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Sydonai said:
For those that think people knowing about the supernatural would lead to the Masquerade breaking down;
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Of course, you could come at this from the other direction;








"charmingly antiquated"
Whole bunch of lore/things I couldn't fit/everything I love about the overlap in superstition and General College Weirdness below the cut-
  • So first thing is just read back over this and look at how many things are actually, explicitly magical. It's like…seven. The rest are just Weird College Shit that meshes distressingly well with a lot of folklore, which is ????
  • This is not even the comic I was working on when I asked you all what a broke-ass college kid would use to break a fairy curse. This is an entirely different thing bc I was so inspired/horrified/thrown into college flashbacks by all of the replies
  • Holy shit with two years of outside perspective college is fucking bizarre.
  • Also specific credit to cyberneticlagomorph for the ramen packets as salt idea! I believe that's the only one I used directly
  • My bf suggested that some of the Magical Fair Folk Beer Pong games have been won by trans kids who've requested facial hair or lack thereof, a higher or lower voice, etc. - relatively small things that wouldn't cost you too much if you ended up losing the game instead. This is 100% canon
  • Most of the time it's pretty easy to tell when your roommate has been stolen by the fairies bc it's like Oh hey Maurice is only eating red fruits??? And squatting like a bird under the high-rise bed while reading obsessively about Welsh Kings? Shit ok who's gonna get him back this time and when is he gonna remember to bring his Safety Ramen Necklace on his midnight jogs. Fuckin' Maurice
  • EXCEPT during finals week
  • People have definitely been stolen away during finals week and no one notices until they're all back from break and Jenna is still speaking in tongues
  • Getting people back can be done through bargaining (things have the meaning you give them! post it notes can be, if you're persuasive enough, your own voice as you speak to yourself) or Tam Lin-style acts of bravery, or if you're very very lucky one of Them will find the whole story touching and just hand them back. People don't talk about it much, however it works out. It's rarely the same twice.
  • Teachers typically allow a week per semester of Being Elsewhere (you still don't talk about it)
  • If you go play games with them, for fuck's sake bring your own beer.
  • There's definitely a sorority house full of girls with silver hair who you always meet just leaving the pool. They throw a lot of parties that no one you know attends, and they're very very friendly, and they've got such lovely voices.
  • Talk to me about kids who were snatched up by the fair folk in the 1800s and 1900s, who have gradually aged beyond the point they're found cute, despite how slowly time passes Elsewhere. They've got dim recollections of a very different time and a childhood of fairy traditions and maybe because of the whole coexistence thing the Elsewhere has with the university, they tend to be dropped off in the baseball diamond once or twice a year. The university has a whole program dedicated to readjusting them.
  • On that note what kind of mannerisms do you think a kid who grew up Elsewhere would have? Would they be genuinely shocked when people just lie outright? Would paying debts be important to them? What kind of food hangups would they have. Would they be very causally violent or extremely quiet when storms came or appalled at winter days that are grey and utterly without magic
  • This is probably the only university in the country that doesn't have fairy lights bc honestly that's just tempting fate at this point
  • There is honestly probably a baby cornerwitch somewhere on campus asking questions to the brick and stone and reading the answers in the graffiti behind the gym
  • The cornerwitch will always be safe because no one can magic iron and steel, but the place the cornerwitch belongs to will never knowingly let anything harm them
  • The crows on campus are too intelligent. They know too much. You can befriend them by reading them poetry out loud, and the science of thermodynamics. Do Not Wrong The Crows.
  • Seriously please talk to me about this because I just love all of it
  • I'm probably gonna call it elsewhere university for lack of anything better right now and it's probably not the only story that will take place here
 
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Sydonai said:
Well...
Esoteric Order of Dagon (EOD)
This is certainly something like what I would have expected to run into sooner or later in a Mage game, most probably as a group of Sleepers led by a Sleepwalker and/or bored Mage looking to mess with the normies.
Either that or Seers screwing around.
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I mean, there are *two* different Order-based conspiracy groupings.

The Labyrinth and the Cryptopolies.

One of them is probably behind it.

The first is run by the Guardians of the Veil, the second by the Silver Ladder. Basically, the Labyrinth's cults/groups cares more about squirreling away mystic truth/knowledge, and presents itself as powerful because of some deeper etc, etc, and thus it's meant to 'maze' the incompetent seekers of magic.

Meanwhile, the Silver Ladder's version is more about power and being used as a cats paw. The GOTV version is too, but it's a bit more hands off.

Both of them clash at places, so they likely play football for worshippers with themselves and the Seers.
 
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ManusDomine said:
Cryptopolies, actually.
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I knew I was spelling it wrong. And getting it wrong. But anyways, yeah, no way to tell which of those it is.

Really, though this:

"Before he died, Lovecraft left behind the "Silver Key to the Ultimate Gate" in the form of Randolph Carter, his most developed character who appears in no less than four tales. This character assumed an independent existence during and after Lovecraft's life, a created being called a thoughtform, and known in Tibet as a Tulpa. For many years Randolph Carter waited in the parallel world that men and women of this world can sometimes visit in dreams for someone to discover the clues to the Mythos that Lovecraft had unconsciously revealed in his stories."

Is really fascinating. Randolph Carter is obviously an Astral being (because famous fictional characters are), entrusted somehow with some Atlantean artifact/secret.
 
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Hmm...its been a while and I don't have my books unpacked so I have a, probably quite basic, question. When various kinds of supernatural creatures have to interact...where do they do it? Like Vampire's usually have Esylum as neutral ground...is there something akin to that where the Local Prince can meet with the local mages, Werewolves etc to hash out treaties or lay complaints? I don't see a lot of mingling but I assume there is SOMETHING that lets local powers talk to each other, oif only on a case by case basis.
 
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