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[Dwarmin]

Hmm..."originality" is a tough one...I can think of a few base ideas to start. If anything twangs your antenna SeriousConcentrate, do tell! I can probably help whip up a story.

1. Voyager/Transcendance

2. Defeat the Empire/Big Bad

3. Find the Cure/Key/Source

4. Defend your home

5. Survive/Get Rich

6. Freeform? lol

[SeriousConcentrate]

Well, to clarify, not necessarily original as in 'no one's ever done this before!' but more like 'OK, yeah it's a knockoff of/just like (Mega Man / Firefly / Xanth / etc.), but I'm doing something different with it' kind of original. ^^ Anyway, I'm leaning towards #2, 4, & 5, probably five in particular. Forming a squad of mercenaries is always a good start to something, in my opinion. Also, thanks. ^^

[Dwarmin]

Quasi-Firefly heroic criminal RTD? Make sure to reserve me a spot!

[SeriousConcentrate]

That'll be you and Taric calling in advance, then. I'm thinking maybe... five players, possibly six... Mmm, this is what I've got. I'm not certain about it, but what do you think? Sort of a mash-up of a couple of different ideas I've had kicking around.

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The year: 3517. The place: Cerberus IV, an Earth-like planet, the fourth from a yellow dwarf in the Marduk system. It was colonized one thousand years ago, and has been forgotten for almost that long, for shortly after its original discovery all the colonization teams were wiped out by the native life.

But with the invasion of the Algodal, humanity has been exiled to the farthest reaches of the universe. For the past three centuries, mankind has been battling for their survival on Cerberus IV, and has been depleted to a single city of twenty thousand citizens in a massive bunker inside Corryn, the largest mountain on the planet... or so it was thought.

Pocket civilizations grew from starships that had crashed in the jungles and deserts of Cerberus IV, and managed to eke out their survival despite the monstrous creatures that inhabited the planet. Resources ran low, and two formerly warring nations discovered the bunker and raided it, scattering the survivors. Some were absorbed into other tribes. Many were killed. The rest stuck together to rebuild their society, take revenge on the raiders, and unify Cerberus IV.

You are one of those survivors.

[Dwarmin]

Sounds good so far.

Random Brainstorm ideas off the top of my head.

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-The units of currency on Cerberus are "Chips", hexagonal blue ceramic disks that were used in the hulls of the now derelict starships-they're common, functionally useless, visually distinct and nearly impossible to counterfeit with the current level of technology.

-The only real knowledge left on Cerberus of the old days are the Data-Cores: sentient, robotic, metallic spheres-these spheres are quite literally the most valuable thing on the planet, but most are destroyed or lost.

-Cerberan Technology level, going down in order of strength and rarity

A. Salvage/Primitive weapons like swords and spears, and roughly constructed firearms and explosives. Constructed from starship debris, they are generally durable.
B. Neo-Cerberan/Primitive weaponry constructed from the bones, shells and wood of native Cerberus creatures and plants.
C. Post-Industrial/The technology resembles roughly WW1 era technology-rifles, grenades, artillery, and machineguns. At this point in time, the very strongest of the most advanced Humans on the plant would barely be at this level.
D. Old Imperial/ The rare remnants of the technology of Earth that was, ranging from 20th century era battlerifles and body armor to 30th century power armor and energy weaponry.

-The crews who crashed in the ships were diverse, and by now all racial differences that might once had existed are gone. Different tribes rely on tattoos or special garb to tell themselves apart.

-The Humans on cerebrus do not use any long range communication equipment like radios that could be detected from space by the Algodal. They might not even be looking anymore, but better safe than sorry?

-Many "Predators" on Cereberus are just as advanced as Humanity, if not more so, with their own civilizations and cultures. They will almost always kill Humans on sight for food and sport.

-Much of native Cerberus life is psionic in nature from symbiotic hivemind bacteriums. Living creatures can "hack" the psychic feed from the bacteriums and use it to their advantage. It's mental or illusionary, not physical. Some of the most advanced mega predators maintain hundreds or thousands of psionicly enslaved cults of Humans as slaves.

-Continuing from above, many Humans living on Cereberus have also developed psychic abilities, though few can control it.

-The Bacteriums have a nasty tendency to bring their recently dead human hosts back to a mindless, shambling form of life in an attempt to "commune" with other living creatures. <--zombies ftw

-Deep, expansive caverns extend into the crust of Cereberus, most of which no one lives in. The life on the surface is bad enough, the underworld is much worse.

-The oceans of Cereberus are difficult to traverse due to hungry ocean predators and powerful storms. Still, some Humans make a living on floating cities, to escape the wartorn land.

-The most advanced humans on Cereberus lived in "Safes", slang for extremely well defended, and completely enclosed habitations, located underground, undersea or floating in the sky. Most of these have been destroyed or abandoned over the centuries, and the ruins crawl with degenerate mutants and malfunctioning automated defenses. Those that remain are the capitals of modern superpowers, or remain shut tight against the world, cluless to what happens around them.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Thanks for completely pwning me. Seriously though, that looks good, and I think I can start with it, though I'll probably have technology be a slight bit more advanced... maybe circa 1890, so we can have trains and such. I'll organize it, and hopefully in a few hours or so I'll have sign-ups open. ^^

[Darvi]

So, since my headache has worn off mostly, I got around to start developing the Sburb RTD.

First, we'll need an amount of players. At least 4 of course, I guess 6 is a nice number. In fact, it's a perfect number. After they confirmed their in-ness, they'll PM me the details of their characters (which I'll mention later). The reason for this is that it should be a surprise for others too, and stuff. Like in Homestuck, where the only thing we knew of the characters in the first page was how John looked like, and nothing else.

Commands will be given in bold, as usual, but with a >in front. E.g. >SC:Ascend.
Everybody should also use a specific color and typing quirk for talking to/pestering others. For instance, I type in black and try to keep capitalization and punctuation coherent, but i kinda screw up when i tzpe verz quicklz or get exited Dx

Alchemizing gets done by simply entering >Combine object x && object y ll object z or similarly. If you also specify what kind of object you want to get as a result, the likelyhood you'll get that item increases, but it'll also cost more grist in return. Grist will be obtained, of course, by killing enemies.

The actual gameplay depends on the dice, of course. non-combat actions use the standard RTD rules, while combat will be an offense vs. defense thing. You'll get modifiers depending on the circumstances, like if you're higher level or if you're outnumbered. Captchaloguing will also invoke dice rolls, so fun can be expected to be had.

The following would be in the PM's:

• Name (Duh)
• Chumroll (incl. 2  letter acronym)
• Sylladex mode (wouldn't be Sburb without an incredibly complex inventory system, right? Any way to sort or retrieve your items from inventory depends on this)
• Strife Specibi (Any family of object would suffice. For instance, Stickkind or Backpackkind. If it's a very strange one, like Videogamekind, also include how it's supposed to damage stuff)
• Guardian (Whoever is your character's caretaker)
• Hobbies (Duh)
• Associated Material (Ya know, amber, uranium, etc.)
• Mythological role (We'll also need heroes of space and time, but I'll choose those randomly. So send in a different role, and your preference for those two [e.g. Wizard of Mind, time preferred, space indifferent]. I won't tell you which role you get until I have to though, for the suspense)
• Optional Stuff (Like your ultimate weapon, your denizen, or the name of your planet. I won't guarantee that I'll take those suggestions, but it can't hurt)

[SeriousConcentrate]

Reserve until I PM you that in about fifteen minutes. :3

[Darvi]

I was thinking if I should make the characters older than 13. Maybe... 21?

[SeriousConcentrate]

Up to you, but then we wouldn't need a guardian. ^^; Anyway, about to PM now.

Ah, didn't realize it was your 21st birthday. (saw it when I clicked your name.) Happy birthday. ^^

[choobakka]

Definitely reserving a spot.

[Dermonster]

I'll take a spot in that.

[choobakka]

Aaaand the character has been sent. Possibly twice. 

[SeriousConcentrate]

You beat my time by two minutes. OK, I'm giving you a damn. ^^

[choobakka]

And I did it while making and eating lunch. Half of that time was spent... Well, it was microwaving some fish sticks. So about 30 seconds of work. But still. Also, I think we should post our Pesterchum names. Mine is LoneWookie