Hello Jeff,

Unfortunately and as much as I would like to contribute my writing skills are lacking which leaves me out of the story line. My guess is that the downport and spacer hang outs should have some detail. The general size of the city should be described with major locations detailed.

Tom Rux

> On July 20, 2018 at 5:47 PM Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm sure many of us are fantasy fans, if perhaps less so than SF or Space
> Opera. I'm equally sure that many of us have read at least part of the
> Thieves' World series, and know the genesis of that project.
>
> So...
>
> Suppose I were to propose a similar project for Freelance Traveller: You
> come up with a character, and you write stories. After other characters
> appear, you can use them in your stories, but you can't kill them (unless
> you own the character) or do permanent physical damage (unless the
> character's owner allows). More-or-less everything would happen in a city,
> general TL of 8 (no grav control), but commo, medicine, and computers can
> be as high as TL10. The city is the "port city/startown" of a downport that
> handles mostly ship's boats or modular cutters coming down from skyside,
> with perhaps the occasional scout/courier (Type S) or free trader (Beowulf
> or Marava).
>
>   1. Who would be interested in participating (and willing to commit the
>      time to actually write)?
>
>   2. How well should the city be defined before getting started?
>
>   3. Would people be interested in _reading_ this?
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