Editing Virtual Adepts (section)

== "Organization" ==
The Adepts? Don't make me laugh.

The Adepts don't really have that, only really having two separate kinds of Virtual Adept: Kibos, and Hackers. The Kibos are the information brokers and cyphers of the Adepts; filtering terabytes of information and keeping the best stuff for themselves, particularly when it comes to Technocratic tactical info or secrets. The Hackers are those who act on the Kibo's information, attempting to do the impossible with nothing more than a little extra code.

What they do have, is reputation, and that can change a lot about you. What you've done matters a lot to the Adepts, who's punk attitude towards nearly everything means you have to earn their respect. They go as follows:
* '''Lames:''' Anyone who isn't them or is a Sleeper; it's also your base-level internet insult that refers to poor skills and recently recruited Mages. Everybody starts here and many are still in some way Lame, but most Adepts ''do not'' like being called Newfags.
* '''Elites:''' The base-level awakened Adepts, but also a challenge. If you're an Elite, you gotta prove you're Elite or otherwise you might get called Lame and then you'll probably have a heated Mage moment. They begrudgingly admit that some members of other Traditions are in fact capable of getting here, and respect the hell out of them if they do. It takes a lot of work to do that, however.
* '''Adepts:''' Purely a ceremonial title taken from the game's ranking system because they thought it was funny.
* '''Wired:''' The Mods. You're a master of Correspondence here, but also the person usually tasked with cleaning up the user's bullshit.
* '''Jobes:''' You have permanently connected yourself to the Net and therefor the entire world, and can do the craziest possible stuff. If they show up, do whatever they ask. Anybody who can send your ass to space in seconds without you realizing it is not someone you should be fucking with.

=== The Myriad Discord Channels ===
Where organization fails, the Adepts do tend to congregate together in different groups called "Alts" to perform their hackerman wizardry. It should be noted that unlike a lot of other traditions, most Alts actively encourage working together as they swing either towards the Kibo or the Hacker side of their Tradition
* '''Cyberpunks:''' Wake up, Samurai. We have a Technocracy to burn. These guys are hardcore collectivist frontliners against the Technocracy and probably the first thing you think of when you think of the Virtual Adepts; script kiddies fighting the man using technomagic and giving each other pats on the ass for doing so. Unfortunately, they're also far and away the least concerned with the Sleeping World, and so Cyberpunks unfortunately end up known to them as domestic/international terrorists due to their disregard for "buildings needing to stay up" or "fires set in houses tend to burn the whole place down"
* '''Cypherpunks:''' More hacker than man, the Cypherpunks were the ones who figured out that the Technocracy had memed on them so hard they forgot hyperphysics, and cleansed the virus from their systems, reigniting hatred in the Technocracy (as if it needed any). The Cypherpunks nowadays are now a hyper-powered wikileaks dedicated to ensuring Adepts get the info they need, and blocking the Conventions from learning of their whereabouts.
* '''Chaoticians:''' Obsessed with numbers, advanced mathematics, probabilities, and chaos systems. They are the most rigidly structured of all the Alts, but paradoxically the most confusing to the outsider's eye. The Chaoticians meet based on specific number patterns, the weather, you name it, it probably factors in, and offer a dizzying array of ways to end a meeting in seconds. Due to their precise understanding of Entropy and Time, Chaoticians act as master strategists for the entire Tradition and pretty much every planned raid or operation is encouraged to go through them first. 
* '''Reality Coder:''' Adepts obsessed with finding the "Source Code" of the universe and remaking it in their image as "Reality 2.0" and acclimate Sleepers to the ideas of the Adepts bit by bit, usually through surreptitious introduction via VR and video games. A small and largely Kibo-based Alt with Hackers primarily existing as the QA team for their new reality. Ambitious, but often victims of bad paradox backlashes due to the inherent Vulgarity of their craft. Work closely with the Nexplorers.
* '''Nexplorers:''' The Virtual World's denizens. They go into Virtual Reality and the Web at large to explore it's depths, understand it's secrets, protect and expand it's borders from incursion, and try to fix things when sleeper script kiddies fuck things up. They're closely working with the Reality Coders to bring the Virtual World into everyday life, but often suffer similar paradox problems, and a notorious level of Quiet that effectively just means becoming Terminally Online.

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