From:	Andrew Ragland [araglan@us.ibm.com]
Sent:	Sunday, January 28, 2001 8:29 PM
To:	blue_planet@lists.ient.com
Subject:	[BLUE PLANET] - Homeschooler Game


Had our organizational meeting Friday for the homeschooler kids' campaign.
We decided to meet on Thursdays from 2p to 4p because that's when most of
the kids can make it, and when a centrally-located space is available.

I explained the game, the concept of rolegaming, and a lot of the
background to the kids and parents. We got into a big discussion over the
moral implications and scientific possibility of hybrids, with Juliana (age
13) very concerned over the fact that any such experimentation would mean a
lot of stillborn babies and dead kids, as experimental failures became
apparent. We talked about how that's one of the reasons hybridization
research is illegal in the BP world. The rest of the group contributed side
comments to the discussion.

I started character gen with my son and one other kid. Liam (my kid, age
11) is playing a squid whose mother is a Poseidon native, an ocean surveyor
who works for the GEO, and whose father is a spacer, a technician and
inventor who came to Poseidon to pursue his research. Liam's character has
the build minus of a spacer, and the general  body configuration, but gills
and webbed hands/feet. His character has the Native origin, but the GEO
background, due to his being raised more or less on GEO installations.
Montgomery (age 11) is also playing a spacer, whose parents are both
Poseidon natives. He has the Native origin and background, and is working
on several (I think three) siblings, to be NPCs.

The general interest is wildly enthusiastic, both the kids and the parents.
Geez, I hope I can pull this off. I'm told that Eli (age 10) hasn't gotten
this excited about anything in years. Either this is going to be a big
development in homeschooling in Rockford, or I'm going to have to relocate
to a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S.


Andrew Ragland
Information Hunter/Gatherer:  Explorer, Mapmaker, Guide
araglan@us.ibm.com   t/l 348-6665   ph (847) 240-6665   Skytel 1731111
"It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our
abilities."
-- A. Dumbledore

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From:	Mantisking@aol.com
Sent:	Sunday, January 28, 2001 1:09 PM
To:	blue_planet@lists.ient.com
Subject:	Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Using Blue Planet

Hello All;
        dreamweaver@keyway.net wrote "It is funny how JC, BP
    and SBB have similar trends going on - kind of post-cyberpunkish,
    world government with ecototalitarian overtones, exploitation of
    resource issues, a global catastrophe, etc."

    And to add to that Trinity (formerly Aeon) from White Wolf had
some of the same elements.  Not to mention the fact that BP, JC,
and Trinity all hit the market at similar times.  I was thinking of adding
the three together for one big rambling game.

Ray
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