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AlcarI sort of made this for a UA game I’m currently running. Instead of gears and cogs, it uses microchips and electricity. The basic idea was that, instead of losing memories, one became more like one created. Get a lot of high tech, put implants under your skin, get a real arm replaced by a cybernetic one …. and so on. (The character in question also paid in memories, a la mechanomancy, since I figured it as more an update/upgrade than a new school per se.)
Hope this sparks something for ya.
AlcarI run one via IRC on irc.esper.net (the channel is #game1). It runs monday nights at 10pm EST. I’m not sure if there will be openings in the future (some of the players were at university and now aren’t so might not be able to make it). Feel free to drop by.,
I do like your game idea, and I think it’d be fun to try sometime….
AlcarA few ideas from my UAC. Feel free to pillage 🙂
Aliens – Really. Real ones, abducting people. Except they seem to be grey because they’re made out of steel, or sometrhing like it, and seem like androids, but believe they are aliens, despite what anyone says, and have their own UFO and go around abducting people, trying to make more of them…..
All tattoos made at the local tattoo parlour leave their host and take on their own life (butterflies fly away etc.). Why? Who knows? (Best on a PC that has lots of them, for when they want to return. Kida sucks about that scorpion…)
As for weird PC ideas….
– A young woman who is terrified she is going insane because she keeps having dreams of killing people and waking up to read the paper and finding out they died… and they’re all people who slighted her when everyone said she was having an affair with a young boy who accused her of forcing sex on him, but was lying.
– The 1002 character of Finnegans Wake.
– A TV character brought to life.
AlcarHmm, yeah. I was thinking new age in the sense of being able to use magick IF it’s done in stage magician fashion in front of witnesses.
They’d get minor charges for a magical show where they make peope all happy (kids show) and a sig one for a show where they make the audience wonder “what if it was real?” and can’t use charges during said shows, naturally.
The big thing for them wouldl be that magick can only be done in ritual fashions, with wands, staffs etc. They aren’t adepts: their magic flows with the cosmos so would be limited to real versions of stage magic with no conscious witnesses (which could be powerful in and of itself).
Some idea for channels:
1-50%: They can spend a minor charge to make a stage magic effect be “real”, but it can’t be witnessed.
51-70%: They have a knack for learning and finding rituals.
71-90%: They can use sig charges for stage magic effects (again without witnesses) and can imbue items with magick.
91-99%: They cna do real magic in front of crowds, but everytime they do that and people believe it’s real they weaken their connection the achetype.
As it would be a dying archetype, there may be no godwalker for any length of time. (They keep tabooing or something.) Would make for an interesting opponent. And, of course, there would be someone wanting to ascend and replace it with Quantum Mechanics or something…
(And I’ll need to get a copy of Ascension of the Magdalene someday. *sighs*)
AlcarDepening on the server there’s lots of dice bots out there. if not, you can always make a simple alias
/uadice {
var %r1 $r(1,10), %r2 $r(1,10)
say You rolled a %r1 and %r2 $+ . The result is %r1 $+ %r2 $+ $chr(37)
}
And have it for players as a remote
on *:text:ua:#:{
var %r1 $r(1,10), %r2 $r(1,10)
msg # You rolled a %r1 and %r2 $+ . The result is %r1 $+ %r2 $+ $chr(37)
}
I tend to hang around in #game1 on irc.dal.net if you have questions about that.