IC up soonish, after I get the skills and all worked on fully.
Roughly 20 years before the Convention the piece of this recently settled world was broken by the Cataclysms, which among other things sparked a nuclear war. Once things quieted down a bit in the region, with bands of survivors more-or-less back on their feet, the convention was called by an unknown figure. Those who went to the convention emerged with a treaty, forming a loose coalition of settlements now known simply as "The Coalition". By the year 100 After Convention, the other settlements of the region decided to declare war for various reasons, and the fighting that ensued drew all of you guys up into it, most as soldiers in one army or another, many for nigh-on five years. The war ended roughly a year ago, leaving you guys jobless and, in many cases, homeless. Still, its not asif you guys dont have skills, right?
More Backstory
After recovering from the Great Cataclysm (which started in roughly 2050 and ended perhaps a hundred years later) humanity, realizing its fragile hold on life, initiated Project Seed, which consisted of taking a few thousand humans, shoving them in suspended animation, and shooting them at a possibly habitable star system along with everything needed to settle down, and a set of automated systems devoted to keeping them alive. Seeder Seven, the eight seed ship launched, was sent to what is only known on earth as Target Twelve. On arrival nearly five hundred years later, the automated systems selected a world and begin to terraform it, bringing it to near-earth levels and seeding it with Terran plants and animals, before animating the human cargo.
The humans, thus settled, did what humans do best. Namely, forget all they learned about piece and started killing each other again, which eventually sparked a new cataclysm. After fighting that off for a while (although not nearly as long as the survivors of the great cataclysm did) the survivors convened a convention, where they formed a new nation. Of course, there where a number of nations or groups who did not get invited, or didnot show, and after about another century of them getting beaten into a pulp by the coalition, they decided to form their own and go and give them a taste of their own medicine. And so they did, using weapons caches dating from before the cataclysm, recently looted as radiation dissipated, tomake up for their lack of numbers. After half a decade of this both sides called it quits, and the world was restored to its status quo.
Name: What are you called?
Gender: What set of organs are developed down there?
Age: How old are you?
Description: What do you look like?
Stats
Str : Resistance to diseases and poisons, health, and damage.
Dex: Melee hit chance, ranged and throwing bonuses, and helps out with things needing finesse
Int : Reading, remembering things, crafting, talking, and that sorta stuff
Per : Ranged bonuses, seeing stuff
Backstory: Who where you? This will have an impact on skills, traits, and starting gear.
Traits: Are you a heavy sleeper, or are you unable to fall asleep easily? That sorta stuff. You can only take 12 points of advantages or disadvantages.
Skills: What do you know what to do? Remember, first two levels cost one point, the two after that cost two each, the next after that three, and so on.
[spoiler=Traits and skills]Traits:
Good:
Deft,1, faster melee recovery
Fast Healer,2,faster healing
Fast Learner,3,faster skill learning (applied)
Fast Reader,1,faster book learning
Fleet-footed,3,faster
Good Hearing,2,better hearing
Inconspicuous,1,better stealth while still
Less Sleep,1,less sleep needed (this is useful, trust me)
Light Step,1,quieter movement, less likely to set off traps
Light Eater,2,Less food
Night Vision,1,can see more at night
Optimist,2,Nothing gets you down
Outdoorsman,1,rain pisses you off less
Pain Resistant,2,Pain has less effect
Parkour Expert,2,hardcoreparkour
Poison Resistant,1,Poisons and toxins have less effect
Quick,3,faster
Scout,1,Better navigator, better perception against hidden things
Skilled Liar,1,telling lies and bluffing is easier
Strong Stomach,1,Less likely to upchuck from food poisoning, booze, etc. etc.
Terrifying,1,scary
Tough,2, more HP
Bad:
Bad Temper,2,Less happy
Far sighted,2,without glasses cant read, melee penalty, crafting is harder (yep, theres crafting)
Fast Metabolism,2,Requires more food, but faster healing
Fragile,8,Much less HP
Frail,6,less HP
Glass Jaw,3,less head HP
Hates Fruit,3,cant eat fruit without feeling horrible and/or throwing up
Hates Veg,2,cant eat veg without feeling horrible and/or throwing up
Heavy Sleeper,1,takes longer to wake up
Illiterate,6,Books and computers are useless to you
Insomniac,2,harder to fall asleep
Jittery,3,while under stress or under effects of stimulants your hands shake, severely reducing dex
Junkfood Intolerance,1,Cant consume junkfood without upchucking and morale loss
Lactose Intolerance,1, cant consume milk products without upchucking and morale loss
Lightweight,1,booze and drugs go straight to your head
Meat Intolerance,3,cant consume meat products without upchucking and morale loss
Mood swings,1, mood can shift dramatically randomly
Near Sighted,2,without glasses cant see as far
Poor Hearing,2,cant hear as well
Sleepy,1, need to sleep more often
Slow Healer,2,Slower healing
Slow Learner,3,Learning slower
Slow Reader,1,Reading takes longer
Slow Runner,3,less movement
Trigger Happy,1,While using full-auto weapons you occasionally spray and pray, even when intending to fire a single shot.
Truth Teller,2,Harder to lie
Weak Stomach,1,throw up more often/easily
Wheat Allergy,2,cant eat wheat
Wool Allergy,1,Cant touch wool
SKILLS
Archery
Bartering
Bashing
Computers
Construction
Cooking
Cutting
Dodging
Driving
Electronics
Fabrication
First Aid
Handguns
Launchers
Marksmanship
Mechanics
Melee
Piercing
Rifles
Submachine Guns
Survival
Swimming
Tailoring
Throwing
Trapping
Unarmed Combat
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