[UA] Telemancy

[Tim Rudloff]

I think charge building and taboo should be dictated by the paradox of the
school.  Here's my input:

Paradox:  The telephone makes the whole of your voice the whole of your
identity.  This identity is then transmuted to information and shipped around the
globe.  You can speak to anyone, anywhere, but your identity no longer possesses
a single concrete location.  You are everywhere and nowhere.
Taboo:  Be somewhere.  If you you stay in one place a lot, and people know it,
then you cannot earn charges until you no longer stay there.  Adepts would need
to stay in hotels or sleep in their cars, and hold jobs that move around a lot.
To build charges:  (Minor) Be nowhere.  Spend an hour on the phone with someone
who has no idea where you are.  Most phone based jobs will be insufficient, since
work related calls rarely last that long.  (Significant)  Be everywhere.  Be
heard by at least 1000 people for over an hour.  Radio talk shows are a good
example, though broadcasting from the station may violate taboo.  (Major)
Vanish.  Spend a year with no physical contact, but near-constant telecom
contact.  Be the voice in the machine.



Dylan Clayton wrote:

> I didn't se anyone else post the idea but couldn't the taboo be something
> like: cannot use long distance comunication methods other than a telephone or
> video phone. I would think that because of the co-location idea of the school
> actual sensory information of the distant placeneeds to be transmitted. they
> cannot send/receive email or snail mail, can't pay bills by wire, no couriers
> (telegram for mongo: a non-magical spell to fuck up telemancers). charge
> building could be-
> minor: one hour phone conversation or listening to one (cannot be
> prerecorded)
> significant: [i don't know]
> major: participating in or listening to a phone conversation that should make
> history (between heads of state or somethign of that nature).
>
> Dylan Clayton <dclayton23 at earthlink.net>
>
> >From a Japanese car rental firm brochure:
>
> When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle horn.  Trumpet him
> melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles passage, tootle him with
> vigor.
>
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