MediCarro will be in Seattle this week doing blood drives for metahumanitarian reasons. The Aztlan-based subsidiary of Aztechnology hopes to collect 35,000 BPU’s or blood plasma units from Seattle citizens to aid in emergency procedures. Donors will be given a simple HMVV test, using the Harz-Greenbaum blood series test.
Critics say that blood often does not go to emergency medical procedures, but rather to feed young vampires within the Aztlan state, unable yet to hunt for themselves.
CrashCart representative Kenneth Reckner from Yamatetsu Corporation was quoted as saying, “We get all our plasma from labs, it’s biochemically manufactured cheaply in mass quantities, all our CrashCart teams have Medical Personnel with training in synthesized plasma.”
Sometimes called “Sticktrucks” or “Mobile Suckhead Feeders”, MediCarro vans can be seen throughout the sprawl, usually doing collections among squatters and the downtrodden, lured by a few hundred Nuyen and the promise of a meal token or shelter stay.
MediCarro representatives were unavailable for further information.
Gavin McConellroy, MNN
Artwork by Mike Underhill
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What's interesting about thse blood drives is that occasionally some poor slot with a rare bloodtype or other interesting medical condition will 'spontaneously' agree to join a very exclusive medical research program. They must really get good treatment, cause they're never heard from again.
Very insightful, tach. I'll have to look into this.
I don't care what the PR says; those Aztecs give me the willies.
I also heard that they're actually looking for HMVV positives; they're looking to run some experiments on them.
I heard that the Azzies are trying a different tack on ritual sorcery using material links; supposedly they can affect multiple targets with the same ritual--can we say, "Mass Mob Mind" spell, chummers?
Does that fall under Blood Magic?
If it does and can be proven, dosen't Big D's will provide monies to squelch it?
The idea that the blood would somehow be used to feed vampires is ridiculous on the face of it. Firstly, last time I checked Aztlan got along extremely poorly with the baby eating Tlahuelpuchi of the Yucatan; but more importantly even is the fact that Vampires gain no meaningful sustenance from bottled blood.
If it were my guess, I'd think "massive ritual sorcery" or simply the that they're just trolling for new magical diseases. The Harz-Greenbaum series gives a positive result for a massive number of awakened viruses, not all of which cause sharp teeth.
no, it doesn't; blood magic is harming or killing another living creature to empower yourself with its lifeforce. What material links are are bits of your body (blood, being the example here) that can be used as a means of casting spells on you when you're not in line of sight.
And normally, a ritually cast spell can only target one person or the area around him; what I've heard about what the Azzies are trying is being able to cast the same spell on multiple people with the same ritual--so if they have all that blood from so many people... they could cast, say, a control thoughts spell on all of them at once; instant mob, anyone?
It's entirely possible that Aztechnology has access to something like that. The Allezforce Micro attacks of 2044 certainly seemed to indicate that such a thing was possible - at least if everyone involved had the same cell line somewhere in them. As I understand such things they'd have to be putting something in to each recipient rather than just getting a big pile of blood samples.
There's still the question of motive though. Let's say you could get everyone in the seattle Barrens to buy Aztechnology or attempt to overthrow the UCAS. Honestly... so what?
So what? I'll tell you what, mate, two sentences, two words each:
Blood Mages. Willing sacrifices.
I don't know about you, mate, but the mere though of a blood mage being able to get sacrifices to come to him on demand... *shudders* It'd be like Sneak here at an "All You Can Drink" night down at Scott's bar.
I think you've lost perspective and are delving into the land of paranoid ramblings. So let's put this into perspective:
Aztlan has the third highest population of any country on the planet. Aztlan's judiciary execution rate is the fifth highest on the planet. Seriously, these guys send through hundreds of people a year to their deaths on top of the pyramids.
In short, if a blood mage was highly placed enough to get a secret project put together to mind control victims into getting their hearts cut out, they are highly enough placed to simply go toone of the prison temples and have armed guards give them victims one after another (it's not like mass sacrifice rituals don't have historical precadence their).
Basically you're thinking like a Mirror Guardian Naoko villian instead of like an actual evil blood mage. If I want a bottle of Blue Worm, I'm going to fragging well walk down to the Stuffer Shack and buy myself some blue flavored tequilla beverage. I am not going to put on a free circus for hobos and secretly brainwash them into delivering me cheap synthahol against their will. Similarly, no Aztechnology sanctioned nahuali is going to go through three flaming hoops of deception to sacrifice hobos in Seattle when he can just roll out of bed and order an equal number of prisoners in Tenochitlan to be tied down for his use.
No, the place you should be looking is in plain sight. Consider that they might be doing exactly what they say they are doing - running a Harz-Greenbaum series on every single hobo who comes in to sell plasma. Why would you do that? It's not like anyone becomes a vampire and doesn't know - the insatiable craving for human souls and spontaneous transformation into a gas is usually a pretty good clue.
But the Harz-Greenbaum series also detects a number of unrelated viruses, many of which grant various abilities to the recipient. From Ghoul Transformation Virus to Lycanthropic Virus V, a lot of these simple transformational viruses come up with a big positive on the H-G-s - and because those people don't need to be fed living humans they can be potentially cultivated as an army.
Think practical. Think "army of half-mad clawed supersoldiers" rather than some after school animation about The King of Three Shadows directing his mirror goblins on another convoluted plan to steal energy from people.
"collections among squatters and the downtrodden"?
That's one way to spin it. In truth, the ones they can't bribe with a hot meal or some cred get held down and get stuck whether they like it or not.
Used to see it happen all the time when I was a wee lad.
Well in reguards to the paranoid. and who here isn't, you want worst case, what if their using it to infect people with a nasty something, Think about and tell me how many of you are sleeping well afterwards,
Sleep? Oh right, sleep. I did that once. Didn't like it. Wasn't that efficient and productive. (Not to mention vulnerable). Never did it again.
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