[UA] 1930's UA

[Mike Lake]

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  From: Sam Gibbons 
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  Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 5:42 PM
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  > How powerful is the Hermeticism from bygone days?
  > Is it even still lingering? What schools/paths would be around?

      People still practice, but since at least a few post-modern schools are in full swing, I'd presume the juice has gone out of them.  The OTO and similar orders' memberships are beginning to tell themselves it's all abstruse metaphor, and belief makes it so.  Hermetics speak in impressive but empty mystical jargon.
      Now, a post-modern adept milking a Hermetic order for charges by making them jump through hoops and convincing them it's doing something--that would make a good wheels-within-wheels cast of characters.  Your PCs' fellow alumnus could have been one of the dupes, the adept, a rival to the adept, or just a victim in the wrong place at the wrong time.  He could have died in a sacrifice, a ritual gone wrong, or killed for knowing too much.  The police can't act because the order has (All together now!) rich, influential members.
      Let the PCs find the order, leap to the conclusion that it's got magic, prove that it doesn't, then meet someone who *does*.  Players expect surprises, but that last twist might do the job.  If you wish to launch your PCs into actively using magic, unfortunately, this could be too slow an introduction for you.
      Surviving Hermetic artifacts are a different matter.  Heck, canonical UA material includes some.
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