From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Mon Feb 19 18:12:43 2001 Return-Path: Received: from lists.io.com (majordom@lists.io.com [199.170.88.15]) by pyramid.sjgames.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26273 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:12:43 -0600 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id SAA32446 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:16:06 -0600 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:16:06 -0600 Message-Id: <200102200016.SAA32446@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 #2068 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 Monday, February 19 2001 Volume 01 : Number 2068 In this digest: Re: IN> Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative) Re: IN> Spiritually aware Animals Re: IN> Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative) IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. Re: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. Re: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. IN> The Choir Words: Vardare Re: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. Re: IN> Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative) IN> [ADMIN] NOTE HTML! DO NOT REPLY BLINDLY! (Re: Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative)) Re: IN> Sapient animals Re: IN> [ADMIN] . . . REPLY BLINDLY . . . :-( IN> Major Vapulan nest in New England Re: IN> The Heavenly School of Human Languages IN> February 16, 2001 (ML) Re: IN> February 16, 2001 (ML) IN> I wonder what Saint Lewis thinks of this ethereal... IN> February 17, 2001 (ML) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:43:12 -0800 From: "Phillip Des Jardins" Subject: Re: IN> Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative) >I believe that he should likely be a former servitor of Theft, based upon the description you've provided. Why? >He supports a "lesser" evil (like Theft in the world of IN, as evidenced by the fact the angels of the wind have bulging jackets), and INC, Theft >works well as an evil because it spread unhappiness and general grumpiness which invariably encourages selfishness, much like the word of >Assholes. OTOH, Malphas is a more reasonable choice . . . but I'd say he'd be associated with Valefor. I could see that, actually. I think he'd at least get along with Valefor, at least. >Also, sounds like his Demons probably aren't that well liked, perhaps especially by each other. The "People Who Hate People" group of >servitors comes to mind (to quote the late Bill Hicks). You noticed. }:) >Balseraphs: >Oddly enough, often multiple people in a situation will think that his actions are perfectly justified, thus further infuriating those who are not >blinded to the asshole qualities before them. Probably a mere autosuccess with their resonance, rolling d666 only for the CD (and intervention >check), but only to cause people to emphasize with them when their being an asshole. Not quite sure what you mean here. >>Calabim: Not sure what to give them either. I want to avoid simply giving them a bonus to their resonance roll for some specific purpose, as >>that just doesn't seem to click. >They might have a similar Band attunement to Malphas' Calabim. Sounds like it works. >>Lilim: Again not too sure here. Maybe an immunity to the dissonance conditions and being able to collect a minor (level 1) geas from the >>person who -asks- them to stop? (It could be thought of as a Need...) >Like Saminga, I'd imagine that Assholes attracts few Lilim, as acting like an asshole (or bitch) is not really in their favor. I'd grant them all >Knight of Insensitivity. Actually, I meant to mention he doesn't attract to many Daughters. OTOH, he -is- about freedom after a fashion, so Lilith might grudgingly approve. I think I'll go with the Level 1 Geas-collection ability, though, with the stipulation that they canonly get one of those at a time for a given person. >>Shedim: Another one where I can't think of something that really works. I think it should definately be something comparatively subtle, though. >>His Shedim are generally much more low-key. >Well, they could possess the ability to automatically enter someone acting like an asshole, or receive a bonus to their resonance to cause >someone to act like an asshole (though, its likely that most people are there are already and don't need an extra push, rendering this >pointless), they might be capable bringing to memory (host's) feelings of hurt, fear, and anger and therefore gain a bonus to "push their >buttons" so to speak. I think I like the automatic entry. >Blow Me: By spending 2 essence and succeeding a contest of Wills with the victim, this attunement causes the victim to become suddenly >enraged, the demon symbolizing all that they despise in people in general. Once the attunement has been successfully used on a victim, the >victim must succeed Will rolls to prevent himself from attacking the demon verbally (if not physically), and act like a total asshole towards the >demon. For every round after the first, the victim's will is worn down as he becomes more and more infuriated. At this point, the demon will be >able to claim sympathy from those around him as having been the " victim." > >Obviously, this attunement is difficult to use successfully on individuals who have enough self-control to remove themselves from the situation. >Even still, for a number of months equal the demons Ethereal forces, the victim will have a negative reaction modifier against the demon, equal >to the degree by which the demon succeeded the Contest of Wills. At the end of the months this reaction modifer will diminish at the rate of -1 >every week. Okay, that just works. I love it. >>Relations: I'm not certain how to handle this, to be honest. His behavior would definately alienate himself from a lot of the royalty, but his word >>works so well in tandem with others. >Allied: Malpas >Associated: Valefor, Asmodeus, Nightmares, Lust >Hostile: Hardcore, Kobal, the Media >Enemy: No One >Asmodeus is the biggest, baddest asshole in Hell next to Abracax! >Nightmares, as her actions help generate general fear, which his demons use to their benefit >Lust, because there's nothing quite as asshole as getting dumped by a callous bastard/bitch. >Hardcore is stupid competition >Kobal, because his humor, however dark, is still humor and doesn't serve Assholes' purposes >the Media, because TV and News serves to dull people to the suffering and assholes in the world around them I'd have to disagree with you here, though the point you make about Andrealphus works. A large part of his word is pushing authority (no one tells an Asshole what to do), which is why Asmodeus and Baal would be PO'ed at him, and why Furfur would just love him. Kobal and Nybbas like him because their Words mesh well with his. Kronos likes the fact that he makes his job easier on earth in his own way, but finds him irritating and is suspicious about his ascension (descent?). I think I covered it fairly well in an earlier post, though I like the Andre addition. Relations: Allied: Furfur Associated: Malphas, Nybbas, Kobal Hostile: Asmodeus, Belial, Vapula, almost any of the other princes, depending on who he pissed off recently. Enemy: Baal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:25:00 -0500 From: Marc Bowden Subject: Re: IN> Spiritually aware Animals - --On Saturday, February 17, 2001 4:00 AM -0500 damienw@juno.com wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:30:46 -0500 "Charles Phipps" > writes: >> >> Cats: I love my master > > Hurm... cats certainly feel affection, but they're basically furry > little sociopaths, not being a pack animal like humans or dogs. One > wonders what, if any, effect this would have on things. > Cats are, on observational evidence, pretty much the behavior model for Impudites. Marc. Just Marc. Elohite Angel of Salvation ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:31:26 -0800 From: "Perry Lloyd" Subject: Re: IN> Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative) From: Phillip Des Jardins To: Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:43 PM Subject: Re: IN> Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative) > > >I believe that he should likely be a former servitor of Theft, based upon > the description you've provided. Why? > >He supports a "lesser" evil (like Theft in the world of IN, as evidenced by > the fact the angels of the wind have bulging jackets), and INC, Theft >works > well as an evil because it spread unhappiness and general grumpiness which > invariably encourages selfishness, much like the word of >Assholes. OTOH, > Malphas is a more reasonable choice . . . but I'd say he'd be associated > with Valefor. > > I could see that, actually. I think he'd at least get along with Valefor, > at least. > > >Also, sounds like his Demons probably aren't that well liked, perhaps > especially by each other. The "People Who Hate People" group of >servitors > comes to mind (to quote the late Bill Hicks). > > You noticed. }:) > >Balseraphs: > >Oddly enough, often multiple people in a situation will think that his > actions are perfectly justified, thus further infuriating those who are not > >blinded to the asshole qualities before them. Probably a mere autosuccess > with their resonance, rolling d666 only for the CD (and intervention > >check), but only to cause people to emphasize with them when their being an > asshole. > > Not quite sure what you mean here. I mean that they have an effective resonance of 12 when using their resonance to convince a fraction of a group that he's /not/ being an asshole; this causes those who know him to really be acting like an asshole to have frustration dumped on top of their general irritation. (Frustration because not everyone there agrees that he's being an asshole, that some people are "on his side".) > >Blow Me: By spending 2 essence and succeeding a contest of Wills with the > victim, this attunement causes the victim to become suddenly >enraged, the > demon symbolizing all that they despise in people in general. Once the > attunement has been successfully used on a victim, the >victim must succeed > Will rolls to prevent himself from attacking the demon verbally (if not > physically), and act like a total asshole towards the >demon. For every > round after the first, the victim's will is worn down as he becomes more and > more infuriated. At this point, the demon will be >able to claim sympathy > from those around him as having been the " victim." > > > >Obviously, this attunement is difficult to use successfully on individuals > who have enough self-control to remove themselves from the situation. >Even > still, for a number of months equal the demons Ethereal forces, the victim > will have a negative reaction modifier against the demon, equal >to the > degree by which the demon succeeded the Contest of Wills. At the end of the > months this reaction modifer will diminish at the rate of -1 >every week. > > Okay, that just works. I love it. I'm flattered (yes, I know, I'm easy that way). > Relations: > Allied: Furfur > Associated: Malphas, Nybbas, Kobal > Hostile: Asmodeus, Belial, Vapula, almost any of the other princes, > depending on who he pissed off recently. ha ha ha > Enemy: Baal Why? - -Perry perrylloyd@hotmail.com pl312993@oak.cats.ohiou.edu http://www.geocities.com/llloyd.geo "And that's the hardest thing for a human being to do - be wrong. Do you know that people would rather die than be wrong?" - --from A Matter For Men by David Gerrold ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:52:44 +0000 From: Eric Hallstrom Subject: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. Once upon a time, there was an Angel named Netanya. Netanya was a Bright Lilim with black wings who had geased herself, among other things, never to take a profit where a gift might be given and never to avoid pissing off anyone who deserved it. For these reasons, or perhaps for others, she was given a Word; the Angel of the Selfless Gift. Who gave her the Word? Well, nobody really knows, but it wasn't the Seraphim Council. Most Angels figure it's just one of those things. And, despite the fact that a fair proportion of the Nobility of Hell wanted her very thoroughly and exceedingly terminated with _extreme_ prejudice she somehow managed to keep going. Which may prove that the Symphony _Needs_ someone to give the Archangel Dominic a kitten and the Demon Prince Andre a piece of good advice. Or, then again, it may not. Ineffibility is like that. Netanya is located here: http://www.kawaiikunee.com/in_nomine/ Now you know enough to go on with. This is an adventure seed in three parts. It is meant to occur over a week of game time, and is therefor entitled A Week In The Life. The Adventure works with Angelic or Demonic PCs. The Adventure itself is probably marginally more survivable by Demonics, but the Aftermath of the Adventure probably reverses that. All that is needed for general setup is for the PCs, en masse, to owe Netty a favor. _How_ you arrange for this is up to you, but keep in mind that the structure of the adventure hinges on Netty using her Geas-hooks to Ramp up into larger and larger Geasa by sending the PCs to do things that they then end up Needing help with. If the original hook was a favor owed for giving a Problem PC something to do to prevent him from getting the rest of the PCs in trouble .... Well, that's just icing on the cake, ne? Be aware that any time Netanya gets a Geas hook on someone and uses it to fulfill a Need for someone _else_ she gets a Geas from the Symphony, which activates at a random time. This gives her the Luck of Teela Brown. The GM should undoubtably make Maximum use of this effect, but try not to gloat out loud. A Day in the Life, Part One: Hungry, Hungry Haagenti See, there's this Demon Prince named Haagenti, who has a problem. Well, two problems, really. First, there's an Angel of a Food who's been getting on his nerves. Seriously on his nerves, to the point that Haagenti has been seriously Needing to find out where this particular Angel is. Second, he's been getting a bit ... bored ... with the grub lately. And when Gluttony gets bored with food he's in a fairly pitiable state. He Needs something to ... spice up ... his diet. Sad 'Genti! Fortunately there's helpful Netanya, who happens (for the first need) to have the Angel's current location easily to hand (I recommend Moe Lane's Jaeliel, the Angel of Gummi Bears, but whatever floats your boat). And, for the second Need, helpful Netty _also_ has the very latest in Vaputech Suitcase Celestial Nukes, which she ... found ... last week. It should cost 'Genti a vessel and a force or six, which should surely be spicy enough to wake _anybodies'_ appetite up. And if he gets a tummyache, well ... maybe he also needed a lesson as to why you don't go around putting anything you find into your mouth, hmmm? Very sad 'Genti! Unfortunately, this raises a pair of new Needs. (Work, work, work. Poor Netty.) First, of course, is the Angel her/him/itself, which has suddenly developed a raging Need to be Elsewhere when Haagenti comes calling, if only he/she/it knew the need was there. And second, there's poor, sad Vapula, working all day in the Lab, slaving away over a hot test tube, what thanks does he get? What thanks, I ask you? He really Needs a test report filed on his play pretty, don't you think? I do too! Fortunately, there's helpful Netanya, who will be more than glad to give the Angel a heads-up. Escort them to safety, even. And fill out a report? Why she'll fill it out in quintuplicate and file backup copies with the Archives and the Game, so it doesn't get lost. Helpfull Netty! Unfortunately, this requires Netty to be in two places at one time, and while she _is_ good, she ain't _that_ good. Poor Netty! Fortunately, Netty has lots of ... friends ... who Owe her ... favors. Like, say, the PCs. Now, Netty would _never_ ask for a favor for _herself_, but doing favors for _other_ people ... why, that's what being a Bright is all _about_, isn't it? So Netty will be _happy_ to let the PCs work off their debt by a small simple matter of an extraction and escort. No problem, should take less than a day, easy work. Kind Netty! Unfortunately, that mean old 'Genti may just show up too soon, and that nasty old suitcase nuke is gonna make a _lot_ of noise. Calabim of Gluttony? What Calabim of Gluttony? OHhhhhh .... _Those_ Calabim of Gluttony! Poor PCs! Fourtunately Netty will be _glad_ to help them out. She's just got to file these reports, won't be a minute. Oh look! A chase! And a fight scene, too! How lovely! (Clap, clap.) Won't this be fun? yr. vr. hmbl. & obt., &c. &c. Eric Hallstrom - -- www.kawaiikunee.com/in_nomine/index.html hallcon@mindspring.com kawaii@kawaiikunee.com Contrary to what the damn angel told you, I am NOT a Balseraph. I'm a hubcap. And you want to go to bed with me. It'll do well for your career. -Emily Dresner, Happy Fun Balseraph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:02:32 From: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. >From: Eric Hallstrom >Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >To: >Subject: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. >Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:52:44 +0000 > >Once upon a time, there was an Angel named Netanya. > Heh. When I saw the title, I thought this was going to be about spending a week on a nice sandy beach being accosted by hirsuite Israelis who want to chat you up, in a resort where the alcohol is godawful expensive. jo _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:18:41 +0000 From: Eric Hallstrom Subject: Re: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. At 07:02 AM 2/19/01 , you wrote: > > > >>From: Eric Hallstrom >>Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >>To: >>Subject: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. >>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:52:44 +0000 >> >>Once upon a time, there was an Angel named Netanya. >> > > > >Heh. When I saw the title, I thought this was going to be about spending a >week on a nice sandy beach being accosted by hirsuite Israelis who want to >chat you up, in a resort where the alcohol is godawful expensive. > > > > > >jo >_________________________________________________________________ Biiiiiiidahhh! No, that would be Netany_u_, no? ;-) yr. vr. hmbl. & obt., &c. &c. Eric Hallstrom - -- www.kawaiikunee.com/slp/index.html hallcon@mindspring.com kawaii@kawaiikunee.com Contrary to what the damn angel told you, I am NOT a Balseraph. I'm a hubcap. And you want to go to bed with me. It'll do well for your career. -Emily Dresner, Happy Fun Balseraph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:11:53 +1300 From: "Alex Liddell" Subject: IN> The Choir Words: Vardare Vardare Choir Angel The Cherub Angel of Devotion Corporeal: 6 Str: 12 Agi: 12 Ethereal: 5 Int: 8 Pre: 12 Celestial: 5 Will: 11* Per: 10 (*Raised independantly after almost losing an attunement while incapacitated by a Habbalite.) Vessels: Human Male(big, african american)/6 Charisma+3(warm smile, sex appeal), Human Female(tall, slim italian)/3 Char+1(exotic), Siberian Tiger/6, Alley Cat/1 Role: Jerome Carter/6, Gigolo/2 Skills: Dodge/6, Survival/6, Fighting/6, Large Weapon(Sword)/3, Small Weapon(Knife)/3, Seduction/5, Savior Faire/3, Fast Talk/3, Ranged Weapon(pistol)/3, Driving/4, Knowledge(Street)/4, Languages(english, italian)/3, Singing/2 Songs: Shields(all)/6, Healing(Corp/6, Eth/4), Motion(Cele/3), Wings/3, Form(Eth/5), Solace(Corp/2, Eth/3), Fire(Eth/2), Sleep(Eth/2) Attunements: All Cherubim Choir Attunements, All Servitor Attunements of Novalis, Blandine, Christopher and Zadkiel(last two dependant on if you use Minor Superiors) Synchonicity, Rock Hard (from David), Choir Angel, Ultimate Sacrifice, The Angel of Devotion, Shared Strength. Choir Angel: As a Choir Angel Vardare is connected to all Cherubim in the Symphony. Unlike the other Choir Angels he doesn't need to roll Perception to divine their locations and status. He knows automatically with any CD he wants. This applies to all Cherubim within the Symphony at any time. The Angel of Devotion: Vardare may automatically use his Resonance with a CD of his choice. He may also use this ability to De-attune from a subject automatically. Shared Strength: This Attunement allows Vardare to enhance a subject to whom he is Attuned. When Vardare invokes this Attunement, he chooses a subject and from now until the Attunement ends the subject rolls all dice based on Vardare's Forces! While the Attunement is in effect Vardare cannot move out of sight of the subject. If the subject dies while being enhanced Vardare takes the normal Dissonance for losing an Attuned then gains extra Dissonance based on the number of times the subject used his Forces to calculate a dice roll. He doesn't use this frequently. The Attunement has a Duration in minutes equal to Vardare's Total Forces, minus the Subjects Total Forces. Ultimate Sacrifice: In combat it is impossible to hit Vardare's Attuned. He always gets in the way automatically. As long as Vardare can see his opponent and his Attuned he always is the one to be attacked by opponents. When he invokes this Attunement (it takes a round to do so) he always goes first in the combat round. It lasts for as long as the combat does. Distinctions: Choir Angel. Dissonance: Usually none. Discord: Not on your life. History: Vardare, the fourth Angel to be created and bound to a Word embodying a Choir. He just walked out of David's catacombs on the day of the Fall. He was always by David's side during the fighting, until David turned into a Malakite. Vardare was not seen with David since then. When Honorare, Aequalis, Triuwida, Contralilus, Humane, Marathon and Wacce formed a circle outside the Castle of Purity, Vardare was the one in the center. It is commonly assumed that he Attuned to all of the Choir Angels during this rare, formal meeting of the 8. Vardare went to Earth after the Fall and was content to do his job. He assumed the Role of Jerome Carter, a man of the night. This allowed him to get close to people and also an excuse to be with them during what he saw to be dangerous situations. At times he has asked his attuned to keep an eye on his cat for him while he goes away on business. The cat of course is Vardare, keeping a close eye on the goings on in his Attuned's life. He uses his Gabrielite Attunement quite often in his work. He doesn't feel as compelled to punish the cruel as a Cherub of Fire, but it does let him detect those who have betrayed someone close to them. Vardare then finds those people and Attunes to them so that they don't suffer any further. He has had several of his clients "fall in love" with him. Soon after he leaves them, the Wind Attunement wears off and they just remember him fondly. - -Alex _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:46:13 From: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> Netanya seed; A Week in the Life, Part one. > >>Once upon a time, there was an Angel named Netanya. > >> > > > > > >Heh. When I saw the title, I thought this was going to be about spending >a > >week on a nice sandy beach being accosted by hirsuite Israelis who want >to > >chat you up, in a resort where the alcohol is godawful expensive. > > >Biiiiiiidahhh! > >No, that would be Netany_u_, no? ;-) http://www.insite.co.il/netanya/netanya.htm _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:23:30 -0800 From: "Phillip Des Jardins" Subject: Re: IN> Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative) > > Enemy: Baal > > Why? That whole 'undermining authority' thing. Baal -hates- it. Can't run a war if your troops don't follow orders, after all. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:57:15 -0500 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: IN> [ADMIN] NOTE HTML! DO NOT REPLY BLINDLY! (Re: Abracax, Demon Prince of Assholes (name tenative)) At 6:58 PM -0800 2/18/01, Perry Lloyd wrote: Will everyone PLEASE note that this message was originally in HTML, and that if you reply to it, you _MUST_ take steps to ensure that your reply is not _also_ HTML? Thank you. - --Beth, List Admin http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/listrules.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:12:15 -0500 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Sapient animals At 11:26 AM +0800 2/20/01, Manny Nepomuceno wrote: > > >> origin of any species. If memory serves me, the flood myth has never >> even been mentioned in IN. >> >IIRC, it was mentioned in S1, in the writeup of Mihr, the Angel of Mercy, a >Word-bound Servitor of Dominic. Ah, yes -- but the _truth_ of that "legend of when she got her Word" is not established. (I remember being rather careful about that.) - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:01:34 -0800 From: "Perry Lloyd" Subject: Re: IN> [ADMIN] . . . REPLY BLINDLY . . . :-( From: Elizabeth McCoy To: Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: IN> [ADMIN] NOTE HTML! DO NOT REPLY BLINDLY! (Re: Abracax, DemonPrince of Assholes (name tenative)) > At 6:58 PM -0800 2/18/01, Perry Lloyd wrote: > > "_sorry_" - -Perry perrylloyd@hotmail.com pl312993@oak.cats.ohiou.edu http://www.geocities.com/llloyd.geo "And that's the hardest thing for a human being to do - be wrong. Do you know that people would rather die than be wrong?" - --from A Matter For Men by David Gerrold ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:48 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Subject: IN> Major Vapulan nest in New England Yves knows how they've evaded notice so far; they've got so bold they've put up a website at . - --- John Dallman jgd@cix.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:48 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Subject: Re: IN> The Heavenly School of Human Languages > > the Library for examples of language and its development. Randolf, the > > Seraph Angel of Dictionaries, frequently provides aid to the school, > > and seeks its help almost as often. > > IIRC, Randolph is an Ofanite. :) So he is (Superiors 3 p131). I wonder where I got that wrong idea? > Again, the IIRC the Angel of Dictionaries is in H&H. The others aren't > though...and that Angel of Computer Languages looks interesting. :) He's an ex-Creationer, IMHO. The would-be Demon of Computer Languages encountered INTERCAL and ran away whimpering. - --- John Dallman jgd@cix.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:11:09 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> February 16, 2001 (ML) Slowly but surely catching up. This one is thanks to Genieveve, btw. :) Moe PS: Before you ask, the reason why Litheroy, Marc and Zaddie give out crypto gear is because they, in my mind at least, are Heaven's spymasters. I go further in that vein in "License to Smite", a site found in the Seeds section of the website listed in my .sig (which I've updated, btw). Security Leak Soldiers of God often have to work out their own security arrangements. Celestials usually don't need to encode messages (often, they don't even need to write them down), but their servants do, for strictly corporeal activities. As Soldiers usually don't have a budget, the latest high-tech toys are effectively unavailable, unless they're lucky enough to work for Jean, Litheroy, Marc or Zadkiel. It would seem that one particular group of Soldiers of Laurence have gone back to the old standard of one time pads for their most secret information. One-time pads, for those who don't know, are essentially a one-time encryption method: the message is enciphered normally, then further encrypted with a random code key (previously handed off to the person getting and the person receiving the message). Someone who wishes to decode the message would need the key - and, as each code key would (theoretically) only be used once, there would be no way to gather enough of a sample to do so. Besides, even deciphering one message wouldn't help decipher the others. All that's assuming that the keys are a), only used once, and b), truly random. It would seem that neither is true, in this case. The Soldiers have gotten sloppy and reused pads (always a problem with this form of encryption): worse, they haven't destroyed them. Careful gleaning of the area (read: "dumpster diving") has revealed just enough of the sheets to make decoding practical - and, better and better, the idiots weren't using truly random groupings. They were using the names of Saints on the Catholic calendar, coupled with enough null letters to make the code groups come out to ten characters (ex: 'ONESIMUSX'). In other words, the forces of Hell are now able to read these guys' mail, and what an interesting bit of reading it is, indeed. Among other things, it would seem that they've got a safe house that's used for hiding out Renegades that want to Redeem: in fact, three days from now they're supposed to get a couple of demons who are on one of Asmodeus little lists. Properly done, this should be easy - and, of course, a slaughter. The PCs should be coming in at this point: it's unlikely that they've got any experience in cryptography (if one of them does, by all means, involve him or her), so they get to play muscle. Let them have all the shotguns, hand grenades, and/or body armor that they want. The safe house is actually an old, semi-abandoned military bunker, so actually getting in might be a hassle: the best bet would be to wait until the transfer is taking place, then sweep through and blow the place up. It's out in the desert / plains / tundra / whatever, so you can be loud. The PCs even get to bring along a few Calabim bruisers to add muscle. This is almost too easy. Well, yeah. Did I mention that the Soldiers of Laurence were all career military, and that their commander (both of them and of the military base) had a whole bunch of munitions that were approaching the end of their useful date? Or that it's fairly stupid to think that even humans would go through the trouble of creating a one-time pad, and then make the entire thing moot by using a non-random code key? Or that, just because you believe in the ideals of the Sword, that you have to be a damned fool about it? At any rate, the PCs will need all the help that they can get, because the second that they get within range, the entire 'transfer area' will immediately become practically drenched with .30 machine-gun fire. They'll be detected long before they get within range, of course: the Soldiers have been running this operation for about six weeks now, and the celestial detectors (borrowed from Jean) will give the humans plenty of warning. If the PCs make it through the killing ground, well, that's when the minefields (if they're retreating) or the flame-thrower squads (if advancing) get activated. If they get through that, well, there's a few grinning Malakim of the Sword and War waiting in the inner sanctum ... and no Renegades. Oops. ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 11/25/00 (this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:47:19 -0500 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> February 16, 2001 (ML) At 2:11 PM -0800 2/19/01, Maurice Lane wrote: >Slowly but surely catching up. This one is thanks to >Genieveve, btw. :) > >Moe > >PS: Before you ask, the reason why Litheroy, Marc and >Zaddie give out crypto gear is because they, in my >mind at least, are Heaven's spymasters. Litheroy's actually the opposite. He's Heaven's Archeologist, but not at all Heaven's Spymaster. You see, it's hard to be an Intelligence Operative when your first reaction to new information being uncovered is to publish it in the Daily Revelation.... - -- Eric Alfred Burns - Habbalite of Belaboring the Point ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:22:41 -0500 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> I wonder what Saint Lewis thinks of this ethereal... Aslan Ethereal Spirit Cor- 3 Strength- 8 Agility- 4 Eth- 3 Intelligence- 6 Precision- 6 Cel- 4 Will- 8 Perception- 8 Artifacts: The Treasures of Father Christmas, The Wardrobe (which has the attunement the Calling functioning if a child spends essence), and more than a few others claimed in his time in the Marches. Vessel: Lion 6/ Charisma +3 Skills: Knowledge (Narnia 6/, England 3/), Emote 6/, Fighting 4/, Savoir Faire 6/, Running 4/, Tactics 3/ Songs: Claws 5/, Entropy (Corporeal 4/), Healing (Corporeal 4/), Motion (Corporeal 4/), Teeth 3/ Special Song: Reknewal 6/ (this song reverses the effects of songs that have done evil such as causing great age to affect, putting a man into a terrible sleep, or causing nightmare) Special Abilities: Rebirth: Aslan posseses the unique ability to be able to come back from the dead as an Ethereal spirit from Soul-death as long as he is dying for another person. This ability confounds theologians in both Heaven, Hell, and the Marches but it is not any less true for the Lion. The Calling: Aslan can link any place to the Marches as a temporarey tether to Narnia and can with the expenditure of a point of essence per person called bring a child no older than the age of twelve to the land of Narnia in a dreamscape even if they are wide awake with any ammount of time passing in the dream realm but little if any in the real world. Special rites: * A child inspired to do good or change his ways by the Narnia Chronicles * A child performing a rite in hopes of seeing Aslan * Reading the series in it's entirety Aslan the Lion is the son of the Emperor beyond the Sea and the King of all Beasts. Slayer of the White Witch and gaurdian of the Isles of Narnia he is both terrible and wonderful and among the most beutiful things that exist in the world. When C.S. Lewis created his fairy tale his own dream gave birth to the Lion and from that momment it was self aware in the Marches to the point that his being custodian of the dream-realms of Narnia as they were born is more fact than fiction. He predates the actual penning of the chronicles and has watched in dignity as Lewis expanded his tale to so many characters and transform it into one of the most popular children's works of all time. Beleth's nightmares and many in Heaven do not like him. The former are unnevered about Aslan as he is one of the few modern myth characters Nybbas has either been unable to touch with charges of unpleasantness and re-dreaming (fans of Tolkien among Blandine shudder at what he's got cooked up for the Lord of the Rings) as Aslan's story remains uncorrupted. The Lion also spends a great deal of his time hunting down nightmares and devouring them in order to give restful dreams to children who dream about Narnia and other fantasy realms, the Far March lands of which he rarely leaves, and the fact that is empowers him greatly. Lewis's own admisson that Aslan is sort of a "Christ as a Lion" figure has both deprived Aslan of much essence and given a number of Malakim in Laurence's Dream wardens reasons to unjustly hate him as a figure who is trying to steal essence from their divine lord. Aslan himself is actually rather pleased with the comparison. Christopher himself loves Aslan and it is rumored that the child Archangel and the Lion have met on occasion are abuzz about Heaven, especially so when it's further implied they are working together to protect dreams. The Lion himself just gives a look that implies the subject is to change when it's brought up. In any case Aslan's land is actually expanding rather than deflating for the Lion gives his protection to spirits of traditional mythos who have been re-dreamed to have all their evil driven out of them (and thus utterly easy prey for most of the ancient and more malicious dreams). He has fought a Tsaydim once and actually suceeding in driving the Celestial off to lick his wounds, he does not know if he shall ever see them again but he suspects so. In any case Aslan might find himself swiftly targeted by the two parties he has succeeded in irritating if they found out just how often he actually does visit the Earthly realms and "kidnap" children to his realm to do battle with evil and help others....not always without tragedy. Aslan has however an alliance with one of the more ancient Santa Clause spirits who has drawn essence from his tales as well, a few spirits of nature and at least one god the Greek Mythos (Bachuus is hardly the sort to associate with Aslan but a friend is a friend), and a few honestly powerful spirits have taken notice of the being in his works as well. The question is though is Aslan up to the challenge? - -Charlemagne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:11:26 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> February 17, 2001 (ML) What does this have to do with Fornacalia, I hear you ask? Not much, but it _does_ have a good bit to do with the entry for Feb. 5, which was sorta derived from the holiday. Point-for-point correspondence is probably impossible, anyway. :) Moe Gremlin Calabite of Nobody Corporeal Forces: 4 Strength: 12 Agility: 4 Ethereal Forces: 6 Intelligence:12 Precision: 12 Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 12 Perception: 4 Vessel: gnarled humanoid monstrosity/6, Charisma -2 Skills: Brawling/6, Climbing/6, Languages (English/1, Spanish/1), Large Weapon/6 (Club), Move Silently/6, Running/6, Tactics/6, Throwing/6 Songs: Fire (Corporeal/6), Light (Celestial/6), Numinous Corpus (Acid/6, Arms/6, Tentacles/6) Discord: Angry/6, Aura/6, Beserk/6, Bound/6, Fear (Smoky Machines)/2, Paranoia/6 Attunements: none Hey, remember that little passage earlier about the Infernal Combustion Engine, and why Vapula doesn't use them anymore? Here's one reason why. Gremlin can barely remember the time before it started to hurt. In fact, the only thing he can keep clear in his head is the face of his captor and tormentor - a certain Habbalite in a lab coat. Then came the pain, and there was lots of it. But Gremlin was strong: he managed to keep that last thought in his head throughout the entire time of pain. When he finally busted loose (thanks to the unwitting help of a couple of unwary drug dealers who had moved into the abandoned warehouse in which Gremlin's machine had been left), the Calabite was ready to get his revenge. Unfortunately, now that he was out, he wasn't exactly sure how to go about doing it. Judging from the looks on the faces of these humans, he wasn't pretty - which may have been why they shot at him so many times. Gremlin would have actually preferred to keep one of them alive: he's easily smart enough to realize that he needs a lot more information before he can start on his revenge. The Calabite has picked up enough of the local languages (plus a bare minimum of cultural referents) during his imprisonment to get by, but that's not nearly enough. However, these humans seemed to have a lot of this thing called 'cash' on them... PCs who encounter this guy could either be going after the drug dealers themselves, or looking into the odd disappearance of a few homeless people in the area. Gremlin snagged a couple of the latter, and is slowly getting them to explain the ground rules of the corporeal plane (filtered through their own prejudices, of course). His captives are actually fine, physically (Gremlin needs to pick their brains, and has hit on the procedure of trading food for information), but scared out of their wits. Resolving this can go one of two ways. A straight-out attack will be memorable: Gremlin is big, tough and probably smarter than the PCs. He's got a limited repertoire of Songs, though, so the PCs could probably eventually take him out. Be sure to play up the problems implicit of having a firefight in the middle of a dark, rickety warehouse with lots of places to hide and a few humans tied up in random locations. However, if the PCs actually try talking to Gremlin, well, that's another story (this is where Seraphim of Flowers really shine). After all, the Calabite has a nice, burning hatred for at least one Demon Prince, and is very bright: pointing out that there's more than one side, and that the other side really hates Vapula too, might reap dividends. Providing that they can get him to an Archangel (a "Smite them all, then come back and Smite them some more" type for preference), Gremlin would actually be fairly good Redemption material. He'll need a new name, of course. ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 11/25/00 (this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! 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