Editing TangenT

=THE STORY=
You wake up...
...on a sailing ship...
...in a hotel room...
...on a slab of metal...
...on a train...

Wherever it is that you wake up, you wake up without any memories. You know the basics. Who is president. Who won and lost WWII. Who the Yankees are (if you ever followed that sort of thing), what cars, boats, puppies, and candy bars are. And so on and so forth. 
You also have a name rattling around in your head that might be your name. Then again, it might not be it really is hard to say. 
How did you get here? Where is here? And what is happening? 
These are the first questions to answer in the TangenT game. And the answers may be very surprising. 

=THE DISCOVERY=
Character creation for TangenT is about as easy as it can be. You simply describe what your character looks like and sounds like (any accents they might have, etc) any scars or tattoos they have, what kind of clothes they are wearing (top, bottom (or all in one if a dress, etc and shoes). 
You possess no wallet. No purse. No watch or other items. No money. 
Why? That is what you are going to find out. 

As the game progresses, you will be given opportunities to "build" your character (you see a baseball bat, are you drawn to that or the computer in the other corner of the room?) and similar situations. 
As you pick up the Skills to use these items, you also begin to unlock memories, just minor flashes until you begin to piece them together. 
If more than one of your decide you are attracted to the same item because you are attracted to that Skill don't worry, more than one person can know the same thing. 
The higher the Skill level you pick (1-5), the stronger the flash of memory will be linked to that Skill. 
You have 15 points total so be careful how many Skills you pick up right away and how high you rank them. 

=TAKING ACTION=
As with any game, you will want to take Action. Though TangenT is a lot more about unlocking mysteries and making discoveries about yourself and those aorund you than actually jumping into action constantly, there are still those moments and those moments need dice to roll so here is the run down. 

TangenT uses a fairly straight forward 20-sided dice mechanic to take actions that require rolls. Each Skill you possess will have a rank of 1-5 which is the Bonus you add to your dice rolls to accomplish the task you are trying to accomplish. In some circumstances and through special abilities you uncover in the game, you may roll Bonus Dice (BD). When you roll BD, you take the best number out of the dice rolled to use for your Skill roll. So if you roll you standard roll +2BD, you roll three 20-sided dice altogether and keep the best roll out of the three. 

And that's about it for how to roll Skills. 

==Actons in Combat==
Though Combat is not necessarily the main focus of TangenT, it is bound to happen in a RPG. The main thing to remember in Combat is that your attacks do damage depending on what you are using as a weapon and, most importantly, you take damage when you are attacks. 

Characters in TangenT begin play with 15 Life Points. If you reach 0 Life Points then you are ''dying'' and will die if no one patches you up or uses some means of bringing you back from the brink. When you bring someone (or some thing) else down to 0 Life Points, they are also ''dying'' or you have the option of killing them outright.

=THE MYSTERY=
So you might already be asking what could possibly be behind a group of people waking up in a place with no memory? Well that literally might have any answer and you should expect the unexpected but I shan't ruin any surprises here. The journey is just as fun as the destination, but the destination in this case is also meant to be quite fun.

The first mystery is one you wake up with in your head. A single name. But is this name yours? It feels like it might be or a name that is very well known to you at least. Unraveling this mystery will be as intriguing as the other mysteries you will encounter in TangenT.

=The Mysterious=
These are those unfortunates who have awoken without memory and have begun on their search of discovery, both to find their pasts and, perhaps, to learn new things that didn't exist before in themselves...

'''Mlindeli''' means 'Guardian'. I know this. It is an honorable name, a righteous name. I think it is my name. This face in the mirror does not look like my face, though. It is too old, holds too many years, and my hands are too wrinkled. Strong hands; a worker's hands, with the callouses of a laborer. But I have the long, sensitive fingers of an artist. I'm skinny, but not from hunger. I have honest, black skin; close-cropped, tightly curled grey hair; an old burn scar on my left cheek that I can't remember the cause of. I look like I'm in my sixties, but I feel like I'm in my forties, and my body is used to activity.


'''Vincent Tubor'''. Is it an odd name? Part of me says yes, but when I interrogate that instinct I come back with... nothing. Is it my name? It sounds like a slick name and I look like a slick man. Not tall, but thin in a way that makes me seem taller, with smooth, long fingers and aquiline features. It's a bit like if you took a regular person and rolled them out thinner. My hair is dark and curly and reaches down to my shoulders. My eyes are blue-gray and inconstant. I don't have very many scars, aside from what looks like a nasty surgery scar on my abdomen. I might be in my thirties, or maybe in my forties or fifties if I take care of myself. I don't feel old, but then I don't feel like a liar, either. And I certainly don't have a trustworthy face.


'''Lily'''. It is a name, but it's also a delicate flower. Delicate is a very kind word for how I look, though fragile would be more accurate. I'm small of stature, pretty and brittle like a porcelain doll, and my skin is tan but more pale than it should be. There is an old surgery scar above my heart, never a good thing. I think I could be in my late twenties, and I think I should consider myself lucky for getting to be that old. I have hazel eyes, and dark, straight hair cut in a jaw-length bob. My slender fingers are surprisingly callused, at odds with the rest of my appearance.


The tall woman with long, nearly-white blonde hair whispered a single word to herself - '''Ciara'''. A tear ran down her cheek, but why she cried, or for whom, she cannot say.


He looks down at himself. He's wearing a blue, short-sleeve sport uniform top, with a number 7 in white emblazoned on the front. Black shorts, with a little shield crest on them reading SCUFC. Proper studded soccer boots.
He himself is lean, not muscular, but fit. Feeling the top of his head reveals he’s got a marine-style buzz cut. He has some eerily straight scars going across both knees, another more jagged one from his middle knuckle running down the back of his hand. He's young, he knows that, 20 max, but this isn't his first time in a hospital.
That's when the last bit comes into place. What's his name? Who is he?
The name... or something... jumps into his head. '''Spike'''.

=The Journal=
The subjects have awoken in what appears to be a hospital room, except that it's not of course. This is to be expected since they are in an unscheduled and unauthorized Area. 
Operations is not happy about this. Not one bit. Still working on how this happened. 
The room they are in is larger than a simple triage center and it is oddly shaped, a round room with no windows or other discernable side rooms. There does not eve appear to be a bathroom in this area. 
There is a single door with an electronic security lock. It looks basic though you can never tell when they are in a strange Area, even one that seems so familiar to us. 
The subjects seem confused but safe. 
Further reports with what we hope is more details of the Area to follow.
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 =The Journal=
-==Entry: Alpha 1==
+The subjects have awoken in what appears to be a hospital room, except that it's not of course. This is to be expected since they are in an unscheduled and unauthorized Area.
-Entry ID : A01052022
+Operations is not happy about this. Not one bit. Still working on how this happened.
+The room they are in is larger than a simple triage center and it is oddly shaped, a round room with no windows or other discernable side rooms. There does not eve appear to be a bathroom in this area.
-Note this is to be considered First Report for Mission Exception 15-01
+There is a single door with an electronic security lock. It looks basic though you can never tell when they are in a strange Area, even one that seems so familiar to us.
+The subjects seem confused but safe.
-As we know the five subjects have gone off schedule. As with any unscheduled and unauthorized Area we are generating a route cause analysis, an immediate investigation of the Area details, as well as Subversion Determination and Deterrent protocols if deemed necessary.
+Further reports with what we hope is more details of the Area to follow.
-The subjects have awoken in the Tangent Area. It appears to have simple hospital equipment such as BP, Heart Rate, and Oxygen level machine and the hospital beds appear standard issue. We are not assuming they are in the same Area as we are, however, as we have learned through the course of this project that just because appearances would lead us to judge a place to be a certain Area that there are too many variables to ever be certain of this without Tracking Information.
-Tracking is off for the subjects.
-The room they are in has no windows and not even a bathroom available. It is entered and exited through one set of double doors which appear to require a key card. The security is simplistic and it is likely that it will be bypassed before the subjects locate locals.
-The room is quite white, perhaps even an unnaturally clean white that is not concurrent with this Area. It is also a very white room and much too large and irregularly equipped to be a simple triage facility.
-I would have waited for more information before making the first report but I know that Operations has classed this a High Risk through the basic circumstances and I wish to report as much detail as quickly as possible as is protocol with High Risk level situations.
-Currently the subjects seem confused as would be normal under their circumstances. Without being able to do a proper update this may persist for some time and may create unreliable and unexpected responses. This is the primary concern currently but despite this phase of their regaining consciousness they do seem to be in good health.
-More details to follow in sequential reports.
-==Entry: Alpha 2==
-Entry ID : A01082022
-The subjects have made first contact with what appears to be the walking dead.
-Suspected that they may have awoken on Tepes but the locals do not seem to display the characteristics of Nos. They are something else entirely but not breathing, nor sweating. First conversation suggests androids or artificial beings.
-No. It is much worse. This is an entirely new species of undead that call themselves the Wendigo. A full report will be comprised separately for the species team.
-Important facts for the moment is this is a cloning level tech world and the Weendigo use the cloning technology to produce food.
-The Wendigo's Earth apparently possesses or possessed native indigenous peoples at one time with similar legends to those found on Prime as the Wendigo name for the remaining humans on this world seems to indicate a similarity in those legends originating as cannibal spirits.
-Immediate threat is not high but if the Wendigo representatives can be trusted, the subjects are in danger with a time frame and risk level ranging from imminent to eventual.
-Efforts to completely locate the Tangent Earth have been, thus far, unsuccessful. Threat is compacted by apparent complete identity shutdown for the subjects meaning they will not be able to follow mission parameters.
-It is unknown if Tangent Earth Wendigo (working name for report only) is subject to term or not. Cannot activate detection of Dark. Dark Factor is unknown.
-Location of Subjects: Designation: White Tower, Unknown location on unknown Tangent
-Directive: Operations: Level: High
-Subjects are crucial to Mission: Final Strike as Lightbringers. Expend whatever resources necessary to locate and extract. Term of Tangent Earth should follow protocols but loss of human life should be considered negligible.
-End of Directive
-==Entry: Alpha 3==
-Entry ID: CC01142022
-Please note that I am making entries on the Leads behalf as the Lead has been called to Operations.
-Operations reports that temporary contact has been made. Attempting to debrief subjects and determine chances of recovery versus termination. Inquiries as to what will happen to Project: Final Strike will not be answered at this level.
-Subjects have exited the facility they arrived in and are currently being allowed to survey the surrounding area of the facility while accompanied by a security officer apparent of the people known as Wendigo.
-No hostile activity has been encountered outside of the White Tower thus far but likelihood of hostile encounters is High compared to inside the Tower.
-Landscape of this TangenT appears to be a future setting during a time of post apocalyptic event. So far no survivors or sign of life has been seen and from atmospheric sightings of the area, conditions on this world are uninhabitable for living persons.
-Current Recommendation: Team agrees that protocols are clear. An immediate extraction or termination, as soon as safely viable must be initiated.
-Possibility of extraction procedure is fair now that Operations has opened a link though signal must be improved from sibjects' end.