From: moon!cyberden!verge@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
Subject: Paintball!
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 21:00:37 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

CyberPals:
Hello, I am an automated response letter, generated on the Sony Net 
Secretary, or MailMan, as software such as I am are called. Please excuse 
my owner's lack of time and/or taste, but times being what they are, he 
is currently unable/unwilling to sit down and write you personally--I 
understand it, in fact, he is living under an assumed name, under the 
living room couch, of a small suburban tract home somewhere in Arizona.
--and if the FBI are reading this, go suck an electrode--
For all you cyberfreaks out there who were nice enough/bent enough to 
response to my tech post on a hypothetical cyberpunk paintball battle, my 
thanks. I've put this note together to exchange everyone's views on the 
concept, plus some of my own takes. 
Gist: Find folks with tech bent, or at least style, to get together to 
splat each other in a paintball exercise with cyberpunk lean. Rules: 
safety only--none of this "muzzle velocity", "rate of fire" limitations 
nonsense. Only rule is what you use can't be dangerous--aside from that 
anything goes. Suggestions of possible stuff: grenade launchers, mines, 
sound trackers, proximity detectors, UV sighting gear, laser sights, 
long-range listening gear, UV paintballs for "tracer" rounds, IR gear 
(for folks not in the "banned" states), IR "line of sight" radio gear, 
firecrackers and smoke for distractions, strobes, bazookas, flamethrowers 
(if paint = death, when what is a spraygun?), etc. Like said: if you can 
make it, and it don't hurt anyone, you can use it. So if you got that 
techno edge, have fun making weapons of paint destruction--
--also, style counts. Have fun with those weapons but also have fun with 
the duds: Mirrorshades, trenchcoats, 3-pieces, jackboots, latex, leather, 
spikes, bare-ass, pads & armor, cool helmets, masks, etc. Look killer 
while killing--
Next: Find space to have gist. Mucho problemo--find place where "they" 
don't mind a little paint, smoke, crazies in scramble-suits, and 
radio-noise. Suggestions:  an industrial site (and maybe not even asking 
permission), a college campus (and don't tell the campus pigs for that 
extra added excitement!), Underground Seattle (Wow!), "The Docks", or 
some "For Sale" industrial wasteland. Hell, worse comes to, rent a 
"normal" paintball arena (inside or outside) for the occassion and "have 
at it."
Senarios--obvious: competing corp hitsquads. The Scum Vs. The Corps. 
"Running Man" mania (we don't need no stinking plot, just an excuse to 
"have at it".) Forces of "Bob" Vs. The Conspiracy, One On One (everyman 
for himself, last one alive wins, etc).
Trouble: $$$$$$$. For all you wargame geeks already armed for Picasso 
with the latest in paintball tech, this is old hat and you probably have 
the stuff already in your basement. For the rest of us berefit of $$$$$ 
we'd need a little assurance that the games would begin--before we shell 
out the bucks for circuits, guns, ammo, and other tech. God, starting 
$$$$ run $50-$400!!
Here's the end: okay, folks, people wanna do this. Let's exchange mail, 
get those ideas flowing, set up some ideas for spaces, and, if "Bob" doth 
smile on us poor slobs, maybe grant us the go-for-it to have a game.
Stay tuned--

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