[UA] Solipsomancers (was re: UA Vampires)

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

Interesting.  I've toyed with the idea of a solitary founder of
Solipsomancy (known, rightly enough, as the Solipsist).  The idea I had for
it was that the power is over how people interact.  The taboo is not social
interaction, however, but movement itself.  The Solipsist would remain
motionless for a couple hours in order to generate a minor charge, for a
whole day to get a significant charge, and was trying to complete a whole
year for the Major when Kate Mundy walked into his bedroom and put a pillow
over his face.

I pictured the Solipsist as a very alienated individual with a vivid
fantasy life about what people were doing when he wasn't around.  He found
that by focussing his fantasies (by denying his corporal reality), he could
blur the line between fantasy and reality.  He could make people his
puppets.  He could make his imaginary visions of what people do conform to
what they were really doing. 

Hm, I'm probably not explaining this very well.  

At the lowest level, he changed his mental pictures so that they reflected
what people were doing.  Initially, he was just spying, peeping, indulging
his voyeurism.

As his power grew, however, people began changing to reflect his mental
pictures.  His power grew BECAUSE his grasp on the difference between
fantasy and reality was becoming loose.  Consequently, reality's grasp on
the difference became loose as well.

That was why the Mundys and Stealin' Dan McKay had to put him down like a
mad dog back in the 70s.  But did he have an apprentice?  Or merely imagine
one?

-G.
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