[PBEM News] Shadowrun: Where The Circle Ends...

From: theinstinct@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Match)

Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 09:05:04 +0000

A system-light, alternative-modern, Shadowrun-inspired game set in New
York City. The game will be played in the tag board style to which
many of you will no doubt already be accustomed.

Our game centers around a group of Shadowrunners - that�s mercenaries
for hire to the uneducated - based in the less affluent boroughs of
New York City. Our team is made up of men and women from all walks of
life, bound together into a cohesive unit by one thing - blackmail. At
some point in their respective pasts, each and every one of them fell
afoul of New York�s newest and hottest Triad - The Sisterhood of
Immolation - and as a result, now find themselves forced to bargain
for their lives with the only chip they have left, and the very thing
which got them into their situation in the first place - their
criminal aptitude.

The back rooms of a Sisterhood controlled Convenience Store in lower
Chinatown now serve as their base of operations. They wait for the
Sisterhood to assign them clients and accept whatever low-end cut of
their earnings that their (not so) benevolent Triad employers see fit
to hand out to them. Each of them struggles on in the vain hope that
one day their debt to the Sisterhood will be repayed, and they will
be allowed to return to their former lives.

And that, for the time being, is that -- no global conspiracy; no men
in dark suits standing in the shadows; no glorious cause. Your
characters, and by extension the storyline, are only as complex as
you make them. Don�t wait around for some all encompassing storyline
to pull your one-dimensional trigger-happy yuppie out of
insignificance - complicate him yourself; make us love him.

The basic concept of this game is that you play a group of freelance
criminals, who take any varying degree of jobs in exchange for money.
The thing that makes that fairly simple concept so amazing is the
variety that it affords. How it works is that the team is
propositioned, either directly, or through a contact, by who we refer
to as Mr. or Mrs. Johnson. An unknown person. You don't ask for any
personal information about them, and they reciprocate. Your lives are
not each other's concerns. What you share in common is the job. Mr. or
Mrs. Johnson needs something done, which isn't entirely legal. They
hire someone like you to do it.

That's the variety. Different people hire you for different sorts of
tasks. The possibilities are as endless as we allow, and hopefully,
we won't limit things.

In the end, we're all here for one reason; to enjoy ourselves.

http://www.freewebs.com/wherethecircleends/main.htm

For more information, sign up at the forums and simply ask, or PM
either Mr. Johnson or Song Di for help. Either will be more than
happy to answer anything you need. Alternatively, you can email any
questions to dispassionateaffectation@gmail.com

Hope to hear from you soon!
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