[UA] I'm stuck

[Tim Rudloff]

> 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.
>

It depends on who you ask:

    Cliomancers see magick as harnessing common belief -
dipsomancy comes from blurring beliefs through toxins; plutomancy comes from the common belief "money=power;" pornomancers are fueled by faith in their
goddess
    Dipsomancers see magick as all about expanding your mind -
epideromancers expand their mind through the crucible of pain; pornomancers go the other route; entropomancers ride the edge through the adrenaline of
risk
    Entropomancers see magick as karma, pay a price and get your reward -
cliomancers collect residual karma from great events; dipsomancers focus their good karma into spouts of drunkenness which is alternated with powerless
sobriety; pornomancers spread love and good mojo, and what goes around comes around
    Epideromancers see magick as a purification and mastery of the self -
entropomancers use risk and danger to master their souls; mechanomancers find purity through their immaculate creations, and their magick is external
rather than internal; plutomancers use spartan economic discipline for social purity and mastery
    Mechanomancers see magick as ancient hermetic wisdom, formulaic and ordered -
cliomancers are really tapping feng shui; dipsomancers are working internal alchemy; pornomancers stumbled over tantric wisdom; epideromancy works through
reiteration of brutal rite of passage ritual
    Plutomancers see magick as the accumulation of power (magick) in that which is important -
cliomancers use the power accumulated in memories and histories; epideromancers worship their bodies to accumulate magick, and then destroy them to
release the magick; mechanomancers take important objects, and channel that power into magick
    Pornomancers see magick as channeling sexual nature -
entropomancers get off on risk; money is the sex of the plutomancer; entropomancers find a latent sexual power in their own transcendent pain

(note that within each school there's different thoughts on magick; one epideromancer might see magick as a martial artist like "mastery of self" where
another might see his body as a fleshy prison and pain helps his spirit transcend...)




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