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[Digital Hellhound]

It is a time of great danger, and great wonders. Humanity has entered a golden age of progress, though it remains to be seen where this progress will lead. The world's scientists and inventors have solved most of the world's problems - though causing some of their own in the process.
These same inventors have reached the top of the world's social ladder in the process, and now rule the planet, sometimes even officially.

Several international organizations for these inventors and scientists exist, and it happens that one such organization is recruiting in the home city of half a dozen brave and ambitious individuals who are almost sure to join up, given the chance...

((So I felt like doing this RTD. The setting is mostly semi-futuristic, though the tech level changes from area to area. You can make a steam-powered helicopter when someone else is making a ultra-scifi laser cannon, if you wish. Also, you are fully expected to warp the laws of nature in every creation you make.))
 
Player List
1. Nirur Torir - Doctor Nirur the 3rd
2. Jetsquirrel - Manfred Von Terro
3. iceball3 - Littleweed Petalbug
4. blackmagechill - Lyle 'Lightning Hook' Johnson
5. FuzzyZergling - Dr. Fuzz
6. Taricus - Taric Al-Sayyid

Waiting List
1. Ahra
2. V-Norrec
3. dragnar (just in case)
4. ExKirby
5. Geen
6. Person
7. Tereson
8. dermonster

Old Waiting List
1. Ochita 
2. kilakan

Character Sheet

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Name:
Gender:
Appearance:
Starting Invention: (A single creation of your choice, though I might tone it down a bit if I feel it's overpowered)
Background (optional):

Combat Rules (Taken from the Demigods RTD. Err.)

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Whenever a player or npc is attacked, they get a roll to dodge.
1-You move into the attack (+1 to damage)
2-You fail to dodge the attack
3-You get your vitals out of the way, but you're still grazed (-1 to damage)
4-You dodge the attack
5-You dodge and find yourself in a good position (+1 to next dodge roll this turn)
6-You dodge and find yourself in a poor position (-1 to all future dodge rolls this turn)

If the target gets hit, they get a body part target roll:
1-Head
2-Torso
3-Right Arm
4-Left Leg
5-Left Arm
6-Right Leg

Then they roll to dodge damage
6-Critical damage (gain "near death" effect, instakill on most NPC's)
5-Bad hit
4-Standard damage
3-Slightly hurt
2-A scratch
1-No effect

Multiple bad hits or critical damage hits in one turn can result in death.

If you have the "near death" status effect at the end of a turn, you get a roll to dodge death
<=1-You die
2-You've but a moment left to live(-2 to dodge death rolls)
3-You've taken a turn for the worst(-1 to dodge death rolls)
4-You're hanging on, barely
5-You're not doing great, but things are a little bit better(+1 to dodge death rolls)
6-You're starting to go into a stable condition(+2 to dodge death rolls)
7-You're still not up to par, but death is receding quickly(+3 to dodge death rolls)
>=8-You've stabilized (lose "near death" status)

[Ochita]

Name: Ochita
Gender: Male
Appearance: A thin man with messy brown hair and glasses. He always carrys around a clipboard.
Starting Invention: Mini-mech

[nuker w]

Name: Dr. Cognate
Gender: Male
Appearance: Of average build, has medium length hair, black, which covers his ears. Wears a mechanical monocle on his right eye. Is commonly seen flicking a small, round ball in his hand. Wears an olden-day business suit, with amazingly well polished brown shoes.
Starting Invention: A mechanical monocle, with the powers of intense heat outwards to a pin prick size and zooming capabilites.
Background: In his younger years, Cognate, as he is now known, lost all use of his right eye due to a horrible accident in his mechanical workshop. Cognate went onto construct his monocle to aid him in his quest to make amazing steam powered inventions.

[SHAD0Wdump]

Totally in on this...

Name: SHAD0Wdump
Gender: Dude
Appearance: Tye-dye T-shirt, Sport Pants, Cheesy Sunglasses, Purple Spiked Mohawk, Constant unsettling grin.
Starting Invention: TOTALLY RADICAL ROCKET SKATEBOARD
Background (optional): Inspired by Bill & Ted movies, this boy decided to follow his dream of inventing the most awesome and radical inventions to ever exist!

[kilakan]

Name:Khan
Gender:Male
Appearance:A young man, with crazy blond hair, blue eyes, and giant round glasses.
Starting Invention:Robotic cyborg arm (in place of my left arm.)
Background (optional):As a kid Khan had a love for making things explode, until he blew off his own left arm, much to the amusement of his parents, since then he has strived to create replacement parts for the human body, not just to restore function but to improve over the human body.

[Nirur Torir]

Name: Professor Nirur
Gender: Male
Appearance: A bald man who always wears a white lab coat.
Starting Invention: Immortaila - Pills of immortality. (Okay, so they just restore telomorase, keeping people relatively young and stopping them from dying of "old age.")
Background: He spent his youth becoming a doctor, fulfilling his father's dream for him. He then spent several years as a doctor, then finally left to improve the world on his own, disillusioned with the money-hungry nature of the US medical system.

[Jetsquirrel]

IN

sheet coming up in a sec

Name: Manfred Von Krank
Gender: Male
Appearance: White/silverish long hair,slightly insane, green eyes, medium sized and a heavy voice
Starting Invention: portable nuclear reactor (iron man thing)
Background (optional): None

[kilakan]

Trust Jetsquirrel to choose something that is both an energy source, a bomb, and a comic book reference.....

[Dermonster]

ninja'd

[Digital Hellhound]

Excellent, I'll be writing the first turn now.

EDIT: Dermonster, I've added you to the waiting list.

[dragnar]

I shall join the waiting list of Science!

[Digital Hellhound]

By chance, you are all still on your way to the hall where the League of Inventors have chosen to use as a recruitment center and giant showcase for their latest inventions. The hall is located on the very highest levels of the Golden City, and narrow, curved bridges and buildings with highly-ornamented fronts fill your surroundings.
 
There is a bridge leading straight to the hall, lit up by complex mechanical lamps. Various public databanks stand alone at the corner of the street, and there is a small airship down on a specific platform, shut down.
The area is curiously devoid of guards and security cameras, none even at the airship. If you wish to work on something, finding and taking materials should not be difficult.
League recruitment doesn't end in a while, anyhow.
 
Statuses
Ochita

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Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools, 2 Canisters of Cheap Oil (40/40)
Creations: Mini-Mech - In Use (Power [4], Size [4], Functionality [3], Fuel [3], Intelligence [3])
               Armed with a Repeating Rotating Cannon and a Mechanical Blade               
               Fuel Left: 100/100

Doctor Cognate

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Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools, The Monocle
Creations: The Monocle - In Use (Power [5], Size [3], Functionality [3], Fuel [3])
               Charge Left: 100%

SHADOWdump

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Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools, 2 Canisters of Cheap Oil (40/40), Radical Rocketboard
Creations: Radical Rocketboard - In Use (Power [4], Size [3], Functionality [3], Fuel [4]
               Fuel Left: 100/100

Khan

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Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools
Creations: Robotic Left Arm - In Use (Power [4], Size [4], Functionality [3], Fuel [3]
               Charge Left: 100%

Professor Nirur

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Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools, Box of Immortality Pills
Creations: Immortality Pills (Power [5], Size [2], Functionality [4], Fuel [3]

Manfred Von Krank

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Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools, Portable Power Reactor
Creations: Portable Power Reactor (Power [4], Size [2], Functionality [3], Fuel [5])
               Charge Left: 100%

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NOTE:
Power shows, well, how powerful your invention is. In case of weapons, how big a hole does it leave in the target. With vehicles, how fast it goes and/or how powerful it's weapons are. Also toughness.
Size is the size of the creation. 3 is the normal size for that specific creation (A six while creating a small spoon would still be smaller than anything with, say, a ship or such). Small vehicles will be harder to drive (unless remotely controlled). A rifle of Size 6 is harder to aim, being so huge. Smaller robots have easier time to dodge, etc, etc.
Functionality determines how well your creation works and does the action it's meant to do, simple as that.
Fuel determines the type of fuel and fuel usage. For example, shadowDUMP's rocketboard can use any kind of flammable liquid as it's fuel, and doesn't use up it's reserve so quickly. In Nirur's Immortality Pills, it means the materials needed to create more of them (a moderate amount, but they can be found quite easily, if you're wondering.)

Intelligence is for living creations and robots only; determines how smart the creation is. An Intelligence 6 creation will try to rebel if told to do something it doesn't want to.

I suggest you begin creating immediately, as you've got no equipment save those first inventions. The League's hall will have even fancier materials to work with, though.

[Ochita]

Both the mech and I shall look for some metal and computer conponents

[Nirur Torir]

I mix up some more pills.

[SHAD0Wdump]

Find some scrap metal, all great inventions need metal dude.

Wait, do we have to find materials(like in most STDs) or can we make crap spontaneously from our environment?