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scapheap & GreatWyrmGold: -
GreatWyrmGold & Ghazkull: -
Ghazkull & Scelly9: Romance
Scelly9 & scapheap: Work

During the first phase, you'll define relationships between characters.

Every character has a relationship with the person before and after him - so Scapheap should have a relationship with GreatWyrmGold, GreatWyrmGold with Ghazkull, Ghazkull with Scelly9 and Scelly9 with Scapheap. And, of course, relationships are mutual.

Each relationship has a category (the big titles on the relationship table) and an exact description (one of the six options under the category).

For each relationship, there is an expansion: a need, object or location that is somehow tied to the relationship.

Firstly, I will roll 16 dice for you. Then, everyone gets a turn, in subscription order, until everyone has had 4 turns. During your turn, you choose a die from the pool. Then do one of these things:

a) Create a relationship: Select two players who should have a relationship but do not have one already. The number on your chosen die then shows what category of relationship you give them.
b) Refine a relationship: Select an existing, unrefined relationship. The number on your die corresponds to the exact relationship they have, within the subset of the relationship's category.
c) Expand a relationship: Select a refined relationship. Choose either the Needs, Objects or Locations table, and select the category based on the number on your die.
d) Refine the expansion: Select an existing, unrefined expansion. The number on your die corresponds to the exact relationship they have, within the subset of the relationship's category.

Notes:
- You can create/refine relationships between any two players, not just yourself and one of your neighbours.
- It is not important right now who is who in an asymetrical relationship. If, for instance, a relationship is refined as "Parent/Child", we'll decide who exactly is the parent and who's the child later.
- The last die is wild. Meaning the last person to pick a die - in this case Scelly9 during his fourth turn - can choose what it says.
- There should be 2 Needs, 1 Location and 1 Object in the end.

Example: Player A picks a 2 from the pool, and chooses to create a Work relationship between players B and C. Player B then takes a 4 to refine the relationship into "Tradesman/Customer".
Player C decides to give the new relationship some flesh, and picks a 6 for an 'object expansion'. The item is a Sentimental Object. Player D refines it, with a '5', in an "Engraved Silver Goblet".
Players B, C and D could also have created a new relationship instead.

1 Family
1 Parent / son- or daughter-in-law
2 Cousins
3 Siblings
4 Parent / child or stepchild
5 Uncle/nephew or aunt/niece
6 Unrelated, but close as blood

2 Work
1 Ranch hands
2 Miners
3 Supervisor / employee
4 Tradesman / customer (wheelwright, barber)
5 Salesman / customer (snake oil, mine gear, bibles)
6 Professional / client (pastor, doctor, lawyer, banker)

3 The Past
1 Criminal and detective
2 Grew up together back East
3 Reformed criminals
4 War adversaries
5 Both married to same spouse (sequential or tandem?)
6 Bad family blood

4 Romance
1 Former spouses
2 Current spouses
3 Unvarnished lust
4 One-time fling
5 Mail-order bride and her groom
6 Former lovers

5 Crime
1 Crime boss and toady
2 Gamblers
3 Thieves (yeggs, burglars, horse thieves)
4 Faith healer and patient
5 Outlaws (bad men, pistoleros, roughnecks)
6 Chinese opium seller / addict

6 Community
1 Elected officials (mayor, judge, register of deeds, assayer)
2 Society (temperance league, brass band, vigilantes)
3 Church volunteers (lay readers, sexton and gravedigger)
4 Company / citizen (railroad or mine and shareholder)
5 Government / citizen (Indian agent, tax assessor)
6 Sheriff and deputy

1 To get free
1 …of this town, before everyone finds out about you
2 …of a family obligation
3 …of a business commitment
4 …of a relationship with a lover
5 …of your lot in life
6 …of a crushing debt coming due

2 To get even
1 …with this town, and its small-minded inhabitants
2 …with the local crime boss
3 …with the Sheriff
4 …with a family member
5 …with the Chinese
6 …with a rival

3 To get rich
1 …through robbing a stagecoach
2 …through robbing a business
3 …through fraud and trickery
4 …through buying various officials
5 …through violence
6 …through a misplaced trunk full of bullion

4 To get respect
1 …from this town, by bringing down the machine
2 …from this town, by showing everybody who’s boss
3 …from your lover, by proving yourself
4 …from the sheriff, by ratting out your friends
5 …from a family member, by rescuing them from ruin
6 …from yourself, by finally doing it once and for all

5 To get away
1 …from the baying hounds of the law
2 …with murder
3 …from hard-riding vengeance
4 …from an honest woman, ruined
5 …with your reinvention of yourself
6 …with a magnificent swindle

6 To get laid
1 …by anyone, anywhere, to dull the pain
2 …by your ticket out of this burg
3 …by an ambitious and beautiful saloon girl
4 …to prove them all wrong
5 …by your friend’s spouse, to further your agenda
6 …so you don’t die a virgin

1 Residences
1 A filthy buckboard wagon with a ragged awning and barrels for walls
2 A tidy Sears-bought house, crisply painted
3 A permanent room in the Belle-Union Boarding House
4 A gaudy mansion next to the dirt platted as a park
5 The opium den behind the White Star Laundry
6 A squalid apartment above the newspaper office

2 The Bradford Hotel
1 The storm cellar
2 The clerk’s room, safe, and freight office
3 The brothel billiard parlor
4 The saloon
5 A bar girl’s crib
6 The Governor’s Suite

3 The decent part of town
1 The Commercial Bank
2 Sinclair’s Dry Goods and Mercantile
3 The Territorial Sentinel newspaper office and print shop
4 First Church of Christ, Redeemer
5 The railroad depot and telegraph office
6 E.A. Lodge, Dentist

4 Across the tracks
1 The Fraternal Order of the Frontier Lodge Hall
2 White Star Chinese laundry
3 The Belle-Union Boarding House
4 Town jail
5 Eyck’s Tack, Harness, and Stable
6 Boot Hill

5 Up in the hills
1 The Chinese camp
2 The hanging tree
3 The wagon road
4 Gold Creek shanty town
5 The Circle S Ranch
6 The secret cave

6 Indian Country
1 The burnt-out log cabin
2 The bandit hideout
3 The Hunkpatila Sioux camp
4 The prospector’s hut
5 Pilot Rock
6 The Presbyterian mission at Broken Arrow

1 Untoward
1 A three dollar “all night” brothel token
2 A mortician’s black bag and a jug of phenolic acid
3 A vulcanized rubber “womb veil”
4 The skeleton of a Mescalero Apache
5 A Spiritualist’s bag of magician’s tricks
6 An abortionist’s tools

2 Transportation
1 A Kansas-Pacific railroad car
2 A four-horse mail coach
3 A safety bicycle
4 A railroad hand car
5 The guarded mine payroll mud coach
6 A St. Louis and San Francisco railroad boxcar

3 Weapon
1 A blacksmith’s tongs
2 A Sharps lever-action rifle
3 A matched set of Colt revolvers
4 A Sioux war club
5 A crate of old dynamite, weeping nitroglycerin
6 A 12-pound Mountain Howitzer

4 Information
1 An assay note on the minerals in Circle S Ranch soil
2 An overheard conversation about the Gold Creek strike
3 A freedman’s manumission papers
4 A lady’s diary
5 A faded wanted poster
6 A contract with the Pinkerton Detective Agency

5 Valuables
1 The deed to Sinclair’s Dry Goods and Mercantile
2 A promissory note for two thousand dollars
3 A wad of Federal postage stamps wrapped in a kerchief
4 A cage of Napaeozapus insignis, Woodland jumping mice
5 A heavy sack of gold dust
6 The cashbox from the Bradford Hotel brothel

6 Sentimental
1 A newborn baby
2 A pretty locket with a lock of hair inside
3 A tiny oil portrait of a handsome soldier
4 A tear-stained love letter
5 An engraved silver goblet
6 A dying man’s last words

- Do not make a character. Your character will be roughly defined during the first phase of the game, and you are free to fill in the details, but you should not yet think about who your character will be.
- You will have to be available to work out scenes with other characters. These scenes will be a one-on-one affair over any chat program of choice, one player with another. I (as GM) do not have to be around for these scenes, so if all players are a bit flexible about when to play them, this shouldn't be a problem.
- A bit of roleplaying experience may help, though Fiasco is a great intro to the world of RP.
- Most importantly: no powergaming, and no out-of-character stubbornness. Things can go wrong for your character, and they probably will. If you don't want that, I'm sorry, but this is not a game for you. In short: I want you to let your character walk into trouble you saw coming but (s)he wouldn't.
- There is one thing I ask of you: to vote for a setting. The settings will be defined in the next spoiler.

Main Street - A nice southern town.
Boomtown - The wild west.
Tales from Suburbia - A suburban community.
The Ice - McMurdo Antarctic Station.

If you want a different setting, let me know - I can go trough the list of expansions, see if there's anything you'd like. These are the four that come with the base rules.

We play the Boomtown scenario, set in the Wild West.

John Stone, played by Scapheap, is probably the richest man in town. He owns the TwelvesVille bank, as well as a large ranch. He likes to gamble, if the stakes are high enough. Most recently, he won a family heirloom rifle from the Sheriff.
Sheriff Issac "Lonesome" Watkins, as portrayed by GreatWyrmGold, is a very tall, graceful man with wavy gray hair, beard, and mustache. He has been the sheriff in Twelvesville for most of his fifty-odd years on this green Earth, and in that time he's picked up and completely dropped a fair number of vices--women in his younger years, followed by smoking and drinking and most recently gambling. A few years back, he quit gambling. During his gambling years, he confiscated an heirloom rifle from the man who recently became deputy and lost it to the owner of the Twelvesville Bank. Needless to say, the deputy wants his old rifle back. Watkins wants to make it up to the deputy, but he doesn't think the bank owner will part with the antique rifle easily.
Deputy Henry Carls (Ghazkull) does not really care all that much about the rifle. He and his ex-girlfriend are aiming much higher - they want the money from the bank. All of it.
Annabelle Hastinson, played by Scelly9, is ex-girlfriend and soon-to-be partner-in-crime to the deputy. As Stone's hired help, she knows the layout of both the bank and the ranch.