World premise
A playable world seed with consequences.
Modern New York is a city where magic is real, rare, difficult, and quietly integrated into the professional and social structures of the five boroughs. Reality here responds to disciplined human systems—law, art, medicine, technology, or obsession—rather than mere belief. As the city reaches a state of critical symbolic density, the pressure of eight million competing ambitions and traumas is causing the mundane world to buckle. You are navigating a metropolis where a miracle is simply a debt you cannot yet afford to pay, and where the line between a legal contract and a binding ritual has completely dissolved. Whether you are a Corporate Mage managing market volatility or a student bound by a non-Euclidean loan, survival requires more than talent—it requires a Method.
An overworked Legal Aid attorney needs an independent mage to assist on a case involving a 'spatial leak' in a Bronx tenement.
A Mage Student at NYU discovers their non-Euclidean loan agreement includes a clause requiring a 'physical contribution' to a Wall Street ritual.
A Corporate Mage at Gauge Analytics notices a sudden, unexplained drop in collective city 'Intent,' suggesting a major reality-shift is imminent.
A Reality Adjuster is hired to stabilize a Bushwick loft that has begun expanding into the adjacent alleyway every night at midnight.