[UA] "The End" of UA? (Don't worry, it's just a title.)

[Dion Dowling]

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Subject: [UA] "The End" of UA? (Don't worry, it's just a title.)


>
> ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
> > Well, if everyone died on Earth, the IC would still be there, right? >So
they'll just have to make more people, Adam & Eve style. There is >a
*chance* that Humanity returns to a nuclear wasteland, after all...
>
> Ooogah.  THERE'S your high-stakes variant UA campaign.
>
> 1) Nuclear disaster or mutant airborne AIDS or gargantuan ecological
collapse wipes out humanity.  Or it SHOULD -- in a sane and strictly
mechanistic universe, all would perish.
>
> 2) This, however, being a universe with a board of directors, a few humans
survive through mind-boggling coincidences.  All the Godwalkers survive --
at least, all the loyal ones.  ("Here's a message... SEE YOU IN HELL,
DERMOTT!")  In fact, probably ALL the survivors are high grade Avatars,
protected by their invisible patrons?
>
> Or you could lighten up on the disaster a bit and have there be some
pockets of human survival.  F'rinstance, suppose the Big Boom Splat takes
the Hollywood-approved form of a giant 3d Extinction asteroid.  It hits in,
say, Jerusalem and wipes out all the people in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Australia, along with North and South America, are trashed, but there are a
few survivors.
>
> 3) In addition to your hot hot Mad Max post-apocalyptic cyclegang action,
you now have a human population that's hovering around the 2-3 million mark
GLOBALLY.
>
> How much easier is it to get the proportion of belief needed to force an
Ascension?  That is, in fact, what all these surviving Godwalkers and
Avatars are doing -- running around trying to convince enough of the
survivors to Think Their Way, thereby pushing the Right People into the IC
before it finally gets clogged.  Instead of Ascensions every couple hundred
years, you get one every 8-12 MONTHS -- which means the arcane environment
is in a state of constant flux, not to mention the collective unconscious.

I was playing Tribe 8 over the weekend, and I guess you could play it a
little like that...
Instead of the Fatimas, the general community would recognise the godwalkers
and band around them, seeking the salvation/resurrection of the world
through them. In a sense, they would be cults (always fun)



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