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>Look for the pocket knife. Best not to get into a fight, but getting into one unequipped would be worse.

You begin searching for your trusty blade. You don’t use or need it that often, but you never know. Thinking over where it could be you manage to recall its last location: inside one of the desk draws to your left.

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(D=4; ‘RECALL’ SKILL NOT FOUND: -2 UNSKILLED MODIFIER APPLIED TN=IMA+2=6 ROLL 5D10: 6,4,1,5,10=SUCCESS (0) +1 BONUS ON ASSOCIATED ACTION/S)

A brief search fails to uncover the knife

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(D=3; ‘SPOT’ NOT FOUND: +1 ACTION BONUS: TN =6
ROLL: 9,7,2,7,1=FAILURE (0))

but you’re sure it’s there somewhere. Your second attempt proves equally fruitless.

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(8,3,8,9,7=F (1) FRUSTRATION INCREASED)

Disappointed, you instead just make a quick look around for anything else of use.

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(TN=7: 8,7,4,5,8=S(0))

Oh yeah. Your undeniably non-mint MODDED POWER GLOVE has been staring at you this entire time. Dammit. You hastily equip it to your favoured LEFT arm, taking care not to bump the cont-WHOOPS.

You flip the on switch by accident. This one might be the first to live up to its name… if you can get the electrodes to function. You decided to try turning it into a stun glove after getting your hands on a taser. Right now, it shorts-out when you try to use it that way but your friend (the same one that helped you with this game, incidentally) assured you it only needs calibration to keep the output under control – and a better battery. The pc-on-a-chip inside also makes it the most cumbersome smartphone ever.

It took way too long, cost far more than you can properly afford and you fried the prototype way too often and it’s not even much good as an armoured glove. But you rebuilt it your own damn self as a school project. It's all yours.

And it looks cool.
(‘CONTROLS’ HELP TOPIC UNLOCKED: 5D10 SYSTEM)

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Most actions are resolved by rolling five 10-sided dice. For actions based on skills, the statistic associated with that skill is the initial target number (TN); to succeed, at least three of the five rolls must be lower or equal to that number. However, there are several modifiers that alter that target. A difficulty modifier is first applied based on how hard the task is; a positive modifier makes things easier, while a negative modifier increases difficulty.

Finally, a modifier is assigned based on the player's skills. Attempting to use a basic skill without having it incurs a -2 penalty (this increases for more specialised skills). It is possible to gain additional ranks in a skill; each rank above the first increases the target number by one.

>Scout the hallways and living room and kitchen.

To get to the KITCHEN and LIVING ROOM, you will need to first go downstairs; moving into the TOP LANDING, there's no sign of him yet. Ahead of you is the MASTER BEDROOM, while the TOILET and STUDY are to the [S]OUTH.

Moving downstairs, the staircase creaks a little, though your careful steps are mostly enough to keep it from making too much of a racket. You can't see most of the KITCHEN or LIVING ROOM and the DINING ROOM doors are fastly shut. You'll need to decide which order to search.

FATHER could be in any of the three; the drinks cabinet is in the dining room, though there might be a bottle of something in the FRIDGE and he tends to drink at the STOOLS there. The CAT's bed was in the KITCHEN last you remember, but mum did talk about moving it to the LAUNDRY. Of course, those SOFAS are looking very comfy in front of the TV, which might be on, it's hard to tell from this angle.



QUEST UPDATED: CAT-CHING UP