"Humanity dreams, achieves, then weeps. How fickle."
— deviantART description
Trionfi Arcana
is a roleplaying group based on deviantART and Discord. It is centered on a group of modern day humans who have been transported to an strange island named Eden after gathering together at a designated meeting place in New York. What drew them to this place, exactly? A message. Whether received by text message, email, letter, or otherwise, the contents were the same.
“Do you have the will to change this life of yours? Would you like to go someplace new?”
With their only way of getting home badly damaged, the humans team up with the inhabitants of Aether to rebuild the ship and work together to survive.
Trionfi Arcana provides examples of:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Most of the characters were drawn to the meeting place out of a desire to change their life or gain something more interesting than what they already had. Rather than something ordinary happening, they all end up transported to a floating island—with no actual say in the matter.
- Cast Herd: The characters are split up into spreads of 4-5 people that function as smaller teams working for a specific faction. (i.e. Protect, Sustain, Repair)
- Emotional Powers: The alters—humans who’ve been possessed/melded with aberrants—typically have one primary emotion that drives their alter state and corresponds with their powers.
- The Power of Friendship: The Cup in the Fate System specifically calls on the strength of bonds and friendship, to make any action more plausible or powerful.
- Island of Mystery: Eden. There’s your average wildlife, flora, and fauna; abandoned houses and buildings; mysterious monsters called aberrants that attack humans; and the people whose ship they’re rebuilding don’t seem to be human.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The consequence of the alters’ being overwhelmed by their primary emotion is that they lose all sense of rationality and seem to react on an instinctual level.
- World of Technicolor Hair: The characters’ coloring runs the gamut from ordinary black hair to pastel greens and pinks.
- You Can't Go Home Again: While the goal for the humans is to get home, they’re currently stuck on Eden until the ship is repaired.
