Backstory

When creating your character, you are able to select a backstory. Each backstory mimics a different difficulty, and has you start off with varying amounts of gear, trait points, and gives you different dialogue options.

There are four different backstories: Oracle Overseer, the "medium" difficulty, Crash Landing, the "easy" difficulty, Nomadic Fracture, the "hard" difficulty, and Developer Start, the "super easy" difficulty.

Name	Description
Oracle Overseer	Start with additional resources and gear, the intended way of playing Funky Avali Game. Difficulty: Normal Trait points: +5 Unlocks Oracle and Pre-Collapse dialogue options. It was you and your pack's job to oversee the Oracle, monitoring its every move. Despite your best attempts, you failed to prevent the AI from going rogue. With no choice, you scramble into your facility's Cryosleep chambers, waiting for rescue. After centuries, backup upon backup of power for your life support slowly failed, causing you to be forcefully reawakened to a collapsed Avalon. Looking through the facility's logs, you notice that your pack has left months before you, each going around a week after the other. There is evidence that they tried to forcefully disable cryosleep for others including you, only to fail. Seeing there's nothing to do, you venture out of the facility to try and relocate your pack.
Crash Landing	Start right away with high-tech gear, an easier experience. Difficulty: Easy Trait points: 0 Unlocks Spacer dialogue options. For avali off-world, it was common knowledge to avoid Avalon after the Oracle Collapse, even thousands of years later. However, despite that, for some reason or another, you're orbiting Avalon. It might have been a job, or it may have been to escape from something. Whatever the case was, you are on the edge of Avalon's thick atmosphere. Suddenly, your ship's warning systems light up before instantly jamming. It's not a ship nor a missile, but it was something, something ancient enough to trigger your ship's most critical warning systems. Before you were able to man your station, your ship was suddenly struck by a cannon round. Alarms start blaring, whatever hit you has ripped the rear half of your ship right off. You and your pack quickly scramble into life pods, launching away to a view of your ship getting hit by a streak of light, obliterating it into pieces. With your ship being destroyed in such a short timeframe, no distress signal was fired. Whatever signal sent would've been jammed by whatever sliced your flagship into pieces. With no hope of rescue, you are now permanently stuck on your species' long-lost home world.