[UA] Re: Allen/Burroughs, Double Avatars

[Dylan Craig]

>   Yeah. He was definitely responsible. Whether it was an accident or not, he
> struggled with the responsibility all his life. I see him as a hundred and
eighty
> degrees away from DA, though. Burroughs didn't want help. It would be a
mistake
> to think of him as a tragic drug figure. He was cut from a different cloth.
Plus, there's a certain moral stance Burroughs had which is not compatible with
Dirk Allen's, say, tendency to drink the life-force of his students. Burroughs,
beyond the norm shock value, always came across as someone with a strong
personal code ("There is no such thing as an honourable bargain involving the
exchange of qualitative merchandise, such as souls, for quantitative
merchandise, such as money or time. So piss off, Satan, and don't take me for
dumber than I look"): Allen, by contrast, is willing to do anything to anyone to
get ahead or stay in the race.

I've always played Allen from a pure Gonzo angle. Clueless, drunk,
unopredictable, capable of anything, beholden to none - dangerous except at a
distance.

As far as the double avatars go, it seems logical (based on the ex. in UA) to
assume that you can begin to channel a second Avatar at the cost of any existing
link; some avatars will require such contradictory behaviour that scores will be
dropping across the board until only the strongest is left, but I'd go with the
"every point you gain in one Avatar skill is lost from the other" rule. That
way, unless you start with an Avatar skill of around 99, you'll never get up to
a "dual-class" scenario with more than 50-odd. And that would be your upper
limit. Further than that, if you can get two Avatars whose concepts are so close
that good behavior in the one = good behavior in the other, why not assume that
what a dual-classer is working towards is a fusion, by re-interpretation, of the
two Archetypes? Standard progression rules, with both Archetypes and their
agents trying to stop him/her.

DC
--
"I only smile in the dark / My only comfort is the night gone black"
Dylan Craig : Writer and Observer : Cape Town, South Africa
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