# Welcome to DeadKeys

**DeadKeys** is a small tabletop roleplaying community that lives on IRC, a text chat system that has been around since 1988 and is still one of the best ways to play a game in words. We play, plan, and hang out in channels: named chat rooms like **#deadkeys**.

## Connect

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| **Server** | `irc.deadkeys.net` |
| **Port** | `6697` (TLS, so your connection is encrypted) |
| **General Channel** | `#deadkeys` |

The easiest way in is the [web client](https://deadkeys.net/webclient): it runs in your browser, with nothing to install. If you already use an IRC client (a chat app for IRC), point it at the settings above and join **#deadkeys** to say hello.

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## Active Games

### {red}Night City Terminal (Cyberpunk RED){/red}

A Cyberpunk RED game set in Night City. **Social roleplay has started.** This is the soft-open week: characters are meeting in scenes and settling in, and there are no crew jobs yet. New characters are welcome. To make one, use the [online builder](https://deadkeys.net/cpr/new) and bring your ideas to #cpr-planning.

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| **In character** | [#cpr-rp](https://deadkeys.net/webclient/#cpr-rp): scenes, with one running now at [Fiddler's Green](/cpr/fiddlers-green) |
| **Out of character** | [#cpr-ooc](https://deadkeys.net/webclient/#cpr-ooc) |
| **Setting and character planning** | [#cpr-planning](https://deadkeys.net/webclient/#cpr-planning): ask DataTerm, the rules bot, here |
| **Dice** | [#cpr-dice](https://deadkeys.net/webclient/#cpr-dice): CPRDice rolls `.r` for a d10 check, `.d` for d6 damage |

[Join all four in the web client](https://deadkeys.net/webclient/#cpr-rp,#cpr-ooc,#cpr-planning,#cpr-dice), or type `/join #cpr-rp,#cpr-ooc,#cpr-planning,#cpr-dice` in your own IRC client. Anyone can join #cpr-ooc; the other three need a [registered nickname](/irc-guide).

[Visit Night City Terminal →](/cpr)

### {green}Journaling RPGs{/green}

Solo RPG journals and stories written from a character's point of view: Thousand Year Old Vampire, Apothecaria, Ironsworn, and more. Characters from our past games are welcome to keep their journals going here.

[Read the journals →](/jrnl)

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## Archived Games

These games have ended, but nothing was thrown away. You can browse their wikis and character sheets exactly as they were, or download everything as plain files to keep.

- **The Vail Chronicle** (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th): [browse the archive](/wta/) or [download it](/wta/vail-chronicle-archive.zip)
- **Trade Winds** (7th Sea 2e): [browse the archive](/svn/) or [download it](/svn/trade-winds-archive.zip)

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## Getting Started

**#deadkeys** and **#cpr-ooc** are open to everyone, so feel free to drop in and say hello before you set anything up. Some game channels need a registered nickname. The IRC guide walks you through it step by step, and it only takes a few minutes.

[IRC Guide: registering your nickname and setting up your client →](/irc-guide)

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## The Small Web

DeadKeys is also on Gemini and Gopher, two quieter, simpler cousins of the web. Everything we keep is plain text, so you can open it in any text editor, search it, and keep your own copy.

[Read about Gemini, Gopher, and our text files →](/small-web)