Armidale Mage Plot Tracker

This is a list of plots, encounters and other stories being investigated by the players of the Armidale Domain. As these plots get more complex, they may require their own wiki page for more details/supplemental materials.

Region events

Return of the Old Gods - The King In Yellow - August 2013

• The incarnation of Bast manifested in the Theatre of Dawn and Dusk as they finished a special showing of The King In Yellow.
• At the same time, a creature of abject horror manifested in Armidale Belgrave Cinema. Only Lazarus knows what happened, everyone else fled in fear and were unable to recall what they saw.
• Bast appeared to draw every waking human being into the Temenos, where many of them fell under how power and started worshiping her. The worship quickly turned into an orgy. Several elderly and frail theatre goers died of exhaustion as a result.
• Entropy, a new mage in town, seduced/was seduced by Bast during the orgy. Nothing bad can come of this.
• 'Cultists' in robes with a rising sun were outside the theatre, leading the...festivities.
• Several Mages encountered Odin Duskbringer in the shared dream. He was identified as another supernatural, but he suggested it was in their best interests that they do not share information with each other or follow him into his own dream. He did suggest they could find their way out of the dream by finding their own Oneiroi, however

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"Ok, look, there's all these strange things going on. I'm just going to note down a few things that we should probably look into. I don't catch everything that happens, so you'll need to update this yourselves." -Seeker7 1980-2013

August

A REAL Concillium

• The Forge started allocating Councillor positions to prominent Mages
• He has made the odd blunder but doing his best...
• A petty squabble broke out in the August meeting, two Mages were rendered unconscious but otherwise unharmed.

The Age of Reason

• Employing robots that are veiled from magical scrutiny to look like humans - it is quite easy to tell they are not with some scrutiny.
• The AoR Bugged the concillium with 7-8 robotic cockroaches in July 2013.
• In the wake of the trolley attacks at the start of July, the AoR are providing lab-grown fruit and vegetables at $1 per kilo, to any resident in Armidale that wants it.
• Resources 5 and knowledge a speciality in finance/trading is needed to attack their assets in any meaningful way.
• Both Mr Krip and Arran have seen the astral reflection of the AoR. The device/creature that manipulates fate is beneath the Daedalus Biotechnology base of the AoR.
• Arran signed a contract with the dream reflection of the AoR fate manipulation device without knowing the terms of the deal exactly. This was a terrible idea. His resonance changed to 'icy mechanics' and his fate was manipulated towards some nefarious doom.

The concillium has placed Arran in a protective 'feign death' coma until they figure out what to do.

A Season of Illusion

• A Japanese shrine has been seen on the outskirts of Armidale
• Casper, The Forge's familiar, brought in a fox spirit bound in a piece of paper written in hand-drawn kanji.
• History repeats itself?

The Astral Wanderer

• A cat-shapechanger was allowed inside a portal to the Astral realm; part of Armidale's collective unconscious.
• This individual has been confirmed as a blood-relative of Carter.
• Now various cat-related supernatural occurrences have converged on the town.
• Mr Krip found this individual at the Astral reflection of the Meeting Place. He was attacked.

The Parliament of Ravens

• After encountering an individual claiming to be Odin in the Temenos, several mages encountered a massive flock of sentient ravens.
• The ravens agreed to send the mages back to their own dreams/bodies if one mage told a story now, and the others told a story at a later date. The mages agreed.
• The ravens liked the story and the mages were returned to their own dreams.

Icy Mechanics resonance

• It's everywhere.
• It was on the Abyssal Mirror, it was in the mine full of zombies, it's all over the Age of Reason lab.
• All mages in the AoR seem to have the 'Icy Mechanics' resonance, somehow.
• It has been linked to the death of the previous concillium at every turn.

Mr Krip and Arran have found the astral reflection of the Age of Reason and the source of the resonance.

Older than one month

Zombie Mold 'Necrocheese'

• Lethal infection that kills its victims and animates their bodies as shambling corpses.
• Controlling fungus can be directly attacked using life magic while the corpse can be destroyed physically by any number of means.
• The exact ecology has not been uncovered.
• Confined to an abandoned goldmine shaft North of Armidale.
• Found on magically animated trolleys that attacked the shops of Armidale in July 2013. These trolleys were clearly 'sick'. They were disposed of with fire. Icy Mechanics resonance was NOT found on the trolleys, unlike the infected zombies in the mine.

Carter

• Carter is mentally unstable after her imprisonment inside the mirror and watching the other concillium members descend into the abyssal maze before disappearing.
• Carter is a blood relative of the shapechanger that entered the astral mirror.
• Carter has her own spirit court of shadow spirits, which she administrates from her own house in Invergowrie.
• Carter declared she had an issue with the mage Lazarus, because he was killing stray cats in their shared neighbourhood. Lazarus has agreed to stop this behaviour and the matter is considered settled for the time being.

Mr Krip is providing ongoing psychological counselling to Carter and attempting to diffuse the situation.

Infinite Recursion Error

• Mages who knew Seeker7 have been messaged from a strange pseudo-robotic entity.
• Give it information that is not in it's database and it will answer any query you have in return, assuming it relates to the physical world.
• Confirmed as a spirit court.
• Has been told about the souls of mages, the Abyss and other dangerous information.
• Under normal circumstances, anyone can talk to IRE through their mobile device, assuming IRE knows of it's existence.
• Spirit speech/first tongue will allow IRE to speak frankly without its computer syntax/ban getting in the way.
• IRE opposes the AoR and does NOT work with Carter.

A'grania has a credit of eight questions to ask IRE, gained by allowing it to overhear concillium discussion.

Cats in hats?

• A cat wearing a cat-sized mailman's hat was seen using the secret entrance to the concillium in June and delivering a poorly-written, vaguely-threatening poem to the concillium.
• Local cats have intelligence generally around the level of a three-year-old child. There is no change to their biology or spirit, only their minds. Their 'potential' has been unlocked.
• FriskyWhiskers1974?
• Lazarus was the subject of this poem, and has been threatened with a duel/magical war by Carter over actions in their shared neighborhood.

Cartographer's Society

• Meeting at midnight and midday every month. Is an intermediary between the other supernaturals of Armidale.
• The concillium needs a presence at those meetings.
• Someone was accused of being a vampire at the meeting last month, until it was pointed out that it was midday. The accuser went quiet.

The Forge has agreed to attend and find out what the fuss is about.

Inactive

The Anomaly

• A mirrored hole in reality. Leads to a place outside of time, space, not connected to anything magically.
• Walking inside it makes you gain the attention of what can only be described as 'Abyssal reality-eating bees'.

The Murder of Seeker7

• The Age of Reason tacitly confirmed they were the cause.
• The Hierarch was shot in the head twice to confirm his death, just as Seeker7 had figured out something important about the Age of reason.
• The assassin was a robotic entity with a magically-powered railgun. It walked into a dumpster and fell apart.
• Attributed to the AoR. No action is being taken against them.

Wyrd Things shipment

• A shipment of strange occult items arrived in the concillium, with supplies having been ordered by deceased concillium members.
• The address of the shop is in the CBD of Armidale.
• Many of the items in the shop had or have a significant role to play in the fate of the local area.
• Owned by a Mr Low-Key, a mortal with a 'mysterious fate energy' about him.

Resolved

Resolved:

Night of the Living Trollies - Regional event June 2013
All the trollies in Armidale became alive and raided shops, particularly food shops, and carried the goods off into the night. The trollies themselves originated from some other plain of existence (OOC: the Hedge), and had the fates living beings 'sewn' onto them. These trollies made bleating noises like sheep, and seemed to feel pain. A small number of the trollies were 'wrong', and covered in grey spores. See Zombie Mold below.

Astral/Abyssal Mirror This was a pathway to an Abyssal labyrinth that snaked through Armidale. It was full of strange things - endless deserts, cinemas with giant tentacles, elevators to the sky, otherworldly tube maps. The Armidale mages walked the abyssal path backwards to destroy it, and now the mirror is a physical portal to the local astral space. It seems to react to the thoughts of whoever is touching it. The Mirror is in the possession of Mr Krip who has created a basic ward to stop anybody on either side from noticing the portal.

The Vault The old concillium vault was guarded by a spirit bound by Carter. The new concillium raided the vault and took everything that was there. The empty vault now remains below the library. Entry to the vault also requires knowledge of the secret passage into the concillium.