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The One Who Stoppeth the Buck

Our dear leader. National alpha dog. Visionary. Charismatic. Sexy beast. The first Reptilian-Earthian President of this great nation. All hail The One Who Stoppeth the Buck, leader in perpetuity, our Lord and Savior. He will spur the sleeping giant awake. History hath ended. Everything is going to be alright forever. Yippee Ki-yay! The new and improved Pledge of Allegiance (excerpt above) was updated soon after a constitutional amendment was unanimously passed that did away with Presidential term limits and vastly expanded the President's powers. Why waste the taxpayer's time and money (that could go towards corporate tax cuts) on dragged-out, expensive electoral processes that are RIGGED anyways when manifestly-superior beings, our literal makers, have volunteered to guide us? People are fallible. 600-year old reptiles from Alpha Draconis are not. He takes on the shape of a pretend cowboy right out of central casting: just handsome enough to stir homemakers' loins and just

D66 Chaotic Mishaps

  11. Someone, somewhere in the world spontaneously explodes. You may never know who, but you know it definitely happened and you'll carry that forever on your conscience.  12. You grow hair in an unexpected place for a week. Teenagers will think that's the new it thing and may try to emulate it.  13. The spell has the reverse effect of the intended. What that's like is up to the GM.  14. You swap bodies with one of the other party members (GM's discretion) for 1d6 days. You both learn valuable lessons about yourselves and each other.  15. You accidentally summon an angry ghost only you can see.  16. Your voice suddenly becomes high-pitched like one of the Chipmunks.  21. You summon a rubber tire from the stars. It falls to Earth towards you, disintegrating during atmospheric entry. It reaches you as a faint smell of burnt rubber.  22. A shadow version of yourself crosses the threshold and enters the world, somewhere. They're exactly like you, except effortlessly co

Random new background for Pax Reptiliana

The Best Person Sick Lambo, hot bod, baller style, dope digs, the coolest friends in the whole wide world. You have it all. The only problem is that they exist only as digital assets, locked to your Gippercoin wallet. No problem! You underwent a major procedure to digitise your — killer — personality and shed your inferior physical form once and for all. Sweet! (And not a bad way to evade your creditors.) Possessions A Small Urn Containing Your Ashes A Holographic Projector The Bestest Digital Avatar Skills 4 Impulse Buying 3 Gathering Intel 3 Bullshit-weaving 2 Making Up Bold New Solutions To Non-existent Problems 2 Metaverse Navigation Special You regain Stamina by spending time where you're most at home in, your (computer generated) private island resort. You regain 1 Stamina for every 10 minutes you're jacked in; you still need to sleep afterwards. 

PA MESSAGES

— "Attention all workers! Please do not forget to renew your toilet paper subscription for the month. Don't be caught with your pants down on this matter."  — "To all personnel: the spyware installed on your workstations indicates productivity losses of 45% in the last hour. Be aware that your performance review may reflect negatively on your O2 allotment." — "The H&B family would like to thank everyone who donated to the 'Feed The Homeless Slime Monsters' fund for the tax write-off." — "Important notice: be reminded that H&B has a strict policy against child sacrifice during work hours. If you need to perform a ritual offering to the Elder Gods, please submit an application via the company portal." — "Office printers are for official company business only. Those using them to print out escape routes from the building must refrain from doing so immediately." — "In light of the estimated workforce los

So what's this all about then?

Welcome to Pax Reptiliana, where the horrors are mundane and the desperation isn't so much quiet as deadened. It's the cyberpunk future we were promised/threatened with, sans the cool. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental and probably arises from your own paranoid, conspiracy-minded psyche. A conspiracy, by the way, is just a top-down directive that you don't need to know about. Do what you're told and everything will be over soon.

Some sights

MallTown MallTown is what happens when you let a mall overtake an entire city. Built over what was once a sleepy suburb, ground zero was a ShopMore department store. It’s been hailed as “a great leap forward”, “a boost to the region’s economy” and “a dystopian hellscape of middle-class ennui”. A city-wide, multi-storey complex of interconnected buildings encompassing an area of over 30 square miles, it’s fully equipped for a life spent indoors. Public spaces are lit 24/7, air-conditioning is always at an agreeable 72-79ºF and speakers play an infinite loop of announcements and totally-non-soulcrushing muzak. Like a casino, and for essentially the same reasons, MallTown has no clocks or natural light. It's like they say: you'll lose yourself in MallTown!  Shamballa Ashram The first of its kind to open, amid rumors and accusations, not entirely unfounded, of being a hotbed of all kinds of deviant unpatriotic tendencies, like health food or guilt-free sex. It was the entryway for

Some (more) Troika! backgrounds

51 Daring Knucklehead In order to keep up with the ever-escalating demands of the attention economy, you had your skeletal system ripped out and replaced by an ultralight, hollow one. This granted you an extra 4.5 minutes of fame and dozens of new followers who, come next week, will demand even greater sacrifices for their entertainment. Possessions A Pneumatized Skeleton A Motorized Wingsuit An Action Camera Advanced Skills 4 Acrobatics 3 Tolerance to Pain 2 Flying 2 Videography 42 Mantis-touched In one of your more interesting DMT trips you passed through the realm of the Mantis beings. Well you must've caught a bug or something, since you've been undergoing some changes that left you with a severely impaired social life and several novel ways of digesting your food. Possessions A Mandible OR Grasping Forelegs (damage as Modest Beast) Compound Eyes Advanced Skills 4 Climb 3 Acrobatics 2 Language — Mantis 1 Awareness 1 Spell — Entovision 34 Shaolin Punk ONE MAN AGAINST THE WOR