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[Skullsploder]

You open your eyes. They sting and you can barely see, but you manage to keep them open. A hazy yellowish light is before you, but something slowly drifts in front of it, something much more defined, long and thin. You attempt to draw a breath but get a mouthful of fetid water instead. Coughing and spluttering you thrash about in the shallow water, finally figuring out which way is up and breaking the surface for a deep gulp of equally fetid air. Casting about, you realise the object was a fat log of shit. The yellow light seems to be far above you. How far you cannot say, but a much paler green light is being thrown off by some mushrooms growing on the shore. The water in which you woke up stretches farther than the light, and the vague sound of danger echoes in the distance. As you drag your rag-clad body to the shore, one burning thought is etched on your empty mind:

I MUST KILL THE MAYOR

Spoiler: The Game (click to show/hide)

This is your starting point. You do not know who you are.
You do not know why you are here. You just know that it's the mayor's fault and that he must die. You are not the only one. I'll be accepting up to 8 players to start, maybe more later if I feel I can handle it.

The rules are heavily inspired by Einsteinian Roulette. It will be bloody. It will be gorey. Limbs will be lost. Lives will be lost. If you die, you may take control of any character into whom you have etched your own burning desire to kill the mayor, but if there's enough interest I might have a queue going. If no one else wants to kill the mayor then you get to start all the way back in the sewer water.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Rolls
1 - you fucked up big
2 - you failed
3 - you failed, but just barely
4 - you succeeded, but just barely
5 - you succeeded
6 - you succeeded so hard that it's gonna bite you in the arse a little bit.
Modifiers are gonna be a very big deal. Permanent modifiers will be super rare, but situational modifiers will be plentiful. E.g. you spend a combat round making sure your rifle is braced and set up nicely, you get a +1 to hit until you shift position. Also note that you can attempt anything, but not everything can possibly result in success

EDIT: note that I will be hiding a few rolls from you where your knowledge of your surroundings is concerned. Perception and Intelligence in particular you often won't see me rolling, but trust me: the rolls will be happening and they will be important.

Combat
Roll off and apply modifiers. If you get:
5-6 above - same as a normal 6.
3-4 above - same as a normal 5
1-2 above - same as a normal 4
0 - essentially a 3 for both combatants

Crits
These determine exactly how good/bad for you your roll of a 1 or roll of a 6 is. If modifiers took your original roll over a 6 or below a 1, then you will have an appropriate modifier added to your crit roll. E.g. you roll a 5+3 because you are ridiculously skilled at this task, you will get a +2 modifier on your crit roll.
6 means "things went as well as could possibly be expected" and 1 means the exact opposite.

Skills
Skills are independent of physical characteristics. You can be a musclebound roidhead with -3 Physique, which means you'll accidentally put your fist through doors when you try to knock. Skills range from -4 to +4, and are modifiers applied directly to relevant rolls. An average human has 0 in all skills. On character creation, you can change your skills as much as you want, they just have to add up to 0. But remember, there are no dump stats. EDIT: any skill of -3 or less will require you to start rolling for everyday tasks.

Physique - applying the right amount of force
Dexterity - assembling a ship in a bottle. Or picking a pocket.
Agility - placing your feet just right as you trail run over difficult terrain
Charisma - hw u doin bby purely vocal and body language, nothing to do with looks.
Perception - oh fuck what the fuck was that fucking noise.
Intelligence - I heard a raspy sound followed by a metallic click... I deduce that I'm about to get shot.
Willpower - ohfuckijustgotshotohgodaaaaaah

Note that weapon skills are not a thing. It's too OP for people to be able to dump Physique and become autoturrets. Not that you'll have a gun any time soon :^)

Spoiler: Character creation (click to show/hide)

Name:
(You can't remember anything but that you must kill the mayor. Although you probably should call yourself something)
Skills:
(Only put down your skills which are not the default 0. Remember that the total must add up to zero!)
Perks:
(You can choose one minor perk. A field of aptitude, like +1 to rolls where nuclear physics is concerned. Or, y'know, +1 to hit with assault rifles.)
Appearance:
(What it says in the tin, you'll need to make it fairly balanced though. "So attractive that everyone always gives him what he wants no matter what" is not acceptable, unless you have some sort of serious flaw that balances it, like missing your arms or something)
Condition:
(Your physical condition. If you're missing a leg, put it down here.)
Inventory:
Rags. (You may choose one other item, something low tier like a knife.)

[Skullsploder]

THE MALCONTENTS

Spoiler: Scav (click to show/hide)

Name: Scav
Skills: Phys: +2
          Dex: -1
          Char: -2
          Per: -1
          Int: +2
Perk: +1 building stuff outta scrap.
Appearance: Hobo looking dude in a coat of rags, with a lead pipe peg-leg.
Condition: Missing left leg.
Inv: Rags, oversized wrench with sharpened scrap clamped in it.

Note: I'm trading my left leg for the wrench.

Kills: 1
1 Tribal

Spoiler: Hank (click to show/hide)

Name: Hank

Skills:

Physique  +1
Dexterity  +1
Agility +1
Charisma  -2
Perception  +1
Intelligence -2
Willpower 0

Perks:
+1 to unarmed combat

Appearance:
A grey-skinned, nondescript person with what looks like a cross running across their face. From a certain angle, it looks he doesn't have arms or legs, just balls for hands and feet that move semi-independently from his squarish body. But you're probably just seeing things.

Condition:
Many small puncture wounds over chest area
Shallow gash from right hip to left shoulder

Inventory:
Rags, brass knuckles.
Blood spatters and flecks of bone, all over arms and hands.

Kills: 2
Slime, brass knuckle through the skull
1 Tribal
Patrick, indirectly via heart attack

Spoiler: Steeve (click to show/hide)

Name: Steeve
Skills: Phys: +1
             Dex: -2
             ‎Agil:+1
             Char: -1
             Int: +2
             ‎wil: -1
Perk: +1 to surprise attacks
Appearance: average looking dude, rather small for his age and strength. Often overlooked.
Condition: healthy
Inv: Rags, small pouch of tobacco

Spoiler: Bobross (click to show/hide)

Reserved

Name:
Bobross
Skills:
Char -1
Will +2
Phys +2
Int -2
Agi -1
Perks:
Tough guy - intimidating and really good at bar games or associated activities. Knows his way around the darker corners of the world.
Appearance:
Huge tattooed mountain of meat. At a glance, not someone you'd fuck with. Eye patch covering an exposed empty socket.
Condition:
Missing his left eye
inside of hands have many small open wounds
Right ribs broken
Item:
Rusty serrated diving knife  that makes up for its lack of sharpness with its abundance of scariness.

Spoiler: Tablerace (click to show/hide)

Name-  Tablerace

skills
Perception  +2
Charisma - 1
Intelligence - 1

Perks
Spatial awareness acute - good balance.

Item, balanced by perk
Strong motorcycle helmet,  no eye hole.
Staff made of lead piping
Rags

Appearance.
Tall and lean. Pale.


Condition.
 Blinded

Spoiler: Eddie Bard (click to show/hide)

Name:
Eddie Bard
Skills:
None
Perks:
Extreme Luck - For all rolls, roll an extra dice and flip a coin. If the coin is heads, use the higher roll between the two dice. If tails, use the smaller roll.
Appearance:
Looks like a bearded homeless man, but dressed in an expensive looking suit. The suit is actually made of cheap materials.
Condition:
Missing two fingers on his left hand. Missing pinky toe on right foot. Colorblind. Illiterate.
Several bleeding puncture wounds on the back
Inventory:
Rags.
$2000 in counterfeit cash. (Easily identified as counterfeit by merchants and others who handle money often)

Edit: Tried to make my character more balanced.

Spoiler: Corvald (click to show/hide)

Name: Corvald

Skills:
Charisma -4
Perception +2
Dexterity +2

Perk:
+1 to surviving damage to the head

Appearance:
An old man. His face bears the remains of a fire , but oddly enough, his eyes are perfectly undamaged.

Condition:
Torched face
Oozing cut on left hand, "bandaged"

Inventory:
Rags
metal cane
broad, blunt-ish rectangular blade
skin "bandage"
pouch of bones
metal half-mask

Kills: 1
1 small, toothy water creature

Spoiler: No-Name (click to show/hide)

Name:

Skills:
Physique: -2
Dexterity: -2
Agility: +1
Charisma: +2
Perception: +2
Willpower: -1
((that ended up far more min-maxy than I had intended, whoops))

Perks:
+1 to looting/scavenging. (If this is OP feel free to narrow it down, or I might give him some crippling injury.)
Appearance:
A thin, wiry male, slightly below average height. His body language, nimble movements, voice and mannerisms mark him as rather youthful, but his skin is prematurely lined and weatherbeaten, doubtless thanks to a hard life. What can be seen of it, anyway - a lot of his face is obscured by the chunky goggles he wears at all times, and the rest of him is pretty thoroughly coated in foul-smelling sludge.
His murky blond hair seems to have once been cut into something a 'short back and sides', but lack of maintenance, regular bathing or really any care whatsoever has left it a horrifically matted mess, like the pubic hair of some overgrown mutant living in an exploded glue factory.
Condition:
Comparatively healthy, given the circumstances.
Inventory:
Rags. Stylish and durable orange-lensed cyberpunk goggles.

THE MARTYRS

Spoiler: Slime - brass knuckle through the skull (click to show/hide)

Name: Slime

Skills:
Willpower +1
Charisma -1

Perks:
+1 dodge

Appearance:
Short. Large beard. Permanent scowl. Hard eyes that have seen the depths of hell and despair.

Condition:
Normal

Inventory:
Rags, Wooden serrated dagger

Spoiler: Patrick - Hank-related heart attack (click to show/hide)

Name: Patrick

Phys: +1
Dex: +1
Char: -3
Per: +1
Int: +1
Will: -1

Perk: +1 to rolls during fights

Appearance: Man with a brown beard and short brown hair. Wears jeans and a white tank-top.
Inv: Rolling pin
Condition:
Has mild heart problems. (currently experiencing the onset of a heart attack)
Multiple small gashes on forearms and face.

((If I can still join.))

WAITLIST

Spoiler: "Shinedown" Martinez (click to show/hide)

Name: "Shinedown" Martinez

Skills: Charisma: +3
Intelligence: +2
Physique: -1
Dexterity: 0
Agility: -2
Willpower: -2
Perception: 0

Perks: +1 to Convincing/Coercing

Appearances: A slightly above average looking Hispanic gentleman with shoulder-length brown hair and a currently mangy goatee of the same color.

Condition: Normal, save for some scratches lining his forearm.

Inventory: Rags, Shiv

Spoiler: Curly Fry (click to show/hide)

Can I please be added to the waiting list?
[Character Sheet]

Name: Curly Fry

Skills:
Charisma: +2
Intelligence: +1
Physique: -1
Dexterity: -2
Agility: -1
Perception: +1

Perks: +1 to diffuse violent confrontations

Appearance: Small young woman who looks very non-threatening but sharp and calculating.

Condition: Slightly physically incapable but no missing limbs

Inventory: Rags, pepper spray

[LugeTheHuge]

Reserved

[Monarch]

Name: Scav
Skills: Phys: +2
          Dex: -1
          Char: -2
          Per: -1
          Int: +2
Perk: +1 building stuff outta scrap.
Appearance: Hobo looking dude in a coat of rags, with a lead pipe peg-leg.
Condition: Missing left leg.
Inv: Rags, oversized wrench with sharpened scrap clamped in it.

Note: I'm trading my left leg for the wrench.

[NRDL]

Sorry, double posted

[NRDL]

Name: Hank

Skills:

Physique  +1
Dexterity  +1
Agility +1
Charisma  -2
Perception  +1
Intelligence -2
Willpower 0

Perks:
+1 to unarmed combat

Appearance:
A grey-skinned, nondescript person with what looks like a cross running across their face. From a certain angle, it looks he doesn't have arms or legs, just balls for hands and feet that move semi-independently from his squarish body. But you're probably just seeing things.

Condition:
Normal

Inventory:
Rags, brass knuckles.

[DJDALA]

Name: Steeve
Skills: Phys: +1
             Dex: -2
             ‎Agil:+1
             Char: -1
             Int: +2
             ‎wil: -1
Perk: +1 to surprise attacks
Appearance: average looking dude, rather small for his age and strength. Often overlooked.
Condition: healthy
Inv: Rags, small pouch of tobacco

[Skullsploder]

Name: Scav
Skills: Phys: +2
          Dex: -1
          Char: -2
          Per: -1
          Int: +2
Perk: +1 building stuff outta scrap.
Appearance: Hobo looking dude in a coat of rags, with a lead pipe peg-leg.
Condition: Missing left leg.
Inv: Rags, oversized wrench with sharpened scrap clamped in it.

Note: I'm trading my left leg for the wrench.

You splutter and scramble to the shore. Along the way your pipe catches on something under the water and you're submerged once again. You manage to dredge both yourself and the thing you tripped on out again, and, pipe-leg slipping into the ground on almost every step, you manage to throw yourself onto the relatively dry beach. The ground is made of large, sharpish flakes of something you can't quite identify. Some crumble and some bend as you collapse upon them. The thing you dragged out with you turns out to be a very large and rusted metal wrench. Thinking quickly you tightly clamp a sharp spike of metal in its beak. You now have a weapon.

Name: Hank

Skills:

Physique  +1
Dexterity  +1
Agility +1
Charisma  -2
Perception  +1
Intelligence -2
Willpower 0

Perks:
+1 to unarmed combat

Appearance:
A grey-skinned, nondescript person with what looks like a cross running across their face. From a certain angle, it looks he doesn't have arms or legs, just balls for hands and feet that move semi-independently from his squarish body. But you're probably just seeing things.

Condition:
Normal

Inventory:
Rags, brass knuckles.

Your head swims with visions of clowns and gods and violence. You were dead? Shaking your head clear of the horrors, you stumble to the shore and rest against a glowing mushroom. But you're not alone on this beach. You tighten your fists around brass.

Name: Steeve
Skills: Phys: +1
             Dex: -2
             ‎Agil:+1
             Char: -1
             Int: +2
             ‎wil: -1
Perk: +1 to surprise attacks
Appearance: average looking dude, rather small for his age and strength. Often overlooked.
Condition: healthy
Inv: Rags, small pouch of tobacco

You slosh along to the shore. You're pretty sure you see movement by the large mushroom off to your right. You fumble around through your pockets and grasp a pouch. Your clumsy fingers struggle with the wet drawstring but you open it and find some soaked leaves inside. A sharp, mildly pleasant smell cuts through the pervasive odour of waste and you feel intense fondness for the contents of the pouch. You hope they'll help you in the wide darkness.

Reserved

Out in the distance, the water bubbles slightly.

[NRDL]

Find whoever's watching me, punch their brains in.

((Also, goodnight people living on the other side of the world. Gotta sleep.))

[LugeTheHuge]

Reserved

Name:
Bobross
Skills:
Char -1
Will +2
Phys +2
Int -2
Agi -1
Perks:
Tough guy - intimidating and really good at bar games or associated activities. Knows his way around the darker corners of the world.
Appearance:
Huge tattooed mountain of meat. At a glance, not someone you'd fuck with. Eye patch covering an exposed empty socket.
Condition:
Missing his left eye.
Item:
Rusty serrated diving knife  that makes up for its lack of sharpness with its abundance of scariness.

[DJDALA]

Run left, trying to avoid being seen by whatever moved at the mushroom.

[Monarch]

I take note of my surroundings and see if I can spot anyone or anything
Look around

[LugeTheHuge]

Bubbles quietly

[Skullsploder]

Run left, trying to avoid being seen by whatever moved at the mushroom.

5+1, crit 2
You sprint left with incredible speed and stealthiness, so speedily and stealthily in fact that you slam right into something human.
4+1
You immediately regain your balance

Find whoever's watching me, punch their brains in.

((Also, goodnight people living on the other side of the world. Gotta sleep.))

You can't see or hear anything in the darkness, but you can't shake the feeling of being watched. You punch the mushroom in frustration
2+1+1
Leaving a fist shaped dent.

I take note of my surroundings and see if I can spot anyone or anything
Look around

You look out across the water. You see nothing. Far to your left a luminescent mushroom shakes slightly. There appears to be something moving th-
Something barrels into you at high speed
2
And you go flying, ending up sprawled on the ground.

Reserved

Name:
Bobross
Skills:
Char -1
Will +2
Phys +2
Int -2
Agi -1
Perks:
Tough guy - intimidating and really good at bar games or associated activities. Knows his way around the darker corners of the world.
Appearance:
Huge tattooed mountain of meat. At a glance, not someone you'd fuck with. Eye patch covering an exposed empty socket.
Condition:
Missing his left eye.
Item:
Rusty serrated diving knife  that makes up for its lack of sharpness with its abundance of scariness.

Bubbles quietly

You half-surface, keeping your nose just out of the water, and
6-1
Blow some stealthy-ass bubbles in the shitwater. I bet no one could see those bubbles.

[LugeTheHuge]

Looks for any indication of land and swims towards it.