Hunger Gamestuck

[Cadorean]

Glitter shades can be made cool by wearing them IRONICALLY

[Edrobot]

Show him your STABS.

[Xaber]

Glitter shades can be made cool by wearing them IRONICALLY

Exactly.

[BCLEGENDS]

Glitter shades can be made cool by wearing them IRONICALLY

Glitter shades are never to be worn ironically. That defeats their purpose, which involves extreme amounts of flashiness.

[Kestral]

This coming update is delayed by the lack of a scanner that works. The broken machinery apologies for the inconvenience.

[Kestral]

Glitter shades can be made cool by wearing them IRONICALLY

Thank goodness wearing things ironically can turn them from being incredibly dorky to super cool. That’s right, you flip your swag switch from legit to ironic, and you’re back in action. You are just so cool.

As your flamboyant, annoy, squeaky voiced Stylist dresses you, your irony meter only goes up and up. It appears that the Stylist is sticking with the “sexy coal miner” aesthetic. You have a hard hat, glitter-shades, no shirt, and super short plaid pants that are way too tight to justify the suspenders hooked over your shoulders. Looking cool there Dave.

Aradia and her Stylist enters the room. The two of you practically match, and you’re sure that if boobs didn’t get in the way of suspenders, she would be shirtless too. Of course, normally she’s very flat chested, not that you looked or anything, but the capitol has stuffed her bra. Over said stuffing is a denim tank top on that shows her belly. The pair of you look hideous, but oh so ironic.

The two of you are ushered out into the staging area, where all the chariots and other tributes are. You enter first, followed closely by Aradia.




>Check out the other tributes

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Scanner is not fixed, and won't be for a while. Instead, we get pictures of my drawing taken by my mom's camera. Yep, this is sure a high tech fan adventure. I bet all the other adventures are jealous.
I'm wondering what my readers think of my visual art because I am planing on bringing in more in the future. The future art will be more in the style of the art in this post, because I'm not very good at drawing. I would love your thoughts and constructive criticism.

[Xaber]

>Check out the other tributes

I like your art; it's pretty good, and has a nice style.

[Wonderlamy]

it's great you figured how to do the shades, they look very nice!
did you get out the ruler for those mouths? they just look so straight!

[Cadorean]

Walk three or four paces behind Aradia, if you know what I mean.

Also, is it just me, or does anyone else hear Staying Alive by the Bee Gees play in their head as they look at that picture.

[BCLEGENDS]

>Dave: Ironically regard squealing fangirls.
>Aradia: Remotely knock all the men in the audience unconscious with your SEXY RIBCAGE.

[Kestral]

>Check out the other tributes

Most of the tributes are standing next to their chariots, some making stilted conversation, some not. A boy and a girl in straw hats break out in uproarious laughter. On the other end of the interpersonal relationship spectrum, the district two tributes look ready to kill each other already. You try to ignore the large, strong, well fed career tributes, and look over the others.

Directly in front of your chariot, is the district eleven chariots. They are covered in fruit slices, and look a bit cold from the juice running down their arms and legs. In front of them, a girl dressed up as a chicken is trying to lick a boy dressed up as a cow.

The boy from district eight is complaining loudly about his outfit; both tributes from seven are tree spirits; you have no idea what is going on with the six’s costumes, but you can appreciate the guy’s shades; and the district five tributes look highly competent and a bit scary. Skip district four. The girl from district three has separated the district two tributes, and is now having a conversation with the girl that district. What could she be planning? The careers don’t tend to team up with skinny girls from district three. Skip district one, and that’s everyone.


>Don't you DARE skip Districts Four and One. Show us them. Now.

[BCLEGENDS]

>Don't you DARE skip Districts Four and One. Show us them. Now.

[Cadorean]

Skip district four. Skip district one.

I CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT, DAVE.

[Xaber]

>Talk to the boy from District Six with the cool shades.

[Kestral]

>Don't you DARE skip Districts Four and One. Show us them. Now.

You skipped them because they’re fucking terrifying. For now, you just want to pretend that the Careers don’t exist, because if they didn’t you could win this thing. The only reason you took note of district two was because that girl from three was talking to one of them.

Wait, are you seriously trying to solve your problems by pretending? Shit, you’re not a six year old, you’re sixteen for god’s sake. That’s ten fucking years after it stops being socially acceptable to role play that things are different. No, you are going to face to problem head on like a fucking mature adult.

The tributes from district one are as heavily muscled as always, although the girl is a bit smaller than your normal volunteer tribute. Both are head to toe in gold, silver, and jewels. The girl seems to be entertaining herself by flipping off all the tributes and the peacekeepers. She’s a dangerous one. You can’t really get a good read of the boy, but he’s ginormous. End of that story.

To contrast the build of the ones, the fours are lithe. Like fish or whatever. Made for cutting through the water and other tributes. The girl is hopping up and down in some form of happy dance. The guy also looks dangerous, but there is something off about him. He just seems not right. You point him out to Aradia and she says, “his mind is not with his body.”

Thanks for your company, ‘raids. Your spiritual, vague, gloomy bullshit is always appreciated.

>Go chat up that demented tribute from four. Having a bit of insanity on your side is always a good thing.

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The reason for this update taking so long is that I was making a drawing. This drawing involved four people, head to toe, with complicated facial expressions, unusual costumes, and two of them in difficult poses. This drawing is still not finished. I will post it when it is done, but it will not be part of an update. I have no idea why I thought drawing it was a good idea in the first place.

[Cadorean]

Go chat up that demented tribute from four. Having a bit of insanity on your side is always a good thing.

[BCLEGENDS]

>Aradia: Go talk to the STRONG-looking District 1 5 tribute.

[Captain Combusken]

I'm too lazy to look back, could somebody remind me who is in what district?

Dave: Well, at least you've still got some Time on Your Side to prepare yourself (Awww yeah, it's referance time.)

[Kestral]

In the spoilers is a master list of who is from what district, plus what the district does:

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1: makes luxury items -- Meenah and Caliborn
2: makes weapons, trains, and trains peacekeeper...plus some stupid cover story for the rest of the country. -- Rose and Eridan
3: electronics and other machines -- Jade and Sollux
4: fishing -- Feferi and Gamzee
5: power (does this mean factories? I can't figure it out) -- Vriska and Equius
6: transportation (another district I can't figure out) -- Calliope and Dirk
7: lumber -- Kanaya and Jake
8: textiles -- Aranea and Jane
9: grain -- Nepeta and Karkat
10: livestock -- Terezi and Tavros
11: agriculture -- Roxy and John
12: coal -- Aradia and Dave

Please read this, it will be helpful to understanding many casual references and things that have hidden significance. I'm also thinking about setting up a tumblr for Q&A about Hunger Gamestuck, because of how many readers there are. Is there any interest?

[Kestral]

Ok, first of all, I love to be busy. Whenever I have a lot of time on my hands, I start a project to make sure that stops being a thing. However, when things start to become more busy, I can't do everything. Something falls to the side, and this time, it has been Hunger Gamestuck. But I want to make this clear, I will never let this adventure die. It may go on a long hiatus, but it will come out of that alive and kicking.
Now, my next post will be 69, and I want to do something for Karkat. Would people prefer his backstory or his stats (stats will be used during training, in interviews, and throughout the actual games)?

[Cadorean]

Stats. Let's see what we're working with here.

[Kestral]

Karkat Vantas:
Pain Tolerance points: Max: 9, Remaining: 9
Hit Points: Max: 8, Remaining: 8
Skills:
Animal Lore: 1
Beauty: 3
Bluff: 1
Camouflage: 1
Charm: 2
Climb: 1
Diplomacy: 3
Dodge: 3
Endurance: 3
Hunting: 0
Insight: 2
Intimidate: 3
Knots: 1
Mechanical Lore: 0
Learn:
- Ability: 1
- Knowledge: 1
Plant Lore: 3
Perception:
- Hearing: 1
- Sight: 1
- Smell: 1
Running:
- Long Distance: 2
- Speed: 1
Stealth: 1
Strength: 1
Swim: 1
Tend to wound: 2
Thievery: 1
Traps: 1
Weapons:
- Hand-to-Hand: 2
- Other: 1
- Sickle: 4

In these stats, there are two sections. The first is physical conditions, and the second is skills.

There are only two types of physical conditions, Pain Tolerance Points (Pt) and Hit Points (Hp). Both of this can and will be subtracted from and added two, but cannot become greater than their Max values. Everyone's Max Hp is 8. If a character runs out of Hp, they die. However, not all attacks will directly damage Hp. Most will have to go through Pt
first.

Pt is how well you can endure pain, how good your body is at fixing itself, and many other things. If Karkat gets really tired, his Pt could go down about 1 point. If he gets a second degree burn on his leg, it could go down a fair amount more. If that burn got infected, his Hp would start to go down. Infection cured, Hp goes up. Burn cured but no infection received, Hp was never affected, and Pt goes up. If a character's Pt runs out, they start loosing Hp.

Now moving onto skills. The system is d8 based, meaning all of the numbers next to skills are number that get added to the roll of an eight sided die. The roll plus the skill bonus is then compared either to a predetermined number or another die roll. For example, if someone was trying to lie to Karkat, it would be 1d8+ their Bluff against 1d8+ Karkat's Insight. 1 is the normal score. Karkat has not spent any time climbing on things, but he is not afraid of heights, therefor his climb score is 1. Zero or less means you're bad at something, like Karkat is too damn noisy and impatient to be good at hunting. (Nepeta would nefur tell him this, though.)

You may be confused by what some of the scores mean, and how they work. I'm going to divide them up into several sections Conditions, Abilities, and Knowledge. You may also notice that Ability and Knowledge are also skills, and I will let you know now that both of them are filled under Conditions. This system is already proving to be nonsensical.

Conditions are things that you can't really change, at least not without deep soul search over a long time or physical injury. They are Beauty, Charm, the Learn skills, and the Perception skills. The difference between Beauty and Charm is slightly arbitrary. Basically, if a character has a high Beauty score, they're sexy, and if they have a high Charm score, they're cute. It is a trend among the stats that the girls have more in those stats than the guys, and that is simple my fault. I'm sorry.

Moving on, the Learn skills, Ability and Knowledge, refer to how fast and how well the character can learn skills. These will be used during training, to see if a character can add to their stats. It is not very common to have above 1 in either of these stats, and far more common to have a 0 in the Knowledge Learn skill. The Perception skills are self explanatory.

The Ability skills are things that can be done. They are: Bluff, Camouflage, Climb, Diplomacy, Dodge, Endurance, Hunting, Insight, Intimidate, the Running skills, Stealth, Strength, Swim, Thievery, and the Weapon skills. Most of these make sense, but note that Camouflage and Stealth are not the same thing, and Endurance is about withstanding cold, heat, hunger, tiredness, and pain. Fail an Endurance roll, and it negatively effects Pt. Dodge will come up during fights and anything the Gamemakers come up with, and failing a Dodge roll will either effect Pt or Hp.

During training, Weapon skills may be added to the stats. Also, the Other skill under Weapons refers to how well you can pick up a random weapon and use it well enough to gain either the bonus or the d8. That will depend on the weapon in question. I'm still figuring out how exactly combat will work.

Knowledge skills are about whether or not you know something. The only skills that are pure Knowledge skills are Animal Lore and Plant Lore. The remaining skills are in the muddy water between Knowledge and Ability, and are: Knots, Mechanical Lore, Tend to wound, and Traps. These skills require both the Knowledge of how to do them, and the ability to do them. The difference between Knots and Traps is so completely arbitrary that I can't explain it.

Any Questions?

TL;DR: sorry, there just isn't a shorter explanation. Suck it up and read the stuff, or continue on not understand. Your choice.

[Cadorean]

I quite like your stat system. It's sort of like an altered WoD system that works for survivalist scenarios better.

[Kestral]

Ok, I was going to let you guys know this earlier, but a destructive hurricane happened. Yes the site has been up for a while, but I was busy. Anyways, I'm doing Nanowrimo, so this thing is on an official hiatus. No, I do not feed off of your impatience for an update, stop asking.
The next update will be posted on December 2nd. In the mean time, look in each other's signatures and read each other's fanadventures. Or read a book. Or go play outside. Or be social. So many things to do!

[Cadorean]

I followed the link in Kestral's signature and it brought me back here!