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Message no. 1
From: Mark C Farrington alareth@*********.net
Subject: Homebrewed Sourcebook: The CAS Project
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:59:21 -0500
I have felt the need to have a sourcebook for CAS for a very long time.
I have in the past attempted to write one on my own. I called it the CAS
Project.

It didn't get very far. It had a fair share of volunteers. The
problem was that I never got paragraph one of descriptive text from any of
them about any location in the CAS.

I have all my notes on Orlando sitting around, just have to find the
notebook. I'd like to try it one more time. I can't do it alone. All I
need is for a few people to detail out one city each for various locations
around the CAS. If you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, write a few
paragraphs on what your home town is like in 2060. That's all it really
takes. A submission does not need to be chapters worth of info. I will
search my notes for all the locations that have already been done by
previous "cannon" sorce material.

Look at the format of the "Seattle and the Modern Northwest" section of
the 3rd ed main book on page 313 as inspiration for the type of info to add
to descriptions.

All I ask is that if you do say you want to help, please send me some
material or at least let me know that you will be unable to help like you
thought you would.

Once I have some stuff to work with I'll get it all up on the web for
everyone to admire and hopefully use.

Alareth
Message no. 2
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Homebrewed Sourcebook: The CAS Project
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:44:01 +0100
According to Mark C Farrington, on Thu, 02 Nov 2000 the word on the street was...

> I have felt the need to have a sourcebook for CAS for a very long time.
> I have in the past attempted to write one on my own. I called it the CAS
> Project.
>
> It didn't get very far. It had a fair share of volunteers. The
> problem was that I never got paragraph one of descriptive text from any of
> them about any location in the CAS.

I guess we can call that NERPS syndrome when it's related to SR... It seems
to be the way most net-based fan projects go, unfortunately -- either that,
or it seems to develop an us-vs.-them mentality between those working on
the project, and those that use the finished material. Neither is good...

> I have all my notes on Orlando sitting around, just have to find the
> notebook. I'd like to try it one more time. I can't do it alone. All I
> need is for a few people to detail out one city each for various locations
> around the CAS. If you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, write a few
> paragraphs on what your home town is like in 2060. That's all it really
> takes. A submission does not need to be chapters worth of info. I will
> search my notes for all the locations that have already been done by
> previous "cannon" sorce material.

I do hope for you that you'll get more material this time round. Still, if
you don't, you could always post what you have to a web site and expand it
when you have the time. Start small and build it into something larger --
who cares if it takes a couple of years?

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Message no. 3
From: Mark C Farrington alareth@*********.net
Subject: Homebrewed Sourcebook: The CAS Project
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:09:14 -0500
For anyone that is interested, I have started a new discussion list over at
egroups for the project. If you like to discuss the CAS and help in making
the project work you can subscribe by emailing
CAS-Project-subscribe@*******.com

I have one person on board already with info on the northern Florida area.

Alareth

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