[UA] Con comment & a Comte-ish quote

[Tim Boura]

> > Con games are good, I ran a UA larp called Fight Night (Fight 
> > Club meets
> > The Tempest with bits of A Concrete Island) at Dominicon on 
> 
> That sounds very very very neat.  Please post bits and pieces 
> if you can!
> 
> Anyway, I was reading Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" column over at
> suntimes.com and came across an interesting quote re: the ten 
> film series
> "Decalogue":
> 
> "There is a young man who appears in eight of [the films], a 
> solemn onlooker
> who never says anything but sometimes makes sad eye contact. I thought
> perhaps he represented Christ, but [director] Kieslowski, in 
> an essay about
> the series, says, 'I don't know who he is; just a guy who 
> comes and watches
> us, our lives. He's not very pleased with us.'"
> 
> That immediately caught my eye.  I know most people on this 
> list see the
> Comte in a very different light, but what if the First and 
> Last Man was
> actually power-less rather than power-full?

Hmm, my concept of him was as someone with huge amounts of power but forced
to follow some very bizzare/fixed rules.

Generally with schools/architypes the more powerful the harder it is to gain
charges/the stronger the taboo.

So just think how many taboo's he must have - and what the consequences
would be if he dropped down from godwalker status.

I have never really tried to write any idea down for the rules, and don't
think players would ever become aware of them, but they provide (for
example) the reason why he doesn't go in and directly stomp anyone he
doesn't like.

Tim

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