[UA] Re: Sex Magic

[Eric Cazzoli]

2008/5/10 Evan Loehle <wombatidae at hotmail.com>:

> I think the paradox being termed in a more tantric sense in that you give
> in to the lust of the body so that you can free your mind from it is good
> because it also covers being oppressed by that freedom, relying on what you
> try to escape, give in to the earthly to escape the earthly (sex as
> distraction from day-to-day grind), that it's the most important thing to
> you but it's also what you treat as most disposable, and so on and so forth.
> Or, as in true nymphomania, you need it but don't enjoy it, pursuing
> pleasure that never comes (and never cums), you have to have it but when you
> get it you still don't have it.
>
> Otherwise, it could be based on transgression where only sex that crosses
> some line of social acceptability but which must be kept secret from those
> that judge, so that you rebel but it doesn't really count and feel free of
> society's controls by hiding from and specifically contradicting (and
> therefore being controlled by) those that would judge you.
>
> People have sex for all sorts of reasons, after all.
>
> With the Blast Effect, alternately maybe the feeling of intense blue-balls
> for men and... painful oversensitivity for women maybe? in the minor
> condition and in the significant condition it manifests as a damagingly
> intense or prolonged orgasm (with "prolonged" requiring the addition of a
> few minor charges with the added effect that damage takes place over a few
> rounds and causes the target to be distracted and giving them a penalty of
> some sort on die rolls), even to the point of cumming blood or having
> chafed-raw vaginal walls. Alternately, it could manifest as a really intense
> but inherently unsatisfiable and repressed burst of libidinous need that
> actually strains the body (i.e. muscles over-tensing with suppressed need,
> veins popping, jaws clenching, awkward places straining, etc).
>
> Random magick: Sex, mind-body duality, instinctive physical need, and
> (though more difficult) the disposability of some human interactions
>
> Spells that cause a physical or significant effect can be cast without
> touching the target, but require an additional minor charge when contact
> isn't possible (including when adept can't touch themselves for some reason)
>
> For spells: Penetration - allows entry into places into which access could
> feasibly gained on the basis of how desirable (particularly sexually) the
> person trying to get in seems to be (i.e. nightclubs, fancy parties, places
> with lonely security guards of the appropriate gender, etc)
>
> Ejaculation - Spreads your "mark" in an area, subtly making individuals in
> that area show a resemblance to you in behavior/desires/beliefs
>
> Pink Eye - temporarily blinds an individual
>
> Cheap - incurs negative penalty on target in social situations due to a
> feeling of shame and reduced worth
>
> Every Five Seconds - incurs penalty on target until they next have sex due
> to being distracted by sexual thoughts, has been used in the past to make it
> more difficult to read the mind and emotions of the target
>
> Lubed Up - can be used to give a bonus to escaping things that physically
> bind (like a bear-hug) or to make an object hard to hold onto
>
> Glow - bonus to social rolls where a positive, relaxed disposition would be
> helpful
>
> Freud Says - shows the relationship of target object/individual/concept to
> sex, useful in uncovering scandal fodder
>
> Multiples - causes a displayed emotional peak to repeat for sum-of-dice
> times and can be used on self or others
>
> Cries afterwards - 1 minor - causes target to cry and sob following the
> next good thing that happens to them
>
> Sex, Therapy, Trauma - allows adept to add or subtract a temporary point in
> a stress rating - this change occurs the next time the target has a sex
> session (so that multiple rounds don't cause it to end early, but taking a
> break to watch a TV show and then having sex again would) and lasts until
> they're next aroused
>
> Shivers (or "It's so sensitive!" - enhances a successful physical attack by
> causing it feel more intensely - can also be used to enhance a single, brief
> tactile sensation
>
> Nothing But Mammals - 4 sig - reverts target to purely instinctive behavior
> patterns and for unknown reasons occasionally appears to increase
> hair-growth, raise body temperature, and induce lactation in both genders -
> can be cast on target or adept and may allow bonuses in certain specific
> conditions
>
> Awwwwkward - prevents a group from working well together, unable to meet
> eyes or talk any more than absolutely necessary and be generally
> uncomfortable and distracted around each other. Overall, can be used to slow
> work on a project (if people feel awkward one day, they'll often feel
> awkward on their own the next day) or give penalties in combat to a group
> that increase by the proximity of members to each other, how socially
> acceptable their actions are, if they accidentally touch, and if their
> actions would be made more difficult if unable to and actively avoided
> having to speak clearly or make eye-contact with each other
>
> You Want It - makes target amenable to receiving something from the adept,
> in combat prevents the target from dodging one attack
>
> Do What You Want - reduces inhibitions
>
> ORGY! - exact opposite effects of Awwwkward
>
> It's Just Sex - allows rationalization of one session of purely physical
> activity(like torture or cheating on your wife or killing a man) so that it
> does not cause a stress check (or halves the stress-check in those cases
> where the action itself, such as the sex had while cheating on your wife,
> wouldn't require a stress check but the emotional implication would, such as
> a self-check for a man who believes he's not a cheater)
>

That is some awesome input.  Thank you!  All the stuff you're suggesting is
so good it would merit the work of putting it into a whole school of its
own, but I'll leave that to more skilled creators and writers.

I think I'll be using quite a good deal of it (not just the spells, but
bringing the concept sketch and paradox in synch), and credit you too.
The Nymphomania aspect, I think, adds up neatly with the rest of the ideas
that had been tossed around at our game table and here so far.  I want to
avoid direct ties to Tantra, Tao, or the existing post-modern schools like
Pornomancy.
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