I'm working on an adventure featuring Humanis and am having trouble finding any decent information. Can anybody point me in the direction of a good resource for this policlub or share their views and opinions on how they should be run?

Roughly model them on A Message of Love NOT Hate! , only themed on metahumanity and not race and you'll do fine.

That website is, like, hilarity squared.

Basically the KKK or Neo-Nazis, although their focus is based on (meta)humanity and not race.

-Siege

Just remember, despite what we might think about the humanis as slang for 'fodder' for stressed out PC's, the true danger of the organization lies on the other end of the spectrum in the ones who 'only want to defend humanity' and decide to run for office.

Remember, Karl Brackhaven didn't do half bad when he ran for president and he is openly the Head of the Seattle Humanis!

It's like Aztechnology. We get so hip-deep in everything they actually do that we forget that the rest of the world loves the Azzies to bits.

~J

Holy Crap, does humanis have such a poorly designed web site too?

They can't—since the Crash, FrontPage is no longer available.

~J

Remember, US President Woodrow Wilson once praise the accuracy of The Birth of a Nation, the imfamous film which present the Klu Klux Klan as heros.

This film and prevailing sentiment spurred the recreation of the KKK as a political action group rather than a bunch of vigilanties. This second incarnation of the KKK actually had a good bit of political power due to support from the public and strong ties to certain elected officials.

However, its most outspoken leader was a corrupt rapist who missaprperiated funds and who eventually killed a girl with an overdose of a date rape drug. Congressional hearings followed and the Klan broke up into the isolated cells of wackos that we know today.

The difference between Humanis and the KKK is that Humanis still has a good public image. It has competent leadership and hasn't been hit by the types of scandels that destroyed the second incarnation of the KKK.

Humanis has strong connections in government and in business and it has enough public support to be a serious political contender. That, and it probably has a banal teenage pop band.

Also, humanis isolates itself from violent human supremacist groups. Alamos 40k and a few human suprecimist gangs almost certainly have ties to humanis but they a do a good job of hiding it. Their no violent position is one of the things that makes the palatable to the public at large.

See also whatever forums pop up during a google search of the word "Stormfront." (I'd do one right now, but I'm at work and very seriously don't want to risk that sort of cookie showing up on my pc)

Don't blame me, I voted for General Yates.

that would be such an awesome bumper sticker.

Take a look at Loose Alliances, it will give you a detailed overview about racist groups.

No. The damn beast died. I killed it myself. And smuggled massive evidence for the situation in Chicago out.

Not to mention...


Are you not gonna vote for a Great Dragon? The kind of dragon that's been known to get into Mortal Kombat with cities and armies? And win?

Heheh. I'd have voted for him.

All I want is my Dunkelzhan plushie.

Here's one that's apparently a member of the Drop Bear military equivalent of the Navy Seals. Only he specializes in operations revolving around waste water treatment plant effluent.

He lacks the blood on his mouth. But that has propably been washed away while he was swimming.

That Tiffany who was supposed to ran away from home to hook up with ork rappers?

...you get the taste for...?

EDIT: DON'T HIT THE NEXT BUTTON FROM THIS LINKED PICTURE IF YOU ARE AT WORK!!! Those crazy euros and their s3x toy containing ads. Thanks for the heads up Trax, apologies if anyone got curious and got burnt on that.

P.S. Human civilization really did run out of new literary plots some time back, didn't we.

I would say so, unless you work for a church group or an extreme animal-rights group.

~J

Hrmmm, i can't vouch for the the site in general. It's one of those funny picture ad sites, things that you'd see in public anyway. But i guess it could include european print ads which tend to be a bit racier.

The specific picture i linked was an actual billboard put up by a the pork marketing council in Saskatchewan (Canada). Although G on the surface, it had [likely intentionally] sly wording that made it more PG like subtle stuff in Shrek (an overall PG rated movie). It created a bit of a stir there with the Bible Belt types ( like my Mom ) and got taken down shortly after launch.

Awww... it's a nice little ad. Very funny.

Don't hit next to see the next ad, that is definately NSFW.

Yeah, Saskatchewan is a hotbed of controversy.

Another often overlooked aspect of dealing with Humanis is the number of sympathizers who are not foaming at the mouth racists, but looking for some way to cut down on a) crime, which they are told is most often committed by metas and b) taxes, which they are told is funding metahuman special interest groups. I know I'm just echoing here, but the power of the policlub is in its influence.
You really have to figure that most of your human contacts may have bought into humanis's message to some degree. And in the shadows, who's ear can they bend?
Here's an example. Your fixer has a favourite nephew who disappeared in a race riot in another city just a couple of weeks ago. He's miffed, but doesn't know who to be miffed with. Coupla days later, a source 'suggests' that the nephew was raped and flayed to death by orcs 'cause "everybody knows they do that." Now, the fixer is a smart guy, and probably isn't gonna put together a run to bomb an ophanage for orcs. He probably even still deals with metas, but are his orc contacts gonna get the cushy, lucrative jobs, or the crappy ones? What kinda gear is he gonna sell them? What if his helpful source wants to know what Mr. orc is up to "because we think they might be planning another riot."

Or, alternatively, being well-aquainted with orks, he knows that that is the ultimate stupidity, and replaces the Fixer hat with the Mr. Johnson hat for a while, and pays some of his brightest Shadowrunners to find his nephew. It's probably an easy thing to do - he can pay them in , he can arrange for something they want to fall off the back of the hovercraft, he can arrange for any Lone Star evidence about their wrongdoings to go bye-bye...

In short, Fixers make the best Johnsons.

No. No they do not. That is a really awesome way for a fixer to get a Hung Out to Dry flaw, though.

Individual agendas scare people. I know I would think twice and then walk from a fixer who parleyed his fixering skills too far into Johnson territory.

~J

Nice one.

*taps Velocity's shoulder, and points at JongWK's previous post*

D'oh!

*hands Velocity a Drop Bear Dunce Cap... w/ frickn' laser beams...*

dog brought up a really good point. The mouth foaming redneck bigots are cannon fodder but the real risk come from the oh so polite ones who almost sound logical. these are more likely to get followers behind them because it isn't so bad and maybe just might make a little snese. DLN has a IC thread in the gamer's corner along those lines over at underworld93.