Sorry I've been so quiet here! I am still very much interested. Let me see if I can catch up to all the comments...<br/><br/>Starting in the middle of the action works fine for me. The introduction paragraph that sets the first scene could easily give us a gist of the month or two we've been trapped, as well as this run. Frankly, I don't want to RP out when we first find out we're trapped -- because our reactions don't mean much. All our characters panic and try stupid stuff that we all know doesn't work. I'd rather start where we know the 'rules' of the game and we're not bumbling around.<br/><br/>I'm playing a dude, but a gay dude, because that's how I roll.<br/><br/>I'm happy to communicate in any sort of real-time method as needed: Steam, Skype, AIM, YIM, Gchat, or hell, you could text me. I can get Mumble, I just don't have it always on like I do the other slew of chat programs. I am against any sort of scheduled meeting though, or prolonged GROUP activity over Mumble/Skype -- not because I have any life to speak of, but because coordinating that will be a pain, and may take a while. Can I also suggest making a Chatzy room? A little more 'come as you go' and browser based so people can use it wherever.<br/><br/>@Reiji: Read Assassin's Creed carefully. The real downside of that Negative Quality (in my eyes) is that you have a 1 in 6 chance of there being a 'complication' that FORCES you to kill somebody even if you try not to, such as heart issues or overdose or not realizing your target was already injured or something -- and you lose Karma when it happens. Frankly, the fact that it bends reality to force you to do something terrible should be enough. If you're suggesting that 'Deckers don't fight, thus they don't kill' as a loophole -- You fight people all the time in the Matrix, and any of those 'complications' are even easier to justify when you're punching somebody in the brain...<br/><br/>As for making combat more streamlined -- I would suggest just having Dis make any contested rolls on our behalf. I suppose the main issue there is when somebody wants to spend Edge on a defensive roll.<br/><br/>Phew. :)