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==Campaign Overview==
 
==Campaign Overview==
  
===The City of Toronto===
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'''The City of Toronto'''
 
If your first impression of Toronto is that it looks like a typical city, that's because it has so often played the typical city on screen. Toronto is a common stand in for NYC in films and TV shows, as well as a popular site for urban exterior scenes. The combination of many good sized public green spaces, Victorian homes, housing projects, sky scrappers, and every other sort of urban feature you'd want in close proximity makes it a particularly efficient place to sample from the various ideas for cities that have been implemented throughout human history. This experimentation is not limited to the typical projects of politicians and wealthy cranks. The God-Machine deploys innovations in urban Infrastructure in Toronto to see if it is ready for the big time. Before Tokyo, LA, London, or even NYC get anything innovative it has usually been stress tested in Toronto. As a result, cryptids stalk the abandoned subway stations and green spaces of the city while stigmatics cluster in the downtown hipster havens. Angelic activity is common at all levels of the city, ensuring that things run smoothly and that the next big thing doesn't get snatched by an enemy of the God-Machine.
 
If your first impression of Toronto is that it looks like a typical city, that's because it has so often played the typical city on screen. Toronto is a common stand in for NYC in films and TV shows, as well as a popular site for urban exterior scenes. The combination of many good sized public green spaces, Victorian homes, housing projects, sky scrappers, and every other sort of urban feature you'd want in close proximity makes it a particularly efficient place to sample from the various ideas for cities that have been implemented throughout human history. This experimentation is not limited to the typical projects of politicians and wealthy cranks. The God-Machine deploys innovations in urban Infrastructure in Toronto to see if it is ready for the big time. Before Tokyo, LA, London, or even NYC get anything innovative it has usually been stress tested in Toronto. As a result, cryptids stalk the abandoned subway stations and green spaces of the city while stigmatics cluster in the downtown hipster havens. Angelic activity is common at all levels of the city, ensuring that things run smoothly and that the next big thing doesn't get snatched by an enemy of the God-Machine.
  
====The Greater Toronto Area====
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''The Greater Toronto Area''
 
Beyond the modern City of Toronto, born of forced amalgamation in 1998, a number of other cities in the area comprise the Greater Toronto Area. Many of these serve as commuter cities, though some such as Mississauga have the right combination of cheap land and favourable conditions to serve as locations for the head offices of companies. While the more residentially focused cities have far less occult influence, those filled with industrial parks and corporate headquarters have minimal pretext over the Infrastructure.
 
Beyond the modern City of Toronto, born of forced amalgamation in 1998, a number of other cities in the area comprise the Greater Toronto Area. Many of these serve as commuter cities, though some such as Mississauga have the right combination of cheap land and favourable conditions to serve as locations for the head offices of companies. While the more residentially focused cities have far less occult influence, those filled with industrial parks and corporate headquarters have minimal pretext over the Infrastructure.
  
 
Vast subdivisions are still being built in municipalities all around Toronto proper. Rows of near identical houses in repeating patterns are burying arable land. Cheap, large homes are fairly easy to come by thanks to this if you're willing to be far from the city. But the reach of transport is promises to continue to increase, likewise access to the highways that go straight to the downtown core.
 
Vast subdivisions are still being built in municipalities all around Toronto proper. Rows of near identical houses in repeating patterns are burying arable land. Cheap, large homes are fairly easy to come by thanks to this if you're willing to be far from the city. But the reach of transport is promises to continue to increase, likewise access to the highways that go straight to the downtown core.
  
====Getting Around====
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''Getting Around''
 
Those who live in the heart of Toronto tend to use the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) to get around. A U shaped loop of subway with its bend happening near the Toronto Convention Centre serves as the spine of the system. An intersecting line runs along Bloor Street, the official end of downtown and start of midtown. Bus routes fill in the rest, with most routes having at least two different subway station stops. Downtown street cars run along major streets to speed along transport.
 
Those who live in the heart of Toronto tend to use the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) to get around. A U shaped loop of subway with its bend happening near the Toronto Convention Centre serves as the spine of the system. An intersecting line runs along Bloor Street, the official end of downtown and start of midtown. Bus routes fill in the rest, with most routes having at least two different subway station stops. Downtown street cars run along major streets to speed along transport.
  
 
For those who live further out, cars are the preferred mode of transportation even for downtown destinations. The competing needs of the two modes of transport leads to frequent frustration and serves as a flash point for tension between those who live in what was Toronto before amalgamation and those who live in the suburb cities fused onto it.
 
For those who live further out, cars are the preferred mode of transportation even for downtown destinations. The competing needs of the two modes of transport leads to frequent frustration and serves as a flash point for tension between those who live in what was Toronto before amalgamation and those who live in the suburb cities fused onto it.
  
====Hiding in Hostile Territory====
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''Hiding in Hostile Territory''
 
With particularly high angelic attention due to God-Machine projects, Toronto is hostile territory for those with deviant agendas. On the other hand, all those projects make the agents of the God-Machine very busy. It also means plenty of projects that don't pass snuff get quietly set aside, leading to assets for clever Demons to exploit. The result is a plethora of rings and agencies. Neutral meeting ground is rare but highly valued as there is too much for any single ring to take in and pay attention to.
 
With particularly high angelic attention due to God-Machine projects, Toronto is hostile territory for those with deviant agendas. On the other hand, all those projects make the agents of the God-Machine very busy. It also means plenty of projects that don't pass snuff get quietly set aside, leading to assets for clever Demons to exploit. The result is a plethora of rings and agencies. Neutral meeting ground is rare but highly valued as there is too much for any single ring to take in and pay attention to.
  
===Themes===
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'''Themes''': ''Mysteries that should stay that way. Dangerous knowledge. How knowing transforms you. The price of ignorance.''
*Mysteries that should stay that way
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'''Mood''':''Under pressure.''
*Dangerous knowledge
 
*How knowing transforms you
 
*The price of ignorance
 
 
 
===Mood===
 
*Under pressure
 
  
 
===Sound Track===
 
===Sound Track===

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