Well, the previous games that I've attempted to run have been primarily intended as mystery/intrigue with a dash of action, set in Noctis-Qianjiao, Mars. I tend to favor Mars because it allows for the potential to go quite a few places, but also be fairly local in scope, allowing for the development of a strong supporting cast of NPCs and favorite haunts. I'm less inclined toward running a Gatecrashing game. That said, if this game ran and people were interested in Mars, I'd be more inclined to use Valles-New Shanghai as the setting. NQ has a nice Hollywood feel to it, which is fun, but there's a lot of potential for a game set in transhumanity's 'utmost city'. Firewall comes down to player interest and the feel of the specific game for me. It can certainly provide good opportunities to explore the stranger facets of the setting, though.

Actually, we're probably better off keeping discussion here, if only because an active thread is more likely to get noticed by people who might want to join...though until we get a group, there's not a lot more to do. I can't really do game planning until I've got some idea of the characters I'll be running it for. A game for a group of hypercorp executives and glitterati is going to be very different than one for a group of street criminals and mercenaries.

We'll use the MUSH, like we did with our all too brief online game. I'm leaning toward a Firewall game this go-round to meet with the style of game that Websites is interested in, and if this is a game that turns out to be less shady PCs, it might actually work best if you made her a police officer rather than an ex-cop turned investigator, but the basic concept should work with some adjustments. Would mostly be a matter of lowering her g-rep, adding some i-rep, and bumping her c-rep a bit to put her in good with the police force. We'll see what happens as we get a group together. Websites, what sort of character are you leaning toward playing?

That you tube video blew my mind, I loved it.

What do you mean? Her personality?

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IllmaticBuddhaMC wrote:

I'd like to join as well, if there's still any room for more players.

There's still room, yes. Okay, as people start thinking up concepts and fleshing them out a bit, here are the things I want about your character right now (if you've got a character sheet, great, but I don't need it yet): 1. Name: 2. Occupation: 3. Faction Affiliation (if any): 4. Opinions on Hypercorps, Barsoomian Movement, Tharsis League, Planetary Consortium, and/or any other particularly relevant factions to your character: 5. Reason for being a member of Firewall: 6. Character concept summed up in a few sentences:

I just got to this thread, Tyrnis, this is of course Quarky from the game. I want to join the game, which as we talked, would be best on Thursdays starting at 6pm PST going till about 10pm PST. I can make that pretty much 100% of the time (so long as there are no real life complications). I will be altering my character some as I have more interest in playing a slight difference in the character since we'll be a bit more team oriented and a bit less autonomous oriented (like a normal MU* environment).

Websites - I was expecting a change to Argonaut, really, as I wasn't quite sure where Ultimate was coming from based on what you'd written; Titanian works just fine as well. Does he egocast to Titan fairly regularly, or just associate with them via mesh or local representatives on Mars? Only potential issue I see with the sheet at this point is that you're defaulting on Networking: Firewall and you have no i-rep. Are you deliberately wanting to come in as the team's new guy? I can definitely work with it if you do; once we have our full group, we'll collaborate on the team's last mission, and it would have been where you got pulled in and ultimately offered a position with Firewall. Illmatic - Quarky is potentially playing a loyal employee of a hypercorp, assuming that isn't something that changes as she customizes the character for this game. As strong as Yasmin's opposition to the hypercorps and the PC is, you two will need to work out how that impacts your relationship.

What's happening with this game?

1. Name: Quarky 2. Occupation: Freelance researcher for Hypercorps. 3. Faction Affiliation (if any): Argonauts 4. Opinions on: a. Hypercorps: Main employers. They have at least their economic ideas correct. Programs are unique, so they need to be purchased, created for each user, licensed, controlled, so that duplication is minimized and that each program is prevented from having the insult of being copy and pasted, like with Open Source. Their capitalistic approach also benefits Quarky’s more research minded side, and since she enjoys research and needs money, she is often willing to help them out even if that research requires venturing into a place (virtually or in real space) and taking something to help push along that research. b. Barsoomian Movement: Hippie, open source, radicals for whom, if it were up to them, would see the halt of the same research that led to their immortal lives and synthetic morph technologies that allows them to live on Mars… which that entire venture was pushed by the Hypercorps they claim to hate. Hypocrites to the end, if they simply did the mathematics behind their movement they would realize that corporations have succeeded for thousands of years where rebellious free-loving groups have only successfully slowed progress now and again. c. Tharsis League: Democracy at its finest. In all the ups and downs that entails. Quarky is more than happy to answer questions in meetings of the League when it comes to answers of science, how terraforming may affect the rest of the planet and most importantly how best to use the nanofabricators that are available to Martians for the betterment of settlements… most of which are in control of hypercorps. d. Planetary Consortium: As one of the clanking masses, the inclination of Quarky to be opposed to the ideals of the Planetary Consortium would be expected. However, she doesn’t oppose them and instead does rationalize their inherent discrimination as a byproduct of their understanding economy. The clanking masses are simply not a large buying force, and so the politics around them will be less beneficial than the ones who are more wealthy and thus able to deal. As a semi-wealthy person inside of the Martian Landscape, with her expert knowledge on nanofabrication and ability to help Hypercorps do more ‘shady’ research assignments, she has proved to be a useful person and rarely feels the discrimination of the Consortium. e. and/or any other particularly relevant factions to your character. 5. Reason for being a member of Firewall: a. Firewall found Quarky in the Mesh and wanted to prevent any sort of autonomous action beyond what they declared. They worked to edit her memories and modify her behavior so that she would be unlikely to grow beyond an AGI level. Paranoia has locked her down, and requires her to do whatever those above her in ranks require of her to do. In this way they abuse the clanking masses she is a part of, but she does not mind since she’s been made to not mind. Her relationship with Firewall is one of service providing, and she is capable of working with Hypercorps as she sees fit (in fact they like her being an inside person) but at the same time she is often required to do long hours/days/weeks of programming for Firewall and providing other services that such an adept infolife is able to provide, including hacking and infiltration into other locations. 6. Character concept summed up in a few sentences: Quarky is an infolife synthmorph stuck in a non-transhuman mentality. She is very conscientious of her own morph, and treats it as people would do in modern earth. If she were to risk harm, it must be for a very important reason, and she does not consider swapping morphs as a regular thing to do since she likes her morph and does not like being in other morphs. Farcasting is only an option for her in the most limited sense, longer than 24 hours of farcasting and she starts to experience withdrawals of her actual morph that she cares for a great deal. Modifying and swapping parts within her morph are fine, but she is attached to her morph as if she were unique, and living. The opposite of most people who swap bodies like they do clothes. She is against Open Source programming because it hits close to home. Copying programs is one step away from saying AGI are not unique and could just be copied and put into another machine, and that scares her to no end.

Oh, and no game on the 15th. I'll still be finishing up writing term papers and won't have time to run, much less to plan anything. We'll have our first session on the 22nd if everyone can make it.

As a note, sorry that I haven't been the most forthcoming with stuff, and been a bit slow. I have been swamped at work lately and I have to do some of my work once I get home, so it has been difficult to juggle writing up a character at the same time. Sorry, but I am still highly interested in the game, and will be there on the 22nd when we can run. During the time I will also try and figure out where I can upload my character and get it out so others can see it.

Sorry to lose you, but thanks for letting us know.

I'm the last post a few days ago. Are we playing on thursday the 22nd? Or are we still delaying as everyone has not responded to the previous post?

I am unsure, I've been trying for over a week to find out. On the MUX and here.

I'm on the MUX now, doesn't look like anyone else is here. It just turned 6pm PST though, but I still don't think it's going to happen. :( Next week maybe? Hopefully we'll have some more information from Tyrnis. If you wanted to do some RP I'll be floating around the game for a few hours still.

Alright. Anyone who does want to do more social/soft RP on the MUX I am more than happy to oblige.

Something else has come up and I'm gonna have to pull out of this game, sorry guys

We need 4 players in total. Websites is one, I am two, blarney will be three. So, if you all can try and find another... that would be good.