[UA] Sacrafice your friends for food

[Craig Daniel]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Tim Toner <timtoner at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think that all this does is underline just how hard it is to join the IC.
>  Sure, we can all imagine 'Batman' ascending, or 'Peter Pan', but on a very
> real, very visceral level, we KNOW they're fictions.  For a human being to
> elevate himself to that stature, where he might as well be a fictional
> character...that takes juice.  To put it another way, I like how Odysseus is
> the first true 'hero'.  Why?  Because he's us.  First, while he is beloved
> of Athena, he doesn't have a drop of divinity in him.  He gets himself out
> of scrapes using his wits alone, and then two seconds later, his mouth
> writes a check his butt can't catch, and we're off to the races again.  He's
> deeply flawed, and yet has a fantastic sense of style.  Of all the
> mythological characters, he had the hardest time of it, but still manages to
> come out on top.

Odysseus was clearly a real person who ascended a long, long time ago.
He's probably fallen out and been through the House of Renunciation
since then.

> To put all this another way, if any fictional character ascended, it would
> have to be Santa Claus.  I mean, all those kids BELIEVING, and as
> _Hogfather_ points out, we know what he looks like and where he lives.
>  We're all agreed, even if we don't believe in him, per se.  But he hasn't
> ascended, because of the huge mass of people who, despite being on the same
> page in the 'what does he look like' department, KNOW that he's simply not
> real.  Heck, for all I know, maybe he once was.
>
> (I was going to go off on a tangent about the Coca Cola Company being behind
> the standardization of Santa, but in checking my facts, I see that, sadly,
> it's not true.  In the course of writing Coca Cola Company, I noticed that,
> C being the third letter in the alphabet, the initials CCC would translate
> to 333.  More perplexing than this is that Coke's ticker symbol in the New
> York Stock Exchange is KO.  Que?)

Of course it's not true. Not anymore. Coke's work with Santa was
getting too powerful, so a group of Cliomancers changed his history.