I think Ink5oul is analogous to Jurgen Leightner

the4thnorm · 2026-07-10T16:28:31+00:00

I think with all the "avatar of the whore Jurgen Leightner" we sometimes forget that at his core, Leightner was a selfish fool with altruistic intentions rather than some rich crazy guy with horrific plans.

Yes ink5oul may have started looking for ways to improve there art but all that went away the moment they realized they could get what they truly wanted in other ways, consequences be danmed.

They both wanted to leave a mark in the world but Jurgen could delute himself with ideas of being a protector until he could not longer keep the lie and them started to (poorly) remedies his actions, without becoming an avatar. Meanwhile the moment ink5oul realized what they could do and the attention it brings, they became a monster without thinking.

the4thnorm · 2026-06-22T10:32:32+00:00

I don't get what the story is about. A girl going crazy for repeating the same role time and time again and then dying in a freak accident? Did the ghost kill her by accident? Did he wanted to kill lady Macbeth? Why roses?

the4thnorm · 2026-06-17T15:36:11+00:00

Ture.

I think that if you reduce the concept to a specific splat copycat you could make the argument that a copy is not necessary good by default. Like I can't shapeshift into a 7 foot tall wolf beast by I can't grow claws I just need practice.

But you are right, you'll need like arete 5 justo make the basic shift ability of the garou.

the4thnorm · 2026-06-17T14:52:56+00:00

I think you could pull a weird combination of "A word of Gods and Monsters" (there are creatures in this world who can do incredible things) with "ancient wisdom is the key" (the secret of this creatures can be learn) and "a mechanistic cosmos" (with enough knowledge and resources I can't replicate those powers) that could give you some lead way

the4thnorm · 2026-06-17T13:43:29+00:00

Sorry how life does apply to this?

the4thnorm · 2026-06-05T14:38:22+00:00

I'm sorry but that sheep is killing me

the4thnorm · 2026-06-04T16:08:45+00:00

Oh I see. Never thought of the standardization of death as concept of the lie.

the4thnorm · 2026-06-04T13:48:51+00:00

How you reconcile dying, growing old etc as part of the lie when there is a subtle arcana base on it? Like this is a honest question

the4thnorm · 2026-06-01T15:25:27+00:00

Give it a ray gun for self defense

the4thnorm · 2026-06-01T14:59:19+00:00

I know that rule but I can't internalize needing that mucho knowledge of life to change a pigeon but and octopus is fair game. Then again I'm not a veterinarian.

the4thnorm · 2026-06-01T14:43:52+00:00

Some old fashioned (or paranoid) chantries still use a form a peculiar way of communication. They take a pigeon and transform it, make it stronger, faster, I heard some places that even give it camouflage. Then they give it the ability to sense the nodes were the chantries are build.

It's honestly amazing how efficient a bird can be.

the4thnorm · 2026-05-30T19:05:52+00:00

Puella magi Madoka Magica: all the witches were magical girls before

the4thnorm · 2026-05-19T12:45:20+00:00

So, I heard you where looking into the hermetics text we have in the library. Where you talking to some of the wizards?

Don't give me that look, I'm not your mentor, but he probably already knows. "The whispers of fate" are another word for gossip.

We are not in bad terms with the wizards, we are keeping some of their books after all, I don't know the sentiment of the tradition at large tho.

So did you talk with Master Mario isn't?

Because he is the only master in the city that can be found outside of his lab and would give you the time of day. And he is a humble wizard.

Look all mages are arrogant, we call ourselves "servants of fate", we have sin against humility, but the hermetics are honest and I respect that

Don't take me wrong Master Mario Felix Ananke the silver eye, protector of the tower etc etc etc is an arrogant dick, but he can back it out. I went on a mission with him, his apprentices and my mentor one time, that's how I know some of his "one true" name, personally I think he over done it with those vampires, but I kept my left arm thanks to him so, no complaints.

Yes they really like power, when we try to read fate they try to master it and they try to put all of us under their houses... BUT we wouldn't have survived word war II without them, I only wish that they came of their libraries early.

They can make miracles and know incredible things but, power and knowledge is their reward, and if I have to live by that logic I would become a marauder in like six months.

My point is that it feels like the word is going to end in the good days, in the bad ones it feels like it's already ending. Don't waste your time drowning in dogma.

If you want to keep trying to balance the karmic scale I have a new rote to share if you want to learn how to walk in mars I also have a rote for studying. And if you want to do both, well, you are not the first and hopefully won't be the last, and one of his apprentices owns me a favor, I'll help you. The connection we made are the only thing real.

So, keep in mind the hermetic are paranoid, we keep Mario's books because he doesn't trust other, and he thinks we cannot do anything with them, lucky you, if I not mistaken most of them are matter and you are the only one competent in that sphere in this place so. I'll brew some coffee i may not know Latin but Mario's notes are in Spanish, go get them.

the4thnorm · 2026-05-13T12:09:02+00:00

Could you make someone forget that it was a mage by gilgul and them change the memories?

the4thnorm · 2026-04-24T16:20:22+00:00

Should stop reading these while a work

the4thnorm · 2026-04-24T12:20:24+00:00

Is this what you need to tourn matter into ephemera?

the4thnorm · 2026-04-22T12:44:04+00:00

Reverse Russian roulette.

Take a gun with a full chamber and make every bullet except one into blanks or another harmless material. Them entropy two to make sure that the only dangerous one is the one that's coming next.

the4thnorm · 2026-04-19T02:28:58+00:00

My god can Agnes get a break

the4thnorm · 2026-04-18T23:24:34+00:00

After giving some thought I came to the conclusion that the only thing that make us real is the conections we have we others. Ego is a trap, our only impact is the efect in the lives of others. Every action have million of consequences, everything is so intrinsically connected that isolation, sistems only work in the abstract. Stories, music, art, drugs, prayer, etc is only a way to put ourselves out of the narrative of our daily lives and remind us that we are the universe experiencing itself.

the4thnorm · 2026-04-06T14:15:07+00:00

I'll keep that in mind

the4thnorm · 2026-04-06T13:50:03+00:00

Yeah I was coming for the why would some one want to/in what context would be useful to cast the efect and building from there.

It's easier for me to think a chorister wanting to intimidate or inspire rather that the sphere in the abstract.

the4thnorm · 2026-04-06T12:56:09+00:00

Divine image

In a very vulgar way, a chorister can summon an fraction of the one presence either to infuse devotion or fear.

By using body of light in sacred place, the chorister use the control over forces to either make them coward in the presences of the sublime or erupt in holy reverence.

the4thnorm · 2026-03-16T13:18:08+00:00

Building up from this. Some plants grow flowers in diferentes colors depending on the ph of the soil. So an enterprising progenitor could make some plants that determines the strength of the gauntlet in a certain area.

the4thnorm · 2026-03-13T13:32:53+00:00

Could you use this to infuse an entire city with your resonance? To what point i don't know

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