This is not of my own creation. One of my players wrote it as a write-up (I offer exp for write-ups) and I thought it gave an interesting synopsis of my TT so far, hitting the highpoints. He gave me his ok to post it here. A couple people have asked me about my TT game and this covers some of it.
10/07/2009
It's about 2:30 am New York time (8:30 am at the
DeVries compound in South Africa.) I doored
Julian back to his quarters about fifteen
minutes ago. He's heading over to NAADC by now.
I think Surge and Ka are asleep. I'm not sure
where Dreamboi is. He might be listening to
music in his room, or he might have made a
dreamdoor to pretty much anywhere.
My reasons for keeping a journal have changed
over the time since Doc Milleson convinced me
that it would help me come to grips with my
inner demons. It helped, but it also made me
realize how important it is to leave a record--a
record of who I was and how I developed into who
I am and will be.
It's important to know the secrets I know. A
nova named Clarion murdered my younger brother
Daniel and my younger sister April. The Teragen
know all about it. Utopia knows all about it.
Neither of them has come forward. I have no
proof and have made no allegations as I consider
it possible that both of them are interested in
the welfare of novas innocent of and incapable of this kind of
atrocity. I am not sure why the publicly anti nova organization--
Utopia--would go out on a limb like this, but it says a lot about a
potential alliance between the two.
Citadel and I were the tools by which Slider's murder was committed. I
opened a door to her room, and Denny (Citadel) Henderson beat her to
death. I assume that we were being controlled by another nova. I have
no proof of that other than circumstance. I know that the memory was
wiped completely from my mind and replaced with another. I know the
duration of the memory that was replaced, and I have seen that period
of time as it physically appeared. I received no phone calls and was
in physical proximity no one other than Denny. As that short period of
time is the only patched memory and I have no recollection of the event
itself, planning the event, or receiving orders regarding the event, I
must conclude that either the scheme hatched full fledged between Denny
and I with no communication, or the plans were laid well in advance by
another (unknown) mind which manipulated Denny and I to take action
without our prior consent or knowledge. It is possible that the mind
obtained consent from us during that short period of time, but highly
doubtful. It is far more likely that we were dominated and forced to
these actions against our wills.
Utopia knows that Denny and I did it. DeVries was able to confirm our
involvement, therefor it is absolutely certain that although
individuals in the organization of Utopia may be ignorant of our
involvement, the organization as a whole must know.
I am currently considering revealing myself as Denny's accomplice in
Slider's murder to the world. Andrew Corbin has been wrongfully
accused and hounded for the murder. I believe there is a reason for
this. I suspect that her murder was a hit arranged by Utopia. I
further suspect that Corbin was seen as a potential threat to the
organization and that her death was seen as a way to neutralize him as
well. Now, I postulate that Utopia is generally loathe to resort to
murdering their own operatives to accomplish their ends. While it is
possible that the threat he poses and the threat she posed are
unrelated, considering the temporal proximity of the imperatives and
the supposed reluctance of Utopia to countenance murder, it is almost
certain that Slider and Corbin represented the same threat and that
therefor Corbin still represents a serious threat to Utopia. If I were
to admit my involvement and thus exonerate Corbin, who knows where the
cards would stop falling?
What if the ends Utopia seeks are indeed for the best of all, nova and
baseline alike? What if they know something that we don't about the
nature of the interaction between Quantum energy manipulation and
(basically) human physiology? What if novas really are all destined to
homicidal frenzies? What if novas really are alien implantees who will
one day hatch into an unstoppable swarm of tentacled, toothed
nightmares? What if they have looked into the future and seen the
Earth obliterated by the Teragen? What if they have made contact with
an alien race which has agreed not to destroy the Earth only if earth
can unify under a single government and live in peace?
On the other hand, if any of these scenarios were accurate, why haven't
they just revealed it? I consider myself to be a pretty good guy. If
Utopia could prove to me that they really are "the good guys," I would
support them one hundred percent. I work for DeVries because they at
least own up to the moral ambiguity of what they do and what they ask
us to do. God save me from demagogues who claim to know what is right
for everyone while serving what is right for themselves.
Viasoft captured a nova--some sort of pure energy being with the power
to possess other novas--and sold it to Kurotech. The vector for it's
possession ability is contact with the quantum field of another nova.
My team was assigned to guard the containment unit while in transit.
We did not know the nature of that which we were guarding, nor did
DeVries. While in transit, Utopia stopped us, and when halted from
seizure of the package by legal necessity, Skew broke it in a blatantly
illegal act of pettiness. My team reconstructed the device and were
able to understand that it had been a containment unit for some type of
energy. During a later mission, it was revealed to us by a Chineese
Nationalist nova that the package had indeed contained a possessing
nova. We surmised that Skew's quantum interaction with the package had
provided the possessing nova with the opportunity to possess him.
There is no way to prove this now, as his quantum interactions with
many novas since has provided the possessing nova with ample
opportunities to jump to another nova.
The process of reconstructing the containment device was essential to
the deep understanding of quantum crystaline structures that led my
team to invent Nodestone (a name I thought up, by the way) in a quantum
powered burst of creative insight.
Apparently, there was a period of time in the twentieth century during
which Earth was affected by a waveform of energy referred to as
Telluric energy. Supposedly it made almost anything possible, and
reorganized reality and history to fit the facts. During that time,
Burrough's Barsoom existed and had always existed. Likewise Atlantis
was not a mere legend. Lovecraft's tentacled horrors lurked beneath
the ground, and one assumes life was difficult and horrific. For some
(as yet unknown to me) reason, this Telluric age ended and with it, all
that had been unlikely ceased to ever have existed--at least in theory.
Apparently, there are Velociraptors in Africa that carry a Telluric
energy pattern. My current employer, Stiles, lived through and
remembers the Telluric age. He still carries the energy (he hasn't
explained how) and has a secret room in the Empire State Building that
contains relics from Barsoom, Atlantis, etc. Sounds crazy, huh. I can
hardly believe it myself. I'm quite sure that he has enough money to
prevent anyone from ever substantiating what I've said, but I've given
you the truth, as far as I understand it.
Well, there you have it. The most important secrets in my other diary
in synopsis form. At this point, I'd say these are the most likely
reasons for me to be murdered. Good luck investigating any of them.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
-Albert Einstein