[UA] Invisibles

[Patrick Joynt]

>
> > >Hey, I was curious who out there read/was interested in the Invisibles,
>
>Bueno!

"What's Bueno's power?"
>
> >
> > Great stuff.  Hopefully the rest of volume 1 will be reprinted Real Soon 
>Now, as it's possibly the best bit and definitely the most UA-relevant 
>portion.
>
>I can't decide if the Invisibles mesh better with UA or OTE.  I think a mix
>of both, really.  With shades of Kult...
>

The only mesh issue I have w/ the Invisibles and UA is the superdood nature 
of the Invisibles - with the UA system, I really can't see King Mob's combat 
antics leaving him with only one bullet in so many issues.
But thematically, you have the concept of the Universe being constructed 
from the overlap of conflicting ideas (Entropy/Order) and within that 
overlap you have "time and space." Inside of time and space, humanity (one 
entity, in truth) can take root and grow, and eventually develop into an 
actual organism (the Invisble Clergy becomes filled) and give birth to the 
metacosmos, the new organism - the ascension of the Comte...
I just think that the Invisibles isn't over the top enough of OTE.

>As I see it a few Invisibles bits slied nicely into UA.  Chess
>Bastard/Satan/The Blind Man is obviously the CSG.   >Fanny fits into the
>Mystic Herm mold fairly well I would think.  Mason seems to be the
>benevolent Alex Able.     However I see some bits as being hard to
>represent in standard UA.

Well, benevolent? He does fund Cell 23...brrr...
How about Jack Frost? Well, what if by "Buddha" or "Messiah" we mean 
"reincarnation of the Comte?"  How's that for a take on the First and Last-  
the only person who reliably recalls every incarnation they've had, in one 
way or the next?  Or, chess bastard is the "immortal" Comte, the one who 
never dies - and Jack Frost is the latest version of the "immortal" Comte, 
who is died and reborn forever. Perhaps every 333rd rebirth, he is 
"somebody..."
Boy freaked out and bailed when she got that fifth failed self notch (cell 
23, natch).
And to me, the concept of key-23 screams to be used when my PCs encounter 
101 and the Rahyid.
In any case,
Patrick

>The dumbest thing I've ever done in class was say "Sensei, I just >don't 
>see how that would be effective."

>I don't ask questions like that anymore.


_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at 
http://profiles.msn.com.


_______________________________________________
UA mailing list
UA at lists.uchicago.edu
http://lists.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ua