[UA] Re: On-The-Air-omancy

[Stuart Anderson]

Radoslaw Galus wrote:

> From: Nick Wedig <mrteapot at disinfo.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:33 PM
>
> > Television adepts must be out there in some form, and I bet they'd have
> all sorts of stuff going on with that phenomena.  (ooo... and watching
> channels of static until words appear, and other cool bits)
>
> Yes, there's definitelly potential for a school of magick here. Perhaps the
> adepts could have a reputation for "seing everything and knowing
> everything".

I'd stared a TV school once and abandoned it because I got a better idea for
what I needed at the time.
>From memory, it was something like On-The-Air-omancy.  Not to be confused with
Eyre-omancy, based on the Bronte sisters.  It was primarily divination, much as
has been described and used in other places. But the paradox was: "57 channels
and nothing on." The Airomancer (or Nielson) could only get his mojo working for
other people's interests. He had to rely on his "sponsors."  I had "Static" as
the blast spell.  The taboo was was watching a single show long enough to derive
meaning from it.  I don't remember much else--something about a "UHF" ritual
that compelled you to exist simultaneously in several places at once, like an
extension of channel surfing--but I thought it was a viable school. I'm just too
lazy to finish it myself.
--Stu


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