in_nomine-digest Thursday, December 27 2001 Volume 01 : Number 2495 In this digest: Re: IN> Two Demons Walk Into a Bar... Re: IN> Latin phrases for your PC's Re: IN> The Star (seed) -- my Christmas offering Re: IN> Adventure Seed: "Damned Washbyrne" Re: IN> Micah Tanhumeth, the Angel of Innocent Blood Re: IN> Not really a Christmas concept... Re: IN> AH! My Godess In Nomine Re: IN> An overdue court action IN> Role Maintenance and Destruction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 05:59:11 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Two Demons Walk Into a Bar... - --- Maurice Lane wrote: > May I suggest that it's not unknown for > Alaemon to hand this out ... and that Servitors of > Revelations have to add the level of this Discord to > their dissonance rolls?" Word up!* *You have a point. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." -- Seneca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 06:08:08 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Latin phrases for your PC's Ofanite of Creation: Cogito, ergo spud. ("I think, therefore I yam.") }:;:> ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." -- Seneca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 06:21:26 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> The Star (seed) -- my Christmas offering This has possibilities even in a canon campaign. A Tether that could instantly transport Celestial forces light-years away would be a huge tactical advantage in a campaign that included interstellar travel. Or a Superior could use it as a meeting place that no one could easily penetrate -- including Lucifer himself (which makes it REALLY attractive to Princes). ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." -- Seneca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 06:30:27 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Adventure Seed: "Damned Washbyrne" Now THIS has possibilities... [leaves to begin scheming.] ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." -- Seneca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 06:38:28 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Micah Tanhumeth, the Angel of Innocent Blood - --- Manny Nepomuceno wrote: > Micah Tanhumeth "the Repentant" > The Angel of Innocent Blood > Malakite Master of Destiny Nice. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." -- Seneca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 06:47:32 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Not really a Christmas concept... - --- Maurice Lane wrote: > Origen therefore delayed his ascension up the Ladder > until he could prove to those idi ... 'errant > brethren' ... that they were dangerously wrong. > > He still hasn't made the trip. If that doesn't clarify the amount of sheer stubborness in Heaven, I don't know what would. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." -- Seneca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 08:42:00 -0800 From: "Phillip Des Jardins" Subject: Re: IN> AH! My Godess In Nomine Belldandy: Mercurian of Destiny, Master of Divine Destiny, Seraph resonance. Easy one. Urd: Bright Lilim of Trade. Still thinking about that one. Skuld: Malakite of Lightning. Just go look at the attunement, then consider her behavior. Phillip, the Happy Shiny Mercurian and Angel of Otaku ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:39:39 -0600 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> An overdue court action This would make an interesting campaign background, James. Nice work. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:58:50 -0500 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: IN> Role Maintenance and Destruction Feedback is highly welcome, expecially constructive criticism. I have yet to put these rules into play (though I hope to do so next year) and welcome any assistance rendered. Role Maintenance - ------------------ Just as relationships are living things that must be maintained, so too are roles, for they are in many ways a celestial's relationship with human society. For each level of Role the celestial possesses, it must spend one hour per day in active pursuit of that role's identity in order to keep this relationship healthy. This maintenance may be neglected for brief periods with no ill effect, but if at the end of a week's time the celestial has not performed the requisite hours, the Role degrades by a level. A notable exception to this rule is the Role/1. Consisting mostly of paperwork, there is little that needs be done to maintain it (except in cases of Role Destruction; see below). Simply by being in the vessel to whom the Role belongs, and answering to its name, is sufficient for maintenance. Degradation only becomes an issue if the vessel has not been occupied in over a week. Degraded Roles may be returned to their previous state only through concentrated effort. If, during the next week, the celestial spends double the amount of hours neglected, the Role may be returned to normal on the eighth day. This penalty is cumulative, which means that any Role higher than 2 becomes effectively impossible to repair if neglected. Role Destruction - ----------------- This instability of Roles has led to the development of certain types of bureaucratic warfare, and is favored by servitors of Dominic, Asmodeus, Aleamon, Michael and Baal. This is known as Role Destruction, and there are three stages to its performance. 1. Investigation. As one might expect, a Role cannot be compromised if it is not known to exist. Surveillance of known Tethers is standard operating procedure for both sides, and anyone whose frequency of appearance is deemed 'suspicious' is targeted for Penetration. Surveillance can take any number of routes, including but not limited to: Visual observation, listening devices, satellite photography, Resonances, Songs, and pure dumb luck. For this reason, tethers often have anti-surveillance teams which sweep the surrounding areas on a frequent, yet random, basis. 2. Penetration. Cross-checking through police records and DMV files will typically yield the name, address, and social security number of the suspected celestial. As these are the minimum requirements for a Role/1, any individual without such credentials is immediately pegged as a celestial; however, Role destruction is then impossible in this case. For all other instances, in-depth research is begun to trace the individual's paper trail and search for inconsistencies. To determine if a Role is penetrated, roll against its level for each week of scrutiny. Most investigations will not last more than four weeks, and depending upon circumstances a GM may assign bonuses for each week after the first. Note that all mortals have effectively impenetrable roles. 3. Destruction. Compared to the previous steps, this last stage is pitifully easy. Deletion of credit records, alteration or destruction of paperwork, and 'liquidation' of those able to affirm the celestial's identity are all standard procedure. By destroying each link the celestial has to the Role's 'realness', the less effective it becomes. Assume it takes one week of active 'deletion' to degrade a Role one level. A celestial whose Role has been degraded thusly may attempt to repair it using the aforementioned method - but its time will be better spent in finding and eliminating those responsible for its degradation. - -- Casca "Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing." --Margaret Chittenden, writer ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2495 ********************************