[UA] Entropomancers, Pornomancers, and Vampires, oh my!

[Dylan Craig]

1. In LG$, when Neal Brinker throws a sheet at Bob and Cage, it seems odd that
he should charge up for it. I mean, he's in danger, two men with guns are
menacing him... surely the chance he takes serves his mundane purposes and thus
can't be used as a ritual act? Perhaps I'm missing the nuances of the thing
here, but I always imagined that a risk had to be completely pointless and 'for
its own sake' to yield a charge.

2. I guess ritual sex for pornomancers should conform to the same kind of rule:
sex either gets you a charge or breaks taboo. If you derive any side benefit
from it (love, affection, bribery, mink coats), it's taboo. Only sex for the
sake of charges - and hence including sacred porn dialog & choreography - is
allowed.

3. My take on vampires is something closer to the UA portrayal of golems. IMUAC,
vampires are severely mentally handicapped, able to survive on the fringes of
society, just barely, by virtue of the fact that our modern squeamishness means
that most people try to minimise contact with them. Vampirism, as far as I like
to play it, is more than a genetic anomaly, it's a remnant of proto-human
ancestry: homo vampirus, if you will. Cave men, basically. And I don't think
there are more than a dozen in my entire game world - just two or three nomadic
clans.

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"You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how
you died or where you fell.  Me, I was part of the nastiness now."
Dylan Craig · Writer and Observer · Cape Town, South Africa
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