Dennō Coil and A.R.

[Kesteven]

I don't know if anyone here's heard of Dennō Coil, it's an anime, one of the best I've yet seen, about the adventures of some children as they play with a fictional Augmented Reality technology, using illegal 'hacks' and exploits to manipulate the system as they investigate mysteries, rumours and urban legends surrounding it.

If you haven't heard of it then I recommend it as an excellent near-future (yet strangely nostalgic) science fiction, and you couldn't go wrong by at least looking over the wikipedia page to get an idea of what it's about.

I don't usually like playing RPs derivative on other popular fiction, but this is one exception I'd be willing to make. Otherwise, I'd be just as happy to play something in a similar vein but without the commitments involved in remaining true to an existing franchise. The tabletop RPG Shadowrun also explores similar ideas about A.R. but in a more gritty and dystopic cyberpunk way in it's vision of the Matrix (not to be confused with any matrices in other eponymous franchises), so if you're interested you could also look at that for inspiration. Ghost in the Shell also addresses a number of themes I'd want to explore, like data-entities, brain-hacking, and so on.

Basically, what I'm proposing is an RP about A.R., probably near-future sci-fi, which blurs the lines between real and unreal, with perhaps a touch of mystery and magical realism. Anyone interested?