[UA] Lavomancy

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

> 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 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)

Full agreement on all three points.

This is a good idea. I've never heard anyone else suggesting this
school, and it seems to be _almost_ there. But it needs a paradox.

Maybe the adept has to clean things around him, but can't clean himself?
Sort of an Untouchable or a servant type, rushing around polishing
bannisters while he hasn't bathed in weeks. There are some Martyr and
Sin-eater overtones here, but it's definitely paradoxical, i.e. magical
rather than archetypal, behavior.

Maybe the paradox is more like Pornomancy or Plutomancy: you have to
clean a lot, but you can't clean in a _useful_ way or you can't enjoy
the _fruits_ of cleaning. This is certainly what happens with OCD, but
it's hard to roleplay the tragedy of washing your hands a lot. The
purpose of cleaning is primarily to kill bacteria and preserve health,
but it would be hard to come up with rules to simulate the
dermatological abuse that accompanies obsessive hand-washing.

-Matt Norwood

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