Silent Legion Sandbox Tool: Random New Age Cult

When it come to the imagery of 'cults' in relation to Cosmic Horror, it conjure up images of degenerate cults filled with insane individuals in black robes, all chanting in an unspeakable tongue and sacrificing humans to some evil elder entity whose name seems like it was created by vomiting Scrabble game pieces.

The creepy and infamous 'Aum Shinrikyo',
responsible for the Sarin Gas Attack of 1995.

This is all fine and dandy (and iconic) but there is a case to be made for a game set in more recent times (say, the Sixties onward) to have a very different imagery and style from the cults of Pulp stories. Cults, in real life, are more likely to project a very different image and it arguably make a lot more sense for a modern cult of some elder evil to blend in with the more mundane 'new spiritual movements' than to walk around with black robes and chanting about 'the rise of Chu'ygltegor the Devourer of a Thousand Worlds With a Million Maws'. Sure, they may in fact worship said Entity but there is very little practical reasons to openly do so. It is, rather, more efficient to construct a myth and rites which praise their dark patron without anyone, including (but especially) their lower ranked members, knowing the dark truth. Even people susceptible to joining a cult are more likely to respond to a benevolent Guru speaking of cosmic unity and healing than going around ripping people apart and drinking blood from skulls.

This is meant to add to/replace parts of the Silent Legions cult generator. You may also use this generator, as it will do a much better job generating New Age crap than I can.

D8	When were they founded?
1-3	In the last few years. Roll 1d4+1 to find how many years the cult has been formally established.
4-6	In recent times and they have begun to grow these last few years. Roll 2d4 to find out how long the cult has been established.
7	The cult has been established for more than a decade, maybe up to two decades.
8	The cult is older than it appears but it’s current ‘new age’ form is a recent creation. Reroll on this table (ignoring any result of 8) and roll on the table found in Silent Legions for its real age.

D4	Who is the founder and who/what do they claim to be?
1	An ordinary man or woman disgruntled by society who received some divine epiphany and now lead the converts toward spiritual enlightenment.
2	Someone who claim to have travelled the world in search of truth, learned from Tibetan monks and all that fancy stuff.
3	The newly born/reborn messiah, there to lead the cult members toward salvation.
4	An alien/extra dimensional being or a reincarnated there to lead the faithful and advance mankind.

D6	Who really founded the cult? What are they really like?
1	A socially-maladjusted weirdo with surprising skills as a conman. He’s re-imagined himself as some enlightened guru, possibly with a new fake name and backstory.
2	A pretentious hippy and/or yuppie who was already into ‘New Age’ stuff but digged a little too deep into truly arcane materials and is reconverting his own old beliefs to serve dark forces.
3	A former Satanist of some stripe who, in his defiance toward established religions, begun an obscene worship of some foul eldritch entity. The cult is a suitable cover for his dark ways.
4	A real sorcerer of some kind, who hijacked the cult and/or is working with the founder to fuel his evil sorcery.
5	A hardline atheist who begun doing cult-like things as a mockery of organized religion, only to have a real religious epiphany. Unfortunately, their newfound God is some elder evil.
6	A science fiction or fantasy author who found something real when he was looking for inspiration. Any resemblance to a real life author and religious founder is purely coincidental.

D20	Their religious doctrine is a bizarre mixture of… (Roll twice)
1-3	Christianity
4-6	Bastardized Buddhism
7-9	Bastardized Hinduism
10-12	Ancient Alien Theories
13-15	Scientific-Sounding Nonsense
16	Kabbalistic Ideas
17	Aryan Occultism repackaged as something less offensive
18	Granola Hippy ‘Mother Earth’ stuff
19	Laveyan Satanism
20	Rehashed Hermeticism

D6	In order to practice their faith, they frequently engage in...
1	Hour-long meditation, which may be harmless or be the moment where special substances are added to incense to mess with their minds. Alternatively, there are eldritch codes hidden inside their meditation music.
2	Long lectures about the extremely complex (and frankly insane) nature of their cults and how their faith relates to the metaphysics of the universe. Usually render the subjects bored, tired and susceptible due to near-hypnotic nature.
3	Meditations and/or prayer with a higher-ranked member, either alone or in small groups. These are used to more properly tailor the lectures and prayers to have a stronger connection and effect to the poor shmuck.
4	Isolated meditations (for purpose of ‘purification’ or whatever it is) which may last for days at a time and members are forbidden to leave the room, eat, drink or sleep. They are left weak and exhausted afterward.
5	Self-harm for past ‘sins’ (they might not call it ‘sin’, of course). The list of what is considered a ‘sin’ by the cult is quite long. Members are left exhausted by the non-lethal but still reckless self-harm.
6	Massive orgies.

D6	They (unknowingly?) expose themselves to the eldritch when...
1	They recite their prayers, which appear innocuous to outsiders but are in fact coded messages of praise to some eldritch entity which resonate on metaphysical frequencies unknown to human minds. Possibly a homing beacon?
2	Their moments of prayer or meditation leave their psyche open to assault, be it by their dark master, a servant or a cult sorcerer of some kind, who can mold their thoughts and emotions. They do not realize this is taking place.
3	Major rites are actually disguised rituals meant to draw power from an entity and/or summon it. The version practice at home by cultists is harmless but when the ceremony is led by a sorcerer things may get nasty.
4	They frequently are exposed to their master or a servant but the experience is wiped from their mind and their memories are altered, be it by drugs or more eldritch means. They do not remember direct contact with these alien beings outside of vivid hallucinations.
5	The cult is mostly a charade meant to provide goods and money and the members are just brainwashed by regular means. Only the most promising members are guided to the real cult, where they will be truly exposed to the eldritch...or sacrificed to their dark master.
6	They themselves are fine but their children, born into the cult, will carry the will and/or essence of their dark master. The first pregnancies are already nearing their end, the result of intimate moments with the guru.