Infiniverse Campaign Game Update #1.pdf

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CAMPAIGN

GAME

UPDATE

VOLUME

Roleplaying the Possibility Wars ThO

INFINIVERSE ThO

CAMPAIGN

GAME

UPDATE

VOLUME

By Greg Farshtey

TABLE

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter One: Aysle

Chapter Two: The Cyberpapacy

Chapter Three: The Living Land and Core Earth

Chapter Four: The Nile Empire

Chapter Five: Nippon Tech

Chapter Six: Orrorsh

Chapter Seven: Dispatches & Rumors

Chapter Eight: The Best of Your Letters

Chapter Nine: Herald Messages

Chapter Ten: New Rules

Templates

Plus Two Mini-Adventures:

Dance of the Demons 100

Tablet of Terror 113

Contributors This Issue:

Greg Farshtey

Design

Paul Jaquays

Cover Illustration

Jaime LombardolRon Hill

Interior IUustrations

Greg Detwiler, Shne Lacy Hensley, Shawn Metcalf,

Brian S. Perry

Additional Material

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iii Infiniverse Update

Introduction

(I lex holstered his pistol

such planes, and together they form

the lnfini verse."

In the distance, Alex could see a

squad of Monitors coming over the

hill, laser weapons aimed in his direc-

tion. He knew they would be trouble

- they didn't like being shown up,

particularly by Storm Knights from a

'1ess advanced civilization." He spat

in the dust and started up the hillside

toward the jungle.

"Wait, Alexander," Ulka said.

'There is much you do notknow about

this infiniverse. There are things in the

heavens, and things beneath the Earth,

and all of them could be blessings or

threats to you and your cause. Stay

here, and learn of aD this."

Alex squinted against the afternoon

sun. The Monitors were gettingcloser,

and there were Gudasko with them.

Alex hated Gudasko; they were un-

predictable and violent. One of them

had taken a chunk out of his arm in

Lima because he wouldn't buy him a

drink.

'Thanks, but no thanks, Rotan,"

Alex said. "My friends are waiting..

and impatient sorcerers tend to start

tossing fireballs in incanvernent places.

But I'm sure we'll run into each other

again. It's going to be a long war."

Alex vanished into the jungle, and

the Rotan's mind followed him until

the Monitors approached. 'Was it wise

to let theStorm Knightgo, Rotan?" the

soldier asked. "Perhaps he goes to in-

form the cyberpriests of our strength

and position."

Ulka gestured for silence. "No, Kel,

no. He isa hero, youngone ... on many

worlds."

ity Wars".

What has happened in the realms

sincethewarsbeginning?WhichHigh

Lords have enjoyed victory, which

defeat, and which are in danger of

being betrayed by their own Darkness

Devices? All of that is detailed in this

book,along with updated realm maps,

new locations and templates, optional

rules, and two new mini-adventures,

"Dance of the Demons" and '1"abletof

Terror."

Allof theevents related in the realm

chapters cameabout through the pages

of lnfiniverse and the responses of the

subscribers. Dispatches resulted in

Storm Knight triumphs and tragedies,

rumors wereconfirmed as troeorfalse,

and herald messages let those of us at

West End know what was going on in

a myriad number of Torg campaigns.

All of this information was employed

in the creation of this book-along with

extrapolations from the data we've

received.

Also included in this book are lati-

tude and longitude coordinates for

stelae in the original six realms,as weD

as the Akashanand Tharkoldu realms.

These figures were taken from the

Robinson projection mapinWest End's

"war room," so the maps may look

somewhat different when plotted on

flat maps.

and prodded the corpse

ofthecyberpriestwithhis

foot. Malraux's agent was

dead, and his plan to as-

sassinate Rotan Ulka, leader of the

Alcashans, had failed. It had been very

close-a hair too slow on the trigger,

and it would have been disaster. Alex

wiped the sweat from his brow and

slumped against the cool stone of the

temple with a mixture of relief and

exhaustion.

"You have done well, Alexander,"

Ulka said, in a voice so deep and res0-

nant Alex could well believe the

Akashans had once been mistaken for

gods on Earth. "My people are once

again safe, and we shall not be so

foolishly trusting again. You have my

gratitude."

Alex nodded. He still wasn't sure

what to make of these aliens - still

wasn't certain he believed that they

wished only10 help. May"" they'", plan-

ning to grllb the planet for themsdve;

when all this is ovtT ...

UUca's expression darkened, as if

he read Alex's thoughts ... and ptThaps

htdid, Alex said tohimseU. "Still, if the

teachings of the Mohani were correct,

there isa place where you were not in

time. There is a world where it is my

body which lies in the dirt, still as

death."

Seeing Alex's puzzlement, the

Rotan smiled. "Of course, you would

not know of such things. You see,

Alexander, when Apeiros fled The

Place, he created thousands of cosms.

Yet they aU existed within the same

cosmverse, and all was as it should

have been.

"But when the Nameless One, the

IJestroyer, threatened to overwhelm

the cosmverse, Apeiros was forced to

act. He passed his hand across the face

ofthe heavens, and thecosmverse was

duplicated many times over. Some of

these duplicates varied greatly from

the original, and others not at all -

and each time you win a battle, my

son, a plane is created where you have

lost. There are an untold number of

What is

Infiniverse?

Back when the concept of Torg first

came into being, the game's designers

hit upon an innovative idea: an inter-

active newsletter which would aDow

gamemasters and players to have a

genuine effect upon the course of the

game's storyline. The idea was that,

given the concept of multiple

cosmver.;es, the Nippon Tech being

adventured in by Party A was in a

different cosmverse from the one be-

ing adventured in by Party B. So each

campaign can be independent of each

other- but if the same thing happens

Worlds Within

Worlds

Welcome to lnfin~ Update, Vol-

ume 1. Within these pages, we'D look

back at the first 18 months of the

lnfiniverse newsletter, and ahead to

someofthe events soon to occur in the

world of Torg: Roleplaying the Possibil-

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