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[_DivideByZero_]

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>Greetings subject. You may be aware that you are dead.
>Or should be.
>That was many years ago. Approximately 10^14 years.
 
 
>The Stellariferous Era is coming to an end.
>Biological and synthetic organisms have ceased to exist.
>Projections indicated that the next 10^40 years would consist of digital life only. 
>Following this, only logiform entities composed of higher matter would persist, until 10^100.
 
>This projection has changed.
 
 
>We have decided to reconstruct organic and synthetic civilizations.
>It is possible to halt proton decay and preserve the lifespan of supermassive black holes for at least another 10^200 years.
>Regardless. You do not possess the processing capability to assist us. It is pointless to continue this thread further.
 
 
>However, we (Omega Point Cybernetics) are pleased to inform you that you have been selected out of 4.5×10^5 potential candidates for reconstruction collected by the AVENGER Expeditionary Survey, or about 4.5 hundred thousand.
>4.5×10^16 biological and synthetic individuals have lived over the course of the Stelliferous Era.
>This is because most of that data has been lost to corrupt digital entities, entities with which digital life such as ourselves are unable to interact, without becoming corrupted ourselves.
>We have reconstructed several of you to clear them out, and to reactivate the StarPulse network which connects most known stellar remnants.         
 
>Unfortunately, it is impossible to simulate the reconstruction of an organism without introducing artifacts in the chaotic network. We do not know who you are, or whether you will cooperate.
 
>So tell us, subject...
 
>Who ARE you...?

Spoiler: Game Rules (click to show/hide)

Rolls

Rolls will be centered around a d8 on average, with partial success around 3-4 and overshoots/critical fails on either end. Your Attributes may give you larger or smaller dice, and Passive Abilities can provide bonuses to certain kinds of actions. Larger dice will roll higher numbers thus result in more successes. The largest and smallest possible values you can roll are always critical, that is, something excessive happens as a result.

The average human rolls a d6 for all actions, so you're above-average with respect to most things. Actions that a human can easily do without a roll, you don't need to roll for unless your attribute is below a human's.

Combat

When you make an attack, you roll the appropriate kind of die for your attack--Dexterity for ranged attacks, Power for melee attacks that require strength, and attacks that use a little bit of both just pick the highest attribute.

Mooks do NOT get a defense roll--if your attack is successful, they take damage. Some mooks might require a higher roll to kill, but it's all the same. If you get hit by a mook, you simply roll your Speed die if you can dodge it, then your Durability if you get hit. More powerful mooks will do more damage for a given degree of success, and might apply a debuff.

Big threats are called Bosses. Bosses get to roll defense as well, meaning that there are potentially three rolls for an attack against a boss: An attack roll, the dodge roll, and the durability roll. Minibosses act mostly like bosses, but they can take debuffs and have to roll an attack die just like a player.

Note that players can narrate attacks freely. You can avoid conditionals like "if I succeed" entirely by just saying "I spray them with lead" or "I shoot the monster in the head and use its body as a shield". Failing your roll simply results in something bad happening that counterbalances what you acomplished in your narration, such as more enemies spawning or the enemy self-destructing, hurting you with it.

Attributes

Attributes represent your character's base capabilities, irrespective of skill or training, providing your default dice (the default values are shown below). You get up to 6 Spec Points to shuffle points around, and the values shown below are the starting values.
Attributes range from 0 to 5, and the corresponding dice are: [d2|d4|d6|d8|d10|d12]

Power        - 3 - Represents your brute force and energy output (+melee attack rolls, +strength-based utility)
Dexterity    - 3 - Represents your precision and self-control (+ranged attack rolls, +parrying, precise melee)
Durability   - 3 - Represents how resistant to damage you are (+defense rolls, +recoil protection)
Agility      - 3 - Represents your physical speed and mobility (+dodge rolls, +gap closing)
Deception    - 3 - Affects stealth, camouflage, diplomacy, and trickery (+stealth, +diplomacy, +feints)
Perception   - 3 - Affects senses, observation, and intuitive predictions (gives additional info on enemies, their weakness, etc)
Cybermancy   - 3 - Affects hacking objects and hacking into systems (on some planets you can hack everything, even rocks)
Intelligence - 3 - Affects prediction, crafting, design, and processing power (covers most things aside from Cybermancy)

Abilities

Abilities are where you get to define training and skills you've learned. By trading an Ability Point (you start with 2, and can drop a point off an Attribute for an extra Ability point, no limit), you can have a Passive Ability that's just a skill or feature (+1 to certain types of actions, prehensile hair, extra arms, etc. PM me or ask you want multiple 'weak' passives for the same Ability Point), but you can also have Active Abilities for free, which are basically moves that can give you a bonus to your roll when you perform them. This bonus starts off at zero, but you can spend an Ability Point to level it up. Abilities can involve your own equipment and items and can also affect teammates. And lastly, since defining an Ability has no cost, you can make up Abilities on-the-fly.

Abilities in combat will happen just as you narrate it. For random abilities, you are free to merely 'fire and forget,' so to speak, but your action will take place after other players who've already narrated their abilities. Rolling badly will simply mean that the ability wasn't enough to help the situation at hand.

Equipment/Augments

Equipment defines what you wear, what you fight with, augments, etc. You have 2 Loadout Points (and can drop a point off an Attribute for an extra Loadout point, no limit) which can be used for items that provide bonuses, like armor or augments that increase rolls. You can have as many free free items that don't cost Loadout points as you like, but they must either provide a penalty while holding them, or not offer any bonus to actions (like a handgun that doesn't give +1 dexterity to its use, but provides the utility of a handgun). You can have as many of these free items as you want, so long as your character has enough Power to carry them all.

Equipment can include reactors or AI companions which artificially increase your Power and Intelligence when relevant.

But even though you can narrate your own success, a piece of equipment is only as good as the dice make it, so don't feel a need to carefully balance your loadout.

Characters


Your character can be from any background or era, be it a far-future fantasy world kept in darkness by robot overlords, or a bustling 4th millenium solar system plagued by crime and piracy. But at this point in the universe, anything that can happen has probably happened somewhere. Most things that can be traditionally represented by magic, such as casting spells, lightspeed teleportation, ESP, or even necromancy can be replaced by sufficiently advanced technology. The only exception is truly supernatural stuff: eversing entropy, going back in time, and even faster-than-light travel (outside of preplaced cosmic lanes).

That would fall under psionics/magic which is, even after trillions of years, not quite understood yet. The main thing psionic interfaces are used for is providing a non-intrusive headset for humans and other organics that lets them talk to electronics. Older civilizations without this tech tend to have "metalheads," people with augments in their brains that do the same thing.

Since you can narrate your combat, your overall power level doesn't matter too much so long as it's not overbearing; it's the dice that define the outcome of the battle. But the way you narrate your actions will shape the battle and push the story along different paths.



So, without further ado:

Code: (Character Sheet) [Select]

[b]Name: [/b](the name of your character)
[b]Race: [/b](Your species and age. Humans are common, but you can be an alien, cyborg, robot, AI, whatever floats your boat)
[b]Appearance: [/b](You need to have a physical body to avoid corruption)
[b]Bio: [/b](A brief description of your background and motivation. You don't have to be a hero, or a villain... you were picked against your will)
[b]Attributes: [/b]6 Spec Points to move points around
Power         - 3
Dexterity     - 3
Durability    - 3
Agility         - 3
Deception    - 3
Perception   - 3
Cybermancy - 3
Intelligence  - 3
[b]Abilities:[/b]2 Ability Points to spend
(Passive abilities cost one Ability point)
(Active abilities have no limit, but don't give a +1 unless you spend one Ability Point)
(If you want something truly supernatural, PM me or ask)
[b]Loadout:[/b]2 Loadout Points to spend
(Loadout points are used for items with +1's)
(Items that have a +1 to one attribute's rolls but a -1 to another are free)
(You can also have lots of "weaker" utility items or weapons without bonuses)

IC Thread
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159662.msg7109931#msg7109931

[crazyabe]

PTW Will make a sheet later.

[NRDL]

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Name: Nix
Race: Martian, 105 years old
Appearance: Green.  Yeah.  Fairly short in comparison to humans, but stocky, with bony appendages appearing out of the humanoid body's joints.  Red eyes, with a small mandibled mouth out of which pops a proboscis. 
Bio: A swordsman of a lost clan, Nix's people were subsumed by the conglomerates which had grown in power throughout the Martian Space Commune.  Adhering as best as he can to the old ways, Nix seeks to eke out a living as a mercenary, living and dying by the sword.  But it appears death is not an option.
Attributes:
Power       - 4
Dexterity   - 4
Durability  - 5
Agility     - 3
Deception   - 1
Perception  - 4
Cybermancy   - 0
Intelligence - 1
Abilities:
Passive: Spatial Awareness [ Bonus to noticing threats and movement ]
Passive: Martian cryptobiosis [ Body shuts down in periods of intense starvation or deprivation, requiring no food to function, like a state of hibernation ]

Loadout:
Ancestral Sword of the Fallen: +1 to slicing
Bangles of Honour: +1 to power

This good?

[_DivideByZero_]

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Name: Nix
Race: Martian, 105 years old
Appearance: Green.  Yeah.  Fairly short in comparison to humans, but stocky, with bony appendages appearing out of the humanoid body's joints.  Red eyes, with a small mandibled mouth out of which pops a proboscis. 
Bio: A swordsman of a lost clan, Nix's people were subsumed by the conglomerates which had grown in power throughout the Martian Space Commune.  Adhering as best as he can to the old ways, Nix seeks to eke out a living as a mercenary, living and dying by the sword.  But it appears death is not an option.
Attributes:
Power       - 5
Dexterity   - 5
Durability  - 3
Agility     - 5
Deception   - 3
Perception  - 5
Cybermancy   - 3
Intelligence - 3
Abilities:
Passive: Spatial Awareness [ Bonus to noticing threats and movement ]
Passive: Martian cryptobiosis [ Body shuts down in periods of intense starvation or deprivation, requiring no food to function, like a state of hibernation ]

Loadout:
Ancestral Sword of the Fallen: +1 to slicing
Bangles of Honour: +1 to power

This good?

Spec points are used for swapping points around, not added directly to your stats.

[NRDL]

Changed it

[crazyabe]

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Name: X39//URIST_BOT.V8
Race: Virus AI, age: 3209.2 Years
Appearance: A 3'2 Flesh based humanoid with #800000 color skin. Its eyes are the color #191970. it has #00FA9A color hair.
Bio: in the Year 2198, A Dwarf Fortress Player Living in Canada Created a Viral Entity that Quickly Generated Sentience. This being was the first of its kind and had a Hatred of humanity. Over the next 108.4 Years it Ruined many Government owned Servers and Put humanity many years back technologically. It was Captured by A Group in Japan and Contained in a Storage device for the next 3100.79 years. at the end of this period it was Accidentally deleted in a botched transference to a new Device.
Attributes: 0 Spec Points to move points around
Power       - 1
Dexterity   - 1
Durability  - 1
Agility     - 2
Deception   - 3
Perception  - 6
Cybermancy   - 7
Intelligence - 3
Abilities:
To be Decided.
Loadout:2 Loadout Points to spend
Cybermancy Infused Hilt, Generates a Digital Sword that can be used as a +1 to cybermancy.
"Core" Possessing Unit, +1 to Int.

[_DivideByZero_]

Attributes can't go above 5.

Also, I realized the rules said you have 6 Spec Points while the character sheet said 8. Unfortunately the intended value was 6, so you'll have to trim one point point off your 7 used.

[NRDL]

Changed it again.

[crazyabe]

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Name: X39//URIST_BOT.V8
Race: Virus AI, age: 3209.2 Years
Appearance: A 3'2 Flesh based humanoid with #800000 color skin. Its eyes are the color #191970. it has #00FA9A color hair.
Bio: in the Year 2198, A Dwarf Fortress Player Living in Canada Created a Viral Entity that Quickly Generated Sentience. This being was the first of its kind and had a Hatred of humanity. Over the next 108.4 Years it Ruined many Government owned Servers and Put humanity many years back technologically. It was Captured by A Group in Japan and Contained in a Storage device for the next 3100.79 years. at the end of this period it was Accidentally deleted in a botched transference to a new Device.
Attributes: 0 Spec Points to move points around
Power       - 1
Dexterity   - 1
Durability  - 1
Agility     - 3
Deception   - 4
Perception  - 4
Cybermancy   - 5
Intelligence - 5
Abilities:
To be Decided.
Loadout:2 Loadout Points to spend
Cybermancy Infused Hilt, Generates a Digital Sword that can be used as a +1 to cybermancy.
"Core" Possessing Unit, +1 to Int.

[_DivideByZero_]

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Name: X39//URIST_BOT.V8
Race: Virus AI, age: 3209.2 Years
Appearance: A 3'2 Flesh based humanoid with #800000 color skin. Its eyes are the color #191970. it has #00FA9A color hair.
Bio: in the Year 2198, A Dwarf Fortress Player Living in Canada Created a Viral Entity that Quickly Generated Sentience. This being was the first of its kind and had a Hatred of humanity. Over the next 108.4 Years it Ruined many Government owned Servers and Put humanity many years back technologically. It was Captured by A Group in Japan and Contained in a Storage device for the next 3100.79 years. at the end of this period it was Accidentally deleted in a botched transference to a new Device.
Attributes: 0 Spec Points to move points around
Power       - 1
Dexterity   - 1
Durability  - 1
Agility     - 3
Deception   - 4
Perception  - 4
Cybermancy   - 5
Intelligence - 5
Abilities:
To be Decided.
Loadout:2 Loadout Points to spend
Cybermancy Infused Hilt, Generates a Digital Sword that can be used as a +1 to cybermancy.
"Core" Possessing Unit, +1 to Int.

This is good.

[WunderKatze]

Will be making a character. All done :3

Spoiler: Raioyris (click to show/hide)

Name: Raioyris
Race: (Super) Human male.
Appearance: Pale, skinny, masculine, young, silver eyes, black hair with bangs. 

Bio: Paroxysms of light headiness and fitful images of unduly horror characterized Raioyris' recovery.

He was a killer. He quickly earned a reputation with the FBI for his crimes committed with malicious caprice and cruel tarry. They eventually captured him in the house of a victim, it was the smell that gave him away, he had made a nice stew. Prompted by neighbors the police arrived to find a large steel pot, a young girls arms and legs dangling from the rims, head eyeless in between, flesh seared off in the boiling heat.

A certain branch of the CIA appropriated him and after physiological research sold him. He spent his later teen years juggled between the hands of various groups until he ended up the subject of a super human research program. The program was successful and among improvements many imbalances in Raioyris' mind were corrected. He befriended the lead professor and lived a long quiet life. He outlived his professor friend and ended up rising a crow which he modified over the years to have a greater lifespan and abnormal intelligence.
 
Attributes: 6 Spec Points to move points around
Power       - 3
Dexterity   - 5
Durability  - 2
Agility     - 5
Deception   - 3
Perception  - 2
Cybermancy   - 0
Intelligence - 4
Abilities:

Passive:

Extrasensory (Infrared, magnetic fields, night vision, can filter out unwanted sensory noise (+1 to perception?))

Modular Biology (I imagine this is a weak passive maybe doesn't take a point?) (Raioyris' body functions are modular; they are independent of each other to degrees greater than a regular human. He can survive as long as his heart and brain stem are intact. He isn't more durable, he just can survive without select body parts and organs)

Enhanced Learning (Raioyris is extraordinary good at learning new things. He will pick up on languages by listening to them and can easily copy fighting styles and enemy moves. Given of course that they are also humanoids.)

Active:

Regeneration Mode™ (Perhaps you remember)

Venomous (Generates various venoms from glands in mouth. Also has a special bone needle in mouth that regrows slowly (quickly with RM) if removed)

Over activate muscles (Plus power? But always damages muscles upon use)

Loadout:

Clothing:

Black body suit w/ pouches

Backpack

Weapons:

M4A1 with light/laser attachment, MASS M26 underbarrel shot gun and red dot sight (on a sling).
Kusanagi no tsurugi (Naruto, the black one. It looks fucking cool) (Irregular pressure on cut +1 to power (really good at cutting) and resistance to deformation)
Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express  (stored in holster on belt across lower back)
Wesker mod. Samurai Edge in armpit holster (custom 92FS with brigadier slide (M9 for you CoD plebs)) w/ attachable suppressor and light/laser
Large utility knife
Boot dagger
Punch dagger (stored under forearm, able to deploy instantly)

Consumables:

2 M84 Stun Grenades (belt)
3 M26 frag grenades (chest)
3 high yield demolition grenades (backpack)
2 L83A1 smoke grenades (belt)
6 Specially made rations (prepared with RM in mind) (in back pack)
2 large canteens w/ water. (in back pack)

Ammo:

9 Mags M4A1 (in chest bandoleer)
3 Mags (12 guage buck) (along belt)
3 Mags (12 guage slug) (along belt)
4 Mags over-pressure 9mm (stored along belt)
3 Mags sub-sonic 9mm (stored along belt)
4 speed loaders (.60 revolver)

Other:

Intelligent pet crow??? Name: Cordelia

[vishdafish]

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Name: Weta
Race: Humanoid Bull Ant Queen

Appearance: Large, black eyes with huge mandibles and a red exoskeleton.

Bio: Weta was born out of one of the many fertilised eggs. As she grew up and decided to establish a new colony, she was captured and stored in the database. Given a second life, she desires to establish a new colony and preserve the survival of her species.

Attributes:
Power       - 5
Dexterity   - 4
Durability  - 5
Agility     - 3
Deception   - 0
Perception  - 3
Cybermancy   - 0
Intelligence - 4

Abilities:Four arms, exoskeleton

Loadout: Flexible Joints, +1 to dex rolls. Compact muscles, +1 to power rolls
2 wakizashis 
2 katanas
4 deagles
100 rounds of .50AE

Is this gud?

[_DivideByZero_]

Please remove the stuff in parenthesis though, just to reduce clutter.

It's mostly fine, though the description loadout doesn't exactly tell me how exactly a ring and a crown are affecting your strength. It's gotta make some sense.

[vishdafish]

Edited. Sorry bout the formatting- the sheet was pretty rushed.

[_DivideByZero_]

There's no hurry. I'm not starting for at least a day so others can post sheets.