[UA] those magical paradox thingies

[gareth hanrahan]

>If you seek mastery over things, you must give them mastery over
you.  Or
>something like that.  I had one other idea, but no quick simple name
for it.
>  It's a mage who can dominate the wills of others, who can command
entire
>armies with the sound of his voice.  But in order to do so, he
becomes
>unable to act without being told.  He can't eat, dress himself, or
even
>scratch an itch without instructions.  The only thing that he can do
of his
>own volition is tell people what to do...and he can't command
himself
>through them.


NOOO! Bad man! This is so close to the Slothomancy school I'm
fiddling with it's not even funny. You're looking inside my head. All
of you are. Stop it stopitstopitstopitstopit....

Ahem.
Er...yeah, currently, Slothomancy, which was based on something Greg
said a while back, is a school of magick based around inaction. The
Mage basically denies that anyone else exists in the world, and
drives himself into a state of enlightened madness where he thinks
he's God. The school allows the Mage to influence people and do
things from a distance, because he thinks everything's happening in
his mind. The Mage's powers break down, though, if he's reminded of
reality, of his own body. You get charges for lying in bed and being
utterly isolated from the world, and break taboo every time you have
to do something in the physical world...

>
>John Crimmins                     john1x at hotmail.com
Gar
"You thought that you were the bomb
Yes well so did I" - Tori Amos, Spark



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