[UA] Re: [UA]

[Nick Wedig]

>> Anyone got a UA explanation for these perverse pieces of plastic?

Someone the list a while ago had a quote (in their signature, I haven't noticed it recently) from Francis Bacon about how superstition forms by the mind noticing when something occurs and ignoring when it doesn't.  Plus, I never saw a large enough sample to be a representative one where chance would start to balance out.  So that's my explanation.  Scooby Doo style, if you will.

Or, if you really want, it's most likely the IC up in the Statosphere trying to tell you something, perhaps making a connection between your role playing a character and an avatar channeling an archetype.  Perhaps one or more chaacters fall into a certain archetype, and you're channeling that archetype by playing him or her int he game, etc etc.

>A bunch of people sitting around a table, their minds divided. 
>Concentrating on a specific alternate reality, to teh point where it's
>almost as if they are in teh alternate reality.  This weakens the
>boundries.  It weakens them to a point where randomness starts to take
>on patterns. 

i keep meaning to right a short story along lines like this, about a spy who gets forced into playing some roleplaying games, and all the levels of lying and characters and reality become confused, so by the end neither he nor the reader would know which was the truth.

Oh, and some OTE bits fit in here nicely, particularly an adventure seed in Doc Cross's writeup (in Weather the Cuckoo Likes) about having the characters in the game playing a roleplaying game, so the players play someone playing someone else.

Mr. Teapot
playing someone playing someone else playing him

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