Editing Virtual Adepts (section)

== Cyberpunks of Darkness ==
The Virtual Adepts' reality paradigm is tricky to understand, because it requires more technical knowledge than the average Tradition. The basics are that they see reality itself as a massive computer full of programs and operative software that can be edited, re-written, deleted and replaced if necessary, and you need only access to the source code in order to do so, and they want that information in every last person's hands. As such, they spend all day on their computers trying to break down the base secrets of correspondence through sheer shitposting, and took up the seat of Correspondence among the Traditions without much incident, all from behind carefully chosen usernames to preserve their anonymity.

The Adepts are also the most open about their distrust and active work against the Technocracy; spending the most effort in fighting them through information warfare, cyber-wizardry, and of course some good old fashioned trolling. They do this because they see the Technocratic understanding of information as being inherently bad for everyone and understand from first-hand experience that the Technocracy will usually go way overboard in trying to establish their New World Order. As such, they tend to be the hacktivists and cyberterrorists of Mages.

Within the Traditions, they really only get along with the Cult of Ecstasy (for obvious reasons) and the Sons of Ether due to their shared hobby of building computers that do way more than the average computer should be able to, the rest they are either looked down on as brats who understand nothing of their centuries old suffering, or as blasphemers of an order that's otherwise kept a fragile balance. In fairness, they're a VERY difficult bunch to deal with off the bat, being every bit fueled by 80's and 90's-era "stick it to the MAN" personalities that can put Sleepers and the Awakened off, even if they have nothing but humanity's best interests at heart.

Virtual Adepts with Pattern avatars are moderates of [[Stasis]], whereas their extremist analogues are the [[Threat Null]] Technocrats.