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Stats

Melee
Melee is used to hit or block things using martial arts, melee weapons or plain old brawliness. It is an important combat attribute at Close and Too Close range where guns can potentially be inconvenient and also serves as part of your health pool. Even gunslingers will find it very useful when caught up close. It can also stand in for strength or be used to break things in addition to people if fire or explosions aren't practical for the job.

Physique
Physique determines what a person can do with their body and how well tuned it is to do things usual or unusual. It is most important in dodging bullets and moving about but also forms part of your health pool, initiative, and can be used to throw things. Countless tasks that require physical reflexes often use or can use Physique as do ones that require precision (assuming Tech isn't more suitable).

Shoot
Shoot is the common person's superpower provided, of course, that you have a gun. It is the dominant offensive combat attribute from Short to Long range and usually works just fine up Close as well. Owing to cinematics, reloading is generally automatic.

Charm
Charm is the subtle aspect of social interaction that is useful for getting what you want without giving away what it is or who wants it. Seduction, subterfuge and trickery converge here. It can also stand in for Smarts for perception in a social context, though results may return as feelings of what to do rather than anything specific.

Presence
Presence covers performance, leadership and overall social forcefulness. Whether it is fast-talk, extracting favors from contacts, intimidating folks into a protection racket or defeating zombies with rock'n'roll, the target of a presence roll usually realises what is going on. Remember, respect is everything. Having a strong presence also lets you be stubborn as a brick.

Smarts
This is your perception, mental dexerity, quickness, cleverness and natural intelligence stat. It is also half of your initiative rating alongside Physique and the main contribution to one's social defenses.

Tech
This stat in practice will probably be mostly technology but can apply for any learned field with ivory tower potential, from mechanics to computer hacking to religious and occult literature. Many of the tasks related to it will have very high thresholds (such as aforementioned occult literature) when attempted without a supporting skill.

Example Skills

These are only examples. You can make up your own so long as they fall into the same level of specificity. Note that arranging this stuff under stats is largely artificial - you can roll any skill with any stat in the right situation.

Melee

Fencing (<style>)
Jujutsu – A skill that originated from the close combat techniques of samurai. It is a soft martial art that allows grapples and throws.
Kagura – A martial art derived from the shrine maidens' sacred dance. It is a hard martial art centered around acrobatics and kicks and allows the fighter to dart in and out of range.
Karate – A fighting skill born right here in Ryunan. Karate allows the fighter to deal a lot of damage and break things, mostly with their bare hands.
Kenjutsu
Pro Wrestling – Unlike in real life, this shit actually works for some reason.

Physique

Acrobat
Biker – The kind with a motor on it, naturally.
Blowpipe – Why the fuck not?
Breakdancer
Driver
Parkourist – The art of quickly traversing urban terrain on hand and foot. Actually called a traceur but nobody knows that.
Stealth
Throwing Knives

Shoot

Revolvers
Pistols
Machine Pistols
Assault Rifles
Rocket Launcher
Shotguns
Sniper Rifles

Charm

Actor
Animal Friendship – You never know when you'll need to calm a tiger in the back seat.
Art Sense (<type>)
Empathy
Etiquette
Fashion
Musical Sense

Presence

Cosplay
Fast Talk
Gang Signs
Intimidation
Leadership
Singer-Songwriter
Performer (<type>)

Smarts

Art Sense (<type>)
Concealment
Cook
Investigator (<type>)
Tactician

Tech

Car Chopper
Chemist - A euphemism, naturally.
Electronics
Explosives
Hacker
Heavy Weapons
Particle Physicist - Never know when an understanding of the Vatican Large Hadron Collider will come in handy!
Software Engineer
Surgeon

Experience

The cost of raising any stat by 1 is 1000x exp where x is the current level of the stat.
The exp cost of buying a skill is 200y where y is the number of skills you currently have.
Buying a fate tag increases the fate pool by 1 each time but requires an appropriate point in the story as well as consistent roleplaying. The exp cost is 400z where z is the number of tags you currently have. If you need to go into debt, you may immediately do so but cannot buy anything else until it is paid off.
Like tags, social links are primarily acquired through roleplaying, getting progressively more demanding to improve as they intensify. The costs for this are provisional. I may make them vary case by case instead.

D rank: 1000

D to C rank: 2000

C to B rank: 4000

Setting

It is 2012 or Year 20 of Hinao Era – thirty-four years since the conclusion of the Sixty Years War and the start of the Cold War. Since then, most of the fallout zones left by the detonation of spin bombs have stabilised. Their reconstruction gave rise to the War Accountability and Reparation Provisions where entities both Amaharan and foreign are given unrestricted access in efforts of reconstruction. Owing to numerous legal loopholes, the exact sovereignty and jurisdiction within these areas remain uncertain to this day. Within the so-called WARP Zones, the rule of law is weak and competition is unforgiving. The difference between have and have-not can be stark as day and night and whether it is hell or heaven depends on one's position and attitude. The largest, most important and most infamous of these zones is the Jura Megalopolis.

Located on the southern shore of the Ryunan Peninsula facing the Jura Strait, the Megalopolis is one of the largest cities in the world and its busiest and most important port. Though heavily spin-bombed and still peppered with major anomalies, the territory's strategic location assured its quick revival and regrowth. With a third of the world's shipping passing within sight of the shore, the Jura Megalopolis is vital to the world's economy, yet its legal status makes it inviolable by official forces, especially in this era of Cold War tensions. Today, the Jura Megalopolis is a hub of spies, unsavory corporations and above all, crime.

Territory

The Jura WARP Zone is approximately a beveled, enlongated right triangle with an area of over 700 sq. km. Despite or because of its reputation, the population has grown rapidly since the war, resulting in very high density and a tendency for hub areas with the money to build upwards. Whether from the sea or nearby mountains, the Jura Megalopolis has a very compelling skyline. At the edges of the territory, lack of space brings slums and buildings right to the international borders.

In the west, slums and barrios come right to the edge of the Celebes Republic, an exotic pot of a dictatorship tolerated because it opposes communism. Despite the threat of nasty wildlife, landmines and guerillas or guards randomly shooting folks, parts of the jungle are often stripped or poached for food, wood, or drug cultivation. In two areas near extant villages, the border could even be said to be blurry, a state of affairs tolerated so long the local general or rebel leader gets a cut.

The northeastern border faces the People's Republic of Ryunan, former Amaharan territory turned communist hellhole since its occupation and annexation by the People's Confederation of Lotus Asia. Despite post-war treaties, the Ryunan DMZ was reoccupied a mere seven years after the war by rebranding an entire army division into a supposedly civil border-and-customs unit. Here, spartan housing blocks abut directly on walls of concrete and barbed wire beyond which is stark rainforest punctuated by clear logged areas, guard towers and even bunkers. This longer and more exciting border has only one official crossing. Yet, despite iron curtain efforts, human trafficking into the Megalopolis continues through various methods.

Just across the Jura Strait lies the theocratic Emirate of Midena, a member of the Caliphate. The Francian imperial colony of Menden and several other states (mostly small bits and islands) are also nearby.

Features and Areas

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 It is 2012 or Year 20 of Hinao Era – thirty-four years since the conclusion of the Sixty Years War and the start of the Cold War. Since then, most of the fallout zones left by the detonation of spin bombs have stabilised. Their reconstruction gave rise to the War Accountability and Reparation Provisions where entities both Amaharan and foreign are given unrestricted access in efforts of reconstruction. Owing to numerous legal loopholes, the exact sovereignty and jurisdiction within these areas remain uncertain to this day. Within the so-called WARP Zones, the rule of law is weak and competition is unforgiving. The difference between have and have-not can be stark as day and night and whether it is hell or heaven depends on one's position and attitude. The largest, most important and most infamous of these zones is the Jura Megalopolis.

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