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aberrantangelsHere's today's fun fact about the Trinity Universe:
In an installment of his "Normal Lives" column for Flare magazine, which was reprinted for our convenience in the Aberrant core rules, Duke Rollo (the Aberrant Era's Hunter S. Thompson pastiche) gives an overview of the dominant musical genres of 2008, one of which is novox (the X is silent, the O's are both long, the accent is on the last syllable). Rollo asks an "aging Marlene Dietrich clone" in an Amsterdam novox joint what word he's looking for to describe novox. "Impossible," she says and drifts off toward the bar.
What she means is that it's impossible to describe novox. What "yr. Corresp." takes her to mean is that the music itself is impossible, aimed at "genuine individuals...[l]egions of unique conformists".
In fact, both descriptions are accurate. Simply, novox music is any musical performance supplemented by nova powers. In Alejandra's case, those powers are her control over sonic energy, including the ability to adjust the level of background noise. In another nova's case, it might be the ability to create one's own lightshow with just a thought. The possibilities are as many and varied as nova powers themselves.
Novox is treated as a genre, but it's actually a medium. Novox music can be any genre, as long as nova powers are used in the performance — Kimberly Dame, for instance, performs Jazz Age torch songs. Similarly, a novox song performed by a baseline, or by a nova not using quantum powers, ceases to be novox. Hence, the statement of Rollo's "batlike muse" that it's impossible to say what's novox and what isn't. But in my opinion, the real sense in which novox is "impossible" is that it requires nova powers, and thus would have been impossible without N-Day (or some other event creating large numbers of eximorphs).
One of the points of Aberrant is to reiterate what a number of recent comics have pointed out — that the traditional hero-villain roles of Golden and Silver Age comics fail the realism test. If you got powers, would you knock over banks to get money, or would you sign an endorsement deal with Nike? Novox stars are probably the ultimate expression of that notion, of the hero as celebrity.
1984
February 5 -- Alejandra Maria Magdalena Carranza, future first-name-only novox star, born in Mexico, DF, one of eight children in a tenement family.
In an installment of his "Normal Lives" column for Flare magazine, which was reprinted for our convenience in the Aberrant core rules, Duke Rollo (the Aberrant Era's Hunter S. Thompson pastiche) gives an overview of the dominant musical genres of 2008, one of which is novox (the X is silent, the O's are both long, the accent is on the last syllable). Rollo asks an "aging Marlene Dietrich clone" in an Amsterdam novox joint what word he's looking for to describe novox. "Impossible," she says and drifts off toward the bar.
What she means is that it's impossible to describe novox. What "yr. Corresp." takes her to mean is that the music itself is impossible, aimed at "genuine individuals...[l]egions of unique conformists".
In fact, both descriptions are accurate. Simply, novox music is any musical performance supplemented by nova powers. In Alejandra's case, those powers are her control over sonic energy, including the ability to adjust the level of background noise. In another nova's case, it might be the ability to create one's own lightshow with just a thought. The possibilities are as many and varied as nova powers themselves.
Novox is treated as a genre, but it's actually a medium. Novox music can be any genre, as long as nova powers are used in the performance — Kimberly Dame, for instance, performs Jazz Age torch songs. Similarly, a novox song performed by a baseline, or by a nova not using quantum powers, ceases to be novox. Hence, the statement of Rollo's "batlike muse" that it's impossible to say what's novox and what isn't. But in my opinion, the real sense in which novox is "impossible" is that it requires nova powers, and thus would have been impossible without N-Day (or some other event creating large numbers of eximorphs).
One of the points of Aberrant is to reiterate what a number of recent comics have pointed out — that the traditional hero-villain roles of Golden and Silver Age comics fail the realism test. If you got powers, would you knock over banks to get money, or would you sign an endorsement deal with Nike? Novox stars are probably the ultimate expression of that notion, of the hero as celebrity.
