Thus Spake Zaraborgstrom/OrdainedBridleOfMercury
rebeccaborgstrom - 02/13/2004 03:17:34
Meep!
That is close but not 100% accurate. :)
The Acquaintances Background did not exist when the *Maidens* built that Charm. One of the things I did during Charm building was think out why each Charm existed in the setting, and, for the few Charms that have had to change over time, their history. :)
When *I* wrote the Charm, I knew about the Acquaintances Background. It changed a little bit since I wrote the Charm, I think, but not hugely---my best memory, and I'm sleepy right now, is that it added some kind of option that the Charm doesn't easily duplicate, which makes it more worthwhile in chargen.
Rebecca
rebeccaborgstrom - 02/13/2004 18:32:41
I'm not sure what you're currently asking.
I'll answer the original question: you can use the Charm to make genuine Acquaintances.
No one should censure you for doing so: not the Maidens, not the Bureaucracy, not the Storyteller.
The Charm is just a bit wonky because the Maiden of Journeys didn't know that Sidereals would need Acquaintances when she created it. Possibly she guessed . . . but I think the Maidens guessed five million things about the future of the world, and only about ten or twenty thousand actually came to pass.
(I mean, look at the Medicine tree. They knew *something* like the Deathlords was likely to happen; and it's pretty clear they knew it was going to be bad; and it's also clear that they had no idea whatsoever what the details would be. I suspect strongly that their best guess was that Deathlords and Abyssals would be zombies.)
Rebecca
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