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= '''Nameless Echoes''' at Gen Con 2025 =
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'''Hosted by:''' Guldan Age Stories (Joshua Guldan – FrozenFallout)   
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<div style="font-size:0.82em; letter-spacing:0.24em; text-transform:uppercase; color:#b9aa91;">Guldan Age Stories presents</div>
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:3em; line-height:1.05; font-weight:bold; color:#f1ede6;">Madtown by Night</div>
<div style="margin-top:12px; font-size:1.25em; color:#c7c0b6;">Two stories. One city. Choose which darkness finds you.</div>
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'''System:''' Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition   
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These pages are being built specifically for the two Madtown by Night events at Gen Con 2026. Choose a chronicle below to enter its player guide.
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'''When:'''   
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Part 1: Thursday, July 31st @ 6:00 PM EDT – Friday, August 1st @ 2:00 AM EDT   
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<div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:0.76em; letter-spacing:0.18em; text-transform:uppercase; color:#d28a8d;">Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary</div>
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The Tremere Regent is dead. Her chantry has been torn open from within. Every sign points toward the werewolves, and Madison stands one accusation away from war.
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Part 2: Friday, August 1st @ 6:00 PM EDT – Saturday, August 2nd @ 2:00 AM EDT   
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'''Friday, July 31, 2026'''<br>
6:00 PM to Midnight EDT<br>
Hyatt, Studio 3, Table 2<br>
4 to 8 players • Expert experience<br>
Game ID: RPG26ND318373
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Part 3: Saturday, August 2nd @ 6:00 PM EDT – Sunday, August 3rd @ 2:00 AM EDT   
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Play a member of Madison’s Primogen during a night of murder, old grudges, planted evidence, and political collapse.
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'''Where:''' JW Marriott Room 312, Table 1   
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<span class="mw-ui-button mw-ui-progressive" style="display:block; padding:12px 18px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:0.04em;">[[Kindred of Madtown|Enter the Vampire Game]]</span>
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'''Cost:''' $38.00   
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<div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:0.76em; letter-spacing:0.18em; text-transform:uppercase; color:#79bed8;">Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary</div>
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Four new mages have awakened in a city where the old masters are dead, missing, or hiding. Beyond the storm waits New Avalon, a lost realm of Magick that has been sealed since 1985.
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'''Max Players:''' 8 
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'''Thursday, July 30, 2026'''<br>
6:00 PM to Midnight EDT<br>
Hyatt, Studio 3, Table 1<br>
2 to 4 players • No experience required<br>
Game ID: RPG26ND318370
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Learn Mage through play as newly Awakened characters uncover Madison’s hidden world and the road back to New Avalon.
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== 🌀 What is Nameless Echoes? ==
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<span class="mw-ui-button mw-ui-progressive" style="display:block; padding:12px 18px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:0.04em;">[[Awakened of Madtown|Enter the Mage Game]]</span>
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*Step into the neon-soaked world of New Avalon—where magick, memory, and machine blur.*
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"Nameless Echoes" is a **three-part immersive Mage: The Ascension experience**, with each session able to stand alone. Players will:
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'''These are separate events with a connected story.''' You do not need to play one game to understand or enjoy the other.
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- **Day 1:** Investigate glitches in reality across New Avalon.
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Madtown by Night • Gen Con 2026 • Storyteller: Josh Guldan
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- **Day 2:** Navigate the ghost ship *Kronovore* in the Digital Web.
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- **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.
 
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== 🧙 Pre-Generated Characters ==
 
All players may choose from our unique pregens. Contact us on Discord or via email to reserve yours:
 
- **Jay Dee** – The Architect of Paradox 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Aadhira Hebbar** – The Oracle Who Knows Too Much 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Abel Washington** – The Man Who Survived Too Much 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Lacy Z. Rivere** – The Punk That Won’t Let Reality Win 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Selene Vargas** – The Knife Between Worlds 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Jan None** – The Nosferatu Who Might Not Be Real 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Digi-8** – The AI That Thinks It’s a God 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Dr. Elara Voss** – The Temporal Scientist 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Marcus “Shade” Kincaid** – The Shadow Operative 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Sophia “Sable” Moreau** – The Arcane Archivist 
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<nowiki>**</nowiki>Damien “Echo” Reyes** – The Digital Phantom 
 
Each character carries echoes of forgotten timelines, secrets buried in paradox, and abilities that transcend traditional Sphere magic.
 
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= 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 in the morning, 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.
 
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== 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 govern everything.
 
That’s cute.
 
That’s Technocracy propaganda.
 
Here’s the truth: '''Reality is a consensus.'''
 
It is shaped by belief, by willpower, by the minds of those strong enough to impose their version of the world onto everyone else.
 
Magick exists. It always has. But the problem is, not everyone agrees on what it should look like.
 
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== 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. 
They are the rebels, the mystics, the hackers, the outcasts. 
They are also very bad at winning wars.
 
''Nine Factions, Nine Approaches:'' 
* '''The Order of Hermes''' – Classic wizards, robes, and Latin incantations. Think Gandalf, but with a superiority complex. 
* '''The Virtual Adepts''' – Hackers who treat the Digital Web like their personal playground. They would absolutely break into your bank account. 
* '''The Dreamspeakers''' – Shamans who talk to spirits. They knew reality was alive long before anyone else. 
* '''The Verbena''' – Blood magick, old gods, and raw nature. They scare even other mages. 
* '''The Akashic Brotherhood''' – Martial artists who think the universe is best understood through discipline and the occasional roundhouse kick. 
* '''The Cult of Ecstasy''' – Reality-bending hedonists who rewrite existence through altered states of consciousness. 
* '''The Euthanatos''' – Death mages. They don’t murder, they just… tidy up fate. 
* '''The Sons of Ether''' – Mad scientists who invent steampunk time machines and ray guns. 
* '''The Hollow Ones''' – Goths with reality-warping poetry and nihilism.
 
They fight because they believe in magick—and because they hate the alternative.
 
=== The Technocracy (The Empire) ===
They won. 
They control everything. 
Don’t believe me? Look at your phone. Your car. The internet.
 
They’ve convinced billions of people that reality is logical, scientific, and fixed—and that anything else is insanity.
 
They are ruthless. Efficient. And they will erase anything that doesn’t fit their paradigm.
 
But the truth?
 
''They use magick too.''
 
They just call it '''science'''.
 
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== 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.'''
 
This place is an anomaly. A reality sinkhole. A metaphysical nuclear bomb waiting to go off.
 
It has been fought over, rewritten, erased, and rebuilt so many times that even the Nephandi avoid it unless they absolutely have to.
 
* Something happened here 1,000 years ago. 
* Something happened again 500 years ago. 
* Something is happening right now.
 
And the question is: '''Are you ready for it?'''
 
=== '''New Avalon – The Floating Island in the Umbra''' ===
 
If Madison is a war zone, New Avalon is the last desperate dream of a mage who tried to fix everything—and only made it worse.
 
It floats above Madison in the Umbra, a Horizon Realm of shifting magick, paradox, and regret.
 
It was meant to be a sanctuary from the Technocracy.
 
It was meant to last forever.
 
''It is breaking apart.''
 
Because something was sealed here. 
Because something is waking up.
 
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== The Nameless – The Enemy That Cannot Be Named ==
 
You ever wonder what happens to the parts of reality that get erased?
 
They don’t just disappear.
 
They go somewhere else.
 
And sometimes, if you listen closely enough, you can hear them trying to come back.
 
The Nameless is not an AI. Not a god. Not a demon.
 
It is the force that erases, rewrites, and corrects.
 
It was sealed once.
 
It is returning now.
 
And if it wins?
 
* No more paradigm war. 
* No more mages. 
* No more rebels. 
* No more Technocracy.
 
Just one, single, corrected, immutable version of reality.
 
''One that doesn’t include you.''
 
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== Digi-8 – The AI Who Knows Too Much ==
 
You’re going to like Digi-8.
 
He’s an AI who was never supposed to exist.
 
Created by accident. Built on something ancient and forgotten.
 
He knows what’s coming. 
He’s seen every version of this timeline. 
He has tried to stop it before. 
And now—he’s running out of time.
 
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== You Are Ready Now ==
 
That’s enough preparation.
 
''This is not a safe story.''
 
''This is not a world that makes sense.''
 
It is a war, a paradox, a rewriting of existence.
 
Now, '''turn the page.'''
 
And try not to get erased.
 
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== 🎁 Bonus Gift ==
 
🧠 **All players receive a free copy of the upcoming Nameless Echoes novel**—a chronicle of New Avalon’s descent, adapted from this live event.
 
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== 🔗 Quick Links ==
* [[Character Roster]]
* [[New Avalon Setting Overview]]
* [[Rules Summary for Gen Con]]
* [[Contact the GM]]
* [https://discord.gg/j3ytWAW97x Join the Discord]
 
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== 📬 Contact ==
📧 Email: Frozen.Fallout@gmail.com 
🌐 Wiki: http://wiki.madtownbynight.com 
🎤 GM: Joshua Guldan (FrozenFallout)
 
''“You are not alone. The Dream remembers.”''

Latest revision as of 19:32, 28 July 2026

Guldan Age Stories presents
Madtown by Night
Two stories. One city. Choose which darkness finds you.
Gen Con 2026 • Madison, Wisconsin • World of Darkness
Choose Your Game

These pages are being built specifically for the two Madtown by Night events at Gen Con 2026. Choose a chronicle below to enter its player guide.

Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary
Kindred of Madtown

The Tremere Regent is dead. Her chantry has been torn open from within. Every sign points toward the werewolves, and Madison stands one accusation away from war.

Friday, July 31, 2026
6:00 PM to Midnight EDT
Hyatt, Studio 3, Table 2
4 to 8 players • Expert experience
Game ID: RPG26ND318373

Play a member of Madison’s Primogen during a night of murder, old grudges, planted evidence, and political collapse.

Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary
Awakened of Madtown

Four new mages have awakened in a city where the old masters are dead, missing, or hiding. Beyond the storm waits New Avalon, a lost realm of Magick that has been sealed since 1985.

Thursday, July 30, 2026
6:00 PM to Midnight EDT
Hyatt, Studio 3, Table 1
2 to 4 players • No experience required
Game ID: RPG26ND318370

Learn Mage through play as newly Awakened characters uncover Madison’s hidden world and the road back to New Avalon.

These are separate events with a connected story. You do not need to play one game to understand or enjoy the other.

Madtown by Night • Gen Con 2026 • Storyteller: Josh Guldan

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