in_nomine-digest Friday, August 17 2001 Volume 01 : Number 2337 In this digest: IN> Fantasy Month - The angel of Mythical Animals. IN> A Novice Habbalite Re: IN>Help!...again Re: IN> Scenario Seed: One of our Archangels is Missing IN> [Fantasy] Outside, looking in (part of the other stuff I'm doing) Re: IN>Help!...again Re: IN> Fantasy Month - a pair of Norse tethers. Re: IN> A Novice Habbalite Re: IN>Help!...again Re: IN> [Fantasy] Outside, looking in (part of the other stuff I'm doing) RE: IN> [Fantasy] Outside, looking in (part of the other stuff I'm doing) Re: IN> A Novice Habbalite Re: IN> Fantasy Month - a pair of Norse tethers. Fwd: Re: IN> Help!...again IN> Fwd: Renegade Lilim of the Game Re: IN> A Novice Habbalite Re: IN> A Novice Habbalite Re: IN> Scenario Seed: One of our Archangels is Missing Re: IN> Fwd: The Demon of Manga IN> Kobal at work? Re: IN> Kobal at work? Re: IN> Kobal at work? Re: IN> Fwd: The Demon of Manga Re: IN> Kobal at work? RE: IN> [Fantasy] Outside, looking in (part of the other stuff I'm doing) IN> Re: digest #2334? IN> Disturbance question ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:21:11 +1100 From: "james walker" Subject: IN> Fantasy Month - The angel of Mythical Animals. Babrius, Angel of Mythical Animals Mercurian of Animals Corporeal Forces - 4 Strength 7 Agility 9 Ethereal Forces - 3 Intelligence 6 Precision 6 celestial forces - 3 Will 2 Perception 10 Word Forces - 4. Vessel/6 - no one is quite sure what it is, as Babrius can turn up as anything. Skills: Acrobatics/2, Artistry (Movement/2, Storytelling/5), Dodge/4, Emote/2, Fighting/5, Move Silently/6. Songs: Beasts (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/3, Celestial/6, also Celestial Variant allowing shifting to mythical animals), Dreams (All/6), Numinous Corpus (All/6 - Virtuoso), Projection (Corporeal/6). Attunements: All attunements of Animals, Vassal of Animals, Dream Walking, Angel of Mythical Animals. Special Abilites: Actions Babrius performs while in the Vessel of a Mythical animal cause no Disturbance. Special Rites: Witness a human being awed by the sight of an unfamiliar animal; encourage a human to feel kinship/respect for animals by telling a tale of involving mythical animals; inspire an animal to dream of having fantastic abilities; kill a Tsayadim, demon or Soldier of Hell while in the Vessel of a Mythical animal. Once the creatures of myth roamed the world freely. Although many were merely the Vessels of Ethereals, other were the descendants of animal form ethereals and true animals. As such, they were part of Jordi's Word, and he chose Babrius to defend them. All went well, until the Purity Crusade. About three hundred years later, Babrius came out of Trauma, and began wondering why he still existed. The creatures he was supposed to protect were dead. It took him quite a while to work out that he was being kept alive by human stories and legends. Partly to console himself, partly to survive, but mostly to remember the animals who were once in his care, Babrius began collecting, and eventually retelling, the tales. As a wandering story teller he slowly came to terms with what his word now meant, and disappeared into the throngs of humanity - mostly. Still, humans must sleep, and when pretending to be human Babrius is fond of entering the Marches, and guiding the dreams of both humans and animals - and occasionally Projecting himself (in the form of a Mythical animal) back to the Corporeal plane. Babrius is still very weak, and slowly rebuilding himself. It will be another century or so before he has the strength to pay a visit on the Tsyadim, and explain forcibly how annoyed he is with them.. James. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:02:01 +1100 From: "james walker" Subject: IN> A Novice Habbalite Yarashiel is a thoughtful Habbalite, determined to serve God intelligently. So while other Habbalah were busy testing humans, he spend a great deal of time thinking about the nature of God, and where He wanted Yarashiel to serve. Yarashiel's thoughts went something like this: - - God is omniscient, knowing everything. - - "Everything" - is just that; not just the purpose of life, but all of the sordid details of insignificant lives. - - This includes every Soap Opera plot; every boring lecture, every tedious rule; every mindless routine. - - So God must be mind-numbingly bored! Once Yarashiel had worked this out, his purpose was clear - find boring people, and force them to pull there socks up. He began terrorising the Damned in Shal-Mari, which brought him to Kobal's attention. A short discussion later Yarashiel was on earth in a new Vessel with orders to stamp out boredom - fast. Yorashiel is still a beginner, and hasn't mastered the art of ending boredom permanently. Still, hurting people who bore others seems to be a good start. Enraging bored human until they murder those who bore them is better yet. He yet to meet an angel, and when he does, will probably expect them to help him - isn't this the most important task of all? Yorashiel Habbalite of Dark Humor Corporeal Forces:1 Strength: 2 Agility: 2 Ethereal Forces :3 Intelligence: 5 Precision: 7 Celestial Forces:3 Will: 7 Perception: 5 Vessel: Male Human/1, +1 charisma (interesting) Skills: Dodge/3, Emote/2, Fighting/3, Knowledge(Logic/1, Theology/1), Singing/1, Small Weapon(Knife)/1. Songs: NC:Tongue/6. Attunements: Habbalite of Dark Humor, Lilim of Dark Humor. =================================================================== James. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:38:10 -0400 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN>Help!...again > Naturally. As it says in S5, theft and war go > hand-in-hand. All sorts of things go missing on the > battlefield -- including soldiers. Some of those MIA's may > have been _removed_, you know. Just to make it a bit more > poetic, you might change the Word to Lost Patrols. I'm probably going way out on an esoteric limb, but I'd suggest "Forlorn Hope". Why, you asked? FORLORN HOPE. 1539. [ad. Dutch "veloren hoop", lit. 'lost troop'. Cf. "enfants perdis".] Originally, a picked body of men, detached to the front to begin the attack. Now usually a storming party. A group of soldiers, sent on mission they know they won't survive. They've already had hope and morale taken from them -- their lives are just a formality at that point. So not only is it an abstract and difficult theft, but Valefor gets to rub it in Baal's nose. - -- Casca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:56:01 -0400 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN> Scenario Seed: One of our Archangels is Missing > One little problem, though. "The accused must be...suspected of no less a crime then murder. If the accused is truly guilty, a luminous sword appears..." Just get a bunch of demons that haven't committed that many crimes yet (kidnapping is less than murder, right?) to grab Dom. Plus the 'Let Justice Be Done' speech gives at least a second or two to get the hell out of Dodge (no pun intended). It could be argued that existing in a state of willful disobedience to God is a crime far worse than murder.... - -- Casca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:08:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> [Fantasy] Outside, looking in (part of the other stuff I'm doing) The funny part is, I'm actually _not_ in a bad or depressed mood tonight. Weird, huh? :) Moe Outside, looking in: the Other Side speaks None of them can see me as I crouch by the window. I know this, because they haven't come out to kill me. I hate them - I hate _you_, probably - but they - and you - hate us, too. If I felt like laughing, I would - - it's *right* for us to hate each other. You hate us because we remind you how far you can fall, and we hate you because you treat your state as a right, rather than the luckiest of circumstances. Go back far enough, find the right event to change, switch the target of a particular raid ... and it'd be /me/ in there swilling ale telling stories about their particular celestial slavemaster, and it'd be /you/ crouching in the dark swallowing your bile. I can recite the details of the conflict, of course: you can even say it's bred into my bones. Not the least of the so-called 'Unbroken' Races' crimes is that they get to interpret everything in their own terms: my people do not even have our own name. 'Orc' is a Human word: it originally meant 'demon' - and that tells you everything that you need to know about purebred Humans. "It's ugly, short and smelly: it must be a creature of evil." Well, we are - but, when it came to it, what choice did we have? The oldest of us still whisper scraps of legends and languages, passed down through generations from our first ancestors. Snatches of songs, bits of stories, a name or two - but no prayers. Those were discarded with the end of hope. That hope must have died hard: for, after all, were they not valuable? They were their God's creations, with intrinsic worth and self-dignity. The forces of Good would not rest until such worthy souls were rescued, surely? But rescue never came - and the stones of our homes/prisons almost reek of the stink of that betrayal. Of course, those feelings of shocked outrage faded, too: sucked down into the dark to die unlamented. In the end, there was nothing but the darkness and the collars and the breeding places (no, not pits. Pits are too hard to hose down afterwards). Every one of my people is descended from captives who were written off by their fellows ... and by those sanctimonious hypocrites who claim to be servants of their God. Either they lie, or else their God is a tyrant and slavemaster worse than any here on Earth. We have all of this explained to us quite thoroughly, you see. Not all of us, of course: just the ones deemed smart or strong enough to serve. Gaining that privileged status is all we dare dream of - because it means that we can be half-free. Free to kick where once we were kicked, free to snatch food from others instead of having it snatched from us, free to amuse ourselves, instead of being the amusement of others. All we have to give up in exchange is any illusion that we were not damned from birth. A small price to pay for the privilege of almost standing tall for a few short decades before we are inevitably dragged into Hell. The males, at least: the price paid by our females is so very, very different. If the look in their altered eyes is anything like the look in the Princess of Freedom, then I am glad that I was not born a woman. So we serve Hell, and are no doubt served up in our turn - but at least we are not *lied* to, like our ancestors were lied to by those cold scions of their God. Demons make themselves clear: s u b mit, or be destroyed. If Hell does not strike the blow, then our estranged cousins will. We horribly fascinate them, you see: they can see traces of themselves in our features, and the horror that this inevitably produces will soon be transmuted into sick rage. Rage at us for being so weak as to have ancestors that s u b mitted to overwhelming force: would that they turned that rage towards their own forebears for letting it happen. Every Orc knows this - and they also know that, for all of Heaven's prating about 'mercy' and 'love' and 'peace', there is no room at that table, no room in that inn, no place in the planned scheme of things for us. If Heaven were to win, the best that we could hope for - the very best - is the utter destruction of our race. We have so very little, but we will not let even that be taken from us simply because we are deemed an abomination by others. So we serve Hell, for they at least will let us continue as we are. Why should they not? They were the ones who put us there. With the death of hope comes at least a numbing of pain. I look at the group again, through the window. Smug, self-satisfied, blithely unaware of their own chains, they have deliberately blinded themselves to the true nature of the universe, and actually imagine themselves to be free. I despise them with all my heart. And I also wish with all my heart that Hell had raided some other damned village all those years ago, so that some cleaner version of me would be permitted to go in and partake in their illusion... ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 07/29/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 06:44:58 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN>Help!...again At 5:08 PM -0400 8/15/01, Jeffery Watkins wrote: >Hi all, > >This may have been sent before and I think it got loss among the hilarous >Angel of Limeric's postings. Likely. >guilty or bad about the dead pilots). My question is before I make one up, >is there an established demon of lost soldiers or an appropriate one to also >drive him further down? I can think of no canon ones; the only place to look that I can think of would be in _Final Trumpet_, to check out Baal's initial expanded writeup. Besides, even if there were a Word-bound demon who might be linked to your setting, Word-bound aren't like multi-tasking Superiors: the Word- bound might be halfway across the world, working on some _other_ scheme. - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 05:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Fantasy Month - a pair of Norse tethers. - --- james walker wrote: > North Pole Mammon's going to have a thing or two to say about this, I'm sure. 0:> > Aurora Borealis I like this one even better. One quibble (don't I always?) -- I believe that the plural of Valkyrie is Valkyrior. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 What came first -- the orange, or the color? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 06:03:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> A Novice Habbalite - --- james walker wrote: > Yorashiel > Habbalite of Dark Humor This guy is sure to liven up a game during his oh-too-brief life. I can see Malakim of Creation targeting him for a particularly instructive death, however. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 What came first -- the orange, or the color? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 06:06:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN>Help!...again - --- Eric Bertish wrote: > I'm probably going way out on an esoteric limb, but I'd > suggest "Forlorn Hope". You're right, that's esoteric. > A group of soldiers, sent on mission they know they won't > survive. They've > already had hope and morale taken from them -- their > lives are just a > formality at that point. So not only is it an abstract > and difficult theft, > but Valefor gets to rub it in Baal's nose. In other words, the Dirty Dozen. Hmmm... 12 rogue Soldiers of Hell, sent on a mission by Michael... ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 What came first -- the orange, or the color? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 06:11:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> [Fantasy] Outside, looking in (part of the other stuff I'm doing) - --- Maurice Lane wrote: > Outside, looking in: the Other Side speaks [stunned speechless] ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 What came first -- the orange, or the color? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:32:46 -0600 From: "Julian Mensch" Subject: RE: IN> [Fantasy] Outside, looking in (part of the other stuff I'm doing) [SNIP] This... may be one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen written on Usenet, Moe. I must admit that initially I thought IN fantasy was, well... silly. But crossover aside, this is a great look at Orcs. It articulates thoughts that I've had about the "fodder races" of D&D for ages better than I ever could have, and I'm way impressed. Thanks. - -- Julian Mensch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:46:00 -0400 From: "Jeffery Watkins" Subject: Re: IN> A Novice Habbalite Wow. This is great addition. I liked the thought process that lead him to his conclusion and hence his purpose. Jeffery _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:25:22 -0400 From: "Jeffery Watkins" Subject: Re: IN> Fantasy Month - a pair of Norse tethers. Well thought out. This Fantasy month has been full of great ideas and creativity. A success and its only half way through. Jeffery _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:18:04 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Fwd: Re: IN> Help!...again >Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:23:17 -0500 >Subject: BOUNCE in_nomine-l@lists.io.com: Non-member submission from ["Eric Bertish" ] [Remember the posters list... www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/lists.html .] >From: "Eric Bertish" >Subject: Re: IN>Help!...again >Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:20:55 -0400 > >> You're right, that's esoteric. > >Hey, I'm a GM. I need to know these things. > >F'rinstance, didja know that Atropine, the nerve-agent cure-all made famous >by such movies as The Rock, will kill you just as quickly as whatever >poisoned you? Atropine isn't a cure, it's a super-excretory stimulator. You >inject it and *everything* in your body opens up. Now, this does force the >poison out of your system, but unless you take the counter-injection to >neutralize the atropine, you'll dehydrate rapidly and die. > >In a manner of speaking, you sh*t yourself to death. > >Armed with that knowledge, I'm sure you can cook up something involving >nerve gas and Kobal..... > >-- Casca > >("Ph34r my mad trivia skillz.") > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:16:56 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: IN> Fwd: Renegade Lilim of the Game >Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:38:54 -0500 >Subject: BOUNCE in_nomine-l@lists.io.com: Non-member submission from ["Charles Phipps" ] (Time to re-s u b scribe, or get on the posters-l...) >From: "Charles Phipps" >Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:36:47 -0400 > >Josephine >Renegade Lilim of the Game > >Cor-5 Str-10 Agi-10 >Eth-3 Intel-6 Pre-6 >Cel-3 Will-6 Per-6 > >Artifact: Unholy rifle 5/ (6 bullets left), Holy Pistol 3/ (8 shots), Unholy >Pistol 5/ (5 shots), Blessed Knife 3/ > >Vessel: Drop Dead Gorgeous Italian-Spanish female (+3 Sex appeal) 6/ > >Skills: Acrobatics 4/, Detect Lies 1/, Driving 3/, Dodge 6/, Emote 4/, >Escape 3/, Langauges (Italian 3/, French 3/, Greek 3/, Spanish 3/), Lying >2/, Move Silently 4/, Ranged Weapon (Rifle 5/, Pistols 6/), Savoir Faire 3/, >Seduction 4/, Throwing 3/ > >Songs: Attraction (Corporeal 3/, Ethereal 2/), Form (Celestial 4/), Healing >(Corporeal 3/, Celestial 3/), Thunder 6/, Wings 3/ > >Attunements: Dissonance Binding, Humanity > >Rites: > >* Regenerate 2 points at Sundown >* Eliminate a Renegade Demon >* Duel with a Diabolical >* Slay the Vessel of a Demon or Fallen Angel >* Spend an hour having consenusal sex >* Spend half an hour in sexual acts >* Kill an adversary > >Josephine is one of the renegades on Asmodeus's personal hit list and it >frustrates him to no end that she continues to evade his hunters for her. >Originally created for the Demon Prince of the Game her first memories are >of being immediately sent to "school" to train as the Demon Prince's >assaisin. Whether it was the brutal treatment under her teachers or her >nature as a Lilim Josephine plotted some way to free herself from servitude. > Her chance came when she used several of her geas on low willed gremlins >and demons plus her considerable skill in deduction to escape during a >mission. > >In truth she never would have escaped if not for Asmodeus intending for her >to do so in hope of her eliminating a much greater target, the Demon Prince >however did not anticipate her next move which has thus far made it >impossible for her to be causally taken in by his spies among the Outcast. >Realizing that she had no desire to join the forces of Heaven nor >particularly live a life on the run Josephine decided to offer what skills >she had up to continue hunting for Renegades, Outcasts, and Demons. The aid >in artifacts, rites, and wealth she's acquired not to mention the rather >large ammount of dead Gamesters she's wracked up make her a terrible >embarassment. Asmodeus is considering turning to Dominic for aid in >destroying her and Josephine is not sure how her occasional employer will >act. > >Josephine like some demons has her own moral code that leads her to hunt her >fellow renegades who are often as not too wicked for Hell and dischordant >for anything but orgies of blood. Josephine has few objections also to >hunting demons who are part of Hell's heirarchy though she takes these jobs >only when they are truly repulsive (i.e. Demons of Saminga and Malphas >mostly) and it's worth the risk of antagonizing their prince. Outcasts she >hunts among angels are prey she has only recently started hunting but >considers quite a few of the Malakim to be no better than the demons of >Saminga as well. Angels and Demons who work with her however should be >prepared for her rather heavy handed tactics and knowledge that she parties >hard and often quite loosely.... > >take that as you will. > >-Charlemagne > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:33:32 -0400 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: Re: IN> A Novice Habbalite Hee. Cool. Good Habbalite, nicely Kobalite thought process (naturally, as for all Habbalah, the term "thought" is used loosely...). William ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:33:43 -0400 From: damienw@juno.com Subject: Re: IN> A Novice Habbalite On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:02:01 +1100 "james walker" writes: > Yarashiel's thoughts went something like this: > > - God is omniscient, knowing everything. > - "Everything" - is just that; not just the purpose of life, but all > of the > sordid details of insignificant lives. > - This includes every Soap Opera plot; every boring lecture, every > tedious > rule; every mindless routine. > - So God must be mind-numbingly bored! Bravo. Great way of showing the Habbalite delusion - good premise, logical thought, but what the demon actually does is WAY different from what an angel would do. Well, most angels. Some. Okay, lots of angels wouldn't mind killing boring people either, I'm sure. Can you blame them? - --- damienw[et]juno.com "To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths." - Scott McCloud ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:26:19 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Scenario Seed: One of our Archangels is Missing At 6:05 PM -0400 8/15/01, S.D. wrote: >One little problem, though. "The accused must be...suspected of no less a crime >than murder. If the accused is truly guilty, a luminous sword appears..." Just >get a bunch of demons that haven't committed that many crimes yet (kidnapping >is less than murder, right?) to grab Dom. Ah, but as a Superior, Dom gets access to the Malakite resonance. Have the demons been naughty? O:> >Plus the 'Let Justice Be Done' speech gives at least a second or two to get the >hell out of Dodge (no pun intended). Aw, that's in anime time.... O:> >Still, just make sure to handpick the 'capture squad' from the demons that >haven't 'qualified' for death by Heavenly Judgement yet, and it'd work... In a Bright or somewhat Silly setting, you could always have Dominic start talking to this bunch of "gray" demons and try to get them to see the light and opt for redemption. Which would be really kinda funny to throw at people -- "We kidnapped an Archangel. He's making a lot of sense." Then throw the PC demons at them. I mean, who expects _Dominic_ to have a silver tongue? - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: 16 Aug 2001 21:13:37 +0100 From: "Richard C Hanton-Rutherford" Subject: Re: IN> Fwd: The Demon of Manga >> Akira, Calabite Knight of Derision, Demon of Manga. > > Who, of course, is in a constant battle with the Demon of >Anime over which one should be the other's Servitor! No, it's an Angel of Anime - a Mercurian of Creation who was stationed in Japan at the same time as Akira, working with cartoonists. The two constantly fight over who was the bigger inspiration, though they both claim they had nothing to do with Crying Freeman (admit it, it was cack). Richie H-R - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:51:42 +0100 From: "Genevieve Cogman" Subject: IN> Kobal at work? Si non e vero, e ben trovato. (If it's not true, it ought to be.) I don't know if this is true or not, but . . . > ARKANSAS CITY (EAP) -- A Little Rock woman was killed > yesterday after leaping through her moving car''s sun roof during an > incident best described as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of eye > witnesses. > > Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile up > resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman who was > apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw > twelve people floating up into the air,and then passed a man on the > side of the road who she claimed was Jesus. "She started screaming > "He''s back, He''s back" and climbed right out of the sunroof and > jumped off the roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband of > 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene. > > "I was slowing down but she wouldn''t wait till I stopped," Williams > said. > She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that > Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky," he went on to say. > > "This is the strangest thing I''ve seen since I''ve been on > the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene. > > Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and > discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way > to a toga costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his > pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow up sex dolls > filled with helium which floated up into the air. Ernie Jenkins, > 32, of Fort Smith, who''s been told by several of his friends that > he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in > frustration, and said "Come back here," just as the Williams'' car > passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting > people up into the sky as they passed by him, according to her > husband, who says his wife loved Jesus more than anything else. > When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied > "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like > this to happen." Genevieve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:30:54 -0400 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN> Kobal at work? > > Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and > > discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way > > to a toga costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his > > pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow up sex dolls > > filled with helium which floated up into the air. Ernie Jenkins, What I find most disturbing is that there were 12 of them. One for each disciple. I shudder to think what this guy was planning on doing with them.... - -- Casca ------------------------------ Date: 16 Aug 2001 21:48:05 +0100 From: "Richard C Hanton-Rutherford" Subject: Re: IN> Kobal at work? >What I find most disturbing is that there were 12 of them. One for >each >disciple. I shudder to think what this guy was planning on doing with >them.... > >-- Casca Me too, but I can't help but imagine what Michelango's Last Supper would have liked with this guy and his "disciples". Richie H-R - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:15:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Fwd: The Demon of Manga - --- Richard C Hanton-Rutherford > No, it's an Angel of Anime - a Mercurian of Creation who > was stationed in Japan at the same time as Akira, working > with cartoonists. The two constantly fight over who was > the bigger inspiration, though they both claim they had > nothing to do with Crying Freeman (admit it, it was > cack). No way! That series has "Soldier of Hell trying to Redeem" written all over it. And it had better stories than Bubblegum Crisis ever dreamed about having. I concede the influence of Kobal in the dubbed English dialogue, however. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 What came first -- the orange, or the color? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:16:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Kobal at work? - --- Richard C Hanton-Rutherford wrote: > Me too, but I can't help but imagine what Michelango's > Last Supper would have liked with this guy and his > "disciples". Oh, thanks, Richie. I was trying not to go there. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 What came first -- the orange, or the color? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:38:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: RE: IN> [Fantasy] Outside, looking in (part of the other stuff I'm doing) - --- Julian Mensch wrote: > [SNIP] > > This... may be one of the most brilliant things > I've ever seen written on Usenet, Moe. I must admit > that initially I thought IN fantasy was, well... > silly. Oh, but it _is_ ... especially when it's in the hands of someone like me.* Luckily, I _like_ silly as a designator. :) >But crossover aside, this is a great look at Orcs. >It articulates thoughts that I've had about >the "fodder races" of D&D for ages better than I ever >could have, and I'm way impressed. > Thanks. Well, you're welcome (you too, Michael). I've been thinking about it myself for some time now: when I got a good excuse to cast it in IN terms, it ... just bubbled up. Moe *You know. Bugf*ck. ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 07/29/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:42:55 -0400 From: Jonathan Walton Subject: IN> Re: digest #2334? Hmm ... #2333 ... #2335 ... #2336 ... Looks like a case of missing digests. Is anyone else having this problem, or is it just me? I think me and Orc are going to have to have a little talk ... *polishes knuckles* Later. Jonathan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:34:20 -0400 From: "Adams, David" Subject: IN> Disturbance question Anyone have any ideas as to how much disturbance Celestial Form causes? I am coming up with a plan for my game and don't have my books on me. Eric you will see what is going on on Sunday. Thanx Dave ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2337 ********************************