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My nWoD headcanon is that there has to be someone at the top of some agency in most world governments who knows about the supernatural, if only enough to try to desperately avoid poking it, and be able to attempt to protect their national leader/etc from subversion and so on. Usually helped, no doubt, by members of the Splat who similarly don't want to fuck things up.

Mage (GOTV book) mentions GOTV who were literal CIA agents, who would, one assume, have some in-built loyalty to America on top of everything else.

So if a Mage tries to mind-whammy President Herb (or use the actual Presidents if you want), there's a long line of Mages (on top of Archmasters, who seem like a lazy power balance, but probably should be mentioned) there to fuck them up.
 
In one of DaveB's stories it was said that every government knows the supernatural and that most have something that deals with them.

Also it has a Beast and a Changing Breed, it's actually rather good.
 
bigblack said:
In one of DaveB's stories it was said that every government knows the supernatural and that most have something that deals with them.

Also it has a Beast and a Changing Breed, it's actually rather good.
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In a Changeling-only world, it wouldn't even necessarily be that difficult. Of all the splats except Werewolf, Changelings are the ones most likely to still hold onto their ties and allegiances even after a considerable span of time. A Mage might think, "Since I know the Supernal Truth, the laws of Man are a Lie" even if most still, you know, live in the world despite that. A vampire's a pure asshole.

Changelings, though, are trying to be people. Or rather, trying to live as a person would, even with all of that baggage. So, though I didn't really do this in KCS, I could totally see plenty of Changelings doing government work. I mean, I could also see plenty that wouldn't trust the government out of paranoia because the Keepers Are Out To Get Us, but...

I think there'd be a measurable number. I could imagine the CIA trying at least a few assassinations of Castro using Changelings coming in from the Hedge.

...oh wow, that's a thought. Cold War Changeling.
 
Brother Mouse said:
Yeah I guess. Theyd basically be MIB but for Vamps, Changelings, and Garou. This vampire gane would be in my pulp Werewolf verse too. These Twilight Agencies would hire Imbued a lot too, making them a lot more organized.
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Hunter: First Contact describes the possibility.
By time of Hunter's Hunted's 2 oWod's Special Affairs division rips off nWod's VASCU and scouts for psychics.
Both Worlds of Darkness now share Psychic FBI Agents :p

The Laurent said:
My nWoD headcanon is that there has to be someone at the top of some agency in most world governments who knows about the supernatural, if only enough to try to desperately avoid poking it, and be able to attempt to protect their national leader/etc from subversion and so on. Usually helped, no doubt, by members of the Splat who similarly don't want to fuck things up.
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We know Task Force Valkyrie has infiltrated Secret Service - it's a start?

notanautomaton said:
There was a swarm of vampires that ate large portions of India! Which they solved with nuclear weapons and orbital lasers! And somehow people are still surprised when they're told things like 'vampires exist!'
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What do ignorant masses assume it really was?
I would have loved the cover up for that failing but public lacking context.
 
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The Laurent said:
Like Roaring Age that much? :V
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I'm just tired of things ending prematurely. KCS didn't even last an in-game month!

Revlid said:
I would honestly expect our Spheres to be more along the lines of Astra 2, Yatudhana 3, Dharma 0, Maya 0, etc.

Defining broad areas of coherent competency within our paradigm, like how a Virtual Adept might have Spheres of "Exploits" (for on the fly real world stuff), "Firewall" (for countermagic and anti-scrying), "Footprints" (for scrying and gathering info), "Turing" (for dealing with spirits via the AI paradigm), and "Hacker" (for seizing control of technology). Or something like that. Rather than mapping to some weirdly universal model shared by everyone, who are just pretending to be different weirdoes who actually believe in their paradigm.
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So what would Mage look like if every faction had different Spheres? Give some example factions, the World Wants to Know!
 
Brother Mouse said:
It was he I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED zim gif. For whatever reason i couldnt post it with my phone
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Unfortunately, not's actually right here. I just started a new Quest, so there's no space left. If you're curious, it's set in the 1920s and is Mage.

Also, I just updated it with the Awakening of Miriam Green. Not going to shill every update, because that's stupid, but I figured I'd mention it just in case. *shrugs.*

notanautomaton said:
That doesn't change that it didn't last an in-game month.
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That...doesn't actually change anything? Tons of works that have perfectly fine endings last days or sometimes a handful of hours.
 
So, I literally just had an idea that is probably dumb, but I think would be amusing.

What Spheres would I need in order to make a Mage whose Paradigm is literally "I'm a Dungeons and Dragons Wizard"? And would they fit as anything other than a Marauder?
 
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