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Cinero at 14:12, 4 July 2025

2025-07-04T14:12:37Z

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	The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. -Richard K. Morgan, ''Altered Carbon''		The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. -Richard K. Morgan, ''Altered Carbon''

−	[[~~Categories~~:OOC]]	+	[[Category:OOC]]

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 # Cults, secret societies, and conspiracies (including malign corporations)
 # Environmental hazards (e.g., hypothermia, underwater)
 # Gods, devotion, and religions

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 # Cults, secret societies, and conspiracies (including malign corporations)
 # Gods, devotion, and religions
 # Interdimensional adventuring and dungeoneering

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 # Teamwork
-== Key Elements ==
+== Frequent Elements ==
 # Cults, secret societies, and conspiracies (including malign corporations)
 # Gods, devotion, and religions
 # Interdimensional adventuring and dungeoneering
 # Law enforcement (e.g., police, trials, prisons)
 # Magic and the paranormal
 # Nanites (including grey goo)
 # Organized crime (including gangs) and corruption
-# Physical transformation (e.g., a human turning into an orc) (not necessarily body horror)
+# Physical transformation (e.g., a human turning into an orc) (but not body horror)
 # Robots, androids, and artificial intelligence
 # Slavery (including freeing slaves)
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 # War machines (e.g., colossal stone creatures)
 # War profiteering (e.g., arms sales, mercenaries)
 # Weird science

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 # Water (e.g., flooding, submarines)
 # Weird science
 == The Edge on Earth ==

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 # Mental illness (e.g., anxiety, depression) (excluding insanity)
 # Neurodiversity (e.g., autism, ADHD) and discrimination
-# Nuclear technology or analogs (e.g., magitec reactors)
+# Nuclear technology or analogs (e.g., magitec reactors) and/or radiation
 # Outer space (including vacuum)
 # Parasites

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 # Extreme weather or natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes)
 # Family traumas (e.g., loss of a parent)
-# Fires
+# Fires (uncontrolled)
 # Historic traumas (e.g., races that previously endured long-term slavery)
 # Insanity (e.g., psychopathy)