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[Dermonster]

501, Deal sealed.

Gatleos, other players, get ready for the DASH TO TROPEDOM.

[Gatleos]

Someone needs to make a trope page for this.

If you want to do something useful for TVTropes, I'd suggest working on the RTD page. It's woefully inadequate right now.

[Dermonster]

That's a trope page for their only game of RTD, not RTD in general.

Note the 'Examples from this thread include'

Also I don't know how to make new pages.

[Gatleos]

That's a trope page for their only game of RTD, not RTD in general.

Note the 'Examples from this thread include'

Also I don't know how to make new pages.

It seems to have started out as a page for RTD in general. I'll just split it up.

EDIT: There we go.

[Gatleos]

~In a world we must defend...

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Turn 56
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META TURN:

Next stop: 3rd floor.

Goals
Find the keycard stations.

Current Soundtrack
Elevator Music

Actions

Meta: Look for a weapon.

(...) You found a glass shard. Good enough.

RW: Calibrate that thing again.

(...) You screw with it for a minute.

...What? Spoon...? Oh, the scene with the elevator and the gun and the - okay, you think it's working a little better now.

Meta: Wait patiently for everyone to get in the elevator.  Practice singing while waiting.  Push 3rd floor button when everybody's in.

(...) Well, okay... but you only know one song by heart.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

New Quintuple Tech Acquired!
Impromptu Singalong

You press the 3rd floor button.

Meta: Wait

(...) You join the singalong to pass the time.

Meta: Get to the elevator, then hallucinate a french pirate to name Guybrush

(...) A magical tune physically attracts you to the elevator, and you arrive just in time to participate in the chorus. Meanwhile, you invent a new pirate buddy.
Marley: "I vant to be zee very best..."

The elevator arrives on the 3rd floor.

Status
Player: dermonster
Name: Derek L.
Occupation: Video game Developer/designer.
Currently: SINGALONG MODE
Inventory: Explosive Collar | Jumpsuit | Splint | Bottle of Painkillers | Metal Bar | Marshall Coburn (commanding)
Wounds: None
Abilities: Code Expert | Neckbeard | NERD RAEG
Player: Frelock
Name: Frederick Stephonavich
Occupation: Actuary (Knowing probabilities of things)
Currently: SINGALONG MODE
Inventory: Explosive Collar | Jumpsuit
Wounds: None
Abilities: Uncanny Prediction | Actuary's Lament | Tweak the Odds
Player: monk12
Name: Monk
Occupation: Troper
Description: Characteristically wears nice hats. Top hats, pirate hats, fedoras, you name it. Hopefully still has one in his possession.
Currently: SINGALONG MODE
Inventory: Moist Top Hat | Explosive Collar | Jumpsuit | Frag Grenade x3 | Plasma Rifle
Wounds: None
Abilities: Applied Phlebotinum | TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life | MacGyvering | Telekinesis
Player: HighEndNoob
Name: Kyle Hammers
Occupation: Janitor
Picture
Currently: SINGALONG MODE
Inventory: Explosive Collar | Jumpsuit | Mop | Rubber Gloves | Medkit
Wounds: Missing Legs | Heavy Burns | Heavy Bleeding | Very Heavy Bleeding x2
Abilities: That's The Power of Pinesol, Bitch! | Clean Freak | Custodial Might | EMT
Player: _DivideByZero_
Name: John Freeman
Occupation: Drill Sergeant
Currently: SINGALONG MODE
Inventory: Explosive Collar | Jumpsuit | Unicorn Band-aids | Glass Shard
Wounds: Missing Arm | Very Heavy Bleeding | Broken Nose
Abilities: Major Payne | Fullmetal Jacket | Apocalypse Now
Name: Marshall Coburn MkII Combat Droid
Description: A giant mechanical spider made of smaller mechanical spider parts. It was fitted with an advanced AI routine and can now talk. It also has a self-powered eye-laser taken from the remains of Xenocalamus.
Inventory: None
Wounds: None
Abilities: Eye Laser

Group Attacks
Impromptu Singalong

Locations
The S.S. Periclase
Main Deck
Maintenance Deck 3, Main Elevator
EARTH!
Elevator Controls
Interrogation Room 7E-365 (Deck M3): You were all shackled to chairs in here when you woke up. The door has been dropkicked off its hinges. There's circuitry on the walls, a row of monitors, and a row of 5 chairs.

Spoiler: INITIATING RTD ROUTINE (click to show/hide)

FANTASY TURN:

The Elven sacrifice will soon begin!

Goals
"KIDNAP THE MAYOR OF THIS TOWN AND ESCAPE" Complete!
Throw Ogomspoxom into the fires of Mt. Helmath!

Current Soundtrack
Arboreal Ascent

Actions

Fantasy: Keep looking for the nose.

(...) You grab the swordfish proboscis and shove it hard into the rat's side! It goes berserk and runs up the grand staircase, sending Elves flying over the railing into the foyer below!

FW: Cat: Climb up the tree! TO THE TOP.
Me:  Summon an anaconda in the main level of the building, right before riding kitty to the top.
Rat: Follow HEN And help him on his way.
George: Kill anyone who starts attacking me.

(...) You produce a harmless green garden snake in the main level. (...) The cat scrabbles against the side of the tree, accomplishing nothing. (...) The giant rat continues on her way up the tree. Suddenly, an Elven warrior runs up behind you and launches a spear in your direction! (...) George catches the spear and slits the warrior's throat with it!

Fantasy: Go and find the master of ceremonies.  Convince him that throwing the sacrifice into the volcano would better appease the fire gods that hate the village (point out the huge fire in the tree next to us).

(...) You race up the stairs and eventually come to a large circular hallway around what must be the coliseum. The door in front of you is blocked by a wooden palisade, and you can hear a few hundred Elves cheering on the other side.

Fantasy: Help Urist resist the urge to kill every elf in the area.

(...)
HEN: "Urist, whatever you do, don't attack any of these Elves."
Urist: "What? Elves?! RAAAAAGGGGGHHHH"
Urist has gone into an involuntary martial trance!
Urist leaps off the rat, affixes the swordfish schnoz to his bamboo arm, and charges up the stairs even faster than the giant rat! (...) He pushes an elf aside, then (...) slices another clean in half! You, Urist and the giant rat arrive in the prisoner cell-block. You can hear the fire raging outside!

Fantasy: Use grappling hook arm to get to the coliseum.

(...) The harpoon snags a high branch atop the bowl shaped structure. You retract the line and sail across the gap just as the rope bridge crumbles beneath you. Hoisting yourself up above the wooden fortification, you peer down at the hundreds of Elves in the stadium. There is an important-looking Elf standing in the pit and holding a sack.
Cacame McImportantPants: "The sacrifice shall soon commence! Behold, the full moon approaches its equinoctial position! Prepare to release the beast!"
You hear the sound of ropes being pulled below. The important-looking Elf drops the bag in the center of the arena and exits through a palisade as it closes.


Status
Player: dermonster
Name: Derm Hell-binder
Occupation: Elemental Mage/Summoner.
Currently: Sitting on his riding cat at the base of the central tree.
Inventory: Robes | Spiffy Hat | Left Upper Canine Tooth | Keyring | George (commanding) | Giant Cat (commanding) | Giant Rat (commanding) | Sword | Armor
Wounds: Missing Tooth | Black Eye
Abilities: Gift of the Magi (...) | Squishy Wizard | Summoner (...) | Water Blast | Superheat | Tectonic Shift
Player: Frelock
Name: Frelock Von-Heisenberg
Occupation: Luck-o-mancer (Manipulating probabilities of things)
Currently: Standing outside the coliseum.
Inventory: Gold Coin | Peasant Robes | Golden Pocket Watch | Map of Westport | Long Sword | Armor | Spring Shoes | Elica Larifera (commanding)
Wounds: None
Abilities: Smooth Criminal | Accident Waiting to Happen | Befuddlement | Legsplosion
Player: monk12
Name: Edgar
Occupation: Sky Pirate
Currently: Looking into the coliseum from above.
Inventory: Sleeveless Long Coat | Grappling Hook | Harpoon Gun
Wounds: Right Forearm Missing
Abilities: Booze Power | Terraphobia | Side-quest Radar
Player: HighEndNoob
Name: HighEndNoob
Occupation: Ninja Sniper
Currently: Holding on to the rat tightly.
Inventory: Robe | Throwing Star x1 | Throwing Dagger x18 | Musket | Musket Ammo x34 | Sword | Tattered Shirt | Leaf Barrel
Wounds: Missing Tooth | Broken Leg | Heavy Bleeding x2
Abilities: Immaculate Aim | Clumsy Fighter | 'Splode On Impact
Player: _DivideByZero_
Name: Urist Anvilsmasher
Occupation: Administrator
Description
Currently: Dorfing.
Inventory: Cave Spider Silk Robe | Cave Spider Silk Shoes x2 | Bar of Kitten Tallow Soap | Battle Axe | Bamboo Pegarm
Wounds: Missing Arm
Abilities: Dabbling Surgeon (...) | Meager Social Ability | Martial Trance (...)
Name: George
Description: A 1.5-foot-tall rat with a scorpion stinger, gills and fins! He takes orders from Derm.
Inventory: Wooden Spear
Wounds: None
Abilities: Amphibious

Locations
Hellfire Cove
The Borealis
Condition:
Sunk
Westport
Mayor's Ogomspoxom's Former Manor
Forest Retreat

[HighEndNoob]

Meta: heal john's nose
Fantasy: sigh, than load my musket

[_DivideByZero_]

Meta: Find something to sharpen the shard on, I guess.
Fantasy: Continue martial trance.

[Dermonster]

RW: Get out into the floor. Check for enemies or interesting sights.

FW: Reverse summon myself (And companions) to the top of the tree.

This is a perfectly logical course of action and in no way will warp and destroy the fabric of reality.

[Dermonster]

Most overpowered attack = Singalong + raeg attack channeled through bar + spider beam laser + tweak the odds + HEN custofdial might/ pinsol + Freemans Apocalypse now = about major killfuck damage.

[Gatleos]

Most overpowered attack = Singalong + raeg attack channeled through bar + spider beam laser + tweak the odds + HEN custofdial might/ pinsol + Freemans Apocalypse now = about major killfuck damage.

You have to use a turn for the singalong, so the best roll you can get while using it is a 9. And I probably won't even roll for the enemy's dodge when you use it, so those passive abilities are irrelevant too.

[Dermonster]

Oh, well fuck the singalong then, I can get a +3 on my own. (raeg + metal bar) Add in the spiders laser (possibly) and Tweak the odds and basically I am a walking maelstrom of destruction.

[Gatleos]

RW: Channel my NERD RAAAAEEEEEG through the metal bar and attack mechanical serpent. FLAMING SWORD OF SRS BUZNESS! MC(Mecha spider): Use wireless systems to flood snakes senses with blinding white noise.

(...) MC is unable to access Xenocalamus's wireless sensors.
(...)
Derek: "This rod of mine glows with an awesome power! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! Take this! My love, my anger, and all of my sorrow! NERD RAEG!!!"
With all your might, you swing the shimmering metal bar at Xenocalamus's head! (...) It effortlessly dodges the bar itself, but the wave of energy produced strikes it in the body and sends it flying into the wall! Hundreds of tiny metal appendages reach out of its underside and latch onto the wall, and it begins slithering overhead!

Looks like a +2 to me. Still, I might want to bump the bonus for the singalong up to +4 to make it worthwhile. Keep in mind, also, that being too powerful is far worse than being too weak.

[Dermonster]

Wait what about that destructo disk thing I did two turns late- ooooh, that was a regular roll with absurd happenings.

Never mind, me being stupid again.

[monk12]

Meta: Ask the pirates for advice

Fantasy: Dun dadun daaaaa! Use my grappling hook to swing gracefully into the coliseum, grab the sack, and land safely on the opposite side.


When all you have is a grappling hook, every problem starts looking like something to swing on.

[Frelock]

Meta: Explore the third deck

Fantasy:  Tell Elica to get out of here at meet us as the base of the tree. Push open the palisade doors and use my spring boots to help Monk, should he not succeed.