[UA] Austin Texas and the Ordo Corpulentus

[José Luis Nunes Porfírio]

Jade Hammons wrote:
> The motto of Austin is "Keep Austin Weird"
Thank you! Actually, it was that motto that made me choose Austin, 
together with Linklater's movie Slacker. Knowing that it is the home of 
Dirk Allen and the Ordo Corpulentus is the (very delicious and full of 
potential) icing in the cake.

Cheers,

Zé
> We are the Blue City in the Red State.
> Any number of Dukes would fit right in on 6th street. I don't know 
> whether it is the heart of Austin, or it's genitals.
> We are a nexus of independant movie making, independant music, and the 
> home of one of the oldest on-going gaming companies in the business.
> Austin is about as liberal as they come.
> Austin is the home of Silicon Hills, the southwest's version of 
> Silicon Valley, we have Dell Computer here, and representatives of 
> every hi-tech computer and electronics manufacturer going. Fully a 
> quarter of Apple Computers now operates out of Austin.
> Instead of bumper stickers reading "My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter" we 
> have bumper stickers reading "My Governer is a Jewish Cowboy."
> Nothing... nothing... is too weird in Austin, from Fetish clubs, to 
> Halloween on 6th street.
> We are home to the second largest population of katrina refugees in 
> the united states behind houston.
>
> As Greg said, you woudn't be out of place in taking everything you've 
> ever heard stereotypical about Texas and totally inverting the 
> stereotype.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "José Luis Nunes Porfírio" 
> <jlporfirio at gmail.com>
> To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:57 PM
> Subject: [UA] Austin Texas and the Ordo Corpulentus
>
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am making a street-level campaign set in Austin, Texas. I'm using 
>> one of the adventure seeds suggested in the manual, in which the PCs 
>> are grad students at the University and have a parapsychology 
>> subject. The assignment for their group, this semester, is to 
>> investigate the occult scene in town and see how deep it goes - 100% 
>> of the grade depends on that.
>>
>
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