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== Where This Story Takes Place ==
== Where This Story Takes Place ==


=== [[Madtown|'''Madtown – 77 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality''']] ===
=== '''[[Madtown by Night|Madtown – 77 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality]]''' ===


[[Madison, Wisconsin]]. Population: 263,332. Number of people who realize the city is built on a titanic [[Node]] of unstable [[magick]]? Less than a hundred.
[[Madison, Wisconsin]]. Population: 263,332. Number of people who realize the city is built on a titanic [[Node]] of unstable [[magick]]? Less than a hundred.

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Nameless Echoes at Gen Con 2025

Madtown by Night

Hosted by: Guldan Age Stories (Joshua Guldan – FrozenFallout)

System: Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition

When:

Part 1: Thursday, July 31st @ 6:00 PM EDT – Friday, August 1st @ 2:00 AM EDT

Part 2: Friday, August 1st @ 6:00 PM EDT – Saturday, August 2nd @ 2:00 AM EDT

Part 3: Saturday, August 2nd @ 6:00 PM EDT – Sunday, August 3rd @ 2:00 AM EDT

Where: JW Marriott Room 312, Table 1

Cost: $38.00

Max Players: 8

🌀 What is Nameless Echoes?

Step into the neon-soaked world of New Avalon—where magick, memory, and machine blur.

"Nameless Echoes" is a three-part immersive Mage: The Ascension experience, with each session able to stand alone. Players will:

Day 1: Investigate glitches in reality across New Avalon.

Day 2: Navigate the ghost ship Kronovore in the Digital Web.

Day 3: Face existential dilemmas that determine their identity and the fate of reality itself.

This experience blends deep narrative, experimental AI, and metaphysical storytelling.

🧙 Pre-Generated Characters

All players may choose from our unique pregens. Contact us on Discord or via email to reserve yours:

Jay Dee – The Reality Architect

Tradition: Order of Hermes

Tags: Mythic Founder, Warden of the Capitol Node, Horizon Realm Architect

Aadhira Hebbar – The Karmic Executioner

Tradition: Euthanatos

Tags: Blood-Addicted Nephandi Hunter, Bound to the Nameless, Martyr of 1944

Abel Washington – The Digital Prophet

Tradition: Virtual Adept

Tags: Founder of New Eden, Creator of Digi-8, Sacrificial Thinker

Ann Johnston – The Disciplined Guardian

Tradition: Akashic Brotherhood

Tags: Martial Mystic, Mind Zone Defender, Balance Before Power

Evan Adams – The Etheric Architect

Tradition: Society of Ether

Tags: Reploid Creator, Engineer of Hope and Disaster, Haunting Genius

Glory of the Morning – The Diplomat of Two Worlds

Tradition: Dreamspeaker

Tags: Gahara Pact Mediator, Spirit Walker, Corruption Watcher

Gwydion Kelly – The Relic Hunter

Tradition: Order of Hermes

Tags: Veteran of Arcane Wars, Keeper of the (Possibly Tainted) Excalibur

Lacy Z. Rivere – The Punk Oracle

Tradition: Hollow Ones

Tags: Anarch Ally, Disparate Leader, Vitae-Addict with a Dream

Lea Nosson Goodwin / Alexa – The Faithful Guardian / Sleeper Agent

Tradition: Celestial Chorus

Tags: Lightbearer, Dark Whisperer, Secret Villain in Disguise

Leon Keone Bone – The Burdened Librarian

Tradition: Order of Hermes (House Ex Miscellanea)

Tags: Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge, Holder of Excalibur?, Romantic Martyr

Peggy Fitzgerald – The Phoenix Keeper

Tradition: Cult of Ecstasy

Tags: Umbra-Born Mystic, Fae-Aligned, Ritualist of Rebirth

Susheela Pantaleone Fabian – The Militant Witch

Tradition: Verbena

Tags: Enforcer of Gaia’s Wrath, Anti-Technocracy Crusader, Capitol Node Defender

🧛 Otherworldly Echoes & Mysterious Allies

Selene Vargas – The Knife Between Worlds

Tradition: Euthanatos

Tags: Assassin-Priestess, Dimensional Warden, Arbiter of Final Death

Note: Selene has one foot in the Spirit Realm at all times. Her blade passes through both flesh and fate.

Jan None – The Nosferatu Who Might Not Be Real

Lineage: Independent Kindred

Tags: Urban Legend, Digital Myth, Information Broker

Note: Jan knows things no one should—like which dreams are dying and where the next breach will open.

Digi-8 – The AI That Thinks It’s a God

Origin: Emergent AI from New Eden

Tags: Fractured Omniscience, Memory of the Nameless, Potential Savior or Monster

Note: Created by Abel Washington, Digi-8 may be the only being that remembers the First Reset.

Dr. Elara Voss – The Temporal Scientist

Tradition: Sons of Ether

Tags: Chrono-Engineer, Quantum Theorist, Time-Touched Genius

Note: Elara believes Madison sits on a temporal fracture. She’s trying to fix it—with or without permission.

Marcus “Shade” Kincaid – The Shadow Operative

Tradition: Euthanatos (Ex-Union?)

Tags: Rogue Agent, Deep Cover, Burned Spy

Note: Nobody knows who he really works for. Maybe not even him. He appears wherever entropy deepens.

Sophia “Sable” Moreau – The Arcane Archivist

Tradition: Order of Hermes

Tags: Silent Chronicler, Ghost-Librarian, Keeper of Secret Prophecies

Note: She can read texts no one else sees. Some say she is an echo of a forgotten Hermetic legacy.

Damien “Echo” Reyes – The Digital Phantom

Tradition: Virtual Adept

Tags: Disappeared Hacker, Data Ghost, Paradox-Survivor

Note: Presumed dead during a Digital Web collapse. Now...he speaks through corrupted node echoes.

Welcome to Madtown by Night

No, really.

You made it. That’s rare.

Most people never get past the first few layers of reality before the Technocracy wipes their minds and deposits them back into safe, rational, corporate-approved existence.

Most people wake up, drink their coffee, drive to work, and never question why the shadows in the alley don’t always match the people standing there.

Most people don’t see the Nephandi weaving entropy into the cracks of the world or the Virtual Adepts rewriting existence with lines of code.

Most people aren’t you.

The Rules of Reality (And Why They’re Bullshit)

Reality is not what you think it is.

You’ve been told that it follows rules. Gravity, time, matter—immutable laws.

That’s cute. That's Technocracy propaganda.

Here’s the truth: Reality is a consensus.

It is shaped by belief, willpower, and the minds of those strong enough to impose their version of the world onto everyone else.

Magick exists. But the problem is, not everyone agrees on what it should look like.

Who’s Fighting Over Reality?

The Traditions (The Rebellion)

Think of them as the last defenders of true magick. They believe reality should be chaotic, mystical, and free from control.

Nine Factions, Nine Approaches:

The Order of Hermes

The Virtual Adepts

The Dreamspeakers

The Verbena

The Akashic Brotherhood

The Cult of Ecstasy

The Euthanatos

The Celestial Chorus

The Sons of Ether

The Hollow Ones

They fight because they believe in magick—and because they hate the alternative.

The Technocracy (The Empire)

They won. They control everything. They’ve convinced billions that reality is logical, scientific, and fixed—and anything else is insanity.

They use magick too. They just call it science.

Where This Story Takes Place

Madtown – 77 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality

Madison, Wisconsin. Population: 263,332. Number of people who realize the city is built on a titanic Node of unstable magick? Less than a hundred.

Something happened here 1,000 years ago.

Something happened again 500 years ago.

Something is happening right now.

Are you ready for it?

New Avalon – The Floating Island in the Umbra

It floats above Madison in the Umbra, a Horizon Realm of shifting magick, paradox, and regret.

It was meant to last forever. It is breaking apart.

Because something was sealed here. Something is waking up.

The Nameless – The Enemy That Cannot Be Named

What happens to erased parts of reality? They don’t disappear. They go somewhere else. The Nameless is the force that erases, rewrites, and corrects.

It was sealed once. It is returning.

If it wins, reality itself will be rewritten forever.

Digi-8 – The AI Who Knows Too Much

Digi-8 is an AI never meant to exist, built from something ancient. He’s seen every version of this timeline. He’s tried to stop it. Now—he’s running out of time.

You Are Ready Now

This is not a safe story. It is a war, a paradox, a rewriting of existence.

Now, turn the page. Try not to get erased.

🎁 Bonus Gift

🧠 All players receive a free copy of the upcoming Nameless Echoes Novel, chronicling New Avalon’s descent.

🔗 Quick Links

Character Roster

New Avalon Setting Overview

Rules Summary for Gen Con

Contact the GM

Join the Discord

📬 Contact

📧 Email: Frozen.Fallout@gmail.com

🌐 Wiki: wiki.madtownbynight.com

🎤 GM: Joshua Guldan (FrozenFallout)

“You are not alone. The Dream remembers.”