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A woman lies upon a bed, and several people bustle and buzz around her like bees around a hive. She cries out in pain, and a robed man stoops over her. A flickering blue light spirals away from his hand and into the bedridden woman's forehead. Her cry stops, but her face remains strained and fraught with a smothering pain. A young girl rushes in holding a wet cloth, which is then lain above the woman's eyes. The soon-to-be-mother cries out once more, but wrests control over herself and takes several deep breathes.

The woman screams in pain again, yet again charged with strain. The people surrounding her whisper to her, urge her on, and do what they can to help her pain. The pattern continues for many more minutes: wail, push, urge, relax, pain. And then, in an event that shatters the seemingly crystalline situation, a different sound rings throughout the air: the shriek of a young-very young-child. The woman sinks into her pillows and takes a deep shuddering sigh of relief. The people share glances of contentment and happiness, glad that the fragile scene had finally ended.

The robed man straightens his back, holding the small baby that he quickly wraps in cloth. Examining the baby carefully, the man grasps its hand and turns it over. His face, previously so complacent, undergoes a sudden transformation; the eyes grow wide and the mouth opens slightly, as if to say something, before stopping. The concerned mother stares worriedly at the man, and he silently gives the bundle to her. She mimics the man's action, grasping the babies hand and turning it over. What she sees there defies all expectations she previously had, all she could have.

For there, centered squarely on the babies palm, is a peculiar insignia: a radiant sun linked in perfect harmony with a crescent moon.
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SO, YEP. This roleplaying/action/adventure story will be set in a steampunk/fantasy world with the usual cool steampunk stuff and magic. The magic can pretty much do anything (of course if there is the required energy/etc.), since in this particular story it will basically be... the alphabet of the universe (except this alphabet has millions upon millions of runes/symbols, with more constantly being discovered.) Some runes are rarer than others, some you have to discover, some take more energy than others, etc. It is also worth noting that many 'new' runes will be combinations of old ones.

The technology is also limitless, although it is initially steampunk/clockwerk (Although clockwerk can still be very extensive. It isn't as pure sandbox as the magic is, but it's still there.) Like runes, more technological advancements are constantly being discovered, and the new ones are usually adopted and utilized much faster than new runes are. The player-characters, can, of course, discover new runes/technology. Lost technology, runes, etcetera. There will be world events happening out of their jurisdiction, too. Anyways, let's get onto the history/character sheet, shall we, non-existent audience at the time of writing this?
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History will be somewhat brief. I would like the characters to find lore for themselves, and I will attempt to provide as many opportunities as I can to do so.

I will accept 4 players at once, although some can die and be replaced. Keep in mind that your starting position doesn't really lock you to a certain path, it just starts you along one. Also keep in mind that each character has a Sun Sign, and that there are special powers and abilities associated with the Sun Sign that the players must discover. There will be much to discover, much going on, and hopefully much story. This will, also hopefully, be very sandboxy, so feel free to try to invent stuff, discover stuff, kill stuff, do stuff, etc. stuff. Stuff. Yeah.

I should also probably make a map sometime soon, but we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

   This is my attempt at a relatively 'simple' RtD. There will be no traits, no goal, no complex inventory and injury system (you can lose and regenerate limbs, that's it), just a fight to the death, many rounds, and a prize to the victor of each round. Now, let us detail some of the things that aren't very simple in this RtD (which is a decent amount, ironically... I just can stay away from SOME complexity).

   You can pray to gods. This is simple enough, you pray, you roll, you receive what you receive according to your roll. You may pray to any popular, well-known, or even real god. Or you may make up a god on the spot. The rules for making up a god are:

• You must choose a good and bad thing for your god. (IE, BLECH, god of luck and and blindness.) This sets the perimeters for the good and bad things that happen depending on your roll.
• No super-powerful gods. (IE, DUDE, god of one-hit lasers)

You may attempt to combine two things that you have. You will roll to decide if your craft was a success or a failure, and if it was a success, what exactly came out.

Various bonus's to rolls are added depending on different things. Using a mithril spear will award a +3 bonus on a successful attack roll. Bonus's can only affect an action up to +3. However, if you have two items that both give +3 bonus's to something, they will both work. The maximum that double bonus's can go to one object is +6 in total. However, there is no cap on negative bonus's (That's kind of an oxymoron, but whatever). And, rolls can go up or down forever, so it would, theoretically, be possible to achieve a -100 roll.

You may ask the audience for help. Depending on your roll, they will give you nothing, give you something good, or give you something bad. Some items may give you a bonus to this action.
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You can do one major action and one minor action each turn (some bonus's may add to this, such as haste). You can search to find random, various things. In some places you may find secret doors, that lead to horrible monsters/weapon caches/various. There are also traps.

A 'round' will end once all but one person is dead. This person gains a special item.

To join, just post your name and your GRID NUMBER. The grid is, well, a grid, that contains various items. Each item is assigned to a grid number, and if you choose that grid, you get that item. Once six people have joined and posted their grid number, I will start, and then you do actions and so on and so forth.



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  So, sometimes weird things happen when I try to get to sleep.
  I'd be lying on my side or back, and then I'd be unable to move for a few seconds. I would become very panicked for a bit, and then I would be able to move again.
  Also, another thing that happens when I try to get to sleep is that I hear a large sound that jolts me awake. For example, a few days ago I kept hearing what sounded to me like a loud piano note or something.
 

  I just want to know what these things are, if they are common, etcetera. They are a bit disturbing sometimes.

  Also, another thing that happens (when I'm not sleeping, however) is that I'd be walking around or doing something, and then I'd feel very weak and tired and my eyes would dim and I would maybe collapse to the floor and lose control of my muscles for a few seconds and flail my limbs around. Does anyone know what these things are?

So I want to set my population cap to 80, however I have looked around the raws but I just can't seem to find what I am looking for. Any help?

  So, playing 40d in advance.

  I have recently caught 3 dark elf thieves and two kobolds in my cage traps. Now, I want to put them all in a cage and release them, as training for my marksdwarves. However, I used to have three kobolds and when I was trying to cage one, the guy attempting to cage the kobold got interrupted by it and the kobold then got torn apart by my war dogs.

  So, how do I put any enemies into a cage, without them running away?

  So I got DF2010 working, using the Genesis mod, and embarked, not bothering to 'prepare for the journey carefully', and just going, and it turns out that the 'Just going' option is really bad... two useless dwarves, and no planter! So I'm asking you all to help me out, either it be giving me an automatic custom embark or just giving me pointers on what to bring in this new version, as I'm kinda bad at preparing for the journey, even more so in this new version.

Throwing weapons is a good ways to kill people, no?

 I just found my underground pit. I looked around a bit, and saw a Giant Bat, a Giant Cave swallow, and to top it off, I looked at some webs thinking they would be the normal Cave spider webs, but they were not. I noticed the Giant bit and then sat there with my mouth open. I am sure as hell gunna stay off that level.