The Avatar Storm has happened. Ley Lines that once sustained a dozen horizon realms used by the awakened of Hollywood have been severed, their power spilling over the eighteen square miles of city. The city cannot contain such power for long, and the surplus power has let something slip over from Beyond. Stop Hollywood from becoming a new umbral realm - or the next legendary lost city like Atlantis or Irem. Umbral travel, sleaze, and ruthless intrigue in the City of Dreams.
The sleepers expect the fantastic at a Circus, and the D'Amato Circus has booked a HELL of an act. Investigation, Umbral travel, horror, and the possible redemption of the most famous Nephandi of them all.
At the new Motivational Research Center (MRC), owned by Metro Galactic Media Gargantuan (MGMG), a breakthrough in consumer research has occurred - but the Technomancers running the lab do not know it. Someone is manipulating the consensus directly in a shortsighted and clumsy manner. An investigator was sent, but is now showing up in cat food commercials - as a sorry looking cat - for the new Cat's Meow Cat Food. And what is with all these strange, new TV shows? A Mage the Ascension Adventure, complete with commercial breaks.
It’s the city of the future but the future is now, and your nightmares are coming true. Welcome to Magnifico - City of Malls.
...to the great writers at ZBS, whose work has directly inspired the adventures here.