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[GreatWyrmGold]

You are a tudy, a species of little translucent creatures. They are herbivorous, using mouthparts with little "blades" on the end to bite off chunks of food. On either side of their mouths is a pair of little dextrous tendrils, moved by filling or emptying small chambers separated by little valves and lined with nerves. They have an incomplete gut and move themselves by wiggling their short, thick bodies, and can "jet" by emptying their stomachs; however, they mostly drift in currents.

They are also intelligent and two-dimensional.



Your little band of six tudies has found what they think might be a good long-term home. There is a little forest of kilp to the left, with some little tems to the right and with the kilp forest. It's also close enough to the surface that there will be plenty of life, but at the bottom so that there is shelter from the current. On the subject of shelter, there is the most important characteristic of the area: A cave. Caves provide shelter from all sorts of predators, and the muck many have is the place where bown--a slow-growing plantlike stalk that only grows in cave muck and that is the best tool-handle material. It's a great spot for a home.

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Tudy Claiming/Wait Listing Sheet:
Name: Tudy names are composed of sounds a human can make without the tongue, due to their lack of a similar organ.
Personality: How your tudy reacts to various situations.
Distinctive Traits: What makes you look different from normal. (Be reasonable.)
Agility: A stat which determines how well you dodge.
Cleverness: A stat which determines how well your tiny brain works.
Dexterity: A stat which determines how well you can use your tendrils.
Endurance: A stat which determines how well you how well you can deal with extended periods of exertion.
Toughness: A stat which determines how many HP you have.
Strength: A stat which determines how much damage you deal.

You have 15 points to spend on Stats. Each must be at least 1 and cannot be above 5.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Tudies:

Spoiler: Ah (click to show/hide)

A large, nice tudy. (scapheap)

Agility: 2
Cleverness: 1
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 3
Toughness: 4
Strength: 3

FP: 12/13
HP: 18/18
NP: 19.8/20

Right Tendril: Nothing
Left Tendril: Nothing

Spoiler: Aiio (click to show/hide)

A darkish, cautious, and thoughtful tudy. (draco1234)

Agility: 3
Cleverness: 4
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 1
Toughness: 2
Strength: 2

FP: 10/11
HP: 14/14
NP: 19.8/20

Right Tentacle: Partly-Sharpened Pebble
Left Tentacle: Nothing

Spoiler: Iboa (click to show/hide)

An incautious tudy. He has a bifurcated left tendril. (cattouchdis)

Agility: 5
Cleverness: 3
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 1
Toughness: 1
Strength: 2

FP: 9/11
HP: 12/12
NP: 19.8/20

Right Tendril: Nothing
Left Tendrils: Nothing

Spoiler: Koh (click to show/hide)

A clever, fatherly tudy with long tendrils and great patience. The eldest of the initial six. (miawu62)

Agility: 2
Cleverness: 5
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 2
Toughness: 2
Strength:  1

FP: 12/12
HP: 14/14
NP: 19.8/20

Spoiler: Morb (click to show/hide)

A long, skinny tudy who is always curious. The youngest of the initial six. (MonkeyHead)

Agility: 2
Cleverness: 5
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 2
Toughness: 2
Strength: 2

FP: 12/12
HP: 14/14
NP: 19.8/20

Waiters:

Spoiler: Kehe (click to show/hide)

A small, cowardly, and selfish tudy.

Agi: 3
Cle: 3
Dex: 3
End: 3
Tuf: 2
Str: 1

Spoiler: Yawa (click to show/hide)

A purplish and friendless tudy.

Agility:  3
Cleverness: 3
Dexterity: 3
Endurance:  2
Toughness: 2
Strength: 2

Spoiler: Kha (click to show/hide)

A passive, thoughtful, and orange tudy.

Agility: 2
Cleverness: 4
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 2
Toughness: 2
Strength: 2

Spoiler: Ieeleewee (click to show/hide)

A simple-minded but inquisitive tudy, preferring to look at things' insides. Its left tendril is slightly larger than the right.

Agility: 3
Cleverness: 3
Dexterity: 1
Endurance: 1
Toughness: 2
Strength: 5

Spoiler: Som (click to show/hide)

Xom's twin.

Agi: 1
Cle: 2
Dex: 1
End: 3
Tou: 3
Str: 5

Spoiler: Uou (click to show/hide)

A curious but cautious tudy, with a very dark body and long tendrils.

Agi: 3
Cle: 3
Dex: 4
End: 2
Tou: 2
Str: 1

Spoiler: Wuihansh (click to show/hide)

A curious and slightly senile tudy who is also kind of wrinkly and gray in color.

Agi: 2
Cle: 5
Dex: 3
End: 2
Tou: 1
Str: 2

Spoiler: Eeea (click to show/hide)

Slow to anger but very anger when he does. A hard worker. Slightly sick and gray; kinda stunted.

Agility: 2
Cleverness: 4
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 2
Toughness: 2
Strength: 2

Spoiler: Myaam (click to show/hide)

A god-complexed tudy with a skinny head and a tendency to overreact.

Agility: 2
Cleverness: 4
Dexterity: 5
Endurance: 1
Toughness: 2
Strength: 1

Spoiler: Hgagh (click to show/hide)

A paranoid, smelly tudy.

Agility: 3
Cleverness: 2
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 4
Toughness: 0?
Strength: 4

Spoiler: Ooogah (click to show/hide)

A cowardly, one-eyed tudy.

Agility: 3
Cleverness: 5
Dexterity: 4
Endurance: 1
Toughness:1
Strength: 1

The Dead:

Spoiler: Xom (click to show/hide)

A largish, reddish tudy. He was domineering, aggressive, and shrewd. (Xantalos)

Agility: 1
Cleverness: 2
Dexterity: 1
Endurance: 3
Toughness: 3
Strength: 5

[GreatWyrmGold]

Index of Knowledge

Rules

Spoiler: Basic Rules (click to show/hide)

1. Standard d6 RtD.
2. Stats modify rolls. A 1 gives -1 (0 or less gives -2), a 3 or 4 gives +1, and a 5 gives +2. Higher stats presumably give bigger bonuses.

All rules are subject to change if needed.

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

Attacking, the core of combat, is done with dice. If the attacker is a tudy using weapons or otherwise using grapsy parts to attack, add the Dexterity modifier to it; otherwise, use the attacker's Agility modifier. Dodging uses the target's Agility modifier. If the attacker's roll is equal to or higher than the defender's, the attack hits. If the attack roll was at least 3 higher than the defender's, or if it was a six before modifiers, it is a critical hit; if both are the case, it is a double crit. Damage is then rolled, varying by weapon and adding the attacker's Strength modifier. All attacks deal at least one point of damage.
It is possible that one could make some kind of armor to defend oneself with, but at this time tudies have not discovered how to do so.

Spoiler: Movement (click to show/hide)

A tudy can swim about half a screen per mym. This can be increased to one screen per mym with a Strength roll above 3 and expending a Fatigue Point.

Spoiler: Points (click to show/hide)

You have several kinds of Points.
Fatigue Points: Gained at a rate of 1 per ahr per 2 points of Endurance (rounded up), with a maximum of 10 plus your Endurance. Resting for 1 mym has a 1/3 chance of granting you 1 FP. You lose FP through exertion.
Health Points: Gained at a rate of 1 per ahr, with a maximum equal to 10 plus double your Toughness. You lose Health Points when you get damaged.
Nutrition Points: Gained by eating food. -0.1 per mym, with a base of 20/20. Reaching 10 means you are Hungry and take -1 to all rolls. Reaching 5 means you are Starving, move at half speed, and take combat penalties of a type to be decided. Reaching 0 means you have starved to death.

Spoiler: Time (click to show/hide)

Each turn is a Mym, a unit of time coincidentally about equal to 5 minutes of Earth time. Myms are arranged into Ahrs of 9 myms (a bit over an hour) each. The world's day is 6 ahrs long.

You can plan several myms ahead. Many myms will be skipped when it is appropriate.

Creatures

Spoiler: Blue Floaters (click to show/hide)

Little blobby circles, mostly water but with two cilliated tendrils. They are mostly harmless, but their globe contains toxins which leak out a bit through the oral opening. They drift in herds.

Spoiler: Fyfs (click to show/hide)

Large predatory creatures. They tend to swim through the upper seas, swallowing plants and animals alike, but sometimes descend to the depths to feed on larger creatures. They like the taste of Blue Floaters.

Fyfs are large enough that attacks from tudies and other such small creatures get +1.

Spoiler: Tudies (click to show/hide)

Sentient little squirts who eat plants, make tools, and live in caves. They're you.

Tudy Biology

Plants

Spoiler: Bown (click to show/hide)

A slender stalk which lives in cave muck. It grows slowly and is useful for making tools.

Harvesting a stick from the end of a Bown takes 1 FP and 1 mym.

Spoiler: Kilp (click to show/hide)

A long grass which covers large areas of sea floor. It is used as food by many creatures, including tudies.

Harvesting a bite of kilp takes 1 mym and 1 FP. Each bite provides 2 NP of energy.

Spoiler: Tem (click to show/hide)

A thick stalk which lives in some areas of muck. It regrows rather quickly but is tough and unnutritious.

Tools

Spoiler: Tool List (click to show/hide)

Knife--Made from a Sharp Pebble and a Twig (4 Mym). Crafting Tool/Weapon.
Pick--Made from a Stick and a Sharp Rock (1 Ahr). Gathering Tool.
Pebble--Gathered. Crafting Component.
Rock--Gathered. Crafting Component/Weapon.
Sharp Pebble--Made from a Pebble (1d3 Mym, no roll). Crafting Component.
Sharp Rock--Made from a Rock (1d6 Mym, no roll). Crafting Component/Weapon.
Sharp Stick--Made from a Stick (1 Mym, Knife, no roll). Weapon.
Spear--Made from a Sharp Pebble and a Stick (1 Ahr). Weapon.
Stick--Harvested from Bown. Crafting Component.
Twig--Made from Sticks (1 Mym, no roll). Crafting Component.

Suggest more!

Spoiler: Weapons (click to show/hide)

This details combat statistics for anything one could attack with.
S=Strength modifier
Str=Strength score

Tools:
Knife: 1d6+(S/2)
Pick: 1d6+2+S
Rock: 1d6-2+S
Sharp Pebble: 1d6+1
Sharp Rock: 1d6+S
Sharp Stick: 1d6+2+S
Spear: 1d6+4+S; Gives a +1 to attack small creatures like other tudies
Stick: 1d6+2

Natural Weapons:
Fyf bite: 4d6+10
Tudy bite: 1d6+1

Other

Spoiler: Map: (click to show/hide)

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[Xantalos]

Name: Xom (pronounced by letting air hiss past the back of your throat, followed by 'om')
Personality: Randomly generated each turn Domineering, agressive, shrewd
Distinctive Traits: Slightly larger than normal, reddish in color
Agi: 1
Cle: 2
Dex: 1
End: 3
Tou: 3
Str: 5

[draco1234]

Name: Aiio
Personality: Very cautious, prefers to think well before acting, quite easily spooked
Distinctive Traits: slightly darker colouration, with longer than normal cilia
Agility: 3
Cleverness: 4
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 1
Toughness: 2
Strength: 2

[cattouchdis]

Sound enjoyable

Name: Iboa
Personality: Likes to rush in and then think up ways to get out because they shouldn't of rushed in, or rather, hopes one of these days won't have to think up a way to get out.
Distinctive Traits: Has a third tendril that has a little less dexterity than the other two.
Agility: 5
Cleverness: 3
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 1
Toughness: 1
Strength: 2

[MonkeyHead]

Name: Norb
Personality: Incredibly curious and investigative. Always wants to know "why".
Traits: Longer tendrils, elongated "body"

Agility:2
Cleverness:5
Dexterity:2
Endurance:2
Toughness:2
Strength: 2

[Cheesecake]

Reserved.

[TopHat]

Name: Che'He.
Personality: cowardly and selfish.
Traits: Slightly smaller than normal Tudies.

Agi: 3
Cle: 3
Dex: 3
End: 3
Tuf: 2
Str: 1

[GreatWyrmGold]

This...got a lot more attention that I expected.

Aiio, Iboa, and Xom are all great. Norb and Che'He will need to wait until they have names that they can pronounce, like Morb or Ke'He. Hopefully by the time they do that and one more person shows up, I'll have a more complete rules post.

[MonkeyHead]

Fine, Morb it is then

[scapheap]

Name: Ah
Personality: Protective, gullible, friendly, follower.(in order so he will protect if a friend in danger, he can't be tricked out of that.)
Distinctive Traits: double the size of a normal tudy(or just bigger then one)
Agility: 2
Cleverness: 1
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 3
Toughness: 4
Strength: 3

[miauw62]

Name: Koh
Personality: Fatherly and intelligent, will gather up information trough experimentation and careful study.
Distinctive Traits: Has tendrils that are a bit longer than normal
Agility: 2
Cleverness: 5
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 2
Toughness: 2
Strength:  1

[GreatWyrmGold]

This little band numbers six: Koh, the elder of the group; Ah, glad to help whomever he can; Iboa, always rushing ahead; Morb, the curious youngling; Aiio, a cautious counterpoint to these two; and Xom, the rival of Koh and most aggressive of the group.
The six have arranged themselves, preparing to make a new life. Whatever preparations they want to make today, they will need to make soon, for the day is closing and only an ahr remains before darkness. In the dark, tudies need rest for the day ahead, and to avoid the creatures that stalk in the darkness...

0.3.1


What will you do?

[MonkeyHead]

Shelter... shelter is good.

Build some kind of rudimentary nest in the lowest point of the cave from twigs