New: Evolutionary War (free, open-ended, email, human, fantasy, space, rpg, abstract)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:13:01 +0000

Name:		Evolutionary War
Costs:		Free
Frequency:		Daily or every 2 days
Email:		sharlene79 zat mindspring.com
Type:		Sci Fi, Horror, Superhero, Cyberpunk, RPG
Last-Update:		2006Jul08
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, human, fantasy, space, rpg, abstract

Description:

The game is based loosely on the world of Chtorr.  It is a war of
bioengineering, technology, and forced evolution.  Worse, Earth is under a
biowarfare attack that is changing its population and turning it against
itself.  And it is faced with not one, but three enemies.  One is quite
Lovecraftian.  One is Hellish.	And the third defies all reason � Unlife.
Perhaps the only good thing is that these enemies do not cooperate and, in
fact, are at odds with one another.  Earth seems to be the prize.

The year is 2087.  The wars have been going on for 4 years now and Earth
is loosing badly.  Untold ecological damage has been done.  Whole town
populations have been lost.  Information services are beginning to falter.
 Communications are failing.  Contact has been lost with most off world
populations.  Satellite communications has been replaced with manned
spacecraft.

Now the government has begun scouring the planet for volunteers for a new
breed of warrior � metahumans � bioengineered supersoldiers with
unpredictable abilities.  Not everyone is a viable candidate, only about 1
in a million.  They haven�t imposed a draft � yet.  And even among the
candidates not everyone proves to have potential.  And not everyone yields
useful or even safe results.  Some have been transformed into frightening
monsters.

All candidates chosen will be no older than 40.  The younger the
candidate, the fewer bad side effects.	(Don�t be surprised to run into
older NPC�s who have suffered some interesting side effects.)  Develop a
personality, career, hobbies, etc.  Please limit prior military service to
four years, with perhaps a couple years routine active duty prior to that.
 (At 1 in a million, there won�t be very many with more service than
that.)	Then give me a basic idea of what sort of abilities you want.
Please don�t list a dozen attack types.  One, two at most.  I will be
using a GURPS 3rd edition character assistant to design with to keep
characters balanced.  No, you needn�t know the system.

All player characters should be reasonably group oriented, not a bunch of
loners.  This is a guided adventure, not merely a creative writing.  I do
want good writing though � entertaining.  Players will run their own
characters, NOT other players or NPC�s although, if you wish to design
your own NPC�s, that is fine.  I just want well-designed characters, not
two-dimensional ones.  Such NPC�s should not be loved ones.  Everyone is a
target � and NPC�s are not safe.

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