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Book of Knots - The Symposium 80 authority figures are most likely to play along. Still, Stage II is very difficult to pull off. In many cases they will work with Agents In Place (infected people who have agreed for whatever reason to serve the Army of No), or Whirls such as the Orange Peel Men who have considerable experience in subtly manipulating the physical world. Stage II will usually begin with acts of mild sabotage and defacement that escalate as the response escalates. They will use all of their tricks and power to encourage the authorities to overreact––if they can provoke collective punishment or humiliation of suspected (usually framed) individuals, they will have successfully completed Phase II, and are ready for Phase III. Phase III By Phase III, things have already gotten bad. The relationship between authority and everyone else in the area will be strained and on edge. Almost everyone will have taken sides by now (and those who started off on someone’s side will be nearly fanatic). Daily operations will become a battle of wills between authority that requires obedience and submission, and the workers or students who desire autonomy. The environment will be almost unlivable–– mechanical malfunctions make radios and TVs almost unwatchable. Heaters and air conditioners will be broken or running intermittently. Noise––humming, scratching, crackling, is a constant background annoyance. And everyone knows things are heading for a showdown. By this point the Army will have identified their fulcrum––an authority figure who demands victory at any cost and sees defiance as a personal affront. This is the kind of man (or, often, woman) who the Army can work with. They will try to make contact through infected agents or (if necessary) dreams. They will offer the fulcrum total victory and the humiliation and defeat of those who stand against him if he will agree to serve them. By this point they are almost never refused. What the fulcrum is to do, is to institute the Army’s rule on this world and (ultimately) Infect those under his care so that they will Descend into the Army’s grasp. In areas where they have reached Stage III, the army has established a beachhead in Chessboard Zero, and has one more piece of the Grand Puzzle in place: the creation of hell on earth. The Army The army is composed of very big single-celled, cybernetic organisms (technically called Eukaryborgs) that may look somewhat human. Some army organisms are 90% mechanical and these are called Cybarkyots.
General Ledger The leader of the Army of No is General Ledger––he (it) appears as a hugely muscled four-armed man about 12 feet tall. His eyes burn with a coal-fire red light and he is bedecked in a startling and awe-inspiring uniform of the Army’s standard black-leather and cobaltblue decorated with glittering medals and symbols. The General always wants reports. His staff, an elite guard of no-accountants, provide him with a constant flow of everything from the latest battle-damage estimates and casualty counts to the results of the Army’s cuttingedge experiments. He reads thes without pause, constantly signing forms, scribbling out orders, and barking out demands for more reports! He has several great black telephones cybernetically attached to his body and there’s always at least two ringing, while he’s got someone on the phone and someone else on hold. Being close to him is dangerous –– many of his hands wield stamps and being (even capriciously) stamped with a “Terminated” mark is a death sentence. The General is the ultimate micromanager, and it is said all of the Army’s operations flow through and from him. Name: General Ledger General PHY 13 STR 45 BLD 25 CON 14 REF 12 COR 12 REA 12 AGI 12 INT 13 RES 13 MEM 13 WIL 13 DP 120 Minor Major Critical Wounds 40 120 240 The Secretary of the Army (Andrea) If this poor girl wasn’t cruel and evil, you’d feel sorry for her. Her job is to manage the General’s schedule as best she can. To see the general, you need to go through her. She’s a knockout blonde, who’d be icecool if not for her utterly impossible job: she’s always in a state of frazzled hysteria, pausing only to tell people desperate for an instant of the General’s time that it’s “Impossible. Booked until Thursday of next year.” She cleans her fingernails (and dispatches people who annoy her) with a poisoned stiletto, and smokes unfiltered cigarettes on her breaks. In the beginning, the General went through secretaries quickly, executing (or eating) a few a day (and always drawing more from the spawning pool in the dank basement of his fortress office ministry), but Andrea proved To Hit 15- To Be Hit -1 Armor 12/24 Damage 38 IMP Punch Description: General Ledger is a 12 foot tall man in a crisp, cobalt-blue military uniform decorated with rows of ribbons and medals. He has four old-fashioned (rotary dial) telephones grafted onto his body and answers them constantly. He carries a stamp that can say anything he wants at his belt and he is a constant flurry of activity. Luger: He wears an Luger handgun that is built to 2x scale (firing 18mm bullets!). He is a crack shot: 15- Level 3. He also strikes as a boxer in close combat (14- to hit). Name Dmg Range ROF Clip Luger 18 PEN -1 / 13” S 9 Reflection on Chessboard Zero: If the General is in your area on Chessboard Two or higher (he usually isn’t) then there will tend to be a presence like one sees in 3 rd world countries with massive images of something all around. It might be oppressive corporate logos, the face of a dictator, or massive outdoor plasma-screen TV’s all showing the same thing. 81 Book of Knots - The Symposium
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