[UA] So you're a Videomancer with some major, MAJOR mojo . . .

[Susan Dohnim]

>From: "Hammons, Jade" <jade.hammons at attws.com>

>Bring Buffy to life, and you might warp the universe enough to increase
>the vampire population... or create a hellmouth... who knows.

Now that's just plain intriguing . . .

>. . . having the word Abomination etched into [Superman's] skin over and 
>over so deeply that
>he explodes in a shower of greasy meat... Not gonna get better from
>that.

:). That's right, Supes had absolutely no immunity to magic, right? Though 
his bod would still have the super-duper resistances while on earth -- one 
could argue he'd be exceedingly resistant to physical damage caused through 
magic attacks. He'd be as easy to screw over by a cliomancer as the next 
guy, though.

>. . . Skills that can wake the tiger, alert the Sleepers, TNI, and
>of all people, The Compte...

I wonder how the Compte would feel about a fictional character ascending 
into the Clergy. Buffy-->Hunter, Fonz -->Player, and so on. So many 
fictional characters are written up as extraordinary stereotypes . . . a 
videomancer with his own TV show might well be able to summon twenty or 
thirty or forty characters that would have an almost immediate shot at 
ascension.

Maybe we should make a list :).

>      Also, as per last action hero, how well will the Character adapt
>to our universe? Enough failed checks, and even superman is gonna go
>loco. And those self-checks are going to constant for a while. ("What do
>you mean you created me from a Television show? I'm not real? That's
>who? Henry Winkler? You mean I'm going to look like that when I get old?
>All my friends are fake too? Jukeboxes are out of style? Elvis is
>DEAD?") Insanity is gonna be tough to avoid...

Very, VERY true :) Though some of them (like Buffy) would arguably enter the 
world as sociopaths, given all the hardened notches. I mean, you gotta have 
more than a few hardened self-notches after several seasons in the 
Buffyverse. You could argue that the fictional world isn't the "real" world 
and so they don't start with notches, but I'm not sure I'd buy it. Can't see 
Buffy freaking out the first time she saw magic in the Real World, for 
instance.

>	It's all a case of be careful what you wish for. Creating
>something that by definition is more powerful, more willful, and
>possibly more intelligent than you out of the box isn't the smartest
>thing in the world.
>	This is why smart videomancers use their abilities to satisfy
>more peurile interests, or draw forth things that are harmless... then
>again, Stay Puft was harmless until he was chosen as the form of 'your
>doom'.

Not to mention the fact that no one ever accused an adept of any sort of 
being well-connected to reality. Especially videomancers.

I've been thinking about running a UA campaign for awhile, but I don't have 
a lot of time, and didn't have any brilliant ideas. Hence the reason I 
nagged Jeff W. into running one.

But down the line . . . yeah, I can see this. Whether the characters work 
for the Sleepers or TNI or god-knows-who, this would be big enough that 
there'd be a reason to get involved.

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