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Brighter Day Investigations, All are Welcome, Beginner Friendly!
A friend of your Mentor has been accused of a murder. You have been assured they could not commit this heinous act and are being sent to investigate.
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Weekly / Saturday - 11:00 PM UTC
Mar 7 / Session 1
Session Duration / 2.5–3.5 hours
5 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Reality is not fixed. Rather it is an agreed upon set of assumptions that is enforced by the collective beliefs and will of humanity, known as the Consensus. Mages (you!) are those folks who have awakened to recognize that reality is not static, and realize that through the application of their will, channeled through rituals or other "mystical" or "scientific" approaches, reality can be changed according to their specific set of beliefs! There may be drastic consequences if your alterations don't match up well with the communal Consensus of the unawakened Sleepers, however! You have somewhat recently had an experience that awakened you to a wider world of Magick that you were never fully aware of. Until now. You have begun adapting to this new (to you) world and accepting that very few are indeed ever awakened to this! Shortly thereafter, as you begin to accept the truth, you're approached by an anonymous benefactor. They share with you a prophetic vision of the future where you and several others were all that seemed able to stand against a great, unseen Evil. Trying to destroy the world as we know it! They offered excellent wages and a wide variety of benefits, both supernatural and mundane to get you to join in moving forward towards their visions of your potential future in world-saving! Newly awakened to the true World of Darkness, you accepted their offer and are now recently moved into a Chantry on with some other recently awakened folks. An old but fully restored 19th century mansion on Farmington Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. You will be tasked to travel to any required location and investigate different strange and mysterious happenings or phenomena in the Awakened world. We will try to start small and see where this brings us! We will take an Arcane Approach to define our characters by what they do, how they do it, the sorts of metaphysical Arts they pursue, and the beliefs, tools and activities they use to pursue them. Enter the World of Darkness, which is a shadowy, viler version of our own world. Here, the fight for Ascension is real. It encompasses all of our realities including the Umbra, which is a distorted reflection of our own reality but in that Spirit World, separated from us only by the Gauntlet. Themes for this contemporary game will include climate change and is concerned with the oligarchy dominating the consensus today. You as a Mage have the ability to reshape your reality to match your perceptions! How will you Ascend to your own version of "reality" and move beyond the common consensus? What will you do with these abilities? What price are you willing to pay? This is a Mage game with several beginners who are learning the system. Trying to explore their Traditions and understand the Spheres! Experienced players are welcome but should be willing to guide and support new players along the way! Come and join us and learn to change reality to meet your perceptions.
Game style
Sandbox / Open World
Theater of the Mind
Rules as Written (RaW)
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
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2 years on StartPlaying
158 games hosted
Highly rated for: Teacher, Knows the Rules, Creativity
Average response time: 2 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hail, fellow gamer and well met! Aho. I've enjoyed many years (and still learning!) as a Storyteller/GM/DM and sometimes player. Typically, with a wonderful variety of groups, systems, styles and people! If you try me out, I do my best to allow for a lot of roleplays. You will experience a fair amount of tactical combat as well as some time for exploration. You will most likely laugh and enjoy yourselves while forgetting some of your real-world troubles. You will experience my calm voice and demeanor over which many have said that I should be in voice acting or radio work. With a long background in theater and customer service I often feel as though I may have been meant to do this pro GM thing... It has been a fulfilling yet challenging experience so far! (Profile pic with Mark Twain at his old house) I believe that on a deeper level, the things we create become reflections of our selves. The fantasies that we create embrace a lot about who we are in real life. They can represent the things we want to accomplish and experience. The fights we want to win and the values we wish to cherish or reject. A roleplaying game gives us the opportunity to do so safely in a comfortable, relaxed space for such fantasies! My intention is to enable a sacred, safe place for your imagination to roam freely, where each of us can play off and with each other in harmony. One of my favorite games ever was with a large group in my college days. Everyone played their own Dark Elven Matron mother, totally evil. Complete with their own noble House. Deep down in the in the Underdark. Daughters, males, slaves, evil Lloth worshippers and all... it was a furious game of note passing, deceit, backstabbing, building power and survival. Insanely challenging but great fun, with permissions of course! This and several other campaigns have lasted for several years or more of play time and have always been highly enjoyable! I do tend to get a little hyper-focused on these games. I also tend to prep way more than is actually required. Part of that is because I am neurodivergent with ADHD and some definite overlap into the Autistic Spectrum. I often recognize and genuinely empathize for others with these and other societal differences and hope that you'll feel safe and included in the environment that I work to provide. I've learned through time how to manage much of it though there's always room for new challenges. In addition, when not gaming I do love to kayak, raft, e-bike or hike in the great outdoors whenever possible. I love to read, a lot. Mostly TTRPG books nowadays but I've read a decent library of sci-fi, fantasy, including many other types through the years. Many in a hammock outside in nature (wish I could be there more!). I join and host several drum circles each month. I have dabbled in drawing and painting quite a bit through my years. I spent a lot of time making jewelry as a silversmith too. Leathercraft, tool work and dyeing was probably my first hyperfocus on arts and crafts though. I've been known to watch a bit of video entertainment, as I cannot always give reading the focus it deserves. Sometimes, I just need to not think so much, which can be challenging as my kind of neurodivergent! My hyperactive self tends to be way more mental than physical. I find myself empathizing with the Indigenous communities throughout the world for the terrible things, including genocide, done to them and their ancestors. I believe that we should listen to many of their voices and begin to resume roles as caretakers of the land, even if only for the sake of our descendants on this world. Parts of this come from the fact that I love gardening and natural landscaping. I helped run an organic wildflower nursery for many years too. I've built many miles of rock walls as well as hiking trails. I have planted literally thousands of trees throughout the years. Even more than that in perennial herbs and flowers! Check out the profile point boxes on this page for a little more insight into me and my style if you'd like. Hope we get to meet and play some games with you sometime soon!
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Creating your character
We have built our characters around concepts of an investigations agency with a beneficial Patron in the background, a mentor who helps and teaches. They also provide an antique mansion for your Chantry house, with several other perks included as well! We will let you know how much experience points each player has, so you can catch up before we begin play! Let's discuss character concepts before you jump into building them, please. I'd like for everyone to get along and want to work together, as Investigators in Hartford CT? It's not really a question. We signed up for this game, let's play as a group, together and share the spotlight while supporting each other in our Chantry! Let's do our best to make each player feel welcome and supported. Let's intentionally share the spotlight while we create this story. Together. I want everyone to feel that this is a safe space to relax, let down your guard and roleplay while having some fun for a while! It shouldn't be difficult, I hope, to keep a few common goals along with your personal ones. Which we'll get to. We will have downtime for our protagonists to occasionally pursue their own agendas. We will explore themes of oligarchy, climate change, the Evils of man. I'd like to include some Tenets as well. All beliefs matter and have power. All people have beliefs, and the world reflects this. The choice to abandon humanity is a conscious one. The holes we dig are deep, but they should never be bottomless. Other magic exists. Although rare and strange, mortals are not cattle. Not stupid, not wise, not alone, we work the best in shadows. The ascension war is both internal and external. The main battle fronts are not only the entirety of the Earth and cosmos but also inside each of us! My intention is to run nothing but proactive, bottom up built stories and games in my future. We will have a brief voice interview together, to make sure we all will mesh well. After that, I would like for you to meet up in Discord voice chat with several players and myself. we'll have a session 0 to begin working out our character concepts, together, and a Prelude. We will be recently awakened and still adjusting to our life as Mages, together, in our small Chantry or group consisting of the Player Characters and appropriate Backgrounds. We will discuss themes, expectations, safety tools and answer any questions about the world. I plan to discuss and build our characters together and run a 30 to 60+ minute prelude for each, before we truly begin, to discuss your character in greater detail. The intention being to add their associated NPC's, flavor and stories into our chronicle, together! I am seeking to assemble more reliable groups of players who love to share the spotlight and encourage each other in play! I'd like to build groups which I can enable to be proactive. To help build the world together as a group, through the actions, histories, goals and desires of each Player's Character.
We have decided to join in an investigative agency. Each player will share many backgrounds as benefits of that including a Chantry, Allies, Resources, Mentor! Let's set up a time to talk about your experiences with Mage the Ascension and World of Darkness, if any, and throw down some character concepts. Major themes will include climate change, the evils of man and oligarchy!
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Bring several brief character concepts to the table. Character's you would most likely enjoy playing in our World of Darkness! Otherwise, welcome! Come and join us in Discord. https://discord.gg/fMtETQHkN9 You'll need a free Roll20 account as well for our character sheets and dice rolling, link will be in discord.
What Craig B brings to the table
I try my best to do some voices and accents here and there. They don't always last long but should at least be enough to set off some imagination. I'm mostly a rules as written kind of GM but will occasionally hand wave it if we are getting frustrated or for something super cool that contributes to the story. We will participate in some tactical combats as well as intense roleplay! We are looking for friendly, reliable players who'd like to have some friends in the online gaming community to roleplay, laugh and have fun with while playing some games and forgetting about stuff. You will be expected to treat everybody in the group with respect while trying your best to be kind. We will expect you to join us, on time and prepared, unless you've given us some prior notification. I'll be there to chat if you need anything. If your expectations are not being met, please let me know!
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
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Safety
How Craig B creates a safe table
Lines and Veils will be posted in Discord chat. Session 0 will set expectations and other safety tools.
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