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Name: (whatever, no rules here)
Appearance: (also no rules here, so long as you're at least vaguely humanoid)
Power: (assigned by me at random, don't worry about this until you've posted the rest)

Name: Pylo XIII
Appearance: A slender and tall blob of some sort of green oozing liquid. Vaguely humanoid, as stated. Tall long-coat reaching up to where his nose should be, and the top of his face is covered by a large conductor hat. You can see one eye poking out of it, purely white with a small black iris, pristine amongst the goo that surrounds it.
Power: Channeling - User can channel/harness anything, including energies, powers, emotions, etc, in their surroundings, within themselves, others, so on, and utilize it towards a myriad of possible way of one's capabilities and potential.

Name: Underdetermined.
Appearance: Probably has 2 legs, 2 arms, a torso and a head. After that, the details get fuzzy.
Power: Motion Nullification - User can nullify all forces/motion on contact, regardless of the energy, size and mass.

1 - Critical Fail. You weren't aware it was possible to fuck up like this.
2 - Fail. No progress made. Oh well, there's always next time.
3 - Partial success. You did it, but not to the degree you wanted.
4 - Success. Good job!
5 - Great success. You succeeded and then some.
6 - Overshot. You may have overdone it justa little.

Name: Anything within reason. If you make a silly name, at least be clever.
Species/Race: Preferably some sort of humanoid, we can work out the pros and cons once you lay out some info.
Talents: What makes you valuable to the party? You get two Talent points to start with, distribute them into skills like 'Sword Usage', 'Marksmanship' or 'Diplomacy'. Each level makes you another step above 'average' for that category and thus makes you more likely to succeed.
Trait: Something particularly special about your character, like being able to perform miracles or having an especially acute sense. Everyone gets one, but your species may add additional traits depending on what you are exactly e.g. if you're a rock-man, being nearly invulnerable to slashing weapons.
Inventory: No particular rules here, as long as it's relevant to your talent/trait/race, you can have it (within reason).
Bio: Background on your character. I ask that everyone fills this out, but it doesn't have to be a wordwall.

Name: Peregrin Nix
Species/Race: Hobbit
Talents: Stealth, Diplomacy
Trait: High resistance to mind control, emotional manipulation, etc.
Inventory: Dagger, camouflage cloak, self-tying rope
Bio: An overall pleasant and courteous individual, Nix never really grew up with the sense that other people were as important as him, or had inherent value beyond what they could do for him. When it came to getting what he wanted, this was useful.  In the end, he found Hobbiton society far too drab and boring for his tastes, and his desire for a little excitement caused him to turn to bloody crime.

Name: Osmond of High Rock
Species/Race: Human. Sort of like constantly bipedal monkeys with a lot less hair and better posture.
Talents: Swordsmanship, shield use.
Trait: Osmond was inadvertently the lone survivor of an experiment trying to create a superhuman creature. While all other test subjects died of rapid tumour growth, Osmond miraculously survived, and came out of the program with enhanced regenerative abilities.
Inventory: Shimmering steel bastard sword
Knife
Standard issue shield
Throwing knife (12)
Flare (2)

Bio: Osmond was approaching a would-be midlife crisis when he was chloroformed in an alley. A few unsavory needle-filled days later, he was locked up in a cage by a group of mercenaries trying to evolve humanity by force. Osmond, locked up with a number of other unfortunates, watched as his fellow captives died off, until only he remained. Before his captors could do any more harm to Osmond, they succumbed to a wee bit of absolutely brutal infighting. Osmond was able to escape using the distraction, although he did take a nasty wound on his arm. He was shocked, however, to find that within the span of a few hours, the wound had already closed. From this point on, Osmond served as a hired blade for the highest bidder.

Name: Destination- Mana Sol
Species/Race: Manifested Nature Spirit
Talents:
 Natural Sense of the World's Flow- Being able to sense Magical Flows and people/disruptions in the World's Flow.(Sense detection up)
 Natural Part of the World- Capable of increasing the growth of and manipulating Plants.(Plant Magic)
Trait:
Racial: Nature Spirit- Can be bound by Spirit Traps(And other Magical/Spiritual Bindings), but can also become Immaterial and Materialize.
Will of the World- Has own Will, boost Will checks.
Bound by Rules- Contracted by Murder Inc. Cannot be turned against the team.

Inventory: --
Bio: Contracted by the Scientists of Murder Inc. They managed to create a separation of the Natural Flow of the World's Mana. Playful, and Fun loving. Waiting for the chance to turn on them and reclaim the city.

Name: Anthony Wittinreisen.
Name: Anthony Wittinreisen.
Species/Race: Werewolf
Talents:
Frankensteinian Science: the sills to replace body parts with spares or to upgrade a person with implants of various kinds.
Infiltration (AKA "Breaking and Entering"): The ability to get into and out of places he's not supposed to get into or out of.
Trait: Regeneration. Bits that Anthony "misplaces" regrow over time. this requires lots of food and energy - roughly one humanoid sized victim per standard organ - anywhere from two to five for major organs or limbs. His monthly transformations can increase the speed of regrowth, at the cost of needing much more food.
standard werewolf traits:
three nights a month he goes on a berserk rampage in wolf or wolfman form. He is compelled ot kill and eat at this time. If he does not eat one night, he wakes emaciated and starving, and must eat the next day.
at will transformation: Anthony can switch to his berserk werewolf mode on his own, but once in that mode, he acts as a berserk werewolf, with all the normal rules and restrictions. He can also, via an act of will, transform into a weaker version of the werewolf, and retain his mental capacities. Useful for infiltration. This form is less energetic and less powerful.
Accidental Transformation: occasionally, Anthony will either transform into his werewolf form retaining his human mind, or into his human form retaining his werewolf berserk. He has no control over these occasional transformations, and must sleep a full night or day to return to normal
Inventory: a Crude Operating Room filled with the surgical tools necessary to do transplants or upgrades, field surgeon pack, set of lockpicks, a pair of specialized goggles that can look inside a person's body (has various settings to see bones, neural net, bloodflow, or organs)
one OP-tr 2.7 G12 unit, ifhe can sneak it in under the supervisors' noses.
Bio: Anthony is a natural werewolf - he was born with the trait. Naturally, this made him a target throughout his life. Anthony has had to take care to avoid being hunted for his organs, or just on principle. Somehow, he managed to live a semi-normal life. Normal enough to gain the skills of a surgical doctor, from a shady, third-world hospital. An unfortunate disagreement over pay and living conditions resulted in a rather bloody escape from that facility, and Anthony has been more or less on the run since, living as a lowlife criminal and street doc. He is the hack doctor who upgraded "Plugs" with his cyberwires. his involvement in this activity is what landed him in the unit.

Name: OP-tr 2.7 G12 (Octopede, terminator class, version 2.7, deployment G, unit 12)
Species: Octopede bot (Metal disk the size of a frisbee, with eight flexible limbs emerging, evenly spaced, from the rims.)
Talents: Pistols, Hand-to-hand
Trait: Equipment (arms may retract into the main body, leaving only a fairly mundane disk that may be mistaken for some kind of computer, and will not appear as a weapon on scans. Does not mind not being treated like a person.)
Inventory: semiauto pistol [laser sight], custom pistol holster, combat knife, custom knife sheath [concealed internally], basic metalfixing tools [includes first-aid library]
Bio: Constructed for the express purpose of following the directives:
1: Follow orders from handler
2: Complete the mission
3: Avoid conspicuous actions
4: Minimize harm to self
Lower numbered orders hold higher priority. This unit will follow these orders, as is it's purpose.
Unit has been assigned to this team. Awaiting designation of handler?

Name: Jack Mundane
Species/Race: Humanoid creature, taller and skinnier than one, with six arms and a floating triangle for its head. In the middle of its head lies a single large unblinking eye, and on its back are a pair of black wings, far too decayed to ever fly.
Talents: Throwing, Sewing
Trait: Abaddon's Pit - Jack is able to consume one or more objects and exchange them for one completely different object. However, he cannot control what the outcome will be.
Inventory: A single red scarf that obscures the fact that his head hovers above his body, three decks of playing cards, multiple needles and many, many threads of different colors.
Bio: A long time ago, Jack used to be a human, although he does not remember who exactly he was. What he does remember is that he was a notorious serial killer who tortured his victims before they died, usually peeling off their skin with playing cards. One day, unceremoniously dying via a bus crashing right into him while he stood on the sidewalk, Jack ended up in Hell. Bored with the endless torment, he challenged the keeper of Abaddon to a battle, secretly wishing to steal the power of the Abaddon pit for his own desires. He knew that he would stand no chance against the angel of destruction, so he attempted to trick him. Whilst the keeper showed Jack the pit itself, Jack attempted to throw the keeper in there. However, in doing so, he accidentally slipped and fell into the pit itself. Suffice to say, both Jack's human form and the keeper of Abaddon became what he is today. As he is still partially the keeper, he retains the abilities of the pit itself. Deemed an unholy beast by even Lucifer himself, he was banished from Hell.

As for why he's here - Well, life on Earth can get a little boring from time to time. Who knows, maybe this is what he needs to finally find something he's fully interested in?

Rethi-Eli (Osmond of High Rock)
TricMagic(Mana Sol)
NRDL(Peregrin Nix)
Ozarck (Anthony Wittinreisen)
Egan_BW (OP-tr 2.7 G12)
TrickleJest (Jack Mundane)

ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES (Araki)

AnonymousPotato(Wireshark)
Yoink(Frederek "Plugs" Astlaki)

I have a lot of experience as a player in RTDs, but not much as a GM. This is my first real RTD, so bear with me and don't expect a masterpiece. Basically, this all revolves around you and a few other people(?) attempting to find your way out of a series of different worlds separated by magic Gates, all arranged in a maze-like succession that will (hopefully) one day end up at an exit to the real world. These trials will not be fair, and the pocket-worlds you explore will be varied in many ways such as gravity, dangerous creatures (AKA 'Guardians' or 'Minotaurs'- but not necessarily bull-men.) and different laws of reality. I hope this will be enjoyable for all of us, but updates may be somewhat irregular as I tend to randomly lose energy and motivation this time of year.

Rolls are standard RTD. (1 - Major Failure, 2 - Failure, 3 - Failure leaning towards success, 4 - Success leaning towards failure, 5 - Perfect Success, 6 - Overshot)
Stats kinda don't exist, everything is handled with things like Talents and Traits instead.
Wounds are 'Chunky Salsa', meaning just about anything can be damaged by an attack and there is no static threshold for when you succumb to your injuries.

Name: Anything within reason. If you make a silly name, at least be clever.
Species/Race: Preferably some sort of humanoid, we can work out the pros and cons once you lay out some info.
Talents: What makes you valuable to the party? You get two Talent points to start with, distribute them into skills like 'Sword Usage', 'Marksmanship' or 'Diplomacy'. Each level makes you another step above 'average' for that category and thus makes you more likely to succeed.
Trait: Something particularly special about your character, like being able to perform miracles or having an especially acute sense. Everyone gets one, but your species may add additional traits depending on what you are exactly e.g. if you're a rock-man, being nearly invulnerable to slashing weapons.
Inventory: No particular rules here, as long as it's relevant to your talent/trait/race, you can have it (within reason).
Bio: Background on your character. I ask that everyone fills this out, but it doesn't have to be a wordwall.

The DRD (Dimensional Reading Device) is an odd piece of technology that manifests only when the user wills it to exist. It resembles a floating metal ball with some sort of interface on the front and what appears to be an inlaid camera on the back. It is, however, immaterial, and thus can not be grabbed or destroyed by any means. It scans whenever the user wills it to, and succeeds based on the roll of a six sided die. Depending on result, information may be displayed on the current dimension in order to make sense of things- the information being the differences between it and the 'Hub' dimension. A player may only attempt to scan a dimension twice before they may never attempt to scan the same dimension again. 1s and 2s will fail, 3s and 4s provide semi-reliable information on some differences, 5s provide reliable information on some differences, and a roll of 6 will detail every single difference- and possibly more. As a secondary function, it can scan items to get a better sense of their origin and usage. This operates the same way the main function does, rolls-wise.

Archminotaurs are the minotaurs that hold domain over each dimension. Killing them allows you to improve your character, and they usually carry magical artifacts and riches. Once an archminotaur is neutralized, the dimension it owns is effectively 'beaten' and is thus neutralized and becomes Hub-like(minotaurs are very rare to see in them, and the dimensional attributes are dulled to near nonexistance)

Basically,Grimoires contain different spells that may or may not be related to their color. Remember,even if you book seems to revolve around a theme,it may not have ALL nature spells or ALL ice spells,so be wary of the incoming botched fireball.

Once someone reads a spell out of their Grimoire it will be put on the Spell list.
Grimoire spell lists will be PM'd upon request. You must steal another player's Grimoire to study their books,but if you hear them say a spell you may repeat it.

You have to study a spell to figure out what it means without using it. This requires free time,and lots of it. One spell may be studied per night in your room.

Esskel-Dragon? Skull? Flame?
Onet-Tiny? Jello? Cold? Man?
Tetend-Tiny? Jello? Cold? Man?
Cecena-Tiny? Jello? Cold? Man?
Eeny-Tiny? Jello? Cold? Man?

NAV
blazing glory
Hawk132
AoshimaMichio
Prophet
Lyeos
TamerVirus
Toaster
Beirus
Ozarck
My Name Is Immaterial

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