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[Egan_BW]

You twist through the terrifyingly full emptiness for eons, staring into the full blackened absurdity of this existence. You blink and sake your head, slowly recalling the events of the past few seconds. You died. It was... well, it was painful. Now all you feel is a pounding migraine.
Welcome to hell!

Spoiler: game rules (click to show/hide)

STATS:
Never-Die: Determines maximum Determination, which you use to not-die and also can grant bonuses to rolls.
Pay-Attention: Determines maximum Focus, which is used to notice things and perform precise maneuvers.
Go-Through: Determines maximum stamina, affecting how much you can carry and used to Burst.
Move-Quick: Determines maximum Speed, how far you can move in a turn.
Keep-Hold: Determines maximum Corruption. If you max out on Corruption, you'll turn into a demon. That's generally a bad thing.


SKILLS:
Accuracy: Used to aim guns and other ranged weapons. A success is required to hit a snap shot or a ranged shot at long range.
Melee: Used for attacking in melee, whether armed or unarmed. A success is required to hit an attack at melee range or to parry.
Agility: Used for evasion and navigating difficult terrain. A success is required to evade a ranged attacker or to jump and climb.
Poise: Used to keep your footing without tripping up. A success is required to move multiple times per turn or to resist being knocked over.
Resistance: Used to resist pain and other harmful effects. A success is required to mitigate Pain.
Medical: Used to repair fleshy injuries and cure fleshy maladies. A success is required to perform surgery or to synthesize drugs.
Extraction: Used to draw the power from demons and corrupted humans. A success is required to extract Clay from a demonic corpse.




Determination: A limited pool of points. You may spend 1 Determination to gain a +1 bonus to any roll that you make. You can use an unlimited amount on any given roll. IE, before rolling you could spend 1 Determination to gain a +1 to the roll, or you could spend 3 Determination to gain a +3 to the roll. Once used, Determination is difficult to regain. Restful sleep, drugs, and vengeance can restore Determination, but only true rest is without downsides. Determination is consumed in order to not die when you take lethal damage, so it's maybe kind of important.

Focus: A limited pool of points. Taking certain actions which require a focused mind (such as parrying or aiming a gun) will invest Focus until that action is completed. Distracting states such ass pain or being on drugs also invests Focus. If you don't have enough Focus to perform an action, you cannot perform that action. However, drugs and pain can reduce your uninvested Focus pool below 0. Uninvested Focus points are applied as a bonus to perception rolls.

Stamina: A limited pool of points. Most weapons and some other items have weight, which reduces your maximum stamina. You cannot carry more in weight than your maximum stamina. Stamina can be used to Burst and some weapons use Stamina to attack.

Speed: Measures how many tiles you can move per turn. If you have leftover movement when you end your turn, you can make a melee attack while it's not your turn against anyone who moves next to you, moves out of your melee range, or attacks while in your melee range. You can only make as many such attacks as you have unspent Speed.

Corruption: You start at 0 Corruption and gain 1d6 Corruption each time you die. If corruption reaches its maximum, you turn into a demon. As a non-native of hell, the world doesn't know what to do with you when you die, so you can just survive anything that should kill you. Only demons can permanently die in hell, because it's their home plane. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) every time you die, you become more like a demon. While you might be able to maintain your humanity through the transformation, once you die as a demon, you're dead for good.


Skill tests: When attacking or performing other actions, you might need to make a Skill check to succeed. This is rolled as 3d6 plus or minus your skill modifier. A roll above 10 is a success and a rolls below 11 is a failure. 6 or lower is a critial failure while 15 or higher is a critical success. 9 and 10 count as successes in non-stressful situations.

Lethal damage: Many attacks such as bullets or knives do lethal damage. If at any time you take lethal damage, you must roll a d6. If you roll less than a 6, you die or are fatally injured. However, after rolling you can choose to spend Determination and gain a bonus to your roll, making up the difference to 6 and surviving the damage. You may choose to die and save your Determination, as Determination is not restored when you revive. If your roll is a 4 or 5, you don't die immediately and can be saved by immediate medical care.

Pain: Most attacks cause Pain even if they fail to deal Lethal damage. When you're in pain, some of your Focus is invested in the pain and can't be used for anything. When you receive Pain, you may roll your Resistance and if you succeed the amount of Focus invested is decreased by how much your roll beat 10. IE if you receive 3 Pain from an attack and roll a 12 with your Resistance, only 1 Focus will be invested.

Knockout: If you would lose Focus to Pain damage but have 0 uninvested Focus, you are knocked out. While knocked out, you can do nothing are are completely helpless.

Status: Detrimental status effects can be caused by attacks. If you manage to roll a 13 or higher on the skill check for an attack, the target takes an additional status effect such as being stunned, knocked down, or taking additional Pain, depending on the weapon and random chance. If you manage to roll a 15 or higher, the target takes a more serious status effect which has the potential to cause permanent damage or end the fight right there, such as knocking the target out, breaking bones or severing a limb.

Grappling: If you're not duel-wielding weapons, you can use your free hand to punch in melee. Punching isn't a very damaging attack, but if you roll a 13 or higher on the skill roll, you can inflict the Grabbed status effect on the enemy, preventing the enemy from moving and giving your own melee attacks a +1 bonus against the Grabbed enemy. If your roll is a 15 or higher, you instead inflict the Grappled status effect, which prevents the enemy from doing anything except trying to break free, and allows you to deal Lethal damage to the enemy.

Knockdown: Some attacks can knock you over. If you're hit by a knockdown attack, you must make a Poise skill check. If you succeed, you stay standing and if you fail you're knocked prone. Prone creatures have 1 Speed and suffer a -1 penalty to Melee. Enemies suffer a -1 penalty to Accuracy when trying to attack the prone creature.

Clay: AKA "gray goo", "Meld", or "demon's clay", Clay is a gray-colored semisolid extracted from the bodies of demons which has various useful effects, most notably the ability to rapidly heal any wounds that it's applied to. The Clay will close any wounds and can repair organ damage, but it won't cause you to regrow lost limbs. However, applying Clay to a severed limb can allow you to attach it to your body, allowing you to repair such injuries with a little help from battlefield salvage.


Perception: Perception is rolled automatically to notice hidden things or enemies. It's rolled like a skill check but with your uninvested Focus as the bonus. If you succeed on perception before the enemy does, you can get the drop on them, getting a free turn before combat starts.

Initiative: Initiative is rolled when you enter combat. It's rolled like a skill check but with your maximum Speed and uninvested Focus as bonuses. Whoever rolls the highest initiate goes first, then the next highest, and so on.

Move: Any time during your turn, you can use the Move action to move from tile to tile. Each tile moved uses up 1 Speed. You can only use the Move action once per turn. Your Speed always returns to max at the start of your turn.

Maneuver: You can Maneuver at any time during your turn after you've used the Move action. Make an Poise skill check. If you fail (10 or lower) your turn immediately ends. If you succeed (11 or higher) you may move up to your remaining Speed in tiles.

Burst: You can Burst at any time during your turn. This causes you to lose 1 Stamina and gain 3 Speed. This can take you higher than your normal maximum speed, but you can't "keep" the extra speed for next turn. You can only Burst once per turn.

Strike: Any time during your turn, you can Strike at an enemy within melee range. Roll a Melee skill check. if you succeed, your weapon does damage to the enemy. If you fail, you miss. If you roll an 8 or lower, your turn ends and the enemy gets a bonus to hit you equal to the difference between your roll and 8. IE if you roll a 7, the enemy gets a +1 to hit you, while if you roll a 3, the enemy gets a +5 to hit you. You can Strike an unlimited number of times during your turn, but each Melee skill roll has a penalty equal to the number of times you've Struck this turn.

Aim: If you're wielding a ranged weapon, you can use the Aim action to take precise aim at a particular enemy or tile. You can't aim at a point within your weapon's minimum range. While aiming, you must invest an amount of Focus which depends on the weapon, most commonly half your maximum focus, rounded down. If you begin your turn and aren't aiming, you regain that focus. Aiming ends your turn.

Fire: If you're aiming a ranged weapon, you can fire at any time, even if it's not your turn. This can be in response to something, such as someone stepping into the tile you're aiming at or trying to draw a weapon. If the target is inside your weapon's short range, you automatically hit and your weapon deals damage to the enemy. If the target is at longer range, you must roll an Accuracy skill check to hit.

Snapshot: If you're wielding a ranged weapon and the target is within that weapon's short range, you may attempt a snapshot. You can attempt a snapshot on a target within your weapon's minimum range. Make an Accuracy skill roll to hit. If you fail, the attack misses. If you succeed, the weapon has a certain flat chance to miss anyway depending on its snapshot accuracy. If both rolls succeed, you hit the target and your weapon deals damage to it. You may attempt an unlimited number of snapshots per turn until your weapon runs out of ammo and must reload.

Reload: If you're wielding a ranged weapon and have spare ammo, you can reload that weapon, dropping the magazine (if there is one) and any unused ammo on the ground and loading the spare ammo into the weapon. Reloading ends your turn.

Parry: Any time during your turn, you can Parry. Make a Melee skill roll. If you fail, nothing happens and your turn ends. If you succeed, your turn ends and all enemies attacking you at melee range have a penalty to hit you until the start of your next turn, equal to how much your roll beat 10. IE if you rolled a 12, the enemy would get a -2 to hit you. While this penalty is active, if an enemy tries to attack you at melee range and misses, you may deal Lethal damage to them.

Evade: Any time during your turn, you may pick one enemy to Evade. Make an Agility skill check. If the enemy is wielding a ranged weapon, you take a -2 penalty to the roll if there's no cover nearby. If you fail, nothing happens. If you roll 8 or below, your turn ends. If you succeed, the enemy must succeed on a skill check in order to hit you, even if they're Aiming. In addition the enemy gets a penalty to hit you until the start of your next turn, equal to how much your roll beat 10.

Use Clay/Drugs: Any time during your turn, you can use Clay or Drugs from your inventory. This ends your turn.

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

Description: What you look like. Ideally, anyways.
Method of death: The way you died and ended up here.
Demon: Everyone's got personal demons. Or maybe just the sort of people who end up here do.

Stats: Each stat begins at 3, distribute 8 points between them.

Skills: Each skill begins at -2. Distribute 12 points between them, with a maximum of +5 in any given skill

Status: Status starts at "Fine"

Inventory: You start out with clothes and any one item that you might plausibly actually own in real life.


Name:
Description:
Method of death:
Demon:

Never-Die:
Pay-Attention:
Go-Through:
Move-Quick:
Keep-Hold:

Accuracy:
Melee:
Agility:
Poise:
Resistance:
Medical:
Extraction:


Determination:
Focus:
Stamina:
Speed:
Corruption:

Status:
Weapon:
Armor:
Weight:
Inventory:

Spoiler: example items (click to show/hide)

Alcohol: Not very useful. But fun.
[invest 2 focus]

Painkiller: Kills pain.
[invest 2 focus]
[remove pain]
[+2 resistance vs pain]

Stimulant: Makes your brain tingle.
[+3 max focus]
[-2 max stamina]


Punch: Introduces knuckles to face.
[melee: pain2]
[stamina2 lethal/AP3]
[grapple]

Kick: Introduces foot to nads.
[melee: pain4 knockdown stamina1]


Knife: Simple. Classic.
[melee: lethal/AP3 pain3]
[thrown: lethal/AP1 pain1 short0 long4 focus2]
[parry+1]
[1hand]

Icepick: Metal spike. Stabs good.
[melee: lethal/AP3 pain2]
[stamina1 lethal/AP5]
[1hand]

Two-By-Four: Not the best. Better than nothing.
[melee: lethal/AP3 pain2]
[parry+2]
[weight1]
[unreliable]

Baseball bat: Who even plays baseball?
[melee: melee/AP3 pain2]
[parry+2]
[weight1]

Machete: Good for hacking.
[melee: lethal/AP3 pain4]
[hit+1]
[parry+2]
[weight1]
[1hand]

Fire Axe: Breaks things down nicely.
[melee: lethal/AP4 pain4]
[hit+1]
[weight2]

Sledgehammer: Hits like a sledgehammer.
[melee: lethal/AP3 pain3 knockdown stamina1]
[hit+1]
[weight2]

Spear: Pokes well enough.
[melee: lethal/AP3 pain2]
[thrown: lethal/AP2 pain2 short4 long8 focus2]
[reach]
[parry+1]
[weight1]

Chainsaw: Terrifying. Unwieldy.
[melee: lethal/AP5 pain6 stamina2]
[hit-1]
[weight3]
[fuel 3/3]

Bullwhip: Stings like fuck.
[melee: pain5]
[1hand]


Pocket Pistol: Tiny, crappy, and deadly.
[melee: pain1]
[ranged: lethal/AP2 pain2 short4 long10 snap20 focus1/2]
[ammo 5/5]
[1hand]
[unreliable]

Pipe Pistol: Pretty much the worst gun.
[melee: pain2]
[ranged: lethal/AP2 pain2 short4 long10 snap18 focus1/2]
[ammo 1/1]
[weight1]
[1hand]
[unreliable]

Revolver: Shoots fine. You can play russian roulette for a fun diversion.
[melee: pain2]
[ranged: lethal/AP2 pain2 short12 long20 snap23 focus1/2]
[ammo 6/6]
[weight1]
[1hand]

9mm Pistol: Your standard semiauto pistol. russian roulette is not recommended.
[melee: pain2]
[ranged: lethal/AP2 pain2 short10 long18 snap23 focus1/2]
[ammo 17/16]
[weight1]
[1hand]

Magnum: Kicks like a mule. or like a moose if you're on the wrong end.
[melee: pain2]
[ranged: lethal/AP3 pain4 short12 long20 snap18 focus1/2]
[ammo 6/6]
[weight2]
[1hand]

9mm SMG: It's like a pistol, but shootier.
[melee: pain2]
[ranged: lethal/AP2 pain2 min2 short10 long25 snap28 focus1/2]
[ammo 26/25]
[weight2]

Assault Rifle: Fully automatic rifle. What more do you need to know?
[melee: pain2]
[ranged: lethal/AP3 pain2 min3 short12 long150 snap25 focus1/2]
[ammo 31/30]
[weight2]

Pump-Action Shotgun Hits hard but ineffective against armor.
[melee: pain2]
[ranged: lethal/AP2 pain5 min3 short12 long25 snap40 focus1/2]
[hit+1]
[ammo 8/8]
[weight2]

Bolt-Action Rifle: Looks ancient, but effective. The bayonet makes it deadly in melee but harder to aim.
[melee: lethal/AP3 pain3]
[ranged: lethal/AP3 pain2 min3 short12 long150 snap25 focus2/3]
[ammo 5/5]
[weight2]

Sniper Rifle: High-caliber, semi-automatic, scoped. Unfair.
[melee: pain2]
[ranged: lethal/AP4 pain3 min6 short10 long1000 snap12 focus1/2]
[ammo 8/7]
[weight3]

Anti-Tank Rifle: Hilarious overkill 'till you run into a tank.
[melee: pain3]
[ranged: lethal/AP7 pain5 min6 short10 long200 snap12 focus1/2]
[ammo: 1/1]
[weight3]


Kevlar Vest: Good protection from pistols, SMGs, and shotguns. Useless in melee or against rifles.
[armor2]

Chainmail: Quite good protection at the cost of being bulky.
[armor3]
[weight2]

Combat Armor: A combination of metal and hard leather, very protective and easy to move in.
[armor3]

Plate Armor: Steel plates covering the whole body, providing protection from practically anything. Moving around is noisy, though.
[armor4]
[weight1]
[noise+2]

If I've made any mistakes or the rules are unclear, feel free to tell me.

[syvarris]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander Prekar
Description: A tall and strong man, wearing simple cloth garments.  Has a golden cross hanging around his neck on a chain.
Method of death: He was assassinated while asleep, during the crusades.
Demon: He always believes he is absolutely in the right, and has trouble understanding other people, especially those who disagree with him.  His is the only way, and all others will lead to fire.

Never-Die: 3
Pay-Attention: 7
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick: 4
Keep-Hold: 6

Accuracy: -2
Melee: +3
Agility: -2
Poise: +0
Resistance: +3
Medical: -2
Extraction: -2

Determination: 3/3
Focus: 7/7
Stamina: 2/2
Speed: 4
Corruption: 0/6

Status: Fine!
Weapon: None!
Armor: Plate armor [Armor4][weight1][noise+2]
Weight: 1
Inventory: Nothing!

[MidnightJaguar]

Spoiler: kot gurl (click to show/hide)

Name: Rakiit Amph
Description: A 6 foot tall cat girl covered in surgical scars and injection ports. short brown cat ears and similarly brown tail. Wearing a ragged gaurd uniform with a gaping hole in the abdomen. She's holding an LMG protectively to her chest
Method of death: Cardiac arrest from massive stimulant overdose sustained while escaping the lab
Demon: trouble trusting people, hyper active, somewhat unstable. Unsure of purpose.

Never-Die:6
Pay-Attention: 3
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick:8
Keep-Hold:3

Accuracy: +1
Melee: -2
Agility:+5
Poise:-2
Resistance: -2
Medical: +0
Extraction:-2


Determination: 6/6
Focus: 3/3
Stamina: 0/3
Speed: 8/8
Corruption:0/3

Status: Fine
Weapon: LMG
Armor: none
Weight: 3
Inventory:

[KitRougard]

Spoiler: The Mad Scribe (click to show/hide)

Name: "I... I've forgotten. Many call me 'The Scribe,' though I know that is incomplete. In whispers, I am 'The Mad Scribe.'"
Description: A withered old man in a tattered robe
Method of death: Starvation, locked in his tower while he worked on his latest tale of another corrupted realm, which he still clutches.
Demon: Isolation, as well as the madness that follows when you have visions of other, twisted planes.

Never-Die: 5
Pay-Attention: 7
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick: 5
Keep-Hold: 3

Accuracy: -2
Melee: -2
Agility: 0
Poise: 0
Resistance: +2
Medical: -2
Extraction: +2


Determination: 5/5
Focus: 7/7
Stamina: 3/3
Speed: 5/5
Corruption: 0/3

Status: Fine
Weapon: The Mad Scribe's Last Novel (Unknown effects, Range: Audible, hits all. Can be used Melee, Single Target, by shoving the mad words into the target's face.
Armor: Cloth robes, if those help?
Weight: 0/3
Inventory: Blank as the final pages...

He done.

[Egan_BW]

Looks like a swell little group of weirdos. Scribe still needs stats, then we can go go go.

Oh boy looks like I'm out of excuses.

[KitRougard]

To put our ragtag group of damned into words, we have a crusader, a furry, and a madman. In hell.
Let's raise some Heaven.

[syvarris]

Yeah, this is gonna be good, no two ways about it.

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander Prekar
Description: A tall and strong man, wearing simple cloth garments.  Has a golden cross hanging around his neck on a chain.
Method of death: He was assassinated while asleep, during the crusades.
Demon: He always believes he is absolutely in the right, and has trouble understanding other people, especially those who disagree with him.  His is the only way, and all others will lead to fire.

Never-Die: 3
Pay-Attention: 7
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick: 4
Keep-Hold: 6

Accuracy: -2
Melee: +3
Agility: -2
Poise: +0
Resistance: +3
Medical: -2
Extraction: -2

Determination: 3/3
Focus: 7/7
Stamina: 2/2
Speed: 4/4
Corruption: 0/6

Status: Fine!
Weapon: None!
Armor: Plate armor [Armor4][weight1][noise+2]
Weight: 1
Inventory: Nothing!

You're woken by the sound of a door opening. You don't bother to open your eyes; exhausted as you are from campaigning, you need the rest.
By the time you realize your mistake, it's too late. The man has walked to the side of your bed and his blade slashes your neck open.
The man's strike was sloppy; though painful, you realize that you can still fight! You strike out at the assassin with all the strength you have.
Your fist collides with the man's skull with a satisfying crack and he's down. You quickly get up and grab your sword to finish him off. He is the owner of the house you're staying in. As you drive your sword into his chest, you stares you down defiantly.
Then, already exhausted, you collapse.

The wound in your neck is worse than you thought, it's infected. Healers do what they can, but it's ineffective. All they can do if pray for you. You pray as well. But despite everything, one night you find that you cannot breathe. The wound has become swollen and it blocks the air from reaching your lungs. Consciousness fades, and you accept your fate...

Spoiler: kot gurl (click to show/hide)

Name: Rakiit Amph
Description: A 6 foot tall cat girl covered in surgical scars and injection ports. short brown cat ears and similarly brown tail. Wearing a ragged guard uniform with a gaping hole in the abdomen. She's holding an LMG protectively to her chest
Method of death: Cardiac arrest from massive stimulant overdose sustained while escaping the lab
Demon: trouble trusting people, hyper active, somewhat unstable. Unsure of purpose.

Never-Die:6
Pay-Attention: 3
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick:8
Keep-Hold:3

Accuracy: +1
Melee: -2
Agility:+5
Poise:-2
Resistance: -2
Medical: +0
Extraction:-2


Determination: 6/6
Focus: 3/3
Stamina: 0/0
Speed: 8/8
Corruption:0/3

Status: Fine
Weapon: LMG
Armor: none
Weight: 3
Inventory:

Gasping for air, You stumble down the hall as fast as you can manage. Your weapon is heavy, and you feel like nothing but laying down, but you need to keep. Moving. Another tranquilizer dart slams into your thigh, and you rip it out before it can deliver too much of that toxin. Still, the world goes fuzzy and your body starts to ignore your will, shutting down. No, not yet. You take out your last syringe of stimulant and jam it into your arm; all at once the world becomes clear again, your movements easy. You round a corner and finally see the way out.
You crash through the glass door into the sunlight outside and don't look back, running into the woods.

After a while more, your body starts to give out. It's not far, but it'll have to be far enough. You find a hiding spot in a large hollow tree trunk and instantly fall asleep...

...When you wake up, you're in a hospital bed. No. You didn't run far enough. You're hooked up to several machines, beeping and buzzing and whirring. You share the room with two doctors conversing with each other, but... You can't bring yourself to care about their conversation. You're just so tired. You close your eyes, feeling the cold creep into your skin.

Spoiler: The Mad Scribe (click to show/hide)

Name: "I... I've forgotten. Many call me 'The Scribe,' though I know that is incomplete. In whispers, I am 'The Mad Scribe.'"
Description: A withered old man in a tattered robe
Method of death: Starvation, locked in his tower while he worked on his latest tale of another corrupted realm, which he still clutches.
Demon: Isolation, as well as the madness that follows when you have visions of other, twisted planes.

Never-Die: 5
Pay-Attention: 7
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick: 5
Keep-Hold: 3

Accuracy: -2
Melee: -2
Agility: 0
Poise: 0
Resistance: +2
Medical: -2
Extraction: +2


Determination: 5/5
Focus: 7/7
Stamina: 3/3
Speed: 5/5
Corruption: 0/3

Status: Fine
Weapon: The Mad Scribe's Last Novel (Unknown effects, Range: Audible, hits all. Can be used Melee, Single Target, by shoving the mad words into the target's face.
Armor: Cloth robes, if those help?
Weight: 0/3
Inventory: Blank as the final pages...

He done.

You stare into your tome, your eyes seeing not letters in ink but unspeakable patterns. Your gaze doesn't track your pen as it meanders over the page, right, left, up, down, deeper, deeper. When the pen is finished, you sit back and look at the page. Half covered in ink, no describable pattern, but it's perfect. The page describes nothing that exists even in your own twisted mind, but when you look at it, you know.
Then you flip the page and work on the next.

Your pen isn't steady. Your hands shake, no matter how much you try to focus. Sloppy, imperfect. Not a work of art, merely the scrawlings of a madman. You need to control the shaking. You need to nourish your body so that the novel may be finished. But it's far too late. Once in motion it cannot be stopped. You cannot be stopped. By the time you reach the final page, it's impossible to even try to form words with your pen, but you still need to keep writing. You cover that last page in a chaotic scribble. Your signature. Then everything goes dark.


Finally, you awaken. You rub the images of felines from your eyes and survey your surroundings.
You seem to be in some sort of natural cave, uneven ceiling staring back down at you from 10 feet away. It's dark, but you can still see pretty well, as if the stone itself were giving off a faint light.

Laying near you are two other people. Jeez, talk about a pair of weirdos. Oh well, maybe you can talk to them and learn something about where you are?

Spoiler: map (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Alexander (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander Prekar
Description: A tall and strong man, wearing simple cloth garments.  Has a golden cross hanging around his neck on a chain.
Method of death: He was assassinated while asleep, during the crusades.
Demon: He always believes he is absolutely in the right, and has trouble understanding other people, especially those who disagree with him.  His is the only way, and all others will lead to fire.

Never-Die: 3
Pay-Attention: 7
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick: 4
Keep-Hold: 6

Accuracy: -2
Melee: +3
Agility: -2
Poise: +0
Resistance: +3
Medical: -2
Extraction: -2

Determination: 3/3
Focus: 7/7
Stamina: 2/2
Speed: 4/4
Corruption: 0/6

Status: Fine!
Weapon: None!
Armor: Plate armor
Weight: 1
Inventory:
Plate Armor: Steel armor of a crusader. The helmet has a flat top rather than a dome, unlike many armors.
[armor4]
[weight1]
[noise+2]

Cross Pendant: A little golden cross on a chain, symbolizing one's faith, and providing protection from unholy forces.
[unknown]

Spoiler: Rakiit (click to show/hide)

Name: Rakiit Amph
Description: A 6 foot tall cat girl covered in surgical scars and injection ports. short brown cat ears and similarly brown tail. Wearing a ragged guard uniform with a gaping hole in the abdomen. She's holding an LMG protectively to her chest
Method of death: Cardiac arrest from massive stimulant overdose sustained while escaping the lab
Demon: trouble trusting people, hyper active, somewhat unstable. Unsure of purpose.

Never-Die:6
Pay-Attention: 3
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick:8
Keep-Hold:3

Accuracy: +1
Melee: -2
Agility:+5
Poise:-2
Resistance: -2
Medical: +0
Extraction:-2


Determination: 6/6
Focus: 3/3
Stamina: 0/0
Speed: 8/8
Corruption:0/3

Status: Fine
Weapon: LMG
Armor: none
Weight: 3
Inventory:
LMG: Rakiit's very favorite gun. It's got some scratches and mud on it.
[melee: pain3]
[Ranged: lethal/AP3 pain2 min4 short12 long150 snap20 focus1/2]
[ammo ??/200]
[weight3]

Spoiler: Scribe (click to show/hide)

Name: "I... I've forgotten. Many call me 'The Scribe,' though I know that is incomplete. In whispers, I am 'The Mad Scribe.'"
Description: A withered old man in a tattered robe
Method of death: Starvation, locked in his tower while he worked on his latest tale of another corrupted realm, which he still clutches.
Demon: Isolation, as well as the madness that follows when you have visions of other, twisted planes.

Never-Die: 5
Pay-Attention: 7
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick: 5
Keep-Hold: 3

Accuracy: -2
Melee: -2
Agility: 0
Poise: 0
Resistance: +2
Medical: -2
Extraction: +2


Determination: 5/5
Focus: 7/7
Stamina: 3/3
Speed: 5/5
Corruption: 0/3

Status: Fine
Weapon: Book?
Armor: None
Weight: 0/3
Inventory:
Mad Scribe's Last Novel: A leather tome with a simple image of a cat on the cover. Nobody's quite sure what the pages hold.
[unknown]

[syvarris]

Alexander stands up, slowly inspecting his surroundings.  "This is... Heaven?" he says to himself, confused.  He holds one armored hand in front of his face, twisting it around as if he's never seen the limb before.  He pauses, then tightens his fist as his gaze returns to the rough-hewn walls around him.  "Something is wrong" he states firmly.

The knight only then notices the other two people who awoke with him, and turns to offer them each a hand.  "Greetings, fellow servants of God.  It seems our final reward is not yet upon us."

[KitRougard]

The Scribe chuckles to himself.
"No, I'm quite certain this is hell. Why would God let someone like me into heaven when I've seen so many of His 'almighty' mistakes?"
He glances around, noticing the small nook.
"Hm... What's in here?"
He then walks over to look through it.

[MidnightJaguar]

Rakiit wakes up and slams her fist into the ground So, Damn, close, I was so close I just needed one last stim. She keeps hitting the ground until something gradually dawns on her. She isn't alone and this isn't a simulation considering she's still wearing that dead guards uniform and carrying her favorite gun, she didn't know exactly what happened to failed escapees but she was pretty sure it wasn't this. So where exactly is she? Straightening up she looks at the two weirdos as they talk about where they appear to be. She's never heard of Hell but it might be one of the more obscure countries.

God? Heaven, Hell? What are you talking about?

[syvarris]

Alexander recoils away from the others.  "Neither of you are faithful?    Something is very wrong indeed!  This cannot be Hell, but neither can it be Heaven..."

He looks around at the surround walls, confused.  "...Perhaps it is some test, or perhaps a second chance for the two of you, unlucky souls as you are.  Fear not; God is merciful, and if you accept his love and forgivness, you will undoubtably be able to endure this ordeal.  My name is Alexander, holy crusader in service to The Lord, and it seems that I shall be your guide in this realm."

Examine our surroundings, and that blackish thing to the south.  Don't touch it, just try and puzzle out what God's plan is for us.

...Look down a couple of the side passages as well.  Maybe one of them leads above, to Heaven.

[Egan_BW]

The Scribe chuckles to himself.
"No, I'm quite certain this is hell. Why would God let someone like me into heaven when I've seen so many of His 'almighty' mistakes?"
He glances around, noticing the small nook.
"Hm... What's in here?"
He then walks over to look through it.

Towards what seems to the scribe to be the west of the room, a smooth rectangular passage seems to be carved into the natural wall. It's not exactly a hallway, barely large enough to get through crawling on the ground. This route could be traversed, but it seems immediately claustrophobic.
At the end of the passage you see a small wooden hatch.

Alexander recoils away from the others.  "Neither of you are faithful?    Something is very wrong indeed!  This cannot be Hell, but neither can it be Heaven..."

He looks around at the surround walls, confused.  "...Perhaps it is some test, or perhaps a second chance for the two of you, unlucky souls as you are.  Fear not; God is merciful, and if you accept his love and forgivness, you will undoubtably be able to endure this ordeal.  My name is Alexander, holy crusader in service to The Lord, and it seems that I shall be your guide in this realm."

Examine our surroundings, and that blackish thing to the south.  Don't touch it, just try and puzzle out what God's plan is for us.

...Look down a couple of the side passages as well.  Maybe one of them leads above, to Heaven.

There's a hole in the floor to the south, leading down into darkness. Carefully peering down it, you can see that the bottom is just more natural cave, more than that you cannot see from here. It's not so far a drop that it's hurt if you were careful, but it wouldn't be easy getting back up, either.
[Alexander makes a perception check. 12.]
You realize that a trickle of water is flowing down the hole. Tracing the water's path across the chamber, you see that the source of the water is the passage to the north. That could suggest that the north passage leads upwards.

Spoiler: map (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Alexander (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander Prekar
Description: A tall and strong man, wearing simple cloth garments.  Has a golden cross hanging around his neck on a chain.
Method of death: He was assassinated while asleep, during the crusades.
Demon: He always believes he is absolutely in the right, and has trouble understanding other people, especially those who disagree with him.  His is the only way, and all others will lead to fire.

Never-Die: 3
Pay-Attention: 7
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick: 4
Keep-Hold: 6

Accuracy: -2
Melee: +3
Agility: -2
Poise: +0
Resistance: +3
Medical: -2
Extraction: -2

Determination: 3/3
Focus: 7/7
Stamina: 2/2
Speed: 4/4
Corruption: 0/6

Status: Fine!
Weapon: None!
Armor: Plate armor
Weight: 1
Inventory:
Plate Armor: Steel armor of a crusader. The helmet has a flat top rather than a dome, unlike many armors.
[armor4]
[weight1]
[noise+2]

Cross Pendant: A little golden cross on a chain, symbolizing one's faith, and providing protection from unholy forces.
[unknown]

Spoiler: Rakiit (click to show/hide)

Name: Rakiit Amph
Description: A 6 foot tall cat girl covered in surgical scars and injection ports. short brown cat ears and similarly brown tail. Wearing a ragged guard uniform with a gaping hole in the abdomen. She's holding an LMG protectively to her chest
Method of death: Cardiac arrest from massive stimulant overdose sustained while escaping the lab
Demon: trouble trusting people, hyper active, somewhat unstable. Unsure of purpose.

Never-Die:6
Pay-Attention: 3
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick:8
Keep-Hold:3

Accuracy: +1
Melee: -2
Agility:+5
Poise:-2
Resistance: -2
Medical: +0
Extraction:-2


Determination: 6/6
Focus: 3/3
Stamina: 0/0
Speed: 8/8
Corruption:0/3

Status: Fine
Weapon: LMG
Armor: none
Weight: 3
Inventory:
LMG: Rakiit's very favorite gun. It's got some scratches and mud on it.
[melee: pain3]
[Ranged: lethal/AP3 pain2 min4 short12 long150 snap20 focus1/2]
[ammo ??/200]
[weight3]

Spoiler: Scribe (click to show/hide)

Name: "I... I've forgotten. Many call me 'The Scribe,' though I know that is incomplete. In whispers, I am 'The Mad Scribe.'"
Description: A withered old man in a tattered robe
Method of death: Starvation, locked in his tower while he worked on his latest tale of another corrupted realm, which he still clutches.
Demon: Isolation, as well as the madness that follows when you have visions of other, twisted planes.

Never-Die: 5
Pay-Attention: 7
Go-Through: 3
Move-Quick: 5
Keep-Hold: 3

Accuracy: -2
Melee: -2
Agility: 0
Poise: 0
Resistance: +2
Medical: -2
Extraction: +2


Determination: 5/5
Focus: 7/7
Stamina: 3/3
Speed: 5/5
Corruption: 0/3

Status: Fine
Weapon: Book?
Armor: None
Weight: 0/3
Inventory:
Mad Scribe's Last Novel: A leather tome with a simple image of a cat on the cover. Nobody's quite sure what the pages hold.
[unknown]

[syvarris]

Check the path to the north, but do not leave the two heathens behind.

[KitRougard]

"Ah, just a silly thing called religion, a thing people cling to to explain that which they do not understand," the Scribe chuckles. "We died, that seems to be the one constant. Now, you seem like an agile lass - Could you squeeze in here, perhaps see what's on the other side of that hatch?"
He steps aside, and gestures to the tunnel.