We should begin thinking about the PCs this week and I have a rough draft of the adventure with what I want to introduce the players to Eclipse Phase. I though to share it with you guys in case someone can get ideas for their own games from it. (Mind you this text is very sporadic, coz I mostly have it all just in my head ATM) Firewall has recruited all of the PCs in some form or another to do a job somewhere. I plan to take all of the players for one on one 'interviews' about their characters, but two players have already told what kind of charcters they would like to play. First is a Lost generation guy (I don't know if it will be a male or a female, but I'll just say a guy now) The other player said that he wants to play a doctor of some sort. I was thinking of someone in Menton morph and specialising in psychosurgery, but those are ultimately the player's decisions, of course. So, all of the PCs have been recuited to do a manhunt. Firewall hasn't told much of the specifics to the PCs, but the target of the hunt will be the original of the Lost dude, while the PC is really an Alpha fork. The original has been infected with a strain of exsurgent virus that boosts his psychic powers and he is planning to do some bad guy things (don't know exactly what yet, but something like destroying a hab or something). All of the PCs are egocasted to the site and Firewall provides morphs for them. Because this is an evaluation mission, Firewall decides to throw a slight complication. All of the morphs are slightly sub par. Aging, addicted, lemon, what have you. On site there will be Firewall agents (or 'second-hand-minions') to interview, tempt and evaluate the PCs. Examples will include opportunities to 'spill' something about Firewall in exchange for something, opportunities in indulging in some illegal activities etc. All the while the PCs are evaluated. There probably will be more tailored ideas when the rest of the characters will be finished. At least the doctor type gets a 'gift' from Firewall. A package of chems that has a note saying 'for emergencies'. The package contains a few doses of Inhibitor Psi drug and one dose of Psike-Out. Nothing says 'loyal employee' like an addicted employee ;) Perhaps my version of Firewall might be too 'ends justify the means', but if the PCs will grumble about it at some point, I'll do a sort of internal investigations scenario for them, where their proxy will be changed or something like that, to make Firewall more likeable again. I don't know yet how the original Lost got the exsurgent virus, but it probably should remain a mystery to the players also. The actual mission should be easy enough, but I'm thinking of a scene that triggers the final bits of the adventure. There should be some kind of big happening where there are a lot of people in the same place. Suddenly the Lost (both the PC and the NPC 'feel' each other in the crowd. Eyes lock and probably a chase scene ensues. Outcome is up to the players of course, but if they linger about, I'll give the original Lost a good chance of escaping, so that he'll become a re-occurring villain. Thenagain if the PCs catch up with him, the fight shouldn't be *too* difficult, even if I'd throw out some GM section Psi tricks at the players. The original Lost is just one morph after all. The more important part than getting the bad guy is that the PCs are evalued by Firewall for their performance.