Editing Mage: The Ascension (section)

====[[Virtual Adepts]]====
Very literal computer wizards, and the ''other'' Tradition that emigrated from the Technocracy. In their case, it was a one-two punch of finding out they'd had Alan Turing chemically castrated and murdered, and learning that the Internet was being released to the Masses. The philosophy on why this was a bad thing had its good points ("They aren't equipped to handle it yet! It'll turn them all into lazy basement-dwelling trolls [[World of Warcraft|obsessed with trivialities]]!" which was pretty fucking prescient for the time) and its bad points ("[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Waaaaah! Newbs on mah Internets! I'm not special anymore!]"). 

Since they cast spells with programs and the Internet, they're great for nerds who want to play nerds and don't want to stretch. Masters of the Correspondence sphere, which lets them work with space and distance. Their shit works because the Internet is just the upper layers of a great Web of information that connects all things, and also cyberspace is a physical place in the spirit world which you can actually go visit in person, which is how they can hack your wallpaper and make it change color to send messages. And we don't mean your computer background.

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