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Deeper Mysteries - Appendix A Spending Archetype Points A character has 8 AP to spend on “Advanced Traits” (she has been Infected for some time and may have Twists, Mastery, or even have learned some magic). She spends 4pts on Twists and 4pts on Mastery. She has 16 Twist Points (each AP nets 4 Twist Points). She has Advanced Mastery (cost of 4 AP). 234 seem different than anyone else. The GM, however must be consulted before any of these are taken and we think it’s a good idea for the GM to actually decide before characters are made which, if any, will be available. It is also possible that the characters might simply be assigned these (if the characters are all of special interest to a psychiatric project there might be an underlying reason …). Retriever [8] Description: When you come back from Wonderland you can bring things back. This is one of the most rare, sought-after, and disturbing traits in existence. The ability to bring back Impossible Things has dire implications for those who either wish to spread Wonderland Infection or see it controlled. This ability doesn’t work all the time and usually requires something like a WIL roll to “hold on” to something when the character is ending an Episode. The GM is the final arbiter of what comes back and what doesn’t—and what the effects are. NOTE: Objects taken from Chessboard One or Chessboard Two are Shadows of real objects and tend not to last long nor function properly on Chessboard Zero (they may also acquire flaws very rapidly even if they do exist for some time). Objects from further down (Chessboard Three and below) last so long as they normally would but if they are Infecting people they tend to get Normalized out of existence rather quickly. Cool Reflection [4] Description: Your Reflection is awake, aware, and looking out for you. It may actually be smoother than you are. You don’t suffer Complications although the missing memories may be disturbing (you could, for example, find out you applied for and got a job you aren’t exactly qualified for during an Episode). Your Reflection may have long-term plans that it puts together piecemeal when you are undergoing Descent. The one blind spot your Reflection has tends to be in informing you— it will usually assume that either you know what it is doing or that you shouldn’t be told. Active Shadow [2] Description: Your Shadow does all sorts of random things that you aren’t aware of and has a strong connection to you. This usually means that you get weird flashes of insight and may have an intuitive understanding of what’s happening on Chessboard One.
Inquisitive Innocence [2] Description: The character has a nature about them that is usually one of curiosity and innocence. The character will not suffer Notice and will not be easily tracked by beings from lower Chessboards if they mean to do the character ill. When meeting beings the character may also be given the “benefit of the doubt” provided he or she does not misbehave. Navigator [4] Description: The character can navigate the Linear Maze and, when ever they cause their own Descent, can return to any place already visited. They may also find their way to beings about which a sufficient amount of information is known (this is up to the GM and will be more clear in the GM’s book) and can make and read Wonderland maps (Wonderland Maps require a great deal of time and care to make and always appear as completely blank parchments or pieces of paper). Afterword This is the end of book one—and just about the end of more than five years of work. The material here (never mind the Book of Knots) is more than we had for the first JAGS Wonderland game that we ran (the first one that was called “Wonderland,” anyway). The earliest file I have on the computer is from 2001 and the game was run before that—before American McGee’s Alice came out (I remember seeing some pre-release screenshots that a player had dug up). If you stop reading here you have enough to dig into the mysteries of Wonderland without fully understanding everything that is going on in the world. What comes next are the real secrets, some more questions, and even a few answers. Whether or not this is territory for only the GM or for everyone in the group depends on how you like it. It has been a long road of putting this stuff together and trying to make it more and more playable. We hope you enjoy it. Also: I went through a lot of books on Alice looking for insight and none of them compare to The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner. It’s the gold standard for someone wanting to look at the original source material. 235 Deeper Mysteries - Appendix A
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LOOKING-GLASS MAKER 1 Introduction
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Cycle 55 Trigger 55 Depth 55 Notice
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110 The Linear Maze 110 Topology 11
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Effects Of Unbelieving 213 Manageme
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A WORLDBOOK OF ABSURD HORROR FOR TH
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ine them imagining that you can ima
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gauge-energy experiment had somethi
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Outer Circle that the team was now
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eport itself failed to alert the Co
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Characters range from normal people
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People who are Infected as a group
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the first person to change their mi
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“Pills don’t work. They can dul
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“That’s what we call it, anyway
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and configuration standing like sil
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have a hard time infecting anyone i
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MOONEY: “He’s in the program. N
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get them open or they’re locking
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If you’re gonna play Wonderland,
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going crazy or on drugs. The damage
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Reality Is Composed of Eight Chessb
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an Episode? You see all your friend
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Chessboard Two Some of it looks lik
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The Stages of CPD CPD is said to ha
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themselves Shadows are caricatures
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I stood in the room as Christina lo
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the building you could step through
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Avg. Length This is a very rough ti
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Descent to Chessboard One Level of
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taking chances for Controlled Desce
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Usually the GM will call for WIL ro
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Notice: Something’s Looking for Y
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TwistedTwisted One can’t look int
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it’s a bizarre maze you are trapp
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69 Deeper Mysteries - Overview
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On Chessboard Three It’s even mor
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Chessboard Four At this point Disas
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There are several gradients of the
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Minor Disassociation: At this level
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Reflection Disassociation vs. Actio
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Disassociate but the break would be
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People’s Shadows say and do deepl
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But what if you’re Disassociated?
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The Crest of the Fin: Monsters Down
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Imagine you’re out at night and t
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GM’s Notes on Mastery The gaining
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For a high-empowerment game we sugg
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Advanced [4] Description: The chara
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Avoiding Disassociation: The Standa
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Situation Depth Character is in fea
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Mastery Level Modifier Novice -2 Pr
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Technique Modifiers -1 to the roll
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little work or an excuse (“I had
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Notice Roll This roll is made when
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there are some pieces of advice for
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Topology ‘At any rate I’ll neve
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currency the character has. There a
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The Major Organizations Project Pag
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1. What is going on below the surfa
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that those workmen are taking a lot
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Mostly. Because there are some exce
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123 Deeper Mysteries - Chessboards
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125 Deeper Mysteries - Chessboards
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Name: The Orange Peel Men WHIRL PHY
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Name: InNetwork Physicians WHIRL PH
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The GM should determine if there ar
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Chessboard Two: The Empty Places Th
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1 st Metro Bank Offices Sane-Abando
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AbandonedOne of the trends that hap
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andomness without any help from the
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safeguards though. Believers There
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Construction On Chessboard Two thin
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go, it’ll return to its origin an
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A strange, thriving greenery has be
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The standard of living is reliably
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In a Wonderland home on Chessboard
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Wild Things It is said that Chessbo
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Wonder Clouds The brilliant mother-
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In the Garden of Uden there are ros
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Name: Lucky Quarter Description: A
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e doing and if they choose not to d
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Ecology Chessboard Four has the Wil
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and one might find that a series of
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Twisted Twistedness is the sometime
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The GM Determines When These Happen
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But he doesn’t. Gary is experienc
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Weight and Grapple: These are the s
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Slightly Affected [-1] The player w
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that attack. If a character has a P
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Black Wings Cost [Size] Trait: The
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Effect: You have massive stained-gl
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