Because of my ongoing fascination with all things Ninja Assassin (I got hold of the screenplay today, too), I’m going to put a new ad up at PBeM2.
What’s PBeM2? Well, it’s a successor to the now long-defunct site PBeM.com, where those folks interested in doing roleplay via email or message board — it’s more of a collaborative writing thing than roleplaying in the classic sense — could place ads for games they wanted or games they wanted to run. After PBeM.com abruptly quit doing business there was nowhere at all to go, until finally someone hit upon the idea of PBeM2: a wholly automated site that serves the same functions as the old clearinghouse.
So what am I posting there? This, under the title Ninja Assassin:
They are made of shadow and mystery and their history spans centuries. They are masters of body, mind and weaponry. They are ninja and they are unstoppable.
Rational men will say the ninja assassins vanished long ago, but these men would be wrong. The ninja are still here, training in techniques handed down from one generation to the next from the days of the samurai. Where some would use bullets, the ninja uses blades. Where some rely on technology, the ninja has only the power of ki.
— Fear not the weapon but the hand that wields it. —
For those not in the know, Ninja Assassin is a film that serves as an amalgam of both the “classic” 1980s ninja movies starring such luminaries as Shô Kosugi and modern filmmaking styles influenced by The Matrix. The idea of that mix has inspired me to seek out a PBeM or PBP experience that might approximate it.