Sam Aslan - 97 Poets of Revachol #5

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Player: Roman Galovič

Age: Old

Romance: 1

Addiction: 3

Violence: 2

Surrealism: 4

Creation: 3

Safety: Cult-like behavior Mental illness

Presentation

Themes: thirst for knowledge, obsession, manipulation

Sam has not always been on the quest for knowledge. But after they lost their kids came a struggle, and after that epiphany. There was so much in the world that was yet to be seen and explained, and they were the only one who could help with that. They dealt with their grief in innovative ways and ended up as a new person. Sage, hermit, teacher, mentor. Not a leader, but they might soon find out who that should be.

Of course, that is mostly how Sam sees themselves. Others would say that they are a weird old person living with a bunch of usually high kids and cooking up drugs for them, but do people like that even matter?

Experimental Drug Therapy

Nearly everybody uses mind altering substances, that is fully normal. However, there is a new team in La Cage: team who can prepare designer drugs, drugs tailored closely for a very specific experience enabling people to go through certain moments again or even create a new, shared experience. They very much hope to help people with that: and of course, make some reáls in the process.

Apartment Block B

Everybody who lives in La Cage is mostly poor and desperate. The families and professionals living in Apartment Blocks are the ones who really try to keep some semblance of normality in their lives. The Block B consists mostly of tradesmen and people of other desirable professions. People with no exceptional wealth or status, but the ones who are good and honest at their job and are beneficial to the La Cage. Educated, but not burgeois - teacher, nurse, students, social worker or people jilted from Block A. They mostly want to stay far from the troubles and extreme ideologies (to a small degree of success) but are willing to help each other as much as they can - like a big family.

Association for the Rights of the Dead (ARD)

Association for the Rights of the Dead (ARD) started as a lobby and interest group trying to bring back burying people into graves and other traditional funeral customs, however, it already succeeded in it´s political goals. Now, ARD is mostly concerned with providing funeral services, taking care of places of rest and helping people grieve.
For most people in Revachol, death was something that happens out of sight, with dead bodies disappearing into incinerators and memorial places overgrown with vines. ARD is here to change that, both by offering funeral services and by organising some cultural events, like the famous Dance of the Dead, when dead people symbolically join the parties through photos and songs.