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someone pls explain the joke
In Mage the Ascension you play as one of the Awakened who is doing magic by realizing life is a dream and as such they can lucid dream in real life. However, it is a shared dream, and if you do something that doesn’t fit into what everyone else thinks reality is, like shooting lightning from your fingers or turning into a T-Rex, reality itself will tell you to stop by giving you points of Paradox. It’s better to be subtle and make magic look like something the Sleepers accept. For example, instead of using a fire spell to heat your food, you put it in a “microwave” to heat it.
If you accrue enough Paradox, bad things happen, ranging from being picked up and thrown around like a doll to the reality cops showing up and putting you in reality jail.
lmao this sounds like a wonderful game
edit: also, TY for the explanation!
The game’s theme is about trying to win the battle of ideas in the public consciousness. Like I alluded to earlier, it’s easier to do your magic when people believe your magic is real. To this end, one faction, the Technocracy, has spent centuries terranorming the public to accept their brand of magic, which is why we live in a world with refrigerators and cell phones instead of dragons and unicorns.
They are opposed by the Nine Mystic Traditions, who would like dragons and unicorns instead of refrigerators and cell phones, as well as the Nephandi, who want you to not believe in anything so they can summon Space Cthulhu to bring a new age of madness.
I should mention presenting the lore this way is really glazing the Technocracy, which is the group that contains such groups as:
- the New World Order, who want you to fear them in order to give them the ability to mind control you
- The Syndicate, whose paradigm is “if I have enough money i can do whatever the fuck I want”
- Iteration X, or as I like to call them, the Borg
Theres good guys in there, but they’re either off fighting Space Cthulhu or Threat Null on Alpha Centari or not making it very high up the corporate ladder.
It’s an interesting setting! But I like most of the World of Darkness ones, even the many fanmade ones!
