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[Mortchek]

Spoiler: Backstory (click to show/hide)

The truce between the Ablaga and the Zorthwoop has always been strained, but a recent incident, in which your President, President Ythata of Abladag, accidentally insulted the Zorthwoopian Supreme Overlord's proto-mother, has caused conflict to erupt once more.

You are a boarding party who has made it aboard an enemy mothership which orbits threateningly above Abladag. Your mission: sabotage! Prevent the mothership from attacking and save your planet.

Spoiler: Rules and Instructions (click to show/hide)

Post your character name and a short description. Your form should be mostly humanoid but can have any extra features, except that they will have no function beyond flavor. (e.g., you may choose to have wings, and they may be factored into action descriptions, but you will not be able to fly unless something specifically grants you flight.)

Most physical actions take a turn, such as firing, operating a console, setting a charge, etc. You may do two such actions in a turn, but both take a -1 penalty. Short dialog and most purely flavor actions are free actions. It is not possible to roll below 1 or above 6, despite any bonuses or penalties. Highly improbable actions, such as attempting to ignore gravity and walk on the ceiling, have an automatic -5 penalty, but are possible if you can somehow attain a bonus that applies.

You start with 15 health. Normal attacks inflict [attack roll]-[defense roll] damage upon the target (with a minimum of 0, of course). A roll of 1 or 6 to attack bestows a -1 attack penalty next turn. Likewise, a roll of 1 or 6 to dodge bestows a -1 dodge penalty next turn.

Every player starts with a raygun which can be set to kill or megakill. They start set to kill, and setting to megakill takes an action. Kill does damage normally. Megakill is an experimental feature recently modded onto your rayguns, and as such, extreme caution is advised.

You also get a comm link, with which you can speak to either your entire team or your team plus the operators at home base. Beware: contact with base is not difficult to intercept and eavesdrop on. Your comm link also automatically reports your vitals to your team - i.e., they know how much health you have no matter where you all are on the ship.

Spoiler: Extra Equipment (click to show/hide)

In addition to the raygun and comm link, the following four items are available to whoever calls dibs. Naturally, to be fair, you can only call dibs on one of the items.

Explosive Charge. +3 explosive attack that inflicts 5x normal damage in a radius about the size of an average room, also destroying electronics and other objects in the way. You've got just one, so use it wisely. Taken by Erin.
Hacker's PDA. Hooks into anything with a USB port. Can be used to gather information about and manipulate whatever system it hooks into. Be cautious; such intrusions can be detected by the enemy. Requires recharge after 10 uses. Taken by Ren.
Energy Shield. A pocket-sized device which, upon striking the ground with even light force, activates a dome-shaped energy shield large enough to cover four humanoids. Energy weapon blasts and explosions cannot enter or leave the dome, but anything else can. The shield's charge is good for 6 turns of constant use, after which it must be recharged. (If it's on at the beginning of the turn, it will expend 1 such charge.) Taken by Hilda.
Ping Device. Small device designed to be hard to notice. While on, sends a ping every other turn which your comm link will pick up, reporting where relative to you it is. Handy for tracking movements or for setting a rally spot. Never needs to be recharged. Taken by Lorren.

This party will get started once we have at least three brave volunteers to go aboard the enemy mothership. Any additional recruits once the game has started will enter at the same boarding site and have to catch up with the party, wherever they are.

(I reserve the right to fudge a rule if I believe the game will be more fun if I do so.)

Spoiler: Character Template (click to show/hide)

If you join the game now, use this template for your character. Since all the extra stuff has been taken, I just left out the dibs field.

Name:
Appearance:
Bio:

[lawastooshort]

Name: Hilda "Valiant Defender of the Free Universe" Pistlethwop (Nearly Ph.D.)
Bio: Lithe, blonde and agile, ex-pro-Belgian-cheerleader Hilda signed up for the war as soon as she read about the Zorthwoopian threat to Universal Freedom. She always wears an eye-catching red catsuit and is currently writing the thesis for her doctorate, "The Philosophy of Extreme Caution: Why Nothing is More Wrong, Except Perhaps the Zorthwoopian Supreme Overlord: A Post-Modernist View".
Dibs: Energy Shield

[Tiruin]

Name: Lorren Smithe

Bio: A man of thirty and two, he stands at nearly six feet tall. His skin color is light brown, his hair and eyes are of darker shade; he served in the military for about five of his years, as a scout, giving him a quick mind and a cautious attitude towards most things, he is observant but fast to anger.

Dibs: Ping Device


{You could provide a format for the character sheet}

[Zako]

Name: Ren Steel

Bio: Ren is a male of 27 years, standing at a stout 5 feet and 5 inches tall. He has pale white skin, typically called a hackers tan due to his sitting infront of computers most of the day, black short cropped hair, green eyes and a small tattoo on his collarbone in the form of a small exotic type of symbol, somewhat like a barcode. He's been a military tech for over 6 years and been in the military since he was 18. He was always good with computers, but not as proficient in social situations as he is somewhat of a geek.

Dibs: Hacker's PDA

[Dwarmin]

Name: Erin Flores
Bio: Somewhat short commando type female green jacket,  dark glasses and an everpresent baseball cap. Erin is the last member of the LHFA-Last Human Freedom Alliance, formed to resist the machines invading her homeland.

They didn't do very good, since she's the only one left. Erin has been fighting robots ever since she was 15. She prefers rifles and bombs to more technical things. Quite determined and brave in most circumstance, but seeing all her buddies get zapped has made it difficult for her to form attachments with other soldiers.

Now, she's signed up for this suicide mission to hopefully turns things around, and maybe make sure the mothership only destroys the enemy machines.

Dibs: Explosive Charge

[Zako]

Looks like that's everyone, let's blow shit up!

[Mortchek]

All right! I'm just about ready to deploy you all. I'm glad you didn't follow the "up to two sentences" limit; in retrospect that was rather silly. I added a character template by request to the original post in case more people enlist.

Hilda, your commander, General Ormphos, recommended you especially for this mission, knowing about your reckless attitude and sharp mind. He believes you have what it takes to push through and get the job done, and coming from him, this is a great compliment.

Lorren, you were selected for your mental agility, partially to serve as a lookout for your team, and partially to check Hilda in case her recklessness gets the better of her.

Ren, you were among the more knowledgeable of the hacker types who volunteered for the mission, having demonstrated under duress an impressive ability to hack a supposedly secure system the military provided just for the purpose. Pitifully, none of the others who tried were able to root the machine, which made you the rather obvious candidate.

Erin, General Ormphos was somewhat reluctant to place you on the mission due to mostly unfounded fears that you might snap and ruin the mission. Surprisingly, he allowed you on anyway, and it was only later that you accidentally learned that your psychologist, Dr. Mna, convinced him to let you on because you were "well suited" to the suicidal nature of the mission.

Blowing shit up shall commence soon.

[Mortchek]

Turn 1

The ease with which your cloaked scout ship approaches the looming mothership is almost ominous. It doesn't help that the pilot looks like he wants to piss himself. Judging from the smell, it's possible he already has. Fortunately for the four of you, you won't have him putting a damper on your morale for the rest of the mission. Your cursory teamwork exercises before the mission presented the image of a team of four strong people, which did not include a weak-kneed pilot.

The mothership soon draws within range of short-range teleporters. If all goes well, the teleporter will breach the enemy shields as expected. The pilot flips the four switches at once, and each of you experiences the feeling of dissolving...

[6] ... And reconstituting in a literally alien environment, an obsidian-colored rectangular room with an exit on both of the short sides of the room, one labeled "A2" and the other "B2". Considering you were all in sitting position as you were deconstituted, you rematerialize in sitting position and fall flat on your asses. [1] To make matters worse, there are five Zorts in the room who are now very interested in your presence. -1 to your attack and dodge rolls next turn as you regain a standing position.

Edit: Adding in player status for convenience. Clothing is implied, but all other items will be listed. Just a note: unholstering is an action, but is an exception to the -1 rule if the other action this turn is to fire it. I will, however, assume you all were ready for a fight as you boarded, and had your rayguns unholstered. Toggling safety is a free action you can do whenever.

Spoiler: Hilda (click to show/hide)

Health: 15/15

Inventory
raygun (unholstered, safety off, set to kill)
comm link (listening)
energy shield (6/6 charges, off)

Spoiler: Lorren (click to show/hide)

Health: 15/15

Inventory
raygun (unholstered, safety off, set to kill)
comm link (listening)
ping device (off)

Spoiler: Ren (click to show/hide)

Health: 15/15

Inventory
raygun (unholstered, safety off, set to kill)
comm link (listening)
hacker's PDA (10/10 charges)

Spoiler: Erin (click to show/hide)

Health: 15/15

Inventory
raygun (unholstered, safety off, set to kill)
comm link (listening)
explosive charges

[lawastooshort]

We must eliminate them immediately and silently.

Hilda will leap elbow first at whichever enemy looks nearest to sounding the alarm and bludgeon it in the vocal cords with her elbows and throttle it to death as silently as possible.


((Or, since we have a -1, I guess I could activate the Extreme Caution Shield? Or we could try to talk them out of whatever they want to do to us?))

edit: Dwarmin's plan is much better.

[Mortchek]

Pick one and go with it. You do have a -1, but that doesn't mean you can't still do an attack. Unless you say otherwise I will assume you do your bolded action.

[Dwarmin]

Erin just needed a second of hesitation on their end. She knew enough of the Zort to know their most common sayings and the fact they lived in a tyrannical hegemony where they were executed for the slightest hint of disobedience.

Action: Call out in the Zort language "All hail the Supreme Overlord!"-which they are supposed to stand at attention for when called out.

Then shoot them when they salute.

[lawastooshort]

Oh hell yes. New action.

Salute whilst Erin shouts out, then dash to the door and trap the Zort in the room, meleeing any which approach.

[vagel7]

Name: Franz d'Avistral
Appearance: An average height man with short dark hair and dark blue eyes. He has a muscled body.
Bio: Franz is an 24 tear old agent of the Earth Security agency and is so very good in CQC and weapon handling. He is usually very friendly, but can be destructive if tipped off.

[Zako]

Let's do this!

Roll into the closest bit of cover possible then open fire on the closest Zort!

[Tiruin]

Follow Dwarmin/Erin's plan. Perform a roll while shooting sporadically at the Zort's general position afterwards.