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pShift is a science fiction/cyberpunk role playing environment. It takes place in its own universe, not parallel to ours, and is not based on any previously existing games or works of fiction. It is currently used as the setting for an unsupported private room on the Illusionairy Minds Chat (online role playing chatroom) system. The general concept for the setting is that of a world--much like our planet, but not Earth--perhaps a century more advanced than our own. In this world, not only has time travel become possible, but popular; too popular, as the technology has become illegally accessible across the globe, and time jumps have ravaged the world's historical stability. As a result, the history and present of the world is always changing--new technologies will sprout and disappear, old facts become fiction while old fiction becomes fact, and nothing ever stays totally the same for long. From the perspective of the average citizen, everything is fine. As far as they know, no matter how many changes take place or how often, the new version of the world is the way the world has always been. This does, however, put a little pressure on players, who have to compensate by changing their characters' memories, and considering what might be different about their lives with each change. Then there are the time travelers, commonly known as Jumpers. Characters who have traveled through time, are less likely to be effected by the paradigm shifts, as they themselves have become gradually more separate from the global paradigm. With each journey through the timestream, a Jumper becomes more and more a separate being from the rest of the paradigm. Their minds become clearer, and their memories remain intact; also, they become less likely to be effected by technological changes and the like from paradigm shifts. (In other words, their equipment will stay with them, instead of changing with the rest of the world.)
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