The Book of Knots - Jags

Book of Knots - The Caretakers
maddening change and
tumultuous chaos, but
sponsors a massive, dark
bureaucracy whose rules and
bylaws and dusty fi les consign
those caught in its grip to stasis.
The Liebrarian worships the
sanctity of truth, while residing
over an infi nite collection of
blasphemy and perversity. She
seeks ordinal mastery over
the un-ordered and cardinal
understanding of the unnumbered.
She is a keeper of
knowledge so wrapped in lies, it
provides uncertainty.
Darker things less human rule
over chasms dedicated mirth that
are fi lled with weeping.
The Factory is, in itself the
means of production – the
engines of capitalism, but they
vomit up resources without
scarcity: the utopian dream.
Full of Hatred
In a refi ned, civilized way, they
hate everything, and it gnaws at
them.
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This is sometimes dangerous directly and often dangerous indirectly. In
the direct sense, anyone without a Survival Trait who meets a Caretaker
is often consumed, twisted, and/or driven insane by the encounter. For
those with Survival Traits (or without, under special circumstances) the
encounter may be simply another encounter with an odd, irrational, nonhuman
entity.
But if you’re unlucky, the Caretaker Notices you—and then you may
be given specifi c tasks (roles) in ongoing dramas or you may be (more
‘rationally’) expected to serve the Caretaker’s interest on Chessboard
Zero. The latter is rare: the Caretakers don’t really understand
Chessboard Zero and most of their servants are simply twisted students
(Hunger Disciples) who sort of do the Caretaker’s work by their natures.
What Do The Caretakers Want on Chessboard Zero?
Ultimately? The end of man (for the most part). More concretely: they
don’t really have a plan you can formulate well. Their communication
with the humans involved in Big Pharma is so diffuse that it’s hard to
really know what they think is happening as a whole. The Army of No
has some potential to cause humanity problems but it’s usually limited
to Chessboard Two and it usually needs help to really impact the real
world.
Hunger Disciples are a direct effect of the Caretakers on Chessboard
Zero but they’re almost an autonomic function: a person gets close to a
Caretaker and they come back warped. The Hunger Disciple may teach
a doctrine (a warped form of “literary criticism” directed at man or the
nature of the universe) but there’s no indication that these cults—dangerous
and destructive as they may be—are part of a Caretaker design.
But if you are Noticed then you will fi nd that the Caretaker may expect
you to obey the orders of something far closer to the surface than itself—
a minion it controls that may have distinct plans (for the corruption of
innocence, for instance) and you may fi nd yourself battling with that.
How Does All This Apply To Deconstructionists
The Deconstructionists have plans for mankind too—they plan to use
man as a pawn in their coming civil war in Wonderland. On a basic level
this means changing the global perspective of mankind so as to cause
massive Infection, which would recalibrate the Department of Works.
On a more sophisticated level, though, it involves far more practical
things. Certain ideas can be insinuated into mega-cultures in subtle ways
to adjust the Department of Works … just a little. That’s easier to do.
They also recognize that Humans, for all their innate inferiority can have
substantial effects on the lower realms from their high-ground position.
So having them form Magician Lodges, cults, and Waldens is something
the Deconstructionists are working with all the time.