[UA] Greetings

[Nick Wedig]

>> Funny... I thought they were a bunch of women channeling a really negative version of the Flying Woman.
>> 
>
>By making other peoples heads fly? :)

Basically, the worst, most man-hating group of feminists imaginable.  

>> >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...

mmmm... interesting.  I suppose it works for the magickal realm (immortality is fairly big and showy, as far as magick goes).  The question then is whether he started in ancient Greece, or whether he's more recent (which is connected with how ol the school is; I don't imagine it that old).  If the latter, why the other bits (perhaps he just likes to pretend he's Dionysus, or perhaps he's gone mad and really thinks he is).
 
>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. 

I myself would like to know what's going on, even (especially?) if the players never do.  One so that I can keep some consistency in playing such a character (especially if he were to be very important to an adventure) and secondly so that I can make obscure hints they'll never figure out but might be able to recognize as such. (references to Orpheus and Zagreus, and more obscure than that).  other reasons too, which I can't quite spell out clearly.

Mr. Teapot
just wondering

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