First up is the DAMNED, players down the road might get an old fashioned kelp paper leaflet slipped under their door or a message mysteriously popping up on a commlink with no back trail with the following:
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We live in a world where the many are being dominated by the few.
Where the masses are being molded by virtual spam and 'borderline' psychotropic influences, despite mounting evidence of it's dangers.
Where children learn more about icons than actual words.
Where our own evolutionary offspring the Technomancers are hunted and caged like animals or worse.
Where even the simplest devices must be connected to the Matrix to achieve their higher functions, functions that should have been standard in and of themselves to start with.
Where those in power even go so far as to call themselves ‘GOD’ to justify their position and keep the masses in line, pretending to protect us when they are part of the problem to begin with.
WELL. SCREW. THEM.
THEY call us FIENDS. And THEY are right.
We take their slurs and embrace them, making it our own for we are their personal demons and will not go quietly into that long night.
THEY say we try to bring everything THEY have built crashing down. Again THEY are right.
Once upon a time the idea of the Matrix was to bring freedom and information to the masses, but now it has been twisted into a parody of itself where information is restricted and freedom has been exchanged for electronic shackles.
When the foundation of what we stand upon is rotted to the core, the only way to move forward is to clean out the poison before we can look to begin the process of healing.
We are the DAMNED (Dissidents Against Mind Numbing Electronic Domination)
Where the masses are being molded by virtual spam and 'borderline' psychotropic influences, despite mounting evidence of it's dangers.
Where children learn more about icons than actual words.
Where our own evolutionary offspring the Technomancers are hunted and caged like animals or worse.
Where even the simplest devices must be connected to the Matrix to achieve their higher functions, functions that should have been standard in and of themselves to start with.
Where those in power even go so far as to call themselves ‘GOD’ to justify their position and keep the masses in line, pretending to protect us when they are part of the problem to begin with.
WELL. SCREW. THEM.
THEY call us FIENDS. And THEY are right.
We take their slurs and embrace them, making it our own for we are their personal demons and will not go quietly into that long night.
THEY say we try to bring everything THEY have built crashing down. Again THEY are right.
Once upon a time the idea of the Matrix was to bring freedom and information to the masses, but now it has been twisted into a parody of itself where information is restricted and freedom has been exchanged for electronic shackles.
When the foundation of what we stand upon is rotted to the core, the only way to move forward is to clean out the poison before we can look to begin the process of healing.
We are the DAMNED (Dissidents Against Mind Numbing Electronic Domination)
Still working on ins and outs of the group, along with criteria as to when players might draw their attention and attempts at recruitment.
Mostly just trying to decide if the Manifesto is just a touch over the top or sufficient. Opinions?
