[UA] Godlike/UA crossover musings

[Timothy Ferguson]

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> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Justin Unrau
> Sent: Friday, 4 January 2002 1:34 PM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: [UA] Godlike/UA crossover musings
>
>
> Okay, so it's been a few weeks since I played the Godlike preview mission
> with the rest of the staff from the game store I work at, and I've been
> thinking.  My UA players that were involved in the Godlike thing made sure
> that they left the mission open to a sequel.  What I've been
> thinking about
> was how to integrate the Godlike setting into UA so that our regular
> campaign can take advantage of the players' superhero hijinks.
>
> So here's what I've got (but keep in mind that I'll gladly steal anything
> better):  In 1936 the Comte performed a ritual of amazing proportions (I'd
> imagine this being the Magonian diplomat version, but that's me).  I'm not
> sure if he did this to try and speed up the whole cosmic reincarnation or
> what.  Any suggestions would be sassy.

He didn't much like the way the Statosphere was developing, so he took the
leading applicants for what was shaping up to be the new member and killed
them all.  Basically, if they get to choose the shape of the new Universe,
they could choose to fool around with who -he- is, and to stop that
happening he had to prevent the ascension of, hrrrrm, say a Turing style
thinking machine?  He wanted to make sure the Godhead didn't have mechanical
intelligences in it.

This leads to the ascension of the first Ubermensch, literally the superman,
and all heroes channel this superman.

After the Hiroshima bombing, he discovered that even low-level EMP is fatal
to Mechaincal Intelligences, and so he stopped wandering around killing the
creators of ME, and instead went about releasing large amounts of
electromagnetic radiation, for example by getting us all to wire our houses,
so that they are all surrounding in a sterilising field.

>  As
> the war goes on, the Statosphere is trying to put a plug on the
> leak but for
> some reason (little help?) the leak is only plugged with the
> dropping of the
> bomb on Hiroshima.  Some sort of cosmobabble reason then snaps
> reality back
> and barely anybody remembers a thing.  I say barely so that I can have the
> Godlike characters that my players played show up in aged form remebering
> what they did and why.

When the Compte finds the Modern Life solution to the ME problem, he gets
rid of the superheroes by ensuring the ascension of a new and different
ubermensch, the first mechanical man, by which he meant cyborgs where
technology was tamed and controlled by human will.  I suggest the earliest
bubble boy as the ascendant guy, or Lee Majors.


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