HIGHLANDER: City of Immortals III
How to Play
Below is how to play the game. It will include:
a) How to do a post
b) How players run into each other
c) Interacting with other players and NPCs
d) Strategizing and Fighting
Getting started / general info
Here is the basics of how the game will run. When the game starts, all immortals who will take place in the game will move to the city named Marna (located in Eastern Michigan).
You will have a web page that I create for you with the information you provide for me via your application. All of the events that you partake in will also be recorded on your web page (your results). It will also have your current living address, how much money your character has (both in your wallet and your bank account and all), friends you can contact, your work schedule (assuming you have a job), just about all that sort of info and you will need to manage. I anticipate having a lot of people playing so you will have to manage your money and property, I won't do it. I'll take your money when you spend it and do as you request, I won't play for you.
Now the first thing that will happen when the game starts is that I will post a newspaper article for the city. Some of the articles are just for fun, sometimes I'll put things in there that you can respond to and give you something to work with. I might have something like "Tickets for the Rolling Stones are going on sale on Saturday at noon at Helm's Deep Stadium." I might note a crime in the paper.
Once the paper is up, I will send out an email asking everyone playing the game to send me a "post." I will tell you the dates I want you to do your post. I might say "December 1st through December 7th. You will tell me what you want to do each of those days. Monday, the first day of the game you're going to have to move to the city. Monday you might go to an apartment complex and try to get a place to stay. If you need a job, you can go out and fill out job applications. You might grab lunch at Burger King and go watch a movie at the theatre. After that you might go home and do some kata and watch Jeopardy and spend the night sharpening your sword. You tell me everything you want to do for that week. You are given a week to do a post.
Now if you tell me you're going to Burger King on Tuesday and another player is also going to Burger King on Tuesday, I'll send you and that roleplayer your own personal email. It will be a story of you walking into Burger King and sensing another immortal (immortal sense each other too incase you didn't know that). The guy will come out and you will have to tell me what you want to do. You can ignore him, have a conversation with him, grab a guy's sandwich and throw it in the guy's face. You can try to get the guy arrested; you can do whatever you want to do.
Doing a Post
*You must send me some sort of plans once a week. For a sample, click here.
THINGS YOU NEED TO TELL ME
-During the game, you will tell me the places and their #s that you wish to go to. On the city map, every single place will be labeled with a number. You need to let me know where you want to go and when.
-You must tell me what you want to do with your life in that week.
-Where do you plan on eating during the week?
-Do you need to have work done on your car?
-Are you going shopping for any reasons? (Groceries, food or casual shopping)
-Where are you going to hang out?
-Do you plan on attending work or school or whichever at all scheduled times?
-Most importantly you need to tell me when you are going to these places, what your going to do about your sword. If you work at a grocery store, you can't bag groceries and have your sword on you at the same time. So what will you do? Let me know all that kind of things.
-Are you going to try to better your relationships with certain people?
-Everything else that is important that I didn't think to name.
Now if you decide to fight.
Fighting will be a contest between two immortals to the death. All immortals will have attribute levels that will contribute to who wins a fight. I have a long and drawn out way that I will decide winners through a system of strategy and dice roll. In a fight the two immortals will send me a basic strategy of their plan of offense and defense. I will look at the abilities overrall of the two immortals and base the strategy they both used and give both characters a percentage (again based on strategy and attribute points) and I will roll the dice to see who lives and who dies. This way everyone has a fair chance to win. I have purchased a 100 sided die. When, for example, an immortal is given 55% chance to win, he will win if a 1-55 is rolled. If a 56-100 is rolled, his opponent will win. I roll the dice three times and get three numbers. I get an average of those three dice rolls and that is the number that I use in determining the winner.
I also have the ability to cause a "Draw." These will typically occur when and if you are fighting in a place that I think would cause a break up in the fight. Also in that 1-55 dice roll, there will be a certain set of numbers that will result in a break up of the fight. For example, I will still say a 1-55 dice roll will result in immortal A winning the fight, but if the dice roll is between 45-55, it will result in the fighting ending without a be-heading, but Immortal A will still be the better man in the fight. If I do that, 56-65 will also result in a draw with Immortal B winning, but not taking Immortal A's head.
Strategizing
Strategies are VERY VERY important. It determines whether you have an 80% chance to win the fight or a 20% chance to win the fight.
To see a sample strategy, click here.
In regards to creating Powerful Characters
Everyone will start off of equal power. If you have a 4,000 year old immortal who knows 800 languages and 300 martial arts, you can still just as easily be killed by a 19 year old immortal in the beginning as a 8,000 year old immortal. Don't think just because you spiced your immortal up in every way in the application that your going to have a huge advantage on everyone. This is so everyone can have fun and create realistic characters and everyone won't be competing to see who can create the coolest Terminator. This game was made very strictly for my entertainment as well as your own.
At the end of the week, I will make another newspaper. If people get killed, their "murders" will likely be put into the newspaper unless they are buried or put some place the police would not find them. If an immortal murders some people, their murders could get in the paper. Lots of neat things can go in there. This is how people find out when roleplayers are killed. Sometimes you won't find out if the body wouldn't be discovered in character.
The game keeps going until everyone in the game is dead except for one person.
Here is an example of what a character page will look like:
Old Character Page
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