Designing the game, Part I : First Sketches into haze.

[rcalvom]

Here are the first sketches of the board and pieces.

Intentions of the game:

Original purpose was a double one. First, the pleisure of playing. Second, as spiritual experiments into "changing atmospheres". Future is wrote just in part. To imagine a situation is not equal than true prognosis. When we are imaging we are just only walking one of "possible" paths - to guess the right one is less important: we can verify it only when "time" is passed. Its much more important to equip us with best spiritual - and not so -weapons for a hard "sea voyage".
Making an expedition to uncertain seas. This could be comparable to military maeouvres in "peace" times, or the diary exercises of aikido-ka apprentice. We believe necessary to training our intuition and senses in these "strange days" that are becoming.
This is the reason I have choosed our days as "time of the game", but we should try to incorporate avant-garde features - I am thinking about tecnologic, sociologic ones, etc. That should be a good motivation to perform our capacities at "looking with a second sight".


About the board: The Scenery

Name of the country - city: Orpheonage.

Population: About 660.000
Its in the southwest of Alaska. Its in the coast.
Industrial city. Main business: Petroleum - beds in the sea and also in the inner. A lot of refinerys and derivated industries. Also industris of high-technology.
70% of the industry is in hands of Albatros ltd, a USA corporation- one of world bigger ones. Class stratum are numerous and changeable: executives, engineers, workers - the deeper stratums are occupied by the native-indian people, which do unpleasant jobs and lives in infra-human conditions.


About the pieces: The Worker

Albatros´ Board of Directors is composed by ten executive directors. Each of them control a part - a division- of the market and necessities of the country. We will name (- thought sometimes its names are changed by marketing departament-) them:
Army supply, Security and Control ( which includes a own security corp), Services ( which includes food and health: pharma - industries), Building, Heavy- Industries, Leisure Industries ( which includes all kind of show-business, massmedias, music and all art facets, and which is casually directed by our old friend : the Anarch), Hi-Tech, Energy( which includes Petroleum,Nuclear and energy Industries) and the 10th division, which is secret: its documents are top secret and it namely "for your eyes only" with this mark: BioG.


Albatros has its operation center in a enormous skyscraper stated in "the City"( the finantial quarter). High floor is covered with a glass roofing with crystal forms. The amazing buildign is named Antaios and common people refers the top floor as "the Dome".

This corporation, Albatros, its designed and constructed with latest theories - a-la Nike, or Japanese Keiretsus. Its conected by horizontal and vertical nets. Much divisions work in "collaboration" with others. Limits are not clear, -- only God knows when ends Hi- tech and begins Army Supply, when ends Services and begins Security and Control, etc!!. Alabatros is dinamic and has high- velocity Information Systems. In other words, its a mother-fucking refulgent Swallow Machine!. The fucking damned Shark!.
Its pinacle its the Chairman : the purest figure of The Worker.

About the pieces: Waldwangers and the Anarch

Albatros outlines to build a great Nuclear Station. A part of the choosed grounds is ocuppied by an ancient indian cemetery.
Albatros have started up the movements to take hold this territories. Its influence in the political and law systems are wider.
Indians themselves have mostly forget the old traditions, massmedias do their job, indian representants are corrupted.
Only a few young "apaches" - our waldwangers - keep the old spirit - perhaps between them, there are two of three comebacking ex- universitaries. They make ancients rites and take psylocibin to imagine-remeber old simbols. Then they make graffitti with their symbols.
In the game, we will see if they will pass to action.

The Anarch. He is Leisure Division´s Director. He is 51 old. He is ex USA citizen. He was teenager in the sixties. He had LSD, Mescaline and other drugs experiences. He was arrested sevreal times - drugs posession, terrorist actions agains nuclear stations, and apology of comunist, etc . Driving at bay, he design his own death. then he crossed the limits to Canada and take the identity of a recently death mariner. He begins to work on a gambling house - from where he brings out the idea of a internet-macro- gambling house which makes him multimillionaire. Rest is history. Albatros contracted him to work on its new city. He do his work fairly well, but the other member s of the Dome slightly distrust him. Maybe ´cause he is Canadian, maybe cause he domains "virtual- and not so" reality, maybe both.
The anarch is, like Knight in chess, the unexpected player.
His movements are different from the others. He is "the strange man". We nearly know what he pretends, how is his ethic.
Is he a double agent?. Does he act depending on where is desiequilibrium? Is equilibrium his unique flag? who is he?


About other minor and unexpected pieces:

Another minor - but important - pieces are political parties, judicial system, worker unions and some nihilist groups like racist white groups and NAM (Nature Against Machine) terrorist group.
Someones of this minor pieces are unknown by now, they will emerge during the game.

Here, I would like to include an emerging figure that I expect it will be decisive during the game. As a provisional name I will call it " The MiddleMan". He is Banking and Markets Director.

Antoher matter. As we are using modern terms I would like to propse new coulour for the pieces:

White >>> Grey
Black >>> Colours

Starting the game:

Yesterday, someone have perpretated a terrorist action - 21 killed person and great looses in an Albatros building - one belonging to Services Division. Nobody knows which is the author.


My first movement: P4K

P4K: Controlling the event with my massmedia manipulating the information.


Well. I am waiting your comentarys and concepts to be added.
Good luck to all players! You are gonna need it!:-)

Greetings
roberto