#Onyx awakens ｡ﾟ༉‧ ✦

[azdvniity]

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I will be talking about my home. The floating islands..the star dust that flows through the earth and water of the floating islands, the mountains..everything. The realm where I belong.

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🪽 ⋆꙳, I am from a realm. A realm hidden away in a small space at the centre(or corner?) of the universe — unable to be seen or sensed by any other. Unable to be known. It was safe from the prying eyes of other creatures of the universe — safe from humans and vengeful ghosts.

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I remember that the realm was a series of floating islands — hovering in the sky as water tapered off and filled the ocean below (the abyss. A rift). The clouds cradled the islands. The water gleamed with stardust — it was a common thing, but it wasn’t any less beautiful and wondrous. 🌑 *I was always connected to the waters — the ocean, the rivers and the sea. No matter what form they took — I would bask in it on my back with my wings spread out as I floated on the surface..* . ‘—

I think the waters had contained magic..some sort of ethereal power.Something that only the gods and angels and divine of the universe could even hope to touch. It had an apperance similar to what here on earth the humans call bioluminescence. It healed — it followed you when you felt lonely. It ran through your veins and into your blood. Speaking of blood, I think mine had to be gold and black within the red. Flecks of gold, was it stars? Was it jewels? Or was it raw power..?

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There was mountains. It encased the land — creating cradles of cities and plazas. Homes and dens. Life. It had different layers — the higher of a ledge on the land you had, the higher the status. Simple. Everyone had a mountain to cradle their home though…as for me….the mountains surrounded me on all sides. The elegant garden led off on the edge — when there was no mountains or borders of stone, there was forests — trees blooming in azure and gold. Caves of it too. It was..home. It was safe.

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There is a very important thing to note; there were Chinese styled culture, and buildings. Shrines, pagodas, the huge castles to represent our empire — pristine and white for us all, but me personally in my high up platform I had my own palace.

Red paint and black. dark green accents and gold. Occasionally blue. Flourishing gardens fit for a godling. A god’s home that nobody could ever hope to witness.

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This is all I can seem to remember for now . . . May edit + add on later.

[theonyxpath]

10 years ago today we released posters for Autumn Nightmares: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/140472/autumn-nightmares-poster?affiliate_id=13&src=OPPTumblr Boston Unveiled: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/140469/boston-unveiled-poster?affiliate_id=13&src=OPPTumblr and New Wave Requiem https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/140463/new-wave-requiem-poster?affiliate_id=13&src=OPPTumblr

[onyxedskies]

just found out that a group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope and now i’m thinking about lucina’s shepherds being called the kaleidoscope instead of just. lucina’s shepherds

[manyworldsofdarkness]

Tumblr Communities anyone?

I forgot they existed in all honesty, but if you are a fan of World of Darkness, Chronicles of Darkness or any of the game between them, then please feel free to join and post to your heart’s content.

We also have a discord

[presidentofbirds]

I've been an RPG freelancer since 2019 and with the typically long publishing process coupled with delays from global events, this is my first project with a publisher to officially hit it's public release! It was the third project I was hired for, my first working on the Chronicles of Darkness, and definitely the hardest one to write.

[cloudboundcorgi]

Art fight piece! Jade, an Acanthus mage who belongs to https://artfight.net/~orientalkfc

[redratt]

This is a quick pitch draft of something I'm going to be working on. The first edition, which will contain Forsaken and one other splat, will be released FOR FREE. Later, I'll release a version with all four for money.

Names and stuff are subject to change, ofc. This is a first draft of a first draft to say the least.

[niksrpgs]

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[asterias-corner]

the “whose traumatized child is this? mine now!” fanfic was my therian awakening and id like to say thank you /pos

i have no clue how but I’m so glad it did 😭 /pos

[lazyflux]

Truth or Consequence

A Mage Mini-Campaign

[A side campaign to feed into Phoenix Chronicle stuff. Our story takes us to a small town in New Mexico: Truth or Consequence. The players are completely new to Mage, so naturally the best thing to do is to give one of them a 3rd-degree Master and the other a 2nd-degree Adept, right?] We open on a dusty diner just outside Truth or Consequence. A car rumbles into the parking lot and we meet Argus, Master of Fate, Mind, and Prime arcana -- and a Seer to boot. And Prelacy. Argus steps out and begins a little spellcraft to look for omens and is pointed to a man smoking just outside the diner and on his phone.

Enter Pablo "the Clock that Ticks." Free Council Mage, 2nd-degree Adept of Matter and Forces. We'll stick with their Fallen name since it's shorter. Where Argus is here due to dream visions from his Exarchs, Pablo is here on patrol.

[In the broader context of my specific MtAw setting, Tucson has fallen to the largest known Banisher "infection," Mage Society has ever seen. Naturally, this still comes with all the baggage and misunderstandings and uncertainty that Mages still have about Banishers. Is it an illness that can spread? Is it just a way to label political enemies? Something else? In any case, as fruitless as it might be, the Assembly and the rest of the Pentacle has decided to put in the legwork and be on the look out for Banishers who may have slipped the net thrown over Tucson.]

Pablo minds his own business, entering the diner. He's trying to get in contact with his one friend in town, Celeste, but she hasn't been responding. Starving for lunch, he takes a booth. Argus takes the seat across from him a moment later. The conversation between strangers are about as awkward as they would be for you and me. The two feel each other out, Argus casts more spells looking for connections between seemingly disparate events happening in the somewhat bustling diner. They share a lunch.

The time loop begins.

We open on a dusty diner just outside Truth or Consequence. Pablo is outside for a smoke, texting Celeste again about where she's at. Then it hits him. He's been through this before. A car rumbles into the parking lot and Argus steps out, also aware. Now, having read Pablo's destiny just before the loop happened (destined to die via sacrifice), Argus apologizes to Pablo and tries to stab him. Maybe that's what the Exarchs wanted, right? It's already in his destiny.

The misunderstanding leads to a brief spat, of course. Pablo takes control of Argus' car and uses it against him to get some breathing room between the two. Before things escalate further, they do pause and ask each other "WTF?" before sighting a black cat watching them.

No hesitation on Argus' part. He goes on a foot chase after the cat, catching it just as it scuttles up and onto the roof of the diner, then tries to stab it instead. Magic washes over his periphery senses, however, and before he knows it, his insides are being melted (not literally, but they're breaking down). Argus takes 6 lethal damage.

[It was probably out of scope for Mind sight to tip-off Argus that the cat had higher functioning brain power here, but whatever.]

He falls off and onto the recycling, clambering out. Pablo finally catches up and conjures a cat carrier. The cat tries to retaliate again, but this time Argus is on it with the universal counterspell. Some back-and-forth about the situation, interrupted by the short order cook barging through the side door and puking. Short Order tells them to call the police, there's a body in the freezer. Naturally, the players just beeline for the freezer.

Within the freezer, both Seer and Libertine find what they're looking for: the stopwatch from the dream-vision and Celeste, her body laid out on the freezer floor. To be continued...

[pregnantsecondo]

Is the piss kink why you like sniper so much /silly

Hell yes 👍

[azdvniity]

— extra photos that remind me of my realm I guess(?)

[theonyxpath]

5 years ago today we released Signs of Sorcery for Mage: The Awakening Second Edition via our partners at DriveThruRPG https://drivethrurpg.com/product/280308/Signs-of-Sorcery?affiliate_id=13&src=OPPTumblr This book offers an in-depth look at Supernal Mysteries for Mage: The Awakening Second Edition and is available in POD and PDF!

[onyxedskies]

something something the awakening trio’s intense struggles with identity and feelings of belonging because they never got the chance to figure out who they actually were since they were fighting for their lives as kids and teens and were brought to an alternate world where they had to hide their identities so overall they have no clue who they are beyond being weapons

[ipsey]

I was delighted to discover I've been featured in Onyx Path's shorts for my character Judith Lee in the Mage the Awakening game "Point of No Retreat"

[not-a-crow-in-a-hat]

Oooo Victorian age Mages, the best setting for your Cthulhu Esq stories. I’m in!