[PBEM News] Cyberpunk 2020 on the Equator From: datapacrat@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (DataPacRat) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:05:20 +0000 Cyberpunk 2020 on the Equator - Oil money, Espionage and Corporate War. New game looking for players. Equatorial Guinea is a tiny West Africa country nestled in the Gulf of Guinea, oil-rich and perfect for foreign investment: War-free, stable, corrupt - exactly what your average oil company is looking for. But there is trouble ahead. EQuaChem, Equatorial Guinea's corrupt and inept Government-run oil-company, is on the verge of privatising. The vultures are closing in, waiting to pick over the corpse - Chara Corp., a big West Africa oil firm; China Petroleum; Nippon Petroleum; companies from Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, the US. All of them are agitating for the privatisation to happen soon so they can swoop in, develop, take control of Equatorial Guinea's massive oil resources. But the government is playing a waiting game. It knows that once its oil resources are given over to private ownership, assassinations, threats, corporate defections and even all-out corporate war are likely as the various foreign oil-firms struggle for their pieces of the pie. It's worried, big time. And meanwhile, The Bright Highway, a Maoist organisation loosely allied with minority groups struggling for greater autonomy, is preparing to fight a civil war for control of the oil - so it can re-nationalise and spread the profits to the people. Things are likely to explode any time soon. Already mercenaries, hired guns, free-lance thieves, netrunners and the like are flocking to Malabo, the capital, in anticipation. They can smell money like sharks smell blood. With them are the ever-present global media corporations and UN observers. That's where you come in. You want to make money like all good cyberpunks do, but who do you want to sell your soul to? The highest bidder? Or the good guys? And who are the good guys, anyway? ********************************************** Interested players should email (naka_kaigan_dee at hotmail dot com) with a writing sample and character concept. Cyberpunk 2020 experience preferred, but by no means essential. The game will be fast paced, with posting happening as much as possible. The cyberpunk world is a cruel one, and your character can always have a messy end arranged for them if you're judged to be holding up the pace... -- posted from PBEM News - PBEM listings and announcements Reply to this post at http://www.pbemnews.org Up