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[Innsmothe]

Thought I would do a fairly simple 'coffee break' RTD as I put finishing touches to a more complex one I am working on, which is thanks in part to Harry Baldman, who's RTD's spring forth inspiration like meth does dopamine.
I started one years ago, but since I was in Uni at the time, as well as planning for it rather shittily, it didn't go farther than a few posts.

Fairly simple.
You my 'lucky' friend are a crew member of the DawnSwan, a large 'cheap thrills' space faring cruiseliner.
Your possible duties are as follows:

Bridge Crew: Snazzy uniform, small pistol, near unlimited access to ship and controls.
Engineer: tools of the trade, shock and trauma resistant suit. free EVA access. You are expected to keep out of sight of the passengers.
Chef: Blades, blades, ooooh a hammer…and more blades. Chefs uniform. You are worked like a slave. *whip crack* and aren't expected to be outside of the kitchen.
Security: Intimidating uniform. Heavy rail pistol. Free access to armoury.
Doctor:tools of the trade, White uniform, Unlimited access to ship (by emergency announcement only).
General crew: Cheap uniform, Datapad.
Cleaner: Here’s a mop I guess, limited 'official' access to ship.

I tried to balance the list as much as possible, please speak up if you think you can improve it. =]

Spoiler: General Mechanics: (click to show/hide)

• Critical fail, you most likley hurt yourself
• You are a failure
• you fail, but go someways to prevent a complete screw up.
• You are...an amateur, but yougot the job done.
• You did it...You expecting a fanfare or something?
• You did it...but possibly killed either yourself or possibly some other poor sap in the process.

Only a nat six will result in negative consiquences.

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

See the above rules, but, there will be several 'phases' tohit/dodge and damage. Damage will be limited to what could be plausible with the weapon used and the surrounding enviroment.

Spoiler:  Char sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Gender:
Assignment:
Bio:

I will allow additional modifiers or equipment (Provide equip stats, with justifications), IF you provide an equally punitive disadvantage.
Setting is strict science fiction.

ex,
Name: Bob McBobbingson
Gender: Male-ish
Assignment: General Crew
Bio: University washout, got drunk in a local night club and woke up in the ships barracks with a sore head and an 'interesting' tatoo.

Spoiler: Current Crew (click to show/hide)

• Scapheap:Janitor
  Gender:Male
  Assignment:CleanerJanitor
  Bio:His past is long and unknown(also maybe made up at some parts)
• lawastooshort: Stacey Gubbins
  Gender: Female
  Assignment: Engineer
  Bio: A failed busker back on earth, Stacey took a night school course in basic engineering and was soon snapped up by the crew of the HMS DawnSwan. Having spent years messing about fixing bikes as a hobby before her formative busking walkabout across what's left of Earth's more cultural cities, she seems to have a natural knack for fixing stuff, especially when it's simple and involves persistence, smacking, and inventive swearing.
  
  Permanently grubby fingered and often filthy faced, she can usually be found in the depths of the ship wanging things as hard as she can with her trusty spanner whilst whining Dylan classics in the mistaken belief no one can hear her. The only thing as dear to her as her spanner is her guitar, safely stored in her cabin. That and her mental Dylan songbook
• GreatWyrmGold: decap-420-J39JS-engin-025
  Gender: Robotic; Gender association varies with personality chip and mood
  Assignment: Engineer
  Biography: No
  Mechanography: The robot, more commonly called "Denny Engineer" by the crew, is based on a modular model roughly resembling a crab or something. It has six legs, slayed out to the sides but articulated to allow forward or reverse as well as sideways movement, and four "arms," currently outfitted with assorted tools. "Denny" has a series of "personality modules," which currently make him somewhat obedient as long as he's not working detrimental to the ship or humanity itself...although it makes him a bit (unintentionally?) sarcastic, a trait which no amount of replacing modules has helped.
• Greenstarfanatic:Jacques Fefére
  Gender: Male
  Assignment: Cook!
  Bio: Jacques has made a vow to travel the universe, and cook for absolutely everyone. His estimate is that after three years, he's about halfway done.
• superBlast: Reina
  Gender: Female
  Assignment: Security
  Bio: All you need to know is she the kind of person who can and will break your arm just for making her the slightly bit upset. Though luckily that doesn't happen much.

Spoiler: Waitlist (click to show/hide)

• Child of Armok - TBA

Spoiler: Background and known technologies. (click to show/hide)

Earth (know interstellarly as Terra), against all predication and speculation, has survived and has been able to unite. With the main factor being increased trans-migration, the erosion of national identies and 'ethnic loyalty'. It's people have spread to the other bodies of the solar system, with Luna and mars being population and economic hubs whilst the moons of Jupiter and Saturn have become the main Shipyards for the military and related research.
It's efforts of expansion have been rather poor outside Sol however, only a few systems have been colonised and were able to be supported, this is due to Insterstellar piracy and Interstellar politics but most notably, the A.I rebellion of 2167 which took over a unsanctioned frontier colony in Gliese 674. It's most successful colonies are in the Alpha Centauri system, Epsilon Eridani and most recently Tau Ceti, where the rowing political entity known as the Confederation of Free Planets is currently based


Related Known Technologies,

• FTL drive, the only reason Terra is able to keep sovereignty of it's colonies, it takes only a two to three months to travel from Sol to Tau Ceti, where it would have taken at eleven years beforehand.

   .

• Replication technology caused one of the greatest upheavals in known history. The Economy collapsed and there were mass panics and lethal riots. The crisis was eventually sorted when only base matiarals, basic foodstuffs, emergency medicine and products of which have had their copyright revoked (standard 20 Terra year contract) were allowed to be replicated.
• Recoilless magnetic weapons. i.e Rail and Coil weapons
• Directed Energy Weapons. Lasers, Phased Light Emitions, Directed EMP
• Nuclear Fusion Energy Production
• Gravity Plating
• Artificial Intelligence

 

I will only accept five people at a time and 1 post per turn.

 

[scapheap]

Name:Janitor
Gender:Male
Assignment:CleanerJanitor
Bio:His past is long and unknown(also maybe made up at some parts)

[Innsmothe]

Thanks. ^^

By the way, by 'coffee break' I mean it will be fairly relaxed on story, but I will be testing the complex stuff for my other RTD. It's just for fun at the moment, but if it gets really interesting I may develop it more

[lawastooshort]

Name: Stacey Gubbins
Gender: Female
Assignment: Engineer
Bio: A failed busker back on earth, Stacey took a night school course in basic engineering and was soon snapped up by the crew of the HMS DawnSwan. Having spent years messing about fixing bikes as a hobby before her formative busking walkabout across what's left of Earth's more cultural cities, she seems to have a natural knack for fixing stuff, especially when it's simple and involves persistence, smacking, and inventive swearing.

Permanently grubby fingered and often filthy faced, she can usually be found in the depths of the ship wanging things as hard as she can with her trusty spanner whilst whining Dylan classics in the mistaken belief no one can hear her. The only thing as dear to her as her spanner is her guitar, safely stored in her cabin. That and her mental Dylan songbook.

[Innsmothe]

Nice.

As another addendum, there will be...consequences for actions that are repeated without plausible explainations or witty word-age.
This will be to promote 'creativity' and not by any means to reduce the boredom of the GM 

A valid usage of action repeat-age would be:
Hacking the airlock doors as either you or someone else slowly suffocates there-in.
Bashing in a irritatingly hesitant consumables delivery machine.
etc.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Name: decap-420-J39JS-engin-025
Gender: Robotic; Gender association varies with personality chip and mood
Assignment: Engineer
Biography: No
Mechanography: The robot, more commonly called "Denny Engineer" by the crew, is based on a modular model roughly resembling a crab or something. It has six legs, slayed out to the sides but articulated to allow forward or reverse as well as sideways movement, and four "arms," currently outfitted with assorted tools. "Denny" has a series of "personality modules," which currently make him somewhat obedient as long as he's not working detrimental to the ship or humanity itself...although it makes him a bit (unintentionally?) sarcastic, a trait which no amount of replacing modules has helped.

[Greenstarfanatic]

I'm in. I'll put a sheet up when I get home.


Name: Jacques Fefére
Gender: Male
Assignment: Cook!
Bio: Jacques has made a vow to travel the universe, and cook for absolutely everyone. His estimate is that after three years, he's about halfway done.

[Innsmothe]

Name: decap-420-J39JS-engin-025
Gender: Robotic; Gender association varies with personality chip and mood
Assignment: Engineer
Biography: No
Mechanography: The robot, more commonly called "Denny Engineer" by the crew, is based on a modular model roughly resembling a crab or something. It has six legs, slayed out to the sides but articulated to allow forward or reverse as well as sideways movement, and four "arms," currently outfitted with assorted tools. "Denny" has a series of "personality modules," which currently make him somewhat obedient as long as he's not working detrimental to the ship or humanity itself...although it makes him a bit (unintentionally?) sarcastic, a trait which no amount of replacing modules has helped.

Any idea how you would like to have your extra limbs calibrated?
Extra strength, speed, dexterity etc ?
Plus to chose whether to have the limbs as purely positive traits, to be balanced by sarcasm and latent crew technophobia, or to have the limbs come along with negative traits as well?
The latter for example could be that you get a bonus on balance checks on your legs, but a minus on speed rolls.

I'm in. I'll put a sheet up when I get home.

You be noted.

[GreatWyrmGold]

My character sheet

Any idea how you would like to have your extra limbs calibrated?
Extra strength, speed, dexterity etc ?
Plus to chose whether to have the limbs as purely positive traits, to be balanced by sarcasm and latent crew technophobia, or to have the limbs come along with negative traits as well?
The latter for example could be that you get a bonus on balance checks on your legs, but a minus on speed rolls.

I had imagined advantages being standard robotic thingies like not worrying about metabolic hazards or sleeping or breathing, plus a computer brain, built-in tools, and somewhat modular components, with disadvantages being vulnerability to mechanabolic hazards (like EMPs or running out of power), lack of manual dexterity, subservience to the crew, vulnerability to involuntary modification, etc.

[Greenstarfanatic]

My sheet's up.

[superBlast]

Name: Reina
Gender: Female
Assignment: Security
Bio: All you need to know is she the kind of person who can and will break your arm just for making her the slightly bit upset. Though luckily that doesn't happen much.

[Innsmothe]

My character sheet

Any idea how you would like to have your extra limbs calibrated?
Extra strength, speed, dexterity etc ?
Plus to chose whether to have the limbs as purely positive traits, to be balanced by sarcasm and latent crew technophobia, or to have the limbs come along with negative traits as well?
The latter for example could be that you get a bonus on balance checks on your legs, but a minus on speed rolls.

I had imagined advantages being standard robotic thingies like not worrying about metabolic hazards or sleeping or breathing, plus a computer brain, built-in tools, and somewhat modular components, with disadvantages being vulnerability to mechanabolic hazards (like EMPs or running out of power), lack of manual dexterity, subservience to the crew, vulnerability to involuntary modification, etc.

I can work with that.

Ok guys, everything's set. Don't know if I will be able to get the introductory posts up this soonish, only just got up. Will try to get everthing done for this afternoon.

[Innsmothe]

It’s 2253-06-15 0800, at the Lunar docking station above Airy City. Small shuttles and yachts skim the thin atmosphere bellow, barely avoiding the hazard zone where daredevil holiday makers dive from above.
The station itself is ablaze with lights, mostly garish and defunct, often complained about by the average 9-5 spacegoer. Its construction is immense, its current diameter being the equivalent to the continent of Australia, with an overall polar length rivalling that the Arabian peninsular.
 Considering its proportions its main hub is tiny in comparison to the ever expanding arc of docking berths around it, or the column stretching underneath it, housing its cargo storage and energy supply for both the station and the ships too large to dock in lunar facilities.
The housing compliment of the station is meagre, and most of it temporary only, catering to ship crew on shore leave, businessmen and economic analysts. And whilst it is the main hub for trans-planetary and interstellar travel it’s also the largest trading city.
And in this main economic hub, A new business enterprise has set up shop.

Blazing White Star Cruises.

It is the proud owner of the first top of the range Colossus class liner, the HMS Dawning Swan. It is a huge ship worthy of its name, the size of the average 21st century super city. It boasts a crew compliment of four hundred thousand (not counting non-biological entities) and a passenger complement around two million. With most of it’s bulk going to facilities, energy production, propulsion and storage.
It is equipped with basic hull plating, designed mainly to resist micro-metorite impact, low calibre fire, low intensity energy weapons and internal explosions.
It has two rail guns, calibrated to fire explosive E.M.P shells.

Spoiler: Places of operational importance are (click to show/hide)

• The Bridge and Brige Crew Quarters, located in the dorsal aft tower.
• Armoury and Barracks, bottom section of Aft tower 
• Crew Quarters, Aft section
• Kitchen and Crew Mess, Dorsal, near aft section.
• Engineering, large ventral bulge.
• Cargo and manufactory, small ventral bulge.
• Shuttle bay, Fore section.

It is the eve of it’s maiden voyage, a sub-light cruise around the system. Those on board will likely be the ships designers, the company's main financial backers, a few politicians vying fore re-election and a million free loaders who won in the raffle drive.
 
The ship has finished loading and the crew are being let on board to get quarters and sort out their stuff, before they are given their pre-flight assignments.
You five are currently obstructing one of the gangways.
You five currently see (omit yourself): A shifty looking individual holding a faux-antique mop. A surly, oil, chemical lubricant stained woman, the mere smell makes your eyes sting. A squat hexapedal robot. A tanned and confident Chef, a gleaming knife tucked in his waist sash. An amazonian-esque security officer glaring at you. And several hundred impatient crewmen who yell at you to shift yourselves into the damn ship already. 
Your pagers beep, signalling that you have unread mail.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Scapheap:Janitor
Gender:Male
Assignment: Janitor
Here’s a mop I guess Mysterious

lawastooshort: Stacey Gubbins
Gender: Female
Assignment: Engineer
tools of the trade, shock and trauma resistant suit Filthy Specialisation. Violent Mechanist Heavy Spanner

GreatWyrmGold: decap-420-J39JS-engin-025
Gender: Robotic; Gender association varies with personality chip and mood
Assignment: Engineer
  A.I   Robot . Hexopod Four arms

Greenstarfanatic:Jacques Fefére
Gender: Male
Assignment: Cook!
Chefs uniform Standard kitchen knife (Sharp) Traveller
superBlast: Reina
Gender: Female
Assignment: Security
Intimidating uniform. Heavy Rail Pistol   Casual Berserker

Edit: code fixing.

Spoiler:  Gm Note (click to show/hide)

Please tell me if you think your char sheet is imballanced. Trying to make things fun.
Man, this took a long time. I will hopefully be able to get an update out at least every three days.
Though, if not all the chars post, I will wait until the third day regardless.
Miss three updates without pm'ing me that you will be indisposed and the your char will...have an accident. If you contact me, they will go into stasis and join the waitlist.
Hope you will have fun :3

[scapheap]

Check my pager

Spoiler: related (click to show/hide)

Just in case someone didn't get who he was

[superBlast]

Go on ahead and find a spot that's not in the way of everyone else. Then check my pager.