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[freeformschooler]

Toad Town, 505 A.E.

A squat lad with a red-and-white cap sits behind a counter in the Hero Forge. It's not really a "forge" so much as a job listing center, but the business has attracted hundreds of up-and-coming adventurers and explorers from around the continent. Even the famous Mario and Luigi have been spotted here a few times.

You are one member in a team of five, a new band of adventurers hoping to take on the world and become widely-known heroes. As you approach the counter, an gust of uncertainty blows the room...

Spoiler: So what is this? (click to show/hide)

This is my third (or possibly fourth) forum game set in the Mario 'verse. I've always loved the Mario setting and how playful it is. Like the others, you'll be playing as Original Characters Do Not Steal. Very much unlike the others, you won't be playing as soldiers for the Royal Guard with a clear, obvious mission. Instead, you'll be playing as adventurers taking on dirty work for clients who can't throw a punch. In time, it might evolve into something else, but who knows?

Spoiler: Roll table (click to show/hide)

1: Critical Failure
2: Failure
3: Partial Success
4: Success
5: Great Success
6: Critical Success

Spoiler: Races (click to show/hide)

Human: A rarity in the Kingdom these days, Humans are as fiery-spirited as ever. As the original inventors of the Badge System, they're competent at using them. Mastery choices:

Toad: The short, squat race with thick skin. They were originally thought to be just smaller Humans from a different part of the land but later discovered to be a separate species. Mastery choices:

Koopa: A race of turtle-like creatures. Originally subservient to the Koopa Kingdom, they now are found just about everywhere. Mastery choices:

Boo: Ghostly sphere-creatures that turn invisible when frightened. Some find them scary, but most think they're adorable. Mastery choices:

Shy Guy: Small, strange, often tribal creatures that hide behind distinctive masks. They come in many shapes and flavors. Mastery choices:

Goomba: Even though Goombas are essentially mushrooms with legs, they have not been wiped off the Earth yet, so they must be more persistent and intelligent than we think. Mastery choices:

Yoshi: Dinos with boots that sometimes begrudgingly cart others around. They can turn swallowed enemies into eggs... somehow. Mastery choices:

If you have any other races you'd like to use, feel free to suggest and I might be able to come up with something. They're cosmetic aside from the starting mastered badge. Some other races suggested so far are:

Pokey: A segmented plant-creature made up of thorny spheres. Often seen wobbling around happily in the desert. Mastery choices:

Mouser: Small, crafty rodents. Their tiny stature and quick feet make it easy for them to silently swipe valuable baubles. Mastery choices:

Spoiler: Discovered Badges (click to show/hide)

Starting badges: These badges are widely-known. You may choose one of them in addition to your mastered racial Badge to start with. However, they use up your (usually only) slot for unmastered badges until a certain number of turns have passed.



NOTE: To see a Badge's effects, hover over it with your mouse! You can't do this if you're viewing the thread on a phone or something, sorry.

Spoiler: Character creation (click to show/hide)

Name: What's your character's name?
Race: What's your character's species? See the "races" spoiler.
Gender: Are you a boy, a girl, or something else?
Bio: Tell me about your character. This is going to be a rules-light game, so RP is important! What are your character's interests, motivations, likes and dislikes? I don't need a 360-page biography but would prefer at least a paragraph or two

You have four Advancement Points to spend. Each Advancement Point can increase HP or FP by five (up to 20) or your Strength by 1d2 (up to 1d8).

HP: 5
FP: 0
Strength: 1d2

Mastered badge: Choose one of your race's available Mastery Choices.
Additional badge: Choose one of the starting badges under the Badges spoiler.

Spoiler: Common terms (click to show/hide)

HP: Your character's hit points. When these reach 0, you die at the end of your next turn unless healed.
FP: Your character's Flower Power. Consumed by many badge abilities.
Strength: Most damage-dealing actions run over Strength unless otherwise stated. It's basically your damage die.
Mastery: You can equip one unmastered Badge at any time. After a certain amount of turns wearing an unmastered Badge, you learn its ability permanently and then are free to unequip and even trade away the badge to someone else. However, if you unequip a badge before it's mastered, it loses all of its progress toward Mastery and must be built up again from scratch.
Initiative: MKH has a very simple initiative system. 1d100 is rolled for each character. The higher on the list your character is, the earlier they'll act in battle.

Active players:

Mowsalyn the Little Mouser - Dwarmin
Ash(ley/ton) the Bounty Hunter - Monk12
Roger the Pokey - flabort
Mimic Guy of Many Faces - BMM42
Sir Bigglesworth the Retired Toad Paladin - Errol

[scapheap]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Jack Boots
Race: Koopa
Gender: Boy
Bio: A down on his luck fellow. He once had a nice house, a job, all the other things. But he got on the wrong side of a crime lord, walked into him and knock him into a muddy puddle. So after a few near misses, Jack left his hometown for safer places.
However, jobs are hard to get without references so his choices was crime or join these guys as a adventurer.

HP: 5+15(3)+5(badge)
FP: 0
Strength: 1d2+2(1)

Mastered badge: Natural armour
Additional badge: HP Plus

[freeformschooler]

Reserve

It's not FCFS reserving does nothing damnit

[Nerjin]

Spoiler: Goombarry Burton (click to show/hide)

Name: Goombarry Burton

Race: Goomba

Gender: Goomboy

Bio: A mysterious stranger in the lands who seeks to support those whom he feels needs his help. He prefers to use his powers to support someone else however and has never sought fame for himself. His one pride is his wonderfully powerful red goatee which is the source of all his powers. He prefers working in the background but will take point if needed.

HP: 5 + 1 advancement points = 10

FP: 0 + 3 advancement points = 15

Strenghth: 1d2

Mastery Badge: Stomp

Additional Badges: Feel Better

Prepost Edit: Damn it... I wanted to be the first Goomba...

[scapheap]

Reserve

It's not FCFS reserving does nothing damnit

I know, it just traditional.

Prepost Edit: Damn it... I wanted to be the first Goomba...

Well I had a different idea now so you now first goomba

[Tomcost]

Spoiler: Guanle (click to show/hide)

Name: Guanle Yolkson
Race: Yoshi
Gender: Male
Bio: Guanle is an experienced master of the ancient art called "Tongue-Fu" which mainly focuses in delivering many fatal blows to an opponent making a good use of the flexible tongue yoshis have. This art also has egg-throwing attacks, as eggs are generally an abundant byproduct of yoshi fights.
He was one of the few lucky ones to be able to learn it, from one of the oldest yoshis in the island. Once his master died, he lived in isolation many years practising his art, with the occasional young yoshi who tried to unsuccessfuly learn it. Now, after having spent most of his life perfecting his art, he needs a challenge of his level.

HP: 5 +2 points = 15
FP: 0
Strength: 1d2 +2 points = 1d6

Mastered badge: Egg Toss
Additional badge: Looting Eye

Appearance, if possible: he is white with red spots

[Harry Baldman]

Spoiler: Awl (click to show/hide)

Name: Awl
Race: Goomba
Gender: Male
Bio: lacking parents that he knows of, Awl was brought up on tales of Goomba ascendancy by his friend Pick, a rather crazy Goomba by most standards. He is a strict believer in the hypothesis that the Mushroom Kingdom was once ruled purely by Goombas in the ancient past, hence why it's called the Mushroom Kingdom and not, say, the Human or Toad kingdom, and that the time for the Goomba race to reclaim their ancient birthright has been approaching for quite some time. As such, his main ambition in life is to attain a position of sufficient power and influence in the Kingdom to someday topple the ancient regime and return it to a glorious past that may or may not have been - the supreme dominion of Goombas over the world.

HP: 5 + 1 AP = 10
FP: 0 + 1 AP = 5
Strength: 1d2 +2 AP = 1d6

Mastered badge: Stomp
Additional badge: HP Plus

[Powder Miner]

Will pop a char in here VERY shortly! Don't start without me!
(ffs games why cant i quit yooo)

[freeformschooler]

Appearance is optional, I probably won't be drawing you

[Dermonster]

Name: WUZZAT? YOU SPEAK UP TO YOUR FUNGRAMP, BOY.

Race: I'M A TOAD DARNIT YOU BLIND, BOY?

Gender: In MY DAY SHROOMS DIDN'T HAVE FANCY SCHMANCY GENDERS! WE REPRODUCED BY SPORES!

Bio: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE DAYS OF YOUR FORFATHERS, OH THE DIRT WAS DARKEST BLACK AND THE SKY WAS PUREST WHITE AND YOU COULD HARDLY TELL THE BUSHES FROM THE CLOUDS. THE DAYS WHERE JUST BY PICKING UP A FEATHER YOU TURNED INTO A RACOON AND FLEW ALL OVER THE PLACE! Also the days where all of mushroom kind was packed into question mark blocks and murdered for petty cash OH YES THE MEMORIES ARE FLOODING BACK AAAAAAAAAAAA

What? Where am I? Oh, yes, yes I've lived through it all. The great kingdom collapse where all our leaders turned into god knows what, the kidnappings, the bit where the princess turned into an ageless demon who retained her youth by feeding on conflict and war- or was that a daydream? Had a dream about warts once. IT WAS WEIRD. WHERE'S MY FIRE FLOWER SOUP? THERE BETTER NOT BE ANY MUSHROOMS IN THERE. WAITRESS! ANYWAY, AS I WAS SAYING MY GRANDSON WAS MAKING ALL THIS RUCKUS ABOUT HOW HE WAS GOING TO BE THE 'GREATEST HERO EVER' OR WHATNOT AND I TOLD HIM IT AIN'T WHAT IT"S MARKED UP TO BE AND HE SAID TO ME 'Gramps you couldn't be a hero if you wanted to! You're too old!'. OR HE ASKED FOR THE CRACKER BOX. WELL I SHOWED HIM! I ATE ALL OF THE CRACKERS, THEN CAME STRAIGHT HERE. AFTER A NAP. OR FIVE. Serves him right for being so rude. I AIN'T A USELESS OLD SHROOM! Got me a maijjyck spell thingy and everything cause MY HIP CAN'T SUPPORT NO JUMPIN'. WAITRESS! Where's the bathroom?


HP: 5
FP: 20
Strength: 1d2

Mastered badge: Offensive stance TIRADE OF THE OLD ONES
Additional badge: Electrofry

[Tomcost]

Oh, I see. Well, as it was a FFS game, I thought that there were going to be some drawings at some point.

[freeformschooler]

Oh, I see. Well, as it was a FFS game, I thought that there were going to be some drawings at some point.

Like a simple map system at most probably, depends on what I need, not what I want

[squidgen]

Name: Boshi
Race: Yoshi
Gender: I'm pretty sure yoshi's don't have a gender, but if they do, I'll be male
Bio: Boshi is a black-colored yoshi who has spent most of his life on Yoshi Island. His young life was rather uneventful, so uneventful that he decided the time had come to leave the island. Getting a few things together, he left on the next boat. He quickly ran out of money, and took up a variety of odd jobs to continue his tour, like renting himself out as a pack animal, and to his eternal shame, selling his eggs to an omelette stand. As a result, he is a bit touchy when people ask to ride him. He heard about the hero forge, and decided it would be a good way to see the Mushroom Kingdom and maybe earn a few bucks along the way.



HP:15
FP:5
Strength:1d4

(I wrote this on a iPod, so I can't see the badge discriptions.

Mastered Bage: Egg
Additional Badge: I'm assuming one is an FP up, so I'll take that.

[Knight Otu]

Spoiler: Markoop (click to show/hide)

Name: Markoop
Race: Koopa
Gender: Male
Bio: Markoop is a blue-shelled koopa with aspirations of becoming a magikoopa - not a villanous one, a heroic one! He has always been on the outlook to find badges that would grant magical abilities. He has a sister, the yellow-shelled Koopilia, somewhere. She vanished years ago, though she occasionally sends letters, searching for badges that would grant her abilities like the many different Koopa Bros. Markoop is distrusting boos and other undead, and likes hearing stories of other heroes.

HP: 10 <1>
FP: 10 <2>
Strength: 1d4 <1>

Mastered badge: Natural Armor
Additional badge: Ice Crystals

[lawastooshort]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Mmmeric
Race: Shy guy
Gender: Guy
Bio: Mmm, what to say about Mmmeric? He wears a very distinctive mask. He's small. He's strange. He's often quite tribal. He only comes in one shape, and his flavour, he likes to explain with a nervous laugh, is raspberry. That's about all he tells people he's only just met. He doesn't like to give much away.

However, given enough time - say, three or four years - and he might open up a little more than that. He's very fond of gardening, and plants and green things in general, and this is the reason that he quite enjoys spectator sports: there's nothing much more relaxing than watching a great big field of green grass. This leads on nicely to his main motivation - he is trying to find the ultimately relaxing plant to have in the garden he dreams of establishing once he finally settles down. You know, in a little hole in the ground surrounded by greenery, a sweet little Shy Gal, maybe even one day a couple - or maybe three - Shy Children running about, a chicken, a steady job...

Ok, so that main motivation might have been a tiny bit of a lie. Really he wants to find that sweet little Shy Gal that he would've mentioned above if he'd known you for, say, three or four years, and persuade her to settle down in a nice little hole in the ground. He's kind of a traditionalist romantic at heart, just not in the old-fashioned woman-beating kind of way so popular back in his tribe.

Which leads on nicely to his real motivation, I suppose. He does want all the above, just without the woman-beating and casual racism so prevalent back home.

So, finally (Who's gonna read this? Is this bit important? Do I have to fill this bit in?) his likes and dislikes. I guess they can kind of be inferred from the above. He likes, above all, the colour green. Well, the colour green and the associated calmness. He also likes the idea of one day feeling comfortable, and not shy. Luckily he likes the flavour raspberry, because he actually does taste of it. He likes tenderness and nurturing and, above all except the colour green (and the calmness he associates with it), he likes baking. He suspects this is because he likes the idea of family, and providing for one, and he wonders from time to time where the wildness of his youth disappeared off to, because really, there's nothing quite like the feeling of holding a loved one close, and feeling safe.

He imagines.

Crap wait, I forgot my dislikes!

Erm - noise, surprises, lots of sweaty men running about, and, you know, woman-beating, casual racism and oatcakes.

HP: 10
FP: 10
Strength: 1d6

Mastered badge: Masking
Additional badge: FP Plus

Question: does the Shy Guy's ability need 2 FP and the FP required for the mimicked ability?