Steeled Hearts
A Game of High Octane, Mecha Driven, Tactical Romance
Dating is hard, but its even harder when you're under sustained heavy-fire from your crush's dominant air support.
. . . B E G I N . . .
Choose a Match-Maker. Everyone else is a Pilot/Lover.
Pilot/Lovers
The bog standard for the conscripted masses worshipping at the grinding wheel of yearning.
They fill the cockpits of 80-ton war machines known Avatars
A P/L's success behind the joystick depends on having the right stuff in their profile.
Every P/L has to distribute the following numbers,
-15,000, 0, 0.5f, 15,000, 15,000
-- B I G G E R -- is *always* better
ASPECTS OF YOUR PROFILE:
Looks
Vibes
Financial Stability
That Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi
Piloting
In our Avis, we are our best selves.
Our Avis balance out our short-comings.
They emphasize our strengths.
Choose one ASPECT
Give it a + 15,000.
Describe
out loud,
to whoever is around,
the way your Avi brings out the best in you.
(and hides the worst)
The Game
To start, Each Pilot/Lover
describes
out loud
to whoever is nearby
What it is about their crush that makes them worth taking to the heat of the cockpit.
And the MM prepares a dossier
During the Mission...
When a P/L does something risky, in love or in life and limb, the Match-Maker can ask for a Verification.
The MM and the P/L decide together which aspect of the P/L's Profile is being Checked.
The MM then sets the difficulty of the act, on an evenly distributed scale of 0-65,535.
The P/L then initializes a new 16-bit unsigned int,
with each bit's initial value decided by
sampling any perfectly uniform distribution
and mapping the outputs of that distribution
equally to the digits 1 and 0.
The P/L then takes the value of the agreed upon Profile aspect,
and applies addition between binary representations of
itself
and
the output from the prior step
Cast the resulting value back to an unsigned 16-bit int
SuccessFailureIndicator = (bool) (Val > Difficulty)
return SuccessFailureIndicator
IMPORTANT - If the action succeeds or fails as a result of integer overflow, the result is a
C R I T [Success || Failure]
On Crit Success
The value of the int of the P/L's next verification
is normalized over the range of 0 - 65,535
just after the Profile Aspect is applied
just prior to the 16-bit cast
On Crit Fail
The value of the int of the P/L's next verification
is Cast to a signed 16-bit int
instead of unsigned
Just prior to the difficulty comparison
To Prepare a Dossier, roll on the following tables
(Tip: If a d6 is not available, simply generate a 16-bit unsigned binary int, as with a Verification,
and bit shift it >> by 13.
Regenerate if Val == 0000000000000111 || 0000000000000000
then cast back to unsigned int)
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Mission Location Table
The mission takes place in a combination...
Roll 2d6 to determine the mission's location:
___d6___ / ___d6___
Dance-Bar Ammunitions Depot
Cozy Coffee Shop Beached Warship
Rooftop Garden Ancient Battlefield
Karaoke Bar Tech Graveyard
Suburban Mall Orbiting Satelite
Art Museum Military Command Center
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Crush Complication Table
Your crush is into you too, but...
Roll 2d6 to determine the complications.
They ___d6___, and they ___d6___
Just got out of a thing Have an armor-piercing sniper positioned on the ridge
Aren't ready for something Have anti-air emplacements which prevent your dropships from closing
serious
Are really busy with work Had their crew establish a sensor lock and jam COMs
Are just super shy Have you and your crew caught in a flank
Don't think their Are presently engaged in an active combat situation with their rival
parents will approve
Genuinely enjoy playing coy Have an established bounty on their head in over 12 sectors.
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Mission Goal
Your mission is to...
Roll a d6
___d6___
Find the perfect moment to ask for the decryption key to their long-range COMs channel.
Defeat your crush's hovering ex and their crew in Honorable Combat after discovering they've been distributing faulty intel on your crew
Survive a series of death defying romantic and piloting challenges engineered by your crush's crew
Keep a group of raiding Mercs and Pirates from ruining your date
Balance a date with your crush with the retrieval of a coveted military prototype that's been identified in the area
Stop your crazy ex from detonating a thermo nuclear warhead that's been disguised to be innocuous and rigged to explode
