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[freeformschooler]

Roll to Be Below-average Adventurers

You all meet in a tavern-

Oh, damnit all to the Under Realm! The Gnome spilled his drink all over the bartender. Now she's asking you all to pay for her fancy dress wot he ruined. She had a date tonight, ya'see, and she's got a hankerin to throw you right straight out the window.

"That's like, the fourth time this month, Bobsy," growls the Half-orc Fire Priest. No one knows exactly what a Fire Priest is, but it's one of the those questions that is simply Not Asked.

Bobsy insists he's sorry, but an event in his tragic backstory has rendered him mute. The resident Gnome Sign Language Translator misinterprets his hand signs. Intentionally.

"Says he... meant to do that. Hates elf bartenders, see?" Bobsy shakes his head, wide-eyed and horrified, but that's one straw too many. A group of drunken men walk up, grab the poor lad and chuck him out the open window. Outside, a pack of ravenous, grinning orcs spots him on the ground. I mean, the tavern isn't called the Ravenous Orc for nothing, right?

Spoiler: Wot? (click to show/hide)

My week-long plans went down the drain, so here's a Break Game. It's what I do when I need break from my normal games. Last ones (Last Hero and Accelerate) were fairly quick but fairly outrageous. Please do not sign up if you lack either of the following:

*The ability and willingness to roleplay beyond a simple bolded action
*A sense of humor

Multiple rules and pieces of inspiration shamelessly stolen from lawastooshort.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

We'll be using the standard 1d6 roll table.

1: Overfailure! Failure with grave side effects.
2: Failure! You do not accomplish what you were doing previously.
3: Partial success! You partially accomplish what you were trying to do.
4: Success! You accomplish what you were trying to do, approximately.
5: Great success! You accomplish what you were intending to do with beneficial side effects.
6: Oversuccess! You accomplish what you were intending to do with tragic and maybe also explosive side effects.

Combat will be opposing d6es with the difference determining the severity of wound inflicted.

1 – Mild Discomfort / Slight Pain / Nasty Bruise
2 – Heavy Bleeding (-5HP per turn until healed) / Heavy Bleeding / Severe Pain (-1 penalty next turn)
3 – Very Heavy Bleeding (-10HP) / Heavy Bleeding / Damaged (-10HP)
4 – Severe Bleeding (-20HP) / Pierced Organ (organ-appropriate bad stuff + Very Heavy Bleeding) / Broken (appropriate penalty until healed + Damaged)
5 or more – Severed (permanent penalty; includes free Very Heavy Bleeding!) / Very Pierced Organ (organ-appropriate bad stuff + Severe Bleeding) / Severed

Once a fracture/break etc. is healed, it will heal in 5/10 etc. turns as indicated in the wound details. Healing by non-medical professionals is done at a -2 penalty; not having appropriate equipment gives a further -2 penalty.

HP is regained at 4 per non-bleeding turn. If a character is reduced to 0HP then they will die.

Spoiler: Character creation (click to show/hide)

Name: Non-optional! At least two names, but more than three might be pushing it. One is fine for mysterious and terrifying characters.
Class: 1-2 words. Something non-generic, non-minimalist, fantasy and medieval. Race is irrelevant for the sake of class, but feel free to play a merman or a snooty elf.
Details: No, but really, you all meet in a tavern. Each of you is a low-level adventurer/hero who probably likes loot. Tell me how you got there and what you did with your life beforehand. At least one five-sentence paragraph, please.

I will PM you will a choice of starting abilities (and starting penalties). From then on, abilities will be gained once every "level" and by "level" I mean story arc. The completion of any major quest counts as a story arc.

First five character sheets with proper punctuation, spelling and formatting will start in the tavern. Everyone else will be on the waitlist in order.

Current characters:

Spoiler: Keddec Hauberkson, PALADIN OF THE BLOODY SUN (Dermonster) (click to show/hide)

Name: Keddec Hauberkson
Class: Bloodshaped Paladin
HP: 50/50
Wounds: None!
Actives: Bloody Sun Stance, Bloodshape
Passives: Sir Bleeds-a-lot, Has Taken Several Classes in Ethics
Items: Unpolished Iron Sword, Paladin Armor

Spoiler: Alfred Lichenstein the Science Mind (Monk12) (click to show/hide)

Name: Alfred Lichenstein
Class: Enlightenment Knight
HP: 50/50
Wounds: None!
Actives: Back Alley Operation, Sword Full of Science
Passives: These Calculations Are All Wrong!, One Point Twenty One JIGAWATTS!?
Items: Enlightningment Rod, Almost Wizardly Lab Coat

Spoiler: The ILLUSTRIOUS Joe Bridger (Remuthra) (click to show/hide)

Name: Joe Bridger
Class: Persuasively Insane
HP: 50/50
Wounds: None!
Actives: Your Mundane Rules Don't Apply to the Illustrious Joe Bridger
Passives: Persuasive Babbling, Unsettling Sights and Sounds, Sanity-sustaining Monologue
Items: 100 gold pieces, Posh Hat, Upperclassman's Clothes

Spoiler: Arthur With One-and-a-half Legs (Powder Miner) (click to show/hide)

Name: One-and-a-half-legs Arthur
Class: Leg-a-mancer
HP: 50/50
Wounds: None!
Actives:
Passives: Striking Resemblance to a War Veteran, Foot of the North Star, Damnit, This Always Happens!, Highly Flammable Prosthetic
Items: Wooden Cane, Adventurer Clothes

Spoiler: Yumkhan What Eats a Lot (Harry Baldman) (click to show/hide)

Name: Yumkhan Yambik
Class: Ravenous Barbarian
HP: 50/50
Wounds: None!
Actives: Empty
Passives: Stomach of Power, Bone-lickin' Good, High Metabolism, Frightening Figure
Items: Uncomfortably Large Club, Peasant Clothes

Waitlist:

-Falsche Logik (Chink)
-Declan Brannon (SSG)
-Clair Helen Wind (scapheap)

[Harry Baldman]

This looks awfully familiar to me for some reason.

Name: Yumkhan Yambik
Class: Ravenous Barbarian
Details: Yumkhan is a short, fat, rather brutish-looking young half-elf with teeth filed to sharp points and a rather prominent mohawk. He lugs around a rather large club and is dressed in common peasant clothes that may or may not have been relieved from some dead guy he woke up next to this morning. Brought up in the woods by orcish parents who found him after thoroughly robbing his birthplace (a solitary tree with about five elves living on it, if you need to ask) of both valuables and any present people's lives, he never really got out of the habit of ceaselessly gnawing on things despite his parents' attempts to correct such behavior. Eventually (took 30 years, actually) they gave up, and simply sent him off on the traditional orcish initiation ritual that involved obtaining as much loot as possible. Yumkhan never saw the point of that, though. He always prefers to be paid in food. Preferably exotic, unusual food. To this end, he has traveled through most of the local taverns of the nearest inhabited place in his holy quest. Today his journey ends, appropriately enough, at the Ravenous Orc. He hasn't figured out what he'll do next, but he supposes he might visit the next city's taverns if nothing exciting turns up.

[freeformschooler]

No reserves

[scapheap]

Name: Clair Helen Wind
Class: Sin Caster
Details: I trained as a Sin Caster, a odd field of magic looked down on by the church because well, it in the title. The seven sins are my weapons. Before then, I was a hooker, no I don't focus on the lust spells, it the family business if you will. My mother and her mother and her mother all have been proud hookers, sure, not the greatest legacy, but we take what we can get.

[Dermonster]

Name: Keddec Hauberkson, PALADIN OF THE BLOODY SUN.
Class: Bloodshaped Paladin
Details: The latest in the long line of the SOMEWHAT SHUNNED HAUBERKSON FAMILY. Keddec has set off in the ancestral task of further enhancing his families MILDLY DISTURBING fighting style. Upon his INEVITABLE success, he shall ascend to become the head of the family. 
But unitil such time has come, he seeks a WORTHY QUEST or even a MILDLY ADEQUATE one to hone his skills. FOR KING, COUNTRY AND FAMILY!

[Remuthra]

Name: The Illustrious Joe Bridger
Class: Persuasively Insane
Details: The Illustrious Joe Bridger was once just a simple blacksmith in a village. He was then drafted into the army and sent off to fight in the War of Supremacy. He had no real loyalty to the King, but drafts are rather mandatory, so he armed himself with a hammer and left his home. While fighting he was unsurprisingly knocked unconscious and captured by the enemy. They mistakenly thought he was important and offered to buy him off as a double agent for a massive amount of money. The Illustrious Joe Bridger accepted and left the army to live expensively with his new fortune. He adopted his title to reflect his new wealth. As he grew older, he became considerably less rational, and lost most of his skill with arms, but gained a surprising ability to seem reasonable even as he made increasingly less sense. Recently, his fortune finally ran dry, and he has been looking for ways to make easy money. This led him to this bar.

[monk12]

Name: Alfred Lichenstein
Class: Enlightenment Knight
Details: Alfred Lichenstein belongs to a subversive group of chivalric knights dedicated to pursuing the lights of science and reason in an age of magic and mysticism. They maintain that magic is really just a form of science, and that anyone can understand it. This message is not appreciated by the various religious institutions and Mage guilds that rely on their exclusive nature to control the political scene. Alfred is a low-level agent dedicated to raising funds to combat the established world order. Because the Knights rely on each member's self-sufficiency, Alfred hopes to gain enough loot to rise to a position of prominence within the Knights. Soon he shall be as wealthy as any decadent bourgeoisie Mage!

NO EDITS FOR TIMESTAMP GOODNESS GO!

[Powder Miner]

Name: One-and-a-half-legs Arthur
Class: Leg-a-mancer
Details: Arthur always had the strangest taste in magic. For example, rather than going for the fields of evocation, or say abjuration, he went for a body-conjuration. And the man always had a knack for specializing too much. As such, he wasn't even a full body conjurer, just a leg-a-mancer. Nonetheless, Arthur (at the time with two full legs) did manage to become a relatively successful mage. Things went rather downhill for him on his second attempted fight, though, against a mage: the mage casted a reflecting spell. causing Arthur to hit himself with a leg-a-mancy spell. Arthur lost the right half of his right leg, which he had to replace with wood (keeping his leg alive with leg-a-mancy) and became One-and-a-half-legs Arthur. He's trying for the glory days (aka, that time when he won one fight, his first) again, and thus keeps trawling this tavern for any chance of mysterious quests. What an attention seeker.

[Harry Baldman]

Oh hey, still made it despite the lack of reserves. At least I hope I did.

[freeformschooler]

Yep. Harry Baldman, Powder Miner, monk12, Remuthra, and Dermonster are in. Scapheap: sorry, but I was pretty clear about the rules on signups I'll be PMing everyone once I get your sheet stuff written up.

[SomeStupidGuy]

Yet another FFS game that I've missed the signups to. :/
Ah well, at least I'm the first (or second?) to hop on the waitlist.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Declan Brannon
Class: Multidimensional Duelist
Details: A young human claiming to be a nobleman that hails from some distant land, that may or may not actually exist.
He has some vague air of class to him, which may be up to debate as to whether it's actually representative of his intelligence or character.

At any rate, an accident with a translocation spell left him with a special ability to shift dimensions to a certain degree... well, it may be overstating its usefulness to call it a 'special ability', as it's rather uncontrollable, but he manages to make some use of it in his fighting. As a 'nobleman', he was trained in the usage of the saber and tends towards a quick and flashy sort of fighting style.

Recently, he's been making an attempt at getting free money, loot and booze for his supposed royal bloodline.
As one might imagine, he's failing horribly at it.

[monk12]

Yet another FFS game that I've missed the signups to. :/
Ah well, at least I'm the first (or second?) to hop on the waitlist.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Declan Brannon
Class: Multidimensional Duelist
Details: A young human claiming to be a nobleman that hails from some distant land, that may or may not actually exist.
He has some vague air of class to him, which may be up to debate as to whether it's actually representative of his intelligence or character.

At any rate, an accident with a translocation spell left him with a special ability to shift dimensions to a certain degree... well, it may be overstating its usefulness to call it a 'special ability', as it's rather uncontrollable, but he manages to make some use of it in his fighting. As a 'nobleman', he was trained in the usage of the saber and tends towards a quick and flashy sort of fighting style.

Recently, he's been making an attempt at getting free money, loot and booze for his supposed royal bloodline.
As one might imagine, he's failing horribly at it.

If it makes you feel better, two people died almost immediately in his last one!

[Tiruin]

I will edit this with my sheet.

Timezones. 

[SomeStupidGuy]

If it makes you feel better, two people died almost immediately in his last one!

Eheh, I remember that. A fine example of why you shouldn't go giving out your personal info/weird necklaces to little adorable looking things. It's always a bad idea.

Anyways, even if no one dies right away, it'll still be fun to watch.

[scapheap]

Yep. Harry Baldman, Powder Miner, monk12, Remuthra, and Dermonster are in. Scapheap: sorry, but I was pretty clear about the rules on signups I'll be PMing everyone once I get your sheet stuff written up.

*Reread* That five line rule wasn't there the last time I look.

Am I on the waitlist or do I have to touch up my post?