Mage the Ascension the Victorian Age | Book 3, Chapter 18: The Improper Dead

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Dork Tales presents Mage the Ascension The Victorian Age Book 3 Death on the Empress Express Welcome back to another episode of Mage the Ascension of the Victorian Age here on Dork Tales after a prolonged paradox break.

I hope you're all doing very well tonight.

I'm doing well and my players aren't going to be because I left them in a cliffhanger and I'm about to toss them over that cliff right now.

But if you're tuning in for the first time, hi, I'm Kelly.

I'm the storyteller here.

Are you seeing him? I'm an Aquarius and I like the mage.

uh the mage makes me happy so i am super excited to be here on chapter 18 of book three of mage the ascent of the victorian age um death on the emperor's express and hey we're finally getting to the death because we've had 16 episodes of emperor's express so i i'm excited to ride that train choo-choo and ride it uh christine will you come on ride that train with me

i suppose i could be convinced to do that

okay who are you why are you here

Well, I'm Christine.

I use she, her pronouns.

And tonight I get to play Dr. Evelyn Taylor, our Society of Ether mad scientist.

She's not that mad.

I mean, she'd resurrect a rat and shove a spirit in it.

Oh, yeah.

Crazy.

No, she's just not angry.

Yeah, but that's not really what the mad part of it really means.

Ah, fair enough.

All right.

Well, let's check in with our mad chorister, Amy.

Hey, Amy.

Hi.

Hello.

I'm Amy.

Pronouns are she, her, or they, them.

I am playing Chastity Prudence Goodwin, the Celestial Chorister slash Cult of Ecstasy member.

And we're all going to collectively pretend that my hair is, in fact, brown.

Isn't it? Looks brown to me.

Excellent.

It's working.

Excellent.

Mind effects are very useful.

You know what else is useful? Having Jen on your team.

Hi, Jen.

Oh, hello.

It's me.

I'm Jen.

I use she, her pronouns.

And I'm playing Josephine Carrington, our Order of Hermes.

Yay.

Benny Tharsis.

Speaking

of...

Yeah, I'm sure that's not going to go poorly in a few years or so.

It's not going to go poorly in a few years.

He'll be the only one left.

It'll be great for you.

You know what else is great? Robin.

Hey, Robin.

Oh, hi.

Yes.

Hello.

I'm Robin.

I use she, her pronouns.

And tonight I'm playing Darcy Harkness, our Irish Verbena, whose curiosity definitely got the better of her.

And it better not kill the cat because Bran will be very pissed with Darcy.

Darcy also uses she, her pronouns.

And yeah, I'm excited to...

To feel the consequences of my actions here.

What? We don't have consequences of actions here.

We just have love.

It brings us love.