>Holster my 6P41, and suddenly have a SPAS-12 that shoots four shells at once which send me back flying with the recoil materialize in my hands, and have a bunch of recoil knockback shells appear on my chest rig. Jump up, shoot it at the ground at a 45 degree angle in the opposite direction of the direction I'm going, reload midair, land, and repeat until I get to a dropship.
Character Sheet:
Name: Shuhrat "Fuze" Kessikbayev II
Bio: A soldier that's part of the
Spetsnaz, who somehow ended up here during what was supposed to be a hostage
killing rescue mission. Totally not a clone of the original Fuze.
Health: Healthy
Status: Fine
Kills: 1 friendly
Related Deaths: Fuze (2 kills)
Medals and Commendations:
Total Merit Points: 1
Rank: Private
Billet: Gunner
Inventory:
6P41, 50/100 rounds, 600 spare rounds
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Morita, Shotgun attachment
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3, missing helmet
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
[4] You find someone's Morita with a shotgun attachment.
[1] You fumble with it and shoot a friend. An armor-piercing anti-bug slug rips through the body armor and kills the trooper instantly.
Character Sheet:
Name: Travii'nar Kickem
Bio: The mother of Dick Kickem. She's 80 human years old (the alien species Dick Kickem/Travii'nar belong to have a life span up to 95-120, entering eldery status at 79), but still can kick ass... probably.
Health: Alright
Status: Nothin' unusual.
Kills:
3+5 warriors
Related Deaths: Dick Kickem (the eldest son)
Medals and Commendations:
Total Merit Points: 1
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 60/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines. Extra shooty.
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
Unjam my rifle, then kill the bugs! My beloved Dick, I'll join you soon!
If unjamming fails, use the rifle as a club for squashing heads of the bugs.
[6] Rifle unjammed, and somehow improved and even shootier.
[5] Your extra shooty Morita mows down 3 charging bugs in 1 clip. You also gain +2 to the death roll.
Go back to the ship and fire the M16 at any bug that gets near me.
Name: Frank Goldstine
Bio: Not sure what happened but it was 1967 a few minutes age.
Health: Maimed, shattered hip, groin is severed. Leg is splinted.
Status: Patched up.
Kills:
1 Warrior
1 friendly trooper.
Related Deaths: (We'll consider all new characters to be relatives of the previous one and you get a merit point for each death)
Medals and Commendations:
Total Merit Points: 1
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
M16, 30/30 Rounds, 150 rounds in Magazines
1 M67 Grenades
Combat Fatigues
Databox
Canteen
MRE
[6] You make a fighting retreat, spraying rounds as you run backwards. You hit a friendly trooper in the leg. The bugs tear into him, buying time for nearby allies to reach safety. Global +1 to everyone's death rolls.
The survivors impose a patriarchy. As their first act as petty rulers, they start a systematic femicide. All your womenfolk are now dead.
Just as planned! The weak women have been purged from the platoon, now it's time for Trump to take his place as leader! Point out the to the remaining men that it was *Trump* who made them realize the error of the military's ways, and they never would have purged the unmanliness from the platoon if it weren't for him! And that means they should save him from the bugs.
If that fails or isn't an option, complement the bugs on their tremendous looks, and tell them that Trump is also a bug on his mother's side. You can tell by his complexion. In fact, he's actually descended from long lost bug royalty and therefore should be put in charge; he'll be sure to lead the charge and heroically take back Klendathu for the bugs! If they don't believe him, just look at what he's already achieved for the bugs--he's single-handedly caused the humans to kill half their own, and then retreat!
If Trump knows a more insulting slur for the bugs than "bugs", he'll use that term instead.
Name: Actual President Donald J. Trump
Bio: "Very handsome, just the best, a tremendous man with tremendous hands. He's great, amazing, a real tough guy who's going to win this war. And he will win, Trump always wins, he's a winner, and he's fighting just the worst people, I mean if you just look at them they're just the worst, it's horrible, they're unbelivable. Trump is much stronger, and smarter, and just better in every way, there's no way he can't win, believe me.
Health: Got a bug claw stuck in his shoulder. Also some broken ribs or something. "The cheek is broken."
Status: Tremendous! And handcuffed!
Kills: ...?
Related Deaths: Several allies, and almost every female in the platoon due to sexism-induced rioting.
Medals and Commendations:
Total Merit Points:
Rank: Private Totally a Sergeant.
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 9001/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
[1] The soldiers think you look and sound like that buffoon of an American president that got impeached in the early 21st Century.
[2] The bugs think you're ugly too. But they agree to take you to their leader to have your brains sucked out.
Follow the platoon?
Name:Richard Darrell
Bio: I will avenge my brother!
Health: KIA
Status:okay
Kills: Friendly Fire: Gent
Related Deaths: brother
Eaten by Tanker
Medals and Commendations:triple nope
Total Merit Points: nada
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 60/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Name: Oat Ostrich
Bio: Nephew to Pole Ostrich
Health: KIA
Status: All-Right, wet pants.
Kills: 2 warrior bugs
3 friendlies
Related Deaths: 4
Eaten by Tanker
Killed by fully automatic friendly fire on Klendathu
Vaporized by Plasma while dropping into Klendathu
Burnt up in atmosphere and dropped into a plasma bug on Klendathu
Total Merit Points: 2
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 60/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
[1] As you flee, a sinkhole sucks you in from under your feet. A tanker bug swallows you both whole and attacks the fleeing survivors. You are both very dead.
[5] Yoink's head doesn't die. It continues bouncing, gaining altitude and kinetic energy as it goes and its screams reach further and further.
THIS IS AMAZING. JUST... TRULY WONDERFUL.
CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE THROUGH THE BUG HORDES, SCREAMING ABUSE ALL THE WHILE
UPON GAINING AN APPROPRIATELY DESTRUCTIVE VELOCITY, SLAM FULL-FORCE INTO EITHER VERY HIGH-RANKING BUG OR SOME SORT OF 'HIVE'
FAILING THAT JUST A BIG CLUSTER
THEN EXPLODE LIKE AN INCENDIARY CANNON SHELL OF PURE RAGE
OR TRY TO AT LEAST
NAME: YOINK
CLASS: SEVERED HEAD/DEADLY PROJECTILE
STATUS: ACCELERATING
Kills: 1 tanker
[6] Yoink slams into the newly spawned tanker bug. He enters its neck, penetrates, eats its nervous system, and comes out the other side. The tanker dies. Yoink roars victoriously and the bugs flee in terror.
Name: Faust von Hiptenburg
Bio: Eldest son of the wealthy von Hiptenburgs, has enormous pressure on his young shoulders to advance rapidly through the ranks. Unfortunately, he's a total idiot when it comes to self preservation. Happily follows even the most suicidal orders.
Health: Healthy
Status: All-Good
Kills:
2 Warrior
Related Deaths: 0
Medals and Commendations:
Inspirational: 1 point
Total Merit Points: 1
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 0/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
1 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
Come to my senses. The battle has moved back towards the drop-ships as the human retreat is called. Sneak through the carnage towards one of the anti-aircraft bugs, and take it out with my last HE grenade.
[4] The plasma bugs are well guarded by warriors, but you lob a grenade in their general direction anyway, killing 1 warrior.
Death rolls:
[3+1] Fuze makes it safely into a dropship...
[6+2+1] Travii'nar Kickem provides covering fire for more troopers to reach their ships. She scores another 5 kills.
[1+1+1] Frank Goldstine makes it back to a dropship by his groin wound re-opens, spraying groin pulp on everyone. But there are no ladies present, so there's no need to be embarrassed.
Trump is being taken to see the brain bug.
Richard and Oat are dead dead.
[3+1] Yoink is sustained by fresh bug meat and refuses to die.
[3+1] Faust sneaks out from under the bug's nose and makes it back to the ships.
Platoon actions:
The metal box lifts off with the remaining bits of troopers that are alive.
[2] And then you are all vaporized when a bug plasma battery shoots you right in the centre of mass.
For your heroic sacrifices, your next of kin get to start 1 pay grade higher, and have access to the specialized Morita attachments! You will all respawn on the nearest capital ship.
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Topic: Starship Troopers, Minimalist RTD (Read 17611 times)