The Book of Knots - Jags

Book of Knots - The Symposium
Name: Alien. Type Green Whirl
PHY 08 STR 08 BLD 06 CON 09
REF 12 COR 14 REA 12 AGI 12
INT 13 RES 13 MEM 13 WIL 13
DP 6 Minor Major Critical
Wounds 2 6 12
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alienation.
Project Pagan
Even amongst the most
highly knowledgeable and
experienced of Wonderland
Scholars (itself, a very elite
group) it is widely believed
that only the InNetwork
Physicians have discovered
a way to “breach” the barrier
that lets connects one’s
Shadow to one’s self. Only
the twisted doctors can
become “hollowed out” from
the inside and taken over
by autonomous, degenerate
versions of themselves.
This, technically, is true (so
far as anyone we can find
knows)—but it isn’t, as they
say in the courts, “the whole
truth.” If certain things are
done to you on Chessboard
Zero then, indeed, your
Whirl can not only “inhabit
your body” but it can even,
powerfully, create bleeds in
your form and mutate you
physically.
As you might imagine,
this process of separating
a human sentience from its
body and then allowing it
to be devoured by a warped
version of itself is horrific.
The process, itself, is called
After the disintegration of Project Pilgrim, the government research team
that “made contact” with Red Queen (an aspect of the Queen of Hearts)
the “sterilization of information” that was supposed to take place failed.
An arm of the US Air Force, guided by both high-ranking commanders
and extremely wealthy civilians with religiously based apocalyptic
visions of the future created a think-tank to reestablish contact with the
data source under the belief they could barter with it: they thought they
could trade a nuclear holocaust for gardens of paradise.
They were wrong.
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Armor none
Damage Special
The Greens were the first generation of Rational Actors. They have the strongest ties to
Wonderland and to The Bride. They are greenish in pallor, with especially large heads and
especially spindly and useless limbs. The Bride, after an exhaustive search, selected one Alex
Cotlington, because of his belief that his particular intelligence and superiority gave him the
moral right to strangle his neighbor when he was sixteen and she was a year younger.
The Bride knew he was perfect when he was caught because he would not deign to lie about
doing something that was his birthright as a superior creature. Upon stating for the court
record (Cotlington v. the State of Illinois, 1917) that he had planned to further murder his
parents that they might hasten to fulfill their last reason for existence (to provide him with a
substantial inheritance) he was committed to a discrete facility in Connecticut where he was
abducted.
In the intervening years, his body has decayed, but his handpicked team of physicians (all
formatted into greens) have developed a technique for sustaining the brain in a glass tube
filled with semiotic fluid, oxygenated by a special pump.
He has conducted several such experiments, and has created entire “Brain Trusts” or “Think
Tanks” of formatted minds he deems especially worth saving. These baroque, living supercomputers
are housed in installations off the coast of Main and in a salt mine in his home
state.
Although far too psychotic to have direct dealings with normal humans, some of his
followers are more patient (if not more moderate in their beliefs) and have opened lines
of communication with elements of the United States Government. They have even
conducted joint ventures including military operations in Soviet countries and an exchange
of technologies (some elements of the flying saucer technology for cutting edge biological
warfare research).
Cotlington was never patient and losing his body and most of his mind hasn’t helped. He
believes that if the Program is not “on a success path” by 2010, that it should be scrapped, and
the human race destroyed through a series of viruses and nuclear detonations.