[UA] Connected - Campaign Notes (longish)

[Daniel R. Lackey]

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> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:19:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chad Underkoffler <chadu at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [UA] Connected - Campaign Notes (longish)
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> > ... the
> > town's Chief of Police, Arthur Sandifer, is also the local
> > True King of Cops.  (An Avatar war is imminent.)
>
> TK of Stoners is cool, but maybe a different Avatar for the COp?
> The Judge? The Hunter? The Pilgrim?

Judge and Hunter are very much in line for how I see the character; Pilgrim
really isn't.

> This group should be super small and ostracized by the other
> campus Goths, IMO. And I'd make him a history major and
> Cliomancer-- apprentice of the Clio you said is a prof. (Instant
> additional GMC.)

They're a bunch of hopeless poseurs.  The original idea for the cabal came
during a discussion of SNL characters as OU members, and I came down with
giggles at the thought of the Goth Talk gang being adepts.

While the Clio idea is pretty tasty, I see two problems with Sayles -- at
least as I've conceived him -- being a Clio:
(1) One of his big things is being regarded as an all-around paragon of
coolness.  Not only does he need to know he's cool, he needs everyone around
him to know he's cool.  That doesn't preclude him following a subtle path
like Clio, but I think he's much more likely to follow a really blantant
school.  At this point I'm deciding between Epideromancy and Irascimancy.
(2) If he were a Clio, there'd be nothing stopping him from casting an Urban
Legend on the Metaphysical Society: "The MS are the coolest goth clique at
St. Gregory's."  And there's no doubt in my mind that Sayles would do it if
he were a Clio -- see point one about his desired image.

> > Fabricant
> > himself is an Avatar, perhaps of the Demagogue or Rebel, or
> > maybe even the True King.
>
> Nah, you don't want to overuse the TK. Hmmm, with a name like
> Fabricant, why not make him a Mechanomancer? Better yet, make
> him an Automata.

One the one hand I don't want to overuse the TK type, but on the other hand
I can't resist the idea of having a three-way Avatar war in town.

I'm going to put an Automata in the town, but it won't be him.  His role in
the collective rather hinges on him being an Avatar.

> > However, when you've been alive for at least two thousand
> > years you tend to forget things, and someone stole their
> > records several centuries ago, so they're not really sure
> > how anyone would ascend as Karmic Reincarnation before le
> > Comte.  So they just blunder around, send their agents to
> > places where the Invisible Clergy are exerting undue
> > influence, and hope for the best.
(snip)
> Cool. I'd make them even more confused-- a vertible band of
> 800-lbs myopic gorillas.

Oh, they're worse than a band of 800-lb. myopic gorillas.  Imagine said pack
of gorillas trying to drive a miniature clown car while dosed up on acid and
you'll get the idea.

> > She's an Amoromancer, which means she meets
> > all sorts of people when she goes charge-hunting.
>
> I'd make her an Assistant manager of the mall restaurant, with a
> rep for banging high school boys that work at other nearby
> McD's, but never her own. (Could lead to a nifty adventure
> involving ex-paramours and an current employee trying to get
> transferred so she can do him...

H'mmm.  The idea is cool.  On the other hand, as a result of the
"Amoromancer Anti-Defamation League" posts of a few weeks ago I've been
trying to create an Amoromancer that I could sympathize with.  Unfortunately
I couldn't.  I'm now considering having two Attaxers in the town, a "senior"
one (working name is Marielle Sadler) who would be an Amoromancer and be
pretty consistent with your ideas outlined above and a "junior" one, who
would be Lowdenowski, who would just be your typical 20-year-old female
college student, not an adept -- but Sadler is working on converting
Lowdenowski to the ways of Amoromancy.

> Hope these help!

Shore 'nuff did.  Thanks also for the reading list (and also Mr. Hite for a
similar service).

-- DRL

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