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Total Members Voted: 17

[Wwolin]

Spoiler: Barebones Jones (click to show/hide)

Name: Barebones Jones
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Appearance: A seven foot tall skeleton, held together by bits of tar, plant matter, and packing tape
Personal information: An aevae with the ability to assimilate the wasteland's abundance of loose bones into his own body. He tends to try and keep a vaguely human appearance when around people, sometimes even going so far as to put on a mask to cover his bony face, but when he's out in the wastes, he likes to have as many arms, legs, and heads as he can find.

Stats:
Strength: 4
Endurance: 5
Speed: 4
Dexterity: 6
Charisma: 1
Intelligence: 4
Mana: 6

Skills:
Ranged Weapons: SMGs - Jones is pretty handy with a SMG... Or two, or even three when he's got the arms for it
Crafting: Bones - Jones is better than most at making things out of bone, whether they be weapons, armor, or even useless trinkets
Combat: Dodging - Jones is better at evading attacks

Perk: Bonehead - Barebones Jones can assimilate bones into himself, either to replace lost parts, or add entirely new bits.

Profession: Spooky/Wanderer

Inventory:
2x 'Rattlebones' SMGs
1x Bone carving knife
6x Bone SMG magazines

[smurfingtonthethird]

General stuff: I'll let you guys decide your inventories, based on your background stories, but don't go crazy.  I would recommend taking a weapon, some sort of clothing/armor, and some other useful stuff.

I'll join in as an Ark guy from Ark 9001

...sheet please?

Are we gonna group up or go solo. If grouping I'm going scavenger to provide gear. Otherwise Aevae, because I don't to be isolated from cool magic stuff.

Your choice.

Wait, if there's countermeasures to every last superweapon, how could they cripple the planet?

shh

I also have a question. If we have thirty points to spend as we please, what difference do the stat modifiers make?

'Racial' stat modifiers are mostly just for fluff. Skills are where all the boosts are at.

I'll be interested.

Spoiler: Pyro (click to show/hide)

Name: Denia 'Pyro' Hauberich
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Appearance: A young girl torn from the wasteland - her personality is cruel and twisted, but her skill with fire is very good.
Personal information:
Stats:
 Strength: 2
 Endurance: 3 - 6 HP
 Speed: 5
 Dexterity: 7
 Charisma: 5
 Intelligence: 7

Perk: !!FIRE AIMING!! - When Denia rolls to attack with a fire weapon, she rolls twice and uses her highest roll.

Profession:
 Pyromaniac/Crafter
Skills
 Ranged Weapons: !!FIRE!! - Denia deals more damage with flamethrowers.
 Crafting: Weapons - Denia is better at crafting weapons.
 Crafting: Armor - Denia is better at crafting armor.
Inventory:
 'Blazer' Flamethrower
 3 Molotovs
 Bottles of fuel
 Gasmask
 Pyro Suit

Looks good.

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Name: Nando Polo
Age: 30s. He doesn't keep track.
Gender: Male
Appearance: A tall skinny man. His hair is long and tangled.
Personal information: Nando was the leader of a mercenary gang. They were captured by neo-spartan cultists, as far as he knows he was the only one to escape. That was years ago, but he hasn't quite got his life back together. He spends most of it drunk or high or both.
Stats:
Strength:3
Endurance:5 10hp
Speed:6
Dexterity:10
Charisma: 3
Intelligence:3

Perk: Nando can throw weapons not designed for throwing without any minuses.

Profession:
Mercenary/Scavenger
Skills:
Camouflage-Nando is good at blending in with his surroundings.
Dodging-Nando is good at avoiding attacks.
Throwing-Nando is good at throwing things.
Smuggling-Nando is good at hiding objects, usually in his hair.

Inventory:
7 shortswords
Lamellar vest
pocket knife
lighter
smokes

((Is this the same world as your plane crash rtd?))

((Maaaaybe))

7 swords is overkill. Also, can he throw guns, then?

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Name: Lily Tiygr
Age: 23 ish, lily is unsure of her birth date
Gender: Female
Appearance: A tall pale skinned woman, her long red plats trail down her back,
Her skin is covered in the ritual scars of her tribe, thay propound marking here out as a trainee skull harvester, one her tribe warrior sects.
Personal information: Lily is on a quest from th tribes elders to prove her self worthy of  be coming a skull harvester.
(it's a go out and come back with proof of killing things and loot, or do not return at all deal.)
Stats:
Strength: 6
Endurance: 7 ~  14 hp
Speed: 6
Dexterity: 6
Charisma: 2
Intelligence: 2

Skills
Melee Weapons: primitive
Throwing Weapons
Hunting
Butchery
Camouflage

Profession: Tribal
Inventory:do i fill this in?

Looks good, and yeah, you decide what you can bring.

Sheet coming soon.

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Name: Harvey Decado
Age: 27
Gender: Make
Appearance: Clean Shaved with military cropped brown hair and an overly muscular physique at odds with his 5 ft 6 height. Wears a pair of military Urban BDU's with an ARK security captain's insignia tacked onto both shoulders above an American flag and his military tags stitched into his left glove with his Ark tags stitched into the right glove.
Personal information:

Stats.
Strength: 5
Endurance: 6 12hp
Speed: 7
Dexterity: 7
Charisma: 2
Intelligence: 3

Skills.
S.E.R.E training.
Hand to hand combat training.
Rifleman training.
Sidearm training.
Ballistic weapons construction.

Profession: War Veteran, Ark security captain.
Inventory:

PM'd Background story is good, and you can choose your stuff.

Spoiler: Barebones Jones (click to show/hide)

Name: Barebones Jones
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Appearance: A seven foot tall skeleton, held together by bits of tar, plant matter, and packing tape
Personal information: An aevae with the ability to assimilate the wasteland's abundance of loose bones into his own body. He tends to try and keep a vaguely human appearance when around people, sometimes even going so far as to put on a mask to cover his bony face, but when he's out in the wastes, he likes to have as many arms, legs, and heads as he can find.

Stats:
Strength: 4
Endurance: 5
Speed: 4
Dexterity: 6
Charisma: 1
Intelligence: 4
Mana: 6

Skills:
Ranged Weapons: SMGs - Jones is pretty handy with a SMG... Or two, or even three when he's got the arms for it
Crafting: Bones - Jones is better than most at making things out of bone, whether they be weapons, armor, or even useless trinkets
Combat: Dodging - Jones is better at evading attacks

Perk: Don't know if we're supposed to fill this in or not

Profession: Spooky/Wanderer

Inventory: Don't know if we're supposed to fill this or not

Oh god, this'll be good. Yeah, fill in your inventories.

[Patrick Hunt]

Is my inventory ok?

It's his rifle, sidearm, knife, armor with a helmet that includes a faceplate with an air filter since Ark personnel built systems to defend against WMD's it seemed reasonable they'd include something as common sense as a mask to protect security personnel against biological agents.

Plus his weapon maintenance kit and a flashlight he can bolt onto his gun. I included a pic of the gun.

[smurfingtonthethird]

It's fine, because he's gonna run out of ammo pretty quick smart.

[Patrick Hunt]

Who in this world isn't going to run out of ammo quick lol? It's part of why I gave him skill in gun construction/modification and he has his kit.

He can modify the gun to use a more common form of ammunition.
Although I could edit that into ammo creation and then he could break down other bullets to create more for his gun which sounds more interesting.

Does making a skill more specific like rifle training and pistol training make a difference or could I just take ballistic weapon training to cover both, or take marine weapon training since every marine is trained to use rifles and sidearms.

[USEC_OFFICER]

He can modify the gun to use a more common form of ammunition.

Popping in to say that doing so is generally a bad idea. It obviously depends on the type of gun and the type of ammo you're converting it to. Unless you're converting between two similar types of ammunition, then you're just reducing the life and durability of the gun. Assuming that it doesn't blow up in your face of course.

Although I could edit that into ammo creation and then he could break down other bullets to create more for his gun which sounds more interesting.

A much better idea. Especially in a survival situation like this.

[Patrick Hunt]

I know, the thing is I have quite a few ideas for gun mods and it allows me to take busted old weapons and break them down and use parts to build new ones that work. Plus in general if I have a gun with no reasonable chance of finding more ammo I'll take a reduced shelf life and the ability to shoot stuff with my gun over a gun that lasts a long time while I use it as a baseball bat.

I want both skills but I don't wanna lose any of the other 4 I've got so unless I can combine the 2 gun skills I can only take 1 and I'd rather be able to repair and modify guns to use other ammo then just make ammo if I can find a working gun.

[NAV]

Seven swords isn't overkill for a mercenary who's main method of attack is throwing swords. It's completely reasonable.
And of course he can throw guns. *Pew pew pew Oh no out of ammo! Throws gun at enemy, enemy dies.*

[Patrick Hunt]

You don't often see throwing swords and completely reasonable in the same sentence.

[Samarkand]

Spoiler: Character! (click to show/hide)

Name: Ellen Forta
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Appearance: She has long brown hair which cascades down her back if down, but it is most often in a giant bun to keep it from tangling with plants as she rummages around. Her eyes are grey with speckles of green in them, a sight which is often discomforting. to those who get close enough to see the green spots. From a distance they look like a barely tinted grey. Her frame is very slight, giving her a fragile look, but she moves gracefully.
 
Stats:
Strength: 3
Endurance: 3
Speed: 4
Dexterity: 7
Charisma: 6
Intelligence: 7

Skills
Chemistry
Herbalism
Toxicology
Medicine

Profession: New Age Herbalist (Tribal)

-New Age Herbalists were individuals who recognized that in the tribal lands a return to herbalist techniques were necessary.This meant treating diseases, new and old, with plant and animal products, and other improvised sources. The notion of a comprehensive medical system, with its cornucopia of drugs, had been destroyed as surely as the land had. However, abandoning that  notion did not mean abandoning all recent scientific knowledge, but instead reinterpreting it within the framework of herbalism. Nitroglycerin could be produced from plant fats, combining the new and the old to address the emergent challenges of a world ravaged by man-made horrors. These New Age Herbalists traveled within the tribal community, treating wounds and trying to slowly regather the knowledge which had been lost, both of recent medicine and old tribal knowledge. Other knowledge had to be rebuilt, either due to changes in the flora and fauna or else because every shred of the original indigenous knowledge had been eradicated even before the WMDs tore the world to pieces. Ellen made it her goal to leave the tribes and adventure into the wider world to attempt to assemble an even greater knowledge base for herself and her fellow New Age Herbalists.-

Inventory:
Field notes on plants and animal extracts, handdrawn
Alchemically-notated chemistry guidebook, handwritten
Mortar and Pestle
Herbalist's Kit (contains bandages, poultices, and herbal analgesics)

-These objects were all that Ellen left with. Her notes were her most precious possessions, representing all of her knowledge, collected from colleagues, personal experience, and those rare surviving documents. The field notes contained diagrams of plants and animals, and the uses of the various pieces of each specimen, as well as the important information to identify each species. She hoped to fill more pages in these books during her travels, as they were still painfully slim now despite her years of effort. Her kit was her next most important possession; it represented her ability to treat the ills of those she met. Without it she always felt naked and vulnerable, as though disease would overcome her at any moment; taking her unawares. Her mortar and pestle were also precious, but they were replaceable, and could be done without for short periods of time.-

How's this look? Is it all lore friendly?

[Harry Baldman]

shh

Ah, I see. Just seemed like a counterproductive thing to talk about how WMD's ain't shit because they've got defenses for that at first, then going all 'but then they used them and somehow everyone died anyway'. Carry on.

By the way, how transmissible is AEV? Was it supposed to be a WMD? Or is it simply an off-brand magic-flavored version of FEV in all respects?

[USEC_OFFICER]

You don't often see throwing swords and completely reasonable in the same sentence.

Probably because it's not.

*paragraph about balance, weight, and compromises between ease of throwing and stabbing*

I guess I'll be working on a sheet. Don't expect me to take this too seriously though.

[Patrick Hunt]

I kinda figured, some swords are designed with amazing balance but they're rare as hell. Guess I'm gonna be the gun guy.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I kinda figured, some swords are designed with amazing balance but they're rare as hell. Guess I'm gonna be the gun guy.

Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about throwing weapons. But I wouldn't be surprised if the balance needed for a good throwing sword was different than the balance needed for a good fighting sword.

Alternative idea: Throwing knives and a sword. Or throwing spikes and a machete. Or something functionally identical but more practical than 7 throwing swords.

[smurfingtonthethird]

Spoiler: Character! (click to show/hide)

Name: Ellen Forta
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Appearance: She has long brown hair which cascades down her back if down, but it is most often in a giant bun to keep it from tangling with plants as she rummages around. Her eyes are grey with speckles of green in them, a sight which is often discomforting. to those who get close enough to see the green spots. From a distance they look like a barely tinted grey. Her frame is very slight, giving her a fragile look, but she moves gracefully.
 
Stats:
Strength: 3
Endurance: 3
Speed: 4
Dexterity: 7
Charisma: 6
Intelligence: 7

Skills
Chemistry
Herbalism
Toxicology
Medicine

Profession: New Age Herbalist (Tribal)

-New Age Herbalists were individuals who recognized that in the tribal lands a return to herbalist techniques were necessary.This meant treating diseases, new and old, with plant and animal products, and other improvised sources. The notion of a comprehensive medical system, with its cornucopia of drugs, had been destroyed as surely as the land had. However, abandoning that  notion did not mean abandoning all recent scientific knowledge, but instead reinterpreting it within the framework of herbalism. Nitroglycerin could be produced from plant fats, combining the new and the old to address the emergent challenges of a world ravaged by man-made horrors. These New Age Herbalists traveled within the tribal community, treating wounds and trying to slowly regather the knowledge which had been lost, both of recent medicine and old tribal knowledge. Other knowledge had to be rebuilt, either due to changes in the flora and fauna or else because every shred of the original indigenous knowledge had been eradicated even before the WMDs tore the world to pieces. Ellen made it her goal to leave the tribes and adventure into the wider world to attempt to assemble an even greater knowledge base for herself and her fellow New Age Herbalists.-

Inventory:
Field notes on plants and animal extracts, handdrawn
Alchemically-notated chemistry guidebook, handwritten
Mortar and Pestle
Herbalist's Kit (contains bandages, poultices, and herbal analgesics)

-These objects were all that Ellen left with. Her notes were her most precious possessions, representing all of her knowledge, collected from colleagues, personal experience, and those rare surviving documents. The field notes contained diagrams of plants and animals, and the uses of the various pieces of each specimen, as well as the important information to identify each species. She hoped to fill more pages in these books during her travels, as they were still painfully slim now despite her years of effort. Her kit was her next most important possession; it represented her ability to treat the ills of those she met. Without it she always felt naked and vulnerable, as though disease would overcome her at any moment; taking her unawares. Her mortar and pestle were also precious, but they were replaceable, and could be done without for short periods of time.-

How's this look? Is it all lore friendly?

Yep. Good to see not everyone wants to kill everything.

shh

Ah, I see. Just seemed like a counterproductive thing to talk about how WMD's ain't shit because they've got defenses for that at first, then going all 'but then they used them and somehow everyone died anyway'. Carry on.

By the way, how transmissible is AEV? Was it supposed to be a WMD? Or is it simply an off-brand magic-flavored version of FEV in all respects?

Yeah, it's pretty much FEV, although it results in a lot more... weirdness.