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Subject: Hiding from the Sleepers
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 1990 19:58:11 –0700
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From: Corpulante_Deo

Guys, I think I’ve found a way that we can hide from any magickal detection hexes the Sleepers try to sling our way – especially while we’re at the Great Work!

Some freaks here in Philly just took out some other freak after a long feud, the details of which I won’t get into here. Anyway, he’d been hiding for a long time, even from scrying. The way I hear it, when they finally caught up with him, one of them noticed that his belt was twisted into a moebius shape.

I didn’t think much of this until much later, when it hit me:
1. When you’re wearing a belt, you’re inside it.
2. Moebius strips only have one side – the inside eventually becomes the outside and vice-versa.
3. It is, therefore, impossible to be on the inside of a moebius strip, because you’re facing the same surface as the outside world is.
4. Therefore, twisting your belt into a moebius shape causes ‘geometrical dissonance’ – the world knows you’re inside something that it’s impossible to be inside of, and therefore that you’re not anywhere describable. Attempts to pin your location down by magick (or, to put it another way, by asking the world where you are) will come up with zilch, or possibly just nonsense.

Anyway, I think that by adopting this throughout the organisation we ought to be able to hide effectively from anyone using magick to spy on us! What do you guys think?

– Corpulante_Deo

—Watch this space! I guarantee something will happen here eventually!–