[UA] Narcomancy

[Joe Murphy (Broin)]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Rowan Norwood" <matt at adsubtract.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 5:05 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] Narcomancy


> > The narcomancy as modern alchemy idea is a good one.  I may have to
steal
> > it, if that's okay...
> >
> > -G.
>
> A lot of discussion on this topic so far. A summary, and a few other
> points:
>
> 1) Pharmacomancy is in the list archives
> 2) Ideas were proposed for drug-based avatars rather than adepts
> 3) Proposal: Alchemy as based on performance-enhancing drugs
> 4) Proposal: it must involve _making_ drugs
>
> also:
>
> 5) White Wolf did a version of Alchemy as drug-design-based in The Book
> of Crafts. Alchemists were very rare, but they existed in secret and
> tried to synthesize drugs to make them immortal. They were strongly
> associated with the Hermaphrodite (!!). I don't actually have the
> book... if anyone else remembers more, is there good stuff to rip off? I
> think it fits very well with UA.

Yup, I was about to post mentioning them. Renaissance/Middle Ages alchemists
became chemists and creted various drugs in the modern age. As alchemists
felt they would become purified and rarefied and special (lead into gold,
philosophically), so the modern alchemists used drugs to clarify their
perceptions and beliefs.

One of their leaders, back in the Renaissance, was a hermaphrodite, yup.
There was mentions of him made in the modern-day metaplot, which I didn't
follow.

It was all quite good. I NPCed one, briefly, in a Mage game, and I'd say
their outlook was UAish enough.

Joe.
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Joe Murphy (Broin)
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