[PBEM News] Seeking more residents for Nietzsche Heights

From: jdvagabond@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (JDVagabond)

Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:05:24 +0000

Just hours from Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis, Nietzsche Heights
was home to over 2-1/2 million people. It was a quiet, peaceful city.
Families still enjoyed picnics in the park, lovers strolled hand in
hand, and children frolicked with their pets without care or worry.
Nietzsche Heights was a growing, thriving metropolis that managed to
hold onto many of the small town values its larger counterparts had
lost.

It was as near an idyllic a life as many of its citizens could live,
until that fateful day in September. Something fell from the sky,
into the city proper. Fire and flood swept through the Midwestern
metropolis. Radiation and war claimed uncounted lives, fear and
madness untold souls.

Fate proved indiscrimate. People lived and died. Courage and strength
awakened within many, of heart and spirit and body. And within some -
moral and corrupt, meek and bold - powers unseen emerged.

That day, and forevermore, life went wonderfully, horribly awry.

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Hey all

The population of Nietzsche Heights has dwindled over the past few
months for various reasons and we're looking for a couple new victims
- er, residents.

Initial character can be 100+50 (5th Edition Champs, natch) and they
need to be *normal* - yes, emphasis on "normal" - people.  They can
be anyone you'd expect to find an a normal modern city: cabbies,
short order cooks, housewives (or husbands), students, letter
carriers, what have you.  There are no costumed people running
around, either robbing banks or trying to stop bank robberies.  There
were no superpowers before this game started, no supernatural, no
super-technology, and no magic.  Take a look out your window tonight
or tomorrow - that is the time and the place of Nietzsche Heights.

The GM will bestow powers upon the character (if the player wants any
powers, that is).  The catch is that neither the player nor the
character will know what those powers will be.  Only through
experience and experimentation (and the occasional accident) will
those abilities become apparent.  Please read the section on
Character Creation carefully.  I've outlined what I'm looking for as
best I can there and how the mutation process will be handled.

Posting is once or twice per week.

Forewarning: Nietzsche Heights might - repeat: *might* - find its way
to a publisher as a novel.  Every PC will be included, every player
credited.  No one will be omitted or edited out.  If you do sign on,
please keep this in mind.

Acceptable formats: Word and Text are encouraged.  HD is also
allowable but if you send me an HDC file, please include an HTML
version.  I've had too much bad luck with HDC files changing between
your computer and mine.

For more information on the game:
http://www.viamea.com/Nietzsche%20Heights/frameset_main.html

To get an idea just what started the disaster, check out the archives,
starting with Chapter 13.

Any other questions, email me at jdvagabond@usinternet.com

Deadline for submissions: Midnight, Wednesday night, Feb. 22.

Take it easy, and thanks.

Jon
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