World of Super-Science

Summary

World of Super-Science, a play-by-post based on a Thundarr-inspired hack of John Harper's excellent micro-system, World of Dungeons.

• Caias Ward, playing Caprison Deltaphawsett — a warrior
• Dorsai, playing Luka Yasar — Nanite Cyborg
• blackthought, playing Yog — the Weather Wizard of the Wasteland
• Roryb, GM

Recruitment Thread

Game Pitch

Under a Broken Moon. (Thundarr with the serial # filed off) Hijinks in a post-apocalyptic world of super-science and mysticism. Find the odic reactor and disable it before the wicked tech-wizards can harness its powers to fully subjugate the people.

When the cataclysm struck, the scientists and elite retreated to the safety of the inner earth, while radiation on the surface destroyed much of what was. Mutants and other barbaric survivalists made their way in a world of terrors. Magical ability (sorcery) was one of the outcomes of mutation. Eventually, the inner earth race re-surfaced in super-science airships to replenish their refuges and take slaves.

Characters

Caprison Deltaphawsett

player by Caias Ward

• CLASS: Warrior
• LEVEL: 2
• ATTRIBUTES: STR +3; AGL +1; INT +1; WLP +0; APL +0
• SKILLS: Athletics, Stealth
• SPECIAL ABILITIES: Skirmish (+1 damage and worn armor counts as one type lighter), Hardy (+6 HP), Tough (+1 Armor)
• HIT DICE: 4
• HIT POINTS: 14
• ARMOR & SPEED: None (Fast (Skirmish))
• WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT: Medium Weapon 30, Light Armor (-1 Damage), Shield (-1 Damage) 1 Grenade 5, Flashlight 5, Gas Mask 5, Travel Rations, Canteen, 1 Slug
• ADVENTURES: 0
• Notes:
• ADVANCEMENT: After each adventure, gain 1 level. Choose 1 from the list below on odd levels. Choose 2 for even levels:
  • o +1d6 damage
  • x o +Ability
  • x o o +Attribute (max: +3)
  • o o o +Skill
  • o o o o o +HD

Caprison Deltaphawsett was part of his village’s Outer Guard until wanderlust struck and he sought his fortune in the wide and dangerous world. Technology fascinates him, but he knows the Oldcesters were great scholars who could leverage The Rules of the Universe to create powerful devices such as the Stratocaster, the Toyodahylux and the Ruxpin. They were men who had great means of learning, so much of what is considered ‘magic’ is actually science, even if he doesn’t understand it.

Luka Yasar, Nanite Cyborg

player by Dorsai

• CLASS: Automaton
• LEVEL: 1
• ATTRIBUTES: STR +1; AGL +1; INT +0; WLP +1; APL +0
• SKILLS: Awareness, Decipher
• SPECIAL ABILITIES: Devices (3 built-in items: an arc-torch, holo-projector, and omni-scanner), Command (you can attempt to control any computer system or automoton)
• HIT DICE: 2
• HIT POINTS: 6
• ARMOR & SPEED: None (Fast)
• WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT: Rope, Blanket, Tent, Canteen, Rations (6), Flashlight (5), Crowbar, Knife (d6), money (20 slugs)
• ADVENTURES: 0
• Notes:
• ADVANCEMENT: After each adventure, gain 1 level. Choose 1 from the list below on odd levels. Choose 2 for even levels:
  • o +1d6 damage
  • o o +Ability
  • o o o +Attribute (max: +3)
  • o o o +Skill
  • o o o o o +HD

Long ago, the citizens of the Nucaro Arcology mastered the field of Nanotechnology and achieved a state of Technosynthesis. No longer was it necessary for the nanites that connected and perfected its citizens to be introduced artificially; so complete was the merger of technology and biology that they were passed from mother to child, ensuring that all future Nucarans were completely integrated into the whole while still retaining their individuality.

Luka was assigned to Stellos, a production outpost that supplied refined material to the Arcology. A strange-and highly contagious-malady affected the outpost, disrupting the connection between the people and their nanites. So dependent were they on the microscopic machine-organisms that they could not function without them, and they began to perish. Luka was one of the few who managed to escape before becoming infected, but the masters of Nucaro would not allow him or anyone from Stellos to return, fearing that they might be unwitting carriers of the disease, for which no cure could be found.

While cut off from the rest of the Arcology, Luka still has control over his own nanites, and is capable of establishing a link with most computers and machines. Having never known life outside that of the Arcology, he has wandered without purpose since his exile.

Yog, the Weather Wizard of the Wasteland

player by blackthought

• CLASS: Druid
• LEVEL: 1
• ATTRIBUTES: STR +0; AGL +0; INT +1; WLP +3; APL +0
• SKILLS: Awareness, Survival
• SPECIAL ABILITIES: Cantrips (you know three simple sorceries: spark, copper mist, gravitational eddy), Elementalist (Lightning (damaging blast), Solar Wind (force blast), Summon Storm (area effect), Change Temperature (area effect))
• HIT DICE: 1
• HIT POINTS: 5
• ARMOR & SPEED: Shield (1) (Fast)
• WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT: Hatchet, Rations (1), Canteen, Binoculars, Pouch of Psychedelic Mushrooms, money (1 slug)
• ADVENTURES: 0
• Notes:
• ADVANCEMENT: After each adventure, gain 1 level. Choose 1 from the list below on odd levels. Choose 2 for even levels:
  • o +1d6 damage
  • o o +Ability
  • o o o +Attribute (max: +3)
  • o o o +Skill
  • o o o o o +HD

Those in the villages surrounding the Purple Wastes call Yog the Weather Wizard of the Wasteland. Somehow he managed to survive alone out there all these years. At night, the purple glow of his electrified fire, flickering high up on the mountainside, can be seen from miles around. Whenever villagers return home after seeking him out, they universally say that he is quite mad, though the truth is that he is only slightly so. Despite Yog’s claims that he communes with the planet’s weather god-system, his mind stretching through space and time, the weather wizard secretly suspects that it’s probably just the tasty mushrooms teeming on the slopes below the entrance to his cave. He’s tall and lanky, all elbows and knees, with a great mane and beard that now fade from his youthful purple to white. He also has freaky purple eyes. Yog looks much like a purple themed, psychedelic mashup of Rob Zombie and Steve Buscemi.

Yog never imagined leaving his wasteland home until the weather recently told him to.