[TC Core] Transcendent Alliance topic

[wyrdhamster]

So in my Assassins game I use extensievly Transcendent Alliance ( TA in short here) Lesser Allegiance as antagonists. In game, some issues with them show up - so this topic is for of. 😎

[wyrdhamster]

Transcendent Alliance Look and Feel - I run story in modern Trinity ( 2025) in Singapore. When preparing session, I found I cannot point players to some visual references. So here are my proposals for the TA HQ itself and the grunts 'army' guarding it.

[MythAdvocate]

This looks fun!

What sort of nefarious plots are underway?

[wyrdhamster]

What sort of nefarious plots are underway?

Transcendent Alliance is cutting edge ( ) Super Science group - they made reality True Invisibility! 😲

Think about 'Predator Race' technology from 'Predator' movie franchise. TA can make you literally disappear in thin air. And they made so their WHOLE HQ is invisible for day-to-day ( or simply 'Day', as Assassins would say) people. TA HQ stands in the outskirts of Singapore, totally invisible to public.

[wyrdhamster]

TA kidnapped to HQ Xavi Ndaba - nonbinary ( and intersex ) kid from the streets of Cape Town, South Africa. Xavi is first 'ever' 3rd Generation natural Psion ( or, rather, Psiad ) the Pheobe Trust knows about from ( Pheobe Trust mini book )

Xavi IS the Pheobe itself to them!

By polish Jacek Dukaj story Perfect Imperfection:
'Post-Human Beings is the next level of the evolution of human beings. Supported by artificial intelligence, one of the characteristics of a phoebe is its ability to divide itself into many copies with various levels, tasks and levels of autonomy, each of which can be tasked with analyzing and dealing with parts of reality. Another characteristic is the ability to transform both their bodies and minds.'

Our Pheobe is (super?) Psiad - but still only Psiad. You can advise me on powers of Xavi could have.

Also, Transcendent Alliance hired group of assassins from Swarm to guard Xavi, beside TA typical army. ( For Swarm see TC Assassins book ) As my 'good Assassins' PCs uncovered TA HQ right now ( and that was invisible ) - I wonder if introduce Swarm guarding ones by showing and HQ all of them, right with PCs at door saying: 'Nah, ah, ah, don't go inside!' - shonen anime style.

If you got any other ideas for Transcendent Alliance - please wright here for us all! 😈

Xavi Ndaba