[UA] A Meta Dream

[Scott McDaniel]

Oh, god - why did you have to tell us this and place this burden on us?

You bastard.  Damn you to Hell.
DAMN YOU TO HELL.

On 10/16/07, Kevin Veale <shamblertheunshaven at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I had a dream explicitly about UA last night.
>
> In it, I had all of the UA books released.  I also knew of a woman who lived
> nearby who I considered dangerous, and who didn't have the whole set.
>
> We met up in the street where I - for some reason - happened to have some of
> the books on me.
>
> She commented that some of them - Hush Hush in particular - were ones she
> didn't have.
>
> I laughed and said, "Luckily for me, you can take them!"
>
> She laughs.  "Lucky for you?"
>
> "Yes!  Because I don't want to be stabbed today!"
>
> And then we laugh like old chums.
>
> But it turns out that she can't just take the books.  That wouldn't be
> right.  It needs to be a trade.  And it turns out that she's carrying some
> books she has doubles of.  RPG books which were never published as part of
> the UA line that we know about.
>
> Copies of the secret books which lie behind Unknown Armies, and can be
> located by those with The Knowledge.  Books written with information even
> closer to The Truth.  The books we have lead us to the Secret Books, and
> those... Oh those...
>
> But she needs all the original books to decode her copies of the secret
> tomes, you see...
>
> At this point I realise that accepting such a book is going to invite years
> of Occult Underground stabbing-attempt-schenanigans, but there's this very
> intense woman who *really needs* some books I have, but who won't take them
> unless I accept one of hers for each - and so not taking such a book is
> tantamount to refusing her in the first place...
>
> So I take the damned books.
>
> - The Unshaven.
>
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