1000 Mage Plots

[Eyrelliah]

41.A politician your players approve of - really honest, approachable, and down to earth - seems to be on a path to a landslide victory, despite strong opposition from the media. They're going to change the world for the better for sleepers and your players.
How is this possible? Is the technocracy losing control of the masses, or is something meddling behind the scenes? And if there is something helping the politician, something your players are diametrically opposed to, what do they do? Is it better to destroy the secret backer of the politician, and risk the other side getting in and ruining everything, or let things be - at least until after the election? Are the players compromising themselves by even thinking about it?

[Eyrelliah]

42. A character ends up striking up a conversation with a stranger or a relative and getting to know them and care a little about them. They reveal that they have a terminal illness, but are refusing ordinary medical treatment for alternative therapies - and the description of how the therapy works chimes exactly with the character's paradigm.
A little digging reveals that the person peddling the alternative therapy is a fraud, with no results to show for their work and not a hint of magic about them.
Does your character intercede to help their friend's health?
What do they do about the therapist? People's lives are being jeopardised, but the patients truly believe. They could make a workable cult, but then the player is responsible for their lives and must support and lead them - and cater to their many whims!
Or shut the fraud down, making your paradigm that little bit less possible in consensual reality - but hopefully save those people's lives.

[Muad'Dib]

43) A Verbena Cabal has gotten lost in recruiting as many Wiccans as Acolytes as it is possible.

[Eyrelliah]

44. An old acquaintance has gone missing. Perhaps the character knew them from a dead-end job they worked to get by, prior to awakening. The acquaintance was a bit difficult, often affable but sometimes virulently antisocial.
Nobody really seems to miss them, but it's still wrong to ignore their disappearance.

A little digging turns up that they were one of the thousands that volunteered for a potential 1-way trip to colonise Mars, and others from the same list have disappeared in similar circumstances. None of those missing made it into the final 100, so where are they?
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One)

[Bluecho]

45) Recently, a Fae noble has incarnated as a changeling. After a few years to establish himself in this strange modern world, he's turned his attention to an old vendetta: a feud with the Order of Hermes dating back to the Dark Ages. The Order has pieced this much together, but because of their long-standing rules against interfering with the Fair Folk, most of the Order's members are ill-equipped to handle the problem. The Chantry that most feels the changeling's ire desires to elicit help from the closest member of House Merinita.

As befitting the eccentric minor House, however, said magus has disappeared. If the Order wants the mattered settled in a timely manner, someone is going to need to locate the errant Merinita, and fast.

[Muad'Dib]

46) The New World Order of the Technocracy has been trying to establish surveillance over the non-Camarilla Clans in a whole area...somewhere in the USA. Then contact with three Amalgams of the NWO broke down - and from the notes that they left at their former Constructs, the location of the attempted surveillance area cannot even be established. A veteran Amalgam - in regards to dealings with the Kindred, at least..is called to the situation. The Traditions have a feud with them - but what about those Technocrats that might seriously need help?

[Warpwind]

46) The New World Order of the Technocracy has been trying to establish surveillance over the non-Camarilla Clans in a whole area...somewhere in the USA. Then contact with three Amalgams of the NWO broke down - and from the notes that they left at their former Constructs, the location of the attempted surveillance area cannot even be established. A veteran Amalgam - in regards to dealings with the Kindred, at least..is called to the situation. The Traditions have a feud with them - but what about those Technocrats that might seriously need help?

like this?

http://pre02.deviantart.net/cd41/th/pre/f/2015/216/9/3/sau_vampire_hunters_by_wraithdt-d9463js.jpg

[Muad'Dib]

like this?

http://pre02.deviantart.net/cd41/th/...dt-d9463js.jpg

No, of course not like on this picture that you linked.

[Muad'Dib]

47) The Order of Hermes is considering recruiting members from two different Traditions in order to create a new House in the Order of Hermes; but for some reason(s) they aren't - yet? - telling which Traditions they'd like to recruit the new Hermetics from.

[Muad'Dib]

48) The Virtual Adepts are trying to convince the Verbenas and Hermetics about the importance of laptops and PC games in regards to the situation of those three Traditions...in a single country – at least this is what the Virtual Adepts in a single city told to a Verbena Cabal some time ago. The Hermetics in this city – from a another Chantry – are doubtful.

[Bluecho]

49) The city is home to a few "Real Life Superheroes" - people who dress up in costume and try to help the community. Most of these people are mere Sleepers - some are genuinely helpful (if unconventional) people, who volunteer to make appearances at events, give presentations at schools, and lend a helping hand around actual emergencies (though the police usually stick them to crowd control or dealing directly with children). Others are vigilantes, who the police do not endorse, and actively investigate (since such activity can make their jobs harder than they need to be). A few are just unhinged. These categories are not mutually exclusive. The one constant is that they are all normal, non-powered individuals beneath their costumes.

All, apparently, except for one. Recently, eye-witnesses claim to have seen a masked individual in costume and cape, coming to the rescue at a car accident. Apropos of nothing, the masked man seized one of the cars by its undercarriage and lifted it over his head, allowing several trapped motorists to escape their wrecked vehicles. Surprising for the smart phone age, only a single substantive picture was captured of the event in action, a shot that obscures the hero's masked face but clearly showed him lifting the car. This image has, naturally, made its rounds on the Internet, and been met with public and official skepticism.

Still, the witnesses are vehement that the event occurred exactly as depicted. Which would seem to imply that at least one true superhero is running around the city. None of the city's supernatural population yet know who or what this person is, but they aim to find out.

[Muad'Dib]

50) Virtual Adepts and Verbenas in a city have organized joint training session for the Acolytes of their Cabals.

[Eyrelliah]

49) The city is home to a few "Real Life Superheroes" - people who dress up in costume and try to help the community. Most of these people are mere Sleepers - some are genuinely helpful (if unconventional) people, who volunteer to make appearances at events, give presentations at schools, and lend a helping hand around actual emergencies (though the police usually stick them to crowd control or dealing directly with children). Others are vigilantes, who the police do not endorse, and actively investigate (since such activity can make their jobs harder than they need to be). A few are just unhinged. These categories are not mutually exclusive. The one constant is that they are all normal, non-powered individuals beneath their costumes.

All, apparently, except for one. Recently, eye-witnesses claim to have seen a masked individual in costume and cape, coming to the rescue at a car accident. Apropos of nothing, the masked man seized one of the cars by its undercarriage and lifted it over his head, allowing several trapped motorists to escape their wrecked vehicles. Surprising for the smart phone age, only a single substantive picture was captured of the event in action, a shot that obscures the hero's masked face but clearly showed him lifting the car. This image has, naturally, made its rounds on the Internet, and been met with public and official skepticism.

Still, the witnesses are vehement that the event occurred exactly as depicted. Which would seem to imply that at least one true superhero is running around the city. None of the city's supernatural population yet know who or what this person is, but they aim to find out.

Hmm, I remember a gentleman like this in the book of madness... :-D

[Muad'Dib]

51) The Technocracy has started a campaign of trying to convince Virtual Adepts - without any threats or deception - to return to the Technocracy.

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

52) Remember the Napster fiasco? What if he was really a Virtual Adept who had happened to evoke the wrath of the Syndicate?