Human Contact oracle
From Abulafia Random Generators
This is an oracle for an In a Wicked Age game that Meguey Baker, Vincent Baker, Robert Bohl, and Joshua A. C. Newman played in in late 2008/early 2009.
A disease ravages Platform Zero.
A Robust woman in consuming love with a Gracile administrator.
A disease ravages Platform Zero.
The death of a tyrant, sudden and violent.
A few notes about the world to make the Oracle make sense:
Two or more million years in the future, humanity has evolved into two or more separate species. The two we are familiar with are Graciles and Robusts.
Robusts left Earth a few million years ago in colony ships at near-light speeds and landed on an alien planet that was thought to be capable of supporting human life. There, they encountered a monoculture they came to call The Dirt. The Dirt is a number of sapient microorganism cultures that exist in the topsoil. They worked their way into Robust biology and co-evolved with them. The Robusts are excellent biotechnologists, and it may be that The Dirt used their skills to achieve biodiversity in its home ecology.
Robusts are short, squat, and powerfully-muscled. Their bones and jaws are thick and powerful. They are shorter-lived than humans of today, become young adults at the age of ten, and are individually not that "bright," but become exponentially more "intelligent" the more people are working on a problem. They are jovially violent with one another. They consume The Dirt in order to perceive directly the experiences of other living Robusts, as well as their ancestors. They often resurrect the dead, complete with the neuron connections and potentials that were present when the body is buried in The Dirt.
Graciles remained on and around Earth when the other colony ships left. They consider themselves to be baseline humans, though of course evolution worked as much on them as it has on any other form of humanity. They recently developed the ability to use wormholes to skip over light-centuries of space travel, and have begun to use this technology to try to reconnect with their lost brethren. The wormhole technology is initially one-way and must be located outside of a solar system. Until there is two-way capability, travel is exceedingly dangerous, with failure rates and travel times akin to cross-Atlantic voyages in the Age of Exploration.
The Graciles are tall, thin, and delicate-boned. Graciles are very long-lived, reaching adolescence in their twenties and frequently living several-hundred years. They have prehensile toes and are masters of the strength-to-mass ratio. Thus much of their architecture and technology is similarly delicate-seeming, though exceedingly strong. They are well-adapted to low- and micro-gravity environments (and extraordinarily poorly-adapted to the greater-than-Earth gravity of the Robust homeworld). Their bloodstreams are awash in nanotechnology which keeps them healthy and generates the Consciousness Web. The Web is an always-on connection which can be voluntarily left for short periods, and packages and processes extreme amounts of data.
The initial Gracile mission consists of about a hundred scientists operating from a space elevator, the orbital portion of which is called Platform Zero. Each member is an expert in several fields and the culture they have constructed is rather like a highly-disorganized symposium.
This oracle was generated by, at the end of every session, generating two more oracle entries per each of the four players, then drawing one oracle entry each.
