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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

It's been twenty-three years since Earth fell.  Twenty years since they tore the last of us from our planet, forcing us into their industrial complex to feed their ever growing empire and eliminated our system from existence.  They wanted to break our spirit, and after they saw our sheer determination and how great our will to refuse to go down was, even with our religions shattered in the face of what was inexpiable and believed to be impossible, the major powers broken down to dust, and hundreds of millions killed, they saw it as the only option.  They thought we were done, finished, broken utterly.  How wrong they are.

Humanity was not the first race enslaved by the Collective, there was the Valdorans, the Kal'vish, and the Rilker to name a few, but it had put up the greatest fight against being defeated, lasting for the better part of two decades, far outlasting the Traviks who lasted a measly eight years.  With the destruction of their world, humanity's drive did not fall to nothing, as the Collective had thought.  Instead, it became hid itself, festering and growing within the dark.  As the years passed, which were only measured in approximates by the humans since the loss of their world, the race of humanity slowly formed into groups of rebels, some of the more bold of the other races, spurred by the drive of humanity joining the groups as well.

On one of the planets, which, to the mild amusement of the humans, was named Prometheus, the groups were in a higher concentration than what most other worlds had, thanks to a few of the highest members of the collective looking away during the early days when small amounts of materials went missing from the city-worlds continual output of various supplies for the conquest of further worlds upon the front lines.  While later there were crackdowns by the officials who realized what was to come, enough had gotten to the underbelly of the city, where the humans and the other relatively recently conquered peoples were housed that a fairly long series of a conflicts could possibly be pulled off by a few groups of rebels.  Possibly being able to last long enough that a full out revolution would begin, the entirety of the oppressed slaves of the Collective being able to rise in revolution...

Spoiler: Races (click to show/hide)

Humanity
A race originating from the former planet of earth, where they were the only intelligent race upon the planet for several thousand years.  They are the ones who have inspired the various peoples of the Collective to rise up against the dominating regime.  The species is bipedal and sexually dimorphic, having a tendency towards a heavy class K reproductive strategy, having great empathy for the children of other races.  Average lifespan is around 70-80 'years'.

Humans have basic stats of 5 Strength, 5 Stamina, 5 Reflexes, 5 Intelligence, 5 Wisdom, 5 Charisma, 5 Luck and two free points to upgrade statistics without having to lower another.

Valdorans
A race originating from the planet Novae.  They evolved parallel to the Kal'vish, and, until the Collective came, they had fought with them for quite some time.  They are a bipedal, asexual race.  They are in a symbiotic relationship with a specific variety of tree that produces more versions of their kind, genetic variety coming from pollen produced by the Kal'vish, trees only accepting pollen that is not of its own descendants within 2 generations.  Because of this, each world with Valdorans has a minimum of three trees to allow for the population to be upkept.  This race follows a class K reproductive strategy, caring heavily for those recently born.  They have a body structure similar to a gorilla with a hide of reminiscent of wood.  Average lifespan is around 100-110 'years'.

Valdorans have basic stats of 6 Strength, 4 Stamina, 6 Reflexes, 4 Intelligence, 6 Wisdom, 4 Charisma, 5 Luck, and the skills False Decoration (if you were not seen to have moved, you appear to be a decorative tree and are ignored in many situations) and Commune with Plants (able to 'speak' with plants to learn more about an area.  ex. when a guard last went past the area)

Kal'vish
Another race originating from the planet Novae.  They evolved parallel to the Kal'wish, and, until the Collective came, they had fought with them for quite some time.  They are a winged quadrupedal, sexually dimorphic race.  They have an appearance similar to those of dragons of human mythology, just exceptionally small, approximately the length of a human's forearm.  Due to their size, they are able to navigate their way through multiple areas that would be considered impossible for other races to make their way through.  They have adapted a class r strategy due to the amount of difficulty they have in remaining alive when at war or due to larger predators.  Average Lifespan is around 80-90 'years'.

Valdorans have basic stats of 4 Strength, 6 Stamina, 4 Reflexes, 6 Intelligence, 4 Wisdom, 6 Charisma, 5 Luck and the skills Small Form (able to fit into tighter spaces than other races) and Glider (you have the ability to cross distances without touching the ground if you 'hit' enough updrafts)

Rilker
A race originating from the planet Yoldor, they have been under the rule of the Collective for so long, they have managed to be ascended out of the pits into what would be considered as the lower middle class of the society.  As this was only recently, many remember the other races still lying within the pits below them and some have turned to smugglers, using their intelligence and charisma to get supplies and weapons into the pits.  They are a bipedal, sexually dimorphic race, though there are no secondary characteristics to identify gender with besides a slight change in pitch of their voice only truly noticeable to other members of their species.  The race follows a borderline class K reproductive strategy, abandoning young after basic knowledge and culture is imparted onto them.  Their body structure is reminiscent of a taller, lankier version of a Roswell gray.  Average lifespan was around 60-70 'years', but as they are now in the middle class, it jumped to 150-160 'years'.

Rilker have basic stats of 3 Strength, 3 Stamina, 3 Reflexes, 7 Intelligence, 7 Wisdom, 7 Charisma, 5 Luck and the skills Above the Pits (able to move freely around the Pits and Lower Towers) and Rilker Hearing (Able to hear all movement noise despite any level of ambient sound)

Traviks
A race originating from the planet Calin.  After Humanity, this is the race that lasted the longest against the Collective by using their natural strength.  They are quadrupedal, manipulating objects using two tendrils that arc four feet from their shoulders.  The race has no genders, any matter that is ingested is used to form a child of the race, which buds from one of two tendrils sprouting from the throat, falling off when the growth reaches around one pound in size.  Due to this manner of reproduction, the race follows a class r reproductive strategy, many children dying due to the sometimes poor quality of matter ingested.  The body structure, with the exception of the tendrils, seems to take on the appearance of a scaled bear.  Average lifespan is 50-60 'years'.

Traviks have basic stats of 7 Strength, 7 Stamina, 7 Reflexes, 3 Intelligence, 3 Wisdom, 3 Charisma, 5 Luck and the skills Echolocation (can see in any level of lighting) and Living Ram (able to naturally destroy most things that takes others high explosives to destroy)

Spoiler: Signup (click to show/hide)

Name:
Race:
Gender:
Age:
Personality:
Background:

Inventory (Carrying Capacity <current>/<maximum (Average of strength and stamina times ten)>:

(A deviation of statistics is possible of within 2 or less of the racial basic, though for each addition, you need to make an equivalent subtraction.)
Combat-Oriented Statistics:
Strength:
Stamina:
Relexes:

Noncombat-Oriented Statistics:
Intelligence:
Wisdom:
Charisma:

General Statistics:
Luck:

Skills:

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Actions will be decided by a d20, bonuses being added or subtracted depending upon your statistics and skills, with the distance from 5 being what the bonus/penalty inflicts (ie. a 1 would be a -4, a 2 would be a -3, a 6 would be a +1, a 5 would be a +0, etc).

Players will be participating in a series of missions of their own selection.  Some missions are easier for certain races, or in different quantities of numbers, ex. more makes assault missions easier, while less makes stealth missions easier.  Successful completion of missions unlocks further missions along that 'arc', while loss of a mission closes off the 'arc' that mission was a part of.

Typical Arcs are a grouping of all three missions, Stealth, Sabotage, and Assault.
Stealth missions are used to get information on a target location by getting the floor plans, density of guards, etc of the target.  Successful completion results in unlocking the sabotage mission.
Sabotage missions follow stealth missions and are used to distract the target and divert their attention elsewhere so the assault can be successful.  Successful completion results in unlocking the assault mission.
Assault missions are the actual attack upon the target to perform a certain action, whether it is stealing a technology, weaponry, or perform an assassination.  Successful completion results in the completion of the arc, granting the resistance different bonuses or new weaponry.
Other Arcs would include things such as Recruitment, Establishment of a Safehouse, Smuggling Run, etc.

Spectacular at what a fairly arbitrary avatar change, Rise by Skillet, and Revelation by Black Veil Brides can produce.  Isn't it?

Anyway, I'll cobble together some images for the resistance home base when I have a suitable number of players.  Then I'll make a post detailing a walkaround of the base as well as the supplies available and a few missions you can go on.  Only thing on your sheet you don't fill out will be inventory, since that will start out empty (you will have civilian clothes, though those aren't tracked in the inventory because you will be wearing them when you don't have anything else on.  Exception being if the race you are a part of doesn't wear clothing).

[Patrick Hunt]

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Name: Redak
Race: Rilker
Gender: Male
Age : 23
Personality: Confident, Charismatic, Honest, Trustworthy, Loyal.

Background: Redaks family were smugglers, remembering friends still trapped in the pits they had used what small influence they had to slip in and out delivering small comforts to old friends and over time had gained help from others like them and began to deliver those goods to a wider variety of pit dwellers until finally they got greedy and were executed.

Redak being young had grown up hearing the rumors of revolution that sprang up around humans and having joint his parents in trips to the pit several times he had several human friends himself.
Learning from his parents mistakes he began small delivering higher quality foods and listening to what the humans had to say. In time he began to deliver messages to different groups spread around the pit allowing them to organize discreetly using his smuggling as cover.
Then he began discreetly making friends with dealers who could supply small arms and funneling it to the rebels as well so they could fight back.

AT first ti was a simple business arrangement they provided useful services to him and he did the same for them but he made the mistake of listening to them one time to many and began to believe in the revolution himself.
AT first he kept to the shadows providing the scattered groups with some much need organization and co-ordination without becoming actively involved but little by little he was drawn into the revolotion until finally he joint a group in earnest.

Inventory : 30


Combat-Oriented Statistics:
Strength: 3
Stamina: 3
Relexes: 3

Noncombat-Oriented Statistics:
Intelligence: 7
Wisdom: 7
Charisma: 7

General Statistics:
Luck: 5

Skills: Above the pits, Rilker Hearing.

[Loud Whispers]

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Name: Valk'ovish
Race: Valdorans
Gender: Get giggy with the trees
Personality: The progress of Valdorans kind can grow in kind to be strong, and Valk'ovish wishes to play its part in sowing those seeds that can profit it well. Ambitious, devoted to selflessness - after Valk'ovish has secured for Valk'ovish's future of course.
Background: being the sole gardener of a shrinking Valdorans clinic, gardening has earned Valk'ovish the perfect guise to pursue his own agenda. Slavery under the collective has been beneficial in so far as Valk'ovish had once had the pleasure of having a large clientel base of various peoples, at least whilst the business was still good. News of the human resistance has inspired the romance of rebellion in the hearts of all, Valk'ovish is not without exception. The collective, and indeed Valdorans loyal to the collective would not suspect Valk'ovish when Valk'ovish must talk to the plants Valk'ovish cares for, or listens to the secrets whispered by the limbus vine, no? For now, it is best that Valk'ovish see who will survive the next century. Valk'ovish is patient. In the meantime, the lack of business in visiting sick Valdorans, sick trees or prospecting buyers of Moguhe flowers has been made up for those willing to buy secrets, to buy information. It may be the only way to stay afloat in such difficult times.

Age: 48 full circles lie beneath Valk'ovish's eyes.

Inventory: Just a few common trinkets, shears, gardening attire, trowel, drill.

Combat-Oriented Statistics:
Strength: 5
Stamina: 4
Relexes: 7

Noncombat-Oriented Statistics:
Intelligence: 4
Wisdom:8
Charisma: 3

General Statistics:
Luck: 4

Skills:

• Profession: Agriculture

Presumably we can abandon mission arcs if we feel it appropriate? Such as finding out a sabotague mission might be too risky, or simply being content with sabotaging a thing without feeling the need to risk an assault?

[3man75]

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Name: Bubku
Race: Valdorans
Gender: Male
Age: 58
Personality: Unpredictable, Resentful, Team Player, Cynical, Introverted,  Broken Spirit, and Sadistic.
Background: Bubku wasn't always the biggest Cynic among his people. He was usually care-free and sometimes weird Valdoran, taking delightment of stealing peoples food for a day and then returning with an even larger portion later. He was punished for nuisances by usual imprisonments of which he mocked the guards and even those passer-byes who trew rotten fruit, trash, and other things at him as public punishment. That all changed when the Collective enslaved his people. His nuisances were met with lashes against him and his family. They was made to watch as his friends and neighbors were dipped into acid when he had boasted out loud about how they couldn't break him. He became distant afterwards and resentful against his captive until he heard about the uprising. Even if this is just a trap he still wants to take some kind of revenge against those who would hurt his people.


Inventory: 30

Combat stats:

Str: 8
Stam: 6
Reflx: 6

Non-Combat:

Intel: 2

Wisd: 5

Char: 3

General Statistics:

Luck: 5

Skills: False Decoration

((Let the my gorilla start guerrilla warfare ASAP!))

[Loud Whispers]

Bubku should not taunt the collective, it carriers bigger and sharper sticks to poke us back with.

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_{Not yet.}

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Presumably we can abandon mission arcs if we feel it appropriate? Such as finding out a sabotague mission might be too risky, or simply being content with sabotaging a thing without feeling the need to risk an assault?

There are rewards for each mission, but completing an arc unlocks a big one, but you don't have to worry about completing the whole thing yourself, since the players aren't the only members of the group your characters are a part of.  If not a single player decides to go on a mission, a couple NPCs will, but the result of an entire mission will be determined by a single roll.  I should note, there are going to be times when an NPC or a group of them will want to act a support, but only if there are only one or two going on a mission that might require more.

Oh, forgot to mention, the more you put into a backstory, the higher the chance I'll give you a few additional skills.  Just make sure to keep in mind that, while there may have been some criminal organizations before, the thoughts of rebellion were basically nonexistant until the humans came along.  Also, the Rilker have been a part of the Collective for around 500 'years', the Traviks have been in it for around 375 'years', and the Valdorans and Kal'vish have been in it around 260 'years'.

((Let the my gorilla start guerrilla warfare ASAP!))

Don't worry, some Arcs will have already been started, so there are going to be those options.

[3man75]

Bubku should not taunt the collective, it carriers bigger and sharper sticks to poke us back with.

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_{Not yet.}

Ill fix that to make him more quet since basically his "spirit" has been broken to the point where he wants blind revenge and just doesn't care about himself anymore.

[Patrick Hunt]

Well I'm not a fighting man so I plan to focus most of my efforts on setting up resistance cells, supplies, minor missions and so on. Get our army building up and experience while the players better suited to fighting handle the big stuff.

I'm still working on the bio the current bit is just the bare bones.

Idealistic youth combined with the humans resistance.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Added "Age:" to the signup and the average lifespan to the various races.  Please adjust accordingly.

[Playergamer]

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Name: Steve Winsley
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Personality: Shy, Protective, Defensive
Background: Steve was an engineer working at CERN when the aliens came. He slipped through the cracks, with his skills eventually being recognized by the Resistance. He rediscovered his less legal skills, such as hacking and demolition.

Inventory: Precision Tools.

Combat Stats:

Str: 4
Stam: 4
Reflx: 4

Non-Combat Skills:

Int: 7

Wis: 7

Char: 5

General Stats:

Luck: 6

Think the math is right.

[3man75]

Well I'm not a fighting man so I plan to focus most of my efforts on setting up resistance cells, supplies, minor missions and so on. Get our army building up and experience while the players better suited to fighting handle the big stuff.

I'm still working on the bio the current bit is just the bare bones.

Idealistic youth combined with the humans resistance.

Always needed but every baseball team needs a strong bat.

[Patrick Hunt]

Works for me, I'll organize the mooks and gather supplies then you can kick down the door. The most important bit short term is going to be establishing a secure supply route into the pits to get equipment to the humans and securing others of my species to help me work above the lower levels.

[Patrick Hunt]

Hmm, Engineer, Spy, Fighter and Recruiter/Admin. A well balanced group so far.

[3man75]

Hmm, Engineer, Spy, Fighter and Recruiter/Admin. A well balanced group so far.

I agree.

[Patrick Hunt]

Have to wait and see what we get for the last 2 now. Out of curiosity though before we start. Anything specific any of you want me to try and acquire in terms of men or supplies?

I know what I need to do my job and what I want to accomplish for myself but that's my secondary role, primarily my role is to ensure the rest of you have what you need to do your jobs. I know player needs explosives, tools and building supplies. I know you need weapons, armor and fighters and that Whsipers needs spies, money and light conealable weapons but that's just the obvious stuff.