[UA] What's the hoax?

[Ysidro]

Joe Iglesias wrote:
> 
> >Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:38:51 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Kevin Elmore <kelmore at rocketmail.com>
> 
> >> P.S. -- Regarding putting the script on the internet as a
> >> hoax... er, hm, all I'll say is this: I've seen one RPG
> >> company try a cute hoax promotion and it turned out very,
> >> very, very badly.
> >What was it?  I'd hate to accidentally follow its
> >footsteps.
> 
> That would be White Wolf's announcement on their web page that "we have been bought out by a radical libertarian organization" that was some kind of vague tie-in to (the partially Stolze-written) Hunter: the Reckoning.
> 
> I think that one failed because a) It was kind of incoherent and b) It was the culmination of months of WW playing coy about what exactly the game was about.  Neither of which would really affect the proposed "dumping a fake porn screenplay somewhere" idea, I think...
> 
> Incidentally, gaming has leaked into conspiranoia already...  One of Robert Anton Wilson's books (_Everything Is Under Control_, I think) identifies Jim Morrison as a member of the "Cult of Ecstacy" which opposes the "Technomancers".

Actually, it was Aleister Crowley (and predictably so <yawn>).

Under References it lists "Current Rosicrucian manifesto no. 1" and then
the URL for Anders Sandberg's Mage page.

Greg
-- 
Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~ysidro/pohemas.html

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