Pope and Guthrie's fascination with the 'soft underbelly' of the WWW resulted in 'a unique piece that connects the real with the virtual through online software and a gallery installation.

The artists had been researching a number of online multi user 'games', text only virtual spaces created with software originally conceived before the arrival of the World Wide Web, but facilitated through computer networks. They found the nature of human to human interaction within these role playing games of great interest, describing "the absence of anything more than a 'code of honour' in most of these [games] that delineated the players' conduct."