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 - 10:00 PM UTC
May 2 / Session 8
Session Duration / 2.5–3.5 hours
3 / 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
Theater of the Mind
Rules as Written (RaW)
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Sandbox / Open World
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(31)
2 years on StartPlaying
186 games hosted
Highly rated for: Teacher, Knows the Rules, Creativity
Average response time: 3 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
I fell in love with tabletop roleplaying games on Christmas, 1979, when I was only seven years old. My neighbors had received the Basic Box Set for D&D and asked my brother and I to play with them. I was instantly obsessed and we played for the rest of our vacation together! I had already begun designing worlds and maps. I swiftly fell into the role of game master as I gathered as many interested friends as I could find to play. We explored many different systems before I ever worked my way through college. 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 our imaginations to roam freely, where each of us can play off and with each other in harmony!
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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 together to form an investigative agency. Each player will be hired by our Patron and share a few benefits. 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! If you'd like some help making a character let's schedule a session 0 together.
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/rDC5kbDdMm You'll need a free Roll20 account as well for our character sheets and dice rolling, link will be in discord.
What Craig Baker 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 Baker 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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