Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@zx3 Are you up for a deep dive on "Clean, Clean," then, because I just ran into a lyrics interpretation that sounds bonkers to me and I need to unload on SOMEONE who will appreciate it!

@LexYeen Hey, some people thrive on that kind of mistreatment!

I am not one of them. "I'm not like you people. I'm loved!"</marge> I like games that respect my time and at no point make me want to headbutt *anything*.

My first girlfriend buttdialed me at 6 am this morning. I only JUST remembered it happened, even though we had a lovely (and probably somewhere incoherent) three-minute conversation.

It was nice. Runnerwolf's a sweetie. Really smart for a canid type. 😺​

@chimerror It was just so simple! All I did was kitty and now I'm making over sixteen hours a day in naps! 🐯​

@Phorm Definitely Pufnstuf. I've already got an antidote stored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFF61eaiQcI [CW: juvenile, sexual, and pottymouthed]

@zx3 added to master document <3 only had time to skim but fuck yeah <3

i am so freaking excited, love what people have done in response to this

busy workweek so i probably won't do much with it until the weekend if at all, but i wanted to let you know i have definitely not forgotten about any of it, the notebook file for the campaign has already been created and your PC concepts pasted in <3

@monsterblue honestly i was a little bit iffy on the concept fitting in moodwise with something so dark and this picture sold me on it :>

Just tossing jello at the wall here... I would this in my old notes and it's another pretty good summary of what's going on here.

I left the "1988" in even though it looks like this is gonna be set in 2071. It fits the retro-themes I'm going for. The campaign setting is basically "when the 1968-1988 phase of the American Bullshit Cycle repeats itself."

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Imagine an alternate-universe 1988 drawn right from right-wing moral panics, where furry fandom has connected with the corporate self-improvement scene and morphogenetic fringe science, and mutated into a New Age transformation cult backed by West Coast IT money. Basically Yoyodyne, except you have furry TF cultists instead of Red Lectroids. :>

The PCs start as captives in a secret biolab on this transformation cult's hidden compound. Their creators are trying to bridge the gap between human, animal, and spirit and basically reverse engineer angels.

They're also trying to meet their creations halfway. This mostly involves stalking around the compound in creepy animal masks, injecting themselves with untested mutagenics, and speaking in tongues while tripping balls on acid.

The PCs must not only struggle to escape alive, but to maintain their sense of self, stay connected to their fellow specimens, and understand why they're being manipulated. The longer they stall, the faster reality and autonomy slip away from them...

@JulieSqveakaroo Dorsai, turns out!

@dodec YES, that's the one, thank you!

Incidentally, you all get an A+ so far because you clearly get EXACTLY where I wanted to go with this thing.

Even if I don't get to follow-up on any of it-- and I feel VERY motivated to do so right now, even if it might have to wait until next weekend-- you've already proved this is EXACTLY the right crowd to pitch stuff like this at and I am so excited. <3 <3 <3

Quoted from a DM thread, thought it might be of value:

There's that one line in Sandman, and I'm paraphrasing wildly, about the scariest people in the universe being the people who think they're hurting you for everybody's good including yours...

That's Artemus. Imagine the most gobsmacked, cognitively dissonant furry ideologue you've ever met (it's OK if that's me <3 ;) ) and give them a blackops R&D budget.

I am stoned as fuck and can't remember something. Please be my auxiliary brain. That cadre of sci-fi nerds that did con security and named themselves after a corps from a sci-fi/fantasy novel, the ones that did so many furry cons. What were they called?

@Cerulean @eredien I also found both these factoids very charming:

@Cerulean @eredien OK, the Wikipedia summary of Scotland, PA won me over no later than "three stoned hippies, one a fortune teller..."

@zx3 Also I must say that I'm very impressed that you understood the importance of voyvening the GLAYVEN!

@zx3 *listens too* Oh, yeah, you obviously got where I'm going here. I also recommend the following:

Broadcast (esp. the Berbarian Sound Studio soundtrack)
Demdike Stare
Belbury Poly
The Advisory Circle
The Soundcarriers
Pye Corner Audio
Goblin
BoC's Geogaddi of course
Locust Toybox
General Mumble's "Moonmadness"
Burial
The United States of America
and just for shits and giggles Hans Reichel

@eredien Oh great, now I'm gonna up on a multi-hour research crawl on sci-fi slang philology, thanks a LOT. ;p 'Cause I could have sworn I'd seen same portmanteau earlier than that, but I think I'd actually seen "geneered" which is not half as good...

(No, seriously, thanks a lot. <3 )