[UA] Graffiti artists and a charging scheme

[Peter Ciccolo]

There's a homebrew graffitti school written up, actually, but nothing canon:

http://www.eyeballkid.co.za/haunts.html

Search for 'pictomancy.'


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:55:02 -0600, Unknown VariableX
<unknown_variablex at hotmail.com> wrote:
> If I remember right, Graffiti is the type of thing that would fall under the
> control of an Urbanomancer, since it's so associated with inner city life.
> They even have a formula spell named after it, I think. This whole thing
> could end up being a very narrow approach towards or variant of Urbanomancy.
> Maybe one street kid could get obssessed enough to turn this into magick,
> but it probably wouldn't end up as a school.
> 
> -Variable (who doesn't know who Kathy is and doesn't care that she loves
> George)
> 
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> Subject: [UA] Graffiti artists and a charging scheme
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:47:30 +0000
> 
> 
> Is there an extant Adept school/avatar path/ritualised magic system that is
> heavily focused on street graffiti artists? (I don't have statosphere or
> PoMoMa yet, and as I once almost reinvented irascimancy I thought I'd check)
> 
> Oh and while I'm at it, does this seem like a decent charging structure for
> a racial stereotype based magick school to you peeps? (is the sig too
> difficult/too hard to portray and work within the gaming system?):
> 
> Paradox: You gain power enforcing a negative stereotype that isn't really
> representative of either you or your ethnic group, and empower yourself
> while at the same time negatively affecting your community.
> 
> Generate minor charge: Cause someone to make a stress check or set off a
> persons passion stimuli in a way that reinforces in that person's mind your
> chosen negative stereotype.
> 
> Generate a Significant charge: Cause someone to become a racist or
> discriminate against your 'kind of people' who didn't before hand.
> 
> Generate a major: be the direct cause of an entire large community attacking
> or ostracising 'your type of people' in such a way that it causes many of
> the affected group to die or be killed.
> 
> Taboo: A Playa taboos whenever someone challenges their behaviour in someway
> and gets away with it and also when they are seen acting in a manner that
> doesn't fit the stereotype they are supposed to be portraying
> 
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