Tattoos are now 3-D and controlled by the mind. This is very taxing and special bars are eaten that contain nanites & proteins. These bars can effect brightness/color/resolution of the tattoos.
Collaborators
Christian Falstrup, Maurilo Hauser
Eau de Mort
This particular club was famous for it’s Death Juice, a drink believed to temporarily allow experience of the afterlife to come. The heart appeared to stop and the imbiber enjoyed the most vivid of dreams.
Collaborators
Originally penned by Ace, drawings by Peter Rubin and Will Carey, with Christine Schreyer, Mark MacKenna and Judith Crow
The Chef
The Chef learned that if he boils the seeds of the Muku Tree he has developed an oil far more efficient than the current oil used for production. He is teaching select kids from district 3 how this works. (img 3).
Collaborators
Bella, Peter, Shane, Ted, Hanno
The raw seeds are pinkish in color (img 1) and the boiled seeds turn purple (img 2). The resulting oil is called the “Purple Dragon” (main image).
Blind Man’s Bollu Helmet
A two-team sport using a ball and clubs. The practitioners wear a mask reminiscent of the plague doctors. The masks block the eyes so the players are blind. The masks use a form of sonar echo-location so that players can hear but not see the other players, based on listening stations used in the first world war. The echo-location does not work very well. Games tend to be violent.
Collaborators
Bruce Chesley,
Todd Furmanski,
Bill Hubbard,
Mark Huber,
Aga Szostakowska,
Tattoo Prediction…
The Marakihau has become so sophisticated with non-verbal communication that collective storytelling now happens visually. Through body art created by contributions by many on each persons tattoos. Together they predict the future of Rilao.
Collaborators
Alana Barber, Nicolas De Benoist, Tatsuya Kawauchi
“The future of Rilao will shape among the fusion of the bodies of those who will build it.”
Dinwa
Dinwa, a mild hallucinogenic beverage used at DOL meetups during which they entered into a trance state and “engaged in visions pertaining to Lao” and then afterwards went into the town and wrought havoc on the elites in the name of the cause.
Dinwa is distilled from the eggs of the Naila bird. The Naila bird eats the Chali worms which feed on the leaves of the Muka tree. The hallucinogenic enzyme is produced during the digestive process. The eggs are placed in an absinthe for 10 years for fermentation.
Originally dinwa was made by the local population (similar to the production of moonshine); it was later produced and bottled commercially by Hubbley’s Bottling & Brewing.
Alcohol by volume: 120 proof
Collaborators
Pamela Jennings, Jonathan Thomas, Mark Wolf, Andrew Bliss, Catherine Baumgartner
Fang
Hidden below the fang mansion in a secret storehouse we saw boxes containing small vials of a psychotropic liquid distilled from a muka-la tree. Over 100,000 vials were found along with robes and Lao religious materials, this was the basis for a psychedelic ritual.
Collaborators
Shane valdes
GEO HERO
A device worn over the eyes that videos the user, transforming them into a superhero they construct and places them in locales they chose around the island of rilao as well as imagined islands aside rilao with the goal of finding different landmarks. Once found they leave messages, objects, virtual gifts that can be retrieved once visiting that location in person. They of course can play with others virtually and gift things to other co-players including fake and real adversaries.
Collaborators
Shaheen Amir (sketch); James a Sullied (author)
Necrotubes
These tools capture the neural signature of dying patients so key life moments can be stored and repurposed from dead loved ones. Lessons from this tool would later be used to blend the material and spiritual world.
Collaborators
Peter Sapienza
Francesca Maria
Will Groff
Shane Liesegang
Brian Shapland
Links, Media
Tao Lai: dessert mash up
Desserts, a convenient distraction proliferated by The Plague Doctors, were taken from Rilaoan elite and fed at increased variety and intensity to the public in the 1930s. Available freely at public playhouses, the Doctors who had smuggled them from the elites, are concerned that its mass consumption is elevating personal hedonism (pleasure) over Rilaoan unity.
Collaborators
Alana Barber, Tatsuya Kawauchi, Nicolas De Benoist
