[PBEM News] Magicka et Machina v 2.0 - Seeking Players

From: martingbr@yahoo.co-dot-uk.no-spam.invalid (Ksaweri)

Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:47:14 +0000

http://www.geocities.com/magicandmachine2/MeM2.htm

The game is "Magicka et Machina", (Magic and Machine, VERY roughly
from Latin) a game set in a world that is a combination of the late
nineteenth/early twentieth century and a fantasy world, filled with
goblins, elves, dwarves, and a whole host of other creatures. The
industrial revolution has taken place, pitting machine against magic.
In this world, Goblin Machine gunners cut down goose-stepping elven
stormtroopers, Dwarves pilot zeppelins, which traverse a broad
continent, gnomish women march for suffrage, and troll symphonies are
lauded around the world as the peak of world civilization.

There has been some fuzzing of the edges but nothing that I believe it
too outlandish - other than the bizarre otherworldly creatures and the
existence of magic.

It is my hope that we will be able to create some excellent
roleplaying and be very creative with this project. Further, I want
the players to abandon concepts such as orcs, trolls, and goblins as
'evil' and 'ignorant' and elves, humans, gnomes, and dwarves as
'good.' Instead, these characters are living in a much more
complicated world, dealing with deep-seated ideologies, imperialism,
and militarism.

There are over seventy different territories beyond Ede Rame, six
major world religions, more than thirty races to interact with, and a
"Fog of War" that will require players to explore the map to uncover
its secrets.

Further, there are several storyarcs buried in the game, with players
having the opportunity to discover more of the hidden history of Mun
and many powerful magical items. Further, cultural histories are
hidden and a variety of developed characters who can be either friend
or enemy.

While the industrial revolution has spread only to two nations beyond
Ede Rame, that does NOT mean that the other territories are
necessarily completely defenseless. While those not having embraced
machine production are at a huge disadvantage, they also have
something that colonial peoples in our world did not: Magic.

We are presently on our third turn with only three slots (Correllia,
Dauberkamp and Karthago) left out of seventeen that were originally
available. We have a very active forum so come take a look. There
have been some instances of the main web page becoming overloaded due
to its heavy traffic so if at first you dont succeed wait a while and
try again.
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