TheMushroomLord

Re:Zero - The New Constellation

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Re:Zero - The New Constellation

@Ithradine Great to hear.

@vancexentan I hope you enjoy. As for being enough, including the guy who expressed interest over PMs, 6 people is definitely workable, though ideally I'd feel comfortable with a few more. I'll be leaving the Interest Check running for a little while longer to see if I can get any more bites before I put up the OOC.

@Vocab

I guess that’s my cue to stop lurking and crawl out of the woodwork. You have my interest.

Into The Depths!

Petra was mildly annoyed by the guard’s comment, but by the time she'd thought up a decent retort the guards had already gestured for her to move on, their attention having already turned elsewhere. That irked her slightly, but it was probably for the best, so she let it go, reasoning that making a bad impression on the local law enforcement from the getgo wouldn’t do her any favours going forwards.

Upon making it past the guard checkpoint, Petra immediately made a beeline towards the first free patch of shade she could find. This place was hot, or at least far hotter than anything Petra was used to and her shoddy attempt at armour was certainly toasty if nothing else.

Still, after only a few minutes of cooling Petra began to take proper note of the great city surrounding her and it was only so long before her curiosity overcame her desire to avoid the sun and she found herself leaving the comfort of the shade to explore its streets. Pretty much everything in Zion it seemed was different from what Petra was used to, from the architecture to the people. Having spent most of her life in a fairly ordinary city and the rest of her life in an even more ordinary village, Petra was naturally interested to see all the strange things the city had to offer. For this reason, she soon found herself observing the stalls, which were filled with a seemingly endless array of strange and wonderful things for her to look at.

Particularly, Petra was tantalised by the aroma of each of the many food items on display, their scents causing her mouth to water despite not having the slightest clue as to what any of them might taste like. Part of here briefly entertained the idea of trying to swipe a meal, but she quickly dismissed the notion. With so many wondering eyes around and in a city with so many unknown variables that would be really stupid, especially, since for once in her life, she was soon going to have reliable access to food.

With a sigh, Petra reluctantly turned her back on the food stalls and set off to take a look at what else the market had to offer and letting her mind slip elsewhere as she did so. This was it wasn’t it? The day she’d pick up where her father had left off. Fighting to protect those that needed to be protected, or more likely, to die trying.

Almost perfectly on cue, as though timed to follow on from her thought, a voice boomed from the sky, instructing the recruits to head to the castle. Petra groaned, she wasn’t exactly used to this kind of thing, though fortunately, the instructions seemed easy enough. Still, it was now or never, so with that Petra set off for the castle, her eyes scanning the crowd for other recruits she could hopefully tail to her destination.

Into The Depths!

Appearance

Petra Nisbet

Name: Petra Nisbet
Age: 17

Personality: Petra tends to come off as brash and inconsiderate to most people, seemingly doing whatever she wants with little regard to those around her. In actuality, it might be better to describe her as not caring about other people’s opinion of her and unconcerned with actions that don’t have a tangible effect on others. Though she might seem impulsive at a glance, when it comes to anything of consequence, she’s quite the opposite, becoming calculated and analytical as the situation calls for it.

Petra is also the sort to form very strong opinions about certain things and though her opinions can be changed by others she can at times act quite hostile towards those who fail to do so. Most notable of these opinions is her borderline heretical opinion of god, whom she blames for not doing more.

Brief Biography: Petra’s village was attacked by demons when she was quite young and though both she and her father managed to avoid the attack, many of the other villagers, including Petra’s mother were not so fortunate. At the time the incident left a lasting impression on the young girl’s mind with her dreams haunted by imagined scenes of what might have happened in the village that day.

Worse still was that the attack only marked the beginning of a string of bad luck for her and her father. With so many villagers killed in the attack, the village was left lacking many vital functions and soon had to be abandoned, forcing the two remaining Nisbet’s to move to a larger city. Unfortunately, it seemed they were not the only ones to arrive under these circumstances and with a skillset not well suited to the big city and no shortage of candidates to with the same skillset it was hard for Petra’s father to make a living.

Years passed with the family’s financial state steadily falling until the day came that with little other choice remaining, Petra’s father left to participate in the 4th crusade, telling Petra that he’d slay all the demons so she’d never need to be afraid again. As much as she wanted to believe her father’s words at the time, she knew he was not a fighter and though he lasted a good while Petra couldn’t say she was surprised when the day came that instead of a letter and money sent back from the front lines it was a body.

What meagre funds she had after that didn’t last long and Petra was soon forced to the streets, doing whatever it took to survive. It was difficult at first, but over time she picked up the skills she needed to survive on her own, learning to steal what she needed or otherwise the coin required. Not that it ever became easy, Petra lacked both the bravery to steal from those who had plenty and the cruelty to steal more than she needed from those who did not, but at the end of the day, it was survival.

Upon hearing of the expedition into the abyss Petra saw an opportunity to remove herself from her situation and one that would allow her to continue where her father had left off. Despite knowing that the odds were stacked against her survival should she join, Petra decided to anyway, not seeing what she had to lose.
Gift: Physical

Stats

Power: 8
Skill: 16 (+2)
Resistance: 6
Spirit: 1

Passive – Underhanded Survivor: +5 Skill
Petra has survived up until now not by being particularly strong or tough, but instead by exercising her skill and wit to deal with whatever life throws at her regardless of what that entailed.

Stat Derivations

Physical Attack – Skill: 18 [16 (Base) + 2 (Weapon)]
Physical Attack – Power: 10 [8 (Base) + 2 (Weapon)]
Defence – Skill: 19 [16 (Base) + 3 (Armour)]
Defence – Resistance: 1 [6 (Base) – 5 (Armour)]

Spells and Feats:

Dirty Trick: Whether it be by striking their groin, throwing sand in their eyes or some other trick entirely, Petra uses an underhanded manoeuvre against their opponent to gain the upper hand.

• AP Cost: 1
• Effect: -1 skill and resistance debuff to target for 3 rounds.

Does Not End Turn

Targeted Strike: Petra launches an attack against a weak point in an enemy’s defence.

• AP Cost: 2
• Effect: Roll an attack as normal but add an additional point of damage for each point Petra’s attack roll exceeds her opponents dodge roll.

Ends Turn

Reactive Maneuvers: Petra channels her strength into mobility and evasion.

• AP Cost: 1
• Effect: +4 buff to Petra’s dodge rolls until the start of her next turn and Petra can physically move as part of this action. If the enemy fails to dodge after Petra’s attack, Petra can strike again with half the damage.

Does Not End Turn

Minor Spell – Peripheral Illusion: Petra creates illusions only in the peripheral vision of a single target to distract them. Any attempt by the target to directly look at the illusion immediately causes it to disappear otherwise it disappears at the end of the current turn.

• AP Cost: 1
• Effect: The next skill-based roll the target makes before the end of Petra’s current turn is made at a -2 penalty.

Does Not End Turn

Inventory:

Cloth Armour: [Skill: +3; Resistance: -5]
An “armour” set cobbled together by Petra in preparation for the 5th crusade. Largely comprised of several layers of cloth stitched together as a means of rudimentary protection, it offers very little by way of defence but also does not hinder Petra’s movement. A number of pockets stitched to it, including a few surprisingly well-concealed ones, though nothing that would stand up to more than simple observation.

Coffin Nail: [Skill: +2; Power: +2]
A large coffin nail with a handle of waxed cloth. Being relatively short for a melee weapon and not having a sharpened edge this weapon is ineffective in cases where getting too close or stabbing would prove difficult.

Other:

• Rations: 3 Days
• Leather Backpack

CONTAINMENT: Welcome to Facility B

Felix Jones — MY-1801-FJ

With the boy's focus on identifying food it took him a few moments to notice the gory sight to the side of the room, but when he did he immediately flinched away, some part of him identifying it as a hazard only to quickly realise a moment later when against his expectations nothing had happened, that there wasn't really anything particularly dangerous about the scene. What had he thought was going to happen? Once again the boy's memories failed to provide him with context for even his own actions a mild confusion that somewhat frustrated him. Maybe it was because it looked painful? Yeah, that was probably it. One of those people looked really badly injured even if he couldn't see the full extent of their wounds and whatever had happened to each of them had probably hurt a lot given that they all seemed to have passed out or something. The thought was upsetting and he felt the sting of tears forming, despite not knowing the people, before blinking them from his eyes.

Wanting to push the topic from his mind the boy made to force himself back onto his original task of looking for food only to be distracted by the sight the strong girl from earlier moving tables to obscure the bodies. Was she doing something to help? Maybe. Should he try to help her help? Probably, but that was scary, besides, he wasn't anywhere near as strong as her. Still, his curiosity got the better of him and it provided him with an easy distraction from further pondering the now obscured scene he'd witnessed, so he decided to see if he could get a better look at the very least.

The girl vaulted over her makeshift barrier as the boy got close only to jump back over again just moments later, this time clutching something in her hands. The boy couldn't make out what it was the girl was holding and debated between asking her or just leaving, not managing to make a decision before the girl lifted the object, a blue plastic card, to inspect it herself. His curiosity piqued the boy mustered up the courage to speak. "Did you find a key?", realising that was probably a dumb question given the object was obviously a key the boy added, "Do you know where it goes?".

@twave

To The Depths

You have my interest. I’d also agree with the above, for these kinds of things keeping it as simple tends to work. I’d even go so far as to say just making a very basic skeleton of a system with only the things you know will be used a lot included and then just improvising the specifics as you go for whatever else comes up is a perfectly valid way to do things. If you want something more concrete than that though I've got some ideas.

System Idea Thingy

Everything is broken into Stats, Checks, and Abilities. I'm too tired to write this idea out properly so think D&D to get an idea of how stats and checks would work.
Stats: I’d merge Intelligence and Wisdom into one Mind stat, add a Spirit stat for magic, and remove charisma entirely because that can just be roleplayed out.

• Strength: Physical output.
• Toughness: Ability to take a hit and stamina.
• Dexterity: Fine motor skills and agility, maybe those should be split into two different stats.
• Mind: Essentially the character's intelligence and wisdom, as well as anything else solely within there, mind that isn't their memories or personality.
• Spirit: Magical strength and capacity.

Abilities: Players would specify a number abilities which are passive or active abilities they have that distinguish them from average people. This includes the good and the bad as well as both mundane abilities and those resulting from. These could be things as non-specific as the circumstances of the character's background, but the less specific the less the bonus.

Example Abilities

• Light Bearer: Thanks to a gift they can produce small balls of light from their hands and move them about at will.
• Stealthy: They are good at hiding and moving about unnoticed.
• Bad Hearing: An accident years ago left them deaf in one ear.
• Former Sailor: Has spent years out at sea where they picked up a number of useful tricks for adventuring.

Checks: Checks are a number that is rolled against with a relevant stat modifier applied. DC for any given check is determined by how hard it would be for a normal person (maybe something like, Trivial: 5>, Easy: 6-10, Normal: 11-15, Hard: 16-20, Very Hard: 21-30, Impossible: 30+), and modified by whatever circumstances are relevant to the check as well as the player in questions abilities.

Example Scenario

Climbing a Cliff Face: DC 22 Strength Check; Adjusted DC: 17

• Modifier – Plenty of Hands Holds: -5
• Modifier – In a Storm: +5 DC
• Player Ability – Former Sailor: Has climbed in far worse storms at sea. Negates penalty from storm.

Checks should only be made if it’s reasonable for it to have a chance at working (e.g. a peasant trying to stab a trained fighter is fine despite the low odds, but that same peasant trying to perform brain surgery without training is automatically going to fail). Likewise, the opposite is true when a check could not reasonably be failed. Additionally, things where there shouldn't be any variability in result based on specified actions should not be rolled for.

Examples

• Auto Fail – Untrained Brain Surgery: Under no feasible circumstances could this ever be at all successful even if theoretically possible, certainly not as a 5% chance.
• Auto Success – Assassination: Slitting the throat of someone that is unaware and unable to defend themselves. No reasonable chance at failure assuming no other factors. Checks may still need to be made for secondary functions, such as doing it quietly.
• No Check – Discussion: Many discussions shouldn't require checks. Results should instead be based on the personalities of the participants and their reactions to what specifically has been said.

CONTAINMENT: Welcome to Facility B

Felix Jones — MY-1801-FJ

The boy had been frightened when he'd heard the sudden yelling, even more so when the source of that yelling had charged his friend, knocking them to the ground. He watched as the stranger repeatedly struck his friend realising he should do something, but finding himself instead frozen in place. Would he get hurt if he stepped in? He didn't think so, or at least he didn't feel like he'd end up injured. Still, the idea of getting into a fight was terrifying enough for his to freeze in place, as much as he wanted to help his friend.

It wasn't until the teenaged girl from earlier had hurled his friend's assailant across the room that the boy was finally able to spur himself into action. Running up to his shadowy friend the boy tried to help them to their feet, not that he really had the strength to do much.

"Are you okay?", the boy asked, blinking to prevent tears from forming in his eyes. It looked like things were beginning to calm down, the man who'd attacked before didn't appear to be making any further moves against the boy's friend and both the woman who'd made the bone thing and the really strong girl had moved away to deal with other things. Even so, the boy was still more than a little spooked, despite not having actually been involved in the fight himself. He wanted to get moving before something else had a chance to go wrong. "I think we should go to the cafeteria now", the boy suggested, feebly tugging the shadowy creatures arm in the direction of the cafeteria.

Goblin Quest

Though both goblins lay prone by the body of the now-dead harvest sloth, they'd done it. Even so, between her sister getting hurt and the fear that lingered even after the fight, Aya couldn't feel good about their victory. What was more, the sisters were both paralysed, leaving them in a bad position to defend themselves against any further attacks.

As her mind began trying to think up solutions to the current predicament Aya was distracted by something else, a feeling of sorrow that placed itself into Aya's mind, even through all of Aya's own panicked thoughts. Maybe it was better to describe it an awareness of a feeling, rather than a feeling in its own, there was a sort of disconnect as though Aya were only a spectator to the feeling. It wasn't until she heard Ragi start sobbing and crying apologies that Aya realised what it was she was sensing wasn't a part of her own mind, but her sisters. Aya had wanted to say something to help ease her sister's pain, but whenever she tried to say something the words failed to come out, blocked by her doubts that she could do anything to help and a fear that whatever she said would only serve to make things worse.

It wasn't until Ragi's sobbing stopped and Aya felt her mind calm down a little several minutes later, that Aya was able to revise her mental image of her sister. Ragi was a genius no doubt, but she was still only a goblin, a brilliant and kind one, but a goblin nonetheless, yet somehow this revelation only caused her opinion of her sister to grow. Yes, Ragi could make mistakes and would do so as long as she continued to strive for the best possible outcomes, but if anyone could achieve those outcomes it was Ragi. The flaws Aya had noticed in Ragi's plan finally fell into place, the plan hadn't been flawless, but rather it had been the best possible plan they could hope for given the information Ragi had and the outcome she'd been trying to achieve. What kind of pressure that kind of responsibility must have put on her sister Aya couldn't begin to imagine.

Aya's thoughts were once again cut short by another feeling, this time coming from insider herself. Hunger. It was far worse now after the battle, having gone from little more than an ever-present annoyance to something actively painful, an issue only made worse by her noticing the problem. Feeling the harvest sloth beneath her body Aya vaguely recalled her worries about it potentially being poisonous, but between her hunger and the goblin instincts screaming at her to eat, Aya had hardly even begun that chain of thought before her teeth had sunk into the harvest sloths flesh. It took all of what little restraint she had left to leave her sister half of the sloth alone, and there certainly wouldn't be enough left to feed Bug and Twig as well.

Strangely enough, Aya had quickly begun to feel better after eating, the paralysation working its way out of her like a bad case of pins and needles at a noticeable rate. Was that an effect of eating the sloth? The moment she was well enough to stand she did so, grabbing her rock as she struggled to her feet and positioning herself to overlook her sleeping sister as she dropped back into thought. If she wanted to help her sister she'd need to have a plan.

After a while, Aya's attention was drawn to a rattling sound, though even so it took her a moment to spot the source, the snakes flower-like body haveing made it hard to spot in the grass and allowing it to have slithered a little to close for comfort. Aya gripped her rock, though thinking about it she doubted she could hit the snake. For whatever reason Aya found herself more confident in her tree-climbing ability than she had been at the start of the day, so maybe there was a plan there? No, Aya wasn't strong enough to carry Ragi and that would mean abandoning their prey. There wasn't time to devise a trap and beyond probably being hard to hit Aya didn't really have a clue what to expect from the creature. The combination of camouflage and a deterrent might suggest that the snake wouldn't attack prey that it couldn't ambush, but Aya wasn't prepared to take that gamble, especially not after the sloth. The snake rattled again, threatening the goblins, and Aya on instinct responded in kind, bearing her teeth at it and letting out a soft hissing sound as if to warn the creature not to approach.

A sudden awareness of Ragi's panic and fear suggested to Aya her sister had woken up, confirmed moments later by the sounds of her sister crawling backwards and calling for her. At least the paralysis had worn off. "It's okay, I'm over here sister. Maybe you should eat something? Um... just be careful there's another monster here...", Aya informed her sister, kicking herself as she realised that that last part probably wasn't the best thing to say to calm Ragi.

It was a bad position, Ragi was afraid, Aya was afraid, there was an immediate threat of unknown capabilities and Aya had no time to think things through. The goblin began to giggle slightly as she grinned wide, her outwards demeanour in stark contrast to how badly she was freaking out inside.

@Celsius

Actions

• Noticed the effects of Sisterly Bond.
• Gave in to hunger and ate half the sloth.
• Stood up and grabbed her rock once paralysation had worn off then waited around in thought for a bit.
• Noticed the snake, threatened it shortly after.
• Tried to calm Ragi, but didn't take her attention off the snake.

Inventory

Battle Rock: (Held) A rock with about as much heft to it as it could have while still allowing Aya to swing it one-handed.
Goblin Garb: (Worn) A simple one-piece dress sized for a young goblin, it's made with only the most abysmal of craftsmanship and crappiest of cloth.

Goblin Quest

Acctually yeah that's a good point when you say no memories is it a no memories but contextless knowledge remains or is it just everything is gone in entirety? I, and I think most of us for that matter, was under the impression that our knowledge still remained, but our memories, while still there, were damaged to the point of being unable to paint a proper picture of our old lives beyond a few fractured details.

I don't think I've made too much mention to a past life beyond Aya recalling that she remembered having another name previously though not what that name was and a few references to things like the rope trap which she New of but not how to make, but if I was mistaken about the amount of knowledge we came in with I'm happy to retcon anything.

Goblin Quest

@Dark Light Imagine combining that bait scent skill with the paralytic spore skill. Just thought of that one now.

THERES SO MANY SKILL COMBINATIONS I WANNA SEE-- AND NOT ENOUGH ABSORPTION USES TO TRY THEM ALL

@Guy0fV4lor

I've been thinking both of these things!