[UA] Sex Magick?

Wed May 7 19:04:54 PDT 2008

My initial thought is about the paradox and taboo . . . they seem kinda iffy. 

Re the paradox, it seems there's an attempt there to blend the pretty pure Entropomancer paradox -- completely giving up control to get control -- and the dipsomancer paradox -- deathwish to get power -- but I don't think you quite pull it off. When not using magic, Entropos risk themselves, as do dipsos (maybe not as much, but they're constantly at negative shifts when they get drunk) -- those are the game mechanics that represent loss of control. Similarly, their taboos can be a pain in the ass. 

Compared to them, your paradox isn't nearly as pure . . . then again, there are other schools with not-completely-convincing paradoxes, like your sisters-in-crime, the pornomancers.  

It might be fixed by fixing the taboo. It's like the dipsomancer taboo, except that dipsomancers have a reason to want to get sober -- no more negative shifts, not to mention those buddies that keep bugging you with interventions. On the other hand . . . what would be the reason to not have sex? 

I think that every taboo in the book is one that theoretically would cause some pain every once in awhile. Even the pornomancers' taboo -- no sex outside a ritual context -- would get annoying for anyone who falls in love, or, hell, just wants to do something other than the same ol' same ol. 

Yours, though . . . anyone playing an adventure in a city is going to have an easy time meeting this requirement, no pain, psychological or otherwise. 

I'd consider tweaking the paradox and taboo in some way, though I'm not certain how. If the taboo was sex every 8 hours instead of every 24, and with a different person each time, it'd be tougher, at least :). That also solidifies the whole sow-your-oats concept. Ooh, another idea . . .  if you're picturing this as being a school about pure animalistic sex, then no wooing allowed. Has to be with a stranger, and with a minimum of small talk -- certainly no wining and dining before 69'ing. We're talking low double-digit minutes between "Hi, I'm Greg Stolze (or whatever you decide to name your character) and doing the nasty behind the club. 

Admittedly, this means that anyone normal and decent isn't going to be having sex with you. They probably won't be the most attractive people in the world either -- if they were, they could be picky and choosy and at least get a meal out of the deal. Hope you like hanging out in adult bookstores behind those glory holes, or truck stop bathrooms, or chaffuering around members of Congress. On that note, maybe tie the charge you get to just how base the sex is. Minor for your typical small-talk-leads-to-a-quickie-at-your-apartment-within-the-hour, sig if you pull it off in under 10 minutes in a public place. Major, well, given how easy it is to get people to have sex, you gotta make it TOUGH. 

And as I alluded, I would make it so that the encounter really does have to be all about sex -- no date/dinner. And you probably have to put a further limit on it -- only one charge per location, or the other person has to actively try to satisfy you in some way, or somethin'. 

lol, now I'm getting a kick out of this :). Hope you like the suggestions. Oh, finally, in case anyone was turned on by a chick named Susan typing all of this -- I know I would be -- sorry, guys, I'm a dude. You sick puppy. 

Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 03:36:11 +0200From: ecazzoli at gmail.comTo: ua at lists.unknown-armies.comSubject: [UA] Sex Magick?
Reading through PoMoMa and the UA site, I couldn't find any adept schools which really, bluntly put, have to do with sex, and nothing but sex.  I mean, we have the Pornomancer, the True Pornomancer, the Amoromancer, the Libidomancer, the Nymphomancer...  am I missing one?  There's the Orgasmancer but that was a minor school and I wasn't quite happy with it.  In a game where some major unnatural phenomena have occurred and other weirdness, and the player characters went badly mad (all of them have 5 Failed notches in Unnatural), I allowed them to spend their XP on magick; the idea behind it being that the phenomena have chipped off and imprinted the player characters, allowing their obsessions to fester up to the point where they are now slightly beginning to wrinkle and bend reality. One of the player characters chose something like sex magick and I assured him that there would be something to cater to that, somewhere in the UA books or on the 'net.  I was stumped seeing nothing matching the idea we had as a spur of the moment.

So far I've worked out a new adept school, the Luxuriamancer, of which the symbolic tension is that it's giving into animal lust to gain cosmic control, although being one step away from the animal, refraining from rape, and enslaving oneself to the libido of others.  I'd love some feedback, constructive criticism, and to hear some weird spell ideas (I always take way too long to come up with cool spell ideas; it took me months to work out the Infernomancer and the Tractomancer to a point where I liked their spells).  Thanks in advance.

Here goes:

THE LUXURIAMANCER

Lust is a monster that must be fed. Nurturing the animal side, you tame the beast, and control the sheep whose lust is oppressed, desperately crying out to you and begging for you to unleash them and then let them thrive under the yoke of your power.

AKA LUSTMONKEYS, SEXCHEMISTS
Virginity? What's that?You're not sure if you knew what it was before you lost it. Not that you'd care though. You immediately realized how much power it gave you – power over yourself, over others, even a bit of power in the sense of what people thought about you. When was the last time you heard someone call one of those geeky virgins a „stud"? Yeah, right.Staying virgin until they marry? Hey, they can be your guest – more power to you, more batteries teeming with sexual energy you can suck dry. Those cunts who fake orgasms or constantly have head-aches when you want some booty? They're wasting your fucking time. Those duds who go in and out and you didn't even notice their tiny member and they're already exhausted? Fucking party-crashers. Sexual inhibitions? The instruments of tight-assed narrow-minded losers, used mainly to lie to themselves and others and double-think their way into being „normal" or morally appropriate in society. Oh, the innocent flirts? They're chicken-shit teases who can't make up their silly minds, that's all they are. They are all weak. They are all deviating from the most natural path of true power.And love? Fuck that. You dump it in the nearest alley and move on, or leave in the wee early hours before it wakes up. Saving yourself up just for love would be the easy way out, and there's nothing to gain from that. No friction, no challenges, and once you've got it, the wind will eventually get blown out of it. You wouldn't grow an inch if you weren't willing to go further than that into the erotica incognita, further than the last time, every time, back and forth. Giving up those chances is like sacrificing your crown and throne and then cutting out your tongue although you'd have the opportunity to rule an empire of the sexually frustrated, one johnson by one, one pussy by one.People are nothing but sophisticated animals, they just don't get it yet. What you do does not make you any filthier than they are, and whatever they do they will never let them reach to the clouds and heavens you can reach unless they do the same thing you do – drop the inhibitions, embrace the instinct. Fuck. Live. Eventually you'll die, so you don't have any time to waste with thoughts, philosophy, morals, ethics, enlightenment, spiritual power, or whatever the fuck people use as a sorry excuse in attempt to drag you down from your throne of sexual power. Your body is your palace and your temple.You aren't ignorant like other people, you welcome lust into your temple. Because the temple is hollow otherwise, and an empty temple is impotent.The central paradox of Luxuriamancy is that you gain control with your virtuous diligence to giving and taking sexual satisfaction, but at the same time you are a slave to your own viceful and animal lust as well as submissive to the libidos of others. You're probably the guy or gal everybody wanted to screw at high school, but was then constantly dumped right after any of those shitheads actually got into bed with you so they could boast having done such a horny hawt slut like you. It should go without saying – while there may be a good number of folks out there who are immensely attracted to you and easily tempted by your sexual allure, there will always also be at least as many people who are repelled by your reputation or aura which is drenched in the body fluids of relentlessly whoring around. While you are nearly omnipotent in controlling and evoking attraction and desire, you are practically impotent in bonding permanently.
LUXURIAMANCY BLAST STYLEA Luxuriamancer's blast does not deal any physical damage, it provokes Helplessness and Self checks which – if either one is failed – force the target's lust to boil over and deconstruct the target's inhibitions, resulting in the target trying everything short of rape to have sex with another target of the Luxuriamancer's choice, and if they flat-out don't succeed at that over a long period of time, it may also begin to trigger further Helplessness checks at the GM's discretion. It's a very subtle kind of blast which can drive people mad, and force them into trying to have sex with certain people (or the Luxuriamancer who dealt the blast). Hey, if you use it to force someone to have sex with someone else who's, for example, HIV positive, it's not a far cry to say this blast can be quite deadly and subtle at the same time, even though it falls flat of directly dishing out Wound points like other blasts.Getting hit by a Luxuriamancy blast does not seem unnatural to anybody. After all, there are things like „opposites attract",  „love on second sight", „you hate who you love", and so on. People hit by these blasts will pull any explanation out of their asses in order to explain their sudden lust for someone else.
STATSLuxuriamancers can't gain any more than six charges from the same person within one month – more than that just „doesn't have the same spark". If such a person is involved in one of the Luxuriamancer's sex orgies, the number of people involved in the orgy excludes such „discharged" chumps.The length of the sexual interaction is actually rather irrelevant, as is the number of orgasms experienced in the process. One „session" of sex as detailed below will net one charge each, period. Furthermore, the sessions can only be bummed for charges twice a day and night together, no more. If for example, a lustmonkey gains a minor charge on a quickie during his lunch break with a working associate, then goes to the swinger club in the evening for a significant charge, he won't be able to charge up a third time by going home and screwing his latest girlfriend in the same night.Generate a Minor Charge: Having consensual sex with a partner. This can be anything from a quickie all the way to an all-nighter.Generate a Significant Charge: Having a consensual sex orgy with nine or more partners. Alternatively, having a consensual sex orgy with two or more partners who do nothing but sexually satisfy you, not eachother – only you get the full treatment. This will probably take at least a few hours, but probably the entire night.Generate a Major Charge: Having a consensual sex orgy with nine or more partners who do nothing but sexually satisfy you, not eachother – only you get to go the whole ten yards and beyond the summit. If this doesn't take all night long and you're not satisfying those partners back to a certain extent, you probably can't expect to pull this off again with them too soon – or ever again.Taboo: Getting downed from the sexual high for too long. If you go 24 hours without at a single orgasm (although preferably more), you lose all charges. While falling in love is not taboo to you, it could prove to be a royal pain and eventually get in the way of your power, or vice versa.Random Magick Domain: Controlling hormones and other bodily chemicals, which amounts to triggering passions, desires, minor forms of alterations to minds and perceptions and – to a minor extent – the pool of the adept's own physical energy. Also, tearing down any creature's facades and inhibitions in order to sense its underlying psyche, all hit the spot of Luxuriamancy. On the downside, Luxuriamancy's random magick is only barely capable of creating long-lasting effects, and entirely incapable of creating any permanent effects.Starting Charges: Luxuriamancers only start off with one minor charge for one reason or the other, but there are many people around town who can't wait to get laid. What are you waiting for?Charging Tips: An attractive and alluring Luxuriamancer who's on a serious roll in a city will easily score seven minor charges a week, and two significant charges on top of that. More isolated locations with less available willing sexual partners will halve that rate (and significant charges may be an ordeal to rack up), taking into account how the lustmonkeys will have to spend some charges to attract new partners and increase their willingness.Luxuriamancers who have a sex cult following they lead or belong to, or a swingers club which they own or belong to, may increase the rate at which they can charge up, perhaps as much as doubling it, unless they are constantly spending charges to keep that following or the regular club members or simply attract new sex magick batteries.Notes: A Luxuriamancer can feign the lack of consent on their own behalf of the sexual act and still charge up. For instance, a clever lustmonkey could pretend to be unwillingly getting gang-banged by a football jock team, but actually be charging up; this would nevertheless qualify as „consensual sex" if she really does want it and has the jocks fooled.On the other hand, anybody who's hit by any sort of magick (including any kind outside of this school's powers) does not qualify as a partner consenting to sex. Can't fool the cosmos on that one.

WHAT YOU HEAR: THE LUXURIAMANCERI heard there's this chick in L.A., wears a dominatrix mask and does all sorts of superhero shit, saving lives and beating up muggers and all that. You can pay for private sessions with her and get your ass kicked in the erotic way. Supposedly she hangs out in this fetish club called Gain the Pain. Heroic chicks make me horny, I'll think twice about that SM stuff now.Some so-called spiritual people are trying to tell you that having too many orgasms will power you out and eventually make you impotent, but this was spawned as a desperate lie, spread in attempt to stall a certain adept from completely turning a whole city's population into a huge sex cult and farming grounds for sex magick charges.
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