in_nomine-digest Thursday, April 18 2002 Volume 01 : Number 2607 In this digest: Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope IN> Medieval IN> What Jordi's been up to lately Re: IN> Medieval Re: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately Re: IN> Servitor of the Media Re: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately Re: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately IN> Weird thoughts IN> Lets go be evil IN> Picking up trouble IN> AA of Lightning IN> Wild West IN> It's the Geas, not the Hook IN> Laurence and the Pope Re: IN> Lets go be evil IN> Legion Re: IN> Wild West IN> Can't find... Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope Re: IN> Can't find... Re: IN> Can't find... Re: IN> Can't find... Re: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately Re: IN> Wild West IN> IN:Wild West (Part 2) Re: IN> Can't find... Re: IN> Wild West Re: IN> Recovered Remnants RE: IN> Recovered Remnants IN> A Gentle Touch RE: IN> Medieval Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:34:27 -0400 From: Eric Eves Subject: Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope Josh Moger wrote: > Oh simple: > > "Yes." says Azzie's 'penitent,' Renegade, deluded, Habbalite who believes he > is doing God's work and is getting essence directly from God. > > Check. > Is it really that simple? After all, a Seraph with check digit 6 on the resonance gets not only what the Habbie /thinks/ is true, but what the objective Truth is, and whether or not he knows. And if lots of Habbalah (enough that you could generalize) really /do/ renounce Satan, in an objectively true way rather than merely in their twisted little heads, why aren't there more redemptions? - -Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:45:44 -0400 From: "Josh Moger" Subject: Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope >> Oh simple: >> >> "Yes." says Azzie's 'penitent,' Renegade, deluded, Habbalite who believes he >> is doing God's work and is getting essence directly from God. >> >> Check. >> > >Is it really that simple? > >After all, a Seraph with check digit 6 on the resonance gets not only >what the Habbie /thinks/ is true, but what the objective Truth is, and >whether or not he knows. > >And if lots of Habbalah (enough that you could generalize) really /do/ >renounce Satan, in an objectively true way rather than merely in their >twisted little heads, why aren't there more redemptions? > Oh, I wasn't generalizing. I'm just thinking of Asmodeus using the best pawn he can make. He sets things up, centuries ago, to have a Habbalite in position now who firmly believes, and has shattered his Heart, renounced his allies, probably done some sort of action against the Game, that he is on his way to redemption by way of doing God's will in the Vatican. Josh ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:57:32 +0000 From: "Janet Anderson" Subject: Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope >Oh simple: > >"Yes." says Azzie's 'penitent,' Renegade, deluded, Habbalite who believes >he >is doing God's work and is getting essence directly from God. > According to the book, when a Seraph gets a 6 he knows "what the Truth really is." No matter what the Habbalite thinks. Janet Anderson _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:50:42 -0400 From: "Josh Moger" Subject: Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope >>Oh simple: >> >>"Yes." says Azzie's 'penitent,' Renegade, deluded, Habbalite who believes >>he >>is doing God's work and is getting essence directly from God. >> > >According to the book, when a Seraph gets a 6 he knows "what the Truth >really is." No matter what the Habbalite thinks. > > So, even a Renegade that has fully run away from Hell... Right right. Light is dawning. Oh well. Hmmm.... Back to the drawing board. Josh ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:20:08 -0400 From: "Brian C. Petery" Subject: IN> Medieval >A demon of gunpowder would be good though. Morphus, Demon Prince of the Gun http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/articles/INChar/Demons/Prince.Morphus.html I think there is a Worded Demon of Gunpowder, but I can't find the reference. Yours in Virtuality, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:28:57 -0400 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/15/super.antcolonies.ap/index.html This sort of thing makes me wonder just how many animals Jordi could possess at one time, given both his Kyrio attunement and the sheer number of Forces he has.... - -- 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: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:45:58 -0000 From: "Chris Anthony" Subject: Re: IN> Medieval "Brian C. Petery" said: > I think there is a Worded Demon of Gunpowder, but I can't find the > reference. The Demon of Gunpowder doesn't have a name, but he does have a reference: IPG, p. 41. - -EDG with special thanks to Steve Feldon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:02:18 -0400 From: Eric Eves Subject: Re: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately Eric Bertish wrote: > > http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/15/super.antcolonies.ap/index.html > > This sort of thing makes me wonder just how many animals Jordi could possess > at one time, given both his Kyrio attunement and the sheer number of Forces > he has.... Hmm. But all those ant colonies, working together on an unprecedented scale... Sure, the ants are animals, and that makes one think of Jordi. But the Word that this makes /me/ think the most of is /Stone/. After all, David isn't solely concerned with humans, and if that supercolony isn't a tether to Stone, I don't know what /is/. - -Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:14 +0100 (BST) From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Subject: Re: IN> Servitor of the Media In article <20020417042542.10281.qmail@web14004.mail.yahoo.com>, moelane_1999@yahoo.com (Maurice Lane) wrote: > Pei-Pei > Shedite of the Media > Demon of Hairpieces Hmm... have you by any chance read Norman Spinrad's (fairly obscure) novel _Passing Through The Flame_? There's a character in there who's clearly a Servitor of the Media, whose information sources might well include this little sucker. - --- John Dallman jgd@cix.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:24:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately - --- Eric Bertish wrote: > This sort of thing makes me wonder just how many animals > Jordi could possess > at one time, given both his Kyrio attunement and the > sheer number of Forces he has.... Why assume Jordi? Couldn't Legion possess animals, too? And if he was to stage a comeback, he might start with Hosts that wouldn't attract too much Heavenly attention. Too bad the talking monkeys blew his cover. };> ===== Michael Walton, #US2002023848 "In film, the director is God. In documentaries, God is the director." - -- Alfred Hitchcock __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:05:23 -0400 From: "Josh Moger" Subject: Re: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately >> This sort of thing makes me wonder just how many animals >> Jordi could possess >> at one time, given both his Kyrio attunement and the >> sheer number of Forces he has.... > > Why assume Jordi? Couldn't Legion possess animals, too? >And if he was to stage a comeback, he might start with >Hosts that wouldn't attract too much Heavenly attention. >Too bad the talking monkeys blew his cover. };> Could he? I always figured that the only thing he took from the Kyriotate forces bonded to him was the ability for multiple hosts, not animal hosts. Josh ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:10:58 -0400 From: "Brian C. Petery" Subject: IN> Weird thoughts >Despite the iffiness of the whole Remnant thing possibly breaking >some notions of canon, I like their potential. Besides, God is supposed to be able to do anything. I can just see it now, "But, but we thought you were dead! Oh My God! He's returned from the grave!" Feasting on the Essence and Forces virgin Celestials, The Vampire Malakim! Yours in Fear and Loathing, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:11:45 -0400 From: "Brian C. Petery" Subject: IN> Lets go be evil >"Player requests, DM builds to > order with tweaks" seemed to work all right. Hmmm... While I like drawing up characters, the most common comment I get about my designs is "weird, are you really going to play /that/?" Then, in play, everybody forgets that my character is a real weirdie. Not evil, as such, just ... weird. Like those Malakim who take the Vow, "Suffer it to live until you're sure it's evil." Doodle Doodle Dee, Wubba Wubba Wubba, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:11:46 -0400 From: "Brian C. Petery" Subject: IN> Picking up trouble Oh No! Tranced! He was stalking Thor! My character (Free Lilim) now has Thor's hammer! So what if she can barely lift it, it's still the only part of Thor still alive(?). I can't think of a clever tagline, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:11:46 -0400 From: "Brian C. Petery" Subject: IN> AA of Lightning At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the Earth's atmosphere. Lightning strikes the Earth 100 times every second. No wonder Jean has so much vigor. Yours in Triviality, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:22:54 -0400 From: "Brian C. Petery" Subject: IN> Wild West >Hmm... I don't know. I'm guessing Malphas had a bit to do with the >annhilation of native peoples. Malphas doesn't do slaughter, that's Sam Ingers (Saminga). Malphas seeks isolation for all, emotional prefered. Cordially, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:23:49 -0400 From: "Brian C. Petery" Subject: IN> It's the Geas, not the Hook >GURPS: In Nomine has what I feel >to be a reasonable rate of conversion, >which is that four Geas-hooks of one >level can be combined into one Geas-hook >of the next higher level. Maybe, but don't forget that the victim gets to resist the Geas at the Geas level, not the total number of Hooks. You could use up a Geas/6 to demand pocket change if you wanted. And remeber: Need CD = difficulty for target, not the Lilim. Geas level must be > or = difficulty for target. If you demanded that someone kill their wife, and they had just done it on their own, you've wasted a Geas/6. ("Somebody bring me a knitting needle." - Patsy Stone =;> ) Yours in Triviality, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:24:14 -0400 From: "Brian C. Petery" Subject: IN> Laurence and the Pope From: Rolland Therrien >With the hightened intelligence of a Superior and a >more generalized view of the war between Heaven and >Hell, would he try to help the Church preserve >it's conservative values in the face of a rapidly >changing world, or recognize that the church needs >to reflect Chrisitan morality with a more >modern attitude, and hence support the Reformists? "recognize that the church needs"? Sounds like you've already made up your mind. From: Michael Walton > making Earth more like Heaven is something that I >can't see Laurence disapproving of The 64 dollar question is: "What does Laurence think will make Earth more like Heaven?" Or any Superior for that matter. Perhaps he would conclude that "recent events" indicate that the Mother Church is not conservative enough. Get the to a monastery! Yours in Virtuality, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:26:53 From: "Charles Glasgow" Subject: Re: IN> Lets go be evil >From: "Brian C. Petery" >Subject: IN> Lets go be evil >Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:11:45 -0400 >Then, in play, everybody forgets that my character is a real weirdie. Not >evil, as such, just ... weird. Like those Malakim who take the Vow, "Suffer >it to live until you're sure it's evil." Hey, I once drew up a Malakite of War who *volunteered* to be IST Flowers, on the grounds that "We're supposed to be angels, right? This means cooperating and trying to understand our differences, right?" No DM was interested in it. - -- Chuckg _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:45:12 -0400 From: "Josh Moger" Subject: IN> Legion The recent spate of Medieval postings and Michael Walton's post prompted me to write about something that I got in a dream last night. The dream was your normal mishmash of stuff, but what I remember is thumbing through a comic store in Europe and finding two graphic novels about Legion... yes, the IN Legion. Which prompts me to this two-pronged idea: Episode one: PC's as soldiers of God/Lucifer (Insert favorite Superiors for them to be IST [including some of the old favorites like Raphael, Mariel, and Meserach-though no Vapula]). In France (For some reason this springs to mind, was this spoken of in one of the canon books or did I just create it from web-based material and my own delusions?) just before the beginning of the Medieval age. A peaceful, farming town. Then something starts happening to the inhabitants. People are seen walking into the forest, accompanied by others, but leave with a slightly dazed expression on their faces, usually alone. By the end of the week that this begins, only a few people are left that haven't been taken into the forest. Among them are the PCs (probably travelers looking out for signs of Divine/Infernal plottings). Then, what was steadily growing in the forest suddenly enters town to pick up the stragglers. Legion. My dream had it as some sort of Shedite/Anime Tentacled Moster/Zombie mass that is solid in some places, transparent in others, and is flowing over the people it's infested. So the PCs need to get out of town, keep from being assimilated into the roiling mass that is a Demon Prince, and get word to their Superior that something has seriously gone wrong. Episode two: PCs can either be the same soldiers as last time or you can have them be angels. Heck, you can even have them be minor or soon-to-be superiors (anyone want to roleplay Soldekai or Haagenti). This is the battle. Angel and Demon against Legion. I'm trying to keep this from becoming a simple massacre, so... hmm... Want to give a tour of the Celestial plane? Have the PCs, angel or demon, have to go to Hell to deliver the message about Legion. Could be material for other medieval seeds. After that, then you can have the battle. You get to have a mixed party, if you're playing as a soldier you have to constantly be on guard to keep from being taken over by Legion, and you have to decide whether to sacrifice those that have been assimilated or try to save them. Obviously, unless you wish to seriously throw askew the IN continuity, you'll have Raphael kill Legion in the end with a great deal of pyrotechnics. If your PCs enjoy playing older characters in another game, this would be an interesting time to introduce them, especially if they turn out to have been orphaned during the battle or soon after. Also, unless you're playing with people from this list and/or have been glutted on canon IN, the players wouldn't necessairly know what Legion was, why it was, or if it would be stopped. Hence, there can be a great deal of surprise and drama for a group that just expects it's playing a game about angels and demons set in the Middle Ages. Josh (Who is really looking forward to that canon material about Legion, Mariel, Makatiel, Meserach, Raphael...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:48:04 -0400 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN> Wild West > Malphas doesn't do slaughter, that's Sam Ingers (Saminga). Yup. Bad ol' Sam hates everbody. Everbody livin', that is. (wait for it..... waaaiiiit for it.....) That's why the kids call 'im Sam Hate. - -- 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: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:15:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Burzelic Subject: IN> Can't find... What was the name of the Archangel of Song? I know she was a Grigori, but beyond that I can't find a thing on it. Also, could someone explain to me the whole "Consider..." line of stuff in the INC? I get what it is, but when did it start and what spurned it on? Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:48:29 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope At 3:24 AM -0700 4/17/02, Maurice Lane wrote: >--- Josh Moger wrote: > >> A darn shame about that very very nervous Habbalite >> of the Game with >> Humanity perpetually activated... > >Oh, there are ways around that. A squad of Seraphim >standing around and resonating everyone during the >reaffirmation of Baptismal vows would be good, for a >start... > >Hmmm. What _does_ a Seraph get when he resonates a >Habbalite with Humanity on, gets a 6, then gets a >response to the traditional question, "Do you renounce >Satan?" The GM gets a headache futzing things around for a while, ponders weasle-wording with 'Lucifer' instead, and then shrugs and says, "This here person is lying." Unless, of course, you have a Habbalite who figures that he really IS serving God, in which case, sure, he renounces Satan. This doesn't make him less of a demon, but he's the sort of demon who'd snark at the Lightbringer if he thought he could get away with it, sure. (Or maybe the TRUTH would be that he thinks he is, but he'd cave if the First Bal showed up in person.) Now, if the question is "Do you renounce Asmodeus," he's probably more in trouble. After all, Humanity makes you seem human -- and Hellsworn are human too... - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:56:03 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Can't find... At 12:15 PM -0700 4/17/02, Jim Burzelic wrote: >What was the name of the Archangel of Song? There's no canon on that yet. >Also, could someone explain to me the whole >"Consider..." line of stuff in the INC? I get what it >is, but when did it start and what spurned it on? Um... It started a while back, and people liked it, so they kept doing it? O:> - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:05:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Burzelic Subject: Re: IN> Can't find... - --- Elizabeth McCoy wrote: > At 12:15 PM -0700 4/17/02, Jim Burzelic wrote: > >What was the name of the Archangel of Song? > > There's no canon on that yet. Ah dangit! I was gonna use it in my next Wild West thing. Shoot. > > >Also, could someone explain to me the whole > >"Consider..." line of stuff in the INC? I get what > it > >is, but when did it start and what spurned it on? > > Um... It started a while back, and people liked it, > so they kept doing it? > > O:> > Sounds reasonable. jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:18:04 -0500 From: Earl Wajenberg Subject: Re: IN> Can't find... Jim Burzelic wrote: > What was the name of the Archangel of Song? Elizabeth McCoy wrote: > There's no canon on that yet. Jim Burzelic wrote: > Ah dangit! I was gonna use it in my next Wild West > thing. Shoot. Well, if it makes you feel any better, the Book of Enoch, where the Grigori come from, names "Semyaza" as the leader of the Grigori. This was why I gave that name to my version of the Archangel of Song. Earl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:41:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> What Jordi's been up to lately - --- Josh Moger wrote: > Could he? I always figured that the only thing he took > from the Kyriotate > forces bonded to him was the ability for multiple hosts, > not animal hosts. I don't recall a reference in any IN supplement that says one way or another -- but Legion is one of only three demons mentioned by name in the Bible. In this case, it's in the account of the Gerasene Demoniac wherein Jesus casts Legion out of the possessed man into a herd of pigs. I don't recall anything in IN that contradicts this account. ===== Michael Walton, #US2002023848 "In film, the director is God. In documentaries, God is the director." - -- Alfred Hitchcock __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:45:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Wild West - --- "Brian C. Petery" wrote: > Malphas doesn't do slaughter, that's Sam Ingers > (Saminga). Besides, the whole smallpox blankets thing would've been Mac Katiel conspiring with dissidents within the U.S. Army. Maybe you'd have to bend canon to have Makatiel alive during that era, but the whole Wild West idea folds, spindles and mutiliates canon, anyway. ===== Michael Walton, #US2002023848 "In film, the director is God. In documentaries, God is the director." - -- Alfred Hitchcock __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:04:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Burzelic Subject: IN> IN:Wild West (Part 2) Lettin' my tongue relax like so, let's me 'cumulate my thoughts. But I think yer itchin' to hear more, I know I'm antsy to tell it. We all started pickin' up the pieces round here and set to makin' sense o' the ruckus that just took place when all the while the rascals what retreated to the gulch was lookin' to get free o' their predicament. And as they all squabbled and bickered and chided 'mongst themselves Lucifer Morningstar was yellin' tween his icy prison and somebody at the top o' the gulch. That body was none other than the untamable, lady-trickster Lilith. The two parleyed for some time and by the end o' their consid'rable jawin' a whole new town was laid out with Lucifer as the Mayor. All Lilith had to do was find a way out o' the hole fer business to commence. She said she'd only do such a deed if'n she had free reign to come and go as she saw fit without a hassle. Ever'one agreed on Morningstar's persuasion and without delay, Lilith showed 'em all a hidden pass on out o' the gulch. From there the southern half o' the town o' Symphony was born. It catered to all the vices and scofflaw attractions a hoodlum could want, and unfortunately seemed to find quite a customer base. Over time, Lilith even became a unofficial town loan-shark on account o' all her connections with just about ever'one. Them no-good varmints even got the whole ordeal done under our noses a'fore Michael, our esteemed Marshal, could stop 'em. That was the official beginnin' o' the Feud. Now mind you, the Founder don't really acknowledge southern Symphony as part o' this town or even it's own town proper, to Him, it's just some hole in the ground which some rabblerousers is bein' punished and try makin' purty while spoilin' ever'thing else. We all up in North Symphony do our best to keep folks from goin' down that way and some even try to get folks to come back into the fold. What with Janus' Transportium and Postage makin' the border tween the two, a body can't right know lest they been told afore hand which side is which. All sorts o' folks ride the rails and stages, ya know. Sometimes the feud heats up somethin' fearsome. Shoot, just t'other day a couple o Marshal Laurence's Deputies had a showdown with a gang from the mock-general Baal. Yes, I said Marshal Laurence. I'll explain that part when I git to it. Set still now, an' I'll move on. Now I told yall how the Founder said Townies and Folks don't mix, and tain't right to do so any more. Well, there was a whole group o' townies that just couldn't help themselves and they took to bein' friendly t'ward 'em. Well by and bye, these townies with a penchant fer the common folk got too involved with 'em. They begun to lay with 'em instead o' just providin' services the way reg'lar townies do fer passer-throughs. By and bye, they had kin, and because o' the natures tween Folks and Townies, they was all bastitches. Ain't nobody could take care of 'em. Despite these self-inflicted troubles they continued to follow their whims. They was e'en given warnin' time and time again to cut that foolishness out, but it didn't take. In the end, Judge Dominic did the best he could, and decided that if these Watchers o' the people weren't gonna play by the rules they weren't gonna play. It was a sad day in Symphony let me tell you. We watched 'em all pack up and walk outta town. They didn't even head fer southern Symphony. They just wandered out into the wilds. Ever' once in a while though, folks say they see glimpses of 'em lookin' into town, just watchin', er sometimes peerin' in through winders. And sometimes folks say they see the bastitches out raisin' tarnation but when they git near 'em, they run off. Now, some say that that's the reason why Uriel started wipin' out the Savages. They say he was lookin' fer them ol' Townies and their bastitch kin. That's only one of the nicer rumors. Another is that he was lookin' to root out Beleth and stop her bewitchin' the denizens o' the wild fer the causes o' southern Symphony. He said he was just goin to take back what the Savages had been stealin' from the town and the Founder. He said they was scarin' away Folks from town proper and into the edges o' Symphony, out into the Wilds. This went on fer a while and the forests ran red with every one of Uriel's conquests. It weren't till the Founder hisself called Uriel up to his Manor that the crusade stopped. If the Savages didn't hate the town o' Symphony b'fore, they sure didn't like us now. Well, it was round this time that our De Facto Mayor, Yves, got to jawin' with Reverend Gabriel on how to raise the spirits o' the townsfolk. Ever'one was feelin' mighty low on account o' the Feudin' and the Savage-slayin'. So one Sunday sermon, Rev. Gabe brought a new message to the people o' Symphony. It turned quite a few heads, some not so happy 'bout the whole ordeal, and soon enough a preacher was on trial. Rev. Gabriel came in to see what it was that Judge Dominic had to say and when the case was laid out, that Gabriel had spread Word that would make the people o' Symphony more confused and that it wasn't so sure that the Reverend was bein' on the up an' up, that ol' preacher he threw up his arms and stormed outta town. The Reverend warn't the only one steamed about the scenario. Michael thought the whole situation was as ripe as a skunk on Tuesday. He was so vexed by Judge Dominic, fer accusin' a man o' the cloth fer heresy, and Mayor Yves, fer not backin' up the Reverend, that he stepped down as Marshal. He said, "It ain't worth a dang pertectin' yall while ya bicker so when the real fight is comin' straight outta that gulch yonder!" We was in sad shape, I tell ya. The racket we was makin' was so loud the Founder hisself heard us and he came strollin' in. "What's goin' on here?" He boomed. "Michael's done resigned." spoke up Yves after a moment o' silence. "Well, whossat sittin' yonder?" asked the Founder pointin' to a strapping young man. "That's Laurence, one o' Uriel's boys." replied Yves. "Well that may be, but he's also the new Marshal." said the Founder matter-of-factly, and without pausin' turned around and walked straight back to where he came. We all just stared at that boy fer wat felt like eternity in disb'lief. He stared back rather stunned hisself. And that's how Laurence came to be Marshal. He's been purt' good at the job too. He still looks to Michael fer advice, but all in all, he's pulled his weight. That's the quick an' dirty hist'ry. How 'bout another glass o' lemonade? Then I'll fill ya in on who's where and what's how o' the town now. Give ya the skinny on 'em individual-like. (Once more, to be continued...) Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:07:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Burzelic Subject: Re: IN> Can't find... > > Ah dangit! I was gonna use it in my next Wild West > > thing. Shoot. > > Well, if it makes you feel any better, the Book of > Enoch, where > the Grigori come from, names "Semyaza" as the leader > of the > Grigori. This was why I gave that name to my > version of the > Archangel of Song. > > Earl Double dangit! I just posted my next installment. Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:27:18 -0400 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN> Wild West > Maybe you'd have to bend canon to have Makatiel alive > during that era, but the whole Wild West idea folds, > spindles and mutiliates canon, anyway. Well, with THAT kind of justification.... Let us not forget Li Ji Yon, the head of the Chinese railroad workgang. >:) - -- 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: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:20:58 -0600 From: thorrbjorn93 Subject: Re: IN> Recovered Remnants This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --Boundary_(ID_33bVN02613fW2iSht23YVw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >And >Thor >does have active worshippers >in the modern age; neo-Nazis >count, ya know. http://www.webcom.com/~lstead/nid.htm - --Boundary_(ID_33bVN02613fW2iSht23YVw) Content-type: application/ms-tnef; name=winmail.dat Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Content-disposition: attachment; filename=winmail.dat eJ8+IgIAAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEDkAYAOAMAABQAAAALACMAAAAAAAMAJgAA AAAACwApAAAAAAACAR0MAQAAABsAAABTTVRQOlRIT1JSQkpPUk45M0BZQUhPTy5DQQAAAgEKDgEA AAAYAAAAAAAAAL8yYCwGOYhFib6QSTcpwIXCgAAAAwAUDgEAAAALAB8OAQAAAAIBCRABAAAA4gAA AN4AAABTAQAATFpGdSB/MDeHAAoBDQNDdGV4dAH3/wKkA+QF6wKDAFAC8wa0AoMmMgPFAgBjaArA c2XYdDAgBxMCgH0KgAjPPwnZAoAKhAs3EsIB0CA+KEFuZArjIAqAPlRmaAWwGCZkbweRE3B2pGUg ANB0aRnRdwWw9HNoBSBwBJAEIRg1C4AYIHRoGeAEZWFnZQA7IG5lby1OYS56BAAYJgWgdQIwLCAA eWEga25vdy4LGCUYJWgCQHA6Ly9CdyAwLndlYgWgbUIuIKEvfmxzDvBhJGQvAwBkLh/AbX0BIiAA AAsAOoAIIAYAAAAAAMAAAAAAAABGAAAAAA6FAAAAAAAAAgH4DwEAAAAQAAAAvzJgLAY5iEWJvpBJ NynAhQIB+g8BAAAAEAAAAL8yYCwGOYhFib6QSTcpwIUCAfsPAQAAAIcAAAAAAAAAOKG7EAXlEBqh uwgAKypWwgAAbXNwc3QuZGxsAAAAAABOSVRB+b+4AQCqADfZbgAAAEM6XFdJTkRPV1NcUHJvZmls ZXNcUGF1bCBhbmQgU2FzaGFcQXBwbGljYXRpb24gRGF0YVxNaWNyb3NvZnRcT3V0bG9va1xvdXRs b29rLnBzdAAAAwD+DwUAAAADAA00/TcAAAIBfwABAAAAMQAAADAwMDAwMDAwQkYzMjYwMkMwNjM5 ODg0NTg5QkU5MDQ5MzcyOUMwODU4NDY1MjYwMAAAAAADAAYQsVYsCgMABxBlAAAAAwAQEAEAAAAD ABEQAAAAAB4ACBABAAAAZQAAAEFORFRIT1JET0VTSEFWRUFDVElWRVdPUlNISVBQRVJTSU5USEVN T0RFUk5BR0U7TkVPLU5BWklTQ09VTlQsWUFLTk9XSFRUUDovL1dXV1dFQkNPTUNPTS9MU1RFQUQv TklESFQAAAAA+cE= - --Boundary_(ID_33bVN02613fW2iSht23YVw)-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:19:27 -0600 From: thorrbjorn93 Subject: RE: IN> Recovered Remnants > And Thor > does have active worshippers in the modern age; neo-Nazis > count, ya know. Umm, most of Thor's active modern age worshipers absolutely detest neo-nazis (http://www.webcom.com/~lstead/nid.htm). I'll expand on this slightly in private e-mail. And speaking of In Nomine ... Inspired by the section of the GMG that provides variations on the Canon for Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Islamic oriented campaigns, I've been working on some ideas for canon variations which expand the role of polytheism. If anyone is interested in seeing what I've come up with so far, let me know and I'll try to put my notes into something resembling coherence and post it to the list. Take care, Paul - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.338 / Virus Database: 189 - Release Date: 14/03/2002 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:20:41 -0400 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: IN> A Gentle Touch Mark Douglas is a sculptor in, if you'll pardon the description, the heroic mold. He used to be a bartender, and by all accounts, one of the best bartenders on that side of town, both in the sense of "you'll never find a better bloody mary" and the sense of "you'll never find a better listener." Unfortunately, there was an accident -- accounts vary -- and he was blinded. Living off government cheese, he turned to sculpture, learning how to visualize his creations and shape them by touch. He can carve amazingly fine details into clay and stone, or bend gigantic sweeps of metal into dynamic, upward-reaching forms. Many of his works have a vaguely religious title or include spiritual imagery. The general consensus is that he's one of the most noble, stout-hearted, inspiring sculptors that's come onto the scene in the past decade. His story alone is uplifting; his sculptures are divine. Mark is, in fact, a Mercurian of Fire. He was never a combat monster; though fairly tough, the better to defend humans who needed it, he spent more time talking his targets out of their latest scheme to ruin their own lives. It was a good job. It was a fulfilling job. It was a necessary job. This was what he kept telling himself while his heart burned to transform heavy matter into a visible sign that God touched the world. This was what he kept telling himself while he found person after person who would rather drop into Man's most determined attempts at Hell on Earth than face one more day of pounding at the problems in their lives, and was compelled by pity and love and law to convince them to get up and tackle another dawn. And one day, he just couldn't stand it any more. In a Bright campaign, he pleaded for a Role update and a change to his Vessel, and got it. In a middling campaign, he could have suffered physical and celestial damage in a fight, and decided he didn't need to worry about asking for complete healing. In a Dark campaign, Mark bought a sharp knife and a pair of mirrored sunglasses. In any of them, Mark is now physically blind. He holds no Dissonance, no Discord unless this is how he was blinded in the first place. He would never have betrayed his nature. He firmly believes that he is far more effective serving God in this way, inspiring others in the way of the old Fire, than in the constant cycle of hauling people out of despair that was his life. Whether Gabriel, Dominic, his Choir- and Word-mates, or anyone else believes this is up to your campaign. The main thing is that it's just such a *relief* to be able to focus on doing something *positive* for Heaven. Which, naturally, attracts the attentions of the Horde.... William ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:24:56 -0500 From: "Bergeron, Robert F., DS1(SW)" Subject: RE: IN> Medieval DC Comics "Hitman" had a great demon of the gun, if you're into other media references. - -----Original Message----- From: Brian C. Petery [mailto:bpetery@bellatlantic.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:20 AM To: In Nomine Subject: IN> Medieval >A demon of gunpowder would be good though. Morphus, Demon Prince of the Gun http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/articles/INChar/Demons/Prince.Morphus.html I think there is a Worded Demon of Gunpowder, but I can't find the reference. Yours in Virtuality, BC Petery http://www15.brinkster.com/ugwump/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:00:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Laurence and the Pope - --- Josh Moger wrote: > Back to the drawing board. Well, I can see where you were trying to go with the idea: there's definitely adventure seed potential there... Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 04/13/02(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2607 ********************************