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In
his own words, Paul describes CyberKitties:
They're
riders at the gates of dawn, and they take no prisoners.
...The time is in the mid 2060's. Cyberpunk is the name of the game.
In-built "skull computers" and plug-in "headware"
are the trend of the age; the virtual world of the computer net
is as real as the physical city, and the streets run with the powers
of myth and new-age magic.
Cool!
...At the heart of our story are the three Cyberkitties - a team
of felines trying to carve success out of chaos. These three girls
have formed the Cat Byte net-running and P.I. agency. Cat Byte also
delivers pizzas - the only way to pay the rent and keep everyone
in circuit boards.
Cat Byte provides the girls with an ongoing series of stupid job
commissions. When coupled with the girl's unique ability for getting
into trouble all by themselves, this leads to a rather unpredictable
lifestyle...
...Our stories take place in New-Seattle in the year 2060. The city
is a vast network of chrome towers, streetlights and perpetual rainshower.
Neon billboards advertise ludicrous products ("Sputnik Fizz
- for that great potato taste!"). In style, think of it as
a Bladerunner metropolis gone mad. The streets are filled with poseurs,
cyberpunks, wandering robots, and N-dimensional entities from another
world.
Alexandra
(Alex for short)
A Street Samurai
Keyphrase: "COOL!"
Hair: Cyberfur technologies "slinky feel" deluxe
Eyes: Panamatic 221 opto-implants (with telephoto - cool!)
Compection: Siamese Cat
Known associates: Night crew, "Parts R Us"
Ambitions: Star interview in Popular Mechanics
Powers: The weaponeer of the group, Alex is usually festooned with
all sorts of utterly duboius guns. Virtually her entire body is
cybernetic; she can be blown completely apart and survive to whine
about the fact that she's just broken a nail. All sorts of hidden
devices and tools are built into her - any of which can be revealed
or malfunction at any time for comic effect. These items include
a toaster, power drills and a vitamiser. A vacuum foot screws into
the bottom of her tail for doing housework.
Description: Clinically insane! This is our "Street Samurai",
a manic, blindly cheerful Siamese Cat girl. Alex is equipped with
ludicrous death dealing hardware surgically implanted into the most
damned ulikely places. Alex is now mostly cybernetic, and can quite
happily be knocked to pieces, only requiring reassembly in order
to be fit for action once again.
Too bad her assembly instructions are in Cantonese.
Alex is passionately in love with gadgets, and neat new toys are
her major obsession (well, that and blowing things up). She claims
to still be under warranty.
Svelte and friendly, Alex is the only Cyberkitty that could be construed
as being "glamorous" - although the point is moot, since
she spends her days watching idiotic gameshows, assembling new weapons
and using them on anything which will sit still long enough to let
her.
Dressed in sci-fi military gear (designer label), Alex is blonde,
and terribly terribly enthusiastic about absolutely everything.
Morgana
A dark childe of the city
Keyphrase: "I hate my life"
Hair: Carbon black
Eyes: Surly
Compection: Gothic
Known associates: Claims to hate everyone equally
Ambitions: To stride across the rooftops of the world (because she's
a child of tomorrow with hate written in her eyes). Alternatively,
to find a cure to her split ends.
Powers: Morgana can interface with the virtual world of "NETSPACE",
zooming a computer 'ghost' of herself through a crazy world of information
pathways. This is used to steal information from corporate computers,
break security systems - or to fix the high-score tables on arcade
machines so that she can get a free game!
Description: The "Decker" or "Net runner" of
our team - a girl who taps into the computer matrix via plugs and
sockets built into her skull. Obsessed with maintaining an air of
sophisticated, intellectual suffering, Morgana takes pretention
to whole new extremes. She dreams of eating ramen noodles in the
rain - of standing brooding on dark rooftops, or being swept up
by a vampire as his bride of darkness.
To this end, Morgana wears black. Black boots, tight black clothes,
and her hair is (inevitably) black. She listens to gloomy esoteric
music so bad that it can make grown men scream and women real for
weapons. Her bookshelves are stocked with French romantic poetry.
Morgana never dances at nightclubs. She says she's dancing on the
inside.
She read her own poetry out to her pot-plant until it uprooted itself
and died.
Morgana can never hold down a boyfriend - being this miserable is
a 24 hour a day job!
Morgana has a mohawk haircut (left loose and flowing) which exposes
the plugs and sockets she uses to directly plug computers into her
head. Her cheap skullplugs constantly short-out and blast power
through her brain - but somehow, she almost seems to like it.
-At the very least, it keeps her quiet.
Morgana is the voice which narrates gloomy introductions to stories,
pretentiously over-using cyberpunk cliches until told to chill-out
and shut up.
Tammi
A new-age mage
Keyphrase: "All property is theft, man - I read it in my biorhythm."
Hair: Biodynamic blonde (with grass roots)
Eyes: Rainforest green
Compection: Earth mother
Known associates: "Like, birds an' flowers and stuff."
Ambitions: To fit pneumatic tyres to the wheel of Karma.
Powers: Tammi can cast magic - usually with dubious results. Cheap
packet spells are the bane of her life. She can levitate, summon
little gremlins as helpers, and send an electric shock through her
companions - usually the only way of stopping their incessant bickering.
Description: A Californian blonde bimbo turned new-age magician.
She's -like- "totally into this spell thing, you know?"
Vague, enthusiastic, and obsessed by magical paraphenalia, Tammi
somehow manages to blend a hodge-podge of idiotic mythologies into
a semi-functional magic power.
A bit rounder and softer than her companions, she wears big old
glasses and is festooned with charms and gee-gaws. She normally
wears deerskin shirts, peace symbols and moccassins.
Tammi is fond of misquoting imaginary sources. she hasn't read the
Golden Bough - but she has read On Golden Pond. Most of her spells
come out of packets she gets out of the mailbox attached to magazines.
She habitually clips coupons from comic books to gain x-ray specs
and magic power crystals. She has a "detector", Rikki
the Tiki Tabi - a feline "Tiki" doll which screams blue
murder whenever danger threatens (bad news when you're trying to
sneak past some guards).
Happy-go-lucky and utterly content, Tammi is the perfect foil for
Morgana's misery or Alex's manias. Tammi misuses her powers just
to help giver her a cool lifestyle. The girl is a complete airhead
- perpetually cheerful and forever meddling with powers she doesn't
understand. Very mellow. |