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