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[SealyStar]

QUAGMIRE
Quasi-Governmental Ministry of Incident Rectification

Welcome, prospective agent of QUAGMIRE. Your application for employment with our organization is being processed, and you will be notified of its status shortly. Please be prepared to embark on your first mission shortly, in the chance that your application is accepted. Your interest in QUAGMIRE's activities demonstrates your dedication to upholding global order and security. Whether or not your application is approved, we wish you the best of luck in any future career.

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

After my overly complicated first RtD (which, rest assured, is still kicking) and my gimmicky second attempt (which is still getting off the ground), I decided to create a simpler, though not "minimalist", RtD, based on a series of ideas I had kicked around for a while. No classes, no indefinite free roams around vast facilities, no playing cards, just players, a d6, and series of challenges.

The basic premise is that you, the player, are an agent of an organization named QUAGMIRE (acronym given above), which is some kind of small NGO police force in a world full of shady superpower NGOs. Future planned elements draw from and mock, not exclusively, public-domain literature, classic rock, fandoms, law enforcement, every spy movie ever, every bad sci-fi movie ever, Fallout, and NASA.

Spoiler: The rules (click to show/hide)

Anyone who has ever read "the rules" of either other game I have made can resume breathing. As stated above, there are no complications or bizarre probabilities. Just a few basic ground rules:

1. The numbers: Basically just RtD standard.
1: Epic fail
2: Failure
3: Marginal success
4: Success
5: Super success
Natural 6: Overshot
Modified 6: Super success

2. Equipment: I never said there wouldn't be any bonuses or anything. You can pick two of the following to begin.
Pistol: No benefits or drawbacks.
Sniper rifle: +1 to long-range shooting, -1 to short-range.
SMG: +1 to short-range shooting, -1 to long-range.
Garrote wire: +2 to melee stealth.
Machete: +1 to all melee attacks.
Silencer: Combined with any firearm, +2 to ranged stealth.
Explosive charge: For blowing things up; a roll is done for this like anything else.
Universal Optical Enhancement Device (UOED): +1 to observation.

3. Explanations of mechanics: What does it mean?
Stealth: When you perform any action "stealthily" in the presence of an enemy (successfully or not), the GM rolls a d6 to determine how much they notice. Bonuses to stealth increase your chances of getting away without them noticing - they are functionally negatives on the enemy's awareness roll. The same applies to enemies trying to be stealthy; "observation" is a measure of your ability to notice.
Damage: A 3 on an attack causes 1 point of damage, a 4 causes 2, and a 5 or 6 causes 3 to the target. Rolling 1 on any action inflicts 2 damage to the person doing it; rolling a natural 6 inflicts 1.
Health: By default, all players have 10 HP. Enemies will vary, but will almost always be lower.

4. The code of reason: All actions should be reasonable given the poster's current in-game situation. The GM reserves the right to judge what is reasonable; you are free to appeal, but you'd better have a good case ready.

Spoiler: To join the game (click to show/hide)

Again, trying to be simple.
Name: [Character name]
Equipment: [Select two from above]

Current players:
Sinlessmoon - Sinless Akrandar
Kaferian - Skein
Caerwyn - Martin
Chink - Klein
SomeStupidGuy - Liam Clark
DarkArtemisFowl - Fennex Crusio
Dorsidwarf - Tholtig SockDazzled
Urist Mc Dwarf - Alex Shater
dewboy - Dewey

[Sinlessmoon]

Name: Sinless Akrandar
Equipment: Pistol, Machete.

I'm going for maximum cool points.

[Kaferian]

Name: Skein
Equipment: Garrote Wire, Machete

[Caerwyn]

I'll jump in!

Name: Martin
Equipment: SMG, UOED

[Chink]

Name: Klein
Equipment: UOED, Sniper Rifle

[SomeStupidGuy]

Ooh, I'll hop in. Secret agent-y rtd sounds like tons of fun.

Name: Liam Clark
Equipment: Silencer, Pistol

[DarkArtemisFowl]

Name: Fennex Crusio
Equipment: Sniper Rifle, Silencer

[Dorsidwarf]

Name: Tholtig SockDazzled

Equipment: SMG , explosive charge.

[SealyStar]

Great. I just need one more person to satisfy my personal rule of eight.

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Alex Shater
Submachine gun and garrote

[dewboy]

I'll join in:
Name: Dewey
Equipment: Garrote wire, machete

[SealyStar]

I'll join in:
Name: Dewey
Equipment: Garrote wire, machete

Alright, rule of nine, then.

[SealyStar]

And that makes nine. Let's get started!

Mission 1

QUAGMIRE
Quasi-Governmental Ministry of Incident Rectification

To: All members of team #67

Congratulations on being selected for employment with QUAGMIRE! You have been placed on team #67 with eight other newly accepted agents. Do not discard this letter! Important briefing for your first mission follows.

You are headed to tiny Concession Island in northern Lake Superior, near the Canadian mainland but part of Michigan for some reason. The island, approximately 7.5 km² in area, is home to the Concession Island Observatory, due to the lack of interference from mainland light sources. The lack of radio interference has also made it an excellent place for producing its own, through an unidentified high-power shortwave radio station broadcasting mysterious encrypted messages. We managed to decrypt the signal for a short period of time, and the contents of the messages received suggest that the signal is being used to communicate with agents of another unidentified organization. Recently, all supply vessels to the island have stopped; this apparent hike in security has only furthered our suspicions.

Your mission is to investigate the site, and to decrypt and either commandeer or disable the radio transmissions. After doing this, proceed to the extraction point on the other end of the island, where a boat captained by one of our employees will transport you to the Canadian mainland. A simple map is enclosed. The drop-off and extraction points are marked. The approximate locations of the radio tower and observatory and radio tower are also included, but the rest of the facility is covered from the air by dense evergreen forest.

Spoiler: The map (click to show/hide)

Forgot a compass, but for the record north is ↑

Your watch says that it's about 11:00 AM, sometime in November, but it's hard to tell with the overcast skies. The helicopter zooms low over the frigid lake. The island in front of you grows larger by the second in the windscreen. There are four seats along each side, plus one in the back, each with an agent in it. As the cliffs near the drop-off point grow to fill the entire front view, the helicopter slows and hovers in place a few feet over the beach.

The copilot begins lowering a cable to the ground. "Alright, guys, this is as far as we go". One by one, you climb down the cable and sink your boots into the wet sand. To your north there is a dangerous-looking cliff, perhaps 60° or so. The beach extends to the east, eventually bending around a projection of the cliff.

As the last agent drops down the cable, the copilot looks out of the open hatch and yells "Good luck!" before closing it and getting to his seat just as the helicopter takes off and flies back south.

Spoiler: Agents (click to show/hide)

Sinless Akrandar, 10/10 HP
Pistol, machete

Skein, 10/10 HP
Machete, garrote wire

Martin, 10/10 HP
SMG, UOED

Klein, 10/10 HP
Sniper rifle, UOED

Liam Clark, 10/10 HP
Silenced pistol

Fennex Crusio, 10/10 HP
Silenced sniper rifle

Tholtig SockDazzled, 10/10 HP
SMG, explosive charge

Alex Shater, 10/10 HP
SMG, garrote wire

Dewey, 10/10 HP
Machete, garrote wire

[Caerwyn]

The map doesn't work more me, but most images never do on this website for some reason.

Immediately head out and scout the area, observing anything and everything.

[Chink]

Scout out the cliff and the area around/above it with the UEOD. Look specifically for anything that could either be useful in ascending it, or dangerous to us.