Factions/Televisionary

Television... Television... Televisionary... Television...

-[Rob Brezsny], Televisionary

Everybody got to deviate from the norm...

-[Rush], Vital Signs

The Sign on the Wall Says

Tele: Roughly, distant.

Vision: Roughly, seeing.

Visionary: Roughly, seer.

Television: Distant seeing.

Televisionary: Distant seer.

"Ewige blumenkraft!" goes the battle cry.

Line up! Line up and take a token

You're already part of them. You will never be part of them. You have always been part of them. Remember the secret handshake you had in your kindergarten three-person club that never did anything? The secret handshake that wasn't very secret at all?

That's not the secret handshake here, either.

They are the ultimate secret society. Like the [Illuminati], but they [don't] [actually] [run] [anything].

Perhaps they run everything.

But that's in doubt. They don't really centralise much.

Or that's what they want you to think.

Two-Fifths

They have ways. Mysterious ways.

They don't consider themselves a Faction as much as a mystic society.

They don't consider themselves a mystic society as much as a circle of friends.

They don't consider themselves a circle of friends as much as a group of people with something in common.

They don't consider themselves a group of people with something in common as much as a bunch of vague acquaintances they just happen to know, somehow, magically, are connected somehow, even if they're not connected at all. And it's that connection-not-connection that makes them what they are. They may have vastly different beliefs, they may have vastly different ideas, and they may have vastly different methods, but they all share one thing in common.

.........

What, you think I'm telling you? No, you get to figure that out on your own.

And Six of One

Televisionaries enjoy jokes about themselves. They appreciate the irony. Televisionaries are very, very serious people, don't you know. As a matter of fact, they are completely humourless people that would never tease themselves in a million million Wheels. Unless the joke was really good. Or really bad. Or somewhat mediocre. Or the phase of the moon in Strange was right. Sometimes on a Tuesday. Usually on a Sunday. Whenever the sky's clear, or cloudy. Partly cloudy on most occasions except that once.

Yes, horribly silly people that take their humour with a dread seriousness.

We dreamed you up, you know. We dreamed you up the same day you dreamed us up. You didn't know that? For shame.

They love you. They hate you. They don't care about you. Except when they do care. Which is all the time last we checked, but things are prone to change, are they not?

They're subversive little pests. You don't notice them. No, seriously. Wanna' know why?

Because they're completely in-your-face about it. Nobody expects the man in the bermuda shorts and tacky glasses. Unmemorable only through memorability.

Ninja cymbals.

Illegal Coherency Alert

Another way to grok it. Puzzlebox is a highly rarified subjective environment. Absolutes corrupt absolutely. Absolute beliefs in absolute truth corrupt one's worldview and in turn through the subjective manifold the world itself. Constrasting sets of absolutes cause danger of a relativistic existential crisis, damaging subjectivity.

Thousands of conflicting rights make not a wrong, but deconstructive interference patterns that negate contrary positions haphazardly. If one believes something to be Truth(TM), it likely will be someone else's unTruth.

{If this confused you...excellent.}

We are the limiting valve. You're all wrong. When you can't do what's right, gotta take what's left.

The preceding was utterly false.

Valves

• Televisionaries like to be ambiguous about their relationships with others, though make their faction-opinions public through substances such as propaganda, the datasphere, and anywhere else it might be stumbled upon by unwitting targets. They particularly enjoy making propaganda about a faction easily found by the faction itself.
• Tend to get along well with Eisenstimmen and Gridshamans, though this is not a rule.
• Tend to consider Hemotopians as arrogant asses, though this is not a rule.
• Due to their nature, the Curators are considered cousins, and occasionally siblings.
• The Architects are bastards. This, of course, is not a rule.
• The Imagination Consortium are creative people, but tend toward a more lighthearted bent. Lighthearted is, of course, needed for people to survive, but too much lighthearted is as bad as too little. Moderation, moderation, moderation.
• The Victorian Retrotech Collective are prissy and need a good loosening up, though this is not a rule.

Atlargements

• Trilogee All Hail the High Priestess! Or... Um... We don't know anymore, sorry.
• Parity All Hail the Messenger From on High! Well, sorta'. Looks like one at least. -From on High, and Down below.
• Grace All Hug the Way Right Priestess! Or maybe she's left.
• A Tweener. All Bail the High Crystal! Or at least facets.

It's All Marketing, Bay-bee

Think Discordian.

Think Illuminati.

Think Weird Al: ""Evvvvverything you know is wrong, black is white up is down and short is long, and everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter..."

Think completely friendly and loveable.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think.

Alter this page as you see fitting. It's a living bean, after all.

Of course, the true Televisionaries have already been here and have made their alterations. What did they change? One may never know...

Or one may already know. You were paying attention, weren't you? There will be a test on this later.

Triple Ultra Secret Unknown Members Who May-Not-Be-Named

Kalki, rightful Original Founder in his own head. Where his own head is Puzzlebox {xer}self. "It is said there is nothing new under the sun, but which sun is one looking under?"

Zoe emits the sound of apples striking stone, wriggling around a horsey-head. Knowing unknowing looks. Somewhere ELSE, in the Pool of Omniescience, a gathering of critters nod and play at tea, forefingers perhaps touching the pool and grinning at these goings on. Perhaps.

GrayZero of course cannot possibly a member to begin with. Faith is of course absolutist and so cannot be made subjective. Naturally.
But do not name her anyways.

Nikolai doesn't even know, the poor dear. But part of us he is, and part of us he will always be.