[UA] Cloudbusting and an archetype

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

Hey, maybe instead of an archetype it's something like
a cabal.  They are mechanomancers and flying women and
really disturbing old men who are trying to shape
children into a future.  They know they don't have any
chance of ascending themselves, but they spot kids who
are likely to change the world and then change the
kids so that the world becomes more like they want,
like manipulating the "stratosphere" from its
foundations -too far back to get much of the heat.


--- Nick Wedig <mrteapot at disinfo.net> wrote:
> >> I'm starting to like this whole Archetype thing. 
> >> Grownups who Listen to Kids tend, in literature,
> at
> >> least, to be able to change the kids into things.
> 
> >> They shape the children into heroes or theives or
> >> broken husks -like a miniature form of the IC
> shaping
> >> the world.  There always seems to be some
> enormous
> >> sacrifice involved, though.  Merlin was
> entrapped, Obi
> >> Wan ate lightsaber, the Pied Piper dissapeared
> into a
> >> mountain, and Gacy was jailed.  Yet, they still
> >> influenced -even communicated- with their, um,
> >> charges? Victims? afterward.  I don't know about
> >> Wonka, though. 
> >
> >I'm not certain that this always happens.  It
> didn't happen to Wonka 
> >or the inventor of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  I can
> easily see them 
> >being chased out of town, but that's different.
> 
> Wonka is planning ahead for his loss (death?) which
> is the whole reason for the tickets and everything. 
> 
> 
> >The taboos are obvious acting too much like an
> adult, no regular 
> >job, no sex...
> 
> Certain jobs are allowable, especially kid friendly
> ones.  Coaches work, but teachers have at best a
> hard time.  The Candyman works, as do
> toymakers/sellers, artists or other things.  Perhaps
> limit the taboo such that he can't act like an adult
> when around children, allowing for uncles with white
> collar jobs, but who are amazingly friendly with
> children.
> 
> >
> >Also, it occurs to me that one of these folks would
> make a truly 
> >awesome Mechanomancer.  The wacky gadgets
> clockworkers 
> >make fit with this archetype perfectly, and I can
> even see one 
> >forgetting portions his or her adult life to remain
> young at heart and 
> >build cool stuff.  Such a character could easily be
> very sweet, very 
> >creepy, or (if done really well) both.  This is the
> first concept for a 
> >Mechanomancer I've ever really wanted to play.
> 
> Nice.  Very nice.  I've had a vision in my head for
> a character (not necessarily for UA) called the
> Toymaker, who is unclear whether he's good or bad. 
> This makes him work well as a character.
> 
> Mr. Teapot
> toymaker
> 
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