[UA] [OTish] Cookie Monster assault

[Nick Wedig]

>Let me swing this back to the "Cookie Monster assault" for a minute. 
>Everyone keeps saying "He beat up Cookie Monster!  He beat up Cookie
>Monster!"  The *hell* he did!  He beat up a guy in a Cookie Monster suit
>at a themepark.
>
>However, could an Iconomancer of a different color channel fictional
>characters? 

Every once in a while I'm attracted to this sort of idea. Depending no the characters involved, it could make for an interesting GMC 

> Or perhaps the gentleman was the proxy for the *real*
>Cookie Monster.  Then we can tie that back to muppets being possessed by
>demons.

Yeah, I was imagining the attacking a guy in a Cookie Monster suit was some way to get the the 'real' CM, as you couldn't beat up a real puppet (even if he made it into the studio and attacked one of the CM puppets, there's several more).

>
>As for the morality syste of SS, remember that while most every
>character is flawed, they are also basically good.  Compare that to UA,
>while an avatar of the Masterless Man is bashing out the brains of an
>adept with a ball peen hammer.

The Masterless man isn't just doing that to be evil, though.  He has some goal in mind, which he thinks is 'good' and happens to conflict with the adept's.  This is not to say it's necessarily justified, just that two different views of good tend to create more violence in the world than anything else (I tend to agree with Aristotle who wrote that every action aims at some 'good', though people may not consciously describe it that way).  The muppets all are trying to do good, but each tries for a different sort of good.  Ernie's desire for mischief and fun regularly comes in conflict with Bert's desire for calmness, order and pigeons.  Really, this conflict is only a matter of degree.  

Some of that ranged into sort of on-topic.  wow.  Mainly the stuff without muppets.

Mr. Teapot
muppet

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