SR groups

**Unseen Hand**
Open to: Silent Way adepts, shamans(raccoon, rat, jackal, monkey, coyote, siren, trickster), hermetic mages
Membership: 16
**Attendance** - 1 meeting per month, typically 3 hours
**Belief** - Real power and wealth are held by those who move unseen
**Deed** - performing tasks (often risky) for the benefit of the group is expected
**Exclusive Membership**
**Exclusive Ritual**
**Obedience** - the group has a strict hierarchy based on initiate grade, length of membership, and knowledge of other group members
**Secrecy**
**Oath**
Group Resources: Luxury. Dues are ¥1300 per month, with ¥5000 up front
- Access to middle lifestyle safehouse
- Access to a motor pool
- Rating 12 hermetic library and shamanic lodges
- enchanting facility
- 50% off ritual materials

**Order of the Dragon Lotus**
Open to any magical tradition.
Membership: 24
**Attendance** - All initiated members are required to attend a 3 day retreat once every 6 months.  At this time member behaviour and progress is evaluated, and new members are considered.
**Belief** - full understanding and mastery of magic is achieved through perfection of mind, body, and spirit.  Seek to understand your abilities, and the nature of magic, but this understanding is pointless without the body and the will to use it.
**Fraternity** - you are expected to aid the other members of the group in any way you are able.
**Geas** - We exist to further ourselves and our magic.  To choose to lose magic is to lose part of ourselves and fall further from the mastery we seek
**Material Link** - All members are required to provide a material link upon admittance as a show of dedication to the ideals
**Oath** - Members are required to be magically bound to the ideals of the group.
**Resources**: middle, dues are ¥555/month, and ¥1110 upon admittance
- members may stay in the monastery, low lifestyle equivalent
- rating 8 hermetic library and shamanic lodge
- enchanting shop
- 25% off ritual materials
- access to trainers for most martial arts

**Lost Puppets**
Open only to former members of armed services
Membership: 9
**Belief** In magic, like war, we are stronger together
**Fraternity** Never leave a man behind, we stick together
**Oath**
**Attendance** 1 hour every Thursday morning, takes the form of a support group for ex-military
**Resources**: Low
- Rating 4 hermetic library and shamanic lodge
- Unlimited access to a psychologist/therapist

**The Heirs of Eris**
Open to anyone, no restrictions are placed (including attempting to induct non-awakened)
Membership: ??? Members come and go as they please, and no one has managed to get everyone together at the same place and time more than once a year
**Belief**  Mankind's natural state is free, any form of imposed order is to be resisted.  Let chaos reign.
**Deed** Members are expected to do their part to tear down the status quo, and those who hold themselves as betters
**Secrecy** Freedom is a dangerous thing to those in power, never betray the cause
We thought about requiring an oath, but oaths are for sheep that mindlessly bow to authority
We try to have meetings.  But you try to get 10 anarchists to agree on anything
Resources: squatter.  We do not partake in the oppressive capitalist systems, we tear them down.

**The Give-up Kids**
Members: 20
**Attendance**
**Deed**
**Fraternity**
**Belief**
**Secrecy**
**Resources/Dues**: Low. No dues. The kids own a warehouse used as a training yard and hide-out. It contains a rating six hermetic library(mostly consisting of stolen books) and a rating six shamanic lodge.
**Customs**: The Give-up Kids are thieves and vandals who (for whatever reason) aren't part of Tiny's inner circle. Many in the group believe strongly in anarchism and destroying the current system, and members must hold an anti-corporate, pro-crime sentiment to join. Originally a gang of mages and physads focused on street art and vandalism, members are expected to have a particular 'accomplishment' to brag about at their monthly parties. This is expected to be something that damages corporate or government property in some way, but can be anything from theft and vandalism to outright sabotage. The more impressive the accomplishment is, the better. The only secrecy that members are required to practice is to never reveal the existence of the group if caught by authorities.


**Knights of the Broken Crutch**
Limited Membership(Physads only)
Membership: 18
Strictures:
**Fraternity**
**Geasa**
**Resources/Dues**: Medium. Dues are 500 a month. The knights maintain a private medical clinic for its members to use for free and a large gym with indoor and outdoor training areas.
**Customs**: The Knights were founded when a splintered sect of buddhist monks fled to LA and met a set of extreme-athlete physads. Three of the old masters are left, and the rest of the group is comprised of younger warrior and athlete physads. Most lead violent lives and/or practice crazy stunts and extreme sports. The group holds a singular belief that was taught and discussed by the older monks: Pain is a finite resource. By inflicting pain on those who deserve it(or even themselves), we relieve others in the universe of pain that they unjustly face. Many in the group don't take this view seriously, but the masters don't mind: So long as the knights continue to live their lives along the path the universe has chosen for them, they fulfill their purpose. The Geasa stricture was added thanks to the propensity for members to take bioware such as symbiotes and trauma damper. The collective belief is that this is good, but one must make it right with the universe and their aura to prevent permanent damage to both