[UA] Re: The End of the World, and so on.

[rex monday]

John C wrote
>Something based on
>Alchemy could be interesting -- it has a ready-made paradox, if you go with
>the idea of purification of the soul coming through experimenting with base
>matter.)

I actually have had an idea about this floating around in my head for a 
couple of weeks. I've had two players now reject Dipsomancy  and instead ask 
if there was a school based on drug use. I turned them down, thinking, "Why 
mess with what works?" It seems to me if you change the charge gathering, 
you change the taboo and the effects too. Then it hit me: alchemy. I 
personally think Alchemy as a magick school is dead. It was an old-school 
magick that lost it's potency when it was replaced by a new, more pomo form. 
So Narcomancy is like a pomo alchemy. You are trying to achieve a perfect 
spiritual purification by altering the base matter of your body. There's the 
taboo. You'd get minor charges from taking a hit of a drug. You'd get 
significant charges from trying some combination of drugs you'd never tried 
before (the first time you take any drug, or if you combine them in a new 
way in your body). I can't think of a major charge. Perhaps it could be an 
old-school throwback like generating a new Philosopher's Stone ( in the vein 
of Oneiromancy's major charge). I haven't gotten around to thinking about 
formula spells or any of that. What do you guys think?
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