White Lodge: home of the Kindly Ones?
Dale Cooper: as U.A. a character as I’ve seen on film; hapless, clued-in, and driven by odd motivating forces. Believes in a strange code of justice, and Ultimate Truths.
That, and anyone who can connect the perpetrators of a murder case by use of a black board, a bucket of rocks, and a head wound on a deputy… well, I’m impressed.
Man’s so freakish, he’s almost plausible.
What kind of magick could use Mr. Cooper to do that “black board thing”? Which school can do that? Or is just a ritual? Can someone write that cool ritual?? ;->
Is Laura Palmer the archetype of “The Incestuous Victim”?? Maybe her death was a ritual for ascend to the clergy?? you known..with all that weird stuff (Fire Walk With Me), the half hearth… the creepy train… scary…
My 2d, unasked for but sod it…
IMO less in UA is most definately more. If you were to do TP as a UA game then you have Dale Cooper as an ordinary FBI agent with a Soul stat in the 80s and a skill in Visions or summat similar. Bob and Mike both simply become Demons in the UA sense of the term. Laura Palmer simply becomes a terribly unlucky girl and Leyland an equally unlucky man.
The thing with the blackboard and the rocks is either a ritual, or Cooper being plan weird (another thing to remember when running UA is that people should periodically do things that have no particular occult power whatsoever)
There is no need whatsoever to make anybody a nascent Archetype or indeed even an Avatar.
Esoteric Reasoning — DC is a classy example of it. By doing so, one can connect the insubstantial ‘connectiveness’ of two people, events, places, or concepts, and diagram them out, allowing the esoteric to become rational long enough to be coherent in more than just the caster’s mind.
Ritual components: chalk, chalkboard, bucket of rocks, coffee.
Skipping a rock off of Deputy Andy’s is strictly optional.
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