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See All Reviews. See all titles Need help? Common Questions FAQ. Submit Suggestion. Contact us. My Library. Affiliate System. Officer looking for help, or is the Dark Passenger us- Kelly is unwell, and he believes he is not alone in his own body. His Dark Passenger is both an excuse his broken soul came up with to justify the atrocities he commits as a Banisher, and the True self he perceives as his warped magical identity.
Role Model: Over the last decade, Officer Kelly has found other Banish- ers but never attacked them, even though the blackouts still took him. Instead, the Dark Passenger taught them, and in teaching them, he spreads his condition like a virus. Ideological Banishers who encounter Officer Kelly change, becoming Harrowed and suffering the same kinds of blackouts.
Every so often, a cabal claims to have found the murderer responsible for all the dead Awakened; but the real Dark Passen- ger remains at large. The Mystery Murderer: The murderer who sent Kelly into the downward spiral toward his Harrowing Awakening is still out there, and the officer is no closer to catching them now than he was years ago, save for one new piece of information: his quarry is also now Awakened.
Although Kelly might live in denial of what he has become, when his Peripheral Mage Sight stings and the Dark Passenger comes out, the Banisher sees his Mystery murderer in the face of every Awakened he kills. Every time, the hunt is personal. I kind of get that Hannibal Lecter vibe, you know? He plays football with the boys at the department, but he never stays for the drinks later on. The small things add up, and people start to wonder: Who exactly is Kelly, and why is he so strange?
If asked discreetly enough, some officers would be open to talking about him and those strange habits of his. Awesome, awesome. Just avoid I? Remember the missing Provost I mentioned last time? During his blackouts, his Shadow identity — Defense: 6 the Dark Passenger — becomes dominant. In her early life, she was find Artifacts hidden in Sleeper museums and degraded, shunned, mocked, and forced to navigate a exhibits, and take them out of circulation.
So- hostile environment designed to make her feel lesser, phia started out frequenting museums and public just for being a black woman in east Texas. At the gallery collections. It was easy for her to steal the same time, she had boundless support from items and leave the Sleepers unaware that the her community, a loving family, and a strong object was ever there in the first place.
She became an intelligent true Artifacts are kept in such public places. Frequenting private auctions, Sophia tualization and personal growth. Her scours the lots for hints of magic. In the end, through the true origins of antiquities and able to spot fakes, the Aether, she truly found her calling.
Had anyone them. She hunts down and removes both, else come to her first, her life might be ensuring the secrets they hold can never different, but Izukanne was her only hurt humanity again. Izukanne indoctrinated Sophia is a short woman with deep brown Sophia with a belief that the Mysteries are dan- eyes and hair kept in neat, tight braids. She loves gerous, and arcane knowledge must be forgotten couture from all over the world, especially Ankara forever.
Understanding, Izukanne told her, is not fashion and styles inspired by traditional Nigerian for everyone: Awakened who uncover secrets destroy clothes, but can also be found in a conservative skirt Sleepers with the knowledge they gain, and most suit in the auction halls. She hides from other mages in the hands of people not careful enough to curb when possible and kills those who get too close to its influence on those helpless to resist it, and readily her business.
Her Signature Nimbus is a heavy gravity devotion, did Sophia see the cost of her choices. By from a sucking void. Her Long-Term Nimbus makes then, it was too late. She debated for days ing with an antiquities dealer about a rare about telling the neophytes of their danger, but instead decided Artifact.
Worse, she and the missing mage could make her remember, she might be inclined to turn on needed the Artifact to find their other missing Izukanne. When Sophia shows up, willing to kill to seal the deal, the cabal certainly appear to be working together and stockpiling.
Jackson, who pays top dollar for infor- Izukanne and one of the apprentices have mation. I put myself thing about where they might be or why. She pays for everything, even if it ends up being hoping they can help her find out where her useless, in hopes that her informants will bring her some gems lover has gone.
Not from a vault somewhere, but something someone Sophia took her Shadow Name with the conviction that she was tracking down. Good luck tracking them down. Her love for Izukanne makes that logic seem sounder They kill anyone who gets too close and are meticulous about and keeps the guilt of murder from haunting her dreams at keeping their footprint to a minimum. The local Mysterium night. When the weight of her actions takes too much of a toll Caucus blames them for every missing Artifact, but they do so on her, she happily scours the memories from her own mind.
Both she and to hunt them down and get rid of them, rather than because Izukanne meticulously research their victims, only targeting they really believe it. Newly Awakened get a pass, or are inducted into the Legacy, depending Path: Obrimos on their personalities and proclivities. It grants the ability to spend 1 Mana to substitute the dot rating of the highest-rated Attainment Logophages believe in consuming secrets complete- known in this Legacy for dots of any Arcanum she ly, learning them all and then eradicating them so knows when her player rolls a Revelation for Focused none may further harm humanity with their misuse.
Mage Sight. Yantras: sources of knowledge books, informants, etc. During its First Attainment: Grasp the Arcane duration, she may spend 1 Mana to convert the veiled memory into a point of Willpower, thus permanently Prerequisites: Initiation Prime 3, Mind 1, destroying the memory rather than simply compart- Subterfuge 2, Empathy or Investigation 2 mentalizing it.
This Willpower point may exceed her Before the Secret Keeper can consume a secret, she usual maximum, but vanishes at the end of the scene must learn it. This Attainment falls under the Practice if unspent.
The bank of screens in front of us flickers with electronic ill temper. I squint at the image, trying to make her out. No one pays any attention to her. I glance over the other screens. They stick out like sore thumbs, relying on their magic to ward off questioning gazes from the Sleeper crowd. How did you even end up in this situation? No time to indulge herself.
What about her Tulpa? She must have been spilling some out. We need to know how they manifest. Plero- ma gets angry, frustrated. Neutralize her now. Pleroma contorts; the air around her crackles and splits apart in full view of the concourse of Sleepers. All these Sleepers will absolutely believe it. Right now, though, I watch in horror as a Greater Tulpa tears its way into the world, a shining pillar of fire and light, and the scene descends into chaos.
The looming shadow of Rapture, though, is cast tale, a distant example of what awaits reckless Awakened who by the uneasy, deep-down certainty that every mage has the let their obsessions command them and fall utterly to hubris in potential to fall that far. The Rapt are the classic horror story of the Now take that one bad day and stretch it into an ongoing broken wizard who can no longer connect with her humanity, nightmare.
Dangle enough temptations in front of the so-called lost to her hunger for eldritch knowledge and unshackled by Wise; force an Awakened to push down her hunger for Mysteries limitations of reason or ethics.
Mages know the Rapt exist in for too long at the behest of duty or lofty ideals. Under such pres- theory; in practice, few Awakened possess the humility to admit sures, what might have seemed unconscionable yesterday seems they could ever submit to Rapture, and thus to truly appreciate necessary today. Their Nimbuses leak raw Supernal power, consequences. An Enraptured mage labors under the weight of a Fault, an arcane compulsion that dictates their behavior or an obsession turned spiritually cancerous.
Fading Wisdom The Rapt are more than just a cautionary tale. Most Enraptured litany of the sins of the Awakened. They commit Acts of Hubris until what they would once have thought monstrous Consuming Obsession or irresponsible is the new normal.
He pulls away from happen to anyone I know. Some means. These drastic measures to keep themselves or others alive. The Bellerophon Group By and large, the Rapt create their own degeneracy. Such Awakened walk the road to Rapture with heads held high, The Bellerophon Group is an international net- work of Awakened, mostly from the Adamantine willingly choosing to violate the world around them until all Arrow, who specialize in researching Rapture and other concerns fall away.
A mage might hesitate to carve the dealing with those who succumb to it. Founded in eyeballs out of still-living Sleeper victims the first time, but he , Bellerophon shares information and exper- keeps doing it anyway because he needs the vitreous humours tise, and keeps vigilant watch for serious incidents of those who have seen death, and that weighs more heavily caused by Rapt activity.
Another hungers for a greater understanding of souls. These investigations allow them lust for knowledge. Many chase diabolical Mysteries before they to learn what they can for future calamities and ever fall to Rapture. Most pitiful of all are the Rapt known as Walkers. These hap- Just because a mage is Enraptured, does not make her a fool, less souls never have a chance to grasp the Truth; their Wisdom and some Rapt outright prey on other Awakened as part of their shreds to tatters during the process of Awakening itself.
A Walker Faults. Anyone who tries to barter with or control the Rapt may appears incoherent or catatonic, but her awareness roves beyond find himself manipulated in turn, and should fear the moment her body, possessing her own Greater Tulpa p.
Most Awakened encounter the Rapt without ever knowing Any Enraptured mage is dangerous and destabilizing. He it. Even Rapt who have banal or minor Faults that snare from before the descent into Rapture.
Those influence without conscious effort. More self-aware Enraptured closest to the Rapt usually pick up on the signs first, particularly are odious, eagerly shoveling shattered souls into the furnace cabalmates, apprentices, and mentors intimately familiar not of their research or brutally killing again and again just to keep only with her behavior, but with her magic.
Selfishness, rather than compassion, meet whose Shadow Name matches some dire portent from can also influence such decisions. A mentor who sees a promis- their fevered minds. An apprentice cleaves The Blind and the Foolish to his teacher even as she rambles off into eldritch perversion, tending to her needs and covering up her crimes — and hoping to gain new insight from her growing power before he moves on.
Despite the dangers, some mages seek out the Rapt. Enrap- As a result, an Enraptured mage can hide within the Pentacle tured mages possess significant insight into the arcane matters to or the Pyramid for some time, with cabalmates and colleagues which their Faults relate, or emanate Tulpa that are Mysteries in helping to hide her state. Caught up in loyalty, dread, friendship, their own right.
With complete disregard for any moral or ethical or love, the Awakened allow the canker to fester in their midst limitations and an unmatched single-mindedness, the Rapt can even as their unease grows. Usually, the Rapt ends up commit- achieve great leaps forward in magical understanding. Many ting an act she cannot or will not hide, which risks revealing Awakened are keen to harness these uninhibited revelations.
These are often the most dan- Greater Tulpa gerous. Left unsated, it Tulpa pose a challenging question to Awakened spills out through her Nimbus as Tulpa — uncontrolled manifes- understanding of the relationship between tations of her magic — often in devastating fashion.
No matter Supernal and Fallen. They are unquestionably how much an Enraptured sorcerer may want to hold back, if she Supernal creatures, but fundamentally linked to cannot indulge her Fault, the Tulpa force the issue. Does an entity for each possible Fault already ex- ist, awaiting a fall to Rapture so it can reach into With Rapture comes power. An Enraptured mage possesses the Fallen World? Do Greater Tulpa bring entirely incredible talent with magics that relate to her driving Fault.
This new Supernal entities into being? What do they a nearly unbreakable will in imposing such Imagos upon the do once their Enraptured vessels have perished?
Mysteries call to those who ask these questions. Even if a mage succumbs to Rapture through pacts with horrific entities in which she gives up Wisdom in return for insight, a ripple. All Rapt share a lack of Wisdom. The descent into Rapture is painfully personal for each of its Should the Enraptured willworker ignore or smother her ob- victims, and no two are the same. Bickering over her soul. The unshackled magic bucks against abeyance until the terminology seems absurd when faced with a wild mage whose pressure grows too great and erupts.
No Rapt can hold the tide rampant Nimbus bleeds out to wrack the city with shards of of power back for long; the Stress scratches at her mind, claws razor-sharp folded space. Still, what makes an Enraptured mage at her gut, demands she act on her Fault. Its expurgation comes from a once-rational human being tends to fall into three cate- as a relief, a surcease to her struggle against her own nature. One sorcerer, exactly, and exceptions happen.
Another, craving a remaking of the human image, causes rampant mutation and mutilation of living flesh. Weird Savant weather, storms of mental contagion, and other bizarre phe- The most common kind of Rapt are Savants, those whose nomena manifest. At their most extreme, Tulpa take the form Faults are manifestations of one of the occult Obsessions they of Supernal beings that emerge into the world as avatars of the already possessed.
Usually, stantly leak low levels of uncontrolled Supernal energy. This a Savant loses the last scraps of her Wisdom to an Act of Hubris ambient magic serves as an unintentional form of camouflage; committed in direct pursuit of her Obsessions. Savants are the her presence is so saturated with it that Sleepers react to her most likely to attract desperate or foolish Awakened eager to as if she were magic.
Quiescence makes her fade from memory. It rather than their bodies. Bottled to soul-related crimes, particularly pertaining to the Awakened up this way, the Stress eventually erupts as Tulpa that carry her soul — which usually require Awakened victims.
Plenty fall to soul with them, letting her act on her urges through them while ill-advised experimentation on themselves instead, though, trying her Nimbus manifests. Historically, most Walkers perished soon to forge too many Attainments from their Legacies or pushing after their Rapture, but modern medical technology can keep a their metaphysical boundaries too far. No few staff is completely unaware that their patient is the source of succumb to Rapture trying to study or court the Abyss, though increasingly dangerous phenomena.
Nasnasi p. Most break during Awakening. A few just a little more extreme. The common idea of the Rapt is that bring this sort of Rapture upon themselves with self-directed of a withdrawn or socially isolated mage focused entirely on the spiritual violence or magic that leaves them disembodied.
A study of esoteric matters. Pentacle scholars have studied Walkers for centuries without Malefactor reaching a solid answer as to why some Awakenings go awry this way. Awakening in the middle of bizarre magical phenomena The Rapt known as Malefactors have Faults that are not magi- or Abyssal incursions, getting possessed by malign spirits in cal by nature, though they usually undergo Rapture through los- the middle of Awakening, and climbing the Watchtower while ing themselves to Acts of Hubris just like a Savant.
Once the crime becomes a Fault, he loses control of his out relatively unscathed, end up Harrowed Banishers p. Experts who study the process believe again. An Enraptured mage driven to torturous vivisection, She unleashes her power as often and as flagrantly as possible.
The Fault is a compulsion, but provides no rationaliza- and manifestations of eerie figures stalking or beckoning. The instigating Act of Hubris may have seemed necessary at the time, but the Malefactor submits to her need to repeat it regardless of new context or circumstances. One and devotion to achieve. Wars over reality and time leave a magician suffering the Wis- dom-ruining consequences of decisions he never actually made.
These Rapt Choirs of Rapture struggle with their eccentric compulsions, and are even more Even if several Awakened fall to Rapture together, unpredictable than their fellows.
They may continue to collaborate Enraptured Magic as the most effective way to fulfill their Faults, but they are just as likely to fall into infighting or split up to pursue disparate obsessions.
An Awakened character succumbs to Rapture when her Occasionally, though, multiple mages succumb to Wisdom rating drops to 0, whether through Acts of Hubris, Rapture in the same moment with a shared Act of faulty Awakenings, or other unusual events. The last threads Hubris or other group experience, and become of sophia snap, splintering apart in a soulquake that rips open spiritually intertwined, all sharing the same Fault her Nimbus and tears her soul away from the Temenos.
Amid and driven to work together to fulfill it. The Pentacle the aftershocks, her Fault calcifies as the new foundation of her calls these groups choirs, and far from spreading will, and she loses control over her magic. All Enraptured mages in a create an Enraptured character. The Rapt follow many of the choir share a single Stress track, which builds with same rules as standard Awakened, but differ in a number of key all the Stress each individual builds up.
When the ways. Create the character as normal, then apply the following Stress erupts, it triggers Tulpa manifestation in all the members of the choir at once.
Fault they took during their Awakenings. A fully Awakened mage An Enraptured mage replaces her Virtue with a Fault, an struck by Rapture may need to replicate the phenomenon that all-consuming addiction. It cannot be changed or removed; changed her, or simply enshrine one of her existing Obsessions fulfilling it just leaves her compelled to do it again.
Some Faults as her Fault. The Arcanum more complex, requiring her to seek or create highly specific does not necessarily directly reflect a specific spell or effect: An situations or find certain kinds of subjects for her magic. Those who lost their Wisdom transformation of materials via fire, it might link with Matter to an Act of Hubris in direct pursuit of an Obsession — usually instead.
A Savant who destroyed an Awakened soul with with Fate. She can no Enraptured mages who lost their Wisdom to a mundane longer regain Willpower from them, and effects that would Act of Hubris — usually Malefactors — gain a Fault based on interact with a Virtue do not treat the Fault as one. She using magic to repeat that act indefinitely, abiding by certain retains her Vice.
It never shifts no matter how many times she setting them on fire might need to kill more trespassers in any fulfills it, and no magic can alter or remove it.
If the use magic in accomplishing it. Many wizards use magic to fulfilling his Fault. Wisdom on its own and leave her Enraptured, un- able or unwilling to let go of her changes. Without mum number of simultaneous Yantras. Each Enraptured mage possesses a single magical savant abil- ity. The following list provides some examples, but Storytellers may create comparable unique abilities for Rapt appearing in their chronicles. Should base dice pool is a chance die, as she has no Wisdom to this result in any Tulpa, a Greater Tulpa also manifests roll.
However, unlike other mages, she may either spend inside the Oneiros, driven to eliminate the threat to its a Willpower point to add three dice, or spend one point obsessions. Stress Temenos Detachment An Enraptured character possesses a Stress track that rep- resents the building pressure to fulfill his Fault, with boxes Rapture tears a mage away from the rest of humanity at a equal to his Gnosis.
Stress is tracked similarly to Health damage. An Enraptured mage cannot reach the Avoiding or being prevented from pursuing the Fault generates Temenos at all; she passes directly from her Oneiros into the Stress that fills the track. How full the track is determines how Anima Mundi instead. Her fixation strengthens her Amnion likely it is his Nimbus will spew Tulpa; when the track is full, it if she pursues her Fault while traveling in the Anima Mundi.
This is profoundly dan- ryteller rolls dice equal to half his Gnosis rating, rounded up. Awakened Each success generates a point of Stress. Stress is always marked visitors have a harder time keeping the consequences of magic in in the leftmost empty box of the Stress track.
Unlike damage to mind when surrounded by so much overwhelming power. A Rapt fulfilling his Fault, he suffers a point of Stress automatically. Oneiros is a broken place, especially one caught in the paroxysms of a Walker building up Stress in the prison of her own soul. As a consequence of removing their souls from the Temenos, Generating Tulpa the Rapt struggle to relate to other people. Even dice pool. An change their behavior only out of an academic awareness that they exceptional success generates a Greater Tulpa and heals three should, rather than true empathy.
For both, engaging in ordinary points of Stress. They also lack instinctive inhibitions against success on three successes instead of five.
The Storyteller may spend 1 Willpower for the Enraptured mage to skip this roll, but only if his Stress track is not currently Systems full. See p. Arcanum, rather than the lower. An Enraptured char- for a number of scenes equal to her Gnosis. Characters acter gains free dots in the Occultation Merit Mage, p. Furthermore, the Rapt Occultation for this purpose; any exceptional success on loses her sympathetic name, becoming more magic than person.
Nimbus also triggers Quiescence in Sleepers, even if she does nothing overtly supernatural. Every time she releases a the affected area as though it were an annullity rejecting the Greater Tulpa, the same entity bursts through.
They otherwise have an effective Strength of 0, character in their chronicle. When a Walker generates a Greater Tulpa, her soul and psy- che merge with the entity.
Practices with a total associated Arcanum dot rating equal to its Strength; for instance, a Strength 4 eruption could exhibit Systems: Lesser Tulpa effects based on two Apprentice Practices, one Initiate Practice Lesser Tulpa manifest as brief but intense surges of magic and one Disciple Practice, or one Adept Practice.
These effects that leave chaos in their wake. See Mage, p. Ordinarily, mages create them de- at which point it falls apart or crumbles. Mundane dreaming here is impossible. Each point of Mana spent there expends two ing annullity effects other mages consider Mysteries points instead; the second point is wasted. In addition, all keys my, must spend a Willpower to take any action that or Keys mundane or supernatural cease to function requires dice within the space.
Mundane navigation here is impossible. Fate: All rolls within the space are reduced to a Spirit: Any Resonant Condition that exists in or pass- chance die. Nothing can add dice, apply dice tricks, es into the space immediately ends, and any non-Su- or convert a chance roll to a regular one. In addition, the Gauntlet becomes Forces: No Environmental Tilt other than Abyssal impervious there, and spells cannot affect it or cast Environmental Tilts, see p.
Any created by supernatural or mundane means end immediately with no detrimental Time: All temporal sympathetic links possessed by effects.
When subjects leave, they effec- render characters unconscious or kill them if they take tively lose time; they emerge into their relative future, enough damage to upgrade it to lethal or aggravat- which becomes their new present, as the Time 4 spell ed. Life spells. For more about annullities and Rapt soul stones, see Matter: The Durability of all inanimate objects with- Signs of Sorcery, p.
The Bellerophon Group knows nal entity of the type associated with the linked Arcanum into this, but rarely has the chance to attempt it; even the Fallen World without the traditional summoning process. It shares his Fault as an requisite: she must work toward an Obsession to overriding, driving purpose. Create it using the normal rules for step away from Rapture, as normal for raising Supernal entities Mage, starting on p. Upon doing so, she regains Wisdom 1 capabilities, and form should reflect the Fault that dominates it.
That may mean directly helping the Enraptured mage by the following ways: She retains her Fault instead dealing with obstacles in his way — from eliminating anyone trying of her Virtue, which still acts as an additional Vice to prevent him from performing an atrocity to tearing down the Veil. However, if she uses that ability or who brought them into the world except to bask in their Nimbus.
Once the Tulpa Storyteller character , she immediately loses all runs out of Corpus, her consciousness is ejected back into her Wisdom — even if she raised it above 1 in the Oneiros, where she once again becomes trapped. Wisdom 0 through Acts of Hubris or other effects. Whether this is the same entity somehow rescued from The Rapt possess no particular protection against soul loss, Abyssal desecration, or an entirely new one sculpted by the and it affects them the same way it does other Awakened.
Killing the body of a Walker while her psyche is merged Gnosis and, thus, her Fault. Such a soul stone provides signif- with a Greater Tulpa is an even more grievous offense: When icant power, but at great risk. See Signs of Sorcery, p. Both of these are Acts of Hubris against Falling Wisdom.
For several hours, which room a given door opened into grew unreliable. One Lanie Adams grew up in a house full of slamming doors. Her cabalmate passed from the parlor into the kitchen; a moment brothers slammed them when they left for school or practice, later, her friend stepped through the same door but found her- when they went to the library or out on dates.
Her sister slammed self in the upstairs bathroom. When Cleodora emerged from them for emphasis, so the family knew how much trouble they her bedroom, the effect stopped, and the once-solid doors faded were in with her. Dad slammed the front door when he came away. Aunt Jane never came back.
She briefly cracked open a door to a realm that devours Space. After Other doors slammed on Lanie, too, though they sounded that close call, she stopped running her experiments at home, in her heart rather than on the air: opportunities denied to her and instead took them out into the world. Now she opens Irises because she was a woman, because she was black.
Sometimes, where unwitting Sleepers are sure to slip through, cataloging she learned, she could stop the closing door with a well-placed their reactions and attempts at escape the way a scientist watches foot and a determined smile. Sometimes she had to pry it back lab rats find their way through a maze. Sometimes she traps open, and sometimes she had to break it down.
Her homes won awards. Her cabalmates started whispering the word Enraptured among After she Awakened, the new Mastigos took the Shadow themselves, but they are divided on what to do about it. They Name Cleodora. In turn, the Libertines encouraged her study of the inevitable moment when her Obsession becomes a larger Verges and Irises — which, to Cleodora, were simply new kinds problem.
Other mages seek her out to view her impressive catalogue of known Irises and their Keys. She favors their information as Cleodora is. Older mages told her to leave them jacket over her shoulders on chilly days. She wears her long hair be, that she should avoid Scars because of the danger they in Senegalese twists, which she often pulls back into a ponytail. Likewise, she still accepts visits but a challenge. Being aware of it is one thing; actually caring about it is another.
She believes it will all be worth it when she makes her big breakthrough — anyone lost in the process will have made a vital sacrifice toward peeling back one more layer of the Lie. She can usually pull it together for her cabal, particularly when Swan is present. The older woman reminds Cleodora of her long-lost Aunt Jane. Her Signature is the disorientation of being lost — the realization one has moved from a familiar place to an unfamiliar one.
Her Long-Term Nimbus manifests as wrong turns down unfamiliar side streets, and bystanders ending up in parts of their offices, apartment complexes, or neighborhoods without knowing how they got there. Though the trail was ice cold by the time Cleo Awakened and used her newfound Arcana to investigate, she found evidence of an unstable Verge near the last place Jane was seen.
If her aunt stepped through an open Iris, Cleodora has yet to find the proper Key to reopen it. She returns to the location every couple of weeks to test out new theories. This is a Mystery with Opacity 4. Most, but not all. Unbeknownst to Cleo or the Riverside Cabal, the Hierarch has clued in to some of the disappearances. The complicated design stumps the contractors she brings in when she shows them the entire floor plan, so instead she hires them to complete one room at a time, and does much of the work on her own.
Some contractors have quit soon after working on the house, citing unnerving experiences. Two disappeared. He keeps coming back to this one monument. Finally, he sees someone else. His allies love to take a bite out of the Fallen World. He asks the es, drawing them to the Iris and watching to see what happens. Victims are unable to find the exits, or leave a room Socialize 1, Subterfuge 2 only to find themselves stepping right back across its threshold.
Any tips will be kept confidential and anonymous. I heard someone saw him and Cleodora driving out in the hills, but the Riverside Cabal says she was with Speed: 9 them the whole day he went missing. On navigate the area. Whatever results Cleodora setting from her Aunt Jane.
This Attainment known, mundane and strange. It also includes the Reach effect to see through shaky reputation. Oblations: breaking and entering; finding and ex- ploring a secret passage or hidden path; getting lost Optional: Death or Spirit 1 and then finding the way back to familiar ground; bro- The Stalker may use this Attainment to see through kering a trade of secrets between two or more parties.
Avernian Gates Death or Loci Spirit as well. It hunts down those who stand Geometry Prime 1, Occult between her and success, and holds them within its boundaries Rote Skills: Crafts, Persuasion, Science until she accomplishes her tasks, or they die. Academics, Crafts, and Science. Its features furl and Willpower: 10 unfurl, folding in on themselves in impossible ways. Its translucence Initiative: 21 makes it easy to miss on first glance — witnesses describe a blurry Defense: 10 shape distorting familiar landmarks, like looking through fog or steamed-up glass.
Speed: 32 Confusion attracts the Imp, especially people in unfamiliar Size: 6 places. Tourists draw it, as do locals learning the layout of a new Corpus: 15 office or trying out a different route to jog. When it manifests, Rank: 4 the Maze traps its victims in a spatial loop, unable to escape the Ban: The Maze releases its victims if it sees anyone trace the place where it found them.
When the effect wears off, Quiescence pattern of the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth from memory. A person stands Bane: A map of one of its former configurations, drawn on a in the center of his living room, peering around and asking, sheet of blueprint paper.
He tore apart his own Oneiros, looking for clues know who he was before. To grasp at that deep well of answers pushed him on. Working has ever experienced — a scene of cruel murder.
It was perhaps inevitable that his vexation eventually tailored roles, recreating his delusions in the hope that this boiled over. The first time he killed an actor, a young man who time — this time — everything will be perfect, and he will finally looked so much like the one from his vision — it finally felt like recall his past lives with clarity. He needs the victim, who must he was getting somewhere. Rapture was not far behind. Thunder rumbles outside.
The latter is an old killer — but then, they never do. Their clothing suggests hair slicked back from his sharp-edged features. He could be the early 20th century; the room is dingy, dirty, and cluttered. Finding the right little fuss. The truth is, he struggles with a deep sense of impos- people to fit the roles, the right location to play host to the act, tor syndrome — that somehow his Awakening was a mistake, means Manzazuu travels a great deal.
Now, his Order is just a convenient cover. Most people who undergo these at the hands of confident manner as he cleans up the evidence and moves on. They were witches, or kings, muttered whispers to the ear, hinting at things half-remembered.
He saw death: his and echoes of feelings unspoken. His Long-Term Nimbus leaves hands slick with red blood, the screaming victim, and the faces people encountering strange coincidences from their past and of those gathered in the room as he vividly experienced stabbing feeling nostalgic. He travels under assumed names and fake documents. He was told he needed one after Awakening, and found Manzazuu when searching the internet for something that spoke to his desire to reach out to the dead past.
She is content to let him carry on in hopes that one day he will stumble upon a revelation. Yeah, you match the casting call perfectly, but I went along last week and the guy is a creep. Some old house with peeling wallpaper, no equipment, nothing. He puts out ads in personals lists, runs casting calls under the guise of amateur theater or shooting commercials, and uses other legitimate means to reel in vic- tims. Call on the totality of your Real Potential today! They have no ability to actually surface true past lives, despite what they say.
The clinic shuts down, moves on, and leaves those traumatized few behind until the conspiracy that backs the project collects them to tap into that Mystery and harvest those visions for its own ends. Jack Trevelyan slipped through the net, running afoul of a mugging gone wrong and Awakening as he lay bleeding out from the knife wound in his guts.
I died. I died, for real. I know, it sounds stupid, but I did. Then I came to and I was in the hospital, no blood on me at all. I was dead, and something brought me back. Can you put those scissors away? Building Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2 on previous failures, the Moros is now con- Social Attributes: Presence 2, Manipulation 4, Composure 3 vinced that his actors need to be sunk into the role well ahead of the final scene.
He plagues Mental Skills: Academics History 4, Computer 1, Crafts 2, the Sleeper victims with anachronisms from the Investigation 3, Medicine 1, Occult Reincarnation 4, Science early 20th century, uses Mind to make them Weather 2 choose period clothing, and generally tampers Physical Skills: Athletics 1, Drive 1, Larceny 2, Stealth 2, with their everyday lives. First life experiences.
They call able to do so. Oblations: meditating Mage, p. Willpower: 10 Upon manifesting, the Eternity obliterates any direct obsta- Initiative: 15 cles stopping Manzazuu from pursuing his Fault, and then sets Defense: 7 about forcibly recreating the scene. She drags victims to Speed: 29 the scene and locks them in place with Time until she finishes Size: 5 putting together the best approximation of the scene she can Corpus: 13 manage.
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