[UA] Mystic Propwash

[Jade Hammons]

Mystic propwash... now to find that dipsomancer spell 'Mystic backwash' and
I'll have the whole set...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Butler" <commercenary at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Mystic Propwash


> And it explains why David Carradine's "Grasshopper" was always running
into
> trouble. As The Pilgrim he was creating his own obstacles...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Budfannan" <budfannan at gwi.net>
> To: <jeffwik at 333.org>; "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List"
> <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:08 PM
> 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:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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