23 - Recent
Recent evil is rarely as big a problem as ancient evil, and recent magic is hardly ever as good as ancient magic. Recent being better tends to be more of an SF thing.
But it could be an interesting inversion, ghosts fading with time and the like. Mummy: The Curse has this for the PCs, who are of course ancient but who are at their most powerful when they wake up and weaken as they go along. World Of Darkness miniseries game Orpheus had the ghost hunters think ghosts only lasted about three years but that was actually because of an apocalyptic change in the underworld.
Buffy does have modern methods and attitudes undercut ancient threats on the regular.
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23a - 5, 7, 8
Why, Lucky, Lesson
An ancient text needing a translation and the sources from the 1920s and 30s only go so far - but there’s actually a new translation from a couple of years ago and you can get the translator on a video call.
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