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This is your starting point. You do not know who you are.
You do not know why you are here. You just know that it's the mayor's fault and that he must die. You are not the only one. I'll be accepting up to 8 players to start, maybe more later if I feel I can handle it.

The rules are heavily inspired by Einsteinian Roulette. It will be bloody. It will be gorey. Limbs will be lost. Lives will be lost. If you die, you may take control of any character into whom you have etched your own burning desire to kill the mayor, but if there's enough interest I might have a queue going. If no one else wants to kill the mayor then you get to start all the way back in the sewer water.

Rolls
1 - you fucked up big
2 - you failed
3 - you failed, but just barely
4 - you succeeded, but just barely
5 - you succeeded
6 - you succeeded so hard that it's gonna bite you in the arse a little bit.
Modifiers are gonna be a very big deal. Permanent modifiers will be super rare, but situational modifiers will be plentiful. E.g. you spend a combat round making sure your rifle is braced and set up nicely, you get a +1 to hit until you shift position. Also note that you can attempt anything, but not everything can possibly result in success

EDIT: note that I will be hiding a few rolls from you where your knowledge of your surroundings is concerned. Perception and Intelligence in particular you often won't see me rolling, but trust me: the rolls will be happening and they will be important.

Combat
Roll off and apply modifiers. If you get:
5-6 above - same as a normal 6.
3-4 above - same as a normal 5
1-2 above - same as a normal 4
0 - essentially a 3 for both combatants

Crits
These determine exactly how good/bad for you your roll of a 1 or roll of a 6 is. If modifiers took your original roll over a 6 or below a 1, then you will have an appropriate modifier added to your crit roll. E.g. you roll a 5+3 because you are ridiculously skilled at this task, you will get a +2 modifier on your crit roll.
6 means "things went as well as could possibly be expected" and 1 means the exact opposite.

Skills
Skills are independent of physical characteristics. You can be a musclebound roidhead with -3 Physique, which means you'll accidentally put your fist through doors when you try to knock. Skills range from -4 to +4, and are modifiers applied directly to relevant rolls. An average human has 0 in all skills. On character creation, you can change your skills as much as you want, they just have to add up to 0. But remember, there are no dump stats. EDIT: any skill of -3 or less will require you to start rolling for everyday tasks.

Physique - applying the right amount of force
Dexterity - assembling a ship in a bottle. Or picking a pocket.
Agility - placing your feet just right as you trail run over difficult terrain
Charisma - hw u doin bby purely vocal and body language, nothing to do with looks.
Perception - oh fuck what the fuck was that fucking noise.
Intelligence - I heard a raspy sound followed by a metallic click... I deduce that I'm about to get shot.
Willpower - ohfuckijustgotshotohgodaaaaaah

Note that weapon skills are not a thing. It's too OP for people to be able to dump Physique and become autoturrets. Not that you'll have a gun any time soon :^)

Name:
(You can't remember anything but that you must kill the mayor. Although you probably should call yourself something)
Skills:
(Only put down your skills which are not the default 0. Remember that the total must add up to zero!)
Perks:
(You can choose one minor perk. A field of aptitude, like +1 to rolls where nuclear physics is concerned. Or, y'know, +1 to hit with assault rifles.)
Appearance:
(What it says in the tin, you'll need to make it fairly balanced though. "So attractive that everyone always gives him what he wants no matter what" is not acceptable, unless you have some sort of serious flaw that balances it, like missing your arms or something)
Condition:
(Your physical condition. If you're missing a leg, put it down here.)
Inventory:
Rags. (You may choose one other item, something low tier like a knife.)