Leliel
2010-05-02, 06:42 PM
Well, I was watching a Let's Play of Persona 2: Innocent Sin-very nWoD game, by the way-and I just came across the scene where the baseless conspiracy theory of the Nazi leadership escaping Germany and forming the vicious magitech war machine of the Last Battalion is made real, causing the formerly-nonexistent legion to be given life as an army of tulpas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa) and invade Japan. In full view of the public, I might add.
This, besides making me somewhat nostalgic for the series before 3 and 4 (which are both good, just focusing on different plots) also struck me with a question: What would happen if the Last Battalion (or it's sister in Eternal Punishment, the New World Order-which is actually composed of real people, who just happen to be organized around a tulpa doctrine and artifact) came into existence in the nWoD and did that?
Obviously, a fully-complete Masquerade can be waved goodbye (after all, the general public, even if they don't know the truly supernatural nature of the tulpas, are at a loss at the ability to somehow explain the fact that a secret organization with supernatural powers really just did invade), and there's going to be more than a little panic amongst the semi-human community (who are going to figure out what the tulpas are, and let's be frank: a literal legion of beings who aren't supposed to exist suddenly gaining enough power to invade at least one city, Disbelief be dammed, looks an awful lot like a herald of the apocalypse).
But other than that, what effect do you see an event like this on the day-to-day life of the WoD, and how do you see the supernatural factions reacting (beyond the basic "oh crap")?
This, besides making me somewhat nostalgic for the series before 3 and 4 (which are both good, just focusing on different plots) also struck me with a question: What would happen if the Last Battalion (or it's sister in Eternal Punishment, the New World Order-which is actually composed of real people, who just happen to be organized around a tulpa doctrine and artifact) came into existence in the nWoD and did that?
Obviously, a fully-complete Masquerade can be waved goodbye (after all, the general public, even if they don't know the truly supernatural nature of the tulpas, are at a loss at the ability to somehow explain the fact that a secret organization with supernatural powers really just did invade), and there's going to be more than a little panic amongst the semi-human community (who are going to figure out what the tulpas are, and let's be frank: a literal legion of beings who aren't supposed to exist suddenly gaining enough power to invade at least one city, Disbelief be dammed, looks an awful lot like a herald of the apocalypse).
But other than that, what effect do you see an event like this on the day-to-day life of the WoD, and how do you see the supernatural factions reacting (beyond the basic "oh crap")?