in_nomine-digest Thursday, March 28 2002 Volume 01 : Number 2581 In this digest: IN> Before IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor IN> New Contest Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor IN> The Rest Re: IN> Before Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor IN> Gendu, Prince of the Stars Re: IN> The Rest Re: IN> Before Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Gendu, Prince of the Stars IN> Forces question Re: IN> Forces question Re: IN> Forces question Re: IN> Forces question Re: IN> Forces question Re: IN> Forces question Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Re: IN> Forces Question ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:04:40 -0800 From: Daiv Subject: IN> Before "Yes, Mother?" the Offanite said breathlessly. "HI!" Novalis replied, embracing her Servitor. The Offanite returned her hug, but was clearly distracted. "Sit here with me a moment. Tea?" "Uhm... Okay." He remained standing, or, rather, hovering before her. Some of the internal wheels within his form did slow, however, And Novalis did not bother to notice. At the time, Novalis had been told of the recently created Tea Ritual in Japan, and was so delighted with it that she adopted it. "It shows proper respect for the Flowers that God gives us, and facilitates peaceful and mindful conversation. Besides, its pretty cool, don't you think?" she would say, to anyone who asked. "So, Javiel, I understand you have been active in the Corporeal realm, lately? Tending to the cultivation of trees and bushes?" "Huh? Oh. Uhm. yeah. The northern parts of the African continent, mostly, but i find it useful to get around. Spreading the seeds to fertile ground, that kind of thing." Novalis nodded, as she sipped her tea quietly. "well, I have to say, i have been very impressed with your work. Did you know that you, alone, have prevented the loss of no less than fifteen separate species of flowers? Some of them have tremendous medicinal potential, waiting to be discovered. Several others are just beautiful. The results of some cross pollination between Eli and myself, as it were." The Offanite shrugged. "I am but your servant." "Well, you are a good one, and i appreciate your work. I think that i would like to sponsor you for a word. Do you like the Tea Ceremony?"She asked as she poured. Javiel froze, though only for a moment. "Yes, Mother, very much... But I do not think I am worthy of the Word Tea Ceremony." Novallis laughed. "No, Oh, child, no. You are a dutiful and worthy servant, and I would never take you from charges. Tell me, do you know what this is?" She gestured to a small bush, bearing fruit, growing in the shade. Javiel nodded. "I have seen it on my duties. It does well for itself, though, and i do not often need to interact with it." Novalizs nodded. "Well, your current vessel and role is that of a Nomadic Shepard. I am would like you to take this particular bush into your special attention." "And your Word shall be Coffee." Laurence "The /Offanite?/ of _/Tea Ceremonies/_?!!" Novalis nodded as he laughed. - -- hammer and anvil fire sweat iron and breath forging destiny ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:18:22 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Needless to say, I do not actually advocate the destruction and/or persecution of mimes. That isn't very nice. Moe Loquel Djinn Baron of Derision Demon of Mimes Corporeal Forces: 5 Strength: 12 Agility: 8 Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence:10 Precision: 10 Celestial Forces: 6 Will: 12 Perception: 12 Word-Forces: 3 Vessel: Mime/6, -2 Charisma Skills: Dodge/6, Driving/6 (unicycle), Emote/3, Fighting/2, Knowledge/6 (How to be an extraordinarily annoying person without making a sound), Move Silently/6, Ranged Weapon/3 (Uzi), Running/6, Swimming/6 Songs: Entropy (Ethereal/4), Form (Corporeal/6), Laughter (All/2), Motion (Celestial/6), Shields (All/6, virtuoso), Silence (All/6, virtuoso) Role: Mime/6, Status/1 Relics: 2 Uzi/6s, both of which make no sound when fired. Attunements: Djinn of Dark Humor, Calabite of Dark Humor, Habbalite of Dark Humor, Farce of Mistaken Identity, Prank, Secretly Replaced, Baron of Hysteria, Demon of Mimes Demon of Mimes: All disturbance generated by Loquel is divided in half (rounded down). This is cumulative with all other modifiers. Rites: : Cause someone to punch a mime. The Demon of Mimes has to be a Djinn, you understand. All the other Bands care too much about their own skins. Luckily, Loquel is fairly apathetic, even for his Band: he apparently doesn't seem to mind much the fact that he's an automatic target for the Host whenever they figure out that he's the Mime. It's hard to tell because, well, Loquel doesn't talk, even to whine. It's odd, of course, that the Host is so intolerant of the Word: when all's said and done, Mimes aren't precisely the most active danger to Heaven out there. However, it is a fact that no Seraph can say the phrase 'a mime is a terrible thing to waste' without dissonance, and it certainly is a fact that 'cause a mime to stop being a mime' is a generic Rite for Heaven. It must be an ineffability thing, or something. As mentioned above, if this bothers the Djinn, nobody can tell. Loquel was never the most articulate demon in the Horde, even before his elevation - and nobody's heard him speak since he got his Word. His only passion seems to be his Word: Loquel will pursue being the Perfect Mime with just the obsessive, grim determination that one would expect from a Djinn. Once he gets warmed up, you will laugh at him - or, more accurately, at his current victim. It may be nervous, shameful laughter, but that's what Kobal wanted in the first place, so it all works out. Thanks to his stellar personality and Word, Loquel tends to move around a lot - something that he's actually quite good at. When on the corporeal plane, he tends to stick in public places and annoy people: when in Hell, he tends to be one of Kobal's personal messengers. It's an open question about which duty is more dangerous: the Djinn is apparently incapable of ever not being a mime, even when he's delivering a sarcastic missive to, say, the Prince of Fate (something that he does a lot, for some strange reason). There's been at least one occasion when Loquel's come back from the Archive missing a Force or three. Of course, that might just have been because of the unicycle. ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 02/24/02(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:30:05 +0000 From: "Janet Anderson" Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Okay, I give up. What unicycle? Janet Anderson _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:55:00 -0500 From: Eric Eves Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor Ok, who here thinks that a certain prolific poster needs to get some sleep and/or lay off the drugs? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:00:15 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor - --- Janet Anderson wrote: > Okay, I give up. What unicycle? It's apparently a (British) mime thing, or something. Go ask Terry Pratchett... Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 02/24/02(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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It's got to hurt my brain. ;) Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 02/24/02(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:13:45 -0800 From: Daiv Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor >Needless to say, I do not actually advocate the >destruction and/or persecution of mimes. That isn't >very nice. What? No rite : "Hang a Mime upside down in a Scorpion pit with a Sign that says "Learn the Words"? After all, what about redemption? -Daiv - -- hammer and anvil fire sweat iron and breath forging destiny ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:27:53 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor - --- Daiv wrote: > What? No rite : "Hang a Mime upside down in a > Scorpion pit > with a Sign that says "Learn the Words"? Hey, I was ripping off the Discworld enough, don't you think? :) > After all, what about redemption? Covered by the 'lead them off the path of mimeishness' Rite. It's an actual ecumenical Rite in the campaign I'm currently running...* Moe *Seemed appropriate, seeing as the player had just rolled a Divine Intervention... ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 02/24/02(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:33:54 From: "Daniel Gallagher" Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor >From: Eric Eves >Ok, who here thinks that a certain prolific poster needs to get some >sleep and/or lay off the drugs? Good God! No! Lately, Moe and responces to Moe's posts have made up like 50% of the list. What would happen if he stoped? Less sleep! More drugs! Go Moe! Daniel _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:57:11 -0500 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: IN> The Rest So Daiv laughed at the Ofanite Angel of Tea Ceremonies; and Moe has tossed us the Demon of Mimes. As there seems to be a meme running around, I think I'll bandwagon. The result is an old angel who may give an interesting viewpoint on Ofanim, Creation, and the Symphony in general. Silas Angel of the Rest(musical connotation) Ofanite Angel of Creation Attributes: Bah, it's late and I have school tomorrow. ;^) Ridiculous Agility and Precision (GURPS, DX), decently high Intelligence and Perception (GURPS, IQ, Alertness), doesn't concentrate so much on Strength (GURPS, ST) or Body Hits (GURPS, HT). Tweak to fit. Plenty of Forces, though, since Silas is a powerful Word-Bound angel that's been around for a while. Advantages: Perfect Balance, Imperturbable Disadvantages: Only Judgment poking around him more than most angels... Quirks: Laconic, -1 Attunements: Ofanite of Creation, Malakite of Creation, Ofanite of the Sword, Angel of the Rest Angel of the Rest: On the first action performed after a wait equal to the length of time normally necessary to take the action, an angel with this Attunement gains a bonus to any necessary roll equal to their Forces in the Realm they currently inhabit. As a side effect, Silas gains no Choir Dissonance from stillness. Rites: Creation's Rites Spend two hours in silence(below 5 dB): +1 Make an object more useful (for its *intended* purpose) by removing unnecessary parts. +1 Skills notes: very high Fencing, Administration, Musical Instrument(percussion). Middling skills with Teaching, Appreciate Beauty(unspecialized). Low levels of sundry useful modern skills, like Driving and Computer Use. Equipment: As an old angel of Creation, Silas probably has a few useful knickknacks (read: stuff from basic Flaming Swords to a couple of weirdities from Eli himself) stashed around. Silas was Wordbound before the Fall; it is extremely unlikely that such a Word would ever have been granted, especially to an Ofanite, afterwards. Judgment keeps a close eye on him, and not just because Silas serves Eli directly. However, the triads assigned the duty can feel kind of silly doing it, since between Eli's lack of Dissonance conditions, and his own ability to remain still, the chances of his Falling are virtually nil. Other Ofanim to whom he granted his Attunement would receive the same effect, but they rarely want it -- it takes a particular kind of personality to desire closer knowledge of this particular aspect of the Symphony, and Ofanim are rarely among them. From Silas' point of view, however, The Rest is a perfect Word for an Ofanite. Ofanim don't just go crashing around at top speed all the time - -- well, novices do, but they learn. And Ofanim certainly don't try to make the rest of the world go as fast as they do. That's for Calabim. No, the best Ofanim recognize the place of, shall we say, punctuation in their motion. They realize that a pause makes the music more effective. Without rests, music would be overwhelming. Without things like silence and darkness and cold, the noise and the brightness and the heat of the Universe would be unbearable. Some people think that "a break in the flow" is Calabite thinking; Silas tries to make them understand that a rest isn't a break, it's a part of the music. Observing him in action can help convince you he's okay. Silas is the stereotypical Ofanite when it comes to action -- he can move at lightning speeds, think rapidly (and deeply, for that matter), and is a fearsome force on the battlefield. In fact, he's even better at it than many Ofanim, who have a bit of trouble with concepts like "stop-thrust," "feint," and "hold position." It also doesn't hurt that, spending a moment or two waiting for an enemy's blow, he's had enough time for his Attunement to kick in for a parry or counterthrust. The words "deadly grace" have been ascribed to him more than once. In social arenas, Silas' abilities are equally notable. A great deal of diplomacy and counseling is knowing when to keep silent, and a keen awareness of his Word gives Silas an insight into this. While other Ofanim can have a tendency to micromanage, trying to do everything, Silas holds an appreciation of stepping back and letting underlings do the work. Silas has always loyally served the Word of Creation, sure that his Archangel has good reasons for his current journey which will be revealed in due time. He greatly favors minimalist schools of art, especially Japanese traditions. Concepts of empty space and negative space delight him. He adores music of all kinds, and frequently focuses on music education when he has the chance to support human activities. Beyond this, Silas feels that his Word connects him to a vital part of the Symphony -- perhaps even to the very moment when an unending, perfect God created shape and form by delimiting part of the Symphony. With an interpretation of his Word like this, it is no wonder that Silas aspires to Superiorhood. He continues to hone his administrative skills and makes political contacts, all the while exploring facets of his Word connecting him to all manner of pause, hiatus, and patience to be found in the Symphony. He developed the Rite last listed while seeking to understand the Rest in its guise as Simplicity. Laurence has taken a liking to the Angel of the Rest, since Silas seems less flamboyant than many angels of Creation, and concepts of discipline as "timing" and "self-control" are embedded in the Word. He has given Silas his Ofanite Attunement and frequently uses him as a contact point for Creationers. Even so, Judgment remains watchful, not least because one other minor ability of Silas' is to enter Limbo and return freely without losing a Vessel.... William ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:38:52 +0100 From: "Donato Ranzato" Subject: Re: IN> Before From: "Daiv" > > Laurence "The /Offanite?/ of _/Tea Ceremonies/_?!!" > > Novalis nodded as he laughed. Nice story........... Wasn't coffee originally a holy drink consumed by Sufies (Islamic mystics) to get mystical insights? And more and more people consider coffee a drug, like alcohol or hasj. So, how does Fleurity react to an Angel of Coffee? Donato ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:52:13 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Unni_Sol=E5s?= Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Maurice Lane wrote: > > Okay, I give up. What unicycle? > > It's apparently a (British) mime thing, or something. > Go ask Terry Pratchett... > Nah.. It's a circus artist prop, not only mimes use them:) A bicycle has two wheels, a unicycle has only one. They look daft, but are apparantly Traditional in many clowning, balancing, juggling, etc. acts. Dear Lord, but I feel sorry for that poor demon of mimes... Just _imagine_ having to roll to the Archives on a unicycle and mime a message to Kronos. Kobal gets _way_ to little credit for being possibly _the_ cruelest Prince in Hell. I almost feel tempted to write up a cherub with the sole purpose of cuddeling this poor djinn into redemtion.:) :) Happy Birthday Moe! Oh, and to any demons on the list: Remember to stay inside tomorrow. You _know_ why.... - -- Pain! Lots of pain! Unni ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:48:55 +0800 From: Manny Nepomuceno Subject: IN> Gendu, Prince of the Stars Hey, I see Moe's on the warpath again...oh well. And yes, I do have a sizeable to-do list... since it's Holy Week here (something of a national holiday) I suppose I can make some inroads on it. If you missed Leilani, she's on my site at http://www.geocities.com/angeloffools/stuff/leilani.html. ;) Manny Neps http://www.geocities.com/angeloffools p.s. Happy Birthday, Moe. Gendu Djinn Prince of the Stars The world is humanity's lot. Space is mine. The tale as it is told in Hell: he arrived on Earth one day, an unaligned Djinn, heavily Discordant, yet his eyes burned with the fire of a billion stars. Without a vessel, immobile and insane, he was no match for Asmodeus and the Game. But Lucifer looked on him and believed in his rantings, and raised the Djinn to Prince, granting him an infernal coronet and a place at his table. He sits there still. Insane in ways no Habbalite could ever fathom, obsessively focused as only a Djinn can be, Gendu is the Prince of the Stars, and he uses every resource at his disposal to keep humanity paranoid and in fear of the very vastness and depth of space. On Heaven's side, only Gabriel and Leilani, his divine counterpart, are aware of his nature and history, although Dominic and Yves have claimed to know of the strange Prince. Behind his back, his Servitors call him the Mad Prince, although they obey his every wish, lest he destroy them out of hand. Even his fellow Princes fear him, for he is an unknown variable in the cold equation of Hell. Servitors of the Stars understand that space is mankind's destiny, but they also understand that it can be his fate as well. They work to sabotage mankind's effort to reach out into space, and to ensure that mankind is ill prepared for the rigors of being a starfaring race. For them, as for Gendu, space is the ultimate prize, and only those deemed fittest will achieve it. If that means destroying every colony ship that mankind sends out into space, then that is exactly what they will do. Some of them work in space, charting and exploring, while others yet stay on Earth, keeping organizations like NASA from gaining popular and financial support. When he deigns to appear on Earth, Gendu appears as a crazed old man. He has been known to appear in multiple incarnations at one time, spewing incoherent, often contradictory orders and expecting nothing less than perfection. He will rarely stay to fight along with his Servitors, but expects them to die for him if he so orders it. Dissonance Servitors of the Stars are charged with exploring space and keeping it clean of scum (i.e. "talking monkeys"). As such, they are forbidden to allow any spacefaring races to explore space unchallenged or untested. The extent of this testing is left to the Servitor, but even the least of them will go to Habbalitic lengths to determine a species' spaceworthiness. Band Attunements Unlike Leilani, Archangel of the Heavens, Gendu has always been focused on space. As such, he has no archaic attunements, and there are many, many more demons of the Stars than there are angels of the Heavens. Balseraph (restricted): When in space, Balseraphs are not noticed unless they want to be. However, any action on their part directed at someone in their vicinity (communication, use of a Song, an attack) will allow them to be perceived. Djinn (restricted): Gendu's Stalkers may, on attuning to a moving object, choose to be pulled along in its wake. In addition, they may choose to be drawn to any relatively stationary object (GM's discretion) they have previously attuned to at a rate of (Celestial Forces x hundreds) kilometers per hour. It is assumed that this was the means by which Gendu returned to Earth, although no Djinn outside of his Binders has ever been able to duplicate the feat. Calabim (restricted): Because the field of entropy surrounding his Destroyers often wreaks havoc on environmental or space suits, Gendu grants his Calabim vessels which can withstand the vacuum and cold of space. Habbalah (restricted): Habbalah may add their Ethereal Forces to their resonance rolls against humans (or other emotional life forms) who are not in direct physical contact with their native planet. Lilim: Gendu has little use for Lilim, although a number of Daughters have distinguished themselves in his service. Those who do seek his service are granted the ability to identify any star whose name they already know on sight, and determine its approximate distance from their position. Shedim (restricted): Fleshless of the Stars need not seek out a corporeal host while in space, but must do so within 1 hour of entering a planet's atmosphere. They earn dissonance for every month that goes by without possessing a host, however -- their nature as Corruptors needs that much affirmation. Impudites: Gendu's Impudites can transform Essence into any kind of fuel -- high-grade rocket fuel, dilithium crystals, and the like. The Prince of the Stars frowns on those who use this attunement irresponsibly, however...making mere automobile fuel can result in a visit from the Game or, worse, from the Prince himself. Servitor Attunements Warp Factor 666 Those favored by Gendu with this attunement may ride the interstellar winds, crossing vast reaches of space rapidly. For each point of Essence spent, they may travel up to their total Forces in light-years. Take note that unlike Leilani's Mysterious Ways attunement, this is not instantaneous space travel! It is left to the GM to determine how much time passes for the demon on his journey. A Thousand Points of Light For 3 Essence, a Servitor of the Stars with this attunement may confuse an opponent, causing him to forget his exact location or position in space. This may also be used against nonhuman entities such as astro- or navigational computer systems. In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream On a successful Perception roll, the holder of this attunement may intuit the nature of a vessel's communication systems, and determine what it would take to jam or destroy those systems. Higher CDs reveal progressively more information, and may even reveal more information about the vessel, such as its means of propulsion or defensive systems. It cannot, however, teach a demon to pilot or otherwise use the vessel. Distinctions Knight of the Limitless Darkness While in space, a Knight of the Limitless Darkness always knows where other demons of the Stars are, relative to his position, within a ten light-year radius. Captain of the Darkest Night A Captain of the Darkest Night is a living cloaking device, able to extend an equivalent of the Balseraph of the Stars attunement to any vessel he is currently traveling in, for an appropriate Essence cost (GM's call, minimum of 1 Essence in any situation). If more than one Captain of the Stars is present on the ship, they may share the Essence costs for creating and maintaining the field. Baron of the Depths of Space Responsible for a number of lesser Servitors, a Baron of the Depths of Space may transport himself to his charge's side instantaneously via that demon's Heart for a cost of (half total Forces, round down) Essence. He will arrive in celestial form, causing the appropriate amount of disturbance. Rites: - - Cause the destruction of a spacegoing vessel. - - Kill everyone on board a spaceship. Expanded Rites: - - Cause a war between two starfaring races (+3 Essence). - - Provoke a confrontation between two spacegoing vessels. - - Prevent or block funding for a space-exploration agency. Relations: Of the upper tier of Princes, only Asmodeus is hostile to Gendu, primarily because he ignores the generally-agreed-upon rules of the celestial Cold War. Kronos and Baal find much to admire in the Prince of the Stars, however, and their continued patronage frustrates the Prince of the Game no end. Over the years, Beleth, the Djinn Princess of Nightmares, has become Gendu's closest ally, primarily because he espouses methods of furthering his Word that mesh tightly with hers. Allied: Beleth (Beleth and Baal consider themselves allied with Gendu) Associated: Baal, Vapula (Belial, Nybbas, Vapula and Kronos consider themselves associated with Gendu) Neutral: all else, except Hostile: none (Asmodeus considers himself hostile to Gendu) Enemy: Leilani Chance of Invocation: 4 Invocation Modifiers: +1 An Atlas-class rocket +2 A device capable of destroying a planet +3 A planet devastated by nuclear war +4 A comet or meteor on a collision course for an inhabited world +5 A previously unidentified, potentially dangerous spatial phenomenon +6 A black hole ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:47:39 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> The Rest - --- "William J. Keith" wrote: > Silas > Angel of the Rest(musical connotation) > Ofanite Angel of Creation Interesting interpretations of a deceptively broad Word. Nicely done. ===== Michael Walton, #US2002023848 "The other beattitude that's not in the book is this: 'Blessed are those who are pleasant to live with.'" - -- Rev. Claudette Copeland __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:51:06 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Before - --- Daiv wrote: > "And your Word shall be Coffee." Well, at least we now know that Daiv's Heavenly supervisor is an Ofanite. ===== Michael Walton, #US2002023848 "The other beattitude that's not in the book is this: 'Blessed are those who are pleasant to live with.'" - -- Rev. Claudette Copeland __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:54:10 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor - --- Maurice Lane wrote: > Loquel > Djinn Baron of Derision > Demon of Mimes > However, it is a fact that no Seraph can say the > phrase 'a mime is a terrible thing to waste' without > dissonance Now that was uncalled for. 0;> ===== Michael Walton, #US2002023848 "The other beattitude that's not in the book is this: 'Blessed are those who are pleasant to live with.'" - -- Rev. Claudette Copeland __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:59:30 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Gendu, Prince of the Stars - --- Manny Nepomuceno wrote: > Gendu > Djinn Prince of the Stars > > The world is humanity's lot. Space is mine. Heh. I like that. > he is an unknown variable in the cold equation > of Hell. _Very nice_ reference (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you did that on purpose). ===== Michael Walton, #US2002023848 "The other beattitude that's not in the book is this: 'Blessed are those who are pleasant to live with.'" - -- Rev. Claudette Copeland __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:42:37 -0500 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: IN> Forces question Everything in the Symphony is made of either Essence or Forces, right? Even non-living things, like rocks, can have Corporeal Forces? Gosh, I hope so. I've got a cool idea for the "Break Moe's Brain" contest. - -- 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: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:52:27 -0500 From: "Josh Moger" Subject: Re: IN> Forces question Well, made up of forces, and possibly contain essence. I don't think rocks hold essence, but they might be solid corporeal forces. Josh - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Bertish To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com Date: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:48 PM Subject: IN> Forces question >Everything in the Symphony is made of either Essence or Forces, right? Even >non-living things, like rocks, can have Corporeal Forces? > >Gosh, I hope so. I've got a cool idea for the "Break Moe's Brain" contest. > > >-- 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: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:52:25 -0500 From: EDG Subject: Re: IN> Forces question At 12:42 PM 3/28/02 -0500, you wrote: >Everything in the Symphony is made of either Essence or Forces, right? Even >non-living things, like rocks, can have Corporeal Forces? For some reason, this implies to me a rock with an Agility score... and, further, that larger rocks, having more Forces, have higher Agility scores. And since a zero-Force realm can still have up to 3 points in attributes... Well, Casca, I'll wait until you've posted - don't want to steal your thunder. :) - -EDG ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:02:21 -0500 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN> Forces question > For some reason, this implies to me a rock with an Agility score... and, Personally, I'd shove it all into strength, but that's just me. > further, that larger rocks, having more Forces, have higher Agility scores. I could see this being true for a landslide/avalanche. > And since a zero-Force realm can still have up to 3 points in attributes... *laughs* I'd forgotten that. You're only feeding the fire, you realize? I'll be sure to credit you on this. > Well, Casca, I'll wait until you've posted - don't want to steal your > thunder. :) It isn't thunder you'd be stealing. More like heat. >:) (Yes, it involves Belial. What proper Moe tribute wouldn't?) - -- 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: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:12:16 -0500 From: EDG Subject: Re: IN> Forces question At 01:02 PM 3/28/02 -0500, you wrote: > > For some reason, this implies to me a rock with an Agility score... and, > >Personally, I'd shove it all into strength, but that's just me. Well, yes, but I've always operated under the assumption that if a Force is present, the minimum possible score in a related attribute is 1. Is this not the case? Can you have a character with 1 Corporeal Force, 4 Strength, and 0 Agility? >It isn't thunder you'd be stealing. More like heat. >:) >(Yes, it involves Belial. What proper Moe tribute wouldn't?) But that's exactly what he'll be expecting! ;) - -EDG ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:31:26 -0500 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN> Forces question > >Personally, I'd shove it all into strength, but that's just me. > > Well, yes, but I've always operated under the assumption that if a Force is > present, the minimum possible score in a related attribute is 1. Is this > not the case? Can you have a character with 1 Corporeal Force, 4 Strength, > and 0 Agility? Theoretically, I don't see why not. Said character would be immobile on the Corporeal plane, though. But since rocks aren't known for moving of their own volition, this isn't a problem for them. - -- 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: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:53:08 -0600 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor From: "Maurice Lane" > > and it certainly is a fact that 'cause a > mime to stop being a mime' is a generic Rite for > Heaven. I think it's because of all the human campaigns against land mimes. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:03:54 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Unni_Sol=E5s?= Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Prodigal wrote: > From: "Maurice Lane" > > > > and it certainly is a fact that 'cause a > > mime to stop being a mime' is a generic Rite for > > Heaven. > > I think it's because of all the human campaigns against land mimes. > *GROAN* Oh NO! You didn't. Please tell me you didn't... You...you..KOBALITE!!! *whimper* - -- Stercus, stercus, stercus, moriturus sum! Unni Sol峼/div> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:14:42 -0500 From: "Josh Moger" Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor >> >> and it certainly is a fact that 'cause a >> mime to stop being a mime' is a generic Rite for >> Heaven. > >I think it's because of all the human campaigns against land mimes. > snip Which leads me to the conclusion that there is a very very pathetic worded demonic servitor of Baal with the ability to cause mimes to sink into the ground for the cost of a couple of essence who has been going around Hell, ever since the day he got his word from a confused looking Lucifer, saying "But I had a stuffed up nose that day... I had a cold!" Josh (Go on. Hold your nose and try to say "mime." Then you'll get it. You probably won't laugh, but you'll get it.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:27:53 -0800 From: Daiv Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of Dark Humor >On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Prodigal wrote: > > > From: "Maurice Lane" > > > I think it's because of all the human campaigns against land mimes. The Malakite came into the Eighth Virtue. This was not unusual. He was bleed, bruised, and limping. This was unusual. "Car bomb. Please." A small crowd began to gather around him. He manner of dress indicated to the more experienced that he was a Servitor of Eli, in service to Marc. The wounded Malakite drank what he he was given, and signalled for another. Given that, he drained it again, and signalled for a third. Finally, he began to talk. "I am working in the financial district these days. Trying to persuade people to be more creative in finding ways to help on another, that kind of thing. Good work i think. Not much opportunity for fighting, though, so I was maybe a little... enthusiastic when i saw the white faced clown." He sipped his fourth. No one noticed what happened to he third. "I have been around for a while, so I know better than to simply jump the little geek, send him to his judgement with making sure he really deserved it. But when I Looked at him, and saw that his most honorable recent action was... 'a well done walking into the wind.' I knew which side he was on." "So. I took out my favorite fountain pen, made ready, and attacked." As he drank, he reached into his pocket and took out the mangled remainder of a pen. "It broke on his skin. Did nothing more than get his attention. Things went badly from there." "How was I supposed to know that it was an Iron Mime?" Daiv Technical writer in service to Coffee. - -- hammer and anvil fire sweat iron and breath forging destiny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:58:11 -0500 (EST) From: Ryan M Roth Subject: Re: IN> Forces Question Regarding the idea that Corporeal object have Forces: If you consider that they do, then one intriguing possiblity that rocks do indeed have Corporeal Forces -- and they all belong to David. Which has some interesting ramifications: 1) David has a _lot_ more Corporeal Forces than one might think, given the size of the Earth itself. But... 2) If rocks have forces, then other Corporeal matter should have them too. Which means David's got nothing on Gabriel/Belial, given the size of the Sun. And all the other stars. 3) Don't forget Janus and the wind on Earth, the storms on Jupiter & other atmosphered planets, and the solar wind between stars. 4) How about Jean? Matter is composed of charged particles, creating electric-magnetic fields. So all matter supports Lightning too. 5) And, if Coporeal Objects have Corporeal Forces, Etheral objects have Etheral ones, right? So every object in the Marches supports Blandine/Beleth. 6) Eli. Creation. As in 'All of Creation'. Maybe _all_ of the forces are his, and he allows the others pretend they own them. Of course, this all depends on the question of how big the rock must be before it has a full Force. How big must the fire be? The spark? The dream object? The wind? The universe? We should forward this question to the Angel of Standards. Ryan Roth rmr48@columbia.edu ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2581 ********************************