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	301). For sample Backup characters and animals, see '''Appendix		301). For sample Backup characters and animals, see '''Appendix
	I''', (pp. 618-639).		I''', (pp. 618-639).


	:X -- You’re on your own, kid!		:X -- You’re on your own, kid!

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	301). For sample Backup characters and animals, see '''Appendix		301). For sample Backup characters and animals, see '''Appendix
	I''', (pp. 618-639).		I''', (pp. 618-639).

			:X -- You’re on your own, kid!
			:• -- Two typical agents.
			:•• -- Four basic agents or two skilled “temps.”
			:••• -- Six agents.
			:•••• -- Eight agents or four “temps.”
			:••••• -- 10 agents.
			:••••• • -- 12 agents or six “temps.”
			:••••• •• -- 14 agents.
			:••••• ••• -- 16 agents or eight “temps.”
			:••••• •••• -- 18 agents.
			:••••• ••••• -- 20 agents, or 10 “temps.”

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	• Witches: Animals, devotees, New Agers, Pagan activists,		• Witches: Animals, devotees, New Agers, Pagan activists,
	healers, minor spirits.		healers, minor spirits.

			This Background may go higher than five dots – see (p.
			301). For sample Backup characters and animals, see '''Appendix
			I''', (pp. 618-639).

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	• -- All: Students, drivers, receptionists, couriers, lab techs,		• All: Students, drivers, receptionists, couriers, lab techs,
	political activists, merchants, manual laborers, EMTs,		political activists, merchants, manual laborers, EMTs,
	cult members, thugs.		cult members, thugs.

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	:• -- All: Students, drivers, receptionists, couriers, lab techs,		• -- All: Students, drivers, receptionists, couriers, lab techs,
	political activists, merchants, manual laborers, EMTs,		political activists, merchants, manual laborers, EMTs,
	cult members, thugs.		cult members, thugs.

Bruce at 00:20, 18 April 2017

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	== <span style="color:#4B0082;"> ==		== <span style="color:#4B0082;"> Backup ==
			You can call in the cavalry and expect help when needed...
			in a limited capacity, anyhow. Thanks to your membership in
			some organization, you’re able to request Backup and have a
			small team of useful folks swoop in and take care of business.
			Unlike Allies, these people are largely faceless, have limited
			skills, and are more or less expendable. Essentially, they come
			in to handle simple tasks, then disperse back to the organization
			to which you all belong.

			Backup characters come from a large pool of skilled
			but unAwakened personnel. Their relationship to the player
			characters is pretty much a matter of convenience, with no
			special loyalty attached. Though they might risk their lives on
			the mage’s behalf, the help’s not personal. These folks are just
			doing their job.

			Backup tends to arrive as a pack of gun-wielding grunts who
			rush in to cover a mage’s escape. Any major tasks (or sacrifices)
			are the mage’s responsibility – the backup’s not there to handle
			much heavy lifting. In other situations, the Background can
			represent other types of support personnel: receptionists, students,
			roadies, drivers, medics, even prostitutes. A King or Queen of
			the Jungle might be able to holler for assistance and attract an
			appropriate group of animals, assuming that character has a
			story-based reason for such loyalty. The type of aid will depend
			on the organization, the situation, and the mage’s role within that
			group. An Ecstatic rock star could call in hookers and roadies,
			whereas a Black Suit might bring in cops, reporters, or a cleanup
			crew. And though it’s easy to dismiss the importance of students,
			receptionists, or bloggers, it’s also worth remembering that society
			at large depends more upon information than upon violence.
			One eloquent reporter can do more, in the grand scheme of
			things, than a dozen dudes with guns.

			Typical Backup personnel have Traits in the 1-3 range,
			with one or two notable Skills. Animals are small (birds, rats,
			bats, domestic dogs or cats, etc.), and spirits are minor single-
			purpose entities (fetch spirits, breeze elementals, and so forth).
			More elite Backup agents – mercenaries, ninja, cyborgs, minor
			spirits, or large predatory animals, for example – cost twice as
			much as typical agents but have Traits in the 3-5 range, unusual
			abilities, or serious combat potential. Essentially, these elite
			“temp” agents become Allies for the course of a single mission
			and then disappear back to wherever it is they came from.

			In order to get this Background, a character must be
			part of a larger organization – a gang, the police, an armed
			services division, the Technocracy, and so forth. Whatever his
			connection to that group might be, the mage needs to fulfill
			occasional duties on behalf of the group that sends assistance.
			If he doesn’t keep his end of the bargain, if his Backup tends to
			suffer heavy casualties, or if he otherwise abuses the agents and
			their group, this Background may be reduced or withdrawn.
			Sample Backup teams, and the types of mages they support,
			include:

			:• -- All: Students, drivers, receptionists, couriers, lab techs,
			political activists, merchants, manual laborers, EMTs,
			cult members, thugs.

			• Agents of Authority: Cops and detectives, military
			personnel, reporters, EMTs, cleanup crews.

			• Celebrities: Fans, roadies, personal assistants,
			photographers, road-crew, journalists, makeup artists.

			• Clergy: Acolytes, lesser and lay clergy, healers, devotees
			of your religion.

			• Cyborgs: Mechanics, technicians, soldiers, cybernetic
			“temps”.

			• Feral folk: Animals, healers, medicine people, tribal
			elders, natives of the appropriate region.

			• Gangsters and Vigilantes: Gang members, hookers,
			allied cops, street people, junkies, journalists, petty
			crooks.

			• Hackers: Technicians, bloggers, hacker “temps,” political
			activists, anarchists, transhumanists, IT specialists.

			• Martial artists: Healers, philosophers, martial arts
			students, “temp” fighters, devotees of your spiritual path.

			• Ritual magicians: Occultists, cultists, acolytes, academics,
			fearful assistants, aspiring apprentices, minor imps, or
			spirit “temps.”

			• Scholars: Research assistants, librarians, bloggers,
			academics, former students, grad students.

			• Scientists: Techs, research aides, robots, misshapen or
			enhanced assistant “temps.”

			• Shamans: Devotees, minor spirits, animals, activists, or
			armed defenders of your culture.

			• Spies and Assassins: Informants, gang members, sleeper
			agents, cleanup crews.

			• Subculturists: Artists, neotribalists, musicians, healers,
			bloggers, psychoactive specialists, badasses from your
			subculture.

			• Tycoons: Corporate subordinates, flunkies, toadies,
			office personnel, journalists, security guards.

			• Witches: Animals, devotees, New Agers, Pagan activists,
			healers, minor spirits.

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