[UA] invisible hands

[Bailey Watts]

>So the hand only helps people who are already missing a hand?  When I first 
>read the description of the artifact, I thought anyone could use it (so I 
>could have a third, invisible arm by using it, etc) rather than just those 
>mssing something (which is what the later parts of the message seemed to 
>say).  I was a lot more interested in the artifact when I thought the 
>first, as it made the thing a bit more useful.  If I were a PC, I'd be more 
>interested this way as well.
>
If you're an epideromancer you'll probably be happy as it stands.  I suppose 
an avatar channeling a figure depicted often with multiple limbs could pull 
this off.  It might have other abilites.  This is a rough draft now, but the 
primary function is to allow amputees to function normally.

>I like the epideromancer who pushed himself too far and the cabal of 
>thieves.  The cabal of thieves I'd make out to be acting like they're out 
>of a pulp story or something, but never have it work out quite right (or 
>something like that).  The epideromancer links in with some of the themes 
>of UA (ones often missed by those who dislike it) about those who crave 
>power have to accept consequences and pay a price.  He could act 
>(occasionally) as a warning about being too greedy for power, reaching for 
>more than you can hold (this is why I always loose at Risk) as well as have 
>the hope of making a comeback.

The pulp feel for the cult of thieves is deliberate and sort of pomo.  
Joseph has been clued into the existence of the clergy but doesn't have the 
details.  He wants to ascend as the thief but has no idea of how to start on 
the path to avatarhood.
Mat wants to become as much of a stone badass as the freak as well as regain 
the ability to walk again.  If he gets the hand he'll probably go on a spree 
of charge building that will make him even more dangerous than the freak but 
afterwards he'll have done enough damage to himself that all the charges he 
gets will be spent on the Hand to keep himself functioning.

>As for Dirk's plan, I'd have it fail if he can get the Hand, but don't let 
>him find that out until after the's removed someone's liver to test it.  
>Stress checks for the PCs who helped him remove someone's organs afterward.

Damn straight the plan will fail for Dirk.  The Hand doesn't do much for 
internal organs lost.  So some poor shmuck that Dirk can get ahold of will 
die if he gets the Hand.  Stress checks will be fairly high rank.  Multiple 
ones will be called for.  A couple violence and a self check in any case.

>I'll probly need another one in 10-15 years), and according to all the
>medical propaganda I've come across, the liver is the only organ/tissue 
>that
>does not have some technological replacement.  Granted, this info is 
>several
>years old, but I think I'd have heard about it if some new hepatic 
>breakthru
>had occurred since then.

Kidneys are a stone bitch as well.

Bailey
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