[UA] Mundanity

[Michael Daisey]

I could buy it, but it would seem that invoking unnatural phenomena would
trigger the taboo of the school--leading to a weird situation where using
any magick wipes your charges.

M.

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if someone already worked on "Mundanity".
> 
> I can see basically an archetype and/or a magick school.
> 
> The archetype would be something along the lines of "the average man", "the
> non-descript guy". A powerful symbol (at least in the US) would be the name
> "John Doe" (spelling?), and you can be sure the guy would always side with
> the (silent) majority (he _is_ the silent majority), and also have a good
> bunch of statistics to prove his normality.
> 
> The magick school would try to (paradoxically) make magick disappear from
> ths world, and try to smooth out "special" traits. For example, magickal
> effects could include the capacity to cancel magick ("Uh, something's very
> worng around here"), to "normalize" someone (what are you going to do when
> your favourite skill drops down to a more "normal" value, say, 40%?) and to
> invoke limited luck/bad luck ("hey, these things _can_ happen").
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Will
> 
> --
> Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are
> illuminations comme too late. -- J. Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces
> 
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