Today in the Trinity Universe: here comes the sun

[aberrantangels]

Remember, Sol Invictus is the reason for the season.

December 28
[Aberrant] William Reed, director of T2M-Americas, submits casefile T2M-122807-WFR0054, concerning the Peruvian nova who styles himself "Inti" (after the Inca sun god).

The Utopia investigation began several months ago, with strange lights in the Andes. It's now led to Inti and the community of followers he's established in the ruins of Machu Picchu. He's believed to have caused at least eight deaths in the name of protecting his privacy (possibly including a tourist helicopter) and he's known to have gathered some acllas to himself, from among his followers' virgin daughters, in exchange for his "mercy".

"The Office of Intelligence Services, T2M-Americas, believes that we should eliminate the threat posed by Inti immediately and scatter his followers." It's possible he's just an India Syndrome case, but Reed considers it more likely that Inti has been driven mad by taint. If taken alive (not the office's recommendation), "he should be remanded [to] Bahrain."

Comments

[patpandahat.livejournal.com]

It's odd. I wonder if there was ever meant to be a relationship between this "Inti" and the Huascar-led Peruvian revolutionary faction from Adventure!'s 1920s. Or if Machu Pichu just inevitably leads to Peruvians involved in z-rays or quantum or psi becoming convinced of godhood.

[aberrantangels]

...good question. I hadn't even thought of that, even though I was looking at Sarah Gettel's interview with a follower of Huascar not long ago at all (it's near "A Vision for the Future" in the Adventure! rulebook, and I used that latter item as reference for md_donighal's reply in the questions post). It occurs to me that the TU's Machu Picchu may have been a telluric transmitter (there are hints that Inspiration had other ages long before the Hammersmith Incident). I'd have to ask somebody involved with the TU (or, more likely, get etherlad to ask them) whether this was deliberate, though.