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Topic Started: Jul 30 2009, 23:16 (706 Views)
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[blockquote]"How do you make it stick, how do you prevent cooptation?" [...] I answered that you build a better system. Assume American is already dead, dead for those kids who are flocking to the Lower East Side and Haight-Ashbury, and give them a new, positive, authentic frame of reference. [...] And the kids are flocking in or dropping out by the droves, on their way to San Francisco, on their way to New York. The media does it for us. Wow! "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair." That's Number 1 in the country. [...] Just do your thing, the press eats it up. MAKE NEWS.

Quote: POT FEELS GOOD, IT'S FUN TO TURN ON.

They print it, not aware of the disruption they cause. The press spreads the word, tells them where the action is and they leave America. They stream to its two shores, can't go any further, up against the ocean, what to do, down and out. "There's a new world somewhere, if you will only hold my hand," sings the radio just as I write this line. Man, it's all around us."[/blockquote] - Abbie Hoffman, Revolution For The Hell Of It, 1968

This is 1967, dearies, not 1947!

Vibrations. 1967 was full of them. They shook America until it seemed sure that she would break apart, crack right open under the building pressures of opening minds.

To most Americans, it felt like the world was falling apart, but to the youths of the counterculture, it was the world finally coming together. This was their revolution, not of hate and guns, but made from love and freedom. They would take over the cities with community action, with peace and good will. They would blow apart the robotic suburbia life using flower power. They would take this world from dreary old black and white to technicolor.

The capitals of this new nation of love and dope? San Frsncisco to the west, New York city to the east.

Government Issued Statement

Setting: 1967 - New York / San Francisco

Characters: Hippies, freaks, activist, mods, black panthers, rockers, rebels, dope fiends, dope pushers, cops, soldiers, lovers, radicals, workers, politicians, Good Americans, Bad Americans, Non-Americans.

Story: Historically inaccurate reenactment of the year that brought about The Summer Of Love.

Original/Canon: Technicolor Kids With Acid Dreams is an original roleplay, not based on any fandom (unless you count inspiration from listening to Dylan and The Beatles). Most of our characters, therefore, are original. However, we're open to accepting characters from fandoms under certain conditions. First, they must fit into the game setting (so nothing magical or fantastical) and second, the original fandom must take place in or around 1967. This includes sources such as Hair or Across The Universe. If you have a fandom in mind but aren't sure it meets these requirements, just PM Big Brother and we'll see what we can work out! Groovy? Groovy!

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