Memes
Marshall and Archie concoct a meme to cover up URIEL’s pact with the Underwater Panther, then SANDMAN shoots down a legitimate UFO.
Alone at the watchtower in Huntsville, Archie talks with his old friend Hobo Stan and implements memetic controls at ALLOCHTHON.
Marshall has some frank discussions • He also brokers a deal with Sidney Gottlieb and the CWG • URIEL gets to work righting the ALLOCHTHON ship • Mitch does a magic trick • Archie brings Hilary into the fold • Roger, Mitch, and Charley are dispatched to Pascagoula • It’s a real media circus down there • Marshall and Morris fly to White Sands to find Jocasta
Kendrick Mead, Head of Field Memetics for ALLOCHTHON, distributes a white paper about the UFO memeplex.
With a little help from Enki and Stoney, Archie spends a day at the office just really crunching the numbers. Getting down to it. Predicting shit.
Marshall and Archie design the memes that (they hope) will lure OZYMANDIAS into their trap.
Mitch and Roger talk about their meeting with Dan Miller • Mitch discusses his attempt at remote viewing into Agrigenics • Archie and Marshall unveil their memetic plans for OZYMANDIAS • Marshall reveals what he’s learned about Alpha Leonis • Charley tells the team about her new friend, LO
Oh my sweet heavens. Archie goes pale and gets up and goes to the Xerox that has been taped onto the door of URIEL since he came here 5 years ago. The timeline fits. The portfolio fits.
URIEL learns the extent of Carl and Richie’s plan • Archie delivers his latest memetic masterpiece to the St. Francis • Mitch asks Jocasta her thoughts on fascism and human nature • Later he crashes the Special Ones’ suite and throws a tape player out the window • Viv and Roger get the ball rolling on the Atlantis A-Risen LARP • Marshall welcomes a kill-team from Granite Peak and lays siege to LeConte Hall • Jocasta gets ready to hunt bear • Roger catches a psychedelic barb in the face • Archie and Charley cross the threshold, together
Archie explains a bit about esmology to Andy, and the two invent a new type of game. Or meme. Or game-meme.
Mitch, Marshall, and their Midnight Crew hold a Houdini séance • It works! • Except now Mitch and Marshall are trapped in History B • “I think Houdini fucked us.” • Houdini’s ghost finds himself caught on Doug Rogo’s tape recorder • Marshall gets gored by a kusarikku • Mitch finds a magical elixir bearing his doppelgänger‘s visage • The day is saved with memetics, hypnotism, and cocaine
Archie crafts the meme that will spell the credibility downfall of a certain E.L. Moore.
The girl looks up at the sky, and says, dreamily, “One day the skies are gonna be filled with flying saucers.”
The field team files their reports following Frank’s grisly demise, while Marshall runs memetic ops to cover up the incident.