From:	Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject:	Dark City (Re: General Announcement (Psionics))
Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:52:24 EST

In a message dated 2/25/1999 1:34:02 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
dbuehrer@******.carl.org writes:

>
> Or a UV Host. Imagine a system on the matrix which reaches UV status.
> Uknown to it's owner(s) many programs become almost aware to the point
> that they recognize what awareness is. They start to capture deckers
> and place them in their "Dark City" in an attempt to become aware
> themselves.

Oh wow, now this *IS* an interesting twist. Hell, I've even got a really good
place for this little playground to happen...(no names...just some letters....
;-P)

> When the players show up for the evening tell them that your going to
> do something a little different for the next adventure and start
> handing out pregenerated characters. Little do they know that they are
> playing their own characters after they been captured on the matrix and
> had their personas altered. The reason everyone decked in the first
> place could be as simple as someone hiring them to find his daughter (a
> decker) and offering the non decker players the chance to "observe".
>
> Or something like that :)

I do believe I get the idea. And then the "Tuning" could literally be an
effect similar to the "Resonance" actually moving into *ONE* particular
character, which in turn could change everyone's life. For lack of better
terms, the "Strangers" (with "Mr. Book" at their head) is actually a
bunch of
you-know-who's lackey's running around collecting people, attempting to find
out something.

In the movie, the idea was to merge with "the Human Soul" or something
similar. That sounds like a really good goal for newborn, annoying, self-
diefying, AI's to me...

-K


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