Posts made by Ominous

@gryphter I'm waiting for interconnected holodecks myself. I'd accept Sword Art Online too.

I use soda and pop. Both are used in my area.

Why did you ruin the Spaceballs run? We could've had a whole page of it!

@dvoraen That is a bit surprising, especially considering how many MU*s are based on WoD, a tabletop game. Did you think they were more akin to LARPs? I could see that.

All of the gifs I could think of as a response are NSFW except for one.

@chibichibi I rather like his Time/Mind Watchtower interpretation focusing more on a bardic lore style.

@Derp

I like the mutability outlook the Maestro have in your version. Whereas my previous idea about the Mind/Time tower had everything as being locked into an immutable akashic record, the Maestro are the opposite. All that is is a mutable framework powered by spirits and even those are changeable. All one can do is attempt to tap into those spirits and forces and direct them in the direction one wants them to go. The flame is ever-changing, sometimes growing into a conflagration, sometimes diminishing into embers. Each lick of fire unique in shape and existing for a transient moment. However, one can direct and guide the fire with a powerful will of brass.

It's sort of like Conan's Riddle of Steel.

It isn't until his father's sword is broken that Conan realizes the true answer to the riddle: all the power of both steel and flesh come from one's beliefs.

Flesh grows weak. Steel becomes brittle. But the will is indomitable.

Taken from the Conan the Barbarian wiki.

EDIT - Also, I found a post that seems to have done some work on these watchtowers already. I suspect the OP has already seen it, though: http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/the-new-world-of-darkness/mage-the-awakening/883338-the-other-five-paths-2e

@chibichibi Spirit is such an odd sphere to me to begin with, so this a bit challenging. Also I have been up for like 28 hours now, so my brain is kind of mushy.

Anyways, scientists claim there are four fundamental forces of the universe - gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. As they try to zoom in and understand how these forces work, their unintuitive behavior results in theories like quantum mechanics, chromodynamics, and string theory, which, when one thinks about it, seem like black mystery boxes that scientists are shoving things that they don't understand into. How can two identical particles end up behaving in different manners? Because they chose to. Particles and forces behave the way they do because they have a will - they are spirits. Spirits govern both the natural and the supernal world on a fundamental level. Those who follow Maestros know this and beseech these spirits to control not only the spirits themselves but the fabric of reality that drives everything. Other mages may talk about the Prime as the source of magic, but those of Maestros smile and laugh to themselves with the secret knowledge that that too is driven by spirits. It's spirits all the way down.

@chibichibi Have at it. I posted it either to be used or to inspire. I love writing up metaphysical mumbo-jumbo.

@chibichibi said in 2E Mage-focused Game:

Kleos, the Sage - The Watchtower of the Tin Flute in the Realm of Akasha
Ruling Arcana
Time and Mind, fluff soon

Inferior Arcana
Space, fluff soon

Oooh, the Akasha got me to thinking about the fluff.

Reality is an infinitesimally small moment when all that was, is, and will be are. Every bit of knowledge in existence is already experienced, recorded, and archived. Every breath, every bliss, every heartache, every deduction, every inspiration, every despair, and every discovery have all been and always have been since the very first and only moment. To appreciate the infinitude of existence fully, though, the self must take all of this in pieces known as time. But everything is already in the akashic record and should you wish to skip ahead in the infinitude all it takes is knowing how to look.

Space is just an illusion created by the mind for time to work. How can one experience Thing A appropriately if Things B through Z are all fighting one another for the same moment of attention? Instead the mind parses out Thing A from Things B through Z by separating them with segments of time that must be crossed by "movement." Really Things A through Z were always right there to begin with.