[UA] Personamancy and twins

[Donna K. Fitch]

By way of really brief introduction, I'm the person who mentioned running a
UA game based on the book Flicker.  We've nearly finished the campaign and
it's been pretty interesting.  Capsule description: Setting: 1967 Los
Angeles; Plot: A film club (in the days of film criticism's infancy)
discovers that the B-movie schlock films of a movie director who died in
1945 mask a sinister secret that has dire implications for the future of the
planet, with religious cultism and tantric sex thrown in.  I'll post a
highlights "reel" of the game later.

But what's been lurking in my mind is this.  The book talks of a pair of
sinister twins, Heinz and Franz Reinking, movie editors who are a shadowy
presence throughout the backstory, but who never actually appear.  Naturally
scary characters like this are too good to waste, so they do appear in my
game.  I started out making them personamancers, ended up with one of them a
personamancer and the other one his doppelganger as a result of a
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead spell.  The idea that intrigued me,
but I haven't pursued is the idea of a twin being a mask for the other twin
at various times.  

So I throw out this idea to the group for your take on it.  What
possibilities are there for twin personamancers?  This sort of fits in with
the recent thread about avatar couplets.  How would you use the idea that
one twin is a mask for the other?  Is it a dumb idea, because they look
alike?  You hear tales of one twin masquerading as the other (even among
non-twins, like the Marx Brothers, who dressed up at each other on occasion
to fool people).  How would this work and what kind of formula spells could
result?

I look forward to your ideas.

Donna

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Donna K. Fitch, Web Designer/Editor
University Relations, Samford University 
Birmingham, AL  35229 * dkfitch at samford.edu
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