Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council is a sourcebook for Mage: The Ascension Revised Edition.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- The War's Not Over
- What is the Rogue Council? That's the question asked by nearly every Tradition mage in councils, chantries and nightclubs across the world. Nobody admits to knowing. Yet the Rogue Council's messages keep coming through, delivered by magic to most chantry houses – no matter how hard Tradition leaders try to stop them.
- Anyone Not With Us Is Against Us
- Why would anyone want to shut them up? Because their message is one of war: It's time to fight back against the apathy and Technocratic control that Tradition leaders accepted without a struggle. It's time to forge new roads to the Horizon, and break the boundaries of reality once again. This time the clamor will be so loud that no Sleeper will fail to Awaken!
Contents[]
Prologue: The Labyrinth[]
An enigmatic story to set the tone and illustrate just how the Rogue Council's transmissions are received - and the reactions they create.
Introduction: A New Creed[]
Chapter One: The Beginning... or the End?[]
What the hell is the Rogue Council? This chapter tells us when and where it first appeared and just what sort of havoc it's caused already. The nature of the Rogue Council's transmissions is also covered. These messages are delivered through a variety of unpredictable means, either by mundane post, email or actual radio or TV messages that show up on most channels a mage listens to. (No, owls don't deliver them in the post - these aren't invitations to Hogwarts.) No matter what most mages do, the transmissions get through to them.
Chapter Two: The Sphinx's Riddle[]
Just what is this Rogue Council asking for anyway? Is it all just some sort of Marauder plot? This chapter addresses the feelings and opinions of those mages who are for and against the Sphinx.
Chapter Three: Rogue Factors (Storytelling)[]
This chapter is geared to the Storyteller, specifically addressing how she may introduce the Rogue Council into her games, along with some specific factions that are developing among the Nine Traditions. It also includes a rough timeline of sorts for adopting the Rogue Council metaplot into chronicles. It begins small and grows to a persistent phenomenon.
Chapter Four: Anarchy and Authority[]
A sample cabal serving the Rouge Council's new crusade - and the Technocratic response to it: Panopticon, a new, cross-Convention Methodology designed to hunt down and expose Rogue Council followers.
Chapter Five: Alien Avatar[]
A sample story that begins with a Rogue Council transmission and ends in a cold, Arctic hellhole where an ancient spirit given flesh threatens to tear Avatars asunder.
- Sleeper Templates
- Non-Combat Military Personnel - Stats
- Soldiers and Sleeper Combatants - Stats
- Hardsuit Troops - Stats
- Powers of the Anakim
- Alien Presence
- Directing the Avatar Storm
- Shard Weapon/Shield/Prison
- Anchor Sending
Background Information[]
- Alien Avatar playtesters are credited as: Malcolm Sheppard, Tara Deblois, Red Sunnerton, Paul Cleveland, Kearsley Scheider-Wethy, Steve Sharpe and Alex Johnston.
- Ads at the back of the book include: The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas and Demon: The Fallen (11-02).
Memorable Quotes[]
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Characters[]
- Prologue: The Labyrinth
- Chelsea - Mage, Darlana's daughter, Died
- Michael - Darlana's son
- Misty
- Brandon Quint - Mage
- Wasi Rostyevic - Technocrat
- Dave Chang - Technocrat
- Dr. Hawthorne - Technocrat
- "Paddy," Padmanabhan Krishnam - Mage, Died
- "Darlie," Darlana Newcastle - Virtual Adept
- Chubby - Michael's Dog
- Mr. Chettely - Technocrat
- Metropolis - Technocrat
- Chapter One: The Beginning... or the End?
- Jamie Courage - Verbena
- Mason "Z" White - Cult of Ecstasy
- Mochi Katame - Dreamspeaker
- Bea Aquarius - Dreamspeaker
- Espiritus - Dreamspeaker
- Mourning Doe - Dreamspeaker
- Michael Franklin - Akashic Brotherhood
- Frontier Frank - Son of Ether
- Ziggy Pulanski - Euthanatos
- Yang - Son of Ether
- Ying - Son of Ether
- Aaron Dogon - Akashic Brotherhood, Jupiter's Forge Cabal Member
- Phillip Morcant - Order of Hermes, House Thig, Jupiter's Forge Cabal Member
- John Crow - Writer of Alchemy: the Path to Ascension
- Malcolm Dugall - Celestial Chorus
- Lady Sasha Nebtov - Celestial Chorus
- Devon
- Chapter Two: The Sphinx's Riddle
- Hendley
- Chapter Four: Anarchy and Authority
- Arthur Lethbridge - Order of Hermes, House Bonisagus, Died
- Cassandra Frost - Son of Ether
- Ross Garfield - Herald
- Greg Sunnerton - Orphan
- Abba El-Baal Asha - Umbrood
- Emanjah - loa
- Alexei DesJean
- Janet Wolf
- Chain - The Jesuits
- Mila Romanow - Iteration X, Time-Motion Manager, The Jesuits
- Bruce - HIT Mark, The Jesuits
- Charles Reid
- Dorje Washington
- Chapter Five: Alien Avatar
- Voormas
- Alan Cordwainer - Technocrat
- Jane Powell - Situation Six Mage
- Richard - Nineman's butler
- Colonel Antione Whetung - Canadian Forces
- Amelia Mirren - Died
- Major Lucas Blaylock
- IA Grant Howe
- Doctor Alois Richter
- Jason Ninemen (Doctor Mondial)
- Peter Wu
Terminology[]
10500 BCE, 5000 BCE, 2558 BCE, 2532 BCE, 1400 BCE, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2002, Africa, Alchemy: the Path to Ascension by John Crow, Anakim (Grigori, Anunnaki, Psychopomps, Grays), April 18, April 19, Arctic Circle, Argentina, Ascension War, Asia, Avatar Shards, Avatar Storm, Barcelona, Berlin, Canadian Joint Task Force Two, The Case of the Brixton Five, Caucuses, CFS Vigilant, Chicago, Compact of Callias, Construct, Council of Nine, Cross-Tradition, Czech Republic, Dachau, Digital Web, Dimension Storm, Dover, Egypt, Eighteen Dragons Chantry, Ellesmere Island, "The Emissaries," England, Erebus (Town), Europe, Falklands Islands, "Fencers," Fetch-marked, Fetch-spirits, Folterbrinnen ("Tortue Fountain"), France, Friends of Courage, Galilee, Germany, Giza, "The Guardians," Haiti, Harbingers of Avalon, Helekar, Hendley Report on the State of Post-Storm Politics Among the Traditions, The Herald, Horizon, Indonesia, Janissaries, Japan, "The Jesuits" (Panoptic Task Force, PTFAP 3; Panoptic Task Force Asia-Pacific 3), Jezreel, June 6, June 10, June 11, Jupiter's Forge (Rogue Cabal), Karakuwa, Kokanee Salmon Hatchery, KX76, La Rambla, London, March 2, Master, May 6, May 7, May 30, Montreal, Mount Gilboa, Nepal, New York, North America, Operation Sparkmaker, Oregon, Panopticon, Panopticon Rank Titles: Adjunct, Agent, Supervisor, Manager, Director; Poland, Psionic Dissonance Effect, Reality Deviant, Reckoning, Rogue Council, The Rogue Council Manifesto, San Francisco, San Jose, Schwartzurkunde ("Black Papers"), Second Massassa War, Sphinx, Sidney stadium, Situation Six, Sleeper, Soul Prison, Spain, Stormwarden, Technocracy, Tellurian, Thebes, Thule Society, Tibet, Toronto, Traditions, Umbra, Umbrood, Vetvets, Wewelsberg Tribunal,
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