New: the Gnostikos (free, open-ended, email, human, modern, rpg, abstract)

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

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:13:06 +0000

Name:		the Gnostikos
Costs:		none
Contact:		crimson_vitrescence zat hotmail.com
URL:		http://freewebs.com/gnostika
Frequency:		One to two per week
Type:		supernatural, horror, humans, gnostikos, strife
EEmail:		vulcanus_y2k zat yahoo.com
Last-Update:		2004May01
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, human, modern, rpg, abstract

Description:

After many years, the few dozen parts in which the Sphinota's body had
been dismembered into and scattered across the earth had finally been
fully recovered, the charred and ragged pieces rearranged in some
semblance of a humanoid.

The Gnostikos is a played-by-email RPG set in the fictious Grayfriar, USA.
Here a crude ritual of sorts disguised as a masked ball will be conducted
in a manor to revive the Sphinota, who is believed to be the first of the
gnostikos. And what better substance to revive a species particular in
that they feed off emotional energy than that very energy? Gnostikos are
summoned by the perculiar energy signature---a virtual emotional
vacuum,---of the stirring Sphinota, and they flock to the manor: out of
cuiosity, out of greed, out of power-lust, or something else.

But not all are satisfied to just stand back to watch the
Sphinota---purportedly the most powerful of gnostikos,---be revived to
take over roles they had fought each other so bitterly over. While dissent
spreads like wildfire amongst the gnostikos, the humans learn to rally
together. Uncertain and---in some cases,---vengeance-blind, the humans
start to close in on the secrets of the gnostikos that the gnostikos
themselves know only an inkling of.

And caught between the dual species are the skiamakh; humans that are no
longer that, but not truly gnostikos, either. They have to choose a side,
but both sides have their merits and not all are willing to join what
looks to be the losing side.

There remains the tiny detail all parties seem to have overlooked: the
reason the Sphinota had been dealt with the way he had, and whether it is
wise to have brought him back from the fragmented consciousness he had
been sentenced to the past few milleniums.

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