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 Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:26 am
 Death Hunter
DEATHSWEEPER
The large stone cavern with the tiled floor and large yellow smiley face is likely familiar to at least several trainees, and may even feature in a few nightmares from time to time. Welcome to Deathsweeper, the training course that may only be attempted via c-type golem, and often acts as a testing ground for the Life Division's more painful creations. Stealth and detecting imminent danger are vital for Death Hunters and anyone who has to spend extended amounts of time near Caelius. The Deathsweeper chamber is full of hidden traps that only the finest of survival instincts can survive unscathed.
If you fail: you get to once again relive the sensation of dying. Painfully and sometimes quite strangely.
If you win: you have survived stepping 5 tiles into the room. Anything further is purely for peen and bragging rights.
Mechanics
roll 1 d10
check for hp loss and death
decide whether or not to use your bonuses
if you survive, repeat.
roll list: the traps are ICly constantly changing, so feel free to get creative as to what exactly those traps are!
-50% HP is off your full HP, so if you hit -50% twice, then you are 100% KO'd
01. horrible death
02. - 50% HP
03. live
04. live
05. - 50% HP
06. - 50% HP
07. horrible death
08. - 50% HP
09. live
10. horrible death
Bonus Mechanics
This bonus is consumable.
All participants get a flag, this flag will allow your character to notice something about the area they're stepping into. OOCly this means you can adjust your rolled number, up or down, by one point. Instinctive moves are used in the same manner as flags. These are stackable, so if you have 1 flag + 1 instinctive move, you can use them up in order to adjust your roll by two.
(If you roll a 1, you may not move your number down to 0, -1, or 10. And 10 cannot be adjusted to 1 or 11.)
Trainees: 1 flag
Death Trainees: 1 flag + 1 instinctive move
Hunters: 1 flag + 1 instinctive move
Death Hunters: 1 flag + 2 instinctive moves
Status Step: (current step number)HP:Flags:Instinctive moves: [quote="Status"]
[size=14][color=#00BFFF][b]Step: (current step number)[/b][/color][/size]
[b]HP:[/b]
[b]Flags:[/b]
[b]Instinctive moves:[/b]
[/quote] Quote: Basic Trapping Gun Difficulty level: Basic Battle Effect: Once per battle, a player may choose to roll a 6-sided dice. If odd, they trap their opponent for one turn, making their opponent unable to attack for that turn. Non-battle Effect: The gun may snare a target, trapping them. This is also very useful for collecting specimens Requirements: Complete any mission and survive five tiles in the Deathsweeper training course
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:39 am
Harrison had been meaning to get a gun anyhow, for personal reasons.
He was trying not to be bitter about Rep's...whatever he was doing with the kid, the kid it was important to deny they'd ever had a relationship for, kids who in his experience were nothing but trouble and taking advantage. Rep always thought he had the upper hand, but those little shits-
Anyhow it wasn't doing him any good to brood. But it put him in a more reckless mood. He could use a distraction, and what was a little fake dying over and over.
He usually limbered up, before. Somebody smarter than him had given him that advice. But in this exercise, it didn't matter what you wore, or how limber you were. He waited on Chantelle in the observatory, where they could see the grid. The training room was free. Lucky them.
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:57 am
Chantelle took a little longer to arrive at the training room, even injured, appearances were important and an often time consuming affair. She was dressed a little more simply than usual, but the cast around her arm had been decorated in elaborate patterns which bled into rough sheet music and then back to patterning once again before finishing in a flurry of bats.
"Hey there mysterious policeman." she said with a smile, waving her good hand with its flurry of stretch bracelets in greeting. She had quite a few bruises on her pale skin besides the obvious. "Like, thankyou for agreeing to do this with me."
good boy. Good boy. Sit. Stay. Murder. Like him ah like him he could pat ma heed. Ahm a good boy tae ah kin dae aw they things nae bothah.>
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Chantelle wandered over to look out at the grid. "What is it we have to do? I'm not allowed to use my weapon like, cause of my arm."
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:05 am
"Harrison," he said, leaning off the glass and extending a hand to Lawrence.
"You familiar with golems?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:07 am
She shook his hand. "Chantelle."
At the mention of golems she shook her head. "Not really. Like, I've heard about them but I'm not used to them or like, used them."
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:29 am
They had different ways of doing the trials, and nobody had given him a golem lecture sheet to copy after either, so Harrison veered on the side of safe and launched into a general history.
"Right. Well, you ever seen the Matrix? Golems are made of mud and blood and magic, and you go into one of these pods here," He gestured to the waiting pods, "and when you open your eyes again, you'll be inside a golem. Now, you won't be actually in one. When the golem gets hit or killed, you're back safe in the pod. Golems can look like anything, too. They got a bunch of different programs for them. It's what we use for spying on Halloween. You could go in and wake up a zombie, a slime monster, whatever. Dripping goop and bones showing and all."
Harrison opened up the pod door for her.
"So, no real risk. Golem-only. This kinda weapon bonding is more like, instincts, I guess. You gotta listen to each other. It's the kind of s**t you'll need in your division especially. After your arm's healed, we'll try some of the more hands-on courses."
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:37 am
Chantelle listened with rapt attention to the information on golems. The intensity of her enthusiasm didn't subside at all when he was done. "So like you can be anything? That's amazing! Everything here is like, so amazing, more than I thought possible."
She eyed the pod a little while longer than she meant to, not keen on pods in the first place, but eventually seemed to change her mind and get in.
"As long as like, there's no real harm. I'm already like, pretty roughed up."
"I will do my best, though like, my weapon can be kind of weird. She's a picky kitty."
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:48 am
"See you on the other side." He shut the pod after her, and climbed into the other one.
When he looked over again, they were in the caverns, the system of gridded tiles and distant smiley face looming harmlessly in front of them.
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:53 am
The shift was jarring, Chantelle found herself in a golem body which was not her own and it left Lawr reeling. He defined his personas so closely by how he looked that to find himself in another body was disorienting. Looking down at himself, he realised his black clad body was male-shaped and he tilted his head, his mind racing to weight up each response in turn.
He finally settled back into Chantelles mindset and said aloud in surprise. "I like think there was a mixup! I look like. You know, a bit weird. Is this how all these golems are?"
She almost took a step forward in her surprise, unaware of the nature of the grid.
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 10-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-10)
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:08 pm
"Like I said. Golems can look like anything."
Harrison held Chantelle back.
"They're rigged," he told Chantelle. "I made it across once, in my trials. Didn't know we were in golems. Watched everyone but me die." He smiled wolfishly. "Doesn't feel too nice. But you got worse ahead of you, so it's better you toughen up while you got the chance. Go over there and grab a flag. You get one to test with. You gotta make it across five tiles, if you want the runic weapon access."
He took a flag himself, hefting the flimsy pole.
"I'll show you how they work."
He planted one on the first tile, which erupted in a pillar of fire that seared the ceiling. When it had finished, Harrison stepped onto the grid, completely safe, but minus a flag. Status Step: 1HP: 60 Flags: 0/1 (using) Instinctive moves: 1/1
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Baneful rolled 1 10-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-10)
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:17 pm
She took the flag from Harrison and eyed it doubtfully, not sure how a flag was supposed to save her from what seemed like a truly awful course.
"I like. I really don't like pain. Like. At all." she said, as if confiding some genuine and terrible secret. "It's like the worst thing ever." Already her heart was hammering faster.
Five tiles looked like a very long way.
She took her first step, heartened by the fact that Harrison's golem was still intact.
Mercifully nothing happened.
"Yay!" she said aloud.
Status Step: 1HP: 40 Flags: 1 Instinctive moves: 1
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 10-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-10)
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:24 pm
Being out of flags early on was never a good thing.
Harrison tested the next tile.
This time, there was a familiar twang. He knew the rain of arrows was coming before it hit, and managed to dodge the ******** things by a hair's breadth.
He looked down nervously at the halo of arrows at his feet.
"Nothing to it," he said, strained. Status Step: 2HP: 60 Flags: 0/1 Instinctive moves: 0/1 (using)
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Baneful rolled 1 10-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-10)
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:29 pm
Chantelle flinched at the rain of arrows that came down at Harrison, suddenly feeling like this training course was a really bad idea and that perhaps she would have been better off turning down the offer.
She took another step. Nothing happened.
"Maybe mine is broken?" she said quizzically.
Status Step: 2HP: 40 Flags: 1 Instinctive moves: 1
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 10-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-10)
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:35 pm
Harrison looked over, scowling irritably as he took another step.
"It's not broken, it's just a safe tile, not like they're few and far between but- EEEEARGH!!"
A waterfall of boiling oil glooped down from the ceiling, half-melting through the golem's facemask. Seared burn wounds showed up through the tar. He could barely see.
"Ah, ah s**t, ********, ow-" Status Step: 3HP: 30 Flags: 0/1 Instinctive moves: 0/1
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Baneful rolled 1 10-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-10)
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:41 pm
Her raw instincts as the boiling oil dropped from the ceiling were not to run to Harrison's aid, but instead to take a step back from the mess of burns.
"Wow." she said, her posture horrified.
But once again nothing happened.
Status Step: 3HP: 40 Flags: 1 Instinctive moves: 1
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