The Mage: The Ascension Drinking Game

 

In Character Events: Take a drink every time…

• Christie has to navigate the scary Hermetic hierarchy to get information or get something done
• Christie uses the “famous magician” excuse to make a vulgar effect coincidental
• Gabriel blatantly hits on someone (2 drinks if it’s someone other than Jennifer)
• Gabriel makes breakfast
• Jennifer bluntly expresses something no other member of the cabal dares to say
• Jennifer draws an excessive amount of attention to herself
• Jennifer displays maternal instincts.  Finish your drink if said instincts still manifest in a bizarre Jennifer way.
• Marcus experiences something that elevates his basic angstiness
• Marcus’ personality changes
• Marcus mentions his dislike for Saelic and/or allows it to influence his actions
• Michael pursues knowledge to an extent no sane person would
• Michael is overlooked (go, Arcane 5)
• Michael gets Amee to do his dirty work for him.  Finish your drink if Amee is somehow damaged in the process.
• Ra Lei waves her katana at something indiscriminately
• Ra Lei expresses her desire to protect Takahashi and/or take down the Technocracy
• Ra Lei adds a person to her “to kill list.”  Finish your drink if she ever actually manages to shorten said list.
• Ripple boinks something no sane person would get near to
• Ripple makes an incredibly ill-advised and hasty decision (2 drinks if it results in her being knocked unconscious)
• Ripple asks if someone or something speaks Enochian (2 drinks if it’s an inanimate object)
• Ripple hits on someone or something
• Takahashi gets a present from someone (Legos, Oreos, coffee, Trinary decks, machines to take apart…)
• Takahashi gives out a tantalizing bit of information that causes chaos (i.e. “unformatted Digital Web”)
• Tim “seduces” someone with his cuteness
• Tim displays weird abilities or connections to forces beyond our knowledge or control
• Jennifer and Gabriel exchange cringe-inducingly blunt sexual banter in front of everyone else
• Marcus and Ripple have a cutesy moment (2 drinks if speaking Enochian is somehow involved)
• Jennifer and Ripple bond over being the only two remaining members of the original cabal
• We have to give an in-character explanation about previous events because of our ever-shifting membership roster
• Wolfie shows up.  Finish your drink if he doesn’t mention how badly Ripple is ignoring him.
• Circe is accused of being an evil demon cat
• Babbage the shit-flinging monkey is mentioned.  Finish your drink if anyone ever actually sees him again.
• Chance Marcus Larson is mentioned
• Steak apples are mentioned
• Saelic shows up.  Finish your drink if he’s not being a cryptic bastard for once.

• A vampire shows up (2 drinks if it’s a kuei-jin)
• A Nephandi shows up (2 drinks if they’re an employee of the Olive Garden)
• Julie Ann shows up
• A former member of the cabal shows up (Wan, Saxon, Kenley, etc.)

• The cabal gets a new pet (familiars, Etherite science projects, planimals, gifts from Marauders, HIT Marks, etc.)
• A member of the cabal attempts to do away with one of the pets in a spectacular way (2 drinks if they succeed)
• Anybody uses the “‘Oh, Wan!’ trick” to turn an enemy into a friend
• The cabal sits down to play with Legos.  Finish your drink if we actually find out something important by doing so.
• We fight an enemy in an elevator or an elevator shaft
• An enemy teleports away as soon as we do any significant amount of damage to it
• Something is turned into cheese
• The cabal undergoes a major change of location (Aminus to Japan to Scotland to Russia to Antarctica to…)

 

Out Of Character Events: Take a drink every time…

• Anyone makes a reference to the Dabu Six (2 drinks if it’s to Al-Ashwad, 3 if it’s to the opera house)
• Anyone botches a roll.  Take an additional drink if it’s a magic roll.  Take an additional drink if it has catastrophic consequences.  Finish your drink if it was Beth or Rachel who botched.
• Mike mispronounces a word (2 drinks if it’s “arete,” “chitinous,” “Sabbat,” or “attributes”)
• Mike says the phrase, “Essentially, it’s like this…”
• Mike says the phrase, “Near as you can figure…”
• Rachel says, “My character is not based on sex!”
• Rachel makes a sucking sound
• Iain writes the word “boogers” on something
• Beth fails at keeping her mouth shut about an OOC bit of White Wolf lore
• Anyone says the word “unitard”
• Anyone makes a bad pun (2 drinks if it’s Rachel – to take the edge off)
• Anyone says the phrase “like a mole” or “like the wolf”
• Anyone mentions soup
• Anyone makes a reference to the Halloween session (2 drinks if it’s to Saxon turning into a pinecone, 3 drinks if it’s to the china dolls, 4 drinks if it’s to Jennifer losing a leg and getting thrown through the killer wall of cheese)
• The cabal “bottoms out”
• Someone points to the quote book and yells, “That’s a quote!”

 

Finish your drink when/if…

• Timber gets his Avatar back
• Any NPC ever actually helps us of their own free will
• We meet a new person who can be referred to as “ix-nay”
• Any member of the cabal begins a new romantic relationship
• Any member of the cabal fathers a child or gives birth

 

Consume the largest possible quantities of any beverage available immediately if…

• Any member of the cabal fathers or gives birth to a NORMAL child
• Any member of the cabal becomes involved in a NORMAL romantic relationship
• We go an entire session without somehow involving sex in the game

 

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