From: quirke_a@ix.wcc.govt.nz Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf Subject: Re: When did the Wyrm go breserk? Date: 19 Oct 1994 00:12:53 GMT Organization: Wellington City Council, Public Access Reply-To: quirke_a@ix.wcc.govt.nz NNTP-Posting-Host: ix.wcc.govt.nz A Short Excursion into Cosmology (If anyone wants to archive this, feel free). [One] [Day] [In] what might very loosely be described as the Quintessential Chaos, there *WERE* [Several] [Entities]. (It will be noted that [] indicates a rough translation, but ** indicates something that definitely is true) (Maybe) [First] [Entity]: *I'M* bored. [Second] [Entity]: [You're] bored ? How do [you] [think] *I* [feel] ? 1E: *I* know, let's invent [Numbers] 2E: [Numbers] ? 1E: Yeah ! Numbers ! 2E: Cool ! Hey, I'm [no longer] talking to myself. 1E: I [noticed] that. Third Entity: So [did] I. 1E: Hey, who are you ? And what [happened] to using *I* and [you] ? 3E: The way I [figure] it, we [just] [started] creating Reality and Identity. Neat, huh ? 2E: Ahah ! So that's [where] we all [came from] ! There's one, two... um, lots and lots of us, isn't there ? 1E: But there was only One [before], right ? 3E: [When] ? 1E: [Before]. 3E: [When] ? 1E: [Be -] [Fuck] it Before !! 3E: Oh, right, before !! 2E: And we're [in] After, Now, right ? 1E: No [Shit], Sherlock. I'll call it - Time ! 2E: Cute. What do we do now ? 3E: No [idea]. 2E: What ? 3E: No [idea]. 2E: What ? 3E: Let's not do this again. No id - Hey, plenty of ideas !! 2E: Yeah ! Great ! What'll you call it ? 3E: Mind, I think. Lessee... 1E: [People], if we're seperate, we better have some way to distinguish ourselves. 2E: We could call ourselves different names. 1E: Not good enough. I mean, if I suddenly called myself [Fourth Entity] or [Fifth Entity], how would you tell the difference ? 4E: Yeah ! 5E: Where did you [come from] ? 4E: No, where did you [come from] ? 5E: 1, watch it with this naming bit, ok ? 1E: Right. What we need is some way to distinguish [between] us. 5E: What ? 1E: Distinguish [bet -]. What is it, am I surrounded by morons [here] ? Between us !! Better ? 4E: Hey, cool ! What is it ? 1E: Space. The Final Frontier. 4E: What makes you say that ? 1E: I'm not sure. Seemed like the right thing to say at the time. 3E: I have a [brilliant] idea ! [MATTER] ! 2E: Oops. 3E: It should have worked. 4E: 's too chaotic. 3E: What ? 4E: You need rules. I mean, it was all floating around the place, and it didn't cohere. 3E: Oh, so I need something to make it cohere ? 4E: Not just that. You need to make rules to make it slippery, and rules to make it take up room, and rules to make it move around. You need lots of rules. And it'll need to be linked in with something else. 2E: [Energy] ? 4E: That's it ! 5E: I can see this is going to take a bit of time... {MUCH later} {*BZZZZZT* You have reached Mythology Central. I am afraid that there is no one in the office right now, since all of our staff are out screwing around as Avatars or Cosmic Forces. If you'd care to leave your name and number, we'll get back to you shortly after the Apocolypse. Thank you, and have a nice [day]*) ?E: Fuck. Let there be [LIGHT] ! - Tony Q. --- Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand (email for phone no) "Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul. "Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima. "Destroy another fetus now, we don't like children anyhow. "I've seen the future, baby: it is murder." - Leonard Cohen