Everyone posts an action in-thread. You may change this action, or perform the "null" action at anytime. Once everyone has submitted an action, dice will be rolled to determine the outcome. Your actions influence you, other people, or the world around you. You can basically do anything. If there is an action where a danger is introduced, such as the apocalypse in the previous game, then everyone targeted rolls to avoid it (see above rolls to dodge). Please note, also, that I will do the roles for you... all YOU have to do is post the action and type of action. If you are still confused, feel free to pm me or ask a question in the thread.
Now, onto the categories of actions:
This uses a regular, 6-sided die to determine the success/failure of a standard action.
1-Fails horribly, with totally unintended consequences the like of which you've never seen before... ok, well, maybe you have seen them...
2-Fails with minor backlash, such as something that you need to do next turn or else it will worsen (ie, a fire that needs to be put out)
3-Fails, but there is very little or non-existent backlash.
4-Success to an extent. You'll get part of what you hoped for, but not all of what you hoped for.
5-Complete success: the action succeeded one hundred percent.
6-Overkill: the action succeeded, and something else happened as well...
Please note, however, that any action beyond the capability of what we can do in this world will have a higher chance of backfiring. See below for more details.
This is an action that has ABSOLUTELY NO BACKlASH...
however... there is a 1 in 12 chance that it will succeed. All other numbers will fail. This number will be: 7. Please note: You can do virtually ANYTHING with this role short of bringing someone back to life.
This has a 50/50 chance of succeeding... HOWEVER, the other 50 percent of the time will result in a HORRIBLE backfire, that will almost certainly leave you unable to do much. This is advised only for desperate situations.
Dodging occurs with a six sided die. Rolls 1 and/or 2 may have a bad result, but all other rolls will meet with success.
Alright, so to submit an action, you will say something like:
(Type of action) - (action)
Which will end up looking like:
Standard - I blow up the rewards from the last game of DWYW (kidding Purple, just kidding! They were too awesome to destroy.)
Any actions that are posted by the dead CANNOT directly try to kill any living players, though they can make life more difficult (use your creativity!!!)
Once you are killed, there IS a chance that you can still win... but if you don't succeed, you will forfeit any/all awards you may have earned and will no longer be able to post actions.
To be revived (which you can ONLY do ONCE), you must post an action to head into the River Lethe and be reborn. There is a 50/50 chance of this succeeding.
Also, another note: Certain actions may be deemed beyond the normal ability, and therefore have a higher chance of backfiring. Actions like levitation, or things that cannot be done in the normal world are examples of this. In this case, 1, 2, and possibly 3 (for role outcomes in a standard role) are all backfires, bigtime. It will only go up to 3 if it is an EXTREMELY hard thing to do. Also, in this case, 4 will have a slight backfire, and 5 will be mild success, with 6 being full success.