Occultists Anonymous is a group of friends playing Mage the Awakening (2E). Drew thought it would be fun to record it and somehow managed to convince the others to join in. We've begun to branch out to a little bit of other TTRPG content.
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Dammit, I was looking forward both to the mansion fight and the two storm thyrsus causing shit. It is kinda sad to have all these loose and interesting plot threads wrapped up in a time skip, though I suppose it is more realistic than the Rookery mages becoming fucking HORRIFYING mages in less than a year. Also, when did Rilla ever leave?
@@OccultistsAnonymous Basically, they don't get wiped from sleepers' heads by the abyss as they are as real as vampires, but they still cause psychological stress depending on the circumstance
I think I just accidentally caught spoilers about this "Stalker". I stopped watching the rookery right at the episode where they saw somebody was a pure creation of life, and I am pretty sure that the Stalker is the guy who did that
I find the coven's reaction to the army men a bit unreasonable. Imagine denying IRL police, let alone military, a search because you don't like their sexist comments. That is a wonderful way to a cause a bunch of people trying to do their jobs Karen levels of trouble
I haven't gone far into the episode, but I really hope they spare him because I just really freaking like fallen sorcerers. I want a small army of ethically questionable occult bastards
Legba is becoming a fucking HORRIFYING mage. 4 gnosis means a fuck ton of yantras and a fuck ton of dice; the moment he gets his two arcana to 4, OH BOYYYY
question, what does plucking a person's soul do? I am aware that the soul is basically made of every subtle arcana, but life and sentience can clearly exist without it. It would be great to have an "in chronicle" answer instead of all the God Machine fuckery
Oh! You mean removing their soul! There's a set of three conditions that represent the failing will to live that you are afflicted with while missing a soul. It can be very nasty after a time. Mages can even lose their ability to cast spells.
@@OccultistsAnonymous Yeah, but is the soul just willpower then? Why does it include Fate and Time and Death and also Life? Da fuq is a soul? How can a person be a person without a soul? What is the entomology of yeet? All valid questions
God, I love the adamantine arrow. This is exactly the magical balls to the wall social fuckery that should happen when you put players like this and pentacle mages in the same room
Alright, I know it is not in good taste to leave two comments, but Isabel woke up, got threatened, landed a bullet on the thrice-damned *space* mage, organized her cabal, tracked said space mage down in a matter of minutes, and then spun her block with double revolvers. Woman was sitting in her cushy office wondering what type of tea she was going to have only for a sledgehammer and pissed off Spanish royalty to kick down her door
I find it interesting that while death mages can basically grab any ghost and go "SIT, BOY", Spirit mages seem to have a much more predator-and-prey situation going on with the caveat that mages can get a metric fuckload of essence pretty easily. I am waiting for the day Isabel can just go "Your very being as well as your court is what I Weave, Rule, Create, and Unmake. Step. Aside"
Can 8 successes intimidate a supernal? Also, "how do you kill a truth" with a lie :). Also also, DID YOU JUST GIVE THE PARTY A POTION THAT CAN AWAKEN ANYBODY? THE PENTACLE WOULD KILL FOR THAT
Which one of us couldn't they burn" Give Isabel a few more dots in forces....But seriously, the answer is all of you. Bring all the guns you want, I will be in fucking twilight with my space magic friend
Ain't no fucking way Cloak pulled a Talk No Jutsu on a fucking ghost. Also, I always found it kind of weird that resolving a ghost's anchor or banishing them or any of that good stuff never solves the problem; it just dumps them in the underworld to suffer some more. When death is supposed to be a natural transition, for the natural state of that transition to be suffering doesn't sit right with me. Of course, the real souls go elsewhere, but the fact that ghosts themselves are a fundamental part of the capital D Death arcana means they existed before Paradox and consensus was an utter bitch
I am very excited that we are finally getting to the mage shenanigans, but I am also slightly confused. I can tell that the crossroads just represent the space arcana connections between people, but is the "real" papa legba a goetia? I have heard Goetia referred to loosely in both the rookery and here, but Goetia are supposed to *only* be dark impulses from the mind of a sentient being. What is Papa Legma then, and how does mind aspect manifest (I will just say "thing" for now) manifest at a crossroads of space?
Goetia are NOT only dark impulse. They represent any thoughts, memories, urges, etc. from within your mind, discussed between people, or from the dreams of rocks, trees, and planets. So Papa Legba is the Goetic representation of the Vodun Loa, their god of crossroads and travel and communication. There is some similarity to Hermes
@@OccultistsAnonymous Alright, that makes a lot more sense; the wiki isn't very good. Beyond that, the heck are supernals? I was under the impression that they don't go out into the physical. (If we are going by Exalted lore, all mages are reality-bending fairies from outside the bounds of reality. I am not kidding, that is the canon source of awakened souls according to Exalted which takes place before all other white wolf systems)
No, the wiki can be quite bad, especially since some of it is 1E content, some of it gets edited together with fan theory stuff or WoD content. You should swing by the Discord, there's a bunch of folks there who are super eager to discuss and answer these kinds of questions for ya. Supernals are symbols of existence, each representing an aspect of reality. They don't go out into the physical normally but they can be summoned! (We don't care about Exalted lore here.)
@@OccultistsAnonymous Yeah, I am probably going to head over to the Discord. As for exalted, most people don't even know about that crackhead of a game
After so long it was incredibly cathartic to see the bad-bad-man get dusted. On other news, Theodosia's wife is on the road to maybe awaken? What heartache might be in the wings? Find out next time on ItW!
I think Theo is going to slowly become that old woman stares down ghosts as their numenera bounces off of her. She really tanked getting her body rapidly decayed, put up a ghost shield, and didn't lose a single other resource for the rest of the fight. I know that she was "shaken" mechanics-wise, but holy shit, I will never stop being impressed by how hard death mages counter ghosts
I haven't even started the episode yet, but this is a much much much much much much much MUCH more relaxed pace than the previous chronicle, which makes sense I suppose, but it can also feel kind of "skip skip skip" to hear a bunch of newbie mages have philosophical discussions about things that the audience already knows the supernal end point of, especially after hearing the much more interesting and opinionated out-looks of the Rookery mages
@@OccultistsAnonymous I shall wait for shit to hit the fan, probably once the cabal has the classic 2 or 3 gnosis, 3 dots in ruling, and 2 dots in the second ruling
