone backward? Was that chair turned sideways before? what ARE those beeps all about? Starn begins shuddering, uncertain of anything.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 07, 2015, 07:14:20 am

Retrace your steps, to where you found the child.

(3)Annie walks back and forth down the block, but she keeps ending up near the playground, in a different place each time. It's confusing. She can't even see the child this last time. Or maybe that one with the other two is him?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 10, 2015, 10:22:41 pm

Calm myself down, and think.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on June 10, 2015, 10:24:08 pm

See if the man left anything behind.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on June 11, 2015, 03:44:53 am

Dodge to the side, grab his knife hand, and throw a hard right hook to his jaw.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 11, 2015, 03:50:47 am

Argh. Unfortunate that rest not worked.

Try to rest a little more. If it doesn't work/when I feel more rested, open my eyes and see if that nurse or anyone is there.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 11, 2015, 04:09:50 am

Tune out the sounds and just stare at the wall in front of me.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on June 12, 2015, 02:31:39 pm

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 10, 2015, 10:22:41 pm

Calm myself down, and think.

(4-1) Annie stops pacing, but her eyes constantly dart around, looking for the boy, or his parents. All she sees are various kids, and some occasional adults, who may or may not be relatives of the kids. She starts to see some of these people as possible threats. Is that guy taking pictures of those kids with his cell phone?

Quote from: Teneb on June 10, 2015, 10:24:08 pm

See if the man left anything behind.

(3) Jack looks around where the man was, but finds nothing significant. A couple loose rocks, a chunk of brick, and a rotten piece of wood. Oh, and a nickle!

Quote from: Salsacookies on June 11, 2015, 03:44:53 am

Dodge to the side, grab his knife hand, and throw a hard right hook to his jaw.

(3 v. 6) Jeremy dodges and reaches for the knife, getting an ugly slash along his forearm for the effort. He swings wildly, but fails to connect. Blood begins to drip down his arm.

Quote from: Xantalos on June 11, 2015, 03:50:47 am

Argh. Unfortunate that rest not worked.

Try to rest a little more. If it doesn't work/when I feel more rested, open my eyes and see if that nurse or anyone is there.

(3-1)trying to rest only makes Stan restless. He pens his eyes, but all he sees is an unfamiliar form in the other bed, which had been tossing and turning, but is now rigidly frozen, staring at the wall with wide eyed intensity. The room seems to have gotten strangely still.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 11, 2015, 04:09:50 am

Tune out the sounds and just stare at the wall in front of me.

(6) Starn grips the bedrails, locks up, and stares at the wall until the rest of the room fades into grey. The sounds all blend together and he forcefully casts them from his consciousness.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 12, 2015, 03:08:38 pm

Oh no.

Prepare to defend myself.

Keep perfectly still, looking at the still figure. Keep eye contact.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on June 12, 2015, 03:15:19 pm

Pocket the coin and find somewhere to lay low.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 12, 2015, 05:40:15 pm

Take a deep breath and resume my awareness of my surroundings.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on June 12, 2015, 08:07:44 pm

Go get my gun and fire at the intruder

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 14, 2015, 08:43:50 am

Gather up the money necessary and walk to the cabin.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on June 14, 2015, 03:39:33 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on June 12, 2015, 03:08:38 pm

Oh no.

Prepare to defend myself.

Keep perfectly still, looking at the still figure. Keep eye contact.

(4)He doesn't seem to see you. Or really much of anything. He occasionally twitches a bit, and his eyes seem to dart about, almost looking at this, almost looking at that, but always focused somewhere on the wall opposite the beds. Meanwhile, you carefully feel about for something with which to defend yourself against this creep. All you find is the bedding on your bed.

Quote from: Teneb on June 12, 2015, 03:15:19 pm

Pocket the coin and find somewhere to lay low.

(2)You put the nickle in a pocket, but it falls through. You pick it up and put it in another pocket, and look at the hole in the first pocket. ow long has that been there? You come out of the alley thinking to quietly slip away and find a bridge to sleep under or something, but the people out on the streets eye you warily. You see more than one person take out their phones while looking in your direction.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 12, 2015, 05:40:15 pm

Take a deep breath and resume my awareness of my surroundings.

(3) The tick of the clock, the beeping of the machinery, and the table along the wall you are staring at come back into your awareness. You are nervous about looking at the clock. You think the last time you looked The arms were both pointed between the seven and the eight.

Quote from: Salsacookies on June 12, 2015, 08:07:44 pm

Go get my gun and fire at the intruder

(1 vs 5) you back up, but stumble over the other guy and fall backward. The other intruder takes the opportunity to lunge forward, coming down on top of you, wild, red eyes boring into yours as he plunges his knife deep into your chest. You can't even scream.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 14, 2015, 08:43:50 am

Gather up the money necessary and walk to the cabin.

(2) you open your wallet and curse. You just don't have it. Of course, you keep a stash out in a secure place out of town. No banks for you, that'd be like handing Them the money. Of course, they may know about the little parcel of land you own, too. You'll have to be careful.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on June 14, 2015, 03:47:40 pm

 Red eyes... There not real. This means my wounds aren't real. Dammit, I wasted a perfectly good pizza!

Fly into a rage. They ruined my pizza!

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 14, 2015, 06:55:32 pm

Tell myself that you're imagining things.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 14, 2015, 07:02:07 pm

Look at my room mate.

E:Try to figure out why my room/cell mate keeps staring at me.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 14, 2015, 08:18:59 pm

Keep still. Any behaviour changes over a turn's worth time period, or does he just keep doing that?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on June 15, 2015, 11:52:20 am

Panic! Run towards safety! Wherever that is.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 15, 2015, 02:10:54 pm

I shall steal a bike and ride to my parcel of land, dig up the money and conduct the deal.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on June 15, 2015, 08:27:44 pm

Quote from: Salsacookies on June 14, 2015, 03:47:40 pm

Red eyes... There not real. This means my wounds aren't real. Dammit, I wasted a perfectly good pizza!

Fly into a rage. They ruined my pizza!

(1)You try to get angry. The knife in your chest, the blood dripping down your arm, and the red eyes boring into yours, seem to sap your will to fight. Soon, all you know is the piercing pain, and the darkness around those red eyes. The blackness in their center seems to hold something, though. Something you instinctively revolt against.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 14, 2015, 06:55:32 pm

Tell myself that you're imagining things.

(6)As you convince yourself that it's all imaginary, you seem to unlock additional hallucinations: cars veering too close to the sidewalk, dark figures lurking in the woods, strangely elongated teenagers carrying bags of drugs, the sky turning an ominous green. You are almost sure these are imaginary, but they hold a strange power over your mind.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 14, 2015, 07:02:07 pm

Look at my room mate.

E:Try to figure out why my room/cell mate keeps staring at me.

(4) At last, your roommate encroaches once again upon your consciousness, and yo uturn your head to see him staring at you. "What are you looking at?" You ask.

Quote from: Xantalos on June 14, 2015, 08:18:59 pm

Keep still. Any behaviour changes over a turn's worth time period, or does he just keep doing that?

(6)He turns his head and looks right at you. "What are you looking at?" He asks menacingly. You even understand the words, and the meaning behind them.

Quote from: Teneb on June 15, 2015, 11:52:20 am

Panic! Run towards safety! Wherever that is.

(4) You let out a panicked squeak and dart suddenly away, back down the alley and out hte other end. you keep going for a couple blocks before you find that no one is looking at you anymore. mostly because everyone is looking at someone else, over by the park.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 15, 2015, 02:10:54 pm

I shall steal a bike and ride to my parcel of land, dig up the money and conduct the deal.

(4) You snag a bike from a neighbor a block away and ride off, past a park where some woman seems to be having a nervous breakdown (not my problem you think) and head out of town. and hour later, you arrive, winded and sweaty. your stash is right where you left it, and it is enough for the gun. there's enough for a junker vehicle besides, with just enough left over for gas for a week.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 16, 2015, 04:40:08 am

Remember that I'm imagining all of this.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on June 16, 2015, 12:17:29 pm

Stealthily take a peek at what is going on at the park

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 16, 2015, 02:07:36 pm

Get the gun with ammo, the vehicle with gas, pay for  them and return home.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 17, 2015, 02:39:28 am

You.

Convey in my limited understanding (at present) of language that his behaviour is unnerving me.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on June 17, 2015, 07:32:24 am

Close my eyes tightly, and repeat "they're all in my head. They're all in my head."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 17, 2015, 03:59:37 pm

Starn peers back.

"Uh huh."

Stare at him to convey that he is being bizarre.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on June 18, 2015, 08:37:33 pm

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 16, 2015, 04:40:08 am

Remember that I'm imagining all of this.

(3-1)you run onto the playground and start herding children, "Go, it's not safe, it's not safe, come on, go now!" Though deep inside, you believe these threats are not all real, somehow, you just can't help yourself. Other adults come out and start herding their kids away rom you, but there are still kids around without their parents. Teens laugh and point.

Quote from: Teneb on June 16, 2015, 12:17:29 pm

Stealthily take a peek at what is going on at the park

(3)Some crazy woman is running around on the playground. Are the shadows in the woods behind you ... moving? And what's with the sky color? That looks ominous. "She's nuts. Someone should do something" a guy nearby says to you. You look over, startled, and realize you have walked out of the woods and are leaning on the fence along with several others.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 16, 2015, 02:07:36 pm

Get the gun with ammo, the vehicle with gas, pay for  them and return home.

(3) You cycle out to the man's trailer, and buy the gun. turns out, he hasn't got any ammo, though. It starts raining as you near his place so you swap survival tips and stories for a while to wait out the rain. It never dies completely, but you manage to bike home in a dreary drizzle instead of a pouring rain.

Quote from: Xantalos on June 17, 2015, 02:39:28 am

You.

Convey in my limited understanding (at present) of language that his behaviour is unnerving me.

(1)"Potato. Potatopotatopotatopotato." Unnerved by the social interaction, you regress a bit. Inside, you are screaming out actual words and phrases, but you can't gt your mouth to cooperate.

Quote from: Salsacookies on June 17, 2015, 07:32:24 am

Close my eyes tightly, and repeat "they're all in my head. They're all in my head."

(1-1)You all into the darkness, hands reaching out to pull you in, screams returning to haunt you - not that they ever truly leave. There's so much blood - your hands are coated in the stench of it. it won't come out of your clothes. the hands grip tighter, and the sobbing begins. Eyeless stares lock with your gaze, and your lungs feel like they are on fire.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 17, 2015, 03:59:37 pm

Starn peers back.

"Uh huh."

Stare at him to convey that he is being bizarre.

(2)your conversation partner's verbal shift takes you by surprise, and you stare speechless for a minute while he babbles about potatoes, his eyes darting quickly, and his hands raised up toward you, as if somehow beseeching you for help.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 18, 2015, 08:39:06 pm

"I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me."
Apologize for what I have done.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 20, 2015, 02:24:07 pm

Hide my gun in the house and buy some bullets in a gun store I wasn't in today or yesterday.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on June 20, 2015, 05:28:56 pm

Attempt to discern if the woman is one of Them.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 20, 2015, 06:12:40 pm

"Ugh, so they've stuck me in with someone ACTUALLY insane, delightful."

Check out the door.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 20, 2015, 06:15:05 pm

Attempt to say this:

No! Not ... not insane. ... Exposed to the truth behind the world. Nearly killed me. Had to rebuild my mind. Recovering.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on June 23, 2015, 02:58:53 pm

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 18, 2015, 08:39:06 pm

"I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me."
Apologize for what I have done.

(3) You mumble "Sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm so sorry," to whoever will listen, and begin backing away from the crowds in terror.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 20, 2015, 02:24:07 pm

Hide my gun in the house and buy some bullets in a gun store I wasn't in today or yesterday.

(5)Another long hike, and another store. You now have 50 rounds of ammo.

Quote from: Teneb on June 20, 2015, 05:28:56 pm

Attempt to discern if the woman is one of Them.

(5) She's more like one of "Us," than one of "Them." She's muttering something and looks scared.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 20, 2015, 06:12:40 pm

"Ugh, so they've stuck me in with someone ACTUALLY insane, delightful."

Check out the door.

(3) You get a quick glimpse of the door - closed, before a pair of hands clutches at you and the guy is right in your face, staring intensely into your eyes and speaking. You feel as if things around you are shifting again, almost as if none of it is real.

Quote from: Xantalos on June 20, 2015, 06:15:05 pm

Attempt to say this:

No! Not ... not insane. ... Exposed to the truth behind the world. Nearly killed me. Had to rebuild my mind. Recovering.

(6) He mutters about  you being crazy, and starts to turn away. Surprising yourself, you leap out of bed and grip his hospital gown tightly, while explaining the nature of your unreality. Did that guy's eyes just change color?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on June 23, 2015, 04:23:17 pm

Break free of the pit. Think of the pizza I'm missing out on.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 23, 2015, 06:21:59 pm

Kick him off.

"Get off me! You're aggravating this whole place!"

((The best part is I'm pretty sure our insanity's are compatible, reality not being real would explain its susceptibility to randomly change.))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 23, 2015, 07:58:10 pm

Slowly back away, then run.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 23, 2015, 08:29:45 pm

Your eyes are shifting colors. Reality is remembering that it is not real! Forget! Forget that you don't exist!

Compel reality to remain real somehow without killing or harming me.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 23, 2015, 09:48:25 pm

"What on earth are you talking about?! Get off!"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 24, 2015, 02:21:00 am

Get off him.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on June 24, 2015, 08:10:57 am

Scan the crowd for any of Their active agents.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 24, 2015, 01:08:21 pm

Hole up in the house. Wait in hiding.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on June 28, 2015, 03:20:51 pm

Quote from: blazing glory on June 23, 2015, 06:21:59 pm

Kick him off.

"Get off me! You're aggravating this whole place!"

((The best part is I'm pretty sure our insanity's are compatible, reality not being real would explain its susceptibility to randomly change.))

Quote from: Xantalos on June 23, 2015, 08:29:45 pm

Your eyes are shifting colors. Reality is remembering that it is not real! Forget! Forget that you don't exist!

Compel reality to remain real somehow without killing or harming me.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 23, 2015, 09:48:25 pm

"What on earth are you talking about?! Get off!"

Quote from: Xantalos on June 24, 2015, 02:21:00 am

Get off him.

(6v6) Starn kicks at Stan, making contact but doing no damage. Stan steps back, easing the tension a bit, perhaps. (5, 1)Stan remembers that he is not real, and feels himself slipping out of existence. But something holds him in reality, as if the shift refuses to happen.

Quote from: Salsacookies on June 23, 2015, 04:23:17 pm

Break free of the pit. Think of the pizza I'm missing out on.

(3) Light appears, and smell. Jeremy grasps at these sensations, and they come to him, soon, he is swamped by a yellow, sticky substance, and the smell of grease and cheese is overwhelming, all is cheese, all is sauce, and it mixes with memories of flesh and blood. Jeremy gags.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 23, 2015, 07:58:10 pm

Slowly back away, then run.

(4) Annie leaves the scene quickly, not looking back.

Quote from: Teneb on June 24, 2015, 08:10:57 am

Scan the crowd for any of Their active agents.

Jack eyes the woman fleeing the scene. A moment ago, he was sure she was one of Us. Perhaps a double agent? A mole? She's getting away!

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 24, 2015, 01:08:21 pm

Hole up in the house. Wait in hiding.

(2) Ed heads home, but a couple blocks away, he sees an ominous sight - blue and red flashing lights. carefully he approaches. Yes, it's the cops. Yes they are parked in front of his house. there are two cruisers there, so probably four police officers. looks like holing up at home is gonna be out tonight. Ah well, at least it's properly booby trapped.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on June 28, 2015, 03:26:20 pm

"What?"

Shake off all of this disgusting imagery of blood and cheese.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on June 28, 2015, 03:40:37 pm

Search for a safe alley in which I shall hide.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 29, 2015, 12:55:14 am

"Something ... something's odd.

Your eyes just changed color. Why'd they do that?"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on June 29, 2015, 05:20:20 am

Go home.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on June 30, 2015, 07:00:15 pm

Pursue the woman as stealthily as possible.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 30, 2015, 07:35:39 pm

"What? No! They aren't changing color! They've always been like this!"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on June 30, 2015, 08:06:20 pm

They literally just changed color.
...
Where are we, anyway?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on June 30, 2015, 08:29:12 pm

"Maybe they did....."

Starn sighs.

"We're in a mental hospital because you're insane and they think I'm insane."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on July 01, 2015, 01:47:53 am

Mental ... hospital. Would be make sense. Why do they think you're insane? I'm not insane. I'm in the same boat as you are, situationally speaking.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on July 01, 2015, 04:36:03 am

"I don't know why they think I'm insane, everything happened so fast..

"I'm sure everything will be sorted out later."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on July 01, 2015, 04:51:55 am

"I just found out the truth behind the world. I'm not insane either."

STAN looks about cautiously - it wouldn't do to unravel reality before everyone was aware of it not being existent.

"What happened."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on July 01, 2015, 12:47:00 pm

Quote from: Salsacookies on June 28, 2015, 03:26:20 pm

"What?"

Shake off all of this disgusting imagery of blood and cheese.

(1) Compelled, Jeremy reaches out and takes a slice of bloodcheese pizza. It tastes exactly how you'd expect, and turn bitter in his stomach. He awakens, laying on the floor, feeling just vile, with blood on his shirt, a corpse on his floor, an overturned table, an open door, and pizza dripping down his wall. He's pretty sure the howls and screams are in his head, and in addition to a secere nausea in his stomach, his chest burns really badly.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on June 28, 2015, 03:40:37 pm

Search for a safe alley in which I shall hide.

(1) Ed turns to sneak away, but he is spotted by a third cop car cruising slowly down the road. the cop rolls down his window and shouts "You there!" as he pulls the cruiser over.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on June 29, 2015, 05:20:20 am

Go home.

(3) Annie goes home, only to find that she must have locked the door on the way out. Keys, keys, did she remember her keys? What's this little brown paper bundle in her purse?

Quote from: Teneb on June 30, 2015, 07:00:15 pm

Pursue the woman as stealthily as possible.

(4)She doesn't seem to notice you. She is up on a porch now, fumbling around in her purse and muttering something, probably the code phrases. She's probably handing off the Package now.

Quote from: blazing glory on June 30, 2015, 07:35:39 pm

"What? No! They aren't changing color! They've always been like this!"

(2) Starn looks wildly around or a mirror within reach. He'd rush to the bathroom i he weren't buckled to the bed. Instead, he examines every inch of himself he can see. Nothing seems quite right. He can't even remember if the freckles on the back o his hand are where they used to be. he looks back at his roommate, who seems to have grown about six inches of beard since he last looked at him. it's hard to tell, though - it's hard to see him clearly for some reason.

Quote from: Xantalos on July 01, 2015, 04:51:55 am

STAN looks about cautiously - it wouldn't do to unravel reality before everyone was aware of it not being existent.

(2) STAN's roommate begins compulsively checking himself over, as much as he can while buckled to the bed. He seems solid enough, except, it's like he's solid in another reality. Or, maybe it's several realities. Whatever it is, it seems to be bleeding into this one - the walls are now definitely tan instead of beige. STAN reaches out impulsively to touch one, but it feels like everything is very far away.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on July 01, 2015, 12:54:35 pm

See if I have a wound. If I do, use a first aid kit, and call the hospital and say I'm injured.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on July 01, 2015, 07:06:33 pm

Wait until she is done, once she's delivered the package, approach her and tell I'm one of Us.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on July 02, 2015, 04:03:01 am

"Hmm? What's this?"
Open the package.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: GameBoyBlue on July 08, 2015, 08:27:08 pm

Spoiler: Ryan Bonner (click to show/hide)

Name: Ryan Bonner
bio: College Drop-Out(studied carpentry/fine art). A sensitive type, he doesn't actually like too much manual labor especially under the sun, doesn't like loud noises, or impurities in tap water, stuff that doesn't seem to bother most
Affliction: believes there must be something to these radical new age ideas of abundance, ideas that might compel him to take risks that would to others seem to be blind leaps into homelessness or dependency.
Passion: live life impromptly doing things that bring him joy, moment to moment. Has an interest in Daft Punk, Dead Mouse, video game culture, and paleontology(dinosaurs) aswell as ufology, believes in extra terrestrials and regularly listens to channeling from Bashar, who claims to be an ET being channeled through Darryl Anka on youtube. This being mostly teaches these "follow your joy" philosophies.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: CaptainMcClellan on July 09, 2015, 02:50:27 pm

Is it too late to sign up? ( If so PTW )

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on July 09, 2015, 02:52:50 pm

Try to get out of the buckles to check myself more fully.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on July 09, 2015, 03:54:18 pm

Quote from: CaptainMcClellan on July 09, 2015, 02:50:27 pm

Is it too late to sign up? ( If so PTW )

Eh, I seem to lose players fairly regularly, so welcome aboard.

Quote from: GameBoyBlue on July 08, 2015, 08:27:08 pm

Spoiler: Ryan Bonner (click to show/hide)

Name: Ryan Bonner
bio: College Drop-Out(studied carpentry/fine art). A sensitive type, he doesn't actually like too much manual labor especially under the sun, doesn't like loud noises, or impurities in tap water, stuff that doesn't seem to bother most
Affliction: believes there must be something to these radical new age ideas of abundance, ideas that might compel him to take risks that would to others seem to be blind leaps into homelessness or dependency.
Passion: live life impromptly doing things that bring him joy, moment to moment. Has an interest in Daft Punk, Dead Mouse, video game culture, and paleontology(dinosaurs) aswell as ufology, believes in extra terrestrials and regularly listens to channeling from Bashar, who claims to be an ET being channeled through Darryl Anka on youtube. This being mostly teaches these "follow your joy" philosophies.

Could you explain this affliction more? He has a compulsion to ... try different things?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on July 15, 2015, 06:53:56 am

Run away through tight alleys, where a car won't be able to follow me.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on July 17, 2015, 02:45:08 pm

Quote from: Salsacookies on July 01, 2015, 12:54:35 pm

See if I have a wound. If I do, use a first aid kit, and call the hospital and say I'm injured.

(3)Jeremy looks down at his chest, peeling his shirt off to do so. A strange black stain, in the form of a long, thin line, runs down his chest. The skin doesn't seem broken, however. Something eels oily inside, but it is difficult to tell if that is more than merely reaction to seeing the stain.

Quote from: wipeout1024 on July 02, 2015, 04:03:01 am

"Hmm? What's this?"
Open the package.

(1)Annie pulls the package out, but fumbles it, dropping it on the porch. hen she goes to pick it up, she kicks it under the door. And then a shadow falls across her, and a voice says: "Don't be afraid. I know. I am one of you."

Quote from: Teneb on July 01, 2015, 07:06:33 pm

Wait until she is done, once she's delivered the package, approach her and tell I'm one of Us.

(4) THe lady drops the package and slides it under the door with her foot. As she turns, you take your cue, and approach stealthily. "Don't be afraid. I know. I am one of you."

Quote from: blazing glory on July 09, 2015, 02:52:50 pm

Try to get out of the buckles to check myself more fully.

(6) Starn unbuckles and rushes to the bathroom mirror. His eyes are light blue, his nose is crooked, as if it had been broken at least twice, his eyebrows are bushy, and his hair is shaggy. Underneath these strange features, tarn recognizes himself, but it isn't really right.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on July 15, 2015, 06:53:56 am

Run away through tight alleys, where a car won't be able to follow me.

(1) Ed runs straight into a parked car, and bounces off. Goddammit. He is helped up by one of the police officers, while the other stands nearby. "Take it easy, buddy. Settle down. We have a few questions."

Ryan Bonner awakens in the darkness, and groggily wonders where he is. For a moment, he can't even remember who he is, but, as his head clears, it comes back naturally. The musty smell, and subtle noises of activity above remind him, too, of the basement cot he is currently renting rom a college acquaintance.

Quote from: CaptainMcClellan on July 09, 2015, 02:50:27 pm

Is it too late to sign up? ( If so PTW )

(make a character if you want :D I update fairly slowly,, but I plod along.)

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on July 17, 2015, 03:00:26 pm

See? You changed.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: SaberToothTiger on July 17, 2015, 04:03:42 pm

"No! Leave me alone!"
Run in the other GODDAMN direction.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on July 17, 2015, 07:55:35 pm

Back away from the man.
"Who are you?"

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on July 24, 2015, 07:23:08 am

A nudge for anyone still interested :D

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on July 24, 2015, 08:51:34 am

I am.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on July 24, 2015, 09:43:10 am

I am. Is my action in?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on July 24, 2015, 02:58:56 pm

Quote from: Salsacookies on July 24, 2015, 09:43:10 am

I am. Is my action in?

I don't see an action since last turn. maybe you missed the update?

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on July 24, 2015, 03:03:08 pm

My action

Wash off the oil.

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Xantalos on July 24, 2015, 08:56:08 pm

((I'm essentially waiting for Blazing glory since I'm talking with him))

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: blazing glory on July 24, 2015, 09:07:37 pm

((Yeah, sorry 'bout that, having trouble keeping interest.))

"Hrgh, this place isn't good, I have no idea where everything is or is meant to be."

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Ozarck on July 25, 2015, 05:22:29 am

I think I am going to let this die :( Interest is light, and I am a slow updater these days. feel free to petition for it to live though :P

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: wipeout1024 on July 25, 2015, 05:27:24 am

Nooooooo.....

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Salsacookies on July 25, 2015, 08:12:30 am

Okay :( had a good run

Title: Re: Insanity: Roll to Keep it Together
Post by: Teneb on July 25, 2015, 09:57:10 am

Well, it was good while it lasted.

(Also, it looks like I forgot to submit an action since last update... so, sorry)