I don't reward my players for doing out-of-game 'homework' as it would be a bit frustrating for them to miss out if they have too much going on in RL that week to get anything done. Still, there are two players in my game who consistently work on projects outside the game. One of the players is usually looking at the day to day crunchie stuff for our group. He's the one that works on building things, including the new hideout/HQ. The other one does great fluff as his character is a teenaged technomancer that keeps a blog. If there is any reward for him, it is probably that I go in after he's posted the blog and add comments from readers. Here is the text version of one such posting (which excludes some of the cooler features the player adds such as the Owie List - a series of

related to how much hurtin' various members of the party received during the episode). You can see where I use the blog comments as a perfect place to introduce or keep up with metaplots, and in this case make references to material found in Emergence that ties in with a minor story arc.
G-ournal
Well I want to welcome you all back for another issue of G-ournal. It’s been another few typical days in the sprawl. There were bad guys, (well badder than us anyway), bullets and even a boom. Uncle M ‘s note holder gave us a job. It seems someone took something of his and he wanted us to get it back. Naturally all was not what it seemed (when is it ever? You know that should be chapter 1 in the Shadow handbook, “They Lie�). The one who we thought was the heavy turned out to be sort of a ghetto version of Robin Hood. Anyway we went to “D’s� and had a disagreement with some less than pleasant persons in the parking lot, it’s a sad comment on our society that people have no manners. On the upside Uncle GB got us a couple of boom sticks. Boys are so easily entertained. A little while later Uncle M & Uncle RS started arguing, I mean the sounded like my parents. Maybe they should just get a room and get it over with, (Oh wait, they already live together. How weird is that?) Then Uncle P & M had an Italian lunch, the rest of us had to make do with a big doggie bag (Trolls can really pack away the pasta). But Uncle RS and I got pretzels it was so chill. Then we went to the without apparel gyration station. There we had a discussion that of course involved loud noises and the usual resulting loss of bodily fluids. I went byte to byte with a Trixter. My friends and I kicked his ass. Then I grabbed a metal man. While all this was going on My Uncles were giving and receiving owies, again with my, the boys are so easily amused theory. Uncle M’s note holder got RTFRM’d (reduced to fine red mist), no big loss there. We got some loot and a little cash too. We might have a new roof over our heads soon. I still haven’t been to school, yet. I’ll give the boys a little while longer before I pout.
PS. Mystery visitor you’re welcome here too, for now
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> first!!!1!
> throwbackh8r
> Can we ban that guy?
> Super Trouper
> I don’t mean to be a thread-jacker, but we’ve got some news on your “Mystery visitor� GG. It is hard to be sure, but it appears to have been a very well coded agent. We haven’t tracked down the hacker that created it, but from its complexity I’m thinking it is military. The whole thing freaks me out, considering all the talk of anomalies floating around the Matrix right now. Just keep your eyes open and your head low.
> Rayne Report
> You want weird? Check out Evo’s node. You might have to search the cache if they’ve already scrubbed it, but the whole home page was covered in some strange haiku.
> Glitch
> I’m getting really damned sick of all the Troll stereotyping there is on this site!
> Horny Vegan
> Get a life, Vegan! Geeze. Some folks actually do fill the stereotypes…I know I’m your typical asshole elf that would like to put his foot up your warty ass.
> The Joker
> So, anyone seen the news? That weird story about the kid in the cab? Maybe that’s what crashed this site a little while ago?
> Dream Catcher
> I’ve heard someone murdered that little boy. Cut the top of his head right off and scooped out his brain. That true, or just another urban legend?
> Chuckles
> Dude, don’t spread nonsense BS like that around the tubes…
> Dream Catcher
> You’re much better suggesting that cab-jacking-freak had something to do with the G-ournal?
> Chuckles
> Boys, enough!
> Glitch