You wake up. You see white snow spreading all the way to the distant horizon. The unfamiliar world seems covered to be in a shroud of silence. You don’t know who or what you are. Yet you feel mysterious wildness inside you, a calling that you must follow. Time to start your journey!
A sophisticated, lazy (as you don’t even have to move it) version of a dice cup – that’s the way I would define the dice tower. Going by the wiki definition though “it’s an object used by players to throw dice fairly. The dice fall from the top of the tower and bounce off various platforms inside, until they reappear in front. The purpose of the tower is to eliminate some forms of cheating used when throwing dice by hand. There are many forms of towers differing in assembly and construction”.
In the history of Japan there was a period known as Sengoku. Started with a coup d’etat of the Meiō era, when Masamoto Hosokawa exiles Ashikaga clan’s tenth shogun from the capital. A time, when local rulers – the daimyō – incessantly fought for power and influence. Only after a hundred years, when Hideyoshi Toyotomi subordinates the Hōjō clan and unites all the provinces, the fighting for domination comes to an end. Today we will assume the roles of samurai, participants in this hundred-year struggle, in a quick card game – Zipang Portable.
You were In the Sector 5 lobby when it happened. The lights flickered for a moment before they went down entirely. When the red emergency lighting turned on you heard the first screams. A crowd of panicked voices in your headsets was drowned out by the announcement: “Red alert! All UAC personnel, code red safety violation in the dimensional gate research facility..”
Are you feeling lonely? Has your better half left the Town for the weekend? Or maybe you have some free time on your hands and wish to occupy them with something? If the answer is “Yes, but how do I start on the path to handcraft glory?” you’re in the right place.
On that hot night we burned ICE, from the window in the distance one could see a constantly working Beanstalk. Outside, a myriad neon lights that never slept attracting hundreds of moths, but in Raymond’s room only the monitor screen emanated with bleak light – except for the LEDs on the casing of Cyberdeck. It looked fairly ordinary, a standard Haas CS-7, but I’ve modified it so many times, you couldn’t find a trace of the original circuits in it. From time to time we’d manage to peel another layer of the conspiracy onion…
Through this game you can become a Ninja, so wear a black assassin’s outfit, aim well and dodge quickly. There is no room for honor here.
