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Unknown_VariableXThe 332nd archetype slot will be filled sometime between October of 2007 and February of 2008, and that archetype will be The Girl Who Is Way Too Calm About Breaking Up. The First and Last Man will ascend immediately afterwards, with the following results:
1. If there are more positive clergy views than negative, the world will be instantly transformed into a world where there is no longer any cherry coke and HIV starts to die out all by itself.
2. If there are more negative clergy views than positive, the world is rebuilt like something out of the Road Warrior.
3. If there is a tie, every person in Cleveland who has a last name beginning with the letter F will manifest a visually impressive but practically useless superpower, like Psychokinetic Spoon Straightening, Opera Vision, Super Ignoring Other People, or the ability to make concrete smell like whatever you want.
In any case, the Clergy seats are now empty and new applicants are being evaluated by humanity’s mass mind.
Personally, I can’t wait.
Unknown_VariableXCall me crazy — everyone else has — but I always thought U2’s “Electrical Storm” had a UA feel to it. A specific feel, really: Imagine an adept who has to choose between charging up and respecting his taboos, and trying to keep a wife or girlfriend happy. No matter what school you follow, there will be conflict at some point.
Well, except maybe Anagram Gematria.
Speaking of which, that school always makes me theink of Weird Al Yankovich’s song “Smells Like Nirvana” for some reason.
Unknown_VariableXUnknown Armies’ system lends itself a lot more to gritty storytelling and personal conflict than most other systems. If your setting is going to have a lot of fighting and running and stuff, it can work, but if there’s going to be a lot of personal interaction and lamenting about the fall of civilization (No more World Wide Intar Wub! Oh Woe is Us!) or celebrating that fall (Ding dong, the wicked IRS is dead!) then the system will really shine.
The Madness Meters and whole going crazy mechanics may prove useful too. The whole ‘End of the World as we know it’ thing has to be at least a Rank-6 Helplessness Check, probably much higher.
Unknown_VariableXI came for the Automatons and stayed for Team Salvation, so to speak.
Unknown_VariableXWasn’t Chris Cooper in charge of that? It was on the mailing list, I remember that much.
Unknown_VariableXI have had a LOT of ideas along this line.
There was some fiction I was writing where the Sleepers were synonymous with the Keepers, TNI was the Order of the Hammer, the Naked Goddess Sect was the Pagans, and in the middle were some crazy characters, with the leader of the group roughly corresponding to Garret. It didn’t go very far, the story felt too forced the way I was doing it.
Ironically enough, a lot of the crazy guys in the middle have become independent characters in my head and I’ve been fleshing them out for later works of fiction, probably the “sequel” to Laws of Magick.
All in all, if you got some ideas and/or plans, I’d love to hear them and/or be involved.
Unknown_VariableXNice idea. You could also rig them with wax cylinder machines and have them repeat insults at Irascimancers. If the insults are personalized enough, then that’ll make them snap right there.
Or spritz pepper spray at them. THAT will get a response.
I also had one idea for a scenario, where a clockworker made a whole bunch of perpetual motion attack machines out of mannequins — they would walk around until they found a specific target, grabbed the target in a bear hug, ungeared the Free Energy Machine from the rest of the clockwork, and let it overcharge. Ten seconds later, kaboom.
Unknown_VariableXWell, they can basically do anything that a normal machine, an animal, or a human can do, the just do it with gears and springs instead of wire or flesh or blood. They can’t do magick or use avatar channels, but other than that, the only limits are the materials you can get and the charge type.
So if you wanted, you could make an Analytical Engine number cruncher and use that instead of a laptop, or make a mechanical cell phone or something. Of course, a lot of the fun in Clockworking is in building new and innovative attack machinery.
Basically, if it’s not going to walk around and think under its own power, but it’s also not a single-purpose gadget (Dishwasher, Sand Counter, Fish Finder), it’s probably a significant gadget of some sort.
Unknown_VariableXWell, putting more charges in usually nets more dice to assemble a good result out of. A shift might be redundant in that case. But favorable circumstances… maybe.