[UA] OU in Europe (was Re: City Swap)

[Myles Corcoran]

Gaston Phillips wrote:
 
> A lot of people on this list seem to be ferners,and lots of people are
> offering UA writeups of foreign cities.  Which is interesting, 'cause I
> think UA is a particularly American game system.  In that it's rules and
> setting are interwoven, and the setting seems to need American
> hyper-realism.  Do those of you from Europe run games set in Europe?
> 
> What is the OU like over there?  I'm imagining that, for instance, Cliomancy
> must be radically different - lest people gain charges just by taking a
> morning stroll.  Are people still thaumaturgical?  Cryptomancy comes from
> Europe, right?  Have people developed other 'Eurocentric' schools?

Urbanomancers, Irasicomancers and Annilomancers are having fun across 
the world with the anti-globalization movement. Prague and Nice were 
probably nice charge gathering loci for a number of schools.
Pornomancers 
don't get much of a look-in I'd say. Bibliomancers do quite nicely thank 
you very much.

There's probably also a school related to borders and sovereignty that 
either revels in the European Union (bringing more and more "territory" 
under a single authority) or despises it (for breaking down the borders 
and boundaries that power the magic).
 
> I dunno - someone on the list described America as being "Naively
> Postmodern."  Great turn of phrase, but that also, I think, means that UA
> would be really different if run in Europe.  I mean... okay.  You know in
> True Romance when Elvis appears to Christian Slater?  That's a UA moment,
> right there.  But how would that translate?  Johnny Halliday appearing to a
> French kid?

Probably just more Virgin Marys popping up across Spain, France and
Ireland.

Speaking of Europop (tangentially), surely the Eurovision Song Contest 
has got to be a mystic scam of some sort, right? Is it a Cliomantic 
grab (albeit a short-lived one) for public attention and thereby mojo 
juice, or simply an annihilomancer trying to destroy the collective 
will to live? Or something even more sinister?

> A substitution of the clean and efficient high speed rail system for the
> lure of the open highway?

Not been to the UK or Ireland then?

	Myles 

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