You are a 19-year-old aspiring crossworld merchant from an alternate that just learned of the multiverse two months ago. Unfortunately, the multiverse has just as many dangers as it has wonders, if not even more so...
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The Multiversal Merchant [EEUSGverse]
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I: Chargen
The known multiverse is a massive and varied place.
Over one trillion alternates are connected via portals to the Nutshell - a massive spherical nexus of sorts one hundred thousand kilometers in diameter and home to an estimated one hundred and ten quadrillion people. Trade between alternates is constant, with residents being able to buy and sell anything with enough money - except for biological weapons, as per the rules of the mysterious Founders.
Et tu?[1]
You are a 19-year-old aspiring crossworld merchant from an alternate that just learned of the multiverse two months ago. The very same day that President Obama issued the executive order permitting limited immagration into the Nutshell, you began exchanging your paper money for silver coins and began packing your bags. You're pretty sure that you already have a good commodity to start trading with: more specifically, the various Vinyl records that you bought during your teenage years might make for something that people would be willing to buy.
As you ride the Greyhound packed with people wanting to get to the portal in Stockton, you think about your life so far and everything you've done to get here, starting first and foremost with your youth.
Your parents often told you that ever since you were a young child, you -
(Choose one option from the list below)
[] - were good with math. (Business Acumen 1 [10])
[] - learned how to read and write at an early age. (Language Talent [10])
[] - didn't catch diseases as much as your peers did. (HT +1 [10])
Of course, that is only the beginning of your story. During your adolesence, you -
(Choose one option from the list below)
[] - made a lot of friends. (Charisma 1 [5] + Overconfidence (CR 12) [-5])
[] - learned that you could talk to animals. (Animal Empathy [5] + Delusion ("I can talk to animals!") [-5])
And now, as you have just started your forays into adulthood, you are also making forays into a new and unknown reality that the alternate you are from has little to no knowledge of...
...will you be able to survive?
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Hello there, and welcome to my latest quest, which is based in the setting of Ephraim Ben Raphael's alternate history series An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government! I honestly don't know if I'm going to be able to get anywhere with this one, but then again, that mostly depends on whether or not enough people vote.
This quest, as with the most recent quest I attempted to run, will be using GURPS rules; if you have any questions regarding that system (or any questions regarding the setting of this quest, for that matter), I will be perfectly happy to answer them.
And as a final note, plan votes are always required except when there's a single-choice vote.
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[1] "And you?" in Latin - one of the three most prevalent lingua francas of the Nutshell.
Over one trillion alternates are connected via portals to the Nutshell - a massive spherical nexus of sorts one hundred thousand kilometers in diameter and home to an estimated one hundred and ten quadrillion people. Trade between alternates is constant, with residents being able to buy and sell anything with enough money - except for biological weapons, as per the rules of the mysterious Founders.
Et tu?[1]
You are a 19-year-old aspiring crossworld merchant from an alternate that just learned of the multiverse two months ago. The very same day that President Obama issued the executive order permitting limited immagration into the Nutshell, you began exchanging your paper money for silver coins and began packing your bags. You're pretty sure that you already have a good commodity to start trading with: more specifically, the various Vinyl records that you bought during your teenage years might make for something that people would be willing to buy.
As you ride the Greyhound packed with people wanting to get to the portal in Stockton, you think about your life so far and everything you've done to get here, starting first and foremost with your youth.
Your parents often told you that ever since you were a young child, you -
(Choose one option from the list below)
[] - were good with math. (Business Acumen 1 [10])
[] - learned how to read and write at an early age. (Language Talent [10])
[] - didn't catch diseases as much as your peers did. (HT +1 [10])
Of course, that is only the beginning of your story. During your adolesence, you -
(Choose one option from the list below)
[] - made a lot of friends. (Charisma 1 [5] + Overconfidence (CR 12) [-5])
[] - learned that you could talk to animals. (Animal Empathy [5] + Delusion ("I can talk to animals!") [-5])
And now, as you have just started your forays into adulthood, you are also making forays into a new and unknown reality that the alternate you are from has little to no knowledge of...
...will you be able to survive?
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Hello there, and welcome to my latest quest, which is based in the setting of Ephraim Ben Raphael's alternate history series An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government! I honestly don't know if I'm going to be able to get anywhere with this one, but then again, that mostly depends on whether or not enough people vote.
This quest, as with the most recent quest I attempted to run, will be using GURPS rules; if you have any questions regarding that system (or any questions regarding the setting of this quest, for that matter), I will be perfectly happy to answer them.
And as a final note, plan votes are always required except when there's a single-choice vote.
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[1] "And you?" in Latin - one of the three most prevalent lingua francas of the Nutshell.
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