[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]

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.