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[Zaerosz]

You have no idea where you are.

Well, in a relative sense. You appear to be aboard some sort of golden ship, floating through... something. Whatever is outside, you either can't see it or can't see through it. Turning your attention back to the interior, you see several rings of blue pods in the centre of the room (several of which are already open, one having formerly contained you). Notably, all the pods in your ring are open. Presumably that means you're not alone on this ship.

Before you can move, a hollow voice rings out from every surface in the vessel, and seems to echo inside your head.

You are standing aboard the Ark. The last great endeavour of your race, intended to ferry the remnants of a doomed civilization across time and space to a new home. Struck by a fragment of the planet's shattered moon as it escaped orbit, it was damaged severely, though designed to be capable of functioning as multiple vessels. Two thirds of the Ark have vanished across the dimensions. You are the last known survivors of your species.

Unfortunately your memories were stored on the Ark of Yahweh. This is the Ark of Hephaestus. I suspect all you have left of your former selves are your names and skills. A pity. Fortunately, knowing your past is not critical to building a future for your kind.

You are going to create a new world.

Your race possesses power beyond that of any other; the power to CREATE. And when you CREATE you utilize a form of energy that otherwise does not exist. This ship is designed to harvest and store the excess energy output. The Ark of Ptah would shape it, and give it form. And the Ark of Yahweh would empower it, and give it life. This would create a new world. A new home for your people.

My name is Maui, and I am the life bound to this ship. I will be directing the Ark across time and space, that you may gather materials with which to perform your divine duty.

Find the other Arks. CREATE your own future.

Spoiler: Character Rules (click to show/hide)

1. One character per player at all times. You may create a new character if your previous one became permanently lost or otherwise incapacitated, i.e. dead. You may not create a new character if you have another alive (active or in hibernation). Between four and eight characters can be active at once.
2. Your character must have a name, gender designation and one skill upon character creation. This skill must be related to gathering or crafting in some way. There will be no NPC trading.
3. After five worlds have been visited, the active characters will be too drained of creative energy to continue working, and must recover. To do so, all currently active characters are put into hibernation and the next set of characters on the waiting list is awakened.
4. Your character does not remember their past, as the ship was damaged while they were in hibernation and as a result their memories were locked in a backup drive for safekeeping. The whereabouts of this drive is currently unknown.
5. Free RP is encouraged after the events of the day have concluded. This can be conducted either through private chat or in the topic; I do not necessarily need to see what goes on between your characters. You can choose to allow me to know, or you can keep me in the dark.
6. Trading of items must be negotiated between characters.

Spoiler: Gameplay Rules (click to show/hide)

Each turn, the creators awake will choose a main action. Your choices are GATHER, EXPLORE, or CRAFT.
Along with any sub actions, these include inventory management, equipment purchases and any spoken word, or flavor text.
Each main action will be accompanied by an attempt roll. This is a 1-100 roll I make using a random online roller. If you roll above 50 after any modifiers, you will succeed in your attempt. 10 or below is a critical fail, 91-100 is critical success, and will produce changes based on your action.Any rolls above 100 will be treated as 100, though fulll experience will be given.

Modifiers:
- Skills raise your roll by a point per level. you need 100 experience in a skill to raise the skill level, and skills max out at level 40.
- Difficulty modifiers may be added by me, if I deem the action easy or difficult. This is usually 10-20 points added or subtracted.
- The number rolled for the world influences Gather and Explore rolls; 1-20 applies a +10 to your attempt, 21-40 applies +5, 41-60 remains neutral, 61-80 applies -5 and 81+ applies -10.


-Gather actions must define a class of item to search for. Depending on the availability of the resource you're looking for in the current world, there may be a difficulty modifier appied. Please try and use some common sense when defining a gather request; searching for substances that are very clearly not present (e.g. water in a volcano, dirt in an endless ocean) will be treated as an automatic failure.
-Gather rolls will include an attempt, a quality, and a quantity roll.
-If the attempt roll is successful, a quality roll will be made to determine the influence of the found item, as well as the influence awarded to the creator. A critical failure will result in you becoming lost, and your next turn will require you to attempt to return to the ship (requiring a roll of 50 or higher). If you've gotten lost on the first or second day, you will also be able to gather (at a -10 penalty to your next return roll) or explore (at a -20 penalty to such). If you are still lost by the end of the third day, your character is lost permanently. Other players can choose to use their turn to search for you, providing a +10 to your return roll for each player to do so.
-After a quality roll, a quantity roll will be made, this roll will take the quality from it's roll, to produce the amount you find of the item. Minimum amount of 1.
-Attempt rolls will become gather experience at the rate 1:1.(Note that there is no longer a single 'gather' skill, but many skills based on how you obtain your items)

-Explore actions can be made when significant features of the land are noted in the description, or if the land is not explicitly described to be near-featureless.
-Explore rolls follow the same basic principle as Attempt rolls for Gather and Craft actions. On a critical failure, you will become lost, as with a critically failed Gather attempt, and will have to spend your next turn attempting to return to the ship. Alternatively, you can attempt to gather (giving a -10 penalty to your next return roll) or explore some more (giving a -20 penalty to your next return roll). Again, if you are still lost at the end of the third day, your character is lost permanently. Other players can choose to use their turn to search for you, providing a +10 to your return roll for each player to do so.

-Craft actions need information on what you are crafting, and what source material you wish to use.
-You must use at least one item to create something, though you may add as many extra items as you wish.
-Craft rolls will include an attempt, a quality, and an influence roll.
-If the attempt roll is successful, a quality roll will be made.
-After a quality roll, an influence roll is made. This roll is added to the quality roll, as well as half the influence of every source material to produce the base influence of the item
-Attempt rolls will become experience of the relative skill at the full rate of the roll.


Personal inventory has a max of 10 slots. (1 crafted item or 1 stack of raw materials, depending on size.)
Group inventory has no maximum, but will be melted down for fuel at the end of the cycle and returned to an introductory amount.
Inventory management is a sub action, and is first post-first obtained.
If you wish for something in someone else's personal inventory, you must discuss with them in the thread and have them notify me clearly if you wish to use it.

Influence:
     -Giving something to group inventory will gain you influence based on the item's value
     -Taking from group inventory will cost the same amount for the item.
     -There is a Gallery that is ONLY available for completed goods: ask yourself, is this new item a raw material or a finished product?, only Finished products will be allowed in the Gallery. This will give you twice the influence amount if you donate to this option, but the item will forever become just a display unit.
-Each creator will start with 200 influence.
-Influence can be used to increase inventory space (250 per slot), buy bonuses in skills (500 per bonus, up to a maximum of 25 bonuses, with a cap of 10 bonuses in one skill)


The Rules of creation:
1. No sentience. Do not create any sort of sentient being.
2. You may only create one thing at a time. This is based on the item, a pair of matching mittens is fine, or even a 'suit' of armor. Something like, I'll make 50 guns this next turn. Will not be allowed.
3. You can create anything, Mundane, Magic, Science. As long as you use a source item to make it.
4. Damage to the Ark or its occupants will be deducted from the influence amount of the one who created such. IE: don't make something that will instantly harm everyone around you on purpose. like black holes, supernovas, portable stars, etc.
5. Repeated attempts at failed items are only allowed once. After that the ship will become bored with you, and require a different action.
6. item ownership will come at a first post fire claim. If two people claim an item from group storage the first poster gets it. Personal inventory is only available to the person who is holding the item, you may only use an item from someone else's inventory if they give you the item as a sub action.
7. You cannot create items to make other items. No robots making robots, or making a wand with all your creative powers. There are limits to how far I will let you break the game, and it's best not to push them.

Spoiler: World 1 (click to show/hide)

71 (-5 to Gather and Explore rolls)
The portal opens into a dimly lit metallic hallway lit by flickering panels on the ceiling. You can hear what sounds like a roar every so often, and occasionally the area shudders and rattles slightly.

Spoiler: Ship inventory (click to show/hide)

4x iron dowel (1kg) [15*4]
1x disturbing fungal growth (~20cm ellipsoid) [2]
9x small quadrupedal skeleton (approx. 15cm end to end) [4*9]
22x glass pebbles (approx 1cm-3.5cm across each, roughly spherical) [2*22]
1x jar of soil (200cm³ volume) [6]

Spoiler: Active Characters (click to show/hide)

1. Alexander Kyrby
-Chef 1 [0/100]
1/10

2. Sir Madame the Genderless
-Fleshsmith 1 [0/100]
1/10

3. Exploratron 9000
-Explorer 1 [0/100]
1/10

4. Tazil
-Chef 1 [0/100]
1/10

5. Sir Helios
-Enchanter 1 [0/100]
1/10

6. Tlaxloq
-Animal Capture 1 [0/100]
1/10

7.
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Spoiler: Waitlist (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Commentary (click to show/hide)

1.1: Okay let's hope this one works out better than the last. Haven't seen a crafting game since Aglaia died. And this one has both plot AND encourages inter-character RP! I want to see how well I can do this because I quite like the story I've got going here.    EDIT: Oh buggery I forgot the ship inventory.

[ExKirby]

I shall be Alexander Kyrby the Chef! I shall make food for the (not very numerous) masses!

And  I'm a dude!

I shall make a Fungus Stew using the Disturbing Fungal Growth!

[MrWillsauce]

Sir Madame the Gender-less. My skill is fleshsmithing, the ability to craft things out of living or once-living animals (including people).

E: I wander around the ship collecting all nine of the skeletons and asking Alexander if I can borrow his soup, then craft them into a stiff suit of armor, using the fungus soup as a paste to adhere the bits together. When necessary, I rub the bones against the hard metal bits of the ship in order to shape them how I'd like.

[Zaerosz]

Need a least two more players so we can get started.

EDIT: World 1 has been added to the original post. Please add an action to your signup post.

[Grek]

Greetings organic lifeforms. I am Exploratron 9000. I am designated as a Class-A Exploration Drone, complete with the latest Cartographotech Cartography and Map-Smithing modules. You may refer to me using male pronouns. Beeb beeb boop.

I will begin by satisfying my prime directive. I will explore this world.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Master chef Tazil, male dwarf that specializes in unusual snacks (yep I want two cooks competing for resources)

Gather!

[Fortis]

Sir Helios, a wizard (Or arcanologist if you want the official designation) skilled in magical artifact creation or enchanting.

I will assist my robotic colleague in exploring the new world.

[Zaerosz]

Master chef Tazil, male dwarf that specializes in unusual snacks (yep I want two cooks competing for resources)

Gather!

Gather actions require a category of item to search for in this game. Don't worry, there's no search penalty unless what you're looking for is pretty damn hard to find in this particular world.

[MrWillsauce]

Kirby can I please get a response regarding the soup?

[LAAT501legion]

Tlaxloq, a small male lizard skilled in tracking animals.
Gather animals

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Gather metal
And shame to anyone who thinks that you can't cook metal

[Zaerosz]

Writing update now. The 'cycle' function has been eliminated, so all characters get a full 10 turns regardless of when they joined.

[Zaerosz]

I will explore this world.

I will assist my robotic colleague in exploring the new world.

Exploratron 9000: 92 +1 -5 = 88
Sir Helios: 8 -5 = 3
CRITICAL FAIL

Exploratron 9000 and Sir Helios step out of the ship together, intent on scouting the area. Unfortunately for Helios, Exploratron decides the best way to do so is at high speed, and leaves him figuratively (and literally, it doesn't look like this place has been used in ages) in the dust. In his efforts to catch up, Helios becomes horribly LOST.

Exploratron, on the other hand, manages to survey a very large portion of the area. Objects of note:
-One of the walls is buckled and cracked, pushing inwards and almost blocking off a hallway.
-A large, open atrium with trampled grass under enormous three-toed footprints. A blunt metal cone has burst through one of the walls, about 4m wide at the base.
-Many, many dried bloodstains and dessicated corpses littering the hallways.
-A sealed room in what appears to be a kitchen.

Exploratron returns to the Ark and relays this information.
Exploratron: +88 Explore EXP
Sir Helios: +3 Explore EXP

Gather metal
And shame to anyone who thinks that you can't cook metal

6 -5 = 1
CRITICAL FAIL

Tazil decides to collect some metal. But not just any old metal, oh no. Who knows what's behind these walls. He needs the perfect metal.

The perfect metal, it seems, is rather difficult to find. Tazil is LOST.
+1 Metal Gathering EXP

Tlaxloq, a small male lizard skilled in tracking animals.
Gather animals

65 +1 -5 = 61
78
4

Alright then, let's go find some things. Tlaxloq won't be able to get any use out of the bloodstains and trails of corpses, they're years old, so he follows Exploratron's directions to the atrium and tracks the footprints from there. It seems something else had a similar idea, however; not long after beginning the hunt, he crosses paths with a particularly brightly coloured Deinonychus antirrhopus, which he captures after a brief struggle and takes back to the ship.
+61 Animal Capture EXP
+1 Red-feathered Deinonychus antirrhopus !base influence 145!

I shall be Alexander Kyrby the Chef! I shall make food for the (not very numerous) masses!

And  I'm a dude!

I shall make a Fungus Stew using the Disturbing Fungal Growth!

42 +1 = 43

You are beginning to regret your decision to make food out of... whatever this is. Just looking at it makes you feel unclean, and that's only one sense. It feels horrible to touch, sort of squishy and damp and rubbery. It smells absolutely vile, defying description. You accidentally drop it on your workbench and while it appears undamaged the sound of it makes your ears feel like they're turning inside out. You refuse to taste it until you're sure it's something approaching edibility. Clearly you'll need to rethink your approach.
+43 Chef EXP

Sir Madame the Gender-less. My skill is fleshsmithing, the ability to craft things out of living or once-living animals (including people).

E: I wander around the ship collecting all nine of the skeletons and asking Alexander if I can borrow his soup, then craft them into a stiff suit of armor, using the fungus soup as a paste to adhere the bits together. When necessary, I rub the bones against the hard metal bits of the ship in order to shape them how I'd like.

(Soup creation failed, so the armour will be created without it if at all.)
9
CRITICAL FAIL

You gather the skeletons from around the ship and quickly return to your workbench, and set to work constructing them into a suit of armour. Unfortunately you've neglected to realize how much you have to work with, and have fallen far short of the amount of bone you would need to complete your goal, and in an effort to spread your materials beyond their natural spread you wind up compromising them and ruining them beyond all use. The ship fines you for the necessary cleanup.
+9 Bonecrafting EXP
-16 Influence

Spoiler: World 1 (click to show/hide)

71 (-5 to Gather and Explore rolls)
The portal opens into a dimly lit metallic hallway lit by flickering panels on the ceiling. You can hear what sounds like a roar every so often, and occasionally the area shudders and rattles slightly.
-One of the walls is buckled and cracked, pushing inwards and almost blocking off a hallway.
-A large, open atrium with trampled grass under enormous three-toed footprints. A blunt metal cone has burst through one of the walls, about 4m wide at the base.
-Many, many dried bloodstains and dessicated corpses littering the hallways.
-A sealed room in what appears to be a kitchen.

Spoiler: Ship inventory (click to show/hide)

4x iron dowel (1kg) [15*4]
22x glass pebbles (approx 1cm-3.5cm across each, roughly spherical) [2*22]
1x jar of soil (200cm³ volume) [6]

Spoiler: Active Characters (click to show/hide)

1. Alexander Kyrby - 198 Influence
-Chef 1 [43/100]
1/10
1x disturbing fungal growth (~20cm ellipsoid) [2]

2. Sir Madame the Genderless - 148 Influence
-Fleshsmith 1 [0/100]
-Bonecrafter 0 [9/100]
1/10

3. Exploratron 9000 - 200 Influence
-Explorer 1 [88/100]
1/10

4. Tazil - 200 Influence
-Chef 1 [0/100]
-Metal Gatherer 0 [6/100]
1/10

5. Sir Helios - 200 Influence
-Enchanter 1 [0/100]
-Explorer 0 [3/100]
1/10

6. Tlaxloq - 345 Influence
-Animal Capture 1 [61/100]
1/10
1x Red-feathered Deinonychus antirrhopus [145]

7.
8.

Spoiler: Waitlist (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Commentary (click to show/hide)

1.2: Lots of critical failures in this round. Not the best start, two players lost on the first go and both craftings failed. Ah well. As you may have noticed, exploration permanently adds notable features to the world description, and exploration actions are performed at the same time and before all others. Gatherers can then choose to gather in any specific location that has been found via exploration at no additional penalty.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Gather grass and hope for better rolls

[MrWillsauce]

Build a blood-fueled motorcycle out of the corpses.