Everybody Look What's Goin' Down

[acreRake]

I was walking around town yesterday, and i started to notice all kinds of just weird things:

1) More than a few (like 6 or 7) stores/businesses were closed for the rest of the afternoon (at about 2:00) with what looked like hastily written hand-made signs announcing that they were sorry for the inconvenience and would be open tomorrow. This is a pretty small town, and most of these stores are of the self-owned variety. I guess what was strange was how similar and vague all the notes were.

2) Ants. You know how sometimes there's just a huge swarm of ants on the sidewalk for no apparent reason? Buncha that.

3) This was the vertigo inducing one: A young Goth couple (looking very Dream/Delirium if you know what i mean) cross a street and enter one of those old, huge houses that is probably all hacked up into squalid apartments...you know the kind (very BTS IMO).
I thought, "nice looking lesbians." (If anyone recognizes that quote i will be you BFF)
Then as i round the corner, an i-freaking-dentical couple is coming from a different direction and headed for the same house.

Now all of this is pretty normal stuff, i know. And i have pretty bad eyesight (i'm sure the goths were completely different people). But think about what all this would mean to the average BTS character, especially if they'd had disturbing dreams lately, or the GM told them "you have a really bad feeling" when they looked in the mirror that morning.

The idea of this thread/topic, then, is to just keep an eye/ear/short hair out for the odd and vaguely mysterious things that happen around us all the time...and post them here for all to enjoy/mock (and draw ideas from).

[MattyHelms]

I started keeping an eye out for "strange" things when a friend and I started a De Profundis campaign a few years back. The first thing I noticed was that all the abandoned cars in my parking lot were backed into spaces so they were all facing my apartment. Paranoia is fun.

-Matt

[acreRake]

I started keeping an eye out for "strange" things when a friend and I started a De Profundis campaign a few years back. The first thing I noticed was that all the abandoned cars in my parking lot were backed into spaces so they were all facing my apartment. Paranoia is fun.

-Matt

Now that is cool

[MattyHelms]

has anyone noticed how often the number 23 appears just about everywhere and that it is associated with the illuminati?

Actually compiled by Steve Johnson of Hex Games:

-A man and woman each contribute 23 chromosomes to a foetus.
-A full turn of the DNA helix occurs every 23 angstroms.
-There are 23 vertebrae in the human body.
-Euclid's geometry begins with 23 axioms.
-The Earth's tilt is just over 23 degrees.
-The Turin Shroud is kept at 23 degrees.
-The Tunguska Explosion was measured as 10 to the 23rd power ergs.
-The first man in space ejected from his spacecraft at 23,000ft.
-Alan Shepard (born in 1923) became the first American in space 23 days later.
-The 23rd Psalm is frequently read at funerals.
-Julius Ceasar is said to have been stabbed 23 times.
-Sidney Carton is the 23rd man guillotined in A Tale of Two Cities
-The Murder Victim in Vincent Price's House of Was announces: "Now I'm going regular on the 23rd."
-In the movie The Rake, Rex Harrisson is found in Room 23 with his friend's wife.
-In Die Hard With A Vengeance, the train derails at station 23.
-Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll was assassinated (at the order of Dutch Shultz) on 23rd Street in New York when Coll was 23 years old.
-Shultz was himself assassinated on October 23 by Charlie Workman, who served 23 years of his sentence.
-John Dillinger was shot at 2323 Clark Street in Chicago.

[acreRake]

-Alan Shepard (born in 1923) became the first American in space 23 days later.

Babies in space...wow.



yes, i know.

[Rayven]

Ok...I had to do this because of the whole Illuminati and 23 thing.

"What Weishaupt discovered that night of February second, seventeen seventy-six[...]was basically a simple mathematical relationship. It's so simple, in fact, that most administrators and bureaucrats never notice it. Just as the householder doesn't notice the humble termite, until it's too late. . . .Here, take this paper and figure for yourself. How many permutations are there in a system of four elements?"

Joe, recalling his high school math, wrote 4 x 3 x 2 x 1, and read aloud his answer "Twenty-four."

"And if you're one of the elements, the number of coalitions--or to be sinsiter, conspiracies--that you may have to confront would be twenty-three. Despite Simon Moon's obsessions, the twenty-three has no particularly mystic significance," Hagbard added quickly. "Just consider it pragmatically--it's a number of possible relationships which the brain can remember and handle. But now suppose the system has five elements . . . ?"

Joe wrote 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 and read aloud, "One hundred and twenty." "You see? One always encounters jumps of that size when dealing with permutations on combinations. But, as I say, administrators as a rule aren't aware of this. Korzybski pointed out, back in the early thirties, that nobody should ever directly supervise more than four subordinates, because the twenty-four possible coalitions ordinary office politics can create are enough to tax any brain. When it jumps up to one hundred and twenty, the adminstrator is lost. That, in essence, is the sociological aspect of the mysterious Law of Fives. The Illuminati always has five leaders in each nation, and five international Illuminati Primi supervising all of them, but each runs his own show more or less independent of the other four, united only by their common commitment to the Goal of the Graud." Hagbard paused to relight his long, black Italian cigar.

"Now," he said, "put yourself in the position of the head of any counterespionage organization. Imagine, for instance, that you're poor old McCone of the CIA at the time of the first of the New Wave of Illuminati assassinations, ten years ago, in sixty-three. Oswald was, of course, a double agent, as everybody always knew. The Russians wouldn't have let him out of Russia without getting a commitment from him to so 'small jobs,' as they're called in the business, although he'd be a 'sleeper.' That is, he'd go about his ordinary business most of the time, and only be called on occasionally when he was in the right place at the right time for a particular 'small job.' Now, of course, Washington knows this; they know that no expatriate comes back from Moscow without some such agreement. And Moscow knows the other side: that the State Department wouldn't take him back unless he accepted a similar status with the CIA. Then, November twenty-second, Dealy Plaza--blam! the s*** hits the fan. Moscow and Washington both want to know, the sooner the quicker, who was he working for when he did it, or was it his own idea? Two more possibilities loom at once: could a loner with confused politics like him have been recruited by the Cubans or the Chinese? And, then, the kicker: could he be innocent? Could another group--to avoid the obvious, let's call them Force X--have stage-managed the whole thing? So, you've got the MVD and CIA and FBI and who-all falling over each other sniffing around Dallas and New Orleans for clues. And Force X gets to seem more and more implausible to all of them, because it is intrinsically incredible. It is incredible because it has no skeleton, no shape, no flesh, nothing they can grab hold of. The reason is, of course, that Force X is the Illuminati, working through five leaders with five times four times three times two times one, or one hundred and twenty different basic vectors. A conspiracy with one hundred and twenty vectors doesn't look like a conspiracy: it looks like chaos. The human mind can't grasp it, and hence declares it nonexistent. You see, the Illuminati is always careful to keep a random element in the one hundred and twenty vectors. They didn't really need to recruit both the leaders of the ecology movement and the executives of the worst pollution-producing corporations. They did it to create ambiguity. Anybody who tries to describe their operations sounds like a paranoid. What clinched it," Hagbard concluded, "was a real stroke of luck for the Weishaupt gang: there were two other elements involved, which nobody had planned or foreseen. One was the Syndicate."

[Guest]

It's a conspiracy!

[acreRake]

Dude, you just described every day in my neighborhood.

That's the whole point.

[Mike Taylor]

Actually compiled by Steve Johnson of Hex Games:

-A man and woman each contribute 23 chromosomes to a foetus.
-A full turn of the DNA helix occurs every 23 angstroms.
-There are 23 vertebrae in the human body.
-Euclid's geometry begins with 23 axioms.
-The Earth's tilt is just over 23 degrees.
-The Turin Shroud is kept at 23 degrees.
-The Tunguska Explosion was measured as 10 to the 23rd power ergs.
-The first man in space ejected from his spacecraft at 23,000ft.
-Alan Shepard (born in 1923) became the first American in space 23 days later.
-The 23rd Psalm is frequently read at funerals.
-Julius Ceasar is said to have been stabbed 23 times.
-Sidney Carton is the 23rd man guillotined in A Tale of Two Cities
-The Murder Victim in Vincent Price's House of Was announces: "Now I'm going regular on the 23rd."
-In the movie The Rake, Rex Harrisson is found in Room 23 with his friend's wife.
-In Die Hard With A Vengeance, the train derails at station 23.
-Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll was assassinated (at the order of Dutch Shultz) on 23rd Street in New York when Coll was 23 years old.
-Shultz was himself assassinated on October 23 by Charlie Workman, who served 23 years of his sentence.
-John Dillinger was shot at 2323 Clark Street in Chicago.

You forgot the most important Chicago 23 of all time!
MICHAEL JORDAN!

[Gallahan]

Hey, that Illuminati text was really neat. Thanks for sharing that. Conspiracies add depth to a roleplaying game... or any good story, like the X-Files. In real life, we're surrounded by them, I believe. Secret societies such as the Illuminati, the Masons... and Skull & Bones. And YES, Skull & Bones is real. In fact, in the past election, BOTH candidates were/are members of Skull & Bones. Think about it like this:

- About 1% of our country's population owns well over 95% of our nation's wealth. These people are not simply RICH, they are friggin' loaded. We don't see them in normal society. They are far removed from the press, and live in lavish luxury outside the public consciousness in secluded estates so large that no one but the invited ever see these places. Public air space and airliner corridors are forbidden to cross over these vast estates. In essence, they're opulent and don't want visitors or attention. In fact, entire communities of these people in the "elite club" are formed, and the only way to get in is to fly.

- The resources at their (the elites) disposal are vast, almost limitless, and equal, if not exceed, our nation's budget. They don't need the public in any direct sense, but they do need us to live our lives, buy our petty little products and spend, spend, spend. They need us to exist and keep the wheels of humanity turning... so that the few of us with creativity and talent and gifts can rise to the top, perhaps one day joining the club and removing ourselves from society --if invited.

- They have kept everything "in the families," -if you will. Their vast fortunes. Their ancient and priceless knowledge of this planet's distant past. They know secrets that we have been conditioned NOT TO BELIEVE. For instance, why do you believe the Earth has a molten core? It's what you were taught, right? What would you say if someone told you that it was truly hollow, and that there are openings at both poles? You would most likely dismiss such "nonsense" and consider that person a crackpot. Why? Because EVERYTHING you were ever taught goes against such an idea. But how do you truly KNOW which theory is true? You see, it's never truly been proven that the Earth is hollow or has a molten core. The scientific research proves both, but *most* mainstream scientists, for some reason, scoff at the idea that the world is hollow even though evidence could sway either way. Until the 1970s, the scientist who proposed the theory of plate tectonics was laughed at... and then, long after his death, evidence revealed that the crackpot fellow was right, after all. Back to the point: these elite familes know a great deal about this planet's true nature and its past, and they are keeping these tremendous secrets all to themselves and a select few who are invited to join the greatest clubs.

- They know of the rise and fall of ancient, global civilizations. Visit www.grahamhancock.com and you'll meet with the tip of the proverbial iceberg. We are a species with collective amnesia, having forgotten past, grand glories and sciences and magic. Most of us have. Some few of us have kept these knowledges hidden in secluded places, forgotten libraries and centers of knowledge. Of course, they have thrived and gained resources so grand that Bill Gates would seem poor. Well, he might have been invited to join their club, but then again, maybe not. Prior civilizations in lost ages have progressed further than we have, but were wiped out by asteroids, super volcanoes, comet impacts, global tsunamis, viruses & plagues, self destruction, mutual annihilations and/or epic scale solar flare activity. Through these lost ages, forgotten knowledge (bits and pieces) have been amassed by these secret societies. They've passed on their private torches to generation after generation, to a select, trustworthy few.

- Politics, wars, treaties and genocides are but pawns in the ultimate game played by these secret societies. And for some reason, yet unknown to the masses, they have wanted to stagnate modern civilization in many ways. In the 1970s, *everyone* predicted that humanity would have moon bases, perhaps even on Mars by the year 2000. They thought we'd be on the threshold of exploring our solar system, with a firm foothold or two on the Moon and beyond. NOT. And not because we couldn't have done it. Moreso... people just went along with the daily grind. No bright dreams of space exploration. Just day to day toil. It's what the elites wanted. They didn't / don't want us to go too far, too fast... for their own, private reasons. Again, they have VAST resources. So vast that they could have already gone there themselves. A "private" threshold, if you will. Who knows? Who can say?

So, if you're a pilot, and happen to have made a mistake in your flight plan and find yourself flying over what should be empty wilderness... and look through the low level clouds and see... a small, elegant, opulent CITY that should NOT be there, well, hope you can escape before being shot down. Tell the tale. Remember the coordinates. Spread the word. You've just seen the tip of the iceberg of one of the greatest secrets of humanity. And, by the way, try flying over an out-of-the-way stretch of airspace Idaho, where there should be nothing but empty land. Take a camera and have the foresight to bring extra provisions and a parachute.

DISCLAIMER: The above is purely fictional speculation...