As one of the 1%, nothing could make me happier. ('cept maybe how I was constantly wondering to myself "is he going to bring up 'x'," followed by Burgerkrieg bringing up x with its context, and me boggling in delight like a pet rat).
Osiris being a vampire and a mummy is very correct because Osiris is supposed to be dead and alive. Not undead or alive some deeply strange middle ground. So him being of both is very very thematic and very cool
Kher-minu are often medical doctors or janitorial staff. Ok I can just imagine that inevitable moment in every vampire chronicle where they break into a hospital for blood packs. I attack the janitor who is sweeping floors after hours. And the GM says the three most terrifying words in his vocabulary. Are you sure?
"Ha! I rolled five successes and only one 1 on my attack! ...what do you mean, 'subtract four successes?' ...WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THAT MEANS YOU BOTCHED?!'"
It gets even worse when you read the effects of mummy blood on vampires. It burns like sunlight and gives them Temporary humanity. They hat themselves the entire time the blood is in their system, take generation as if they were really at the higher humanity level, and when the effect is gone, the degeneration is Permanently subtracted from their original dots. Did I mention this is also addictive?
One does wonder, vampire's jump the janitor but he launches the tank back the corridor past the Tremere who was looking to pack his duffel bag. Now contemplating who let the methusulah old monster slip under their radar
My favorite memory of a mummy game is a work friend of mine who struggled intensely with self destructive and self harmful behaviors, playing as a Ka that well, shared that same flaw. It was a very well run and intimate campaign, and we still talk regularly. They've been clean for a year now and genuinely cite that mummy game as being something that helped them through it.
Osiris in his throne room mumbling to himself: "Where'd they hide my pingus dammit. No not you Ammit. It's fine I guess he didn't hear me. Did they feed it to..."
The idea of Lenin being chosen to become a Mummy, cracking the glass lid on his corpse's display case while yelling obscenities in Arabic then running off to rain a deluge of poisonous frogs on the Russian government buildings is exactly the campy idiocy I want to see out of a homebrew WoD campaign.
"Mummy: The Resurrection is about going to therapy." ...that's the most brilliant explanation for a _tem-akh_ I've ever heard. I guess that means the Teomalliki represent diaspora immigrants connecting with their roots, especially since their Spell of Going Westward To The Sunrise connects a modern person with a "whole" spirit instead of a fragment (and the Intimalliki in particular only ever bond with Amerindian natives, and specifically take control of the body). And the Wu T'ian are, uh...Daoist superheroes (even their version of the _tem-akh_ is just a yang- or yin-aspected celestial spirit). Given that I was introduced to Mummy via the 2001 Revised edition, I'm happy to learn about the earlier editions, too. And seriously, I don't think I've seen a video by someone else covering this gameline in this much detail, so I was basically doing the Leo Dicaprio Pointing meme every minute-and-a-half or so.
I would have said "Mummy: The Resurrection is about actually enjoying the few good things that still exist in this world" but I'm OK with that description too
24:00 it warms my heart so much to see that my own lore homebrew for the Amenti is also practiced by other people, who all decided independently "Naw, if you want to play a character with a crazy long lineage like being a mummy would imply, then go ahead. I'll finagle something in the lore to make it work."
RIP sock mic, lost in the ravages of the Dja-Akh This was a great video. Mummy has always felt like a lone white sheep in the herd of black sheep WoD titles and that fascinates me. It always felt so mysterious, in part because the last edition dropped over 2 decades ago. I'm a big fan of all your WoD lore vids and I think this might be THE most well-versed video on Mummy lore on YT
I like how mummies, being the good guys, are canonically responsible for at least some errata and edition differences through the use of their name magic.
@@jacobmoorman6323Fr. The only game they don't share much with is Changeling, which i think is a bit disappointing. Can you imagine the Schenanagans a fae/mummy duo could get up too?
Can you imagine a Mellified Mummy? Like, someone who volunteered to go through the mellification process as a religious thing, and accidentally/unknowingly went through a modified version of the life ritual. A honey mummy sounds both hilarious and terrifying.
In 2019 I ran a very successful VTM campign where Mummies where the antagonists. Finding information on them was hard online, so I filled in a lot of the gaps myself. Thier plan was to open a portal to the underworld, so their kind didn't need to wait so damn long to respawn, using the Golden gate Bridge as an archway. The moment of inspiration was the 90s cartoon Mummies Alive. The song called the Bridge the 'western gate' and it clicked.
I find it interesting that Mummies, at least the new age ones, function very similarly to Fallen. They don't just yake over a host, but merge with them until the ancient spirit and the fleeting mortal are inseperably fused into one entity. The only real difference is that Mummies need both consent and a dying host, while the Fallen can take a host by force regardless of their mortal status.
Do you think that over a long enough timespan the mummy spirit will become Frankenstein spirits? Or just hydra esc creatures which will grow heads with each new incarnation?
I still insist that Calvin from _Calvin and Hobbes_ is an exceptional powerful dreamer (though not a fae himself), and Hobbes is his chimerical companion.
My family dragged me to see Kraven the hunter at theatres on christmas. Whole time I was thinking “that motherfucker is a werewolf and he’s fighting bane possessed criminals. This is a Werewolf the Apocalypse solo play game.”
"The Peoples Judges of Eternal Communism and found that your mortal life was counter revolutionary and not only will you be denied rebirth but your soul will be fed to Trotsky"
I dont know why but when he descripted them as arguably more alive than other Humans, the Picture that came into my head was of an Advertisment with the Headline "Want to Live Longer?" then a Picture of a Healthy couple at a beach in bad Mummy Cosplay with Shades, to white Teeth and Thumps Up towards the Camera, with the subtitel "Learn to be more Alive than Normal!" and then a Shady Phone Number
So once you've done Demon: the Fallen what dark gods will I have to sacrifice to in order to get you to cover the World of Darkness' sister series Exalted?
I've just gotten into Exalted by myself and man, what an incredibly fun setting. I'd be very glad if Burger decides to cover it. There's too little content on it here on RUclips :(
Y'know, it took seeing that blunt title for me to realize that, yeah, the Mummies really _are_ the good guys of the World of Darkness. Their "species goal", at least in NWoD/Chronicles which I'm more familiar with, is to rebel against their dark masters while, somehow, receiving less pushback than some other Chronicles protagonists (as far as I know). They can build temporary, but still meaningful, relationships with normal people, each other, and even themselves; they can get into all manner of supernatural hijinks at the drop of a hat; and they can be overpowered and underpowered at different times in one campaign for dramatic effect.
This was absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for doing this burger, you are the real MVP. I hope it wouldn't be too much to ask to request a farcical didn't-read short summary of Princess: the Hopeful
After going through these, it honestly feels like a gut punch that the description of the mortal that best describes me is Sefekhi: a habitual self-flagellator with no willpower. That hits home closer than I was expecting it to. What's more, the idea of being a soldier is arguably the one I would want least for this game line. I can't tell if that would make it all the more fitting or not.
Personally, it kinda sounds like a dream outcome for me. Yes, I'd love to actually be strong and useful and powerful for just once in my life (or unlife).
Well as a Pakeha I did not know about the Mokomohai and that was cool to learn about. Also wasn't expecting a link to Te Papa but hey I'm glad we have a program to bring these human remains back home.
Wait for me to finish Sentai; the Morphing, following on the steps of Princess; the Hopeful, to bring power rangers into the WoD as an alien take on the setting :)
I'm imagining a kind of inverse Wraith where you effectively play as the moral compass of a deeply flawed NPC, using your skills and abilities to influence their thoughts and behaviors to try to get them to right whatever wrong currently has them on a path to destruction.
Commummiests left me in shambles. I was drinking a tea and almost choked on it, imagining Lenin and the gang being members of CRACC (Comitee of Rebirth And Communist Cause), sitting in their chairs and judging some poor guy from Yeltsin's administration because his workers did not, in fact, met quota. Thats hilarious
Thank you very much for this video. I have in my possesion the core rulebook from mummy the ressurection and the players guide. I was fascinated by it's lore, especially the other mummies (Capacocha and Wu T'ian) and their "dynasties" and own "Hekau". I was happy that you have mentioned them. Mummy the ressurection was the one WoD game i always wanted to play but never really could, save for the one or two Chat-RPG games i played, were the players have allowed it (reluctandly). I think it wasn't to their liking, that in the world of darkness there is a party, which said, that the impending end can be avoided. It wasn't brooding, dark and edgy to have the possibility of a good ending i guess. Thanks again for making this video. Made my day.
Thats a shame. Mummy is a great game for playing with Hope. I used to run big crossover. Mage, Changeling, Mummy, Technocracy, Wraith, Werewolf. Mummy was a fun addition.
Hey Burger, you may also want to check out the tabletop rpg called Scion, especially the second edition. It seems very much up your alley, its a game all about modern day gods and ancient lore like this stuff.
I've also been commenting on every video waiting for the Scion video. I don't care if it's not technically WoD. Every campaign I've played or heard of has been set in it, at least before second edition
I've been watching a yearly live play of Scion. Last episode involved the PCs trying to help solve an argument between Sun Wu Kong and Thor after Thor saw Monkey in his giant form (he was doing reconaissance) and thought "SMASH TITANSPAWN!" They fought for a solid week and Thor is also annoyed that he's fated to die while Monkey has multiple instances of immortality.
Note: Nuking a mummy does not separate them from their hekau. But it does give them access to Arcanoi... congrats, you just made one of the most terrifyingly powerful things in all of the world of darkness. A WRAITH WITH MORTAL MAGIC. Good luck surviving that...
11:23 ok so this is fucking wild to me. I'm currently running a mage campaign involving the Cthulhu mythos, with Nyarlathotep as the big bad. The first session had him show up and announce himself with like 20 different titles, one of which was Typhon, and another of which was Apophis. Shame there weren't any mummies there to call him on his bullshit
regarding the things you said at the end of the video; i hope you know how valued you are. you introduced me to the world of darkness, which has become a massive comfort in my life. your videos gave me a touch-point of reality when things got weird. even if you arent doing what you thought you'd be doing, youre still doing an immense good.
You know that might strangely make the most sense as to why his knowledge base is so vast and yet so scatter shot. He's drawing from thousands of years of memory. And if he can be described as anything, bursting with life fits.
@@TheCodemasterc There’s also the fact that, based on his conversation with Kevin, he started hunting at least back in the 1890s. He has to have some sort of supernatural ability to live as long as he has. Yet he doesn’t display much past that. His extraordinary physical strength and whatever else could also be explained by how Burgerkrieg explained that Mummies can take their natural abilities and exceed the WOD Game’s normal restrictions of five Dots per stat.
It would also align with his Warhammer 40K alterego seeing that the Emperor of Mankind was pretty much human borne but his soul was the result of thousands of prehistoric shamans commiting ritual unaliving and melding inside the realm of souls(AKA what the Warp used to be called before the War in Heaven).
Alfabusa and the rest of the team can only do so much to help direct people from an entry to WoD. Trying to guide people who have never engaged with world of darkness can be difficult. That said, I do hope that they do link to Burger, Lore by Night, and other dedicated fans of WoD to help spread the macabre fun that makes this so enjoyable.
Fate fans would accept this I hope we need more bridges guys like the primpgen gentleman gamer Lazar a lot stopped or slowed down best thing I can hope for is more people learn to live the series and enjoy the legacy of what is to me the og larp ttrpg both in video and game form
So...Overly Sarcastic Productions AND Burgerkrieg got the same hyperfocus on mummies at the same time, especially in their re-personalization and in specific aspects of the soul of a mummy. Was there a trigger for that??
I wouldn't mind seeing you do a demon the fallen video by the way I'm glad you got everything worked out with your internet and landlord it feels good to have you back 💖
2:00 Angel: The Salvation? 😇 I personally would love to see that lore video. NO SERIOUSLY! That sounds very interesting. I imagine you could make an excellent video with that concept.
Their "power level" being directly tied to their moral compass, and having direct accountability to Ma'at and the Judges (and Ammit) definitely makes them the D&D Paladins of the World of Darkness. And hell, even their "evil" counterparts are extremely few. The Bane Mummies exist, and mummies themselves can fall (assuming they do it before the Judges notice and feed them to Ammit), but there's only officially seven of them, and none of their other standard villains are equivalent to the Sabbat or the Black Spiral Dancers. (As applies to the Amenti, at least. The Teomallki are more self-interested, and there's a sidebar suggesting the Wu T'ian have an evil equivalent called the Wu Kuei.)
@@NeutralDrow Yep. All that is true. However, nobody can take away my definitively non-canon, Elon Musk-themed Bane Mummy that just woke up from ancient times and decided to serve the Wyrm by creating basically Netflix but it brainwashes you into apathy and you fall to the Wyrm eventually. As long as he can grift people into believing that he's a champion of their cause you cant end him completely, thus you gotta break his brainwashing before pummeling him in the Umbra. If thats not a boss fight thematically in tune with Werewolf I'm never storytelling again
Seething at myself for only finding this 2 days later. Have the notifications on and everything wtf. Love these lore drops for the different series. Really hope he(/you if you're reading this burger) covers demon next. It sounds cool but alas my skull is too dummy thicc to take it in unless it's explained by my favourite ambiguously aussie accented WoD lore creator
Thanks for putting out yet another amazing video! Also, I genuinely cannot believe it's legal for a landlord to physically cut ISPs out of their properties to force you to use a specific one. I'm sorry you had to deal with that and while I can't afford to send funds to help, I'll keep sharing your content in the hope that it helps you get even a tiny fraction more ad revenue to help you get by. Love your content and hope life treats you better in the coming weeks, months, years, and centuries.
Prometheans are in the other wod game but I hope he covers them in the future Hell I would love to see his take on the concept of Prometheans in old WOD (since out of all of the exclusives in chronicles they are the only one that you could actually adapt in old WOD/5e since they fit that world thematically)
Love how you finally done mummy good job on this one! I especially liked the crumbs comment at the end to fall more into this more wholesome take on the WOD
can we see demon the fallen next? or orpheus? or beast the primordial? or prometheous the created? or the immortals? great video btw...these brighten my day
19:38 Burguer, i love you and i love your videos, but i cannot believe you didnt put something like "the vengaboys, rick martin and N-sync were playing nonstop on every radio" or something like that during the list of events of summer 1999
Yeah, great video, but the audio is much more boomy and the lighting is weirdly dark and one-sided, compared to the others. I think it’s a combination of the mic itself and the environment he’s in. Every now and then, he’ll lower his voice a bit, and the bassiness and echo will disappear for a moment. So it seems like it picks up thur echoes off the walls a lot more than the old mic. These mics are kind of a meme in general, though, at least in my opinion. Wendigoon used one in a recent video, and it had the same issues.
Mummy rules are perfect for a JJK themed campaign Sukuna is just a really powerful ancient unbandaged one that has bonded himself to Yuji,Kenjaku is an agent of Apophis that can take over mortal bodies,etc.
Extremely delighted to see Mummy work here! I know New WoD wasn't considered possessed of much staying power, but I have always had a real big soft spot for Geist. It's the one book in that series i fidn myself thinking about the most
I mean; Typhon means something to me, but I’m not sure Greek myth is direct, but, my guess is typhon is actually Set in some way, mainly based on the thought that Set was identified with Typhon in the same way that Thoth was identified with Hermes
The World of Darkness so grim and full of fright. But Osiris has has called his guardians to protect man's very life. THEY HAVE THE MUMMIES! PROTECTORS FROM 45BC THEY HAVE THE MUMMIES! OH HERE TO SAVE THE DAY THE EGPYTION WAY!
"gives you a hug" Breakdowns suck. A lot 😮💨I speak from experience. Hope you're doing better 🫂 Thank you for covering Mummy; I've always been super curious about this particular part of WoD.
Dude, the Catholic Saint-Mummy idea kicks ass. I’d love to run/play a game like that. I was also hoping you’d be wrapped in toilet paper the entire video, but your actual fit isn’t half bad either.
It could be the wikipedia talking but the new lore seems to have added more depression to Mummy, where before the mummies didn't really have much to fear from mortals and post mortals such as Vamps, Werewolves or Mages. With probably only Demons actually being a danger. Now however there seems to be a way for the Settites to do things to them, unlike the bane mummies which rot and go insane(all 11 of them).
@@Gamerkat10 I do agree, making new mummies I can understand but if it is just saying the old mummies got broken and now they are diluted beings rather than the character you used to be. Maybe if the creation was incredibly rare and slow and needed to make cults of their own and use some sorcery along the way with the Egyptian gods acting as a small push here and there it would be more fun in my opinion(alike to the old world spreading into the new and pride and such being a big theme). Out of curiosity what would like to see happen with Mummy?
the diatribe about permanently killing Mummies gave me a sick character idea: A Wraith or Mummy in spirit form who's going around looking for where their body or pieces of it have been sealed so they can reform.
Ride along with me on a journey for a moment. And why you should keep an eye on your Sefekhi players. I'm using an amulet of cloud walking to follow a group of Technocrats who have abudcted an NPC I need to save. To stop the convoy of SUVs what does my sefekhi do? He takes off his amulet. 20 seconds later he hits the hood of the first SUV at terminal velocity, flipping the SUV. The mummy takes a ton of damage but is alive (It should be noted that mummies are rediculously durable) and as the SUV rolls to a stop he stands up, checks the damage and yells "ONSTAR! IT APPEARS YOUVE BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT.... ASSHOLE" Mummy is entirely too much fun
I realized something while watching this: Humans who could have been great, brought down by a personal flaw. These humans are given a choice of whether to become supernatural; if they accept, they merge with a separate sentience and are transformed both physically and metaphysically. They are beholden to deities with the power to punish them, and pursue their goals with a powerset emulating their masters that often requires indirect approaches and outside-the-box thinking. Amenti correspond to the Infernal Exalted.
Idk, Set being in league with Apophis kinda flattens his character from the original mythology imo. Sure, Set's a bad dude who murdered his brother, but he still shows up to his job of fighting Apophis & preventing it from eating the sun every day
Ok so I've been intrigued by the concept of the Shemsu-heru for a while but there's some things I haven't been able to find answers to on the wiki, so if anyone knows please enlighten me. * How long does a death cycle typically last? Decades? Centuries? I imgaine it varies based on what they're up to in shadowlands but what factors contribute and how much? * When in the shadowlands do they operate similarly to wraiths? Can they learn arquenoi? * What do they actually do while in the shadowlands? Are they just recovering their energies and guarding Amenti or do they still fight oblivion? * What kind of relationship do they have with the Garou, if any at all? They're fighting the same opponent, to a certain degree at least
This isn't specific to the remaining Shemsu-heru and more to do with the Amenti in general, but... * Death cycles can be as short as a day, and can technically last indefinitely. In game terms, a character's rating in the Ba background determines the minimum time they have to remain dead before attempting to revive (anywhere from a year with no rating, to a day with 5 points). Since you need to score a minimum number of successes based on the condition of your corpse (and because you need to spend a _permanent_ point of either Willpower or Sekhem for each attempted roll), mummies sometimes need to hang out in Duat for longer just to have adventures and get XP. * They function physically (er...ectoplasmically?) like wraiths, but because they're technically still alive, they can't learn arcanoi (their most useful magics are Necromancy and Effigy), and they visibly stand out among other wraiths. Also, they can survive Oblivion by the same rolls they use to resurrect themselves...though obviously, if you're low on Willpower and Sekhem, there's no opportunity to build back up while you're discorporated! * Basically, anything a ghost can get up to, an Amenti can, too. Assuming Anubis arrives to pick them up when they die (which he doesn't always), it's implied most mummies hang out in Amenti after meeting with the Judges, whether guarding the area or just resting in a place mostly sheltered from the _Dja-Akh._ Speaking of, because of the 6th Great Maelstrom, the underworld's in a pretty sorry state during Mummy's revised edition, which can lead to other adventures trying to rebuild, rescue wraiths, fight oblivion (of which Apophis is an aspect), etc. * AFAIK the only Garou with any connection with mummies are the Silent Striders, and that's probably been weakened due to the Stiders' curse. Otherwise, the older mummies were too rare, and the newer mummies are too recent, for the Garou as a whole to have a canonical opinion on them. Since the Garou Nation is still pretty xenophobic as a whole, tends to take a dim view on anything that resembles undead, and (other than the Striders) doesn't deal with the Dark Umbra at all, they'd likely be wary of the Amenti at best. That said, I suddenly want to see a chronicle running both the Uktena and the Teomallki... .
@@NeutralDrow I'm gonna add something extra, there is a canonical werewolf mummy but because of the nature of the garou, After he died, he remained in the Umbra
@@radielkill Huh, interesting! Basically everything I know about WoD mummies is about the Amenti (nothing earlier), so I didn't know that. At least, I assume it's an earlier mummy, since Amenti have to be formed from regular wraiths (the very few werewolves who leave behind ghosts don't retain Garou characteristics).
99% of the community will learn how to play Mummy from this video.
As one of the 1%, nothing could make me happier.
('cept maybe how I was constantly wondering to myself "is he going to bring up 'x'," followed by Burgerkrieg bringing up x with its context, and me boggling in delight like a pet rat).
And we are so godamn happy
The fewer fun facts he brings up, the more YOU get to hammer into the folks at the table. @@NeutralDrow
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
Ah yes. The old adage "Don't use D&D as therapy. There's a better system for that".
Yes, but this video isn't about A User's Guide to the Apocalypse.
"There should be one called Angel: The Redemption"
Burgerkrieg this is Demon: The Fallen
The could also make the fan game about princess (mahou shoujo) or the leviathan
@@raipe125Magical Girl: The Glittering
@@gs4011 Princess: the Hopeful is a thing mate
pretty sure he knows this mate
There is a brazilian fan made about Angels :P
Osiris being a vampire and a mummy is very correct because Osiris is supposed to be dead and alive. Not undead or alive some deeply strange middle ground.
So him being of both is very very thematic and very cool
i mean he is kept alive with blood and , true he is kinda a vampire
Alive? Dead? Wrong question. Osiris.
Kher-minu are often medical doctors or janitorial staff.
Ok I can just imagine that inevitable moment in every vampire chronicle where they break into a hospital for blood packs.
I attack the janitor who is sweeping floors after hours. And the GM says the three most terrifying words in his vocabulary. Are you sure?
"Ha! I rolled five successes and only one 1 on my attack! ...what do you mean, 'subtract four successes?'
...WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THAT MEANS YOU BOTCHED?!'"
“This Blood, is not meant to feed monsters like you.”
It gets even worse when you read the effects of mummy blood on vampires. It burns like sunlight and gives them Temporary humanity. They hat themselves the entire time the blood is in their system, take generation as if they were really at the higher humanity level, and when the effect is gone, the degeneration is Permanently subtracted from their original dots.
Did I mention this is also addictive?
One does wonder, vampire's jump the janitor but he launches the tank back the corridor past the Tremere who was looking to pack his duffel bag. Now contemplating who let the methusulah old monster slip under their radar
I wouldn't mess with janitors in any setting. The Almighty Janitor is a trope for a reason.
My favorite memory of a mummy game is a work friend of mine who struggled intensely with self destructive and self harmful behaviors, playing as a Ka that well, shared that same flaw.
It was a very well run and intimate campaign, and we still talk regularly. They've been clean for a year now and genuinely cite that mummy game as being something that helped them through it.
Coworker: The therapy
Omfg- lmao
I'm glad that there werent any assholes around asking to play Wraith.
Ugh I wanna play it so bad
Small brain: Die, but continue to exist in some form
Big brain: Become undead
Galaxy brain: Remain alive forever
Osiris in his throne room mumbling to himself: "Where'd they hide my pingus dammit. No not you Ammit. It's fine I guess he didn't hear me. Did they feed it to..."
Lenin's corpse was preserved with the regular application of vampire blood, so there's that.
It was?
Wut?
Are you tellingg us Lenin is a character in the World of Darkness?
@@Brighter_Blues I mean it's literally the real world but y'know with spoopy shit so yeh
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The idea of Lenin being chosen to become a Mummy, cracking the glass lid on his corpse's display case while yelling obscenities in Arabic then running off to rain a deluge of poisonous frogs on the Russian government buildings is exactly the campy idiocy I want to see out of a homebrew WoD campaign.
"We unreliable and apocryphal in this motherfucker" I'm stealing that 😂
"Mummy: The Resurrection is about going to therapy."
...that's the most brilliant explanation for a _tem-akh_ I've ever heard.
I guess that means the Teomalliki represent diaspora immigrants connecting with their roots, especially since their Spell of Going Westward To The Sunrise connects a modern person with a "whole" spirit instead of a fragment (and the Intimalliki in particular only ever bond with Amerindian natives, and specifically take control of the body). And the Wu T'ian are, uh...Daoist superheroes (even their version of the _tem-akh_ is just a yang- or yin-aspected celestial spirit).
Given that I was introduced to Mummy via the 2001 Revised edition, I'm happy to learn about the earlier editions, too. And seriously, I don't think I've seen a video by someone else covering this gameline in this much detail, so I was basically doing the Leo Dicaprio Pointing meme every minute-and-a-half or so.
Mummy: The Ressurection? Pft, more like Therapists: Group Therapy, amirite?
I would have said "Mummy: The Resurrection is about actually enjoying the few good things that still exist in this world" but I'm OK with that description too
24:00 it warms my heart so much to see that my own lore homebrew for the Amenti is also practiced by other people, who all decided independently "Naw, if you want to play a character with a crazy long lineage like being a mummy would imply, then go ahead. I'll finagle something in the lore to make it work."
BruvaAlfabusa got me into World of Darkness. Burgerkrieg kept me in with his knowledge lol
An in poly and men mental health
The Hunter: The Parenting is genious
me too tbh
Same
Ditto
RIP sock mic, lost in the ravages of the Dja-Akh
This was a great video. Mummy has always felt like a lone white sheep in the herd of black sheep WoD titles and that fascinates me. It always felt so mysterious, in part because the last edition dropped over 2 decades ago. I'm a big fan of all your WoD lore vids and I think this might be THE most well-versed video on Mummy lore on YT
I like how mummies, being the good guys, are canonically responsible for at least some errata and edition differences through the use of their name magic.
They retroactively erased Page XX!
@@jy3n2 Mummies truly are the therapists of WoD.
I didnt realize mummy and wraith had such a big overlap.. makes sense but its funny how much they deviate from each other
Mummy is the wod splat with the most overlap.
@@jacobmoorman6323Fr. The only game they don't share much with is Changeling, which i think is a bit disappointing. Can you imagine the Schenanagans a fae/mummy duo could get up too?
They've got a lot of overlap, Osiris and Set were vampires, mummies themselves were literally created by capital M Mages Isis and Thoth, etc.
Now what did the other risen mean like the kuejin
Can you imagine a Mellified Mummy? Like, someone who volunteered to go through the mellification process as a religious thing, and accidentally/unknowingly went through a modified version of the life ritual. A honey mummy sounds both hilarious and terrifying.
I love when John Dark said “it’s Darkin’ time,” and then Darked all over the World
It's almost as good as when Jeanne D'Arc said it was Arcin' time Arced all over France.
"What are we, some kind of World of Darkness?"
@@therocketeer3622"Wait, say that again."
In 2019 I ran a very successful VTM campign where Mummies where the antagonists. Finding information on them was hard online, so I filled in a lot of the gaps myself. Thier plan was to open a portal to the underworld, so their kind didn't need to wait so damn long to respawn, using the Golden gate Bridge as an archway. The moment of inspiration was the 90s cartoon Mummies Alive. The song called the Bridge the 'western gate' and it clicked.
Did any of the players feed off a mummy, and suddenly feel incredibly guilty? 😅
34:02 the quality spike in sound quality was like living your life as a fish and then jumping out of water for a second
I find it interesting that Mummies, at least the new age ones, function very similarly to Fallen. They don't just yake over a host, but merge with them until the ancient spirit and the fleeting mortal are inseperably fused into one entity. The only real difference is that Mummies need both consent and a dying host, while the Fallen can take a host by force regardless of their mortal status.
Do you think that over a long enough timespan the mummy spirit will become Frankenstein spirits? Or just hydra esc creatures which will grow heads with each new incarnation?
World of Darkness is a brain posion that has made me look at every supernatural media franchise and go "Oh hey that could be an xyz from WoD!!!"
I still insist that Calvin from _Calvin and Hobbes_ is an exceptional powerful dreamer (though not a fae himself), and Hobbes is his chimerical companion.
@NeutralDrow it all makes sense now
My family dragged me to see Kraven the hunter at theatres on christmas. Whole time I was thinking “that motherfucker is a werewolf and he’s fighting bane possessed criminals. This is a Werewolf the Apocalypse solo play game.”
"The Peoples Judges of Eternal Communism and found that your mortal life was counter revolutionary and not only will you be denied rebirth but your soul will be fed to Trotsky"
I dont know why but when he descripted them as arguably more alive than other Humans, the Picture that came into my head was of an Advertisment with the Headline "Want to Live Longer?" then a Picture of a Healthy couple at a beach in bad Mummy Cosplay with Shades, to white Teeth and Thumps Up towards the Camera, with the subtitel "Learn to be more Alive than Normal!" and then a Shady Phone Number
So once you've done Demon: the Fallen what dark gods will I have to sacrifice to in order to get you to cover the World of Darkness' sister series Exalted?
maybe as aprils fool next year?
I've just gotten into Exalted by myself and man, what an incredibly fun setting. I'd be very glad if Burger decides to cover it. There's too little content on it here on RUclips :(
Also the descent
Maybe he'll go to Chronicles next
Exalted vs World of Darkness maybe? That book was great.
UMMMM??? PEAK DEPARTMENT??? WE'VE GOT A SITUATION HERE 😨😨😰
Dear god, Burgerkrieg hit it out of the park again. Another fantastic video.
Burger upload was the best news ive heard today
Y'know, it took seeing that blunt title for me to realize that, yeah, the Mummies really _are_ the good guys of the World of Darkness.
Their "species goal", at least in NWoD/Chronicles which I'm more familiar with, is to rebel against their dark masters while, somehow, receiving less pushback than some other Chronicles protagonists (as far as I know). They can build temporary, but still meaningful, relationships with normal people, each other, and even themselves; they can get into all manner of supernatural hijinks at the drop of a hat; and they can be overpowered and underpowered at different times in one campaign for dramatic effect.
This was absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for doing this burger, you are the real MVP.
I hope it wouldn't be too much to ask to request a farcical didn't-read short summary of Princess: the Hopeful
William SRDs brother once again returns to give us a primer that makes full size essays blush
Knew I wouldn't be the only one to notice this
Wait, they're brothers?
This is exactly what I've needed for my spontaneous Mummy binge
After going through these, it honestly feels like a gut punch that the description of the mortal that best describes me is Sefekhi: a habitual self-flagellator with no willpower.
That hits home closer than I was expecting it to. What's more, the idea of being a soldier is arguably the one I would want least for this game line. I can't tell if that would make it all the more fitting or not.
Personally, it kinda sounds like a dream outcome for me.
Yes, I'd love to actually be strong and useful and powerful for just once in my life (or unlife).
Well as a Pakeha I did not know about the Mokomohai and that was cool to learn about.
Also wasn't expecting a link to Te Papa but hey I'm glad we have a program to bring these human remains back home.
Burger can we see your document for Angel the salvation? i would LOOVE to see it!
@@damian725 Agreed!
Wait for me to finish Sentai; the Morphing, following on the steps of Princess; the Hopeful, to bring power rangers into the WoD as an alien take on the setting :)
There os actially already a homebrew manual of angel, however is in spanish, is called “Angel: la Salvación” i haven’t read it yet but looks cool
Yeeeeeesssssssssss!
I'm imagining a kind of inverse Wraith where you effectively play as the moral compass of a deeply flawed NPC, using your skills and abilities to influence their thoughts and behaviors to try to get them to right whatever wrong currently has them on a path to destruction.
35:59 yeah, ngl first thing I thought was how perfect the newer mummy is for telling a trans story
...in seriously tempted to put a communist mummy in as an antagonist in my next vampire game
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Commummiests left me in shambles. I was drinking a tea and almost choked on it, imagining Lenin and the gang being members of CRACC (Comitee of Rebirth And Communist Cause), sitting in their chairs and judging some poor guy from Yeltsin's administration because his workers did not, in fact, met quota. Thats hilarious
Thank you very much for this video. I have in my possesion the core rulebook from mummy the ressurection and the players guide. I was fascinated by it's lore, especially the other mummies (Capacocha and Wu T'ian) and their "dynasties" and own "Hekau". I was happy that you have mentioned them.
Mummy the ressurection was the one WoD game i always wanted to play but never really could, save for the one or two Chat-RPG games i played, were the players have allowed it (reluctandly). I think it wasn't to their liking, that in the world of darkness there is a party, which said, that the impending end can be avoided. It wasn't brooding, dark and edgy to have the possibility of a good ending i guess.
Thanks again for making this video. Made my day.
Thats a shame. Mummy is a great game for playing with Hope.
I used to run big crossover. Mage, Changeling, Mummy, Technocracy, Wraith, Werewolf. Mummy was a fun addition.
I ran a game of mummy in roll20 some months ago and was really fun, so maybe now you can find people there.
Hey Burger, you may also want to check out the tabletop rpg called Scion, especially the second edition. It seems very much up your alley, its a game all about modern day gods and ancient lore like this stuff.
I've also been commenting on every video waiting for the Scion video. I don't care if it's not technically WoD. Every campaign I've played or heard of has been set in it, at least before second edition
I've been watching a yearly live play of Scion. Last episode involved the PCs trying to help solve an argument between Sun Wu Kong and Thor after Thor saw Monkey in his giant form (he was doing reconaissance) and thought "SMASH TITANSPAWN!" They fought for a solid week and Thor is also annoyed that he's fated to die while Monkey has multiple instances of immortality.
Note: Nuking a mummy does not separate them from their hekau. But it does give them access to Arcanoi... congrats, you just made one of the most terrifyingly powerful things in all of the world of darkness. A WRAITH WITH MORTAL MAGIC.
Good luck surviving that...
This video will be the most exposure Mummy will ever get
*Heard Apophis*
Be right back, gonna write a Stargate SG-1 themed Mummy chronicle
Honestly with how often Daniel dies and comes back to life, it would make sense for him to be a mummy xD
11:23 ok so this is fucking wild to me. I'm currently running a mage campaign involving the Cthulhu mythos, with Nyarlathotep as the big bad. The first session had him show up and announce himself with like 20 different titles, one of which was Typhon, and another of which was Apophis. Shame there weren't any mummies there to call him on his bullshit
Or run away pissing and screaming. Because he might not be lying.
@ieuanhunt552 one should probably do that nontheless, whether or not he's lying he is very powerful
regarding the things you said at the end of the video; i hope you know how valued you are. you introduced me to the world of darkness, which has become a massive comfort in my life. your videos gave me a touch-point of reality when things got weird. even if you arent doing what you thought you'd be doing, youre still doing an immense good.
Huh. Sounds like Big D from Hunter The Parenting could be a Mummy.
You know that might strangely make the most sense as to why his knowledge base is so vast and yet so scatter shot. He's drawing from thousands of years of memory. And if he can be described as anything, bursting with life fits.
@@TheCodemasterc There’s also the fact that, based on his conversation with Kevin, he started hunting at least back in the 1890s.
He has to have some sort of supernatural ability to live as long as he has. Yet he doesn’t display much past that. His extraordinary physical strength and whatever else could also be explained by how Burgerkrieg explained that Mummies can take their natural abilities and exceed the WOD Game’s normal restrictions of five Dots per stat.
@@TheCodemasterc And he comes from the Middle East. This theory makes a lot of sense, actually.
Oh jeez now I can't un-think this. It makes entirely too much sense with his exuberence. A mummy that is an imbued redeemer Hunter.
It would also align with his Warhammer 40K alterego seeing that the Emperor of Mankind was pretty much human borne but his soul was the result of thousands of prehistoric shamans commiting ritual unaliving and melding inside the realm of souls(AKA what the Warp used to be called before the War in Heaven).
Was just watching the OSP video on mummies.
I am begging people to react to your videos by the time you do demon hopefully hunter the parenting will convince them to give you the views and likes
Alfabusa and the rest of the team can only do so much to help direct people from an entry to WoD. Trying to guide people who have never engaged with world of darkness can be difficult.
That said, I do hope that they do link to Burger, Lore by Night, and other dedicated fans of WoD to help spread the macabre fun that makes this so enjoyable.
Fate fans would accept this I hope we need more bridges guys like the primpgen gentleman gamer Lazar a lot stopped or slowed down best thing I can hope for is more people learn to live the series and enjoy the legacy of what is to me the og larp ttrpg both in video and game form
@@sayedaalam1890 The Primogen right?
@@noway8259 yes
Bog bodies is a great supplement on storytellers vault about another potential mummy type
A very long, tiring day just go 1000x better, I hope you know that.
So...Overly Sarcastic Productions AND Burgerkrieg got the same hyperfocus on mummies at the same time, especially in their re-personalization and in specific aspects of the soul of a mummy. Was there a trigger for that??
that voice change in the end when you fixed the sound jump scared me.
Looking fit and well Burger, keep it up x
I wouldn't mind seeing you do a demon the fallen video by the way I'm glad you got everything worked out with your internet and landlord it feels good to have you back 💖
2:00 Angel: The Salvation? 😇 I personally would love to see that lore video. NO SERIOUSLY! That sounds very interesting. I imagine you could make an excellent video with that concept.
2:09 release it
This is a threat
Hey, that's true. The Mummies are the closest thing WoD has to good guys.
That's why its so fun to make your own Bane Mummy as a boss fight.
Their "power level" being directly tied to their moral compass, and having direct accountability to Ma'at and the Judges (and Ammit) definitely makes them the D&D Paladins of the World of Darkness.
And hell, even their "evil" counterparts are extremely few. The Bane Mummies exist, and mummies themselves can fall (assuming they do it before the Judges notice and feed them to Ammit), but there's only officially seven of them, and none of their other standard villains are equivalent to the Sabbat or the Black Spiral Dancers.
(As applies to the Amenti, at least. The Teomallki are more self-interested, and there's a sidebar suggesting the Wu T'ian have an evil equivalent called the Wu Kuei.)
@@NeutralDrow Yep. All that is true. However, nobody can take away my definitively non-canon, Elon Musk-themed Bane Mummy that just woke up from ancient times and decided to serve the Wyrm by creating basically Netflix but it brainwashes you into apathy and you fall to the Wyrm eventually. As long as he can grift people into believing that he's a champion of their cause you cant end him completely, thus you gotta break his brainwashing before pummeling him in the Umbra.
If thats not a boss fight thematically in tune with Werewolf I'm never storytelling again
Seething at myself for only finding this 2 days later. Have the notifications on and everything wtf. Love these lore drops for the different series. Really hope he(/you if you're reading this burger) covers demon next. It sounds cool but alas my skull is too dummy thicc to take it in unless it's explained by my favourite ambiguously aussie accented WoD lore creator
I hope you're doing better now! Thanks so much for yet another video I'll listen to at least twice during my upcoming travels to Asia 😊
Thanks for putting out yet another amazing video!
Also, I genuinely cannot believe it's legal for a landlord to physically cut ISPs out of their properties to force you to use a specific one. I'm sorry you had to deal with that and while I can't afford to send funds to help, I'll keep sharing your content in the hope that it helps you get even a tiny fraction more ad revenue to help you get by. Love your content and hope life treats you better in the coming weeks, months, years, and centuries.
"The Good Guys in World of Darkness"
Prometheans: "Allow us to introdu- actually, nevermind"
Prometheans are in the other wod game but I hope he covers them in the future
Hell I would love to see his take on the concept of Prometheans in old WOD (since out of all of the exclusives in chronicles they are the only one that you could actually adapt in old WOD/5e since they fit that world thematically)
Love how you finally done mummy good job on this one! I especially liked the crumbs comment at the end to fall more into this more wholesome take on the WOD
can we see demon the fallen next? or orpheus? or beast the primordial? or prometheous the created? or the immortals?
great video btw...these brighten my day
19:38 Burguer, i love you and i love your videos, but i cannot believe you didnt put something like "the vengaboys, rick martin and N-sync were playing nonstop on every radio" or something like that during the list of events of summer 1999
I miss the sound of the sock microphone.
Yeah, great video, but the audio is much more boomy and the lighting is weirdly dark and one-sided, compared to the others.
I think it’s a combination of the mic itself and the environment he’s in. Every now and then, he’ll lower his voice a bit, and the bassiness and echo will disappear for a moment. So it seems like it picks up thur echoes off the walls a lot more than the old mic. These mics are kind of a meme in general, though, at least in my opinion. Wendigoon used one in a recent video, and it had the same issues.
I subbed as soon as you hit me with 'Sekhem my jungus'
Nice. This is the setting i know the least about so this one especially was a joy to watch.
Mummy rules are perfect for a JJK themed campaign
Sukuna is just a really powerful ancient unbandaged one that has bonded himself to Yuji,Kenjaku is an agent of Apophis that can take over mortal bodies,etc.
I have been waiting for you to do mummy. It is one of my favorite WOD settings and have some good memories of playing one in a mised game.
Extremely delighted to see Mummy work here!
I know New WoD wasn't considered possessed of much staying power, but I have always had a real big soft spot for Geist. It's the one book in that series i fidn myself thinking about the most
YES!!!! I was waiting for a good mummy video! I've wanted to play it forever.
I mean; Typhon means something to me, but I’m not sure Greek myth is direct, but, my guess is typhon is actually Set in some way, mainly based on the thought that Set was identified with Typhon in the same way that Thoth was identified with Hermes
The World of Darkness so grim and full of fright.
But Osiris has has called his guardians to protect man's very life.
THEY HAVE THE MUMMIES!
PROTECTORS FROM 45BC
THEY HAVE THE MUMMIES!
OH HERE TO SAVE THE DAY THE EGPYTION WAY!
"gives you a hug"
Breakdowns suck. A lot 😮💨I speak from experience. Hope you're doing better 🫂
Thank you for covering Mummy; I've always been super curious about this particular part of WoD.
Stoked for a new video!
Oh.
I'd be a Sefekhi.
Neat!
I could use supernatural therapy.
Dude, the Catholic Saint-Mummy idea kicks ass. I’d love to run/play a game like that.
I was also hoping you’d be wrapped in toilet paper the entire video, but your actual fit isn’t half bad either.
This is a really good video
It could be the wikipedia talking but the new lore seems to have added more depression to Mummy, where before the mummies didn't really have much to fear from mortals and post mortals such as Vamps, Werewolves or Mages. With probably only Demons actually being a danger. Now however there seems to be a way for the Settites to do things to them, unlike the bane mummies which rot and go insane(all 11 of them).
I don't care for it, it makes it less unique.
@@Gamerkat10 I do agree, making new mummies I can understand but if it is just saying the old mummies got broken and now they are diluted beings rather than the character you used to be. Maybe if the creation was incredibly rare and slow and needed to make cults of their own and use some sorcery along the way with the Egyptian gods acting as a small push here and there it would be more fun in my opinion(alike to the old world spreading into the new and pride and such being a big theme). Out of curiosity what would like to see happen with Mummy?
the diatribe about permanently killing Mummies gave me a sick character idea: A Wraith or Mummy in spirit form who's going around looking for where their body or pieces of it have been sealed so they can reform.
Finally. The world of darkness community can learn mummy lore.
Love you, Burger Bro.
HOLY SHIT THATS JOHNNY DARKNESS
This feels like the setting where people will reflect themselves the most
There weren’t that many of the old mummies, the vast majority of amenti got soul fragments from regular ghosts living in the dark kingdom of sand
Get well!
Nice video, keep them coming and take care
Honestly I like the audio more - gives it that unhinged twinge!
i love your vids.
Ride along with me on a journey for a moment. And why you should keep an eye on your Sefekhi players. I'm using an amulet of cloud walking to follow a group of Technocrats who have abudcted an NPC I need to save. To stop the convoy of SUVs what does my sefekhi do? He takes off his amulet.
20 seconds later he hits the hood of the first SUV at terminal velocity, flipping the SUV. The mummy takes a ton of damage but is alive (It should be noted that mummies are rediculously durable) and as the SUV rolls to a stop he stands up, checks the damage and yells "ONSTAR! IT APPEARS YOUVE BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT.... ASSHOLE"
Mummy is entirely too much fun
I realized something while watching this: Humans who could have been great, brought down by a personal flaw. These humans are given a choice of whether to become supernatural; if they accept, they merge with a separate sentience and are transformed both physically and metaphysically. They are beholden to deities with the power to punish them, and pursue their goals with a powerset emulating their masters that often requires indirect approaches and outside-the-box thinking.
Amenti correspond to the Infernal Exalted.
Personally I’ve always liked Robert of clan Robert who’s clan curse is being fully sterile
As a scotsman I think I know this guy
Idk, Set being in league with Apophis kinda flattens his character from the original mythology imo. Sure, Set's a bad dude who murdered his brother, but he still shows up to his job of fighting Apophis & preventing it from eating the sun every day
Most of the lore regarding Set is a Vampire: the Masquerade thing. He and Apophis have notably had a falling out some time ago
Aaaaah I'm so excited!
Ok so I've been intrigued by the concept of the Shemsu-heru for a while but there's some things I haven't been able to find answers to on the wiki, so if anyone knows please enlighten me.
* How long does a death cycle typically last? Decades? Centuries? I imgaine it varies based on what they're up to in shadowlands but what factors contribute and how much?
* When in the shadowlands do they operate similarly to wraiths? Can they learn arquenoi?
* What do they actually do while in the shadowlands? Are they just recovering their energies and guarding Amenti or do they still fight oblivion?
* What kind of relationship do they have with the Garou, if any at all? They're fighting the same opponent, to a certain degree at least
This isn't specific to the remaining Shemsu-heru and more to do with the Amenti in general, but...
* Death cycles can be as short as a day, and can technically last indefinitely. In game terms, a character's rating in the Ba background determines the minimum time they have to remain dead before attempting to revive (anywhere from a year with no rating, to a day with 5 points). Since you need to score a minimum number of successes based on the condition of your corpse (and because you need to spend a _permanent_ point of either Willpower or Sekhem for each attempted roll), mummies sometimes need to hang out in Duat for longer just to have adventures and get XP.
* They function physically (er...ectoplasmically?) like wraiths, but because they're technically still alive, they can't learn arcanoi (their most useful magics are Necromancy and Effigy), and they visibly stand out among other wraiths. Also, they can survive Oblivion by the same rolls they use to resurrect themselves...though obviously, if you're low on Willpower and Sekhem, there's no opportunity to build back up while you're discorporated!
* Basically, anything a ghost can get up to, an Amenti can, too. Assuming Anubis arrives to pick them up when they die (which he doesn't always), it's implied most mummies hang out in Amenti after meeting with the Judges, whether guarding the area or just resting in a place mostly sheltered from the _Dja-Akh._ Speaking of, because of the 6th Great Maelstrom, the underworld's in a pretty sorry state during Mummy's revised edition, which can lead to other adventures trying to rebuild, rescue wraiths, fight oblivion (of which Apophis is an aspect), etc.
* AFAIK the only Garou with any connection with mummies are the Silent Striders, and that's probably been weakened due to the Stiders' curse. Otherwise, the older mummies were too rare, and the newer mummies are too recent, for the Garou as a whole to have a canonical opinion on them. Since the Garou Nation is still pretty xenophobic as a whole, tends to take a dim view on anything that resembles undead, and (other than the Striders) doesn't deal with the Dark Umbra at all, they'd likely be wary of the Amenti at best. That said, I suddenly want to see a chronicle running both the Uktena and the Teomallki...
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@NeutralDrow Thank you so much! That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for for ages now
@@NeutralDrow I'm gonna add something extra, there is a canonical werewolf mummy but because of the nature of the garou, After he died, he remained in the Umbra
@@radielkill Huh, interesting! Basically everything I know about WoD mummies is about the Amenti (nothing earlier), so I didn't know that.
At least, I assume it's an earlier mummy, since Amenti have to be formed from regular wraiths (the very few werewolves who leave behind ghosts don't retain Garou characteristics).
I look forward to actually being able to play one of my favorite wod games now
There actually is a Chronicles of Darkness version of Mummy (the Curse) and it is different but also great.
Okay, now I want to run a reskinned version of Mummy, where everyone is playing as a Mommy.
The souls of dominant older women forcing the dejected and depressed to love themselves 💀🤍
Soo. A fomor,a mummy and a demon could fight for the body of a shota depreseed manga character???
@@raipe125 No shota's, that's weird. A depressed and burnt out college student.
Mommy: The Domming
Holy shit someone send this to Dungeons and Daddies for a campaign idea
Perfect timing👌