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Aberrant RPG - Aberrant: Fear and Loathing


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<font size="+4">ABERRANT</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">

</font> <hr width="50%" align="center"><font size="+2">FEAR AND LOATHING</font>

<blockquote> <p align="left"><img src="http://www.nprime.net/images/fear.jpg" border=0 height=200 width=140 align=LEFT><font size=+1>For Every Nova out there...

</font> Duke Rollo, the direct and uncensored gonzo journalist of the Aberrant world is back with more irreverent insights into the ironies of life in a nova-loving society. Yr. Corresp. goes like to Ibiza, Addis Adaba and to a Halloween party where he has a few choice words to say about all the fat sweaty Divis Mal wannabes he finds there. <p align="left"><font size="+1">A Million Little People Make Him Worth a Damn

</font>Rollo states it as bluntly as it can be. Find out what the world of novas looks like from the perspective of the normal guy. </blockquote>

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Retail Price: $4.95 U.S.

Page Count: 24

Authors: Justin Achilli

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565046897/nprim-20">Buy it Now</a>

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<table width="140" border="0" height="200" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" align="right"><tr> <td><font color="#000000"><img src="http://www.nprime.net/images/fear.jpg" width="140" height="200"></font></td></tr></table><p align="center"><font size="+2">Fear and Loathing Review</font>

<font> At its core, Aberrant is a game about idolatry and the disillusionment that comes with realizing the people you've come to revere and worship are little better than you are. In our world, no one epitomizes a sense of dissatisfaction and enmity with ordinary society than gonzo journalist and eccentric author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson is most renowned for his classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a stream of drug-addled consciousness tome that is more experienced than read. So it seems only natural that the Aberrant world of novas and hypermedia would have its own spokesman in the form of underground gonzo writer Duke Rollo, whose resemblance in mannerism and prose style to Thompson is purely. . .coincidental. Some of Rollo's shoot from the hip articles are found within the Aberrant rulebook, but in Aberrant: Fear and Loathing we are treated to a number of Rollo's diatribes on the common man in the uncommon world of novas.</font>

<font> Fear and Loathing is pure setting material, with no rules or mechanics. Which is just as well because what matters most in this slim little tome are the perspectives and opinions of it's eccentric author. Rollo takes a look (albeit a rarely lucid one) at the world that novas have built, and he's far from happy with the way things have gone. Rollo examines the world of the average human being, breaking away from the Project Utopia press releases and Teragen rantings to present us with the rot beneath the glitter of the Nova Age. The horrors of the elite wars in Africa, the struggle of the urban poor in Mexico, even the constant party of the Amp Room and Ibiza are seen through Rollo's mad, cynical eye.</font>

Aberrant: Fear and Loathing was written by Justin Achilli and illustrated by R Thompson, who both deliver prose and pictures that--while they aren't Thompson exactly--are an incredible simulation. The writing is well done, allowing the reader to see that the Aberrant world isn't entirely the paradise Project Utopia would have you believe. Fear and Loathing isn't a necessary item for players or storytellers, but it is an enjoyable and often funny read that opens your eyes to the hypocrisy of Aberrant at the same time it's making you laugh. Not to give anything away, but the scene of the Divis Mal wannabes at the "Halloween Humpfest" is priceless.

<font></font><font color="#FF0000" size="4">Rating: <blink> Buy.</blink></font>

<em>Review courtesy of Stacy Dooks, aka Defender.</em>

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