New: Cooperative Ninth Pass Pern PBEM (free, open-ended, email, human, fantasy)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:13:00 +0000

Name:		Cooperative Ninth Pass Pern PBEM
Costs:		None
URL:		http://www.cibryen.com
Frequency:		varies bwt. 1/day to 1/wk
Email:		board@cibryen.com
Type:		PBEM based on Anne McCaffrey's Pern world
Last-Update:		2002Jul17
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, human, fantasy

Description:

Cooperative Ninth Pass Wants YOU!

We know you're out there.......and we want you!  Come and play in our
Cooperative Ninth Pass Pern PBEM!  Play one of the valiant dragonriders -
ride a fire-breathing dragon, and help keep the planet Pern and its people
safe from the deadly Thread.  Not your cup of tea?  Then perhaps you'd
like to be a stolid Holder: self-sufficient, hard-working,
independent....building a better world through landholding and caretaking.
 Or possibly you'd be happier as a skilled Craftsmen?  You could be a
knowledgeable Harper, inventive Smith, animal-loving Herdmaster,
sea-faring Fisher, or come and play with dolphins by joining the Dolphin
Craft!	Whatever your preference, we
have room for you.

Five years into the First Pass, the Weyrleaders of the Three Weyrs, Fort,
High Reaches, and Telgar, met to discuss the founding of a new Weyr.
Humanity was spreading steadily eastward, and the Weyrs were hard pressed
to protect them all from the deadly menace of Thread. The Weyrs were also
suffering from overcrowding, and there was little room in the craters for
more expansion. It was decided that a huge double crater in the eastern
mountains would be the ideal site. Cibryen Weyr was founded on the exact
site where Benden is located in the real Pern Timeline. The Weyr took its
name from Charles Cibryen, also called Ch�les, a Wingleader from Telgar
who had died in a Fall, protecting the settlers in the east. Cibryen Hold
was founded first, named by the grateful families.

~~~~~~~~~
Wavecrest was established near the end of the 7th interval as an
experiment. Distant relations between hold and weyr had many weyrs
worried, and for one Lord Holder, Lord Mairen of in particular, whose
family had been devoted to the weyrs since the first weyr was established
during the first pass, it was unacceptable. He approached the Weyrleaders
of Cibryen Weyr with a proposition: Scout the Southern Continent for a
suitable place, and establish a weyr and hold, extraordinarily close to
each other, with exceptionally close ties. Holders and weyrfolk would be
encouraged to traverse between the two, and all could benefit from the
pairing.

Wavecrest Weyr is located in the sheer face of a cliff overlooking the
ocean.	The support staff and non-rider persons live in the far back
regions of the caves system. The Weyr was established in a vast cave
system by the ocean, and passages were bored from the top-level caves to
the surface. A series of heavy stone buildings built from the stone taken
from inside the caves cover the surface, establishing a unique layout.
Dragons fly constantly in and out of the weyrs, and the calmer seas away
from the crashing breakers are a rainbow of dragons swimming with the
dolphins.

The land atop the cliff home of Wavecrest Weyr is somewhat sparse near the
cliff itself, but the farther inland you go, the more jungle-like and
heavily wooded the terrain becomes. Hunters patrol the area to ward off
wildcats or other beasties, but the presence of the dragons usually
frightens most dangerous wild animals. Weyrlings and dragons unable to fly
are housed in barracks atop the cliff, especially designed for them with a
lake reserved for Weyrlings and injured dragons. It�s a smaller lake fed
from the same freshwater spring that feeds Mirror Lake.

Please come to the website for more details, and feel free to Email
anytime with questions.

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