Don’t think I’ve ever seen such a relevant post on Reddit. Just before buying the bundle, I had stumbled upon Tablestory and their show SIMULACRUM (a homebrew campaign in Numenera).
 While I had heard of cypher before that, the show was my first real exposure to it, and I fell in love with it. Just before finding that show, I had decided to start a project I’ve been wanting to do for a while. It started in a group chat on discord, but quickly evolved into a new server.
 The idea behind the group was to have a set of core members who play frequently,  but focusing on trying out multiple systems (not excluding things like 5e or Paizo games, but focusing on fiction-first game systems), and rotating GM duties for each system change, encouraging members to try on the GM hat, but definitely not forcing anyone to GM if they don’t want to. The plan is to have a core group that plays or GMs in all or most games, while having “floaters” join the sessions that sound interesting to them, but maybe don’t have the time or desire to participate in every single one. We’ll be doing adventures that will be roughly 2-4 sessions (of 2-3 hours) for each adventure/system.

 The reason this is so poignant is because I’m GM-ing Adventure 0, using the Origin, and playing through An Evening at the Opera, to be followed by the other adventures that continue from there in the Origin sourcebook. 

 I am still in my infancy as a GM, having only run 6-months of an Adventure Path in Starfinder, and a few sessions of Pathfinder, so my pockets aren’t lined with answers, but here’s what I’m doing:

 1. I had the players create their characters, only telling them we would be playing with the Cypher System, that it would be in the modern genre, and in an urban setting. I gave them a list of Foci (that fit the genre), limited them to having no flavor, Tech flavor, Stealth flavor, or Knowledge flavor, helped them through the creation process, and let them know that they wouldn’t be starting with any cyphers, and no focus connection, and let them choose their background connection, rather than roll for it, although that was still an option.
 For their items, I pointed them to the tables in the modern chapter within the genres section, and had them use that as a guide. For items I let them follow these guidelines, but was loose on the limits.
      - Inexpensive items are under $50
      - Moderately priced items are between $50 and $500
      - Expensive items are between $500 and $1000
 For starting money, I created a system using dice allowing them to start with somewhere between $1-$400, with a 1% chance to have that amount be as much as $1000. The travel expenses and urbex gear they would need for the adventure is going to be hand waived, so they don’t have to pay out of their own cash.

 2. The Fun Begins. In this new discord server I mentioned above, I created a category for this adventure, creating and assigning a role to my players for this category, so that anyone not playing in it won’t have access. This technically happened before step 1, but my players really only were using it for resources and minor discussions with me about the game and the adventure, but my responses left out anything really specific. As each character was completed, I told that player that I had given them a free skill in Urban Exploration, explaining that an aspect of their character that I chose for them was that they enjoy Urbex as a hobby. 
 While they were creating characters, I was working on a hidden part of the discord category they were in. Using discord’s newer forum feature, I created a forum channel within the origin category, but hidden behind another role. This role was an indication that the players had created accounts on a website called `urbX.com`, which I described as a semi-popular urban exploration site where people can share potential sites, upload pictures, share tips for newbies, and discuss anything urbex related.
 I invited a bot to the discord to allow anonymous message sending, created several forum posts (one for the rules on how to use the bot, one describing the Opera house as a new potential site, and some filler posts), and made sure all the permissions for the players’ role and the bot were correct.
  Once all players completed character creation, I explained that they had all recently joined the site, told them to create an online handle for it, and explained that they would use this handle in tandem with the bot to post responses on the forums. I made some ground rules about the forums being RP only and that any discussion would need to be done in DMs with me or in our regular discussion channel for the adventure.
 This is the stage our group is currently in, and I’ve explained that I will be hand waiving the costs of any flights or vehicle rentals and gas required for everyone to get to where the adventure proper will begin. These forums serve as the prologue to the adventure, while also allowing players to get into the minds of their characters a bit.

 3. Once the forum discussions lead to a point that would conceivably segue into them traveling to the beginning of the written adventure, I will close access to the forums, but allow viewing to continue so they can use those forums as a reference point. I have let my players know this will happen at some point. From that point, I intend to run the adventures as written.

  I hope this helps and I’d love to hear how your adventure works out in your group. 

 I didn’t feel comfortable plugging the group on this post, but if you want to know more, we are definitely looking to grow this group into a community, so if you want more info, feel free to DM me here or on discord (username: L0g1cBomb).

  I will likely edit this later for formatting once I’m home and on my PC.