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[SeriousConcentrate]

Giving running something another shot, in the vein of 'semi-minimalist' as Derm described it in Roller's Block. Notes are short and simple:

1. Don't do anything that would normally get you or me in trouble with Bay12's TOS. I don't need the hassle and neither do you.
2. There's no particular backstory or character creation. Either give me a name if you want to called something else or just tell me you want to go by your username. Just assume everyone is normal people and can't do things that they can't in the real world unless they acquire items or abilities to the contrary. If you really care, you can assume you look/are dressed however you want... but no starting items. You got your clothes, your physical being, your hammerspace, and that's it.
3. This is a roll a d6 and, as GrimithR says, 'get fucked' system. You roll a 1, and along with damage or a different penalty you can never try that action again. Say you want to learn magic, and you roll a 1, you permanently stop yourself from learning magic and probably suffer some severe manaburn. Or I'll just kill you if you were doing something that might end in death on a 1, like trying to jump from one building to another, unless I think it would be funnier to just cripple you somehow. Roll a 2 and get damaged or penalized - poke someone while trying to intimidate them, roll a 2, and lose that finger. Roll 3/4, and you simply fail your action. although I might inflict a penalty on a 3 if I feel like it for whatever reason. Roll a 5, and you succeed. Simple as that. Roll a 6, and yeah, you do your action, but at what consequence?
4. Don't worry about health. You'll die when you suffer massive damage or if I think you've suffered enough damage overall to warrant it.
5. Five players at a time, and when they die whoever's at the top of the waitlist gets in. Waitlist closes at turn 40, by the way. I don't care if you work together or try to kill each other, so go nuts with PvP if that's what you wanna do. Just keep in mind you only have a 33% chance of actually hurting the other person, and only 50% chance of that 33% to do it safely. And no, dead players can't be ghosts and do things, I don't care how powerful they were when they were alive. I don't feel like rolling and describing more than five actions per turn.
6. Speaking of actions, I'll consider looking around, sometimes taking things, and talking to other players free actions that don't need to be rolled for. Talking to NPCs may not be a free action if I think it should be. Taking things is an action if there are witnesses. Most everything is an action. You'll figure it out.
7. This game is going for either 50 turns or I clear out the waitlist. I want to actually finish a forum game once in my life.

So, first five people, it is nighttime and:

Mastah Cheese (hereafter Cheese) finds him/herself lying facedown on a cold concrete floor with about 2cm of water covering it.
Nunzillor is on a fire escape near the top of a tall building.
Xantalos is smoking in an alleyway.
Yoink is at a food court in a mall.
Execute/Dumbo.exe (hereafter E/D) is hiding in some bushes.

WAITLIST

Tiruin
Greenstarfanatic
Urist Mc Dwarf
luvmonke
Nunzillor
mastahcheese
Execute/Dumbo.exe
BFEL
Xantalos
Gamerlord
WhitiusOpius

RANDOMLY DECIDED ACHIEVEMENTS AND 'NOTEWORTHY' EVENTS

Spoiler: Numerical Acheivements (click to show/hide)

First injury: Nunzillor, dislocated left arm
First success: Yoink, getting sushi
Longest without serious injury: Yoink at four turns
First death: Nunzillor
First kill: Yoink
First to die from lingering injuries: Execute/Dumbo.exe
Longest survivor: Yoink, 20 turns so far
First person to game the system: Lenglon
First people to team up: Dermonster & Lenglon

Spoiler: Randomly Awarded Achievements (click to show/hide)

Best Dancer: Xantalos
One Armed Bandit: Nunzillor
Probably The Worst Injury: Execute/Dumbo.exe
Best Handyman Ever: mastahcheese
Most Mundane Series of Events: Yoink
Mr. Unique: Execute/Dumbo.exe, for being the only person to not roll a 6 during Turn 4
Best Doctor Ever: Nunzillor
God's Mistake: Xantalos, for shipping cops and zombies
Too Manly For His Own Good - mastahcheese, for punching his own foot off by proxy
Durn For'ner Takin' Our Jerbs & Wimmynz - Yoink
FALCON PAWWWNCH - mastahcheese
The Steve-O Award - Nunzillor
Dat Tingle - Yoink
Wile E. Coyote Award - Execute/Dumbo.exe
Most Determined - Execute/Dumbo.exe
Thanksgiving Came Early - Yoink
Actually Got His Last Request - Execute/Dumbo.exe
Oh My Car - Gamerlord
Welp, Here We Go - Dermonster
Locked & Loaded - Gamerlord
Fourth Wall Breaker - Dermonster
What Is It With Me & Left Arms? - Persus13
That Was, Admittedly, Kind of Unfair - Yoink
Best Run Of Luck - Gamerlord
Gallagher Award - Xantalos
Supernatural Powers - Dermonster
Totally Not Starfire, Don't Sue - Lenglon
Broke the GM - Yoink
Whistler Award - Gamerlord
Mass Destruction Award - Dermonster and Lenglon
Wish I Had A Map - Gamerlord
Oh, Good One - Lenglon
Birdspotters Badge - Persus
Imminent Demise? - Persus, Derm
GM's Little Helper - Lenglon
Pretty Awesome Way To Go, Really - Gamerlord

[mastahcheese]

(Person 1) finds him/herself lying facedown on a cold concrete floor with about 2cm of water covering it.

Oh snap! I better drink some of this water so I don't dehydrate!

[Xantalos]

(Person 3) is smoking in an alleyway.

Find better smokes. These ones suck.

[Nunzillor]

Hmm examine skyline.

(Person 2)

[Yoink]

(Person 4) is at a food court in a mall.

>Order some sushi rolls.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Person 5!
look around, look around for anything at all

[Persus13]

Waitlist please

[Gamerlord]

Waitlist.

[Dermonster]

Waitlist.

[Lenglon]

Waitlist

[Devastator]

Waitlist.

[SeriousConcentrate]

TURN 1

Cheese attempts to drink the water on the concrete floor. (3) Unfortunately he does so while trying to inhale at the same time and chokes. At least he didn't drown.

Nunzillor examines the skyline. (2) He leans WAAYYY too far over the railing to make out an interesting piece of architecture and tumbles from the fire escape, screaming and freefalling about nine stories before he manages to catch a lower fire escape railing. The good news? He's not falling to his death anymore. The bad news? He's dislocated his left arm from the shock of stopping the fall.

Xantalos is in the market for better cigarettes. (4) Unfortunately he doesn't know where the nearest cigarette store is, there's no one around to ask, and he doesn't have any money anyway. While he's thinking about cigarettes, he hears a scream of terror high above him.

Yoink goes to order sushi rolls. (5) He doesn't have any money, but manages to sweettalk the girl running the stall into giving him some food anyway. Box of rolls in hand, Yoink wanders away from the stall.

E/D looks around. (2) Looks like the cops are still after him, although they haven't seen him. They're too busy with the horde of zombies that blindsided them out of a nearby apartment building. Speaking of, E/D thinks he heard a scream of terror from that direction.

STATUS

Cheese is spluttering on a cold, wet concrete floor
Nunzillor is doing a cliffhanger from a rusty fire escape - has a dislocated left arm
Xantalos is fed up with these cheap smokes
Yoink is chilling in the food court - has sushi rolls
E/D is hiding from the cops and the zombies

[Xantalos]

MEH. Fukken people don't know where carcinogens are.

Dance my way towards the nearest supermarket.

[Tiruin]

Ugh timezones.

Waitlist.

[Greenstarfanatic]

Huh. Waitlist, I guess.