[UA] Mystic Propwash

[Katie & Saul]

I totally agree with this. I've always thought that not nearly enough
written about the way avatars fit into the world, and ways to make them more
interesting (so they get as much attention as adepts). There should be
practical gameplay advantages to playing to type and making use of your
avatar's symbols and traits.

Saul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Wikstrom" <jeffwik at 333.org>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: [UA] Mystic Propwash


> I commemorate the reemergence of the list via this post, which I sent off
to the old list just before I noticed it had shut down:
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> So I was thinking about adepts and avatars.  Adepts are a lot more
> flexible than avatars, mostly, and sure they're all bat-shit-crazy
> obsessive types, but that's fun to play.  When I was running a UA game I
>  tried to play up the idea that avatars have a sort of aura of
> avatarness.  The universe folds around them in such a way that events,
> people, and so on all reinforce the avatar.  Avatars of the True King,
> to use an easy example (everyone loves the True King), avatars of the
> True King are much more likely to find hands holding up swords in lakes,
>  than otherwise.  Everywhere the Two-Faced Man goes, he's surrounded by
> treachery.  Executioners foster slow, deliberate violence.  Secrets fall
>  into the lap of the Confessor.  Total strangers ask the Judge for
> advice.
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> Conversely, no matter how badass a thanatomancer/serial killer you are,
> you aren't going to make the bouncers bloodthirsty just by virtue of
> your presence in the bar.  If an anhillomancer has lunch in an Au Bon
> Pan his mere attention isn't sufficient to inspire the staff to mutiny
> and start making chicken sandwiches on crossiants instead of bagettes,
> or beat the manager until his nose is spurting blood and lock him in the
>  closet... but wherever the Rebel goes, trouble follows.
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> That is to say, things not unlike minor magickal adept effects just
> spontaneously happen all around the avatar, all the time, in a way the
> avatar has no control over.
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> I don't know.  You know.
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