[UA] Ayn & Kitty, Back On Topic.

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

> (For those who don't know, Kitty Genovese was raped and murdered in an
> apartment building courtyard -- I want to say some time in the 1970s.
> Despite the presence of dozens of witnesses, no one helped her or called
> the cops, even after her attacker left, then came back... I want to say
> twenty minutes later... to finish the job.  They didn't want to get
> involved.)

Delicious. I like it. I think UA's greatest potential is as a low-magic
game: something the rulebook tries to encourage with its stress on
mundane skills and non-magical weirdness. Mess people up with mundane
strangeness and horror, then use magic only when it would really make
the story more poignant. UA's genre seems to be kind of an American
urban magical realism.

[Side note: Kitty Genovese also gets used as an anecdote in the
_Watchmen_ graphic novel... her story is the inspiration for Rorschak
(sp?) to begin his life of crime fighting, since he figures people are
scum and won't protect each other.]

-Matt Norwood

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