[UA] Computer Phreaking

[Jared Sorensen]

> Similar slant - how about telephone-based magic? (Hey, it worked for Grant
> Morrison). The very technology that makes you able to communicate at any
> time drives you to come up with new ways of thwarting it - from phones to
> answering machines (I'll talk to you later) to automatic redial (I'm
> waiting...) and so on and so on in a communications arms race.
> 
> Taboo: You can only deal with people through telephones. This includes
> friends, significant others, etc. Major Isolation check time.
> 
> Steven
> 

epistomancy...from the old days when epistomages only had contact through
letters (hence their name)?  nowadays the choices are wider and more
efficient but they still can't talk face to face...

reminds me of the eccentric multi-squillionaire from "contact" who spent
his life in a flying airplane and spoke through videoconferencing and
telephones...

other ideas to chew on:  teatromancy (pronounces tay-at-ro-mancy) --
actors and role-players who submerge their true selves in roles in order
to glean information about human nature.

also, has anyone thought of magick dealing with memes?  the church of
virus webpage (virus.lucifer.org, i think) is ripe with ideas...

question for the designers as well as y'all:  can schools of magick be
split into subgroups?  f'rinstance, a division of dipsomancers who use
opiates instead of alcohol -- or would that be a new school entirely?  are
there any fringe groups out there?

Jared A. Sorensen
http://www.memento-mori.com

"I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just
some stupid things that people shouldn't do. " - David Cronenberg