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=== Catalysts ===
=== Catalysts ===
==== Grimm ====
==== Grimm ====
{{quote| ''I am [[Ludicrous Precision|nanometers from perfection]] and [[Ubermensch|no longer answer to any mortal authority]]. They weren't there for me and I won't waste time helping them as I rise asymptotically toward the ultimate virtue. Every corpse I leave should be one less investigation to make, instead of one more open case. But I'm not here for human justice any more. When you see [[Stuff Blowing Up|the Paolenti penthouse burn with white fire]] [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|and the dreams of serpents,]] you'll know that, and so will every other man-mask-wearing machine-demon in this city. They'll never love me for the things I've done, but I never asked for love. Only for perfection.''}}
{{quote|''I am [[Ludicrous Precision|nanometers from perfection]] and [[Ubermensch|no longer answer to any mortal authority]]. They weren't there for me and I won't waste time helping them as I rise asymptotically toward the ultimate virtue. Every corpse I leave should be one less investigation to make, instead of one more open case. But I'm not here for human justice any more. When you see [[Stuff Blowing Up|the Paolenti penthouse burn with white fire]] [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|and the dreams of serpents,]] you'll know that, and so will every other man-mask-wearing machine-demon in this city. They'll never love me for the things I've done, but I never asked for love. Only for perfection.''}}


* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Their chief derangement lends itself to this.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Their chief derangement lends itself to this.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Often.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Often.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have A Nuke]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have a Nuke]]


==== Hoffnung ====
==== Hoffnung ====
{{quote| ''You've seen it on the billboards and the trash-strewn alleys, amidst the halls of the powerful and in the tenements of the desperate: the Change. It's coming, and soon everything will be different. Our world will transform itself―in fire, if necessary, in blood, certainly―and be reborn, fresh and new, to gaze out on the universe with innocent and wondering eyes. And I am the herald of that Change. So forgive me if I cannot hear your words or your screams. They are too small. [[Humans Are Cthulhu|Do you hear the mayflies screaming tonight? Neither do I.]]''}}
{{quote|''You've seen it on the billboards and the trash-strewn alleys, amidst the halls of the powerful and in the tenements of the desperate: the Change. It's coming, and soon everything will be different. Our world will transform itself―in fire, if necessary, in blood, certainly―and be reborn, fresh and new, to gaze out on the universe with innocent and wondering eyes. And I am the herald of that Change. So forgive me if I cannot hear your words or your screams. They are too small. [[Humans Are Cthulhu|Do you hear the mayflies screaming tonight? Neither do I.]]''}}


* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: [[Narcissist|Narcissism]] is their signature derangement.
* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: [[Narcissist|Narcissism]] is their signature derangement.
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==== Klagen ====
==== Klagen ====
{{quote| ''When I was in high school my teacher told me that there are more people alive today than have ever lived. Don't worry: she lied, then got cancer. (Not my fault.) We live atop a mountain of corpses. The Earth is swimming in humans, above and below the ground, so when I see you trying to raise the dead, I'm torn. On the one hand, I recognize your despair. On the other hand, [[Only Sane Man|do you really want to spend the rest of the week fending off a]] [[Zombie Apocalypse]] as the Earth vomits up her dead? [[Noodle Incident|AGAIN?]] Come on, man, think this through: every time you try this, we end up fighting zombies. I hate zombies. Just put the syringe down.''}}
{{quote|''When I was in high school my teacher told me that there are more people alive today than have ever lived. Don't worry: she lied, then got cancer. (Not my fault.) We live atop a mountain of corpses. The Earth is swimming in humans, above and below the ground, so when I see you trying to raise the dead, I'm torn. On the one hand, I recognize your despair. On the other hand, [[Only Sane Man|do you really want to spend the rest of the week fending off a]] [[Zombie Apocalypse]] as the Earth vomits up her dead? [[Noodle Incident|AGAIN?]] Come on, man, think this through: every time you try this, we end up fighting zombies. I hate zombies. Just put the syringe down.''}}


* [[The Atoner]]
* [[The Atoner]]
* [[The Eeyore]]
* [[The Eeyore]]
* [[Ignored Expert]]: Comes with being the [[Only Sane Man]] around lots of mad scientists who just can't wait to start tampering in god's domain.
* [[Ignored Expert]]: Comes with being the [[Only Sane Man]] around lots of mad scientists who just can't wait to start tampering in god's domain.
* [[Mad Doctor]]
* [[Mad Doctor]]
* [[My Greatest Failure]]
* [[My Greatest Failure]]
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==== Neid ====
==== Neid ====
{{quote| ''First let me tell you that human beings without mathematical souls are transparent to God and thus mean nothing to Him. So you ask, why does God (who is the Equation) care about window-souls? He doesn't, but the Devil, whom I define as our negative thoughts, does, and directs window-soul humans at us to destroy us. These humans think they think and feel, but they are without the highest Number and their feelings are only our self-doubt. Destroy your self-doubt, be free of their hatred. [[Murder Is the Best Solution|Or destroy them, and be free of your self-doubt]]. Vengeance is time- and space-symmetrical, like any good equation.''}}
{{quote|''First let me tell you that human beings without mathematical souls are transparent to God and thus mean nothing to Him. So you ask, why does God (who is the Equation) care about window-souls? He doesn't, but the Devil, whom I define as our negative thoughts, does, and directs window-soul humans at us to destroy us. These humans think they think and feel, but they are without the highest Number and their feelings are only our self-doubt. Destroy your self-doubt, be free of their hatred. [[Murder Is the Best Solution|Or destroy them, and be free of your self-doubt]]. Vengeance is time- and space-symmetrical, like any good equation.''}}


* [[The Aloner]]
* [[The Aloner]]
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==== Staunen ====
==== Staunen ====
{{quote| ''I'm afraid I don't see things like you do. I mean it: I'm afraid. What if the things I find beautiful [[Go Mad From the Revelation|drive you mad?]] What if they hollow you out like clever little squirrels getting nuts for the winter, except [[Eye Scream|the nuts are your eyes,]] and winter is, [[Metaphorgotten|I don't know, maybe]] [[The End of the World As We Know It|the Rapture]] [[Metaphorgotten|or something?]] And [[Dissonant Serenity|I'm just smiling while your face gets ripped apart]] because I think it's beautiful? These things worry me sometimes, when I'm not looking at the night sky. [[Cloudcuckoolander|So I spend a lot of time looking at the night sky, and not looking at your face and thinking about squirrels.]]''}}
{{quote|''I'm afraid I don't see things like you do. I mean it: I'm afraid. What if the things I find beautiful [[Go Mad from the Revelation|drive you mad?]] What if they hollow you out like clever little squirrels getting nuts for the winter, except [[Eye Scream|the nuts are your eyes,]] and winter is, [[Metaphorgotten|I don't know, maybe]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|the Rapture]] [[Metaphorgotten|or something?]] And [[Dissonant Serenity|I'm just smiling while your face gets ripped apart]] because I think it's beautiful? These things worry me sometimes, when I'm not looking at the night sky. [[Cloudcuckoolander|So I spend a lot of time looking at the night sky, and not looking at your face and thinking about squirrels.]]''}}


* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
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===== The International Union of Artifice =====
===== The International Union of Artifice =====


{{quote| ''Good, fast, and cheap: you get all three. And if you talk like that to my people again, you're going to wake up as a collection of spare parts.''}}
{{quote|''Good, fast, and cheap: you get all three. And if you talk like that to my people again, you're going to wake up as a collection of spare parts.''}}


* [[Bungling Inventor]]:They can slap Wonders together faster than any other Geniuses, but unless they spend an hour testing it out, they won't know what the persistent fault is. [[Hilarity Ensues|This can cause problems]].
* [[Bungling Inventor]]:They can slap Wonders together faster than any other Geniuses, but unless they spend an hour testing it out, they won't know what the persistent fault is. [[Hilarity Ensues|This can cause problems]].
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===== Fellowship for Manifest Direction =====
===== Fellowship for Manifest Direction =====


{{quote| ''Like even the strongest iron bar, every man has a weak point, and it can be found.''}}
{{quote|''Like even the strongest iron bar, every man has a weak point, and it can be found.''}}


* [[The Beast Master]]/[[The Minion Master]]: Many prefer to let [[The Igor|Beholden]] or robots do their dirty work.
* [[The Beast Master]]/[[The Minion Master]]: Many prefer to let [[The Igor|Beholden]] or robots do their dirty work.
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===== Center for Circumferential Navigation =====
===== Center for Circumferential Navigation =====


{{quote| ''I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Hell, I've seen things ''I'' don't believe.''}}
{{quote|''I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Hell, I've seen things ''I'' don't believe.''}}


* [[Badass Army]]
* [[Badass Army]]
* [[Badass Bookworm]] or [[Genius Bruiser]]: They can use Mania to enhance their physical abilities.
* [[Badass Bookworm]] or [[Genius Bruiser]]: They can use Mania to enhance their physical abilities.
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Because of [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Obstructive Bureaucrats]] and being [[Surrounded By Idiots]].
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Because of [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Obstructive Bureaucrats]] and being [[Surrounded by Idiots]].
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
* [[Mildly Military]]: While still possessed of military trappings, formal organization and protocol have been relaxed in recent years.
* [[Mildly Military]]: While still possessed of military trappings, formal organization and protocol have been relaxed in recent years.
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===== Reformed Society of Progenitors (formerly Children of Demiurge) =====
===== Reformed Society of Progenitors (formerly Children of Demiurge) =====
{{quote| ''It'll work this time, I promise. It won't hurt anyone.''}}
{{quote|''It'll work this time, I promise. It won't hurt anyone.''}}
* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: The absolute best at making implanted wonders.
* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: The absolute best at making implanted wonders.
* [[Mad Doctor]]
* [[Mad Doctor]]
* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: Not always, but they get a lot of flak for this.
* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: Not always, but they get a lot of flak for this.
* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]: Unlike their previous iteration.
* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]: Unlike their previous iteration.
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]


===== College of Scholastic Theory =====
===== College of Scholastic Theory =====


{{quote| ''If it's true, someone wrote it down, even if just to refute it.''}}
{{quote|''If it's true, someone wrote it down, even if just to refute it.''}}


* [[Badass Bookworm]]: They're the oldest Foundation, and have been fighting Lemuria the longest.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: They're the oldest Foundation, and have been fighting Lemuria the longest.
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** [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: A little Schliemannian globetrotting is much more exciting than hitting the books.
** [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: A little Schliemannian globetrotting is much more exciting than hitting the books.
** [[Master of Illusion]]: A prerequisite for any would-be conqueror of the human mind.
** [[Master of Illusion]]: A prerequisite for any would-be conqueror of the human mind.
** [[Rhymes On a Dime]]: Because puckishness just isn't the same without the odd couplet here and there.
** [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: Because puckishness just isn't the same without the odd couplet here and there.
* [[Will Not Tell a Lie]]: For older (or old-fashioned) Scolastics, being truthful is [[Serious Business]] <ref>They were originally a zoroastrian philosophy cult. Truth was to Ancient Persia like democracy is to [[Eagle Land]]</ref>.
* [[Will Not Tell a Lie]]: For older (or old-fashioned) Scolastics, being truthful is [[Serious Business]] <ref>They were originally a zoroastrian philosophy cult. Truth was to Ancient Persia like democracy is to [[Eagle Land]]</ref>.


==== Lemuria ====
==== Lemuria ====
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===== Atomists =====
===== Atomists =====
{{quote| ''There was so much potential. So much promise. So much that failed us, all those years ago. But not this time.''}}
{{quote|''There was so much potential. So much promise. So much that failed us, all those years ago. But not this time.''}}


* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: Or Hovercar/Invisible Zepplin/Robotic Spider/Horde of Gorilla Cyborgs
* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: Or Hovercar/Invisible Zepplin/Robotic Spider/Horde of Gorilla Cyborgs
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===== Etherites =====
===== Etherites =====
{{quote| ''Now if you look here, you'll see that this is how things really work. Actually, really, positively work. But ignore that, that part is still being corrected.''}}
{{quote|''Now if you look here, you'll see that this is how things really work. Actually, really, positively work. But ignore that, that part is still being corrected.''}}


* [[Berserk Button]]: Question their theories. [[Schmuck Bait|We dare you.]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Question their theories. [[Schmuck Bait|We dare you.]]
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===== Mechanists =====
===== Mechanists =====
{{quote| ''We're all just cogs in the Great Machine. Whatever we think we choose was actually predestined, part of the process. Part of the Plan.''}}
{{quote|''We're all just cogs in the Great Machine. Whatever we think we choose was actually predestined, part of the process. Part of the Plan.''}}


* [[Clock Punk]]: Sometimes.
* [[Clock Punk]]: Sometimes.
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===== Oracles =====
===== Oracles =====
{{quote| ''No. No. This is absolutely wrong. Look, just let me fix it. All of it.''}}
{{quote|''No. No. This is absolutely wrong. Look, just let me fix it. All of it.''}}


* [[Black and White Insanity]]
* [[Black and White Insanity]]
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===== Phenomenologists =====
===== Phenomenologists =====
{{quote| ''Hmm. That's an interesting point, but is there really any kind of absolute truth out there? Anything that is immutable?''}}
{{quote|''Hmm. That's an interesting point, but is there really any kind of absolute truth out there? Anything that is immutable?''}}


* [[Consummate Liar]]: And how! They can spend a point of Mania to gain a exceptional success on a subterfuge roll. This is because they aren't actually lying, they genuinely believe anything they say.
* [[Consummate Liar]]: And how! They can spend a point of Mania to gain a exceptional success on a subterfuge roll. This is because they aren't actually lying, they genuinely believe anything they say.
* [[I Reject Your Reality]]: Even more so than other Unmada. Phenomenologists will reject their ''[[Inverted Trope|own]]'' reality when it suits them.
* [[I Reject Your Reality]]: Even more so than other Unmada. Phenomenologists will reject their ''[[Inverted Trope|own]]'' reality when it suits them.
** Not all of them do, though. For example, Belinda Czdenk (who is not highly regarded by other Phenomenologists) doesn't so much disbelieve in objective truth as believe that it's irrelevant and/or unknowable. So, while she may reject common reality, she can't substitute it with her own, much to her frustration. [[You Fail Logic Forever|Yes, that logic is shot,]] but remember [[Mad Scientist|who we're dealing with]].
** Not all of them do, though. For example, Belinda Czdenk (who is not highly regarded by other Phenomenologists) doesn't so much disbelieve in objective truth as believe that it's irrelevant and/or unknowable. So, while she may reject common reality, she can't substitute it with her own, much to her frustration. [[You Fail Logic Forever|Yes, that logic is shot,]] but remember [[Mad Scientist|who we're dealing with]].
*** Because of this the other Phenomenologists consider Belinda to e a phony.
*** Because of this the other Phenomenologists consider Belinda to e a phony.
* [[Surveillance As the Plot Demands]]: They're in charge of Lemuria's intelligence operations.
* [[Surveillance as the Plot Demands]]: They're in charge of Lemuria's intelligence operations.


===== Dharmists (destroyed) =====
===== Dharmists (destroyed) =====
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===== Numericals (ascendant) =====
===== Numericals (ascendant) =====
{{quote| ''[[Disproportionate Retribution|p4Wn All]] [[Leet Lingo|T3H]] [[Eternal September|N00b2]]''}}
{{quote|''[[Disproportionate Retribution|p4Wn All]] [[Leet Lingo|T3H]] [[Eternal September|N00b2]]''}}


* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: The Internet, that is.
* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: The Internet, that is.
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* [[Clock Punk]]
* [[Clock Punk]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: They may look primitive, but they're also passionate hunters of the Illuminated.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: They may look primitive, but they're also passionate hunters of the Illuminated.
* [[New Technology Is Evil]]: Inspired by [[Leonardo Da Vinci]], and leery of the trappings of modern technology.
* [[New Technology Is Evil]]: Inspired by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], and leery of the trappings of modern technology.
** By modern technology we mean they consider steam power to be new fangled devil technology.
** By modern technology we mean they consider steam power to be new fangled devil technology.
*** They like gunpowder, though.
*** They like gunpowder, though.


==== Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres ====
==== Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres ====


* [[Clarks Third Law]]: Have fun with the Idea.
* [[Clarke's Third Law]]: Have fun with the Idea.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Choose one and stick with it.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Choose one and stick with it.


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==== Malcolm T. Washington Fellowship ====
==== Malcolm T. Washington Fellowship ====


* [[Big Creepy Crawlies]]
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]
* [[Black and Nerdy]]
* [[Black and Nerdy]]
* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: [[Word of God|Moochava]] stated that this Fellowship is based off of college scholarships with ridiculously specific qualifications- in this case, being an African-American entomologist.
* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: [[Word of God|Moochava]] stated that this Fellowship is based off of college scholarships with ridiculously specific qualifications- in this case, being an African-American entomologist.
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* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: To join the Devils, you must first win a race against them.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: To join the Devils, you must first win a race against them.
* [[Travel Cool]]
* [[Travel Cool]]


==== Ressurection Consortium ====
==== Ressurection Consortium ====
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==== Historical ====
==== Historical ====


===== [[Leonardo Da Vinci|Leonardo di ser Piero]] =====
===== [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo di ser Piero]] =====


* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]
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===== Screaming Sam Paluxy =====
===== Screaming Sam Paluxy =====


* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: His unceasingly unstable love/hate feelings with Dr. Vienna might not be romantic, but if they are Sam is in for a long wait. Dr. Vienna is mentioned to have previously been in a fifteen year heterosexual relationship and there are no hints that he could be bisexual.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: His unceasingly unstable love/hate feelings with Dr. Vienna might not be romantic, but if they are Sam is in for a long wait. Dr. Vienna is mentioned to have previously been in a fifteen year heterosexual relationship and there are no hints that he could be bisexual.
* [[Instrument of Murder]]
* [[Instrument of Murder]]
* [[Love Potion|Love Switch]]: One of his Wonders, appropriately called the "Fuck Switch", does this to the user. It's actual purpose is [[People Puppets|people puppetry]].
* [[Love Potion|Love Switch]]: One of his Wonders, appropriately called the "Fuck Switch", does this to the user. It's actual purpose is [[People Puppets|people puppetry]].
* [[Red Oni]]: To Dr. Vienna's [[Blue Oni]].
* [[Red Oni]]: To Dr. Vienna's [[Blue Oni]].
* [[Straight Gay]]
* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]


===== Captain Joe Calazzi =====
===== Captain Joe Calazzi =====
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: He's a Mechanist, it comes naturally to him.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: He's a Mechanist, it comes naturally to him.
* [[Cyberpunk]]
* [[Cyberpunk]]
* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys|Everything's Better With Giant Metal Monkeys]]
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Everything's Better With Giant Metal Monkeys]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Grew up as [[The Unfavorite]], knowing his destiny was to become a faceless mook. Not hard to see why he snapped.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Grew up as [[The Unfavorite]], knowing his destiny was to become a faceless mook. Not hard to see why he snapped.
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: He was originally slated to become Beholden.
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: He was originally slated to become Beholden.
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* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Her sons.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Her sons.
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: As her bio says:
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: As her bio says:
{{quote| St. Croix is a bitter, tired woman, touched by sadness at the disappointments in her life. While insane and, when the mood takes her, tremendously cruel, hers is the small, weak kind of human cruelty [[Invoked Trope|that encourages as much pity as loathing.]] }}
{{quote|St. Croix is a bitter, tired woman, touched by sadness at the disappointments in her life. While insane and, when the mood takes her, tremendously cruel, hers is the small, weak kind of human cruelty [[Invoked Trope|that encourages as much pity as loathing.]] }}
* [[Raygun Gothic]]
* [[Raygun Gothic]]
* [[Reality Warper]]
* [[Reality Warper]]
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* [[Da Chief]]
* [[Da Chief]]
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: If he's in a hurry, otherwise averted.
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: If he's in a hurry, otherwise averted.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: He's abrasive and demanding, and not above intimidating Geniuses into working for him, but it's all for the sake of preserving the timeline.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: He's abrasive and demanding, and not above intimidating Geniuses into working for him, but it's all for the sake of preserving the timeline.
* [[Scary Black Man]]
* [[Scary Black Man]]
* [[Time Police|Time Cop]]
* [[Time Police|Time Cop]]
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* [[Walking Techbane]]
* [[Walking Techbane]]


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Characters from Genius: The Transgression include:

Catalysts

Grimm

I am nanometers from perfection and no longer answer to any mortal authority. They weren't there for me and I won't waste time helping them as I rise asymptotically toward the ultimate virtue. Every corpse I leave should be one less investigation to make, instead of one more open case. But I'm not here for human justice any more. When you see the Paolenti penthouse burn with white fire and the dreams of serpents, you'll know that, and so will every other man-mask-wearing machine-demon in this city. They'll never love me for the things I've done, but I never asked for love. Only for perfection.

Hoffnung

You've seen it on the billboards and the trash-strewn alleys, amidst the halls of the powerful and in the tenements of the desperate: the Change. It's coming, and soon everything will be different. Our world will transform itself―in fire, if necessary, in blood, certainly―and be reborn, fresh and new, to gaze out on the universe with innocent and wondering eyes. And I am the herald of that Change. So forgive me if I cannot hear your words or your screams. They are too small. Do you hear the mayflies screaming tonight? Neither do I.

Klagen

When I was in high school my teacher told me that there are more people alive today than have ever lived. Don't worry: she lied, then got cancer. (Not my fault.) We live atop a mountain of corpses. The Earth is swimming in humans, above and below the ground, so when I see you trying to raise the dead, I'm torn. On the one hand, I recognize your despair. On the other hand, do you really want to spend the rest of the week fending off a Zombie Apocalypse as the Earth vomits up her dead? AGAIN? Come on, man, think this through: every time you try this, we end up fighting zombies. I hate zombies. Just put the syringe down.

Neid

First let me tell you that human beings without mathematical souls are transparent to God and thus mean nothing to Him. So you ask, why does God (who is the Equation) care about window-souls? He doesn't, but the Devil, whom I define as our negative thoughts, does, and directs window-soul humans at us to destroy us. These humans think they think and feel, but they are without the highest Number and their feelings are only our self-doubt. Destroy your self-doubt, be free of their hatred. Or destroy them, and be free of your self-doubt. Vengeance is time- and space-symmetrical, like any good equation.

Staunen

I'm afraid I don't see things like you do. I mean it: I'm afraid. What if the things I find beautiful drive you mad? What if they hollow you out like clever little squirrels getting nuts for the winter, except the nuts are your eyes, and winter is, I don't know, maybe the Rapture or something? And I'm just smiling while your face gets ripped apart because I think it's beautiful? These things worry me sometimes, when I'm not looking at the night sky. So I spend a lot of time looking at the night sky, and not looking at your face and thinking about squirrels.

Foundations, Baramins and Programms

Peerage

The International Union of Artifice

Good, fast, and cheap: you get all three. And if you talk like that to my people again, you're going to wake up as a collection of spare parts.

Fellowship for Manifest Direction

Like even the strongest iron bar, every man has a weak point, and it can be found.

Center for Circumferential Navigation

I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Hell, I've seen things I don't believe.

Reformed Society of Progenitors (formerly Children of Demiurge)

It'll work this time, I promise. It won't hurt anyone.

College of Scholastic Theory

If it's true, someone wrote it down, even if just to refute it.

Lemuria

Atomists

There was so much potential. So much promise. So much that failed us, all those years ago. But not this time.

  • I Want My Jetpack: Or Hovercar/Invisible Zepplin/Robotic Spider/Horde of Gorilla Cyborgs
  • Determinators: They are the best at warding off Havoc- it happens sooner or later, but maybe next time...
  • Straw Man Has a Point: Despite their elitism, real world ideologies like the 1990s "New Economy" and singularitarianism show that they're much more in touch with mundane humans than unmada normally are.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means: All they ever wanted was to bring us into the future- not that they ever cared about the people who would have to live in it.
  • Zeerust: Not a defining trope, but certainly not uncommon, being formally founded in the 50s at the dawn of the Nuclear age means many of their elders have a pre-apocalypse Fallout style of Mad Science.
Etherites

Now if you look here, you'll see that this is how things really work. Actually, really, positively work. But ignore that, that part is still being corrected.

Mechanists

We're all just cogs in the Great Machine. Whatever we think we choose was actually predestined, part of the process. Part of the Plan.

  • Clock Punk: Sometimes.
  • Face Heel Turn: Sorta. Geniuses espousing what is now modern Mechanist philosophy have always been around, but the Baramin itself officially formed after a schism in the International Union of Artifice.
  • The Fatalist: They reject the idea of free-will and consequentially the idea of responsibility.
  • Steampunk: Other times.
Oracles

No. No. This is absolutely wrong. Look, just let me fix it. All of it.

Phenomenologists

Hmm. That's an interesting point, but is there really any kind of absolute truth out there? Anything that is immutable?

  • Consummate Liar: And how! They can spend a point of Mania to gain a exceptional success on a subterfuge roll. This is because they aren't actually lying, they genuinely believe anything they say.
  • I Reject Your Reality: Even more so than other Unmada. Phenomenologists will reject their own reality when it suits them.
    • Not all of them do, though. For example, Belinda Czdenk (who is not highly regarded by other Phenomenologists) doesn't so much disbelieve in objective truth as believe that it's irrelevant and/or unknowable. So, while she may reject common reality, she can't substitute it with her own, much to her frustration. Yes, that logic is shot, but remember who we're dealing with.
      • Because of this the other Phenomenologists consider Belinda to e a phony.
  • Surveillance as the Plot Demands: They're in charge of Lemuria's intelligence operations.
Dharmists (destroyed)
Numericals (ascendant)

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Programs of Note

Formalists (Ten Thousand Fans)
Thule Society (Revanchists)

Fellowships

Elders of the Third Law

Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres

Phantom Foundation

Perfected Vision Institute

Iridium Sentinels

Malcolm T. Washington Fellowship

Nine Vertex Devil Club

Ressurection Consortium

Geniuses of Note

Historical

Leonardo di ser Piero
Nikola Tesla
Robert Hook

Seattle of Tomorrow

Dr. Vienna/Yancy Wolfgang Borcowitz
Gracie Calabash
Screaming Sam Paluxy
Captain Joe Calazzi
Devon Ogura
Melantha C. Dranias
Erin Out-Of-Time
Detective Alice Gotti
  • Hollywood Atheist: Subverted; she didn't lose her faith because of her many hardships, she just can't sustain religious convictions as a Beholden.
  • Hot Mom
  • The Igor
  • Iron Woobie: Let's see... through bad luck, she lost her shot at the Ivy League, and her parents want nothing to do with her. She recovered from that and became a police officer. Then she got pregnant and her husband abandoned her. Then she discovered that her superiors were on the Pacific Gauntlet's payroll. Then she was made into a Beholden by Dr. Vienna. Life has not been kind to Detective Gotti, but she's taken everything it's thrown at her.
Hook-Man/David Islington Whittlesworth
Megiddo
Argentine St. Croix

St. Croix is a bitter, tired woman, touched by sadness at the disappointments in her life. While insane and, when the mood takes her, tremendously cruel, hers is the small, weak kind of human cruelty that encourages as much pity as loathing.

Belinda Czdenk
Erwin Tycho

Other

Rapata/"Mr. Shark"
Prof. Partridge Crown
Arturo Banger
Dr. Keiko Takamori
Dr. Ilsa Hauser
Walking-Man, Peripatetic Dreamkiller
  1. ↑ They were originally a zoroastrian philosophy cult. Truth was to Ancient Persia like democracy is to Eagle Land
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