[UA] Parables, Archetypes and the yellow brick road

[Malagigi at aol.com]

You mean you drew conclusions from the fact that he never had a mature
relationship with an adult woman and was obsessed with photographing
little girls in the nude? Shame, shame.  You have a very dirty mind.

There are a couple of approaches using that theme that could be
interesting.  Take something saccharine, and twist it (Pollyanna
manipulates desire... nah, you used that theme already ;), or take
something darker and justify it (_Where the Wild Things Are_ -- could
be used to introduce a group new to the UA to what it's really like --
or the _Grinch Who Stole Christmas_), basically repudiating the happy
ending.  Hmm.  Grinch.  Stealing the power invested in the holidays
from an established avatar through a ritual kidnapping and identity
theft.  Seems a natural as a fleshworker, especially since he was
recently played by the rubberfaced Mr. Carrey.


-Pat

In a message dated 2/9/01 8:15:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
thebrennans at starpower.net writes:

> 
>      On this note, I find it interesting how many innocuous things can be
>  bent into religious/political significance by a mere lack of sleep or leap
>  of imagination.  After a late night of gaming and watching a Cheers episode
>  in which the crew claimed that the "Coyote was the Anti-Christ" my friends
>  and I tied most of Scripture to the old Looney Tunes.  Once you tie the
>  Coyote into Job, it's an easy walk...
>      For that matter, I wonder if it would be effective to take something
>  that everyone has _good_ memories of and then turn it into the mythology 
for
>  a serial killer/rogue sorcerer or the like.  I once used "Alice in
>  Wonderland" and Lewis Carroll to that effect in a Shadowrun game through
>  effective use of Carroll's twisted background as a mathematician and 
amateur
>  pornographer...  

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