[UA] Contribute to UA2!

[Michael Dinowitz]

An Indian hard drive maker has been selling their drives at a very low price
for quality drives. The only problem with them is that they're a little
bulky and make a strange hum. The Indians have replaced one of the disks in
the drive with a prayer wheel and whenever the drive is used its spinning
the wheel. No one's cracked one open yet to see what the wheel says or why.
Alternatively, the drives are housing a ghost.


> Hey folks,
>
> We're cranking away on UA2, and have a writing task that we'd like to
throw
> open to the list. It's short and sweet and doesn't pay a darn thing, but
> we'll include your name in the credits of the book.
>
> What we need are rumors, lies, and heresies. The sort of stuff that people
> tell each other in the occult underground. It's meant to completely muddy
> the waters as to what The Truth is for new players. We'll include The
Truth
> in the appropriate sections of the book, but we first want to give players
> the noise before we give them the signal. These bits might include
> half-truths, slightly scrambled names and ideas, and so forth, but for the
> most part you should avoid the canon GMCs and so forth lest all the rumors
> sound alike.
>
> Each bit should be no more than three or four sentences, and as short as
> one. Some examples:
>
> ---
>
> There's an old man in Kansas who can only tell true stories, even if they
> haven't happened yet.
>
> Bill Gates is putting magickal formulae into the code for Windows XP. It's
> tied to a specific date, like a virus, and when it activates the world is
> going to change.
>
> The world is secretly ruled by pre-verbal children. When they start to
> become verbal, they forget all about their early months of abstract
> domination.
>
> ---
>
> We'd like a bunch of these, so feel free to go nuts.
>
> All submissions should be sent to me via private email, not to the list.
> Send them to:
>
> john at tynes.com
>
> Include your name and your preferred email address. Deadline is the mornin
g
> of Monday, January 14th. You don't have to send them all in at once--if
you
> think of one, just fire it off then and there.
>
> I'll let you know which ones made it later this month or so, depending on
> how fast our editorial process is going. Accepted submissions become our
> property. If you've got an awesome idea you don't want to give up, hang
onto
> it for yourself.
>
> Start your engines! And feel free to forward this to any UA fans you know.
> It's open to anyone.
>
> --
> <- John Tynes - rev at tccorp.com - http://www.JohnTynes.com/ ->
> Very little jargon escapes intact from a subculture. It becomes a Typhoid
> Mary of current desires and fears, acquiring a contextual viral payload
and
> passing it on via Jay Leno to the mainstream. Slang is an urban legend.
>
>
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