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[LeoLeonardoIII]

This is a game called Treasure Sounds Alot Like Treachery. The players enter a Forbidden Ruin to loot it. The players receive an individual score, based on treasure deposited, and treasure cannot be shared. So every piece of treasure someone else gets, is one less for you!

The map is split roughly in half. You'll probably encounter one person early on, then another two shortly thereafter, and then everyone meets in the middle where there is a bunch of loot and a few pieces just lying around.

Note that almost all the treasure is hidden behind some kind of defense. You need a Machete to cut down vines, a Crowbar or Axe to open up a chest, or a Shovel to dig up Dirt.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

SIGNUP
To sign up you have to post your symbol and your 3 equipment picks. The first 8 people to sign up get spaces. If you edit your signup post, for example to post "IN" and then read later, I will go by the latest edit time. This means you might post first, edit much later, and end up not playing.

POSTING
After I update, you post your turn. I will wait for everyone to post their turns and then process them in order. But the "safe zone" is 24 hours from my update. I may update later than that, but I will not update earlier. If you haven't posted by the time I update, you stand there doing nothing.
When I update, I process everyone's actions in order of posting.
Do not edit your turn posts. If your turn post is edited you will lose a life.

ACTIONS
You get 3 Movement per turn. You don't have to spend them all. Moving in any direction takes 1 Move.

You cannot move through or onto someone else, nor can you move through walls.

After you move, you can make an action. That can be an attack, setting or disarming a trap, or using an item. Except with ranged attacks, you must be adjacent to something to interact with it.

You can pick up objects you walk on for free if you have space and you want to take them.

MELEE ATTACKS
When you attack someone, you have a 50% chance to hit. If you hit, you cause 1 HP of damage.
Everyone has 3 HP. At 3 HP your character is Green. At 2 HP it's yellow, and at 1 HP it's red. If you reach 0 HP you die, drop your items, and restart at a random entrance.

When you die you lose a life. Everyone starts with 3 lives.

When you attack in melee the target gets to counter-attack for free immediately after. He follows the same procedure. He cannot counter-attack if he died or if he's using a missile weapon.

MISSILE ATTACKS
When you fire, you choose a cardinal direction. The shot travels in that direction until maximum range. The shot tries to hit every target in the line from closest to farthest, 30% chance to hit, 1 HP damage if it hits.

If the shot hits a wall or door it stops.

If you shoot at a melee-wielder who is adjacent, he gets a counter-attack against you as above.

EQUIPMENT
You can carry 5 items and you start with 3 of your choice. Usually one of those is a weapon, but you can choose to go unarmed. Each weapon has a special effect if you're wielding it, whether you attack or not in that turn. You can swap carried weapons or put away your weapon at the start of your turn for free.

You cannot choose TREASURE for your 3 EQUIPMENT picks.

The blue items on the equipment list are single-use, the rest last forever.

TREASURE
Each piece of treasure counts as one carried item.
If you step on one of the entrances you deposit all your held treasure and gain the point value for them. You can choose to instantly retire from the game.
If you lose your last life, your total point value is halved.
The game ends when the board is empty of treasure, or there is only one player left, or all players on the board vote unanimously to end the game.
Whoever has the most points when the game ends is the winner.

WEAPONS       Special
Axe           Chop open chests
Boomerang     Range 4, returns
Crowbar       Pry open chests
Dynamite      Blows 2 to 5 turns after lit, fill 20 squares, 1 to 3 damage, destroy doors (uses 2 sq)
Gun           Range 8
Hammer        Stun a struck target (Lose next turn) if attack is 90%+
Knife         +1 Move
Liquor        Heals 1 HP (up to max) or throw Range 3 for fire (burns for 2 turns)
Machete       Chop down vines
Onion Bomb    Range 4, damages 3x3 area
Pike          -1 Move, +1 damage if attack is 90%+
Shovel        Dig in soil
Trap          Stepping on a set trap causes 1 to 3 HP damage and vaporizes the trap
Unarmed       +1 Move, no counter-attack
Wrench        Set or disarm traps, turn Scrap Metal into a Trap

ARMOR             Special
Grubby Leather    -5% to be hit
Rusty Cuirass     -10% to be hit, -1 Move
Mail Coat         -15% to be hit (counts as two items for picking, still 1 for weight)

TREASURE              Value   Special
Coins                   10   
Gold Bar                50
Golden Fleece          100    -25% to be hit (wear as armor)
Healing Potion          50    Heals you to full
Jewels                  50   
Purse of Holding        50    Carry +5 items
Quickfoot Boots        100    +2 Move
Ring of Wound Closure  100    Auto heals you 1 HP at the end of your turn (10 charges)
Silver Statuette        50    Counts as 2 item weight
Scrap Metal              2    Can be turned into a Trap using a Wrench
Titan's Gauntlets      100    1 to 2 damage in melee instead of 1
Vorpal Sword           100    Kill target on 90%+ (wield as weapon)

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

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+ Entrance
. Floor
∩ Archway
☼ Trap
‼ Dynamite
─ │ Door
≈ Fountain
δ Item on Floor
░ Dirt
‡ Vines
◙ Chest


♥ ¢ α Σ Φ
♦ ¶ ⌂ £ ß Ω  Player Symbols
♣ Æ Ø Γ µ
♠ ♫ § € ¥ Р  

[IronyOwl]

Looks fun. I'll take Σ, crowbar, shovel, and gun.

What's the point of the boomerang, by the way?

[silhouette]

in

§ as symbol

Wrench, machetee and crowbar

[100killer9]

In, with a crowbar, shovel, and boomerang (I assume you have limited ammo for the gun...)

[ExKirby]

In, @, Pike, Boomerang, Axe.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

The point of the boomerang is that it returns. So for example:

.........
.@.§.Σ...
.........


@ throws the boomerang East. It travels to the first floor (Range 1), to § (2), to the next floor (3), then to Σ (Range 4, maximum), and then it returns through the squares it traveled.

So you roll the 30% to hit against §, Σ, § in that order. The first one it hits is the lucky recipient of the attack.

That is, it cannot hit more than one person in one throw.

You always get your boomerang back, whether it hits or misses, unlike real life

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Also, Killer, if you don't choose a symbol I'll just pick one for ya.

And silhouette, the wrench is the tool for setting traps, but you need a trap to set also. The wrench can be used to make traps using Scrap Metal, which you'll find in the Forbidden Ruin. Just wanted to make sure you knew.

I want to wait until we have 8 players, but if we don't have 8 by Monday morning (some people don't check the forums on the weekend) we'll start then. Consider the initial "safe period" to be 60 hours from my original post, which is just after lunchtime Monday for me.

After that it'll be the 24-hour "safe period" after each update.

I might skip weekends entirely, we'll see how it goes next weekend. I really don't want to skip people, and five updates a week is a decent pace.

[Deon]

What's up with the crowbars?

[Criptfeind]

In:

Ð, Crowbar, Machete, One more for later Shovel.

What does digging do?

[LeoLeonardoIII]

On the map, the stupid-looking (and not very brown) rectangles are areas of dirt and rocks where the Forbidden Ruins have collapsed a little.

There might be treasure underneath, but the only way to get it is to dig using a shovel.

A shovel is also a standard weapon, of course.

The crowbar and axe are identical, but before I had more complicated Ruin features like locked and/or trapped doors. Originally the Axe could chop down locked doors and chests, while the crosbar could pry open only chests. But the Axe, in exchange for greater utility, had a small chance to destroy what was in a chest. If you lose the locked doors, there's no reason to give the axe that penalty. Hence their current identical rules.

Basically you can choose between Gimli or Gordon Freeman and there's no rules difference.

[Criptfeind]

That deserves a sig, but in the meantime I will also take a shovel.

Can I start unarmed? For that +1 movement?

[IronyOwl]

I'm not sure it suits me, but I agree about the sigging.

And I believe you can swap out OR put away your equipped weapon as a free action at the start of your turn, meaning you can specify you want to be unarmed (and therefore faster) any time you don't specifically need a weapon in hand.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Yes. The downside is that you choose at the start of your turn, which means if you attack you do so unarmed. And if someone attacks you, you don't get to counter. But running around with nothing in your hands is faster.

[Criptfeind]

unless we PM turns I doubt that there is a down side, just take out a weapon when you are close to another.

[qwertyuiopas]

I guess I'll play, then.

Φ, shovel, axe, machete.

Is @ even a valid player symbol?