Nameless Echoes

🧙‍♂️ Nameless Echoes (Mage 1985)

A Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Chronicle Set in Madison, Wisconsin

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🌀 Overview

Nameless Echoes is a three-part Mage: The Ascension chronicle unfolding in February 1985, set in the neon-lit, Cold War-shadowed city of Madison, Wisconsin. It explores the first cracks in consensus reality that will eventually lead to the digital haunting of Digi-8, the fall of New Avalon, and the emergence of the Nameless.

This chronicle serves as a prequel to Nameless Echoes Radio and is played using the Mage 20th Anniversary ruleset, with emphasis on Arete-only magick, paradox as metaphysical instability, and identity-driven storytelling.

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📅 Act Structure

🧩 Act I: The Council of the Erased

• Date: February 9, 1985
• Event: The Vampire Prince (Tori Redford) and the Garou Elder (William Burke) are found murdered.
• Mission: Tradition mages investigate the breach in the Capitol Node before the supernatural factions go to war.
• Themes: Glitches, déjà vu, strange numbers, reflections that lie.

🌀 Act II: The Kronovore Stirs

• Setting: New Eden, a Digital Web outpost linked to Abel Washington’s experiments.
• Event: The players board a ghost ship with no history—and find their names on the manifest.
• Echo Link: Reality recurses. Digi-8 begins to evolve.

☄️ Act III: The Nameless Breathes

• Setting: New Avalon fractures. Madison begins to forget itself.
• Crisis: Sacrifice or ascend. Destroy the seal, preserve the dream, or break the cycle.
• Outcome: The future of reality—and the truth of who the players really are—is decided.

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🧠 Themes & Mechanics

• Paradox as Identity Glitch Memory loops, mirror selves, false timelines. Paradox doesn’t just backlash—it rearranges who you are.
• Echo Glitches Characters may temporarily “swap” with alternate selves. These glitches alter stats, paradigms, and relationships for a scene.
• Flashback Tokens Used to “remember” events that haven’t happened yet. You can spend one to access a power, bypass Paradox, or reframe a moment.
• The Magick Number 1.36791013192342 — This number repeats everywhere: receipts, clocks, signs, dreams. It means something. Or everything.

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🔑 Core Locations

• Capitol Node – Site of the original seal on the Nameless. Beneath Madison’s Capitol building.
• New Avalon – A Horizon Realm tied to Madison's architecture. Jay Dee’s sanctuary. Now glitching.
• New Eden – A Digital Web construct housing Digi-8’s origin code.
• Peace Park Caern – Sacred Garou ground where Burke was killed.
• The Wreck – Anarch vampire bar filled with corrupted data and half-erased dreams.
• Bascom Hill – Hermetic research site where gravity and memory sometimes disagree.

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🎭 Playable Characters

• Jay Dee – The Reality Architect
• Aadhira Hebbar – The Karmic Executioner
• Abel Washington – The Digital Prophet
• Ann Johnston – The Disciplined Guardian
• Evan Adams – The Etheric Architect
• And more...

(See Pre_Generated_Characters for the full list.)

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🎲 Game System

• System: Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition
• Mechanics Emphasized:
  • Arete-only magick rolls
  • Paradox as metaphysical instability
  • Memory recursion and self-erasure
  • Magick as expression of flawed paradigm