From: logan@YOYO.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU (Richard Scott)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: shared world stuff
Date: 24 Nov 92 00:28:35 GMT




There is a mailing list set up as an offshoot of the Vampyres mailing
list.  It is a shared world where many writers write stories based on
the city of Ravenscar.

The stories, character sketches, and place sketches are available via
FTP, and when I have a nice informative passage about that, I will.

You can write to me at logan@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au for details.  Some
stories have progressed as far as part 10 or 11.  I am slack, and am
only up to part 6 :).  Types of characters include vampires, mages,
morphs, human vampire hunters, and an inter-dimensional alien invasion
is on the way.  There is also a super-powered vigilante running around,
and plenty of not-so ordinary humans.

You don't have to write anything to be put on the mailing list, all
readers are welcome.  (Although you may be called a lurker from time to
time).  There are quite a lot of these, so do not let that worry you.

The more people there are, the better, and I will post more details in
the future, after the FTP site is fully documented.


Hoping to hear from you!!

Richard  (logan@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au)

  
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This is your friendly neighborhood Vampyre archivist.
I am enclosing the info on the FTP site for you.

It is located at:

ftp.cs.uwindsor.ca

to access it one types 

    ftp ftp.cs.uwindsor.ca

If one is using the internet, some bitnet accounts allow one to access this.
otherwise there are bitnet servers for FTP, someone with more information,
please explain how these are used.

Once one has connected it asks you to log in- please use "anonymous" to
log in, not "guest" or your own userid, it will then ask for your address
as a password, this information is kept confidential- my boss just requests
it so he can keep  track of usage.

Then, you are in the root directory of the machine, at the moment there is 
naught else available at this site, though apparently that will shortly
change.

Meanwhile, the following is the routine to reach the section with the files:
cd pub
cd local
cd text
cd vampyres

Underneath this directory are a number of other directories:

Digests   Fluff   World   pics

there is also one file here: Readme

Under Digests can be found old digests of the list from Jae, who will
hopefully soon be uploadingn the full archives to here.

Under Fluff is the old Fluff Archives. One copy of the archives.txt is
available in the next directory.  Then all files are sorted into
alphabetical subdirectories.

Under World:

SKT    Storylines    Digests    volumes

There will soon be a Readme file added here, I haven't gotten around to that 
yet.

The SKT directory is currently just a bunch of SKT's, eventually I hope to sort
these into 3 directories: Mortals, places, Immortals 
these will be self explanatory- files here are stored as:
 
sktname.authorname

Storylines: all the stories with authors name, broken down into sections
are here.  This is to make it possible for one storyline to be followed at a
time. These are title.#.author

Digests: these are the logs that Morgan is sending me each few days
of the discussions on the list.

Volumes are the stories as they went out to the rest of the Vampyres list.
These will shortly be removed once I have the storylines section completed.
I will place in that section a file with a liting of what was in each issue
of Ravenscar Nights.

I hope this is helpful to you, please feel free to enjoy the archives at
your leisure.

Cat