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Frank and Tormsen dissect, discuss, and offer unsolicited art direction for 2003's supplement and Game of Mythic Ascension, To Go, by Greg Stolze.

While trying to get to the bottom of what this game's tagline actually means, Frank and Tormsen take a few brief detours through the entire history of human thought. En route, they encounter methods to make Adepts and Avatars more post-modern, the premodern and modern equivalents thereof, and even run into some talk on what the hell metamodernism is.

To celebrate the looming tenth anniversary for the Kickstarter of Unknown Armies 3rd Edition, Frank and Tormsen talk about the game with a decade of hindsight. The two get into the differences in the teams behind the editions, the issues they have with the game after running it for years, and what postmodern magick REALLY looks like.

Frank and Tormsen dive into the layered Mesopotamian horrors of Pazuzu's Circle from Book 3 of the 3rd edition of Unknown Armies, in the hopes of discovering who this demon actually is.

Having discovered a strange crate labeled "What Might Have Been", Frank and Tormsen go through a few of the alternate universe versions of adept schools that have wound up on unnaturalphenomena dot com.

Photomancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=3460

Tropamancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=3413

Cinemancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=3678

Sociomancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=3812

Ballistomancies: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=3505 https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=2226

Sartorimancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=3008

Detritomancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=3597

Automancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=2071

Odomancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=2011

Frank and Tormsen explore the dark underbelly of another mid-tier American burb, rife with cults, killers, mantises, and albinos in the hills.

Perched atop a high mountain peak, Tormsen instructs Frank in the way of the Dao. Before Tormsen leaves for the west astride a water buffalo, student and teacher go into Daoism's history, the distinction between religious and philosophical Daoism, parallels between immortals and avatars, and how much jade you need to eat to live forever.

Frank and Tormsen once more don their gurpsuits, this time to discuss the wild and woolly work of Kenneth Hite in his Suppressed Transmissions series for Pyramid Magazine. They debate the High Weird and its powerful proximity to the grit of Unknown Armies.

Frank hits Tormsen with some probing questions about unidentified flying objects and our brothers from outer space. Along our interstellar journey, we get into the various hypotheses behind UFOs, the emergence of abduction stories and UFO cults, and some ways to fit ET into Unknown Armies' humanocentric milieu.

Frank and Tormsen suffer varying degrees of stress and shock, becoming helpless, unnatured, violent, isolated, and unselfed as they harden and fail. Somewhere in there, they discuss these '90s-innovative mechanics for the Unknown Armies systems and variation and bastardizations thereof.