[UA] Mystic Propwash

[Daniel Butler]

And it explains why David Carradine's "Grasshopper" was always running into
trouble. As The Pilgrim he was creating his own obstacles...


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From: "Budfannan" <budfannan at gwi.net>
To: <jeffwik at 333.org>; "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List"
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Subject: Re: [UA] Mystic Propwash


> I like this take on avatars.  This is the way I run them in my game
although
> I must say I have only had one player avatar in the 1+ year life of the
> game.  But all my NPC avatars work this way.  It adds a sense of cosmos
> freakfest when wherever the Warrior goes violence pops up.  It adds to the
> cosmic karma feel.
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Wikstrom" <jeffwik at 333.org>
> To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:03 PM
> 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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> >
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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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I don't know.  You know.
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