[UA] Regis and such

[Bailey Watts]

>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:12:40 -0500
>To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>From: Gregory Paul Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re:[UA] Trivia question
>Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>
>At 10:03 PM 06/24/2000 -0000, you wrote:
> >>I was watching TV this evening, and this question came to mind. What
> >>keeps a cliomancer from going to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and
> >>winning the big prize?
> >
> >The fact that the last bloke who tried such a scheme is sleeping at the
>bottom of a shallow grave, courtesy of the Sleepers.
>
>I disagree.  In that hypothetical situation, why would the Sleepers give a
>fuck?  So he won a million bucks.  That doesn't prove the paranormal 
>exists.
>
>No, I'll tell you what keeps a clio from winning on WW2BAM.
>
>Slow fingers.
>
>Think about it: In order to get on the show, you have to phone in and not
>only give the right answers, you have to give them FAST.  Once you're
>actually on the show (and who knows what kind of screening process you have
>to go through?) you're competing against people who are genuinely SMART and
>who don't have to go through a complicated set of mental and spiritual
>gymnastics to get the right answer.
>
>Given the time taken to cast a spell -- and the fact that the qualifying
>questions to get to the hot seat would require multiple castings to put the
>answers in order -- a cliomancer who didn't actually know wouldn't have a
>chance in hell against someone who genuinely knew their stuff.

Why wouldn't the cliomancer know his stuff?  These people are obsessed with 
history as a path to supernatural power.  Knowing the answers is what a 
cliomancer would do.

>This is something near and dear to my personal vision of UA.  Magick can
>work fine as shoehorn tool, but it simply cannot compete with a mortal
>expert in the same field.  Do you know many entropomancers who routinely
>carry a dozen significant charges?  Yet those charges only make them as
>dangerous as one skilled gunman with a semiautomatic.

On the other hand the fact that they have the proper mindset to be an 
entropomancer alone makes them very dangerous.  And since they are 
completely obsessed with  dancing with Lady Luck they would likely know what 
the odds are for pulling off various bad stuff.  Magickers who are skilled 
are mortal experts in their field, at least in my games.

>-G.
>It's an honor just to be nominated.
>
>http://www.thehungersite.com/index.html
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