[UA] A Cliomancer's Wet Dream?

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

>> Now the best thing I can figure is that a cliomancer
>wannabe
>> thought that by doing this, he could steal the charge
>from these sites by
>> remote.  We all know this idea is crap, but given that
>the motto of the
>> paper is "We bring the world to Chicago," could there be
>some unforeseen
>> side-effects?
>
>There's got to be _something_. Not charge-generation, but
>those rocks will have been in the presence of some serious
>mojo before being moved to their current site, so maybe
>they have some artifact-like effect on the building. Since
>it has journalistic connotations, perhaps something like an
>information-magnet. Or maybe they're a mystic link to their
>original sites (not sure in what way, but...)
>
>Either that, or its all been done by an urbanomancer.
>Remember the design aspect? Perhaps the stones are there
>just to taunt the local clios, or maybe they generate some
>sort of mojo-interference (since they're from all over the
>place) that blocks the effects of clio magick in the
>vicinity.

Clearly, if this were a Kult mailing list instead of UA, this story
would be screaming "portal to Metropolis".  [For those who haven't read
Kult, the cosmology centers around the Universal City of The Gods,
Metropolis, of which all human cities are reflections and parts.]  In
UA, though, I would kind of like to see a religion among Urbanomancers
that brings in a lot of concepts like those from Kult, or Italo
Calvino's "Invisible Cities", or "Dark City", or T.S. Elliot's "The
Wasteland"... I think that they must focus on how the city shapes its
inhabitants and cuts them off from their past... a lot of reading by
architects and historians like Lewis Mumford, William Irwin Thompson,
etc produces a lot of material for playing Urbanomancers.


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