[UA] Secret Places

[Norbert Matausch (Fra. Pompoesus 08/15)]

I'm very interested, too!



> You got any of this on paper or computer?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Solis [mailto:omnimancer at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 7:30 PM
> > To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> > Subject: Re: [UA] Secret Places
> >
> >
> >
> > > Maybe there's a whole new world out there, hidden
> > > behind banks of
> > > escalators, behind ornamental shrubs, and
> > > painted-over doors.
> > > Maybe ...
> >
> > I was reading up on Infiltration and urban exploration
> > a couple years ago and I wrote a somewhat lengthy RPG
> > concept around this notion of secret places. Derek
> > Guder and I discussed it quite a bit before I put it
> > to bed when college started up again. I never got
> > around to truly fleshing it out, and it too closely
> > resembled Mage and KULT to my liking, but the basic
> > idea was that the universe is "wet" (i.e. malleable
> > and more likely to have high weirdness occur) in
> > places lacking in two things: 1) Observation and 2)
> > Concern.
> >
> > The lack of observation is self-explanatory. If a
> > place is unobserved or rarely observed, it is more
> > wet. If no one is concerned about this place, it is
> > that much more wet as well. For example, there is
> > probably a little corner in a subway junction
> > somewhere that no one but the occasional mass transit
> > maintenance worker even knows about. Therefore, that
> > place is pretty damp.
> >
> > I then took it a step further and came up with "secret
> > people" (an honest coincidence with the phrasing, ask
> > Guder) who could take advantage of these wet spots in
> > the universe for some purpose. I never quite figured
> > out what these wet spots actually did or what
> > motivated the secret people to seek them out, but I
> > just loved the image of someone being chased by a
> > couple thugs through winding back alleys and forgotten
> > areas of an industrial district. Finally, he is chased
> > to a brickwall remarkably bare of grafitti covering
> > the rest of the area. What would normally be dead end
> > is exactly the opposite and he dives straight into the
> > brick wall, passing into it with a big watery splash.
> >
>
>
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>
> "Think about it. Until tonight, you've always believed that there was a
line
> between myth and reality, A fine one, but a line nonetheless. These things
> are real, and if they're real what else is? Now you know the truth, You've
> seen what lurks in the darkness, what hunts in the night. From now on,
> you'll never have another good nights sleep again."
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