Comments on: Setting Seeds: The Darknet http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/09/16/setting-seeds-the-darknet/ A new RPG encounter, every Monday through Friday! Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:47:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 <div class=wavatar><img class='wavatar' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=609794dae7d62986a207596d6fa449f3.jpg&s=80&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.encounteraday.com%2Fwp-content%2Fcache%2Fwavatars%2F609794dae7d62986a.png' width='80' height='80' alt='Wavatar' /></div>By: Felipe Budinich http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/09/16/setting-seeds-the-darknet/comment-page-1/#comment-1680
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Felipe Budinich Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:44:34 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/?p=613#comment-1680 " NYNEX is on the verge of being purchased by Bell Atlantic, after which point it will be dissolved in all but name. But all hell starts breaking loose. Pay phones ring for no reason, and they don't stop. Dead relatives call their families in the middle of the night. People, horrifically, even call themselves – but it's the person they used to be, phoning out of the blue, warning them about future misdirection." http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/nynex-embedded-angel-of-new-york-city.html Add that post from bldgblog to the mix, and you've got one hell of a setting for a Mage campaign. .-= Felipe Budinich´s last blog ..<a href="http://gamutgames.blogspot.com/2009/10/campaign-journal-i.html" rel="nofollow">Campaign Journal, I</a> =-. ” NYNEX is on the verge of being purchased by Bell Atlantic, after which point it will be dissolved in all but name.
But all hell starts breaking loose. Pay phones ring for no reason, and they don’t stop. Dead relatives call their families in the middle of the night. People, horrifically, even call themselves – but it’s the person they used to be, phoning out of the blue, warning them about future misdirection.”

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/nynex-embedded-angel-of-new-york-city.html

Add that post from bldgblog to the mix, and you’ve got one hell of a setting for a Mage campaign.
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Asmor Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:29:12 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/?p=613#comment-1627 In my head, the darknet is actually the internet itself. Somehow an AI has spontaneously developed and is hiding in every internet-connected device on Earth, using the internet as a giant neural network. In my head, the darknet is actually the internet itself. Somehow an AI has spontaneously developed and is hiding in every internet-connected device on Earth, using the internet as a giant neural network.

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Pierre Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:46:39 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/?p=613#comment-1624 Ouch, now you make me want to start a modern setting just to use that... One of the most intriguing modern settings I've heard of, we're far from nuclear, far from epidemic, far from cold-waresque conspiracy, all-out extraterrestrial invasion or robot revolution... No, we have something that plays with the fears of today, of this very minute. We have something that plays with the myriad possibilities of the internet and beyond... we are unable to grasp the networks of today, it already scares China and threatens to alter the core elements of modern life as it is. What about that Darknet? Something -outside- this infinity, something -outside- the Universe? Heck, I'd throw in the Great Old Ones and we'd be set for the best Call of Cthulu campaign of the century. Ouch, now you make me want to start a modern setting just to use that…

One of the most intriguing modern settings I’ve heard of, we’re far from nuclear, far from epidemic, far from cold-waresque conspiracy, all-out extraterrestrial invasion or robot revolution…

No, we have something that plays with the fears of today, of this very minute. We have something that plays with the myriad possibilities of the internet and beyond… we are unable to grasp the networks of today, it already scares China and threatens to alter the core elements of modern life as it is. What about that Darknet? Something -outside- this infinity, something -outside- the Universe?

Heck, I’d throw in the Great Old Ones and we’d be set for the best Call of Cthulu campaign of the century.

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Dylan Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:11:22 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/?p=613#comment-1621 That is amazing. That is amazing.

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