Throw unconscious nameless NPC audience member into the ring where people are stabbing each other with a gardening tool, then start yelling at another person. Like maybe that guy who threw some sort of bottle.
Name: Wasted Bastard
Description: A guy who's so thin that his bones show, and his hips form a bowl in which stuff can be held. His stringy greasy hair is falling out in chunks, but reaches down to his lowest rib. His eyes bulge out like nothing you've ever seen, and dart this way and that without end. He's coated in a blue crystalline powder, probably from rolling in some drugs like a cat with catnip.
Reason for signing up: Out of money for drugs and food and rent, so need, like, 20 bucks to make it this month.
Stats:
Strength: 1 (wish this could be 0 for the auto fail)
Dexterity: 11
Endurance: -8 (I mean, 1)
Speed: 2
Intelligence: 1
Luck: 10
Will: 1
Perception: Negative infinity (1)
Do we have any unconscious audience members? Oi, Who wants to get thrown into the ring? And die from the fall, of course.
Unlock secret weasel mind powers. Start mind raping the audience.
I'm afraid you're a weasel.
Discard weasel into arena, hope it mauls a contestant.
You grab the weasel, run for the edge of the seating area, trip, fall and go flying right off the edge. Both you and the weasel plummet 40 feet to your deaths. Then rocks fall and you die.
Yeah, both of you are dead. Wanna know why? four 1's in a row.
I was thinking random should have tiers. Something like 5 points, 10 points and 20 points. Each tier contains objects that would be priced roughly the same as the random item, with more and less expensive items being rarer.
So, for example, if we're sticking to Original items and not adding Random Only items, one buying a 5 point random item could get a shotgun worth 10 points.
The chances of getting something should probably be unknown, but could be affected by a player's luck stat if you feel like it.
There could also be a small chance to gain an item that is valuable, but not useful in the game unless you're really creative.
For example a day pass to the magister's lower palace or very fancy clothes.
Some of them could be inherently dangerous.
There could also be a very very tiny chance of getting something well beyond the price of the tier you're getting, like giving 5 points and getting an athlete suit worth 15 points.
To balance this out, you could force the players to complete a small puzzle or shackle challenge to open the box the random item comes in if it is really powerful.
The random items should come in a fun package. Maybe something gift wrapped with a ribbon.
Oh, or maybe you could have it be like one of those games where you pick toys up with that claw-crane-thing.
I believe it would be good to have some Random Only items.
What does everyone think of this? Do you like it enough to put a DD or two towards it?
Quickly get up and stomp his head before he can stand. Failing that, choke the life out of him.
Name: Larry Hinn
Description: A moderately tall fellow with broad shoulders. Has the dull eyes and brown hair of his family. Cracks his knuckles a lot.
Reason for signing up: To get money for his nephew Thrak. Boy isn't real bright.
Stats:
Strength:5
Dexterity:5
Endurance:5
Speed:5
Intelligence:1
Luck:5
Will:1
Perception:1
Team: BLUE BARBARIANS
Points: 3
Inventory: Revolver; three shots left. Loaned to Mason
Injuries: Right arm from elbow down replaced with robot arm.
FUCK
that was too loud
fuck you audience
Roll away with the weasel. Get up. Whack him in the ankles if he comes after me.
Name: Xen
Description: Tall pale lanky bald guy, refuses to wear clothes. However, he's quite polite before he kills and eats people.
Reason for signing up: He was forcibly signed up after he tried to eat something classified.
Stats: (20 points to allocate. 5 Points in a stat gives a 1/3 chance of +1. 10 gives 2/3, etc.)
Strength:1
Dexterity:15
Endurance:5
Speed:3
Intelligence:1
Luck:1
Will:1
Perception:1
Order another beer. Don't drink it, just throw it at Larry's head. Full bottles are way cooler to throw. Hurl it like a tomahawk!
Larry leaps to his feet in a rather impressive fashion and runs over to Xen, who is still laying on the ground. Larry kicks xen in the mouth, knocking out several teeth and causing xen to bleed profusely. Xen doesn't seem very effected though, and lashes out with his stolen garden weasel. Larry, in a daring display, leaps mover the spiked wheels and lands on the handle, slamming the tool to the ground and snapping the wooden handle in half. A Beer bottle sails over his head as he does so.
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