Created by: Nana Yaw Ofori <nofori@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Strength: 4
Agility: 4
Intelligence: 7
Precision: 5
Perception: 7
Will: 9
Vessel: Human/2,
Role: Anita Davis, Nurse/4 (Status/2); Caucasian, 5'1",
110 lbs, black hair, blue eyes.
Medicine/4, Knowledge: Medical Beaurocracy/2, Fast-Talk/3, Pistol/1
Celestial Song of Charm/3, Corporeal Song of Charm/3
Lilim of Fate, Fated Future.
"Diamonds may last a billion years, but Geasa are forever."
Six years ago, a new nurse was employed in the Maternity Ward of Our Lady of Mercy Hospital. Anita Davis was a kind, helpful person, and great with the kids. She always knew what they seemed to Need, and she delighted in making them comfortable and happy before they went home to their respective families. In adittion her medical knowlege was incredible, possibly rivaling that of the doctors on staff, and her swift actions have saved a noticable number of premature babies. Practically the perfect maternity ward nurse. Of course, things aren't always that simple.
You see, long before Anita Davis was a Nurse, she was a Demon. A Lilim named Nadine, to be precise, serving Kronos, the Demon Prince of Fate. A about a decade ago, Nadine realized that doing favors for full-grown people tended to be tough, especially for those high-level Geasa. On the other hand, the types of Needs babies tend to have are usually easily fulfilled. "I Need to be Changed." "I Need to be burped." "I Need to be fed." "I Need to be held and rocked to sleep." So she asked Kronos for a Role as a Nurse, and went to work in a Maternity Ward.
And fulfill those kids' Needs she does. Willingly, and with a smile on her face, as Geas after Geas lands upon their souls. And since the level of a Geas depends on the difficulty the recipient would have fulfilling the Need, Geas/5's and /6's are usually trifling to fill. (it will take a few years before the kid can feed himself, for instance.) Sure, there's very little that a toddler can do...but Nadine's nothing if not patient. As many as one in every five kids that leaves the maternity ward comes saddled with several Geasa, and the unwitting parents are none the wiser.
Though none of her "Favorites" are older than six right now, there are still little things a six year old can do...leave a door unlocked, for instance. And just wait until they're sixteen, twenty-one, or thirty-four. Then they'll be Mayors, Judges, Police Officers, Bankers, and so on (As well as Garbage men, Fast-Food Cooks, Homeless people, and criminals, but hey, that's the risk you take). And Nadine will be able to pull their strings when they get there.
Kronos is very pleased at this turn of events, and is considering planting Lilim in maternity wards around the world for this purpose. Nadine recently managed to trade a large number of high-level Geasa on children of influential families for the Fated Future attunement, which she plans to use to surreptitiously discern the infants she really should get a lot of Geasa on. and if her plans come to fruition, she'll be the Demon of Childhood Promises before too long...
From: Nana Yaw Ofori (nofori@pop3.utoledo.edu)
Kingsley Lintz (lintking@stout.entertain.com) writes:
}} That's fine, but with a limited number of Earthly servitors, a
}} Superior's best strategy is to concentrate on only those activities that
}} affect large numbers of people. Following that notion out to its
} Depends on the project at hand and the Superior in
}question....there's the significant advantage to small towns that they're
}less likely to have Opposition, whichever side you're on. (For example,
}that Lilim of Kronos proposed some time ago who hung out in a hospital -
}in a major city, she'd probably be picked out and chopped to bits pretty
}quickly, because hospitals are generally likely to have a high
}concentration of Angelics. One in a smaller town, however, may not, and
}you never know WHERE someone with a powerful Fate might turn up...)
Well, I don't hink I ever claimed it was a Big City hospital to begin with. You're right, though, she does in general work better in a town with a low celestail population. Granted, I did write up the lilim pretty quickly, and I've had quite some time to think about her since then.
I think a Lilim like Nadine might be able to operatie for a significant amount of time in the hospital, doing what she was doing. Provided she didn't succumb to the temptaion of spending Essence, and provided noone takes a really close look at her records (I probably should have given her a Role/6), nearly all the ways I can think of to tell that she is a celestial only tell that she is a Celestial, and not which side she works for. True, one you do realize that, she probably bears watching. If she's extemely patient, though, maybe, maybe she'll be overlooked. She'll defianately have to religously avoid things like consorting with other local Demons and summoning Kronos. Main risks I see coming from Ofanites of Judgement and uninformed Lilim of Fate.
Also, Trading off the Geasa no longer seems that good of a Career move to me. I'm not sure who gets the Dissonance when a subject resists a traded-off Geas, but I suspect strongly it's the Lilim who created it. Which would mean that the Lilim could rack up dissonance at the most innoportune times because some stupid Shedite got hold of one of her traded off Geas/2's and tried to make some guy kill his wife. In retrospect, I probably wouldn have her trading off that many of the Geasa at all, and further, would have gotten rid of the Fated Future attunement I gave her. Useful, but Noisy, and Nadine works a lot better in "Stealth Mode."
I don't think that the Celestail Population is sufficent in most places to have more than one or two Full-Time Angels in any random Hospital, save in those cities with Angelic Tethers. I seem most Hospitals as being checked on by Angels periodically, mainly to look for jumps in the Death rate, and things like that. Without calling the Geasa up, Nadine's likely to be overlooked by an overworked Angel looking for obvious problems.
Besides, I just like the idea of an Ofanite of Judgement wandering into town and saying, "Hm. That kid has a powerful Geas. And so does that street vendor. And Him. And Her. And Him. And Him. And--What the Hell's going on here?"
Anyway, I've gone off on my Random Tangent of the Day. I now return you to your regularly scheduled Mailing list.
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Monty, Lilim Captain of Media, the Demon of Game Shows.
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From: Kingsley Lintz (lintking@stout.entertain.com>
} Well, I don't hink I ever claimed it was a Big City hospital to
} begin with. You're right, though, she does in general work better in a town
Oh, no..I don't think you'd said either way. Don't get the impression I hadn't liked Nadine; she's a nicely evil idea...it just happened to suit the point well. (gryn>
} she works for. True, one you do realize that, she probably bears watching.
} If she's extemely patient, though, maybe, maybe she'll be overlooked.
}She'll defianately have to religously avoid things like consorting with
}other local Demons and summoning Kronos. Main risks I see coming from
}Ofanites of Judgement and uninformed Lilim of Fate.
Hard to say...the OoJ had been my immediate thought; any Seraph or Malakim getting her into a conversation by the coffee machine once they've noticed her as a Celestial; a Cherub who Attunes himself to one of her subjects MIGHT be trouble; assuming Gabriel's Servitors' Attunements work on demons as well, several of those (Seraph, Cherub, and Elohim) would have a good chance of spotting her in at least that regard...the other problem is that she has to invoke her Resonance all the time; eventually, she's going to pull an Intervention. Whichever side it's from, that'll tend to risk drawing attention to her...
(You might want to get that Role/6 in part by having Kronos inflicting her with the Bound Discord, to avoid some of those temptations, though any kind of Discord carries other risks..)
} Hospital, save in those cities with Angelic Tethers. I seem most Hospitals
}as being checked on by Angels periodically, mainly to look for jumps in the
}Death rate, and things like that. Without calling the Geasa up, Nadine's
With somewhat frequent exceptions, I'd agree with that..though I'd tend to assume there are a lot of Relievers around, or doctors/nurses that are on the Soldier of God level.
} Besides, I just like the idea of an Ofanite of Judgement wandering
}into town and saying, "Hm. That kid has a powerful Geas. And so does that
}street vendor. And Him. And Her. And Him. And Him. And--What the Hell's
}going on here?"
(gryn> Probably be the best way to put her in somewhere...Angels being sent into some small town where some OoJ, just passing through, noticed `something weird'. Let them try to figure out what's happened in a town (population MAYBE 100) where virtually -everybody- owes the Lilim...
(Nadine had, in part, inspired in me the idea of a Lilim running a little curiosity shop called `No Cash Needed'...where you can just walk in and get, or at least order, virtually anything you need. For free. For now...(gryn> 'Course, the idea went on with the thought of Nybbas's people working the area into an absolute frenzy trying to get one particular toy for their children, which you could only get at this one shop...not only do the Angels have to figure out what's going on and stop it, but when they do, they're splashed all over the news as the grinches who stole Christmas.)
From: Highway Star (smw4s@faraday.clas.virginia.edu)
At 10:31 -0600 7/20/97, Kingsley Lintz wrote:
}(Nadine had, in part, inspired in me the idea of a Lilim running a little
}curiosity shop called `No Cash Needed'...where you can just walk in and
}get, or at least order, virtually anything you need. For free. For
}now...(gryn> 'Course, the idea went on with the thought of Nybbas's
}people working the area into an absolute frenzy trying to get one
}particular toy for their children, which you could only get at this one
}shop...not only do the Angels have to figure out what's going on and stop
}it, but when they do, they're splashed all over the news as the grinches
}who stole Christmas.)
That kind of reminds me of Stephen King's "Needful Things"...at least, the parts of it that I saw on TNT one hungover Saturday morning...:)
"Wow, a Mickey Mantle baseball card! How much?!"
"Free, kid." {{ruffles the kids hair}} "I remember being a kid growing
up, always looking for the good cards..."
A few days later...
"Like the card, kid?"
"Yeah!"
"Well, if you want to keep it, I need a favor..."
(no, that's not a quote, just something I thought up...remembering the kid and his baseball card in "Needful Things", then being asked to throw apples through the windows...)
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