2nd edition and NYC

  • snacky
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    Could someone give me a brief rundown of what’s going on w/NYC and the Sleepers? It isn’t explained at all (neither in practice nor in detail) in the 2nd edition book. Additionally, thaumophages are mentioned, but not explained, in the 2nd ed. What do they have to do with all this?

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  • MikesMind
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    Paraphrased from Hush Hush (Sleepers Sourcebook):

    In the 1950’s the Sleepers were getting worried about the growing Magickally aware community that was springing up in various sections of New York society.

    In 1954 they organized a series of assassinations in the New York OU. In the period of quiet following this, Sleeper cliomancers and other specialists went to work. They started a campaigne of rumours and misinformation to turn the Mafia families against any Adepts that they were using.

    As the criminal underground turned on the occult underground, the Sleepers blanketed the city with thaumophages (astal entities that can be bound to a place, object or individual. When an Adept tries to draw a charage off anything with one attached, they wake up and drain the Adept of all charges).

    Current situation is that the New York OU has never recovered from the exodus of Adepts and other Magickally aware individuals so remain fragmented and quiet. The Mafia familes now consider any practicing adepts to be a target for swift elimination. Large numbers of thaumophages still remain ready to suck any unsuspecting Adept of their charages

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  • snacky
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    Cool. Thanks.

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