Rolf is a hill-billy boy who can call up poltergeists. Dejeela-Lal is a stunningly beautiful temple prostitute who performs enthusiastically, while levitating. Mr. Kleiber is a middle aged accountant who writes indelible blue fire in the air with the tip of his nose. Rome Burns is an AWOL soldier, conditioned to kill by reflex action anyone who comes within four feet of him for any reason whatever. This makes him invaluable to the group's probably suicidal assault on The Machine that controls the lives of a whole nation of people. It makes things difficult between him and Dejeela-Lal though.