This version of FATAL came with a CD that had a PDF of the rule book, a few little utilities (chargen engine, stuff like that), and some wallpapers, if I remember right.
Salted caramel deserves to burn for all eternity. Liking it is wrongthink. If a GM were to put it in a game, I would go straight to murderhobo, since the game would already be ruined
That's unfortunately true of a lot of "shocking" things.
I've never played Carcosa, but FATAL for example is just a shitty game. Anal circumference aside, the mechanics are incredibly overcomplicated and just not fun. I had some friends try to play it. We used the pregen characters at the back of the book because our "Maim Master" assured us that we did not want to venture into chargen, and off we went. After about 90 minutes we got bored and stopped. The injury tables are only funny the first 6 or 7 times, even if you roll the one where a woman gets stabbed in the ovary.
The Irish are a mix of the nomadic Aryan Celt and the indigenous Pict. There are also the issue of the 'Moorish' colonization of the southern British Isles but I think gets diffused by earlier Roman colonization.
More to the point: If the Irish aren't white because of the one drop rule neither are you, Black person.
The irishman cries out in pain even as he strikes you
1 year ago
Anonymous
I'm not even Irish but it seems like this response is the only thing you goofs can muster any time I spit facts about genetic ancestry. What else you got? Celtic cope?
The irishman cries out in pain even as he strikes you
It’s kinda hilarious seeing seething britbongs like you guys who can’t cope with the fact that the irish threw you out after you treated them like slaves and attempted to genocide them.
>If you've created a game inspired by Apocalypse World, and would like to publish it, please do. If you're using our words, you need our permission, per copyright law. If you aren't using our words, you don't need our permission, although of course we'd love to hear from you. Instead, we consider it appropriate and sufficient for you to mention Apocalypse World in your thanks, notes, or credits section.
As long as you don't use any of their words and they can't do shit about it.
Hell, you really want to kick a beehive?
Specifically make it a supplement/setting for Thirsty Swords Lesbians.
It might be funny to write a Rahowa adventure with all of the stupidest alt-right Q Anon tropes and subtlety balance encounters so it's impossible to win without being gang-violated by George Soros' Antifa minions.
Probably not. Not only is the rpg scene unable to detect humour or irony and you won't be able to sell it anywhere, but the actual game is completely non-functional.
I mostly associate Templin Institute with youtube videos about ship classes, flags and names of space empires (while using Stellaris video footage). Guess they did a video about female marines?
They got salty they couldn't have a mommy dom big titty space marine waifu, so he sperged about how lore doesn't matter on a lore channel.
really shit.
Rage clicks + pandering + virtue signaling + doing something brave and controversial when it's safe and popular.
it has been the same way for 20 years.
HORNY
ANIME
homosexualS.
>UwU me want big mommie marine milkies >>but marines can only be male, here have a sister of ba- >NO ME WANT BIG MOMMY MILKIE OWO
utter homosexualry
I don't know why you guys lean on this so much. No one, literally no one, is asking for queer space marines, and Games Workshop have proven m u l t i p l e times that they will shit all over established canon in a hot minute the moment they take on a new designer, so why are you pretending this is some massive win?
There’s been and are plenty of leftwing-activists pushing for female space marines for a long time now, have you been living under a rock or do you not engage with the rest of the community at all?
It is pretty funny that the geneseeds have diverged so much that some of them have become vampires and werewolves, things that do not and cannot exist, but none of them are intersex.
it isn't political until you decide they are a class you are allowed to hate
regardless, it just seems like a lack of imagination at the end of the day
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Guys this is my Space Marine OC, you see the geneseed mutated and turned her into a futan... i mean intersex and she's totally stronger than the other space marines.
how imaginative
none of them that SURVIVE are intersex. big difference.
like the excerpt there says, only full biological males even have a chance of surviving the super roids and grafts they give them, because it's closest to what the end result is supposed to be.
Put another way, if you wanted to make world-record setting olympic lifter, by any scientific means necessary, you'll have a lot better chances starting with a biological male, because you've to got to push a biological female body that much harder to get it into the same range, and there's a bigger change in hormonal balance between roided out Hulk and woman than there is roided out Hulk and man, especially in androgen levels.
Honestly, with how much their bodies are pushed to the brink, i'm surprised space marines aren't more maintenance fragile. You know how like in Cyberpunk people with too much chrome need immunosuppressers and anti-psychotics and additional supporting implants to make their augmentations manageable, plus constant repair and maintenance on all of it, or they either start convulsing or go absolutely batshit and start shooting anything that moves, and you could measure their life expectancy in months even without the hyperviolence they get up to? That. By all rights, Space Marines should have that problem. To stay at the absolute maximum of what you can squeeze out of a human body like that, they should be walking a razor's edge.
>By all rights, Space Marines should have that problem
ntayrt
They do have those problems. Hence the heresy, mutations, psychosis etc. that is staved off by intense mental conditioning, constant, and I mean constant, prayer, observation and other control regimes. They're at the more fundamental level, derived from warpstuff via their primarchs, its not a stable thing. Various geneseed instability over time has lead to entire chapters being excommunicated, and purged, entire inquisitorial orders dedicated to policing it, etcetcetc.
1 year ago
Anonymous
coming from rural kentucky, I can tell you with 100% certainty that "pray the crazy away" is not remotely a functional treatment regiment.
also, just knowing what i know about split brain patients, running half the brain at a time has really fricky consequences. "Personality disorders" is definitely one way to put it, but so would "total loss of speech production and comprehension" and "total loss of visual pattern recognition like faces" and it would be happening every time that node is turned on, unless it's acting as a supplementary replacement for the half that's asleep, but iirc the imperium is really far behind in terms of sentient thinking machines, they're basically Spot piloting a dreadnaught. Replicating half a brain seems beyond them, if it wasn't things would look very differently.
And that's just mental stability issues. There's not a single mention of any kind of medications needing to be taken for their bodies here. They'd need to be on an absolutely furious wienertail, not the least of which hormones, because IIRC space marines are completely sterile. Even if there testes are functional enough to still be producing androgens it's definitely not enough to maintain that level of bulk. But i'd also expect they'd need to take something to prevent their body from rejecting all the surgical grafts, and maybe even specialized nutrients for the grafts themselves since they aren't normal human tissue, not to mention something to keep the body from trying to dissolve the cybernetics or else a frequent replacing of said cybernetic components. Oh and if you've suppressed their immune system to keep them from rejecting the grafts and implants, then what's preventing disease? Not their natural immune system, that's for sure. So they'd need to be rubbed down and pumped with antibiotics and antivirals and antifungals constantly.
Apply any realism and they'd be a total mess. Resilient in war, sure, but held together with duct tape against anything else.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>apply any realism
you mean the 8 foot tall bulletproof space men who can survive in space aren't realistic when they're fighting demons? Color me so surprised. Prayer has actual, physical manifestations and effects in 40k, regardless of what it does in Kentucky.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>100% certainty that "pray the crazy away" is not remotely a functional treatment regiment.
Weird, you seem to be under the impression 40k is about well functioning and rational systems designed to help people flourish in a progressive 20th/21st century liberal humanist frame of reference. It is not. Its a barely constrained science fantasy kitchen sink gonzo setting where bad thoughts specifically invite horrific monsters beyond reality into being.
We could make further associations to bootcamp style indoctrination where the goal is not to create a long term healthy person, it is to create a soldier. Soldiers are expensive and take effort, so there is some interest in their longer term viability, but not as much as you'd think. >Resilient in war, sure, but held together with duct tape against anything else
Good thing in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium there is only war.
The content or the presentation? The doll photo illustrations and copy protection overwrought graphic design were the biggest obstacles to me reading the thing. AltCults and gene-hacking human offshoots had some potential though. If there was Cyberpunk 3rd Edition fan edit with text you could parse, better organization and optionally some more evocative art I'd give it a try. If anything as a strange alternate timeline nibbling at the safer Cyberpunk Red's mainstream valuations.
Mostly the presentation, bits of the content. It isn't wholly irredeemable, even if some fans of the broader Cyberpunk franchise would like to hunt down every last copy and burn it. I agree some ideas are worth stealing for a Red game.
I like the idea of the DataKrash, just not turned up to 11 and coupled with a paper-eating virus. The idea of a really noteworthy hacker screwing with network infrastructure and the data on it when he died is interesting.
And I like the idea of the AltCults to an extent. Not necessarily exactly how they're presented in v3, but as another kind of faction, distinct from corps and gangs (but likely interacting with and infiltrating both). 2020 had a lack of "other" groups with a lifestyle element - political activists, voodoo churches, posters on a Mongolian basket-weaving message board, the Tiny House movement - that could have added texture and intrigue.
The weird thing about 3.0 was that some of the information lost was ridiculous, and it was only 20 years later. Like was everyone under 20 and didn’t remember they had learned information about Nixon’s resignation? Was everyone just stupid?
Then I like CyberGeneration and that’s not much better in terms of lore, so…
1 year ago
Anonymous
Yeah, I tend to gloss over CyberGeneration. There might be something salvageable in there too, but I just don't like the basic concept. Kid characters, though... well it's not like there are no kids in the literature that inspired the game (Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero and Hardwired have notable younger protagonists).
The data loss thing really is ridiculous - I view the book version as the Spinal Tap "turned up to 11" equivalent. As for stupidity... well I once would've agree with you, but I know people who rely on Googling things on their mobile rather than remembering them, so I feel like technology means that young people's memories are poorer because they don't need to retain information in the way Gen Xers did growing up.
I like the idea behind a derpy medieval civilization sprouting from the failed colonization of the planet, but this game always felt off.
Not in the railroading aspect, but more like constantly enforcing players to know and do specific mundane things. Players should spend their time exploring and having adventures of their lifetime in this science-fantasy with Aztec-like country. Forcing players to actually learn local language and honor/etiquette rules looks appealing only for a "special" kind of audience and DMs.
I genuinely enjoy dark rituals that are actually dark rituals. Carcosa does have a lot of problems, but I do enjoy the setting conceit of it being a super-violent Heavy Metal John Carter thing.
>Wrongthink
The Compton Cafeteria Riot never happened. There are no contemporary records of it happening, no photos exist, no police records have been found, and no one wrote anything about it until 1972, 6 years after it allegedly happened. I don't mean that no mainstream news sources wrote anything about it until 1972, I mean I can't find a single reference to it anywhere before then. They don't even know what day it allegedly happened, just that it definitely for real happened in August.
And if you ask about this, the trans right activists will claim that it was kept quiet because of transphobia, but if 60 cross-dressing male prostitutes really smashed up a restaurant, burned down a business, and smashed up a cop car you'd think that people would notice. This wasn't some quiet corner of the city, it was a block away from Market street, almost on the same block as the San Francisco Chronicle. It's not as if Compton's Cafeteria's conflict with trannies was a secret, earlier that same month Vanguard had picketed the restaurant for their anti cross-dresser policies and that got a write-up (you'll often see this article shown as proof of the Compton Cafeteria Riot, but it's about Vanguard's picket). And yet we have no evidence beyond the testimony of the old cross-dressers who claim that they were totally there, fighting off the cops. Just like Silvia Rivera totally threw the first brick at Stonewall.
Most likely what happened is that the cops were called to break up yet another fight between the cross dressers at Compton's Cafeteria (these fights eventually got the cafeteria to start closing at midnight) and they resisted arrest. As always, t-slurs need to lie about their history in order to make themselves feel like fricking heroes.
Hey now,
You're a Reich Star
Get your shoah on
Go Slay
Hey now,
You're a Deutsch Star
Get your lebensraum
Don't delay
All that's worthy is Aryan
Only israeli stars are fit for buryin'
underrated bost
Based incubus crushing she skulls of the blue manlet fuccbois
So anyway what is this, just an edgy rpg thread?
I wonder what was on the free cd rom.
The game!
This version of FATAL came with a CD that had a PDF of the rule book, a few little utilities (chargen engine, stuff like that), and some wallpapers, if I remember right.
I found it!
You can find the content here: http://web.archive.org/web/20030228195602/http://www.hyperbooks.com/fatal/fataldownload.html
Check'd
Obligatory
>Orcs as characters
Wrong indeed.
sounds about right
Rolled 49 (1d100)
Rollin'
Rolled 12 (1d100)
ROLLAN
S A U C Y T A R T
Salted caramel deserves to burn for all eternity. Liking it is wrongthink. If a GM were to put it in a game, I would go straight to murderhobo, since the game would already be ruined
what
>tastelet tardrage
Roland
frick it'll roll
you know, if they'd just gender neutral that language, they could add it to the Carousing part of the 5e DMG and i'm not sure anyone would bat an eye.
Even if they did they could call you sex-negative or a SWERF for speaking against it.
Rolled 98 (1d100)
what can go wrong
Frick it, rollan.
It's funny, the sorcery rituals very rapidly degrade into monotony after the initial shock factor
That's unfortunately true of a lot of "shocking" things.
I've never played Carcosa, but FATAL for example is just a shitty game. Anal circumference aside, the mechanics are incredibly overcomplicated and just not fun. I had some friends try to play it. We used the pregen characters at the back of the book because our "Maim Master" assured us that we did not want to venture into chargen, and off we went. After about 90 minutes we got bored and stopped. The injury tables are only funny the first 6 or 7 times, even if you roll the one where a woman gets stabbed in the ovary.
Carcosa is actually good but the spell system is just pages of
>to Summon [tentacle monster] you murder [number] [color] [age] by [torture technique]
Well, at least that sounds like something you can skip over easily.
>to Summon [tentacle monster] you murder [number] [color] [age]
So you could use rituals to determine if the Irish are in fact white after all?
The Irish are a mix of the nomadic Aryan Celt and the indigenous Pict. There are also the issue of the 'Moorish' colonization of the southern British Isles but I think gets diffused by earlier Roman colonization.
More to the point: If the Irish aren't white because of the one drop rule neither are you, Black person.
Post DNA.
The irishman cries out in pain even as he strikes you
I'm not even Irish but it seems like this response is the only thing you goofs can muster any time I spit facts about genetic ancestry. What else you got? Celtic cope?
Post DNA, you fricking mudblood.
Better question: Who should bother to give a frick?
It’s kinda hilarious seeing seething britbongs like you guys who can’t cope with the fact that the irish threw you out after you treated them like slaves and attempted to genocide them.
Who do I need to murder to get some succ?
GIWTWM
An artist so you can absorb the work they've put in their art.
Will you battle the heinous forces of the malicious israelite, white warrior?
Yeah, once I make the PBTA version.
Please God do that and post it in their disocrd.
>If you've created a game inspired by Apocalypse World, and would like to publish it, please do. If you're using our words, you need our permission, per copyright law. If you aren't using our words, you don't need our permission, although of course we'd love to hear from you. Instead, we consider it appropriate and sufficient for you to mention Apocalypse World in your thanks, notes, or credits section.
As long as you don't use any of their words and they can't do shit about it.
Hell, you really want to kick a beehive?
Specifically make it a supplement/setting for Thirsty Swords Lesbians.
Oh my god! It's like the OGL, but actually just describes pre-existing legal rights!
the OGL said "you can use our words, just not our lore and trademarks"
But it has no actual rules in there.
Is there a market for supplementary material?
It might be funny to write a Rahowa adventure with all of the stupidest alt-right Q Anon tropes and subtlety balance encounters so it's impossible to win without being gang-violated by George Soros' Antifa minions.
Added some bonuses for having a delightful black dick and I am in, yassss!!
Probably not. Not only is the rpg scene unable to detect humour or irony and you won't be able to sell it anywhere, but the actual game is completely non-functional.
This triggers the Templin Institute.
Just watched a couple minutes of that. That sucks man. Why are they like this?
Rage clicks + pandering + virtue signaling + doing something brave and controversial when it's safe and popular.
Altogether soulless behavior. Got it.
I mostly associate Templin Institute with youtube videos about ship classes, flags and names of space empires (while using Stellaris video footage). Guess they did a video about female marines?
They got salty they couldn't have a mommy dom big titty space marine waifu, so he sperged about how lore doesn't matter on a lore channel.
really shit.
it has been the same way for 20 years.
HORNY
ANIME
homosexualS.
>UwU me want big mommie marine milkies
>>but marines can only be male, here have a sister of ba-
>NO ME WANT BIG MOMMY MILKIE OWO
utter homosexualry
You need to call the cops, there's some people living in your brain rent free.
Imagine getting this hormonal and emotional over space marine gender lol
>b-but they do it 2!!!!
In my opinion you are completely justified in being angry about people trying to ruin things you like.
...
>udder homosexualry
Good one
Less anime homosexuals in my experience and more wokes trying to inject their politics into everything.
I don't know why you guys lean on this so much. No one, literally no one, is asking for queer space marines, and Games Workshop have proven m u l t i p l e times that they will shit all over established canon in a hot minute the moment they take on a new designer, so why are you pretending this is some massive win?
>t.
There’s been and are plenty of leftwing-activists pushing for female space marines for a long time now, have you been living under a rock or do you not engage with the rest of the community at all?
It is pretty funny that the geneseeds have diverged so much that some of them have become vampires and werewolves, things that do not and cannot exist, but none of them are intersex.
Lore doesn't matter, it's about aesthetics.
>things that do not and cannot exist
[citation needed]
Frick of you disgusting troony and stop trying to inject your horrible politics into everything you see!
it isn't political until you decide they are a class you are allowed to hate
regardless, it just seems like a lack of imagination at the end of the day
>Guys this is my Space Marine OC, you see the geneseed mutated and turned her into a futan... i mean intersex and she's totally stronger than the other space marines.
how imaginative
And you are not and will never be a woman
none of them that SURVIVE are intersex. big difference.
like the excerpt there says, only full biological males even have a chance of surviving the super roids and grafts they give them, because it's closest to what the end result is supposed to be.
Put another way, if you wanted to make world-record setting olympic lifter, by any scientific means necessary, you'll have a lot better chances starting with a biological male, because you've to got to push a biological female body that much harder to get it into the same range, and there's a bigger change in hormonal balance between roided out Hulk and woman than there is roided out Hulk and man, especially in androgen levels.
Honestly, with how much their bodies are pushed to the brink, i'm surprised space marines aren't more maintenance fragile. You know how like in Cyberpunk people with too much chrome need immunosuppressers and anti-psychotics and additional supporting implants to make their augmentations manageable, plus constant repair and maintenance on all of it, or they either start convulsing or go absolutely batshit and start shooting anything that moves, and you could measure their life expectancy in months even without the hyperviolence they get up to? That. By all rights, Space Marines should have that problem. To stay at the absolute maximum of what you can squeeze out of a human body like that, they should be walking a razor's edge.
>By all rights, Space Marines should have that problem
ntayrt
They do have those problems. Hence the heresy, mutations, psychosis etc. that is staved off by intense mental conditioning, constant, and I mean constant, prayer, observation and other control regimes. They're at the more fundamental level, derived from warpstuff via their primarchs, its not a stable thing. Various geneseed instability over time has lead to entire chapters being excommunicated, and purged, entire inquisitorial orders dedicated to policing it, etcetcetc.
coming from rural kentucky, I can tell you with 100% certainty that "pray the crazy away" is not remotely a functional treatment regiment.
also, just knowing what i know about split brain patients, running half the brain at a time has really fricky consequences. "Personality disorders" is definitely one way to put it, but so would "total loss of speech production and comprehension" and "total loss of visual pattern recognition like faces" and it would be happening every time that node is turned on, unless it's acting as a supplementary replacement for the half that's asleep, but iirc the imperium is really far behind in terms of sentient thinking machines, they're basically Spot piloting a dreadnaught. Replicating half a brain seems beyond them, if it wasn't things would look very differently.
And that's just mental stability issues. There's not a single mention of any kind of medications needing to be taken for their bodies here. They'd need to be on an absolutely furious wienertail, not the least of which hormones, because IIRC space marines are completely sterile. Even if there testes are functional enough to still be producing androgens it's definitely not enough to maintain that level of bulk. But i'd also expect they'd need to take something to prevent their body from rejecting all the surgical grafts, and maybe even specialized nutrients for the grafts themselves since they aren't normal human tissue, not to mention something to keep the body from trying to dissolve the cybernetics or else a frequent replacing of said cybernetic components. Oh and if you've suppressed their immune system to keep them from rejecting the grafts and implants, then what's preventing disease? Not their natural immune system, that's for sure. So they'd need to be rubbed down and pumped with antibiotics and antivirals and antifungals constantly.
Apply any realism and they'd be a total mess. Resilient in war, sure, but held together with duct tape against anything else.
>apply any realism
you mean the 8 foot tall bulletproof space men who can survive in space aren't realistic when they're fighting demons? Color me so surprised. Prayer has actual, physical manifestations and effects in 40k, regardless of what it does in Kentucky.
>100% certainty that "pray the crazy away" is not remotely a functional treatment regiment.
Weird, you seem to be under the impression 40k is about well functioning and rational systems designed to help people flourish in a progressive 20th/21st century liberal humanist frame of reference. It is not. Its a barely constrained science fantasy kitchen sink gonzo setting where bad thoughts specifically invite horrific monsters beyond reality into being.
We could make further associations to bootcamp style indoctrination where the goal is not to create a long term healthy person, it is to create a soldier. Soldiers are expensive and take effort, so there is some interest in their longer term viability, but not as much as you'd think.
>Resilient in war, sure, but held together with duct tape against anything else
Good thing in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium there is only war.
This one contains so much wrongthink that it should be consigned to the memory hole.
The content or the presentation? The doll photo illustrations and copy protection overwrought graphic design were the biggest obstacles to me reading the thing. AltCults and gene-hacking human offshoots had some potential though. If there was Cyberpunk 3rd Edition fan edit with text you could parse, better organization and optionally some more evocative art I'd give it a try. If anything as a strange alternate timeline nibbling at the safer Cyberpunk Red's mainstream valuations.
Mostly the presentation, bits of the content. It isn't wholly irredeemable, even if some fans of the broader Cyberpunk franchise would like to hunt down every last copy and burn it. I agree some ideas are worth stealing for a Red game.
>pic related
But does it run Doom?
>some ideas are worth stealing for a Red game.
like for example?
I like the idea of the DataKrash, just not turned up to 11 and coupled with a paper-eating virus. The idea of a really noteworthy hacker screwing with network infrastructure and the data on it when he died is interesting.
And I like the idea of the AltCults to an extent. Not necessarily exactly how they're presented in v3, but as another kind of faction, distinct from corps and gangs (but likely interacting with and infiltrating both). 2020 had a lack of "other" groups with a lifestyle element - political activists, voodoo churches, posters on a Mongolian basket-weaving message board, the Tiny House movement - that could have added texture and intrigue.
The weird thing about 3.0 was that some of the information lost was ridiculous, and it was only 20 years later. Like was everyone under 20 and didn’t remember they had learned information about Nixon’s resignation? Was everyone just stupid?
Then I like CyberGeneration and that’s not much better in terms of lore, so…
Yeah, I tend to gloss over CyberGeneration. There might be something salvageable in there too, but I just don't like the basic concept. Kid characters, though... well it's not like there are no kids in the literature that inspired the game (Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero and Hardwired have notable younger protagonists).
The data loss thing really is ridiculous - I view the book version as the Spinal Tap "turned up to 11" equivalent. As for stupidity... well I once would've agree with you, but I know people who rely on Googling things on their mobile rather than remembering them, so I feel like technology means that young people's memories are poorer because they don't need to retain information in the way Gen Xers did growing up.
I like the idea behind a derpy medieval civilization sprouting from the failed colonization of the planet, but this game always felt off.
Not in the railroading aspect, but more like constantly enforcing players to know and do specific mundane things. Players should spend their time exploring and having adventures of their lifetime in this science-fantasy with Aztec-like country. Forcing players to actually learn local language and honor/etiquette rules looks appealing only for a "special" kind of audience and DMs.
I genuinely enjoy dark rituals that are actually dark rituals. Carcosa does have a lot of problems, but I do enjoy the setting conceit of it being a super-violent Heavy Metal John Carter thing.
Source for pic, please?
nta
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic. Its okay, does have some really cool looking bits like the mars stuff though.
Looks like a great game! Is there a PDF floating around?
Without fail I hear this every time.
>Wrongthink
The Compton Cafeteria Riot never happened. There are no contemporary records of it happening, no photos exist, no police records have been found, and no one wrote anything about it until 1972, 6 years after it allegedly happened. I don't mean that no mainstream news sources wrote anything about it until 1972, I mean I can't find a single reference to it anywhere before then. They don't even know what day it allegedly happened, just that it definitely for real happened in August.
And if you ask about this, the trans right activists will claim that it was kept quiet because of transphobia, but if 60 cross-dressing male prostitutes really smashed up a restaurant, burned down a business, and smashed up a cop car you'd think that people would notice. This wasn't some quiet corner of the city, it was a block away from Market street, almost on the same block as the San Francisco Chronicle. It's not as if Compton's Cafeteria's conflict with trannies was a secret, earlier that same month Vanguard had picketed the restaurant for their anti cross-dresser policies and that got a write-up (you'll often see this article shown as proof of the Compton Cafeteria Riot, but it's about Vanguard's picket). And yet we have no evidence beyond the testimony of the old cross-dressers who claim that they were totally there, fighting off the cops. Just like Silvia Rivera totally threw the first brick at Stonewall.
Most likely what happened is that the cops were called to break up yet another fight between the cross dressers at Compton's Cafeteria (these fights eventually got the cafeteria to start closing at midnight) and they resisted arrest. As always, t-slurs need to lie about their history in order to make themselves feel like fricking heroes.