| Welcome to Evenstar Weyrhold,
an Alternative 9th Pass PBeM (Play-By-Email). Brand new to the great world of
Online PBeM's based on the excellent Series - The Dragonriders of Pern
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written by Anne McCaffrey. Now for those of you who don't know what Pern is
exactly, I think Jody Lynn Nye says it best in The Dragonlover's Guide To
Pern - " Just what kind of place is Pern? It is a world where you can make a
dragon intelligent, endlessly sympathetic friend who will share your every
thought and hope, and on whose back you can really fly. It is a place where
technology has lost its toehold and pollution never existed. To be sure, it
suffers a terrifying menace called Thread, but between incursions, Pern is still
a world for explorers. The frontiers haven't yet all be crossed." So the short
version is that it is the ideal world for a bunch of writers to get caught up in
and write to their hearts content.
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Now Evenstar Weyrhold has
crossed a new frontier in the Alternative 9th Pass Timeline where it is located
on the Eastern Islands, surrounded by the crystal clear water of the Eastern
Sea. In this 9th Pass there are none of the characters that can be found in Anne
McCaffrey's books, AIVAS was not found nor will it be. Pern at this time has
little to no technology, the year is 2525, the middle of the Pass and Thread is
falling, this is nothing new to most people and even though most fear it they
are more fearful of the far too frequent meteoroids which are crashing down to
the surface, no one can explain why these rocks are falling from the sky, many
believe it is signaling the end of the world. Whatever the cause may be the face
of Pern has changed drastically, many of the larger Weyr's have been struck by
these massive rocks from the sky and destroyed, so the over flooding of Dragons,
Riders and just general Crafts men and residents of Pern are looking to a new
place to live, they are traveling to the less known parts of Pern, hoping to
escape the bombardment form the sky. That is how the people of Pern found their
way to the Eastern Island's, Evenstar Hold has been set up for 5 turns since the
meteoroids began falling, and for just 2 turns a Weyrhold was created close by
to offer protection from Thread, allowing the Hold to Expand and allowing people
to come out from under the rocks, and out into the open. |