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[Fniff]

Since there isn't anything open...

Well, this is my first time GMing a RTD. The concept is that you are a detective who happens to be a night creature in the style of Dwarf Fortress. Five players should do it. Thank you. Sorry if I make a mess of things.

Spoiler:  Rules (click to show/hide)

Pretty simple RTD things. No perks, nothing like that. Just rolls.

The GM (Game Master) posts a situation the players are in. The players then post their actions, according to the conditions GM sets. The GM then rolls for the actions' results, and writes them out in his post. Then the players post actions again, ad infinitum.

The action results are defined by a six-sided die roll:
[1]: Epic Fail. Your efforts only worsened your situation.
[2]: Fail. Your skills or luck were insufficient.
[3]: Meager success: The situation didn't improve by as much as you have intended.
[4]: Success: Your efforts were sufficient to achieve your goal.
[5]: Epic Success: Your skills and luck have combined to ensure your success.
[6]: Overshot: Your efforts were more than required for the goal's completion, and your luck is such that unfortunate side-effects are inevitable.

If at any time something threatens a player, that player may make a roll to avoid the threat.

For each action, any number of rolls may be made, as determined by the GM.
Primary causes for multiple rolls include, but are not limited to:

* Actions explicitly composed of multiple actions
* Actions that imply other actions that are not declared free

For every dodge roll, any number of additional rolls may be made, as determined by the circumstances, and any skills or special effects applied to the player.

Each successive dodge roll during a turn, unless it is a dodge against the same object or character, will get a -1 bonus.

If you are Stunned, Dazed, or otherwise receive a temporary penalty to overall or individual rolls, this penalty lasts until your next action is resolved, and not through the whole turn.
If you receive a long-term effect that has the potential to alter itself, you get an Effect Resistance roll immediately after your action is resolved to determine the spread and consequences of the effect.
If you are Unconscious, whatever penalty you receive will not reduce your roll score below 2, unless stated otherwise.
If you receive a mortal wound but are not killed outright, you need to pass a roll to dodge Death at the end of every turn. Only bad rolls here will provide penalties to survival rolls.

You can spend your turn to help another player achieve his goal. If your roll is higher, it is taken as the success roll for the action.
You can also spend your turn to botch another player's action. If your roll is higher, its opposite is taken as the success roll for the action.
In both cases, individual player rolls determine what happens to the players in the course of the action.

In my opinion, roleplaying should be encouraged. Separate official actions with bold, and all RPing in normal font. What would you do if you became a Howling Dreadman, and you were still a detective? Well, it'd be interesting, to say the least.

Sheet:

Name:
Normal Apperance: What do you look like when you are pretending to be human?
Night Creature: What do you look like when you aren't?
Personality: How do you act?
Weapon: Primary slot. Machine Guns, Shotguns and Bazookas work here.
Secondary: Secondary slot. Pistols, Light Melee, Medium Melee and Heavy Melee work here.

The game is won when you solve the case or everyone is dead.

Spoiler:  Backstory. (click to show/hide)

Chicago. City of broken dreams, smashed up into little pieces that mean nothing. Another missing person. Another mutilated body. Another rapist on the prowl. This is not New York, the city of hope. Chicago is where hope goes to die.

You were a private detective. You were another bastard feeding on the rotten frost-bitten corpse that is your city. Emphasis on the were. That night, you will always remember. Maybe you let your pistol down when a little lost pale girl went up to you. Maybe you heard a gurgling in the storm drain. Maybe something took you in the middle of the night. Maybe you picked the wrong time to meet your client, and you found her grinding up human flesh and eating it.

Well, it doesn't matter now. You are changed. You are a night creature now. You don't go out in the day, and at night you seem human in the orange streetlights, but you can change.

No-one knows what you are. No-one knows what lies beneath the crushed hope, the debris of their collected sins and pointless pain. Every horror is different. Maybe you look like you belong in a Lovecraft story. Maybe you chitter occasionally, and have compound eyes. Maybe you have no eyes, with just flesh where the eyes should be, and your mouth is filled with teeth. Again, doesn't matter.

You still are a detective. Just a very different one who happens to feed on rats and humans occasionally. You are doing a public service, just for an entirely different type of species.

This case folder was just dropped off at your door this morning. However, since you sleep in a lot, you didn't get it until the sun was going down...

Well, what are you waiting for?

Spoiler: Starting Weapons. (click to show/hide)

Machine Gun = Tommy Gun

Pistol = 44. Magnum.

Shotgun = Double Barrel Shotgun

Heavy Weapon = Bazooka

Light Melee = Lead Pipe

Medium Melee = Shovel

Heavy  Melee = Fire Axe

Now, post your characters.

[Darvi]

"I choose the lead pipe"
"I choose the bazooka!"
"...FUCK!"

[Fniff]

Two people can have the same weapon.

Apart from the bazooka. That would be silly.

[Dwarmin]

Hmm...I'm awake!

Spoiler: Desmond Duane (click to show/hide)

Normal Apperance: A handsome man in his early 30's with a messy crop of brown hair and sideburns.

Night Creature: A hulking humanoid mass of stripped flesh, protruding bone and bulging muscle, headless, can't speak in night form, but can communcate mentally with other night creatures. He doesn't need to "eat" normally, but instead absorbs what he needs from his victims.

Personality: Desmond really was a good detective before his...change. He was tireless in his pursuit of justice. Now, his skills are used in the service of darker things, but he still holds onto that righteousness-it's the only thing he has left.

Weapon: Pistol/Colt 45.
Secondary: Light Melee/Iron Knuckles

Do you mind custom weapons?

[Fniff]

((Fine. Also, I meant more like "Desmond awoke from his slumber. It was a blah blah blah." Like a book, you know? Just remember that for the main thing.))

[Digital Hellhound]

Name: Stjepan Lukic
Normal Appearance: An average-height man with a lean build, Stjepan possesses a somewhat intimidating face of harsh lines and sharp angles and a headful of messy, dark brown hair. There is a certain resigned weariness to his eyes and posture, like a man awaiting his execution.
Night Creature: After night falls, Lukic lets go of his human form, revealing an inhumanly slender and flexible body, bloodshot eyes and rows and rows of sharpened teeth. In the process, he gains a great deal of unnatural speed and agility.
Personality: Despite his idealistic youth, Stjepan has taken a dark, resigned outlook on life due to his new condition. He cares little for things like 'justice' or 'righteousness', only looking forward to the next job and the money it brings with it.
Weapon: Tommy Gun
Secondary: Hammer (Heavy Weapon)

This sounds like an interesting idea. Do we get anything from our Night Creature forms? I'll remove that if needed.

[Dwarmin]

((Fine. Also, I meant more like "Desmond awoke from his slumber. It was a blah blah blah." Like a book, you know? Just remember that for the main thing.))

((I meant IRL, I'm awake and able to post. Twas not RP. : / )

[Fniff]

((Well, still a good thing to remember.))

[Draignean]

Name: Arraris Moriarty
Normal Apperance: Average height, dark haired, immaculate.
Night Creature: This man's body is dotted with perhaps hundreds of open, sharp-toothed mouths. When he breathes, the sound comes from his entire body, and when he speaks the words come from each mouth simultaneously. He has no eyes. When necessary he can step through the corners of buildings as long as both sides are in darkness.
Personality: Arraris has embraced his change, while frightening to some his life hasn't changed much. His enhanced abilities have been an aid in the past and they will be again, if a few low lifes that should have died years ago have to die to sustain his existence, so be it.
Weapon: Serbu super-shorty. (Shotgun)
Secondary: Yatagahn (Heavy)

What are the chances of Harry Dresden swinging in and blowing us all to hell?

[Fniff]

Zilch. Wizards exist, but they like magic of the dark kind and they prefer blood sacrifice to the usual fare of wizardry, though there is discworld-esque magic. Just to know, vampires and werewolves don't exist.

This is a very grim and still quite original universe. Vampires emoing it up wouldn't be great.

Still, only a few people left to go.

Also, of course. It wouldn't be a change if you didn't change yourself.

[Riccto]

Holding for a bit. If there are spots left of course.

Name: Jon Lucanon
Normal Appearance: A man of average height and a wiry build with light, dirty blond hair, kind hazel eyes and lips that seem to curl naturally into a smile
Night Creature: When night falls Jon's body gains the pallor of a dead man and his muscles draw tight as new limbs sprout and normal appendages change constantly from crab's pincers to bear claws
Personality: Jon has embraced his change as a natural feature of life, personally believing that any change's that he goes through is just a natural feature he was destined to have and use all for the pursuit of justice
Weapon: Pistol/ Magnum .44
Secondary: Trench Knife (Light Melee)

[Fniff]

One slot left! You got the fourth slot, Ric.

[wolfchild]

This is a very grim and still quite original universe. Vampires emoing it up wouldn't be great.

if they were true vamps, rather than what has become mainstream, they would not be emo-ing the place up, they would be delighting in bloodshed

hmm everyone here is male, but i already have quite afew female characters, roll to gender time (i like there to be a mix of genders, see)

Name: Natasha Vaelmont
Normal appearence: A tall slim woman, dark brown neck length hair, that looks as if she does not care for it and coal black eyes
Night Creature: When not pretending to be human anymore, natasha's face elongates slightly, her mouth filled with sharp fangs, and her eyes develop a more predatory cast. She should not by rights be able to talk with that mouth, but somehow can. Her skin becomes leathery and Black, not what we call black skin, but true black, the absense of any colour, scales of jet covour her vulnerable areas, and a long, bladed tail extends her spine.
Personality: Natasha is torn between embracing and fearing what she has become, on one hand, there are friends and family that she is terrified for, because she fears she may slay then. On the other hand however, there are scumbags in the world that she not only feels no remorse for, but indeed takes a kind of pleasure in cutting thier lives short
Weapon: Springfield Rifle
Secondary: Throwing knives(5)

[Fniff]

Right!

Let's go!

*

In an office building somewhere in Chicago, five people wake up. Well, not really people. Their offices are all different, but they share one similarity. In fact, a very huge similarity. They all have the same letter that was pushed under their doors. The sun had set, and the lights were off. Now, what did one of them do?

[Bdthemag]

Name: Charles Winston
Normal Apperance: A Tall man from Great Britan, he is wearing a nice suit and a fancy looking fedora.
Night Creature: When Charles turns his eyesight greatly increases, he grow's large bat-like wings, and has greater strength especially in his legs.
Personality: Charles is a refined, polite person. He's a smoothtalker and always uses his sleuth diplomacy (Mspaint adventures ho!) to win in fights.
Weapon: Tommy Gun
Secondary: 44. Magmum

EDIT: JUST MISSED IT.