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[IronyOwl]

Beneath the warming sun and the chilling moon, across the snowy forests and icy plains, you survive. Like all living things, you struggle against hunger and cold and wounds by sheer determination, intent on making your place in this world.

But unlike most other living things- the meek rabbits, the stately elks, even the cunning wolves- you possess the cunning to craft tools, to learn from your mistakes, and to hopefully not just survive, but thrive.

You'd best hurry, however. Day won't last forever, and it gets rather cold at night...

Spoiler: Sun and Moon (click to show/hide)

Above the snow and dirt of the ground soars the mighty sun and moon, bringing day and night, warmth and cold, light and dark. Knowing their cycles is a skill known by all children and all beasts, for it is the ebb and flow of life itself.

Each turn takes place during a different phase of the day (or night). The most noticeable effects of day and night are temperature, but there can occasionally be other effects associated with the time of day.

Also of note is hunger and healing. At dawn and dusk of each day, you lose a point of hunger and recover a point of HP. You may sacrifice another point of hunger to regain a point of heat as well.

Phase	Heat Loss	Other
Dawn	3	1 Hunger, +1 HP
Morning	2	-
Noon	2	-
Dusk	3	1 Hunger, +1 HP
Early Night	4	-
Late Night	4	-

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

HP is your ability to take damage without dying. Every dawn and dusk you recover a HP, unless you're currently starving. You also recover a HP any phase in which you do nothing but rest, again unless you are starving.

Losing all of your HP generally results in death.

Hunger is the amount of sustenance you currently possess. Each dawn and dusk, you lose one hunger point. Eating most forms of food recovers hunger equal to the number of units consumed. Remember that cooking food usually doubles its hunger value.

Losing all of your hunger removes your ability to regenerate health and deals half a point of HP damage each dawn and dusk.

Heat is how warm you currently are. Each phase, you lose warmth based on a number of factors, most notably time of day and current clothing, if any. You can recover warmth by being someplace warm, such as in front of a fire.

Losing all of your heat deals matching HP damage any time you would lose any further heat.

Spoiler: Attributes (click to show/hide)

In addition to basic stats, each tribe member possesses several innate traits that help define them.

Body is one's commitment to their body. Those with high Body are strong and tough, able to shrug off blows and crush impediments with their bare hands. Those with low Body are sickly and weak, poorly in tune with the flesh that gives them life.

Heart is one's inner strength and compassion. Those with high Heart are understanding and resolute, able to empathize with others and endure suffering with grace. Those with low Heart are cowardly and weak-willed, poorly accustomed to living with themselves in harmony.

Soul is one's mental strength and perception. Those with high Soul are cunning and perceptive, able to puzzle out difficult challenges and notice things others might miss. Those with low Soul are simple-minded or oblivious, barely aware of the world around them.


Each attribute increases a basic stat by one point each. Body increases HP, Heart increases Hunger, and Soul increases Warmth. Attributes are gifted by totems.

Spoiler: Totems (click to show/hide)

Summary
Each warrior possesses a Totem, a personal collection of symbolic power. One's totem defines who one is, and as the warrior grows, so too does his totem.

Totems are composed of Aspects, with each Aspect granting a bonus and being acquired in a different way. A totem might well be thought of as a collection or stack of the warrior's aspects.

Aspects may be anything. They may be animals, plants, objects, concepts, or anything else you can think of, and may be something you have seen with your own eyes, pondered on deep in thought, or encountered only in dreams.


Acquisition
Aspects are earned whenever a warrior overcomes a major challenge. This might be anything from slaying a wolf to crafting a net, but only serious, important challenges to the warrior may grant another Aspect. As a result of this, any given task may only grant an aspect once; slaying a second or third wolf would not grant a valid aspect after slaying the first, though slaying three wolves at once, slaying twenty wolves altogether, or slaying a wolf to save someone dear to you might.

It is important to note that the events that grant totems also shape their form, and a warrior's aspects in turn shape them. Slaying a wolf is likely to grant benefits related to courage, combat prowess, savagery, and so on; consequently, a warrior whose totem consists entirely of similar achievements is likely to be very combat-oriented, both in current aspects and in chances to acquire more.


Effects
Each aspect grants a +1 bonus to one attribute: Body, Heart, or Soul (and thus a corresponding bonus to HP, Hunger, or Heat). Naturally, this bonus is based on the nature of the aspect.

Furthermore, each aspect grants a situational bonus or special ability of some sort, obviously based on the nature of said aspect. Aspect-granted abilities can be extraordinarily varied, and thus it is difficult to speak about them in general, but some possible sample abilities are listed below.

Large Belly	+2 Hunger
Cannibal	Double food effect of raw sapient flesh
Warrior	+1 damage
Hunter	+1 to one chase roll/day
Gatewatcher	Able to craft dreamwalk powder

Spoiler: Crafting (click to show/hide)

Crafting is essential to your survival. With a little ingenuity, you can turn objects in the world around you into invaluable tools.

All crafting requires components, that is, ingredient items that are consumed to produce something new. Some crafts also require tools, that is, accessory items necessary for creation, but not consumed or included in the finished product.

Some of the more obvious items are listed below, with benefits assuming an average crafting attempt. Cunning warriors may be able to invent other creations, and a rare few may even gain new wonders from their totems.

Item	Benefit	Tools	Components
Campfire	+3 Warmth/Turn instead of standard heat loss, consumed 1 stick/turn	Flint&Steel	1 Moss, 3 Sticks
Stone Axe	+1 dmg, hacking implement	-	1 Stone, 1 Stick, 1 Moss
Stone Dagger	Cutting Implement	-	1 Stone
Fur Chestpiece	-1 dmg taken 1/day, -1 warmth lost 1/day	Cutting Implement, Needle	1 Medium Hide, 1 Small Hide
Fur Leggings	-1 dmg taken 1/day, -1 warmth lost 1/day	Cutting Implement, Needle	1 Medium Hide
Fur Cowl	-1 dmg taken 1/day, -1 warmth lost 1/day, may have cowl-specific bonus	Cutting Implement, Needle	1 Small Hide
Fur Gloves	-1 dmg taken 1/day, -1 warmth lost 1/day	Cutting Implement, Needle	1 Small Hide
Fur Boots	-1 dmg taken 1/day, -1 warmth lost 1/day	Cutting Implement, Needle	1 Small Hide
Full Armor	-1 dmg taken, -1 warmth loss, hide-specific bonus	Cutting Implement, Needle	4 Medium Hides

Spoiler: Actions and The World (click to show/hide)

Each phase, you may take a major action, such as foraging for materials, attempting to hunt, or exploring the world around you. Traveling usually does not take an action for short distances, but comes into play for longer sojourns.

More specifically, the world is divided into tiles, each of which takes 1 phase to move between. Actions taking place within a tile have no movement costs; actions taking place in an adjacent tile require a turn to reach (and a turn to return from, if desired).

Additionally, different regions may have different modifiers and features based on prevailing terrain.

Signup Sheet:

Name: Self explanatory
Race: No overt effects, but might affect totem building and occasionally influence reactions to you.
Gender: May become relevant should you amass 10 food and become interested in starting a family.
Appearance: Mostly irrelevant, but may affect the way others react to you. Note that two-legged others are rather rare and snow wolves tend to not judge people based on appearance.
Bio: Optional. Bear in mind that you're a lone stone age individual on a tundra.

[IronyOwl]

Players:
-Gwem, Fair-Haired Woman (GWG)
-Elgrom, Orcish Exile (Gamerlord)
-Aestus, Lone Giant (Xanmyral)
-Growlneer Greateye, Wolfman (superBlast)
-Clair Heaven, Red Kitsune (scapheap)
-Theenya Faircloak, Snow Hobbit (Dwarmin)

Waitlist:
-? (GUNIN)
-Yakub, Manateeman Hermit (Harry B)
-Garius Junst, Human Justicar (mcclay)

Graveyard:
-

[IronyOwl]

Miscellaneous post. Feel free to post now.

[Tiruin]

PTW

[Xantalos]

I'd play, but I've seen what happened to all of the Irony RTDs I've participated in. PTW for now, and if it lasts I'll waitlist.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Name: Gwem
Race: Human (I'm pretty sure this is what you mean...)
Gender: Female (because someone has to?)
Appearance:This woman has beady eyes the color of coffee with cream. Her silky, straight, cream-colored hair is worn in a style that reminds you of a waterfall. She is tall and has a graceful build. Her skin is ruddy. She has thick eyebrows. Her wardrobe is flattering, with a lot of black and brown furs.
Bio: Maybe later. Late.

[IronyOwl]

I'd play, but I've seen what happened to all of the Irony RTDs I've participated in. PTW for now, and if it lasts I'll waitlist.

Fair enough. :x

[Tiruin]

Gender: Female (because someone has to?)

...? Because someone has to...

ok...

I'd play, but I've seen what happened to all of the Irony RTDs I've participated in. PTW for now, and if it lasts I'll waitlist.

Fair enough. :x

((Ehh, the joy is in playing Irony's RTDs. Its mostly of a test-style, but enjoyable nonetheless.))

[Gamerlord]

Reserved. writing my sheet thingy now.
Edit: oh, and what kind of races ae we allowed to pick?
Edit2: fine, taking Xanmyral's lead and just going generic fantasy.

Name: Elgrom
Race: Orc
Gender: Male
Appearance: dark moss-coloured skin, stands about six foot, black hair with mustache/beard, long and uncut. Small dark eyes and large, jutting teeth.
Bio: Elgrom had been a hunter in his tribe until the beautiful daughter of the chief caught his eye. When he sought her hand, her rejection in favour of the champion of the tribe enraged Elgrom. One night he murdered her and her lover in their bed, before turning his axe on the chief as well. Captured by the rest of the tribe, Elgrom was exiled to the frozen wilderness to live or die as the spirits decided.
((There!))

[Xanmyral]

Name: Aestus
Race: Giant [Gonna just give a guess as to what is available.]
Gender: Male
Appearance: Stands roughly eleven feet tall with pale, taunt skin and stretched, cord-like muscles. His hands are roughly calloused from a hard life, as are his feet from long distances traveled. Eyes stare ahead, determined, slate grey in color. Brown, long hair in contrast to his pale skin, needing a bit of a trim but such is a luxury when fighting for survival.
Bio: Race born from the rock of the mountains at the beginning of the world, or as his people's legends say, Aestus has lived with his people for the majority of his life. Famine, disease, and the ever incessant cold has laid low many of his kin until now he was the only one left of his tribe. But he will rebuild, and his clan shall live again, or he shall die trying, this is Aestus' goal. Their spirits whisper in his ear, urging him forth to lay low this land, and to bring forth a new clan, one strong enough to survive the winter, the wolves, and to not just live but to thrive, to survive, to flourish.

[IronyOwl]

Available races are anything appropriate you can come up with. Ice elementals or vengeful ghosts probably wouldn't be appropriate for obvious reasons, but pretty much anything that doesn't break core mechanics like that would probably be fine.

Also, as a sidenote, some of my initial ponderings for this game included size differences, in case someone wanted to play a troll or kobold or whatever. That sort of got lost along the way, though.

[Parsely]

Reserve! I'll catch some sleep and then get to work!

[superBlast]

Reserve me a spot while I read up on everything and make something up for my character. What I read so far sounds fun lol.

Edit:
Name: Growlneer Greateye
Race: Wolfling (Human with wolf-like appearance.) ((More or less a werewolf without the were and only a little wolf lol.))
Gender: Male
Appearance: Human-like with a wolf head and covered is very short light gray and white fur. Eyes of gold and huge scar across the chest that fur doesn't grow on.
Bio: None

[scapheap]

Name: Clair Heaven
Race: kitsune
Gender: Female
Appearance: Red haired woman with brown eyes. Fair skin, six long red tails trails behind her. Sender build.

[Dwarmin]

Name: Theenya Faircloak
Race: Snow Hobbit
Gender: Female
Appearance: A short (even for a hobbit) girl with slight, fair skin and a healthy glow. She has small, vivacious green eyes and short cropped silvery hair that is extended into small double bangs on her forehead and a triple ponytail that cover the back of her neck. She has a jagged fishook looking scar on her chin, extended down to her lower chest, that is very noticeable. She is often seen wearing a spotted snow fox pelt coat and carrying a bow on her back made from the springy leg of some chitinous beast, strung with a silvery cord of what looks like very fine hair. She sports extensive tattooing over her entire body, like the branches of a tree...most of it paired lines extending to her lifelines and chakras, but few symbols. Her face in particular is embellished with intricate arcs both above and below the eyes, extended down the sides of her neck.

Bio: Theenya's clan of cold dwelling Hobbits-the Furrowfeet-lived an existence not unlike they always have-moving up and down the coast on the longboats they used as homes, fishing and hunting seals, and generally staying out of the way of the larger folk. She was born into a relative time of plenty, where food was plentiful and the seas calm and merciful-as such, being only around 18, fairly healthy and not unused to being considered beautiful. she was traded to Clan Flurryspear as a bride-both diplomacy. and practicality. Though uneasy to being moved away so casually, Theenya went along with her elders wishes...unfortunately, a Hobbit in such a position has little freedom in their life-slavery is too harsh a word, but it is what their social status amounts to in all practicality.

Though, to the new clans surprise, they found Theenya to be a proficent hunter and tracker rather than merely a potential spouse. She demanded, and was given rights, to the ritual of the 'Great Hunt'-to seek and hopefully defeat one of the 'Seven Great Dangers' of Snow Hobbitkind-she chose the great and terrible Blizzard Drake-think small Dragon, but no less ferocious-quite capable of slaying an adult human. She know the retrieval of the Blue Pearl from the Drakes frozen belly would be proof enough...assuming she's not first introduced to said belly in a more personal way. Such things cannot be bought and are not easy to steal, with great value only to the Snow Hobbit people. This is a task for her and her alone-if she returns without a trophy, the hunt is considered a failure and can never be undertaken again.

If she should succeed, Theenya will no longer be a mere trophy herself, but a full fledged Flurryspear clan member-capable of choosing her own partner, engaging in trade, or even renouncing them and returning to her people if she so wishes. This is her only hope, she believes, of avoiding an arranged marriage to an unworthy mate-since, being silly and still something of a romantic, Theenya still has the fluttering belief in true love and destiny. Then again, she has not faced the storms full fury yet...