[UA] Fwd: CTA guy

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Tim Toner <thanatos at interaccess.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Royal Minister of Stuff"
> <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
> To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [UA] Fwd: CTA guy
> 
> 
> > Wow!  What a cool set-up for a UA group.  The
> players
> > could be guys who were hired to do an inventory
> and
> > find all sorts of strange crap down there.
> >
> > Maybe they find a "king of the bean" ceremony
> going on
> > down there, ala "The Wicker Man" or something,
> where
> > outside people elect and slaughter a sacrificial
> king
> > to ensure good "pickins" (better scraps from the
> > dumpsters, more generous donations when begging,
> etc.)
> 
> Three years ago, I lived along the Blue Line (the
> subway in question), and
> after a particularly wretched snowstorm, I was
> forced to ride it daily for
> two months to and from work.  The Damen stop (seen
> in Streets of Fire AND
> High Fidelity) is the last elevated station before
> the train becomes a
> subway when you're headed for the city.  At the maw
> of the tunnel, the CTA
> have set up heaters, operating, I presume, on the
> same thermodynamic
> principle that allows freezers in supermarkets to
> not have doors, even
> though they're not basins, per se.  These heaters
> create a wall of warmth
> that the cold outside air just can't compete with. 
> It's _so_ hot, in fact,
> that under all my bundled layers, with a sealed
> glass window and metal walls
> between me and it, I could still feel heat
> sufficient to scald, if we
> weren't rocketing past at 25 mph.  At firsrt I
> thought, "Man, I'd hate to
> have to walk through that, to find a place to
> sleep."  And then I realized,
> well, that's probably why they do it.  Crank up the
> heat hot enough, and
> you'll think twice about getting in on foot.  And
> then, in the part of my
> mind reserved for paranoia and RPGs, I thought,
> "Maybe they're trying to
> keep something _in._"

Well, as long as we're messing around with Frazier,
here, why not something like a classical nature
goddess?  Or, since it's heat that's the problem, why
not the Calleach (boy, I sure hope I spelled that
right.)  As a winter hag, she might be trapped by the
heaters or something. Since the Calleach metamorphoses
into a beautiful woman during better weather, maybe
she turns from vengeful winter man-eater (in the
tunnels) to a perky co-ed (and lure to gentlemen with
certain Lolita-eque tendencies) when she passes by the
protective band of heat.  Maybe there's more than one,
like a minor, but powerful, cabal (the Daughters of
Calli? Kahli?)  I gotta run my group through this one.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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