[UA] How to make IC scary.

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> wrote:
(in response to someone else writing:)
> > nothing, to me, is worse than a
> >completely perfect human ideal and I just can't
> convey
> >to my players that's why I think the Invisible
> College
> >are so damn scary.
> 
(snip, begin Stolze:)
> "Someone who was
> perfect would be perfectly unloveable.  It is our
> flaws that make us
> objecxts of affection.  The irrefutable proof of
> this is, of course, 'I
> Love Lucy'."
> 
> Hm... that could be a fun turnaround for someone who
> finds the Resurrection
> Body spell, or who succeeds at the alchemical (or
> narchemical -- I haven't
> forgotten the byblow of narcotics and alchemy) quest
> for perfection of
> self.  You become perfect and no one can stand to be
> near you because the
> envy and self-loathing are overwhelming.
> 
> -G.

Well, that certainly helps.  It gives me an angle,
anyway, and that's usually enough.  But are there any
other ways that someone can think of to emphasize the
scariness of the IC?  I want to introduce the
archetypes in a campaign I'm working on, but I
hesitate to do so because they're so hard to express.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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