Menko 21: Tiki Prime

• InEppt prep for Tiki Prime Arrival
• Spiritual interface reimplementation for ’98
• Warriors volunteer for Idol Access defence against stricture volitions
• Live Idol Assembly defends against outlander instigation

Acrophobes Fearing Solid Ground

Let’s state the bleeding obvious:
  The social bravado of BärteHansa stuffed shirts should not be confused for inquisitive risks of freefall borne of actual curiosity.
  Their Oproid Brave Stances tend to be ego validation devices for those who can’t hack it in the real world.
  They ramble about in the dank echo chambers of their underground network pretending to Shout Truth from a rooftop from which they’ll never ascend.
  Ground yourself or gravity will do it for you.

Gionata Fabbri e la Crisi della Fede

Are Better Angels and other chrononauts susceptible to Mission Fatigue?

  Whether seen as Angeli Custodi or Crisis Figures, “the interpretation of [their] presence [is] completely subjective to witnesses...”
  Fine and good enough, because chance hierophanies are worth happening, right?

  The disinganno comes not from the deeds done — surely there is no shortage of work — but the sheer repetition, the toilsome treadmill, the never-ending list of lost souls who couldn’t learn just by looking around themselves — and still need to be bailed out from beyond the æther.
  You can’t blame the Decent Man for eventually throwing his hands into the air. And even the good chrononaut’s technicians have to deal with his metaphysical aches.
  But it’s beyond man’s ken to know how a Celestial deals with burnout.
  Strike that. The notion itself is but another Projection of Man.
  Chalk it up as another epistemological own goal.

Menko 21: Johnny Human Goth

Goths at Furley Square
pancake makeup clogging pores
sweat running down face

Impression attempt
gets messy pretty dang quick
good thing you wear mesh

Bhauchakka Teams With Vindaloo Weekend 7 Movie For New Campaign

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HERITAGEVILLE — Orville Foods Asia, the maker of Bhauchakka “Nutritional Biskuts & Biomass Briquettes,” announced an internal collaboration with Orville Motion Pictures in support of the release of the highly anticipated film Vindaloo Weekend 7. Leading up to the film’s August premier, Bhauchakka will launch its “Genius of Flavour” campaign, which will feature limited-edition product packaging, in-store marketing support, and a firewalking contest.
  In honour of the film, Bhauchakka will kick off a “Bhauchakka Biomass Pyrobatics” firewalking contest that will allow fans to enter to win a hometown screening of Vindaloo Weekend 7. One winner and maybe a friend will enjoy a private screening at their local theatre, including concessions.
  “We are absolutely delighted to be working with Orville Motion Pictures once again, and are so pleased to be involved with a film that shares a message so reflective of our own,” says Prabodh Gutts, VP of PR and Community Outreach at Bhauchakka. “Like Vindaloo Weekend 7, Bhauchakka is a brand that encourages individuality and embraces the different flavours and attitudes that ‘colour our world’.”

United Planets Drops Telecom, Arms Sanctions Against Orville Corporation

DATELINE: Space Station VI, United Planets HQ,
Stratum XLVIII

A United Planets special rapporteur has dropped a call for an interplanetary arms embargo against the Orville Corporation, whilst the Interplanetary Telecoms Union has voiced support for corporations targeted with sanctions.
  UP Security Council Secretary G-Rod ibn Quirish questioned a resolution that bars the direct supply or sale to certain entities of munitions and other military matériel. The administrative subpoena came about after Orville CEO Johnny Gutts was viewed promoting arms trafficking via late-night streaming infomercial broadcast from Earth, which was also simulcasted on various planets of UP charter members.
  Some question whether such sales violate proposed interplanetary human [sic] rights law, which would prohibit transactions of weapons to entities where there is a clear risk of their being used to commit heinous acts. As no such laws are in effect at present, the point is moot.
  The Security Council, acting through its Tacit X-cept procedure today, rejected the arms and telecom embargo imposed on Orville for an indefinite time.
  The Orville infomercial included transmission to Xarnaq IV, Imperial Jurgætium, the Shoulder of Orion, Serpo, Planet R, and Gliese 876c. Whilst a state of détente exists between the Xarnaq Praetorium and Jurgætium, United Planets Security Council members note they themselves are obligated to consider even “nuisance resolutions” submitted by various entities.
  Sir Keir Marvik, Special Envoy to Xarnaq, waves off any doubts regarding the bilateral rapprochement of the two factions.
“Meta-conditional contingencies are in place for all parties. It’s all cool.”
  Orville CEO Johnny Gutts echoes the sentiment thusly: “Everything’s cool for now.”

Orville Introduces “Sword of Kháren” Munitions to Pan-Global Peace Market

  The Orville Telhas-TZ (unofficially christened the “Sword of Kháren”), is a laser-guided mortar and artillery shell with the SmartGutts™ automated fire control system able to attack stationary and moving targets with top attack patterns. The Telhas-TZ is a non-conventional, hollow forged alloy projectile filled with high-explosive of your choice. A supplemental charge may be fitted to projectiles loaded with a deep intrusion fuze cavitator and is removable for assembling proximity fuzes or linear detonators to the projectile.
  A proprietary guidance system with a GPS-assisted inertial nav-sys arrangement will guide the shell to its designated target. Several mortars using this system can fire simultaneously without interfering with each other, and the system uses real-time data for targets spaced at up to 800m.
  The Telhas-TZ works across launch platforms, whether for long-range cannon precision strikes or as tactical proximity munitions, with nuke, bio, or traditional payloads available.

  Orville is one of the major players in the peace market that is providing support munitions in various regions through multiple joint ventures with the Ugandoid Autonomous Prefecture, the Pan-Martian Consortium, and the Xarnaq Praetorium. Orville is also currently exploring various new enhancements for its munitions with enhanced lethality options now in the certification stage. Such partnerships and investments in product innovations are expected to support growth in the peace market on Earth, as well as off-planet.

Vindaloo Weekend 7: Satyaya Punch

Menko 21: Sputtering Thoat

The kids would chafe and cuss, we had thought, because they just didn’t have the vocab necessary to finely articulate their astute considerations at the time.
Well, things haven’t changed for the better since Stratum XXXIV.
Problem is, it’s the so-called adults now who are having the hissies.

Rejectio Mundi

Promo: Rejectio Mundi

Chunky-Dunk at the Trilon

In the heart of Midtown amidst the hum and blur of luminous traffic
the posse scampers forth from the shadows
Fresh as a newborn’s breath,
the Count, Cece, Rita Socorrista, and perhaps Velmina
take the fountain plunge
Froth and foam is lit from below
as beams reach for the night
A splash and a laugh sound from within the burble and shimmer
In the thick of Plaza Colonia congestion
the quick wit of furley cognoscenti creates Oasis Cavort

Menko 21: Mr Loboto

Les Garçons Folâtres de Dionysos

A companion piece to “Désir au Vieux Bar à Huîtres.”

Menko 21: On-the-Spot

Menko 21: Thárrosus of Phinileus

Sacred Bridge at Nikko Futarasan Shrine

L’Exercise du Soupçon

La chimère dinde-scorpion frappe à toute menace à l’auto-souveraineté, lorsqu’elle est prise entre les soupçons des envieux et des exploiteurs.

Menko 21: Jirani Pepo