[UA] Schizophrenia

[Kevin Mowery]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Schizophrenia

> You could springboard this to another idea, too.*  Suppose you've got
> someone who's been struggling with schizophrenia off and on his whole
life.
> He's managed to get by, more or less -- he's stable enough to work some
> menial job, maybe lives in a group home -- until, for whatever plot
> contrived reason, an epideromancer blows a major charge on fixing the
> broken valves in his brain.  (Or some other effect -- major unnatural
> phenomenon? -- either repairs the damage or moves his spirit and memories
> into a new body.)  What's the effect when you've gone through your life
> with your personality broken... and suddenly it's whole?

    I think a similar theme was explored on Law & Order or NYPD Blue or
something similar, but here's my take for such a character as a PC or NPC.
Let's say the guy used to be a borderline functional schizophrenic.  Then
his brother or someone who cared about him delved into the occult
underground to find a cure--and they found it.  Now the character gets
involved in the occult underground, too, possibly trafficking with demons.
The thing is, he wants to find a cure for the cure!  All his life, he's had
voices keeping him company; now he's alone.  Or he used to think he was able
to hear other people's thoughts, now he feels like he's cut off from
everyone.

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