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Primer: Reboots

Roughly one week ago, you had a vague sense of 'unease'. It felt like second sight, but no amount of Mage Sight could detect anything strange. Quickly enough, the feeling passed, and you went on about your lives. However, though none of you really suspect it, something did happen.

In full OOC terms, History has "reset" itself, retroactively adjusting itself into its new flow.

The end effect is much as if this was the very first session of a new Mage Chronicle, involving your cabal, which drew somewhat from the old timeline but didn't assume that all the events therein occured in the same fashion. In other words your cabal has a history, has accomplished things in the past, and are "a cabal". However, many of those events occured off-screen -- the sole exception being the few bits of "history" that remained stable through the recalibration of the timeline.

Not everything has changed, after all. A number of factors have remained constant:

Overall Impact

• The ruling cabals - the Broken Candle, Eumenides, and the Fisher Knights - have remained pretty much entirely untouched by these effects. The only changes they underwent refer entirely to other cabals. I.e., their own structure and history has remained stable, except in as far as that history involved interaction with other cabals.
• The effects of this reshuffle do not extend past a broad area on the Southeast Coast of Florida, from Miami in the South to Jupiter to the north. The alterations of history that involve people outside of that area are not total, but most people who have some contact with the affected area remember the "new" history.
• The Shadow and the Abyss were both "shaken" by the anomaly. The effect is that the Shadow has been somewhat chaotic for this last week, though few Thrysus can really explain why, and Vulgar magic has been slightly more dangerous. These effects do not extend past the affected area.

The Cabal

• The Cabal has no knowledge of the Ghost Train, but remembers all of the information they've learned to date about the Supernal Ladder that was constructed in the 50s by Edward Leedskalnin. This includes the fact that it was constructed with a mix of Indian and European magics, that it culminated in some kind of diaster that shredded his soul, and that the pattern of the Ley Lines that made it up are slowly unravelling.
• The Cabal retains the Mirror -- an Arcadian Artifact, the anomaly could not affect it. The characters remember recieving it about a week ago, and "playing around with it". They remember asking about the missing girl, but do not remember anything regarding the Ghost Train nor being told to visit the strange Lakewood Park. They do recall spending most of the week tracking down leads on the missing girl, locating her ghost, and resolving that "storyline" in the vague undefined manner of things that happened off-camera.
• Tlaloc, "Jameson Peer", is still a member of the Cabal. He got in trouble with the Consilium about a month ago, resulting in a small trial, and was ultimately cleared -- however, the event got the Cabal in a bit of trouble with the Silver Ladder cabal known as 'the Hood'. The Cabal are still somewhat upset with him for this.
• Itzpapalotl, "Cynthia Margola", has been a member of the Cabal since its inception. A member of the Adamantine Arrows and something of a Shaman, she gets along well with both Tlaloc (whom she helps with managing the Hallow, even if he handles most of the details) and Huehueteotl (who helped train her Spirit magic, even if he has his doubts about her particular speciality).
• The events involving Magnus and his harem either did not occur, or the characters are unfamiliar with the events. The characters instead spent that period of time assisting Itzpapalotl in tracking down a Banisher that had slain a fellow Order-member and was casing the players Sanctum. Their victory occured about 9 days ago, with the characters slaying the Banisher and recovering some of his stolen magical documents.
• The Broken Candle accepted a new member of their cabal about a week ago, a newly awakened Moros who has chosen the shadow name Persephone. Some of the cabal can't help but think that she looks oddly familiar, but cannot place her. The various Orders are starting a small bidding war over her, but the Broken Candle are keeping her tightly under their wing as if they were quite worried about her well-being.

In addition, all characters will be re-constructed ("from scratch") as if they had 150 experience points and 20 points of arcane experience. The players may do this reconstruction themselves, if they wish. Various changes and adjustments to their characters statistics are more than acceptable, if the player wishes. If the player doesn't wish to bother with this, the ST will faithfully duplicate the character's current statistics prior to the next session.