From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Sun Feb 6 07:48:26 2000 Return-Path: Received: from lists.io.com (majordom@lists.io.com [199.170.88.15]) by pyramid.sjgames.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA23316 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 07:48:25 -0600 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id HAA05403 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 07:47:38 -0600 Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 07:47:38 -0600 Message-Id: <200002061347.HAA05403@lists.io.com> From: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com (in_nomine-digest) To: in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Subject: in_nomine-digest V1 #1523 Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com Sender: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Errors-To: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Precedence: bulk in_nomine-digest Sunday, February 6 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1523 In this digest: Re: IN> Jordi's Animal Vessels Re: IN> Superiors 3 Question Re:IN> Band Music Re: IN> Jordi's Animal Vessels Re: IN> Malakim and Soldiers of Hell Re: IN> Jordi's Animal Vessels Re: IN> Jordi's Animal Vessels Re: IN> Band Music ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:15:15 -0500 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> Jordi's Animal Vessels At 8:22 AM -0800 2/3/00, David Edelstein wrote: > >We don't need to worry about how it's biologically possible for animals >to speak. Animal vessels don't have special vocal equipment; they speak >because it's a divine (or infernal) power. Call it magic if you like, >but it's not biological. I do Kyriotates able to speak, because I like doing their speech patterns. Fiat has totally corrupted me. Besides, the concept of talking animals appeals to me. These are, after all, Angels. Then again, I also trashed the language rules wholesale. Angels and Demons, IMC, have never undergone the confusion of Tongues following the Fall of the Tower of Babel. So they can communicate with any human automatically. Animals are reserved for either Jordites (who are taught animal languages in basic training) or Kyriotates (who I rule can understand the communication of whatever they're in the skull of). - -- Eric Alfred Burns It was then I felt my heart break like a in-sabre@annotations.com fragile Scooby Snack upon the harsh teeth of http://www.annotations.com Reality -- and it's been broken ever since. http://www.annotations.com/~journal --Johnny Bravo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:46:45 -0500 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Superiors 3 Question At 10:00 PM +0000 2/4/00, -=|horsefly|=- wrote: >On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:05:18 -0500 Elizabeth McCoy wrote: >>Future maybe-titles (not yet decided on) are: > ooh, nifty! thanks! =) No problem, so long as you just consider them teasers. Oh, and so are the lineups that I'm reconstructing from memory. I could be forgetting, and they could be changed. Consider this a peek into a very shadowy crystal ball... >>Rogues and Riches (DPs) > Theft, Greed, Technology?, ?? Theft, Greed, Tech, Secrets, and Drugs. (Note that all but Greed are "new" Princes, and Greed fits in in other ways.) This one should be entering playtest sometime soon. >>War and Violence (DPs) > the War, Death, Hardcore, Cruelty? Azzie, Baal, Saminga, and Belial. Probably not Magog at this point in time, or Furfur. >>Peace and Nature (AAs) > Animals, Children, Creation, Flowers? Have a cookie, exactly right! (I'm still pondering the idea of yanking 5-10 pages away from Christopher and giving them to Eli, soley for rumors of What Eli's Up To... Or maybe combining that and a set of comments regarding Creationers in service to others. Hm. Yeah, Eli's going to be complex...) >>The Manipulators (DPs) > Fate, Factions, the Game, Nightmares? Fate, Factions, Nightmares, Lilith. >>Pillars and WIldcards (AAs, and one of the ones I expect >>may get changed) > umm... Revelations, maybe Creation, ?, ??? Janus, Jean, Litheroy, Zadkiel, Marc. >>(Hey, I had to have working titles here, y'know?) > not a problem! =) working titles are fine :) hope i'm not bothering you >by guessing the line-ups on some of these. Nope. Not bothered at all. - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor GURPS, Roleplayers, In Nomine stuff; Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: 4 Feb 2000 22:50:52 -0000 From: "-=|horsefly|=-" Subject: Re:IN> Band Music great stuff, Doug. i love the touch on Djinn and country music. i've got a throwaway suggestion for Balseraphs and musical taste regarding what you said about "fake." four words: Vanilla Ice; Milli Vanilli. in other words, performers who impersonate a style and lip-synchers. -=|horsefly|=- "It was a different time: a time of blood and guns and killings.... It was a time when killers needed saints, for so much of God's good work was being done." --SAINT OF KILLERS #4, Garth Ennis ________________________________________________________________ For the best in comics, collectibles, original art and shopping, visit the Dark Horse Network @ . ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:45:34 -0500 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> Jordi's Animal Vessels At 2:24 PM -0500 2/4/00, Elizabeth McCoy wrote: >At 6:43 PM +1100 2/4/00, Azrael wrote: > >> Where in canon does it say that Servitors of Animals can't talk in their > >> animal vessels? > > > >It also brings the question how do vessels talk? Through the Standard > >mechanism or do they create sound through sheer force of will? > >GM's option. I've always assumed that it's subtle physical alterations. >Of course, I also have the polydactyl cat vessel with working thumbs, >so she gets "mittens" instead of just paws... > Which is a seriously cool idea, that I wish I'd had. I should have - -- I was semi-adopted by a friend's polydactyl cat, and the seven toes were pretty darn useful to him. Plus, he walked on top of soft snow, spreading those toes out like snowshoes. There are days I think he might have been a Malakite of Animals. Especially after I got a faceful of claws. And he *liked* me. - -- Eric Alfred Burns It was then I felt my heart break like a in-sabre@annotations.com fragile Scooby Snack upon the harsh teeth of http://www.annotations.com Reality -- and it's been broken ever since. http://www.annotations.com/~journal --Johnny Bravo ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 10:07:26 +1100 From: "Azrael" Subject: Re: IN> Malakim and Soldiers of Hell > >I've been tempted to run a game where *whatever* angels do always > >works out for the best, and *whatever* demons do causes misery and > >suffering. The universe is just set up that way. As jo said "this is definately an interesting idea". However I would like to add soem questions to her list. Would Falling work out for the best? Would and if so, how low would it take before one of the fallen started doing demon things? Azrael ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 10:12:09 +1100 From: "Azrael" Subject: Re: IN> Jordi's Animal Vessels David Edledstein Wrote: > Walter Milliken wrote: > > Given the canon in the main book on animal vessel speech, and restrictions> on Kyrio hosts talking, it's fairly clear that the usual corporeal mechanisms> are involved, just like they are for walking or picking up an object.> Force of will is sufficient for these things only in the celestial realm. > > > I don't think this is "fairly clear" at all. > > If animal vessels are biologically modified to have vocal chords, we're > back to wondering what happens if someone performs an autopsy on a > vessel. And a fat tongue, like a humans or a parrot's, a dog's tongue (frex) is too thin. Azrael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:14:08 -0600 From: "Kiara S. Legner" Subject: Re: IN> Jordi's Animal Vessels > > If they can, my character has been going to a lot of unnecessary trouble > looking for crows, grackles, and parrots. So has one of my players. Now, if he'd just stop failing his will rolls when I let him *find* a raven... Kiara ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 13:26:54 -0000 From: "Liam Astley" Subject: Re: IN> Band Music From: Jo Hart > > >From: Tim Groth > >Lilim > > Boy bands. > the spice girls, surely? "so tell me what you want, what you really really want" lilith being the first example of girl power, obviously liam ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #1523 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2000 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.