>>5834561>>5836291Almost before the concluding remarks of your speech have landed upon the audience, the entire auditorium reverberates with rapturous applause, as simultaneous accolades inundate and saturate a blizzard of virtual feeds:
-Dr Elizabeth Marlowe, a true technological visionary... OTHRIGEN is the foundation leading progress towards multiplanetary consciousness for humanity... Xenoarchaeology is now being described as the greatest scientific advancement since the invention of advertising...
>>5818816Several delegates walk out of OpenWAIFU's latest product demonstration - a conference session that had been running concurrent to yours, in which OpenWAIFU had hoped to showcase their latest model upgrade, the User Responsive Enhanced Transhuman Robotic Application (URETHRA). These conference attendees now join the crowd of excited onlookers and publicity telepresences clamouring for your attention.
QM: looking over my notes I actually missed 1 negative, there should have been another -10 penalty to the roll for not including a Q&A session / taking interactive audience questions etc (so should have been roll under 53 not 63). Nonetheless your roll resulted in a speech that was so amazing, none of this matters!
You are bombarded with endless barrages of invitations, interviews and glamorous celebrity appearances. Everyone and anyone, from drone journalists and spokespersons, hypercorporation liaison personnel, fashion designers, abstract artists and art curators, advertisers, futurists, CEOs and investors beg and implore you for a mere moment of your precious time. You have been anointed in the intoxicating fountain of stardom. You gain the special asset...
STARDOM CULT (combination of)
(INDUSTRY) 08 Hype Cult Influencer Fandom
and
(PROSPERITY) 19 Sycophants
it could be developed into
Prosperity: 11 Marketing Campaign,
Industry: 14 Public Relations Department
and interestingly also
Might: 20 Zealots
(You think this asset STARDOM CULT can greatly enhance your persuasion and influence capabilities.)
...as xenoarchaeology becomes the hottest new thing, except no-one knows what xenoarchaeology actually is.