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[EnigmaticHat]

You don’t remember how long it’s been since the apocalypse.  But you do remember absorbing radiation and becoming a mutant, and you do remember killing to survive.  That’s the only life you know now, killing to survive.

You've heard whispers of a legend.  The legend of the Nuclear Throne.  The word among the bandits is that it can fix the world.  That’s why you’re gathered around this camp fire, the legend.  You and your fellow mutants don’t know what the legend means, but you’re going to find the throne anyway.  One thing that everyone agrees on; if you go through enough portals, you’ll find the throne eventually.

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

This is a character creation lite, rules lite, story lite game.  Basically an excuse to roam the wasteland going pop pop at some mutants.  Combat occurs on a grid, and is quick and deadly.  Every level you’ll alternate between your team and the enemy team moving and shooting as a group; if you die you lose, if you kill them first a portal appears that takes your whole team to the next level, the process repeats.

Spoiler: Pickups and such (click to show/hide)

Health: Health kits will heal it, cannot exceed a certain maximum value for each mutant.  If it runs out, you generally die.
Weapons: You can carry two.  They can be dropped at will.   Whether an enemy drops a gun on death has nothing to do with whether it logically would.
Ammo: You have 5 types of ammo (bullets,  shells,  bolts,  explosives,  and energy), ammo pickups will usually but not always give you ammo for one of the weapons you are carrying.  Whoever touches a weapon first, regardless of whether they pick it up, picks up its type of ammo.  Ammo cannot be exchanged.
Rads: All mutants are irradiated, killing any mutant will cause it to drop rads.  Rads will be picked up by the person who scored the kill.  Once you exceed a certain threshold, you can develop a mutation at the next portal.  The entire team is pulling from the same pool of mutations that I will add to as necessary; there will always be at least 3 more than the amount being picked.  First person to level up is the first to pick their mutation.

Spoiler: Moving (click to show/hide)

Every creature has a move allotment and a move pattern.  In most cases the move pattern is just all squares adjacent including diagonally, but some creatures have stranger patterns.  You may move according to your pattern a number of times equal to your move allotment; simple.  Allies can move over each other but two creatures can never occupy the same tile.

Everyone on your team will move in a totally random order.  Just announce where you move to and what/who you shoot on the way (more on that below); generally the path you take to get to your destination won't matter or will be obvious but you can specify in greater detail if you think it will matter.

Spoiler: Shooting (click to show/hide)

 Each turn you have a certain amount of time to shoot; spending it spamming wildly will result in more hits but more wasted ammo; while measured shots will result in a smaller number of reliable hits.

You can shoot something if you can draw a line from the center of your square to any part of its square.  For now, let’s just assume you can shoot past any creatures.  Every turn, you call out the shots that you take; but the amount of actual time units you have is random, specifically 2d6.  So if you call out 4 attacks that cost 2 TUs each for 8 total TUs spent, and roll a 3+3=6, the last attack misses.  But you still spend ammo for it.  If you only have part of the TUs required to make an attack, then it will go through, but your weapon will need to reload on a later turn.  If you want to fire the gun, you can reload any amount of TUs before shooting (although the reload might not complete or it might cause your later shots to miss), otherwise your equipped gun at the end of your turn automatically reloads from your unused TUs.  Switching equipped guns costs 1 TU.

Aside from not having enough TUs, all attacks hit.  However, all living things have a will to live; it’s the only reason anything has survived in the wastelands.  On any killing blow, a d6 is rolled.  On a 6, the creature finds a way to save itself and the attack fails completely.  Your enemies want to survive as much as you do; this mechanic applies to them.  Only inanimate objects lack a will to live.

Spoiler: Enemies (click to show/hide)

Your enemies pretty much move and shoot like you do.  However, instead of TUs, any action they take has a (usually quite high) chance of just not happening, either because they miss an attack or they just decide not to use their action.  For the sake of fairness, I’ll decide randomly which of you each enemy targets out of all visible allies, with priority given to shooting targets that are much closer.
Beyond that, I’ll tell you how each enemy functions as they come up.

Spoiler: The IDPD (click to show/hide)

The IDPD are after you.  They are from another dimension where the apocalypse did not occur; meaning they are not mutants and have not been gaining powers from radiation.  However, they have developed technological abilities that seem oddly similar to your own.  They believe that a powerful mutant from your world will destroy theirs, and want to stop that from happening.

Every mutant in your team has a heat level.  Combined, this is your team’s wanted level.  If it exceeds a certain amount (which you are not aware of), an IDPD portal will appear, and then they will emerge from it and attack you.  They will prioritize attacking mutants with a high heat value.

Loitering is a crime.  Every level has a par turns to complete.  For every turn spent past par, every mutant on your team will gain 1 heat.  There are other crimes, but you don’t yet know what they are or what the heat penalties are.  Serious enough crimes might cause the IDPD to attack you immediately with a force depending on how severe it is.

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

Each character in Nuclear Throne is a mutant.  Most of them have a fairly simple ability set, and a one word name that summarizes what they are and implies what they do.  For example Fish is a walking fish, and obviously can roll as a result.  Check out the characters from the game itself if you want an idea of what the average nuclear throne character is like.  If you want to play as one of them, that is completely fine!
To make a character, give them:
A name.  It should be simple and summarize what your character is.
A passive difference or differences between them and other characters (for example, having more health, picking up more ammo, moving differently, ect.)
An active ability.  You don’t need to decide exactly how it works mechanically, I can do that for you.
Optionally, any flavor you want to give them.

There are some stats that are assumed and don't need to be stated unless they are different:
You start with 8 health, a revolver (range 12, TU cost 2, damage 3), and 45 bullets.  You have a move allotment of 4 and your move pattern is any adjacent tile including diagonally.  You haven't drawn any heat from the IDPD.

Spoiler: Misc. Sillyiness (click to show/hide)

Cost of leveling up, in rads: 40 * current level (you start at 1)

The max amount of each ammo/amount picked up at a time:
Bullets 250/32
Shells, bolts, and energy: 55/8
Explosives: 55/6

For simplicity, when all the enemies are dead, a portal appears that sucks up all powerups, weapons, ect. on the ground in addition to all the players.  If you can't agree on who gets a powerup or gun sucked up in this manner, they appear on the ground near the start and whoever is lucky enough to move first can grab them.

So, anyone interested?  I'm looking for four players at the start.  All created characters are subject to GM approval for balance purposes; I also might retcon the rules later on if I find something is broken but I'll do it in a way that doesn't screw anyone (probably between levels).  If more than four people want to play I'll add a few in every so often, again between levels.

Current Players:
Detoxicated (Golem)
Kevak (Jaunt)
Kj1225 (Nades)
Sl4cker (Ball)

Current Waitlist:
Werty892 (Basilisk?)
Audioworm333 (Wings?)
RAM (Cactus?)

[Detoxicated]

Name: Golem
Passive: Resistance to Falling
Active: Earthshaking Kick to the Ground

[~Neri]

Am interested~

Name: Jaunt.
Passive: Not Quite There. (It's generally hard to see creatures of shadow and even when you do see them. Can you be sure they're there?)
Active: Step. (Being not quite physical. Jaunt has the capacity to.. Well. Jaunt. Stepping outside of existence for but a moment before slipping back inside at a different relative point of reality.)
Description: A semi-ethereal black cat. Or at least you think it's a cat. Bit blurry and hard to make out. Eyes just slide past it. You aren't quite sure how it holds its weapons but it definitely has them.

[kj1225]

Name:  Nades.
Passive:  Intergrated Explosives storage: Explodes when damaged.  It's still a bit unstable.
Active:  Intergrated Explosives Launcher:  Throws explosives.
Description: A fairly normal looking guy with metal tubes throughout his body and under his greenstained shirt and pants. Hair is singed and various spots of ash all about him.

[EnigmaticHat]

Alright, I'm going to give you my shitty attempt at pixel art in the style of Nuclear Throne (which is a video game that actually exists in case you haven't figured that out) and an attempt to convert your character into gameplay mechanics; if you disagree with anything we can work something out.

Name: Golem
Passive: Resistance to Falling
Active: Earthshaking Kick to the Ground

Golem
Fall Resistant: This grid is top down, so I'm not sure when you can actually fall?  Perhaps something like "takes reduced damage from anything that pushes or does contact damage"?  Or you could pick a different passive if that's not what you want.
Earthshaking Kick to the Ground: Can spend a point out of his move allotment to stomp the ground, sending everything adjacent flying d6 tiles.  Enemies that hit anything will take damage equal to the number of tiles traveled; anything that gets hit by anything thrown in this manner will ALSO take damage equal to the distance that thing traveled.  Allies can be thrown but will never directly take damage from this ability.

Am interested~

Name: Jaunt.
Passive: Not Quite There. (It's generally hard to see creatures of shadow and even when you do see them. Can you be sure they're there?)
Active: Step. (Being not quite physical. Jaunt has the capacity to.. Well. Jaunt. Stepping outside of existence for but a moment before slipping back inside at a different relative point of reality.)
Description: A semi-ethereal black cat. Or at least you think it's a cat. Bit blurry and hard to make out. Eyes just slide past it. You aren't quite sure how it holds its weapons but it definitely has them.

Thanks for being interested!

Jaunt
Semi-Ethereal: Ranged enemies will never intentionally shoot at Jaunt if there is another target they can shoot at instead.  Melee enemies have a 1/6 chance of ignoring him completely.
Step: Can spend 3 TUs to Step; Steps fail if they go partially over your TUs for the turn.  Every Step increases move allotment by one, and every attack against you this turn has a # of steps/6 chance of missing.  If even a single Step succeeds, Jaunt can ignore any obstacles when moving.

Name:  Nades.
Passive:  Intergrated Explosives storage: Explodes when damaged.  It's still a bit unstable.
Active:  Intergrated Explosives Launcher:  Throws explosives.
Description: A fairly normal looking guy with metal tubes throughout his body and under his greenstained shirt and pants. Hair is singed and various spots of ash all about him.

Forgot your singed hair :/  I'll update the picture if that bothers you.

Nades

A Nades Grenade hits in a diamond pattern five tiles tall and wide, and does 10 damage, or 5 to allies.
Integrated Explosives Storage:  Begins the game with 28 explosives ammo.  When hit, creates a Nades Grenade explosion centered on him.  Doesn't hurt Nades or his allies.
Integrated Explosives Launcher: Throws a Nades grenade; takes 4 TU, range 10, takes one explosive ammo. will scatter instead of needing to reload if it goes partially over the TUs for a turn.  It will explode at the start of Nade's next turn.  It can destroy terrain.

[kj1225]

Looks good.

[~Neri]

I like.

[Sl4cker]

Name: Ball
Passive: Bouncer: Shots bounce off walls.
Active: Spin-to-win: Ball turns around, very fast, in a circle. This allows it to attack every enemy around it quite efficiently.
Ball is a dark grey, floating, metallic sphere with hands. It also wears sunglasses.

[EnigmaticHat]

Name: Ball
Passive: Bouncer: Shots bounce off walls.
Active: Spin-to-win: Ball turns around, very fast, in a circle. This allows it to attack every enemy around it quite efficiently.
Ball is a dark grey, floating, metallic sphere with hands. It also wears sunglasses.

Partway into its creation, this mutant was killed by a power outage.  Hopefully that isn't foreshadowing.

Ball
Bouncer: If Ball can trace a shot to a wall and then to an enemy, and it looks like a sane bounce (no reversing direction or such), and its in range accounting for movement both pre and post bounce, he can hit the shot.  (I'm trying to keep this rules lite but that passive needs a damn protractor )
Spin-to-win: Ball can call out spin shots.  A spin shot fires three shots for the TU cost of one, but they will be randomly assigned to one of the 8 compass directions and hit a random visible enemy in that direction.  No visible enemy in that direction, no hit.  Thus, the more surrounded Ball is, the more enemies he's likely to hit.  If an enemy is in between two of the compass directions it counts as the one that is counter clockwise.

[Sl4cker]

Seems fine.

[~Neri]

((Pst~ It's Kevak, not Kevac~))

[werty892]

Name:Basilisk
Passive:Paralyze, any enemy that Basilisk attacks loses it's next turn
Active:Snake King, can summon snakes to fight for him(Think Rebel but poison melee dudes)
Basilisk is a humanoid snake, with everything below the neck being basically human, except covered in scales and snake skin. His head is a cobra head with yellow ridges forming a sort of crown on the top.

[EnigmaticHat]

Name:Basilisk
Passive:Paralyze, any enemy that Basilisk attacks loses it's next turn
Active:Snake King, can summon snakes to fight for him(Think Rebel but poison melee dudes)
Basilisk is a humanoid snake, with everything below the neck being basically human, except covered in scales and snake skin. His head is a cobra head with yellow ridges forming a sort of crown on the top.

Waitlisted, sorry ;(

For everyone else, if Detoxicated is ok with Golem (particularly the passive), we can start.

[Sl4cker]

Question, can I use my special ability more than once a turn?

[Audioworm333]

May I be put on the waitlist?

Name: Wings
Passive: Is better at avoiding attacks than others.
Active: Can fuckin' FLY, baby! (More freedom of movement and/or further movement???)
Description: A mostly-normal, average-looking girl. Short brown hair, blue eyes, freckles.  Oh, except she happens to have mutated huge feathery wings, and the necessary attributes to use them to fly.