[UA] Channelling Multiple Archetypes

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

>> How do the multivatars affect this?  Because they lower 
>> the bar for avatarhood.  If someone can follow more than one
>> accidentally, it makes it very plausible for many people to 
>> follow a single path accidentally (when in fact this doesn't 
>> happen all that much at all). 
>
>Weird. I got the implication that many people channeled
>accidentally and unconsciously, at least below the 50% mark.
>Maybe I read something into the book that wasn't there.

"Many" is, in this context, a word so imprecise as to be nearly
meaningless.  I'm writing up a scenario now that takes place at a medium
sized factory.  There are 2-3 unwitting avatars working there, a ratio
that's probably about median for the population.  Is that "many"?  Sure it
is, compared to how many adepts there are in the population.
Avatars/adepts are probably 100/1, simply because there are few
unintentional adepts.  (Knowing avatars/adepts is probably much closer to
parity.)  But it's not many compared to how many blacks there are in the
factory, or homosexuals, or Bulls fans.  (Though with the way the Bulls are
playing this year, that may be the closest.)  

>Out of curiosity, Greg, how would you represent an honest to
>goodness, totally mundane polymath?

High intelligence, gobs of skills.  Why?  Or do you mean someone who's
genuinely good at all aspects of human endeavor?  In that case, high stats,
high skills.  I haven't met anyone who was exceptionally good at book
learning AND art AND sports AND socialization, but I'm sure they're out
there, just waiting to make the rest of us feel like some form of shoe
residue.

-G.
[F]or heaven's sake stop bugging her about all these erotic tactics like
three-ways.
We have some of those lamps in our house, and they're not as exciting as
you might think.
		-Garrison Keillor

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