Below Gray Skies: a Deviant: The Renegades chronicle in New York City (now opening in beta)
Below Gray Skies is a MUSH Deviant: The Renegades (CoD) game running on AresMUSH. The setting is New York, the five boroughs, the dead subway platforms underneath them, and the long gray drive up the coast into Connecticut. You are one of the Remade, changed by one of two conspiracies: the Revealers, who test old rituals on people nobody will miss, or Bio-Integra, a company so large and so legal that the paperwork always covers for it. You got out. Now you have to live with what you are.
The mood of our game is gloomy; it is about struggle rather than power, paranoia and surviving against something so much bigger than yourself it broke your life. You don’t know where to begin, but there are places to help, and people you can find on your way to vengeance — or something else entirely.
What is already built
Character creation with a guided Divergence step for your Variations and Scars. Dice and combat tools work on the web as well as on telnet with a plugin for Deviant the Renegades. Added side-panel to help along the game in the Play area on Portal! 12 pre-made characters ready to be claimed if you would rather start playing than building, and a roster of NPCs. Things have been tested but not by a big number of people, bugs expected!
We offer two Conspiracies so you have a range of flavour to pick from either more magically inclined or sci-fi!
It is a beta and currently a one woman run game.
That means some things will be roughish, although I did my best to polish to beta, and I want to hear about it. Bug reports, confusing wording, rules that feel wrong, a button that does nothing: all of it helps. It also means it might be a bit slow on approvals, though I’ll try to be on top of it. I will also be looking for people interested in helping!
I’ll be approving characters on beta as a way to get traction and also hopefully find bugs, so being upfront on that. There will NOT be any reset, which is important to note, we will move to release from Beta when there’s more confidence on my part of bugs fixed and some more helping hands, fingers crossed.
How to start
Read the setting and the rules on the website or telnet.
Make a character, or claim a pre-made one.
Ask staff if anything is unclear. Would love answering a question and helping fix something rather than lose a player to a confusing screen.
