Zero Sum - Mage Timeline
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Updated: 27 Jan 2023
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Weaver Device “Conundrum” is released, called "Mechagodzilla 2000" by Warez e-zine. Its creator seems to have used a Godel (Paradox-spirit) to make it.The 45th meeting of the Technocratic Union's Inner Circle, advancing the Time Table.The 46th meeting of the Technocratic Union's Inner Circle, advancing the Time Table.The vast majority of Iterators before this year have or had Digital Enhancement Implants, but the number begins to drop sharply to between 50 and 60%The Macrotechnicians are founded as a Methodology of Iteration X.A bad year to be a kahuna in Hawaii, as the Technocracy steps up its Pogrom against CraftsHouse Skopos, a tiny group within the Order of Hermes dedicated to quantum reality, is founded by Spiro Hatzis.Some of humanity expects the Apocalypse on this date. Some members of Iteration X are miffed that humanity didn't all decide to become Iterators.Ishaq bani Quaesitor officially announces that the Quaesitori have declared a Wizards' March against House Tremere, thus beginning the Second Massasa War.[A "Hazuko" sends a communique to "Niles" regarding the uncertainty with extradimensional matters, now that the Dimensional Storm has erected a barrier, and several Deep Universe outposts are out of contact.Dr. Angela Hernandez is promoted to Field Director of Midwestern North America.Japan's Mount Oyama erupts, forcing the evacuation of the inhabitants of the island, including the Void Engineers of Oyama Station. Virtual Adepts and Ecstatics sweep in and take over.This issue of Paradigma is the last to receive full circulation, and contains a call for a coherent and unified terminology to be used in describing Etheric studies. The Paris offices of Paradigma are destroyedA report is made regarding the Avatar Storm.Dreamspeaker Safia Phiri's paper "An Examination of Modern Mysticism" is due to be published by Baruti Press late this year.Project Stormwarden, an effort to break through the Avatar Storm, is started.At the end of the year, Astraea nears Aquarius.The New Horizon Council meets in Los Angeles to trap the Nephandi, and decimate Jodi Blake's minions. They use the success to unite the Traditions.Lord Edward Gilmore is the last to leave Concordia, at which point every path into Horizon becomes impenetrable.Paradigma staff Lynette Anselm sends a note to Dr. Robert Goldfarb, about how odd she feels having just returned from an interdimensional clinic.New Iterator William Albacastle makes a contribution to Iteration X's historical archives.Mortal scientists detect new planetary body in the solar system, distinctly red in colour, which they dub 2001 KX76Armature Harlan Gandt has been parsing the Balt decryption and has discovered the email exchanges between Balt and Xadreque Machado. He immediately reports the exchange to Comptroller Lisa Chatham, who congratulates him on his loyalty and orders him to report to Personnel for psychological excision and intellectual reformation. She orders Jason Wells to destroy Gandt's office and to have him tailed to Personnel just in caseAl-Qaeda terrorists fly two planes into the World Trade Center in New York City. The Evanescence takes places, washing the Dreaming in Nightmare Glamour and opening trods that allow Thallain, Dark-Kin and other vile creatures.Mysterious communiqués spread to mages, carrying the mark of the Sphinx. The transmissions praise cabals who fight the Technocracy and admonish those who don't. The unknown authors come to be called the Rogue Council.During an eclipse late this year, Laklebb manifests physically for the third time, appearing simultaneously at eight places on Earth. Those who listen to the winds of the Avatar Storm hear a terrible voice whisper "Soon, they will be free, and all will fall apart."Out of the reach of Control, and exposed to wider supernatural mysteries and Traditionalists who respect reason, members of Panopticon begin to question the Pogrom and start going AWOL or joining technomantic cabals.Periods
The Age of Aquarius arrives at some point during this period spanCerebral Conditioning System Weaver Devices are developedThe Progenitors' "mad scientist" phase of the 1800s affects their cloned leaders as late as this decadeLizard-people are the fad in Genegineer labs early this decadeThe Golden Dragon Society investigates the Syndicate, and finds that it has ties to a corporation called Pentex, itself a front for a hitherto-unknown magical society which subscribes to an unknown paradigm. They're dubbed the "followers of the Centipede."[Psychic Arlene P. Dietrich defects from the New World Order to the Sons of EtherA group of Cryptogramics steal and decode a set of unreleased documents from the defunct MK-Ultra project, looking for a way to protect Virtual Adepts from telepathy.Dark Vengeance begins pumping destructive computer viruses out of Eastern Europe.Bernhardt Mueller loses all professional status – including much of his reputation among the Sons of Ether – for publicly predicting that a "hyperdimensional supercomet" he calls Mirzaba will pass close enough to Earth to be a collision risk toward the end of the year 2012.By this time, many Iterators quietly wonder if the Comptrollers in charge of the Convention are merely puppets of the Computer.
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