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[Michael]

Where's this from?

I mean, there's a mention that artifacts sometimes get brought back with newly Awakened....

[Michael]

I can see that. You know as I wrote my question, I was going to say that no one really sides with the Crusaders these days, but then I stopped and remembered there's a pretty vocal group who do....

[Michael]

Why would they? Al-Andalus is heavily romanticised as a harmonious community whilst early-modern Spain is almost the by-word for religious intolerance....

[Michael]

What about the Abyss? Your description reminds me a little of the Prince of 10,000 Leaves from Boston.



Whilst the UK is much smaller, I think those smaller distances alter how people look at that distance. At least in my experience, people from the US have a radically different idea of what constitutes a 'long journey' than people in the UK do....

[Michael]

Kepler (one of the three people mentioned in the outline) was Imperial Mathematician for Rudolf, so perhaps....

[Michael]

That seems a stretch. I mean, 9/11 happened during the Second Intifada, suicide bombings were already high profile events with international media coverage. It's really not that big a step to combine it with hijacking....

[Michael]

I think for big events, I'd have the Exarchs intervene directly. So, the local Magi of New York know something very bad is coming, but they can't see it.

[Michael]

I think you're spot-on....

[Michael]

Looking over my notes, maybe 300 or so. I didn't go into much detail beyond it being a lot bigger than the setting the players were in....

[Michael]

It's specifically at the discretion of the ST, and not everyone minds that kind of thing. Also...



Being mind contolled seems exactly like it'd be more likely to make a hunter double-down on the paranoid Vigil life-style that lower integrity seems to represent....

[Michael]

It doesn't matter in this context you are addressing a modern audience. You've stated that colonialism is ambiguous, because on the one hand the native population get access to new technology, and on the other their cultures will die out and be assimilated.

My point is, that's firstly not exactly true, but more importantly that's not the major issue that people at the time would have dealt with. The major issues are the genocide, the slavery and the racism. Cultural imperialism is way down the list of problems that people have to deal with, and you haven't mentioned the important...

[Michael]

Okay. I'm saying your little piece is pretty offensive. You're calling 'ambiguous', a process that involved genocide, slavery and racism....

[Michael]

There are certain subjects you might want to be careful on. You're talking about a process that involved genocide, slavery and racism. Trying to pass moral; judgment on a historical process is almost never a good idea.

Also, using 'greater' and 'less developed' is really questionable....

[Michael]

It's vaguely written, but I think you're wrong on these three.

The Grimoire merit specifically says:



That implies to me that the merit assumes the mage can read and understand the text clearly....

[Michael]

The era does include the time Hubbard spent with Aleister Crowley's OTO group in Pasadena....

[Michael]

If it's a single witness, then I imagine most would just let it pass. You thought they'd lost their arm, but clearly they didn't because they're standing there with both their arms. Even in Viking times, I think most people are going to roll their eyes at someone arguing the point.

Also, what are they going to do? Accusing a heavily armed Berserker of using Seidr is not a great idea....

[Michael]

I would tend to agree on principle, but Imperial Mysteries outright states that they do.

It does however read like something put in to stop people arguing on the internet....

[Michael]

It doesn't precisely spell it out but the implication is that you are writing or somehow recording the Mudras for the spell. It directly mentions that the size of the recording medium as a limiting factor.



Pretty much anything that can store information.



It's still a spell....

[Michael]

I ran a game that was set in a consilia next to London. I worked out a vague outline for the city not based on any other material, the idea being to contrast it to the comparatively quiet consilia the game was set in. The players never went there (and that was partly the point of the way I wrote it), but it loomed over the setting.

To summarise, I figured that London would be a major centre for Seers, to the point that they have the numbers to be an open threat to the Pentacle. As a result my consilium was based less on regulating access to mysteries and more about co-ordinating the...

[Michael]

Then re-read the section. It's not that hard to see the ambiguity Satchel is talking about....