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[DolosusDoleus]

ADVENTURE!

Listen up jerks!
Welcome to the Riptide, your new home for the foreseeable future! As some of you may have been told before you came aboard, I am Captain Timmas, your boss from now until the day you’ve paid off your debts to me!
All of you unlucky bastards are on this ship for your debt to the Adventurer’s guild! The guild was kind enough to sell me your sorry asses, and so here’s the deal!
Each one of you owes me 10,000 pieces of gold! You’ll have plenty of opportunities throughout our work together where you’ll find yourselves with the means to pay that off! Once you do that, I’ll dump you off back home, and that’ll be the end of our arrangement! Refuse to do so and I’ll have you thrown off the side of the ship, where you’ll feed the sharks! You pay up or you die!
There is a good chance that you'll be injured or killed when I send you off! If that happens, my wizard friend here will be able to patch up your wounds, and if your fellow shitbags bring back your corpse on a mission, he’ll revive it while I add another 1,000 gold coins to your debt!
When I find something for you fuckers to do, I’ll call on six of you to carry it out! Until then, have fun locked up in the hold!

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

>An RTD
>Heavily influenced by Einsteinian Roulette
>With lots of death
>Set in a medium fantasy universe
>On a ship run by gold-hungry psychopath
>Where you fight for your freedom!

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
Reason for debt to the Guild:
Stats: (See Below)
Proficiencies: (See Below)
Former Profession: (See Below)
Inventory: (See Armory)

Spoiler: Stats: (click to show/hide)

You have 10 stat points at character creation, and you get 2 additional points for every 1,000 gold you give Timmas. Every 4 points put in a stat give a +1 on related rolls, and a stat below 2 points gets a -1 on related rolls.

Strength: Lifting and pushing things
Dexterity: Dodging and movement things
Endurance: Not passing out, and that sort of thing
Charisma: Convincing people to do things
Intelligence: Knowing things
Wisdom: Figuring things out

Spoiler: Proficiencies: (click to show/hide)

You get to choose 2 proficiencies at character creation, which give +1 on associated rolls.

Medicine: Healing people of having their arms cut off and such. Allows the use of medicinal skills without a kit. Characters without this skill get a -2 to medicine rolls.
Herbalism: Finding plants that are used in medicine, or that will kill you.
Intuition: The sixth sense, which lets you be able to puzzle things out on instinct. You must tell the GM when you want to use intuition.
Luck: How lucky you are. This gives a 2.5% chance to get a +1 on any other roll you make.
Mechanics: Fixing machinery, banging hammers into nails, and the like. In addition, you understand how to fix machines, and can easily puzzle out the function of a machine with enough time.
Speech: Not saying stupid crap at inopportune times. Probably won't be used a whole lot.
Improvisation: Being able to use improvised weapons without hurting yourself. You must tell the GM when you want to use improvisation.

Spoiler: Former Professions: (click to show/hide)

Your profession before you were sold to Timmas. Your profession gives you bonuses and penalties to your stat rolls, not the stats themselves.

Soldier: +1 to strength and dexterity, -1 to wisdom
Farmer: +1 to strength and endurance, -1 to intelligence
Scholar: +1 to intelligence and wisdom, -1 to strength
Merchant: +1 to charisma and intelligence, -1 to dexterity
Thief: +1 to dexterity and charisma, -1 to endurance
Beggar: +1 to dexterity and endurance, -1 to charisma

Spoiler: The Armory (click to show/hide)

Everybody gets weapons for free from the Riptide’s armory, but if you break or lose them, their price gets added to your debt! A player may have two one-handed weapons or one two-handed weapon equipped. Two-handed weapons tend to do slightly more damage. Every weapon has an associated stat for attacks done with it.

Players may find special weapons during their adventures that have special effects. You may either sell these to Timmas, or keep them for yourself. Selling a special weapon to Timmas makes it available in the armory for other players.

Shortsword: Short-range strength weapon. One-handed. 200 gp.
Longsword: Short-range strength weapon. Two-handed. 300 gp.
Greatsword: Medium-range strength weapon. Requires 6 strength to wield. Two-handed. 500 gp.
Shield: Short-range endurance weapon. One-handed. Can be used to block blows. 50 gp.
Big Shield: Short-range endurance weapon. Two-handed. Can be used to block blows and shield-bash foes. 150 gp.
Bow: Long-range dexterity weapon. Two-handed. You get 25 arrows every mission. 100 gp.
Dagger: Short-range dexterity weapon. You may have twice as many daggers as otger weapons. One-handed. 25 gp.
Spear: Medium-range dexterity weapon. Two-handed. 100 gp.
Staff: Short-range dexterity weapon. Two-handed. 50 gp.
Mace: Short-range strength weapon. Two-handed. 100 gp.
Axe: Short-range endurance weapon. One-handed. 100 gp.
War Axe: Medium-range endurance weapon. Two-handed. 150 gp.

Players also get one support item at the start of each mission. Like weapons, if they are lost or destroyed their cost is added to your debt.

First Aid Kit: Can be used to heal minor wounds. 25 gp.
Healing Kit: Used to heal much larger wounds, but can only be used twice. 100 gp.
Mysterious Potion: A potion brewed up by the Riptide's resident wizard. He pays for it, but you don't know what it does. 0 gp.
Herbalism Kit: Contains reagents used to make simple potions and medicines. 50 gp.
Crystal Orb: Make a wisdom roll to attempt a glance at the future. If the roll fails, the orb is destroyed. 100 gp.
Armor: Gives +1 to endurance rolls but -1 to dexterity rolls. 100 gp.
Greater Armor: Gives +2 to endurance rolls, but requires 8 strength for you to not collapse under its weight. 300 gp.
Superior Armor: The Captain's own personal set of armor. He'll only let you use it once you've paid off 7000 gp of your debt. Gives +2 on strength rolls, +3 on endurance rolls, and -1 on dexterity rolls. 5000 gp.

OOC / Ship Thread (For players on the waitlist)

[DolosusDoleus]

ALL PLAYERS:

Spoiler:  Saevire (TankKit) (click to show/hide)

Name: Saevire
Debt: 0/10000
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Appearance: A human with a long flowing robe with a red star surrounded by white light on the back, and a hood where red lines outlined with white start, going all the way down to the bottom. When he's not wearing his robe, ((Extremely Rare)) you can see that his face has a long scar reaching from chin to in his air, like a scratch mark, only clearly made by a weapon of some sort.
Reason for debt to the Guild: Killing an entire medium sized guild in a mad rage. Reason for doing so unknown, but his wife had dissapeared recently, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Stats:
Strength: 1 (+0)
Dexterity: 1 (+0, -1 Armor)
Endurance: 0 (-1, +1 Armor)
Charisma: 4 (+1)
Intelligence: 4 (+1)
Wisdom: 0 (-2)

Proficiencies:
Speech
Mechanics

Former Profession:
Soldier

Inventory:
Bow
25 Arrows
Armor

Status:
[Concussion. Effect: -2 to all mental rolls]

Spoiler: Juniper (Coolrune206) (click to show/hide)

Name: Juniper
Debt: 0/10000
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Appearance: Rather haggard, her once well trimmed brown hair now falls in disheveled clumps. Her hazel eyes are dull. She is of moderate height, but walks with a such a slump that she appears shorter.
Reason for debt to the Guild: Several failed quests, and eventually, theft of Guild property.

Stats:
Strength: 2 (+1)
Dexterity: 2 (+1)
Endurance: 2 (+0)
Charisma: 4 (+1)
Intelligence: 0 (-1)
Wisdom: 0 (-2)

Proficiencies:
Speech
Herbalism

Former Profession:
Soldier

Inventory:
Spear
Mysterious Potion (Used)

Status:
[Glowing lines in hands. Effect: ?]

Spoiler: Lyssha (Rautherdir) (click to show/hide)

Name: Lyssha Alpine
Age: Looks 43
Debt Paid: 0/10,000
Gender: Female
Appearence: Wears a dark grey cloak over silver-colored robes. She doesn't seem to like speaking, and is straight to the point. Her eyes are ice blue, and her thick shoulder-length hair is a dark silver color. She is tall with a light build.
Reason for debt to the Guild: She borrowed money from the guild and failed to repay them.

Stats:
Strength: 0 (-1)
Dexterity: 4 (+2)
Endurance: 0 (+0)
Charisma: 0 (-2)
Intelligence: 2 (+0)
Wisdom: 4 (+1)

Proficiencies:
Intuition
Luck

Former Profession:
Beggar

Inventory:
Staff
Crystal Orb
Small Red Gemstone

Status:

Spoiler: Gasozein (inaluct) (click to show/hide)

Name: Gasozein
Debt: 0/10000
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Description: Not hideous, but somewhat oddly proportioned, with a wide skeleton like a pack animal. Sallow skin and light hair coupled with an insistence on wearing a small, thin moustache and sideburns. Noticeably shorter than average. Well liked by his brothers in arms and known for his jovial disposition, drunked indisgretions, and shouldering more than his fair share of the manual labor.
Reason for debt to the Guild: Drunken shenanigans during the coronation of local suzerain resulted in massive property damage, embarrassment of suzerainty in front of high provincial rulers, public stampeding, indelible stains on priceless irrepairable arras.

Stats:
Strength: 8 (+3)
Dexterity: 0 (+0)
Endurance: 2 (+0, +2 Greater Armor)
Charisma: 0 (-1)
Intelligence: 0 (-1)
Wisdom: 0 (-2)

Proficiencies:
Medicine
Improvisation

Former Profession:
Soldier

Inventory:
Greatsword
Greater Armor
Bronze Key
Silver Key
Map of Rutgar Lumber Mill w/ Golden Frame
Rusted Knife
Pearl-Rimmed Optics
A Book Titled "Precious Gemstones"
A Book Titled "Teachings of the Prophet Kadin"
Bloodstained Letter

Status:
No current active effects

Spoiler: Sayla (S34N1C) (click to show/hide)

Name: Sayla
Debt: 0/10000
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Appearance: A small woman with red hair. She is reasonable attractive, though not many would call her beautiful. She likes to wear simple, warm clothing.
Reason for debt to the Guild: Bought a large shipment of goods from them, but it was stolen, and she couldn't pay.

Stats:
Strength: 0 (-1)
Dexterity: 0 (-2)
Endurance: 1 (-1)
Charisma: 4 (+2)
Intelligence: 4 (+2)
Wisdom: 1 (-1)

Proficiencies:
Speech
Medicine

Former Profession:
Merchant

Inventory:
Axe
Shield
Healing Kit (1/2)
Huge Uncut Gemstone

Status:
No effects yet

Spoiler: Rorman (Tomasque) (click to show/hide)

Name: Rorman Shackles
Debt: 0/10000
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Appearance: A large man, but neither exceptionally fat or strong. He speaks little, but watches everything. His face is scarred from many fights - ones that he never speaks of - which bear their marks on his tattered clothes as well.
Reason for debt to the Guild: Guild bailed him out of jail after he was arrested for attempting to assassinate a public figure.

Stats:
Strength: 4 (+1)
Dexterity: 0 (+0)
Endurance: 0 (+0)
Charisma: 0 (-2)
Intelligence: 2 (+0)
Wisdom: 4 (+1)

Proficiencies:
Intuition
Improvisation

Former Profession:
Beggar

Inventory:
Healing Kit

Status:
No effects yet

Spoiler: Sicreih (Dickson of the Trinity) (click to show/hide)

Name: Sicreih
Debt: 0/10000
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Appearance: Bit shy, shady look. Outfit's strange as the name, wearing a crocodile shirt and trousers. Got abino skin, green, leafy eyes and an aquamarine mane. 3 scars in the shape of a Y on her right leg.
Reason for debt to the guild: "Bleeding them out. Slowly"

Stats:
Strength: 1 (-1)
Dexterity: 2 (+1)
Endurance: 4 (+1)
Charisma: 3 (+1)
Inteligence: 0 (-1)
Wisdom: 0 (-1)

Proficiencies:
Herbalism
Mechanics

Former Profession:
Thief

Inventory:
War Axe
Mysterious Potion

Status:
No effects yet

Spoiler: Tem (RAM) (click to show/hide)

Name: Tem
Debt: 0/10000
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Appearance:
 Arrival: 2 metre tall heavy-set figure with a eye-holed pillowcase over its head and a sheet over its body that speaks with a nondescript gravelly voice..
 Standing up straight(rare) and naked(also very rare): 2.4 metre Dull-green skin with the texture of gravel, long fingers and toes that end in short and tightly-curved claws, a pointed nose, long jagged pointed teeth, brilliant green eyes with dull-brown whites, long pointed curved ears, Long, black, woollen hair of thick strands, and most other features that convey the thought "old hag".
Reason for debt to the Guild:
 Most importantly, the troll is stupid and tame enough that it could be marched off a cliff carrying two barrels of incendiary potion. Summary extermination was deemed a waste of resources, although it has weakened somewhat during its time in captivity...
 The incident commenced with the killing and partial devouring of two of the workers at The Mysterious Lady followed by the murder of a contracted guard who investigated the situation. Shortly after it was confronted by a freelance band who were at the scene and it fled through a wall, greatly damage the building while landing upon and fatally injuring a pedestrian and inflicting damage to the street beneath them. It then fled to the Adventurer's Guild, causing numerous minor injuries and property damage along its path, before submitting to detainment due to a quick-witted and level-headed staffer. Based upon its statement it is suspected of numerous acts of banditry and poaching.
Statement:
 "First Tem remember is Family. Family is smooth people like guild man is. Family give Tem special house with soft dirt for sleep on and pretty tools Tem not allowed to play with.
 Tem remember long winter happen and no meat and Family take Tem arm. Family say Family arm not grow back, Tem arm grow back so Tem complain is bad and bad not get meat. Tem not bad so Tem not complain, but meat taste bad.
 Tem remember sometimes visitors come to house. Family very happy, Make Tem hide then give visitors best food with special herb. Tem not supposed to eat special herb. Special herb make meat hurt Tem tummy like vegetables hurt Tem tummy. Sometimes visitors eat and fall over, sometimes visitors not fall over, then Tem stop hiding and push visitors over as hard as Tem can. Is All Visitors Fall Over game. When all visitors fallen, Tem has to go refill all water barrels. When Tem get back, visitors all gone, but leave many gifts for Family. Tem not get gifts, but like Visitor Fall Over game because always meat after. Tem feel bad if not eat meat for long time...
One time is special game of Visitor Fall over because visitor come out of big box with pretty shiny orange bits. Shiny orange always mean special game, but this is lots! After game over Tem told to fill all barrel, not just empty. Fill water barrel take long time, when Tem get back, houses on fire and Family playing fall over game in big house and Tem smell many many visitors. Tem not like fire so Tem go away for long time. When Tem come back house and Family gone, Tem go away forever.
 Tem want meat, but forest meat very fast, Tem not eat for long time. Tem meet visitors in woods. Tem feel bad and not want play game. Tem tell visitors that Tem alone for too long time and want eat like when visitors come. Visitors say they alone too long and help Tem get what Tem want when get to town if Tem help visitors fight monster. Tem fight many monster, but is all icky plant monster, Tem very want meat. Visitors take Tem to town and go to 'guild'. Guild lady say is lady and ask Tem questions and give Tem 'identification' for showing to other visitors and say to go to guild if in trouble. Visitors take Tem to special building for reward for fighting monsters. Visitors give Tem reward, reward look like two visitors with many frilly bits. Tem follow reward to room and reward take away Special hiding robe Family give to Tem and then reward make loud noise and start to leave so Tem catch and start eating reward. Then visitor appear and hurt Tem with pointy thing and Tem push them down as hard as Tem can. Then many visitor appear with many pointy thing and Tem not not want pointy thing to hurt Tem again so Tem go away and visitor start chasing Tem and Tem think Tem in trouble so Tem go to guild. Guild lady take Tem to special hiding room and Tem stay hidden so not be in trouble. Then guild man tell Tem to tell guild man about Tem and about why Tem think Tem in trouble."

Stats:
Strength: 4 (+1)
Dexterity: 0 (0, -1 Armour)
Endurance: 4 (+2, +1 Armour)
Charisma: 0 (-2)
Intelligence: 0 (-1)
Wisdom: 2 (0)

Proficiencies:
Luck
Improvisation

Former Profession:
Beggar

Inventory:
Big Shield
Armor

Status:
No effects yet

PLAYERS ON CURRENT MISSION:
Saevire
Juniper
Lyssha
Gasozein
Sayla

Spoiler:  The Morgue (click to show/hide)

ATHATH: Suffered third degree burns and was eaten by a bear.

[TankKit]

OOOOOH, I SEE POTENTIAL! COUNT ME IN!
Name: Saevire
Age: 26
Gender: Male

Appearance: A human with a long flowing robe with a red star surrounded by white light on the back, and a hood where red lines outlined with white start, going all the way down to the bottom. When he's not wearing his robe, ((Extremely Rare)) you can see that his face has a long scar reaching from chin to in his air, like a scratch mark, only clearly made by a weapon of some sort.

Reason for debt to the Guild: Killing an entire medium sized guild in a mad rage. Reason for doing so unknown, but his wife had dissapeared recently, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Stats:

Strength: 2
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 0
Charisma: 4
Intelligence: 4
Wisdom: -1

Proficiencies:
Speech: Not saying stupid crap at inopportune times.
Mechanics: Fixing machinery, banging hammers into nails, and the like.

Former Profession:
Soldier: +1 to strength and dexterity, -1 to wisdom

Prefered Weaponry Type: Two-Handed.

[DolosusDoleus]

-snip-

Added, fixed a mistake I think you made. The profession gives buffs and debuffs to dice, not stats. Tell me if you want to change anything because of that.

[TankKit]

-snip-

Added, fixed a mistake I think you made. The profession gives buffs and debuffs to dice, not stats. Tell me if you want to change anything because of that.

Nope nothing.

[Coolrune206]

Name: Juniper
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Appearance: Rather haggard, her once well trimmed brown hair now falls in disheveled clumps. Her hazel eyes are dull. She is of moderate height, but walks with a such a slump that she appears shorter.
Reason for debt to the Guild: Several failed quests, and eventually, theft of Guild property.
Stats:

Strength: 2
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 2
Charisma: 4
Intelligence: 0
Wisdom: 0

Proficiencies:

Speech
Herbalism

Former Profession:

Soldier

Weapon:

Spear

Support Item:

Mysterious Potion (Yolo)

[DolosusDoleus]

Ye be in.

Everyone might want to wait until a mission starts before choosing weapons/support items. I'm still adding a few to the armory.

EDIT: I'm done adding things for now. Take what you will.
EDIT2: aaaaaaaa grammar

[Rautherdir]

Name: Lyssha Alpine
Age: Looks 43
Debt Paid: 0/10,000
Gender: Female
Appearence: Wears a dark grey cloak over silver-colored robes. She doesn't seem to like speaking, and is straight to the point. Her eyes are ice blue, and her thick shoulder-length hair is a dark silver color. She is tall with a light build.
Reason for debt to the Guild: She borrowed money from the guild and failed to repay them.
Stats:

• Strength: 0 (-1)
• Dexterity: 4 (+2)
• Endurance: 0 (±0)
• Charisma: 0 (-2)
• Intelligence: 2 (±0)
• Wisdom: 4 (+1)

Proficiencies:

• Intuition: The sixth sense, which lets you able to puzzle things out on instinct.
• Luck: How lucky you are, plus a 2.5% chance to get a +1 on any other roll you make.

Former Profession: Beggar: +1 to dexterity and endurance, -1 to charisma
Inventory:

• Staff
• Crystal Orb

((Did I do everything right?))

[Coolrune206]

((Character sheet updated))

[DolosusDoleus]

-snip-

((Did I do everything right?))

Looks good, you're in!

[S34N1C]

Reserved. Expect the sheet in a few hours

[inaluct]

This looks great!

Spoiler: Gasozein (inaluct) (click to show/hide)

Name: Gasozein
Debt: 0/10000
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance: Not hideous, but somewhat oddly proportioned, with a wide skeleton like a pack animal. Sallow skin and light hair coupled with a stubborn insistence on wearing a small, thin mustache and sideburns. Noticeably shorter than average. Well liked by his brothers in arms and known for his jovial disposition, drunken indiscretions, and shouldering more than his fair share of the manual labor.
Reason for debt to the Guild: Drunken shenanigans during the coronation of local suzerain resulted in massive property damage, embarrassment of suzerainty in front of high provincial rulers, public stampeding, indelible stains on priceless irreplaceable arras.

Stats:
Strength 8 (+3)
Dexterity 0 (+0)
Endurance 2 (+2 with armor, +0 without)
Charisma 0 (-1)
Intelligence 0 (-1)
Wisdom 0 (-2)

Proficiencies:
Medicine
Improvisation

Former Profession: Soldier

Inventory:
Greatsword
Greater Armor

[S34N1C]

Spoiler: Sayla(S34N1C) (click to show/hide)

Name: Sayla
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Appearance: A small woman with red hair. She is reasonably attractive, though not many would call her beautiful. She likes to wear simple, warm clothing.   
Reason for debt to the Guild: Bought a large shipment if goods from them, but it was stolen, and she couldn't pay.

Stats:
Strength: 0
Dexterity: 0 (-1)
Endurance: 1
Charisma: 4 (+1)
Intelligence: 4(+1)
Wisdom: 1


Proficiencies:
Speech
Medicine

Former Profession: Merchant (+1 charisma & intelligence, -1 dexterity)

Inventory:
Axe: Short-range endurance weapon. One-handed. 100 gp.
Healing kit
Shield: Short-range endurance weapon. One-handed. Can be used to block blows. 50 gp.

[TheBiggerFish]

Oooooh.

[DolosusDoleus]

Gasozein and Sayla are in!

S34N1C, you get two one-handed weapons if you like. What'll the second one be?