Abilities & Attributes

Language is your playground. In a brave new age, you coin brave new words. Why? Because language is the gatekeeper of status and initiation. Obfuscatory miscourse is keycode. Disinfotech relegates the bleaters to Sidelinedia. Coprosperity sails on neochop, and so you bait the beespeakers and decompartmentalize linguiblocks. What the hell are you saying, anyway? Whatever the hell you want it to mean!

Essentially, this Talent helps you spin and juggle buzzwords, either existing or original. Beyond the roleplaying fun you can have with this Trait, Newspeak provides a verbal arsenal for social entanglements. By pairing Social Attributes with this Ability, you can excite, incite or inspire your audience (Charisma + Newspeak); dazzle, befuddle or intimidate opponents (Manipulation + Newspeak); or blast holes in Preconceptionsville by pairing beauty with brains (Appearance + Newspeak). Intelligence + Newspeak may help you decipher or deconstruct someone else’s wordstorm, while Perception or Wits might help you keep track of a slogan-spitting raconteur… or beat her at her own game!

(Ideally, this Talent should be roleplayed out. Relegating it to a simple roll of dice is no fun at all.)

• Novice: LOL

•• Practiced: u mad, bro?

••• Skillful: Your neologic metaphases into com-mcom.

•••• Expert: Masspeak is youspeak. Youspeak is allspeak.

••••• Master: That whirring sound you hear is Orwell’s grave.

Possessed by

Satirists, SF Authors, Geeks, MMORGrs, Futurists, Pundits, Transhumanists, PR Consultants, Politicians, Speechwriters, Mindfuckers, Media Monkeys, Snarky Bastards, Trolls

Specialties

Whedonics, LolCat, Textchat, Masscom, Corpspeak, Techspeak, LeetSpeak, Poliflex, Disinformation, Advertising, Hip-Hop, Buzzfeed, Politics, Spin Control

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