Skeptomancy

[Michael Daisey]

Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:

> 
> This is actually quite similar to "cryptomancy," an idea I was kicking
> around for magick based on lies.  The cryptomancer taboo would be that they
> could never tell a lie except to charge up, never for personal gain.  They
> charged up with giant hoaxes.  Alternately, they lost their charges if they
> got caught in a lie.  But I couldn't quite make it cohere...
> 

	I'm actually investing all my UA time into a cryptomancy
	project, which in my version evolved from old-school
	kabbalism and incorporates von Neumann's game theory
	(thanks to John Tynes for some inspirational reading).
	The mechanics are similar to the above for taboos and
	charging, (ie lies) but the emphasis from a design point is
	to create a school that has old-school and postmodern
	sensibillities welded together.


-- 
Michael Daisey
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the
oath." Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Fragments, no. 385.