[UA] Eternity

[Tim Toner]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Paul Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] Eternity


> At 12:38 PM 09/20/2000 +1000, you wrote:
> >Vampire:  They're out there
> >Deltra Green - it's all true.
> >Warehouse 23 - it exists.
> >The occult underground - Who do Stolze and Tynes really work for?
>
> Now you're starting to sound as crazy as the people who insist that "the
> REAL Greg Stolze" was assassinated in 1999 and that I'm actually some sort
> of brainwashed replacement.

Actually, 'ate a tainted box of Thin Mints (TM)' doesn't technically count
as assassination, but after his untimely demise, he was replaced by the
ReaganBot that had to have its core memory dumped and scrubbed after one bad
sector too many.  Explains the whole figure skating thing nicely, too, if
you ask me.

I think one of my problems (which I'm desperately trying to curb, thanks) is
that I keep trying to drag the RCC kicking and screaming into the UnAverse.
It's just that this is a strangely active time for the RCC, and for all the
wrong reasons.  First, the Fatima prophecy is disclosed.  Next, the Vatican
comes out with an updated rite of exorcism (Version 2.0!)  Then the pope
'unsuccessfully' attempts to exorcise a girl who had come to a public
visitation.  FInally, the Vatican appoints an Exorcist to Chicago (!!!)
Homina, that's a lot!

So here's my thinking.  The RCC is total bunk, as it is in the UA cosmology.
However, a scholar in the Vatican Libraries, while going through some 15th
Century porn, comes across references to a "Nuda Dea," which flipped a
switch in his brain.  Eventually, this tidbit floated up, and it became
extremely obvious why the Vatican became the #1 collector of porn on the
planet--the NG was not the first!  Indeed, soon after the advent of the
printing press, Europe was deluged with cheap porn (after the Guttenberg
bibles were printed, the press was reset for a run of erotic woodcuts--I kid
you not).  This was...new.  It had quite an effect on the average European,
who saw within it something that we do not see (just as people who had never
seen television before were blown away by the three inch tube and its
flickering images, which would make us laugh out loud today).  The Vatican
caught wind of it, and figured out a way to depose this 'ND' person.  To
prevent it from happening again, they assembled all the porn, and put it
under lock and key--but then someone got in through the back door.  As a
result, the Vatican has been forced to admit how badly it screwed up, and
has sent out various emissaries to figure out the truth, and if indeed the
genie can be put back in the bottle.  The first thing detected was, of
couse, all the damn demons that have been lying around.  This explains the
surge in exorcist activity, as they've figured out a pretty good way of
knocking a 'squatter' out of its 'home.'  They've also reactivated the
Perpetual Societies, which is a cool idea in itself.  See, when someone
dies, their sins are tabulated, and if they're beyond redemption, they go to
Hell.  Catholics can pray for the souls of the departed, and in so doing,
mitigate some of the sin.  In the grand tradition of selling indulgences,
someone had the clever idea that they could hire people to just pray, all
the time.  I've been trying to figure how to shoehorn the concept into a
variety of games--right away, it's a good reason for any kewl kovert group
to avoid the Vatican like the plague.  They're a sleeping giant who can
obliterate anyone, once sufficiently riled.  In UA, though, we can take the
idea and run with it a little.  We have a group of people who have dedicated
their lives to an ideology, and pray in concert, building a vast resevoir of
power that waits to be unleashed (and since someone's not doing their job,
the energy never gets sent to where it's supposed to go, but instead pools
in places like Lourdes, etc.  But they don't have to be praying, per se.
They just have to be performing a sympathetic action in concert, like
perhaps, a toast, or *ahem* a gangbang, or even a group mutilation.  A
ritual like this ought to be planned well in advance (like, oh that annual
Guinness world's largest toast), but if it's done in the right way, I can
imagine a little accidental weirdness going off as a result.


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