maybe a cuckoo?  That way you can be Apocolyptic without us knowing -- just don't be burned too much -- I might get a mollusk someday.

You definitely do have a Mollusk; you get one at Rank 3 (maybe even 2), which is also the time that you start living the Spital.

How does this sound?

The Spitalian and Anubian are on the way from the Spital in Borca to Tripol, to establish some connection with, or take some news to, the Spitalians working in Africa. On the way, they have to pass through Purgare, to get to Roma with its large Neolibyan presence, and then to Africa. They have their two Hellvetic bodyguards that the Spital is paying for. The Romani clanner (say) is working as a contact between the Spitalians and Romani, and is to meet them and accompany them to Roma in that capacity.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:16, Sun 10 Jan 2021.

If I could get some character sheets, that would be cool.

I've done a 1st draft of my character. You can see it under my Character Details.

A professional guide for caravans and traders: higher Orienteering, Survival and Stamina for the road, and high Network and Conduct for all the towns along the way. Unremarkable in everything else.

Thanks everyone for your advice on origins. I settled on a Lombardi Clanner, which puts me close to our starting location. My higher Network and Conduct skills will give the links with the Romana traders who the party wants to contact, and in the mean time I'm employed to help the party avoid hazards on the road to Roma.

I'm otherwise a bit of a rugged, uncommunicative type used to guiding a party but not interacting with them much.

As a Sickle, my character would also have a lot of warrior influence, but more of a mystic shaman type. While not as heavily invested in it like other lines of the Anubian, I do have some stuff invested in medical things. Not as well as a well-educated Spitalian or a Healer caste Anubian, but enough to get by over most folk.

Also, Joe, I suggest a < tt> (without the space) and a </tt> at the end of your description to line up the text better.

OK, thanks everyone. It's 3 am where I am, so I'll take my GM gander at the sheets tomorrow.

This will be my first Degenesis run so I'm going to run the character sheet by the whole group.

Famulancer Milko Littaur

21

5 ft 1 inch

105 lbs (the spitalian suit makes him look on the gaunt side)

M

Money (not calculated fully, yet)

pollen Healer Spittalian

(can the concept change in the game?  I'd like this character to be a bit on the wide eyed wonder/terror at the world -- on the cusp between blindly following spitalian ideals and strinking out on his own path.)

Legacy  -- is this optional?


B 3
A 3
C 3
INT 3
p 1
INs 3 (10)

ath 1
Brawl 1
melee 1
stam 2
tough 2 (7)

Dex 2
mobility 2
proj 1 (5)

expr 2 (2)

focus 2
med  4
sci 2 (8)

emp 3
orient 1
Perception 1
survive 1 (6)

background
resources 2
allies 1  --- don't feel like the character is ready for any more points in bkgrund

Potential
Kranzler

Scars???

Ego 10
spore 2
flesh 10
Trauma 4


Weapon Fungicide rifle (SP1046 and If allowed to somebody of my level firedust)

Armor Spitalian Suit with mollusk

busgs & surveilance
water filter
field kit
oil lamp & oil
Lighter
compass
slpng bag
insect net
backpack



I may change things, but does this look reasonable for our group?


Any spital(is that hospital shortened) pharma allowed

Any reason why he's so short?

Ignore Legacy -- that's from a supplement that I haven't looked at yet.

How much money do you have, and why do you have bugs and surveillance stuff if you are going on an overland trip?

Concept can't change during game. You may note that the Concepts are based on Tarot cards, and represent something metaphysical (tried in to the Chakras in some way).

You're a Rank 3 Famulancer, a doctor respected enough to go out on missions for the Spital. You definitely should spend all 5 background points. (If you want to play a truly "beginning" character, like a DnD 1st-level fighter who just picked up a sword for the first time, you don't want a Rank 3 Spitalian, and under Rank 3 just won't work for the way that the scenario is set up.)

The Spital is the big Spitalian center in Borca. Formerly Crisis Center Ruhr South, I believe, before the Eschaton. Please read the Spitalian Cult stuff.

Those comments were helpful.

I thought there were only 4 backgrounds.

I'll reread the spitalian stuff, just didn't see why it's called spital (Rather than rucrisis or something)

Is there a supplement other than rebirth and kathyrsis that I should read?



I'm thinking that he became ill when he was young-ish, just entering puberty when his parents took him to spital (because his mom didn't trust the spitalians she dealt to) at great sacrifice (both financial and in her case directly mortal -- she was considered a source of contaminant [willingly sacrificing herself for her son]  And his father caught the illness and could not afford care.  Knowing Milko's keen intelece and interest in the villiage doc, his father convinces him to place his x as a recruit to the spitalians.

The illness kept him from growing as large as he would have.

Oh, you mean the word itself. I actually don't know where it comes from.

4, not 5, for backgrounds, yes. I misremembered.

Don't look at the supplement (there's only one), since I haven't yet. :)

OK.

I highly recommend not spending all your money in chargen, since you're on the road and need money for daily life.

Does this mean that I shouldn't rely on the free food in the protectorate (or that you don't hold by that) or are you just warning me for the African leg?

If I should be able to rely on free food in protectorate 1) does that apply to my guards, 2) how much of the travel is planned to go through the protectorate?

You'll be in Purgare -- not the Protectorate.

Anabaptist lands mostly.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:37, Mon 11 Jan 2021.

Assuming that the powers who hired my character (the guide) also made a budget for supplies (food and equipment for X days' travel) I'd be happy to prepare a little list of the party's shared gear (food, cooking pots, tents, etc) if you give me a budget and an idea of the type of journey to prepare for.

"Your guide awaits you with fresh horses and provisions at the border" kind of thing.

Also, if people are running chargen for the first time, I found the character sheet at the Degenisis website really useful because it automatically tracks points spent and totals sums: https://degenesis.com/profile/charactergenerator/
This message was last edited by the player at 22:03, Mon 11 Jan 2021.

The Spitalian and Anubian (and maybe someone else) passed through the Hellvetic tunnels under the Alps from Borca (which the Spitalians paid for), passing under the Reaper's Blow. They will emerge in northern Purgare, then go to Bergamo (the largest city in Northern Purgare), then west to Lucatore and south to Roma.

So, basically from the Alps to Roma, by road, on foot. I don't know how long that would take.



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Basically, I want you to have reserve money on hand to buy things during the game.

According to Google, 600 km Bergamo to Rome. Averaging 15km/day it's 40 days walking. Much of it is mountainous, so it'll be less than 15km/day and we'll need a few rest days, so maybe the party is banking on 60 days total for the journey?

We might start with 5 days provisions and someone carrying cash/credit to buy more, or credit agreements with certain inns and provisioners along the way.

As a clanner I'm dirt poor, so if I'm out of pocket I'll be hassling the Spitalians to pay me on time :)

What about trade of services,  should I expect to be able to do some (probably for barter rather than cash) or should I assume that I would be stepping on others' toes/not be able to find people who wish spitalian services?



EDIT:  I have a draft of my character in backgrounds.  Don't know if I have enough for food for the trip.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:03, Tue 12 Jan 2021.

Don't worry about it. Buy food on route.

That's one reason why I'm saying "don't spend all your money."

I'll look at the sheet. I'm waiting on a couple more, still.

By the way, we have a slight change of background.

One of our Hellvetics has turned into a Hybrispanian Scrapper.

The background of the group that we have so far is this.

The Anubian (Sickle) is in Hybrispania. She is sent all the way to Pollen on some mysterious mission. The Scrapper is hired to go with her... for some mysterious reason. There, she encounters the Spitalian. Now, the Spital has sent said Spitalian on... some mission to the Anubians in Tripol, and the Scrapper can part ways with them at Lucatore, going wesy while they go south. The Clanner guide is to meet them at Bergamo.

Whew!

Does that sound good?

Milko was being sent to train under the Preservists (fighting blooms in Pollen), but after the squad of preservests met an untimely demise the powers that be decided to let him rest off the trauma with an easier job working towards a posibility of field medicine (Or some other field) before once again seeing if he was more suited to a different discipline.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:47, Tue 12 Jan 2021.

In reply to Bryan (msg # 8):

Sorry, I am still reading up on the character generation. I am now a female Hybrispanian Scrapper name Miriam Dos Santos.

I will hopefully have the character in tomorrow.

And Alpine Command assigned me to bodyguard the asset... err, our ally (Miko) on their mission once we exit the tunnel network into Purgare?




Primal Punk and Katharsys.

Primal Punk is the setting book, and it's a bit ... dense in the lore.  I just read the sections I needed and then skimmed the rest to get a feel for everywhere else.


Being a shorty is only a problem if your patients are giants.


Yes, and no... historically spital were charitable houses to care for the sick, you went to get treated and got shuffled out as soon as you could ambulate on your own, whereas hospitals were for those who could afford to receive long treatment stays...  the word fell out of use in English around the time that the US colonies were telling old George to stuff it.

It's directly germanic in origin (possibly italian 'ospitale') as 'spital' means 'hospital'.




Cool.  From my reading Scrappers are uniquely useful.  Eventually you'll have the best gear, you built yourself, from the garbage you picked along the way.




This is what Survival is for.  Finding food along the way.

I hope I'm not the only character with Survival...  mine's low, we'll all starve.  Have to start thinking about who'll shoot first for dinner.  Glad I've got a rifle...

I have a smidge of survival, learned from my pa (sniff:,-] he was aclanner too)

I've got survival skills enough to feed y'all but I'll be damned if I spend my hours and days wearing my nails to the quick digging for roots and grubs while fat bloody doctors in the Protectorate sit on bags cash, filling their great bloody maws with fancy pastries and deserts. You want me to guide a Spitalian then pay me like he's worth something. I want my deserts too, ye lords'n'ladies.

Just trying to find my IC voice :)  But my character is a mercenary and will work on contract with a downpayment up front. At some point, of course, your winning dispositions and the goodness of your cause will win her over and she waive the remainder of her fee. :)

I am waiting for one character sheet. I'll get that and give the others a final once-over, and then we'll start. Hopefully tomorrow?