Welcome organic, to Bots ‘n Pieces, a narrative role-playing game (RPG) where you will become a valuable piston within the greater machine (literally) of a light-hearted, ragtag team of clapped-out robots on a contrastingly dangerous and deadly junk-strewn moon; the frontier world of Tartaria.
Each Player Character (generally referred to as a PC, or a Bot), is an Urfling. Urflings are robots created by humans in a far future (from your very primitive modern times, that is). Each Urfling was created for a distinct purpose, be it gardening, opera, or WAR (HUH! What is it good for? It’s not in your programming to know) - which makes them a highly variable form of robot. Other than that, and sentience, the only true defining quality between all Urflings is the ability to COMBINE TOGETHER into a greater (or at least weirder) form. Combining was originally a design choice to enable cramming more robots into Fleet cargo holds, but the Urflings have found ways to turn the ability into both a massive physical (or mental) advantage, as well as a means of building strong relationships.
Sadly (?), the Great Compactor (black hole) has forced you to crash-land on Tartaria, where the poisonous atmosphere means that your human creators can no longer guide you, order you, or have you mix their cocktails. (ERROR!) But, though you’re on a moon without a planet, covered in mountains and valleys of junk and vast acid oceans, orbiting a black hole, IT’S NOT ALL BAD! Yes, there’s giant worms (WITH EYES!) that might want to eat the minerals in your diodes. YES, there’s lots of dangerous and unexplored frontiers. YES, there’s a technorganic scourge that might try and assimilate you. But there’s also OTHER ROBOTS HERE! A whole society - junk-eating Tartareans (the most common), Lellurian androids (they look almost human, BUT THEY’RE NOT), and… well you try not to think about the lunatic Elpers (imagine Urflings, if they were full of glitches, and violently convinced that they’re better than you). And the warlike Erobytes are better left to battling that aforementioned technorganic scourge.
But all the above just means adventure, right? ADVENTURE!
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