Achievements/Mage: The Ascension

Achievements that could be attained in a game of Mage: The Ascension.

PC-specific

• Trouble Magnet: have 10 or more points of Paradox at one time.
• Walking Timebomb: have 20 or more points of Paradox at one time.
• Spontaneous Combustion: suffer from a backlash of 10 or more points of Paradox in a single hit.
• Strange Bedfellows: Agree on a cease-fire and a temporary alliance with the Technocracy in order to bring down a bigger threat.
• Those Wacky Nazis: Punch a nazi.
• Reentry Burn-up: Fall down to Incapacitated from the damage dealt by crossing the Gauntlet.
• Look At What I Made: Create an Artifact.
• Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him: Botch a magical attack against an enemy and, in the following round of combat, use a nonmagical, nonenchanted firearm against the same enemy, killing him.
• It's Magic, I Ain't Gotta Explain Shit: Do something so outlandish that even you refuse to make any attempt to justify as "coincidental" to the ST. In front of multiple witnesses.
• Gaze Upon My Spellbook And Despair: Create 20 or more original rotes.
• I Be Rollin' With The Wizzards, Yo: Create 30 or more original rotes.
• Magical Bling: Have more than 3 permanently enchanted artifact or magical items of any kind.

PC/Sphere-specific

• (Correspondence) Crazy Gun Fu: Curve the trajectory of a projectile by more than 90° in mid-air.
• (Correspondence) I Can See Forever: Scry on 5 or more places at once.
• (Entropy) How Did I Do That: Have your character use the Beginner's Luck rote unconsciously.
• (Entropy) Million To One Chance: Have an event that has been explicitly stated to be a "million-to-one-chance" actually happen.
• (Mind) Your Head Asplode: Use a vulgar Mind effect.
• (Mind) What Is This I Don't Even: Rewrite someone's short-term memory with something completely ridiculous and unbelievable.
• (Forces) Megaton Punch: use Forces to empower an unarmed attack and knock out an enemy with a single hit.
• (Forces) Screw Paradox: Use a vulgar Forces attack to bring down an enemy from "healthy" to "dead" in a single hit.
• (Prime) For A More Civilized Age: Use in combat the vulgar, "lightsaber" version of the Holy Stroke rote.
• (Prime) Hadoken: Use in combat the vulgar, "projectile of energy" version of the Holy Stroke rote.
• (Spirit) I Ask The Lightbulb For Directions: Entertain meaningful and helpful conversations with at least 10 inanimate common household objects over the course of the campaign.
• (Spirit) Rise And Shine: Permanently awaken the spirit of an inanimate object, and later buy it as an Ally, Contact or Mentor.
• (Time) You Can't Do That Snake: Cause a time paradox, and get Paradox for that.
• (Time) To The Time Machine!: Attempt to go back in time in order to stop yourself from doing something that would later turn out to be a mistake.
• (Matter) You Make What: Make Antimatter, Neutronium or another type of "Exotic Matter", either with Matter 5 or though other bizarre shortcuts.
• (Matter) Not A Problem: Routinely solve the Cabal's finance problems by transmuting gold or other valuables.
• (Life) The Hexmaker: Infect your enemies with at least 10 different diseases over the course of the campaign.
• (Life) Pink Mist: Bring someone to three health levels below "Dead" with a use of the Rip the Man-Body rote.

PC/Order-specific

• (Order of Hermes) Just Like Hogwarts: Manage to use otherwise-vulgar Hermetic magic in the open without repercussions.
• (Akashic Brotherhood) No, I Really Don't Know Kung Fu: Play an Akashic with neither Brawl nor Melee higher than 2.
• (Virtual Adept) Out Of My Way, I Have To Save The Internet: Save the Internet, a good portion of it, or solve another massive, world-wide communications-related menace.
• (Sons of Ether) SCIENCE!: Change the dominant scientific paradigm one step closer to your personal brand of super-science (example: death rays become coincidental)
• (Celestial Chorus) Can't We Just All Get Along: Successfully mediate a religious dispute, ending a blood feud.
• (Euthanatos) All Work And No Play: Fall into Jhor at least once.
• (Verbena) Life Ain't Pretty: Scare someone into compliance or submission through simple descriptions of common Verbena rituals.
• (Cult of Ecstasy) All Three Of Them, Baby: Manage to enjoy sex, drugs and rock and roll simultaneously, and use them for magic.
• (Dreamspeaker) Say Hello To My Little Friend: Summon a spirit in battle.
• (Hollow Ones) Crawling In My Skin: Do absolutely nothing for a whole session.
• (Syndicate) Of Course I Can, Silly: After being told that a problem cannot be solved with money, proceed to do exactly that.
• (Void Engineers) These Are The Voyagers: Build a vehicle that can cross the Gauntlet and travel into the Umbra.
• (Iteration X) Go Go Gadget Something: Have at least 5 different cyborg tools built inside your body.
• (New World Order) How Perceptive Of You Mr. Anderson: Play a NWO Operative called "Smith", wearing a black suit, and mirrored shades.
• (Progenitors) It Lives: Create a new species entirely in lab, capable of breeding true and living outside controlled environments.

ST-specific

• Forced Crossover: Ghoulify a PC.
• To The Shadow Realm: After a particularly bad Backlash, shut a PC into a Paradox Realm.