[UA] Tuneful Insanity

[Brian Nisbet]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:45:27PM +0100, Joe Murphy (Broin) wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
> To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 2:17 PM
> Subject: [UA] Tuneful Insanity
> >
> > So I'm jamming along with Rush and the thought crosses my mind: What if,
> > in UA, music were magickal?  I don't mean that you can work magick
> > through music, spellsinger-style, as someone suggested.  What if music
> > itself is a FORM OF MAGICK and no one recognizes it?  Specifically,
> > that its effects are so well known and so predictable that it doesn't
> > seem magickal.  We just accept it as a normal part of life, when in
> > fact its this inexplicable, immaterial force that has a powerful
> > effect on our thoughts and emotions.  We can annotate it and theorize
> > about its structure, but can anyone really explain Beatlemania?

Well... no.  Ok, you can ascribe it to hormones or whatever, but
ulitmately, no.  However there is a fairly strong thread running through
the Discworld novels that magic and music are just two ways of describing
or rather using the same forces.

As to the amulet, hmm, I wouldn't say that music would stop being pleasing
as such, I'd rather say that either you couldn't hear music any more, or
it just didn't touch you at all, it was an incomprehensible mix of noises.

> And I know a crazyperson who once wrote a scenario (for a con?) where each
> scene was described as *just* a song title. Very intuitive game. =)

Well, if you are going to set 'em up Joe...

The scenario is called "Two to Tango" and it was written for the Discworld
without using GURPS.  It (like lots of other cool stuff) is located on
www.irishgaming.com

The scenario was originally written for Vaticon VI in 1999.

B.

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