[Diaspora] fate and consequences

[Trey Palmer]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Yunus Wesley <yunuswesley at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Doyce Testerman <
> smarter at average-bear.com> wrote:
>
>>  Brad: those are excellent. Since I don't mind contributing to my own
>> request, I've added some that have come up in recent sessions, below:
>>
>>
>>> SO: BRAINSTORM.
>>>
>>> Let's have some Minor, Major, and Severe Consequences for:
>>>
>>>
>>>   - Social Conflicts
>>>   - Personal Combat
>>>   - Ship Combat
>>>
>>> Social - Minor
>>> * Embarassed
>>> * Shaken
>>> * Upset
>>> * Hesitant
>>> * Uncertain
>>>
>> * Flabbergasted
>> * Distracted
>>
> * Deja vu
> * Irritable
> * Aroused
>
>>
>>> Social - Major
>>> * Uncommunicative
>>> * Injured ego
>>> * Unappealing
>>> * Second guessing everything now
>>> * Deeply ashamed
>>>
>> * Mild panic (works in personal combat too)
>>
> * Flashbacks
> * Vertigo
> * Dissociated
>
*Furious
*Yelling
*Overreacting
*It seemed like a good idea at the time.

>
>>> Social - Severe
>>> * Catatonic
>>> * Sobbing uncontrollably
>>> * A laughing stock
>>> * Completely confused
>>> * Paralyzed with fear
>>>
>> * These guys are just too good
>> * Game over, man. Game over.
>>
> * Burning, acid rage
>  * Utter distrust
>
*Completely under his/her/their spell

>
>>
>>> Personal - Minor
>>> * Little fingers aren't that important
>>> * Grazed
>>> * Cut
>>> * Bruised arm (etc.)
>>> * A bad cough
>>> * Little blood in my eyes
>>>
>> * Wind knocked out of me
>> * My bruises make such a pretty pattern...
>> * WARNING: This gas has reduced your lifespan by 10 years...
>>
> * Stitch in the side
> * 2nd degree burns
> * Only a flesh found
> * You'll have them slugs in ya fer years
>
*Dazed
*Dizzy
*Nauseous

>
>>
>>> Personal - Major
>>> * Blurred vision
>>> * Broken arm
>>> * Coughing up a little blood
>>> * Shattered foot
>>> * Bleeding badly
>>>
>> * (this was on our 'immortal, super healing' character) "Sword shoved
>> right through my shoulder and snapped off/Everyone will know my secret"
>>
> * Concussed
> * Internal bleeding
>
*One eye "God gave us two of them anyway"
*Puking up your guts (upgrade to severe in a space suit or free fall)
*Complete loss of bladder and bowel control

>
>>
>>> Personal - Severe
>>> * Shattered knees
>>> * Punctured lung
>>> * Pretty sure that's supposed to face the other way
>>> * Blind
>>> * Bleeding out
>>> * Vomiting blood
>>
>> * Amputated AND cauterized - mining lasers do it ALL
>>
> * Brain damage
>
This is a _fun_ one. Reading anything by Oliver Sachs, or many of the pop
neurosci books, or Peter Watts can give you some horrifying ideas for sever
consequences. A sampling:
       *Lobotomy
       *Losing facial recognition
       *Massive clumsiness
       *Memory loss/amnesia
       *Unable to form new memories
       *Loss of impulse control
       *Seizures

>  * Smashed organs
> * 3rd degree burns
>
*Deaf
*Anosmia (can't taste or smell - IIRC, there is a ridiculous suicide rate
among folks with this)

>
>>
>>> Ship - Minor
>>> * Crap flying everywhere
>>> * Rebooting
>>> * Flickering electricals
>>> * Getting hot in here
>>> * I hear an ominous hissing
>>>
>> * Klaxons wailing for no good reason (successful EW)
>> * Every interior hatch is locked (successful EW)
>>
> *  Fatigue fractures
> * Groaning frame
> * Leaking atmosphere
> * Plumbing catastrophe (see "crap flying everywhere")
> * Obnoxious pop-ups (more EW)
> * Control panels explode, killing extras
>
*System lag
*Data backups lost

>
>> Ship - Major
>>> * Breach on deck C
>>> * Blue screen of death
>>> * None of these targets can be real
>>> * It's like a sauna in here
>>> * Venting r-mass
>>> * Can't get this spin under control
>>> * Beams off line (etc.)
>>>
>> * *Friend-or-Foe Recognition Disabled* (another EW consequence -- the
>> players then compelled this to 'force' the affected ship to shoot one of
>> their allies during the next torpedo phase, which was excellent)
>>
> * Burning metal surfaces --PCs take damage
> * Coolant leaks
> * Mass load asymmetries
> * Positioning motors firing randomly
> * Beams firing on overload
> * Uncontrolled overburn
> * Loosing cargo from holds
>
> Ship - Severe
>> * Engineering is radioactive
>> * Drives shut down
>> * Too hot to breathe
>> * Total decompression
>> * Bridge crew all dead
>> * The enemy owns my fire control system
>
> * Airlock Override! (venting atmo into space, crew scrambling for vac
> suits) - yet another EW consequence. Electronic Warfare is WONDERFULLY EVIL
>
> * Positioning completely unresponsive
> * (repeat for each other Phase-related systems)
> * 70% of reaction mass lost
> * Heat radiators destroyed
>
>

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