[UA] Secret Places

[David Andrews]

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.
> 


*****
David Andrews

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