I passed

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:43 am

So, medical science has some interesting things. For instance, this time last year, I didn't think I'd be alive now, and thought there was no chance I'd be alive three years from now.

As it stands, thanks to developments, I may be able to live a healthy life, and as a result of medication, counselling and sheer bloody-mindedness, I have defeated depression.

Now, some time ago, I decided I might start planning for the future that it seems I'm going to suddenly have. I took a short course, "Introduction to Pharmacy Assistant". A ten week course, and those who pass are considered qualified to be pharmacy assistants, so that the person who sells you your paracetamol knows to warn you about the dangers involved.

Well, a fortnight ago, I completed the course. I passed. I am now qualified to be a pharmacy assistant. Now I just need to keep applying and see if an actual pharmacy will call me back and say "We'd like an interview." I intend on continuing my studies as I work, becoming qualified to be a dispensary assistant, and *maybe* one day doing the 4+ year Uni course to be an actual pharmacist. But really, would you trust me to be a pharmacist, given how I'd recommend codeine instead of paracetamol for any kind of pain relief?

So who says good things only happen to good people?

This is simply a thread to say that I have won the game. That is all. I encourage others to also tell about how they have won the game.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:49 pm

Congrats on still being alive.

Still working on my own metamorphosis, my ex had me pretty broken down by the time she left. I've found that going off my meds helps a lot.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:45 pm

Yay!

That's ironic of you to call life The Game, since I've begun reading the manga Gantz.......

http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/1/01/

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:26 am

....

I think I might have an idea for a d20 modern game.

I just read from 1-203 of Gantz over the course of 3 hours. Stupid, since I'll have to read it more and slower to really digest it, but w/e.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:20 am

J_E: Ever got that Gantz setting going?

I'd think it's not too hard to do.
Rerolling a character every few scenes would be the hardest part.
Tell your players to make at least 5 characters with no connection to each other.

Person 1: "Oh shit here it comes! RUN!"

Person 2: "Huh? Oh that. I think I'll stare at it a bi-"

*alien eyebeam deathrays*

Person 1: (sweating profusely) "Crap. He's dead. I think I'll run over, grab his gun even though I threw mine away an hour ago, and shoo-"

*alien eyebeam deathrays*

Person 3 of the next group: "Wow, they all died. What's this? A gun? I'll go get it and try to shoot th-"

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:26 pm

No, didn't.

It would have to be a fairly free-form system.

With initial character design seriously starting and ending with: "I was a .... and I died b/c of ... "

If you live past your first assignment, do you consider fleshing the characters out more.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:18 am

Why, sure you flesh out the survivor's personality. Until your flesh is gone. Literally.
OK that was bad.

In other ideas,
Everybody plays the d20 Modern opposite of the normal 6 classes:

Weak hero
Slow Hero
Young/Old Hero
Dumb Hero
Ignorant Hero
Rude Hero

You're destined to die. How badly will you fight and how fast will you disintegrate or be eaten?

Rather than use Gantz monsters, which are pretty much Rokugani (aka... Japanese), you could easily just throw the MM series at the players with altered forms and they wouldn't give a shit.

Imagine a bunch of incompetent teenagers in badass suits facing down Destrachans, Beholders, Tanar'ri, and Trolls and disguised as Oni, Asian ghosts, and bishounen vampires with katanas and Armani.
Yes.
That's pretty much Gantz.

I too had read 200-something chapters in about 3 weeks back when I was recovering from surgery a year ago, so yeah, I know how you feel.. coming out of that alternate universe of a manga world... you see things differently for a little while.

The series seems to have stopped. Or maybe mangashare got a "cease and desist".

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:34 am

Congrats to you Koumei.

I'd also like to say that the onemanga site is tbe bee's knees, and I've read through tons of manga that I had never heard of before in the many months that I've known about it (I check daily to see if any of the 20 or so mangas I've finished is updated yet).

Actually for Gantz, one of my friends did come up with a game semi-similar a few years back. He built his own system and everything and the premise was that our characters were abducted and put into some game where once a week we'd have to do combat challenges or else the bomb in our head would go off (we initially didn't know about the bomb).

Our first challenge was a simple capture the flag game against another team of modified participants, as we each took over a sit down restaurant near each other, and had to protect the patrons from the other team. When we died we had a new body rematerialize in our restaurant's kitchen.

I think he had to do some retooling of his system that we were playtesting then, so we never got around to returning to that game though.