Aztec Cyberpunk did not use crystals

[ursula]

A piece of worldbuilding solidified for me, while doing this session's planning. One of the setting aspects we developed when we were first planning the Aztec Cyberpunk campaign was The Broken Pyramid. We agreed it was in some way technological, in some way related to climate or the ocean, and that cults tended to spring up around it. I realized, while thinking about the activities of a particular cult, that there's a natural way for magic and technology to interact. Everything I've read about Aztec religion has insisted that the dichotomy between representation and reality is a Western one, that a represented thing has its own reality. In this setting, that means a sufficiently detailed simulation will be not only descriptive, but prescriptive. And the pyramid is running code...

Anyway, on to the quotes!

• "I mean, who really knows what humans do?"
  "Certainly not humans!"
  
• "You haven't heard anything about this cult."
  "They're super obscure. That's so cool."
  "You had this god on vinyl."
  
• "You could just knock on his door and say, 'I want to join your cult.'"
  "You're not the pizza guy!" [bird squawking]
  "I am not making another sexy bird decoy."
  
• "I'm trying to data-science this!"
  
• "Gambler's fallacy! Gambler's fallacy!" [bangs table]
  "You made my d10 light up!"
  
• "You're going to break me!"
  "Between the cake and the pseudoscience..."
  
• "They could be using the natural power to disrupt the artificial power."
  "I hate to say this, but that sounds... right."
  
• "He wasn't able to find the ecoterrorist equivalent of a recruiting poster."
  
• "I'm listening to everything you're saying. A man turned himself blue and carved a key out of a block of silver."
  
• "You just need to study the ways of the desert snake."
  "To live in the ocean?"
  
• "Where did you get this die?"
  "It came with my husband."
  
• "It's like turning your liver into a laser."
  
• "We'll need to disrupt the power of the ritual, and we'll be like, OK, I hit this guy with a rock--"
  "An agate, so it calms him down."
  
• "I think we just need to tail the guy. Maybe not me, 'cause I sort of stand out. Having, literally, a tail."
  
• "Don't get this guy started on Carthage!"
  
• "This is--office drone kind of cult participation?"
  
• "Either that, or you're a lizard person."
  [flicks tongue, then squawks]
  "Or a snowy egret person!"
  
• "Fate brought us together."
  
• "By our powers combined, we are OSHA recordable!"
  
• [describes podcast]
  [enthusiastically] "It's like having fake friends!"