[UA] Catharsis

[Will]

Hi everybody,

I read again One Shots yesterday, and really liked again the Joy And Sorrow
scenario. It's really the kind of story I like, the perfect kind of mood.
Besides, it's exactly the kind of scenario I like to run (but more about that
in another mail). So I was reading it again, and it gave me ideas. The thing
I liked the most is that characters are really writing a new story. Actually
I think the influence of the GM here is minimal. The story is completely in
the hand of the players: they are, for once, the storytellers. I like that.

But let's start with the beginning.

Last friday I was bored to death at work as usual, half-sick and in a very bad
mood. I left at 2pm, and headed for the english cinema (via the comics shop for
some League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a must for a Castle Falkenstein fan
like me). I decided to go and watch Charlie's Angels. Not my best pick in the
last few hundred years, but now I'm infatuated with Drew Barrymore :)

Anyway, there were (exactly) 5 people watching this movie at 3pm, and some 400
free seats. I always get a real weird feeling in this situation. I only got
it once before, while watching _Interview with a Vampire_, alone in a 200 seats
amphiteatre at 2am :) Watching the commercials, I suddenly thought: what if we
all were players in some kind of (weird, of course) UA game. What would
happen?

So I thought of a possible twist:

- Catharsis -

It's a little bit like J&S: some kind of House of Renunciation. Why do people
go the cinema, read books, play RPGs? Some say it's because of Catharsis. You
see and live your passions by proxy. And normally afterwards you're relieved.
That's exactly the other way around than people saying watching violence
implies more real life violence. Watching violence implies here getting rid
of violent passions.

Each UA character has passions, or stimuli. The 5 characters suddenly find out
that there is no movie, only an enless road, and a car taking this road, and
nothing else. And they can't go out of the cinema. The only way to get out of
this is to project their passions in the movie, collectively, and get rid of
what holds them back, in a process of catharsis.

Thoughts?

Will


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