From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Sun Jul 2 01:15:35 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 BAA02881 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 01:15:35 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id BAA07254 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 01:14:25 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 01:14:25 -0500 Message-Id: <200007020614.BAA07254@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 #1697 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, July 2 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1697 In this digest: IN> Bad Speling; or, McCoy's Canon IN> Mall Horrors! IN> New Distinction Re: IN> New Distinction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:47:30 -0400 From: "EDG" Subject: IN> Bad Speling; or, McCoy's Canon A very bizarre thought I had while driving home, this is a work in progress (mainly 'cos I'm tired). Apologies to Beth. ^_^ This derives from me being frustrated that people can't figure out the difference between canon and cannons: Nobody is perfect, and the angel McCoy is no exception. She tries, mind you. When she discovered that she really needed more practice in attuning to things (which is paramount, to a Cherub), she decided to hang out and make things for a bit while she got that practice. But she has Discord - Bad Speling, gained when she attuned to a grammar teacher and then let him die - and that affects her life in a fairly deep fashion. - --- McCoy's Discord: Bad Speling You probably wouldn't expect something such as bad spelling to be such a disabling Discord. Bad Speling, though, is a bit more insidious than that, though: it actually has an effect on anything the afflicted does. By making a Precision roll, less the level of the Discord, she can avoid being affected for a number of days equal to her Ethereal Forces, but after that time is up, the Discord returns in full power. Bad Speling acts in such as way as to fundamentally alter the nature of anything the character makes or does, in strange and unusual ways. The best way to describe the effects of Bad Speling are with examples, and the most famous example associated with McCoy is her Canon. McCoy's Canon This, despite its name, is not a holy dictate or a piece of music, but a large gun. McCoy made this - the latest in a series of strange creations - as a simple firearm, but in the process of creation it became something more: McCoy's Canon has the power to set the Symphony back to the way it's /supposed/ to be. It's limited, though - it can erase disturbance equal to the amount of Essence "loaded" into the gun, and in the process reverse the damage that caused the disturbance, but it has no effect on long-term celestial interference - unless that interference caused damage to something. Note that this is not a simple healing of wounds; the Canon actually /undoes/ what was done, and sets things right - to a point. Fortunately, the Canon seems to be a beneficial tool in a long line of very strange (and often devastating) weapons. McCoy previously designed a tool called the Caanon, for example; anybody hit by a shot from this weapon was shown a glimpse of the Holy Land, and then died on the spot. One accident, of which she made a gift to Novalis, was the Pistil: it shot flowers instead of bullets. - --- But she does try, and that's what counts in the eyes of Yves, her Superior. Although she doesn't know it, Eli has convinced Yves to not wipe the Discord off her slate just yet; it might not be the /nicest/ thing to do to a fellow angel, but Eli's sure that one of these days, she's going to accidentally come up with something that's actually completely beneficial to the Host. Of course, he has no idea what's going to happen to McCoy (actually Mikoiel - no, she's not the /real/ McCoy...) or her creations once Bad Speling is wiped from her slate... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:34:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Emily Dresner Subject: IN> Mall Horrors! Hi -- I just came back from one of the bigger malls in SE Michigan (Twelve Oaks) and it turns out they have both a Wizards of the Coast store and a Games Workshop store. Disturbed by the site of gaming _stuff_ in a stuff, conservative, rich Michigan suburb, I went in. And sure enough, they had gaming stuff. I noticed that the WotC stores _are_ carrying Steve Jackson Games materials. They had a pretty decent line-up of GURPS stuff along with the basic set. What they did not carry was any In Nomine stuff - no core rules, no supplements, nothing. I would think that there should have been because, after all, in two months there are going to be tons of eyeballs scarfing D&D3 stuff faster than the store peons can put it on the shelf, and the GURPS stuff was sitting displayed right next to the D&D materials, along with the White Wolf and the Deadlands. Was this a conscious decision to have these mall stores _not_ carry In Nomine materials? - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emily K. Dresner -- http://www.nodonut.com/zenith The Parisian Asphalt Initiative - Paving France for a Better Tomorrow http://www.pave-france.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:47:19 -0400 From: "EDG" Subject: IN> New Distinction This is either a Distinction of Dark Humor, or the only Distinction that Eli hands out. Either works, and at the GM's discretion both may be used simultaneously. Clive Anderson: This demon/angel may afflict up to four people in his immediate vicinity with a role (not a Role) and a situation for 60 seconds of game time, for the cost of 3 Essence. (For each additional Essence spent, the character may increase the time by 30 seconds - so that a Clive Anderson spending 6 Essence would be enthralling his poor victims for two and a half minutes.) Until the end of the 60 seconds, the targets /must/ act within the confines of the roles and the situation that the character defines. A character may roll Will to resist, but succeeding gets the character a note of dissonance, and failing means that he may not roll Will again until the 60 seconds are up. - -EDG has it been determined that superiors get the powers of the distinctions that they offer? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:13:42 PDT From: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> New Distinction >From: "EDG" >> >Clive Anderson: Oh boy. I used to have _such_ a crush on Clive Anderson :) jo ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #1697 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2000 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.