[K5pbem] New K5 game?

[Mike Surbrook]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Logan Darklighter wrote:

> Mike Surbrook wrote:
>
>> It looks like I might be running a K5 FTF game in the local area! Whee!
>> 
>> Oh, I intend to talk to Dustin (hi!) about setting up a Wiki page for the 
>> campaign. Interested parties stay tuned.
>> 
> Cool. Hope it is a rockin' game!

The format of the game will depend on the player desires. For example, it 
could be a Shadowrun-ish game of freelance mercs running uder the radar of 
the corps. It could be some sort of AD Police/ESWAT game. I could run it 
as a Ghost In The Shell black ops game (which is what K5 started as). I 
could run a corporate ops game, or a team made up of all espers... or all 
runaways to the Zone. I do know  taht the one requirement is a "moral high 
ground" -- mean the PCs need to be ethically "better" than the average 
self-centered amoral K5 citizen.

> Sad I won't get to be in it. Half a continent away and all that... Maybe 
> after a year's break or so, we might be rested enough to go back to doing the 
> PBEM?

I spoke to Max and Alex about doing some work on some unfinished stories 
as well as letting people submit material they had been working on and 
wanted to contribute. I mean, you said that if I ever stopped the game 
would probably go on due to its own momentum -- so why not?

> BTW - I just now remembered something I've been meaning to ask but kept 
> forgetting.
>
> Is there an official powersource for cyborg/cybergraft parts/bodies? Is it 
> fuel cell technology + high density capacitors? Cold fusion? Surely not 
> batteries?

I never really bothered to think about it. I know I swiped the Shadowrun 
explination for cyberlimbs -- powered by the body's own bio-electric 
field. Hardsuits use cold fusion.

> My personal favorite is/was fuel cell/capacitors. Because that modeled well 
> with the Hero system END system. You've got this reserve of END, which is the 
> capacitor. And the REC is the fuel cell recharging it.

Works for me,=. Heh... you could ahve "primitive" cyborgs having to stop 
and let the battery levels come back up again in the middle of action!

> At least that works for full cyborg bodies. What about individual limbs? Are 
> they battery powered?

Bio-eletric flied with battery back up?

> Where in a full cyber-prosthesis shell would you put the generator?

Hmm... there has to be space where there would normally be organs you no 
longer need.

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Michael Surbrook
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