[UA] Avatar random effects

[Stimson, Aaron]

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From: Kintaro Oe [mailto:kabael at yifan.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 4:02 PM
To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: [UA] Avatar random effects


>I've been toying with the idea of allowing Avatars to do weird stuff 
not specified 
>in their channels, mostly linked with symbols, such as an avatar of the 
>Executioner pulling a card out of a pack at random and it being the Ace 
of 
>Spades, and at higher levels, possibly communicating with their animal 
symbols.
>What do you think?

I think it's a great idea, further emphasizing the powerful and often 
surreal nature of Avatars. I think that such "ripples of coincidence" 
(wether conscious or not) would be a logical side effect of the path to 
the Invisible Clergy.
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I don't think I'd make it conscious, though.  I think it would be a better
effect if this type of thing is part of the innate mystical connection they
are establishing with the Collective Unconscious.  So the Executioner is
playing cards with his intended target, and his target draws a full house of
Aces and Eights (GM Fiat for a powerful roll or dramatic move) right before
the Executioner makes his move.  Or the Masterless Man, lost in the desert,
is lead to a well by a lone predatory bird.  Make it a plot or story
enhancer and it sounds very nice.
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