[UA] I'm stuck

[Chad Underkoffler]

--- ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 15:01:19 +0000
> From: "James McGraw" <pdytjem at nottingham.ac.uk>
> 
> Can anybody help me out with two things:
> 1. Goals for cabals, other than world domination, amassing
> magickal power, joining the Clergy etc. I am particularly 
> thinking of a powerful Plutomancer cabal here.

A. Plutomancers love to acquire, thus-- Collectors. Think of the
dude with the mountain fastness during Grant Morrison's run on
Doom Patrol. Jam-packed with goodies.

B. Maybe they're collecting for a reason... Warehouse 23 is
trying to gather up all sorts of icky nasty magick poo to Save
the World (and Line Their Pockets) while they're at it. 

C. In that "guardian" vein... Think of Godzilla, or Doctor Doom.
Seen by the world as monsters, they're the protectors of their
people.

> 2. Alternative theories for the nature of reality. I don't
> want my PCs to start the game knowing about the IC, the 333
> archetypes etc., so has anybody come up with any explainations

> for magick, avatars, ascension or the Comte that could 
> plausibly be formulated by an adept, avatar or whatever that
> sound reasonable but have no connection with the truth.
> I've had a few ideas along this line myself, mostly to do with
> avatars being "favoured of the gods" or whatever, but I'd be 
> interested to hear other people's ideas, and steal them 
> gratuitously.

Magick: Magick runs on the power generated by the millwheel-like
turning of the Wheel of Fortune (or Life and Death). Magick is
what separates us from the lower animals-- not cognition.
(Thus-- no chimp, gorilla, or dolphin adepts.)

Avatars: Mystic reincarnation, a la Matt Wagner's MAGE.
Matchstick is the Pendragon. Kirby Hero is Heracles.  Joe Phat
is Hiawatha.

Ascension: Nirvana. Transcendence. You finally Get It. You
*win*, and go Somewhere Else, to be waited on by servitors of
your whim. Or, you get your own little universe to be god of.
Congrats.
 
Picking on the Comte, I like the idea of each magickal school
seeing him as the "founder" or "ultimate" of their school-- the
Ubermancer.

* Cliomancers see him as a True Atlantean, who knows the
locations of secret Atlantean Power Pyramids. 

* Dipsomancers think he drank from the Grail... at the Last
Supper.

* Entropomancers think he somehow risked the entire WORLD and
won (a la James Bondian "cut a random wire to stop the nuclear
missle  from exploding").

* Epideromancers think the Comte is the Freak (or the Freak is
the Comte), who got his power from ritually sacrificing his
Siamese twin (technically his own flesh; lots of "Thomas named
Didymus" fun here, kids) in ancient Judea.

* Mechanomancers think he's da Vinci (or a syborg-clockworked da
Vinci).

* Plutomancers think he's Croesus, still tripping on the charges
he gains in the wayback.

* Pornomancers think he's one of the Two Jocks, or the Guy Who's
the You in the "WECHBY," or Casanova roused from his premience
as sex-god by whatever happened to the Naked Goddess.



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Chad Underkoffler [chadu at yahoo.com]
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