While playing a unique and entertaining virtual game, the players' real life skills will be improved. The player will select a particular spiritual discipline and learn, practice and experience its principles and precepts in the Spirit Game.
The implication: The player will become a “virtual” master shaman, in real life.
There is another world right beneath our eyes that most us will never realize. But there are a few select individuals, such as Shamans and Witchdoctors, who, through a myriad of training and techniques, are not only able to access this unseen world, they manipulate it at their will.
Game Play Sample
Imagine, for a moment, standing alone at the bottom of a hill, and at the top, your mortal enemy, a dark Shaman stands poised to crush you. At once, the dark shaman begins various incantations, and the earth begins to shake. Up from the tremors rises an army of 1,000s of skeleton warriors. The shaman signals the army forward and before you can react, wave after wave of bloodthirsty soldiers roll over the top of the hill towards you. What do you do?
Though filled with fear and doubt, you have been well prepared for this moment.
Immediately you dig to the depths of your training and begin sending a defensive incantation, which resurrects two 600 foot tall giants. The giants immediately begin plowing through the army like a scythe through a wheat field.
The shaman, anticipates your defense and begins showering you with a million steel piercing darts, but you know you are safe because you just incanted your titanium* armor, making you impervious to the attack. As the darts bounce off like hail on an aluminum roof, you begin to form you next spell.
The shaman, now seeing that he may have underestimated you, opens up an intergalactic dimensional gateway and heads for escape. Tasting victory, you commence the chase. You follow the shaman through gateway after gateway, all-the-while taking counter measures to his strikes and closing off his escape routes. Just when your mortal enemy reaches his final dead-end, and you are about to strike the final blow and seize all his powers, you hear a voice: “hey man, I gotta get some dinner, we’ll finish this later.”
(*Titanium is a material not known to native shamans and they do not know how to work with materials stronger than steel.)
The preceding is a game play example based on the practices of Amazonian Shamanism.
The Spirit MMORPG is a game based on the occult practices and principles of the actual accounts of expert shamans and psychics, putting players in the pilot seat one of the most immersive, innovative videogame universe ever created.
The object of the game is simple: Survive. And in order to survive, you must take an apprenticeship with a shaman, eventually becoming a Master Shaman yourself. Ultimately, you will in turn be expected to take on apprentices and form alliances. But be careful, there will be many along the path that would use deceit to betray and steal your power.
Players of “Spirit” will be given full control of their destiny to choose their own path to Master Shaman. Will they take the often arduous and humble path of the “light” shaman, or will they succumb to the many dark temptations of power and become a dark shaman?
Spirit will be based on the timeless dilemma of choosing good vs. evil, and the many consequences of these choices.
In terms of battles, the potential for clan battles, temporary alliances and complete universe takeovers could be limitless. In terms of quests, the development of each individual player will be completely unique, as his/her actions in the “Spirit” universe shape their unique character and the world around them. Many players may not even be aware of the path they are choosing until the full karmic wheel of their actions has come full circle.
The control system will be similar to other RPGs except that players can use voice recognition software to cast spells verbally in the native shaman’s tongue. There is even great potential with the advent of motion sensitive controllers to cast spells with traditional “wands” via hand movement.
And finally, we come to the most powerful draw to Spirit Game: If this is in fact all real, what path will you choose?