[UA] Lavomancy major

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> >So, you could get a major charge if you clean the
> Statue of
> >Liberty, Big Ben, Golden Gate Bridge, etc. 
> However,
> >something that large gets dirty pretty easily in
> the middle
> >of cleaning unless you close it down.  And being
> able to do
> >it legally can't be that easy.  Try explaining that
> you
> >cannot have any staff help you clean something.
> 
> That could be one way to get the major charge. 
> Another would be to restore
> a madman (5 failed notches in a gauge) to sanity
> without using magic.
> (That is, erase ALL failed and hardened notches from
> his gauge.)  This
> assumes you're a psychologist, of course.  But you
> can roleplay it.
> 
> As for formula spells, I've suggested against a
> blast, so here come some
> thoughts...
> 
> -Removal of damage
> -Removal of illness
> -Removal of failed marks
> -Removal of hardened marks
> -Temporary inability to to use Fear or Rage
> passions.
> -Removal of lingering paranormal effects (entropics,
> demons, curses, etc.)
> -You can compress the time it takes you to tidy up a
> room so that you can
> organize a trashed house in fifteen minutes.  (Very
> nice for when you have
> to find that one object that would normally take you
> hours of searching.
> Of course, you find it as a "by-product" of
> straightening up, and the
> target realizes that his house has been cleaned...)
> -Remove one charge from someone.  (The minor version
> of this would simply
> squeeze a minor charge out into a minor unnatural
> effect.  A sig. version
> would turn their sig. charge into a .sig unnatural
> effect.  The really
> nasty sig. version would steal the charge and give
> it to you, but at the
> cost of all your OTHER charges, since you'd be
> symbolically polluting
> yourself with the other fellow's charge.)
> 
> Hm... instead of "cleansing," which is such an
> old-skool magick idea, this
> really starts to look more like a modern "sanitation
> management" concept...
> 
Thanks for the ideas. As far as old-skool goes, I
think a neat part of post-modernism is moving
traditional ideas into the modern era using modern
tools to buff them up a little (or is that
revisionism?)

As for "pushing garbage around" as sanitation
management suggests to me: I like it.  That seems to
be where this is going.  I really like the idea of
cleansing yourself by baptising others with their own
filth. 

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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