- A waterlogged poster that peeled off of a wall. The poster depicts a scene from a point of view in a post modern "pop" style; vibrant colors and unblemished subjects lacking the bite of modernism or the surreality of impressionism. PROSTITUTION DIABOLIK, say bold red and yellow letters above an attractive naked woman with horns, cloven hooves and a forked tail squatting at the end of a bed. Her vagina has teeth and a pair of hands belonging to the POV character are raised in a defensive posture towards her, indicating fear or distress. Smaller letters at the bottom rail against the use of Nocturnal Biomechanica as sex workers, citing Nationalist rhetoric as reasoning to avoid copulation with them. This line of posters was swiftly discontinued by the Bureau Dei Poliscie Dei Moralitie after it became associated with pornography, particularly for it's popularity among those with a fetish for humanoid Nocturnal Biomechanica.
- An invasive aura-spike construct that produces the grating mental message: DRINK THE POTION [IMBIBE//LIQUID]: IMMEDIACY! Followed by the faint taste of Gambeton brand Cola and the activation of the salivary gland. Produced several Thousand Sange lawsuits against Gambeton Recreational Fluids which ultimately drove the company to bankruptcy. Due to embezzlement and governmental incompetence, residents of Ystopl-West still report frequent encounters with this obnoxious mental advertisement, despite apparent attempts to hunt them down and scrub them from the collective unconscious. (Aura-spike constructs are externalized thoughts made out of "thought stuff" that can forcefully implant images and sensations into the minds of others without consent. Their use in advertisement is legal, but regulated. This one in particular has a shape like an invisible sea urchin the size of an apple.)
- A strutting man with diaphanous skin, bones warped into whirlpools and branches, and three eyes. "It's free!" He says, 'So long as you get this written on your chest!" The blinking patches of bio-luminescence on his chest read: "Uderbrau Cosmetik Re-Configurations- West Reeve Street Apt. 56, call or appointment. Skeletal, Muscular, Integuementary, and Sexual Organ!!"
- A plain yellowing flier, crumpled from being stuffed into pockets and used as a bookmark. Donate Blood; Church of Djarkine, it says at the top, followed by a list of local locations and phone numbers, and the bold print: DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN. The fine print admits that all proceeds from selling your blood to the local depository will go to buying back the skull of a saint that they pawned.
- A newspaper clipping with a heliotype of an elegant woman, dressed in a fine pelerine and weighed down by several silver chains draped around her neck and wrists. Though the heliotype is in black and white, the alchemical denotation AU is written in her lipstick and eyeshadow. She's holding a pair of black engraved pistols and smiling. The column is titled "Eleanora's Arms Exquisite- Nothung's Liquid Coldfire Action Revolvers, the modern housewife's firearm?" The review is favorable, and there's a number at the end to call Nothung Firearms and place an order; the listed price is 20,000 Sange.
- A cheaply produced pamphlet titled: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CHOTUV DEEP WELL. The ensuing sixteen pages of insanity detail the anonymous author's belief that the world is not flat, but rather an octagonal polyhedron untouched by gravity. The illusion of flatness is given by the fact that each face of the polyhedron is flat, and the Fade Miasma is an artificial phenomenon maintained by the powers that be. The Chotuv Deep Well connection appears to be an attempt at relevancy, given the recent leak of the autopsy heliotypes, rather than a legitimate belief that the deep well somehow went sideways and breached into another facet of the octagonal earth. Reputable among the circles of the conspiratorially minded, but easily debunked by the recordings of the Abyssal Expeditions and the Trans-Miasma heliotypes of the sun passing beneath the ocean and into the underworld through the Maw.
- A "comic book" featuring several popular publications, issue #432, called Serial Comedy Weekly. Features Tomas Bhekin's famous talking rat Sylvester.
- A bronze statue of a proud Armiger wearing Carapace armor and bearing a three pronged lance. He has a sword belted to his side, and his helmet has an anachronistic plume. The plaque reads: "Behold the thin barrier which stands valiantly between your unworthy self and the rapacious hordes of the third world! Will you continue to cower like a woman while the very spine of our civilization is at risk, or will you stand proudly like a man, and enlist today?" There's a piece of graffiti on the statue's base which reads "I'm going to fuck your wife like a woman while you're busy killing strikers in Kvalte."
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Propaganda
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