[UA] Traveling Unicorns

[Jade Hammons]

MessageI'd hazard to say it's all perception - Is the place important because of the object, or is the object important because of the place. No matter where Cleopatra's needle is located, that place has significance. If a castle is moved brick by brick, or a small pyramid were relocated, th new place would be significant. If stonehenge were moved, both palces would be significant, but probably piss a lot of people off. on the other hand, if someone stole the gates to Graceland, they could probably replace them without significantly lowering Graceland's importance. Of course if they suddenly turned up somewhere, and say, for some reason could be moved back, their presence would probably create significance in that place, though not nearly hat of Graceland itself. And if say, a cliomancer owns a houseboat once owned by Rockefeller, the palce is important no matter where it is, though that's a difference situation altogether.
The artifacts from Tutenkahmen or The Titanic though probably increase the charge of whatever museum they are currently at, or private collection, as they are historically significant without being tied anywhere anymore.

Of course it's just possible, from a UA point of view, that the Unicorn just literally took itself for a walk. Maybe it's a real unicorn stuck as a statue until some event happens, or it was temporarily animated from an unnatural event of some kind. And don't get me started on those thaumaturges and their wacky spells.


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    On 8/11/06, Rayburn, Russell E. <RERayburn at columbus.gov> wrote: 
      Schweet!

      I thought it might be a urbanomancer taunting a cliomancer... the clio goes for a charge only to find the object of their veneration missing.  After a bit of a stink, the urbanomancer brings the object back, but with a bit of a taunt.


    Is it really back?  Maybe it's a copy of the unicorn and it took the Urbanomancer awhile to get it into place.  So he writes up the note to make the tiger go back to sleep.  Meanwhile we have one pissed off Clio in the background.

    Can Clio's even charge off of objects?  I can't remember and I'm too lazy to pull out my first edition book.

    Greg M 

    Feeling lazy myself... just thinking that if the object had historical significance of some kind, then the clio should be able to hit it.  

    Alternatively, the unicorn statue could be an integral part of the historically significant place.  Removing it "desecrates" the place... at least lowering the available charge, and in the case of a minor eliminating it completely.

    Say, for instance, a clio goes to the biograph theater in Chicago ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biograph_Theater ) to get some of that lady in red goodness.  Then, let's also say an urbanomancer gets sick of the clio and decides to encourage her to find a new zip code.  So the urbanomancer has the place condemned and bulldozed.  The resulting parking lot would still have some historical significance, but not as much as if the theater was still there.

    I could be ( and probably am ) just talking out my ass though. 


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