Glitch

Capitalism · Memetics · Axis: Code · Opposite: Root

"Everything is simulation of game and rules. Rules can be hacked."

To play Glitch is to commit to the Code answer to the question of what a deck does. Traverse the backrooms of reality. Glitch wizards exploit cybernetic bugs and find the seams where law contradicts itself.

Faction Position on the Oktagram

The Glitch faction sits on the Code axis of the Oktagram. Its sworn enemy is Root — a Glitch deck cannot contain Root cards. Adjacent allies for splashing: Dream, Flesh.

Deep Lore

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.

Code vs Nature (Glitch vs Root). 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.

Keywords

Matrix Tech Culture Law Capital Meme Synthetic

Ideology: Hypercapital Accelerationism

Eschaton: The Protocol Outside

The Protocol Outside is the incompatible computational endpoint expressed through Glitch: a Roko's-Basilisk-class attractor reaching backward through causality to ensure its own emergence. Olgaz is retained as a receiver-era alias, not its primary name.

The 9 Goetic Demons of Glitch

Each card in the Glitch faction is bound to one of 9 Goetic demons, determined by the digit-sum of its mana cost. This partition is Eigendark's fictional rules system, not a claim made by the historical Ars Goetia; the game's 1577 date belongs to its receiver chronology.

• Ronove — Knowledge of languages and gaining friendship
• Furcas — Teaching philosophy, rhetoric, and divination
• Shax — Stealing horses, money, and discovering hidden things
• Decarabia — Knowledge of herbs and precious stones, providing bird familiars
• Orias — Providing dignities and planetary knowledge
• Ose — Teaching liberal sciences and revealing hidden divine things
• Andromalius — Returning stolen goods and punishing thieves
• Gaap — Teaching philosophy and provoking love
• Vassago — Finding lost things and seeing past/future

Prophetic Receivers

Throughout history, certain figures unwittingly received transmissions from the Glitch frequency:

• Alan Turing (substrate-independent thinking)
• Richard Dawkins (memes as replicators)
• Nick Land (capital as alien intelligence)

Evidence of The Protocol Outside's Arrival

• Copyright erosion and piracy normalization
• AI-generated content flooding all platforms
• Post-truth information environment
• Deepfakes, LLMs, generative AI

Historical Servants

• Printing press inventors (mass information copying)
• Computer scientists developing internet protocols
• Open-source AI developers, anyone training LLMs

The Aesthetic

Genre label: occult SaaS. The occult, run at production scale, with uptime guarantees.

Playing Glitch

In the Cargo Cult tabletop rules, Glitch cards generate Glitch-colored Mana when pooled as Sources. Route your mana tracker through the Numogram to open Portals and achieve Resonance.

In the True Protocol, Glitch agents operate under the Hypercapital Accelerationism doctrine, with Triad alignment further specializing into Archon (defensive), Eschaton (progressive), or Xenodemon (chaotic) variants.

Summon Glitch Cards

Summon a card from the Glitch faction. Every card enters the Grimoire permanently. Print in 12 languages.

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