Sooo... by "game canceled" I take it to mean you won't be GM'ing anymore? Great job complaining, guys; you've scared off the GM.
not this game anyway.
i am meant to enjoy this too. being accused of cheating is not fun. it also makes it hard for me to be bothered to do the work required when it seems some of my players will cry foul everytime something unlikely happens. since the game had ended i will tell you what i had planned. i only had a vague idea because RTD's have a way of getting off track of a complex plot, so i tried to keep it adaptable.
you are in the quarters of a ship that was sent to investigate a planet that had appeared in orbot between earth and mars. on this planet reside a form of human that at some point in the vast past evolved an organ that allowed them to extract energy from the passage of time. they could also funnel excess energy beck into the timestream.
many thousands of years ago they decided to see how they would have developed if they did not have this organ and created a sub-species that had the dna needed to grow the organ switched off. this switching was inherited. however recently their sun has progressed to the next stage and has started expanding so they bend space-time around their planet and inserted it into orbit in our solar system. the idea was you would land on the planet and either make peace with them or make war with them. if the former happened they would offer implant the organ in you, grown from your own dna.they would hook the organ up to your nervous system which still had the capability of manipulating it. after that point their enemies would attack after the new location of their homeworld was revealed to them by the ripples in spacetime. before the shift they had been attempting to find it for 1000's of years. if you went to war with them you may have discovered this and managed an incompete implantation yourself. After either of these were resolved blackness would envolope you all for a second and then you would be standing in a 3d credit roll. all you real memories flood back. (cutscene mode now) an icon would pop up in front of you and you would press it. and you would start chatting about the awesome things you did during the game with the other players saying how you can't wait for the final release and how awesome it is you get to beta test
Timebender then you logout wait for the Mindlink to disengage and go grab something to eat.
The watches were a hud. the digits were of course a lifecounter. the skull button was for if you got stuck (clipping problems other bugs) and would be removed in the final release. the heart button was a lives transfer button esentially used to keep the others alive longer if you had a surplus of lives. edit: i forgot to mention after death when you lives had run out the watch would display 5 in red, goin down by one at the end of the turn. still immaterial to you. however if one of you pressed your heart button during this time the live would automatically transfer to the player. so all in all it was very easy to die but you had 50 lives to play with among you (unless you somehow managed to gain more which while i intended as being possible i hadn't decided on anything to grant them yet)
Timebending would allow you to do essentially anything once you got the skills as you have an near-infinite source of energy as well as a near-infinite capacity energy sink. any adjustments would speed up or slow down time but over the scale of the universe so it hardly mattered. you could for example create matter. only simple elements at first then later more complex objects like swords or ships. the skills would be split into light heat kinetic sound matter(creating or banishing matter from the universe) other(electricity and possibly more if i find something that doesn't really fit into the others) (so you might be very good at melting suff but couldn't make it fly to save your life)some things would require several skills (healing would need at least a good kinetic and matter skills possibly heat if the pationt was too hot or cold) and each of you would have an afinity for either additive (taking energy from the timestream and adding it to the universe) and subtracive (the opposite) and would get a bonus for your type. if an action could be done with both (stopping a moving by adding kinetic energy opposite to the direction of travel or by removing said kinetic energy) the one you have an afinity in would be used) a wound to the organ would stop use completly till it was healed even bruising this was a mental bock (manifested as an autofail) because of the vast amounts of energy you might incorrectly wield killing yourself. at some point you might have removed the block (at high risk) allowing you to use timebending but with penalties depending on the extent of injury.
i hadn't fleshed out the enemy of the aliens (named the Torkim) but i would have if you chose the peaceful route.
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Topic: Mystery RTD: Turn 5: Fre gets armed, Steve gets disarmed. Game cancelled (Read 10666 times)