in_nomine-digest Sunday, February 17 2002 Volume 01 : Number 2546 In this digest: IN> Are we suffering from emptiness? Re: IN> Are we suffering from emptiness? Re: IN> Are we suffering from emptiness? IN> Up to the Challenge Re: IN> Up to the Challenge IN> Iron Rev Hype Re: IN> Up to the Challenge IN> The Rite of Restoration IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning Re: IN> New story IN> Stupid demonic pranks, chapter V Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning IN> Jordi revisited ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:16:45 -0800 From: Vaughn Romero Subject: IN> Are we suffering from emptiness? Is it just me or is it safe to say that ye olde In Nomine mailing list is exhibiting symptoms of Habbalite resonance backlash? Namely one emptiness discord. I'd put the list at emptiness/3 to match the 3 posts I got in the last digest. We need a list superior to remove our discord before we Fall and transform into just another e-bay site for rare RPG books. Hey, I already had to write an obituary for the Iron Rev series. Don't make me write an obituary for the mailing list as well. On a positive note: Add my name to the list of thumbs up reviews for the Showdown fiction. - --Vaughn - - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - Current Need/3 "Cool In Nomine List Postings" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:44:14 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Pawlowski" Subject: Re: IN> Are we suffering from emptiness? >From: Vaughn Romero >Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >To: In Nomine Mailing List >Subject: IN> Are we suffering from emptiness? >Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:16:45 -0800 > >Is it just me or is it safe to say that ye olde In Nomine mailing list is >exhibiting symptoms of Habbalite resonance backlash? Namely one emptiness >discord. I'd put the list at emptiness/3 to match the 3 posts I got in the >last digest. We need a list superior to remove our discord before we Fall >and transform into just another e-bay site for rare RPG books. If I wanted to eBay my books, I would have gone there. :) I wanted to place my In Nomine collection into good hands. It is not that I dislike In Nomine, but I have a nasty collector's habit. Unfortunately for In Nomine, it really came out in 1997 right in the middle of me moving, starting a new job, and getting married. I had picked up on only the first books, and never could get more. As a collector, I've tried to collect ALL books in a particular series. I have several "dead" (but complete) systems in my collection. Jeff _________________________________________________________________ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:59:09 -0500 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN> Are we suffering from emptiness? > Hey, I already had to write an obituary for the Iron Rev series. Don't make > me write an obituary for the mailing list as well. I think the Iron Rev obit was premature. I mean, I never got a post declaring the next contest and listing the inredients. If nobody knows there's a contest on, they can't enter it... > On a positive note: Add my name to the list of thumbs up reviews for the > Showdown fiction. I have no idea what you're talking about. - -- Casca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:52:46 -0500 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: IN> Up to the Challenge Normally I wouldn't trot this out quite so soon (if at all), as I haven't had my Muchkin Analyzer (aka Moe Lane) thoroughly abuse it. However, as Vaughn has expressed a Need for IN posts (and I'll be coming for a Geas soon, Vaughn), I figured I might as well let the list rip it pieces instead. Up To The Challenge (attunement suite) In much the same way that Superiors of both sides can grant Ethereal and Celestial Connnection attunements to soldiers (CPG p27), these attunements can be granted by both Archangels and Demon Princes to their servitors. They may also be granted to soldiers, but the Ethereal and Celestial versions both require appropriate Connections. The mechanics are idential for all three realms, but only the Corporeal version will be listed here as an example. Corporeally Up To The Challenge: Anyone possessing this attunement does not suffer penalties for attempting Strength or Agility based actions in which they are unskilled. This, in effect, gives them a "Zero level skill" (to shamelessly steal from classic Traveller) which does not add to target numbers; it simply negates the default penalty. This attunement has no bearing on skills of level 1 or greater, nor does it provide XP discount for learning those skills. Example: Gilgal has an Agility of 8 and no Throwing skill. Typically, this defaults to -3, giving him a target number of 5. If Gil is Up To The Challenge, his target is number is 8. OPTION: If the GM is running a highly dramatic game, possession of this attunement allows a PC to buy the first level (and ONLY the first) in previously unknown skills at the moment the player realizes the PC needs it. If the player has XP available, the first level is bought instantly and the PC is "up to the challenge" presented to him/her. - -- 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 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:12:02 -0500 From: "Robb Kidd" Subject: Re: IN> Up to the Challenge Eric Bertish wrote: > Up To The Challenge (attunement suite) > ... > OPTION: If the GM is running a highly dramatic game, possession of this > attunement allows a PC to buy the first level (and ONLY the first) in > previously unknown skills at the moment the player realizes the PC needs it. > If the player has XP available, the first level is bought instantly and the > PC is "up to the challenge" presented to him/her. Woooo. I likes, probably because I like SJR's similar GURPS advantage. A possible post script to the OPTION would be to limit exercising the option to situations in which no other PC (present?) has an appropriate skill. Keeps the players from stepping on each other's toes. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:32:33 -0500 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: IN> Iron Rev Hype Well, not "hype," but I didn't want to give the impression that I was announcing one at this minute. At any rate, yes, I am planning an Iron Rev competition. I am awaiting a particular event, which should happen within the week, before I write up the final post. If the event doesn't occur, well, there will still be an Iron Rev; it will just be slightly different. However, I'm hoping that it does occur, so that this will be a much more distinct (yet, hopefully, usable and interesting) Iron Rev. William ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:21:26 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Up to the Challenge - --- Eric Bertish wrote: > Normally I wouldn't trot this out quite so soon (if > at all), as I haven't > had my Muchkin Analyzer (aka Moe Lane) thoroughly > abuse it. (knife cord) NO ONE EXPECTS THE... oh, right, wrong literary reference. :) > Up To The Challenge (attunement suite) OK. This one doesn't look bad: I'd suggest that it not be allowed to allow free use of Sorcerous skills (or any other skills of that ilk), but at first glance you've seem to have hit all the other obvious munchkin points. I'd probably make them Creation Attunements, myself, or maybe Destiny. I like Robb's suggestion re the Option, as well - but it shouldn't be an issue in more well-adjusted parties. Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 01/01/02(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:29:23 +0800 From: " Cameron McCurry" Subject: IN> The Rite of Restoration The very existence of this Ritual is one of the most closely guarded secrets of sorcery. Few Sorcerors have ever heard the name and those who have usually dismiss it as little more than an unfounded and foolish rumor. But there are a few practicioners of magic who have dared to find the truth and put their lives at great risk because of it. The Ritual itself is one of the most powerful that a Sorceror can learn. And since knowing this ritual will put the practitioner on top of the hit lists of Saminga and Hatiphas, it is not easy to find someone willing to teach it. To put it simply, it restores the souls of the Undead. It is not as all powerful as the description may suggest however; there are such strict limitations imposed by it that few Sorcerors take the time to learn any farther. It also takes a level of selflessness and a desire to invoke change for the benefit of someone else which are alien concepts to most Sorcerers. But those small handful of candidates become a hope for salvation or reincarnation for those few Undead who wish to be released from this life. Rite of Restoration (Exorcism/6) Time: 6 hours Essence: Check digit+Total number of Forces in the subject The following conditions must be met for the ritual to succeed: The caster must be a White Sorceror with NO demonic influence. In other words, none of the spells or rituals he knows can be taught by any Infernal Force and they cannot have an Infernal Pact. The Sorceror must have Exorcism skill of 6 and a minimum Will of 9 The subject can only be a Vampire or Mummy and they must be completely willing to undergo this ritual. Using this on a Zombie will simply destroy them within the first ten seconds but there are rumors of research being done to change this. Once the ritual is cast, the Undead's soul is freed from the prison of the body. The process will begin to disperse the Forces into the Symphony unless the Sorceror is able to stop it and restore the soul to its proper place. Upon completion, one of three effects will occur: With a Divine Intervention, the soul is completely restored to the body and the subject is a normal human. Any Infernally granted Attunements, Forces Rites, or Songs are stripped as well as any Discord. If the subject started with six Forces in life, they will have that back. Otherwise, they will become regular five Force humans. With a regular success, the soul is restored to the body and all Infernally granted abilities will be stripped. However, the subject will undergo accelerated aging until they are in their proper age. For example, a person who became a mummy at the age of twenty and stayed that way for twenty years will age until they look to be forty. This common side effect is the reason that the subject must be a willing participant in the Ritual. If they die from the aging, the soul will be either reincarnated somewhere else or sent to Heaven. To date, none of the Undead that have died from this ritual have ended up in Hell. This is particularly infuriating to Saminga and one of the reasons he seeks out the Sorcerers that know this ritual. An Infernal Intervention has two consequences. The subject is destroyed just as any other Undead who are slain. The soul is gone and past recovery. Secondly, the name of the Sorcerer is now known to Hatiphas who will begin the hunt for the caster foolish enough to try to free an Undead from its perverted half-life. Heaven s attitude towards the Sorcerers that perform this ritual is quite favorable. Surprisingly, the Archangels of Judgment and Destiny have been the strongest supporters of Sorcerers that use this. It frees a soul to face its Final Judgment or allows them to find their Destiny. As for the Undead, the ones that learn of this spell see it as a chance to atone for a horrible mistake. - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:26:19 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning The following are several DEEPLY SILLY groups serving a DEEPLY SILLY Jean that might be found in a DEEPLY SILLY campaign. Just wanted to make that clear. :) Extra points to anyone who figures out the Red Dwarf reference. Moe Oddities in the Lightning Organization Chart Lightning's Lunatics Well, in official correspondence this group is merely called the Creation Trusteeship, but nobody calls them that except Jean and the stuffier Archangels. Aside from everything else, the name is no longer completely accurate: certain regular angels serving Lightning have become not-quite-official members of this not-quite-official group - usually with a not-quite-inaudible sigh of relief by everyone involved. Mavericks can be a bit of a chore for an organized laboratory, after all. Letting them go somewhere where their eccentricities are not only tolerated but cherished makes for a peaceful organizational chart and cuts down on the Falling rate. Lightning's Lunatics are where the odd theorists (to orthodox Servitors of Jean, anyway) hang out; savants specializing in obscure and arcane scientific theories, engineers specializing in unusual technological pathways and roughly half of Jean's social scientists. They also tend to have a good number of angels who simply have difficulty fitting into Lightning's traditional categories: anyone who can make a successful career at thinking outside the box will find him or herself being gently but irresistibly guided to this group. Most tend not to complain, as the funding remains constant and the company congenial. The Host has noticed this reorganization, of course. They have also noticed that Lightning's Lunatics are somewhat more receptive towards perfectly reasonable information and/or equipment requests, which pleases both the Host and more orthodox Servitors of Lightning (who traditionally are not receptive towards anything that interrupts their collective research). Even if Lightning's Lunatics never produced any original work, this added layer of insulation between the Halls of Progress and needless distractions would make the arrangement worthwhile. The fact that some really impressive cutting edge research is due to these semi-Outcasts is considered a beneficial side effect. The Department of Biological Research Only the most flippant of angels would stoop to calling this group 'Von Frankenstein's Revenge': true, most angels can be justifiably called flippant by Jean's stringent standards, but the statement remains valid. The Biological Research Department was set up to handle the life sciences: after all, agriculture and animal husbandry were as worthy of Lightning's attention as were chemistry and physics, and it only makes sense to do essential research along those lines. This was not a matter of dispute. It is also not in dispute that, theoretically speaking, it only makes sense to provide the Host with the mature, tested fruits of important research - once it has been properly assessed, of course. After all, Jean's Servitors are as committed to the War as any other angels: they have no desire to have Heaven lose the ultimate battle because they failed to provide their side with the proper tools. Finally, it was makes theoretical sense to utilize the aid of Servitors of germane Words in one's research. Servitors of Divine Fire have proven useful in certain plasma physics problems, as have Servitors of Stone in geology and Servitors of Wind in meteorology and chaos theory. Thus, there should have been no problem in reaching out to Servitors of Animals and Flowers for collaboration in mutually interesting zoological, biochemical and botanical studies. Theoretically. Biological Research has become - well, fairly odd lately. The botanical division is not so troublesome (although those who tasked with retrieving the recent accidental release into Heaven of large, ill tempered, mobile tomatoes might disagree), but the biochemistry and zoology divisions bear constant watching. The Servitors themselves are quite enthusiastic about their work - to the point where they will sometimes incorporate particularly interesting applied biotechnology into their vessels - and have a not-quite-undeserved reputation for allowing that enthusiasm get the better of them. There is also the minor problem that Jordi himself has recently undergone a radical shift in his opinion on Lightning/Animal joint research. While he remains somewhat unresponsive (read: 'bitterly hostile') towards the hard sciences, something about biological engineering has seemed to tickle his interest. Much of Biological Research's resource allocation has been funded by Animals' perfunctory organization: this would concern Jean less if the greatest 'funding' by Jordi were not in the fields of genetic engineering and neurology. Unfortunately, the Archangel of Lightning is on the record as having expressed a desire for the rest of the Host to be more supportive of his mutually-beneficial research, a fact that the Archangel of Animals pointed out to him the last time the issue came up in Council... The Committee to Limit Infernal Technological Objectives/Resources In Society It is a point of some pride among the Committee that it came into existence as an almost instantaneous response to Vapula's ascension to Princedom. The fact that it has not precisely kept (read: "joyfully abandoned") its original focus is treated as a mere bagatelle: after all, the essential Truth of the human saying about consistency, hobgoblins and little minds can be ascertained by any competent Seraph. The Committee's current purpose is fairly simple to understand: Vapula's creations are bad for the Symphony in general and humanity in particular, and must be neutralized. Few Servitors of Lightning would dispute this. What they would dispute (and quite often do) is that said 'neutralization' should involve the capture, analysis and reverse-engineering of any Technological gadget or artifact that the Committee can beg, borrow, steal or pry from the stiffening fingers of its previous demonic owner. Many angels serving Jean find troubling the idea that one should not discount an invention or theory, simply because it came from the organization of an insane Habbalite Prince who espouses sloppy experimentation. Many more are simply opposed to the idea that any part of the Halls of Progress should be allowed to explode on a semi-regular basis. To counter this, the Committee brazenly points out that, angelic prejudices to the contrary, many of Vapula's devices actually work: they just aren't safe. Let the Prince of Technology suffer all the disasters that come from his combining of lunacy, over-enthusiasm and badly-understood physics: when the smoke clears, those items that can be appropriated and debugged will be, thus saving the Host valuable time and resources. Granted, the debugging process can be a bit... robust, but that's a small price to pay for the potential gain. Besides, it's not as if the explosions are very large, anyway. Most of the time they barely shatter the glass on the doors. If the Archangel of Lightning had a problem with this, most Committee members are certain that he would not be shy in saying so. Of course, his forbearance might be a reflection of the source. It is impolite to state that most Committee members are Redeemed Servitors of Technology or Dark Humor. Note the use of the word 'impolite', not 'inaccurate', 'an exaggeration' or 'essentially unTrue'. It is also impolite to state the price of admission into the Committee is an especially interesting gadget created during one's tenure in Hell. Note the above clarification. The fact remains that Committee members are, one and all, extremely good researchers and engineers who make a point in never releasing a device that can harm humanity: a good manager knows when to give some slack to the talented, and Jean is assuredly a good manager. The current head of the Committee is Dina, a Mercurian Vassal of Lightning whose other claim to fame is being the first Servitor of Technology (nee Dark Humor) to ever Redeem. It took him about fifty years to maneuver himself into the Committee chairmanship. Since then, he has almost single-handedly changed its focus from a fairly ineffectual stopgap organization to a powerful force, feared in almost equal measure by his former colleagues in Hell and the review committees of Heavenly scientific conferences. He's also responsible for the Committee's name change (it used to be called just the Board of Suppression). Dina swears that, upon seeing the new letterhead for the first time, Jean's lips twitched. He swears. ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 01/01/02(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:12:19 +0800 From: " Cameron McCurry" Subject: Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning >>He's also responsible for the Committee's name change (it used to be called just the Board of Suppression). >>Dina swears that, upon seeing the new letterhead for the first time, Jean's lips twitched. >>He swears. Bad pun! Ten Yard Penalty! But some great ideas anyway... - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:43:33 -0500 From: Eric Eves Subject: Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning Maurice Lane wrote: > Dina swears that, upon seeing the new letterhead for > the first time, Jean's lips twitched. > > He swears. Hmm, wouldn't have thought that "he"'d have that sort of sense of humor. Of course, it's the calm, quiet ones you have to watch out for. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:45:31 -0600 From: "Charles Glasgow" Subject: Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Eves" To: Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 11:43 PM Subject: Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning > Hmm, wouldn't have thought that "he"'d have that sort of sense of humor. Dina's original Superior was Kobal, remember? Then Vapula, *then* Jean. I guess some habits die hard. *eg* - -- Chuckg ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:33 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Subject: Re: IN> New story In article <20020214050414.49231.qmail@web14005.mail.yahoo.com>, moelane_1999@yahoo.com (Maurice Lane) wrote: > Please note that the No Canon light has been turned on > in the cabin; indeed, this one pushes the Heresy > envelope. Yeah, right... It makes diabolical sense, you know, Moe. And who was that in the cave? Michael? Uriel? Gabriel? - --- John Dallman jgd@cix.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:33 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Subject: IN> Stupid demonic pranks, chapter V "An important activity for any group of demons is to waste the time of the local angels. Getting patsies to commit demonic-looking activities is the basic technique; you do it a few times, with some common characteristics so that they realise it's the same people each time, then do something real and horrific using the distraction as cover. A bit of alternation of using events as cover, or not should crank up their paranoia level nicely. With any luck, you can get an angel or two into serious dissonance, making it harder for the others as the dissonant are hauled away for re-education." The lecturer smiled at his class, in the manner of one who enjoys his work. "You've all been out in the field, showing the techniques of Dark Humour to our fellow-demons in the field. So few of them understand the importance of using psychology. Mortonal! Tell us about your most successful attempt, please?" The battered Djinn came to the front of the seminar room, avoiding the trick floorboard, and cleared his throat. "Err.. we had to be a bit creative, and it didn't work perfectly..." "Naturally", said the lecturer, "no plan survives contact with our side, let alone the enemy. Pray continue." "Well, the local angels had had the basic tactic used on them before. While that doesn't keep it from working, it makes life harder. So we thought we'd try a variation. It nearly worked, honestly!" With all eyes on him, there was clearly no escape. He plunged onwards. "Etherals seemed like a good idea. We were in a university town, where the students do all sorts of weird things. That was a good start. And I'd been reading a lot, so as to try to understand them better, and I'd found lots of characters that were built on modern myths, ones who could easily have become weak Etherals. Some of them had been created by local Soldiers of Creation, and we reckoned that could mess things up too, and keep stirring Heaven's little quarrels." There were even smiles from the students now. They wanted to hear it, and if he backed out now... "So we did it. We dressed up as orcs, got some guns - made sure of blank ammo, had to avoid any big disturbances, so we used humans' play guns that only shoot plastic pellets - it was all planned, really!" He was sweating now, and caught up with the story, he has pointing an imaginary gun left and right. "The first couple of events worked fine. We took a few of the university lecturers hostage - routine stuff, happens to them every year - staged explosions on the river, called each other by the names of characters we were using. We filled up the local press, and everyone thought it was really students. We were disrupting things nicely, and the angels weren't worrying. Then we started making disturbances behind the scenes in the events. We were just lucky to do one when there was a triad in town; that got the locals angels into trouble straight away." "So they started keeping watch, and trying to get involved with our events. Our contact among the students had got some of them started into Orc Marines games - they were enjoying themselves, and making the angel's lives harder. It was great fun!" Mortonal made to return to his seat, but was pinned by a significantly raised eyebrow. "Err, having got all this going, we, err, thought we'd better try something worthy of the distraction. It was a bit of a rush job. You really should be careful about letting Cabalim make your intrusion plans, really you should! We were going to capture a professor of folklore, who'd been debunking Project Spoonbending II, but when we broke into his rooms, They were there.! "Them, you know - the people we'd been pretending we were as Etherals. Still, at least the building got demolished, and it was very historic. We didn't do too badly, really!" "Thank you, Mortonal", said the lecturer. "If you and you would just lay hold of him ... thank you; that completes the Psychological Preliminary Interrogation lecture; we'll have the practical class after the break." - --- John Dallman jgd@cix.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:58:34 -0500 From: Eric Eves Subject: Re: IN> Some Inappropriate Groups for Lightning > Dina's original Superior was Kobal, remember? Then Vapula, *then* Jean. I meant Jean. I mean, "he" is hardly the sort to react to this sort of thing, or so I'd think. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 04:56:01 -0500 From: "Rolland Therrien" Subject: IN> Jordi revisited I did some thinking the other day about Jordi, after watching "Crocodile Hunter" on TV, and I realized that the Canon portrayal of Jordi doesn't really please me at all. Way too much "When Animals Attack" Eco-terrorism in it's approach. And the whole "Jordi Hates Humanity" approach doesn't please me either. I figure Jordi might be happier if Humanity was just more friendly to the Animal kingdom as a whole, rather then extinct. Seems more poetic in justice. Also, Jordi's Choir Attunemens... don't make a lot of sense to me. So Jordi's Seraphim are all in the oceans, while he only has Malakim keeping track of dogs? And none of the Choirs really do what their attunements were MEANT to let them do, either. I figure Jordi's Mercurians, rather then spend all their time in the wild with the Apes, would prefer spending it amongst Humans, teaching them to take care of nature instead. Which is why I did some thinking about Jordi's Choir Attunements, to replace the default "Free non-disturbing Vessel" attunement, which would become a Servitor Attunement instead. This vision of Jordi assumes that the Archangel of Animals doesn't HATE Humanity so much as is frustrated by the species' current attitudes towards Nature and Animals as something less important then it's "beautiful" technology. Ideally, this Jordi would prefer that Humanity goes back to a more "natural" way of life, that of a Hunter-Gatherer society with a minimal Environmental Impact. But he'll settle for a modern world where Humans actually take care to preserve the Environments of the Animals around it, and work to preserve Bio-Diversity rather then to deprive it. While in the past Jordi might have kept his Servitors in the wild, even an Archangel living on Instincts as he does can see that the best way to deal with Humanity's actions on the Earth is to deal with Humanity on it's own turf. And so, Jordi's Angels are found as often in cities, teaching eco-conservatism and "educating" animal abusers, as they are in the wild, dealing with polluters and poachers. Jordi's attitudes towards Hell and it's Demons is simple: If they don't hurt animals, I don't really care. He's firmly on Heaven's side, and he'll provide assistance in dealing with Hell's forces if you ask nicely, but the only demons he truly hates are Belial, Mammon, Haagenti and Vapula, and their respective servitors. He dislikes Jean's support of Human technology, and Marc's support of Humanity's economic attitude (whom Jordi sees as responsible for a lot of animal suffering), but he's best friends with Novalis, who shares his environmentalism, but tries to temper his aggressiveness a bit. He also gets along well with Eli (who loves nature as much as the rest of Creation) and David (who agrees that Humanity should go back to it's roots a bit more, if only to toughen up a bit.) He's neutral to everyone else. Revised Choir Attunements: Seraphim: Can identify at a glance any animal they see, from it's exact Genus to it's specific identity. They serve Jordi by cataloguing the Animals of the Earth and their condition. They prefer staying in the wild, away from deceitful humanity and stay close to honest animal-kind. Cherubim: Can attune to a number of animals = Celestial Forces at the same time. They serve Jordi as his caretakers, healers and wardens, watching over Animals in the wild, in zoos or in cities. Ofanim: Receive a corporeal force bonus when using their Resonnance to follow animals. They keep track of migatrion patterns and the transportation of animals, either legal or smuggling. Elohim: Can use their resonnance on animals without a penalty. They use it to check on their emotional and physical condition. They serve Jordi as his inspectors, surveying the Earth, keeping track of animal health and inspecting troublespots for possible animal abuse. Malakim: Can automatically detect "Animal Abuse" as "The Most Ignoble" thing done by any being they look upon, and are compelled by their Oaths to punish those beings as soon as possible. They're Jordi's punishers, dealing with Animal Abusers and Poachers. Kyriotates: Can double their number of forces when it comes to possessing animals. (So a 9 Force Kyrio could possess 9 2-force dogs rather then just 4) They serve as wandering troubleshooters, wandering from area to area, from animal to animal, observing animal life from within while protecting them. Mercurians: With the expenditure of Essence, they can attune a Human to an animal's life for (rounds = Essence points spent). They use this ability to help them in their duties as teachers of animal conservation amongst Humanity. Servitor Attunements: In addition to "Animal Magnetism and Call of the Wild", Jordi hands out the following Attunement: Beast Warrior: Jordi hands out one specially crafted animal vessel of the Angel's choice. While in this vessel, nothing the angel performs, except the performance of Songs and the expenditure of Essence, gains Dissonance. So, what does everyone think of my revised Jordi? ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2546 ********************************