Re: We Sons Of Daley (TWS)
12-01-2011, 06:44 AM
Iriri Wrote:> Search for edifying PROPAGANDA PAMPHLETS!Oh, there are plenty of those! You've read most of them, but occasionally you like to leaf through them anyway. They're on a rack here, printed out on PLAIN PAPER, folded into THREE LEAVES.
-- "My Little Esper: Registration is SCIENCE"
-- "SIREN'S CALL: The Selkie Menace"
-- "CHICAGO FIRST TANK BATTALION: OUR BEST DEFENSE"
-- "An Informational Guide for Young Mages"
-- "Is SPECIAL FORCES right for you?"
-- "Grand Army Main Infantry: Holding The Line Against Anarchy And The Bloom."
-- "President Daley's Speech To Congress, Dec. 12, 2026"
You never bothered to look through the INFORMATIONAL GUIDE or MY LITTLE ESPER; you get that a lot of your friends around the SAME AGE AS YOU- SEVENTEEN, right now- are actually MAGES or ESPERS or KI-USERS, but it seems like a lot of hullabaloo over flashy lights and special effects.
tluthal Wrote:> REVIEW KNOWN INFORMATION.Well, let's see. Back about fifteen years ago, there was a HUGE CATACLYSM called the BLOOM. From what your PARENTS and TEACHERS told you and what you've PIECED TOGETHER, this was a period of IMMENSE PLANT GROWTH. You've heard that the SOUTHERN REGION was hit pretty hard in DECEMBER, but up near CHICAGO AND FARTHER NORTH, of course, it waited for the first thaw.
Worse than that, however, was the destruction of every TRANSISTOR then in use or being built. You have no idea what a TRANSISTOR is or WHY IT WOULD BE SO IMPORTANT, nor why your parents wish there was still something called an INTERNET. You gather it was a REALLY BIG LIBRARY OF SOME KIND.
PRESIDENT DALEY- MAY HE LIVE LONG- took control in the middle of the logistics disaster, and forced the GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS to MOBILIZE the NATIONAL GUARD. It STILL EXISTS, of course; but with COMMUNICATION WITH WASHINGTON cut off, Daley decided to bring in AS MANY CONGRESSMEN AS HE COULD, and established a TEMPORARY LEGISLATURE. With the TEMPORARY LEGISLATURE came a NEW CONSTITUTION. you will awaken soon
About five years later came the establishment of the FIRST TANK BATTALION, the GRAND ARMY MAIN INFANTRY, the REFORMED AIR FORCES, and THE SPECIAL FORCES UNIT. The NATIONAL GUARD still exists as a TRAINED MILITIA, but they are largely designed for TEMPORARY DEFENSIVE MEASURES.
Chicago has been slowly bringing the region into ORDER ever since.
Dragon Fogel Wrote:>Tell the recruiting officer that you're here to sign up!
GreyGabe Wrote:>Try to look as dignified and disciplined as you can. Stand up straight! Throw back those shoulders!
Oh! Right! Why were you woolgathering again? You walk up to the RECRUITER.
He gives you the HAIRY EYEBALL. "Yes? What do you want?"
"I'd like to sign up for the Grand Army, sir."
"You WH- ah... Right. May I ask your reasons?" He pauses. "And your name?"