User blog:NyricTheDeceiver/The Shadows of the Veil (Mage: The Awakening)

Chapter 1:
As children, we are taught that lying is bad, and you shouldn't do it. Over time, more and more forms of lies become known to us as adults: polite lies, bold-faced lies, half-truths, lying by omission and so on. If you do lie, you're a terrible person and you should feel guilty for lying. You just took away another human's right to the truth, you monster! Right? Wrong, lies can be used to achieve great things, goals that the scope of which most wouldn't understand. These are noble lies, the lies that I and my ilk are skilled in.

I stood towering over my seated associate from the Silver Ladder who went by the name Reed Simmons, a shadow name no doubt. He sat in a vinage leather chair his legs crossed, the left one neatly over the other, tapping his fingers on the armrest. It was without saying that he was of the same Path as I, a Warlock, a Mastigos mage. He was a handsome man, possessing neatly combed brown hair, dark blue eyes and a strong jawline. He was wearing an expensive-looking gray dress suit, made from Egyptian silk no doubt, with black leather shoes. He truly fit the picture of an exceptional acolyte of the Silver Ladder.

We stood there in awkward silence, awaiting for our "guests of honor" to arrive so that we may begin this meeting; the two guests in question was the mayor of Seattle, Issac Mathers, and Police Chief Edward Steele, both Sleepers who followed a Labyrinth of my own creation, an occult secret society that had great political power, or so they thought. Me and Reed were to play the parts of agents who were acting on behalf of this secret society.

The door to the room clicked open. Mayor Mathers and Police Chief Steele stepped into the brightly-lit room.

My name is Matthias Wright (a false name, of course; Keeping my real name private is of top priority), my shadow name is Lucifer, a Cultor of the Guardians of the Veil. If you're reading this codex, you've either forcibly broken the ward that would have irrevocably shattered your mind or you're a friend of mine.