[UA] Some Thoughts on Fan-Made Adepts and Avatars

[Kevin Veale]

I like your comment about adepts and avatars for the most part not recognising/
 knowing how each other work.  In my interpretation I'd take it even further.
 
 I haven't read "Godwalker," though it is on The List.  My theory was that one
 of the reasons that Adept/Avatars were rare was perceptual rather than rules based.
 The Freak, running with how I saw it, was not a Mystic Hermaphrodite with
 Epideromancy as well.  The Freak is a Mystic Hermaphrodite Epideromancer
 who has never been anything else.
 
 There was a comment on the RPGnet forums about how adepts see the world, and
 to paraphrase, the idea was that normal Cutters wound themselves to make the world
 feel normal.  Epideromancers cutting themselves IS normal.  They would feel weird
 unable to do so.  If someone laughed at your school or taboo and you DIDN'T want
 to beat the mortal shit out of them or weren't stung to the core in outrage...  maybe you're
 not as dedicated as you could be and should find a new line of work.
 
 I liked the idea that for the Freak (using the obvious example) there has never been
 any other way of being either a Mystic Hermaphrodite OR an Epideromancer.  The
 world makes sense THIS way, and always had.  The idea of focusing on one aspect
 and not the other, or giving one side preference even in outlook, would be as totally
 alien as getting a whitecollar job as an accountant for a veterinary clinic and tossing in
 the whole Godwalker vibe.
 
 At least, that's what I figured.  I was assuming that an adept OR an avatar aiming
 to do both was likely to go batshit insane and for no good purpose.  They wouldn't
 get the mojo, they'd just go buggo.  The people who blend both and succeed are those
 for whom it never made sense to do it any other way.
 
 Presto!  Rarity.
 
 What do you think?
 
 - The Unshaven.
 



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