Escape of the Lepus OOC

[jakarta]

Escape of the Lepus (working title)

I've included links to literary/cultural references.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/
With Star Trek's DeForest Kelly!

IC Thread:
https://forums.giantitp.com/showthre...f-the-Lepus-IC

Original recruitment post:
https://forums.giantitp.com/showthre...of-your-choice

Magetech fantasy.

You are a rabbit in a cage.

System: d20, Pathfinder/5e based. Gamma World and Choose Your Own Adventure flavored.

Custom advancement/leveling revealed through gameplay. (sorta xp + Zelda advancement through items/acquired traits/mutations). Mix of player chosen advancement, consequences of player choices, and random rolls will “improve” the character.

“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small, and the ones your GM gives you could be anything at all….” (with no apologies to Louis Carrol or Jefferson Airplane)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0

I’m used to mixing editions. If you are more used to 5e choose the 5e rabbit as your base character. If you are more used to 3.5 or PF, choose the PF rabbit. If the character gains an ability, the exact text will be provided.

Number of players: Solo to 4.

Posting frequency: Daily or every other day for short posts, or a long post 3 times a week. I’m a teacher, so there will be the occasional announced stoppage for grading/test making periods.

I’m in Burma, so if we happen to be awake at the same time during off hours there may be quick exchanges. Also, the power is off at random and the internet can be shaky. (I am prohibited by contract from discussing the political situation here.)

Most game related rolls will be made on the IC thread. Short questions/clarification requests should be made IC in parentheses. (Is the wounded one on the right?) I treat IC as the “tabletop” and OCC for set-up, meta, and off topic discussion. (if solo we might move to Discord, email, or a chat app, based on whatever is most convenient for us.

We will start play as soon as (a) character(s) (is/are) made.

Story set-up
You are a rabbit in a cage on a shelf in a laboratory.

You recently realized this. Your skull got a bit larger recently, and you have begun to understand more things, whether you like it or not. You can’t speak, but words and meanings just pop into your mind.

Maybe it was that glowing thing he fed you. Maybe it is whatever has been added to your water to make it glow green. Maybe it was one of the things they poked you with; it stung.

The people here always wear masks and either white coats or grey robes.

They have been talking about the 4-day weekend and your final test and impending vivisection. The last one left a while ago. You need to get out of this cage and get away somehow… it is Friday at 6 pm. You have until Tuesday at 8 am to affect your escape.

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Style: depends on player actions. This could go anywhere from cartoon slapstick comedy like _Buggs Bunny Super Rabbit_ to _Rats of NIMH_ to _Watership Down_ to Grim Dark horror like _The Uninvited_. Probably somewhere along the lines of _Adolescent Cyborg/Mutant Psychic Rabbit_ .

Rats of NIMH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OV3T6GWhIg
Super Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZJ_6ZZ8IJw
Watership movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgzZM7ds2PA
Watership mini series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqp-...OZ-K3PhuZKi5rV

The Uninvited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOx8NnPqxjY

The American Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-DlRBrFz1I

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Character creation: Choose one of the following as your base. Give yourself an alfa-numeric designation. X43. A1V. (Have you seen _Lost_?) This is painted on your side or on your ear tag.

Pathfinder Rabbit
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/mo...nimals/rabbit/

Pathfinder Arctic Hare
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/mo...s/hare-arctic/

5e Rabbit
https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/rabbit/

5e Hare
https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/hare-arctic/

A few stat re-rolls. They have been testing things on you.

Roll here:
Roll 3d8 for CON, MIN 10. Max your hit die and add CON score as a HP bonus. They have been testing vitamins on you.
Roll 3d10 for INT MIN 7. (One is a genius….the other’s insane.)
Roll 3d10 for CHA MIN 8. (Heeeees Soooo Cuuuute!, or stitched up Frankenrabbit. )
Roll 3d10 for WIS MIN 12. (With ears like THAT, ya gots to notice some things.)

Roll 4d7 for LUCK. (might not be used much. Will increase if extra feet are grown.)

Choose if the enhancement that caused your awakening was biological, magical, technological, or GM’s choice. (Affects narration more than mechanics)

Choose your fur color. White, Brown, or Black. If an arctic hare this is the starting color and may change with long term ambient temperature. We are not using albino. The only mechanical effect will be Environment camouflage bonus. The lab has very ugly floor tiles of alternating colors, so this won’t matter much until you get outside.

Or: Frankinbunny/patchwork. Maybe you are made of parts of more than one rabbit. Maybe you have bits of hedgehog or beaver? (describe) Maybe you have split or composite personalities because your brain is composite? (roleplay)

Or
Bunny/fly: that teleportation/genetics experiment has combined you with something else. Rabbit/duck. Rabbit/dragon Catbit?…. (describe desired mix and gm will work out effects)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1SHpBsY7w

Choose your eye color. (you don’t know what this does) This may be left to GM choice.

Choose your backstory: (sentence length)
-Born in the lab. You have vague memories of your mother.
-Wild caught: You remember the wild…Booooooooorrrrn FrEEEEEEE, as Freeeee as the WIIIInD Blooooows….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWSa...9F7C429C83A295

-City Caught: You lived in the park. Got a bit too trusting of the people feeding you lettuce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkPRAsXyzUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNBU4Tik_QE
-Former pet. Where is Timmy and Carol? You miss your wheel.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087202/

-Beatrix Potter: Humans don’t understand this, but animals on your island have society, wear clothes, and talk to each other. The humans don’t notice this somehow. You were caught in Farmer MacGregor’s garden. Instead of having his wife put you in a pie, you were sold to a lab… You have always been sentient, and Momma is going to be so mad that you lost your jacket and shoes again. The recent experiments have increased your intellect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJPFMBcSBI

-Former Magician’s stage prop. You spent a lot of time in a hat. Add Level 1 Sorcerer powers. (you don’t have hands or components at start of play)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Dnm6dkOVI

Describe how you get out of the cage. This may affect your stats, special powers, and class. Possibilities and suggestions: (one sentence)

- You used the powers of your mind…. (describe)
- Visit from fairy God mother/blue fairy. (give a hint as to the type. Maybe this is a delusion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMRfS1tkV0k
- Devine intervention (pick a god or leave to GM. Maybe a delusion.)
- Sudden spell like or extraordinary ability. (describe)
- Sudden eruptions/growth of an unexpected body part. (describe or leave to GM.)
- A startling transformation occurs. (Describe or leave to gm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9MysTXM_P4
- You black out and …..you don’t know, but you aren’t in the cage any more. (Have you seen Moonknight?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYdBZEuhSnw
- Exceptional luck. (describe circumstance or leave to GM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZNHj8qgYs
- You somehow used your chip/ear tag to hack the control.
- Someone let you out. (a lab tech? an escaped mouse? A dying PETA eco-terrorist? The potted plant in the lobby?
- Something escaped and trying to eat you? GM discretion?)
- Something appears in your food bowl…(may leave to GM)
- You chewed your way out of the cage.
- You chewed your leg off…and somehow that worked!?
- Your ears have become prehensile.

[Ameraaaaaa]

Name: frosty. (The nickname the guards gave.)
Class: bard.

Rabbit type: https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/hare-arctic/

Small beast, unaligned

Armor Class 13
Hit Points 16 (1d6) (you said score and not ability modifier so i assume you meant the stat itself get's added.)
Speed 40 ft.

Str: 2 (-4)
Dex: 16 (+3)
Con: 10 (+0)
Int: 10 (+0)
Wis: 12 (+1)
Cha: 25 (+7)

Luck: 16

Skills

Perception +3 (+6)
Stealth +5 (+10)
Perform (Whistle) +4 (+15)
Knowledge (jazz, Swing, and Blues) +4 (+4)
Profession (jazz musician): +4 (+5)
Knowledge (cereal crop farming) +4 (+4)
Knowledge (tropical fruit farming) +4 (+4)
Knowledge (religion limited to spirituals) +4 (+4)

Feats

Feat Skill focus (perform (whistle))

Senses passive Perception 13
Languages - Creole, English, Common, Sheet Music.
Challenge 0 (10 XP)
Proficiency Bonus +2

Enhancements: magical
Fur: brown
Eye color: pale blue
Lab number: X10

Class proficiencies:

Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
Skills: Perception, Stealth, Perform (Whistle)

Spoiler: class abilities

Show

Spell casting
Bardic inspiration

Spoiler: spells known and spell slots

Show

Cantrips: mage hand, light.

Spells known
-1st level: speak with animals, healing word, unseen servant, animal friendship.

Spell slots
-level 1: 2

Backstory: frosty remembered his time in the wild. It was nice until the humans came. Then he got stuck in a cage. Luckily the god of jazz music saved you. What a swell fella.

I put my character here.

[jakarta]

God of Jazz preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dihJ1w48Jh0

[Ameraaaaaa]

God of Jazz preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dihJ1w48Jh0

Looking forward to watching that when I'm not in public.

Edit also when do we start the ic. Just asking because when i checked the 1st post of the ic earlier it was the same as the ooc.

[jakarta]

I'm just finishing my after school nap. I'll make dinner and then post in IC.

[Ameraaaaaa]

I'm just finishing my after school nap. I'll make dinner and then post in IC.

Understood. I hope you have a good dinner!

[jakarta]

Looking forward to watching that when I'm not in public.

Edit also when do we start the ic. Just asking because when i checked the 1st post of the ic earlier it was the same as the ooc.

Time for your bunny to discover religion.

[jakarta]

Just wondering: Did you get that a lot of the last IC post I made was composed of song lyrics?

[Ameraaaaaa]

Just wondering: Did you get that a lot of the last IC post I made was composed of song lyrics?

I did not actually. Nice. That's really clever!

[jakarta]

You can Google or search YouTube to hear the songs referenced.

Where are you from and which time zone are you in?

[Ameraaaaaa]

You can Google or search YouTube to hear the songs referenced.

Where are you from and which time zone are you in?

I'm from saudi arabia. But i live in dubai for my lil bros schooling. I'm gmt+4 iirc.

[jakarta]

I taught in Dammam for 2 years.

[Ameraaaaaa]

I taught in Dammam for 2 years.

No waaay! That's my home town! Small world!

[jakarta]

RAIS

I was teaching Biology and Physical Science.
How old are you?

Most of my students were Shiite.

[Ameraaaaaa]

RAIS

I was teaching Biology and Physical Science.
How old are you?

Most of my students were Shiite.

I'm 22. I didn't go to many schools in saudi tho since i couldn't speak arabic. Basically my 1st words were English and my doctor said autistics should learn 1 language at a time. I never got around to learning arabic.

But yeah. Also what's rais. Also i never heard of shiite before. Do you mean shia? I'm sunni not shia. Or do you mean ****e like how the British swear.

[jakarta]

You brought up jazz, so I approached the prayer aspect thought the lens of Negro Spirituals by way of Jazz and Motown.

The spiritual is an African influenced Christian genera, albeit often secularized for night club performance.

Should I dail back the Christian influences, or are you ok with it?

[jakarta]

I'm 22. I didn't go to many schools in saudi tho since i couldn't speak arabic. Basically my 1st words were English and my doctor said autistics should learn 1 language at a time. I never got around to learning arabic.

But yeah. Also what's rais. Also i never heard of shiite before. Do you mean shia? I'm sunni not shia. Or do you mean ****e like how the British swear.

It was the school I worked for. You can Google it using RAIS and Dammam.

Shiite is an older western spelling of Shia. There are different systems for spelling Arabic terms in English. For example, you will see both Usama and Osama bin Laden.

Make sure you are always using the spelling in your passport on your school and visa documents to avoid problems.

The spelling system discrepancy is similar to Chinese spellings in English. That is why you see Peaking instead of Beijing in older references.

[Ameraaaaaa]

You brought up jazz, so I approached the prayer aspect thought the lens of Negro Spirituals by way of Jazz and Motown.

The spiritual is an African influenced Christian genera, albeit often secularized for night club performance.

Should I dail back the Christian influences, or are you ok with it?

I'm fine with it. I might be Muslim but i respect all religions so it's fine if the god of jazz is Christian influenced.

It was the school I worked for. You can Google it using RAIS and Dammam.

Shiite is an older western spelling of Shia. There are different systems for spelling Arabic terms in English. For example, you will see both Usama and Osama bin Laden.

Make sure you are always using the spelling in your passport on your school and visa documents to avoid problems.

The spelling system discrepancy is similar to Chinese spellings in English. That is why you see Peaking instead of Beijing in older references.

Interesting. Nice to know. You sure know a lot.

[jakarta]

Being educated is:
Knowing at least a little about many things.
Knowing where and how to find information.
Knowing how to learn and think.

I'm a science teacher cross-trained to to teach social studies and literature. I have a master's degree level education. I should seem like a nerd.

Read as much as you can. In this age, YouTube is very valuable for learning broadly and quickly, just don't select propaganda channels.

[Ameraaaaaa]

Being educated is:
Knowing at least a little about many things.
Knowing where and how to find information.
Knowing how to learn and think.

I'm a science teacher cross-trained to to teach social studies and literature. I have a master's degree level education. I should seem like a nerd.

Read as much as you can. In this age, YouTube is very valuable for learning broadly and quickly, just don't select propaganda channels.

Very true. I'm glad to have met you. I'm sure we're gonna have a lot of fun with this game.

[jakarta]

Do you have any trouble watching youtube links?

[Ameraaaaaa]

Do you have any trouble watching youtube links?

No problems. The 1st post i got overwhelmed with links though so didn't finish the all. The rest i watched like the jazz/classical cartoon. Though as someone who's not a big jazz fan i didn't finish the music video ya sent about prayer (tho i do like the more upbeat jazz.)

I mainly chose jazz because i thought the idea of a bunny listening and relaxing to jazz is adorable.

[jakarta]

One good thing about a forum format is that you can go back to it later.

I'll try not to make it too much like homework.

I'm trying to include links to the references that I have in mind for your benefit, however, knowledge of these references is not essential for gameplay. If there is something that you need to understand I'll point it out.

[Ameraaaaaa]

One good thing about a forum format is that you can go back to it later.

I'll try not to make it too much like homework.

I'm trying to include links to the references that I have in mind for your benefit, however, knowledge of these references is not essential for gameplay. If there is something that you need to understand I'll point it out.

Thank you for being so considerate. Genuinely.

[jakarta]

For reference, this is a rabbit alarm call. It is a bit disturbing. Make sure your volume is low if you want to listen to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S83hCpKBgeQ

[Ameraaaaaa]

For reference, this is a rabbit alarm call. It is a bit disturbing. Make sure your volume is low if you want to listen to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S83hCpKBgeQ

Thanks for the warning. Damn. Poor rabbits.

[Ameraaaaaa]

Damn. My bunny is wholesome as hell. Love the little guy.

https://youtu.be/dMlUkl-gP0U

[jakarta]

https://youtu.be/h5AqgjzlGp8

Greensleeves

[jakarta]

Damn. My bunny is wholesome as hell. Love the little guy.

https://youtu.be/dMlUkl-gP0U

And with a CHA of 27....

[Ameraaaaaa]

And with a CHA of 27....

He is gonna charm the hell outta any creature he comes across. Time to befriend the tarrasque! Jk.