Dropped into the IRC chat and it sounds like the school scenario can be done, so all the students are go again. I’ll revise the blurbs and whatnot here. Let’s see…
Elementary Student: Costs 0
Starts with: t-shirt, jacket, panties/boyshorts/briefs, jeans, socks, sneakers, backpack, wrapped PB&J sandwich, plastic bottle of milk, book of fairy tales
Starting Skills: None
You’re just a kid, and now the world has turned into something out of one of your bad dreams. The grown-ups you relied on are all dead–or undead–now. What do you do?
Skater Girl/Boy: Costs 1
Traits: Skater
Starts with: t-shirt, hoodie, boyshorts/briefs, jeans, socks, pair of rollerblades, fingerless gloves, pair of elbow pads, pair of knee pads, skid lid, plastic bottle of sports drink (2)
Starting Skills: Dodging (1)
You love to skate! At least now the grown-ups aren’t telling you where you can’t roll.
Note on the above: If dropping the hoodie and the rank of Dodging got it down to 0 points, that might be preferable, but that’s my experienced player preferences for spending fewer points on professions talking, so maybe it should be taken with a grain of salt.
Student of Faith: Costs 0
Starts with: dress shirt, jacket, panties/briefs, pants, sneakers, knit scarf, holy symbol, backpack, wrapped PB&J sandwich, plastic bottle of milk (2)
Starting Skills: none
Your parents were deeply faithful, and tried to raise you with the same values. Will you lean on faith to make it through the dark days ahead, or is the Cataclysm proof that there can be no loving supreme being?
Note on the above: It’s lost some of its identity; now I think the only thing setting it apart is probably the holy symbol. If that’s sufficient, I’ll leave it in.
Juvenile Delinquent: Costs 1
Starts with: t-shirt, hoodie, boyshorts/briefs, jeans, socks, sneakers, fingerless gloves, matchbook, 2 hairpins, slingshot, marbles (40), comic book
Starting Skills: Melee (1), Marksmanship (1), Dodging (1)
You never cared for grown-ups telling you what to do and they didn’t like it, and that’s how you ended up spending most of your days since the age of six in the principal’s office. Now, not needing grown-ups to tell you what to do is the only reason you’re alive. Man, you really should’ve played hooky today.
Preppy Student: Costs 1
Starts with: dress shirt, jacket, panties/boyshorts/briefs, pants, socks, dress shoes, skinny tie, tie clip, stylish sunglasses, knit scarf, wrist watch, messenger bag, glass bottle of mineral water, PDA, cell phone, Adderall (10), money bundle, How to Succeed in Business
Starting Skills: Speaking (1)
Your parents were busy, wealthy, important people, who wanted you to have every advantage, and to excel in everything, and to be “successful,” whatever that meant. If only they’d ever let you experience childhood, or ever shown you their love. You’re certainly not getting either one now.
Survivalist Jr.: Costs 3
Starts with: t-shirt, jacket, panties/boyshorts/briefs, cargo pants, socks, boots, knit scarf, backpack, granola (4), plastic bottle of clean water, pair of scissors, magnifying glass, flashlight, first aid kit (1)
Starting Skills: Survival (1), Fabrication (1), First Aid (1)
Your parents were crazy preppers who thought some “cataclysm” was coming, and insisted on you learning survival skills and carrying a mini survival kit in your backpack. Turns out they were right. You didn’t get a chance to thank them for preparing you. The only thing you can do for them now is what they always hoped you would do in the dark days ahead: survive.
Note on the above: assuming this makes it into the general pool, the first aid kit would probably disqualify it from being available to Infected starts. I’d be willing to drop the cargo pants and maybe some of the stuff in the survival kit if there’s some way this could be dropped to 2 points, but that’s probably just experienced-player preferences talking again.
Bionic Student: Costs 3
Starts with: dress shirt, jacket, panties/boyshorts/briefs, pants, socks, dress shoes, skinny tie, tie clip, stylish sunglasses, knit scarf, wrist watch, messenger bag, glass bottle of mineral water, PDA, cell phone, money bundle
Starting Skills: None
Your parents were busy, wealthy, important people, who wanted you to have every advantage, and to excel in everything, and to be “successful,” whatever that meant. They went so far in the pursuit of making sure every test would be an A+ and that you’d be “successful” that they had you outfitted with bionics to make you smarter and never forget anything. And now, you are facing the most dire test yet, and once again you had better succeed, or else.
Bionics: Enhanced Memory Banks, Cerebral Booster, Power Storage, Battery System
Let’s see if I can come up with anything else for when the school scenario goes in. These are probably a little less inspired, but eh.
Dodgeball Player: Costs 0-1?
Starts with: t-shirt, light jacket, panties/boyshorts/briefs, jeans, socks, lowtop tennis shoes, runner pack, plastic bottle of fruit juice
Starting Skills: Throwing (1), Dodging (1)
You liked to play dodgeball, where failing to dodge the ball meant you were out. Now failing to dodge threatens your life. Don’t slip up.
Science Club Member: Costs 1
Starts with: t-shirt, light jacket, panties/boyshorts/briefs, jeans, socks, sneakers, safety goggles, backpack, chemistry set, chemistry textbook
Starting Skills: Cooking (1)
You were a member of the school science club, and right now you are as upset as you’ve ever been that the school wouldn’t let you play with the really fun chemicals that make things go boom. At least now no one’s around to tell you that you can’t–if you can get out of here alive.
A/V Club Member: Costs 0
Starts with: Linux t-shirt, light jacket, panties/boyshorts/briefs, jeans, socks, sneakers, backpack, Ham Radio Illustrated
Starting Skills: Computers (1), Electronics (1)
You were a member of the school A/V club. Are those even a thing in 2042? You’re sure there’s some way you can use your technical skills to help stay alive. You just haven’t figured out how to make an awesome death ray yet.
Note: The copy of Ham Radio Illustrated is there for the recipes.
EDIT: forgot for a moment to switch the Skater Girl/Boy to rollerblades
UPDATE: I made a modified version of professions.json with all the above professions added, including the most recent ones. I did make a few slight tweaks where it seemed appropriate, like a few places where I probably should have thought to add a scarf, and apparently I can’t add a plastic bottle of milk, so I subbed in fruit juice instead. (Similarly, I couldn’t specify quantities for things like first aid kits or granola, so Survivalist Jr. got 8 and 2 of those respectively.) I haven’t tested it yet, but I’ll take a crack at it shortly. Devs–do you want me to include the staff/faculty professions Jakers posted in the OP, or just the students? Jakers, do you want me to add the staff/faculty if the devs want them?
UPDATE: Debugged and snipped all the blurbs down till they fit. Works! My only hangups now are that the Juvenile Delinquent spawns wearing the hairpins, which is a minor nitpick, and I kind of want to add a student that’s -1 point. Presumably it’d be comparable to the Elementary Student, but lacking a backpack, lunch, or book (and probably also lacking a jacket and scarf). I just don’t know what to call it. Also, the professions will have to be added to the whitelist for appropriate scenarios, it looks like; in my test they’re only available for Evacuee and Missed. (I can see about doing that, and don’t worry, I won’t enable Survivalist Jr. for the Infected start or anything.)
UPDATE: And the inclusion in scenario whitelists is done and debugged. Added all of them to the Burning Building start; added all of them but Survivalist Jr. to the Infected start; added Survivalist Jr. to the Wilderness start.
UPDATE: Got signed up on Git and did the tutorial, so now I know what this “branching” thing is for and how a pull request is done and whatnot. Now I just need to figure out how to upload the modified JSONs to a branch of my fork.
UPDATE: Uploaded the changes to the appropriate branch of my fork and filed a pull request.
