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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