From: srb@helix.com
Subject: live roleplaying at Silicon '92
Reply-To: "Steve Balzac" <srb@helix.com>
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:55:54 GMT

                                    Stopover

Deep in interstellar space hangs the star Gamma Globulin IV, its
crimson light washing out over nothing but emptiness and an asteroid
belt hardly worth the effort of mining.  A red giant star with only a
few millions of years left on the main sequence, it would have been
completely ignored had fate not dictated otherwise.  A location near
an unsually thick concentration of Freitag Tunnels and readily
accessible by Dutton Drive from almost any of the major interstellar
governments made Gamma Globulin IV valuable real estate.  Before long,
the largest asteroid had been claimed, colonized, and transformed into
a way-station for the countless ships which crossed that sector of the
galaxy.  Some call it Laisha's Rock, many call it things too
disgusting to print, but most spacers call it Stopover.

Stopover... a place to find rest and recreation during the long hauls;
a place where members of all species rub shoulders; a place where life
and entertainment are as expensive -- or as cheap -- as you can
afford; a place under the sway of no government, where the only law is
the Boss Lady's writ.  Just pay for what you break, and chuck the
bodies out the airlock.  For years, Stopover has been a center for
smugglers and pirates, eager to sell their booty and effect needed
repairs; for merchants and traders, dodging taxes or acquiring illegal
merchandise; and, of course, for legitimate spacers just out for a
good time.

                      But Something Strange Is Going On...

Why have the Kikkita Dominion and the Eorim Commonwealth sent
delegations to the Rock?  Is it true that the position of the Eorim
between the Kikkita and the Humans has suddenly become precarious?
Why would the Kikkita take a direct interest, rather than letting
their servants the Bekosh handle the affair?  Could the Kikkita
actually be planning to negotiate with the Free Realms of the Deogen
to end the Dominion's long-standing occupation of Deogen space?  What
about all these businessmen and military officers from the Consortium
of Human Worlds?  And why have so many of the Shi'at Nagra family
ships converged upon Stopover?  Is there any truth to the rumours that
a high-ranking official of their mysterious government has been
assassinated?  Could the machine intelligences, the Aisi, have been
involved, or are they just here for the famous fried lug-nuts?  And
why would any Tokaji Azsu, who rarely travel even between their own
clans, have come to the Rock?  Is it true that the Chimp Underground
has been receiving weapons and funding from a mysterious source?  What
of the normal -- or not-so-normal -- crowd of mercenaries and
smugglers who always hang about the Rock?  What is their connection to
all this activity?

For these and other questions, travel out to the depths of space for
Stopover, a game of interstellar intrigue and galactic politics,
brought to you by the Society for Interactive Literature West.  Join
gamesmasters Aimee Yermish, David Bales, Holly Kaslewicz, Sonia Orin
Lyris, and Howard Yermish as they transform the Westin Inn into a
spacer's haven from Friday night until Sunday afternoon, November 27 -
29, at Silicon '92 (the Silicon Valley SF Con).  Players will take on
the roles of mercenaries, pirates, smugglers, corporate executives,
spies, scientists, government officials, diplomats, a veritable slew
of aliens, and more things just too weird to mention.

All players in Stopover must be registered members of Silicon '92.
For further information, send mail to srb@helix.com.
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