This is a quick list of various rumors that I came up with for Unknown Armies. Hope they make a few players scratch their heads. Enjoy.
Some crazy bastard out there is charging up a bunch of swords and selling them out randomly. Whenever somebody in possession of one of these things meets another person with one they get the overwhelming feeling of anger and rage that drives them to attack the other. So now it's starting to look like highlander all over again out there. People are walking up pulling out their blades and going at it until only one of them walks away with a pulse. A lot of times it actually ends up with a decapitation, guess people do watch to many movies. Also whoever this is, or they are, isn't just doing this to one kind of sword. It's popping up in Pakistani rip offs, quality Spanish blades and even katanas.
From a report there has been news of interesting developments on the Mak Attack listserv. It all seems to be centering on the 'new point of delivery', one that is just as popular as the regular fast food joint with just as much potential. Currently everything seems to point towards the retail giant called Wal-Mart.
The old tales of cameras stealing your souls is correct. At least with the right cameras.... The old tales of natives thinking that their souls were stolen buy having their pictures taken aren't just tales. Those old style cameras that may take up to a minute or more for the picture to take are the real deal.
Very common in the old west when folks had to pose for a while in front of the camera while the picture developed on the film. Well during this time the person was having part of or their entire soul sucked into the camera itself. Now they are making a small comeback. All these old time photo shops are opening up with these cameras so the picture looks even more accurate to those of long ago. Slowly they are taking away more and more from the populace.
The books written my Dr Seuss are all actually cleverly disguised rituals. Only those who study these texts in great detail will figure them out. The Cat in the Hat is one of the most complex and powerful rituals ever put to paper. If only it could be deciphered.
You can store charges in old unopened bottle of Coca Cola from 1985.
Ballpoint pens made in a factory someplace in Maine never run out of ink. That factory has 333 employees.
Mechanomancers are being outdone by a new school of adepts who are behind the whole robot wars/battle bots craze.
The world is a lie, an illusion put in place to keep us from seeing true reality and our true nature as gods.
Aliens aren't creating crop circles; they are being created by supernatural means.
Remember that game AD&D that had bags of holding? Well those things are based off of real items. I have a friend who has a wallet of holding. Wonder if the bags of devouring are real also?
There is a house in Missouri made completely out of compact disks and the user is a very powerful adept.
Rice has a chemical in it that makes women become more fertile. This explains the population of China now doesn't it?
The Hells Angels are almost completely comprised of Entropomancers.
Playing solitaire for hours can generate some magic for anybody that uses a math heavy school of magic. This explains why Bill Gates had it put on Windows.