[fun and games] RPG RPG #1

[yhlee]

[This is as IC or OOC as you want to make it, and takes place in a mysterious timeline of its own.]

Remi shows up one day in the common room of the Wasp with a GM handbook and a bunch of character sheets and quickstart guides, wondering if anyone else wants to play Prisons & Pangolins, a hot new RPG that he got an advance copy of. He is really good at min-maxing; he is also prepared to GM although if someone else wants to do it, he's happy to let them have at it.

[I suggest that people start off by describing how their characters come in, what they're wearing, etc. and introduce the game-in-the-game characters they want to play. I'll start with an example.]

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[zuhrovet]

Remi sounds far too much like Alaric for Sasha's peace of mind. She wonders whether all of his organs are intact.

Meanwhile, Ankat answers, "You're rolling for hit points, definitely. Stats are point-buy. If you go above 14 in Luck, you have to bring treats for Yisran."

[I figure in a heptarchate game we need a seventh stat, so Luck it is!]

[yhlee]

"Right," Remi says, "so I'd better not use Constitution as my dump stat." He's already pretty, but his brief smile makes him even prettier. "Who's Yisran?"

[Luck sounds like a great stat for a heptarchate game! :) ]

[zuhrovet]

Ankat smiles back cautiously. He's not immune to Remi's charms, but he's seen the no-seduction note on Remi's file, and doesn't really want to discover what it means. "Yisran's my dog." He makes a clicking noise; Yisran emerges from under a table, looking hopeful.

[My favorite sort of dog is the kind of big, lazy Saint Bernard that flops around pretending to be a cat, so if anyone (pengwern?) wants to make Yisran do adorable small-dog things, please, go for it.]

Meanwhile, Sasha leaves her Luck at 9, buys up Strength and Dex, and rolls the maximum hit points.

[yhlee]

Remi flinches. It's subtle and he recovers quickly, but definitely there. "Hello," he says, very cautiously, and holds his hand out for sniffing.

[Anyone who watches this can probably guess that Remi has had bad experiences with unfriendly dogs in the past.]

After Yisran does whatever Yisran is apt to do, Remi buys up Intelligence, Constitution, and Dexterity. He manages to roll a 1 for hit points and makes a face.

[slybrarian]

Seeing how Remi's character is shaping up, Alaric says, "I think I should probably go with a cleric to get my phenomenal cosmic powers. One well-stocked with diamonds."

Naturally he gets two hit points, after adding in the CON bonus.

[yhlee]

Remi eyes his own die dolefully. "I'm glad I bought up CON," he remarks, even if it only nets him a lousy 3 HP total. "I know a scientist shouldn't be superstitious, but I think I need better dice."

[slybrarian]

"Maybe there's something wrong with the local calendrical environment that's skewing probabilities."

[zuhrovet]

"Only three of us have rolled at all," Sasha points out. "You'd need a much bigger data set to detect any anomalies."

In the meantime, she's glad rangers get two hit dice at first level.

[yhlee]

Remi laughs. "Statistics is for the weak," he says, with a half-mocking half-bow in her direction.

[zuhrovet]

"I'm sure you can persuade the printer to make you loaded dice, if you exert yourself," Sasha tells him sweetly.

[yhlee]

Remi either ignores or doesn't catch Sasha's tone, and brightens. "That could be a fun exercise," he says. He snags a slate and starts perusing different specs for machine-printing regular polyhedra.

[yhlee]

"Certainly possible," Remi says, although if he (as a Nirai) has detected anything grossly amiss with the local calendar, he's keeping the details to himself.

[zuhrovet]

Yisran snuffles Remi's hand with great enthusiasm--skeptical humans are fascinating, and traces of mothling are a bonus!--but Ankat eventually persuades his dog to sit by his side, in exchange for two biscuits.