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RH101:Communicable Diseases

2007-11-06T02:59:35Z

Thranguy:

The Reality-Hacking techniques that created the miraculous cures seen in the [[RH101:Mount Ararat Children Hospital|Mount Ararat 'Miracle']], namely a mastery of the manipulation of microbes and viruses, were quickly turned to less benevolent purposes. The 'twenty-teen' years between 2013 and 2019 saw hundreds of newly 'discovered' diseases, most extremely virulent.

The first of these novel infections was the so-called 'Chinese Blue Fever', which caused people's skin to dye itself colors previously unseen outside of science fiction. Like many of the new diseases, the first wave was sexually transmitted, which meant that when the second wave, which was airborne, hit, many victims found themselves falsely accused to immoral behavior.

Later, the diseases would affect behavior directly. (See my tragically unpublished papers, "The Biological Causes of the [[RH101:Summer of Hate|Summer of Hate]]" and "Literally Infectuous Fetishisms" for more details)

The Reality Hackers involved chose, for some unknown reason, not to create any new diseases that were directly fatal. This is, of course, of little consolation to the victims, direct and indirect, of [[RH101:Viral Nihilism|Viral Nihilism]], including those impacted by the role that disease played in the unfolding of the Silver Runways Incident.

--Zephyr Snowchilde

[[Category:RH101|Communicable Diseases]]

RH101:Communicable Diseases

2007-11-06T02:50:39Z

Thranguy:

RH101 Intro

2007-11-06T00:58:30Z

Thranguy: /* C */

=Introduction=
After the terrible events of 9/11 and the madness of the next few years, a select few individuals decided to take action in a way no one had thought of before—actually “hacking” reality itself, or something close to it. These “reality hackers”—mostly young people, often idealistic, comfortable with technology, and with access to information unheard of in history—managed to affect subtle changes to the world for many years.

We can, with typical 20/20 hindsight, see the results of their efforts, both subtle and gross, in our modern world. This volume will attempt to record some of the details of those first faltering steps, specifically the period starting with their first efforts in the 00's (sometimes called “the Apocalypse-Wow Years”, though not due to their work) and ending with the Silver Runaways Incident.

In addition to the history and people of the movement, we believe that enough time has passed that some instruments, techniques and procedures can be recorded and made public; those are also included in this volume. We have tried to limit these entries to working and effective hacks, enabling this volume to function as a guide for future would-be Reality Hackers.<br>
(Note from ###: ARE YOU NUTS?!)

==OOC Information==
Reality Hacking 101 is a Lexicon Game to be played on the RPG.net Wiki. The players will be scholars looking back on the first years of “reality hacking”—which happen to be now—from a perspective some years in the future.

[[Original_Lexicon_post|A copy of the article that introduced the Lexicon Game concept to the world is here.]] This particular game, however, will include a few changes to those rules, primarily as experiments with the game form. In particular, where prior games went through the alphabet in order, this game will go through the letters semi-randomly. (Details below.) We will also be trying some additions and changes suggested by the group that ran [http://paranoia.allenvarney.com The Toothpaste Disaster] for their next game, as a trial run of sorts.

For now, the schedule is TBD. Here is a preliminary turn schedule:

*'''Turn 0'''
**Create descriptions for your scholars
**Optionally: reserve up to 2 future entries, with optional ''short'' descriptions.

*'''Turns 1-3'''
**Reasonably common single letters—commonality to be determined by comparison with existing finished Lexica and other factors.

*'''Remaining turns'''
**Remaining letters—less common letters will be put into groups, similarly to telephone-pad grouped games.
**Optional: Later in the game, we may have ''subject''-specific turns, where entries can be anywhere in the alphabet, but the subject is constrained. As examples:
***Personae turn—anywhere in the alphabet, but People only.
***Technique turn—for How-To-Reality-Hack entries only
***Event turn—for historical events only.
**Optional: Editing turn—allows you to edit, update or expand prior entries. Again, this will be later in the game (possibly even the ''last'' turn), and will enable you to “tweak” prior entries to bring them more in line with what later entries have revealed.

*'''Overall:'''
**Reminder: First letter's entries reference 2 entries not yet created; second and subsequent letters reference one existing entry and two future entries.
**The Silver Runaways Incident will ''not'' be detailed (similarly to the Toothpaste Disaster in its eponymous Lexicon). It may be indirectly referenced.
**Entries may reference relevant real-world articles—say, from Wikipedia—but please mark those references with an asterisk or similar sign.
**Each entry will be on its own separate page, with the title “RH101:(entry)” to preclude clashing with existing pages.
**Please IC-Sign (i.e., “sign” with your scholar-character's name) each entry, and include <nowiki>[[Category:RH101]]</nowiki> at the end to help keep things straight.
**Players may leave IC comments on prior entries at any time. Note that while the entries themselves are considered to be incontestable (by Lexicon rules), comments are not—they are considered to be opinions.
**For OOC questions/comments/et cetera, send a PM to Knockwood.

Good luck! --[[User:Knockwood|Lord Knockwood the Mad]] 01:46, 26 March 2007 (PDT)

==Pages==

First, the [[RH101:OOC_Page|OOC Page]], which includes the scholars' names.

Then, the actual letter pages:

===C===

[[RH101:Copenhagen University|Copenhagen University]]

[[RH101:Communicable Diseases|Communicable Diseases]]

===M===

[[RH101:Majesty|Majesty]]

[[RH101:Mercury Anomalies|Mercury Anomalies]]

[[RH101:Mount Ararat Children Hospital|Mount Ararat Children Hospital]]

[[Category:RH101|Introduction]]

RH101 Intro

2007-11-06T00:58:12Z

Thranguy: /* C */

=Introduction=
After the terrible events of 9/11 and the madness of the next few years, a select few individuals decided to take action in a way no one had thought of before—actually “hacking” reality itself, or something close to it. These “reality hackers”—mostly young people, often idealistic, comfortable with technology, and with access to information unheard of in history—managed to affect subtle changes to the world for many years.

We can, with typical 20/20 hindsight, see the results of their efforts, both subtle and gross, in our modern world. This volume will attempt to record some of the details of those first faltering steps, specifically the period starting with their first efforts in the 00's (sometimes called “the Apocalypse-Wow Years”, though not due to their work) and ending with the Silver Runaways Incident.

In addition to the history and people of the movement, we believe that enough time has passed that some instruments, techniques and procedures can be recorded and made public; those are also included in this volume. We have tried to limit these entries to working and effective hacks, enabling this volume to function as a guide for future would-be Reality Hackers.<br>
(Note from ###: ARE YOU NUTS?!)

==OOC Information==
Reality Hacking 101 is a Lexicon Game to be played on the RPG.net Wiki. The players will be scholars looking back on the first years of “reality hacking”—which happen to be now—from a perspective some years in the future.

[[Original_Lexicon_post|A copy of the article that introduced the Lexicon Game concept to the world is here.]] This particular game, however, will include a few changes to those rules, primarily as experiments with the game form. In particular, where prior games went through the alphabet in order, this game will go through the letters semi-randomly. (Details below.) We will also be trying some additions and changes suggested by the group that ran [http://paranoia.allenvarney.com The Toothpaste Disaster] for their next game, as a trial run of sorts.

For now, the schedule is TBD. Here is a preliminary turn schedule:

*'''Turn 0'''
**Create descriptions for your scholars
**Optionally: reserve up to 2 future entries, with optional ''short'' descriptions.

*'''Turns 1-3'''
**Reasonably common single letters—commonality to be determined by comparison with existing finished Lexica and other factors.

*'''Remaining turns'''
**Remaining letters—less common letters will be put into groups, similarly to telephone-pad grouped games.
**Optional: Later in the game, we may have ''subject''-specific turns, where entries can be anywhere in the alphabet, but the subject is constrained. As examples:
***Personae turn—anywhere in the alphabet, but People only.
***Technique turn—for How-To-Reality-Hack entries only
***Event turn—for historical events only.
**Optional: Editing turn—allows you to edit, update or expand prior entries. Again, this will be later in the game (possibly even the ''last'' turn), and will enable you to “tweak” prior entries to bring them more in line with what later entries have revealed.

*'''Overall:'''
**Reminder: First letter's entries reference 2 entries not yet created; second and subsequent letters reference one existing entry and two future entries.
**The Silver Runaways Incident will ''not'' be detailed (similarly to the Toothpaste Disaster in its eponymous Lexicon). It may be indirectly referenced.
**Entries may reference relevant real-world articles—say, from Wikipedia—but please mark those references with an asterisk or similar sign.
**Each entry will be on its own separate page, with the title “RH101:(entry)” to preclude clashing with existing pages.
**Please IC-Sign (i.e., “sign” with your scholar-character's name) each entry, and include <nowiki>[[Category:RH101]]</nowiki> at the end to help keep things straight.
**Players may leave IC comments on prior entries at any time. Note that while the entries themselves are considered to be incontestable (by Lexicon rules), comments are not—they are considered to be opinions.
**For OOC questions/comments/et cetera, send a PM to Knockwood.

Good luck! --[[User:Knockwood|Lord Knockwood the Mad]] 01:46, 26 March 2007 (PDT)

==Pages==

First, the [[RH101:OOC_Page|OOC Page]], which includes the scholars' names.

Then, the actual letter pages:

===C===

[[RH101:Copenhagen University|Copenhagen University]]
[[RH101:Communicable Diseases|Communicable Diseases]]

===M===

[[RH101:Majesty|Majesty]]

[[RH101:Mercury Anomalies|Mercury Anomalies]]

[[RH101:Mount Ararat Children Hospital|Mount Ararat Children Hospital]]

[[Category:RH101|Introduction]]

RH101:Mercury Anomalies

2007-09-11T17:35:50Z

Thranguy:

Back during the relatively calm years of the twentieth century, a set of perturbations in the orbit of the planet Mercury were explained by, and formed the first bits of proof for, Einstein's theory of general relativity. It was little-noted at the time, but during the year of 2011, the tiny planet's orbit changed, assuming the pattern one would expect it to follow if Newton's laws were fully correct.

Only a few astronomers noticed this first Mercury Anomaly. The second, in May of 2016, was unmistakable: the entire planet seemed to vanish completely. It was not until August that scientists at [[RH101:Copenhagen University|Copenhagen University]]'s Observatory found it, somehow transported into an orbit at approximately the same distance as Pluto's. That October, Mercury was restored to it's original position, apparently none the worse for wear.

The third major Mercury Anomaly occurred on June 7, 2022, the day after the atrocity that came to be known as the [[RH101:Nineteen Detonations|Nineteen Detonations]], in which the planet transformed into a smooth black sphere, polished to perfect reflectivity, a change which lasted exactly one year.

-- Zephyr Snowchilde

[[Category:RH101]]

RH101:Mercury Anomalies

2007-09-11T17:34:38Z

Thranguy:

RH101 Intro

2007-09-11T17:28:27Z

Thranguy: /* M */

=Introduction=
After the terrible events of 9/11 and the madness of the next few years, a select few individuals decided to take action in a way no one had thought of before—actually “hacking” reality itself, or something close to it. These “reality hackers”—mostly young people, often idealistic, comfortable with technology, and with access to information unheard of in history—managed to affect subtle changes to the world for many years.

We can, with typical 20/20 hindsight, see the results of their efforts, both subtle and gross, in our modern world. This volume will attempt to record some of the details of those first faltering steps, specifically the period starting with their first efforts in the 00's (sometimes called “the Apocalypse-Wow Years”, though not due to their work) and ending with the Silver Runaways Incident.

In addition to the history and people of the movement, we believe that enough time has passed that some instruments, techniques and procedures can be recorded and made public; those are also included in this volume. We have tried to limit these entries to working and effective hacks, enabling this volume to function as a guide for future would-be Reality Hackers.<br>
(Note from ###: ARE YOU NUTS?!)

==OOC Information==
Reality Hacking 101 is a Lexicon Game to be played on the RPG.net Wiki. The players will be scholars looking back on the first years of “reality hacking”—which happen to be now—from a perspective some years in the future.

[[Original_Lexicon_post|A copy of the article that introduced the Lexicon Game concept to the world is here.]] This particular game, however, will include a few changes to those rules, primarily as experiments with the game form. In particular, where prior games went through the alphabet in order, this game will go through the letters semi-randomly. (Details below.) We will also be trying some additions and changes suggested by the group that ran [http://paranoia.allenvarney.com The Toothpaste Disaster] for their next game, as a trial run of sorts.

For now, the schedule is TBD. Here is a preliminary turn schedule:

*'''Turn 0'''
**Create descriptions for your scholars
**Optionally: reserve up to 2 future entries, with optional ''short'' descriptions.

*'''Turns 1-3'''
**Reasonably common single letters—commonality to be determined by comparison with existing finished Lexica and other factors.

*'''Remaining turns'''
**Remaining letters—less common letters will be put into groups, similarly to telephone-pad grouped games.
**Optional: Later in the game, we may have ''subject''-specific turns, where entries can be anywhere in the alphabet, but the subject is constrained. As examples:
***Personae turn—anywhere in the alphabet, but People only.
***Technique turn—for How-To-Reality-Hack entries only
***Event turn—for historical events only.
**Optional: Editing turn—allows you to edit, update or expand prior entries. Again, this will be later in the game (possibly even the ''last'' turn), and will enable you to “tweak” prior entries to bring them more in line with what later entries have revealed.

*'''Overall:'''
**Reminder: First letter's entries reference 2 entries not yet created; second and subsequent letters reference one existing entry and two future entries.
**The Silver Runaways Incident will ''not'' be detailed (similarly to the Toothpaste Disaster in its eponymous Lexicon). It may be indirectly referenced.
**Entries may reference relevant real-world articles—say, from Wikipedia—but please mark those references with an asterisk or similar sign.
**Each entry will be on its own separate page, with the title “RH101:(entry)” to preclude clashing with existing pages.
**Please IC-Sign (i.e., “sign” with your scholar-character's name) each entry, and include <nowiki>[[Category:RH101]]</nowiki> at the end to help keep things straight.
**Players may leave IC comments on prior entries at any time. Note that while the entries themselves are considered to be incontestable (by Lexicon rules), comments are not—they are considered to be opinions.
**For OOC questions/comments/et cetera, send a PM to Knockwood.

Good luck! --[[User:Knockwood|Lord Knockwood the Mad]] 01:46, 26 March 2007 (PDT)

==Pages==

First, the [[RH101:OOC_Page|OOC Page]], which includes the scholars' names.

Then, the actual letter pages:

===M===

[[RH101:Mercury Anomalies|Mercury Anomalies]]

[[RH101:Mount Ararat Children Hospital|Mount Ararat Children Hospital]]

[[Category:RH101|Introduction]]

RH101 Intro

2007-09-11T17:27:44Z

Thranguy: /* M */

=Introduction=
After the terrible events of 9/11 and the madness of the next few years, a select few individuals decided to take action in a way no one had thought of before—actually “hacking” reality itself, or something close to it. These “reality hackers”—mostly young people, often idealistic, comfortable with technology, and with access to information unheard of in history—managed to affect subtle changes to the world for many years.

We can, with typical 20/20 hindsight, see the results of their efforts, both subtle and gross, in our modern world. This volume will attempt to record some of the details of those first faltering steps, specifically the period starting with their first efforts in the 00's (sometimes called “the Apocalypse-Wow Years”, though not due to their work) and ending with the Silver Runaways Incident.

In addition to the history and people of the movement, we believe that enough time has passed that some instruments, techniques and procedures can be recorded and made public; those are also included in this volume. We have tried to limit these entries to working and effective hacks, enabling this volume to function as a guide for future would-be Reality Hackers.<br>
(Note from ###: ARE YOU NUTS?!)

==OOC Information==
Reality Hacking 101 is a Lexicon Game to be played on the RPG.net Wiki. The players will be scholars looking back on the first years of “reality hacking”—which happen to be now—from a perspective some years in the future.

[[Original_Lexicon_post|A copy of the article that introduced the Lexicon Game concept to the world is here.]] This particular game, however, will include a few changes to those rules, primarily as experiments with the game form. In particular, where prior games went through the alphabet in order, this game will go through the letters semi-randomly. (Details below.) We will also be trying some additions and changes suggested by the group that ran [http://paranoia.allenvarney.com The Toothpaste Disaster] for their next game, as a trial run of sorts.

For now, the schedule is TBD. Here is a preliminary turn schedule:

*'''Turn 0'''
**Create descriptions for your scholars
**Optionally: reserve up to 2 future entries, with optional ''short'' descriptions.

*'''Turns 1-3'''
**Reasonably common single letters—commonality to be determined by comparison with existing finished Lexica and other factors.

*'''Remaining turns'''
**Remaining letters—less common letters will be put into groups, similarly to telephone-pad grouped games.
**Optional: Later in the game, we may have ''subject''-specific turns, where entries can be anywhere in the alphabet, but the subject is constrained. As examples:
***Personae turn—anywhere in the alphabet, but People only.
***Technique turn—for How-To-Reality-Hack entries only
***Event turn—for historical events only.
**Optional: Editing turn—allows you to edit, update or expand prior entries. Again, this will be later in the game (possibly even the ''last'' turn), and will enable you to “tweak” prior entries to bring them more in line with what later entries have revealed.

*'''Overall:'''
**Reminder: First letter's entries reference 2 entries not yet created; second and subsequent letters reference one existing entry and two future entries.
**The Silver Runaways Incident will ''not'' be detailed (similarly to the Toothpaste Disaster in its eponymous Lexicon). It may be indirectly referenced.
**Entries may reference relevant real-world articles—say, from Wikipedia—but please mark those references with an asterisk or similar sign.
**Each entry will be on its own separate page, with the title “RH101:(entry)” to preclude clashing with existing pages.
**Please IC-Sign (i.e., “sign” with your scholar-character's name) each entry, and include <nowiki>[[Category:RH101]]</nowiki> at the end to help keep things straight.
**Players may leave IC comments on prior entries at any time. Note that while the entries themselves are considered to be incontestable (by Lexicon rules), comments are not—they are considered to be opinions.
**For OOC questions/comments/et cetera, send a PM to Knockwood.

Good luck! --[[User:Knockwood|Lord Knockwood the Mad]] 01:46, 26 March 2007 (PDT)

==Pages==

First, the [[RH101:OOC_Page|OOC Page]], which includes the scholars' names.

Then, the actual letter pages:

===M===

[[RH101:Mercury Anomalies|Mercury Anomalies]]
[[RH101:Mount Ararat Children Hospital|Mount Ararat Children Hospital]]

[[Category:RH101|Introduction]]

RH101:OOC Page

2007-08-16T21:41:01Z

Thranguy: /* The Scholars */

This is the page where we will put the meta-info for the Reality Hacking 101 Lexicon Game.

Starting with:

==The Scholars==

Here are the 'scholars' who are contributing to this project (i.e., the characters and the people who run them):

(Format for entries:
* (scholar name) (IC scholar bio)
** (player name) (other info)
)

* (no name yet) --leader of the project, by virtue of being the one who decided to put it together in the first place. Has seen most of the Reality Hacking that's happened over the last few years, and is trying to take a long view of things, including the potential benefits to "future generations". Made the controversial decision to have the Lexicon include selected techniques, rather than keeping them secret.
** [[User:Knockwood|Lord Knockwood the Mad]] --started the Lexicon and trying to get it going.

* '''Professor Moira Tamarat''' --A social historian of great renown, she shot to fame 20 years ago with her book entitled ''Romans Did It With Pikes'', and has had many published since covering multiple periods of history. Her specialisation is people and social development. Her studies tend to look at both individuals and societies, but have been critised by some for over-glamourising certain aspects. Rival historian, Boris Baxter, once said that her books read more like a soap opera than any serious work of research. Nonetheless, they seem to sell well. Recently, her attention has turned to more modern matters and her latest book was entitled ''Silver Runaways - The People Process''. As such, she has chosen to participate in this new Lexicon project. Some say she may have ulterior motives though. Rumour is that she is heavily in debt to the Mob right now.
** Played by Tylorva

* '''Doctor Zephyr Snowchilde''' --An academic eccentric whose works for many years were published only in the most obscure and arcane journals, due to a wide-ranging blacklist in the quote-unquote mainstream publications maintained by lesser talents our of sheer jealousy and spite, as he will tell (and in fact cannot be deterred from telling) you himself. After the Silver Runways Incident, other people are beginning to realize just how right he was all along...
** Played by Thranguy

==Entry Format==

Here's a quick-and-dirty template--the page title should be "RH101:Foo" (replacing Foo with the subject of the entry):

<pre>
Here place basic data about the subject.

==SubHeading==
More information about the subject.
Link back to [[RH101:Foo_1]]
Link forward to [[RH101:Foo_2|Alternate link text]]

[[Category:RH101|Foo]]
</pre>

Quick explanation: the page title will appear at the beginning of the page (as a 'Level-1 header'). The paired equals signs mean a level-2 header. The pipes in the Wiki links make the alternate text appear instead of the original text; the pipe in the Category Link controls where the page appears in the [[:Category:RH101|category page.]] (Without it, everything appears under 'RH101')

[[Category:RH101|OOC Page]]