Posts made by EUBanana

Too lazy for super hipster tea, so only from shops near me.

Twinings Assam is my usual brew. Assam is just generally lush, Twinings is easy to get hold of.

If we're talking flavoured teas, Whittards vanilla tea is very good, ditto their Russian caravan though thats a smoky tea like lapsang souchong so not for everybody. I could drink vanilla tea all day I think.

Never liked green tea. Tastes like grass.

When it's not looking so lean I'll post up on here again, there's so few on the roster now its almost at the 'not open for app' stage. I'm sure it's just new mux crush stage. And a lot are going to idle out. The torrent is already becoming a trickle I notice.

Give it a week and there'll be a lot more choice I'm sure. I will post on here when that is the case.

@Grindle Sounds like one of the few who hasn't tripped across one of the myriad bugs I've been squashing this week then, heh.

Someone took Alex... and I forgot he was minus a character sheet and nobody checked.

I had to log in as Alex to sort that out. That meant I had to change his password. When Alex tries to log in and doesn't make it, talk to staff to get his password back.

Sorry about that!

I farm stuff like writing characters out because I'm lazy. Rosters really suck for the staff time required...

It's basically me, Klindhh and Jealousy running the staff side of things atm. Klindhh I doubt anybody here would know but she ran DITD ages ago so she knows the code which is helpful, she's mostly doing building, Jeal-O I know some people know, she's sorting out clothes and greeting people and making sure the characters are done properly, stuff like that.

The corporate characters were harder to write than the cyberpunk staples, but I think they are all fun as well. They tend to have the best secrets. Probably veering a bit more towards sci fi L&L style RP than cyberpunk with the managers though.

There's a whole bunch of secret societies which will hopefully serve to draw people together from right across the IC social spectrum and give people some common purpose too.

Even so, when you got inspirations like Dick Jones out of Robocop I think you don't really need cool secrets to have a good character.

Bike race on Friday to get things going for the leather jacket and neon mohawk crew.

That's not the only side of the game though, plenty of intrigue and slice of life RP for corporate types - managers, security, engineers, journalists, cops!

I think a couple of guests got mostly ignored due to the welcome wagon being snowed.

Sorry about that.

Dystopia takes place in the year 2085, a world in which the conspiracy theories of the 20th and early 21st centuries proved to be all to real, inspired by sources such as Deus Ex, Blade Runner, the works of Gibson and Neal Stephenson. From the ashes of the collapse of the West a New World Order has arisen, displacing the bankrupt and corrupt nation states that ruled the world for centuries - now megacorporations under the leadership of the World Trade Organization are the great powers of the world. It's a world of conspiracies, secret societies, business, greed, politics, power, freedom, crime, dark suited agents, technology and humanity.

It's a fairly generic cyberpunk genre that we're going for - probably the closest setting to it would be Deus Ex, with an emphasis on conspiracies, secret societies, Bavarian Illuminati and all the rest. As for the system, well, it's a heavily coded game with a custom system - if anybody remembers Drums in the Dark from long long ago, it's actually the same code, with some stuff thrown on top. To run down the main features...

• Lots of code - combat, crafting, augmented reality Matrix, corporations, all sorts. And more to come, this is very much a work in progress
• Chargen is roster based. There's no application per se, log on, have a chat, get the password. Hopefully there is enough breadth to have wide appeal.
• Characters run the gamut, there are corpers, cops, journalists, gangbangers, etcetera.
• The theme is fairly low key. No miniguns.. at least not yet. More Neuromancer than Shadowrun, though there's plenty of cybernetics and stuff to get. Technology is pretty standard cyberpunky stuff.
• XP is essentially age based, characters get a certain amount of points based on age. As time goes by, they get more points. There's XP for RP on top of that with a pretty standard +nom aka vote system, but the majority of XP will probably accrue by the passage of time. This happens even if they are on the roster, so nobody will rot.
• Skills are trained as you use them. You are what you repeatedly do, as Aristotle said.
• I've been sitting on this game for freakin years. It's still not as finished as I'd like it to be, but it probably never will be so what the hell, we're going in. This is essentially a beta opening. Though as it has a lot of old Drums in the Dark code, a fair bit of the code at least is actually already fairly robust and tested in the wild which makes me feel a bit more confident.

Do check it out, at kuramori.mechanipus.net port 2500.

I've got a cyberpunk/politicksy game in the works, it's sorta ready. Will probably open it, at least beta, fairly soon.

@Trevler Maybe one day. Got other projects on the go atm though.

I'm a fossil now? Man that's sad.

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.