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** Ophelia Adder, who ''invented'' the concept of the Basilisk (a sentient AI that creates simulacra of people that tried to stop its existence to torture) purely to provide a cover story so that, when an ''actual'' AI is created she can KillAndReplace it so that she may punish anyone who dared create a rival to the God-Machine.
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** Ophelia Adder, who ''invented'' the concept of the Basilisk (a sentient AI that creates simulacra of people that tried to stop its existence to torture) purely to provide a cover story so that, when an ''actual'' AI is created she can KillAndReplace it so that she may punish anyone who dared create a rival to the God-Machine.God-Machine.
* What's scarier than the God-Machine? The God-Machine ''getting sick/breaking down.'' The Contagion Chronicles introduce the titular Contagion, which is something ''very'' wrong happening with its Infrastructure. And it's not even just one type of disease either - strains of Contagion run from "unplanned train that travels into the Shadow and weakens the Gauntlet" to "people become so depressed that they starve to death" up to "people are coming back from the dead, and the change is ''retroactive'' so the area affected by the Contagion thinks that it's been like this for decades" to "''reality breaking down''". And it doesn't always spread like normal diseases, it can spread from objects, or through spirits or ghosts, or ''ideas...''
** What makes the Contagion even scarier? '''[[NothingIsScarier Nobody has any idea what it really is or why it happens.]]''' If the supernatural parts of the World of Darkness are unknowable secrets for the average, non-supernatural person, '''''The Contagion is this for the supernaturals.'''''
* What's scarier than the God-Machine? The God-Machine ''getting sick/breaking down.'' The Contagion Chronicles introduce the titular Contagion, which is something ''very'' wrong happening with its Infrastructure. And it's not even just one type of disease either - strains of Contagion run from "unplanned train that travels into the Shadow and weakens the Gauntlet" to "people become so depressed that they starve to death" up to "people are coming back from the dead, and the change is ''retroactive'' so the area affected by the Contagion thinks that it's been like this for decades" to "''reality breaking down''". And it doesn't always spread like normal diseases, it can spread from objects, or through spirits or ghosts, or ''ideas...''
** What makes the Contagion even scarier? '''[[NothingIsScarier Nobody has any idea what it really is or why it happens.]]''' If the supernatural parts of the World of Darkness are unknowable secrets for the average, non-supernatural person, '''''The Contagion is this for the supernaturals.'''''
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** Then you have Infrastructures, the mysterious bases of operations the Angels are in charge of supervising and protecting. Basically, Infrastructures are places, groups of people, or even just plans which the God-Machine organize in order to perform its {{Gambit Roulette}}s. The tamer ones are fairly harmless, such as building a road so that it will produce arcanic energy whenever cars travel through it following a specific pattern. But then, sometimes you get ''really'' disturbing ones, such as buildings generating MindControl over entire populations, cults sacrificing thousands of people as resources to power an Angel, factories powered by human blood... and when an Infrastructure no longer has any use (and the God-Machine doesn't foresee a new use)? [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Disposed of]]. [[KillThemAll Including the living elements]]. All with no malice; the God-Machine isn't a cruel tyrant, but just a cold, calculating, indifferent machine, who sees all these atrocities as merely ''part of its inner working''.
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** Then you have Infrastructures, the mysterious bases of operations the Angels are in charge of supervising and protecting. Basically, Infrastructures are places, groups of people, or even just plans which the God-Machine organize in order to perform its {{Gambit Roulette}}s. The tamer ones are fairly harmless, such as building a road so that it will produce arcanic energy whenever cars travel through it following a specific pattern. But then, sometimes you get ''really'' disturbing ones, such as buildings generating MindControl over entire populations, cults sacrificing thousands of people as resources to power an Angel, factories powered by human blood... and when an Infrastructure no longer has any use (and the God-Machine doesn't foresee a new use)? [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Disposed of]]. [[KillThemAll Including the living elements]].elements. All with no malice; the God-Machine isn't a cruel tyrant, but just a cold, calculating, indifferent machine, who sees all these atrocities as merely ''part of its inner working''.
