From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Fri Mar 3 19:17:41 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 TAA03265 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:17:41 -0600 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id TAA18183 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:15:05 -0600 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:15:05 -0600 Message-Id: <200003040115.TAA18183@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 #1543 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 Friday, March 3 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1543 In this digest: IN> Angel Episode of Simpsons Re: IN> Angel Episode of Simpsons IN> Nephashot - Variant Saints IN> Stigmataphers - Variant Saints Re: IN> Stigmataphers - Variant Saints Re: IN> Stigmataphers - Variant Saints ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:13:33 -0700 From: Tim Groth Subject: IN> Angel Episode of Simpsons That episode is on right now (at least here), and the plot of it would make an excellent IN adventure. And the one line from it that would have to be in the adventure (or anyother that delt with the same theme of Science vs Religion) is from Reverend Lovejoy: "Once again Science has faltered in the face of overwhelming Religious evidence." Timothy, Angel of Rambling Go here, or else: http://d106-h032.rh.rit.edu/~tim/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 01:45:23 -0600 From: kobal Subject: Re: IN> Angel Episode of Simpsons There's a Malakite in my campaign that uses a blue crowbar (Ol Blue) as his primary weapon based on this episode. He loves the irony of Lisa wanting to use a crowbar to bash an angel and he'll use his to bash demons... K ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:21:14 -0500 From: Earl Wajenberg Subject: IN> Nephashot - Variant Saints Nephashot (singular, nephesh) are a particularly tough breed of Saint that have begun appearing in the last couple of millenia. They always have a vessel. Nephashot appear at the gates of Heaven already endowed with a vessel, which looks exactly like their celestial form, i.e. an idealized version of their old corporeal form. When vessel-killed, or more exactly, under conditions when it otherwise *would* be vessel-killed, a nephesh instantly ascends, vanishing from the Corporeal Plane. It then appears in Heaven, in Trauma. The nephesh emerges from Trauma three days later (no dice roll required), its vessel looking just the same and free of damage but reduced to level 1. Regaining any lost vessel levels takes three days per level, unless an Archangel or someone with a Celestial Song of Healing intervenes. As a game-balance consideration, a GM might require nephashot to have at least three (or even at least four) Corporeal Forces, which makes them athletic but limits the player's choices. The GM might also rule that nephashot cannot take additional vessels. This leaves the nephesh looking exactly like an idealized version of its former self. This makes it particularly hard to re-appear in your old neighborhood -- you're supposed to be dead and GONE, after all -- but appearing anywhere is rather conspicuous, since idealized human forms will be conspicuously handsome. Various methods of disguise would be needed. It's also conspicuous, the way they go poof when killed, instead of leaving a normal corpse. So, all in all, they are a very un-stealthy kind of Saint, which will limit their use. They are probably most appropriate to a game with at least some Christian coloring, due to the come-back-in-three-days feature, especially if they have been showing up only in the last 2000 years. Earl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 11:09:42 -0500 From: Earl Wajenberg Subject: IN> Stigmataphers - Variant Saints Stigmataphers are another variant breed of Saint. They bear their own version of stigmata, special organs of healing, not Corporeal Discords. (They can't have Discords any more than any other other human soul.) In celestial form the stigmata appear as glittering spots of light on the wrists, on the feet, or on the left side. In a vessel, they appear as small puckers in the skin or, in the case of the stigma on the left side, a crease like some surgical scars. Not all Stigmataphers have all these stigmata. All of them have the ones in the wrist. Some of them also have the one in the side. A few of them have all five. At will, a Stigmatapher can open any of their stigmata and pour out blood. In celestial form, this blood is luminous red; in corporeal form, it's just blood. The blood heals, when applied to wounds or drunk by the sick. In game mechanics, the Stigmatapher transfers hit points directly from themselves to the patient. The healing process heals Celestial damage when done in Celestial form, Corporeal damage when done in Corporeal form. In either form, or in the ad hoc images of Ethereal "form," it can heal Ethereal damage. It produces no Disturbance. Most Stigmataphers also know the various Songs of Healing, as backup and to restore *themselves* after healing another. Stigmatapher blood drawn from wounds, not stigmata, has no special properties. Stigmataphers can also "reverse polarity" on their blood and use it to *damage*. Earl ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:27:54 +1100 From: "Azrael" Subject: Re: IN> Stigmataphers - Variant Saints > Stigmataphers can also "reverse polarity" on their blood and use it > to *damage*. Do they still lose Hit Points too? Or Do ther again them? These guys are cool... Azrael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 19:14:27 CST From: "Justin Buhler" Subject: Re: IN> Stigmataphers - Variant Saints >These guys are cool... > >Azrael > I agree, they're very ineteresting, are there anymore you(or anyone for that matter) wish to share? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #1543 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2000 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.