FireFly (online) RPG
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UPDATED: Friday, January 16, 2004 08:50
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Then feel free too join!
"Oh, yeah. Let's all here it for the good Alliance."
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*bump*
"Oh, yeah. Let's all here it for the good Alliance."
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If anybody wanted to participate they'd have done so by now.
Your sig is misspelled.
Sarah
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
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Well, ya can't hurt a guy tryin. Still, one does dream...
The skys still there....
"Oh, yeah. Let's all here it for the good Alliance."
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I would be interested in a Play by Email Firefly group.
--Anthony
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Role Play by E-,ail? Pleese explain, Im willing too try if others are.
"Oh, yeah. Let's all here it for the good Alliance."
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Well, play by email RPG's have been popular in the Trek arena for over a decade. Everyone creates a character bio which is usually posted on a website along with ship specifications. One person, the GM, is responsible for the general direction of the game.
He creates the basic storylines, plays many of the NPC's (non-player characters) integral to the story, and frequently plays the Captain. (A position of authority helps to push the story close to the plot points.)
Each player writes actions and dialogue for their character, and possibly they create or use some NPC's as well. Their creative talent may take the basic plot into unexpected twists and turns, possibly even shifting the story somewhat off course to what the GM had envisioned. (This is actually okay if the GM is equally creative and can improvise.)
There are mailing list services which all the players are subscribed to. Send an email to the list (Fireflygame@topica.com) and all the players get it. It's a collaborative writing effort. Here is an example of a Trek post so that you can get an idea of what PBEM (Play by email) is like:
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ON:
The medical examination had gone on without incident. Now Adal had spent the better part of an hour engaged in a most strenuous exercise regimen. His body glistened with perspiration. Sweat dripped down from his harline through his forehead, being intercepted by a god-given brow before it could sting the eyes. "The body really is well designed," he thought to himself
as he ordered the computer to save the program for later use.
"Computer," he spoke a new request to the omnipresent computer system, "time."
Most people spoke up at any given moment, confident that the computer would hear their request so long as they prefaced it with 'computer.' The ominous side of that equation was seldom considered. If the computer was always ready to answer you, that also meant it was always listening. Adal's thoughts briefly visited the new computer specialist on board, and how she could be used by the Section.
But that was for later. One problem at a time.
"The time is Nine-hundred hours, Ship Standard Time."
Adal frowned. Not much time for conventions. "Computer, simulate a sonic
shower unit, type standard to Defiant class vessels."
A sonic shower dutifully resolved itself before him. He stripped down and entered the unit, pressing the activator that would begin the showering process. He tried not to let it bother him that the sonic shower wasn't
physically connected to anything. He also tried not to let it bother him that the entire unit had resolved itself in the middle of a 15 foot by 15 foot gridded room. He allowed his intellectual understanding of the process to squash the anachronism of it, and enjoyed the ultrasonic waves that tickled sweat and grime from every pore of his body. A gentle antiseptic mist rose around him in concert with the waves, smiting millions of unseen germs. The sonic shower really was an efficient concept.
Not that it would ever be as appealing as a good soak.
When the shower was complete, he ordered the computer to replicate a new uniform and recycle the old. This, it also did dutifully. The holodeck was by necessity crawling with replicator units. Anything that might be
consumed or carried off of the holodeck had to be replicated. Water, food, and clothing fell into that category. Adal remembered with amusement that in the early days of holodeck development, more than one person had changed
clothes inside the machine, only to step out into the world a naked man. And of course there were those people who had replicated feasts, only to have the food dissolve as it touched the tongue. It was quite a tease.
But those days were past, and when Adal stepped out of the holodeck, he was gratefully fully clothed in his duty uniform. He proceeded immediately to the lounge to meet with the good Counselor. She was a lovely lady, but he
worr
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Is this thing still going or is it dead now?
Willow
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