Hello! Eve finally convinced my two hard core players to give eclipse phase a try. I'm planning on a one shot or possibly two part that will function as introduction, tutorial and palate cleanser of sorts (we just got off a 4 month 18 session 50 hour slice of life as a changeling in WoD and I feel a little guilty that although we all knew our characters back to front very little actually happened in terms of plot) So. the plan is a non-firewall adventure for two investigating the apparent murder of a citizen in the Saturn 12 commons. I want to introduce them to some key concepts one my one; Muses, ego casting, the morph as equipment, the nature of death in the setting, the nature of economics and politics and justice in an anarch society. The players base of operations is DIY station. [i]"The Do-It-Yourself Shipyards are a highly automated ship-building facility, capable of handling most small and medium-sized spaceship designs. The worker’s syndicate that operates the station will construct a ship for any other anarchist group on one condition—they help out. The workers here simply love to make ships, and they are constantly tinkering with new systems and designs. When someone wants a ship, they’ll present them with a number of options and handle most of the highly technical aspects."[/i] This is an an anarch settlement so will help the players familiarize themselves with the reputation economy and networking and favors. One is playing an Ego hunter with a biocon slant and strong sense of justice. the other a semi-retired black market artifact fence. (both created through the random life path generator) the Murder takes place on Long Haul. [i]"The anarchists that founded the Long Haul focus on liberating indentures and infugees locked in deep storage in other habitats. These freed egos are brought in batches to Long Haul, where they are given a new body and introduced to anarcho-collectivist ways of doing things. Since many people from Earth have only lived under capitalism, autonomist ways of doing things are sometimes alien. The Long Haul helps get them through this period of adjustment. After one year, the new anarchists are relocated to another autonomist habitat, so a new batch of infugees can be brought in. "[/i] So the plot is as follows. The Ego running the station is a former Jordanian war criminal Abdelsalam Al-Sharyri, whose actions before the fall were rather monsterous. during the fall he was ego cast under an assumed identity and personality. He goes by Jessica although most people just think of her as the station. no body knows his origin Through a little bit of subterfuge and a nudge here and there he recently managed to get his daughter into the latest batch of egos saved by the station. she does not know that her father is the station ego and would most likely not respond well if he revealed himself, given his history. he is happy enough that she is free. However this is where the wheels come off; the daughter has fallen deeply in love with another infugee in the VR reality used during the period of adjustment. an Uplifted Pig. Mr Al-Sharyri was horrified to see this, as in his soul a very conservative muslim an uplifted pig would be horribly unclean to be around or talk to. let alone consider for long term relations. of course the Uplift dosent have a body and when he eventually gets one hell probably be resleaved into a splicer or basic pod of some kind, but this is not a rational matter. The Uplift is killed. The VR enviroment supporting him is corrupted and his infomorph form is horribly damaged. a physical backup of his personalty is also destroyed. This is were the players will come into the story. They will be asked to resolve the situation and mette out punishment for any crimes as they see fit (They were nominated via demarchic lottery after the crime becane aparent) andeither ego cast or travel to long haul Dispite the many other souls in other VR spaces the actual candidates for the crime will be very few. There are only 5 physical Morphs present on the station and a further 4 other Ego;s share the VR Space with the victim. It may occur to the players that the station ego is another posability but im hoping thats a twist that suprises them. The first crime scene they come to is the VR one, where the tattered remains of the uplifts persona are trapped in a loop or its own death, only a tiny percentage of the egos memorry and decision making process is there, enough to make it horrifying but not enough to repair. there will be evidance that this was a highly skilled and malicious attack The second crime scene is a physical one. In the backup storage server the memory stack holding the backup has been physically destroyed. This was done by the stations personality during the period when the morphs owner thought he was asleep. there will be evidence that he was sock puppeted. Interviews with the daughter and others will show their love and the daughters family history and the uplifts history (it wouldnt be imediatly aparent that he was an uplift) there will be a number of subtle hints that the stations personality was muslim before he became the ego for the station, if questioned he will recognise the game is up and either run for the ego caster or try and kill the players through the means available to him as station . and thats really it, obviously the characters they encounter will havve more fleshed out personalitys and names and several tricks to distract the players from the true murder.... but how does that sound?