John Courage has a posse.
Our Gang Sign:
(Person 1:)
(Person 2:)
They trade cigarettes.
The Days of the Week:
Correspondences that run in sevens:
Elements (Classical - from Eastern and Western) and New Elements of the Fifth
Age.
Days of the Week, Gods, and Planets.
And, finally, Sephirot and Drugs.
There are seven of us in the Cabal. Once we link all of the above, we will
periodically randomly draw one of the seven, and keep that 'personality'
until the next drawing. This means we can call each other by code names
(Days of
the week) which change periodically.
Sunday - Sun. Apollo. The seventh element, or Prime. The Heptessence. Ketamine. Tipheret (Primary meaning: Beauty. Also known as: Harmony, Rahamim (compassion), the attribute of mercy, the written Torah, Bridegroom, Husband, Son, King, Father, Messiah, Open Miracles)
Primary direction: East.
Sunday (the lesser Sabbath) is responsible for attending to the wishes of Friday
(the greater Sabbath).
Monday - Moon. Diana. Insanity. Big
Red Soda Water*. Apotheosis
of the Aristotelian element of Water,
governed by the Moon. Mescaline. Yesod (Primary meaning: Foundation. Also
known as: "Almighty God, Living God," the "lower
end" of the heavens, Tzaddik (Righteous One), pillar connecting heaven
and earth, seal of truth, the non-Lucid Mirror, Hidden Miracles,
purity, associated with Joseph)
Primary direction: West.
Monday must cook.
*Big Red Soda Water. It works in all of our experiments. Hiro came up with the idea while he was high. Everyone else dismissed it. No one can read Hiro's notes to explain why it works, or to come up with a better alternative.
Tuesday - Tyr, Mars. War. Plasma, which is the theoretical
phlogiston, apotheosis of Fire. It is Fire which is itself on Fire. Liquor.
Netzach. Primary meaning: Victory. Also known as: eternity, prophecy, orchestration,
initiative, persistence, bitachon (confidence), right leg, "Hosts of
YHWH," associated with Moses
Primary direction: Up.
One who draws Tuesday must 'fule the eternal fyre which burneth insyde the
liver'. Shopping duty falls to Tuesday.
Wednesday - Odin, Mercury, Messengers . Ethereal
waves - radio, television. The apotheosis of Air. LSD. Hod (Primary meaning: Glory.
Also known as: majesty, splendor, reverberation, prophecy, surrender, temimut
(sincerity), anchor, steadfastness, left leg, "Hosts of ELOHIM," associated
with Aaron)
Primary direction: Down.
Whoever draws Wednesday has to be 'trip guide' all week. Though LSD must be
taken, it must be taken only when someone else isn't tripping.
Thursday - Thor, Jove, Jupiter, Thunder. Adamantium,
which we all call Mithril, apotheosis of Metal. Heroin. Gevurah (Also called "Din" -
Primary meaning: Judgment. Also known as: Strength, Severity, Fear of God,
left arm of God, red, ELOHIM, YAH, associated with Isaac)
Drag Day for Boys - Strength is not necessarily masculine. Drag names should involve a play on 'Judy', or 'Jeudi'. Or not.
Primary direction: North.
Whoever draws Thursday has to sweep and mop.
Friday - Frigga, Venus, Love. Plastic is the organic substance
that does not unnecessarily reproduce itself. It is the Gnostic perfection
of Wood. Ecstacy. Chesed, (Primary meaning: Mercy. Also known as: Grace,
Love of God, right arm of God, white, EL, associated with Abraham)
Drag day for Girls. Love is not necessarily Feminine.
Primary direction: South.
Those who are selected to represent the Sabbath must not work all week.
Saturday - Saturn, Chronos, Time. Concrete is
the permanence of the fifth age, and is the apotheosis of Earth.
Cocaine. Malkut (Primary meaning: Kingdom. Also known as: Atarah (diadem),
Kingship, Shekinah (presence), Sabbath,
lower Crown, the attribute of justice, humility, associated with David)
Primary Direction: None.
Whoever draws Saturday has to set all the alarm clocks in the house, so Daisy
can get to work on time. Also, those who draw Malkhut are required to deal
with 'base substances', and must clean the bathroom.
Sources:
Sephirot
Days of the Week
Rote Database/Pantheon:
Name |
Title |
Effect |
| Chirikitik | Lesser servitor of communications and messenger to the loa of the new
city |
(Forces 2) Disrupt Service to a Cellphone. |
| The word for 'Mirror', writ in mirror-image enochian under an oilslick puddle in an alley | ... |
(Forces 2) Redirect the light, effectively making a double-mirror - a
doublebounce - so we're looking down at what's above us |
| Enochian words for 'Warmth' and 'Serenity' | 'Warmth' is derived from the enochian for 'Hearth', not 'Fire'. 'Serenity',
which was translated into Greek as Ataraxia, means stillness of soul. |
(Forces 2/Mind 2) Make a Glowstick
reflect body heat and radiate serenity. Actually just made it do the
former, and changed its resonance to the latter. |
Ophis Onesiskeros, Snakes of Dream and Shadow The snakes are called 'Kashmirs' by the houngans who summon (from cauchemars) |
Living shadow snakes, distillations of fear, are summoned forth from the shadows to do the bidding of the summoner. The summoning is vulgar. Difficulty 7. In shadows, the lack of visibility lowers the difficulty to 6. Each 'damage level'
of the summoning rote
summons a single snake. The rote is an instantaneous effect - the snakes
remain until struck by light or until they take damage, at which
point they lose cohesion and merely become shadows again. |
(Forces 2/Mind 2)* Forces 2 distils the shadow to the necessary viscosity, Mind 2 gets the right vibrations of fear oscillating through the tenebrous liquid for it to come alive. The snakes divide the summoner's Manipulation + Occult between their 'soak', 'to-hit' and 'damage' pools. For initiative
purposes, they use the Mage's wits and have no dexterity, and cannot
change actions. Soaked with WP vs 8, and any levels of 'damage' done drain from dice pools as formless, numbing fear grips the target. This numbing is dispelled instantly on contact with sunlight. *- (Mind 3) or (Corr 2) works at a distance |