2024 Daily JumpChain Challenge RP (2024)

Origin:

Serf - Your inheritance is the dirt. Literally, the plot of land your family has farmed from the dawn of time or so, and will forever. Unless the local lord decides to build a vacation home or something. Perhaps, with skill and dedication you could become a servant, merchant or skilled craftsman and achieve a teensy measure of respect.

Perks:

• We're the Monks (Free) - It'd be silly to come to a musical comedy and not be able to sing. Fortunately this land has a strong musical tradition for you to partake in. Your singing voice is magnificent and you never miss a note, you're also great at improvising lyrics.
• It's A New Season (Free) - A season of hope, and the whole feudal system can't get you down. All trauma, mental illness and scars both physical and not fade away when you take this, and again and again with the turn of each season. You will never be too jaded or wounded to start over.
• Pretty Progressive for the Middle Ages (Free) - People won't declare you a witch if you invent something, and won't do much about odd ideas like democracy besides maybe roll their eyes a bit. Nobody holds your race or sex against you, even if normally inclined to be racist and sexist.
• What Is It About Lepers? (Free) - You are young, healthy, fit as any soldier and damned good looking. At least enough for network TV. You are resistant to filth, disease and starvation, the main reason the Middle Ages aren't full of supermodels.
• He Was There, He Was There (-50cp /950) - Family is the greatest adventure of all, part of the real-life happily-ever-after. You are a fantastic spouse and parent, understanding and hard-working, never too soft or too firm. And you'll always find at least an hour a day to spend with your loved ones, even if we have to add one to the clocks.
• Love Makes the World Brand New (-50cp /900) - The skyball's doing its shine-thing, the moving air is so sweet. This flopsy colorful vine-thing smells as pretty as meat, and these wingy-beasts with their feathers, they make a squeaky-like sound. You'd never have guessed, but you can keep the wonder of a child or a young lover all your days. Truly, love makes the world brand new.
• We're Not Gonna Die (-200cp /700) - Someone in the screenwriters room must like you. You benefit from a kind of 'plot armor' and barring egregious stupidity or truly overwhelming odds you're almost certainly not going to die violently. You might be pantsed, given swirlies in a well and thrown in the dungeons, but people will almost always have an excuse not to kill you.
• Goodbye (-400cp /300) - When you die the Grim Reaper will appear before you and show you a musical montage of your friends grieving and saying their farewells. Interrupt Old Bones with a nut-shot,run off and you can come back! Next time, though, he won't bother with the niceties. But travel to a different Jump, with a different Death, and they won't remember a thing. This may not work as well in settings where Death is female.
• A Different Kind of Queen (-200cp /100) - Most royals sit, isolated from the masses and content to be a symbol of national pride and power. But honey, you're a different kind of ruler, one who gets their hands dirty. You have an unassailable willpower that lets you shrug off enchantment and stare down hardened veterans, and a decent sense of when a task is best handled personally.
• This Is As Good As It Gets (Free Serf) - The secret to happiness isn't chasing after the newest, latest, biggest thing or some impossible dream. Its learning to be content with what you have. With just a hovel and a vegetable patch, you'll be content if need be. If thrown in a cell, you can exist there indefinitely without the stress so many people feel.
• Lords of the Sea (Free Serf) - You're the biggest, meanest buccaneer that ever walked on grass. You know how to sail like an expert. You can also garden (sustainably) and make organic homemade desserts.
• If I Were A Jolly Blacksmith (Discount Serf, -100cp /0) - You aren't just a nameless, faceless serf, you have the skills to get by in a medieval society; an expert farmer, blacksmith, and brewer. Any village or town could find good use for your services.
• A Happy Ending For Us (Free Serf) - You're a really great cook, hooray! But people may not want to eat your food, because you are also an expert poisoner, aware of all the many ways to cause people discomfort and death by messing with their food. You know which poisons go well with wine, which blend in with a light chicken sauce, and which are slow enough a taster is no defense at all.

Items: (+400cp Stipend)

• Arms and Armor (-50cp /350s) - A good steel sword and leather or chain mail, setting you up for success in combat.
• Bucket (-50cp /300s) - Somehow, around a corner or in a corner just out of the way, there is always a wooden bucket full of water for you, in case you need a drink, to cool off, fight fires or splash someone for comedic effect.
• Coinpurse (-100cp /200s) - A bag containing sixty gold coins, a modest fortune in these days, which is refilled weekly. In future Jumps, an equivalent amount in setting money, about $24,000 dollars in a modern world, give or take.
• Wand (-200cp /0s) - This neat accessory complements any magic you can do, halving casting times and making minor effects truly effortless. It boosts magical power too, but only a small amount.

Drawbacks:

• Probie (+100cp /1100) - No matter your credentials you start as a Probational Officer for half a year rather than beginning as a Special Agent. This opens you to constant jokes and the most tedious jobs around the office. Agents will ask you to fill out their paperwork or to get them a sandwich basically making you a paid intern.
• The Rules (+100cp /1200) - Whenever you are in a situation somebody quotes an arbitrary rule they stand by even if the description goes against another rule. It doesn't mean much but it can get annoying when you try and make sense of it like you only have half the information.
• The Plague! (+100 /1300) - At some point you're going to be infected by a strain of the Bubonic Plague and it will cut through all your defenses like butter leaving you a coughing mess. This is non-fatal and only worth forty-eight hours of pain once in your entire jump.
• No Outside Perks (+300cp /1600) - Self-explanatory, this drawback stops you from using any perks from before this world, putting you at bodymod. If this is your first world, take the free CP.
• No Outside Items (+300cp /1900) - Self-explanatory, this drawback stops you from using any items from before this world, locking down the warehouse. If this is your first world, take the free CP.
• No Outside Companions (+300 /2200) - Self-explanatory, this drawback stops you from calling any companions from before this world. If this is your first world, take the free CP.

Perks:

• Investigator (Free) - To solve crimes they need to be investigated so this perk offers the knowledge of a modem investigator mentored by another agent of the same organisation. Maybe Mike Franks offered some seminars because you have his skill; an example is that he warned everyone that Osama Bin Laden was behind the Khobar tower bombings even though he was ridiculed for it. This goes beyond training and can lead to brilliant leaps in logic.
• Police Training (Free) - Before joining NCIS you seem to have had training with a city-based police force. This gives you a basic understanding of criminal law to charge perps along with minor tips and tricks from different departments. This ranges from how to conduct yourself in stakeouts to setting up an information network. You can search crime scenes for clues and can track down suspects among other things. This includes any basic law knowledge and gives you a law background.
• Basic Military Training (Free) - Before joining NCIS you seem to have at least gone through basic boot camp. This gives you a basic understanding of military procedures to charge into battle and be aware of your surroundings. This includes any basic military knowledge and gives you a military background. You can do anything a rank and file can do.
• OK Corral (-100cp /2100) - Violence rests in the heart of every man and now you can fight with the best of them. With a basic knowledge of most common fighting styles along with a better than average aim you can carry yourself through fire fights.
• Movement Genius (-100cp /2000) - Mensa called and wanted your autograph due to your high Spatial Intelligence. This does not give you specific knowledge but increases your learning ability in fields relating to patterns, visual interpretation and puzzle solving.
• Sniper (Discount, -100cp /1900) - A man can miss what is so far away but your aim is precise enough to strike true as good as a sniper expert. The record for the longest snipe is 3.45 kms so without any extra training you can get half that (1.725 km) at first and can catch details from any distance you can fire at. You won't be caught off guard and automatically scan around for snipers.
• Hacking (Discount, -100cp /1800) - You now know the fabled NCIS hacking technique. By spewing meaningless techno jargon and typing really fast you can burn through firewalls and isolate nodes in equal measure. With a few lines you can hack government databases, track devices and find locations in a way that is only done in fiction.
• Omnilinguist (-200cp /1600) - It's a wide world out there with people of all kinds that have something to say. If you hear a dialect spoken, you gain more and more of an understanding, and this also includes verbal codes. This does not give you written mastery instantly but makes it easier to match your writing and words.
• Interrogation (Discount, -200cp /1400) - There seems to be a great emphasis on confessions in NCIS; maybe because it is a drama show but to get the criminal to confess may be harder than expected. With this perk you can run verbal circles against people in conversation. You can trick people to slip the truth and manipulate others to reveal the truth. It works best when you have knowledge or evidence on the person but you also become a master of one-liners and can lie with the best of them.
• Paramedic (Discount, -200cp /1200) - Saving a life in the balance between life and death is its own reward and you have a deep medical knowledge you can put into practice. This is a full medic and paramedic certification that gives you training for a lot of situations. Unlike a certain medic that would get in trouble for using their skills to save a life you have full legal qualification to save a life either with permission or to save a non-responsive person.
• Plot Armor (-400cp /800) - In real life there are less than twenty naval homicide investigations per year but in the show there seems to be an additional eighty. This is due to the need for drama that your benefactor approves of and can be seen in how deadly the world can be and the high turnover rate of agents and other members in the organization. Now you feel protected with plot armor strong enough to beat near death experiences, bouts of amnesia and judicial problems. This does not expand past anything a named character could get through. Once every ten years/jump it will swell to save you from something that would kill even a favorite character.
• SWAT (Discount, 300cp /500) - You have the skills of a qualified SWAT officer. Your situational crisis awareness is boosted, and you can control a crowd like a puppet master either calming or radicalizing them through reading the mood. Due to paying CP this includes a breaching and clearing technique that strengthens your ability to break an entrance that gives you the element of surprise.
• Black Ops (Discount, -300cp /200) - You have been trained by an intelligence agency. This increases your proficiency with stealth activities and working under the radar. You could engineer a situation that allows you to assassinate a high-profile target and leave few clues to your actions. Due to paying CP any investigations into you and your records are blocked and edited to show what you desire.
• I am the Law (-100cp /100) - For a crime procedural NCIS takes many liberties with the rules and regulations of crime solving. Now you can too Jumper. You don't have to worry about minor infringements like dress code, office relationships and the steps needed to take on a case. You can take all the cases you want as long as you have results; this also bypasses many admissions needs if you want somebody to work for you. NCIS will be willing to forgive a few mistakes like you are an old friend.

Items:

• Service Weapon (Free) - A legal firearm that doesn't break and can even work underwater at full capacity. If you are searched, they won't be found allowing you to take them into restricted areas. Due to the action-packed political nature of the world the first weapon is free.
• Federal Vehicle (Free) - There are places you need to be and things you need to do so you'll need a vehicle that is always gassed up, repairs when not in use and has a federal license plate that dismisses minor road rule breakings. So, what if you drive on the wrong side of the road that's the car of a Special Agent. This can be any vehicle.
• Warrant Cabinet (Discount, -100cp /0) - A warrant allows a search to legally occur, and you have a whole stack almost ready to go along with a strange cabinet. If you find probable cause but can't wait for the lengthy legal process, you just write the details onto one of the pages and sort it into the cabinet. If there is due reason, then the warrant will enter the system and it will be signed instantly by a judge.

Origin:

• Starting Location - Police Station - The safest place around. Maybe not the best guarded considering CyberLife's security measures, but I dare you to do more than sneak inside here for more than a minute. Anyway, depending on your faction and status on D-day, you appear either in the main hall after having a moment of absence, behind a desk while reading the files one last time before closing in your last pending case, or maybe you boot randomly as a prototype police model of android, who knows?
• Race - Human - This shouldn't destabilize you too much. You are human, of any ethnicity you want, with racism at the moment being directed at the androids. You have a stable job of your choice, papers, and a place to live if you aren't dropped in.
• Faction - Whether or not you have an opinion on the Conservatist/Deviant factions, it seems it won't change much what you will do here. You initially are a neutral party to the debate, either not caring or making profit on both sides' backs.

Perks:

• What Could Have Been (400cp /600) - A recurring question in the human and android mind, those of deviants at least. But you are now special, as you can now know not only what could have been, but what can be. You instinctively know how to link past events and intel in both very short and long ranges, intuiting or computing accurate alternate "could have been" possibilities and even possible futures, and what to do to tend toward them. Most of the heavy lifting is done subconsciously or as a passive subroutine however, so you will access only the result and short animations. In your mind as a human or memory as Android, this will manifest in the form of some mental map or timeline tree, and while focusing on it only, time will slow by several factors to leave you to your thinking. However, don't expect this alone to do real preconstructions, combat simulations, or to give you important dialogue choices: while it encompasses a large time range, it remains vague and directional rather than clear and broad events. With real pre-visualization and simulation skills or future sight however, this might be the tool you lacked to truly "map" time, either gazing directly across time, or by intelligently taking the time to compute each event and the probability between them by recursive progression, thus making the best of what you collected with this. This perk also acts as a capstone booster for the 600cp perks and items of each origin, upgrading them as described.
• Aim and Shoot (Free Human) - You aren't going to fool yourself; androids are more efficient than you with firearms. When they each have the processing power of a 2018 supercomputer, sensing, aiming, and shooting is just nothing short of perfect. It isn't fair game. You, however, as a human have something at their level: intuition on how to use them. You'll never be out of your comfort zone when picking up a new gun, taking only a few seconds to judge its balance and maybe a couple shots for aiming and recoil before being back to your usual proficiency. Note that while it works on any firearm, even sci-fi or advanced ones, switching from a handgun to a rifle is still going to be hard if you have no prior experience using rifles, though you'd be fine using any handgun.
• Scientific Genius (Discount Human, 300cp /300) - Yes, Kamski did revolutionize the world with the androids. So what? It's not like there is nothing left to be done, and you now have the genius to tackle equivalent projects. You have the knowledge equivalent to Kamski in a group of scientific fields, and the IQ to put it to use. It will take some time, especially alone, but you have what it takes to pull out the same kind miracle he did in your own domain. (Capstone Boosted - Your genius is now not only scientific, but genuine. You could, all the while tinkering your next revolution, run a multinational worth half a trillion, interest yourself in art, and more. You are apart from any others with just your mind, and it can change so much if it gets so little as your interest.)

Items:

• Bottomless Black Lamb Scotch Whisky Bottle (Free Human) - Well, it can be that or any alcohol you fancy instead. It can even change to another one if you want to. Store it, and pick it up some minutes later to find it changed to your liking. Fact is that this bottle is just bottomless, replenishing from seemingly nothing when no one is looking at it (if transparent). Careful not to drink too much, jumper.
• Trusty Sidearm (Discount Human, -100cp /200) - This side firearm of your choosing, of a model no harder to find than a civilian or police pistol, shines in your hands. Your accuracy slightly goes up while using it, and more often you will find yourself lucky at the trickshots you attempt. It never jams, and you will always find a full clip or just as much ammo if you reach into your pocket when it runs low on it. No, you can't do that to create ammo from nothing with the last bullet of each clip and sell them or anything funny like that, because if you try, they just won't appear.
• Federal ID (Discount Human, -200cp /0) - This ID card has the peculiarity of changing itself to match the standard of any agency or company you try to get in. What cost CP is the ID on it: any informatic system trying to scan it will always compute it as valid, as for the time you will be there, an entry will be created inside their database with all the information and clearance you need, and not even an AI will notice it. This entry likewise disappears when you leave the place without a trace. I do however hope you have good acting skills, as the higher up you try to enter, the less people there are and the more they know each other, and they can very well blow your cover.

Drawbacks:

• Hit With The Ugly Stick (-100cp /1100) - You simply have no alibi, you ugly. Like not in the deformed or disfigured way, that would make you unique, no just in the horribly normal ugly way. People will have a hard time even looking at you and forget getting any because that ain't happening unless you are as smooth as Bill Clinton.
• Carl Jr (-300cp /1400) - You are missing a limb or eye. If it's a leg it's at the knee and the arm it's at the elbow. No powers or technology can fix this till post jump.

Origin:

• Starting Time - October 23, 2010 - You arrive at the same time Rick Grimes wakes up from his little nap. Have fun!
• Background - Drop In - On the plus side no new memories so no wrestling with the existential dread of the question of, Who am I? On the downside, no new memories so no new skills. You are the useless sack of sh*t you were when you started. Fantastic.

Perks:

• Dental Coverage (-100cp /1300) - You are immune to all diseases/bacteria/viruses that come from bites. Don't want you dying on me that easily. As a bonus your teeth are also perfect and white enough to blind planes in the air. No need to floss or anything.
• Be All That You Can Be! (-400cp /900) - Ugh. You're like some stupid shonen protagonist. You always strive to be the very best in whatever you do and nothing, not even the end of society as we know it, can keep you down for long. This functions as a capstone booster for all the 600cp perks. Be the uber douche that you know you wanna be.
• Context, Get Some (Free Drop In) - You always seem to get the underlying context behind what someone is saying but only if they want you to. No more misunderstandings getting you or them shot.
• Essential (Discount Drop In, -100cp /800) - You always seem to find a way to make yourself seem essential to a group/organization. This can be despite the fact that you contribute nothing to said group but the more effort you put forth the more this affects your companions. Don't be a leech.
• Efficiency is King (Discount Drop In, -300cp /500) - You have the uncanny ability to stretch resources to unrealistic levels. You can drive across the US on a single tank of fuel or only eat a pack of crackers a day and not just survive but thrive. This applies to anyone that considers themselves part of your group but only on any vehicles you are actually driving. (Capstone Boosted - Huh what are you a robot or something? You now never need to eat or drink anything and any vehicle you drive will never run out of fuel.)

Items:

• Katana (Free Drop In) - Nothing says badass like a katana. It never dulls or chips and will cut through any walker like it was a knife through butter. If it's lost or stolen it will appear next to you at sunset.
• Wheels (Mercedes-Benz Zetros) (-100cp /400)- You get any vehicle that a civilian could have purchased before the outbreak. It never needs refilling and if lost or destroyed it will return to the nearest road at exactly sunset completely repaired. Any parts or fuel removed from this vehicle will instantly disintegrate.
• The Cure (-400cp /0) - Is this what I think it is? Yes this is the cure for what ails this dystopian hellscape. Of course it does nothing for those already turned (they braindead you see) but it will cure anyone bitten if you can inject them before they turn. Also functions as a vaccine but only lasts for 30 days before needing a booster. Refills daily.

Origin:

Starting Location - Cheiron's Academy - A school for adventurers, teaching classical subjects from medicine to music alongside combat. After a string of royal temp jobs, the former student Jason becomes headmaster here in his old age.

Background - Adventurer (-100cp /900) - For money, or wanderlust, or maybe there's someone you've sworn to kill, you're out and about in the ancient world. You know how to swing a sword (without hitting yourself) and can name the various monsters famed for killing people like you in horrible ways. And since adventuring rarely pays well, you know how to be self-sufficient and live off the land.

Perks:

Always Prepared (Free Adventurer) - You can produce simple items whenever you need them. Reach somewhere that others can't see, like into a bag or pocket, and retrieve an appropriate item - a length of rope from a backpack, a piece of flint from a pouch, or a lockpick from your boot. Nothing too complex in a chemical or mechanical sense, and trying to get excessive (a crowbar from your wallet, grenades from under your hat) will only lead to failure and disappointment.

This Kills The Adventurer (Discount Adventurer, -100cp /800) - With a look, you know the greatest dangers that something presents to you. Looking at a snake would warn you of venom. A ruined temple may speak of traps and rotten floorboards. Intelligent foes are much harder to read, and you will only get a single piece of vague information regarding whatever they have at their disposal which is most likely to end your life, like 'sword' or 'fire magic.'

Warlord (Discount Adventurer, -200cp /600) - You are a warrior of great skill, both personally and in a strategic sense. You have mastered a single weapon (sword) and have an excellent understanding of tactics that range from small ambushes to the clash of large armies. You also have a measure of charisma, good for keeping your troops in line, able to put together a rousing speech on the fly or just be frightening enough to convince those mooks to charge the enemy lines.

In The Blood (-200cp /400) - Your divine blood is strong, freeing you from mortal frailties. You could run for days without sleep, or endure privation and injuries that would kill a mortal many times over. Age will not weaken you until you are in sight of your deathbed, and your life-force resists attempts to assault the core of your being. This durability extends to your mind as well, giving you a reserve of courage and willpower to see you through times of trouble.

Items:

Leather and Leather Accessories (-50cpcp /350) - You have a closet's worth of swanky leather clothing and gear. Leather pants, leather vests, leather coats, shoes, hats, packs, and enough belts to strangle a shounen protagonist. Everything is styled to your tastes and fitted perfectly. Damaged or dirty items put back into the closet are cleaned and repaired when you next open the doors, and it can produce as many items as you wish, should you want to outfit an barbarian army with matching harnesses and kilts.

God-Forged Craft (Sword) (200cp /150) - By blessing or theft, you've acquired something forged by Hephaestus himself. A single weapon or piece of armor (which may be a pair of boots or bracers) fitted perfectly for you. It's nigh-indestructible, able to resist absolutely anything but attacks from a god or other entity on a similar scale. On the downside, it's completely indestructible, which means that until you develop smithing skill to match a deity it can never be refitted or altered in any way. It's otherwise just an ordinary piece of equipment, so an invincible breastplate won't do you any good if they aim for your head.

Golden Apple Seeds (Discount, -150cp /0) - You have a handful of apple seeds from a divine tree. A single bite of one of the apples grown from these will cure any mortal ailment, from disease to disfigurement. Consuming a whole apple will grant the eater immortality, becoming ageless and able to recover from horrendous injuries. From a botanical perspective these are no different from ordinary apple seeds, but they cannot be cultivated by mortal creatures (or mortal creations) nor will they grow in a mortal realm. As it was created by Jump-chan, the cosmic warehouse is a suitable place to plant them, but by itself, being a Jumper does not count as being more than mortal.