[UA] Lavomancy

[Gareth Hanrahan]

On Friday 20 July 2001 13:40, you wrote:
> >My wife is making up a UA character and so there's no
> >question I will have to allow the school of magic she
> >wishes to use into my game.  We're calling it
> >Lavomancy because I don't have a dictionary of
> >classical greek (but I still have all my old latin
> >books.)
>
> kluzomancy?
> sairomancy?

I think James P. posted Scatomancy to the list in days of yore...

> The thing I like about the school is that it matches with some standard
> obsessive behavior.
>
> On the other hand, what is the paradox?  Could the spells focus on ways of
> corrupting oneself or others, as part of the paradox (that is, things like
> summoning demons into a target, or just altering events so they'll fall in
> the mud)?

I'd go for extreme physical cleanliness to cause psychic filth, or something 
similar...

> (I begin to think that magick schools that get written up should have a
> place where they explicitly state the paradox, because it seems like half
> the time there isn't one, and the other half I don't recognize it.  I'm
> uncertain which this is)

Seconded. 
> Mr. Teapot
> obsessive compulsive
Gar
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