A failed ascension…
…so, while we are waiting for our food– and, yes, this time you are paying, just like last time. I’m not giving out my information for free, you know. Besides, as far as anyone’s concerned, you are the adult here.
Anyway, as I was saying, did you read that article in the Rolling Stone? I think it was early 2008, about these two twenty-something kids? Ed and Jocelyn, I think were there names. They did a bunch of identity theft style crimes and lived a lavish lifestyle, and posted their extravagant adventures online. Basically boasting about how much money they were burning through. When they were caught, people were calling them the Internet Bonnie & Clyde. That was closer to the truth than anyone realized.
You see, Shakespeare wrote about a lot of the Archetypes. Richard III, Julius Cesare, Orthello– they were all about Archetypes. So was Romeo & Juliet. They all can be used to study up for ascension to the Invisible Clergy.
What? The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Those are also about magick of his era– and probably useful mostly for studying magick of that time. Maybe you could use them to revive an old school.
Anyway, Romeo & Juliet is an unusual archetype, in that it is two people as one. The more proper name for it would be the Outlaw Lovers. Romeo & Juliet ascended when they both committed suicide. Bonnie & Clyde ascended when they were gunned down.
Joycelin and Ed? No, they failed, which is why they are both still alive. The current occupants, Sid & Nancy, were just too powerful.
I like it, I like it alot, Seems like a coll idea for an Out-of-the-ordinary Archetype.
All we needs now is someone to write up the Archetype….anyone?
Yeah, I read the article in Rolling Stone, which mentioned that people were calling the couple the “Internet Bonnie and Clyde”, and the whole thing sounded an awful lot like some sort of Ascension attempt– particularly when I read that the guy, Ed, was apparently devastated after they were caught, and the girl kept claiming that they had done nothing wrong, that her hair extensions were her real hair, and her eyes really were lavender, etc.
I might have a go at writing it up some time in the future. I don’t have any practice at it, though.
I gotta say, I love Unknown Armies as a game, but I could almost love it just for the creation of and constant additions to this site.
Seriously.