Ascension By Gaslight 


This is the online home of a series of games set in Victorian London and using Mage:the Ascencion as it's creative backdrop. At present the story is divided up between two seperate chronicles

The Cast

Peter Sears ( Troublemaker, life-taker, part time divinity, stage manager) Player of:

  • Martin Baldwin a Hermetic from Cairo with the fire of Horus for any of the Followers of Set.

Jenna Mcguire (Co-GM and high priestess of my cult) Player of:

  • Cordelia Millford Niles, a young lady keenly interested in the women's reform movement. Trained and tempered in the fires of the Hermetic House of Tytalus
  • Lucy Chang an Akashic Brother with debts to repay and a date with destiny
  • And Fanny Robbins, a young Ecstatic of questionable moral turpitude in a repressive time.

Stacy Stroud (Eminence Grise) Player of:

  • Emily Watson, A young lady who is convinced of her status as an agent of Change, This belief is bolstered by her membership in the Euthanatos.)
  • Rose Marsden (an older woman of the Solificati Tradition with experience and a number of secrets.

Jimmy "Gregor" Mckinney (walking help desk and artist in residence) Player of:

  • Jules Orvis, an American Electrodyne Engineer seperated from his fellow shipmates and handed a heavy charge in the meantime.)
  • Thaddeus Smythe a Hermetic of the house of ex miscellanea, quite possibly cracked. Owner of the Fantabulum Artificium.

Gene Edwards (Sidekick and Mascot) Player of:

  • Walter Simmons a young Verbena with a heart as big as all outdoors...and a lot to learn.
Special Guest Stars

Anna Meade (Playing Desiree D' Beamont, A french actress (and Seer of Chronos) newly arrived from the continent, fleeing a number of serious problems.)

Justin Wood as Father Michael Jameson (a Irish highwayman turned priest who means to help.)


Episode Guide (series 1)

Interlude: Old Words, New Promises ( small talk with Jack Anniston)

  • Chapter 5: Appointments with Destiny ( Some meetings involving vampires,mentors,old enemies and a really big Rat!)
  • Chapter 6: Too Many Problems (Things get a little hectic when our victorian friends realize they have too many irons in the fire.)
  • Chapter 7: A short sharp shock (Scotland and other strange things)
  • Chapter 8: Broken and Whole (the group rescues Aleister Crowley... mostly from himself.)

Interlude: The ghosts between us (Jack and Cordelia deal with their feelings...finally!)


Episode Guide (series 2)

Interlude: A Fallen Woman (By Jimmy Mckinney, Wherein Thaddeus begins training a new employee.)


Episode 1Quotes

Episode 2 Quotes

The Electrical Hawk Vs. the Steam Serpent ( a prologue detaling how Jules Maxwell Orvis and his young apprentice came to be in london)

The Spirit of her Age (part1) How Cordelia met and fell in love with her late husband.

The Journal of Robert Nyles ( A game prop which poses more questions than it answers.)

Being a History of Thaddeus Smythe, Proprietor (Some light is shown on the past)

 


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