[UA] Gaps in Post-Modern Magick

[Peter Kisner]

> An interesting Western effect might be wiping a person (Or group's) esoteric
> knowledge. (So you couldn't wipe someone's ability to drive or his MBA, but
> you could make him forget that Cthulu Mythos skill he had or Entropomancy.)
> Perhaps more unusual, you may make those who know a secret forget they know
> it, in addition to conincidentally destroying evidence of it's existance.
> (So The Stonecutters all forget they're members of a secret society, no-one
> turns up to the meetings at all any more. Eventually the secret meeting hall
> gets Condemmened and city hall, unable to find the owner, has it pulled
> down.)
>
> A major Eastern effect might be to make a historical event seem fictional
> and a fictional history ring true to people. (Sure, you were acquitted of
> murder and that other guy said he killed your wife, but we all know you did
> it.)

I love these ideas, especially the last one.  The first thing that
occurred to me was that abuse of this effect would allow the secret
history of the world to be even more bizarre ...like the fact that
Germany actually did manage to build a nuke during WWII and detonated
it somewhere in Russian occupied terratory.  Wiped out a city of
10,000 in the process, though no one remembers the event now, only
someone accidently stumbling across the location with a geigercounter
would notice anything odd by now.

My second thought was that this is an effect Sleepers would probably
love to have at their disposal.

- Peter K.


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