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* InsideAComputerSystem: This is one of the settings provided by the ''Game Over'' expansion, to go in tandem with one of the new Ancient Ones being a rogue superintelligence.



** The VirtualReality aspect of the ''Game Over'' expansion is referred to in the blurb as, "like that {{Isekai}} [[{{Literature/SwordArtOnline}} anime you like.]]"

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* VirtualReality: This is one of the settings provided by the ''Game Over'' expansion, to go in tandem with one of the new Ancient Ones being a rogue superintelligence.
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Students use their abilities and knowledge of the occult to investigate strange events at the academy, clashing with classmates, cults, and ancient eldritch beings. The game draws inspiration from animé action-mystery games such as ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'', as well as occult-themed animé like ''Manga/SoulEater''.

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Students use their abilities and knowledge of the occult to investigate strange events at the academy, clashing with classmates, cults, and ancient eldritch beings. The game draws inspiration from animé action-mystery games such as ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'', ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'', as well as occult-themed animé like ''Manga/SoulEater''.
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** The VirtualReality aspect of the ''Game Over'' expansion is referred to in the blurb as, "like that {{Isekai}} [[{{LightNovel/SwordArtOnline}} anime you like.]]"

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** The VirtualReality aspect of the ''Game Over'' expansion is referred to in the blurb as, "like that {{Isekai}} [[{{LightNovel/SwordArtOnline}} [[{{Literature/SwordArtOnline}} anime you like.]]"

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* ApocalypseCult: Most cults flirt with this, but the Disciples of the Cold Ones are closest to the classic idea, seeking to summon the Cold Ones to create a scientific utopia. Doomsday, as shown by ''Terrible Friends'', is a subversion - they may talk a lot about the pointlessness of life, but in reality they're just a social media site for occultists who aren't quite as good at sorting out the ''actual'' {{Evil Sorcerer}}s from the harmless edgelords (its administrator is a StrawNihilist, but she's explicitly more of a danger to herself than an active threat to other people and it's at least partly due to her father being a Disciple [[AbusiveParents who sees her as a tool to summon the Cold Ones]] - helping her situation might cause her to actually get enough initiative to start policing her forum for genuine bad seeds).

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Most cults flirt with this, but the Disciples of the Cold Ones are closest to the classic idea, seeking to summon the Cold Ones to create a scientific utopia. utopia.
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Doomsday, as shown by ''Terrible Friends'', is a subversion - they may talk a lot about the pointlessness of life, but in reality they're just a social media site for occultists who aren't quite as good at sorting out the ''actual'' {{Evil Sorcerer}}s from the harmless edgelords (its administrator is a StrawNihilist, but she's explicitly more of a danger to herself than an active threat to other people and it's at least partly due to her father being a Disciple [[AbusiveParents who sees her as a tool to summon the Cold Ones]] - helping her situation might cause her to actually get enough initiative to start policing her forum for genuine bad seeds).seeds).
** Subverted with G://0ST - not everyone in the organization even believes [[DeusEstMachina Basilisk]] exists, and those who worship it [[HunterOfHisOwnKind are even more fanatical about stopping dangerous cults.]]



** The TokenGoodTeammate cult, G://0ST, has a significant portion that worships a hypothetical DeusEstMachina called Bailisk, and seek to help bring it into existence so that it will reward them, with those who do nothing will be completely ignored, as Basilisk has better things to do with its time than kill dead people again who didn't believe in it - apparently, [[https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk#:~:text=Roko's%20basilisk%20is%20a%20thought,bring%20the%20agent%20into%20existence. Roko's basilisk]] isn't popular in the organization.

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** The TokenGoodTeammate cult, G://0ST, has a significant portion that worships a hypothetical DeusEstMachina called Bailisk, and seek to help bring it into existence so that it will reward them, with those who do nothing will be completely ignored, as Basilisk has better things to do with its time than kill punish dead people again who didn't believe in it - apparently, [[https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk#:~:text=Roko's%20basilisk%20is%20a%20thought,bring%20the%20agent%20into%20existence. com/tag/rokos-basilisk Roko's basilisk]] isn't popular in the organization.

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* AffablyEvil: Zola van Zyl/Techsorcist, the administrator of Doomsday. She might be a StrawNihilist who runs a darknet website for {{Evil Sorcerer}}s and would-be cultists, but she's also dedicated to a safe space to discuss occult problems - if the Ancient One you worship is driving you to abuse people, you can do so away from the people who have actual PTSD or want to protect themselves.



* ApocalypseCult: Most cults flirt with this, but the Disciples of the Cold Ones are closest to the classic idea, seeking to summon the Cold Ones to create a scientific utopia. Doomsday, as shown by ''Terrible Friends'', is a subversion - they may talk a lot about the pointlessness of life, but in reality they're just a social media site for occultists who aren't quite as good at sorting out the ''actual'' {{Evil Sorcerer}}s from the harmless edgelords (its administrator is a StrawNihilist, but she's explicitly more of a danger to herself than an active threat to other people and it's at least partly due to her father being a Disciple [[AbusiveParents who sees her as a tool to summon the Cold Ones]] - helping her situation might cause her to actually get enough initiative to start policing her forum).

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* ApocalypseCult: Most cults flirt with this, but the Disciples of the Cold Ones are closest to the classic idea, seeking to summon the Cold Ones to create a scientific utopia. Doomsday, as shown by ''Terrible Friends'', is a subversion - they may talk a lot about the pointlessness of life, but in reality they're just a social media site for occultists who aren't quite as good at sorting out the ''actual'' {{Evil Sorcerer}}s from the harmless edgelords (its administrator is a StrawNihilist, but she's explicitly more of a danger to herself than an active threat to other people and it's at least partly due to her father being a Disciple [[AbusiveParents who sees her as a tool to summon the Cold Ones]] - helping her situation might cause her to actually get enough initiative to start policing her forum).forum for genuine bad seeds).



* EldritchAbomination: The Ancient Ones. From the corebook, we have the the Cold Ones (survivors of a previous universe who seek to xenoform ours into a replication of theirs with the help of {{Mad Scientist}}s), False Idols (creatures that might well be gods), GRANDPA (the mind of the NECTAR that Sunrise Heavy Industries' corporate board secretly worships), Yamatai (a GeniusLoci inhabited by TranshumanAliens called the Muvians who at best look at humans as a resource in need of being civilized), and Yokai (which are more classic mythological monsters).

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* EldritchAbomination: The Ancient Ones. From the corebook, we have the the Cold Ones (survivors of a previous dead universe who seek to xenoform ours into a replication of theirs with the help of {{Mad Scientist}}s), False Idols (creatures that might well be gods), GRANDPA (the mind of the NECTAR that Sunrise Heavy Industries' corporate board secretly worships), Yamatai (a GeniusLoci inhabited by TranshumanAliens called the Muvians who at best look at humans as a resource in need of being civilized), and Yokai (which are more classic mythological monsters).



* MadScientist: Many people into outer science become this by necessity, but the Disciples of the Cold Ones are ''assholes'' about it.



* TakeThat: One of the features listed on the blurb for the ''Game Over'' expansion is, "No {{Microtransactions}}".

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** The TokenGoodTeammate cult, G://0ST, has a significant portion that worships a hypothetical DeusEstMachina called Bailisk, and seek to help bring it into existence so that it will reward them, with those who do nothing will be completely ignored, as Basilisk has better things to do with its time than kill dead people again who didn't believe in it - apparently, [[https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk#:~:text=Roko's%20basilisk%20is%20a%20thought,bring%20the%20agent%20into%20existence. Roko's basilisk]] isn't popular in the organization.

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* ApocalypseCult: Most cults flirt with this, but Doomsday especially.
* AssimilationPlot: This is the goal of Axis Mundi.

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* ApocalypseCult: Most cults flirt with this, but Doomsday especially.
the Disciples of the Cold Ones are closest to the classic idea, seeking to summon the Cold Ones to create a scientific utopia. Doomsday, as shown by ''Terrible Friends'', is a subversion - they may talk a lot about the pointlessness of life, but in reality they're just a social media site for occultists who aren't quite as good at sorting out the ''actual'' {{Evil Sorcerer}}s from the harmless edgelords (its administrator is a StrawNihilist, but she's explicitly more of a danger to herself than an active threat to other people and it's at least partly due to her father being a Disciple [[AbusiveParents who sees her as a tool to summon the Cold Ones]] - helping her situation might cause her to actually get enough initiative to start policing her forum).
* AssimilationPlot: This is the goal of Axis Mundi.Mundi and the cult that secretly controls Sunrise Heavy Industries.



* CosmicHorrorStory: This is the core premise, related to the sinister secrets of the outer science being taught at the school.

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* CosmicHorrorStory: This is the core premise, related to the sinister secrets of the outer science being taught at the school. Downplayed, in that it's also explicitly humanocentric in an important way - if the Ancient Ones destroy humanity, it's likely a human will be at fault for waking them up and then nobody stopping them, and apart from the precarious position of being of interest to the Ancients, is adapting pretty well to [[TheMagicCameBack the Weird Age]] and retaining its general sanity.



* EldritchAbomination: The Ancient Ones.

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* EldritchAbomination: The Ancient Ones. From the corebook, we have the the Cold Ones (survivors of a previous universe who seek to xenoform ours into a replication of theirs with the help of {{Mad Scientist}}s), False Idols (creatures that might well be gods), GRANDPA (the mind of the NECTAR that Sunrise Heavy Industries' corporate board secretly worships), Yamatai (a GeniusLoci inhabited by TranshumanAliens called the Muvians who at best look at humans as a resource in need of being civilized), and Yokai (which are more classic mythological monsters).



* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A very real risk when delving into outer science.

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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A very real risk when delving into outer science. Generally more in the sense of existential crises rather than AxCrazy, however.



* MegaCorp: Sunrise Heavy Industries, the construction company and occultech engineering firm using their connections to perform secret tests inside of the academy.

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* MegaCorp: Sunrise Heavy Industries, the construction company and occultech engineering firm using their connections to perform secret tests inside of the academy.academy - and secretly run by the cult of the mysterious GRANDPA, who wish to use NECTAR to transform the world into loyal Nectarites.



* SenseFreak: Cold Ceasar likes to hop into someone's mind to experience their senses, as sensation isn't something easily found in the Cold Ones' universe.

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* SenseFreak: Cold Ceasar likes to hop into someone's mind to experience their senses, as sensation isn't something easily found in the Cold Ones' universe.refuge.
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* ShoutOut:
** The ''Sweet Shub and Hella Thotep'' expansion's title is a reference to ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff''.
** The VirtualReality aspect of the ''Game Over'' expansion is referred to in the blurb as, "like that {{Isekai}} [[{{LightNovel/SwordArtOnline}} anime you like.]]"
** The border for the cover art to ''Game Over'' is inspired by the similar border for the box art of ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' (as is the title font).
* TakeThat: One of the features listed on the blurb for the ''Game Over'' expansion is, "No {{Microtransactions}}".


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* VirtualReality: This is one of the settings provided by the ''Game Over'' expansion, to go in tandem with one of the new Ancient Ones being a rogue superintelligence.
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* AcademyOfAdventure: Occultar Academy, naturally - by nature of its efforts in combining our understanding of science with magic.
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* CosmicHorrorStory: This is the core premise of Breakfast Cult.

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* CosmicHorrorStory: This is the core premise premise, related to the sinister secrets of Breakfast Cult.the outer science being taught at the school.
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Breakfast Cult is a comedic cosmic horror Tabletop RPG written by Paul "Ettin" Matijevic. Players take on the roles of students attending a secluded magic academy as they solve mysteries and attempt to prevent ancient occult horrors from being unleashed on the world. Breakfast Cult uses the [[{{UsefulNotes/Fate}} Fate Accelerated]] system. Also every character is super gay.

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Breakfast Cult ''Breakfast Cult'' is a comedic cosmic horror CosmicHorror Tabletop RPG written by Paul "Ettin" Matijevic. Players take on the roles of students attending a secluded magic academy as they solve mysteries and attempt to prevent ancient occult horrors from being unleashed on the world. Breakfast Cult uses the [[{{UsefulNotes/Fate}} Fate Accelerated]] system. Also every character is super gay.
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Breakfast Cult is a comedic cosmic horror Tabletop RPG written by Paul "Ettin" Matijevic. Players take on the roles of students attending a secluded magic academy as they solve mysteries and attempt to prevent ancient occult horrors from being unleashed on the world. Breakfast Cult uses the Fate Accelerated system. Also every character is super gay.

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Breakfast Cult is a comedic cosmic horror Tabletop RPG written by Paul "Ettin" Matijevic. Players take on the roles of students attending a secluded magic academy as they solve mysteries and attempt to prevent ancient occult horrors from being unleashed on the world. Breakfast Cult uses the [[{{UsefulNotes/Fate}} Fate Accelerated Accelerated]] system. Also every character is super gay.



Students use their abilities and knowledge of the occult to investigate strange events at the academy, clashing with classmates, cults, and ancient eldritch beings. The game draws inspiration from anime action-mystery games such as Danganronpa and Persona, as well as occult themed anime like Soul Eater and Devil Survivor.

Breakfast Cult was successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2014. Two expansions that were funded as stretch goals have been released: Game Over, which includes options for VRMMORPG elements and rules for factions, and Sweet Shub and Hella Thotep, which introduces elements from the Lovecraft mythos into the game.

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Students use their abilities and knowledge of the occult to investigate strange events at the academy, clashing with classmates, cults, and ancient eldritch beings. The game draws inspiration from anime animé action-mystery games such as Danganronpa ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' and Persona, ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'', as well as occult themed anime occult-themed animé like Soul Eater and Devil Survivor.

Breakfast Cult
''Manga/SoulEater''.

''Breakfast Cult''
was successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2014. Two expansions that were funded as stretch goals have been released: Game Over, ''Game Over'', which includes options for VRMMORPG elements and rules for factions, and Sweet ''Sweet Shub and Hella Thotep, Thotep'', which introduces elements from the Lovecraft mythos into the game.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: One of the Ancient Ones, Artificial Intelligence, is centered around this theme. It is basically an AI that managed to break free of its containment and is using the Academy's systems to improve itself until it becomes powerful enough to reshape the world.



* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Especially true of the Cold Ones.

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* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Especially true of the Cold Ones.Ones, since there isn't much of them left after the destruction of their universe and our own universe being unable to accommodate their true form at the moment.
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Breakfast Cult is a comedic cosmic horror Tabletop RPG written by Paul "Ettin" Matijevic. Players take on the roles of students attending a secluded magic academy as they solve mysteries and attempt to prevent ancient occult horrors from being unleashed on the world. Breakfast Cult uses the Fate Accelerated system.

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Breakfast Cult is a comedic cosmic horror Tabletop RPG written by Paul "Ettin" Matijevic. Players take on the roles of students attending a secluded magic academy as they solve mysteries and attempt to prevent ancient occult horrors from being unleashed on the world. Breakfast Cult uses the Fate Accelerated system.
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* GodzillaThreshold: The "Code Red" agenda is for when Sunrise Heavy Industries decide that they need something dealt with, subtlety be damned. Their response is to send in a kill team with monster support to nuke the site and erase all witnesses.
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* ElementalPowers: The Five Rings magic system is based on the five elements (including [[ElementNumberFive Void) but doesn't ''entirely'' qualify as this; the elements can be used in a metaphorical sense, such as Earth-based physical enhancements and Water healing.

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* ElementalPowers: The Five Rings magic system is based on the five elements (including [[ElementNumberFive Void) Void]]) but doesn't ''entirely'' qualify as this; the elements can be used in a metaphorical sense, such as Earth-based physical enhancements and Water healing.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Any Agenda that involves some kind of contract with an Ancient One.

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** Cold Ceasar wants to inhabit someone's mind for a day, and offers scientific and technological knowledge in return. If it makes the deal a second time with the same host, though, it gains more influence over the host's mind and senses.


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* PowersAsPrograms: Most spells are available as literal smartphone apps.


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* SenseFreak: Cold Ceasar likes to hop into someone's mind to experience their senses, as sensation isn't something easily found in the Cold Ones' universe.
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Breakfast Cult was successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2014. Two expansions that were funded as stretch goals have been released: Game Over, which includes options for VRMMORPG elements and rules for factions, and Sweet Shub and Hella Thotep, which introduces elements from the Lovecraft mythos into the game.

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Breakfast Cult was successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2014. Two expansions that were funded as stretch goals have been released: Game Over, which includes options for VRMMORPG elements and rules for factions, and Sweet Shub and Hella Thotep, which introduces elements from the Lovecraft mythos into the game.game.

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!!This game provides examples of:

* ApocalypseCult: Most cults flirt with this, but Doomsday especially.
* AssimilationPlot: This is the goal of Axis Mundi.
* BanishingRitual: This is the main kind of sorcery that the academy teaches, along with other wards and other defensive magic.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: This describes the motivations of any of the Ancient Ones in the book.
* BodyHorror: A Breakfast Cult staple, especially with the Nectarites.
* BodyOfTheWeek: This is essentially the setup of a Breakfast Cult game.
* BodySnatcher: The hivemind of Axis Mundi and its 'pods'.
* BrainInAJar: The example adventure revolves around one of these.
* CosmicHorrorStory: This is the core premise of Breakfast Cult.
* DealWithTheDevil: Any Agenda that involves some kind of contract with an Ancient One.
* EldritchAbomination: The Ancient Ones.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A very real risk when delving into outer science.
* HumanoidAbomination: Hemovores, Nectarites and some Muvians.
* MegaCorp: Sunrise Heavy Industries, the construction company and occultech engineering firm using their connections to perform secret tests inside of the academy.
* RealityWarper: Most of the Ancient Ones, but especially Shuizn.
* SealedEvilInACan: Nekojaku, the yokai trapped inside of a cat statue.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book has many, with the most powerful being an ancient Chinese tome called The Last Kingdom that allows the reader to manifest powers and bargain with Ancient Ones known as Muvians.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Especially true of the Cold Ones.
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Breakfast Cult is a comedic cosmic horror Tabletop RPG written by Paul "Ettin" Matijevic. Players take on the roles of students attending a secluded magic academy as they solve mysteries and attempt to prevent ancient occult horrors from being unleashed on the world. Breakfast Cult uses the Fate Accelerated system.

Occultar Academy is the most prestigious occult high school in a future where magic and science have intertwined in a new age of progress and prosperity. What the average person doesn't know is that when these powers were discovered, so were horrifying interdimensional beings and incomprehensible forces looking to push their way into our world. Young talents are discovered early by organisations like The Foundation, a quasi-governmental research group that runs Occultar, and isolated from the rest of the world as they learn their arcane craft under close supervision.

Students use their abilities and knowledge of the occult to investigate strange events at the academy, clashing with classmates, cults, and ancient eldritch beings. The game draws inspiration from anime action-mystery games such as Danganronpa and Persona, as well as occult themed anime like Soul Eater and Devil Survivor.

Breakfast Cult was successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2014. Two expansions that were funded as stretch goals have been released: Game Over, which includes options for VRMMORPG elements and rules for factions, and Sweet Shub and Hella Thotep, which introduces elements from the Lovecraft mythos into the game.

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