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A remake of EagleV's game.

Spoiler: Background (click to show/hide)

Exile. A place of no return. An underground cavern created by earthquakes, and seas drying up and filling again. Empire made a good use of it. As a prison. Sending expedition after expedition many miles under the earth portals were estabilished. Now the Empire sends anyone daring opposing the emperor. Oh, but you didn't commit any heavy crimes. Oh no, you would be then put to death. No, you spoke, and acted a little too loudly about your political views. That upsets the ruling system, so you had to go. Now hundreds of people each year are sent down there. At least they aren't sent to starvation death. Somehow a type of fungi evolved to emit radiation, that can substitute the needs of plants for sunlight. The cavern has wild life. Mostly Mushrooms the size of trees, but there are also sickly bushes, and plants, that consume the fungi radiation, and moisture from the air using the leaves, and somehow they live. And with the plants also live the animals. Most of this cavern is filled with spiders, and insects, but the rest remains a mystery. You would thought that rock was rich in metals, both iron and gold? You're so wrong. It's a blessing to find a sharp rock even. Iron is very rare down here. Good luck on surviving down here.

When your group crosses the portal you see nothing but waste land. Only a few mushrooms and plants grow here. Actually only mushrooms. You have no idea where you are, but around here you can only see the portal, and skeletons in front of abandoned shacks. Nobody said that any imeperial expedition ever returned to surface. None the less, this land isn't hospitable, and the 300 of you would quickly starve. That's why you split into 3 groups and head into different directions. Hungry, thirsty and tired, you arrive after a week of living off of what you find, into places that seem good enough. The question is will you stay, or march forward?

This is a turnbased strategy forum experiment. I want 3 players, who can post once every 48 hours, 24 if everyone agrees. The idea is to put you in charge of a band of survivors, that have to battle or negotiate for scarce resources - water and food, maybe even territory, or useful tools. Seeing as your group will have miners, you can expand your bunker fort to serve as HQ a city. Or you can set up camp in a building, or even venture outside the dome horizon - if you dare.

RP is not strictly necessary. After all, this is an experiment, not an RP. However, [build X of Y - explore place Z] will do just that, while a few lines of elaboration combined with a good roll might grant you a bonus.

A word on the experiment part: the rules might very well have flaws or be inbalanced. If you spot something I have overlooked, please tell me. If one faction gets an advantage due to an unfair rule, I will change the rule and might give that faction a disadvantage to partially compensate the unfair advantage. I want players that can accept setbacks, rule changes, and accidental unfairness.

Spoiler: The Rules (click to show/hide)

Every bunker exiled group starts with the following:
-300 units of water. (people use 1/day week each, not counting the re-sanitized.)
-300 units of food. (people use 1/day week each)
-0 units of scrap materials
-0 units of metal
-0 units of magical components.
-100 people: at least 40 miners warriors, 10 scientists wizards, 10 crafters, 10 traders/diplomats priests. Rest (30) can be chosen freely. You can also choose rogues, which are basically scouts
-There are no other professions in the game. You can only choose those at the beginning, but you can get more specialised
-NO tools, NO items, NO nothing. Only what you can scavenge, or make yourself at the beginning

You need:
-A name. People living together either cling together, or throw a tantrum. Luckily for you, your people united in a clan, and have given it a name of your choice.
-A color to represent your bunker fort and people.

Too bad for you, your people all come from the outskirts of the city and thus only know the nearby lands. You will have to explore. I will add bunkers and their surroundings in ASCII when people sign up.

You can only see what's on the horison, but you know nothing else

Every turn takes 1 day. week on the beginning, then after much time, I'll move to months, then to seasons.

You can:
-Dig. Rolls d100, can have good or nasty side-effects. Digs into the cavern wall 1 square / 10 workers
-Explore. Rolls d100, has good, neutral or bad effects, mostly good. Walking unexplored (black) squares costs 1 day, and explores that tile.
-Walk. Rolls d100, can have side-effects. Costs 1 day/5 explored map tiles.
-Create rooms. Empty caverns are no good for a bunker fort, you have to set your crafters to work. A crafter can form a single, dug-out tile to a room of your choice in 1 day, using 5 scrap materials.
-Craft. Ask me to make a tool, a gun, an appliance, and I'll tell you how much manhours and scrap it costs. Can have side-effects, efficiency determined by d100.
-Salvage. Break down something you made, or something you have, for scrap materials, or metal, or components.
-Use your imagination.

Your goal: survive. If that goes well, escape. To where-ever the other martian cities are, or maybe to earth? surface is

Players:
Chedarrius
Orange
45 Warriors, 15 Crafters, 5 Rogues, 25 Wizards 10 Priests

inteuniso
Gold Staffs
45 warriors, 20 wizards, 20 crafters, and 15 priests.

Acanthus117
50 warriors, 15 wizards, 20 crafters, and 15 priests

Yarnspinner
The Red Faces
40 Warriors / 20 Craftsmen / 20 Wizards / 10 Priests / 10 Scouts Rogues

dragnar
The Silver Sorcerers
40 warriors, 25 wizards, 25 crafters, and 10 priests

Criptfeind

ExKirby

Primary group:

Secondary group:

Fixed the mistake with food and water



Map of the realm: Pick a tile, any tile to head to. You start at D4. More importantly you can't stay at D4, or you'll all starve. Each tile has tiles of it's own, and those tiles (normal roguelike screen size) have tiles of it's own (size of a bunker of the original game.

[inteuniso]

In!

This game was awesome.

Are we still going to follow the use of the "materials system" with the five tiers?

I would kinda suggest to bring in the rules from the old game (the good ones, at least) into the new one.

[Acanthus117]

In!

We'll be the Iron Sabers, with red as our color!

[Yarnspinner]

Waiting list please.

[Criptfeind]

Waiting list please.

Also do people drink/eat one unit a week or do they only start with enough for less than half a turn?

[inteuniso]

Waiting list please.

Also do people drink/eat one unit a week or do they only start with enough for less than half a turn?

-300 units of water. (people use 1/week each, not counting the re-sanitized.)
-300 units of food. (people use 1/week each)

[Criptfeind]

-300 units of water. (people use 1/day each, not counting the re-sanitized.)
-300 units of food. (people use 1/day each)

[dragnar]

This looks interesting... In! (or waiting list since it sounds like it's full)

[inteuniso]

-300 units of water. (people use 1/day each, not counting the re-sanitized.)
-300 units of food. (people use 1/day each)

Every turn takes 1 day. week on the beginning, then after much time, I'll move to months, then to seasons.

[Acanthus117]

This looks interesting... In! (or waiting list since it sounds like it's full)

ehh, there's one moar slot.

[inteuniso]

Oh, I shall be the Gold Staffs, with:

5 warriors, 10 wizards, 10 crafters, and 5 priests.

There isn't another slot. It's me, Cheddarius, and you.

[Rooster]

If it's only one more player then I'm okay with 4. Looks like 5 it is! But this might take some time per turn tho
In the original it was one unit a day.
Since I moved to weeks it's only fair to make units of food and water be counted as week's worth.

As you might have seen I made 3 materials. Materials (wood and stone, mostly used for buildings), Metal, and MAgical components, with the order of rarity:
Material
Metal
Components
Obviously.
Any rules you might suggest would be great, aaaaaaaaand Ascii draw map coming right up

Can somebody quote me the 5 tiers of technology so I can modify it?

[EagleV]

I am watching this. Wonder how the system translates to a different setting

EDIT: 5-tier system

1. Normal stuff, easy to build with scrappy scrap. Ex. Pipelines, walls, frames. Probably most static stuff, medieval weapons, etc.
2. Hard stuff, has a penalty to craft with scrappy scrap. Ex. Basic engines, mechanical devices, electric wiring, firearms (powder, compressed air). Has no penalty if you use some nice scrap, too.
3. Special stuff, can only be crafted with nice scrap. Ex. Electric devices, engines, calculators, modern weaponry (coil).
4. Sweet stuff, can only be crafted with nice scrap, with a penalty. Ex. Remote control, programmable calculators, comm systems, modern heavy weapons.
5. Epic stuff, cannot be crafted unless you find some Überscrap. What Nirur said, computers, auto-aim, flying vehicles (if you have a lot of it), computer systems.

Everything 3 or more difficulty will need blueprints, and scientists working on it. Note that many devices will require eg. a special engine and normal frame, thus requiring scrappy scrap and nice scrap, and having scientists and crafters working on it.

Scientists can only work with nice scrap. Crafters only with scrappy scrap. Überscrap will require both.

So scrappy scrap would be pipes, plate iron, old rusted frames of whatever you can find, bolts, so on. Nice scrap is basic mechanics or electronics - switches, pilot lights, small chips, resistors, gearboxes, cardans, diodes, pneumatic or hydraulic components, stuff like that. Uberscrap includes electronic or high-end mechanic stuff, like computer components, sensors other than pressure, infrared senders and receivers, lasers and laser-activated sensors, high-capacity electromotors, so on.

Ofc, this will still have to be fantasy-fied.

[Rooster]

Yeah, thanks.
And surprisingly awesome the creator shows up. That's always cool.

1. Normal stuff, easy to build with materials. Ex. doors, walls, frames. Probably most static stuff, medieval weapons, etc. You will rely on stone daggers a good chunk of time
2. Hard stuff, has a penalty to craft with materials. Ex. Catapults, engines of non magical nature. Anything that can substitute mostly metal stuff. Mostly armor, pole arms, bashing weapons.
3. Advanced stuff, can only be crafted with metal. Ex. Proper swords, and metal armor. Materials can, and will be mixed somethimes to minimalise the costs in metal.
4. Powerfull stuff, can only be crafted with metal, with a little penalty when someone is unskilled with necessary components handling, uses a little of components. Ex.  things bordering on magic such as poisoned sword, or sword that somehow manages to give off electricity, but no magic was used
5. Magic stuff, cannot be crafted unless you find some components. Now this means anything really. While this are things made from components, nobody said they have to be *actually* magical, or need wizards and priests. For ex. healing potions use healing components, but once a person is skilled enough in making them, no extra effort necessary to make them. Expect flaming swords and the like

Everything 3 or more difficulty will need knowledge (a skilled person knowing what has to be done), and crafters, or wizards working on it. Note that many devices will require eg. a metal part and material skeleton, thus requiring metal and materials, and having wizards and/ or crafters working on it.

Wizards can only work with components. Crafters only with materials, and metal.

Materials is most versatile of resources, it can be ropes, wood, stone, bone, anything that's fairly common
Metal is obviously metal.
Components, is something that has no visible use, but you have to know it is usefull. This means, mushrooms, brain of a certain lizard, a fang of a certain carnivore, anything you could see going into a cauldron and so forth.

[ExKirby]

In!