[UA] Re: Piromancy and terrorists

[Mario Magallanes]

Matthew Rowan Norwood escribió:

> 
> Sorry to sound like a flame.  You just touched a nerve with me.  Really,
> though, I don't think that that kind of support for the status quo is
> going to make for a very interesting UA career.

Oh, I have no problem with fiction. We played once a paramilitary
militia in Delta Green, and was a lot of fun. (I was the one who
suggested it, mind you). It would have been an interesting Power Kill
exercise ('So, you killed twenty-five unarmed people in a cave, because
they were demon worshippers allied with the US Secret Government...')

Among the characters my players chose for UA were an urban crimefighter
(a la Taxi Driver), a religious fanatic (the sort who burn heretics),and
a couple of cold-stone killers. But that doesn't mean these characters
are nice persons.

Still, I've got some plans for scenarios regarding social injustice,
homeless people and merciless authorities. But my players wanted a New
Inquisition structure, so this won't be possible. 

But aside my occasional ramblings about overthrowing the system and
placing myself as World Supreme Ruler ;) , I am a law-abide citizen*. I
do mostly because, even when I think that western-style capitalism is an
unjust system, I don't have any substitutes by now, and anyway, I'd
rather change the system from within, not starting any riots. 


And Sandra Palmer escribió:
> 

> A modern
> demourgic school, perhaps, would focus on the untapped power of the
> underclass - a magick of trailer parks, single mothers, and the Jerry
> Springer show.
> 
> James

Sounds interesting. What kind of spells could this school produce? And
how could charges be generated? 

Here's another idea: A school of magick based in nationalism (which
seems to be focusing the more radical politics both in Europe and the
US) as opposed to the old school patriotism-based magick.

-Mario Magallanes
*except when the police detained me and a bunch of my friends for
boozing ourselves in the street, but that's another story...

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