[UA] IMUAC, Alex Abel hiring, SA Cabals

[Dylan Craig]

Greg said:
>Speaking of the City Swap (is Swop the "non-American" spelling?)
No, "Swap" is the non-South African spelling :)  Fight ya for it.

>If we set up a standard form, as proposed, the final section could
>be the IMUAC (In My Unknown Armies Campaign) section.
Excellent idea. As you rightly point out, this is the kind of resource that
gamers in all kinds of settings and systems might enjoy; and the more of
them that get an exposure to UA while scouting for city tips the better for
you guys, hey?

>If he disappears off the scene it probably means Abel hired him away...
Hey, Abel was probably down here with a big old bargain bucket a few years
back. Dirty tricks merchants going dirt cheap, same as Eastern Europe in the
late 80's. Even Eugene de Kok, head of the "Vlakplaas" assasination/COIN
unit, is now claiming he's been offered a job co-ordinating landmine
disposal in the DRC.

For more information on South African assassins, and good South African
names (no, we don't all sound like the guys in Lethal Weapon 2), check out
http://www.truth.org.za, the homepage of the Truth and Reconciliation
Committee. Over the last five years or so it's been these people's job to
discover and catalogue all the politically motivated human rights violations
that were perpetrated (by both 'sides') between 1943 and 1991; once again,
its been a case of both sides finishing the Nastiest Motherf--ker race just
about simultaneously. Sigh.

Chris said:
>From this I figure the Sleepers would be the the
>second biggest UA group to feature in SA.
I dunno, we seem to be pretty good at massacring our own witches. Besides,
the fact that most witch-hunt victims are poor, rural, and black while most
give-a-shit media heads are rich, urban, and white would suggest to me that
we're further from a Claws of the Tiger scenario than a highly urbanised
country. IMHO, Sleeper presence in SA (and, similarly, in other third world
countries) would be a single duke sitting on the main urban nexus with his
finger on a cellphone and keeping an eye on the media. If anything turns up
(and, in SA, 90% of all radio and TV are broadcast from one area of one
city - Auckland Park, in Johannesburg), he or she can stop it getting out
into the global news stream where it can cause trouble.

Besides, South Africa is remarkable for having it's own, legal, perfectly
open anti-occult cop unit. I kid you not: the Occult Related Crimes Division
was the bane of many a teenage roleplayer in the 80's. Lean, mean, bearded,
legally empowered to bust satanist heads. :) Check out
http://www.saps.org.za/divstat/occult/index.htm ; the local sleeper chief
probably has the head of the Division in his or her golf foursome.

>The most proliferate would be the Order of St. Cecil
Aren't we a little short of Roman Catholics? Maybe if Methodists had
gun-toting exorcists... :)

>The TOSG might probably be three people and a
>Post Office Box for mail.
Post Office? How retro. Why not an encrypted satellite-linkup to the TOSG
databses? If the TOSG were just a bunch of jeep-driving hicks they would't
be as widespread and successful in the UA world as they are. These are
obviously capable, if slightly whacky, people: even Randy the Redneck has a
Mind of 65. He's no Hawking, but he's no Terreblanche, either.

DC
Who is going to lock all his doors right now

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