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[Fniff]

A few of my RTDs have died, so I'm just going to go with a very simple set-up with a focus on getting to the interesting bits as soon as possible and allowing a fast pace while being detail-light. This won't have the "drop-in" system as most minimalist RTDs, but the craziness is definitely there and a lot of people will probably be dying. The idea behind this is to simply play a character that's cool/stupid as hell and most likely impossible to fit into anything else, then do cool/stupid things without worrying about stuff like "gathering items" or "skill". This is essentially the cocaine of RTDs.

Spoiler: Backstory (click to show/hide)

No-one's really sure how the end of the world started. What we can get it down to is this.

Reality is now broken due to something called the Frost Wars. This was when some guy named Frost managed to make a reality warping machine. Governments got their hands on it, needless to say things go real ugly real fast. Now history has been altered and put back so many times that it appears all alternative timelines exist at the same time, and reality is so broken that even the dumbest fool can bend it to their whim. This is both a good thing and a really bad thing.

Long story short, you are a individual in a post-apocalyptic wasteland called the Badlands where you can basically do anything. Try to survive in a world that definitely wants you dead.

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

To create a character, just say a one-sentence summary of your character (Hitman with a brain, scavenger with strange collections, psychotic yet polite bandit), what crew they belong to, and what their Kit is.

Crews
Techies
Who & Why: Techies say that they're the last scientists left, but really they have no idea how their machines work and are content to make them explode people in amusing ways. They use whatever electronics they can rob from the ruins in order to make Devices, which are powered by Crude, a black oil primarily found in dead robots or refined blood.
Power: As a Techie, you can make Devices. These are actual physical devices that are made near-instantly: you can assemble them from literally anything around you. They do have purposes, but they are rather general like "weapon" or "computer". However, they need to be powered by Crude. A milliliter of Crude powers them for one action. You can harvest Crude directly from destroyed robots, or harvest it from humans and convert it which takes a turn.
Examples of PCs: Excitable rocketeer who loves explosions, escaped science experiment gone horribly wrong, resurrected cybernetic mathematician addicted to motor oil.

Gnostics
Who & Why: Gnostics believe that they are wizards, touched by the crystal spheres drifting around outside the Earth and given magical powers. That would be considered bullshit of the highest level, except it turns out they do have magical powers. This is a considerable problem. The general suggested mode of dress is a pointy hat and a robe, but Gnostics in the field generally only keep the hat and replace the robe with something a little more practical.
Power: As a gnostic, you have a limited selection of spells that are randomly generated for you. You may be able to gather more spells along the way. You can cast these spells again
Examples of PCs: Magically intelligent vole, senile old coot with terrifying powers, spirit of shopping.

Gunslingers
Who & Why: Gunslingers are straightforward folk who don't want none of this crazy reality-warping crap. Of course, they still are using the crazy reality-warping crap, they're just using it in a very down-to-earth way. They wander the roads looking for adventure and high action. They range from vigilantes bringing justice to those who deserve it, to psychotics that find they look good in a duster.
Power: Gunslingers gain bonuses if their action is cool. Cool things are things that make the GM go "Damn, that is so cool"; stuffing a pipe bomb down the esophagus of a screeching mutant then surviving the explosion, getting eaten alive by cannibals then carving your way out with a machete, etc. However, try to keep it sensible. Someone saying "You and whose army?" then saying "Me and my army" then summoning a horde of zombies is cool, but it doesn't really make sense because where did the zombies come from? However, it doesn't have to be realistic per say. Treat it like you're the star of an action film.
Examples of PCs: Abandoned army droid in a duster, former farmer with a double-barreled shotgun and a huge grudge, drunken drifter with a laser pistol.

Psychics
Who & Why: Psychics are unfortunate guys born with psychic powers. They can do anything, explode cars with a thought, break your mind in half, make a spoon bend. However, they are all steadily going crazier and crazier. The crazier they get, the more crazy shit happens around them as their powers all go haywire and lets their imagination change the world around them. Poor guys.
Power: You can do anything, but every time you do something overtly crazy (Like summoning a horde of voles from nowhere or exploding someone's face) you will gain a point on the Crazy meter. When the Crazy meter hits ten, there is a 1 in 20 chance something bad will spawn in real life from your subconscious every five turns. You can lower the crazy meter with Psychicstone, but once you use the Psychicstone it cannot be used again requiring more if you wish to cure yourself again.
Examples of PCs: Hyperintelligent ape, CIA experimentee, mutant with a third eye from his pineal gland.

Lawmen
Who & Why: Even after all this, the government apparently still remains, occasionally sending out Lawmen to enforce the law. They also recruit anyone who signs up. Why they bother is a good question. Even though the official orders is not to reality warp, it is so easy that basically every Lawman does it. People generally regards them as a nuisance apart from people who being beaten up by the other people.
Power: Lawman operate on a strict code of honor. They may be able to do anything, but they are given license by handing out justice. Whenever they kill someone who has committed a crime that the Lawman has directly witnessed, they gain a point of Law. They can use a Law point to give a +1 to a roll.
Examples of PCs: Dramatic defender of the innocent with a cape, gruff soldier with a laser cannon for an arm, terrified conscript who has no idea what he's getting into.

Raiders
Who & Why: And then we have the scallywags that are the Raiders. These guys love pillaging and raiding. Who can blame them? It's fun as hell. However, people generally frown upon that and thus no-one likes them. To deal with this unfair social stigmatization, are frequent abusers of drugs of all kinds. As such, they are quite high-strung and liable to shoot you in the face for looking at them weird.
Power: Raiders gain a +1 bonus when they take drugs. All kinds of drugs, including whiskey, cyanide, and aspirin. The bonus lasts as long as the drug does, and they suffer the bad of the drug immediately after the drug has worn off for 1d10 turns.
Examples of PCs: Childish psychotic murderer, burnt out drugee, crazy adrenaline junkie.

Kit
Kits are basically things that you definitely own. These are less actual objects and more reasons to be cool. Want to be a hard-assed gunslinger? You're going to need a revolver. Want to be a mad scientist? You're going to need a lab. Don't use your kit on stuff like food or clothes: use it on stuff you think the character needs in order to do interesting things. Kits can include people, locations, objects, pets, and if you're in doubt just ask if you can include it.

Spoiler: Challenge Ratings (click to show/hide)

And to create a sense of progression, here are Challenge Ratings.

Challenge Ratings essentially measure how tough you are or how tough the problem is. It applies mainly to fights, though it also applies to talking, constructing things, farming, etc. For non-combat activities, it generally means that you can take on bigger problems: at the start convincing one person is hard. At the end, convincing nations is hard. You start out with a Challenge Rating of one and gain it when I decide that your character has done enough cool things to raise in ability.

When you take on something higher then your challenge rating, you become more and more outclassed.
One level higher: They get a +1 to fighting.
Two levels higher: You get a -1 to fighting.
Three levels higher: You cannot fight them. You get 1d10 amounts of damage when they attack, which they always succeed in. RUN.
Four levels higher: Similar, except now you get 1d100 amounts of damage. You can't run. You're already dead.

When you take on something lower then your challenge rating, you can easily kill one enemy, with the only challenge being fighting groups.
One level lower: You can fight a gang of them. Around 10 people.
Two levels lower: You can fight an platoon of them. Around 50 people.
Three levels lower: You can fight a mob of them. Around 100 people.
Four levels lower: You can fight an army of them. Around 1,000 people.

This is a first-come first serve basis. I'm looking for around six players.

[Patrick Hunt]

Name : Harvey
Group : Gunslinger
Objective : Kill everyone he considers evil, recruit more people to join his army.
Kit : 2 swords across his back, 2 revolvers on his legs, scoped assault rifle on his chest. Survival kit. ( Everything you need to live in the wilds. ) Military grade armor.
Gunslinger HQ, fortified compound inside a high wall with a strong gate, contains armory full of all gunslingers equipment. ( Large numbers of swords, revolvers, 9mm and scoped rifles. )
Barracks.
Training ground.
Company of gunslingers armed equal to Harvey. ( 10 men. )
Company of apprentice gunslingers armed with 2 swords and 2 9mm pistols and military grade armor. ( 20 men. )
Potentials. People who've come to be tested in the hopes of becoming gunslingers. ( 50. ) Fresh groups arrive weekly.


(( You wanted awesome so founder of an established gunslinger company it is. ))

[Flying Dice]

Name: Sumsare
Schtick: Cheerful murderous trickster
Group: Gnostic
Kit:
-Zapper Stick: Teleports target creature or object to target location. Proximity to location varys based on the success/failure of the roll.
-Monowire: Spool of seemly ordinary wire. When a section is detached from the spool, it can be activated with electricity or magical energy, shifting into a molecule-thick, super-strong state. Don't ask how it works. (Preference would be for the spool to be endless, but I can deal with having to supply it with raw materials if you need that for balance.)
-Liquid Blade: A sword hilt containing a reservoir of some sort of variable-state metal which can flow into any shape possible with its volume, hardening instantaneously, and revert just as quickly. If part of the reservoir is lost, can be replenished with any sort of scrap metal. The blade can channel magical effects, if any appropriate ones are available.
-Evershift Cloak: Near-perfect chameleon effect when still or in low light, but ripples during rapid movement and in bright light. Envelops the whole body.
-A Friendly Face: A laughing theatre mask with the appearance of porcelain, able to perfectly mimic the physical features of any person that Sumsare has seen before. Can also mimic specific voices if he has heard them speak >30ish words.

Howsat?

[scapheap]

Name: Ace Upton
summary: A soldier who shoot first, asks questions while shooting.
Group: Lawmen
Kit:
Tank-when you need a little more firepower.
Minigun-Get to the chopper? You won't make it that far.
Sniper rifle-It a point and click adventure, I point the gun and then I click the trigger and then your brain goes on an adventure.
Power armour-R&D comes up with the craziest stuffs.
Wall of weapons-Guess

[Tiruin]

You didn't start the superhero one :<

Name: Aira B. Aroge
Summary: A bionic soldier trained to depend on the self and the environment.
Group: Lawmen
Kit:
-CBS (Compact Bionic Set): Vitality/ A multipotent set of tools which allow the user to modify the flow and presence of energy, either extracting it from a material via extreme endo/exothermic conversion, or by deconstruction of organic matter to its base constituents. This is used for the bionic modules and devices which, contrary to general belief, rely on the lifeforce of the user and not some mundane force such as electricity or magnetism.
-CBM (Compact Bionic Module): Possibility Travel/ An interface with the quantum sphere, this device allows the projection of the self towards a certain distance in relativeless time. In layman's terms, this pertains to teleportation.
-CBM: Lifeblood/ A bi-system interface with the health of the user, designed to show each and every effect or foreign presence in any system of the body. The other function is in projection of a personal 'shield' which wards any incoming projectile or force, but only in minor portions. It may also act as a dispenser of medical aid directly to the areas in question, given its appearance as a backpack.
-Omnitool/ Lacking any relative term, this omnipotent device is translucent in color, taking a light orange hue, and appears as a gauntlet on the arm. It may become any utilitarian weapon or tool as stated in its manual of use.
-Restorative Field Projector/ Referencing a tent or portable shelter, this disc-like device creates a miniature dome, which acts one and the same in terms of amenities granted, sans any tangible object, and a place to rest in.
-SI Interface/ A Symbiotic Interface could probably be analogous to a companion AI, however it is but a general term for an interface wherein
-Iridium-lined Locket/ Around the user's neck lies a simple gilded locket. Snakelike details weave around the oval, ending at a small clasp marking the opening of the pendant. Inside is a holographic  image of a handsome, strapping young man in his early 30's with azure-tinted eyes and a chiseled figure.

[Harry Baldman]

Name: Wilkins
Schtick: a practical, rather boring man who enjoys philately and numismatics.
Group: Psychic
Kit:
- Instant camera plus an unreasonably high amount of self-developing film
- Small house on the outskirts of a fairly boring town
- Collection of unusual coins and stamps
- An expansive photo album
- A well-kept and ironed three-piece suit

[Fniff]

Sorry about City of Secrets... I got a bad case of stage fright. I'm starting this one so I could do an RTD that's easy to keep up and always interesting.

[Lenglon]

Name: -currently unnamed-
Summary: Intelligent Fox kit with magic capabilities
Crew: Gnostic
Kit:
     -Loving family: Has a loving, though not intelligent, fox family.
     -Mute, but not deaf: foxes can't talk!
     -Badlands knowledge: has spent its entire, though admittedly short, life out in the badlands, and knows its way around.
     -Dawwwww: people like to help it out, because Dawwwww.

((I'm going to be very reliant on my spells in order to keep up))

[Scood]

name:Rafno
summary: An AI posing as a human with the prime directive of optimizing war and conflict.
Crew: Techy
Kit:
Mind reading device.
invisibility cloak
power generator
nano-tech shield
code hacker
Universal computer interface.
Laser Blaster

[lamejerk]

Name: Bobby Goodsex
Desc: Revolver twirling, wild-eyed ladies' man. The ladies love him. He's a ladies' man.
Crew: Gunslingers
Kit:
An amount of revolvers that would be impractical to anyone else. He makes it work. Sexually excitingly good aim.
A bulletproof cowboy hat. Doesn't even dent. Nanofibers or something. It's a shield that he wears on his head.
A belt that expands to a whip-like length when he swiftly removes it from his waist. Think Granddad from The Boondocks, but a mastery like Indiana Jones. When he removes it, his pants droop just enough to drive the ladies' wild. He's a ladies' man.
Hella muscles. Dude can punch holes in walls that most people cannot punch holes in.

[Tiruin]

Name: -currently unnamed-
Summary: Intelligent Fox kit with magic capabilities
Crew: Gnostic
Kit:
     -Loving family: Has a loving, though not intelligent, fox family.
     -Mute, but not deaf: foxes can't talk!
     -Badlands knowledge: has spent its entire, though admittedly short, life out in the badlands, and knows its way around.
     -Dawwwww: people like to help it out, because Dawwwww.

((I'm going to be very reliant on my spells in order to keep up))

((I'd love to let you know that playing something along the lines of a kitsune was my second thought xD))

[Fniff]

(Note: I'll be using random generators I constructed for a lot of this. So prepare for some weird shit.)
You wake up as the bus goes over a pothole. In a bus in the Badlands, a pothole's the least of your troubles. As you look up, you see there's only about six other people on the bus, and gee do they look like weirdos. The bus slows to a complete halt at a rusted out bus stop. You join the line to head out. There's an old Mark-3 (Way outdated) bus service droid at the wheel, yellow paint completely gone revealing rusted metal, with the strange new addition of scrap-metal spikes. It beeps, holds out it's hand, and asks you for payment. You give it the last dollar you have. It nods then opens the door, allowing you to step out.

You are in some deadbeat town in the middle of nowhere. Everyone in town's jabbering at each other, so obviously this is one of those towns where everyone knows each other. It's also one of those towns, because everyone looks at you and draws their weapons. They're not ready to fight you just yet, but you get the feeling if you step wrong then no-one's going to be friendly.

You have a feeling it's going to be one of those days.

Spoiler: Aira B. Aroge (click to show/hide)

Lawman
CBS (Compact Bionic Set): Vitality/ A multipotent set of tools which allow the user to modify the flow and presence of energy, either extracting it from a material via extreme endo/exothermic conversion, or by deconstruction of organic matter to its base constituents. This is used for the bionic modules and devices which, contrary to general belief, rely on the lifeforce of the user and not some mundane force such as electricity or magnetism.
CBM (Compact Bionic Module): Possibility Travel/ An interface with the quantum sphere, this device allows the projection of the self towards a certain distance in relativeless time. In layman's terms, this pertains to teleportation.
CBM: Lifeblood/ A bi-system interface with the health of the user, designed to show each and every effect or foreign presence in any system of the body. The other function is in projection of a personal 'shield' which wards any incoming projectile or force, but only in minor portions. It may also act as a dispenser of medical aid directly to the areas in question, given its appearance as a backpack.
Omnitool/ Lacking any relative term, this omnipotent device is translucent in color, taking a light orange hue, and appears as a gauntlet on the arm. It may become any utilitarian weapon or tool as stated in its manual of use.
Restorative Field Projector/ Referencing a tent or portable shelter, this disc-like device creates a miniature dome, which acts one and the same in terms of amenities granted, sans any tangible object, and a place to rest in.
SI Interface/ A Symbiotic Interface could probably be analogous to a companion AI, however it is but a general term for an interface wherein
Iridium-lined Locket/ Around the user's neck lies a simple gilded locket. Snakelike details weave around the oval, ending at a small clasp marking the opening of the pendant. Inside is a holographic  image of a handsome, strapping young man in his early 30's with azure-tinted eyes and a chiseled figure.

Spoiler: Ace Upton (click to show/hide)

Lawman
Tank-when you need a little more firepower.
Minigun-Get to the chopper? You won't make it that far.
Sniper rifle-It a point and click adventure, I point the gun and then I click the trigger and then your brain goes on an adventure.
Power armour-R&D comes up with the craziest stuffs.
Wall of weapons - Guess.

Spoiler: Bobby Goodsex (click to show/hide)

An amount of revolvers that would be impractical to anyone else. He makes it work. Sexually excitingly good aim.
A bulletproof cowboy hat. Doesn't even dent. Nanofibers or something. It's a shield that he wears on his head.
A belt that expands to a whip-like length when he swiftly removes it from his waist. Think Granddad from The Boondocks, but a mastery like Indiana Jones. When he removes it, his pants droop just enough to drive the ladies' wild. He's a ladies' man.
Hella muscles. Dude can punch holes in walls that most people cannot punch holes in.

Spoiler: Fox (click to show/hide)

Gnostic
Loving family: Has a loving, though not intelligent, fox family. (To make this useful, the town you are currently in is where your family is)
Mute, but not deaf: foxes can't talk!
Badlands knowledge: has spent its entire, though admittedly short, life out in the badlands, and knows its way around.
Dawwwww: people like to help it out, because Dawwwww.
Spell: One With Nature. In a situation which you cannot find an escape from, you are able to commit suicide to switch out with another animal. Of course, you might find yourself in an even worse animal or an even better one. It's random like that.

Spoiler: Rafno (click to show/hide)

Techie
Mind reading device.
invisibility cloak
power generator
nano-tech shield
code hacker
Universal computer interface.
Laser Blaster

Spoiler: Sumsare (click to show/hide)

Gnostic
-Zapper Stick: Teleports target creature or object to target location. Proximity to location varys based on the success/failure of the roll.
-Monowire: Spool of seemly ordinary wire. When a section is detached from the spool, it can be activated with electricity or magical energy, shifting into a molecule-thick, super-strong state. Don't ask how it works. (Preference would be for the spool to be endless, but I can deal with having to supply it with raw materials if you need that for balance.)
-Liquid Blade: A sword hilt containing a reservoir of some sort of variable-state metal which can flow into any shape possible with its volume, hardening instantaneously, and revert just as quickly. If part of the reservoir is lost, can be replenished with any sort of scrap metal. The blade can channel magical effects, if any appropriate ones are available.
-Evershift Cloak: Near-perfect chameleon effect when still or in low light, but ripples during rapid movement and in bright light. Envelops the whole body.
-A Friendly Face: A laughing theatre mask with the appearance of porcelain, able to perfectly mimic the physical features of any person that Sumsare has seen before. Can also mimic specific voices if he has heard them speak >30ish words.
Spell: Emotional Rollercoaster. You can cause someone to feel the opposite of their current emotions for one turn. People who wish to violently murder you now love you like a sister, while people who are actually your sibling now want to violently murder you.

Spoiler: Wilikins (click to show/hide)

Psychic
Instant camera plus an unreasonably high amount of self-developing film
Small house on the outskirts of a fairly boring town (To make this useful, the town you are currently in is where your house is.)
Collection of unusual coins and stamps
An expansive photo album
A well-kept and ironed three-piece suit

[Harry Baldman]

That can't be right. A town full of hostile, heavily-armed inhabitants? How unlikely, indeed.

In fact, they probably are actually completely normal career-minded individuals with families to feed and bills to pay, and they're just waving at us, as they are happy to see us.

Yes, that must be the truth. So it shall be.

Normalize inhabitants with do-anything powers.

[Scood]

This scenario is non-optimal. Ideal, conditions require distrust between opponent faction. Puts up nano-tech shield and invisibility cloak, then walks among the lines and pulls the trigger of one of the villagers's weapons while aiming it at another villager

[Flying Dice]

Giggle profusely, then put up the hood of my cloak and slowly creep away. Stand off to the side of the confrontation and watch carefully to see if anyone notices.

Ohboyohboyohboy, time for some fuuuun!~


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Spell: Emotional Rollercoaster. You can cause someone to feel the opposite of their current emotions for one turn. People who wish to violently murder you now love you like a sister, while people who are actually your sibling now want to violently murder you.

((Heh. That seems redundant.  ))