[UA] Contribute to UA2!

[John Tynes]

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:

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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.

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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 morning
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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