PQL2 was launched in July 2002, shortly after the release of Project Quantum Leap. We started off strong, with some 25 members, but time took a toll and we slipped to 7 or 8 die-hards. The sudden disappearance of our original leader was also a serious blow. We have survived though, and now after a bit of reorganizing we are moving forward again. A new name, Issues, has been adopted for the project, and we are now growing again and hope to grow more with the communitys support.

The plan is simple. Our team of members are working away developing our story side of the development and we'd like you the community to help us by contributing maps to Issues.

Like its predecessor, the idea behind Issues is to collect maps created by many different individuals into a single incoherent map pack. Unlike the original PQL, however, we have decided to loosely bind these up in a story - of which only some of the maps will be a part, so it will still be pretty incoherent. This was our first major change to the orginial idea of Project Quantum Leap. The idea behind PQL was a totally incoherent map pack with no story to bind the maps. However, the reviews for PQL stated that the lack of story was slighty annoying. The Issues team has been able to come up with a story that fits in with the incoherantness and without further ado, I present it to you:

The story

Mission Briefing - for the eyes of Col. Freeman

As you may be aware, our government has been conducting sensitive and highly secret research into extra-dimensional travel for most of the past decade. For security reasons, and for the safety of our citizens, the principle research center is located at Station Alpha 6, a remote, cold-war era early warning station near Barrow Alaska.

Two days ago, during an experiment in simultaneous multilocular displacement, an uncontrolled vortex portal was briefly created. Before it could be shut down Dr. Trobech, the original discoverer of inter-dimensional travel, was sucked through. The research team believes he may well have survived, and was probably transported to one of several possible dimensions.

Dr. Trobech is vital to our extra-dimensional travel program. Without him the project will be set back years - years our intelligence suggests we may not have. We believe that other forces may be developing similar technology - both here in our own dimension, and in certain dimensions beyond.

Your mission, Col. Freeman, is to search each of the possible dimensions Dr. Trobech may have been transported to, and bring him safely back.

You should be aware that extra-dimensional travel is still an uncertain business. Inorganic matter often fails to transition, so you may find yourself with little or no equipment, and the portals frequently lead to dangerous, unstable areas.

The research team has prepared the transport portals for you.

Good Luck!