robkelk Wrote:I doubt Noah will ever release a fully-unredacted version of the Catalog - he's too far dug-in to his position to back away from it, and I doubt Dee will ever make public everything that's going on at Black Mesa.Just the knowdeledge that there is magic will be enough for, the the very least, the Wizards, the Magical Girls, the goths in Marduk and almost certianly the Supers to start their own research institutes. And while you can get away with keping something secret, triing to keep everything coming out of Black Mesa secret would be a diplomatic disaster -and, for that matter, the equivalen to shouting a Dare to all the hackers in Fenspace...
Helen, OTOH...
The "Arcane University" in Marduk, by the time the new season ends, will be an university in name only, because they only have started to research the basics, and probably so will be any other group in fenspace that has no access to the full catalog. But being able to detect the existence of mana levels is a startng point. But actually it comes in a good moment: By 2020 Vykos has finished building Marduk, has a succesfuyl company, even the Hellfire Club has already gone through the frst years of growth. It will be a good time to ponder "and now, what do I do?"... when suddenly, Magic! Ever since Handwaviu appeard and turned him in a vampire, Oscar has believed in Magic,but never quite dared to actually say it out loud. But it is real, and it is here. That is something new he can keep busy on for the next few decades...