From nv91-asa@nada.kth.se Mon Dec 22 04:07:25 1995 Status: RO X-Status: Path: news.kth.se!nntp.uio.no!nac.no!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.eas.asu.edu!noao!news.Arizona.EDU!tau.lpl.arizona.edu!corleyj From: corleyj@lpl.arizona.edu (Jason Corley) Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf Subject: Jason Gets Mage 2ed. Date: 22 Dec 1995 04:07:25 GMT Organization: Frobozz Magic Code, Inc. Lines: 68 Message-ID: <4bdatt$p8q@news.ccit.arizona.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tau.lpl.arizona.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] ...and I'll break all your stereotypes for $49.95. The Akashic Brother video game junky...yeah...you've seen this guy... he's 14...he beat "Mortal Kombat 3" the first day it was out...he knows the secret codes to every Nintendo game ever made...he annoys the Virtual Adepts because he can beat everything they design for him that's even remotely fair..."The machine doesn't care about you or what kind of day you've had or any of your problems...anything you see on the screen is what you've brought to the game...anything you get out of the game you get out of yourself."...he's always in the 'zone' in pinball where you simply _can't mess up_ even though you've won 15 free games and the place is about to close...Ascencion on "Asteroids"...He's got the Nine Lives Merit, but he's only got Three...His special Do move is leaping onto people's heads... The Verbena schoolteacher...she's in her mid-forties...she's frumpy... she wears flowerdy dresses and plastic glasses...she teaches primary grades...she's incredibly popular with the kids, the parents and the school..."Life isn't in books, in test tubes, or in smearing animals over some tree out in the forest. It's right beneath the skin of these seven-year olds, and they shout it out through their mouths."...no pagan agenda...a very balanced view of science...the good and the bad...a very balanced view of nature...the good...a unit on "Our Friends the Plants"... kids come home from school: "We talked to a bird in school today, Mom." "That's nice, dear."...long-term paradigm warrior...looking past her lifetime ..."This kind of work isn't going to accomplish a single thing, while I'm alive. Maybe next time around I'll see something of the results." The Order of Hermes debunker...the Technocracy's worst nightmare...a Hermetic that's on their side...There's no psychics...there's no UFOs... there's no vampires...there's no mages...there's nothing supernatural at all...targeting the Sleeper fakes...the Technocracy is paralyzed: can't work against him without shooting themselves in the foot...building up for a worldwide blow-the-top-off-your-paradigm explosion and retaliation... and there's nothing they can do about it... The Celestian Chorus sleazy televangelist politician...Pat Robertson on crack...the Traditions half-wish he would roll up and die...but darnit, there's just something appealing about hundreds of screaming Sleepers carrying signs like "Death To The Godless Secular Conspiracy" and "John 3:16" lying down in front of NWO officials' cars and smashing the windows and getting a little crazy and killing a few...a massive fanatical army...taking the Technocracy's "conservative" viewpoint and giving it teeth, claws and a bad attitude...shrieking fights at conclaves over whether to stop him or encourage him...his face on every billboard... headlines across the nation...Phill Collins sings "Jesus He Knows Me"... The Virtual Adept roleplaying game designer...hey, he's designing a new world, right?...one inside people's heads?...absolutely, 100%...computers can't be as complicated as the human brain and they can't be as creative... a savagely weird NPC..."Over The Edge" plots anyone? More to come.... -- ***************************************************************************** "History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles, cluttered up with a mass of unnecessary figures and proper names." --Tolstoy Jason D. "corleyj@tau.lpl.arizona.edu" Corley isn't home right now.