[UA] Introduction and dreaming

[Christopher Gunning]

>From: David M Jacobs <dmjacobs at zipworld.com.au>

>Hey there, as well.  Long time no write (assuming that you're the 
>Christopher Gunning of T8 fame).  How goes things?

OffTopic:

Yup, it is me (fame is probably the wrong word to use though).  I knew I 
recognized your name once I saw it pop up in my inbox queue.  Things are 
going quite well... am in the process of moving to DC because I landed a 
nice new job.  Do some writing for WW, though not so much for DP9 any 
longer.  Are you still in contact with Jason Prince?

Feel free to drop me a private message if you would like.  Either way, nice 
to see you here David.

Sorta Back OnTopic:

>Sometimes, in the mornings, I wake up to discover that I've reprogrammed my 
>mobile phone so that the displays are all in Greek... and I can only barely 
>read Greek.  Or that I've reset the alarm on my phone to give myself a 
>couple of extra hours of sleep.

Back in High School I used to have to get up at 4am to go to diving 
pracitce.  I have never been a morining person and my brain apparently 
developed a defensive mechanism not unlike what you are explaining- my 
mother would come into the room to wake me and I would respond to her, get 
up, walk in a few circles an go right back to bed- all the while I was still 
asleep.  My mother told me on a few occasions she carried on 4-5 minute 
conversations with me thinking that I was awake only to come into the room 
10 minutes later to yell at me for not getting up (and quite confused as 
well).

So considering all these interesting stories- what can we do with them to 
create something for UA.  Still being new to UA I am still getting my 
bearings with the setting (witness the discussion on rpg.net that I started 
about templars).  I am less inclined to make a new adept school- but what 
about a new avatar?  The "Sleeper" perhaps?  Or what about a general 
nastiness that drives mundanes into homicidal rages when they are on the 
edge of a dream filled sleep and magick is used in the vacinity- sort of a 
metaphysical alcoholic suicide- with the right elements in the right 
quantities triggering some really bad stuff in the right type of people?

>It also makes me think just how nasty and surreal the Rahyab could get if 
>they let themselves go a bit.  Especially since the people that they talk 
>to in their delerium might actually exist.

At the risk of sounding totally ignorant...

Who?


Chris Gunning, the coyote in Texas (but not for long)

www.1km1kt.com



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