Eclipse Phase: Redout "You know Solis Lacus, right? The Lake of the Sun, or as some call it, the Eye of Mars. Big region south of here -- about the size of Germany, if you know your old Earth geography better than ours. Lot of Mars' biggest dust storms started there -- like, most of the planet big. The storms have eased up since terraforming started, but it's looking like this new one is going to be a doozie. The kind of redout we haven't seen since colonization." "Batten down the hatches, right? Keep inside, wait it out. We've had storms before. Why should this one be any different? But the end-of-the-world nutjobs seem to think it is. Heard one batch claiming that the eye of Mars was opening, and its gaze would destroy us all. Another says its the TITANs kicking up a storm for cover, so they can come at us again while we're not watching them so closely." "There's been enough of that kind of talk that the people I work for have started getting edgy. And when they get edgy, well, that's where you come in. Y'see, we've lost contact with the Garang Research Station down in the southern part of the Eye. Might be nothing -- just comms problems from the storm. Might be we've had some nutjobs get a little carried away. Or maybe it really is the TITANs. Finding out is your job, and you don't have much time to ge there before travel goes completely to hell, so you better get moving..." * * * * * * Update: Current game time is Friday 10:30pm CST / Saturday 07:30am GMT+3 (not Sunday anymore) PCs are members of Firewall; Starting location is Noctis-Qianjiao There's still at least one slot open. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=560195 -- recruitment thread on RPG.net; I'll also be monitoring this thread if you don't have/want an account there.