[UA] Recess!

[Timothy Toner]

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Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: [UA] Recess!


>
> > And the third route is a mixture of the two, with
> > kid-like kids wading their way through a bizarre
> > occult undercurrent in their neighborhood and school.
> > And since they're just kids, no one's gonna believe
> > them when they talk about the principal channelling
> > the True King or the Cafeteria lady being an avatar of
> > the Flying Woman. Oooh... maybe the school bully is
> > posessed by a demon. This sounds like a fun little
> > game.
>
> This reminds me of one of my favorite "genres" of stories, the "Epic Tales
> of School." Disney's TV cartoon "Recess" does this a little, with a group
> of friends trying to make their way through school while the playground is
> ruled by a "king" and the kindergarteners are all cannibal savages. I
> really like the archetypal matching and surreal feeling to stories like
> that, mainly because it reminds me of when I was in school and entertained
> myself with basically the same embellishments of reality.

Hell, that's South Park.  I mean, c'mon, Jesus lives in town (and celebrates
his birthday alone...sigh).

>
> Doing something like that in UA would be great. We need more "dream logic"
> RPGs...

Totally.  There was a time not long ago when "it was all a dream" wasn't a
cop-out, when dreams were expected to have their own reality, and the events
in dreams really did have repercussions.  Like or hate the new season of The
X-Files, they actually twigged on something that I've toyed with in the
past--the idea that, when you shoot someone everyone tells you is a monster,
but looks like a little boy, your mind goes through all the psychic trauma
of making the decision to shoot a little boy.


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