TUTs Metaparadigm
Our reality is really a narrative game run by a person with an ego so large she calls herself The Undisputed Truth. By reaching out to this person through the medium of a character with theories, intentions, methods, and tools, and player can enact the will of the character they’ve created on the shared story, sometimes one on one, and sometimes with other players and their characters with additional collaboration.
TUT’s metafoci:
General:
- PATs
- +jobs
- @mails
- pages
- words
Sphere-specific:
- Correspondence: +map
- Entropy: +roll
- Forces: ASCII
- Life: Logging off sometimes
- Matter: @desc
- Mind: Basic courtesy
- Prime: Brains
- Spirit: Flattery
- Time: +time
This is suuuuper tongue in cheek, but for all those about to rock paradigm and foci jnotes, there are a couple of things I’m looking for. (I’m probably going to pare down the Paradigm questions in the Mage app process so that the questions more clearly get you to a paradigm jnote.)
In your paradigm, I’m looking for a rough ‘what is reality’ theory statement to start. (Fill in ‘universe’ or ‘world’ or ‘creation’ or the appropriate word for your character instead of reality if you like.) Then, following that, a statement about how your character can access magic related to that theory, and possibly including some details about why particular methods or instruments are particularly effective.
In your foci, I’m looking for some general foci that are perhaps broader tools of your character’s trade, things that might be found in any of their magical workings, whether in combination with other foci or not. For sphere specific foci, I’m looking for much narrower, more clearly defined instruments that will give me a backdoor into how each sphere works with your paradigm, if your paradigm doesn’t already make that clear. You don’t have to select sphere-specific foci for spheres you don’t have, and in fact I recommend that you don’t. Your foci for spheres you learn on grid can be informed (and please, let them be!) by other players and characters. So can your paradigm, over time! Of all the games in the classic World of Darkness, nowhere else is perpetual refinement and learning so thematic. :)
