#virtualadepts

On today’s show Adam Simpson and Terry Robinson discuss Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts by Darren McKeeman. The youngest magical Tradition is the most vibrant and the most irreverent. Virtual Adepts dont waste time delving into ancient grimoires or contemplating their navels. They’re too busy surfing the razors edge of the next zeitgeist. They dont follow trends, they make them. By the time the mainstream catches up to their latest idea, they’ve moved on to new frontiers of space and mind.

Where is Dante now?

Demon Seed Elite

What is a Tradition book supposed to do?

Transhumanism

Ideal future of the Virtual Adepts (VA) vs. Iteration X

Hacker culture

Virtual Reality movies of the 1990s

VA attitude

Four Legions of the VAs

How did the VAs stay hip so long?

Are trinary computers all that?

Virtual Adept Koans

Listen to our interview with Bill Maxwell, co-author of Tradition Book

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In this episode, Terry Robinson interviews Matthew Webb of Jackalope Live Action Studios about Matt's thoughts on revising Mage LARPing and how to bring the metaplot forward to what an M5 world may look like under the Eclipse LARP system.

LARP types and the move from competition to cooperation in storytelling

Where Laws of Ascension failed

How the Traditions are less organized groups than Mythic Threads

How the Virtual Adepts are heirs to eliteness from the Hermetics

What a more active Order of Hermes would look like

How to introduce metaplot change into your own chronicle

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Additional mentions: The Night in Question, Beckett's Jyhad Diary, Karen Armstrong's The Battle for God, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.

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