[UA] Dion Issacs (was Re: Greetings)

[Chad Underkoffler]

> From: holycrow at mindspring.com
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:31:06 -0400
> > Which raises a question I've had for a while:  What's 
> > the deal with Dion Isaacs?  If he is, in fact, Dionysus,
> > then were the other Olympic gods real, or what?  What 
> > other explanations could you give? Any interesting ideas
> > would be welcome.  I have a feeling he's going to be like 
> > the eye-biting man and never be explained (then again, 
> > one of the schools listed as dead in another one of the 
> > dossiers like Dion's appeared in PoMoMa).
> 
> As currently planned, a statted up version of Dion turns up
> in the first part of the epic campaign code-named "Walker In
> Your Face."  Said first section is (tentatively) entitled "To
> Go," it's destined for the Mak Attax book.  "To Go" is... 
> gosh... maybe half finished now?  Probably closer to 2/3 done,
> really.  I hope.
>
> I'm very interested to hear people's theories.  Once a few
> good ones come up, I'll probably spill the beans.

Fourteen Ways of Looking At Dion Issacs
(props to Wallace Stevens and Roger Zelzany)

1. Dion Issacs is a demon, a la Rome and Carthage.

2. Dion Issacs is the Renounced Tee-Totaller.

3. Dion Issacs is Jesus.

4. Dion Issacs is the first Dipsomancer.

5. Dion Issacs is just *a* Dipsomancer who used a major charge
to grant immortality.

6. Dion Issacs is the Comte "when he lets his hair down."

7. Dion Issacs is an anthropomorphic representation given form
by an alliance of Archetypes to have a playing piece on earth.

8. Dion Issacs is a survivor from the last incarnation of the
universe, which he escaped by dipsomantic cross-continua
teleportation/gate.

9. Dion Issacs is just Old Mr. Withers with a suitably hairy
mask, and he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't
for those meddling kids!

10. Dion Issacs is Nicholas Flamel, jilted and out for a good
time.

11. Dion Issacs is Lazarus.

12. Dion Issacs is a revolving role played by initiates to a
secret order of mystic vinters.

13. Dion Issacs has connections to the Priory of Sion.

14. Dion Issacs is a hoax. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Extra Credit: Dion Issacs is all of the above.



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Chad Underkoffler [chadu at yahoo.com]
http://www.geocities.com/chadu/index.html
God isn't silent, he just speaks very softly. In Etruscan.

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