[UA]: Faeries

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Joe Iglesias <jchurch at bu.edu>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA]: Faeries
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 10:23 PM
> 
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:
> 
> > Oh, I wanted the Fair Folk in the main rulebook.  They were innocent,
tiny,
> > indescribably beautiful pure and naive beings with wings and wonder and
> > everything.  And if you ate one, it shaved five or ten hard years off
your
> > age.  That's why they're almost completely extinct: raggedy ass adepts
who
> > know that chowing down on one of the cute little fuckers will do more
to
> > retard aging than all the goddamn ginseng in China.
> 
> I applaud you. sir.
> 
> My take on the whole "fae" thing; can it.  Involving faeries in
*anything*
> these days adds an element of tweeness to the whole production, and while
> they don't absolutely *have* to be that way, and weren't originally, I
> still don't think using them is worth the bother.
> 
> So bugger Auberon the High King and the kelpie he rode in on.
> 
> I'm more interested in just what's the deal with all the anal probing
> people keep complaining about; rambunctious clios planting false memories
> for giggles (or even better, to try and *create* historic sites-- alien
> abduction sites), or do modern people just have really messed up sexual
> subconsiousnesses?

	While I enjoy Greg Stolze's idea, I think that the idea as presented here
(ghosts of dead children) works on a number of levels:
- It fits in with real world mythology, some of which says that faeries are
the ghosts of the dead.
- It fits in with the humanocentric UnAverse.
- It makes the faeries *scary*.

	Imagine a powerful spirit with the mind of an infant.  The world is one
big learning experience, and it has no empathy for other people.  Alien
abductions have much in common with old tales of faeries.  By way of the
ideas on the list, Greys are nothing more than what people expect to be
kidnapped by these days.  The anal probes and sexual experiments are just
the ghosts trying to figure out how these funny toys work.
	Horror faeries have no remorse, no conscience, and no frame of reference
for dealing with humans.  And they're sort of human, which makes it worse.

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> 
> Joe
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