Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Unknown Armies: What You Hear


Avatar Conventions. It’s not always a Godwalker hunting and killing the competition. Some of these people know how to have a good time.
  • The Outlaw Journalist convention in Macau, covering the Grand Prix. A lot of money changing hands, billionaires behaving badly. The mainland government is cracking down on reporters. The journos don’t call themselves outlaws because they follow the rules.
  • The Wage Slave convention in Walcott, Iowa. Organized by Zardoz O’Cultist, who uses his avatar powers and job at the Ab Imbev warehouse to steal huge amounts of free beer for the event without getting caught.

The Burger of Dorian Grey, a ritual based on an old Burger King ad. Enchant a Whopper so it rots while you stay youthful. Lasts until the burger decays completely, so about a month.

IoooE the gray alien. A hoaxborn, created by a pirate broadcaster who bounced signals off the moon to fool amateur radio operators into believing his transmissions came from space aliens. Abducts people and subjects them to all kinds of horrible tests, in order to provoke them into lying and thereby sustaining his life.

Luke Baker

The Mandatory Reporters, a network of psychiatrists, social workers and behavioral health specialists who feed tips about unusual cases to Blue Line.

The wedding of ¥0 chargers Perry Norikata, Hikikomori Crime Boss and True King and Miyake Nadeshiko, Bento Genius and Tamer of Tsukumogami. Like a lot of Japanese weddings, it takes place in Hawaii. Like a lot of True King avatar food service conspiracy weddings, it gets crashed by a kill team from the Court of the Burger Queen, intent on wiping out the competition.

Porphyrios the dyemaker. Harvests huge numbers of murex snails, painstakingly removes their hypobranchial glands, then boils them to make authentic tyrian purple dye. Sought after by would-be royalists and emperors.

Where’s My Bottle and I Smoke My Friends Down To The Filter, two “artefactories” where dipsomancers and ustrinaturges respectively load charges into magick items. Originally set up by TNI, they accumulated enough social capital and magick power to operate independently after the collapse of the original organization.

Yamete Kudasai, a cabal of Japanese Pornomancers who do voiceovers for hentai (and live action JAV when the performers need to be dubbed over). Per the new school Pornomancy charging schema, they gain significant charges when enough people watch the films they provide audio for.

Dr Yoko Salubria, linguistic anthropologist and wannabe Judge Holden. Tracks down the last speakers of dying languages, records everything, kills them to drive the language extinct, then publishes her findings.



1 comment:

  1. The Burger of Dorian Grey is goddamn funny and just brilliant.

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