A Continent of Banalities

This another post inspired by one of Evlyn M's beautiful art pieces. Consider supporting her: https://www.patreon.com/evlynmoreau/posts The moon priestess is a great worker of magick. She is often spied by the broken-hearted, by insomniacs and by people on ketamine. She is unearthly and beautiful, having taken something of the moon’s light for herself. Her eyes are like twin blood moons. She is attended always by moths and sometimes by ensorcelled astronomers. Used with permission. The moon priestess communes with many lunar deities and creatures but worship none but Her Majesty the Moon. This is the magick of the moon priestess and the few with whom she deigns to share it. 1: Her Lips of Amber never part This may be basic social engineering rather than magic, but the results seem quite magical. The stillness of a full moon night has a profound effect on the human animal. The stillness is too immense and loud and the urge to fill it with one’s own noise can be irrep...

Gear There won’t be a big list of all the equipment players might  conceivably want their characters to have. Passing Strange does not provide the PCs with a lot of spending cash, so the players will have to scavenge, steal or make unsavory deals to get what they need. It's often sensible to buy in bulk.  Some purchases are considered trivial. This means that while a Commonplace ATM roll is needed to buy the item, it does not subtract from your character’s ATM score. Non-trivial purchases lower ATM (usually by 1). Here are some sample items and their costs. Item ATM Roll Trivial? A 2L bottle of soda 7 Y A carton of cigarettes 9 Y A burner phone 7 N (ATM -1) 8-ball (cocaine) 9 N (ATM -1) A beater car 9 N (ATM -1) Set of good lockpicks 9 N (ATM -1) 300 mg Vicodin 9 Y Climbing gear 9 N (ATM -1) Geiger counter 9 N (ATM -1) A good sensible automobile 11 N (ATM -2) Eldritch tome at lea...

Into my heart an air that kills  From yon far country blows:  What are those blue remembered hills,  What spires, what farms are those?  That is the land of lost content,  I see it shining plain,  The happy highways where I went  And cannot come again. A.E. Housman

So, I got annoyed that the background list used a D20 when the rest of the game uses D6s exclusively. Solution, I came up with some more backgrounds and now you can be a superhero, a gangster's best bud, a talking possum or a student (*glp*). Roll 1D66 to get your background 11: Ascension blacklist You’ve done the ayahuasca, the psychic alchemy, the seven stages of orgone release. You’re READY. When you gotta rise up you’re helium man. Except that there are people out there who won’t let you. A shadowy group using electromagnetic radiation to influence your inner calm. The Prison Warder Consciousness is what some people call it, a fearsome being huddling jealously in a higher plane. Some say it’s agents of the Vatican or Silicon Valley. It doesn’t know who it’s dealing with. Lower your Luck by 2 points, as something is clearly working against your spiritual progress. Pick two spells from the sŭrtse (heart) list. You don’t think of it as magick, of course. It’s a...