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[Omegastick]

The Adventures!

This is 'The Adventures!', a new idea for a forum game and an attempt to make a forum game that won't fail when the gm inevitably loses intrest. It will be played by as many players as the gm can handle and may well be set in any age and cover any span of time. Players will play through 'chapters' and the gm will change each chapter. Between chapters players that are still alive from the previous chapter can continue to play until their death and dead players can be replaced.

Spoiler: How to play (click to show/hide)

The Turns:
Players work in turns, like most forum games/rps. In their turn they can move, shoot, eat, save the world, jump off a cliff, etc. as long as their stats let them do it.

The Stats:
HP: (x/y) How healthy the character is, for every point x is below y the character gets a random stat decrease of one. Having an x value of zero does not mean you're dead, it simply means all your stats become one, including HP.
Speed: How much your character can do in a turn, this is also how far your character can move in feet, or double it and do nothing else in that turn. For every point in speed your character can do one simple action, such as opening a door or stabbing with a knife. For every two points in speed your character can do a more complex or more difficult action, such as swinging an axe or jumping a large gap. More complex actions will need different amounts of speed (XD).
Strength: How strong you are, this determines how much damage you do with most close combat weapons (although some rely on dexterity) and how heavy something is before you cannot lift it. You can lift five kilograms per point in strength.
Dexterity: How accurate and dextrous you are, useful for firing weapons and using some weapons. It also has an effect on how well you can sneak.
Intelligence: How clever you are, not only does it have an effect on things such as hacking but it is vital in revealing the difficulty rating of tasks.

Joining In:
At the time of writing this, there are two ways to join in in this game, either sign up as a player or as a gm. Players play the game and gm's tell the story. Players, please post an application with the following form:
Name:
Description:
HP:
Speed:
Strength:
Dexterity:
Intelligence:

25 points can be distributed into the stats; this is important, as it will define your character.

Will gm's please pm me with your application, including a basic plotline.

Gming:
This is where the game is different from many other forum games, every chapter the gm changes, and along with it some of the mechanics. I will give the gm my current set of mechanics (they will not be revealed to the public) and they can make any changes they want. The storyline of each chapter must in some way be related to the last chapter, if this is not obvious at the beggining of a chapter then it must be revealed during said chapter.

If anyone has any questions please ask.

[ExKirby]

Reserving as a GM.

[Armok]

Reserving as player.

[Diablous]

Reserving as player.

[Omegastick]

'Aight, post your applications. ExKirby, post yours after this chapter is finished. This chapter is set the DF universe. I'll post the beggining of the story after everyone has posted an application.

[Armok]

What kind of characters can we make? What's the tech level, do they have to be human?

[Omegastick]

It's set in the df universe, if it's in df you can have it, but if it isn't reasonable you can expect it to be taken away from you for some reason or another (so if you have adamantine armor prepare for something really, really bad to happen)

[Armok]

Ok, lesse then...

Name: UburDescription: 14 year old dwarf that had a macabre mood as a kid, made a artefact dwarf bone mechanism, and is now REALLY good at mechanics.
HP: [/b]2
Speed: [/b]9
Strength: [/b]1
Dexterity: [/b]4
Intelligence:[/b] 9[/b][/b][/b]

[Diablous]

Let's see. How about this?

Name: Zozlo
Description: A young goblin thief. Mocked and called a Kobold due to him prefering to use his skills to stab one in the back and take their stuff over kidnapping children. Skilled with knives.
HP: 3
Speed: 6
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 6
Intelligence: 6

[Beanchubbs]

Name: Dodok
Description: A retired military Dwarf. Served for 20 years before his squad was wiped out and then he left. Skilled with a Spear and Shield
HP:6
Speed:5
Strength:6
Dexterity:4
Intelligence:4

[Omegastick]

We just need one more player and then we'll start.

[Omegastick]

Anyone?

[ExKirby]

For the sake of getting moving, I'll play. Don't worry, if I'm still alive at the end of this, I'll kill myself in my plot.

Name: Alexander
Description: A human Steampunk engineer. One of his arms has been replaced with a mechanical one.
HP:3
Speed:7
Strength:2
Dexterity:6
Intelligence:7

[Omegastick]

Chapter 1: For Queen and Country
The dwarven fortress of Tearshaken had always had a rocky past. After being founded by seven great dwarves in 1053 in the Rocky Barrens of War one of the founders was immediatly struck by a fell mood, something that is near impossible in these lands. He crafted a legendary bone axe, which is now on display in the grand hall for all to gaze upon in ecstatic awe. Whenever there was an ambush or siege the fortress champion, Olon, would use the sword to smite his enemies without an army behind him. But alas, the champion died 15 years ago, leaving the fortress defensless. Since then it has never ceased to be under siege, and the dwarves are not in large enough numbers to fight back, even with the artifact sword.

You have lived in these conditions long enough, and have decided to make a stand against the horde. Ubur and Alexander set about creating a trap system to fight off the siegers, and Dodok trained a militia for combat against the enemy. Zozlo, however, finally broke into the fort, disguised in a dark robe and fake beard.

From the bottom floor of the engineering section in the fort, Dodok spotted a dlash of green under the hood and behind the grey beard, and screamed, "GOBLIN IN THE FORT!". Alexander and Ubur immediatly chased after Zozlo, while Dodok ran up the flights of stairs towards the goblin. A brawl quickly broke out, with Alexander swinging a punch and hitting Dodok, swiftly followed by a kick to the groin from Ubur. Eventually, Alexander tripped on the railings of his steampunk engineering quarter and fell down onto a lever, switching it. A rumble was heard, and there was a faint sound of screams coming from the grand hall. It took several long, pointless moments before anyone realised that Alexander had switched the lever to open the front gate, letting the siegers in.

A few hours later the enemy had rounded up the dwarves, the enemy was worse than any Goblin, or even Orc, for it was the fabled race of Dark Dwarves. They delighted in the torture and pain of their enemies, even if this meant costing them the victory. The fortress surrendered to the enemy horde, terrified of what might happen to them if they rebeled. But all hope was not lost, as the enemy were taking the inhabitants of the fortress back to their tower, they were ambushed by friendly Dwarves. The tied up civilians could do nothing but wait to find out who the victor of the battle raging around them was. And in the end, the last Dark Dwarf fell, signaling a victory for the Dwarves. Most of the captured were let go, apart from four, the four that started all this, Ubur, Dodok, Zozlo and Alexander.

The four were taken to the Dwarf queen for their trial, they were accused of letting the invaders into the fortress and were charged with death, but not by the hammerer. "There is a certain treasure hunter, he is consantly a hinderance to me but he needs taking care of. You must find him and bring him back to me."

What will you do?

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Name: Ubur
HP: 2
Speed: 9
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 4
Intelligence:9
Health: Good
Equipment: Spanner, peasant clothing
Other: Dwarf

Name: Zozlo
HP: 3
Speed: 6
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 6
Intelligence:6
HealthGood
Equipment:Iron knife, robe, fake beard
Other: Goblin

Name: Dodok
HP: 6
Speed: 5
Strength: 6
Dexterity: 4
Intelligence:4
HealthGood
Equipment:Iron spear, leather armour
Other: Dwarf

Name: Alexander
HP: 3
Speed: 7
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 6
Intelligence:7
HealthGood
Equipment:Mechanical arm, peasant clothing
Other: Dwarf

[Diablous]

Name: Alexander
HP: 3
Speed: 7
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 6
Intelligence:7
HealthGood
Equipment:Mechanical arm, peasant clothing
Other: Dwarf

Alexander's a human...

Anyway, ask if there's anything that can help us find them. Try not to screw up my Dwarf and give myself away.

Wait is the queen aware that Zozlo is a goblin?