Wonderful and sad news. I'm a bit of an aspiring writer myself. Havn't put enough effort into it in a long time though.
It may be a bit of a strange transition, but I'm certainly considering taking over as ST. As I've mentioned my knowledge of the rules of Mage is a little rough but with the base we have I think we could have a lot of fun RP-ing.
If anyone else thought "I could maybe take over" after reading Jeff's last post let me know.
Conversly, I've thought of running a few other games too (1e AD&D, Vampire, Amber). It's nice to work with an established base though.
The game has been a lot of fun. Thanks for the good times everyone, I for one would like to see them continue.
Good luck with your writting Jeff.
Joshua
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I'm pretty attached to Prometheus at this point, so I would continue the game with you as ST. My knowledge of the rules is pretty basic as well, but I think between the other three of us and you, we could work something out.
That said, while I'm definitely more inclined to continue mage than start a new game entirely, I would be willing to learn Amber, and have the stuff for Vampire.
I would also love to continue. But I will not be a that great help. My knowledge of the (new) world of darkness is not so great and my knowledge of the magic rules is worse
Oh, and good luck, Hella_Tellah.
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If Hella_Tella's able to forward me the notes that'd be a great help. (you could send it to thondor underscore of underscore thay at hotmail dot com ) I'm sure I'll do a few things different, but want to make sure there is continuity. And the notes will probably be great inspiration.
Thanks
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Just a heads up, I'll be heading into my last exams of my last year of university soon, so that may slow things up a little. (Hasn't before but there's always a first time.)
Hella_Tella sent me some notes today (Thank you!). I'm going to try to start things up again on Monday.
Goliath will be put in his proper place as an NPC. Which will be easy considering he never really 'joined' the group.
I got some brainstorming/reading to do this weekend. Fun.
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It just occurred to me that you all have probably sent some character background stuff to Hella_Tella in PMs (I know I did). If you can pass some of that info on to me that would be helpful.
Thanks
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Um... Actually everything about my character is openly displayed on the site. Sorry to get your hopes up. That said, if you feel the need to develope something about my character outside of the thread that's fine with me too. I've probably got an idea about it, but nothing concrete.
No deep dark secrets to Thorn either, that I ever knew of.
Her story thus far is fairly straightforward, and I think it's told in the OOC recruitment thread. I'll see if I can find it and repost it. If not, I'll write it up again here.
Cool. Well if its all in this thread then I'll find what's here, no worries. I think that actually leaves us with some good space to manuver in defining characters, setting up links with the 'world' etc. Thanks for the quick responses.
Note: just to assuage any curiousity I may have created, the PM's I sent where mostly on how we'd be introducing my character. It let Goliath know a few things about Benefit before you did, seeing as he was there. There may have been a nugget or two of character in there, but i can't remember anything significant.
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Gnosis: 3 Mana: 1 (max: 12, 3/turn) (3 tass in wand) Pattern: Restoration (1/day), Scouring (1/day) Nimbus: Afraid to stray to far from his person
Arcana:Mind 2, Prime 3, time 1
Rote Specialties: None Rotes: None Dedicated Magical Tool: The handle of King Solomon's Bronze jar (doesn't have one at the moment, but would like this) Enchanted Items: Single Use wand of counterspell (made of Tass)
Mage Merits: 1 to shared hallow Social Merits:
You don’t have ‘rote skills’ or high speech because that requires and order. (Aside - are you looking to have you character join one at some point during the chronicle, or do you want to keep him more of an outsider?) However, you should still have:
Rotes - You have 6 dots to spend. To help keep the ‘raw power’ idea you could buy fewer high dot rotes (1 or two 3dot rotes).
Merits - I’m not sure this adds up. What’s the rule for raising your Gnosis with merits? I can’t seem to find it.
Specialties - You seem to be missing one. Was it suppose to be with subterfuge? There’s nothing between the brackets.
Experience - Did you do anything with it yet?
background
Place of Birth: Wheelright, Massachusetts Relatives: Emily Faust (mother), Robert Faust (father) Mentor: Charles Walker (real name unknown, (Forces Space Ruling), Tremere Lich) Marital Status: Not attached
Occupation: Graduate History Student (University of Massachusetts) Current Residence: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Born in a small rural town, Joseph found himself totally unprepared for awakening. It wasn't until college that he fully understood or could control his powers, and in that manner they remained a secret.
He used his status as a history major at UMass to research all things arcane, using all resources he could get his hands on at the library there. During his studies, he found another who shared his interests, Charles Walker, and the two grew fairly close. One day, Joseph entered Charles' study unanounced, only to find the other moving books around magically. Delighted at knowing another like himself, Joseph told Charles everything about his limited mystical career. In turn, Charles taught Joseph some of what he knew of magic.
Joseph learned much over the course of his time with Charles, learning about the essence of magic, Prime, Mind, and Time. However, he learned nothing of paradox, cabals, or orders. Only through natural caution did he not suffer from the first, nor the attention of the other two.
However, when graduation came around Charles had gained entry into the Tremere. Through his true name, Charles has repeatedly attacked Joseph, and only through luck has he survived thus far. Recently, Joseph has hidden his trail from Charles, but the problem remains unresolved. Daily wards from scrying are all that separate him from his predator.
Through his experience with Charles, Joseph learned the rudiments of magic, but his knowledge is incomplete at best. He depends mostly on his sheer power to perform spells, in a way that other mages might describe as brutish. Pushing spells through carelessly, many of his spells go awry. Furthermore, his knowledge of true magic is blended in with his knowledge of the occult in general (he can't read high atlantean). Still to suffer from a paradox, he has no qualms about casting spells when he needs to. Only his natural caution, and his fear of Charles, stay his hand.
Since then, he has experimented with Sleepers, attempting to figure out the things that go with awakening. As of yet, he has had no success. In fact, he has yet to witness an awakening other than his own. In the cabal, he hopes to find out something of awakening from the other members, and to apply it to his study of sleepers.
He chose Prometheus as a shadow name to finally hide his true name, only several days before he joined the cabal. He chose it to represent giving 'fire', or magic, to the sleepers. In reality, its meaning more closely resembles 'forethought' of awakening a personal army.
chronicle so far
As a trial by the Nemean, Promeheus (partnered with thorn) encountered a really sad child ghost who likely had his soul sucked out by the tremere lich whos aura tainted the room. He also encountered a random succubus, who he never saw, and was not actually affected by. Then there was the first spirit of alpha. He seemed quite out of it, but vanished utterly at pictures of real places in 'beta'.
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Cool background. Is there anything that should be added possibly came up later in either thread?
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Rotes - You have 6 dots to spend. (rotes lower the mana cost by one and paradox chance by 1die)
Merits - Your missing the 1-dot High Speech Merit p 84 (You get it for free for being part of and order). What’s the rule for raising your Gnosis with merits? I can’t seem to find it.
Specialties - You didn’t pick any. You should have three.
Experience - Did you do anything with it yet?
background
Place of Birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Relatives: Hector Reyes (Father), Hugo Reyes (Uncle)
Mentor: "Papa Chango" (AKA Hugo Reyes)
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Store Clerk
Current Residence: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hee! I will have the full story up soon. Also the 6 "levels" of freebie rotes we start with.
'Papa Chango' is not just his Shadow Name...it's the name he runs his shop under, though not his legal name. One of the weirder things he does is dress up in a Chinese getup and actually has one of those long thin goatee-type mustaches and the whole bit. Then he talks in a fake Chinese accent.
He's pretty obviously a Hispanic guy pretending to be Chinese though.
I suspect he's either Adamantine Arrow or Mysterium...I am still brainstorming him. Suggestions are always welcome.
One of the reasons I'm making Juno so young is to justify her lack of dots in Sanctum and Resources. I do plan on spending early exp on those things, to represent her becoming more independent.
Is your father a police officer? Were you simply leaving that as undefined at the moment?
I feel I may have missed something for your background . . . Did I?
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Equipment (worn): light pistol, ammo, watch, clothing, poceket-knife.
Acanum - your short one arcanum dote. I think you may have meant to put a third dot in space.
Merits - besides High Speech you have “Magical Tradition (Kabbalah) 2" I’m not sure what this means. Is there a scection on magical traditions that I have overlooked?
Speed- it should be 10 not 11
Nimbus – have you decided on one?
Magical Tool(s) – have you picked one?
background
Former police officer, turned PI
He will be viewing magic through the lens of Kabbalah (not the new age, but the real thing). Specializing in Spirit, Fare and /or Space. (actually prime and space)
After loosing his job for taking money from the wrong persons, DJ settled down as a private investigator. Loosing his apartment, sportscar and girl-friend (in that order) he began a new life Boston.
I will wirte-up a day in life for DJ and post it at the beginning of the next week
The only reason I became a PI was because I lost my police job.
My granddad was a cop, my father, my uncles, all cops. Back then, cops were the law and cops had respect. By the time I became a cop, it was a whole another game. Sensitivity classes, social working, civilian review board, police brutality suits, corruption…
Now, don’t get it wrong here, I wasn’t let go because I was crooked… ok, I was. I know it was foolish…
Thing is, being a PI wasn’t like being a cop. I used to love walking into a crime scene and trying to figure out what happened. As a PI, all you do is sleazy spy work, like trailing lying spouses getting a little extra on the side. That work gets old fast.
The car is a nice green metallic American Sedan badly in need of a wash.
Will add more later.
Feel free to determine any background with Goliath if you want to. Could he have been a small part of the sour deal that got you kicked off the force? (Just one possible suggestion)
Need to indicate your mentor. I know you mention she/he was a member of the consilium previously . . .
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Acanum - your short one arcanum dote. I think you may have meant to put a third dot in space.
Yes, that would be great.
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Merits - besides High Speech you have “Magical Tradition (Kabbalah) 2" I’m not sure what this means. Is there a scection on magical traditions that I have overlooked?
It is something from the Magical Traditions Supplement. I can PM you the infos, when needed.
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Speed- it should be 10 not 11
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Nimbus – have you decided on one?
I think the nimbus should be something between holy and desert. Think of the place they found the grail in the Indiana Jones Films. Not old and stinky, but ancient. Light, but not holy light, but fire light, filtered through a thorn bush. The taste of smell between incense and oriental spices.
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Magical Tool(s) – have you picked one?
He already used a seal of solomon (hexagram), For the other, he will use hebraic words: Written papyri or writing the words himself.
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Feel free to determine any background with Goliath if you want to. Could he have been a small part of the sour deal that got you kicked off the force? (Just one possible suggestion)
Sounds good to me. But more a bystander at the deal, not the other side.
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Need to indicate your mentor. I know you mention she/he was a member of the consilium previously . . .
The Lion of Zion, rabbi and high ranking member of the consilium, more to come...
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Rotes - You have 6 dots to spend. (rotes lower the mana cost by one and paradox chance by 1die)
-- Odd, I thought I included those on my sheet. I'll fix that tonight. I did finally pick rotes, and they're on my sheet at home. I guess I just spaced on updating my online sheet. Sorry!
Merits - Your missing the 1-dot High Speech Merit p 84 (You get it for free for being part of and order). What’s the rule for raising your Gnosis with merits? I can’t seem to find it.
-- Ah, I missed that rules, thanks. As for raising Gnosis, there are two special Merits in the Mage book that allow this to happen. It's analogous to the merits in other books that let you raise the "magic trait" in Vampires, Werewolves, etc... In the main Mage book, look under Merits and it should be there. I'd quote it, but I don't have the book with me now.
Specialties - You didn’t pick any. You should have three.
-- Gah, yeah. I picked some of this stuff late in the process, and must've forgotten to update. Grumble.
Experience - Did you do anything with it yet?
-- Not yet. I was going to bank a little, and maybe wait for some downtime to narratively 'explain' the improvements.
Is your father a police officer? Were you simply leaving that as undefined at the moment?
-- Mew. Her father is actually ex-military, now working as a security guard.
I feel I may have missed something for your background . . . Did I?
-- More than likely, since it seems I didn't put it on my sheet.
Hee. Okay...all this has a pretty easy solution. I need to update my online sheet from my home one. I'll get that done tonight.
You don’t have ‘rote skills’ or high speech because that requires and order. (Aside - are you looking to have you character join one at some point during the chronicle, or do you want to keep him more of an outsider?)
Hm... I think joining an order is something thta would have to be handled in character. By that, I mean I'm not really sure if he'll be joining a faction, but its more because I haven't planned on it than because he won't if it comes up.
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Rotes - You have 6 dots to spend. To help keep the ‘raw power’ idea you could buy fewer high dot rotes (1 or two 3dot rotes).
I had actually just given up the rotes entirely, because without rote skills, they don't really work. Well, that and the fact that he hasn't actually had much formal training. I could pick some, but I'm also fine the way it is.
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Merits - I’m not sure this adds up. What’s the rule for raising your Gnosis with merits? I can’t seem to find it.
It does. At character creation you can spend 3 merit dots to increase gnosis by 1 as many times as you want. Prometheus used 6/7 merits to increase it by 2.
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Specialties - You seem to be missing one. Was it suppose to be with subterfuge? There’s nothing between the brackets.
I had wanted one for subterfuge, but I didn't really understand the way the skill works. I'm looking for somethng relating to maintaining a strait face under duress, but don't know what to call it.
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Experience - Did you do anything with it yet?
Nope, just saving it. When I spend it, I'll have a record on the sheet.
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Cool background. Is there anything that should be added possibly came up later in either thread?
Not that I know of... Although the thread spans farther back than my memory. Still, I can't think of anything that isn't on the sheet, so that means probably not.
Thanks for the detailed responses everyone. I'll get to some of the particulars of those in a moment. However I wanted to let you know that the story is now continuing. I made a judgement call on the time of day (it was 8:00pm when you arrived at cormant house, its gotta be pretty late by now) and decided to kickstart things with some movement. For a quick link just click here
I did find the rule for increasing Gnosis, it's on p. 66. That idex is actually pretty darn useful.
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It is something from the Magical Traditions Supplement. I can PM you the infos, when needed.
Guess you'll just have to let me know when it becomes relevant. I just don't want to ignore things that players 'spent' stuff on.
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I think the nimbus should be something between holy and desert. Think of the place they found the grail in the Indiana Jones Films. Not old and stinky, but ancient. Light, but not holy light, but fire light, filtered through a thorn bush. The taste of smell between incense and oriental spices.
He already used a seal of solomon (hexagram), For the other, he will use hebraic words: Written papyri or writing the words himself.
The Lion of Zion, rabbi and high ranking member of the consilium, more to come...
Cool. If you could and these modifications to your character sheet/background when you get a chance that'd be great. The nimbus description is nice an openended "sacred desert" can be experience a lot of different ways.
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Hm... I think joining an order is something thta would have to be handled in character. By that, I mean I'm not really sure if he'll be joining a faction, but its more because I haven't planned on it than because he won't if it comes up.
All right we'll see what comes up in game.
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I had actually just given up the rotes entirely, because without rote skills, they don't really work. Well, that and the fact that he hasn't actually had much formal training. I could pick some, but I'm also fine the way it is.
It does. At character creation you can spend 3 merit dots to increase gnosis by 1 as many times as you want. Prometheus used 6/7 merits to increase it by 2.
It's your choice obviously. But it does make you 'mechanically' weaker. Without rote skills you just giving up a bonus dice for a select number of rotes. Rotes lower the mana cost by one and paradox chance by 1die. You have a higher chance of paradox because of your high Gnosis. So that could be significant.
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I had wanted one for subterfuge, but I didn't really understand the way the skill works. I'm looking for somethng relating to maintaining a strait face under duress, but don't know what to call it.
The one I'd use that's suggested in the core book is "Hiding Emotions". Or you could just make up your own, maybe "Pokerface".
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