Honestly, I was expecting to hate this product, and was only reading it because I decided I'd go through and read/review every Mage product for STV. I am not a big fan of Mage 1st Edition, though this is hardly the place to get into the details of that, so this being a 1st Edition book rather than a 20th Anniversary Edition one had me expecting the worst.
Reading it, though, I was surprised. It dodges most of the issues I have with the really old versions of Mage and instead presents an interesting scenario of a cabal of relatively newly Awakened mages who have fallen under the sway of a mysterious spirit directing them to destoy things that it has deemed should not exist, such as Technocratic research. They're just the tip of a larger iceberg, however, and the whole thing is coordinated using the mysterious Number Stations (which I admit, I've intended to use in a story for years).
Overall, a solid offering, there are a couple of places where things don't quite make sense, but nothing that a clever ST can't work around.
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