Despite anyone's quibbles about the canonicity of this little spiel, I think this is exactly the way a Pentex exec would justify himself to himself.hyzmarca wrote:On the other hand, the Yeren are literally Gorden Gekko apemen. That's a concept that has legs. You could totally play a Wolf Apes of Wall Street campaign where the PCs are all wereapes who outsource manufacturing jobs to China by day and fight ecoterrorist werewolves by night. Get a nice "greed is good" theme going there, about how they're the ones who keep the economy running even if they're prone to excess sometimes.
"Wyrm tainted. You say that like it means something. You know what the Wyrm is? It's civilization. It's humanity. It's X-Boxes and hot and cold running water. It's putting your grandmother in a nursing home instead of ripping her throat out and eating her because she was becoming a burden. Everything that Mankind has ever done. Just look at everything we've ever accomplished. Just look at the drives that compelled us to do all of this. The passion. The desire. The lust and the greed and the terror and the hate. Even the love. That's not the Weaver. And it's certainly not the Wyld. That's the Wyrm. All of it. It's touched everything we've made. It drive us to ever greater heights and glories. And without that fire, where would we be? We'd still be sleeping in the dirt, covered in our own shit. That's where they all want us, the wolves, the spirits, and all those other motherfuckers. They want to tear down civilization and leave us huddled in a dark cave without so much as a fire for warmth. I say fuck them. They're bitter, jealous losers. They're stronger than us, faster, much harder to kill. They slaughtered us with impunity back in the day. And guess what, we still fucking won. They lost, we won, because we have that fire and they don't. We weak, pathetic apes are simply better than them. So I'm just going to drink this martini. Then I'm going downstairs and get into my Bugatti Veyron and I am going to call a dozen thousand dollar an hour escorts and have them all spend the night in my penthouse. I'm going to video out sexcapades and then I'm going to visit this werewolf that I know. And when i show him the video I'll be sure to point out that the nastiest, kinkiest one is his sister. And then I'm going to rip his fucking spine and and piss up his nose. Because that's what it means to be a fucking human being."
Your point about the parallel with the Syndicate/Technocracy is a good one. It would be really easy to sub in "mages" for "wolves" and get something comprehensible, but the Syndicate as a whole does seem to go in for hookers and blow a little less and jerk off to surveillance feeds a little more.
Reading bits of ephemera like this makes me sad, because it reminds me just how tepid and uninspired actual WoD fiction is.