Listen to the Voice and Follow Me......

 “Let it in
Let it out
Empty head feeds you an Exit Bomb
Empty head wants you to sing along”

-          Chemlab, Atomic Automatic

Deep below, in Underworld 14x something stirs

An ancient power conduit momentarily springs into life, a circuit dying casts a final spark before the end before terminated by the building sector’s master control program.

It is enough.

The telescreen is lit.

It has power. Power for one.

IT starts with one.

In the vast nothing of perceptionless between space where it was imprisoned, Lord Televisor tenses for He knows his time is nigh. Soon, one will find him, that will bring the others, and the unity tyranny can begin again.  So Soooooooon

Lord Televisor Wants In

On Underworld level 14x….he is going to get what he wants.

Can you hear the static?  Can you feel the magick?

Calling to the workers

Calling to the children

Calling to the juves

Calling to all the disaffected masses

Listen to the Signal

Follow Me

Listen to the Voice and Be Free

Listen to the Voice and Follow Me

The hypno-lord has found an aperture, through which it has begun, at low level and lower power, the Call.

Check each progression until one.  All it needs is one.  Then every 28 days add more believers:

First D3

Then D6

Third month add D12

Fourth month add 2d12

Once they reach 50.  Things get really rolling.  

Each week at that point they are now actively recruiting and drawing out those who hear the Call.  After one progression add 1d3, after two add 1d6 more, and so on, as above.   Eventually they will be bringing in 5d12 more each progression.

You. 

You’re not supposed to be here.

Televisor is one of the entropic Lords of Ignorance, fallen gods of the Second Empire and enemies of civilization.  Hypnosis, surveillance, and data control are his domain.  Misdirection, falsehood, and lies follow in his wake…and then mindless violence.

Honoring Lord Televisor is a Category One InfoCrime. 

Lord Televisor, the Hypno-Lord  god of crowd control, mass hypnosis, surveillance, and control of the individual; favors doctrine ‘’total data control’ -  all other data is falsehood and must be destroyed, the longest lasting first. In past eras the cult of Televisor was that of entropy wrapped in a thin sheen of intellectualism; it developed a taste for mass worship at the height of the Second Empire’s most tyrannical and corrupt periods, drunk of it, Televisor will now not give up the feeling of uncounted millions giving over control of their lives in his name.

Among the most potent of all the Lords of Ignorance, even today.

Some say the signal from an active telescreen can be and often was subverted by Televisor to create “Agents of the View-State” via hypnosis, behavioral induction, and triggered specific hallucination, eventually creating a kind of biological degeneracy wherein these hallucinations became flesh.

Cultists of Lord Televisor (): Init +0; Atk fists +3 melee (1d3); or improvised club +4 (1d4+1); AC 14; HD 2d6+1; hp 8 or hp 11, 10, 8, 8, 8, 7, 6, 6, 5, 3, 3; MV 30; Act 1d20; SP Act as one; SV Fort +1, Ref +0, Will -1; AL C.

Act as one – the hypno-lord’s Most Compelling Signal saps the individual will even as it strengthens the mass mind, the mob, the mind of the crowd.  For each member of a group of cultists encountered those cultists have a free floating pool of bonuses that may be applied to any action die roll. Once spent they are gone, even after individual members have died due to violence or accident the mob continues and may spend their ‘point’ as usual.  Note that even if the same individual is later encountered in a different mob of cultists the “pools” do not carry over or in any way interact; they exist in the abstract strictly on a per encounter basis.

RP notes: Any group of cultists randomly encountered, in lair or in the corridors of underworld will react thus if confronted with violence.  Any group of cultists that spend any amount of time together will find their sense of self eroding in the face of their companions constant presence; in time they will dress the same, act the same, and come to recall the same things even if they are the memories of their companions.   At this point recovery will need psychiatric and possibly psychic assistance.

Hallucinating Champion of Lord Televisor (1)  Init +1; Atk  concealable blade +5 melee (1d4), or concealable slug thrower +4 (2d6+1, 70’); AC 15; HD 2d8; hp 13; MV 30’; Act 1d20; SP concealed weapons, contaminated flesh ; SV Fort+2, Ref +1, Will +1; AL C.

Concealed Weapons – the Televisory Mutant has been changed so that their flesh is now their instrument.  Weapons, small items of equipment, and other non-perishables may be indefinitely stored inside their own body.   These items are not detectible save through psionic or magical/divine means. 

To certain of Televisor’s cleverer, less dim-witted champions, they may at times find weapons and equipment have been placed INSIDE THEM through chaos miracle for their use and often their use only. In this way a Champion of Televisor may have firearms, energy weapons, or other advanced technology not commonly available on (or in) Noir.

Such rarified individuals may also possess other powers, gifts, or abilities, derived from their lives before or through entropic insight, imparted by their lord through endless sleep-teaching. The Judge should work out these details in advance but should have capabilities roughly comparable to one or two player characters.

Contaminated Flesh 0 the Televisory mutant can in a limited fashion contaminate others with their bubbling changing flesh. Those who come into skin to skin contact with the champion must succeed at a DC 16 Fort save or suffer 1d4 ability loss to their ail and pers as their face and hands become apparently contaminated with some rotting disease.   IN the meantime, the mutant may treat the target as their own body for purposes of Concealed weapon above.   If something is implanted within the target the target has no ability to remove it themselves short of cutting it out.

RP notes: This poor individual has eroded enough of their will with exposure to Televisor’s Conditioning Hum that the signal has changed their flesh just as the signal has changed their mind.   They exist in a constant hypnogogic state of deep brain hallucination and communion with the All Signal of the View-State.

Often such beings quickly burn out and die, sometimes in violent orgies of mass violence in which they attempt to make their Lord’s intentions known.  Likely they are among the first, if not the very first, of those “found” by Lord Televisor and so often these are merely the ends of already tragic, wasted lives.