[UA] Non Entity Trouble

[Edward Parsons]

The best example of non-entity behaviour is that agent from "Instrument of
Precision" who shoots his entire body apart bit by bit. A non-entity who has
little concept of self or preservation would simply not see the unusualness
of this.

To play a non-entity just shut down bits of your brain that deal with
identity and self-preservation. Its easy.

Or maybe thats just me.






----- Original Message -----
From: "Royal Minister of Stuff" <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] Non Entity Trouble


>
> --- James Knevitt <psipsina at iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > How do you portray [non-entities] to the players
> (and the
> > characters)? I find that NEs are
> > profoundly sad creatures.
>
> That might be it.  I usually portray non-entities as
> shallow but polite, with no real sense of humor beyond
> workplace "ah-haha" stuff. Since my players usually
> meet ones that have gotten hooked on some strong
> emotion, I make the things unnaturally fixated on that
> emotion, allowing passion into my voice only when the
> non-entity is discussing their empathic jones.
>
>
> > What are the
> > player reactions to them?
>
> One of my players was running a "dial-a-gag" service.
> She took requests for practical jokes and orgainzed
> people to make them happen.  She got a call from a
> non-entity who craved the kind of feelings brought on
> by out-of-control fires.
>
> The player made several jokes which the nonnie was
> pretty cold or slow to respond to and then mentioned
> the prank, which brought the conversation back into
> sharp focus.  She thought he was just crazy.
>
> When she saw him standing in a burning building, that
> confirmed her suspicions, but, hey, so what?  Later,
> the nonnie was chasing her and she sunk a fire axe
> into his arm.  A copple chops severed the limb, which
> didn't bleed.  She described him as a psycho manikin,
> another player theorized it was a golem and the third
> guy, to whom I'd actually had a Dirk Allen blurt out a
> drunk theory on (more-or-less) accurately on
> non-entities, didn't really care.
>
> In the end, they let it run rampant in the Russian
> neighborhood where it had taken up residence.  It just
> didn't interest them.
>
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