Riot Quest: Dark Days Ahead

Riot Quest: Dark Days Ahead



The end of the world came suddenly. It began with scattered reports of mania and delusion, which the government shrugged off and called fake. Then the ground water began to taste funny, and animals started acting strange… and then, the sky broke. Creatures never before seen flooded into our dimension, and the US Government declared martial law, and warned all ground water was contaminated with an unknown biological weapon. You are a lucky group of survivors that have somehow survived the beginning hours of the Cataclysm. Where did your group find shelter.

-[X] A Rural Ranch (Easy Start)
Your group has found your way to an abandoned out of the way ranch. In it you can find farm tools, carpentry items, possibly even some firearms, and most imprtantly horses, that, should you tame them, would make exploration far more easy.
+ Starting tools - Far from points of interest
+ Horses - Something dangerous is not far
+ Rural

-[X] A FEMA Evac Shelter (Medium Start)
You, like most other survivors now, have found yourselves in a FEMA Emergency Evac shelter. While items like survival tools and firearms are non-existent, you have access to a lot of blankets and survival clothing, and of course a huge supply of survival rations and water that would keep you going for a long while.
+Lots of food - Cramped
+Lots of water - Few tools and weapons
+Warm clothing - /+ A town is nearby

-[X] A Warehouse… in the Middle of a City (Hard Start)
Your group has found shelter… for now. While this warehouse is well protected and thankfully empty, you are completely surrounded by the dead and worse. Luckily this warehouse was used to store sports equipment, so you have some means of self defense.

+ Some weapons - Completely surrounded by the dead
- No food
- little uncontaminated water

Welcome everyone, to my first attempt at a quest. This is really going to be an experiment in running quests, and too test the waters so to speak, and I hope it will be fun. No prior knowledge of CDDA is required to enjoy.

1. The American Govt. has collapsed.
2. Something is in the water, so all non-rainfall water besides drinks bottled before the taint began will need to be treated as unclean, and must to be purified, or risk a horrible fate.
3. The animals are getting... bigger.
4. At some point, the sky broke...

TIMEFRAME
Due to the nature of the game start, each turn will take place over one in game week, with actions spread out through out the week.

DICE AND NARRATIVE ACTIONS
The actions of the PCs will be resolved narratively, along with combat. The success or failure of their actions and fighting will be dependent on skills and past experience, along with some debate in thread or on the not-yet-existant Discord. Things like loot rolls, random events, and encountered creatures will be rolled for.

ACTIONS
PCs in game will have 1 Active Action, which can be put towards activities that require more than a half day commitment, or if it is something the player want to be done well, like logging trees or making weapons. PCs can do many Passive Actions, actions that only require a few hours of commitment, and can be done without major strain. But, for my sanity, I ask that you keep passives as limited as possible.

NEW PLAYERS AFTER INTIAL PC CREATION
After the initial character creation, no more PCs will be allowed to start at the farm. Instead, new players will be other survivors that are found on looting runs or find the ranch themselves. They will then join the settlement and play as normal.

Food: Unkown

Water: Unkown

Weapons: Unkown

Resources: Unkown

Defenses: Unkown

Alright, vote closed. Looks like Rural Ranch has won. I'll start working on PC creation soon.

Character Creation

So this band of survivors have managed to reach the relative safety of a rural ranch. Now it is up to them to make their own fate, and survive in a world where humanity is no longer the apex predator. Speaking of survivors, who are they?


Now onto the part you all have been waiting for: character creation. Now, the sex, height, weight, description and backstory of your character is up to the individual quester, but where it gets complicated is PT and IT. I will describe what I mean below. I would also like to shout out @I.F. Ister for inspiring this character creation and quest.

Player Tokens

Player points are what character is good at, and what makes them a survivor, each player starts with 4 PT, but new players get +1 for each in game half year afterwards, as to let new players have a chance to compete with the long-time players. PT can be spent on one of 3 things.

Skills

Quite simple: what is the PC good at? Is it blacksmithing, chemistry, knife throwing, lock picking? Skills are as varied as real life, and could be anything (within reason), as long as it's consistent with your back story. Here are some examples.
-Archery Form
-Distillation
-Parkour
-Lockpicking
-etc.

Mutations

Do you want cat ears? A Snake's Tongue? perhaps Enhanced Senses? This is the portion for you. Mutations are very special at start due to one simple fact: this is the ONLY point you can get non-randomized mutation. If you select this, I will not roll on a table for it, you get to select one. Any mutations you receive later in quest can be negative or positive, and will be random.

CBM
Do you want to be a robot man? This is for you. Compact Bionic Modules, or Bionics in CDDA have a wide array of effects, and must be installed by either an auto-doc or experienced. You will get to skip the messy process of selecting a certified physician, and get to start with one! I cloud say what CMBs you can pick, but in CDDA there are over 120, so ill leave it up to you to pick what bionics you want.

A handy list of CBMs.
https://cdda-guide.nornagon.net/json_flag/CBM

ITEM TOKENS

You start with 2 IT, and new players receive +1 per in game half year that happens. Item tokens can be spent on any item your character could CONCEIVABLY get. So a fireman cloud start with a fire axe, a mechanic could start with a wrench set, but a fast food worker cant start with a CMES Laser cannon, or power armor.

WARNING
Make sure to think of what you would need, as skills will have to be learned the hard way, through experience and reading books, CBMs will need to be scavenged and installed correctly, mutations will be randomized, and all items need to be found and looted.


With that, character creation opens! There will be a 24 hour timer on voting, and i'm excited to see what you all come up with!

Ah, yes I should say that.

Character format will be a plan vote.

-[X] Name
-[X] Description
-[X] Backstory (in spoilers please)
-[X] PT allocation
-[X] IT allocation