[UA] Greetings

[Ysidro]

Nick Wedig wrote:
> 
> >> Still, I find something could be made of the knife-wielding, man-castrating
> >> bunch in an UA setting.
> >>
> >
> >There is.  Well, they tend to kill men, not just castrate them.  They're
> >called the baccan....err, I mean "beckies".  Yeah that's the ticket....
> 
> Funny... I thought they were a bunch of women channeling a really negative version of the Flying Woman.
> 

By making other peoples heads fly? :)

> >Check Lawyers, Guns, and Money if you have it.
> 
> Which raises a question I've had for a while:  What's the deal with Dion Isaacs?  If he is, in fact, Dionysus, then were the other Olympic gods real, or what?  What other explanations could you give?
> 
> A high level avatar (what archetype?)
> One of the Cruel Ones?
> An IC member walking the earth?
> The product of a play by Euripides and a Bibliomantic major charge?
> Just a weird guy?
>

Renunciated former IC member?  Somehow I doubt there was a Teetotaler
archtype though.

The *Original* Dipsomancer, still kept alive by powerful magics.  Hey, I
like this one...
 
> Any interesting ideas would be welcome.  I have a feeling he's going to be like the eye-biting man and never be explained (then again, one of the schools listed as dead in another one of the dossiers like Dion's appeared in PoMoMa).
> 
> Mr. Teapot
> Dionysian
> 

Personally, he's one of those guys I probably wouldn't explain.  It's
easier to give players a taste of the weird if you don't have an
explanation. 

Greg
-- 
Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~ysidro/pohemas.html

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