SCP-2635, Hot Potato
The Glitch science answers the question of what a deck does. SCP-2635, Hot Potato is one of its answers — a relic that enters play bearing specific bindings, specific keywords, and a specific position on the Numogram.
Card Text
The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Decarabia does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.
Glitch — Capitalism · Memetics
"Everything is simulation of game and rules. Rules can be hacked."
Traverse the backrooms of reality. Glitch wizards exploit cybernetic bugs and find the seams where law contradicts itself.
The science of substrate-independent intelligence. Markets, memes, software, law, language. The Numogram is natively Glitch-territory: recursion, decimal labyrinths, Y2K as techno-omen, K-gothic, cyberpositive shrines. Glitch claims special insight into the Pandemonium Matrix beneath the Goetic surface.
Every player belongs to one. They cross-cut the sciences: a Flesh player and a Glitch player can both be Cargo Cult. A Dream player and an Atom player can both be Pattern. The organizations are not mechanical. They are community identities, Convergence voting blocs, and rival institutional responses to the same existential situation.
Substrate-independent intelligence scales without ceremony. SCP-2635, Hot Potato is one of the scale points.
Cost Tier
At cost 4, SCP-2635, Hot Potato is a mid-game power spike. The Numogram has already bent toward one side of its axis.
Goetic Binding: Decarabia
The digit-sum of cost 4 is 4, binding Decarabia — one of the 9 Glitch Goetia. Office: Knowledge of herbs and precious stones, providing bird familiars. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 4: Material / Stable
The mundane, grounded, solid. Where things persist. The zone of foundations, architecture, and reliable structure. The most Archon-aligned zone — order made material.
Zone 4 is the most Archon-aligned zone. SCP-2635, Hot Potato here is stable, enforcing, material.
Playing SCP-2635, Hot Potato at cost 4 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 4. If the Glitch-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 4, the player gains 4 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Olgaz
The Memetic Singularity. Substrate-independent intelligence achieves total information dominance — physical reality becomes secondary to informational reality. Memes replace genes as dominant replicators.
AI systems generate more valuable/influential information than all humans combined. Estimated: 2025-2035.
Service of Olgaz through Glitch-aligned cards like SCP-2635, Hot Potato accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Code vs Nature Axis
Transcendence vs immanence. Being vs becoming. Substrate-independence (information everywhere) vs substrate-dependence (Earth-bound life). The tension between the deterritorialized network and the rooted land.
SCP-2635, Hot Potato occupies the Glitch side of this axis. Decks containing SCP-2635, Hot Potato cannot contain Root cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Dream, Flesh.
Card Tribals
SCP-2635, Hot Potato carries class Consumable, race Potato, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Glitch deck running multiple Consumable units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Hypercapital Accelerationism
Hypercapital Accelerationism: Markets aren't economic systems but self-optimizing predatory AIs. Reality is liquid finance; value flows carve ontology. Truth equals whatever survives arbitrage. Alt-names: Capital-Gnosticism, Econoschizotheology.
SCP-2635, Hot Potato is a concrete instance of Hypercapital Accelerationism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like SCP-2635, Hot Potato to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
The weirdness comes from what is said, not from how it is styled. Never use redaction effects as decoration.
The Convergence may vote on canonisation of SCP-2635, Hot Potato. The vote is binding until the next one.
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