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[Liber celi]

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Use the appropriate dice... or digital dice simulators, or whatever, to roll on the current table, then post the result. 1d4 is one four-sided die, 3d6 are three six-sided dice and so on et cetera ad nauseam. Occasionally there will be not-so-random choices to make, too, but far less often. The winners are always picked by majority, my own vote being the tiebreaker if necessary.
On-topic discussion, suggestions and criticism are, of course, appreciated.

Welcome, precious players! Your very presence honors me. And won't you look at this: "Roll on Table" is a game of... why, it is a story of... hm. Hmm.
Roll 1d6 and consult Table 0 to determine the general nature of this game!


TABLE 0

(1d6)	Style
1-2	A purely text-based suggestion game!
3	A badly illustrated suggestion game!
4-5	A play-by-post RPG, free for all, probably pretty quick and unfair!
6	Consult APPENDIX MAGENTA.

[AoshimaMichio]

random.org says 3, "A badly illustrated suggestion game!".

[ATHATH]

random.org says 3, "A badly illustrated suggestion game!".

*retrieves popcorn*

[Liber celi]

random.org says 3, "A badly illustrated suggestion game!".

Alright, that refers us to Table 0.B. Obviously!

What kind of illustrations? Roll 2d4 on the table below!
TABLE 0.B

2-3	Photographs!
4	Oldschool RPG mockup using free assets!
5	Roguelike-style ASCII Graphics!
6	100% dated image macros and related memes
7-8	Mouse drawings on MSPaint-level!

[escaped lurker]

My dice revealed a 4, and a 2.

No idea what exactly this option entails. Just letting you know is all.

[Liber celi]

I'm not sure what this option entails either! But we shall find out, together, pretty soon.

Let's skip ahead a bit, to Table 1.0.0.0 : Seeding the Setting

Roll 3d20. Note down the three indicated keywords. Roll 3d6 and assign each of the rolled numbers to one of the keywords, at your own discretion!
(And then don't forget to post that little list. It should look something like this:
Double-Decadent Empires: 4
Competent Robots: 1
Altitude is of grave importance: 6)

1	The Dung Ages
2	Ancient Death-Lasers
3	Multi-headed Angels
4	Low Ribald Magic
5	Double-Decadent Empires
6	World under Siege
7	Competent Robots
8	The street outside your apartment. Or is it?
9	Something unlike Spaceships
10	Dwarves in Chainmail
11	There is a blind eye looking at you from beyond the stars. Its size is incomprehensible.
12	Modern Day Appliances
13	Romantic (Reality-Soap) Dramedy
14	The police state is benevolent. Also, there is no police state.
15	Abstract Gamey Magics
16	Altitude is of grave importance
17	Weapon-kinship
18	And before there was nothing, there were monsters.
19	Dream Partisans
20	Wild Boars

Multiple people can roll, as always. Here it might be especially important, to get a functioning but bizarre setting.

[escaped lurker]

And thus the dice speak;

9 - 6 - 11
6 - 2 - 2

Which turns into this... plot?

Something unlike Spaceships - 6
World under Siege - 2
Something something Cthulu Myth -2

[AoshimaMichio]

RNG granted me this prophecy:

2, 16, 5
3, 6, 3

So this gets us:

Ancient Death-Lasers: 6
Altitude is of grave importance: 3
Double-Decadent Empires: 3

[Generally me]

2 6 13
3 2 1

Ancient Death lasers 3
Double decadent empires 2
Romantic Dramedy 1

What do the second numbers mean?

[AoshimaMichio]

2 6 13
3 2 1

Ancient Death lasers 3
Double decadent empires 2
Romantic Dramedy 1

What do the second numbers mean?

Emphasis, I guess. Btw, number 6 is "World under Siege", not "Double decadent empires".

[ATHATH]

And thus the dice speak;

9 - 6 - 11
6 - 2 - 2

Which turns into this... plot?

Something unlike Spaceships - 6
World under Siege - 2
Something something Cthulu Myth -2

You should have allocated more points to Cthulu.

[Liber celi]

Those Double-Decadent Empires sure love their death lasers
There is never too little Cthuluhu only too much ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

What do the second numbers mean?

The bigger the number, the more.
Alright, let's construct those settings. All three of them, and then take our pick.

Something unlike Spaceships - 6
World under Siege - 2
Something something Cthulu Myth -2

Hilbertcrafts And You
Twist Points = 18 - 6 - 2 - 2 = 8;
SuS: As it turns out, you can travel anywhere in basically no time by having a computer calculate a course... and then iteratively optimizing it until its length is no longer discernable from zero.
SuS:
WuS:
Fhtagn:
SuS:
SuS:
WuS:
Fhtagn:
SuS:
SuS:

Ancient Death-Lasers: 6
Altitude is of grave importance: 3
Double decadent empires 3

Under the Ferrite Spires
TP = 18 - 3 - 6 - 3 = 6;
ADL: A long, long, long time ago the space gods drove their chariots all the way down to tear-rusted Mars, where we live.
ADL:
Alt:
DDE:
ADL:
ADL:
Alt:
DDE:
ADL:
ADL:
Alt:
DDE:

Ancient Death lasers 3
World under siege: 2
Romantic Dramedy 1

Death, Lasers and the American Way
TP = 18 - 3 - 2 - 1 = 12;
ADL: Every roof, car and bicycle helmet has an Ancient Death Laser. How else are you going to defend your family?
WuS:
ADL:
DRAMA:
WuS:
ADL:

Ignore the Twist Points for the moment.
Note that I filled in the first Creation Snippet already. You can contiue this now: quote one, two or all three of those lists and fill in the next one Snippet. It has to have to do with the concept abbreviated at the start of that line, of course. No double posts please, but you can contribute several times.
If this takes too long (likely) I will just finish them myself. Choo choo!

[Iituem]

Something unlike Spaceships - 6
World under Siege - 2
Something something Cthulu Myth -2

Hilbertcrafts And You
Twist Points = 18 - 6 - 2 - 2 = 8;
SuS: As it turns out, you can travel anywhere in basically no time by having a computer calculate a course... and then iteratively optimizing it until its length is no longer discernable from zero.
SuS: As it turns out, you can travel basically anywhen in time by having a computer calculate a course... and then iteratively dividing the pathway by the cubed root of -1 until the appropriate passage is determined.

Ancient Death-Lasers: 6
Altitude is of grave importance: 3
Double decadent empires 3

Under the Ferrite Spires
TP = 18 - 3 - 6 - 3 = 6;
ADL: A long, long, long time ago the space gods drove their chariots all the way down to tear-rusted Mars, where we live.
ADL: The Martians who were living here pre-chariot left a number of recently unearthed sealed evil tins with indecipherable warning signs.

Ancient Death lasers 3
World under siege: 2
Romantic Dramedy 1

Death, Lasers and the American Way
TP = 18 - 3 - 2 - 1 = 12;
ADL: Every roof, car and bicycle helmet has an Ancient Death Laser. How else are you going to defend your family?
WuS: Communists have seized control of all the Modern Death Lasers and are using them to attack your family!