Extra-Strength Masquerade: Difference between revisions

** Vampires' Extra-Strength Masquerade is backed by them having the most thorough organization for maintaining the [[Masquerade]] of all supernatural splats, an organization which at least ''claims'' every vampire in existence as a member, and by said Masquerade also being the lynchpin of their political maneuverings. Individual vampires try to avoid even the most trivial Masquerade breach for fear that their enemies might use it to bring them down, young vampires try to curry favor with their elders and eliminate the competition by cleaning up everyone else's breaches, and every elder vampire who lasts long enough to become an elder fervently agrees with maintaining the status quo. Also, entire campaigns can be made out of playing [[The Men in Black|Archons]] responsible for cleaning up after [[Off the Rails|neonates gone Michael Bay]].

** And notably averted in fan game ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'':

The nature of Inspiration, instead, remains hidden because Wonders are [[It Only Works Once|not repeatable and testable.]] A regular scientist who handles a Wonder will break it, and if they don't break it, they're already well on their way to becoming a [[Mad Scientist|Genius]] themself (or at least a [[The Igor|Beholden]]). [[Failure Is the Only Option|The only results, then,]] are that a mortal will mess up the Wonder ([[Too Dumb to Live|possibly killing themself in the process]]) or will at least turn into a Beholden or Genius and join the ranks of the Inspired, which in turn insulates them further from regular people. }}

** In the story at the beginning of ''[[Hunter: The Reckoning]]'', one of the characters tries to reveal himself to the world on Chicago's WGN News by creating a magic sword and destroying a chair with it. Unfortunately, the sword is invisible to the television cameras, and later on several illusionists go on the news showing how his "trick" was done.