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[Knight85]

So, I've been playing rtd for a while on other forums and recently joined the community here, and figured I was about time I tried out running one. But
being me, I have to try it with a bit of a twist, so here goes. Taking first 6 participants.

My Obviously Spore inspired RTD:
Six featureless blobs float towards the top of the primordial sea, most other "blobs" have simply perished or been eaten by something more advanced, but these ones seem special.  They seem to be actually floating together, helping each other find food and protect each other from predators, this seems to be keeping them alive.  But time will tell if these organisms will continue their bond, split up, or even turn against each other as they continue to evolve. The ultimate goal for all of them is to survive and be the first to emerge from the water on to dry land. But first things first, you need to find some food...

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Ok here's how it goes, we start with 6 players. You'll be exploring the sea looking for food to grow your creature, and earning evolution points that you can use to evolve upgrades to your creature. If not careful death will be quite easy at the early stages of development  and will bring
a twist....

Basic Stats
Speed:  This affects your ability to chase or run away, and your to hit attack rating. Your number is compared to the opposing creature and the difference becomes a modifier to the RTD.
Damage: The Damage a particular weapon does to the enemy
Armor: Natural armor your creature develops can mitigate damage, like speed, this is compared to the opponents Damage.
Specials: Special abilities you subjectively earn through creative evolutionary weapon design and creative actions. These will interact with others as the GM determines 
Ex. Electric shock, ink, poison etc.    Interaction between weapon and armor types.

Food points: Scale of 1-10 - A full food bar grows your creature to the next level. Food points can be spent to heal damage.
Evolution points. Scale of 1-10- Killing enemy creatures gives you evolution points, filling the bar allows you to evolve new, or upgrade current Speed/Armor/Weapon Parts.
Health Points: You start with 2 on your main body.

Evolving your creature:  Filling your food bar allows you to increase your size. You are given two HP to spend either on your main body or add a new appendage for one HP. further HP spent can make that appendage stronger. each offensive weapon must be attached to a new appendage. Offensive weapons attack, defensive weapons automatically hit against a missed attack. Feel free to add stylistic shape details on evolution (these have will likely have no game effect

Filling your evolution bar allows you to add parts in an attempt to increase your ratings. Go wild with your  part designs of anything non-magical, but be warned, the more outlandish it is, the worse it may backfire with a bad roll...and vice-versa     You can also attempt to upgrade existing parts to increase effectiveness.

You can now divert your DNA and/or food earnings for a turn to another creature of your choice. This choice must be made with your orders before the turn and is not reverse-able once you see the turn results.

Character creation. For simplicity, your creature is simply you forum name, you pick a color and:
Carnivore: Can add a weapon to mouth parts, gets food from killed creatures. (no appendage needed for 1st weapon)
Herbivore: Gets a food roll every turn,  so slow and steady supply and doesn't need to kill to get food. Can use own food to heal other creatures.
Omnivore: You'll find out how to get this later 

So off to the deep you go, beware the deeper you swim the bigger and badder the enemy is, but with greater food/dna rewards. Make sure you're ready before you descend, because there are things down deep that WILL kill you early on. (And then something interesting happens.)

You can work together as organisms for safety and split the rewards you reap, or go a loaner and keep it all for yourself  or.... even try to eat your fellow organisms when they least expect it.  Just remember, you can take down bigger and more creatures in numbers. In the end, only one creature will make it back to the surface and on land alive.
Waiting list:
ExKirby
JetSquirrel
VincValentine
Ultimuh
Terrahex



All Organisms at level 2 of ocean

Spoiler: Frelock (click to show/hide)

Wide flat body with dark blue top, light blue bottom.
Size 2 Herbivore
Main Body: 3/3
Speed: 2
Armor: 0
Food 8/10
DNA 6/10
Appendage 1/1: No Weapon
Glowing Detachable whip-like tail tipped with small fin: (electrified) DMG: 1 defensive weapon
+1 speed
Specials:
Tail Distraction: +1 to distraction rolls -1 to attacks against cell

Spoiler: smjjames (click to show/hide)

Color changing worm-like creature.
Size 2 Carnivore
Main Body with mouth: 4/4  : teeth in jawlike mouth DMG:2
Speed: 2
Armor: 0
Food 5/10
DNA 0/10
Specials: Has two retractable tentacles on either side of body.
+1 to Scavenging
Fins lining sides of body: +1 speed

Spoiler: Paranatural (click to show/hide)

Purple with green spots flat oval creature
Size 2 Herbivore
Main Body: 4/4
Speed: 2
Armor: 0
Food 6/10
DNA 9/10
Small beating tails surrounding body
+1 speed
vacuum type mouth opening
+1 Algae gathering

Spoiler: Noctisvampire (click to show/hide)

Brown with colored dots spindle shaped creature.
Size 2 Herbivore
Main Body: 3/3
Appendage 1/1: No Weapon
Speed: 2
Armor: 0
Food 5/10
DNA 2/10
wide fin like tail
+1 speed
+1 To mutating an injecting needle
Specials: Special: Ability to better extract DNA from smaller creatures and creature parts.

Spoiler: Toaster (click to show/hide)

Bright red cigar shaped creature.
Size 2 Carnivore
Main Body with mouth: 4/4 : No Weapon
Bony head plate: DMG:1 on rams  (Protects from some defensive weapons)
Speed: 1  (Attack speed 3)
Armor: 0
Food 3/10
DNA 4/10
Muscular short tail +2 to burst attack speed

Spoiler: maxicaxi (click to show/hide)

Neon green fish looking creature.
Size 2 Carnivore
Main Body with mouth: 4/4 : No Weapon
Speed: 2
Armor: 0
Food 1/10
DNA 2/10
Fish style fin +1 speed
Specials: Glowing (attracts more prey *and predators *
Blast of light: Attack ability that paralyzes one enemy cell with a concentrated blast of light  Uses 1 food
Energy reserves: You have the ability to go into negative food to use an abilty.

[smjjames]

Coolness, as a Spore player, I know what you're talking about here, so sign me up!

Also, you say that we can work together as organisms, are you talking about some form of symbiosis or the beginnings of a multicellular organism?

[Frelock]

Hey, I for one would be willing to work with others to form a mega organism.  I'll sign up with a herbivore. 

EDIT: Oh, right, color will be blue (helps disguise myself in the ocean).

[Knight85]

You're starting off as single cell organisms which can work together, apart,or eventually even  be hostile to each other,  twists will come with the death of some of the starting single celled organisms.

Once I get enough joins 2/6 right now, Ill work on writing up the status page and we can get started..  smjjames, don't forget your color and herbivore/predator.  I recommend probably having some of each available to start

[smjjames]

I'll start off with a carnivore and I'll be green (hey, its my favorite color), not sure if we can 'pick up' stuff off of the dead creatures or we evolve them using our imaginations.

You're starting off as single cell organisms which can work together, apart,or eventually even  be hostile to each other,  twists will come with the death of some of the starting single celled organisms.

Once I get enough joins 2/6 right now, Ill work on writing up the status page and we can get started..  smjjames, don't forget your color and herbivore/predator.  I recommend probably having some of each available to start

I know we are single celled creatures now, just asking what you were implying.

[Knight85]

You'll find out more how the "working together" part will happen as the game moves along.

As to the part additions, you will spawn them from imagination, but you will be free to borrow ideas from the creatures you encounter.

[Paranatural]

I'm in.

Herbivore, Purple. Want most of my points in speed.

[Knight85]

I'm in.

Herbivore, Purple. Want most of my points in speed.

You try to materialize a part to make you faster [2]  Nothing happens, alas you'll have to wait until you mutate, you're still just a blob

[smjjames]

Not exactly sure how many points we have at the start, but I think it might be 5, so:

Spend one point into armor, another point into speed, and another to weaponize the mouth.

[Knight85]

The points will come later, the first stuff is going to be pretty easy food to grow you and you guys will get to part adding pretty quickly.. But to start off, you guys are pretty much amorphous blobs..

The points you have now function as an xp bar, get to 10/10 and you get an upgrade
You'll get xp points from killed creatures, food for carnivores, and DNA for both.

Don't worry the customization will come pretty quickly.

[smjjames]

Okay, then I guess the first meal will be caught amoeba style and then killed by slow digestion.

[NoctisVampire]

Count me in, if possible.
Brown (with green patches around entire mass, maybe roll on this?), Herbivore.
Maybe that would help blending in...in later stages:)
EDIT:What's the color of the ocean exactly...? Not something exotic...

[smjjames]

Am I gonna be the only carnivore? lol.

Anyways, I guess we'll assume the ocean is blue or a blue-green.

[Knight85]

Count me in, if possible.
Brown (with green patches around entire mass, maybe roll on this?), Herbivore.
Maybe that would help blending in...in later stages:)
EDIT:What's the color of the ocean exactly...? Not something exotic...

Feel free to add stylistic shape details on evolution (these have will likely have no game effect

This includes color, they're mainly flavor details but the "likely" gives me the ability to "flavor" the setting and results with them, so you never know if they might have an effect.  So the color of the ocean/other creatures may matter at some time, Who knows.

[Toaster]

I'll take Carnivore.  Meat for the meat god!