[Cyberia] FW: [anoa_cyberia] Cyberia Reboot

[Cyberia GM]

Hello All,

So far, response to this message has not been as enthusiastic as I may have
hoped.  Out of the three players, I've had responses from only one.  I'm
going to set a deadline of Friday for the items to be submitted; after that,
I will be forced to open the spaces to other players.

Thanks, and if you find that you can't play, please just let me know.
Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wraith808 [mailto:wraith808 at gamera.cc] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:30 PM
> To: cyberiagm at gamera.cc
> Subject: [anoa_cyberia] Cyberia Reboot
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I am in the final stages of planning for a rebirth of 
> Cyberia.  The new website addresss is 
> http://cyberia.gamera.cc. Check it out, but remember that it 
> is still in progress.  I will need a few things from each of 
> you to finish the website, and re-launch Cyberia:
> 
> 1. A copy of your character sheet.
> 2. A progression plan for your character.
> 3. A real-life actor that would portray your character in 
> Cyberia: The Movie.
> 4. Based on the background below, I need a transition story 
> for your character.
> 5. Sign up for the Cyberia Play and Chat lists.  Sign up for 
> the play list at 
> http://gamera.cc/mailman/listinfo/cyberia_gamera.cc and for 
> the chat list at 
> http://gamera.cc/mailman/listinfo/cyberia-chat_gamera.cc.
> 
> As you know, we last stopped at the end of the first chapter, 
> so progression points and fortune points will be forthcoming. 
>  There are a couple of contributions that you can give to 
> increase the amount that you will be given.
> 1. Pictures of the actor that you choose to represent your 
> character.  These pictures need to be of decent resolution, 
> detail, and size- a minimum of 200 x 200.
> 2. Character logs.  Take your thread and string it together 
> into a readable format and mail it to me as a .txt file or a 
> .rtf file.  See 
> http://www.gamera.cc/characters/Asha/Chronicle.html for an example.
> 
> If you have any questions or comments, feel free to e-mail me 
> at cyberiagm at gamera.cc. Thanks for your patience and support!
> 
> +++++
> 
> Sometimes, change is good.  But this is not one of those times.
> 
> The Ascendancy has come and gone, and a wave of vicissitude 
> unlike any before has swept its neon and steel surface.  The 
> integrity of the forces keeping shadow at bay have been 
> compromised, and realities blend together in a phenomenon 
> that has been labeled The Bleed.  Storms rage across Cyberia; 
> those caught within their confines are subjected to winds of 
> change as the very physical laws are bent and broken within 
> the area of effect.  Some have even disappeared, never to be 
> heard from again.  There are persistent rumours of deadly 
> conflicts with things beyond imagining...
> 
> Thus far, this effect is limited to a few occurrences in the 
> Tatters and the outer areas of Cyberia.  But they are growing 
> in frequency, the storms of change moving inwards towards Prime.
> 
> But the powers that be are seemingly oblivious to the danger. 
>  This is in part due to the fact that only the dregs of 
> society face the effect.  But more to the point, Prime has 
> its own problems.  
> 
> The wall is no longer a secure deterrent to the horrors of 
> the Cannibal
> sectors- it's defenses have been breached by an unprecedented 
> breakdown of the computer systems controlling them.  Humans 
> now hold the line while the systems and the walls are 
> rebuilt, but they are in no way as capable as the defenses 
> that proceeded them.  Gorehounds and worse have made it into 
> inner Cyberia, and now haunt the sewers of the Underground.  
> Though bounties have been placed against their elimination, 
> and many have been terminated, there always remains the 
> danger of a deadly encounter in the night for the average 
> denizen of the Underworld.  Fear pervades the atmosphere.  
> 
> To top it off, the Ether has become dangerously 
> unpredictable: even runs that were simple before are now 
> fraught with the unexpected, and areas once relatively safe 
> are liable to become lethal in an eyeblink.  Rumours of rogue 
> programs prowling the Ether are rampant, they are not said to 
> be benign.  Even more troubling is the fact that some users 
> are rumoured to have been driven insane by use of the Ether.  
> But none of these incidents have been substantiated, and with 
> the ubiquitousness of the Ether in everyday activity, rumours 
> alone cannot slow down it's use.
> 
> Cyberia is more dangerous than ever before.  But it is also, 
> more than ever, a land of opportunity.  The changing 
> landscape has evened the playing field; the Elders are facing 
> just as much of an unknown as the younger generation.
> Opportunity favors the bold: who will take advantage of it?
>