[UA] Dark Grail?

[Bruce MacMonkey McSpade]

>Subject: [UA] Dark Grail?
>Date: Thu,  6 May 2004 19:56:07 +0300
>
>
>I'm planning to run Green Glass Grail as the next scenario in my campaign.
>In the previous scenario my players managed to find a copy of the Naked
>Goddess tape. Now I'm trying to fit the G3 with its Grail imagery into the
>storyline and my head is full of ideas and themes; one of them is the Naked
>Goddess tape as a sort of Dark Grail.
>
>The analogy is not perfect, but I think there are some points where the two
>connect:
>
>1) Both are lost and have attained a mythic status.
>
>2) Both are connected with the Ascension of a God.
>
>3) Both are -- in a way -- containers; the tape in a very modern way.
>(Okay, this may suck, at least in itself.)

Let us re-phrase.  The Naked Goddess herself was a vessel, at least prior to 
ascension.  One wonders at the transforming powers of her vagina upon all 
those millions of litle spermazoids.
>
>4) The Grail is a sort of paradox: no one knows what it does exactly, but
>it sure will do something magnificent, and everyone seeks it with fervour
>just to find out what it is. How many in the Occult Underground know what
>the Real NG Tape does? How many legends are there?
>
Well, due to the nature of the occult underground, probably not many outside 
of the cult itself.  It is, afterall Underground.

>5) The "dark side" of the NG tape: in order to attain the Grail, you had to
>be a virgin and innocent in general. The tape is a recording of a Goddess
>who attained her godhood by being the opposite of a virgin; what will you
>have to do in order to get it to your hands? I don't know the Grail mythos
>that well, but I'm sure it would give a bunch of ideas for a NG tape hunt.

Not necessarily did one have to be innocent to achieve or view the Grail.  
The Knights on the quest were, afterall, warriors and therefore killers.  
Not so innocent.  But pure in faith and outlook.  Check out The Grail 
Knights.  Lancelot would more than likely get involved if word got out.  
He's not so innocent.
>
>6) The Grail may be seen as a symbol of the Paradise Lost, the Golden Age:
>the state of perfect happiness and even innocence that has been lost, but
>may still be found; the return to paradise, to God -- after which nothing
>of this earth and flesh means anything: you don't have to desire anything,
>because you have attained the highest thing anyone can have.
I'm not so sure how this plays out in the cosmology of UA.

The tape, on
>the other hand, involves happiness and pleasure whose very condition is the
>loss of innocence, and which allows the creation of new pleasure.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
Nice work.  Hope my two cents helps.
MacMonkey

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