The Flaming Baryons
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The Flaming Baryons |
The Flaming Baryons are a band of extreme performers from Corona.
Their concerts unite ynity punk music, pulse bass and
creative strobe lighting into a style reminiscent of thousands of
faceless bands across the Inner Sphere. What makes a flaming baryons
concert unique is that they borrow from the ceremonies and scriptures
of
Alto
Stisboi. While playing music inspired by the scriptures, and
displaying religious imagery, the performers sacrifice lucky audience
members on the stage, before the entire audience is soaked in a
kerosene-oxygen mix and set alight at the climax of the concert. Though
the band has a loyal fan base of at least fifty thousand sophonts, it
is still considered an underground band by most fans. They are
especially popular amongst the Coronese youth; the average fan's age is
below 80 years.
Most of the audience members perform backups before
visiting a concert. Even though the Flaming Baryons prohibit digital
reproductions of the concerts, a few bootleg copies of audience mind
states can be found on the known net. Loyal fans are constantly on the
outlook for these copies, either to find out what they actually
experienced during the concert, or to destroy the sites that host them.
Most of the Alto Stisboi sects have condemned the Flaming Baryons,
seeing the band as an insult against their religion. Over the course of
the band's sixty year career, it has been attacked during concerts by
more extreme
branches of the faith at least 150 times. This tally includes only
those
attacks that resulted in fatalities during the concert, and not various
demonstrations, attacks resulting in nonfatal bodily harm, or attacks
before or after the concert.
The Flaming Baryons have never left Corona, and conduct most of their
concerts in their amphitheatre in Celsiusen. For the last 52 years,
they have taken a the schedule of leaving Celsiusen only once a year to
perform a ten-day, thirty performance tour passing through Heisenberg,
the University City, Albertgrad and other major Coronese cities. The
tour always ends with a last performance near the suicide spot of
Sventik Opek. This concert is always ended early due to attacks from
Alto Stisboi adherents.
