The Uncials

"Exosomatic Gang Signs During Donnybrook" starring The Uncials. Shown here: beating the glyphs out of a suspected APTO informant.

The Uncials (or simply Uncials) is an unlicensed transdimensional street gang.

Self-destructive behaviors

Poetry

See "Gnomon algorithm function maps exosomatic gang poetry onto human-readable languages"

Relationships with other agencies

Glyph Wardens

The Uncials support themselves as glyph poachers, making them the natural enemies of Glyph Wardens.

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  Cryptographer and actor Niles Cartouchian confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.

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  Glyph Wardens rescue litter of abandoned baby glyphs during raid on math lab, vow to use all the powers of their office to find good homes for the glyphs.

Chicxulub Chips

The Uncials eat a lot of Chicxulub Chips.

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  Chicxulub Chips is a brand of snack food, consisting primarily of tephra from the Chicxulub crater.

Propinquity Associates

The Uncials sometimes beat Propinquity Associates to the punch, and there is a certain amount of playful but murderous donnybrooking, with the Uncials getting the worst of it, every time.

These outbursts of violence are inevitably followed by the ritual drinking of Extract of Radium, and the usual resulting incidents of scrimshaw abuse.

Here again the Uncials keep getting the worst of it, with Propinquity Associates at least having the sense to vomit up that last unwise shot of hemlock and Extract of Radium (see Mispent Youth).

Petasos

The hat-wearing alleged supervillain Petasos has formed (and broken) alliances with The Uncials on several occasions.

Mispent Youth

The transdimensional cocktail Mispent Youth is popular with The Uncials.

Columbo

The Uncials have a hate-love relationship with One More Thing, the artificial intelligence based on Columbo.

Aldermania

Several of the Uncials are notorious for repeated and extreme bouts of Aldermania, the abnormal psychological need to be an Alderman (nonfiction).

In the News

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  The Uncials, while illiterate, enjoy art. Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style (1940) by Stuart Davis is a particular favorite of many Uncials.

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  Book of Kells wants to make clear that it has nothing to do with The Uncials.

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  Group of Uncials, ready to play some Dungeons & Dragons.

Fiction cross-reference

• Aldermania
• Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization
• Bulky and Hoodwinkle, a rival gang.
• Chicxulub Chips
• Extract of Radium
• Glyph Warden
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• "Gnomon algorithm function maps exosomatic gang poetry onto human-readable languages" - APTO research paper (22 June 2021)
• Mispent Youth
• Propinquity Associates
• Transdimensional corporation

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Conium maculatum (nonfiction) - poison hemlock
• Stuart Davis (painter) (nonfiction)
• Uncial script (nonfiction)