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[Ambrosia]

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Well, here's a piece of news. it seems HardSuit Labs is no longer the lead developing studio for Bloodlines 2, *and* the release date for 2021 is prrrrobably gone out the window.

On the one hand I can see the positive in this, given certain weird decisions and controversies before - and it overall being an indicator that the game won't be rushed.
On the other hand....jeez. How much can go wrong with a single game?

[Ambrosia]

It's worth noting, IMO, that children having a good Focus isn't necessarily a contradiction - if anything, children would potentially have less problem 'accepting' a set of paradigms and belief, as they are in that age bracket where nature pretty much intends them to soak up information being taught to them.

*And* they have the uncanny ability to somehow put everything they pick up into some kind of worldview that makes sense. Possibly *only* to them, but the only thing a proper Focus requires *is* for it to make sense in the Mage's head. In that regard, I would sprinkle the Focus...

[Ambrosia]

Very much that. The 'spheres' were codified as the Nine Cornerstones back in egypt (By individuals that the Order Of Reason/Union actually claims to be on their ancestrial chalkboard of common thought), and the Hermetics pretty much turned those into their Ars XYZ, which they then turned into the 'Spheres' for the Tradition inter-lingo.

Granted, *modern* Mages with rather new paradigms and teachings might default a bit more to that train of thought. Such things just have a way of seeping into newer constructs of belief if they happen to work.
But any Tradition subgroup that...

[Ambrosia]

Indeed. Essentially *having* Time 1 would allow the Mage to sense that "something is going on". Just that vibe nagging at the back of their head, probably causing repeated perception + awareness (not alertness) rolls over time. Without really needing to see a Deja Vu or anything themselves.

Then, an actual roll of Arete using Time 1 might net a few successes and they'd probably see time getting distorted - a confirmation of their earlier suspicions. But a couple of successes with that big of an effect going on would be akin to suddenly being able to see air move while being...