"Not alone. Many people are thinking the same thing right now. There's a gathering at The Paliseum. The beat is the same for all."
"Not alone. Many people are thinking the same thing right now. We all see the same smiling dead guy in a couple of X-es and a circle. And a curve. The beat is the same for all."
"Was I right? Is it a dead guy smiling?"
"Yes. You're the twenty-third person to get it right. And I've asked twenty-three people. Looks like it's a dead guy smiling to the entire human race."
"Okay... what does it mean?"
"He defeated History. We are living in the age of History, and in the eyes of History we are always already dead. How can we ever smile, then? Because History is a lie, and so are its deaths..."
"I'm thinking maybe the smiling dead guy is a symbol for communism. It's also dead, but doesn't care."
"C'mon. Okay, then." He looks surprised and a bit disappointed. "You don't have to describe it. What did you want to know about the sticker?"
"Hey, it kind of does look like you." He thinks for a moment. "Surely a sign of things to come. What did you want to ask about it?"
"Seems like my creation has found its way into the legal bureaucracy. What did you want to ask about it?"
"Cool. The ban on foulness, that's the moralists' plot to alienate us from our bodily functions so they can control us more fully..."
"The hard core aesthetic is esoteric. It is not meant to be discussed with the law at this moment." He picks up some sort of a widget.
It's not easy to reach a harmonic resonance of sines without some adjustment.
It's not easy to reach a harmonic resonance of sines without some adjustment.
"Yes, further sine-matching would do good for us. One way to achieve this would be by getting us into the church."
"I can see that. Further sine-matching would do good for us. One way to achieve sine-synchronicity would be by getting us into the church."
He cringes. "Weird stuff. Specialized. There was a data processor and some sort of long-wave machinery."
"Wires going into water. Gives off a spy sine, or some fucked up Samaran science sine... you know, the kind that goes head first into the supra-natural."
The People's Republic of Samara (SRV) is a product of Revachol's sister revolution on the isola of Graad. It's known as a severely degenerated rogue state.
"Don't be too hard on Samara, they're all alone in the world. Half of what we know of them is just propaganda."
Conceptualization
Egg Head
Acele
Kim Kitsuragi
Interfacing
Logic
Rhetoric
Authority
Half Light
Volition
Visual Calculus
Shivers
Reaction Speed
Suggestion
Pain Threshold
Savoir Faire
Drama
Esprit de Corps