Mage Chantry Quest

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Anyone want explanations of the various factions? If so, which ones?

>>537703
I'm not familiar with any of the factions. Do you have a pastebin that explains them?

>>537758
Not a pastebin, but I'll give you the cliffnotes (I forgot that not everyone is familiar with Mage the Ascension)

Order of Hermes: Old fashioned wizards, with the robes, the wands, and all that good stuff.

Celestial Chorus: Religious miracle-workers. The mainstream subscribes to a universalist religion, but there's members of most religions among them.

Euthanos: Assassins, and death cultists. Work to balance karma by punishing people who do bad things and rewarding people who do good.

Cult of Ecstasy: Use sex, drugs, and rock and roll to see beyond the illusion that is reality.

Dreamspeakers: Traditional shamans and medicine men from native cultures around the world.

Verbena: Traditional European pagans.

Sons of Ether: Mad scientists. Believe that true science requires coolness, not replicability.

Akashic Brotherhood: Kung-fu monks and other eastern magical practitioners.

Virtual Adepts: Computer hackers that have learned to hack reality.

>>537776
>Virtual adepts
We will achieve the singularity

These are all members of the Nine Mystical Traditions, an organization united to free humanity from the Technocracy. The Technocracy is devoted to wiping out magic and rendering the world safe for normal humans to live in, as well as advancing technology.

The Technocracy is made up of:

The Syndicate: Money guys, the super rich, and big business.

The New World Order: Spies, academics, the media, all serving the idea of a one world government.

Progenitors: Super-biologists

Iteration X: Super-engineers and 'hard scientists'

Void Engineers: Space explorers.

>>537788
I'll give it another half hour or so then start up chargen.

You are a Virtual Adept, one of the Elite who has learned how to manipulate reality itself through number-crunching. Some would call this reality hacking, maybe you are among their number.

What's your paradigm (how you see the world)

>Reality is a computer simulation (+0 points)
>I can hack anything (+3 Points)
>Through extreme number crunching, you can manipulate reality. (+1 Point)

Secondly, you have 10 Points to allocate on your base stats. If you have bonus points (from parentheses) you can spend them here on a 1-1 ratio, or you can save them.

The base stats are Mental, Physical, and Social.

>>537871
>I can hack anything
I'm pretty sure this includes reality.

>>537880
Sorry, it doesn't. It only includes things with computers, like brains, computers, and things like that. That's why it gives points.

>>537871
Through extreme number crunching, you can manipulate reality

>>537871
If you're confused I can give an example:

Cyberpunk:
Reality is a computer simulation
5 Physical
3 Mental
2 Social

Next up is your Magic. By default you have 41 points to spend here, as well as two free Sphere dots. A sphere cannot rise higher than your Enlightenment, which is three right now. Raising a sphere or Enlightenment costs the new level in points. If you want to you can save some points here.

The Ten Spheres are:

>Correspondence: Teleporting, looking at distant locations, and things like that.
>Life: Manipulating living things
>Mind: Manipulating minds
>Data: Manipulating data, from books to computers to minds.
>Prime: Meta-science, creating hyper-advanced objects, boosting your other science, and things like that.
>Fate: Manipulating and seeing destiny
>Time: Seeing through time, slowing it down, speeding it up, and traveling through it.
>Dimensions: Manipulating Dimensions, traveling to different ones, and changing the laws of reality.
>Matter: manipulating base matter, breaking or transforming it.

>>537904
>Matter
>Time

These two seem nice to have.

I'm going to post a sample character. If you're feeling lazy, just vote for it.

Neo
Reality is a simulation

Stats:
5 Physical
4 Mental
1 Social

Enlightenment 5
Spheres:
Time 3
Data 5
Forces 3
Dimensions 3

>>537915
>Neo
I'm sold we are in the matrix.
Let us experience the simulation.

>>537915
Are we going to go Mr. Robot?

>>537904
Prime, Matter, Dimensions, Time, Data all to three.

>>537930
Never actually seen it, but from what I've heard it's a distinct possibility.

Moving this to
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mage-chantry-mage-the-ascension.426199/