[UA] I don't want to know... Back On Topic.

[Gaston Phillips]

[SNIP: Grapes and sugar are drugs, too]

>>>> I imagine Entropomancers, who are constantly risking their lives to get
> the rush/thrill of a charge would consider Cliomancers to be a bunch of
> soft-core sissies.<<<
> 
> Ultimately I think that this is irrelevant. What do cliomancers care what a
> bunch of bodybags think? The cliomancers possibly *made* them think that.
> 
> The important issue (that I was alluding to with the sugar thing) is not how
> you get the charge, but how big a charge you get. Some people need really
> hard or dangerous activity to charge up; some people can get charges from
> something less dangerous, less illegal, or less expensive.
> 
> Both get charges. Sure, the bodybag might scoff at the "soft" cobweb farmer,
> but ultimately who wins?
> 

Well, no.  I mean, yes, major vs. minor /is/ the important thing w/r/t
charges.  But I'm trying to poke a bit at the way dukes and schools may see
each other, y'know?  (Man.  I wish I hadn't lent out PoMoMa and the UA
corebook, right about now.)

I had an idea that certain schools might see themselves as 'more magical'
than others.  That certains chools might be looked down on by other schools
as being 'a bunch of amateurs', or something like that.

In other words, since Drugs are such a good allegory for Magic in the OU
(Addictive, Socially Damaging, &c.), then can we stretch the allegory to
encompass the way the users of different drugs view each other?

Basically, is it true that, in the same way that all drugs are not created
equal, all schools of magic are likewise not created equal?  Are certain
schools easier to give up?  To get out of?  To get into?

Just my random thought-riff for the week...

gaston


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