From A Practical Reader on Occult Philosophy and Insurgency (aka “The Little Purple Book”)
Although it’s loaded with inaccurate connotations, the Consensus is still a useful shorthand term to describe the elements of existence that are most vital to the Ascension War. It isn’t as simple as majority rule, though the instincts of millions exert undeniable [...]
That a person exerts his will over another is instinct, but how he structures the act is technology, and his justifications? Magic. Therein lie the roots of the Hegemony: a network of Awakened who uphold modernist values – including those the great Masses, its protectorate, rarely speak of but firmly believe. The Hegemony is the [...]
Transhuman Adepts
We Are All Beautiful Information
Immortality is a dream as old as Gilgamesh. Scholars have hungered for transcendental knowledge from the most ancient days, and didn’t separate numinous enlightenment from their pragmatic studies. The Transhuman Adepts may be a new movement but they partake of that most ancient impulse – the same felt by Plato, [...]
It’s a toss up between the eye socket and nostril. The nose is safer, but the eye’s quicker, more direct. Luc doesn’t want to go blind but part of him thinks that if the Wire goes down wrong he’ll toss something steel in there – a few LEDs, a half-petabyte SSD – something that proves [...]
Eumenides
Love, Death and Justice Until the End of the World
Death is a lover and a lesson, walking with us all our lives, teaching the value of every moment – and when life ends, Death gives us a chance to explore the universe again, atone and learn. Still, this incarnation is critical. As a human you [...]
Kira’s rough kiss had put a ragged mark on the inside left of Markus’ mouth last night, but he regained some sickening symmetry when Jude’s fist snapped out a tooth on the right, ripping its root straight through the gum. Jude picked it out of his glove; Markus spat out a thin line of bloody [...]
I know y’all really want this information, so here it is:
Traditions of the Council of Eight
Æther Society: Scientists and adventurers devoted to forgotten, “obsolete” and fringe theories who are convinced that True Science has limitless scope. Metascientists are famous for their eccentricity — as obsessives who master one field, or polymaths who make bizarre connections [...]
So for those of you at home, let me tell you what I plan on doing with this thing. I have a few guidelines in mind that should hint at what I’m going to do.
For the Medium
The Dirty Version explores Mage through the tabletop RPG medium as I see it: one with its own voice [...]
The greatest stories we tell are about ourselves, to ourselves. Magic weaves tales of terrible power into the Tapestry of Creation.
We are the thread and the needle. Listen:
A fist locked into a hammer, the triceps the last piston of a hip-driven meat engine, dipping the hammer into skin and blood and broken bone. Strike. Knockout. [...]
You got me.
Mage: The Ascension still seems to have some legs in fandom. I haven’t done much thinking about it for a while. I haven’t played it since running “Judgment” for the Ascension book and have been pretty happy with other things: writing for Awakening, Lost, Hunter and Geist in the World of Darkness, working [...]