Introduction - Pieces
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measured_wordsThis is an ongoing serial story I started, and then abandoned last year. I picked it up again just after Christmas, I believe. I have been posting them in my main journal, but I think I will copy them over here. The versions I have on my hard drive of the various sections have seen more revisions, for certain. I'll start posting them over the course of the week. This post is just a little introduction to the series, and background on some of the characters, adapted from another post form my main journal... And so it goes. I should say that you don't *have* to read this in order to follow the story, but it does give some context about where the character is from. I'll try not to give away too many important plot details, anyway.
Back in Highschool, I ran a Mage:The Ascension campaign. I was also involved in the Nexus Universe Role Playing Game, which was actually an interactive story. I *believe* that the Mage game came first, but I don't remember. Daniel was an NPC in my game, but also one of my characters in NuRPG. Certainly everything that happened in NuPRG was set after the events in the game. Initially, he was a member of the New World Order of the Technocratic Union, or Technocracy, a shadowy agency of questionable relation to governments around the world who seek to suppress all forms of magic and supernatural beings and power on Earth. He was your basic Man in Black.
NuRPG was not set on Earth. Daniel, like many of the other characters, was transported there through circumstances beyond his control. There he was forced to re-discover himself. If you are interested in reading about that period, as opposed to seeing how it is revealed in this serial, you can check out some of the Daniel chapters, and related storylines by other authors in the online archives. Please keep in mind that some of these stories are close to ten years old now. To find the Daniel chapters, click on 'archives' and start looking in Time Period 3. The archive is incomplete, but it doesn't matter terribly as the game died before any of the stories were brought to any reasonable conclusion.
Pieces follows Daniel's story once he has returned to Earth, and is trying to make sense of his place in the world. Also, this is set in my interpretation of the World of Darkness (3rd editions, more or less), and so it does use a lot of words and concepts that are not my intellectual property. However as White Wolf's whole purpose was to create (and sell) a system for telling stories, they can hardly object to my making use of their ideas, as long as I'm not selling them. And I'm not, no matter how convinced my mother was that I could/should have. Please enjoy the story!
Back in Highschool, I ran a Mage:The Ascension campaign. I was also involved in the Nexus Universe Role Playing Game, which was actually an interactive story. I *believe* that the Mage game came first, but I don't remember. Daniel was an NPC in my game, but also one of my characters in NuRPG. Certainly everything that happened in NuPRG was set after the events in the game. Initially, he was a member of the New World Order of the Technocratic Union, or Technocracy, a shadowy agency of questionable relation to governments around the world who seek to suppress all forms of magic and supernatural beings and power on Earth. He was your basic Man in Black.
NuRPG was not set on Earth. Daniel, like many of the other characters, was transported there through circumstances beyond his control. There he was forced to re-discover himself. If you are interested in reading about that period, as opposed to seeing how it is revealed in this serial, you can check out some of the Daniel chapters, and related storylines by other authors in the online archives. Please keep in mind that some of these stories are close to ten years old now. To find the Daniel chapters, click on 'archives' and start looking in Time Period 3. The archive is incomplete, but it doesn't matter terribly as the game died before any of the stories were brought to any reasonable conclusion.
Pieces follows Daniel's story once he has returned to Earth, and is trying to make sense of his place in the world. Also, this is set in my interpretation of the World of Darkness (3rd editions, more or less), and so it does use a lot of words and concepts that are not my intellectual property. However as White Wolf's whole purpose was to create (and sell) a system for telling stories, they can hardly object to my making use of their ideas, as long as I'm not selling them. And I'm not, no matter how convinced my mother was that I could/should have. Please enjoy the story!
