[UA] Hello... is this thing on?

[Unknown VariableX]

Hey all. Joined the list a few days ago (after gleaning the site with the 
list archives for ideas and information for about four months), thought I'd 
stop by and introduce myself in some manner.

I'm not particularly interested in roleplaying games of the pen and paper 
variety, since they tend to involve social interaction with other people. 
Yet I find myself drawn to Unknown Armies like a moth to a bug zapper. This 
may be due to my means of discovering it; while searching for data on 
automatons built during the late 1800s and early 1900s, before the true 
advent of mass production, I found a site which archived the happenings of a 
very long UA campaign, the exact nature of which I can't remember, but 
involved some sort of New Inquisition Team involved in ascensions, and a 
clockwork girl that had a crush on one of the PCs.

The first thought that popped into my head was "Clockwork chicks? I gotta 
get me some 'a that."

Ever since then, I've been hunting down UA-related material. I've already 
acquired the 2nd Edition corebook and Statosphere -- the present target is 
PostModern Magick. It would be completely accurate to say that my UA 
interest is centered around Mechanomancy, but the story and setting is just 
as consuming. On that note, Kudos for Stolze, Tynes, and everyone at Atlas 
for creating the literary/gaming equivalent of crack cocaine.

The power UA has for inspiration is pretty amazing, especially in situations 
showing the dark underside of humanity or the inconsistencies of reality. 
Between the magick obssessions and the Avatar power struggles, there's 
always the underlying suspicion that nobody actually knows what's going on. 
And that kind of attitude has been known to carry whole genres of art and 
music and film all on its own.

It's also given me... ideas. There's a paper, somewhere on my hard disk, 
that approaches the field of Epideromancy from the direction of Yoga, 
neurochemistry, biofeedback and hypnosis. If it's ever completed (stupid 
college papers), it'll probably go into detail as to how Epideromancy will 
be the first, most common, and easiest expression of 'magick' for people to 
use in the physical world we live in... if some people aren't using it 
already.

You never know.

To summarize: UA Good. Clockwork Chicks Good. Fire Bad!

-Variable