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[Nakéen]

Hello there! This is some sort of RTD to test a concept that has been on my mind for a while.

Rules:
[1] Critical Failure : it failed, and went Horribly Wrong.
[2] Failure : it just failed.
[3] Partial Success : it succeeded a bit.
[4] Success : it succeeded just within expectations.
[5] Critical Success : it succeeded in the most positive way.
[6] Overshot : it succeeded, and went Horribly Right.

Reverse Karmic Device:
1- Karma Points:
You start at 0 Karma. You will gain or lose karma depending on your rolls.
[1] -2 Karma
[2] -1 Karma
[3] Unchanged
[4] +1 Karma
[5] +2 Karma
[6] +2 Karma then -2 Karma

The Karma gained is five time the previous karma gained if you roll the same successive rolls.
ex: Rolling three [1]s in a row will lead to -2 -10 -50 = -62 Karma

The "Reverse Karma Device" allows you to manipulate your fate, as in your rolls by consuming Karma. You can only affect your own rolls.

2- Karma uses:
Each use of the Reverse Karmic Device is subject to a dice roll. This roll is unalterable a result from 1 to 3 will lead to the reverse effect, and a result of 4 to 6 will lead to the intended effect.

-Modify a future dice roll.
Cost -5 to 5 Karma Points, and will change the roll accordingly. No refund.
ex:
Using 1 Karma Point can decrease a future roll by 1.
Using -2 Karma Points can increase a future roll by 2.

-Force a dice roll.
Cost 10 Karma Points for a [1], [2] or [3].
Cost -10 Karma Points for a [4], [5] or [6].

-Force a random event.
Cost 5 Karma Points for a "negative" event.
Cost -5 Karma Points for a "positive" event.

Introduction:
The world in this game is magitech-y enough to have some gadget called a Reverse Karmic Device®. It's just a prototype though, one wonder how you got your hands on one.
Anything is allowed character wise, wormholes kidnapping individuals from other dimensions are commonplace in RTDs.

tldr: I will make stuff up as the game progress, if it progress enough to be worthy of seriously making stuff up

Spoiler: Character Sheet (insert Name) (click to show/hide)

Name: <Urist>
Age: <add random integer here>
Sex: <whatever floats your boat>
Description (optional):
Inventory: (if there is anything special you want to start with)
Traits: (something pretty unique to your character. Feel free!)
Skills: (you are assumed to be decently okay with anything. Specify there if there is something you are really good at)

[Nakéen]

Players:

Spoiler: McSqueaky the Gnome Innovator (Shadowclaw777) (click to show/hide)

Name: McSqueaky the Innovator
Age : 69
Sex: Male
Description: A small aged petite gnome with a beard and a uncanny hair style, all white of course, that he uses for his natural desire of curiosity of inventing and building things instead of a relying on his physical attributes. He may seem out of the loop, a bit senile, but his drive for invention never aged away through his life time.
Trait: Ingenuity: Massive amounts of innate intelligence from his gnomish heritage
Skills: Explosives Knowledge, Reverse-Engineering, Mechanical Construction, Chicken Biology, Techno-Gadget Development

Spoiler: Specimen XX121 the Xenomorph Warrior (Enemy post) (click to show/hide)

Name:Specimen XX121
Age:1
Sex:?
Description:Xenomorph Warrior
Inventory:Three eggs.
Traits:Xenomorph traits.
Skills:Not much beyond biological abilities.

Spoiler: Hugh Mann the Human (ziizo) (click to show/hide)

Name: Hugh Mann
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Description (optional): completely normal human, that works as test subject for random experiments.
Inventory: Random pills (Hugh Mann has no idea what they do only that he has to consume before next monday)
Traits: Resilient: testing dangerous inventions for years has give Hugh Mann the ability to take more damage than a normal human.
Skills: Putting out fires, basic self-medicine.

Spoiler: SCREWUP, the whatever (crazyabe) (click to show/hide)

Name: Scott, Carl, Rupert, Erik, Waldo, Unduphus Phungus the third, Prefers to be called S.C.R.E.W U.P.
Age: -92881
Sex: Water
Description (optional):
Inventory:
Traits: Odd luck: +1 to anything that would under ordinary circumstances be negative, -1 to things which would be positive.
Skills: Making mistakes...

Spoiler: Sir Andal Erickson the Swordsman (click to show/hide)

Name: Sir Andal Erickson
Age:24
Sex: Male
Description (optional): A young, skinny man with muddy-blonde hair and green eyes. He seems to have a smirk or grin most of the time when not fighting, as if some sort of joke was being played out.
Inventory: Rivetted chain mail armor, and a hand-and-a-half sword
Traits: Honorable: Gains karma whenever swearing a oath and keeping it or showing mercy in combat.
Skills: Swordsmanship. Yep, he's fairly average except for his ability to wield a blade effectively.

[Shadowclaw777]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: McSqueaky the Innovator
Age : 69
Sex: Male
Description: A small aged petite gnome with a beard and a uncanny hair style, all white of course, that he uses for his natural desire of curiosity of inventing and building things instead of a relying on his physical attributes. He may seem out of the loop, a bit senile, but his drive for invention never aged away through his life time.
Trait: Ingenuity: Massive amounts of innate intelligence from his gnomish heritage; Petite: This gnomish heritage also gives him weak physical strength because of his small size
Skills: Explosives Knowledge, Reverse-Engineering, Mechanical Construction, Chicken Biology, Techno-Gadget Development

This seem alright?

[Nakéen]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: McSqueaky the Innovator
Age : 69
Sex: Male
Description: A small aged petite gnome with a beard and a uncanny hair style, all white of course, that he uses for his natural desire of curiosity of inventing and building things instead of a relying on his physical attributes. He may seem out of the loop, a bit senile, but his drive for invention never aged away through his life time.
Trait: Ingenuity: Massive amounts of innate intelligence from his gnomish heritage
Skills: Explosives Knowledge, Reverse-Engineering, Mechanical Construction, Chicken Biology, Techno-Gadget Development

This seem alright?

It's perfect

[Enemy post]

I've been waiting for another minimalist game since I wasn't able to use this character in Tymewalk's game. Thanks for running!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:Specimen XX121
Age:1
Sex:?
Description:Xenomorph Warrior
Inventory:Three eggs.
Traits:Xenomorph traits.
Skills:Not much beyond biological abilities.

[Nakéen]

I've been waiting for another minimalist game since I wasn't able to use this character in Tymewalk's game. Thanks for running!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:Specimen XX121
Age:1
Sex:?
Description:Xenomorph Warrior
Inventory:Three eggs.
Traits:Xenomorph traits.
Skills:Not much beyond biological abilities.

Perfect! We can start now that we have more than one player

[ziizo]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Hugh Mann
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Description (optional): completely normal human, that works as test subject for random experiments.
Inventory: Random pills (Hugh Mann has no idea what they do only that he has to consume before next monday)
Traits: Resilient: testing dangerous inventions for years has give Hugh Mann the ability to take more damage than a normal human.
Skills: Putting out fires, basic self-medicine.

[Nakéen]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: McSqueaky the Innovator
Age : 69
Sex: Male
Description: A small aged petite gnome with a beard and a uncanny hair style, all white of course, that he uses for his natural desire of curiosity of inventing and building things instead of a relying on his physical attributes. He may seem out of the loop, a bit senile, but his drive for invention never aged away through his life time.
Trait: Ingenuity: Massive amounts of innate intelligence from his gnomish heritage
Skills: Explosives Knowledge, Reverse-Engineering, Mechanical Construction, Chicken Biology, Techno-Gadget Development

This seem alright?

Spoiler: McSqueaky the Gnome Innovator (click to show/hide)

Name: McSqueaky the Innovator
Age : 69
Sex: Male
Description: A small aged petite gnome with a beard and a uncanny hair style, all white of course, that he uses for his natural desire of curiosity of inventing and building things instead of a relying on his physical attributes. He may seem out of the loop, a bit senile, but his drive for invention never aged away through his life time.
Trait: Ingenuity: Massive amounts of innate intelligence from his gnomish heritage
Skills: Explosives Knowledge, Reverse-Engineering, Mechanical Construction, Chicken Biology, Techno-Gadget Development

The unkept and dusty storage rooms of this magitech research facility never cease to amaze you. An inventor's delight, and a janitor's nightmare. Fortunately you are not one of the latter.

After rummaging inspecting the storage room -32E, you found a peculiar device. Some sort of plate-sized watch with a screen. As soon as you grab it, its size adjusts to your hand and the number "0" starts displaying on the screen.

It also seems you can stick it anywhere on your body, and easily unstick it too.

Before it adjusted to your size, you think you read "Reverse Karmic Device".

Spoiler: McSqueaky's Status (click to show/hide)

Karma: 0
Status:
[Okay]

I've been waiting for another minimalist game since I wasn't able to use this character in Tymewalk's game. Thanks for running!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:Specimen XX121
Age:1
Sex:?
Description:Xenomorph Warrior
Inventory:Three eggs.
Traits:Xenomorph traits.
Skills:Not much beyond biological abilities.

Spoiler: Specimen XX121 the Xenomorph Warrior (click to show/hide)

Name:Specimen XX121
Age:1
Sex:?
Description:Xenomorph Warrior
Inventory:Three eggs.
Traits:Xenomorph traits.
Skills:Not much beyond biological abilities.

You woke up.

The spacecraft you boarded crashed on this inhabited planet. You detected no life form around, the crew was already dead, decimated by your own hands.

Something caught your eye in the impact site.

It seems your craft crashed on some camp of some kind. You spot a charred hand, still holding a curious device. An urge is pushing you to grab it. The device displays "0", and is gently stuck on your right arm. It feels curiously comfortable.

Spoiler: Specimen XX121's Status (click to show/hide)

Karma: 0
Status:
[Okay]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Hugh Mann
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Description (optional): completely normal human, that works as test subject for random experiments.
Inventory: Random pills (Hugh Mann has no idea what they do only that he has to consume before next monday)
Traits: Resilient: testing dangerous inventions for years has give Hugh Mann the ability to take more damage than a normal human.
Skills: Putting out fires, basic self-medicine.

Spoiler: Hugh Mann the Human (click to show/hide)

Name: Hugh Mann
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Description (optional): completely normal human, that works as test subject for random experiments.
Inventory: Random pills (Hugh Mann has no idea what they do only that he has to consume before next monday)
Traits: Resilient: testing dangerous inventions for years has give Hugh Mann the ability to take more damage than a normal human.
Skills: Putting out fires, basic self-medicine.

You sat on the white, featureless chair, in the white, featureless square room.

The door opened, and the man in the white coat walked toward you. What would it be this time?

The man carried a pack with him. He unwrapped it meticulously before you, and handed the device inside to you.

"Your last experiment. Take this device and your test subject status will be revoked."

You took the device, and a 0 appeared on its screen. The woman in the white coat emerged from behind the man, handing you a backpack. They then both stepped aside, leaving only the wide open door in front of you.

Spoiler: Hugh Mann's Status (click to show/hide)

Karma: 0
Status:
[Okay]

[Enemy post]

I wallcrawl up to the top of the wreck to look at the surrounding landscape. Then I go back down and stash the eggs away somewhere safe inside.

[ziizo]

"I am being fired? Dammit I needed this work"

Walk trough the door, see what is at the other side.

Consume a pill.

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Sheet? (click to show/hide)

Name: Scott, Carl, Rupert, Erik, Waldo, Unduphus Phungus the third, Prefers to be called S.C.R.E.W U.P.
Age: -92881
Sex: Water
Description (optional):
Inventory:
Traits: Odd luck: +1 to anything that would under ordinary circumstances be negative, -1 to things which would be positive.
Skills: Making mistakes...

[Shadowclaw777]

"This doesn't seem like Gnomish Headquarters R&D, seemed I took a transportation pill of course!, So sad I was nearly finished with my breakthrough on the mechanization of explosive chickens"
Gather up all the mechanic pieces within the storage rooms for my own research and invention pursuit, find a good looking table and somewhat-comfortable chair for my prototyping, than play around with this Device trying to understand how it works, functions, etc.
(Edited character sheet to have a weakness/flaw now, how could I forget McSqueaky's small size?)

[Nakéen]

I accidentally swapped some numbers in the rules :x
Basically you use negative karma for positive events, and positive karma for negative events.

I wallcrawl up to the top of the wreck to look at the surrounding landscape. Then I go back down and stash the eggs away somewhere safe inside.

[5] You easily reach the top of the smoking wreck, analyzing the landscape. There are mountains in the horizon, the sea on the other side, and forests in between. You seems to spot a cavern nearby.

Climbing down, you grab the eggs and take them to safety in this cavern. [3 eggs removed from inventory]

Spoiler: Specimen XX121's Status (click to show/hide)

Karma: +2
Status:
[Okay]
Inventory:
[Empty]

"I am being fired? Dammit I needed this work"

Walk trough the door, see what is at the other side.

Consume a pill.

"The payment in the backpack" said the man.

You walked through the door, ending on a corridor. Continuing further, you eventually reached some wide hall bustling with peoples waiting for various reasons. Some test subjects like you, some clients of this company...

Outside was the City. You lived in the City, and you didn't know what was outside the City.

You consumed a pill.

In the backpack were a good supply of pills, enough to last a while. Your payment was also there, a hefty amount of Money. Yes, the City's money was called Money. It took the form of small metallic prisms.
[+Lots of pills]
[+50000 Money]

Spoiler: Hugh Mann's Status (click to show/hide)

Karma: 0
Status:
[Okay]
Inventory:
[Backpack:
>Lots of pills
>50000 Money]

Spoiler: Sheet? (click to show/hide)

Name: Scott, Carl, Rupert, Erik, Waldo, Unduphus Phungus the third, Prefers to be called S.C.R.E.W U.P.
Age: -92881
Sex: Water
Description (optional):
Inventory:
Traits: Odd luck: +1 to anything that would under ordinary circumstances be negative, -1 to things which would be positive.
Skills: Making mistakes...

Spoiler: SCREWUP, the whatever (click to show/hide)

Name: Scott, Carl, Rupert, Erik, Waldo, Unduphus Phungus the third, Prefers to be called S.C.R.E.W U.P.
Age: -92881
Sex: Water
Description (optional):
Inventory:
Traits: Odd luck: +1 to anything that would under ordinary circumstances be negative, -1 to things which would be positive.
Skills: Making mistakes...

One would wonder what you are. Or if you are even a something.

For some odd reason, there is this device stuck on you. Or is it? You don't even know what you are, if you are physical or not.

But the device is there for sure.

It's dark around.

Spoiler: SCREWUP's Status (click to show/hide)

Karma: 0
Status:
[Okay]
Inventory:
[Empty]

Gather up all the mechanic pieces within the storage rooms for my own research and invention pursuit, than play around with this Device trying to understand how it works, functions, etc.

[1] As you rummage through a pile of scraps and pieces, you grab onto something hard and unmoving. You pull. It doesn't bulge. You pull with all your strength, and a clicking sound is heard as you fall backward, roll twice and slam on a shelf, making a bunch of metallic stuff crash on you.

As you groan in pain, you look at the item you got. It looks... like some huge metallic stick intended to be stuck somewhere like a puzzle piece.

You start hearing a hissing sound, and see a glow emanating from the pile of scrape. Looking closely at the stick, you realize you just pulled the sealing key of some automaton. Surely it was sealed for some reason. Why in a storage room though?

A red light scans the room, and you hear some menacing mechanical noise. Uh-oh.

Spoiler: McSqueaky's Status (click to show/hide)

Karma: -2
Status:
[Okay]
Inventory:
[Empty]

[Shadowclaw777]

"Whoopsies, seem I triggered a defense command on an automaton, better find a place to find"
find a spot to hide within this area so that I can analyze this automaton with the assurance of safety
 

[Enemy post]

Search the woods around the cavern to capture suitable hosts, sentient or otherwise.