The Book of Knots - Jags
The Book of Knots - Jags
The Book of Knots - Jags
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<strong>Book</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Knots</strong> - <strong>The</strong> Symposium<br />
Name: Secretary <strong>of</strong> the Army Human<br />
PHY 09 STR 09 BLD 07 CON 11<br />
REF 13 COR 13 REA 13 AGI 13<br />
INT 13 RES 14 MEM 13 WIL 13<br />
DP 120 Minor Major Critical<br />
Wounds 40 120 240<br />
82<br />
Prada accessories.<br />
Name: No-Accountant Servant<br />
PHY 10 STR 10 BLD 12 CON 12<br />
REF 10 COR 10 REA 10 AGI 10<br />
INT 11 RES 11 MEM 13 WIL 11<br />
DP 120 Minor Major Critical<br />
Wounds 40 120 240<br />
To Hit 14-<br />
To Be Hit -3<br />
Armor none<br />
Damage -2 IMP<br />
Description: A short, pretty looking young woman with a ruthless glint in her eyes. She tends<br />
to dress conservatively with unbelievably scandalous undergarments underneath. She <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
wears large glasses (some believe because it cultivates a “bookish and intelligent” stereotype).<br />
Ice Pick: She strikes for 1 PEN damage with a 4 PEN Value. If 1pt is done and the attack<br />
penetrates the poison is Base Damage 24, Power 17- (nasty stuff!). She full-strikes with it for<br />
a damage <strong>of</strong> 3, PEN <strong>of</strong> 6.<br />
Reflection on Chessboard Zero: Andrea has no specific Reflection on Chessboard Zero.<br />
She’s too subtle.<br />
so brilliant and indispensable,<br />
that now, even if he wants<br />
to kill her, he’s afraid that<br />
it might be a… mistake. An<br />
impression she relentlessly<br />
cultivates.<br />
On her desk there is a black<br />
phone and a red phone that<br />
is, in fact, a hotline to the<br />
Caretakers. When the red<br />
phone rings, it always gets<br />
through.<br />
It should be noted that Andrea<br />
is one <strong>of</strong> the few members<br />
<strong>of</strong> staff that doesn’t dress in<br />
black leather and cobalt. She<br />
prefers autumn colors and<br />
No-Accountants<br />
<strong>The</strong> Army is run by pencil-pushers and bean counters: the No-<br />
Accountants. <strong>The</strong>se troll-like creatures tend to be pudgy, squeaky rat<br />
things (some look more crow-like and shed feathers). <strong>The</strong>y have quick,<br />
beady eyes, and are always scheming. Even their slick black leather and<br />
dark indigo uniforms can’t make them cool.<br />
To Hit 11-<br />
To Be Hit +0<br />
Armor none<br />
Damage 2 PEN<br />
Bite<br />
Description: A shabbily dressed, overweight vermin-looking creature (<strong>of</strong>ten with thick<br />
glasses and reeking <strong>of</strong> cigarette smoke). <strong>The</strong>y toil away endlessly on reports, analysis, and<br />
inter-department memos. <strong>The</strong>y are nasty-tempered and cruel.<br />
Reflection on Chessboard Zero: <strong>The</strong> <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Army No-Accountants will tend to be a<br />
place <strong>of</strong> chattering, discordant machines. <strong>The</strong>y will pick places like secretarial pools (real<br />
typewriters are preferred) or computerized <strong>of</strong>fices. Even a machine shop (a printing press)<br />
would work. <strong>The</strong> machines will become louder and while they won’t break, they will<br />
malfunction—sort <strong>of</strong>. What is happening is that they are becoming reminiscent <strong>of</strong> the twisted<br />
adding and calculating machines used by the No-Accountants. Computers will pick up strange<br />
viruses. Keys on typewriters will stick, be reversed, or even appear strangely redesigned.<br />
Subjects who run the machine-shop (a secretarial pool, an accounting <strong>of</strong>fice with computers,<br />
etc.) will become protective and secretive (even more so if they are part <strong>of</strong> the program<br />
and have their Shadows placed in Scrufixes). <strong>The</strong>y will try to bring in stranger and stranger<br />
devices.<br />
But when you’re an<br />
accountant, you don’t need<br />
to be cool… you control<br />
the flow <strong>of</strong> information,<br />
processing and consolidating<br />
the field reports that flow<br />
through several layers <strong>of</strong><br />
“middle management” before<br />
they reach the General. <strong>The</strong><br />
No-Accountants would never<br />
lie, but a well-turned phrase<br />
here or there can influence the<br />
General’s decisions.<br />
Typically, getting something<br />
through to the General means<br />
paying a lot <strong>of</strong> medium-sized<br />
bribes to the No-Accountants,<br />
or one truly enormous (and<br />
usually humiliating) bribe to<br />
his secretary.