Downtime Plots

Mage: The Ascension

For discovering and coordinating collective adventures.

All Chantry

Keep Vancouver Weird

Involved: Liz, Proteus, Mari?, Yu Lan (All Syndics Must Die), Cara (Helped to make the truce, want to be there to break it) others?
Timeframe:  ??
Goals: Eject the Technocracy (particularly the Syndicate) from Vancouver

Fortress Prima

We have pissed off a demon prince. We should be expecting trouble.

Set up layered defenses at the entrances

Spirit Mages => Spirit Guardians

Recruit and train guards - we have TONS of weaponry and expert instructors

Work to purify and enhance Lake Taihu - this strengthens our Dragon.

Etherfleet dock / station (Get Dory a ship?)

Vancouver is Ours

We are Vancouver's Chantry. It's time to take ownership

Get some real-world amenities, like a classy nightclub/bar and a nice place (condo? nice old house?) for guests that is not a node or other vital asset.

Establish some front companies or other financial assets to keep us from running out of money

Plan for Chicago-style techno attacks - get safehouses and storage/warehouses so we can keep the Chantry Realm off the radar. Safehouses can have hidden compartments to make Matter/Corr coincidental for getting gear.

Get some consors / guards, if only to keep people from robbing us blind

Reach out to other mages in the area

Work on outreach to win people over toward our side of the War.

Westin

Final Westination

Involved: Westin, Liz
Timeframe:  ??
Goals: Avert Westin's Dark Fate

"We're past the worst of the traffic. Should be clear driving from here."

"Good, because I think the next pursuit car is full of HITMarks."

"...switch seats?"

"Switch seats."

Cara

Cara and the Rainy Sabat

Involved: Cara, Proteus, Westin
Timeframe: Early
Goals: Convince the Sabat of Seattle to stay the fuck away from Vancouver, get loot, get Cara some Vampire-hunting cred

"This is my ghoul, Christopher. He's terribly well behaved, don't you think? I've trained him well."

Vienna Darkly Dreaming

Involved: Cara, ???
Timeframe:
Goals: Our allies desired to involve themselves in the Second Massassa War. Therefore let us cut the head off of the Vampire threat; the vampire hermetics...

Cara wants to work on building a life-battery for herself
Perhaps look up her secret dossier at the Dolmen of Silence

Proteus

Proteus and GENOVA Prime

Involved: Proteus, Yu Lan
Timeframe: Immediate
Goals: Salvage anything of value in the web realm, try to find what's left of Jane, reformat GENOVA Prime

"So what's the difference between virtual and haptic?"

"Haptic lets you punch things."

. . . the gleaming corporate structure of GENOVA Prime was ahead, a cluster of cybernetic skyscrapers shot through with black tentacles of twisted cogwork and metal. Surfaces shimmered irregularly, growing pixelated and crawling eerily before recovering. Occasional chunks of Wicked City intrusion dropped to the cracked ground, shattering into nothingness. Above, lightning flashed to illuminate the dark clouds with circuit board patterns. Disturbingly, there was movement. Technocratic programs, now feral and twisted.

Kana

Timeskip Plots

• C77
• God wants Kana to save the littlest lama
• Vancouver: I can get into that.
• Vampires: I totally want to get in on that.
• Final Westination: I can stay out of this one.

Future Game Preferences

• Ignore what I said about stakes. Mix of stakes. Have places where we can afford to fail without literally the world being swallowed by darkness.

• At least a few scenarios involving strategery and complicated setups as opposed to kicking the door down.

• Varied enemies; things we can cheese and mages who we can't. Bickering trad mages and paranoid technocracy both cool. Adventures are okay too but only as support to whoever is leading the expedition.

• Split the party like any chantry splits into cabals. We're starting to get cases where PC mages are starting to step on each others' toes anyway.

FGSC

C77

Involved: Liz, Kana, FGSC, ????
Timeframe: Immediate
Goals: Make sure C77 happens, put FGSC circle on the map, restore Liz's groove, ????

"Okay, our booth is ka, ki, ku... wait, who's that in the Inuyasha line?"

"...it can't be."

"...it is."

<together> "Tsurara!?"

Mari

Take stock of what Caldwell left her (and his mystery)

Become a master of prime (find a teacher?)

Support Ozu's court when the Technocracy comes a knocking

Gain more cosmic power

Deal with the menagerie of supernatural pets she has picked up

Reward that gypsy that helped her

Yu Lan

Hired Gun for Everyone else

Fight for Justice with the Knight Sabers

Build Kung Fu Red Faction Terrorists in China, Japan, Vancover and China

Series Preferences

Travel > Fight Technos > Intrigue between mages

Basically Yu Lan never got to do a real wandering hero thing so I'd like to do that.

Shu

Restore Sasayama to its former glory- retrieve the spirits, and begin bringing in other Akashics to teach and study, to train new students and help in the upkeep of the realm.

Master Archery, and learn the fifth level of Do through the creation of a new technique designed for ranged weapons/combat.

Arete 5, Prime 3, learn a crafting sphere and make magic items for the party.

Knowledge. Learn some.

Find out more about the omnipotent omniscient TPK death curse sword.

Playstyle Preferences

More exploration, lore finding, less super high lethality/fate of the world fights. Go strange new places, learn interesting things. Travel. Chance to show off skills, learn new ones, get into Shu's history.

Mix of combat and social and learning, but less super genius strategy stuff that I as a player don't have a head for, or ultra long planning sessions.

Liz

Liz and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Involved: Liz, ????
Timeframe: ??
Goals: Find some stout young spirits to make fetishes out of.

Long Live The Queen of Games

Involved: Liz, Proteus, ????
Timeframe: Long
Goals: Travel to the spirit courts and establish ourselves politically.
With the loss of the original queenie, this might be something to do post-timeskip instead. --Shrike (talk) 10:37, 10 July 2014 (PDT)

Eli

I'm a busy man...

Continuum Watch

Get out of the panic room, and RESTOCK IT

Report my successful mission in defense of the timeline to Lin Siegen

Defend Crossdown from any Tokyo fallout

Work with him to learn some tricks, get some Zols, and refresh the Boswell

Keep in touch with Lin over the time skip period

Q Branch

Get Prime 3 and crafting skills

Start making awesome gear - at least one piece of gear per chantry member.

Health Kits!

Possibly make an artifact for doing healing / better body

Repair damaged artifacts from Tokyo ("Really, 007?")

Team (Evil) Player

Work with Mari and Cara on the Ozu Project (weapons, blood substitute, SPF 1000)

Work with Mari on Caldwell stuff, possibly get adopted

Train with Westin in the art of combat. Get Dex 4 if possible.

Help Proteus or Liz if I can

Check back in with the Knight Sabres, especially the gal Eli healed

Love and Science!

Marry Nat if she's interested.

Work with Nat to upgrade our science labs

Better facilities

Animal helpers - time to expand on my thesis project

Grad Students - College students are available en masse and they are desperate for work

Upgrade Archy to cyber-ninja-roach

Work with Nat on her projects. Possibly see about publishing a joint article in Paradigma