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[spümpkin]

You awaken to the sound of whirring as the tour-bot flies past. Another day behind these bars, and the day your food has run out. This is probably a good sign for you to stop sitting around and start doing something about the situation. Or not, who knows? At any rate, your enclosure is standard stuff, iron bars with a food trough, some trees or respective environment to your animal. A near-empty water trough sits next to the food, and the door which food used to come through sits there, menacingly. Menacingly? Well, it has this red light behind it and everything, it looks pretty darn menacing. You don't really see any other way out, unless you looked around a bit further. Outside of the cage, you can see the few other cages around you, filled with a wide menagerie of creatures. Weird. But, it's fairly dark, and it seems to be very early in the Morning.
((All the players start in the same area.))

You have 6 Major Actions left for today. You have unlimited Minor Actions remaining. You are sated and slaked. You are wide awake.

Turns work in major actions and minor actions.

MAJOR ACTIONS TAKE 3 HOURS
MINOR ACTIONS ARE SMALL AMOUNTS OF TIME
ALL MAJOR ACTIONS ARE TAKEN ONCE ALL PLAYERS HAVE GIVEN THEIR MAJOR ACTIONS FOR THAT TURN
Major actions take 3 hours, and there are a set amount of Major actions each day. These will be taken altogether for each turns, one for each player, and while players wait for others to catch up, they may perform minor actions.

Minor actions are taken as they come, and are most things that don't take particularly long. You might want to use minor actions before performing a major action, as they have to be plans for a decent amount of time.

Each turn is one Major action and {x} minor actions.

Combat is formulated so that people plan out 3 actions, and attempt to use them. If nobody is dead/incapacitated by the end of the match, another 3 turns are planned. I will simulate the actions that you plan, and the enemies action. Whoever initiated combat plans their actions when they initate combat, and the defender reacts to these actions.

Days are divided into three sections: Morning, Afternoon, and Evening, after which you may need to go to sleep, depending on your species. Each section is 6 hours of in-game time in Summer, five in Autumn, four in Winter, five again in Spring, then back to Summer.
One AP is equal to 3 hours. Therefore, you get (in total) 6 AP in summer, 5 in spring/autumn and 4 in winter.

Some actions don't necessarily take a whole 3 hours, and will be Minor Actions. I will take these as they come, and these include walking, talking, and interacting with minor things in the world.

Major Actions (that take a large amount of time) will be confirmed after each person has posted one, and each turn can consist of multiple minor actions, but one Major Action.
Major actions are overarching goals, and will essentially consist of a series of rolls and minor actions strung together to achieve a certain goal.

Sheets (Any changes to characters will be made here, copy them to your own sheets.)

Spoiler: UXLZ (click to show/hide)

Name: Artem
Sex: Male

Description: An otherwise relatively ordinary chimpanzee lacking opposable thumbs, instead possessing small bone-like spurs, potentially as a result of genetic damage due to self-experimentation and modification gone awry. He is fixated on the idea of becoming a creature of nightmares, believing that a thing that all things scares and devours has no fears itself. In essence, an apex predator.

Species of Animal: Chimpanzee


Stats:

Health:10
Stamina:80
Pain Threshold:120

Physicality:2
Mentality:4
Agility:4
Instinct:2

Radiation: {|||___}


Traits:
[+2]Targeted Evolution: Upon mutation, receives a choice between two randomly rolled options instead of one.
[-2]Crippling Focus: If mutated in a way that does not progress towards goal of nightmarish apex predator (e.g. social enhancements) incurs a large amount of damage to sanity.

Inventory:
Mutagenic Application Kit - Allows for the usage of mutagens found in the wild.
Mutagenic Collection Kit   - Gives a bonus (Demon can decide what exactly that bonus is) to finding mutagenic samples.

Offspring: N/A

Spoiler: ironsnake345 (click to show/hide)

Name: Nariglen (pronounced nawr-ee-glenn)
Sex: Male

Description: An octopus of no significantly large or small size (for octopuses at least) with "skin" of a dark brown, rock-like complexion. Mentally, he is quite intelligent, though he prefers to think quickly and take a pragmatic approach to solving problems. He is very serious and doesn't let loose often. He does not feel any differently about land dwellers than he does about sea dwellers, but finds rodents to be absolutely delicious, and generally prefers dry land's cuisine.

Species of Animal: Abdopus Aculeatus, a species of octopus which in reality is adapted to moving on land, but in-universe has mutated to become just about amphibious.


Stats:

Health: 5
Stamina: 25
Pain Threshold:110


Physicality:1
Mentality:4
Agility:5
Instinct:2

Radiation:{______}


Traits:
[+3]Rubbery body: A mix of no skeleton to break and stringy, resilient flesh makes it difficult to harm octopuses; plus, being boneless means you're good at squeezing. physical damage taken is reduced by 25% and Nariglen can squirm through improbably small gaps; anything his beak (and pouch, unless he leaves it behind) can fit through, he can fit his entire body through.

[+1]Amphibious: thank heavens for mucous; without it, so many creatures would be sea-locked. Nariglen can create a film of mucous in any body of water which lets them survive for up to 20 actions on dry land, 10 in dry conditions (like deserts or summer in some places), or indefinitely in especially wet climates, such as swamps and bogs.
 
[-2]Cold blooded: Needs an external heat source (for example, the sun) to stay warm. The colder it gets, the more sluggish Nariglen gets, to the point of catatonia. Nariglen is especially helpless against icy waters! [-1 to all movement rolls and all rolls for major actions for each turn spent in cold conditions, -2 if submerged. As the penalty gets worse, each turn has an increased chance that Nariglen will go comatose until warm conditions return.]

[-2]Boneless: Sometimes, bones can come in reeeeeally handy. Nariglen naturally gets -2 to physicality rolls due to the natural weakness of his spongy appendages.

• Tentacles: Octopus, son. Nariglen has 8 prehensile limbs, and while they're far from opposable thumbs, they have suckers that can stick to most surfaces. [Can grip objects and stick to most surfaces, but lacks the dexterity to use anything more than very basic tools.]

Inventory:
Pouch with strap: a pouch with a good, solid strap that Nariglen keeps tied tightly around the base of one of his tentacles. It stays in place surprisingly well.
X-acto knife: A small, razor-sharp blade attached to a metal handle. Handy for cutting without needing to apply too much elbow grease, but much more of a tool than a weapon.


Offspring: none

Spoiler: Sosoku234 (click to show/hide)

Name: Sallie Invicta
Sex: Technically female, but is a hive, so...

Description: Sallie is a human sized and shaped hive of fire ants that were in the cracks in the pavement. She controls the hive through a queen , where the heart would be on a real person. Being made of ants, she can slip around gates and fences and doors, though those take a while. She is organized, matriarchy aside, in a socialist system. She is extremely quick to anger if the buttons pushed were in some way threatening to the hive. She isn't exactly the smartest, but she's a good forager.

Species of Animal: Solonopsis Invicta (Red Fire Ant)


Stats:

Health: 35
Stamina: 105
Pain Threshold:170

Physicality: 7
Mentality: 1
Agility: 3
Instinct: 1

Radiation:{______}


Traits:
[+3]E Pluribus Unum- Sallie Invicta is made of many individuals who can split from the main group to do tasks away from the queen at the cost of 50% of the hive's total HP. Can only be active if the HP is divisible by 2.

[+1]Hive Mind- When all together, Sally Invicta gets +1 to all instinct rolls.

[+2]Hydrophobic Exoskeleton- Sallie, while not able to fully support her whole weight on the surface tension of the water, she can spread out and use her individual ants to make a living bridge for her to cross a body of water larger than herself. Also allows for her to breathe underwater for up to 4 turns.

[+1]Strength in Numbers- When all of Sallie is together she gets a bonus of +3 to Physicality.

[+2]Follow the Trails- Sallie, when scavenging, sends out scouts who find the food for her, though she can only send one at a time and they can't bring it all back. She can see the trails left by the scouts. +3 to scavenge

[-3]Alone, We Fall- When Sallie is damaged below half HP, or doing E Pluribus Unum, then she gets -3 to Physicality and -1 to Mentality and Instinct.

[-2]Cold Intolerant- During cold spells, or in fridges, she gets -2 to Physicality.

[-4]Checkmate- If Sallie's queen is killed, she will lose 75% of her total HP.

[-2]Swarm- When Sallie is attacked by surprise, the members of the hive scatter and attack all nearby animals. Sallie has no control over them for 3 turns.


Inventory: None


Offspring: A lot of ants.

Spoiler: Tiruin (click to show/hide)

Name: Nia
Sex: Female

A rarely studied species with incomplete detail in the data-banks of ancient man, this species was notably named as a misnomer due to its similarities to the 21st century pseudo-flying "mice" in and around the African continent. Originally erroneously classified as such, the brink of mankind's survival discontinued any further study into its features and general lifestyle and habitation.

Subsequent (though lacking) studies by robots followed that of their precursors--with the erroneous name staying--noting convergent evolution having tied this animal species to the flying mouse, however of a rather yet unknown subterranean species, inhabiting the caverns and rock outcroppings of the 23rd century deserts near irradiated wastelands. These flying mice were first noted for their 'powered flight', structured similarly to hummingbirds, and having adapted their habitation and diet to follow suit, creating 'nests' at high outcroppings or rocky ledges, utilizing their paws as climbing and burrowing appendages with their flight more so as a form of boost or thrust with extended glide, enabling them to reach high speeds while adhering to surfaces as they moved. It was noted that other than the wing structure and hummingbird-like metabolism and vision, their vision is very sensitive to rapid changes in lighting, and thus sport an adipose-like eyelid, along with whiskers sensitive to vibration. These species of flying mice are generally measured at around 6-8 inches in body length and weigh 10-35 grams, indicating a lightweight and flexible body frame and skeletal structure.

Before the fall of mankind, what rare specimens were acquired for study were noted to be socially-oriented and possessive of a powerful memory, very sensitive to changes in scent and humidity. Whatever had occurred since the few centuries from their first contact with mankind was more for the imagination--these species of mice, in general, were not noted for their resistances to genetic modifiers.

In general, the winged mouse merely looks like a mouse with spindly, feather-like wings that cover more than half its body and a short fan-like tail, at lesser than an inch in length, with the same manner of feathering characteristics.

Species of Animal: Flying Mouse (Idiurus alatus)


Stats:

Health: 5
Stamina: 60
Pain Threshold: 110

(True value in parentheses; value without is the sum total modified by traits)
Physicality: 1 (0)
Mentality: 5 (4)
Agility: 6 (5)
Instinct: 4 (3)

Radiation: {||____}

+[3] Convergent Evolution: Stamina is based on the Agility Stat instead.
+[1] The Under-mouse: Much like the idea of the underdog, the Flying Mouse is somewhat shrewd 'prey'. +1 to Physicality, +1 to Instinct; +1 Bonus to rolls regarding physicality.
+[1] Clever Little Ones: Mice have been noted for being highly social, playful, curious, affectionate, and clever. What time has done to this creature's species is more telling than others. +1 to Agility, +1 to Mind; +1 Bonus to rolls regarding Agility.
+[3] Rugged Environment Survivor: +1 Bonus to agility rolls in very dry/desert/underground environments; No movement/sanity penalty from heat, rapidly changing environment (unless bright lighting is involved) or mental pressure (that is, environmental hazards other than radiation).

- [2] Adaptable-In-adaptability: Inclement weather effects in general are more profound with this creature's species.
- [3] Mouse-sized!: Replace all Combat rolls with the Agility or Mind stat modifier (such as using the environment to deal damage, like pushing or throwing objects within reason) unless attempting direct damage--which uses the Physical stat. If an Agility stat-based combat defense score fails in battle, there is a relative and major chance of being instantly killed depending on the attack.
- [3] Brittle: Take 50% more damage from blunt-force attacks (which can include being hit by mouse-sized objects with full-body contact)

Inventory:
"Mouse" Tag: Similar to a dog-tag in shape, this miniature nameplate has some strange internal mechanism that allows it to display the name at a size as big as a mouse--generally making the name being visible to 'human' readers at an inch distance from its wearer. Of ancient design, its 'projection seems unfazed by the onset of rain or even being affected by it, and it displays the name "Nia".
Alatus Jumpsuit: Structured to be form fitting and relatively designed for durability within flight and movement, this 'jump'suit has pouches more for the storage of food, notably the storage of liquid than any other object of note.


Offspring: N/A

Spoiler: Sl4cker (click to show/hide)

Name: Seshizi
Sex: Male

Description: A scaled, dark-green snake, with venomous fangs and a silver, forked tongue. At some point, he's used his enhanced wit to use makeshift metallic plates to protect him. However, his main defense is, of course, his stealthiness. His crude armor doesn't even seem to reduce his dexterity in these matters and similarly is silent enough not to impede his stealth.

Species of Animal: Viper


Stats:
Health:7
Stamina:100
Pain Threshold: 120

Physicality: 2
Mentality: 4
Agility: 5
Instinct: 1

Radiation:{______}


Positive Traits:
[+3]Venomous: Successfully attacking someone with teeth allows  Seshizi to roll 1d20+(Agility) against a 1d20+(Physicality) from their opponent. If successful, the target is poisoned.
[+2]Cold-Blooded: Vipers are coldblooded. Thus, they need to eat and drink less than other animals, and use half as much stamina.
[+2]Stealthy: Seshizi has +2 Agility and has +2 to rolls relating to stealth.

Negative Traits: [-3]Limbless: Vipers have no limbs. Thus, Seshizi cannot grab or hold things with their hands or feet because they lack them. Also, they suffer a -2 to Agility when rolling for dexterous work.
[-2]Cold-Blooded: Vipers are coldblooded. Thus, when they are sufficiently cold, all their stats are reduced by 33%.
[-2]Fragile: Vipers are fragile. Thus, they have 33% less health.


Inventory: Metal Plates: Sheets of metal fastened to the body, to help survive. +2 to defense rolls.


Offspring: None

Spoiler: Yourmaster (click to show/hide)

Name: Hercules
Sex: Male

Description: Hercules is an extremely large tiger, of various bloodlines. He is gargantuan in size, most likely being of Siberian origin. On the other hand, his fur is a clean white between it's stripes, making it most likely of Bengal origin. With his newfound intelligence, he seems to be having shifting thoughts between instinct and mind. While a normal tiger lives alone, only seeking to interact for mating, occasional meeting, or to usurp one's territories, Hercules disagrees. He sees the use in the keeping of creatures of different species. Now that they may be capable of understanding him, he seeks to control them.

Species of Animal: Tiger


Stats:

Health:25
Stamina:125
Pain Threshold:150

Physicality: 5
Mentality: 1
Agility: 5
Instinct: 1

Radiation: {|____}


Positive Traits:
[+1]Giant: Hercules is quite simply, huge. Even compared to the larger members of his species, his is very big. One who saw him may presume he has gigantism. Acts as +1 on physicality roles.
[+2]Volatile genes: Gains radiation and mutates more often, but are more likely to be good, or neutral mutations.

Negative traits:
[-1]Giant: due to his huge size, Hercules is much easier to hit.
[-2]Large appetite: Due to the natural weight and muscle mass of tigers, must eat far more often than other animals, or eat a very large meal and not eat for a few days. Also sleeps very often.

Inventory: A brown backpack he carries in his teeth.

Offspring:

Spoiler: SentientBowtie (click to show/hide)

Name: Uwais
Sex: Male

Description: A pitch-black wolf of average size with unnaturally red eyes.

Species of Animal: Canis lupus colombianus, or the British Colombia wolf


Stats:

Health: 20
Stamina: 120
Pain Threshold: 140


Physicality: 4
Mentality: 2
Agility: 3
Instinct: 3

Radiation: {______}

Traits:
[+3]Bipedal: Uwais is able to stand and walk on his hind legs, as well as using his forelegs like arms, despite lacking real hands. He can also run on all fours as normal.

[+1]Used to the Cold: Originally living in British Colombia, as one would expect, Uwais is used to the cold. +1 to keeping warm in Winter and Uwais has no stamina penalty when in the cold.

[-2]Carnivore: Uwais much prefers eating meat than plants. He can eat them if he needs to, but they give him a -1 Sanity penalty every time.

[-2]Overinsulated: Fur coats are better suited for the cold than the heat. -1 to keeping cool in Summer, and Uwais has a slight Stamina penalty when his temperature is too high.


Inventory: A leather satchel he wears around his neck, big enough to carry a few large items.
A buck knife he keeps in the satchel. Uwais can hold it in his teeth pretty well.

Offspring: N/A

OOC Thread

[Sl4cker]

Minor action: Wonder how they got such a slippery and handsome snake behind bars and unable to escape

[spümpkin]

Minor action: Wonder how they got such a slippery and handsome snake behind bars and unable to escape

You remember that day... The day you moved from the terrarium to the cage. You thought you would be able to escape. You thought you'd slip straight through the bars. Idiots.


Sadly, you didn't exactly account for the other security measures, such as the electric current running through the bars. You were in the hospital for days.

[Sl4cker]

Minor action: Flick tongue in intense distaste
Minor action: Look around the cage fervently, decidedly and totally not in a desperate manner. Look under the trough, look through the ground, look around for anything and everything that might help one escape. If this requires a Major Action, so be it

[Yourmaster]

Minor Action: Contemplate strength of iron bars.
Hercules' eyes would dart towards the bars, and he'd slowly examine them from various angles, to determine weakness in them.

[SOLDIER First]

Minor action: walk over and examine the door closely

[S34N1C]

PTW

[UXLZ]

Minor Action: Search enclosure for possible escape route.

[Sosoku234]

Minor Action: Slip out of my hole in the concrete.

[TheBiggerFish]

((PTW.))

[ironsnake345]

Minor action: stew in the sheer humiliation of being placed in such crude, non-aquatic confines whilst spitefully reminiscing about why, exactly the filthy (and now dead) humans put me here.

Minor action: gargle awkwardly whilst attempting to get the hang of vocalizing using the only organ on my body which can squirt air in just such a way that is becomes vocalization: my siphon.

Minor action: contemplate these damned bars.

Major action(?): enter water trough and apply a fresh mucous membrane. I'm going to need those six-ish days of dry-land survival!

[spümpkin]

Minor action: Flick tongue in intense distaste
Minor action: Look around the cage fervently, decidedly and totally not in a desperate manner. Look under the trough, look through the ground, look around for anything and everything that might help one escape. If this requires a Major Action, so be it

You search around the room, slithering around every nook and cranny. Under the trough, under the dirt, and anything around that could help escape.

At the end of your scavenging, you find some pieces of food that you missed, which are conveniently not spoiled! [Added 2 Meat Rations] Alongside that, you seemed to find a thin grate underneath the dirt, which function is unknown to you. However, it could lead to escape.

Minor Action: Contemplate strength of iron bars.
Hercules' eyes would dart towards the bars, and he'd slowly examine them from various angles, to determine weakness in them.

The bars seem to be fairly standard iron, with a decent strength. They were imported from the smelting facilities just down the road, actually, and have a very simple removal measure which bypasses the constant electric field.

Sadly, you are a tiger, and know none of this, only aware that they look pretty strong.

Minor action: walk over and examine the door closely

The door is... a door. Behind it, you can see a hallway leading out to somewhere. The red light is sort of blinding, but you can make out the hallway to be fairly risk-free. You fiddle with the door handle with your paws, and it seems to turn.

Minor Action: Search enclosure for possible escape route.

You scour the enclosure, digging up dirt and scanning the area.

After a bit of searching, you find a small protrusion in the ground, buried underneath the dirt, and contained in a clear chamber. Who knows what could happen if you messed around with it?

Minor Action: Slip out of my hole in the concrete.

You escape your enclosure by leaving through the small crack in the foundation underneath the bars. You regroup, and are now standing in the middle of all the other enclosures, with the path leading both East and West.

Minor action: stew in the sheer humiliation of being placed in such crude, non-aquatic confines whilst spitefully reminiscing about why, exactly the filthy (and now dead) humans put me here.

Minor action: gargle awkwardly whilst attempting to get the hang of vocalizing using the only organ on my body which can squirt air in just such a way that is becomes vocalization: my siphon.

Minor action: contemplate these damned bars.

Major action(?): enter water trough and apply a fresh mucous membrane. I'm going to need those six-ish days of dry-land survival!

((Major actions take 3 hours. That's definitely a minor action :p))

You reminisce about the day you were put in here. They emptied your precious water, and chucked you out on the dry land to writhe. You think they did it out of spite, when really, if you're land-dwelling octopus is in the water, it makes a lot less money.

You attempt to vocalize your thoughts using your siphon, and a horrible sound is emitted from it.

You then look at the bars, watching the small bolts of electricity dart in between them, and while you do so, you make sure to apply a fresh coat of mucous, but remember that you already did today!

[ironsnake345]

Minor action: Assuming the door has a gap to pass food through, squish through whilst thinking triumphant thoughts about how there are no longer any zookeepers to throw me back into my cage.(otherwise, just use a tentacle to turn the handle and go through.)

Minor action: Take stock of the room immediately beyond the door.

[UXLZ]

Minor Action: Mess with the thing I found. What could it be?

[Yourmaster]

Minor action: Examine door. Push or pull on any handles, buttons, panels.