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Story Games Seattle Message Board What We Played › Cyborgs, humans, merpeople oh my! (Microscope)

Cyborgs, humans, merpeople oh my! (Microscope)

Caroline
user 11624621
Olympia, WA
Post #: 98
Who: Richard, Steve, Caroline
When: Thursday August 25
What: Microscope!

We started out with the idea of having both a lighthearted game and a cyberpunk game. What resulted was a surprisingly hopeful exploration of what it means to be human in a post-human, post-work society.

Our bookends were "Wage Emancipation", where work ends, and "The Next Horizon", where we leave the solar system. We explored themes of connection, technology, religion, and conflict in between.

We saw the first human-robot marriage dissolve. We celebrated as humans developed vacuum adaptation. We mourned as colony after colony above Jupiter failed. We held back tears as non-modified humans came together to help after terrorists unleashed a virus that decimated modified-human populations.

Thank you one and all for the excellent game! 49 index cards of pure creative joy. Look at all those light circles!


Story Games Seattle was rebooted in March 2010 as a weekly public meetup group for playing GMless games. It ran until March 2018, hosting over 600 events with a wide range of attendees.

Our charter was: Everyone welcome. Everyone equal. No experience necessary.

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