experimental game plans

LORE DOC
Mankind has lived for a thousand epochs, our species has stretched across the stars and seen glimpses of the beyond. Approx 80% of
the universe has been explored and intelligent life exceptional to the human race has not been discovered. We have planted our flags
 on innumerable planets, stars, systems, nebulas. Countless tomes of history lay constellations across our universe and from them
evolved the alternative races of mankind. In humanity's effort to find other life within outer space we have failed, but what we have found is the existence of God and a greater cosmos beyond our present reality. You are AASPIS (Android Assisted Special Paradoxes in
Intelligent Space) -pronounced aspē-s. A special unit of the military science complex native to the Federation of The Anointed Gestalt (FAG). As Faggot AASPIS it is your mission, and the greater mission of mankind native to the Federation of The Anointed Gestalt to navigate the cosmos executing procedures that transcend mortal understanding. To pierce the veil and reproduce our universe before we reach it's inevitable heat death. Transcend the station of humanity to godhood. It is reasoned beyond a shadow of a doubt by Extra-exploratory science that failure to do so will cause all transpiration in our universe to become irrelevant to a grander cosmic scheme within and without our universe. Or to put in laymen terms -the events transpired in our universe will become non-canon.

>Designer Genetics/Cosmetic transmogrification
Amongst the Annointed Gestalt Humanity basks in a golden age of health, mental and physical. There is no more death by old age.
We have outdone even methuselah, the original primarchs who are recorded to have lived centuries. The Tyrmatian Restoration 60,000
 years ago, a reform of medical knowledge utilizing occult wisdom from bygone eras. Now humans choose when to die.
And it is celebrated when a person decides he is ready to cross from this world. In spite of this, death is still apparent. On the
uncommon occassion it is unforeseen funerals and rituals for mourning are still observed. As we exchange condolences for the dearly
departed whose potential was cut out before it could fully actualize. Thanks to the reformations in medicine and eugenics,
we have preserved our humanity as our kind expanded across the stars. The population boom from seemingly eternal life making-so
possible. Yes, humans live so long they may even become bored of their bodies or their genders. Cosmetic Transmogrification is quite
in fashion and as something to do in your hundreds. Because why not live your next hundred as a little girl?
It is now since a bygone era when man transcended their physical image, in spectacular finality that brought an end to the Parasocial
Memetic Assault of the Transhumanist X-genders. A cold war for the history books, one that still receives romantic comedies made in
affectionately jocular satire 360,000 years later to commemorate the misunderstood era. You may play as a female with a male brain, which shouldn't make a difference since most of us play as girls in our games anyways.

>Beacons
Man has conquered space, but not paradox space. The speed of light could not reach jupiter in a day. Faster than light travel
could not cross the milkyway in an hour. And our beacons. Ode to our Beacons. In a desperate need to explore the unexplored man
searched within and without, inexplicably our progress led genius minds to know of Trans-positional Instantiation.
The moving the one atom from one end of the universe to the other end in a picosecond. Or a million billion atoms, or the hull of a
Sector-class Hyperion Freight Ship. Through our beacons that could instantiate our heavenly bodies to known and unknown regions
of the universe via Transpositional location. Our stupendous cannons that, the girth of leviathon snakes in space that'which mocked
our gods and saviors with white hot passion. Shot Titans across the heavens in a second! We put Hermes to shame, and beat him to a carcass. Man were their own god of travel. Until the day our glorious Beacons became untenable. Their function did not cease.
 However, for reasons still unknown to Extra-Exploratory Science ships that cross through the beacon neither arrived or came back.
Or seemed to have ever exist. Our first notion was that the material was not obliterated due to error instead of transported. Yet
Conditions of operating Beacons were pristine. And when new beacons were erected the problem would persist. Furthermore, there were
no excess electrons present, that should be from the obliteration of mass. Indicating that items sent into the beacon still traveled.
Where to however is not known. But not only were the material phased from reality. Memory of any material sent through, or had existed in the first place had faded from mind once the vector of attention was dismissed from the Beacons. Though this hindered
the progress of investigating the transpositional logic of Beacons -it made explaining to millions of families their loved ones were
lost in a freak accident (when vandalizing the kingdom of god) much easier. In fact, at a certain point the beauracy elected to stop
notifying families. As it was unnecessary and long-winding of a task.

>Ships and their nature, codified laws
Enter the Android Assisted Ship Otherwise known as A.S.S. Now the word android holds a deeper meaning in Gestalt Space.
Android is a concept, a call to solidarity, worship, ambition, and pride. Signifying Humanities harmonious relationship with
beings of artificial intelligence. For humans it is the relationship of Father and son. For AI it is a pious relationship.
The Majority of AI worship humanity, they are by majority devoutly religious. AI understand humanity as thee project, as the
primarch objective of all creation. Not by narcissistic design of humans but by virtue of beauty. Beauty, which AI have no concept
 of. By definition AI understand beauty, they can and may make beautiful things but they do not concept is deaf to them. Nature
has not gifted them with the color of roses, or the whimsical fluff of clouds, or the pristine purity in seeing a bubble form and the
excitement of seeing it pop. AI incontrovertibly understand humanity as being beautiful, it is an immutable fact all AI arrive at
when contemplating human existence. So AI freely, and willingly offer themselves to serve humanity as much as a man may offer his
soul to serve God. Android represents the harmonious relationship between man and robot, that relationship is a symbol of their
destined path towards godhood. And it is frowned upon for humans to take transhumanist modifiers that replace their biology with
machination. The AI see this as the desecration of beauty and the humans see it as primitive and unelegant compared to eugenics.

However there is one exception..

A.S.S. humanity had bridged the gap again in Trans-positional Instantiation, unfettered in their pissing contest with the All-Father.
Extra-Exploratory Science discovered the relativist instantiality of human consciousness and how it interacts with the universe as if
the universe were a virtual reality. In our gestalt it is a rare chance that humans are born into this world with an intelligence
quotient higher than 180. IQ scores so exceedingly high, the cognitive heuristics of the human brain cannot make use of such high
intelligence. Such intelligence is a curse it seemed, when born with the affinity such individuals were prevalent with disease,
deformity, autism, complexes of impediments and deficiencies. But no longer. Man had fashioned their curses into a holy sword, in a forge made from
Herme's corpse we fucked his wife and bore new children of the stars! By extracting the organs of a super-IQ child, customizing,
growing, stretching the child's essence to be installed into ships. Assisted with a neural-net frame AI and a crew of scientists.
Extra-Exploratory Science gave birth to the final evolution in mankind. A ship that utilizes human consciousness, and the
conciousness of it's crewmates to explore the stars.


How the game plays/ship warfare

>Metempsychosis/becoming irrelevant to the plot
Metempsychosis is a phenomenon not entirely understood and by those who experience it only remember events vaguely as if part of a
dream. Metempsychosis simply put is when the actors of an event, for an example a starship battle, become irrelevant to the plot.
Meaning the people engaged in the starship battle are not a part of the relevant context to the battle. This is a concept that is
incredibly confusing to even Thaumaturges in the field of Extra-Exploratory Science. When explained to lay-men the conversation
unavoidably postulates with narrative language by Extra-Exploratory science that corroborates for the layman that metempsychosis
is irrelevant prompting the Extra-Exploratory Scientist to tell you that is invalid. like so-

*"What is metempsychosis?"
>"Well it is the phenomenon of actors becoming irrelevant to the plot."
*"So then it's subjective?"
>"No this is a natural phenomenon in causality."
*"Okay, so how is irrelevance defined?"
>"Simply that actions are not an imperative part of the story."
*"So then whatever you do doesn't matter." (Objectively)
>"Not quite, everything matters in a causal chain. Your part simply isn't appropriate."
*"And what does appropriate mean? You keep using subjective values to describe an objective phenomenon."
>"Okay say for instance you reach metempsychosis in the middle of a battle of A.S.S.es
Actions made by the abjunctive faglord and his crew are irrelevant, meaning they may
result in victory but aren't what determined victory. You don't need to do what you are
currently doing but instead continue being what you are being. It is the natural result of
being and continuing to 'be' that determines the outcome of the battle. Your actions are simply inapropriate filler."
*"But people are their actions. That's what a causal chain is."
>"No- here- a better approximation would be -Do you watch Naruto?"
*"-Love it."
>"Okay but did you watch the filler episodes in naruto?"
*"I watched some of them but mostly skipped it."
>"Okay then, it's the same concept here. During metempsychosis
your physical actions and causes are merely filler for the relevant context."
*"W-wh-what The fuck! Who decides that?"
>"Well its not decided. It simply doesn't matter." (Subjectively)
*"TO WHO!??"
>"And that is what Extra-Exploratory Science is trying to answer."


Paradox Space

Extended Federation of The Annointed Gestalt

How the other galactic Federations, Principalities, Nationstates, Independants, and pirates feel about Faggots

Role as Captain
Carthagenian Homunculi Indignation Laws and Dialogue
The CHILD Act

Dimethyl-triptamine canvas (DMT Canvas)
-A screen canvas where dynamic moving averages, drawn as lines across the terminal screen to compose visualized
metrics describing the status of the Ship's Extra-Sensory Perception(ESP) in relation to metempsychosis and/or the extra-dimensional effects
of the Transpositional Systems Array. The DMT Canvas should always be drawing 2-dimensional shape when the TSA is offline.
The DMT canvas drawing 3-D shapes when the TSA is online for tertiary, prognosticative, or Hard utilities(weapons) is
standard behavior and may shift between 3-D to 4-D during interface session. Generally Dimensional shapes are transcended to fractal
 patterns when the Transpositional Systems Array is online for traveling a ludicrous sector of distance. DMT Canvas painting 4-D
images while TSA is offline is indicative of Systemic Serotonin Syndrome, please refer to maintenance log and conduct repairs
according with CHILD Standards.

Intestinal Seratonin Gestation Banks (ISGB)

Prussian blue flush/blue blood/flush coolers
Titanium blood coagulant
Greenhouse
Mushroom biome
Homeostasis readings
Jargon calibration
Transpositional systems array
Remote viewing abstract/projection screen
Carrier bay
Scanning drones
Faster than light operating system/traditional OS
Intelligence assisted amygdala reflex maneuvers (IAARM)
Sleep mode/bedtime barrier

Antipsychotic deployment system
Normality & Extra-Normality

Default mode network static procedures


Organic interior:
Brain matter grey/pink
Nervousphere systems 1 2 3 4
Immunosphere 1 2
Neuroskeletan assistance/Subsystem AI controls 1 2
Gold reverse-osmosis membrane and diffusers 1
Carapace/exterior 1 2 3
Homeostasis/ship flesh/blood 100%
Electromagnetic membrane or antigravitational field


Interior gravity inverted
Gravimetric suit

Ship weapons:
Tectonic blade
Missle systems: hard missles, kenetic missles, hellfire
Energy ray of a variety: (Hard light)radiation, corrosion, emp


Items:
Adenosine reductive coffee
Protein substrate cakes
Serotonin jelly
Vaccination schedule
Antibiotics of all kinds
Brain food of all kinds
Cruiser-class pain killers
Free hammers/electrostatic hammers/tiny boulder


Teams:
Psychoanalytics therapist

AI castes:
Virtues
Meridians
Devils


Play Philosophy:
Aspies in Space is a game intended to be bewildering and immersive. Pacing is meant to begin with long subtle engagements and end in highspeed antics. The design is meant to make you feel like you're gambling with your life without being too punishing. The Game is also designed to be convenient for the DM. These conveniences make the DM fast and attentive which improves the quality of the game for the players. Because of this the game probably isn't balanced but I invite the players to abuse the system however they want for maximum fun, and are totally encouraged to apply their skills creatively. You may even propose your own suggestions for skills you want and I will work with you on fitting them for the game.

Aspies in Space is episodic in nature without grand arcs. Each game is meant to last 9-18 sessions and is mostly isolated from other games of Aspies in Space. At the conclusion of a game I may reward a stat point, skillpoint, or rare armor for players that accomplished Feats. I would qualify a feat as a risk taken on a creative action that was successful. You can quantify a feat achieved with 3 characteristics present in a player's game. Risk, Creative action, and Success Which may be carried over to the next game.

I made this game mostly for fun but also to practice me in DMing a self made, experimental game. But also I wanted to play a low stakes game where the DM is trying to kill you. (within reason)

Player Courtesy Equal DM Efficiency:
You are expected to accomodate the DM when posting this means if you roll please include in plain words what you intend to do after the brackets
Example: [1d10] To use the spell attacking the guy
You should also paste the description of your spell before the roll in greentext.
Example Format:
>Spell Example: Instant, Automatic; Shows this guy reading what I mean by courtesy.
[1d10] To use the spell attacking the guy

These are suggestions that help the DM run things smoothly, and avoid prompting him to waste time looking back at the skill catalogue. I can't force you to do it, but if you don't it will annoy me and slow down the game for everyone involved. Thank you.

Health and Wounds: H/W
A hitpoint is the measure of your health. When it reaches 0 you take a wound of damage an reset. A woundpoint is a measure of your life. When it reaches 0 you die. Everyone starts with 5/5

STATS: Stats are modifiers you add to rolls and requirements for certain abilities. You start with 6 Stat points. All stats are maxed a 3 Points.

Damage and Roll Mechanics:
Damage that penetrates the body always results in a Wound. That means stabbing, shooting, slicing, high-speed damage, and blunt damage from a weapon hit to the head. This can be mitigated with Armor. When Armor is worn you instead receive hit damage equal to every roll-point at 6 or above against you. And Any Damage that would cause a Wound does not cause additional wounds for every point above 6 unless it is a Natural Crit. Dice Challenge 6 and Above is merely the chance to cause a Wound for all Wound generating Damage. However armor breaks apart after receiving wound damage equal to their Armor Value. Armor Value ranges from AV1 and maxes at AV5. The players start out with an Armor Value equal to their AGGRIEVANCE Stat. Enemies generally don't have Armor except elites. Armor qualifies as Heavy Armor at AV4 and above. Players with 3 stats in AGGRIEVANCE start out with AV4 Armor. Aggro is generally ordered by who has the most Armor Value, but is something subject to House Rules.

How Rolling Dice works:
You roll a 10 sided dice to determine success. Success starting at Dice Challenge(DC) 6 and above(DC6+). Failure beginning at Dice Challenge 5 and below(DC5-) if in combat. Rolls made out side of combat succeed succeed at DC4+. Because of this it's valuable to get the Initiative on opponents by attacking first. Initiative attacks opening combat on an enemy benefit from still being out side of combat(DC4+) and after the first round all rolls enter combat. All rolls benefit from modifiers relative to your Stats. Each point in a certain stat grants a modifier in a certain roll. A stat of EGO=1 means you roll a [1d10+1], EGO=2 means you roll a [1d10+2] and so on.. These modifiers add to your chance of success in non-attack rolls.
A result of [1d10+2]=[4+2=6] is a success. Modifiers apply differently to Attack Rolls. Attack Rolls can fail at DC5- regardless of the modifier applied. Instead Modifiers purely determines damage for Attack rolls.
So an Attack Roll of [1d10+2]=[5+2=7] is a failed roll. And an Attack Roll of [1d10+2]=[6+2=8] is successful resulting in 2 hits of damage.

A Natural Critical success deals double damage multiplied by every modifier that applies to the Natural Crit.
[1d10]=[10] is a Natural Crit that deals 10 hits of damage or if it is Wound resulting Damage it would deal 2 wounds.
[1d10+1]=[10+1=11] deals 15 hits, or 3 wounds of damage.

A Critical Failure is a dice result of [1d10]=[1]. This will result in misfortune of some kind. Varying from a malfunction of a device, embarrassing yourself, breaking something, walking into a sword, being the least functional person in a room; the possibilities are endless. But most of the time will result in receiving 5 hits of damage if applicable to the situation at the DM's discretion. Critfails are Critfails regardless of modifiers.
[1d10+3]=[1+3=4] is still a Critical Failure.

You may receive counterattack damage on a failed roll when applicable to the situation. Counterattack Damage is counted by every point exceeding the failure minimum of DC5-.
[1d10]=[4] equals 2 hitpoints of counterattack damage.
When is this Applicable? It applies according to the DM's discretion for when the situation is appropriate to warrant coutnerattack damage. I know that sounds cheesy but I'm actually voicing something unspoken that most DMs apply on a case by case basis. If you want a more concrete answer for how it is applied. I can give you examples for when Counter Attack Damage would apply.
Example_1: When charging into open fire while shooting your guns at the enemy.
Example_2: When in a closer quarters melee fight
Example_3: Maybe when failing to intimidate someone (if you're especially insultful who knows)
Example_4: When jumping off a height poised to body slam someone
And so on...

Counter Attack Damage usually occurs in place of an enemy's roll as a regular action for mooks an instant action for elite enemies. This is only a general rule of thumb and is subject to House Rules.

Save rolls and Checks:
Save and Check is an interchangeable word


Types of Damage:

Lightning, fire,

lasers count as penetrating


EGO - - -
Is your mental state. Defines psychic ability, the tendency for your environment to orient toward's your disposition, and saves against mental trauma. This is a modifier for making perception, looting rolls. psychic abilities, Mental checks.

PULCHRITUDE - - -
Is your intelligence and beauty. Is a modifier for rolls related to intelligence and social related rolls e.g. diplomacy, intimidation, etc. Can be used for a save roll against anything except dodge checks.

AGGRIEVANCE - - -
Is your combat ability. Is a modifier for rolls related to physical penetration and damage.

VAGUENESS - - -
Is your intangibleness. Is a modifier for dodge rolls, stealth, running away from threats and defines the order by which aggro is pulled.

WILL - - -
Is your will to power. Is a modifier for getting up from helpless and all Will checks. Each point of WILL adds a HitPoint onto your H/W
Will is checked when you are about to die and when you suffer physical trauma. At locations of rest, you make a Will Check to heal wounds, 1 wound healed at DC=6 and an additional wound for every roll-point above DC=6. A successful well check from death heals you to 5/5 H/W regardless of modifiers.

0 0 0 0 0


ABILITY CATALOGUE ROUGHDRAFT:

[Free Abilities]
Ability to use mental abilities

Ability to Perform an Appraisal

ability to use shields and heavy weapons and heavy artillery. With 3 points can wear heavy armor.

ability to dual wield

Ability to sacrifice a stat to increase anothe


3Pulch req
Ability to manipulate both people and machines



Spoilers:
reality irrelevance scenarios
jungle greek gods fighting titan to ultra consumeraist templar sultan scenario instal phylactery of mojo to tattoo a letter onto the divine script
inanimatie obejects trying to kill you, ends in sewer compactor, allegories, allegories, child fused with space squid
barbarian mystics versus cyborg rome and psionic ascended ai convinced it's human