Magick

Adepts

Electromancy

Also a cool school idea- high tech mechanomancy? Awesome. Perhaps, because technology is so disposable, they can't keep using the same device for more than a few months before moving on to something else.

Infomancy

The Taboo for Iconomancy has been slightly altered by the über-social world we now inhabit. Stalkers are not punished by their being incidentally involved in something posted online, but any use of social media- generating memes, uploading YouTube videos, having a Facebook, commenting on an online article- all break taboo. Further, no new charges can be made until the Iconomancer has “atoned” and taken down the offending bit of information.

Incompemancy

This idea struck me as too lulzy not to use. The central paradox here is the Dunning-Kruger effect: those who are excellent at something tend to think they're average or below-average, and those who are awful at it tend to think they're demigods. The school's domain is competence: spells allow for people to pass where they previously would have failed or vice-versa. I'm thinking the taboo here is that skills other than Magick: Incompemancy can never be more than 30%, but I'm open to changing it.

Mechanomancy

I don't think Mechanomancers should yet get a 10% dock. If anything, the school has somehow gotten up and started thriving again, with steampunk subculture becoming vibrant among nerds. Mechanomancy might have been on its last legs in 2002, but it's still walking fine in 2011 as nostalgia for a period that never existed.

Mediamancy

A fusion of Videomancy and Infomancy? Sounds cool to me. Videomancy was one of the hardest-hit schools of magick by easily available DVDs, pirating, TiVo, etc. There are still practicing Videomancers, I'm sure, but the school is dying the same way Mechanomancy was in 2002. I wouldn't say it's yet to the point of taking a 10% dock like Cryptomancy does, but just a few more mystic straws on the camel's back can cause that.

In even FURTHER retrospect, I almost see it as the opinion influencing sides of a few schools of magick combined. Stuff like Urbanomancy's Napoleon of Notting Hill, Dipsomancy's Just a Harmless Drunk, Cliomancy's Gnostic Gossip, and quite a few Amoromancy spells. But the there's the whole techological side that Infomancy spells really fit... Oh well. Anyway, I see the media in two ways, Production and Observation. As a sample writeup of the Production side...

"The Mediamancer

AKA: Megaphones

You know that media isn't just a bunch of isolated pieces of entertainment. You see the dots and lines everywhere. A song from the flavor of the month popstar appears not just on a CD, but is played constantly on the radio, given a music video on MTV, and appears in the soundtrack of the latest romantic comedy. But it doesn't end there, because the barriers to entry have lowered. You can witness an important event, give your opinion, and the world will hear it through the internet. You can make a video, and the world will applaud at the end. But you see even further, because the connections don't just end at the credits. The audience keeps on creating, based on what others created. So you keep on creating, because you know that others will follow in your footsteps. And you stay tuned in to watch the network unfold.

One of the latest post-modern schools, Mediamancy grew from the movement of the internet integrating all media. Media has become about anybody being able to create media, a sort of democratic process where things that people enjoy become massively popular, while everything else becomes lost in the shadow. Meanwhile, in the background, corperations wrestle to maintain their hold on the media via buying and controlling every aspect they can. All of this both cheapened and personalized media.

Nowadays, anyone can easilly whip out a camera and film a poorly scripted comedic piece, write a short story involving an imported version of themself getting down with their favorite character, etc. and gain the attention of hundreds. This meant that TV, although it was still prevailent, wasn't this thing that was laughing at simultaniously anymore. Because of this, Vidiots blame Megaphones for the slow decay of their art, even though that decay is what spawned Mediamancy.

The central paradox of Mediamancy is that the modern media belongs to everyone. There is no central, unifying voice. Creating media is like shouting to a crowd, in a room that's filled with a hundred other voices who are shouting just as loud as you are. It's a struggle to generate any sizable audience when there's 30 other people peddling a similar product."

Ok, it's a little disorganized, and it's not really in the second-person format, but how does it sound? Even if the Production direction isn't a good one, maybe Observation would be. Either way, I think that Videomancy needs do go downhill, and Mediamancy needs to become a school.

If you want it in the comments/talk, I'll shove it there. Feel free to come up with your own ideas for it...

Writerwolf 22:08, November 2, 2011 (UTC)

Avatars

The Fool

The Ditz? I'd like to see more about that, it's a cool idea. Especially since, if the True Executive Ascended, the Fool would be ripe for the chopping block.

The Masterless Man

Suffered? Definitely. Could be that the current Godwalker of this one is trying to replace it with the Entrepreneur. Don't think it's happened yet, though.

The Rebel

Bit of controversy here regarding my initial thought that Anonymous, as an entity, is collectively the Godwalker of the Rebel. I do note that a lot of you assumed I meant that Anonymous had Ascended, which was not what I meant. As the Rebel is one of the Avatars most likely to have shifted in the Clergy, I'm interested to see what people develop here.

The Terrorist

Simon Diulio, as per Fly to Heaven. Possibly an interesting NPC-only class if stats could be come up with for it, along the lines of the Dark Stalker.

Maybe one of the channels could amp up the madness check that people get from observing his acts of terror by 1, and by 2 if they're the ones targeted by the act.

Writerwolf 22:15, November 2, 2011 (UTC)

The True Executive

As mentioned elsewhere, the True Executive is likely the Ascension that happened at the end of To Go, so all the rules on pp. 154 of To Go apply now instead of the normal rules for the True King. The True King, as an avatar, no longer exists.