[UA] The Ethernaut

[Alex Lampros]

I like the idea of a school of magic based on people watching.  Maybe I'll 
make that the charging ritual for my cat based school.  (its currently 
based on exploration.)

But yeah, awesome idea.

yours,

alex


On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 07:55:10 -0800 (PST), Chris Cooper 
<insectking at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was reading over this one and it struck me that some
> of these ideas are cool but they're too close to the
> informancer.
>
> What the ethernaut needs is some differentiation. And
> this this is what I've done. Two concepts appealed to
> me within the hacker, computer set-up: logos and
> kleidon (diviantion through random, misheard, snatches
> of conversation).
>
> Logomancer...
>
> Or... The Kleidonaut, The Sociomancer, Psychonaut or
> Infomogul, the Stalking Voyeur...
>
> The Paradox is that the Sociomancer is the master of
> decorum and social behaviour but may never use his
> skills - he's like a stamp collector. He collects
> stamps but never posts them.
>
> The Logomancer never charges up if he's within any
> social group, only when he's watching the naked ape.
>
> The Logomancer must observe the social trends of the
> human animal and it's interactions.
>
> He gains charges through observing direct
> interrelation of humanity, mapping brush-fire
> novelties, viral ideals, and group logic fallucies.
>
> The spoken word is the fluid on which our myriad
> iceberg-like cultures float. By intereference and
> subtle manipulations the adept can direct the course
> of smaller cultural groups.
>
> Well, what do you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
> =====
> The little bird that is the song in my heart
> is too tired to be carried
> by its battered wings.
>
> It falls, crashes...
> ... and is still in its bone cage...
>
> Dead Inside from Atomic Sock Monkey press.
>
>
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