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[Mr.Zero]

This is the discussion thread of my Universe in Chaos RTD. Any discussion regarding the RTD,lore or anything that doesn't belong in the RTD thread can be written here.

More to be added. Soon.



1.The ruleset

Spoiler: General Game mechanics (click to show/hide)

2a.In this RTD, you have two action types; Free Actions and Standard Actions. You can perform as many Free Actions as you like (within reason) and there are no rolls involved; you just succeed (or fail if it's impossible). Free Actions include (but are not limited to) communicating, moving around, picking things up, dropping things and so on.

Standard Actions( Typed in bold) are the meat of RTD; you may perform one Standard Action per turn and they require a roll to see how well you do, the rolls are as follows;

0 - Godly Fail. At this point, you're probably dead, have taken someone else with you and made the entire world a whole lot worse. Pray that you never recieve this.Only achievable with a penalty.
1 - Epic Fail. You've failed beyond human proportions, whatever happens here... You hope that you survive it. Only achievable with a penalty.
2 - Big Fail. That didn't work, and you just made things worse as well!
3 - Regular Fail! You didn't succeed in doing what you wanted, also try not to hurt yourself.
4 - Lesser Fail. That didn't work try again.
5 - Success. You accomplished what you intended to do, but you didn't do anything spectacular and practically didn't learn anything. (No skill points gained)
6 - Lesser Success. You succeeded into doing what you wanted and learned something in doing so! (+1 skill points)
7 - Regular Success. Standard succes, (+2 skill points)
8 - Big overshoot. Whoops, you went a wee bit too far. The result is definitely what you wanted to, but with some unintentional side-effects; like you targeted the enemy cultist and blew up the entire city. (+3 skill points)
9 - Epic Overshoot Your action matches the acts of the heroes in legends but so does the overshoot. (+3 skill points) Only achievable with a big bonus.
10 - Godly Overshoot The gods tremble in your presence as your actions has reached even the gods themselves, whatever you did it is beyond good. The overshoot however is vastly bigger than you have imagined, your hope is that it's good. (+4 skill points) Only achievable with a big bonus.

Anything below 0 or above 10 is treated as a 0 or 10 respectively.

You can get bonuses from many sources, including magical buffs, skill training (see below), good equipment and random circumstance.
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2b.Skills are another part of RTD; Skills can be anything, if you focus on it you can become skilled in opening doors. There's no list of skills and the only way to see if you can learn a skill is to try it.

Skills have 12 levels, each level requires more XP than the previous level.

Dabbling - 1
Novice - 2 (+1 bonus if the die rolls a natural 1)
Competent - 4 (Static +1 to all rolls)
Skilled - 7 (Static +1 to all rolls, successes are improved.)
Adept - 11 (Static +1 to all rolls, extra +1 if the dice rolls a natural 1, successes are improved.)
Talented - 16 (Static +2 to all rolls, successes are improved)
Professional - 22 (Static +2 to all rolls, successes are greatly improved.)
Expert - 29 (You may choose to take a +1, +2 or +3 bonus to your rolls, successes are greatly improved.)
Master - 37 (You may choose to take a +1, +2 or +3 bonus to your rolls, successes are substantially improved.)
High Master - 46 (Static +3 bonus to all rolls, successes are substantially improved. You cannot Overshoot.)
Grand Master - 56 (Static +4 bonus to all rolls, successes are massively improved. You may choose to Overshoot, or not.)
Legendary - 75 (You choose which number you roll from 0 to 10.)

You get bonuses at different skill levels as well. Note that each bonus replaces any previous bonuses.

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2c.WEWNDS! Invariably you will meet people who are not very nice and who will try to hurt you, and whom you will try to hurt. You will be engaged in conflict and some of you will be hurt. These are the wound levels;

Lightly Wounded - Don't worry about it. You'll recover with a short rest and take no penalties. Just try not to get hit again.
Moderately Wounded - Ow. You take a -1 penalty to any rolls you make with this body part and may suffer some extra penalties if the part is important (like your brain). You'll heal after you take a fairly long rest.
Broken - Aaah! -2 penalty to any rolls made with this body part. Can only apply to brittle parts (like bones). Worse still, this will not heal by itself; you're going to need medical attention!
Mangled - Damaged beyond recognition. You'll be copping at least a -3 penalty to anything you try and use with this limb, and will probably be suffering a butt-ton of extra effects. Like Broken, this will not heal by itself.
Lopped Off - It's gone! Holy hell it's gone! You can't do anything that requires this part, and if it's an important part (like, say, your head) you are now dead. Worse still this cannot be healed by mundane means, and will require at least an Incredible success to fix!
There are also a number of status effects which may vary from time to time, i'll explain each effect when it turns up.

Spoiler: Character creation sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: No explanation
Age: Between 18 and 50. Not any younger or older, no real reason but to keep it slightly realistic.
Skin color: Keep within realism, so things like African, Caucasian, Asian, whatever.
Facial characteristics: Things like hair length, hair color (Strange hair colors allowed, E.G: white,red, blue,green), eye color ( Maybe 2 different eye colors), mustaches. I unfortunately cannot allow any scars or other strange body characteristics, as it interferes with the story.

The more information you provide, the better i can write. You can use pictures as well, but please put them in spoilers.

Bio: Any bio you write will be of dead people, which the clone or proto human will remember as the story advances.
The more information you provide, the better i can write.

Participation number: I taught this up to give everyone a equal chance of joining the RTD, because i consider first come, first get lame. Since not everyone lives in the same timezone or lives 24/7 on the Internet.

Basically, you claim a number between 0 and 20. When there are enough places filled (6+), i will start rolling on random.org . Depending on which number is generated, a player is let in until the 6 player limit is filled. If there are more than 20 entries ( Which i don't think will happen), i will increase the number. If there are less, i will decrease it until I'm left with the number of applications.

A example could be...

Name: Bob
Age: 24
Skin color: Caucasian
Facial characteristics Average looking guy, short dark brown hair, green/blue eyes, butt chin.
Bio:Blablabla, gaint space whale killer and conqueror of earth.
Participation number: 15

Note: Every character is a human.

Spoiler: Money mechanic (click to show/hide)

In my RTD, there will be one currency. Intergalactic Space Kredits AKA. ISK

[Mr.Zero]

2.The lore
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Spoiler: Human Race- Not ready (click to show/hide)

Ah, the human race. A fascinating short lived race of sentient creates that originated from Earth in the Sol System in the Oort Cloud sector. This race, has a long but short history with many wars and milestones for this young race. The biggest milestone that humanity has reached, is the discovery of FTL. FTL, also known as Faster Than Light travel, enabled the human race to reach to the stars and explore the vast unknown universe. Within a very short period of time humanity has made a dozen or so colonies in space. But quickly their expansion came to a halt, as they encountered other sentient space faring races and they weren't too kind as people have thought. As quickly as they discovered FTL, they found themselves encased in an interstellar conflict.

This urged the human race to become one hard-working race, ruled under a iron fist. One man stood up to the challenge. Tiberius.. That was his name. With an iron fist, he grasped all colonies. Enforced many rules which could be considered tyrannical and oppressed those who were against his ways. Normally people wouldn't follow such a leader, but in these desperate times he was their only beacon of hope. And so.. The Human Alliance was born. With the creation of the Alliance simultaneously a splinter faction was born. The Rebel Alliance.

This led to some conflicts but at some point a truce was made, since fighting their own kind was the least of their concerns.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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3.Maps of the Universe
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3A. Yes! My RTD will have some handy dandy maps for the players to see where they can fly to, and to see where they rather shouldn't! It will come in 5 levels.
The first being a Galactic View of the RTD, where you can see the entire galaxy and the territories with the location of their capital planet!

Next we have the territorial view. In this view, you will be able to see the territories in the space of a nation with some important planet names as well.

After that we have region view. In this view, you'll be able to see a close up of a territory and the solar systems within the territory.

After that, there will be the solar view. Where you'll be able to see the planets,moons and other misc. items that are in the solar system.

And finally, we got the planetary view. Where you'll see some minor information of the planet.

3B. The following maps are available.

• Galactic View
• Plantery View: Tio Volatis

[Mr.Zero]

4.Data Logs


Audio Logs

Spoiler: audio log #494-Z (click to show/hide)

"Deep inhale.

I am Doctor Staal, head geneticist of research base Volatis. I am or to be precise, i was the person in charge of project "PR-Hum". Which led the creation of you. You are the product of DNA splicing between humans and alien DNA of what we believe, were the first advanced alien life form in our universe. They mysteriously dissapeared from our universe, however. They did leave behind an en masse of artifacts, which are very hard to use. We believe that we could recreate a semi-alien human, which could operate these devices. We were right, and so you were reborn.  Your destin-...

Heh, i actually could go on for a long time but i should get to the point. The reason why we cannot greet you in the future is because, we are dying. Not long after the discovery of the ancient DNA, we uncovered a dangerous virus. It won't have any effect on you, but it will on us. We accepted our fates, that we will die here. So at the very least, we hope that you. Our legacy, will get off this planet and live on. That's why, we carefully have rewritten Aurora, our base AI, to aid you in leaving this planet.

You may have many questions and i would gladly answer them, but fate apparently won't let me. Maybe Aurora will, but she's just an AI.

Good luck and Jarka na rarara"

End audio log #494-Z

Text Logs

Spoiler: PR-hum Log #477 (click to show/hide)

It appears that 6 out of the 8 subjects are progressing as expected. 2 subjects seem to undergoing cell degeneration, which leaves a dark residue behind. Subject 9 and 8 will be dead within 2 days, unfortunately there is nothing we can do as it is the result of a failed combining of 2 different DNA strands. We however did get the order to not flush the cells for future experiments on the DNA splicing and it's side effects.

Signed: PR-Hum Assistant
Diana Jo

Spoiler: Strain APAD Log #08 (click to show/hide)

ymptoms of Strain APAD include: Dizzyness, cold feeling in chest area, halucinating.
First symptoms show up ~4 hours after being exposed to the virus.
Second symptom occurs after ~9 hours, this includes the cold feeling in chest and can include vomitting.
3rd symptom occurs after ~14 hours, at this stage most infected individuals are unable to think straight and need to be contained in their own chambers. Chambers should be stripped of any materials and objects which can inflict self-harm.
the 4th Symptom occurs after ~18 hours, this last symptom happens when the infected is at the end of his/her life. The infected starts howling up to 3 hours, at the end of his/her life a final screech occurs at when the infected simply drops dead.

All of the infected die from exhaustion and being cold. We have tried treating the individuals, but any attempts in doing so resulted in the infected dying sooner.

Signed: Strain APAD researcher
Tyio Jungg

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Final Placeholder & locking thread as it's currently not in use. Doh forgot i can't edit then.

[Persus13]

How do skills work? And how much do we remember of our past? Finally, how much can I mess around with making up past history? (I don't want to mess you up since your the GM)

[Mr.Zero]

How do skills work? And how much do we remember of our past? Finally, how much can I mess around with making up past history? (I don't want to mess you up since your the GM)

How do skills work? They improve your odds in performing certain actions or give bonuses. For example, having a high level of hacking will enable you to hack turret systems, or having a high skill level of archeology will maybe get you 2 artifacts instead of one maybe even 3! There won't be skills for everything, like opening doors will not make you a legendary door opener at some point. (Unless, if with "opening doors"  you think about busting them open with explosives or hacking then you could be)

How much do you remember? Like everything a regular person can. So you probably won't remember all of your childhood, but will remember some memorable moments.

Finally, how much can I mess around with making up past history?: In your past, quite a lot.Before your past? Very little, as i use the same past as we have (Hitler,etc.). After your past it will get a bit tricky and the closer we get to the current time line, the less you'll be able make because of recent events.

[Persus13]

Btw, I think the RTd is good. A little slow paced at the moment, but only cause it is the start of it.

[scapheap]

Btw, I think the RTd is good. A little slow paced at the moment, but only cause it is the start of it.

Petty much the same here

[Persus13]

To answer note 3, I think the organization is okay, but maybe have the Tio Volatis be under the player individual actions to make it less confusing what is going on. Also if there are player actions that you don't want others to notice, use a spoiler. These are my only suggestions.

[scapheap]

Why hasn't my gun turn up in my inventory?

[Persus13]

where is tio Volatis in relation to the galactic map or do we not know that yet?