User:Norseman
The Glasses: (Mind 3), Created by a brilliantly insane Son of Ether, it is the single greatest weapon the "Sleepers" have against the Technomancers. After watching another roommate get snuffed trying to awaken a new recruit, the Son realized that she needed to change direction. She knew that there was a HUGE group of disenfranchised people who actively believed that there was some all powerful illuminati trying to take over the world. Since they actively disbelieved in the Technomancer's enforced reality, she knew she could tap into this base distrust, by giving them what they wanted.
She fashioned a pair of sunglasses, and enchanted them so that anyone could use them successfully. Put simply, if a person wears these glasses, the glasses scan the area for any Technomancers or anyone using Technomancer Magick. Once the information is discovered, the Glasses project into the mind of the USER powerful illusions that the Technomancer or the item being used is something wholly alien. Since a Technomancer is more likely to be in a position of power, the conspiracy nut will obviously believe that this is the proof he requires to show that aliens landed in Dallas to murder JFK. Proof being a powerful thing, the nut will take up his war, armed with his glasses, and blow up anything that looks funny.
What precisely the user sees is up to the Storyteller. Some suggestions range from all Technomancers being stereotypic Communists in great coats, with vodka in each fist, to Japanese vomiting forth from all types of medium, to even aliens from another dimension, who have taken over the world. However, the constant influx to the brain _does_ generate Paradox. To the Sleeper, this manifests in a pain so severe that a health level is lost an hour. This damage can be regained by taking them off, and resting for a like amount of time. For a Mage, a Paradox point is collected per hour of _total_ use. If the Mage consistently puts it on, and takes it off very fast, remeber to throw enough curve balls (he really didn't get a good glimpse last time) to encouage him to keep them on.
Even though the Son never awakened a single user of the Glasses, those who use them call those who do not "Sleepers," almost reflexively.