[UA] Waking the Tiger

[Stacy Stroud]

At 04:48 AM 1/16/02 +0000, John Crimmins wrote:
>http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2000/06/25/story/0000041357
>
>Speaks for itself, methinks.

Neat.

Though that does raise a question -- would something like that really constitute waking the Tiger?  There are lots of groups whose members publicly proclaim their ability to work magic.  Heck, the Sci Fi Channel has a regular (allegedly nonfiction) show featuring a guy who claims to talk to the dead.

For these reasons, I've always figured that the OU doesn't really need to be that secret, as long as large groups of "civilians" never witness incontrovertible and lasting evidence of magic.  The epideromancer that messes up a crowd in one of the Hush Hush seeds would indeed be a problem for the Sleepers, but I'm not sure that the psychic in the UA novel (for example) really would be.  She's one woman, and while she may be very successful (and acclaimed as such by the parents of the kids she finds), I'm sure there are real-world psychics that claim a similar rep without immediately converting all skeptics or setting off riots.

How do you folks run it?  (I'm interested in other people's portrayals of the OU because I may finally be about to start a UA campaign myself.)  Is there a strict dividing line between the truly clued-in and all the obscure-but-not-secret groups that exist in both the UnAverse and the real world?  Or does the Sect of the Naked Goddess get written up in pop-occultism overviews and Christian anti-cult books?  Just how public does one have to be to bring down the wrath of the Sleepers?


Stacy Stroud (deadstop at gte.net)
Hex Entertainment, Inc. (http://www.hexgames.com)


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