New Becomings

RULES :   There are no rules; players make them up and choose how to follow them. Groups of players may get together to choose rules that they collectively want, the more people playing within the same rules will affect their own gameplay and that of others nearby (socially, psychologically, physically, emotionally, and/or spiritually). OBJECTIVE: At the start of the game, the main objective is to stay alive. Other objectives come into play as you move through the game. Objectives vary, depending on player, where they are in the game, and what rules they've chosen to play by. Objectives may change throughout the game. BEGINNING: In the beginning, you are born with what The Machine randomly gives you; DNA, parents and their rules, location, type of society and its rules, privileges and/or drawbacks. You may not change these and they affect your decisions throughout the game. As you move through the game, you may change your location or society when you have gained enough "matur...

Certain mornings rouse rumblings that only seem to matter when it's dark and weary; the to-do list too long to list, the has-beens and what-ifs... Light streams through sun motes, sanitizing them in a display of keeping busy. Though that frenzy of foreshadowing soon settles into old, habitual mind-crevices, neglected again, until the contamination gets too big to be ignored. No amount of cleaning the internal house can guarantee, assure, or solve anything. If only these enigmas were deciphered with logical deductions and the best of brooms. The oracle's answers, riddled with mystery, only make sense afterwards; when all is said and done, it reasons: that was how it was meant to go. The cluttering and muttering seem to waste time and space - it's bothersome but there's nothing left to do, except buy and sell, eat, drink, and excrete, collect and forget, dance and sing, listen, learn, write and read, and make messes to be swept... yet, Be Still through it all, centered am...