1KM1KT / Free RPG Blog 24 Hour RPG Little Spaces Competition

[bender42]

Good point I suppose. Euthanasia really isn't as interesting as rolling a natural 20 and getting the crit needed to kill the dragon.

[kylesgames]

Five and a half hours into the Tale of Narvi.

We're allowed to re-use settings, right? Not that the game's very heavily setting dependent (I'm mostly adding to the mythos than taking from it, anyway; the only thing that's being kept is the concept of homunculi from Constructs of Azazael and some of the [gameplay unrelated, but explanatory for how magic works which explains why the players can't leave] cosmology).

So far the game is playable (mechanically, it's grafted into a scenario that's far from finished), has extras (maps of the airship), and a NPC named Keeton, so if I need to change the setting now's as good a time as any to rip out stuff and shove it back in.

EDIT (Status Update):

Status Log:

May 5th
11:30 AM: Begin
1:30 PM: Showered, ate, and got cover mostly done.
2:00 PM: Setting “completed”, moved on to “The Scenario”.
2:30 PM: “The Skyship” and “The Situation” complete, started work on diagram of ship.
3:30 PM: Most of the ship diagrams finished, mechanics mostly conceptualized, started dreading porting text to Scribus.
4:00 PM: Ship diagrams finished, started working on “How to Play”.
4:30 PM: Rules “completed”, as much so as they will be before I finish the Booklet of Secrets. Work begins on area and character descriptions.
5:00 PM: Completed several areas, had a stretch, posted question about reusing settings on 1km1kt (probably should have asked before).
5:30 PM: All characters named, all locations completed, finishing characters is the next goal
6:30 PM: Ate dinner, finished up half the characters
7:00 PM: All work prior to the Booklet of Secrets and Scribus typesetting done. Put off making page background, then finally did.
7:30 PM: Gave up on separate cover for Booklet of Secrets, wrote intro to Booklet of Secrets
8:00 PM: Started working on Booklet of Secrets, got sidetracked by ADOM II, died horribly in ADOM II.
8:30 PM: Got a dozen or so pages of the Booklet of Secrets done.
9:30 PM: Got all of the area-related pages of the Booklet of Secrets done, plus Kulo's dialogue tree. Still need to finish other characters' dialogues and the Endings.
11:00 PM: Returned from being sidetracked by the television (stupidly awesome History Channel).
11:30 PM: Finished Tyret's dialogue and secret reveal, started on boss fight.
May 6th
12:00 AM: Finished Tyret fight scene, started Keeton dialogue
1:00 AM: Attacked by television again, finished up Keeton dialogue
2:00 AM: Finished all the dialogue and the endings, started working on typesetting. The game is now officially "complete" in the sense that it still needs some final touches in typesetting but it's otherwise done.
3:00 AM: Finished up character sheet so I can link to it in the PDF.
3:30 AM: Only the Book of Secrets and some links in the core PDF need to be done.
4:00 AM: Steadily plodding along on the Book of Secrets to get all the files uploaded so I can make the final versions with correct download links.
5:00 AM: Ate breakfast, finished up spacing out the Book of Secrets into a correct format.
5:05 AM: Test of final versions.
5:07 AM: Final PDF made.
5:08 AM: PDF is up on my site.

BOOKLET OF SECRETS (spoilers ahoy, but pretty much all the gameplay in one/two word blurbs)

3-Area 1
4-Area 2
5- Area 3
6- Area 5
7- Area 6
7- Secret 2
8- Area 9
9- Area 12
10- Area 14
11- Kulo
12- Captain Tyret
13- Keeton
14- Andreas Bucer
15- Azet
16- Martin Karlstadt
17- Azein
18- Olen
19- Merle
20- Gwen
21- Luc
23/24- Succeed/Fail Wheel Search (Area 1, 3)
25/26- Succeed/Fail Kulo Pickpocket (Area 2, 4)
27/28- Succeed/Fail Magic Drain (Area 3, 5)
29/30- Succeed/Fail Keeton Search (Area 5, 6)
31/32- Succeed/Fail Cargo Lift Hatch (Area 6, 7)
33/34- Succeed/Fail Cargo Ladder Door (Area 7,
35/36- Succeed/Fail Find Crawlspace (Area 12, 9)
37/38- Succeed/Fail Search Cargo Hold (Area 14, 10)
39/40- Succeed/Fail Talk Down Kulo (Area 2, 26)
41/42- Succeed/Fail Kill Kulo (Area 2, 26/40/42)
43- Kulo Dialogue 1.1
44- Kulo Dialogue 1.2
45- Kulo Dialogue 1.3
46- Kulo Dialogue 1.4
47- Kulo Dialogue 2.1
48- Kulo Dialogue 3.1
49- Tyret Dialogue 1.1
50- Tyret Dialogue 1.2
51- Tyret Secrets Reveal
52- Tyret Dialogue 2.1
53- Tyret Secret 4 Reveal
54- Tyret Secret 5 Reveal
55- Tyret Secret 7 Reveal
56- Tyret Secret 8 Reveal
57- Tyret Secret 9 Reveal
58- Tyret Secret 10 Reveal
59- Tyret Secret 13 Reveal
60- Tyret Fight Begin
61- Tyret Fight Combat
62- Tyret Fight Maneuver
63- Tyret Fight Assistance
64- Keeton Dialogue 1.1
65- Keeton Dialogue 1.2
66- Keeton Dialogue 1.3
67- Keeton Secrets Reveal
68- Keeton Dialogue 2.1
69- Keeton Dialogue 3.1
70- Keeton Revelation
71- Keeton Negotiation
72- Keeton Landing (persuasion)
73- Keeton Landing (force)
74- Keeton Secret 4 Reveal
75- Keeton Secret 5 Reveal
76- Keeton Secret 6 Reveal
77- Keeton Secret 7 Reveal
78- Keeton Secret 8 Reveal
79- Keeton Secret 9 Reveal
80- Keeton Secret 10 Reveal
81- Keeton Secret 12 Reveal
82- Andreas Dialogue 1.1
83- Andreas Dialogue 1.2
84- Azet Dialogue 1.1
85- Azet Dialogue 1.2
86- Azet Dialogue 2.1
87- Olen Dialogue 1.1
88- Olen Dialogue 1.2
89- Gwen Dialogue 1.1
90- Gwen Dialogue 1.2
91- Luc Dialogue 1.1
92- Luc Dialogue 1.2
93- Endings
95- Ending 1
97- Ending 2
99- Ending 3
101- Ending 4

Secrets:

1: Knowledge of draining sigils (from Magus Karlstadt)
2: Unlocked Cargo Hatch (Lantern Deck)
3: Unlocked Ladder Down to Cargo Deck (Lantern Deck)
4: Found Bloody Dagger (at Bridge)
5: Found Energy Release, bloodstains (at Keeton)
6: Kulo Angered (Lookout)
7: Magical energy drained (Catwalk)
8: Kulo Killed (Lookout)
9: Gossip about Tyret's violence (Crawlspace)
10: Stash of poison (Cargo Hold)
11: Keeton loves music (Kulo)
12: Music stone (Kulo)
13: Keeton suspects Tyret killed Captain Pai (Keeton)
14: Plight of the villagers (Gwen)

[Onix]

I've been thinking I want to try this year's contest, but so far I haven't gotten the slightest idea on what I'd like to do.

I'm kinda bummed about that. Usually I'm full of stupid ideas I'll never do anything with, now that I might just have a way to put one to use, I'm blanking.

[Evil Scientist]

Relax, you still have plenty of time left 'til deadline!

[CptPhoenix]

[Onix]

[CptPhoenix]

[Onix]

[Nifara]

Now call me insane if you like... but are you limited to one entry per person?

It's just I'm changing jobs at the moment, and I have a lot of time to kill, so I thought I might do another RPG over a different 24 hours.

Fair enough if it's not within the rules :P

[J.K.Mosher]