[UA] A Cliomancer's Wet Dream?

[Chris Milne]

On Monday, April 17, 2000 8:19 AM, Timothy Toner 
[SMTP:thanatos at interaccess.com] wrote:

> More interesting, however, is that the building has a 
rock from each of the
> 50 states embedded in its walls, as well as chunks of the 
Taj Mahal,
> Parthenon, Great Pyramid of Cheops, and many, many more 
significant
> buildings.

Do the Greeks and the Egyptians want those bits back? Or 
are they just little bits of rock (not guaranteed to rake 
in the tourists as much as, say, the Elgin Marbles or big 
statues)?

> 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.

>  And what does it have to do with the fact that Strange 
Greek
> Men have set up shop in the roots of the building (down 
one story, on the
> original level of Chicago, and "across the street"), and 
scream
> "Cheezbooger, cheezbooger!" at one another?

That's the Mediterranean branch of Mak Attax   :-)



Chris

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