[UA] Religion

[Joe Murphy (Broin)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Radoslaw Galus
> Sent: 06 June 2001 18:15
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re[3]: [UA] Religion
>
>
> From: Andrew <Andrew at Ducker.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:56 PM
>
>
[snip]
> > How would one try and persuade a member of the Occult Underground out
> > of their obsession?  Especially as they would tend to have proof that
> > their obsession worked...
>
[snip]
> So if it's a gradual descent into madness, one step at a time and the
> adept/avatar isn't far along the way it should be possible to
> make him snap
> out of it by showing him what awaits him at the end of his journey. Don't
> talk, don't try to persuade him - it will only make matters
> worse. Show him
> a couple of real wackos of the OU - how they "live", how they behave, what
> they had lost. It's quite probable he'll come to his senses when he sees
> that.

Unless it ends up a little like showing cancerous lungs to smokers, or fat
people to, well, fat people. Lots of apathy, lots of disinterest and a
reaction of 'But it won't happen to *me*. I'm *different*. I have willpower,
the others are just schmoes.'

... but this does remind me of the great descriptions in PoMoM of how the
'mancers lose their jobs, live in grubby apartments, have few friends. Magic
doesn't have such rewards for them. It's such a refreshingly different
approach to 'power' in game settings.

(must buy 'Sorceror')

> "To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old
> pleasure with a new  friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by
> writing his name on the wings of a dragon."
>                                                            -
> Chinese Proverb

This is great. =)

Joe.
--
Joe Murphy (Broin)
broin at notzen.com

"You'll regret being so damn abusive when
the electric UFO gods transphase in from
Dimension 10 to appoint me manager of
the universe."  - The Drummer, Planetary.



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