So far I received interest from three players. Three players is probably enough to start. I have a few questions: 1. What medium do you suggest we use to do the Play by Post? Some options might be: - Google docs shared document. So if we happen to be online at the same time we can even edit in real time. But how doe we handle rolls when we are not all online (most of the time)? - Google hangouts (never tried these, anyone has experience?) - Obsidian Portal - I tired to use it once and found it very clunky. Anyone has better alternative? - Other. Suggestions? 2. Nature of the campaign: Do you want to be Firewall sentinels? Or maybe all part of another faction? Firewall sentinels would be the easiest as there is a lot of pre-written materials I can draw from. But we should decide together something we can all dig, so long as it is based in the Inner System. 3. Some general points on Fluff: - I plan to have the Outer System feature as well, but it will be cool for your characters to explore the farther reaches of the system not being too sure how things actually work out there. Mystery and all. And I will play up the PC censoring all the information channels they can intercept between inner and outer system. So apart form a few black market channels (Argonauts for example), information about the OS available to most IS citizens is unreliable and probably heavily fabricated. - I'd like to make Luna even more similar to Super-Switzerland in space. So Lunar banks will be very powerful and have the most influential entities form ALL over the Inner and Outer System as clients. Privacy will be key here for obvious reasons. Clients will need to be able to visit Luna discreetly and anonymously. So most banks will offer Faracster Receiver terminals and Morphs for rent. The obsession with privacy spills onto the rest of Lunar society as well. Luna is one of the few polities that is not a Panopticon thanks to a system called the Oubliette. This I am lifting from Hannu Rajaniemi's "Quantum Thief". Read more here: http://www.karangill.com/glossary-of-terms-in-the-quantum-thief--jean-le... Let me know your thoughts especially regarding the Fluffy parts. Cheers, Mefis

I sure am still recruiting. GMT "evenings" might range anywhere between 16:00 to 23:00. Any three or four hours within this time-frame will do for me, and we can decide on general consensus. Alternative, you may wish to join the Play by Post part of the campaign only. You will be cut out from part of the action, but I figure we can still make it work. I think we'll try using Google Docs. I'll set something up. Does anyone know of any system that would allow PCs and GM to roll online and store their rolls there? I'm not calling anyone a cheater, but the temptation to fudge a roll that might save your ego from Psychosurgical interrogation might be strong. Do you guys want to start posting character archetypes (the hacker the infiltrator and whatever else)? A note on the hacker. If you plan to play a hacker please take a little time reading about cryptography and cyber security. I'm not an expert myself, but even a shallow understanding will go a long way. A good place to start: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

Gah. Which GMT are you? I googled and there's a +0 and +1...I'm CST (currently it's 11.21am for me) in the mid southern US. Eh, right off the top of my head I know I'll want to play a saboteur or somkin. New concept for me. Unless you think we might roll into a bit of Gatecrashing, in which case I'll probably write up a character that has some affiliation/skills to go along with that. This is all assuming you haven't decided to make us FW, in which case my two ideas still sorta fit.

Mefis wrote:

GMT "evenings" might range anywhere between 16:00 to 23:00. Any three or four hours within this time-frame will do for me, and we can decide on general consensus.

The later end of that at least should work out well enough, so sure, consider my hat officially tossed into the ring, most likely with this here character who's a bit infiltration oriented. I'll PM a sheet over.

I'll play whenever I'm not running my own games in the real world. Also, I'm pushing for the play-by-post since that allows me to contribute to the group and story despite this time zone issue.