[UA] New Bibliomancer Significant Spells

[Scott E. Meyer]

This is reminiscent of the movie Scream, only in a literary format.
Has anyone considered cinemancy?

on Wednesday, April 19, 2000 3:53 PM James Palmer <jrp36 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

Subject: Re: [UA] New Bibliomancer Significant Spells


> Cross-Genre (Never Go Towards A Scream)
> Cost: 2 significant charges
> Effect: Imposes the 'rules' of a particular literary genre upon the
> 'scene' you are currently participating in.  For instance - turning the
> scene into a 'locked-room thriller' means everybody behaves very
> decorously, violence is off-stage, and the villain will be the least
> likely person in the room. Turning it into a 'medieval analogy' ensures
> lots of people behaving in an eponymous fashion and endless long
> discussions.  You get the general idea.
>
> If the 'rules' impose clash too violently with the preexisting reality
> (putting a Mills & Boon reality on a combat scene, f'instance), the
> universe splits off a bud.  Normal reality keeps along its normal path,
> minus the adept, while the adept is transferred to a sub-reality behaving
> according to genre rules, which continues until he realizes the mistake
> he's made and deliberately violates the genre rules - commits rape when
> he's meant to be a children's hero, for instance.  The spell is also ended
> if anybody says "Hey, this is just like being in a ..."


-Scott

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