From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Sat Aug 19 16:14:00 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 QAA15872 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:14:00 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id QAA29482 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:12:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:12:37 -0500 Message-Id: <200008192112.QAA29482@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 #1787 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 Saturday, August 19 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1787 In this digest: Re: IN> Saminga! Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Re: IN> Saminga! Re: IN> Saminga! Re: IN> New Campaign - and questions from my players Re: IN> Saminga! Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands IN> The Dark Side of God Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Re: IN> The Dark Side of God Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands IN> Contest II: Gabriel's Minor Choirs. Re: IN> Saminga! Re: IN> Saminga! Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Re: IN> Saminga! Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Re: IN> Domini Canes -- A Minor Dominican Choir Re: IN> Domini Canes -- A Minor Dominican Choir IN> I just had an odd thought... Re: IN> I just had an odd thought... Re: IN> Campaigns and Celestials (was Re: IN> Sehrah: Angel of Folk Music) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:06:02 EDT From: "Angela Smythe" Subject: Re: IN> Saminga! > > Actually, when I see "Saminga!", I always think immediately after it, > > "On > > Ice!" I can even hear the mellifluous tones of the announcer, the > > spotlights > > playing around the skating arena, the drum roll crescendoing, all > > attention > > drawn to the parting curtains where... I'll let your imaginations do > > all the > > work. Any attempt to put it into words would not do the image > > justice. > > ROACLMWO o:> > > (Rolling on a cloud laughing my wings off) It's only a short jump to "Saminga: The Musical" with it's award winning songs "It's a dead world after all" and "My favorite dead things." Angela ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:06:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:10:37 +1200 (NZST) From: Keith Bolland Subject: Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands >Here's my contribution. Interestingly, I note both so >far have had resonances related to chance. Maybe I'm >underinformed on Janus. *shrug* Them's the odds, if you'll forgive the pun. :) I liked your interpetation just fine, not least because I wouldn't have come with it on my own. Moe ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Everything else (not that there is, right now): http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/main.html Last updated 8/7/00 (this is a guess) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:19:19 -0400 From: Marc Bowden Subject: Re: IN> Saminga! - --On Friday, August 18, 2000 09:06 +0000 Angela Smythe wrote: > > It's only a short jump to "Saminga: The Musical" with it's award > winning songs "It's a dead world after all" and "My favorite dead > things." > And the plush Saminga dolls at the Disney Store. And Saminga coloring books. And Saminga flammable children's pajamas. And... Marc. Just Marc. Elohite Angel of Salvation ("What is it you do here?" "MERCHANDIZING! Where the real money from the Principality is made!") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:43:48 -0700 (PDT) From: sw@haven.eyrie.org Subject: Re: IN> Saminga! > > > Actually, when I see "Saminga!", I always think immediately after it, > > > "On > > > Ice!" I can even hear the mellifluous tones of the announcer, the > > > spotlights > > > playing around the skating arena, the drum roll crescendoing, all > > > attention > > > drawn to the parting curtains where... I'll let your imaginations do > > > all the > > > work. Any attempt to put it into words would not do the image > > > justice. > > It's only a short jump to "Saminga: The Musical" with it's award winning > songs "It's a dead world after all" and "My favorite dead things." > > Angela o/~ Soft rotting corpses with maggot-rich tresses, Skeletal beauties in moth-eaten dresses, Small animal critters all strangled with string... Theeeeeese are a few of my faaaaavorite dead things! o/~ I feel so dirty. - --JT ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:17:10 +0100 From: "Laurent" Subject: Re: IN> New Campaign - and questions from my players Sorry if a similar answer was already given, but I had over 900 In Nomine emails after I came back from a 2 weeks absence, so I went through a mass-delete phase. I still have 150 to go and the week-end is coming. Oh my... I wanted to give a Holy Pistol to one of my players a week ago, and was surprised by the cost. The cost for gun seems fair, but the bullets are way too expensive IMO. So if you don't want to "sell" them for CP's, you could still "sell" them for Essence. After all, isn't Essence the Celestial currency? Make up a contact (Celestial) for the players who sells them weapons and other kind of equipment. They can buy holy/unholy bullets for Essence from him/her. You're the GM, so it's up to you to fix the price. 3 or 4 Essence for a 9 bullets clip seems fair to me. No CP's involved. During play-time, they can buy as many bullets as they want, as long as they come up with enough Essence. But you should fix a maximum number of clips they can get between two adventures in order to avoid Essence-regeneration abuse. Laurent. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:52:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Saminga! Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:15:11 -0500 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Saminga! From: "David Wood" > > (Okay, I suppose if you want to keep it Hellish, you can freeze some living > souls under the ice...) >No, the images "Saminga on Ice!" inspired are too >Damned funny to require such embellishment. ;;;) Except for who gets to run the zamboni (sp.?). Vapula, of course. ;) Morgan (FAW) Kyriotate of Destiny Petitioner for the Word of Only Zamboni in the universe that can intimidate an Ogre (tm) ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Everything else (not that there is, right now): http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/main.html Last updated 8/7/00 (this is a guess) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:11:38 -0700 From: Ryan Elias Subject: Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Here's mine. Not exactly a minor choir, but whatever. Zephyrs (Also referred to as: Relievers of Wind, Sneaks, Windlets, Kids) Zephyrs aren't a choir per say. They are, in fact, a variety of Celestial Spirit, created first about 4000 years ago when Janus happened upon an unusual way to twitch the symphony, creating the Deep Cover Attunement. This allows them to operate with great subtlety on Earth, providing a Celestial alternative to Soldiers and Saints. Zephyrs operate as spies and saboteurs. All Zephyr's have 5 or less forces. Any Sneak who acquires a sixth force can no longer use the Deep Cover attunement and is a perfectly normal Reliever (with the exception of increased until it falls back below 5 forces, at which point the attunemnt reactivates, if Janus hasn't removed it, or fledges. As experienced Zephyrs are highly valued by Janus, most Zephyrs stay at 5 forces for a long, long time. Zephyr's who do fledge often become Mercurians, although all choirs are possible. All Zephyr's serve Janus, although often they are lent out to other Archangels. For security reasons, there are never very many (it wouldn't do to have Hell figure out that what they assumed were 5 force humas working for Heaven were actually celestial spirits). Fallen Zephyr's become normal Gremlins and Imps. Valefor may be able to create a similiar attunement, but if he has, Heaven isn't yet aware of it. Dissonance Although they don't have a choir dissonance condition, the Deep Cover attunement makes it dissonant for a Zephyr to spend more than 2 weeks in a stretch on earth without spending at least three days in Heaven (although Hell would probably work too...). They often get around this, and Janus' dissonance condition, by operating in shifts, with a couple Zephyrs taking identical vessels. Manner and Appearence Zephyr's mostly take completely average looking human vessels, although children are also common, and birds very popular. They rarely have Roles in the Celestial sense of the word (they don't need them), but are usually provided with basic ID and history by Angels of Janus, getting jobs in demon controlled facilities. On the Corporeal plane, Zephyrs do their best to be utterly boring. As relievers of Janus they're not generally very good at this, and often possess a sort of manic-depressive air. Usually, though, Zephyrs (many of whom have been in this business for hundreds, or even thousands, of years) are good enough at acting human to pass as merely slightly eccentric. On the Celestial Plane, Zephyrs, like all relievers of Wind, are energetic and playful, often tiresomely so to anyone other than another servitor of Wind. A strange side effect of their "eternal youth" is that Zephyrs tend to be, in Heaven only, highly sexually charged, and they are among the only Relievers in Heaven to have children (most of whom don't become Zephyrs, and quickly outgrow their "parents". Zephyrs love to see their children grow up to be big scary Malakim ^_^). A Sneak's celestial form looks like any other reliever of Wind (silvery gray little pixie-type with gossamer wings), except that Zephyrs have human eyes. This can be very disconcerting at first. They prefer to think of themselves as background noise, rather than any particular instrument. Attunement: Deep Cover Deep Cover inserts a being with 5 forces or less fully into the Symphony. Like Asmodeus' Humanity attunement (or all of Jordi's choir attunements), only more so. A Zephyr will only disturb the symphony with conscious essense expenditure and songs. What's more, a Zephyr's total forces are counted as zero for the purpose of disturbance calculation (which means, among other things, that they cause no disturbance when using tethers or assuming celestial form). Anything else they do may as well have been done by a human. What's more, a Celestial hurting a Zephyr causes disturbance as per a human (one point disturbance per four hits damage). They do not, however, cause any disturbance when they die. Deep Cover is unable, however, to conceal more than 5 forces in this manner. Even worse, the stretching of the attunement trying to conceal a larger being actually causes disturbance, 1 per force over 5, which radiates out from the Vessel of the attuned (as per artifacts which radiate disturbance; no echoes). And that's a wrap. Cheers, -Ryan "I'll be your Nelson if you'll be my Hamilton..." -XTC, I'd Like That ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:21:30 GMT From: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands > >(Also referred to as: Relievers of Wind *snigger* jo ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:10:43 -0400 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> The Dark Side of God Actually I've been toying with this for some time now that Kronos, Hell, and the Lower Hells have existed as long as Yves, Heaven, and the Higher Heavens have. Basically it's continually sticking with the "Ahrimane" concept of Zorastrian dualism myth with my own spin on things. "When God looked at himself with Yves's eyes he discovered something horrible about himself that he was not beutiful but twisted and formless with overwhelming chaos as the sum and whole of his existence save for what he had wrought in Yves. The Creator sought to cleanse himself of this horror if he ever sought to create others like him and divorced the chaos from his form into the void. Bringing order to himself he began to create Michael, myself, and the Heavens about us. Yet the primordial being was no less the sum of God as before and it sought to discover why it had been rejected, bringing forth it's own set of eyes to look upon itself....to which the eyes found it good." - -The Book of Lucifer Lucifer discovered Kronos and Hell long before the Rebellion and realized early on the truth that God was divided and instead of exalting the choice or hoping to resolve the base primordial darkness he sought to bring together the two disparaget parts of the Creator. Arhimane welcomed Lucifer and showed that divorce from the Creator would turn them into what he intended for the universe..... Thus Lucifer doesn't grant words at all....Arhimane through his "Voice" does, slowly bringing the universe closer to the vision Arhimane has for the Cosmos while Lucifer himself still seeks the reconcillation he intends for the primal substance of Chaos/Order. Thoughts? - -Charlemagne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:41:03 EDT From: MarkDEddy@aol.com Subject: Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Here's my submission: Ruachim (the Muses, Inspirers) "Love ya, babe, but I've gotta go..." "Will I ever see you again? You've been so helpful." "Maybe I'll blow through town and look you up." And with a quick grin, she was out of my life, but at least I *had* a life, now. Ruachim are a minor choir, serving under Janus (the few who had been loaned to Eli were returned with thanks just before he dropped out). They are tasked with inspiring mortals to action. They prefer young or athletic looking vessels, and their celestial form resembles nothing so much as a tangled skein of yarn spun from mist. Resonance: With a resonance roll, a Ruachite can determine what activities a given person would most enjoy doing, and be most likely to do, based on the check die: 1 - a simple activity that will keep the mortal engaged for an hour. 2 - something which will engage the target for a day. 3 - a minor project which would take a week to complete. 4 - a large project, sufficient to last a month. 5 - a series of related activities which will take the target a year to exhaust. 6 - a life-changing event. Once the target has this activity pointed out to them, they will never be the same. Dissonance: It is dissonant for a Ruachite to resonate on any individual more than once - Janus wants them to keep moving, inspiring more and more people. Superior-specific resonance: Ruachim of the Wind (Restricted): A Ruachite in service to Janus can add her ethereal forces to her perception when using her resonance. Ruachim of Creation (Restricted): Eli's Ruachim always knew where to find the materials that would support their target's activity. Mark (So I couldn't resist...) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:37:16 -0700 From: Rolland Therrien Subject: Re: IN> The Dark Side of God - -----Original Message----- From: Charles Phipps To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com Date: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: IN> The Dark Side of God >Actually I've been toying with this for some time now that Kronos, Hell, and >the Lower Hells have existed as long as Yves, Heaven, and the Higher Heavens >have. > >Basically it's continually sticking with the "Ahrimane" concept of >Zorastrian dualism myth with my own spin on things. > >"When God looked at himself with Yves's eyes he discovered something >horrible about himself that he was not beutiful but twisted and formless >with overwhelming chaos as the sum and whole of his existence save for what >he had wrought in Yves. The Creator sought to cleanse himself of this >horror if he ever sought to create others like him and divorced the chaos >from his form into the void. Bringing order to himself he began to create >Michael, myself, and the Heavens about us. Yet the primordial being was no >less the sum of God as before and it sought to discover why it had been >rejected, bringing forth it's own set of eyes to look upon itself....to >which the eyes found it good." >-The Book of Lucifer > >Lucifer discovered Kronos and Hell long before the Rebellion and realized >early on the truth that God was divided and instead of exalting the choice >or hoping to resolve the base primordial darkness he sought to bring >together the two disparaget parts of the Creator. > >Arhimane welcomed Lucifer and showed that divorce from the Creator would >turn them into what he intended for the universe..... > >Thus Lucifer doesn't grant words at all....Arhimane through his "Voice" >does, slowly bringing the universe closer to the vision Arhimane has for the >Cosmos while Lucifer himself still seeks the reconcillation he intends for >the primal substance of Chaos/Order. This reminds me of a french comic story I once read. The series is called "Azreal", and focuses on a very kewl variation of the war between Heaven and Hell, which included sci-fi clothed Angels, and both sides using funky star-ships to travel to Heaven, Earth and Hell. In that world, God's origin takes a twisted turn: Turns out God, when he first came around, was Good as well as Evil, and everything he created with one hand, he felt the urge to destroy with the other. Wanting to create something permanent, God created an exact twin of himself, which he filled with all his Evil, and gave it life, creating a Dark God. And then they fought for dominance. But to win, God had to cheat, and cut off the Dark God's right hand, it's creating hand. Without that Hand, the Dark God could not create anything, and was defensless against God's full power. The Dark God was subdued, and it's Core removed from it's inert form, left behind in what would become Hell, and then God altered it. Dark God's basic Dark nature was hidden deep inside a new form, with a new soul and a new mind; an image of pure, noble light... Lucifer, the Lightbringer. In this form, God hoped that his Dark twin would not surface again... But knew that, inevitably, Lucifer would feel his heart fill with envy and hatred towards God, and that he would fall, taking many of the Host with him, and returning to Hell. And when the inevitable happened, God knew that he and the Host would one day have to fight his Dark Twin again... Hopefully, Heaven will keep Hell from gaining too many souls, and from winning too many victories. because the day Hell gets enough souls, their dark Forces fed towards the Lower Hells, where Lucifer thrones, Lucifer will reawaken the Dark heart within him, and will remember what he truly was... On that Day, Armageddon will truly occur... and not even Michael will be able to stand in Lucifer's way... - -Exit the LoneWolf ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:53:51 -0700 From: Ryan Elias Subject: Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands Jo Hart wrote: > > > > >(Also referred to as: Relievers of Wind > > *snigger* *hem* Quite. Well, perhaps it could've done with a proof-read, but it was very early.... Cheers, -Ryan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:54:22 -0600 From: "ben" Subject: IN> Contest II: Gabriel's Minor Choirs. Thanks for all the wonderful submissions. Keep them coming! They'll appear on a website over the weekend. Janus appreciates your work. According to the Superior Rand-o-Select perl script, our next Superior is a regular favorite: David, the Archangel of Stone. (The SROSPS wanted us to do Gabriel, but I'll give your Inspiration/Change/Excitement juices a break this week.) Once again, thanks to everyone for their participation in this 'contest.' And David looks forward to all the ways you can help his causes with minor choirs. Ben ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:05:00 -0500 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Saminga! From: "Maurice Lane" > > >No, the images "Saminga on Ice!" inspired are too > >Damned funny to require such embellishment. ;;;) > > Except for who gets to run the zamboni (sp.?). > > Vapula, of course. I would have figured an enslaved Kyrio of Jean... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:34:13 -0400 From: "Galen G. Silversmith" Subject: Re: IN> Saminga! > Return-Path: prodigal@ticnet.com > From: "Maurice Lane" > > > > >No, the images "Saminga on Ice!" inspired are too > > >Damned funny to require such embellishment. ;;;) > > > > Except for who gets to run the zamboni (sp.?). > > > > Vapula, of course. > > I would have figured an enslaved Kyrio of Jean... > I'd vote the former King of Spain, myself =) Now I want to write up the King of Spain as a remenant of a Merc of Yves. Or maybe a Merc of Marc. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:25:12 -0500 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands From: "Ryan Elias" > Jo Hart wrote: > > > > > >(Also referred to as: Relievers of Wind > > > > *snigger* > > *hem* > > Quite. > > Well, perhaps it could've done with a proof-read, but it was very > early.... So you gave it a pass, did you? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:49:10 -0500 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Saminga! From: "Galen G. Silversmith" > > From: "Maurice Lane" > > > > > > Except for who gets to run the zamboni (sp.?). > > I'd vote the former King of Spain, myself =) No, he's too busy working the concession stand. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Aug 2000 16:51:03 -0700 From: Casca Subject: Re: IN> Contest: Minor Choirs and Bands On Fri, 18 August 2000, "Jo Hart" wrote: > >(Also referred to as: Relievers of Wind > > *snigger* I once had a Malakite of Janus PC who was jockying for the Word of Breaking Wind -- farting and high explosives. Or is that redundant? - -- 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! Many to choose from! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:04:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Domini Canes -- A Minor Dominican Choir Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:46:45 -0500 From: Earl Wajenberg Subject: IN> Domini Canes -- A Minor Dominican Choir Domini Canes -- The Lord's Dogs >The Domini Canes are Dominic's attempt to combine the >powers of the Malakim and the Cherubim. Like Malakim, >they cannot fall. Like Cherubim,the have an attuned. >In fact, each Dog is made for, and permanently >attuned to, exactly one other celestial. It's an interesting dea. I'd probably use it in a darker campaign, for the historical connotations if nothing else, but you could have some fun with these guys.* Moe *I wonder who would do cats: Asmodeus, or Michael? ;) ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Everything else (not that there is, right now): http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/main.html Last updated 8/7/00 (this is a guess) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:24:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Twila Oxley Price Subject: Re: IN> Domini Canes -- A Minor Dominican Choir Moe Wrote: *I wonder who would do cats: Asmodeus, or Michael? ;) And I say -- Andrealphus, of course! (Cats are sensual, cats are soft, and cats don't give a damn about what *you* feel!) Now, mind you, I happen to adore cats. I am the willing slave of my baby, even though she is a standoffish sort... but I'm definitely thinking Andre would do cats! Twila (who is thinking of how to do THIS writeup!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 20:43:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> I just had an odd thought... And it's all about Kronos and Yves. Would they be able to create really, really powerful Servitors, given their unique access to the Symphony? Superiors-in-a-can level powerful? And if so, are they stockpiling them for dire emergencies? "Oh my God, they killed half of the Seraphim Council!*" "Good thing they didn't get the storage lockers. Shall we try a Ofanite for the Word of Children this time around?" Morgan (FAW) Kyriotate of Destiny Petitioner for the Word of Dunno How You'd Make It Anything But Sick-Yet-Funny, Though. *"You bast**ds!" :) ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Everything else (not that there is, right now): http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/main.html Last updated 8/7/00 (this is a guess) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:52:24 -0500 From: "Charles Glasgow" Subject: Re: IN> I just had an odd thought... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice Lane" To: Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 10:43 PM Subject: IN> I just had an odd thought... > And it's all about Kronos and Yves. > > Would they be able to create really, really powerful > Servitors, given their unique access to the Symphony? > Superiors-in-a-can level powerful? And if so, are > they stockpiling them for dire emergencies? > > "Oh my God, they killed half of the Seraphim > Council!*" That isn't just a really powerful servitor, that's something about six times bigger than the average Superior. (*Michael* would have big trouble killing half the Seraphim Council all at once, and he's the undefeated Heavyweight Champion Of the Symphony.) Oh. You were speaking *figuratively*. Never mind. :-) > "Good thing they didn't get the storage lockers. > Shall we try a Ofanite for the Word of Children this > time around?" Elohite. Gotta be Elohite. Otherwise, the kids will drive him nuts. - -- Chuckg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:20:08 -0500 From: "Tafka J." Subject: Re: IN> Campaigns and Celestials (was Re: IN> Sehrah: Angel of Folk Music) At 11:05 AM -0700 08/15/00, Maurice Lane wrote: > Which leads one to a point that doesn't come up all that often: how often > do real people turn out to be celestials in your average campaign? For giggles, the first time I ran 'Solitaire' (The name of my first In Nomine campaign; and also the first time I think I've actually GM'd something halfway decent) I managed to have two NPC's and one of the PC's based off of real people the gaming group knew. In fact, said PC was a played by the person the PC was based off of. All three of them were Celestials. (I don't always do that, but it sort of fit the mood of the game. Since it was heavily based on where we all gamed and who we knew. I don't think I really had any epic goal in mind when I ran it. Mostly it was just an excuse to gather, shoot the bull, and vaugely pay attention to what's going on. About 90% of that entire storyline was all improv. I'm pleased with the results, as were my players.) My current campaign, though. . . I've been using "guest-npc's" to pad elements of the storyline. It's a habit I'm trying to break, but sometimes they just _fit_ nicely into that particular spot. The first use was mostly background action that didn't quite concern the players. As for the second time? What can I say, they wanted to go to IHOP. I had to have _someone_ as the waitress*. };;;> (* You can all email me privately if your _that_ curious. Though I'll warn you that they aren't as obvious as you may think. . .) Be seeing you, - - Tafka J. = tafkaj@thrifty.net # Balseraph of Fate, Marquis of Delusions of Grandeur ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #1787 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2000 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.