From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Fri Jun 30 22:58:00 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 WAA27053 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:58:00 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id WAA21912 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:56:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:56:16 -0500 Message-Id: <200007010356.WAA21912@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 #1696 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, June 30 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1696 In this digest: Re: IN> What do Superiors due with their Stuff? Re: iIN> Musical Superiors Re: IN> Musical Superiors IN> Musical Superiors Re: IN> Musical Superiors Re: IN> Ewige Blumenkraft ... Re: IN> Musical Superiors Re: IN> Yes, she is. It sounds bloody unlikely to me, too... Re: IN> New Infernal Celestial Spirit: Marsiths Re: IN> What do Superiors [do] with their Stuff? Re: IN> Musical Superiors Re: IN> Musical Superiors Re: IN> How insane is Gabrielle? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:24:28 -0400 From: Marc Bowden Subject: Re: IN> What do Superiors due with their Stuff? - --On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 21:23 -0400 Charles Phipps wrote: > I'm very curious about it as it's a big clue to a character's > interaction with his superior. > Most angels' interaction with their Superior usually involves an elevated heartbeat and sweating. Marc. Just Marc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:34:28 -0400 From: Marc Bowden Subject: Re: iIN> Musical Superiors - --On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 23:23 -0700 Maurice Lane wrote: > > Bagpipes. It's the _perfect_ Elohite instrument. > Hard to learn, majestic when played right, and > absolutely requires that the player be incapable of > feeling embarrassment about playing something that > looks like a tie-dyed octopus*... > Bloody right. =) > > *Tell the truth. You're all visualizing Jean in a > kilt, aren't you? > Uh...no. I mean, I wasn't. I am NOW.... > Well, you're thinking about it _now_... > > ;) > *blink* How does s/he *do* that?! Marc. Just Marc. Elohite Angel of Salvation (Actually owns a kilt, now afraid to wear it to MiRF 2000.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:43:43 -0400 From: Marc Bowden Subject: Re: IN> Musical Superiors - --On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 23:54 -0400 David Wood wrote: > > And here I thought the best instrument for Novalis would have been... > the acoustic guitar. After all, when you're out in the Garden, where > do you PLUG IN that electric bass?? > Novalis: Unplugged. Marc. Just Marc. Elohite Angel of Salvation ("Most likely to be ground zero for the formation of a Lightning tether.") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:44:46 -0400 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> Musical Superiors >HAH! That's what he lets you all _think_ that he >does. There's only one instrument that Jean plays, >and he is possibly the best player of it that has ever >existed. Even Israfel bows to his superior (pardon >the pun) ability with this one musical instrument. >Bagpipes. It's the _perfect_ Elohite instrument. >Hard to learn, majestic when played right, and >absolutely requires that the player be incapable of >feeling embarrassment about playing something that >looks like a tie-dyed octopus*... My ancestor Robert the Bruce wills me from Heaven (or Hell-he did kill a man in a Church to become King...) me to refrute that play. *EVERYONE* knows that Bagpipes can only be handled by the manly forces of Janus. He has a force of personality to play the fine...frequently outlawed....Scottish insturment. However my opinion is that Janus was the one who invented the keyboard. "Obviously you pitiful people have been playing too often these monkey created works of art...therefore I introduce to you the Syntehsizer! Allowing us angels to make sounds no mortal insturment can! Hmmm nice beat here." Disco was partially his idea. - -Charlemagne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:53:00 -0400 From: Marc Bowden Subject: Re: IN> Musical Superiors - --On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 22:44 -0400 Charles Phipps wrote: > Disco was partially his idea. > > -Charlemagne Disco was what happen when Vapula got his hands on a keyboard. - Marc. Just Marc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:59:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Douglas Muir Subject: Re: IN> Ewige Blumenkraft ... I like this quite a bit. IMC, Novalis is not hippy dippy at all (OK, well, not much). Her servitors are more like, mm, the Quakers and conscientious objector types, with a sprinkling of "never mind the War, let's help the humans" sorts mixed in. While Novalis herself has yet to make an appearance, various of her Servitors have played crucial supporting roles IMC, and my PCs tend to view them with just as much respect as the Michaelites or Swordies. Doug M. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:59:37 -0400 From: "EDG" Subject: Re: IN> Musical Superiors > > Disco was partially his idea. > Disco was what happen when Vapula got his hands on a keyboard. think this might be going off-topic stop recommend the thread die before princess beth gets testy stop not responsible for consequences of continuing stop - -EDG dot dash dot ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:04:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Douglas Muir Subject: Re: IN> Yes, she is. It sounds bloody unlikely to me, too... Liked this one, too. Ask me sometime about the alternate history I wrote last year over on soc.history.what-if, in which she played a minor supporting role. It was a timeline in which the very-nearly-successful assassination attempt on FDR in 1933 _did_ succeed, and John Nance Garner became President... Anyhow, nice work; keep 'em coming. Doug M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:17:32 -0500 From: Earl Wajenberg Subject: Re: IN> New Infernal Celestial Spirit: Marsiths Interesting. Well worth putting into a campaign. They sound very much like popular conceptions of besetting devils -- low-key Shedim suitable for afflicting almost anyone some of the time. Canonical Shedim are rather too dramatic for everyday-anyone evil, and furthermore are designed toward corruption; Marsiths can corrupt, too, but also can just make your day rotten. Marsith would be a good band for Wormwood, the "junior tempter" and recipient of "The Screwtape Letters." Earl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:30:06 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> What do Superiors [do] with their Stuff? At 9:24 PM -0400 6/29/00, Marc Bowden wrote: >--On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 21:23 -0400 Charles Phipps >wrote: > >> I'm very curious about it as it's a big clue to a character's >> interaction with his superior. >> > > Most angels' interaction with their Superior usually involves an >elevated heartbeat and sweating. While demons typically add groveling and the occasional begging for mercy. - --Beth, catching up as she can, typing with a baby (iolanthe) in her lap. Vapitalizatoin and spelling still difficult, typing w/ 1 hand (and often a wigglebaby in the other). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:38:01 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Musical Superiors At 11:59 PM -0400 6/29/00, EDG wrote: >> > Disco was partially his idea. >> Disco was what happen when Vapula got his hands on a keyboard. > >think this might be going off-topic stop recommend the thread die before >princess beth gets testy stop not responsible for consequences of continuing >stop > >-EDG > dot dash dot So long as it sticks with disco and doesn't get tooooo far out of line, it may live. Maybe. I'm not respoinsible for what everyone _else_ does if there gets to be too much disco talk. (Okay, everyone who had their brains broken by Jean in a kilt (mmmm, kilt! Mmmm, Elohite in kilt!), think of this. Andre Does Disco.) - --Beth, catching up as she can, typing with a baby (iolanthe) in her lap. Vapitalizatoin and spelling still difficult, typing w/ 1 hand (and often a wigglebaby in the other). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:29:10 -0400 From: Jason Schneiderman Subject: Re: IN> Musical Superiors >At 11:59 PM -0400 6/29/00, EDG wrote: >(Okay, everyone who had their brains broken by Jean in a kilt (mmmm, >kilt! Mmmm, Elohite in kilt!), think of this. Andre Does Disco.) Oh, I can picture it. There's probably a club in Shal-Mari (Studio 666? Nah. Too easy) where s/he used to sing, Donna Summer-style, under the swirling colors of a disco ball while balseraphs writhe, high on whatever Fleurity (in a wide-lapeled suit) had to offer. Damned souls waited outside behind a velvet rope. Jason * * * * * "I'm addicted to stress that's the way that I get things done if I'm not underpressure then I sleep too long and I hang around like a bum and I think I'm going nowhere and that makes me nervous..." Jason Schneiderman jadasc@ma.ultranet.com ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jun 2000 20:55:29 -0700 From: Casca Subject: Re: IN> How insane is Gabrielle? On Wed, 28 June 2000, "Charles Phipps" wrote: > Unless Yves is hiding the orginal book he was going to give to mortals (and > that would be strange unless he had some really weird requests of > humanity-though shalt wear pink frilly dresses and talk backwards) I doubt > it's not terribly hard to compare the two versions. I had an interesting thought on this, and it's only mildly heretical. I don't think Yves knew what Gabriel was going to say to Mohommed. Gabriel is a Prophet, right? God speaks through her. Yves, ineffable though he may be, is not omniscient (though he does a pretty good imitation sometimes). I think he simply said to Gabriel, "Go talk to this man called Mohammed. By doing this you will further Destiny." Neither do I think Gabriel knows what she said. Most likely, she appeared, did the typical "Fear not," into, and suddenly started speaking in Tounges. As in, speaking in a language that only the intended recipient could understand. Gabriel wasn't meant to know what she said. Which is why Yves didn't say squat or present proof during her Trial: he didn't have any. Oh, he knew she furthered Destiny that day, but the actual text? Didn't show up in the Library until she'd spoken and Mohommed wrote. True Prophecy can be creepy stuff. - -- Casca "...I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him were seraphs, each with six wings: with two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying...At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke." -- Isaiah 6:2,4 _______________________________________________________ Are you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! 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