From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Sat Sep 16 12:16:25 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 MAA04248 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:16:25 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id MAA28152 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:15:04 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:15:04 -0500 Message-Id: <200009161715.MAA28152@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 #1822 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, September 16 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1822 In this digest: Re: IN> Website update time again (with new stuff!) Re: IN> Website update time again (with new stuff!) Re: IN> What if ... Lucifer didn't Fall? Re: IN> Hardcover In Nomine Re: IN> Other Choirs for Archangels or Khalid the Ofanite (among others) Re: IN> "I've never killed anyone this way before. It's kind of neat."* Re: IN> Other Choirs for Archangels or Khalid the Ofanite (among others) IN> Another Insomnia Character... Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... Re: IN> Other Choirs for Archangels or Khalid the Ofanite (among others) Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... IN> Servitors of Light Re: IN> Servitors of Light Re: IN> Servitors of Light Re: IN> Servitors of Light Re: IN> Servitors of Light Re: IN> Servitors of Light IN> New NPC Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:06:27 GMT From: "Daniel Gallagher" Subject: Re: IN> Website update time again (with new stuff!) >I just read the bio on Daisy. You have a warped imagination, and I say >that with full respect. :) Daisy's a menace to society in a Care Bear >type fashion. :P Heaven be helped if Daisy ever confronts someone like >Michael or Laurence directly. I wonder how long it would take her to get >one of those two to turn tail and run, dissonance be damned? :P Aww, who'd want to run from Daisy? She's so nice and sweet and kind and cuddley, she'd just MAKE stuffy old Michael and Lawrance love her. Daniel Gallagher Archangel of Slackers "The world is... hey, pass the Doritos" _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:02:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Website update time again (with new stuff!) Might as well lump all my responses together. :) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:03:21 GMT From: "Daniel Gallagher" >Daisy is soooooooo sickiningly sweet that she should >be shot and killed! I love her! I'm going to have to >force one on my players to be her servitor, it'll be >a happy fun-fun time. Have fun. Just remember, she's (hopefully) as potentially deadly as she is annoying. :) Date: 14 Sep 2000 09:06:50 -0700 From: Casca >I have an idea for a humorous fluffy piece involving >Daisy and Kobal. >May I use your NPC? > >- -- Casca Sure. Anything I put on the site is effectively considered freely available for private use, now and forever. Especially this one: I don't _dare_ letting her into any putative future campaigns of mine, but a Habbalite's got to make a living somehow. Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:12:54 -0500 From: Earl Wajenberg >Daisy reminds me (in concept, not execution (if >you'll forgive the tempting term)) of the Cheerful >Fairy from Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather." Funny you should mention that. I was thinking about the CF a little while writing Daisy's dialogue. Of course, the Cheerful Fairy wasn't evil, or anything like that, but you all know how Pratchett can get his hooks into an aspiring author's literary style... :) Date: 14 Sep 2000 20:51:53 -0400 From: jmcbray@carcosa.net (Jason F. McBrayer) >Terrifying! I can't help but wondering if she could >be worked into an In Nomine-Paranoia crossover (along >with Orc, Shedite Prince of the Computer). Happiness >is mandatory, citizen! You guys _are_ good at identifying Moe Lane's major literary influences, aren't you? :) More seriously, an IN/Paranoia crossover would be most amusing (no need for this wimpy "let the humans make skill rolls every so often" nonsense, for one thing): however, seeing as 5th Edition is an abomination before the Lord, I've never scribbled out anything for my own use. If someone else can hold their nose, _I_ for one would be interested in seeing it... :) Moegiel Kyriotate of Destiny in Service to Revelations ("When Ogiel get done with Hulk Smashing, whole world know you be Bad Man.") ===== 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 9/5/00 (this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:57:48 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> What if ... Lucifer didn't Fall? At 6:46 PM -0400 9/14/00, Richard Gant wrote: >On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Elizabeth McCoy wrote: > >> >*(3) I happen to say in my games that Uriel was a Seraph. Truth, Purity, >> >all that sort of thing. >> >> Unless I'm totally zoned, Uriel was a Seraph. APG reference? Can't recall. > >He *was* a Seraph. Until the War began, and he became the first Malakite. That's what I mean, you silly people, you. O:pbpbpbpbpttt! - --Beth, typing w/a uncoopertive baby (iolanthe) causing typos. "She's either babbling, or summoning Elder Gods. I'm not sure which." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:37:22 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Hardcover In Nomine At 11:49 AM -0400 9/15/00, Jamie LaFountain wrote: >1. When is the hardcover going to be officially released? I placed a >pre-order on the SJG web site. Hopefully sometime this month. (If I say the projected date, that will jinx it; the last time the date was pre-announced, the printer had a problem with the bindings and the date slipped. Call it superstition -- I call it good sense.) >2. Will it be simply the old In Nomine book with a hardcover? Pretty much. >Will it >contain the errata from the web site? Will there be any other changes (e.g., >rules changes, clarifications, reorganizations, etc.)? Errata, yes. That covers _some_ "changes" and clarifications. There is no organizational change. - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:46:27 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Other Choirs for Archangels or Khalid the Ofanite (among others) At 8:11 PM -0700 9/14/00, Maurice Lane wrote: >I was rereading this one, and it hit me: > >Khalid the Bright Lilim. Owwwwwwwwwwww. >Man, I don't want to even THINK about that one >anymore. It makes my brain hurt. Owwwwwwwww.... Mine too. Okay, write him/her that way. I dare you. >Kyriotate of Destiny in Service to Archives >("You cut out pages with sharp thingy. You LUCKY only >Hulk Smash.") Hee hee hee. - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:58:00 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> "I've never killed anyone this way before. It's kind of neat."* At 10:35 PM +1000 9/15/00, Shane Curtis wrote: >Hrm. I think Orc's player on the list? Maybe we could ask its opinion >directly. Or are you its player? :) As a note, there are, sort of, two "Orc"s. (Befitting a Kyriotate, eh?) The first Orc is the NPC Orc who appeared in the main book. The second Orc is the title (host?) of the person who is in charge of checking over In Nomine-themed computer environments such as MUSHs, MUDs, yadda. See http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/angelmush.html . Therefore, while it's possible future depicitions of the print-on-paper Orc may draw from the personality of the real, live "Orc," for the most part, Orc is just as much fair game for a GM to interpret as any other Superior. Just so people don't get confused. Basically, there is no "player" of Orc in the canon-setting sense. (Though the RL Orc's responses to such questions might inspire someone to write something about him.) IIRC, Orc was created by a bunch of computer students -- when IN was being written, I think someone auctioned off a character, and a group was the high bidder. Their initials boiled down to O.R.C., and there were a lot of them, so Orc the Kyriotate was born... That's all probably a bit rambly, but if anyone has further questions, they can be asked... O:> - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:27:29 -0500 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Other Choirs for Archangels or Khalid the Ofanite (among others) From: "Elizabeth McCoy" > At 8:11 PM -0700 9/14/00, Maurice Lane wrote: > > >I was rereading this one, and it hit me: > > > >Khalid the Bright Lilim. > > Owwwwwwwwwwww. It would make a certain perverse sense in relation to Khalid refusing to accept any Lilim as servitors, though... ;;;) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:37:26 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: IN> Another Insomnia Character... Well, not really. I've done her in a couple of variations. But not to the list. So. Here's a version, slightly tweaked, for the list. Her stats are pretty minimal because I can't double-check as I would like, because that would Wake The Baby. Yeah, yeah, this is another sex-demon. Deal with it. Zaza, Balseraph of Lust 7 Forces -- 2/2/3 configuration, even split (except Will 7, Perception 5). Give her Int 3, Precision 5 if you want. She's got Emote, Seduction, and probably little else. Zaza's first memories were of... sensations. Lots of them. Some of them not entirely what a good little Balseraph would indulge in herself, but those are the breaks when one's been created specially by the Prince of Lust because he happened to need a Balseraph for his latest orgy and didn't have one to hand. Whether it's just part of the Balseraph of Lust attunement, a special twist Andre put on it, or something Zaza convinced herself of in a unique way -- Zaza "self-resonates" herself constantly, invoking her Band Attunement upon herself so that she enjoys what others do to her. (And as a 7-Force Balseraph with masochism, there were a lot of demons in Hell willing to do unto her what her Bandmates tended to do unto them.) She was quite popular in the brothel where she worked -- and she worked quite cheaply. Why shouldn't she? She was getting what _she_ wanted... Now, Zaza's on Earth, which might surprise many of those who once patronized her in Hell, or even angels who take one look at her tottering around on spike heels, restrained by a too-tight-to-move skirt, with her collar around her Balseraphically slim neck. She certainly doesn't _act_ like an arrogant Balseraph. She acts like, well, the masochist she is. But this little masochist has a purpose on Earth, which even she isn't aware of -- but Andrealphus is. There's too much "niceness" in the BDSM scene. Too much of this "safeword" nonsense. Too much of this "mutual control" stuff. Too much "consent." Disgusting. What should be the realm of power, sensation, and lust (which the Media certainly enjoys painting it as) has a streak of _caring_ in it. And Andre wants that squelched. So enter Zaza, into the clubs and parties, holding her leash out to the toughest, nastiest-looking, dominating types she can find. She's consenting, all right. Begging to be spanked, beaten, whipped until she's bloody. Demanding it, even. And she loves every moment of it, the more extreme, the better. Safeword? She doesn't play with safewords. Mutual control? What does she care who's in control if she's getting the sensation she craves? Safety? What does she care for that when the Song of Healing is available? And what does she teach those who take her as their pain-toy? They use her, and she praises them. They hurt her, and she begs for more. They draw blood, and she cries out in delight. The more extreme, the better... Zaza goes beyond human limits of endorphins, and by the time she's left her human master-of-the-moment, she's become a yardstick to measure all other experiences by. It's even better if she can make it a public performance -- she loves the attention, and both human "tops" and "bottoms" are shown an ideal of extremism they cannot hope to achieve. In short, she teaches her human "partners" to enjoy the pain and injury of others, to scorn those who can't handle it as wimps and use their future bedmates as harshly as they please, and that the only _true_ pleasure is found in the domination of others. And all because that's what she _enjoys_, not from any conscious plan of hers. Naturally, angels of Creation hate her as much as any other Lustie. This only bothers her because Trauma seems a boring sensory deprivation to her. Otherwise -- why, the more nasty the angel, the better. She'd be most disappointed if real angels didn't live up to the sadism depicted in the Shal-Mari porn rags. Indeed, if she were captured by angels, her first thought would be to try to convince them that she had information they wanted; after all, what would be torture to another demon is, for Zaza, just one long orgasmathon. - --Beth, typing w/a uncoopertive baby (iolanthe) causing typos. "She's either babbling, or summoning Elder Gods. I'm not sure which." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:48:13 EDT From: BillionSix@aol.com Subject: Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... In a message dated 9/15/00 3:36:35 PM Central Daylight Time, emccoy@nh.ultranet.com writes: << Yeah, yeah, this is another sex-demon. Deal with it. >> No, problem. I have to continually watch myself to keep coming up with more sex-demons. Zaza cool! Me like! Me print this one hardcopyish! Reverend Brian A. Rogers BillionSix@aol.com ICQ# 22544590 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:09:58 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Other Choirs for Archangels or Khalid the Ofanite (among others) At 3:27 PM -0500 9/15/00, Prodigal wrote: >From: "Elizabeth McCoy" >> At 8:11 PM -0700 9/14/00, Maurice Lane wrote: >> >> >I was rereading this one, and it hit me: >> >Khalid the Bright Lilim. >> >> Owwwwwwwwwwww. > >It would make a certain perverse sense in relation to Khalid refusing to >accept any Lilim as servitors, though... ;;;) Well, naturally. Khalilim knows her sisters too darn well... O:> - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:51:16 -0500 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... From: "Elizabeth McCoy" > > Zaza, Balseraph of Lust That was just plain EVIL. Good work, Beth. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:47:08 -0600 From: Tim Groth Subject: IN> Servitors of Light This has probably come up before, and it may even be in the books (I don't think it is though). What happened to all the Servitors of Light? I know a few stayed in Heaven, but most would have defected. So where are thy in Hell? Do they still serve Lucifer directly and just do it very quietly? Or have they been distributed among the DPs (possibly the upper ranks of the older ones). I bet most of them followed Lucifer into Hell. So where are they? Timothy, Angel of Rambling Ofanite of Creation ArchRival of Mathus ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:18:34 NZST From: "Alex Liddell" Subject: Re: IN> Servitors of Light What happened to all the Servitors of Light? I know a few stayed in >Heaven, but most would have defected. So where are thy in Hell? Do they >still serve Lucifer directly and just do it very quietly? Or have they >been distributed among the DPs (possibly the upper ranks of the older >ones). I bet most of them followed Lucifer into Hell. So where are they? I bet a whole mess of them got wiped out during the Fall and the rest have been offed since then. I would gather that those who are still alive are in service to factions that best suited their personalities when they Fell. Those that are still around would no doubt be very powerful and experienced... depending on their ability to survive those first few tenuous days in anothers service. Alex _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:38:14 -0400 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> Servitors of Light At 11:18 AM -0400 9/16/00, Alex Liddell wrote: >What happened to all the Servitors of Light? I know a few stayed in >>Heaven, but most would have defected. So where are thy in Hell? Do they >>still serve Lucifer directly and just do it very quietly? Or have they >>been distributed among the DPs (possibly the upper ranks of the older >>ones). I bet most of them followed Lucifer into Hell. So where are they? > I bet a whole mess of them got wiped out during the Fall and the rest have been offed since then. I would gather that those who are still alive are in service to factions that best suited their personalities when they Fell. I think the majority who weren't killed during the Fall actually *aren't* in others' service. I expect that there aren't many, and they hail from the Lower Hells and do little things for him, here and there. - -- Eric Alfred Burns - - Systems type - Manager by day - Writer - Online Journaller ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:03:39 NZST From: "Alex Liddell" Subject: Re: IN> Servitors of Light >I think the majority who weren't killed during the Fall actually >*aren't* in others' service. I expect that there aren't many, and >they hail from the Lower Hells and do little things for him, here and >there. Perhaps, you are probably right about there not being many left, but how much do you think Lucifer cares about them now? I get the feeling that they would be cultural attaches to DP's. Relaying messages that come from highest levels of power down the food chain, delivering Lucifer's personal edicts when and where he needs them, that sort of thing. It depends on: A: How many there are. If there are more than say a dozen then certainly Lucifer would have them doing more meaningful things than puttering around the Lower Hells. These are ancient Fallen ones, they would be better utilised in the field. B: What Band they are now. If the majority that are still around are Calabim then that makes them lousy diplomats and even more worthless in Hell other than enforcers. Balseraphim of ex-Light should be on Earth promoting ignorance and darkness to the Humans. I still think that they would transfer to the Superior that best suited their personality. Bloodthirsty to Baal and such. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:29:24 -0400 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> Servitors of Light At 12:03 PM -0400 9/16/00, Alex Liddell wrote: >>I think the majority who weren't killed during the Fall actually >>*aren't* in others' service. I expect that there aren't many, and >>they hail from the Lower Hells and do little things for him, here and >>there. > >A: How many there are. If there are more than say a dozen then >certainly Lucifer would have them doing more meaningful things than >puttering around the Lower Hells. These are ancient Fallen ones, >they would be better utilised in the field. I would be surprised if there were more than 10-15 Fallen Light. And I didn't say "puttering aroubd." I said "do little things for him." And meant they *live* in the lower Hells. But they're the ones who show up, for instance, to 'observe the Duke of Cities in his master plan.' The ones who watc, sacrosanct. The ones who make snide comments. The ones with no Distinctions that even princes speak softly to. >B: What Band they are now. If the majority that are still around >are Calabim then that makes them lousy diplomats and even more >worthless in Hell other than enforcers. Balseraphim of ex-Light >should be on Earth promoting ignorance and darkness to the Humans. There are thousands of Demons to do that, though. - -- I have a broken hand, so spelling errors, capitalization errors, and extremely slow response times should be treated as precious things, not errors, because I'm not about to correct them. Neener. Eric Alfred Burns - Habbalite of Belaboring the Point ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:32:13 NZST From: "Alex Liddell" Subject: Re: IN> Servitors of Light >>A: How many there are. If there are more than say a dozen then >>certainly Lucifer would have them doing more meaningful things than >>puttering around the Lower Hells. These are ancient Fallen ones, >>they would be better utilised in the field. > >I would be surprised if there were more than 10-15 Fallen Light. And >I didn't say "puttering aroubd." I said "do little things for him." Well OK then, I meant Puttering around as in doing little things but not influencing Corporeal Matters themselves.. so in essence I agree with you. >And meant they *live* in the lower Hells. But they're the ones who >show up, for instance, to 'observe the Duke of Cities in his master >plan.' The ones who watc, sacrosanct. The ones who make snide >comments. The ones with no Distinctions that even princes speak >softly to. Like Azazel, Lucifer's secretary. So in other words they are the "inner circle" of Lucifer's confidants, privy to information that demon princes may not be privy to. Fair enough. >>B: What Band they are now. If the majority that are still around >>are Calabim then that makes them lousy diplomats and even more >>worthless in Hell other than enforcers. Balseraphim of ex-Light >>should be on Earth promoting ignorance and darkness to the Humans. > >There are thousands of Demons to do that, though. But none are as good at it and sometimes the best policy is quality over quantity, though Hell doesn't often subscribe to that. Alex _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:12:00 GMT From: "David Barton" Subject: IN> New NPC All. I am starting up a new In Nomine game, (I have been drafted into the role of DM, by virtue of the fact that I own some of the books.) My roommate was watching this show when the idea hit me…What do you all think? Side note: I dealt very much if the points balance…I just went with what feels right for him, from a role playing point of view. There should be plenty of point’s left to play with, if you so wish. VINCE Djinn Knight of the Media Demon of Professional Wrestling (No read on, it gets better!) CORPOREAL: 4 ETHERAL: 4 CELESTIAL: 3 Strength: 11 Intelligence: 9 Will: 8 Agility: 5 Precision: 7 Perception: 4 VESSEL: Level 3 Charisma –2 Role: 3 Status 5 “Vince” owner of a wrestling federation. Vince appears as a muscular, but not over bearing caucasian male in his mid 40’s. His hair is greasy, and greying. His smile has the dual effect of being both unsettling and lecherous. His voice is grating and strangely pitched, and he has a tendency to fall into a dull monotone. This combined with an almost calabim like ability to makes his clothes appear unkempt leave him with a thoroughly repellent appearance. Vince is *incredibly* proud of this. He works hard at it…well, as hard as any Djinn will ever work. As well as being a boon when he is attempting to turn a crowd against him, he doesn’t see why he should even try to be pleasant. He is a big wheel, the main event, the real deal. It is other people’s job to like him, to keep him interested, and amused, not the other way around. SKILLS: Vince is not an overly skilled Demon. Until recently, he was a severely under motivated demon, lacking the application required to pick up most involved skills. He has a reasonable level in Dodge and Fighting for his on screen performances. He has at least a level 5 in Lying, maybe more. SONGS: Vince possesses no songs. SPECIAL RITES: Gain 1 essence whenever a crowd of more than 10,000 cheer an amoral, violent act. Gain 3 essence whenever a crowd of more than 10,000 cheer a genuine injury inflicted on one of his performers. ATTUNEMENTS: Djinn of the Media. Vince has two servants, both former performers. They are beaten down, depressed, husks of men, able to take the inordinate amount of abuse both verbal and physical that Vince regularly inflicts upon them. Knight of Influence: Nybbas grants him *far* more T.V time than the hour he is supposed to have. Nybbas is delighted with his work, and appreciate the turn around in Vince. “And besides,” Nybbas likes to tell jealous associates “he sure pulls in the ratings, babe.” BACKSTORY: For a long time, Vince was a lazy, minor demon barely managing to avoid dissonance by performing an hour’s work on “Sports radio” each day. That all changed, less than a decade ago when the demon was channel surfing, and he flicked onto “Pro Wrestling Fight Night.” He was about to change the channel, when something made him pause. As he watched, one of the wrestlers produced a set of brass knuckles and struck the other wrestler, tearing his forehead open. As the wrestlers blood coverd the ring and the crowd roared its approval, a fire lit in his demonic heart. This, this…was something that he could get into. A little research and Vince was positively delighted. Crippling injuries, bitter rivalries, bad feelings, affairs, double-dealing and back stabbing of the first order. And that was behind the scenes! On screen, bitter selfish self-absorbed “faces” fought barely worse, invariably foreign “heels” and the crowds cheered their greed and xenophobia. Good. But he knew he could do better. Buying into the largest of the countries then plentiful wrestling federations, he brown nosed and muscled out his co partners till he was left as the sole owner. Then his work truly begun. Heroes with any kind of redeeming feature where removed. Bitter, violent anti-heroes were now the order of the day. Women already poorly treated as “eye candy” for the mostly male audience were now routinely abused and punished, and portrayed in the worst possible light as betrayers and heart breakers. He turned the already high level of violence up several notches, until bleeding became the norm rather than an exception in matches. Wrestlers were encouraged to even greater heights of risk, to work through painful injuries lest the crowd lose interest, and to take performance-enhancing drugs for the same reason. Of course, when a performer was too injured or drug ravaged to perform, he was unceremoniously released, for whichever fresh meat had pleased Vince that week. And the ratings just kept going up. Under his careful shepherding, his federation grew and grew in size and popularity, until it engulfed most of the smaller regional federations. His merchandise, specially chosen to endorse the most vile of his performers, outsells all of his rivals 10 to 1. vulgar catch phrases he has concocted are on the lips of his loyal fans young and old, and they voraciously absorb all of his output, and fanatically defend his programming from all detractors. Vince is definitely one of the flavours of the month as far as Nybbas is concerned. As a former low ranker, turned Knight he serves has an example to all of the up and comers in Media’s organisation. If growth continues as Nybbas expects, Vince is well on his way to a captain hood. Aside from his own superior, both Andrealphus (he adores the way Vince encourages objectification in his programming. The average wrestling relationship lasts some two weeks, and ends in a selfish betrayal.) And Malphas (Internet fans versus mainstreams fans, fans of different performers against each other, back room politics. Oh yes, Malphas approves.) Give him tacit approval. Andre has gone so far as to place one of his Lillim, Kassandra, within his organisation. Vince has come to rely on her as a more acceptable, family-friendly, face for his company. He has been so pleased with her performance that he is thinking of asking Andrealphus to permanently transfer her to his word. More recently, he has taken to appearing on camera himself. In his role as hated company owner, he relishes in the boos the crowds give him. He finds the irony appealing, as they shovel down his product. Indeed only one minor crowd is on Vince’s horizon. To originally buy his way into his federation, he needed a lot of money fast. He owes a level 5 Geas to a Lillim he has had no luck tracing since. He would be extremely grateful to anyone who could track her down, or at least find out her location. And a young demon could have far worse than the “rising star” Vince, in there corner. ROLEPLAYING VINCE: You are the centre of the universe. If someone bores you, tell them so. A persons usefulness ends the second they cease to amuse you. Your smile is able to make people skin crawl from a hundred yards. You smile a lot. Get inside peoples personal space, make them uncomfortable, and don’t care. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:31:48 GMT From: "David Barton" Subject: Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... >From: Elizabeth McCoy >Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >Subject: IN> Another Insomnia Character... >Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:37:26 -0400 > >Zaza, Balseraph of Lust Call me evil...but I approve...Hell, she *begs* to be unleashed on some uptight angels of any sort...Lawrences for (her) preferance. David _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:02:00 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... At 2:31 AM +0000 9/16/00, David Barton wrote: >>From: Elizabeth McCoy >> >>Zaza, Balseraph of Lust > >Call me evil...but I approve...Hell, she *begs* to be unleashed on some >uptight angels of any sort...Lawrences for (her) preferance. Hee hee hee. Nah -- Laurencians are too honorable to torture her. She'd be very disappointed. Now, the _GM_ would be having great fun with her being perky and asking things like, "Okay, you've got me tied up -- so when do you start hitting me? Are you going to try to skin me? You know, I read this article, and it said that when angels capture a poor little demon, they..." (As I said to someone in private email, if anyone wants to use her in a game, sure! Just drop me a little email, to tell me what happened? I like knowing that I've been having a ...positive impact... on players' lives. ) - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:00:57 -0400 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... At 12:02 PM -0400 9/16/00, Elizabeth McCoy wrote: >At 2:31 AM +0000 9/16/00, David Barton wrote: >>>From: Elizabeth McCoy >>> >>>Zaza, Balseraph of Lust >> >>Call me evil...but I approve...Hell, she *begs* to be unleashed on some > >uptight angels of any sort...Lawrences for (her) preferance. > >"Okay, you've got me tied up -- so >when do you start hitting me? Are you going to try to skin me? You know, >I read this article, and it said that when angels capture a poor little >demon, they..." "You call *that* flensing? You're holding the knife *all* wrong. Cut *against* the skin's grain. Where have all the *artists* gone?" - -- I have a broken hand, so spelling errors, capitalization errors, and extremely slow response times should be treated as precious things, not errors, because I'm not about to correct them. Neener. Eric Alfred Burns - Habbalite of Belaboring the Point ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:15:17 -0400 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: Re: IN> Another Insomnia Character... >At 2:31 AM +0000 9/16/00, David Barton wrote: >>>From: Elizabeth McCoy >>> >>>Zaza, Balseraph of Lust *William blinks a bit* *William swivels an eye towards some of the artists on the further side of the porn fringe* *William shudders* *William thinks of something. Several somethings, actually, but he tries to forget all but one* *William looks up the exact wording of the Balseraph of Lust attunement* Damn. I was so hoping. Presumably, the pain the Light of Heaven inflicts is not a "physical sensation." I was kind of wondering what would have happened if a demon wired herself to enjoy that sensation... accepting the Light as a welcome experience is something I imagine to be integral to the Redeeming experience. Oh well. I guess a Tether would make the only really effective torture method for Zaza, then. Ironically, the one experience she can never enjoy is the one pain angels would like to see her accept and cherish. William ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #1822 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2000 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.