[UA] Cannibal Avatar?

[Gaston Phillips]

[Ka-SNIP]

> I'd love them all to be non-literature...it seem the more we expand them,
> the more we get away from the design concept of "not Foucault's Pendulum".
> I mean, the Trickster is just so very...well...dull!
> 

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> 
> I like the WECHBY, it's a cool social comentary wrapped in a great game
> concept.  The Hero isn't.  The Dark Stalker isn't.  You see my direction
> here?  I think we are in danger of blanding the game out by brining in too
> much Campbellian, Jungian and (damn, the guy who wrote "The Hero")ian
> baggage.  I say NO NEW ARCHETYPES THAT DON'T CONTAIN A COOL TWIST!
> 


Amen.

Though I love Foucault's Pendulum to death, I think the book is, at least on
one level, an enormous send-up of occultism, and just takes the piss out of
the idea of secret societies as a whole.

UA is edgy and badass because it's fresh and new and young.  It is a
Post-Modern mythology.  Post Modern, meaning that we can appropriate the
past, sure.  But we do it between quotation marks.  We use it for kitsch, or
for camp.  We show the multiplicity of meanings in the old texts.  We have
schools of magic that, instead of being founded on "Ancient Secrets" or
"Eternal Truths", are based on paradox (Para - beside.  Outside of.  Dox -
Law?  Truth?  Paradox - outside of truth) and contradiction.

I mean, this is a game where you don't channel your ancestors or summon
demons.  You channel Elvis and summon housewives that ODed on valium.

Please.  Let's not try and rope UA back into 'Mystic" gaming.  Or else, god
help us all, we'll start putting 'y's and 'k's where they don't belong.

Gaston

P.S.  The trickster: Those kids at Yale who registered a false student at
harvard and actually got a diploma for him somehow.  Or vice versa (Harvard
kids making fun of Yale).


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