Armidale Mage Plot Tracker

This is a list of plots, encounters and other stories being investigated by the players of the Armidale Domain.

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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

The Age of Reason

• Technomagical cabal of Mages and mortals.
• They believe in global ascension though science.
• The will shoot ANYONE who is seen performing overt magic in Armidale.
• Own various biological and security companies in Armidale though intermediaries and shell-companies.

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.

Wyrd Things shipment

• A shipment of strange occult items arrived in the concillium, with supplies having been ordered by deceased concillium members.

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.

Mr Cripp is providing psychological counseling to Carter, with varying degrees of success. She is a good source of local occult knowledge.

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.
• Likely a spirit.
• Has been told about the souls of mages, the Abyss and other dangerous information.

Cats in hats?

• A cat wearing a cat-sized mailman's hat was seen using the secret entrance to the concillium and delivering a poorly-written, vaguely-threatening poem to the concillium.

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.

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

Zombie Mold

• Lethal infection that kills its victims and animates their corpses 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.

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 Astral Wanderer A cat-shapechanger was allowed inside a portal to the Astral realm; part of Armidale's collective unconscious. Now various cat-related supernatural occurrences have converged on the town.

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.
• It has been linked to the death of the previous concillium at every turn.

Resolved

Resolved:

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 Cripp 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.