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Anonymancy (alternate)

Anonymous is Legion.

aka /B/tards, Hackers on Steroids

You’re almost invariably male, caucasian, middle-class. Your parents were normal, vanilla folks. Maybe you had a sibling or two.

You went to a public school, pulling high or middlish grades with ease and relative disinterest. You didn’t really gel with most of the other kids; you found them boring, they found you weird. Your contempt for the average person grew with your age, never seizing control like in some emo dipshit, but simmering casually in the back of your head. When some asshole who could barely read got hurt, you probably laughed. When some stuck-up skank got herpes, you probably smiled. Chances are you got on well enough with your teachers; you weren’t a preening asshole like many of your peers, at least showed vague interest in learning, and perhaps the teacher sensed and picked up on your general contempt for others in your classes. This trend no doubt continued into college, if you had the motivation to bother.

It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say you hate women: you don’t, after all, enjoy the socializing game. You’re probably no Don Juan, either. You long ago began to think of women as disappointingly petty, but you still hope to encounter someone interesting at some time or another.

You enjoy being anonymous because it is a release from the normal world: no anonymous has an identity, no anonymous is a preening faggot. Anonymous realizes he is just a guy fucking around on the internet. Anonymous knows others of his kind enjoy this fact, too. You despise the furfag, the gaiafag, the internet tuff guy for one simple reason: he acts like the internet is the real world, a place where actions should have social consequences and where there needs to be a pecking order. Needless to say, you do not approve.

Anonymous is legion. Anonymous does not forgive. Anonymous does not forget.
Anonymous is devoid of humanity, morality, pity and mercy.
Anonymous works as one, because no member of Anonymous is as cruel as all of Anonymous.
Anonymous cannot be harmed, no matter how many Anonymous may fall in battle.
Anonymous takes all attempts to harm Anonymous seriously.
Anonymous is an enemy of those who are not Anonymous.
Anonymous is not subject to law.
Anonymous only undertakes Serious Business.
Anonymous is everywhere.
Anonymous cannot be out-numbered.
Anonymous reinforces its ranks exponentially at need.
Anonymous has no weakness or flaw.
Anonymous exploits all weaknesses and flaws.
Anonymous holds nothing sacred.
Anonymous is not your friend.
Anonymous is not your personal army.
Anonymous is in control at all times.
Anonymous does not accept failure, Anonymous delivers.
Anonymous has no identity.
Anonymous cannot be betrayed.
Anonymous are created as equals.
Anonymous is a choice.
Anonymous obeys the Code.
Anonymous cannot be appeased.
Anonymous, like life, can be a bitch.

The symbolic tension of Anonymancy is in both the hatred and acceptance of all things at the same time; Anonymous sincerely wishes genocide upon blacks, whites, mexicans, jews, asians, native americans, gays, straights, zoophiliacs, pedophiles, furries, religious people, athiests, people who wear hats and people who don’t. Anonymous and undefined by his very being, Anonymous is all these things and more. Anonymous hates everything, and is everything that he hates.

Stats

Anonymancer Blast Style: The Anonymancer blast causes its victim to become the focus of all the misplaced rage and hatred of their boss, the government, fat-cats, faceless corporations and authority in general for anyone within line of sight for a single round, making for a short, sharp shower of shit for anyone on the recieving end. Anonymancer blasts never kill or knock victims completely unconcious, but can physically incapacitate.

Generate a Minor Charge: Lurk moar. Browse the /b/ of a ‘chan for five hours straight, without getting up from the computer. This also means not moving if browsing from a portable computer, mobile phone, or similar.

Generate a Significant Charge: Epic lulz. Take part in a legendary thread, raid, or sticky, contributing something memorable to the whole. Be the first to photoshop some asshat’s face into a meme and have the image reproduced elsewere, coin a hilarious play on words spammed into a huge raid, and generally aid the chemo that is curing /b/.

Generate a Major Charge: Serious business. Have one of your personal /b/-related japes make national news, start a raid that will be remembered throughout history, or commit a terrible atrocity against the state in the name of Anonymous.

Taboo: Admitting verbally or otherwise that you are an Anonymancer or in any way connected with Anonymous within twenty-four hours before or after using a spell causes you to lose all charges. Entering a private residence containing a dog and a pair of curtains drawn across a window also leeches away your magick.

Starting Charges: Five minor.

Minor Formulas

No Picture Avaliable
1 minor charge
Become utterly unrecogniseable, instantly. Onlookers virtually ignore you, their gaze slipping away and onto something else when you enter their field of vision. You slip out of the foreground and into the background, and your presence is glazed over in witness’ minds. Anyone looking at you directly is affected when they next lose sight of you. Lasts for an hour.

Anonymous is Legion
1-3 minor charges
This is the Anonymancy minor blast. Casual onlookers who work in menial, low-pay or unsatisfying and monotonous jobs become the rage of the opressed masses incarnate. Non-targeted, non-mundanes can resist with a Rank 3 Isolation check. Depending on the amount of passers-by, you may spend up to three charges to amp up a few disgruntled body-blows to a savage mob beating.

Tits or GTFO
2 minor charges
A single female target either immediately exposes her breasts and stands like this paralysed for two minutes, or makes a Rank-1 Self check and is immediately presented with an overwhelming image of her fear stimulus.

Pool Closed Due to AIDS
2 minor charges
Useable when obstructing the way to something, such as a hall or doorway. As long as the /b/tard remains in the way, targets make no attempt to enter an area by force or otherwise due to a fear of infectious AIDS.

Desu Desu Desu
3 minor charges
By repeating the mantra “Desu”, targets within earshot become incredibly annoyed and all other attempted actions on that round immediately fail.

I Don’t Habeeb It
1 minor charge
Exclaiming “I don’t habeeb it!” will cause any hidden targets within 100 yards to involuntarily shout “HABEEB IT!”, thus revealing their location. Non-mundanes can resist with a Rank 4 Helplessness Check.

Anonymous Does Not Forget
1 minor charge
Gain total recall for any event up to an hour long within the past week.

Barrel Roll
4 minor charges
While driving or flying a vehicle, perform a death-defying stunt, disregarding actual skill or ability. During the barrel roll, the caster is completely invulnerable – bizarre freak occurances contrive to make marksmen miss their aim, fire not to burn and harmful magick to fail completely.

Significant Formulas:

None Of Us Are As Cruel As All of Us
1-3 significant charges
This is the Anonymancy significant blast. Nearby average Joes become enraged psychopaths, attacking with makeshift weapons, teeth and nails. Spend up to three significant charges to increase the duration of the assault for one round per charge.

Is This Battletoads?
1 significant charge
Presenting a random object and posing the question “is this Battletoads?” forces the target to regard this as a deeply philosophical question. The target ponders this for twenty-four hours. During this time, he may function normally, but will be badly distracted from focusing on anything else, and all complex actions become much more difficult.

NO U
2 significant charges
Effects of any spell directed at the Anonymancer are instantly reflected back at the caster.

Wryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
4 significant charges
As the Diablomancer’s Blasphemous Utterance, you let out a frenzied, unholy scream that can be heard clearly for about one hundred feet. Everyone but you that hears the scream takes firearms damage from it, and is most likely momentarily deafened. Hearing the scream is grounds for a rank-7 Unnatural stress check.

Delicious Cake
2 significant charges
Target becomes instantly convinced a proffered item is delicious cake, and must eat it – be it broken glass, barbed wire, sedatives or a human baby. During the spell, the target is completely absorbed by the delusion of eating the cake. Once the item has been consumed, the target immediately becomes aware of what happened for the first time.

Dragonforce, Fuck Yeah
1-2 significant charges
Caster begins rocking out on an air guitar as Dragonforce eminates from the air itself. This on its own validates the use of a significant charge, although spending a second charge causes a single inanimate target to spontaneously combust with sheer awesome.

Catnarok
6 significant charges
Summons

Major Anonymancy Effects
Wipe yourself from public record and human memory indefinitely, make a meme incarnate in the real world, or usher in Catnarok and summon the mysterious demonic entities of Longcat and Tacgnol.

10 thoughts on “Anonymancy (alternate)

  1. Spring Heeled Jack says:

    Whether or not this is the real Snacks, I highly approve. I’d like to note that Catnarok is incomplete, however, and in addition to this it appears in the Major Effects section as well.

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  2. Michael Keenan says:

    OH SHI-!

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  3. Dungeon Maestro says:

    Epic win.

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  4. Deathsong says:

    Here’s what I’ve got for Catnarok:

    Catnarok
    6 Significant Charges
    Summons up a glimpse of the epic battle that /b/tards assure each other the internet will one day come to. Everyone in the immediate area, be they your friends, your enemies, or innocent bystanders, pick arbitrary sides and proceed to duke it out. The two sides need not be equal, and who ends up fighting whom is entirely random. The battle lasts as long as the Anonymancer continues to fight for either side, with all the risks that entails, or until one side kills or beats senseless the entirety of the other side. Those who come upon the battle while it rages feel just as compelled to fight as those present when the spell was cast, so this can quickly escalate into a massacre if the police get involved. Bored /b/tards with charges to spare love dropping this spell in schools, Buddhist temples and other interesting venues, so it’s in the best interests of society to keep /b/ more interesting than turning a furry convention into an epic battle.

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  5. Michael Keenan says:

    That’s some Revelations shit right there.

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  6. The Demented One says:

    Awesome? Awesome.

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  7. F.A.R. says:

    ^^
    Internet superhero.

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