overHang: Déjà vu, et tu?
Greetings, welcome to the luxurious Motel Monolithic! Here you may rest as long as you like, with no charge (Not Counting the entry fee, but anyways)! I see you have made yourself rather snug in your bed. You slept like rocks, the all of you. Bit too much drinking, I see. Anyways, I'll let you be, I know those hangovers can be a real hell to deal with. When you're feeling better, just call the room service, we'll be sure to satisfy all needs, whatever they may be! See you later!
The Rooms: Currently pitch black. You do feel a lamp beside you.
System:
The following dice types are used:
•Identity: You start of with three of these in your pool. When Identity dominates, you can regain an Stability Point or remove a Hangover die from your pool. If you lose all of them, you explode into eldritch fuckery.
•Hangover: Before a roll, you can add a Hangover die to your pool, which cannot be removed normally. When Hangover dominates, you add another Hangover die. If you have six Hangover dice and it dominates, you pass out and wake up in a deeper hole than you started in. You need to roll at least one Hangover die to use a Hangover Talent.
•Impulse: Before a roll, you can add up to six Impulse dice to your pool. When Impulse dominates, you lose a Stability Point and bad things happen. If you have no Stability Points left, you regain all of them but an Identity die is removed from your pool and replaced with another Impulse die (which you won't be able to remove normally). You need to roll at least one Impulse die to use an Impulse Talent.
•Stress: You don't roll this. This is what your opponents roll. When Stress dominates, you either lose a Stability Point or gain a Hangover die.
Each dice with a score of three or less is considered a success. You succeed if your total number of successes are greater than or equal to those of the opposing Stress pool. The pool with the highest roll is considered to Dominate the result. In the event of a tie, the type with the most of that roll wins. If there's another tie, it goes to the next highest and so on. If there's still a tie, priority order is Identity, Hangover, Impulse, Stress.
Characters:
Name: Andrew "AJ" Jones
Appearance: Tall, skinny, black hair, no real muscles to speak of, male. Purple eyes, somehow.
Random backstory stuff: Not much to say here, is there. Dead-end job after getting a computer degree, no real anything interesting. Occasionally there might have been a night of hard drinking. There might not have been, either. Nobody really can tell.
Regrets: More like, not done something. Should've taken those art classes...
Path: Probably work this dead-end job 'till the pink slip, then find another one and repeat.
Drunken behavior: Like when you're sober, only less coordinated. Honestly, it's either upright, or flat out.
Hangover Talent: Art. All the art. Drawing pictures that make people stare in envy.
Impulse Talent: So maybe that art jumps out of the paper or animates and does things. Welp. It'd be a help around the house, maybe, or possibly a nuisance. It seems to do what it's intended to do, though.
Name: Nope, I Don't remember it... I think it was John Hancock? or Wade Wilson? I don't care just call me Fucked up Loser...
Appearance: A White mail Male, he normally has blond hair dyed black, he has A pentagram tattooed on his back, he is missing Three teeth on the right side of his mouth, he has Blue eyes, he has a Thick Goatee, he normally wears his hair long... Or he did it seems his hair has disappeared and been replaced with a red Succubus tattoo, Where that came from we may never know...
Random backstory stuff: he has "Slight" Amnesia on everything up to last night, but From what he can remember, He got drunk, Beat his girlfriend with a Crowbar, Jumped off a building, hot hit by three trucks and Passed out...
Regrets: He Can't remember...
Path: If I Knew that do you think I would be here?
Drunken behavior: Dark and Depressed... Occasionally he gets violent and Cruel instead however...
Hangover Talent: Throwing: Dart Throwing, Bottle throwing, You name it he can hit something with it no matter how drunk he gets.
Impulse Talent: Meta-Morphosis: When he passes out, "Someone" Else Takes over, it calls it's self METAMAN and can break the laws of phisics like they didn't exist, examples of this are walking through walls, Asking something called a "GM" to Roll a D20 instead, Talk to his future self... That sort of Mind breaking Shit.
Name: Lily Evans
Appearance: See: Larissa Heller Blonde hair, blue eyes, enormous chest which should totally be a strain on her waifish figure. Wears designer clothes and just reeks 'spoilt rich kid'. Somehow still rich despite her drinking habit.
Random backstory stuff: Lily is from a very, very rich family. The only reason she hasn't dropped out of school is that she's smart enough to know her parents' money won't last forever the way she's going. But her free time is pretty much a perpetual spending spree, usually followed by heavy drinking. The heavy drinking isn't TECHNICALLY legal, but 17's pretty close to 18, so yeah. There's a law about that somewhere, and she's got a few ways of obtaining alcohol other than buying it from the shop. Usually getting other people to buy it from the shop.
Regrets: She never did make many friends. Except for all the people she paid to do stuff for her. But she's not naïve enough to think they actually liked her, at least not any more.
Path: Larissa is going to stay rich. And live rich. And also find true love or something like that. But mostly remain rich.
Drunken behavior: Exactly the same as usual, except with absolutely terrible balance and a renewed tendency to speak her mind. The balance thing needs emphasising, really. When inebriated, she's almost cartoonishly bad at standing up, wobbling significantly, and who knows which way she'll topple over if she tries to walk. It's bad.
Hangover Talent: While she's still practically unable to stand, Lily's ability to avoid harm, whether through reflexes, thoughts or just plain luck, is astounding. She could win a bar fight purely because she happens to stagger into people, and out of the way of their equally clumsy attacks. And then somehow accidentally fall over onto a cushion.
Impulse Talent: For some completely unrelated reason, Lily's Impulse Talent is the ability to do the whole 'stop time' ting. The rule of it seem to fluctuate, though. Sometimes she can move objects with her, sometimes they're stuck in place, sometimes her touch takes things into her timestream. It seems to be random.
Name: Uh… goddamnit… Rachel? Rachel. Last name… Weston. Yeah, Rachel Weston sounds right.
Appearance: How do I look? Why, you interested?~... I’m screwing with you. Not literally. I have curly blonde hair down a little bit past my shoulder, and some light hazel eyes ( almost gold, really). I am downright proud of my figure. I’ve been told that I’m really attractive- by both guys and girls, I’ll have you know!- so that’s nice. I dress nicely, usually in black.
Random backstory stuff: Right. Right then. I’m in college, third year. Major in… something related to communication? I forget right now. Uh… guess my home life is fine. Parents are still together, I’ve got a little… brother? Yeah. He’s nice. We’re doing good on the financial front, if that matters any.
Regrets: I did drugs in high school… I’ve only recently broke that addiction. It sucked. I’m only lucky I got out of it before I died or something. And somehow avoided Mom and Dad finding out.
Path: Well I’m in college. So gonna finish that and get a degree… and then get a job, I guess?
Drunken behavior: I get kind of flirty and/or touchy. I swear I’m not like this usually. And cursing. I usually hate swearing.
Hangover Talent: Pretty much everything I say just… sounds reasonable, as long as I’m not telling someone to do something like kill themselves or if I’m not serious. I’m more persuasive than can be considered natural.
Impulse Talent: Um… it’s kind of weird but I can… shapeshift, I think? Like, make myself look like a completely different person, or turn my arm into basically a sword, things with my body.
Name: Stacy Emile.
Appearance: Well, my hair's brown, my eyes are brown... I can feel a ponytail, so there's that. I guess my chest is okay? Whatever. Untucked collared shirt, business casual khakis, classy pumps.
Random backstory stuff: I think I used to work at some sort of business... Can't remember what for. ...Wait, the last thing I do remember was getting fired. Fuck.
Regrets: Whatever I yelled about that got me fired. There was definitely yelling. Getting blackout drunk after getting fired is also a candidate.
Path: Major in something business-y. Accounting? Right? Yeah, that's it. God, my head hurts.
Drunken behavior: Cursing. All the time. And overflirtatiousness, I think. At least, that's probably why I'm leaning over suggestively as I answer this, right? ...Is it working?
Hangover Talent: Math. Like, Speed Racer, "calculate exactly where, when and how to punch you to get you on the ground in one hit", supercomputer-level-bullshit math.
Impulse Talent: Creating and maintaining an unnatural tendril of energy from my chest that I can shape at will. And stab people with, I guess.
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