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Basic rules:
 - No PMing to anyone but me, the mod.
 - No Quoting of the Mod in relation to PMs. You are free to quote anything in the thread. You may also paraphrase.
 - Semi-hammers in effect. Days last on a soft 72 hours, unless majority is voting for any player or No Lynch. If a player is hammered, there is to be no more talking. If you accidentally post something after the hammer, you can and should edit out the post.
 - Nights last 24 hours or until all players have submitted an action.
 - Weekends count for 0 hours.
 - There are no extensions.
 - Vote by putting player names in bold and red:  Bold and Red.
 - Use powers by sending a PM to the mod; scum can do this using their Quicktopic.
 - Probably some other stuff that I've forgotten right now, but you know the drill.

- Mafia gain this ability: Mafiakill [DEADLY][KILL] - Once per night, one mafia member can use their ability to perform the mafia kill
(this ability is immune to [WARPING] powers and cannot be sold by a merchant, or used by Town players under any circumstance).)
- There will be a known number of mafia members based on the number of players. Mafia share a quicktopic.

Pick a species before the game begins. A player may optionally opt for a random unique species: i.e. you will be given a random species that no other player has selected or been given.

Species gives you unique protections.

Troll - Cannot die from poison or infection, though you can still spread infection. [CORPSE] actions don't work on your corpse.
Pellucid Llama - You don't show up up in the action reports of [ENLIGHTENING] abilities.
Ent - [TWISTY] powers can never redirect your actions.
Letterbeast - [WARPING] powers don't work on you.
Djinn - You cannot be blocked or protected against, though shields still stop you.
Spider - You cannot be killed by [TRAP] abilities.
Poult - [VILE] powers don't work on you.
Impossibull - You roll a 1d10 on Flaw rolls instead of 1d20 (the flaws tend to be more deadly or disabling in the second half of the list)
Vulture - Your first flaw has no effect on you. All your actions have the [VILE] tag.
Beetleswarm - When you die you leave 1d100 corpses. Resurrecting one resurrects all to reform the swarm. All [CORPSE] actions other than Resurrect have a 50% chance to resurrect you.
Parakeetkin - You start the game in a shared chat with all other Parakeetkin. Within this chat, any Parakeetkin can use another Parakeetkin's day or night action so long as the same action isn't used twice in the same phase. If more than one Parakeetkin tries to use the same player's ability, the owner of the ability takes priority. If you are the only Parakeetkin in the game, you may opt at any time for one other player to become an honorary Parakeetkin. A Bodyswapped Parakeetkin can still access the chat, but can no longer share abilities or create honorary Parakeetkin.
Antmen - You may hold up to two Shields, any you start the game carrying one Shield.
Merfolk - You start the game with a single random one-shot ability guaranteed to be different to your Profession abilities.

The Profession gives you Abilities. Each Profession has several abilities in it, forming a tree. To get later abilities, you have to have earlier ones. At the end of every day that you survive, you gain a new level in any one Profession. Specialise in one Profession, or branch out into several. Remember, you can only perform one action per phase.

Player may optionally choose to start the game with two random professions or two levels in one random profession. If they do, they will gain a random flaw.

==Duelist==
1 - Challenge [TWISTY] (redirect the target's target to you- if your target is using an ability with two targets, you become the second target)
2 - Block (the targets action will fail, but they won't know why)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Duel [DEADLY] [KILL](the target will be killed; if they have a [KILL] action, if possible they will target you with that instead of their original target.)
5 - Riposte [TRAP] [TWISTY] (any action (other than a riposte) that would successfully target your target, is reflected back on the targeter instead)

==Monk==
1 - Atone (remove Curse)
2 - Delay [WARPING](Target's action happens in the next cycle, regardless of whether it could normally happen)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Sanctify [DAY][TRAP][DEADLY] (the last player to vote for your target will die from guilt if the target is lynched)
5 - Resurrect [CORPSE] (bring a player back from the dead).

==Doctor==
1 - Cleanse (remove poison and infection, and blocks flower effects)
2 - Protect (prevent blocks and [KILL] actions from affecting your target)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Infect [DEADLY] (player becomes Infected. They will die in two days time. Everyone an Infected person successfully targets also becomes infected. An Infected person knows that they are infected. While a person is infected, all their abilities that can target someone have the DEADLY tag.).
5 - Triage [UNTARGETED][DAY] (everyone is cured of infection, poison, and doping)

==Spy==
1 - Coverup [VILE] (target doesn't appear on [ENLIGHTENING] action reports.)
2 - Track [ENLIGHTENING](see who your target targets)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Blackmail [VILE] (your target has no vote in the following phase)
5 - Boobytrap [PUBLIC][DAY][TRAP] (the next person who targets your target this cycle will be targeted by a free [KILL] action from your target.)

==Surveyor==
1 - Check Papers (Learn the species of your target)
2 - Poll [UNTARGETED] (Receive a random list of half of all Profession names in play)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Watch [ENLIGHTENING] (See everyone who targets your target)
5 - Spotlight [ENLIGHTENING][UNTARGETED] (Every ability has a 50% chance of being public this night)

==Merchant==
1 - Sell Shield (target gains a shield: the next [KILL] action on them fails. Shields don't usually stack. Gain +1 Gold.)
2 - Sell Sword (target gains a one-shot Duel ability; this appears in Read Palm results. Gain +2 Gold.)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Sell Ability (give a random ability as a one shot. Gain +X Gold, where X is twice the level of the ability given. You don't learn what ability was gifted, though you do learn its level.)
5 - Investment [DAY][UNTARGETED] (if you spend 5 gold, your next night action can be self-targeted.)

==Flowermaiden==
1 - Buttercup (learn whether your target has any [VILE], [TWISTY] or [WARPING] abilities; though you don't learn which or how many.)
2 - Poppy [DEADLY] (target is Doped: they cannot take more than one action in the next cycle. If someone is doped twice in a row they die.)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Lily (learn whether your target has any [DEADLY] abilities (including one-shots), though you don't learn which ones or how many).
5 - Belladonna [DEADLY] (target dies; note this doesn't count as a [KILL] action.)

==Witch==
1 - Read Palm (learn one random tag of one random ability of your target)
2 - Read Entrails [CORPSE][ENLIGHTENING] (learn one of the professions of one random person who targeted a dead player)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Curse [VILE] (the target can never gain new abilities or items)
5 - Hypnotise [WARPING](target uses one of their powers on a second target of your choice; either name a power you think they have or use a random power. This doesn't use up the target's action for the phase).

==Fool==
1 - Randomise [TWISTY] (Randomises the target of actions the target takes)
2 - Ability Swap [WARPING] (swap any power you have, including Ability Swap, with a random ability your target has)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Redirect [TWISTY] (redirect one target onto another)
5 - Bodyswap [VILE][WARPING](you gain your target's species, flaws and status conditions and they gain yours.)

==Assassin==
1 - Frame [VILE] [UNTARGETED] (name an actor and a victim: at the end of the next day a fake [PUBLIC] action report will appear saying the actor acted against the target)
2 - Poison [DEADLY] (the target will die in two days time, they know they're poisoned)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Hide [UNTARGETED] (you cannot be targeted until the end of the next day; you cannot perform any other actions of any kind until the end of the next day.)
5 - Murder [KILL][PUBLIC][DAY][DEADLY] (kill the target at the end of the day.)

==Necromancer==
1 - Medium [CORPSE] (open a chat with one dead player)
2 - Channel [CORPSE] (Use the ability of one dead player)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Consume [VILE][CORPSE](destroy target dead player, they cannot be graverobbed, resurrected, raised or have their entrails read, gain an additional action use next cycle)
5 - Raise Zombie [VILE][CORPSE][WARPING](target dead player kills a target of your choice)

==Doge==
1 - Empower (target may use an additional action (without duplicating) in the next cycle)
2 - Buy Vote [VILE]  (gain your target's vote for the next phase)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Ban [UNTARGETED] (name an ability: all uses of this ability will fail until the end of the next day)
5 - Pardon [PUBLIC][DAY](the target cannot be lynched at the end of the day)

==Thief==
1. False Documents [UNTARGETED] (Name an ability you have: that ability, with its tags, now appears as the ability named in all inspection results until the next time you use False Documents.)
2. Stakeout [ENLIGHTENING][UNTARGETED] (name a profession: you will gain a list of all people targeted by members of this profession, though you won't know who targeted whom.)
3. Gain a random flaw.
4. Plunder (name a non-mafiakill ability you think your target has. If you're right, for the next cycle, gain that ability as a one-shot; they cannot use this ability for this cycle.)
5. Bait & Switch [TWISTY][DAY] (Name two targets: in the following night phase, everything targeting one player will target the other and vice-versa)

[PUBLIC]: If an ability is public, there will be an action report declaring who targetted whom, though it won't say what the action was. [UNTARGETED] [PUBLIC] actions are reported as notquitethere targeted nobody in particular.

[DAY] powers mean you can use them during the day.

[UNTARGETED] abilities don't have a target and don't trigger abilities which change targets or trigger on being targeted.

[CORPSE] abilities can only target the dead.

[VILE] abilities are non-fatal powers that nevertheless show unpleasantness or corruption.

[DEADLY] abilities can kill.

[TWISTY] abilities redirect someone.

[WARPING] make you act when you didn't choose to act.

[ENLIGHTENING] powers seek to investigate the movements of a target.

[KILL] actions are targeted kills that can be protected and shielded against.

Rolling the same flaw twice leaves you with no additional flaw.

Flaws
1. Hardcore (all protects on you fail)
2. Blatant (all your actions become Public)
3. Minimalist (If you ever receive an item from a Merchant or a random ability from a Lender, it is randomly given away to a non-minimalist player if there are any non-minimalist players alive.)
4. Hazy (Each cycle you will be incapable of targeting one player, chosen randomly.)
5. Blinkered (You can only target one player each cycle.)
6. Lender (each cycle, one of your non-mafiakill abilities is gifted as a one-shot to a random player, disabling its use for you.)
7. Pariah (you have no vote)
8. Magnetic (your powers have 50% chance of targeting yourself. Powers with two targets self-target the second target.)
9. Lover (a random living player is picked, if they die, so do you)
10. Intermittent (your abilities only work on even cycles.)
11. Fragile (If you are targeted by a level 5 ability, it will kill you.)
12. Guilty Conscience (You die if your vote is on a town player and they get mislynched.)
13. Wasteful (all your non-mafiakill abilities become one-shot)
14. Afflicted (at the end of each night, you gain 1 additional flaw)
15. Squeamish (all your [DEADLY] powers fail)
16. Unreliable (your abilities have a 50% chance of failure.)
17. Mutation (your Species no longer has any effect.)
18. Corrupt (you may only use [VILE] and [DEADLY] abilities if you have [VILE] or[DEADLY] abilities; if you choose not to act in a phase in which you could have used a one such ability, you will randomly target someone with a random [VILE] or [DEADLY] ability that you have.)
19. Tricksome (you may only use [TWISTY] and [WARPING] abilities if you have [TWISTY] or [WARPING] abilities; if you choose not to act in a phase in which you could have used a one of these abilities, you will randomly target someone with a random [TWISTY] or [WARPING] ability that you have.)
20. Usual Suspect (at the end of every day phase, a fake action report will appear saying that you targeted another random living player.)

Players may be gifted shields, and one-shot abilities. They learn at the end of the night phase what new abilities they have and if their total number of shields has changed.

Merchants may accumulate gold. The only use for gold is the Investment ability. If a player has gold they will be told the amount at the end of each night phase.

Players may be Poisoned, Infected, and Doped. They are informed whether they (still) have any of these statuses and what they have at the end of each night phase. If a player isn't told they have a condition at the end of a night phase then they don't have it. A player is informed if they have been Plundered.

All actions in a phase happen simultaneously. If the order matters, [TWISTY] powers happen first, then [WARPING]. [KILL] actions happen last. Otherwise, where there would be ambiguity, the order is chosen randomly. Hide triggers before any other action.

Game Sequence:
Signups: Everyone sends me a species they would like to be.
N0: Each player is given their professions and is given their alignment; then they can send in a non-[KILL] action.
D1: Day begins. At the end of the day, all survivors gain an additional level in any profession of their choice.
N1: Players use any night actions
D2-N2+: the game continues in this fashion, with new profession levels gained at the end of each day survived.

INTRODUCTION:

A Player (maximum of 10?) picks a State, a Color (Red, Gold, Green, Cyan, Orange, Silver, Purple, White, Teal, Lavender), and from there, they must take control of neighbouring lands and declare their own Kingdom.

Only then can they start a campaign to reunite the lands of Brittania, and forge a new Empire!

If any Player gets eliminated, another can take their color, pick an independent State, and try their hand in the fight for the throne.

TURN ORDER:

The turns of all Players are SIMULTANEOUS. Orders can be sent through Personal Messages to the GM (NQT), or if you're not caring about what people see, in the game thread itself.

For your orders to be valid, they must be bolded using the forum bbcode.

A simple example of a Player's turn:

5 Grain for Defense of Essex.
5 Grain for Investing of Essex.
10 Grain for Conquest of Kent.

You cannot edit your orders once you've send the post! Think twice before posting!!

STATES, KINGDOMS, AND THE EMPIRE:

The map is divided into 49 States, each with its own name. A Player starts with one State (their capital state). Note that said State can be located in a KINGDOM-type State (underlined).

Each Player starts with 10 Grain, which is used to support their forces when conquering and defending, and can be used to invest into states so that they generate more Grain.

Each player starts with a petty King (or Queen) in their capital state. Give your leader a name! Before forming a full kingdom, the collection of states a player owns is sometimes referred to as a 'Petty Kingdom'.

To create a Kingdom, one must control a KINGDOM-type State (underlined) plus minimum of 3 States adjacent to it. Some of the KINGDOM-states have more than 3 States adjacent to them, allowing for some wiggling room when it comes for planning your diplomacy and conquests.

There's special Grain bonus for being a Kingdom: a non-State dependent +5 to your Grain count, and this bonus persists until end of the game (or your early demise).

Once you create a Kingdom, you're viable for creation of a new Empire. The process is more time- and rice-consuming than making a mere Kingdom.

First, you must control at least 6 other KINGDOM-type States, out of total of 10: ESSEX, GLAMORGAN, YORK, LANCASTER, LOTHIAN, ABERDEEN, ARGYLL, UI NEILL, CONNACHTA, LAIGHIN.
Second, your dominion must be continuous; any gaps between your provinces (whether due to rebels, or other Players' conquest) must be filled up with your glorious state color!

JOINT VICTORY

Two players in a formal alliance can gain a joint victory if, collectively, they hold all eight kingdom-type states and, individually, each of their dominions is continuous.

INDEPENDENT STATES:

Non-Player States will always dedicate themselves to defense of their borders, meaning that 10 Grain will always be spent on Defense.

The independent States will never use Grain for Conquests, nor they will Invest Grain to improve their economy. Fools, all of them!

GRAIN AND INVESTMENTS:

Grain is used twofold; to supply soldiers fighting abroad or defending the states, or to improve the economy of the state.

If you do not dedicate any Grain to defense of a province, any opportunistic Player can simply walk their well-fed soldiers into it and automatically take control of the state!
The more Grain you dedicate for defense, the greater chances of repelling the enemy. Same with conquering your neighbours; the more Grain you set aside for the conquest, the greater chances of success.

You can also Invest your Grain in a State that you control. Each State at start lets you use 10 Grain per Turn.
For each 5 Grain Invested into a State, the State will provide you with 1 extra Grain, starting from next Turn.

Example: You have 90 Grain, and your home State, Oxford, provides you with 15 Grain. If you invest half of your Grain, 45, into Oxford, this will raise Oxford's Grain output to 24 (15 + [45/5=9] = 24).

CONQUESTS, DEFENSE, AND THE DIE OF WAR:

Once you decide to conquer some of your neighbours, you must know that each combat is resolved using a d10 die. You can only Conquer States adjacent to the ones you control (or across Seas, look into paragraph below).

Combat formula is simple: d10 + Grain = your number. If you roll higher than the opponents' defending force, you win and the State is yours!

Example: You decide to conquer State of Mide, and dedicate 19 Grain to the task. State of Mide can afford to dedicate only 12 Grain for defence of its borders. You roll is 6, their roll is 4. 19+6 = 25, 12+4 = 16. State of Mide loses the fight and its lands are now yours!

If a State is attacked by more than 1 Player at once, the Grain spent on Defense is spread as equally as possible with any leftover spent against the Player with highest amount of Grain dedicated to the conquest.
If a State is defeated by more than 1 Player at once, the control of the State falls into the hands of the Player that dedicated more Grain into the State's Conquest.

Once a State is conquered, inevitably there will be looting, pillaging and destruction at hands of victorious soldiers. The Grain output of the State is thus HALVED, and the new owner of the devastated land will need to re-invest into it.

KINGS

Each player has a king. If they attack a state with their king, they gain the equivalent of +2 grain to the attack. If they defend a state that contains their king, they gain the equivalent of +2 rice to the defence. If a king gives an attack bonus in their turn, they can't also give a defence bonus that turn. A king can only give their defence bonus for one state in their turn.

Each turn a player can choose to move their king to an adjacent state (this can be across the ocean), or include them in an attack on a province adjacent to the king.

If the king is in a state that is taken over, he will attempt to flee to a random adjacent owned state (a state that was both owned at the start of the turn and the end of the turn). If that is not possible, he dies and all alliances end at the end of the turn, and an heir appears as the new King in the capital state at the beginning of the next turn. If the capital state is occupied, then no new King will appear until the turn following the capital state being recaptured.

FORMAL ALLIANCES

Two players can undergo a ceremony of formal alliance. Both parties must spend 5 grain and declare the formal alliance on the same turn. An alliance is dissolved if either party's king dies or if either party attacks the other or if either party begin a new formal alliance.

Members of a formal alliance get access to the following new actions:

Territory Swap: The player can pick one of their territories to swap for their allied partner's territory. This action only works if both players pick the same territories in the same turn. This costs all the grain the swapped territory produces. If not enough grain is spent by either party, the swap fails. Capital states cannot be swapped.

E.g. Player 1 owns Oxford which produces 5 grain and Player 2 owns Essex which produces 8 grain. They both submit the Territory Swap action, and Player 1 spends 5 grain and Player 2 spends 8 grain and the territories are swapped.

Send Grain: One player can gift the other grain if they are adjacent to one another. It appears as a bonus income in the recipient's next turn. Gifting grain over sea costs 5 grain for the shipment, just like attacking.

Members in a formal alliance can achieve a joint victory (see above).

THE SCARY SEAS OF BRITANNIA:

Seas are numbered 1 to 7, allowing conquest of islands and between Britain and Ireland. Oversea conquest require preparations and preparations require extra Grain; to launch an attack across a sea, you must spend extra 5 Grain on the attack.

Note that this requirement is NOT in effect if you have a land state adjacent to the target - then its assumed your attack simply comes through that land state instead.

Example: You own Ulaid, in Ireland, and decide to attack Ayr, in Britain, and spend 15 Grain on this attack. This means only 10 Grain will be used to attack Ayr, while 5 Grain will be spent on 'preparations'.

Unlike Warped!, which was focused on personal exploration and survival, this is a game revolving around quests (both personal and factional). You take on the role of an active person shaping the destiny of postapocalyptic Norfolk. Here's how to play:

1- Create your character, making sure to give yourself at least one personal goal.
2- When play begins, I will describe where you are at the start, and you'll have a number of quests you could undertake (including personal quests).
3- You choose what you're going to do (the Quest Picking Phase).
4- You'll start travelling and I'll roll on the encounter table and we'll go through the Encounter Phase.
5- Then, if you survive and still want to continue on, you'll arrive at your destination and begin Quest Fulfilment Phase
6- Then, if you succeed you'll do the Quest Reward phase, which might involve reporting back. If you need to travel to report back, you'll roll another Encounter Phase.
7- Then the cycle begins again...

During encounter and quests scenes, you'll roleplay your character, choosing actions for them. Before moving on, you can always take your time and explore a location, talk to people etc. But when you do start travelling, I'll trigger the next phase and make the appropriate rolls.

First decide whether you're playing a mutant, an uploxed, a neozombie, or a human (see next section). Then, decide whether you'll be unaligned or belong to a faction (see their respective sections).

Bio
Name:
Appearance: (you can choose to fill this in after you get your mutation if you like)
Profession: (e.g. Builder, Doctor, Warlord, Spy, Gamer etc.)
Faction: [Either Unaligned, or one of the 10 factions]
Type: [Human/Uploxed/Mutant/Neozombie - not all types can belong to all factions]
Personal goals: (Pick 1-3 goals that you would like to achieve. Achieving these goals is a way to gain experience.)

Stats Stats start at -1. Distribute 7 points across them, ranging -1 to 2
Body (using your physicality): -1
Wits (using your mind): -1
Empathy (dealing with people): -1
[Mutants Only]Weird (using your mutant powers): -1
[Uploxed Only]Connexion (interfacing with the digital realm): -1

Health
Conditions: (none; these add -1 to relevant rolls)
Luck: (normally 2)
[Mutants Only]Hunger: 0
[Uploxed Only]Distance: 0

Rep
(See the bottom of the factions section for your starting rep)
Kudos: 0

[Mutants only]Mutation:
Experience Tallys: (none)

Stuff
Den: (if you're unaligned, pick somewhere in the Radio Free Zone for your safehouse and describe what it looks like: a flat, a bunker, a farmhouse, a truck etc.)
Signature Gear: (choose a single notable handheld or wearable item that says something about your character & gives +1 to relevant rolls)
Inventory: (any junk you pick up during play)

You can be one of the following types:

Uploxed
The uploxed have had their minds uploaded to a digital paradise called Nexus. You have a strong connection still with Earth which prevents you fully embracing Nexus and so it can be a struggle to interact with the digital space. In many ways you are more comfortable controlling and focusing on your physical morph back on Earth.

A morph is a robotic shell the uploxed use to interact with Earth. They control these bodies remotely through radio signals. This means going underground or into metal lined spaces is usually impossible, and the Uploxed cannot operate in areas (like Norwich) not covered by radio signal. If your morph is destroyed, you can always get another one, though its quality will depend on your faction ties and kudos.

The uploxed can choose to have an avatar: a visual representation of how they appear to others in Nexus.

You faction or lack of it decides your morph. You can pick any avatar you want and change it whenever. See sections below for more details.

Uploxed gain the Connexion stat representing how adept they are at using Nexus. They are also functionally immortal. They can suffer Distance as a consequence of failed Body rolls: when Distance reaches 10 they can no longer control morphs and are out of the game. There is no reliable way of decreasing Distance.

Mutants

Mutants are people from the 2020s who were cryogenically frozen and experimented on during that time. Mutants gain a random mutation which is assigned to them by the GM; there are 1000+ permutations. If you like, you can start with 2 mutations at a cost of -1 to a stat of your choice)

One downside is mutants suffer from the Hunger. When this inner starvation grows too great, they flip out and become slathering monsters. Hunger can raise as a consequence of failed weird roles. When hunger get to 10, you become unplayable. You can always choose to roll a new instant mutation by spending 1 hunger. There's no reliable way of decreasing it.

Neozombies

You still inhabit your original body, but now instead of a brain you have a computer inside you. You need to regularly charge yourself with power but otherwise you don't hunger, thirst, etc. You have no Connexion stat (but may gain one in play) so put character creation points only in the other three stats.

Humans

You are a human. Start with +1 luck. You'll need it.

There are 10 factions you can be a member of: the four Uploxed Factions (Eyes of Gaia, GML, Legends, TERRATERROR); the three human factions (The Keep, Land Pirates, Postwick Mob); the two mutant factions (Walt Labs, The Londoners), and the The Church of the New Millenium. If you are a faction member, you can only do your own faction's quests, but you get access to better quests. If you are an independent agent, you can take low-level quests for any faction you have neutral or positive rep with.

Uploxed Factions

Most of the Uploxed faction are robots and cyborgs roaming the wastes. They do have a few human, mutant and neozombies agents.

Uploxed Morphs
Eyes of Gaia - Robo-bugs: pick a creature with more than four legs. Your morph resembles that creature but is about eight feet tall. (E.g. octopus, spider, cranefly, ant, millipede, pillbug, crab). You start with three features associated with that creature (E.g. pincer claws, wings, tentacles). Eyes of Gaia undertake quests to protect nature.

Great Marmite League - Cyberbeast Hunter Guild:pick any mammal- you have hijacked the body of one of those mammals, with a metal exoskeleton and armor. The flesh is atrophied within. Gain three additional features associated with that mammal (claws, bite, great strength, scent etc.). The GML fight other Hunters and hunt down humans for Kudos. They favour direct approaches and displays of overwhelming force.

Hunter Guild: Legends - Cybercryptid: pick a fictional or mythological or urban legend creature: your body is a Frankenstein-like biomechanical mashup made to look like that creature. Pick three features of that legendary creature (acid saliva, towering physique, signature weapon etc.). The Legends fight other Hunters and hunt down humans for Kudos. They favour long schemes and cunning.

Terraterror - Drone: you control a swarm of small flying drones. The number of drones you have is equal to your Terraterror rep x2. Terraterror is an entertainment organisation who gain kudos by filming fights, bizarre occurrences, interviews etc. on Earth.

Bodysnatchers
All uploxed factions include a few bodysnatchers, a kind of neozombie. You're not remotely operated, rather a tiny drone with the personality routine of an uploxed programmed into it has attached itself to a corpse and is controlling it. Not as durable as morphs, the main benefit is you can pass as a normal human. The Keep routinely use metal detectors on new people for this reason. A bodysnatcher isn't a full intelligence and can never rise above +0 wits. They don't feel pain and can push their flesh suit to insane lengths, so the cap on body is +4, which can be reached in character creation. When you destroy a body (or before) you may propeller onto a fresh one.

Sympathisers
Some real humans and mutants become accepted as sympathetic agents of the Uploxed factions.

Human Factions
Humans are mostly second-generation survivors, grown up in a shattered world where most people are gone and killer robots roam the land. Mutants can join The Keep and Postwick Mob.

The Keep: The Keep are the most organised humans in Norfolk, having seized control of the whole of the city of Norwich which they control from an ancient castle on the hill in the centre of the city. You get a room in a castle or a safehouse in town. The Keep engage in quests to make Norwich safe and rescue human survivors.

Postwick Mob: More a criminal gang than anything, they have a walled compound in Postwick, surrounding the tower. As they could turn on the Tower at any point, they can demand a tribute from factions that would rather they didn't do so. Quests involve running rackets, collecting protection money.

Land Pirates: Vicious raiders and human-supremacists who want to wipe out both mutants and robots from the face of the Earth, they live off the spoils of their raids. Quests involve smash and grabs, ambushes, urban exploration.

Mutant Factions

There are two mutant factions and you have to be a mutant or a human to be a member of one of them:

Walt Labs: a pre-collapse company who want to re-establish civilisation, and they best way to do that is improve humanity through use of newly generated mutations. Quests involve weird science and base development.

The Londoners: a gang of hardened mutant warriors who are fighting a war in London against the Eye, they have opened a recruitment branch in Norfolk to recruit and train fighters for their campaign. Quests involve fighting other factions and capturing rogue mutants.

The Church of the New Millenium
The Church are an organisation that was driven out of Norwich by the Land Pirates and now reside in Ipswich. They believe that the Second Coming happened 15 years ago and that they have learned the secrets to bodily resurrection promised in the bible. They are the only faction with radio jamming technology. The Church engage in quests to expand their power across the Earth, protecting and converting living humans.

Neozombies
Most church members have had their brains uploaded into computers which now inhabit their skulls where the brains used to be. They have batteries and cords in their stomach, but other than having a terrible pallor they can often pass as ordinary humans. Like all neozombies, they have no bodily needs and, if kept in good condition, can live a very long time.

Human Believers
You are a child or a woman of child-bearing age brought up in the church. When you are old enough, you will be granted immortality.

Converts
Human and mutants can be converts to the church, and may earn their immortality through raising their faction rep.

Faction Reps
After you've picked your character, copy over the relevant starting rep:

Unaligned
Mutants: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
Tourists:  +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church +0gml +0legends +0terra +0eyes -1pirates
Assassins: -1walt -1london +0mob -1keep -1church +0gml +0legends +0terra +0eyes -2pirates
Apostate: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church +0gml +0legends +0terra +0eyes -1pirates
Runaway: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates
Loner/Saviour: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates
Petitioner: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church +0gml +0legends +0terra +0eyes +0pirates
Pariah: -1walt -1london -1mob -1keep -1church -1gml -1legends -1terra -1eyes -1pirates

Factions
Walt Labs: +1walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
Londoners: +0walt +1london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml +0legends +0terra -2eyes -2pirates
Postwick Mob: +0walt +0london +1mob +0keep +0church -1gml -1legends -1terra -1eyes +0pirates
The Keep: +0walt +0london +0mob +1keep +0church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -1pirates
Church of the New Millenium: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
Great Marmite League: -1walt -1london -1mob -1keep -1church +1gml -2legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
Legends: -1walt +0london +0mob -1keep -1church -2gml +1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
TerraTerror: +0walt +0london +0mob -1keep -1church +0gml +0legends +1terra +0eyes -2pirates
Eyes of Gaia: -1walt -2london -1mob -1keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra +1eyes -2pirates
Land Pirates: -2walt -2london +0mob -1keep -2church -2gml -2legends -2terra -2eyes +1pirates

If you are unaligned, pick one of the options below:

Humans
Loner: Everyone you knew is dead or gone. Start with an extra weapon of your choice.
Petitioner: You've made a deal with the uploxed: gain 20 kudos and they'll uplox you. Until then, you're at their beck and call for any dirty work. Start with neutral relations with everyone.
Saviour: You've got family or friends you want to keep safe. Detail 1-4 people you like. You'll always have a private quest available from these people as if it were a faction quest.
Runaway: You grew up in the Church of the New Millenium but escaped before they made you into a Neozombie. You start with knowledge of some of their secrets and a vehicle you stole to getaway.

Neozombies
Apostate: You were once a member of the Church of the New Millenium. Perhaps you were a true believer, perhaps you were a convert. You're a neozombie now (see above) and you start with a clean slate with everyone except the Church and the Pirates (who hate almost everyone). Both humans and uploxed see you as almost one of them.
Bodysnatcher: You're a freelance bodysnatcher (see above). You're accepted by the uploxed, and can pass as human among everyone else.

Uploxed
Tourist: You're just here to see the sights. Gain a single drone body. You can gain more drone bodies by spending kudos. The only benefit is most people think you're harmless.
Assassin: You're a robot killer for hire. You gain a bipedal armoured chassis, two weapons of your choice, and one novel way of transporting yourself (your choice).

Mutants
Fresh Popsicle
You stumbled out of cryogenic freezing as a relic from the past, without ties or any understanding of what's going on.

Monster
You've been wandering around the wastes for some time. Start with 1-5 additional mutations and take the same amount of hunger.

Any Type
Pariah: You've never been great at making friends. You start with one game-changing artefact from the old world (work with the GM), and negative rep with everyone else.

Experience

Players can gain up to ten experience tallies (any tallies gained over this amount must be spent before your next action or they are lost). You can cash in 5 tallies for any one of the following benefits:
+1 on one of your stats (max 3 in a stat)
Gain a new profession (max 3 professions)
Gain a new favoured action
[Mutants only]Gain a new mutation but take -1 to the stat of your choice (max -2 in a stat)
Change one of your personal goals at no cost

Quests and Quest Rewards

Completing Quests is the only way to gain experience tallies. There are two kinds of quest: faction quests and personal quests.

Faction quests are common knowledge to their faction members and completing these quests gives you various combinations of increased tallies, rep, gear and kudos.

Personal quests are goals you set yourself. You can have up to 3 personal goals at a time. You can add new goals after either succeeding at prior goals or abandoning them. (Each time you abandon a personal goal you lose one luck.) Succeeding in personal goals just give you tallies (though in completing the goal you may also come across gear, change your rep, etc.)

An easy quest is worth one or two tallies, a very hard quest would be worth five or more. Personal Quest tally values are decided by the GM after personal quests are taken on.

Open-ended undirected personal goals will be converted by the GM into actually completable quests. E.g. if you pick "kill all mutants" as your personal goal, it'll be converted into a quest to kill specific mutants, after which you're free to keep the same goal again until they're all dead, or reassess your priorities.

Example Quest:

Carol's Crafts
Requirement: +0keep rep
Carol is trying to make a popstick masterpiece and needs some crafting glue.
Quest Location: Abandoned stationers in north Norwich
Report Location: The Keep
Reward +1 tally, +1 random junk

Destroy the Convoy
Requirement: +2pirate rep, faction:pirate
Accompany a raiding party to intercept a new convoy of London mutant cars coming from the south.
Quest Location: meet at the usual rendezvous point at the city limits.
Report Location: N/A
Reward +5 tallies, +1 random weapon, roll three times on treasure table, +1pirate rep

Find My Brother - Personal
My brother has gone missing in north Norwich and I want to find him.
Quest Location: the warehouse district in north Norwich
Reward: +3 tallies

Under the hood
The system uses a 2d6 (+ relevant stat, +1 if your role is relevant, +1 relevant gear, -1 for relevant condition) roll. 10+ success; 7-9 it works but there's complications; <7 it doesn't work and there's complication. Complications aren't always going to be directly emerging from the situation, though they may do. A complication may sometimes be a condition (like a wound), or loss of gear. You can always overcome a complication by spending 1 luck. If you critically fail a role you used to overcome a deadly complication, you will automatically spend 1 luck if you have it. If you don't, you may die.

Professions and gear add +1 to relevant rolls (max +1 for each). You can gain Favoured Actions by spending tallies. A Favoured Action is a discrete kind of action (like looting, punching, persuading, intimidating, running, sneaking, foraging, using your mutant power in a specific way, etc.), ideally an action you're already good at. Whenever you roll a 14+ when performing that action, it will have extraordinary success above and beyond what is normally possible or likely.

Faction Rep
There are different factions in the world. Players who interact with factions can gain or lose faction rep. Starting faction rep depends on your faction reputation. The faction rep is added to empathy rolls with those factions. Successfully checks, and performing favours for different factions will raise your level. Harming faction members or their stuff is the main way to lose faction rep. Higher levels of faction rep gain you access to higher level faction quests.

Kudos
The uploxed use a digital reputation currency called Kudos. You can spend Kudos to gain favours with Uploxed. 1 kudos = 1 favour. To cash in the favour, either ask for it in Nexus (if you are uploxed) or ask in front of a live camera feed (e.g. in front of a TERRATERROR drone).

More details about the phases below (though you will pick up this in play).

Quest Picking Phase
You will know all quests you're eligible to undertake, though for the factions it's not that there's a job board or anything, but rather these 'quests' represent existing connections, opportunities and tasks you know about. All you need do is declare you're going to do that quest and start walking in that direction and I'll trigger the encounter rolls.

Encounter Phase
When you travel anywhere, I'll roll for you on the following tables.  The world is full of scarcely-looted ruins, rival factions, and so forth. It's almost certain that a journey will be eventful. No encounter will be rolled if you're already in the quest location or very close by. If you have to travel across the map or within a large city like Norwich, then a roll will be made.

Encounter Type Table - Roll 1d6+luck
1 Roll on the table of locations and table of factions and the table of environment.
2 Roll on the table of locations and table of factions.
3 Roll on the table of locations and table of environment.
4 Roll on the table of locations, factions, environment and treasures.
5 Roll on the table of locations, factions, and treasures.
6 No encounter.
7 Roll on the table of locations, environment, and treasures.
8 Roll on the table of locations and the table of treasures.
9 Roll on the table of locations and twice on the table of treasures.

Table of People - Roll 1d12+luck
1  Roll three times on this table.
2  Roll twice on this table.
3  1d3 Heart-hungry mutants.
4  1d6 Land Pirates!
5  1d3 Eyes of Gaia
6  1d6 GML pack.
7  1d6 Legends party.
8  2d6 Terraterror drones.
9  1d4 Church of the New Millenium.
10 1d6 Mob.
11 1d6 Keep.
12+1d4 Unaligned survivor. 

Table of Treasure
(Actually several tables with hundreds of possible results. Guaranteed to be interesting.)

Table of Locations
(Not actually a table: I just pick the most interesting relevant building or landmark on your route.)

Table of Environment - 1d12+luck
1 - Roll twice on this table and once on the table of factions
2 - Roll twice on this table
3 - Deadly alarm system
4 - Serious flooding
5 - Structural damage
6 - Unexplained old world phenomena
7 - Wild animal(s)
8 - Dangerous chemicals
9 - Unruly plants
10 - Inclement weather
11 - High walls or fences
12+ No danger

Quest Fulfilment
Raiding the enemy, rescuing the child, delving into the ruin, seizing the goods, making the drop off, meeting the diplomat... you'll get a description of the scene and will have to make decisions for your characters in pursuit of your goals. Once you've got the goods, you might still need to get home to safety. Where and what point a quest is successful should be clear from the outset.

Quest Reward
Once you've succeeded, often you'll have to report back for your reward. The reward will be known from the off, though might include random elements which are only discovered after completion.

Game End
Warped II will come to an end if/when one faction or an alliance of factions achieve ascendancy. In practical terms, the game will end if all the towers are disabled or all the towers are enabled.

Circles are radio tower ranges. At game start, the Postwick tower is off, and the Dead Zone actively jams signals. Uploxed characters can travel anywhere there's non-jammed signal.

Civilisation Name: [this can be whatever you like]
Colour: [Choose your preferred colour for your civilisation's borders]
Heresy: [pick from the list below. This gives you a special action.]
Species : [pick form the list below. This changes the way one rule works for you. You can pick the same heresy or species as someone else, but not both so have a look at what other people have picked.]
Population: 2 [This starts out at 2 unless something else says otherwise.]
Population Range: 1-2 [Unless stated otherwise, you have population minimum of 1 + the number of cities you control, and a population maximum (cap) of the number of 1 + territories + cities you hold, so 1-2 at the beginning.]

1 - Heterodox
The tolerant Heterodox embrace diversity and cultural interchange, believing that the truth is a prism that splits enlightenment into many beams.
Favoured Terrain: None
Victory Bonus: +2 points for every civilisation alive at the end of the game.
Co-opt - For this turn only, gain the species power of any other species currently in play.
Season: All (can only be used once per season)
Cost: 1 action
Mimic - For this turn only, gain the favoured terrain of one other civilisation currently in play.
Season: Any (once a season only)
Cost: 1 action

2 - Shaker
They like to sit and tremble in awe at the world.
Favoured Terrain: Mountains
Victory Bonus: +1 point for any mountain tile you own
Stonestep - Expand into an unclaimed mountain tile.
Season: Summer, Fall (once per season only)
Cost: 1 action plus the defense of the tile minus 2 (ordinarily, 1 action)
Raise - Convert a non-mountain land tile you own into a mountain.
Season: All
Cost: 2 actions.

3 - Aquatic
They worship the dead Leviathan, and foresee the waters reclaiming all land.
Favoured Terrain: Lakes
Victory Bonus: +1 point for any owned lake tile
Deluge - Channel as many rivers as you like around one land tile that you own. Deluge can only be done once per turn.
Season: All
Cost: 1 action
Marshland - Turn any land tile you own or neighbour that is surrounded completely by both rivers and ocean tiles into a lake. This allows lake tiles next to oceans (usually impossible). If the tile is already a lake, turn it into an ocean tile instead.
Season: All
Cost: 1 action

4 - Levellers
They believe the Final Age will be ushered in only when all the world is completely levelled, one vast empty wasteland.
Favoured Terrain: Desert
Victory Bonus: +1 point for any owned desert tile
Scorch Earth - Convert a non-mountain land tile you own into desert.
Season: All
Cost: 1 action
Brutal Raid - Raid and Raze a neighbouring field or plains tile at the same time (i.e., the tile turns to desert and is no longer owned by anyone, you gain +2 actions for razing and +2 actions if that tile had a field on it). You cannot conquer a tile on the same turn as you brutally raid it.
Season: All
Cost: 2 actions

5 - Bountiful
They believe that the world is already a paradise and they intend to keep it that way.
Favoured Terrain: Forest
Victory Bonus: +1 point for any owned forest tile
Forage - Gain +1 population from a forest tile. Cannot be used more than once on the same tile in the same season.
Season: Summer only.
Cost: 2 actions
Fecund - Convert a plains tile you own or neighbour into a forest tile.
Season: All
Cost: 2 action

6 - Arid
The Arid, survivors of doomed battles with the Leviathan, hate the ocean and call upon arcane powers to eradicate it.
Victory Bonus: +1 for any owned non-ocean and non-lake tiles that were ocean or lake tiles at the start of play.
Favoured terrain: None
Reclaim - Change a neighbouring or owned ocean tile into a desert tile.
Season: All
Cost: 2 actions
Shore up - Remove all rivers bordering a single neighboring or owned tile.  This counts as an improvement action.
Season: Summer, Winter
Cost: 1 action

7 - Vile
These ne'er-do-wells have dedicated their life to destruction and suffering.
Favoured Terrain: None
Victory Bonus: +1 point for every time a civilisation is wiped out.
Sacrifice - Reduce your population by one (down to your minimum population: if you have three cities and five population, you can only sacrifice once). Gain two additional actions for this turn only.
Season: All
Cost: 1 action
Enslave - Conquer a hex and gain +1 population at the end of your turn instead of losing population (when you conquer, your pop cap always increases anyway).
Season: Summer and Winter
Cost: 2 actions + defence of the terrain

8 - Builder
The Builders seek to urbanise the world, turning all in a citadel pointed towards eternity.
Favoured Terrain: None
Victory Bonus: +1 point for any city tile you own.
Tower - Build a city on a land tile (of any kind) you own. Your population must exceed your minimum population to Tower. This action can only be performed once per turn. A tile cannot be Razed and Towered in the same turn.
Season: All
Cost: 1 action
Industrious Improve - Take one Improve action.
Season: Spring, Winter
Cost: 0 actions (once per season only)

9 - Hollow
The Hollow know that they are nothing but their own rejection of what repulses them. One day everything wrong will be outside of them and they pave their way towards this.
Favoured terrain: None
Victory Bonus: +1 victory point for every tile in the longest contiguous chain of tiles with fortifications on them, regardless of tile ownership.
Raise the Wall - Fortify two adjacent tiles that you own.
Season: Spring, Winter
Cost: 1 action
Memory of Wholeness - Place a fortification on any tile which previously had a fortification.
Season: All
Cost: 1 action


10 - Apostate
These are the heretic's heretics, splinter movements that have strange beliefs and little coherence.
Favoured Terrain: None
Victory Bonus: None
Apocryphal Dogma - When you choose Apostate, pick two actions belonging to any other heresies (say, Brutal Raid and Deluge). These are your actions and they have the same restrictions as normal.

1 - Human: Start with population of 3, a population cap of 3 and a minimum population of 1.
2 - The Doge's Men: River lines give +1 defense when defending.
3 - Ents: Forests do not offer a penalty to expanding.
4 - Beetleswarm: When one of your tiles is conquered, attacker loses one more population than usual (usually two population).
5 - Spiders: Can Improve all year round.
6 - Monkeys: Can Raid fortified tiles.
7 - Antmen: Antmen fortifications give +2 defence to the tile.
8 - Vultures: -1 action (minimum 1) required to conquer desert tiles and desert tiles give +1 defence when occupied.
9 - Djinn:  Can Grow on desert tiles      
10 - Merfolk: Ocean tiles that you don't own have 0 defence when expanding or conquering.
11 - Parakeetkin: Can grow fields in forests.
12 - Trolls:  Mountain tiles are +1 defence when occupied and -1 defence when conquering and expanding.
13 - Swine:   Harvesting a tile reaps double the population increase.
14 - Letterbeasts: Can expand in Spring.
15 - Impossibulls: Can cease to exist: on any of your turns you may take your victory score. All tiles you occupy are now uncontested and you leave the game.
16 - Poults: Can build cities on fields and grow fields on cities on plains without destroying either.
17 - Ghosts:  Ignores fortifications and city defence when conquering and fortifications aren't destroyed on conquering.
18 - Mabbling Monks: Once per turn, one of their Heretic actions costs one less action to play (minimum 0).

Types of Actions
All actions cost 1 action unless otherwise stated.
Grow: Convert a plain tile you own into a field tile. (You cannot grow in the same tile as a city.)
Harvest: Convert a field tile you own into a plains tile. Gain +1 population.
Expand:  Take over a neighbouring uncontested territory. This costs +1 extra action per defence of terrain (rivers are ignored).
Conquer: Take over a neighbouring contested territory. This costs +1 extra action per defence of terrain. Both the conquered region and the conquerors lose 1 population, to a minimum of 1. All fields and fortifications in the conquered hex are destroyed.
Dismantle: for one action do one of:
Remove from a tile you own one of: a fortification, a city.
Convert a field you own into a plain without harvesting
or Abandon a territory you own, turning it into a neutral territory.
Raze: Turn an owned plain or field into a desert, this tile ceases to be in your ownership at the end of your turn. Any city or fortification present is destroyed. Gain +2 actions for this turn only.
Raid: Turn a field tile you neighbour into a plains tile. Gain +2 actions for this turn only. A fortified tile cannot be raided. You cannot raid then conquer the same tile in the same turn.
Improve: Change a tile or river line or create a terrain feature, as follows:

Drain: Remove a single river line that borders a tile you own. If a lake tile has no river tiles next to it, it turns into a plain. Deforest: Turn a forest tile you own into a plains tile. Build City: Build a city on plain or favoured terrain you own. To do this, you must have a population number greater than your minimum population. Fortify: Increase the defence of a tile you own by +1 (a tile can only ever be fortified once, and conquered terrain loses its fortifications) Irrigate: Turn a desert tile that you own into a plain if it is bordered by a river line . Channel: Create a river line on a border of one of your tiles that joins an existing river line. A river line cannot form the border between any tile and an ocean tile. If a non-mountain tile is completely surrounded by river lines, it turns into a lake.

Actions for Each Season
Spring   -   Grow, Improve, Raze, Raid, Dismantle
Summer - Conquer, Expand, Raze, Raid, Dismantle
Fall   -   Harvest, Expand, Raze, Raid, Dismantle
Winter   -   Conquer, Improve, Raze, Raid, Dismantle

The winner is the player who's civilisation has the most victory points at the end of the game among the players who are still alive. Victory points are calculated as the number of land territories owned, plus any bonus points given by the player's heresy.

In any given round, players take it in turns to act. The turn order is decided each season in order of population number (lowest first), with ties broken by species+heresy order (heterodox humans first, apostate ghosts last; in case of tie, the lower species wins). A player has a number of actions equal to their starting population (if they increase their population during a turn, it doesn't give them more population to use that turn). If their population is decreased earlier on the season, they will have less actions, but this won't reset the turn order until the end of the season.

E.g. The Purple Nation has five population, the Red Civilisation has four population, and the Yellow Domain has three population: In winter Yellow goes first and conquers two Purple territories. They both lose two population. Even though Purple now only has three population (and only thus only three actions), they will still act after the Red, as the turn order is set at the start of the season.

When selecting a tile to act on, just give its number (e.g. Expand to 12, raze 43, build city on 28).

Terrain types
Desert
Colour: Beige
Defence: 0

Plain
Colour: Light green
Defence: 0

Field
Colour: Yellow
Defence: 0

Forest
Colour: Dark Green
Defence: 1

Lake
Colour: Light Blue
Defence: 1
(If a non-mountain tile is completely surrounded by rivers, it turns into a lake. If a lake tile has no river lines bordering it, it turns into a plain)

Mountain
Colour: Grey
Defence: 2

Ocean
Colour: Dark Blue
Defence: 3
(Oceans do not count towards terrain victory points. An ocean tile that is surrounded by land turns into a lake tile. An Ocean tile cannot be fortified. Ocean tiles do increase population cap like any other tile.)

Terrain Features

City
Shape: Three towers in the colour of the civ
Defence: +1
(Cities add +1 to the base population of a civ. E.g. a civ with three cities can never fall below population 4, no matter how many times they're raided or no matter the number of conquests they are a part of.)

Rivers
Colour: Light Blue
Defence: +1 when conquering civilisation has to cross the river to enter the hex
(Rivers are in between borders)

Fortification
Colour: Same colour as the controlling Civ.
Shape: Shield symbols, the number of which represent the strength of the fortification (usually 1)
Defence: +1

Civilisation: The Leviathan Electorate
Colour: Maroon
Heresy: Aquatic
Species: Doge's Men
Population: 2
Population Range: 1-2
Turn Order: 5
The Electorate are in self-imposed exile from the city state of Sinua after their preferred Doge, the Leviathan, was defeated. They hope to use their superior canalcraft to create a new watery stronghold.

Civilisation Name: Ferngully
Color: Lavender
Heresy: Bountiful
Species : Ent
Population: 2
Population Range: 1-2
Turn Order: 8

Civilisation Name:  Controll Freaks
Colour: Delicious chocolate
Heresy: Shaker
Species : Troll
Population: 2
Population Range: 1-2
Turn Order: 14

Civilisation Name: Principality of Pork
Colour: Pink
Heresy: Builder
Species : Swine
Population: 2
Population Range: 1-2
Turn Order: 21

Civilisation: Organization of Clucks
Colour: Dark Green
Heresy: Builder
Species: Poult
Population: 2
Population Range: 1-2
Turn Order: 24 - 1

Civilisation Name: Mad Nomads
Colour: Purple
Heresy: Arid
Species : Mabbling Monks
Population: 2
Population Range: 1-2
Turn Order 24 - 2

Name:
Appearance: (you can choose to fill this in after you get your mutation if you like)
Profession: (e.g. Builder, Doctor, Telesalesman, Surfer, Basement-Dwelling Gamer NEET, Teacher, etc.)

Stats: Stats start at -1. Distribute 7 points across them, ranging -1 to 2
Body (using your physicality): -1
Wits (using your mind): -1
Empathy (dealing with people): -1
Weird (using your mutant powers): -1

Mutation: (this is randomly assigned to you, there are 1000+ permutations. If you like, you can start with 2 mutations at a cost of -1 to a stat of your choice)
Signature Gear: (choose a handheld or wearable item that says something about your character)
Big dream: (find out why you were mutated, rebuild civilization, escape the city, learn to fly, discover the fate of a loved one etc.... whatever you want)
Conditions: None
Relationship: Name an NPC that you know (they can someone frozen along with you or someone you left behind in the past)
Experience Tallys: None

New Character Creation Options

Any new players (or any players who have retired or abandoned their existing mutant characters) are welcome to create a new Uploxed, Survivor, or Walt character according to the rules below.

Uploxed Character Creation

The uploxed have had their minds uploaded to a digital paradise called Nexus. You have a strong connection still with Earth which prevents you fully embracing Nexus and so it can be a struggle to interact with the digital space. In many ways you are more comfortable controlling and focusing on your physical morph back on Earth.

A morph is a robotic shell the uploxed use to interact with Earth. They usually control these bodies remotely through radio signals. This means going underground or into metal lined spaces is usually impossible. If your morph is destroyed, you can always get another one, though its quality will depend on your faction ties and kudos.

The uploxed can choose to have an avatar: a visual representation of how they appear to others in Nexus.

You faction decides your morph. You can pick any avatar you want and change it whenever.

Morphs
Robo-bug (Eyes of Gaia): pick a creature with more than four  legs. Your morph resembles that creature but is about eight feet tall. (E.g. octopus, spider, cranefly, ant, millipede, pillbug, crab). You start with three features associated with that creature (E.g. pincer claws, wings, tentacles). Eyes of Gaia undertake quests to protect nature.

Cyberbeast (Hunter Guild: Great Marmite League): pick any mammal- you have hijacked the body of one of those mammals, with a metal exoskeleton and armor. The flesh is atrophied within. Gain three additional features associated with that mammal (claws, bite, great strength, scent etc.). The GML fight other Hunters and hunt down humans for Kudos. They favour direct approaches and displays of overwhelming force.

Cybercryptid (Hunter Guild: Legends): pick a fictional or mythological or urban legend creature: your body is a Frankenstein-like biomechanical mashup made to look like that creature. Pick three features of that legendary creature (acid saliva, towering physique, signature weapon etc.). The Legends fight other Hunters and hunt down humans for Kudos. They favour long schemes and cunning.

Drone (Terraterror): you control a swarm of small flying drones. The number of drones you have is equal to your Terraterror rep x2. Terraterror is an entertainment organisation who gain kudos by filming fights, bizarre occurrences, interviews etc. on Earth.

Neozombie (Church of the New Millenium). You still inhabit your original body, but now instead of a brain you have a computer inside you. You need to regularly charge yourself with power but otherwise you don't hunger, thirst, etc. The Church engage in quests to expand their power across the Earth, protecting and converting living humans. You can be a current member of the church (rep 1) or an outcast or apostate (rep -1). You have no Connexion stat (but may gain one in play) so put character creation points only in the other three stats. If you previously had mutations, you may keep them and maintain a Weird stat.

Character Creation Steps:
1. Pick a faction and build an appropriate morph. Take +1 rep with that faction.
2. Assign your stats:
Stats start at -1. Distribute 7 points across them, ranging -1 to 2
Body (physical prowess of the morph)
Wits (your mental acuity)
Empathy (your power to relate to others)
Connexion (your ability to interface with the digital realm)
3. Profession: choose what profession or background you had when you were alive.
4. Pick a big dream; you're immortal now, what do you want to do with that immortality? Why are you controlling a robot body on Earth?
5. Name someone you know who is still alive on Earth and your connection to them.

Walt Mutant
You may now also start as a mutant who has been in the world for months or years under the banner of Walt Labs. Follow regular character creation, with the exception that you may sacrifice as many stat points for mutant powers as you wish. Walt Mutants are engaged in a long term plan for mutants to take over Earth as a dominant life form. Start with +1 Walt rep.

Survivors
Follow regular character creation except don't take a Weird stat or any mutations. Instead take two professions that represent how you survive in the post apocalypse, and up to three signature items (including weapons, tools, vehicles). Most people left Earth about twenty years in the past, so bear that in mind when thinking about your character backgrounds. Pick one of these three starting factions (taking +1 rep with them):

The Keep: You live in a castle in the ruined city of Norwich. The Keep engage in quests to make Norwich safe and rescue human survivors. Many of them hate the uploxed.

The Church of the New Millenium: you are a child or teen, or a woman of child bearing age who has grown up in the church (in the last decade). The Church believe the kingdom of the Lord has arrived and they are working to make the Earth safe for their kind of human. When you come of age or give birth to a child, you will be turned into a Neozombie.

The Cursed: you and your family and friends desperately want to be uploxed so you can leave this hell on Earth. Your parent missed the opportunity and were stranded here. They're dead now, and you're still left searching for a way to upload your mind and escape this misery. Pick an uploxed faction who promise to uplox you too if you do enough favours for them. Start with 0 rep with them.

Experience
You get a tally every time you:
- discover the answer to a mystery of the new world
- explore a new section of the map for the first time
- save a friend from danger
- make a significant step towards your big dream
- fail with a < 7 roll

When you have 5 tallies, you can cash them in for:
+1 on one of your stats (max 3 in a stat)
Gain a new profession (max 3 professions)
Gain a new mutation but take -1 to the stat of your choice (max -2 in a stat)
Gain a new favoured action.

At any point you may Go Rogue and retire your character. They remain as a threat in the wastes. You can then generate a new character.

Mutations are assigned. They are randomly rolled from a huge secret list of over 1000 mutations, with only interesting results chosen (purely negative or cosmetic powers are rerolled). All allow you to do something, though they vary in usefulness. To use your mutations when the failure could be interesting, you'll roll on Weird. New mutations always decrease your base stats, as the extreme changes take their toll on your body and mind.

Under the hood
The system uses a 2d6 (+ relevant stat, +1 if your role is relevant, +1 relevant gear, -1 for relevant condition) roll. 10+ success; 7-9 it works but there's complications; <7 it doesn't work and there's complications but you gain an experience tally. Complications aren't always going to be directly emerging from the situation, though they may do. A complication may sometimes be a condition (like a wound), or loss of gear.

Professions and gear add +1 to relevant rolls (max +1 for each). You can gain Favoured Actions by spending tallies. A Favoured Action is a discrete kind of action (like looting, punching, persuading, intimidating, running, sneaking, foraging, using your mutant power in a specific way, etc.), ideally an action you're already good at. Whenever you roll a 14+ when performing that action, it will have extraordinary success above and beyond what is normally possible or likely.

Faction Rep
There are different factions in the world. Players who interact with factions can gain or lose faction rep. Faction rep starts at 0 for neutral factions (like The Keep, The Church of the New Millennium, Terraterror, Walt Labs), and -1 for hostile factions (like Eyes of Gaia, Hunters Guild). The faction rep is added to empathy rolls with those factions. Successfully checks, and performing favours for different factions will raise your level. Harming faction members or their stuff is the main way to lose faction rep.

Current Mysteries Yet To Fathom (non-exhaustive list)
+1 tally for the character(s) getting to the bottom of each...
How do the mutations work?
Why were the frozen people moved to this city?
What is Project Reconquista?
How does uploxing work?
How did that woman get a printout of the luchador and why?
What's the deal with the Rapturists?
What's happening in America?
Who is sending aid to Cromer pier?


Mysteries Fathomed
The cyberdogs are not alive, they are actually remote-controlled biomechanical drones.
People were mutated in order to help them survive in the new world.
The start date was April 22nd 2062.
They started in Norcom lab, in the city of Norwich.
The other mutants left with Dr Davis, to a Walt rendezvous point somewhere in the north called Cromer Pier.
There are five Walt Labs where mutations were created (of which they know of Swancom, Norcom, and Loncom).
Terraterror is apparently an entertainment brand, hence why it appears on the side of the blimp
The Church of the New Millennium is responsible for jamming the signal of the Eyes of Gaia machines.
The Church of the New Millennium believes that the Second Coming happened 15 years ago.
Kudos is a kind of currency based on how much people care about you.
Kudos began as a mobile app, funded by the Finnish government.
The Eyes of Gaia aren't in their robot bodies, they control them from satellites far above.
People left Earth for a digital paradise, that's a large part of why its like this.
The whole Earth is abandoned, except perhaps America.
The digital afterlife can be reached even after dying.