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[HorizonParty2021]

I was watching a video on International Trade Theory. It talks about export crops and how a country that is better suited to growing a particular crop than anyone else (having absolute advantage) should grow that and trade with other countries who have absolute advantage in the things it has difficulty growing. That's a basic assumption of economics. Economist, Jeremy Rifkin made the comment that it's a sin to ship a tomato across the ocean when speaking at an event organized by Vice, wherein he discusses a 3rd Industrial Revolution and the necessity of reducing our carbon output.
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When Winter come, just hop a plane to the opposite hemisphere.

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As written, we agree on that. Here, I am just presenting it as something that could be adapted by Herr Meister, since it seems to line up well with what his player wants for their character. But ya, to be a bit more clear, don't use the RAW version of Resonance for this....

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Then you could just tell your player they will still have a minimum 4 difficulty in Summer and +3 difficulty in Winter. Investing the points in Node, Sanctum or other Backgrounds to reduce magic difficulty would be better. They could always start with some Elemental Resonance, related to Summer....

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Do you mean Cyclical Magic from Book of Secrets?

What minimum difficulty do you set for magic rolls?...

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For other slats in the know, the ultimate deterrent against warring with vampires is the Obfuscate 5 power, Cloak the Gathering. Your dawn-patrol is going to wipe out a lot of neonates, but the coterie or two you didn't find spells silent death or worse. Even those unfamiliar with vampire disciplines would probably hear of stories of groups of vampires who previous hunts failed to account for carrying out retaliatory attacks....

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I might have some ideas. Before getting into those, I just want to make sure I have something clear in mind about the shows you are referencing. The storyline entry for UFO was a bit ambiguous as to whether it was set on Earth or the Moon. The opening sequence of the show has ships or rockets launched from underwater (presumably ocean), vehicles deploying into forest and some lunar stuff going on. Six and a half minutes intoEpisode 13:Survival, a ranking officer of SHADO instructs others to collect the remains of a "port" from "outside" and the next scene is on the Moon. At...

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Quite welcome....

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Is the aura a "thing" you can attach material effects to?...

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Trans-Earth Electrica is a Progenitor biotech startup researching uses for Cable Bacteria.

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Alcohol, probably live entertainment, gambling and a lot of wild sex in the hotel rooms....

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What I suggested is a Prime 2, Life 3, Forces 3 effect. You use both Life and Prime to anchor the Forces effect to the target. The advantage to this is that they keep burning. If the target can't unweave the spell, they are toast....

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If it were Forces alone, it would be an instantaneous effect, like your friend suggested. If the combined Prime (2) + Forces effect were cast as a whole-round-action, it would be spell damage. If you create the fireball, ahead of using it, you have on "object" of a sort that can be wielded, if the storyteller deems that the mages practice lines up with such wielding. I would certainly suggest wearing fire-retardant gloves. If not, push it around with further Forces effects or concentration.

Adding life 3, you could anchor it to the target's pattern, fire and forg...

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One of my favorite podcasters, Lex Fridman interviews Richard Wolff on these subjects....

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Techno-Marauder Construct, I would say, probably with Syndicate - Disbursements in charge. If there were a contest for "biggest sci-fi enthusiast" with a substantial prize, I would buy my friend a plane ticket to get there. He was the one who made me watch THX 1138....

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Kakost, some more good ideas for this thread, thank you. I saw Dr. Strangelove as a young kid and recalled the final scene when I looked it up on YouTube. One particularity of an Embassy is that it must exist outside one's territory to qualify as such. A structure accessible to residents of the Construct by portal, but existing in the realm of an Umbral Lord meets this criteria. Government buildings on Earth belonging to a developed country, inside its territory, that host foreign representatives can have some pretty cool features. One idea is to to have non-permanent walls. Specialized...

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Political Buildings/Places:
Suppose there is a pocket realm nearby, belonging to a powerful Umbral Lord. They might have a Department of Umbral Affairs building, connected by portal to an Embassy in the pocket realm.

Another idea would be a communications center that shares information with Technocrats in parallel timelines.

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I had previously picked Call of Cthulhu as my nighttime audiobook. The way the author describes diverse people takes some getting used to, as it distracts a bit from the story itself. So I'm happy to replace that one with Leviathan, a nearly twelve hour listen that I'll hit multiple times on late nights....

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The Syndicate having failed is always a metaplot option. This would mean that there would be way fewer Heroic or at least Descent Syndics....

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Mages who use their magic often over a long time period develop Resonance. There are four types, the first of which is Devotional. One of the descriptors is "Patriotic". Militarized projects, which the Technocracy is often involved in, will tend to push at least some of the participating mages toward this Resonance type. They are flawed people with national identities who passed through their country's education system, previous to being inducted into the Union. If nationalistic beliefs provide a good foundation for the type of fanaticism an Ivory Tower Educator wants to inspire,...