From owner-wod-l@netcom.com Fri Feb 23 17:47:03 1996 Received: from mail6.netcom.com (root@mail6.netcom.com [192.100.81.142]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA18593 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 17:47:01 +0100 Received: by mail6.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id BAA28330; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 01:09:36 -0800 Received: from e2.empirenet.com by mail6 (8.6.12/Netcom) id BAA28309; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 01:09:32 -0800 Received: from gaastra.empirenet.com (u38-90.empirenet.com [205.164.90.38]) by e2.empirenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA24600 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 01:15:59 -0800 Message-Id: <1.5.4b11.32.19960221091113.00665f00@e2.empirenet.com> X-Sender: gaastra@e2.empirenet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4b11 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 01:11:13 -0800 To: wod-l@netcom.com From: Timothy Gaastra Subject: Re: Sons of Ether and their theories Sender: owner-wod-l@netcom.com Precedence: list Reply-To: wod-l@netcom.com Status: RO X-Status: At 04:46 PM 2/19/96 +0100, you wrote: >Yesterday in our game a mathematician/computer scientist awakened (yes, he >is now a VA). He realized that the world was an axiomatic system, and thus >G=F6del's Theorem implied that it was either inconsistent (everything is >possible, nothing is true) or incomplete (there are true things that >cannot be explained by the axioms). Fortunately he decided it was >incomplete, otherwise he would have turned into a Marauder...=20 > >"The state of the world isn't the fault of the compiler!" > I don't know, noone ever said that reality is fault tolerant except on the extreme scale. A computer scientist can put up with a few inconsistent states as long as he has a way of trapping errors. On a side note, I'd like to introduce people to one of the more nasty epiphs out there who occassionally moonlights as a Correspondance Paradox spirit: Aleph (Correspondance) Willpower 6, Rage 3, Gnosis 9, Power 25 Charms: Influence, Mind Speech, Airt Sense, Spirit Away, Perception= Recursion* Description: Aleph, a high umbral spirit embodying the concept of an infinity of=20 infinities is a rather strange spirit who has taken an undo interest in the= =20 doings of humanity and mages in general. Aleph takes a seemingly malicious joy in=20 confusing the perceptions and understandings of mages practising= Correspondance. It concentrates its attacks on those mages who push the edges of= Correspondance, such as attempting to be infinitely located, travelling an infinite= distance, extend perception to infinite distances, shrinking perception to infinite smallness and other such limit pushing attempts. Its main attack is to spirit away the mage to a high Umbral realm of the nature of infinities (possibly within himself) where it uses a combination of mind speech, influence, and its own power of perception recursion to confuse= the mage with a series of seemingly Paradoxical questions about the nature of= space and infinity. Some mages contend that Aleph is not in fact a Paradox spirit but instead an interested spirit that hopes to aid the enlightenment of mages in the= areas of Correspondance. The confusion experienced by the mage is merely his own inability to grasp the highly esoteric concepts that Aleph is trying to convey to what to it must be an extremely alien entity (a finite one). In fact, certain Masters= of=20 Correspondance claim to have had great revelations in the field of correspondance after an experience with Aleph. Some even rumor that Aleph is in fact an aspect of the Oracles of Correspondance. *Perception Recursion: On a successful Gnosis roll against the targets willpower Aleph is able to convey a radically different sense of perception on the character. Extremely small objects appear impossibly huge, great distances are close but short distances extend beyond sight. Sight is linked to hearing, the loudest noises are the most distant ones and other impossibilities. Attempts to get an overview of= the situation will have one suddenly focusing on a microscopic level. All senses are affected and linked. It is said that this is an attempt by Aleph to get the mage to see the true nature of correspondance. ----------------------------------- Timothy Gaastra gaastra@empirenet.com ----------------------------------- "Hey... wherever you go... there you are." -Buckaroo Banzai