in_nomine-digest Sunday, August 25 2002 Volume 01 : Number 2750 In this digest: IN> The Man With Six Limbs Re: IN> The Man With Six Limbs RE: IN> The Man With Six Limbs RE: IN> The Man With Six Limbs IN> Trout of Truth RE: IN> Trout of Truth ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 13:22:21 -0400 From: BC Petery Subject: IN> The Man With Six Limbs > Joe Watt, you see, is one of the Children of the Grigori - and a > fairly powerful one at that. He's been around for ages on end: his > grandfather was set to watch one of the Hinckermanns' ancestors back > before the time of Christ, and the three of them have been cycling > through ever since The three of whom? All that is mentioned here are Joe and his GramPa. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 20:41:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Unni Solaas Subject: Re: IN> The Man With Six Limbs On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, BC Petery wrote: > The three of whom? All that is mentioned here are Joe and his GramPa. Well... If a dude has a grandfather, he _usually_ has a father too... :) That makes 3. - -- language, n; an intangible artificial construct for obscuring one's meanings and intentions to others. -ppint. Unni Solaas ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 01:02:47 +0100 From: "Nick Ashton" Subject: RE: IN> The Man With Six Limbs > > The three of whom? All that is mentioned here are Joe and his GramPa. > > Well... If a dude has a grandfather, he _usually_ has a father too... :) > That makes 3. Everyone has a father and two grandfathers, that doesn't tell us much about their social situation, ie. which of these are dead, missing, indeterminate, ancient choir of angel banished from heaven... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 02:53:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher Anthony" Subject: RE: IN> The Man With Six Limbs Nick Ashton said: > Everyone has a father and two grandfathers, that doesn't tell us > much about their social situation, ie. which of these are dead, > missing, indeterminate, ancient choir of angel banished from > heaven... Unni happens to be correct. The Grigori and his two halfbreed descendants are cycling through: as they age, the eldest uses Corporeal Entropy to youthen himself to infancy, and the cycle continues. - -EDG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:26:47 -0400 From: Cameron McCurry Subject: IN> Trout of Truth The history of this artifact can be traced back to approximately the 1940s. There are several variations on the story of its creation but they all have a common point: Eli and Dominic had a bit too much to drink and they began to brainstorm on unusual ideas. To this day, the Archangel of Judgment refuses to comment on this artifact. Servitors of Judgment are well advised not to ask too many questions. The Trout of Truth appears as a ten pound member of the trout family. It has a slightly rubbery texture and smell to it. It doesn't give off any sign that it is something other than a large rubber fish. But in the hands of a Servitor, Saint or Soldier of Judgment, Creation or Revelations, its power is revealed when it hits someone on the head. Quite simply, the Trout of Truth provides (In the words of one of Litheroy's Elohim) "A keen insight to the blindingly obvious." The person, demon or angel so battered suddenly realizes a point the wielder was trying to make. For instance, it could a Servitor of the Wind that robbing the Tether to Mammon might not be a wonderful idea. An angel of Novalis may realize that a certain amount of violence would not be out of line. But the power of the Trout of Truth isn't as overly powerful as this ability would suggest. The being struck simply connects up a chain of logic as if they had a flash of insight. It can't control behavior, just explain an alternate viewpoint with stunning clarity as long as said alternate viewpoint is not a lie. It can't be used as a weapon either; the few Malakim of Creation that tried found that the Trout turned on them and smacked them over the head a few times until they got the point. Balseraphs and Habbalah openly loathe the Trout of Truth. A person under the sway of a Balseraph has the Trout's rating added to their Will in an effort to resist the Liar's smooth talking. Many Balseraphs have reported feeling splitting headaches when the Trout was used on someone that they had talked to. As for Habbalah, they feel that the Trout contributes to a person's weakness by being used as a crutch. Interestingly enough, a Habbalah hit by a Trout while having its own Resonance of Emptiness feedback on it is more susceptible to being freed of its delusions, thereby becoming a new Redemption candidate. And contrary to popular rumor, there is no such thing as a Clue Fairy that was created the same day the Trout was. Really. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 19:57:03 +0200 From: "Bergeron, Robert F., DS1(SW)" Subject: RE: IN> Trout of Truth - -----Original Message----- From: Cameron McCurry [mailto:cmccurry@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 6:27 PM To: In Nomine List Subject: IN> Trout of Truth ..... Someone's watched the "Fish Slapping Dance" on Monty Python ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2750 ********************************