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[Ghazkull]

Well i'm pretty new in this forum but i have lurked around since some weeks and was following the forum games and especially the RTDs. i loved how you people managed to turn normal,peaceful,law abiding(i hope you write it that way) towns within three turns into  chaos wreaked ,zombie overrun , daemon worshipping, burning pieces of shit.(somehow reminds me of the end of all my df-fortresses).

Anyways i decided to also start an RTD. Which is set in our modern world, to be more specific in Germany. Everyone of you starts out as a normal guy who just moved in the town of Düringen.(this town is not really existing. All similiarities to the real world are accidently) You all have seen the terrible news of Africa  where the Zombies were first seen. You didn't mind too much(as much as you can't mind that people are turned into maneating crazed beasts) because very soon American Troops were sent down there and the situation seemed under control. What you didn't knew that refugees from Africa soon landed in France...

Days later a guy who wanted to take a  french-looking tramper with him was bitten by the suspicious guy. With his arm heavily bleeding he managed to reach the big Hospital of Düringen where all of you seven are currently situated because you either work there or for personal reasons....

Rolls:

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I use the seemingly normal RTD Rules (which i have shamelessly stolen from the others)

Normal Actions with Basic Skill work the following way:

The action results are defined by a six-sided die roll:
[1]: Epic Fail. Whatever you tried to achieve, you didn't, and you made it worse.
[2]: Fail. You didn't, or couldn't do what you tried to.
[3]: Meager success: You didn't fail, but you didn't succeed either. Like trying to sit on two chairs but ending up on one.
[4]: Success: You succeeded in your plight. All consequences are now your problem.
[5]: Epic Success: You succeed in the most positive way possible. The universe will bend to your will.
[6]: Overshot: You achieved what you tried to achieve, but you made it worse by doing so in the most inhumanely overpowerful way possible. Casualties are inevitable.

The Rest is mentioned as below:
Easy actions: 1 Autofail, 2-3 minor success, 4-5 perfect success, 6 Critical success (1-2, bad results, 3-6 good results)
eg. Walking down stairs

Normal actions: 1 Autofail, 2 Fail, 3-4 minor success, 5 perfect success, 6 Critical success (1-3 bad results, 4-6 good results)
eg. Walking down stairs stealthily

Hard actions: 1 Autofail, 2-3 Fail, 4 minor success, 5 success, 6 Critical success (1-4 bad results, 5-6 good results)
eg. Walking down stairs stealthily while juggling

Very hard actions: 1-2 Autofail, 3-4 Fail, 5 minor success, 6 Critical success (1-5 bad results, 6 good results)
eg. Walking down stairs stealthily while juggling orbs of light

Impossible actions: 1-3 Autofail, 4-5 Fail, 6 Critical success (1-5 Very Bad results, 6 Partial success)
eg. Walking down stairs stealthily on your hands while juggling balls of fire with your feet and doing so completely unobserved by the half dozen orcs below.

Skill levels make actions easier/harder for example:

 a guy with the legendary skill in Stealth will just have to absolve a roll for easy actions if he is sneaking past a normal human on guard(so this means even if you are a badass killer assassin you might get unconcentrated or something totally unexpected happens and you fail...)

a guy which is unskilled in Stealth must absolve a roll for hard/very hard actions if he is sneaking past the same guy.

Damage Rolls are working following way:
1: Head
2: Torso
3: Left Arm
4: Right Arm
5: Right Leg
6: Left Leg

on damage rolls of 3 or higher an additional roll is made to determine what Body Parts get the bashing, so it is still possible with a (3!,6!) just to loose a phalanx because you rolled a (6!). Exceptions of this rule are the Torso and the Head. The Head has only one part which means: (1!,6!) is insta-death...
While with the Torso additional to the harming of the Ribcage, internal Organs also get harmed and get an additional Damage Roll:

1! Heart

1: light bleeding,
2: bleeding,
3: heavy bleeding,
4: compressed heart-ventricle,
5:mangled heart(2 rounds till death, except you get a new one),
6: insta-death

2! Lungs

1-3: winded
4!: crushed lung (suffocating in 3)
5-6: suffocating in 1


3! Liver

1-3: no drinking allowed, (if you drink: passing-out roll)
4-6: heavy bleeding, no drinking (if you drink: insta-death)


4! bowels

1-3: passing-out from pain rolls every turn
4-6: passing-out from pain rolls every turn -1 modifier)


5! pancreas

1-3: -1 on infection rolls, bleeding
4-6: -2 on infection rolls, heavy bleeding


6! Spinal Cord

1-3: movement rolls every turn (if you can do anything at all)
4: disabled legs
5: disabled arms and legs
6: no body movement (suffocation in 3)

Skills:

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Skill levels are in following order:Unskilled,Novice,Adept,Skilled,Master, Legendary

The following Skills are available(more might be added as the game continues):

Medicine:

First-Aid(Doing simple Medicinal Operations such as Bandaging,stopping of bleedings, splinting broken bones...)

Surgery (Doing more complicated operations, for example the removal of bullets)

Herbalism(using plants and nature for First-Aid)

Weaponry:

Close-Combat (Fighting with your bare-hands, altough i think not a good idea against Zeds)

Axes (includes Wood-Cutting)
Blunt Weapons
Blade Weapons/cleaving (Cleavers, Swords)
Blade Weapons/stabbing ( daggers, rapiers...)
Rifles(Hunting Rifles...)
Close-Quarter Rifles (Shotguns...)
Pistols
Automatic Weaponry (AK, G36...)
Heavy Ordonnance (heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, miniguns...)
Throwing (knives, grenades, stones, pies.....)
Survival
Looting (your luck at finding things)
Stealth
Hunting (also tracking)
Farming (also everything which has to do with the tending of animals)



Miscellaneous
Mining
Driving
IT-Knowledge
Leadership (holding great speeches, organizing things, inspire people)
Pyrotechnics
Electricity
everything else that i might have forgotten...

The Virus

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To avoid any misunderstandings:

The Virus infects living people, not dead ones! It can be transferred by coming into contact with body fluids(blood,salvia,sperm,urine etc.), being bitten and coming into contact with contaminated water(that means water which is polluted with Infected body fluids. You are not becoming infected if the body fluid hit your skin but if they reach your mucosa your a very unlucky person.Incubation time depends on the health of the Infected person. While healthy people can take up to 3 days to convert, weak,dying or heavily wounded people can turn in half a minute.

The Infected themselves can run and climb except for more complicated things like ladders and mountains...and have basic instincts/hunting instincts. They need to feed(humans, animals, normal food). Animals are immune to the Virus as it is only adapted to humans.

You can kill them by the same way you can kill a normal human altough they can't feel pain and therefore can  fight on even if limbs are severed, although they are surely dying. Interestingly they have a higher regneration than normal humans and therefore not deadly wounds heal over time.

(More might be added later when more issues should arise)

Additional Fun:

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At the beginning, i think i use the Fortress of Bones System which means:
each day will consist of 1 hour turns. That means 16 day turns. 8 sleeping turns.
Occasionally you must also eat and drink.
The weather and encumbrance of your character will also play a role (so no climbing a mountain in a storm with a house in you backpack while haven't eaten for 3 days and slept for 2 weeks)

Wounds:
Following the DF-System
1= lightly wounded/bruised
2= moderately wounded/battered
3= broken/heavily wounded
4= mangled
5= lopped off

You all (5 people, rest will be waiting list) start in the hospital of Düringen (either because you work there or because of personal problems you can make up yourself). Your starting equipment consists of the clothes you are wearing and that what normal people are carrying to a normal visit in a hospital.

Character Creation:
Name:
Occupation(pls no super spies, and no military people):
Starting Equipment (see above):
Story:

Player List


1.Jetsquirrel

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Name:Jets the Chopper
Occupation:Woodcutter

Status: fed(5 turns),no thirst(5 turns), , fatal Hangover!(3turns)

Injuries:
2 clips in head

bloodloss(Stilled)


Equipment:
20 white fungi (4 meals)
food (9 meal)
water( 10 meals)
5 pieces of white willow bark
Handaxe
torn Lumberjack Clothes
AWESOME Lumberjack Cap
130€
Keys to tank station
useless air gun (1/1)
5 bullets for air gun
5 bandages
2 syringes of narcotics
10 dragees valium
sewing kit
5x5 different unkown medicaments
canister of fuel(10/10 liters)
bag of fertilizer(unkown


Attributes:
tough (+1 on rolls considering pain/recovery)
frightening to behold(+1 on intimidating people)
very rational(tests on using human body parts to heal you and using humans as meatshields or leaving them to die/actively shortening their chances of survival auto-success)
cruel(+2 on morals roll, +1 on Survival rolls. Meaning you can leave other survivors easier to die and have not that great problem with killing real humans)

Skills:
Adept Axe-User [25/50]
Adept Herbalism [3/50]
Novice First-Aid-User [7/10]
Novice "I'm a tree"-user [5/10] 
Unskilled Surgeon[5/5]
Novice Looter [4/10]

Bonuses/Penalties:
+1 on pain rolls(tough)
+1 on recovery (tough)
+1 on intimidating people(fearsome)
+1 on survival rolls(cruel)
+2 on moral rolls(cruel)
-1 on everything

2.Pillow_Killer

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Name: Horatio Rash
Occupation: Pyrotechnician

Status: hungry(nutrient solution), thirsty(nutrient solution), infected, half-zombie...

Injuries:
2.liver (1) freshly operated

right leg (2) splinted
left leg(2) splinted
left arm(2) splinted
right arm(2) splinted
somehow repaired ribcage (1,5)
stitched and tackered bowels(2)

heavy bloodloss(stilled)

Equipment:
 Casual wear with gaping hole( don't know what Pyrotechnicians normally wear)
 Lighter
 Nutrient solution(attached to arm)
 Blood Pack(attached to other arm)
hunting knife
food (9 meals)
water bottels(10 meals)
2 bottles of wine
4 ointments for minor wounds( heals wounds till 1,5)
5 bandages
10 dragees of  aspirine (removes bad effects on head)
5 flasks of cough syrup (removes minor illness)
disinfection spray ( no infection roll needed if wounded)
giant meathammer
2 butcher knives

Attributes:
agile: +1 on dodging

Skills:
Adept Pyrotechnician [1/50]
Novice Observator:[1/10]

Bonuses/Penalties:
totally crippled(no movement allowed)
+1 on dodging (agile)
no drinking allowed(liver)

3.Frelock

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Name: Dr. Fredrick TeVoert

Occupation: Surgeon

Status:well fed(5 turns),not thirsty(5 turns), infected, Anti-bodies?

Injuries:
Head(2) bandaged


Equipment:
A surgical outfit (scrubs, apron, gloves, mask)
glasses
a case of surgical equipment (numerous scalpels, sutures, scissors, and other sharp implements)
1 needle
cooling box filled with infected organs
3 blood transfusions
3 nutrient solutions
2 syringes with narcotics
25 dragees of valium
3 dragees of viagra



Attributes
Rational (you have no fear of using human body parts to heal yourself, this means al tests on slicing dead people up and using their body parts to heal somebody are auto-success)

Skills:
Adept Surgeon[42/50]
Adept First-Aid-User [32/50]
Adept Blade-User/stabbing [11/50]
Novice Thrower [1/10]
Unskilled Leader [3/5]
Novice Observator[9/10]
Unskilled Dodger [3/5]
Adept Teamkiller [5/50]
Adept Looter [1/50]
Unskilled Barricader[5/5]

Bonus/Penalties:
rational

Scar

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Name: Karl Halder

Occupation:Police Officer

Status:healthy, fed (4 turns), not thirsty(4 turns)

Injuries:
left Leg(2!,2!)
lost left Arm(6!) useless(needs massive operations and new arm)
right Arm(3!) broken

Equipment:
blue police uniform
police cap
pistol (9/15)
handcuffs
baton
2 magazines for pistol
some cigarettes
mobile phone


Skills:
Adept Pistol-User [11/50]
Adept Close-Combat Fighter [1/50]
Novice Driver[10/10]
Novice Sneaker [5/10]

Attributes:
hates the world: -2 on social actions
smokes sometimes: no current effect(dont do it too much...)
tough: +1 on pain rolls
reckless -1 on Common-Sense rolls

LordInquisitor

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Name:Eric Ericsson

Occupation: a german Nerd(HEY!)

Status: non exisstent

Equipment:
Clothes
pocket knife

Skills:
Adept Looter: [1/50]
Adept Barricader: [1/50]
Novice Organizer/Leader: [1/10]

Attributes:
complete Zombie-Fan: (he knows what to do to survive and isn't afraid of doing it)(same as survivalist,rational, fearsome and cruel put together)

Waiting list:


5.vagel7

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Name: Dr.Jerkyll

Occupation:Doctor

Status:In the Void of the universe...or a nightclub

Equipment:

First aid equipment (3 Bandages, 2 Painkillers,and a bunch of patches with funny elephants on it)
Surgical equipment (Scissors, Scalpels, gloves, mask)
normal doctor outfit (white coat)
Sunglasses

Skills:
Adept First-Aider [1/50]
Novice Surgeon [1/10]
Novice Blade-User/stabbing [1/10]

Bonus/Penalties:
schizophrenic? (see name  )

Zombie Carp

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Name: Edd
Occupation: Hippy/Herbalist

Equipment:
strange smelling Clothes
5 joints (pain surpressing, -2 on all actions)
lighter
small knife
41€

Skills:
Adept Herbalist [1/50]
Novice Looter[1/10]

Attributes:
Hippy(empathy is great...) +1 on social actions/-2 on socail actions with survivalists
druggy(in the morning a joint and the day is your friend) every three turns drug dose

Chedarrius

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Name: Valdar

Occupation: Medical Researcher

Equipment:
Professional Clothes,
Lab Coat,
Protective Goggles,
Syringe,
Bottle of Morphine (3 doses)

Skills:
Adept Researcher [1/50]
Novice Surgeon [9/10]
Novice First Aid [9/10]

Attributes:
FOR SCIENCE!!!!!(yes the extra exclamation marks are needed): you have no morality/survival rolls whatsoever as you are doing all this FOR GREAT SCIENCE!

Kilakan

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Name: Kila Kan
Profession: Priest

Hall of suicidal lunatics Heroes

Jabberwock:
Heroical Policeman, who tried to save the people at the Slaughterhouse
Hospital, died while leading a charge of 3 people armed with wooden sticks against a zombie horde with 4 times the number. Died of bloodloss, caused by a ripped out arm....

Inteuniso:
inapt electrician causing a blackout in the hospital, which killed  more than 100 people. Died in Jabberwocks charge, as he was eaten alive by a disabled Zombie after he crippled his own spinal cord with a screwdriver....

Kilakan:
heroical Hunter, heroically slaugthered by Horatio Rash a Half-Zombies in a fit of Rage....oh and his head got torn off.

[Jetsquirrel]

Name: Jets the Chopper
Occupation: Woodcutter
Starting Equipment (see above): Clothes like that of a Redneck Lumberjack,a Awesome cap, Small Handaxe(MY GUY DOES TAKE A HANDAXE WITH HIM)
Story:Jets is a ordinary heavy muscled lumberjack, one day cutting a tree he swung the axe too hard hitting himself with the backside(the not sharp one) on his head. He passed out for a few hours and woke up, he went to the hospital by binding a bandage on his head and getting a few painkillers.

[Ghazkull]

YAAY 

Somebodys joining ! I put you on the list.

[Jetsquirrel]

lulz.... dont expect people to join right away. I was luckly online so i joined

[Pillow_Killer]

Name: Horatio Rash
Occupation:(If there are no military as PC's, how would they get automatic weapons and heavy ordnance in beginning? Why there are no skills on charsheet? Is this defined by starting equipment?)  Pyrotechnic
Starting Equipment: Erm, nothing? Normal people don't carry weapons on their visit to hospital?
Story: Rash been minding his business at a rock concert, watching the pyrotechnics he made go off one by one, when one of the flares somehow hit him square in chest. He's been carried to a hospital, and now, after two weeks of recovery, he's waking up...

[Frelock]

I'll join up too.

Name: Dr. Fredrick TeVoert
Occupation: Surgeon
Starting Equipment: A surgical outfit (scrubs, apron, gloves, mask), glasses, a case of surgical equipment (numerous scalpels, sutures, scissors, and other sharp implements)
Story: Fredrick is a more-or-less normal surgeon who works at the hospital.  A bachelor with few friends, his work is his life.  His only notable eccentricity is that he enjoys throwing scalpels in his spare time; he says it helps steady his hands.

[Ghazkull]

(If there are no military as PC's, how would they get automatic weapons and heavy ordnance in beginning? Why there are no skills on charsheet? Is this defined by starting equipment?)

You will later maybe(depends on how long you survive) find a military ammunition depot, with enough heavy weapons and artillery to blow the whole town to pieces.Anyways you can try and build a makeshift rocket-launcher for yourselves.

I don't wanted military PC's because it should be mor Survival-like with normal people, and not the military guy with his machine-gun who blows zombies at  hundreds to pieces.

Your skills are determined by your occupation and (partly) by your story, otherwise we would have a surgeon with, heavy ordonance skills directly at the beginning.

[inteuniso]

Name:Hank Fitzberg
Occupation:Electrician
Starting Equipment:T-shirt and jeans, tool-belt containing: screwdriver, wire cutters, voltmeter(isn't that what it's called?)
Story: Hank is a young man, having recently graduated college with a bachelor's in electrical engineering, and working at his second cousin's contracting firm. While having lots of friends, he doesn't have any really close connections, his parents living overseas currently.

[Ghazkull]

All added on the list.
@ inteuniso:
i hope that you don't mind the blue overall and the rubber sole boots, but electricians in germany are forced to wear these....

[inteuniso]

Not at all.

[Jabberwock]

Name: Bryan Bear
Ocupation: Officer
Starting Equipment: A blue police uniform, handcuffs, baton and hand gun
Story: Bryan is an middle age officer who recently been tranfered to this towns police force. He's been sent to ask a victim at the hospital if she remembers any features of her attacker.

[kilakan]

Name:Steadman
Occupation(pls no super spies, and no military people):Hunter, woodsman
Starting Equipment (see above):Hunting jacket, jeans, thick leather boots, hunting knife(carry this everywhere in real life)
Story:Shot a younge friend while out hunting, and is now visiting him in the hospital.

[Frelock]

Well then, do we have a starting scenario, or should we just start posting actions?

[Ghazkull]

Player list is full, everyone else joining will be transferred on waiting list. Jabberwock your added.

Let it begin:
Day 1 Turn 7 Early Morning
Order:(Jetsquirrel:(5!, 3!) ; Pillow_Killer: (5!, 4!); Frelock: (5!, 6!); inteuniso: (3!); Jabberwock(1!);
New Order: Frelock, Pillow_Killer, Jetsquirrel, inteuniso, Jabberwock


It is a seemingly normal day, with a grey sky(weather: 4) in the Düringer Kreiskrankenhaus(german word for the most important hospital in a county). Among the countless little cases and the patients who are staying for some more years is the occasional kidney transplantation, a women with torn face, a Lumberjack who managed to hit himself in the head, a Pyrotechnician who just awoke from coma and a drunk who drove into a tree. But rather rarely you find a man whose whole left hand was eaten by a crazed hobo. The heavily bleeding man managed somehow to walk the 2 kilometres to the hospital and was instantly swarmed by a group of 10 nurses, surgeons and some doctors in training. While the group disturbs the eerie morning peace of the hospital (and the sleeping hospital guard at the Atrium) with its shouts after bandages, and blood transfusions, other people are more concerned with themselves:

Frelock:

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(Luck:5!) Your luck is incredible! You don't get the kidney transplantation for the local politicians father, or the big boob woman with the torn face, noooo...you get the giant lumberjack who managed to axe himself nearly to death. You go to the intensive care in the first floor, where the guy sits timidly ( as timidly as a two meter high muscular Hulk can sit) on a stool and is being tended by a nurse. You guffaw at the incredible picture while you get nearly overrun by the swarm of people who tend the one-handed guy. (Observation:2!) But you ignore what they are doing further as you have more important tasks at hand.

Pillow_Killer:

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Up in the seventh floor of the hospital are the nursing cases situated. Somewhere in the middle of the corridor is your room situated.(Luck:6!) It is a three bed room but except for you there is nobody in it. They have even taken the tv with them. As you slowly come to your senses you soon realize that you don't remember much: just the firing of the rockets and then everything went black...(Observation: 1!) Overhelmed by your current situation you notice nothing, not even the nurse who just entered the room and is now guffawing at you.

Jetsquirrel

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It has taken nearly an hour to get to that fucking hospital, you nearly died on the way to it, and the only thing they are doing for you is sending an old crone of an nurse to you who is just constantly complaining of how stupid somebody must be to hit himself with an Axe in the back of his head.(Observation: 2) Completely occupied with your injuries and the old crone fiddling at the bandage around your head you don't notice the surgeon entering the room or the people who nearly overrun him...

inteuniso:

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(Situation Roll: d8= 1) Another normal working day in your job. You were called to the hospital to look after problems with the electricity in the Basement of the Hospital. It seems there where some problems with one of the light bulbs down there. After you made your way down and begin to fiddle at the control box you hear a shout behind you and the running of several feet.(Observation:6!)(Luck:2!) you look behind you while still fiddling at the controls. You can see a group of 10 people and a guy who is holding his arm running past your corridor and in an room which seems to be made for operations. Suddenly you here a *Crack* and get a slight shock. You somehow manage to get your screwdriver fast enough out of the control box to not get harmed but the damage is done. Every light in the corridor begins to flicker and then die away. From The Operation room you can hear cries of dismay and anger.
In the darkness: you can see completely nothing -2 on everything which requires your eyesight

Jabberwock:

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wow at last something is happening. The last days in this town where horribly boring.Every day stretched to an eternity and you began to ask yourself if something will ever again happen. But today came some diversion. A woman had been attacked by a crazed man and her face had been torn to shreds. Somehow she had managed to escape and to get to the hospital. Now you were sent to find out who that guy was.(Situation Roll: d8 =4) The women has her room in the third floor. (Action:1!) After a long exhausting way up you swear to yourself that you have to eat fewer donuts. Finally you manage to enter the room of the woman, and greet her. (observation:2!) you notice nothing.
winded: -1 for the next round on actions containing hard physical work

[Jabberwock]

Ask her if she recalls anything about her attacker, such as language, features, clothes, and such.