[UA] Looking for the Hollow History WWII thread

[James Knevitt]

We pretty much had that figured out. Man, those were the days.

For those playing at home, here's the short version of the superthread
in question:

The Nazis win WWII, and events follow pretty closely to the main theme
of The Man in the High Castle (the victorious Germans and Japanese
divide North America between them). Around 1960 or so, the Germans
send a man to the Moon. This man happened to be a powerful Cliomancer
with anti-Nazi sympathies. He subsequently uses the major charge from
the Moon (along with a lot of other sympathetic Clios popping off sig
charges here on Earth) to change history -- not just change the
perception of history, but to change history itself -- to our history.

There's the tie-in thread of the Swiss Family Golem, so to speak,
which was essentially about a reunion of all the Ein Sof golems from
all around the world. The tie-in occurs with the golems being the
hold-overs from the old reality (somehow connected to the Jewish
faith, the Jews being eradicated in the alternate history, etc) -- the
golems are the only ones who really know the truth, and they aren't
saying anything, because the more that history is revealed, the more
the original Clio magick is unraveled -- if the truth ever became
public, the Clio spells would be broken and the world would become as
it was.

There's a secondary plot to this portion that involves a random group
of neo-Nazi skinhead thanatomancers, who (almost) have in their
possession a ritual that, by destroying highly charged elements of the
Jewish faith, they will be able to unravel the Clio magick woven
almost 50 years ago. Now, these scumbags don't have opportune targets
yet, but it so happens that a massacre of Jews in the English city of
York in the 12th century provided enough magickal charge then, so now
the thanatomancers are biding their time, and thinking VERY long-term:
they plan to strike at New York's Jewish center on the thousandth
anniversary of the York massacre: in the 22nd century. It's up to the
Ein Sofs to stop them, and they'll need the help of the PCs.

(To quote a post of mine from five years ago:
"A bizarre, unfathomable conspiracy of alternate reality golems
attempting to stop another bizarre unknowable conspiracy of Nazi
thanatomancer scumbags from killing most of 22nd Century New York's
Jewish population to bring about a globe-spanning Third Reich hell on
earth. If that's not UA, I don't know what is.")

The fun starts when they start finding crashed Luftwaffe planes in the
desert, strange German impressionist images of victorious Axis powers,
demanding "Du muSSt die Spinne werden" ("You must become the Spider"),
and ultimately, the ruins of a death camp outside  Trenton, New
Jersey. And that's when they realize that the more the find out about
this awful other-reality, the more real it becomes.



On 6/26/07, Ben Baer <mangork at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since it doesn't seem like anyone ever corrected him the book he's thinking
> of is actually The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K DIck. This has a
> novel inside the book called the The Grasshopper lies heavy, which is what
> he is thinking of. The book is on the West coast however, and deals much
> more with the japanese then the Germans.
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James Knevitt
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways
to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
   --James Nicoll