Budd encounters a vast nut-wing comspiracy, but there is one voice which rises above the rest. He is charismatic, claims to be a living person in Conshohockan, Pennsylvania, and invites Budd to a Beltane orgy and bardic circle.
1. If Budd joins the guru's sex cult
2. If the voice is acutally crosstalk between an Astral messenger and a galactic radio transmission