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[Darvi]

Roll to Strife II
Taking the Game to the God Tiers

This is the second installment of the Sburb  RTD, aka Roll to Strife.

This is a game based on the incredibly popular webcomic Homestuck of the MS Paint Adventures. It is about a bunch of kids who start playing a reality warping game called Sburb, and repidly devolves into a story with a plot to intricate to comprehend in just one read-through.

This time, you can be one of these kids.

Gameplay and fluff:

Spoiler: Posting Actions (click to show/hide)

Posting actions will be done the same way as in homestuck: a > followed by the actual suggestion (since the action isn't guaranteed to happen as planned, it's more like a suggestion anyway).
E.g. >Do an acrobatic fucking pirouette

Spoiler: Action rolls (click to show/hide)

Action rolls, or rolls to do something, use the standard RTD rules. So a 1 is an eic failure, a 2 a regular failure, etc. Except I might consider rerolls if the action is hilarious and/or punny enough.

Spoiler: Combat rolls (click to show/hide)

Combat rolls have been completely revised since the last game, and are now based on Rock-Paper-Scissors tactics.
In combat, one can issue one of the following commands, if possible:

-Attack: Just a regular, well balanced attack.
-Aggress: Hitting the enemy with brute force. Simple, but effective.
-Aggrieve: Out-move the enemy with your superior agility and strike him when he's looking where you were a second ago. Frequent usage of Youth Rolls and Acrobatic Fucking Pirouettes.
-Assault: Fight with your wits. Predict the enemy's moevements and actaccordingly.
-Artillerate: A ranged attack that can hit the enemy without him even being close to you. Is restricted to certain Kind Abstrati.
-Annihilate: When you absolutely have to destroy ever-fucking-thing. Good crowd-clearer, but leaves you defenseless if they manage to attack you. Usually reserved for special abilities (The Windy Thing comes to  mind)
-Auto-parry: or whatever rhymes with it. Defend yourself against an incoming attack.
-Abscond: If your enemy is too strong, you might escape and live to fight another day. Can fail.

Aggression defeats Assaults, Assaults counter Aggrievances, Aggrievances outdo Aggression.

Depending on the player's Kind Abstratus, they may get a bonus to a certain type of battle command. For instance, hammers are a dead ringer for Aggression, while Rifles are pretty much made for Artillery. However they also get a penalty to a different type of command, so it all balances out (except for some well-rounded weapons that don't give any modifiers whatsoever)
As a player becomes stonger, they can get even further boni depending on their class. For instance, a Seer can assault people even better due to their natural ability of foresight, while a Heir gains even more mangrit, all the better to aggress their opponents.

Spoiler: The Sylladex (click to show/hide)

A sylladex is a type of inventory. However, management of your sylladex is complex and varies from person to person, or rather, what mode they're using. Hilarity ensues.

Spoiler: The Medium (click to show/hide)

The medium is, to make it short, the place where the Players of Sburb spend most of their time. It's too complex to put it into one post, so just look it up here.

Spoiler: The first six people to send in a complete and valid character sheet will be in. (click to show/hide)

-Name: If you don't know what this means, then you fail the first test to be allowed into the game.
-Chumroll: Your pesterchum handle. Is a concatenation of two words, with only the first letter of the second word being capitalized. E.g. ectoBiologist. Requires an associated colour.
-Sylladex modus: Inventory puzzles galore! The sylladex modus determines how items get stored or retrieved from your sylladex.
-Kind Abstratus: Determines your weapons of choice. Most people only have one, but as many as three or even none have been heard of.
-Preferred Title: This is the equivalent of a class in most RPG's (and in fact the first half is called that way). Reflects your character's strengths and can give them cool abilities. Is always of the Format "Class (Heir, Knight, Seer, Waste) of Aspect (Space, Time, Mind)" Doesn't necessarily have to be a canon class and aspect, but it should be somehow nonetheless.
-Replacement Title: Sometimes, overlap in the titles cannot be avoided. If a given class or aspect is already taken, it gets replaced by the respective part of the replacement title.
-Preferred Moon: Prospit, the kingdom of light, and Derse, the realm of darkness. Simple enough. Prospit dreamers can sometimes see events in the clouds of Skaia, while Derse dreamers get to be pals with the noble circle of Horrorterrors. Again, first come, first serve.
-Associated Material: Determines the most common kind of enemies your character will face, and the corresponding grist they drop.
-Bio: Anything what belongs into the character's background. Their guardian and other supporting characters, hobbies, typing quirk, special abilities, anxieties, musical instrument, home, etc. Note that the first three are necessary, while the rest is nevertheless nice to have.

Players:

• dermonster
• SeriousConcentrate
• wolfchild
• freeformschooler
• Sinpwn
• bdthemag

Waitlist:

• Riccto
• Powder Miner
• Ottofar
• adwarf
• Strife26

[Dermonster]

Basically going to do a repeat of my previous character because STUFF. Except maybe OTHER STUFF.

-Name: Derek Coonan!
-Chumroll: autisticGamer
-Sylladex modus: Array modus. Because in-universe me isn't retarded and chose the most sensible option.
-Kind Abstratus: Staffkind
-Preferred Title: Heir of Time, barring that, Mage of Chaos.
-Preferred Moon: Derse
-Associated Material: Caesium
-Bio: Ex-millitary dad who is a slight drunkard. Hobbies is Astromony, Computer games (owns a lot of flash drives.) Is somewhat skilled with a custom techno-keyboard. General theme song is U.N. Owen was her. Two story house generally belonging to semi-upper middle class. Is naturally bad at social contact (note chumtitle) and avoids it as much as possible. Major internet addiction. Typing quirk is obsessively adhering to correct grammar and spelling barring exceptions which allow me to just type at my goddamn keyboard like normal.

[SeriousConcentrate]

-Name: Victoria Shelley
-Chumroll: trenchantApparition
-Sylladex modus: Hourglass (Sylladex consists of two V-shaped halves, which are supported by the first two items she grabs. These halves grow exponentially and on one side then the other. For example, if her sylladex contains 30 items, each'wing' be organized as 1 item - 2 items - 4 items - 8 items. She can take any items she wishes, but if one of the two supporting items are grabbed all items on that wing will fall out and need to be regathered, and if she takes more than half of any of the further 'levels' everything past it will collapse. So to use the previous example, if she took one from the second tier, the third and fourth would fall out; if she took two from the third tier, the fourth would fall out, and so on.)
-Kind Abstratus: Chainkind
-Preferred Title: Mistress of Void
-Replacement Title: Lady of Darkness
-Preferred Moon: Prospit
-Associated material: Obsidian
-Bio: Victoria lives (in the attic) with her older sister in a creepy mansion on the outskirts of her hometown. Of course, she has no off-line friends, but three black cats (Lovecraft, Stoker, and Poe) hang around the house and she dotes on them. Her hobbies are making clothes, collecting/defacing movie posters by putting them in gothic make-up, writing slashfics of her author-insert Mary Sue with many fictional vampires (although she detests Twilight - VAMPIRES DO NOT SPARKLE! THEY HANG OUT IN RAVES IN DARK BASEMENTS AND BROOD! 0_0), and collecting horror movie props. Her secret shame is a fascination with wrestling and shoujo manga. She replaces the letter 'o' with zeroes to make it appear more spooky, does not use contractions, and uses a 0_0 emoticon in place of all others (although she rarely uses emoticons anyway). She plays the violin because it accurately conveys the suffering of her soul. She insists she really does have deep psychological issues and is seriously a dark person, man, you wouldn't believe. Surprisingly, she does not write poetry; she feels that's for posers who are faking their darkness. As for appearence, her long hair is loose and dyed black with red streaks, and she prefers long dresses with lots of lace and chains with matching boots. Her skin is somewhat pale, and she doesn't wear make-up of any sort.

EDIT: Since freeform wants purple I guess I'll switch to orange. It's Halloween color and I think that was what I had last time anyway. ^^^

[wolfchild]

-Name: Mikael Mavern
-Chumroll: lunarAgressor colour=silver
-Sylladex modus: Lunar Modus (Each card has a phase that cycles (more quickley than the lunar cycle, something like one cycle per in-game hour, as the GM decides) when the card is on the same phase as the moon is on at the time, or 1 to either side, or its exact reverse, then it may be taken out
-Kind Abstratus: Cardkind (different decks will have different abilities)
-Preferred Title: Sentinel of Change
-Replacement Title: Mage of Breeze
-Preferred Moon: Prospit
-Associated Material: Silver
-Bio: Mikael is studious in school and has never had a bad report card EVER, however his OLDER SISTER does not seem to care about this and is constantly trying to get him to play sports, or anything physical realy.  He enjoys trading card games, of all kinds,  Fantasy and sci fi computer games and Movies. He also enjoys documentaries but always double checks the facts; he also makes a mean coffee. He plays the trumpet well enough that people do not shout him off and he tries his best to include a wolfish word in every sentence. He lives in a Medium sized house, built on the side of a mountain, 20 minutes drive to the nearest city

edit: phew after i finished making there was a long 504 error, so glad I still got in early enough

[freeformschooler]

-Name: Mindy Manson
-Chumroll: swiftJudgement
-Sylladex modus: Hash Tag Modus - To retrieve an item, you must come up with a punny hashtag for both the item and what your intended use for it is. If your tag is not appropriate or punny enough, the item will instead be ejected at 500 miles per hour.
-Kind Abstratus: Rapierkind
-Preferred Title: Knight of Space
-Replacement Title: Knight of Breath
-Preferred Moon: Derse
-Associated Material: Quartz
-Bio: Mindy wants, more than anything, to be cool. She believes that building herself up as some great hero to her friends is the ultimate way to do that. However, she often ends up belittling her own real successes in favor of her made-up life stories.

[Riccto]

Reserve ?!??!?!?! Please?

[Sinpwn]

Name: Kevin Jameson
Chumroll: TenebrousAbysmal
Sylladex modus: Wallet
Kind Abstratus: Glaivekind
Preferred Title: Mage of Rage, Fallback being Knight of Blood.
Preferred Moon: Derse
Associated Material: Tungsten
Bio: Raised by very distant and not exactly loving parents. Slightly questionable sanity. Distrustful at best to strangers and aquatances, but very loyal to friends. He lives in a rural three story house and spends most of his time trying to make extremely impractical tools and weapons. He is often a suspect for any vandalism crimes due to this. He does not enjoy it when people are needlessly dramatic and has a comparatively short attention span. He usually acts rather calm and passive unless provoked, which is when things get ugly. His typing quirk is always talking in bold red font and adding Ellipsis instead of commas or periods. His phisique is lean and tall, with a bit of muscle. He has short spiky brown hair. He wears a dark red robe, and does not dispute the fact that it is actually just a bathrobe.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Riccto, please be Prospit so we can balance it out. I'm switching to Prospit myself since we have three Derse and it's funnier if Victoria's kind of a hypocrite anyway.

[Bdthemag]

-Name: Darryl Peterson
-Chumroll:luckyAce
-Sylladex modus: Blackjack Modus: To take an item out of your inventory you'll have to beat the "Dealer" at a game of blackjack.
-Kind Abstratus: Dicekind
-Preferred Title: Heir of Chance
-Replacement Title: Rogue of Luck
-Preferred Moon: Derse
-Associated Material: Diamond
-Bio: Raised by a hotshot gambling father, Darryl has learned how to play the tables from the best. Although his father is usually out at the various poker tournaments around the world, he gets a chance to see him every now and again. He's tactical, and considers every move like it was a game of poker. Although his personality can get a bit "random" at times, he's usually a thoughtful, risk-taking person. He's tall, and lean and not that athletic. He's usually wearing a normal T-shirt jeans combo, or wearing a suit if he feels in the mood.

[IronyOwl]

Riccto, please be Prospit so we can balance it out. I'm switching to Prospit myself since we have three Derse and it's funnier if Victoria's kind of a hypocrite anyway.

I'd just like to point out that I found this fascinating, because it's really very rare that I have no idea what someone's talking about.

Carry on.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Quick explanation: If Derse dreamers are those who associate with grimdark horrorterrors and Cthulu-type beasts, Prospit is the opposite. Victora's goffic so her being a Prospit dreamer is funnier than her being a Derse dreamer. ^^^

[Riccto]

Thats the plan. Here we go.

-Name: Ian Tallerico
-Chumroll: watchfulKraken
-Sylladex modus:Spearfishing Modus. To Retrieve your item you need to cast a spear at it
-Kind Abstratus: Harpoonkind
-Preferred Title: Slayer of Beasts
-Replacement Title: Hunter of Fate
-Preferred Moon: Prospit
-Associated Material: Hoarfrost
-Bio: Raised by a loving father in a sleepy fishing village, occasionally he joins his father on his fishing boat, he probably has spent a majority of his life on the Seas, always looking for the Great White Whale like in the adventure novels that he loves so much and moves too, He just loves plain adventure and the thought of some great beasts and monsters out there excite him so much. He is a bit of a country kid but still good hearted and affable with that sort of rough charisma.

[wolfchild]

BD, I picked cardkind b4 you, that said I was going to aim for tarot style cards so maybe it could work

[Bdthemag]

Eh, I'd prefer if we didn't have the same thing. I suppose I'll change it to something else more suitable to my character.

[Powder Miner]

GAH! Waitlist me!

-Name: Tom Oly
-Chumroll: imaginatoryOrigamist
-Sylladex modus: Origami Modus. Tom has to unfold a paper-ish specibus- each item is on a different fold.
-Kind Abstratus: Paperswordkind
-Preferred Title: Page of Mind
-Replacement Title: Mage of Heart
-Preferred Moon: Prospit.
-Associated Material: Paper. Barring that, wood, barring that, moonstone.
-Bio: His guardian is his older sister Leanne, a professional artist who inspired the roaring spirit of creativity that's in Tom. His hobbies are all usually related to his imagination- and he has a big one. His main hobbies are ORIGAMI, DRAWING, COMPUTER ART, and FILMING AMATEUR movies. (Though he's horrible at the last one). His typing quirk is that he always sarts and ends his posts with "folded paper", basically this: \/\/\