[UA] Demourgy: GM comments

[Kenneth Hite]

At 4:48 PM -0400 4/3/0, Peter Hindman wrote:

>   I am, unsurprisingly, strongly interested in comments, particularly on
>the historical aspects of the school.

>From your mouth to God's ears...

>   It's also worth pointing out that there were two attempts to resurrect
>the school:  during the Prague Spring uprising in the '50s, and during the
>abortive Paris revolution of 1968.  The Prague Spring attempt was crushed
>by outside forces (some whisper of Soviet political dukes, but this is
>probably simple paranoia.)  The Paris attempt failed because the basic
>issues had been problematized beyond the ability of most people to believe
>in them strongly enough.  (Yes, it's another Cryptomancy parallel.)  (It's
>possible that the attempt may have had something to do with the rise of
>Situmancy, if anyone writes up such a school, however.)

Prague Spring was 1968.  Budapest uprising was 1956, if that's what you're
thinking of, but the Prague Spring is closer to a "southern" tradition;
Budapest was definitely more northern.

>   The American school has different requirements.  I'm not sure what they
>are yet, but the person who convinced the Southern states to work the old
>Confederate flag into their state flags after the passage of the Civil
>Rights Act got a major.

It took him a long time, then...

(Flags with strong CSA elements, date of adoption)
Alabama 1895
Arkansas 1924
Florida 1900
Georgia 1956
Mississippi 1894


>>      Cestus Populi, Cestus Dei

Nice title.

>>      Sic Semper Tyrannus
>>      Cost: 4 Significant Charges
>
>   The American school *does* have this spell, and used it in a very
>well-known incident in 1864.  Sean is going to regret naming the spell the
>way he did.

1865, surely.  And Good Friday at that, for extra charges.

Kenneth Hite, LHN



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