From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Tue Mar 27 18:52:57 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 SAA11539 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:52:57 -0600 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id SAA09238 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:58:16 -0600 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:58:16 -0600 Message-Id: <200103280058.SAA09238@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 #2127 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 Tuesday, March 27 2001 Volume 01 : Number 2127 In this digest: Re: IN> Some new Numina... IN> Leitmotiv, Dominic: A Dirty Job... Re: IN> The Cadre (Part II) IN> Djinn Media Attunement Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) IN> In Nomine Challenge Re: IN> Djinn Media Attunement Re: IN> irritating things Archangels do... Re: IN> I'd like to thank the Academy... Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) Re: IN> irritating things Archangels do... Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) Re: IN> irritating things Archangels do... Re: IN> Drac/Frank&Wolfy... IN> Insurrection. Re: IN> Drac/Frank&Wolfy... Re: IN> Insane Question Re: IN> Djinn Media Attunement Re: IN> Ugly thought of the day... Re: IN> Drac/Frank&Wolfy... RE: IN> St. Edward's Oaths IN> An interesting Angel Re: IN> St. Edward's Oaths (Plus Underwear) Re: IN> St. Edward's Oaths (Plus Underwear) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:44:01 -0500 From: Jason Schneiderman Subject: Re: IN> Some new Numina... > Trading Body hits for shots sounds about right... You've got those non-capitalized nouns reversed. * * * * * Jason Schneiderman jadasc@ma.ultranet.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:10:56 -0500 From: "Rolland Therrien" Subject: IN> Leitmotiv, Dominic: A Dirty Job... Talk about coincidences, I had just finished writing this story when I get Beth's answer to my Questions. Well, it's kinda late now, so I'll submit the story now, presenting my own take on Dominic's character. Leitmotiv: A Dirty Job... A Character Study of Dominic, Archangel of Judgement By Rolland Therrien "Genupinon, you're not helping your case!" Dominic kept staring at the Elohite of Wind currently on the speaker's stand before the Seraphim Council, who was on trial for massive choir dissonance. "I don't give a damn about my "case", you damn nazi! I told you, I haven't done anything wrong!" ...And for having the discord of Anger. Which was not making the Power very cooperative. Before the Elohite could add anything else, however, Dominic turned around and glared at him, causing the Windy to gulp and slump back silently. "Now, if you're quite done? Thank you." Dominic held up a filer and opened it to read some of it's contents. "This file states that you remained within the city of San Fransisco for two weeks, time which you spent futily trying to hack into a rock group's computers... Metallica, to be specific, and attempted to fill all their files with Napster file uploads, is that correct?" Genupion simply crossed his arms and turned away, grumbling slowly. Dominc frowned and coughed before repeating, "Is that Correct?" The Elohite, startled a bit, nodded and mumbled a quick "yes" before slumping in shame again. "...And this, dispite your slowly growing Word disonnance?" "But you don't understand, Most Just! Some Demon of Media Ass-wipe installed a new Firewall on their computer! I had to do something to humiliate those Napster-crashing dip..." "Enough! It's Bad Enough you allowed yourself to grow dissonant in regards to your Archangel's Word, but allowed yourself to lose your Objectivity, the basic nature of your choir! Now look at yourself! You're so dissonant I have to block out my Malakite attunment, and you're suffering from the Discord of Anger! I dread to consider what would've happened to your heart if we hadn't found you in time..." The Elohite, now calmed down, lowered his head in shame, unable to respond to the Archangel's words. Dominic saw the apparent repentance in the subject, and turned to the council of Seraphim to announce his Judgement. "Distinguished Trisagonists, I think it's obvious this Celestial is as yet unfit to return to the Corporeal Plane for active duty in his condition. I recommend assigning him to Celestial duty, performing miscallenous tasks in different areas of Heaven, under the supervision of one of my Cherubim. Your Final Judgement?" The various Seraphs on the seats of the council argued amongst each other for a moment, then nodded to one another and turned to Dominic, before one of them, a snake with wings of energy, seemingly animated through CGI, spoke out. "We agree with your judgement, Most Just. Genupion may in fact begin his work in the Halls of Progress. We have currently need of someone to debug our servers." Dominic nodded, then turned to leave, as Genupion was escorted away by a large German-shepeard shaped Cherubim, his appointed "Parole Officer". As he approached the egress to the Council chamber, a female Malakite in dark robes walked up to meet Dominic, holding a tiny kitten with a black leather collar in her hands. When Dominic stopped before her, she handed him the kitten, which he took into his own arms and began scritching it between the ears. "Thank you Bronwen. I hope Solomon wasn't too much of a bother?" Bronwen, Dominic's conscience, simply smiled and shook her head silently. Dominic nodded and turned back to step out of the council chamber, where his cloak began to melt and shift, the cape spreading out to form his wings, and his cowl turning into a frills, as Dominic revealed his natural Seraphic form, that of a Iron-colored, semi- anthropomorphic Cobra (With arms and hands, to keep holding Solomon). He then took flight, rising up to his personal quarters amongst the highest Council Spires, Bronwen taking flight beside him. As they rose up to the Spire, a whirlwind built up before them, slowly taking the blurred shape of the Ofanite Archangel Janus, before resonating with a voice that sounded like a windstorm: "Dominic! Why did you not send Genupion to me for punishment? I would've dealt with him effectivly!" Dominic held his kitten closer, the poor thing mewling from the sudden windstorm, then locked his gaze with Janus' own while hovering. "I do not answer to you, Wind. The Word of Judgement is my province, as God assigned me to it. Your Servitor has been judged and punished appropriatly for errors. No More, no less. He shall serve his term here in Heaven until he has worked off his Dissonance and Discord. Then he will be returned to your service, whereupon you can chide him all you want." Janus frowned, his whirlwind begining to spark with firey lightening, before turning away to leave. "This isn't over, Judge..." As the Ofanite Superior left, Dominic gently stroke the kitten between the ears to calm it, before silently turning back to his spire to enter his home office. There, he gently placed the kitten on the floor and slithered to his desk, folding his wings back into a cape as his form shifted back to a more humanoid configuration, while Bronwen took her familiar place in a darkened corner of her master's office. As he sat down to his desk, Dominic took the time to look upon the books stacks at either end of it. On one side was a plaquette with ten commandments written upon them, over more books and scrolls of laws and regulations. On the other end was just one book, bound in iron-shaded scaled leather. The Judge took the second book, then opened it to the first page, where the name Lucifer Morningstar was written in dark letters, with the epithet "Fallen" written next to it. Underneath Lucifer's name were more names. Andrealphus. Baal. Beleth. Asmodeus. Belial. Kobal... All with the word "Fallen" etched beside their names like a dark title. And under their names where many, many more names, the names of Angels who'd listened to Lucifer's damned heresies and followed him right into Hell. Dominic sighed and frowned, his eyes watering a bit, before he willed them open as he turned the pages, forcing himself to read through the whole list of Fallen Angels, some still marked "Fallen", others with that word scratched out, the word "Redeemed" replacing it, but not as frequently as the word "Soulkilled" was. He continued this reading until he arrived to another set of pages, containing the names of an entire Choir. And there Dominic paused again to weep, the memory of the loss of the Grigori still fresh in his memory. He had used the Song of Symphony to call upon God's Judgement on that day, and it resulted in the entire choir's hearts being shattered by the Symphony, resulting in their Casting Out. The memory caused Dominic to slump and begin to weep, until he felt a form run across his lower tail, and he heard a purring. Dominic placed the book down on his desk and looked down, and saw Solomon rubbing itself against his tail, trying to comfort him. He smiled warmly and wrapped his tail around the tiny kitten, picking it up into his arms, where he craddled the purring feline, stroking it slowly as he rested into his chair, still slumping slightly. He then felt Bronwen's hand rest on his shoulder, and relaxed at her comforting touch. The Seraph rested there for a moment, staring at the wall, then sighed again and closed his eyes, now filled with tears. "When, Bronwen? When will I finally stop paying for not seeing Lucifer's crimes before it was too late?" In place of verbal comforting, he felt Bronwen's hands clench on his shoulders, and knew she felt his pain. The Trisagonist nodded. "Yes, I know... I should not blame myself for something that no one saw coming. Nor should I have the Hubris to think I could've stopped Lucifer on my own. But I was the Angel of Judgement, Damn It... I should've seen Lucifer's Heresy for what it was before it was too late." Dominic frowned, then leaned forward to gently put Solomon back down on the ground, as Bronwen stepped back to her corner, as her Archangel took up the book and closed it, pausing only to look at the title. Liber Perditio. The Book of the Lost. "I've failed twice so far, Bronwen. I didn't stop Lucifer in time, and I didn't stop the Grigori in time." The Seraph placed the book back down, the picked up a rather large folder, with the name "Eli" written in Golden Letters on it. "I won't fail a third time. I will bring Eli back to Heaven, kicking and screaming if need be. He shall answer for his actions, and he will be made to repent his deeds." He reached down to touch the book bound with his own skin, then closed his eyes. "We've lost already too many to Heresy. I won't allow any more of us to Fall like Lucifer did. No matter what needs to be done, I won't let Eli fall." He then morphed his frills back into a cowl, concealing his face. "If God needs me to be a Javert to Eli's Jean Valjean, then so be it, I shall be that villain. I shall be the Sin-Eater of Heaven, finding Discord before it grows into Heresy. I will be the One who gazes into the Abyss, even though the Abyss stares back without repose." He then stepped back towards the door, about to return to his duties. Then he paused to speak, more to himself then anyone else. "Let Michael call me Hyena. Let Novalis frown in my presence. Let Gabriel glare at me with her burning gaze. Their scorn means nothing to me." He then whispered "They could never Hate me for what I do... as much as I hate myself..." He then stared off onto Heaven, his steely gaze never wavering. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:36:55 -0600 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (Part II) From: "Maurice Lane" > > Also, mustn't forget the Cadre's main mortal > operative: Ray, Soldier of Creation and > Construct-maker extraordinaire. Ray's a shoo-in for a > full Cadre spot, but hopefully that won't be for some > time yet...* > > Moe > > *_Quite_ some time yet. :) Completely agreed! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:28:09 -0500 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: IN> Djinn Media Attunement Was just pondering some more diverse Attunements for the Media, once Nybbas gets his hand in. Came up with this one for Djinn, which Nybbas might hand out soon as a "sneak preview" for a future Attunement: Djinn By expending 2 Essence while having a videotape in hand and their Attuned in sight, Nybbas' Stalkers can create an invisible "camera" to follow the subject around, for a number of hours equal to their Celestial Forces. The Attuned may resist with a Constest of Wills -- failure means the "camera" will record hi-resolution audiovisual information onto the videotape for the duration of the Attunement. Recording in Heaven does Soul Hits to the Djinn as if directly exposed to the Light. The Djinn may cease recording at any time. The tape may be viewed at any time, including "almost-live." (The Djinn Attunement's a simple concept, I hope, but already it seems really wordy. Anything in the second paragraph is purely for additional descriptiveness and hopefully fun, and not core concept.) If the camera enters Heaven, the Djinn begins taking damage as if exposed to the Light of Heaven as long as it is active. Fast-forwarding past the present while recording gives static. Rumors that using a prerecorded pornography tape, using this Attunement on oneself, and fast-forwarding past the present suddenly drops one into a particularly erotic Domain in the Marches are false, but this hasn't stopped every Djinn who's gotten this Attunement from trying it. If the Djinn cares enough to do so, they can add the Soundtrack effect to the video tape at any time. The camera is fully-equipped and capable of seeing in low light (although not total darkness), compensating for bright light, remaining stable when the target is boucing, zooming, panning, and volume-adjusting -- just not under the Djinn's control. At the end of the tape is a "fade to credits" with the Djinn's name as Cameraman, the Attuned's name (if known to the Djinn) with "Written by," any persons known to the Djinn from the tape listed as "As Himself," Nybbas listed as Director, and Lucifer honored as "Executive Producer." I'm pondering one for Balseraphim, but right now all I have is a working title (you know those Media types): "I Saw It On TV, It Must Be True." And then there's the Lilim "What Would You Do To Be On TV," but it seems rather limited at the moment. William ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:54:49 -0600 From: "Charles Glasgow" Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) > I've got him on the back burner, along with Saints > Edgar (Saint of War, Sword or Animals?), Baum and > Manly (No last name). Edgar Rice Burroughs, L. Frank Baum, and Manly Wade Wellman, right? > Also, mustn't forget the Cadre's main mortal > operative: Ray, Soldier of Creation and > Construct-maker extraordinaire. Ray's a shoo-in for a > full Cadre spot, but hopefully that won't be for some > time yet...* OK, I'm stumped... who's Ray? - -- Chuckg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:02:39 -0600 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) From: "Charles Glasgow" > > > Also, mustn't forget the Cadre's main mortal > > operative: Ray, Soldier of Creation and > > Construct-maker extraordinaire. Ray's a shoo-in for a > > full Cadre spot, but hopefully that won't be for some > > time yet...* > > OK, I'm stumped... who's Ray? Harryhausen, the legendary special effects man, creator of many a monster that has been burned into the collective consciousness of humanity. Watch "Jason and the Argonauts" sometime - the battle with the skeletons alone is worth whatever it costs you. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:20:34 -0500 From: "Rolland Therrien" Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) - -----Original Message----- From: Prodigal To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com Date: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:02 PM Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) >From: "Charles Glasgow" >> >> > Also, mustn't forget the Cadre's main mortal >> > operative: Ray, Soldier of Creation and >> > Construct-maker extraordinaire. Ray's a shoo-in for a >> > full Cadre spot, but hopefully that won't be for some >> > time yet...* >> >> OK, I'm stumped... who's Ray? > >Harryhausen, the legendary special effects man, creator of many a monster >that has been burned into the collective consciousness of humanity. > >Watch "Jason and the Argonauts" sometime - the battle with the skeletons >alone is worth whatever it costs you. I thought that was Ray Bradbury, author of "Martian Chronicles". - -Exit the LoneWolf ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:28:16 -0600 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) From: "Rolland Therrien" > > >From: "Charles Glasgow" > >> > >> > Also, mustn't forget the Cadre's main mortal > >> > operative: Ray, Soldier of Creation and > >> > Construct-maker extraordinaire. Ray's a shoo-in for a > >> > full Cadre spot, but hopefully that won't be for some > >> > time yet...* > > I thought that was Ray Bradbury, author of "Martian Chronicles". So did I, until I noticed the "construct-maker" part of his description. I think Harryhausen was working in Hollywood before Unca Ray started publishing his stories, so Bradbury will be "The other St. Ray." Just hopefully not for a very, very, VERY long time. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:24:49 -0500 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> In Nomine Challenge Write up the Word Bound... Servant of Hardcore.... Of Star Wars fans - -Charlemagne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 04:42:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" Subject: Re: IN> Djinn Media Attunement Not bad, but a little... weak. I mean, if he already has to be holding a video tape, a modern video camera (esp. a digital) isn't much bigger. As it is now, for around a grand, a Djinn can just pick up a digital camcorder and hook it up to a pinhole camera on his lapel (you see it all the time in those MTV shows and investigative news reports). - -- Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian, Q4B4L! Meow! "People love to be told what to do. They love not doing what they've been told even more. They love it the most when they are made to do it anyway." ------------------------------ Date: 27 Mar 2001 16:13:31 -0000 From: "-=|horsefly|=-" Subject: Re: IN> irritating things Archangels do... On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:32:33 Charles Glasgow wrote: [my remarks] >Bad idea. *Never* get in a war of competing boom boxes with somebody who >owns the entire John Phillip Sousa collection, can fill an entire parade >ground with regimental bagpipers, *and* can bring you a special "1812 >Overture" performance complete with *real* artillery sound effects... >brought to you live and direct by real artillerymen. > >(Hey, even if they are firing blank charges, still, the *noise*... eeeesh!) somehow, i don't think Novalis would be distressed by the music, the artillery, the unwanted Saints visiting the Glades "performing" for her--she might like that part, actually--and the bagpipes would probably amuse her. with the Pax Dei in effect, she wouldn't even be worried about the shots fired, imho. all that would matter to her is irking Michael as he'd done to her until she'd calmed down. his "reprisal" would probably help to snap her out of her funk and go calm him down, if it didn't simply cheer her up. -=|horsefly|=- "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." --Voltaire ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 06:12:36 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> I'd like to thank the Academy... > Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 23:54:56 -0600 (CST) > From: Benjamin Acosta > Subject: IN> I'd like to thank the Academy... > > It's that time of year again. The time when the > stars come out. The time when > all eyes are focused on one stage. The time when > some of the most prestigious > status symbols in the Symphony are given out. No, > I'm not talking about the > Oscars. I'm talking about the Lucy's, one of the > most famous and coveted > awards in Hell. > Nice stuff for a satirical game (aren't they all)? :) Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 03/04/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:19:24 From: "Janet Anderson" Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) >I thought that was Ray Bradbury, author of "Martian Chronicles". > >-Exit the LoneWolf So did I. Although I've seen and enjoyed "Jason and the Argonauts," I've never heard of the other guy. Janet Anderson _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: 27 Mar 2001 17:13:53 -0000 From: "-=|horsefly|=-" Subject: Re: IN> irritating things Archangels do... imagine the scene... A squad of hyped-up Laurencians is headed into the Marches, passing by Blandine's Tower, on their way to slaughter some Ethereals. Out of the literally blue fog, a dobermann-Cherub with falcon's wings swoops down on the gung-ho angels, barking, "Passports! Indentification! By order of Blandine, whose Tower this is, and whose Marches these are to protect, I demand to see your reason for being here and your intentions within the Realm of Human Dreams." ...that oughtta give 'em pause.... then within the Seraphim Council: Laurence: "Blandine, about these 'checkpoints' you've set up...." -=|horsefly|=- "It was a different time: a time of blood and guns and killings.... It was a time when killers needed saints, for so much of God's good work was being done." --SAINT OF KILLERS #4, Garth Ennis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:21:53 -0600 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) From: "Janet Anderson" > > So did I. Although I've seen and enjoyed "Jason and the Argonauts," I've > never heard of the other guy. Harryhausen is somebody who gets a lot of acclaim and recognition; it's just in a smaller niche than Unca Ray does, is all... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:43:49 -0500 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> The Cadre (off-list) Ahem -- if this thread says "off-list"... Why isn't it? (And if it's back on topic, please change the subject line...) - --Beth, List Admin http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/listrules.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:28:59 GMT From: daiv@cruzio.com Subject: Re: IN> irritating things Archangels do... > imagine the scene... > > A squad of hyped-up Laurencians is headed into the Marches, passing by Blandine's Tower, on their way to slaughter some Ethereals. Out of the > literally blue fog, a dobermann-Cherub with falcon's wings swoops down > on the gung-ho angels, barking, "Passports! Indentification! By order > of Blandine, whose Tower this is, and whose Marches these are to protect, > I demand to see your reason for being here and your intentions within the > Realm of Human Dreams." Heh. Lucky thing that Marc is not running the Marches. Instead of a checkpoint, it would be a Tollbooth. Or maybe I have seen Blazing Saddles a little to recently. Hey... Imagine if you will, a Balseraph of the Media; Surrounded by malakm, He quickly draws his pistol, holds it to his head, and says "Nobody move, or the Snake gets it!!*" There is a mild disturbance, as he activates his band Attunement. And all the Malakim drop their swords, and let him go, lest he kill the Hostage. This post dedicated to the Memory of Clevon Little (aka, Sherrif Bart). - -Daiv *You cannot pay me enough to quote that correctly. If you have seen the movie, then you know what he said. If not (and why not?) then it doesn't matter. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:59:48 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Drac/Frank&Wolfy... - --- cassandra benner wrote: > Unfortunatly a certain young lady is on tv, you know the one, > its the show > that all the malakim watch, the one where the girl =whomps > demonic and vampiric Butt= > > They know that the show, through sources in the Media, is one > of the many things that is draining them of essence I disagree. Considering what that show does to get people to think about supernatural creatures, it would probably be _giving_ them Essence. Drac would be doing the best, of course (the title does say "Vampire Slayer"), but Wolfy would get a good chunk as well thanks to the show having a werewolf as a sympathetic character. Even Frankie got a taste -- remember Adam? He was a Frankensteinian creation if there ever was one. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:11:07 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> Insurrection. (This is pretty much a rough draft: I may be expanding it later. Then again, I may not: people should be coming back from Spring Break right about now, which means that Tattered should be pumping itself up again soon...) Moe It all started in Gehenna. The first sets of explosions were somewhat minor: the next batch weren't (apparently, Baal is - was - a nuclear power). Things quickly turned messy after that, as various weapons were wrested away from their demonic owners and turned on them. A breakout from the Principality soon followed, in pretty much every direction at once. The mob simply bowled over everything in its way, horrifically unconcerned with the casualties that they took. Just as the confusion in one Principality was at its height, the destruction in another started. Whoever was behind this one was grimly aware of just who was a threat to the revolt: their nuking of Asmodeus' main bureaucratic centers (how the _Hell_ did they get these things?) guaranteed the attention of the Prince of the Game for just long enough to make the rest of Hades a free-fire zone. The holding pens full of confused souls just added to the mayhem. The third organized strikes were in Sheol: no nukes here, but the suicide waves of damned souls were almost as bad. The damned in Sheol were the most organized, overrunning those demons set to watch over them and plunging en masse into the Lake of Fire, where somehow (and the Princes would very much like to know how this was done) wholesale smashing of Hearts began. This was true in all three Principalities, actually, but Sheol was the place where it first became obvious. Everything just got messy from there. Now, the important thing to remember is that all of this happened about, oh, five minutes ago (from the point of view of your players). Most demons won't realize anything's wrong until the Tethers start exploding, or they find themselves suddenly Discordant. It'll take longer for most angels to find out what's going on. So, what's going on? At the moment, half of Hell's in the middle of a good old-fashioned slave revolt. Three Principalities are in various degrees of shambles: the demons may be more potent, but the souls have nothing to lose - _and_ they drastically outnumber their opponents. It's an open question whether or not the uprising has had enough momentum to keep going in the face of bloodthirsty suppression methods, but nobody in Hell is going to have a good day today, period. Those Princes in areas not yet affected are doing their Damndest to keep it that way: those who are are finding themselves being nibbled to death by ducks. There are _billions_ of souls in Hell: not everyone's joined in, yet, but if they do, then there will be vacancies in a lot of organizations before it's all over. Baal and Asmodeus are especially infuriated: this may be bad for Hell, but it's _humiliating_ for them. It has to be an internal job: there was no way for mere humans to get their hands on the equipment or intelligence needed to pull this revolt off. Just who is responsible hasn't been determined yet (the only demons that have a shot at ferreting it out - Kronos' Balseraph-seraphim - seem to be a favorite target for the mob, oddly enough), but when they _do_ find out, there will literally be Hell to pay. And, no, Heaven had nothing to do with this one (although Michael hasn't stopped laughing and Dominic reportedly chuckled when he heard the news). Let's just say that Hell brought it upon itself, all things considered. (to be continued...) ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 03/04/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:10:51 -0500 From: Cameron McCurry Subject: Re: IN> Drac/Frank&Wolfy... > Considering what that show does to get people to > think about supernatural creatures, it would probably be > _giving_ them Essence. Drac would be doing the best, of course > (the title does say "Vampire Slayer"), but Wolfy would get a > good chunk as well thanks to the show having a werewolf as a > sympathetic character. Even Frankie got a taste -- remember > Adam? He was a Frankensteinian creation if there ever was one. What about the other movies out there? "Dracula 2000", "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", etc? Wouldn't that be giving them a bit of Essence when people watch the movies? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:23:36 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Insane Question Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:30:14 -0800 From: "Kish" Subject: Re: IN> Insane Question From: "Maurice Lane" > ><< If not, a URL to a noncanonical one will do. :)>> > http://www.egrigor.com/in-nomine/abatha.cfm (not >mine, Erich S. Arendall's). > Ahh, that's the one I remember. Thanks. :) Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 03/04/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:50:27 -0500 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: Re: IN> Djinn Media Attunement >Not bad, but a little... weak. I mean, if he already has to be holding a >video tape, a modern video camera (esp. a digital) isn't much bigger. As >it is now, for around a grand, a Djinn can just pick up a digital >camcorder and hook it up to a pinhole camera on his lapel (you see it all >the time in those MTV shows and investigative news reports). > >-- >Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian, Q4B4L! Perhaps I wasn't clear... the Djinn doesn't have to be anywhere near the Attuned for the duration of the Attunement. The "camera" automatically follows the Attuned -- helpful for when your Attuned can go secure places you can't, or knows you might be following. You can (well, first you grin at them and wave from the window of the coffee shop they're in) invoke it, leave (without visibly doing anything, leaving them to wonder what's going on), pop the tape in your VCR at home, and enjoy the ultimate paparazzi experience. William ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:59:31 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Ugly thought of the day... Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:59:09 -0800 From: Daiv Subject: Re: IN> Ugly thought of the day... >> 27 flaming green pigeons is a lot of birds too, >> after all! > >I am thinking that if you attacked a Demon of >Fleurity in this mode, he might well be slow to >react... >"Whoa. Flaming green pigeons. Cool...." Unless, of course, he was already in the habit of seeing flaming green pigeons when they weren't actually there. _That'd_ be something to worry your players with, especially if he's the one with the best Perception... :) Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 03/04/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:38:22 -0000 From: "cassandra benner" Subject: Re: IN> Drac/Frank&Wolfy... mmmmm, but that would change the way the classical 3some (and others) were viewed and the trio would thus change to nicer guys (well the wolf would) but then would there be new etherics created from the love/belief of the show? would it lower the fear of the orriginal horror mogals and leave them with =whomped= stamped all over them as they wither away to naught more than a shade of what they once were? Also, i was thinking, if an ethereal was in a vessal and got beaten up sooo badly would they go to limbo and lose the force or would they be weak things left in the marches cowering from the malakim? (or feisty looking releivers for that matter...) HE wrote: > I disagree. Considering what that show does to get people to >think about supernatural creatures, it would probably be >_giving_ them Essence. Drac would be doing the best, of course >(the title does say "Vampire Slayer"), but Wolfy would get a >good chunk as well thanks to the show having a werewolf as a >sympathetic character. Even Frankie got a taste -- remember >Adam? He was a Frankensteinian creation if there ever was one. SHE wrote: > > Unfortunatly a certain young lady is on tv, you know the one, > > its the show > > that all the malakim watch, the one where the girl =whomps > > demonic and vampiric Butt= > > > > They know that the show, through sources in the Media, is one > > of the many things that is draining them of essence Cass - -There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole- Murphy's Law, Combatants Edition. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:12:17 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: RE: IN> St. Edward's Oaths - --- inDate: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:56:34 -0500 From: Earl Wajenberg Subject: IN> St. Edward's Oaths >Gabriel's gas grill! It is starkly obvious that this >calls for at least 26 alliterative, allusive oaths. >Let the swearing begin... > The only one that comes to mind is "Blandine's Blessed Balm!" Oh, yeah, there's "By Novalis' Nibblesome" ... um, nevermind. :) Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 03/04/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:12:50 -0500 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> An interesting Angel Cleo Cherub of Blandine Cor-2 Str-4 Agil-4 Eth-3 Int-6 Pre-6 Cel-4 Will-8 Per-8 Vessel: Human 1/ (+1 Charisma) Skills: Emote 2/, Inspiration 2/, Savoir fair 2/, Seduction 1/ Songs: Attraction (Ethereal 6/), Charm (Celestial 1/), Form (Celestial 6/) Attunements: Cherub of Dreams, Healing Dream Special Rite: * Spend an hour having consensual sex * Cleo is a balanced starting character save for her rite which is an addition Cleo is a relatively new angel in Heaven who fledged as a Cherub much to the surprise of many who were dead certain that Cleo who had been a reliever attached to artists most of her life would become a Mercurian but assumed her protective instincts merely won out. In truth Cleo's protective instincts may have unfortunately cursed her with a more protective amd nuturing instinct that is probably healthy. Forced to watch so many artists whether they be architects, painters, writers, or elsewise go through long periods of frustration and agony Cleo recognized that the creative instinct exacted a heavy toll on all who were blessed/cursed with it. The desire to create often swore people from many aspects of social lives and put them at the mercy of their work to suffer without friendship, companionship, or love that was every humans by right. This mantra is of course one of Blandine's maxims and why she is so irritated when soceties take a shift to mock such people instead of lauding them. Cleo being a very personable angel made this her motto to resolve, unfortunately she also happened to be very close to a Sir Kragan, a particularly vehement Gaurdian of the Marches who pointed out the frequent "incubi/succubi" who emerge from human longing for companionship in dreams and drain essence dry. Cleo being an angel took notice of both problems and decided to fix both problems with one stone. Your hopefully beginning to see where this is going. Cleo spends much of her time flittering through dreams looking for Ethereal spirits on the verge of emerging or having merged which represent human ideal mates and cross-checks to see if the person has particular dreams he or she wants to make into art she has Sir Kragan execute them to which she journeys to the mortal world and uses songs to appear as the dream-personae and she causally romances and seduces her attuned while inspiring them and take caring of their needs until the time that they're art overflows and they no longer require her assistance which usually only lasts a month or two. During one of these encounters she chanced upon Eli who was singing for spare change outside one of her attuned's apartment building and had a long talk with him about the nature of inspiration to which he promptly gave her his rite and told her to have fun with her prodjects. He heartily approved. - -Charlemagne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:41:40 -0500 From: "Rolland Therrien" Subject: Re: IN> St. Edward's Oaths (Plus Underwear) - -----Original Message----- From: Maurice Lane To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 5:18 PM Subject: RE: IN> St. Edward's Oaths > >--- inDate: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:56:34 -0500 >From: Earl Wajenberg >Subject: IN> St. Edward's Oaths > >>Gabriel's gas grill! It is starkly obvious that this >>calls for at least 26 alliterative, allusive oaths. >>Let the swearing begin... >> > >The only one that comes to mind is "Blandine's Blessed >Balm!" > >Oh, yeah, there's "By Novalis' Nibblesome" ... um, >nevermind. > >:) I've got a more "acceptable" one here: "By Novalis' Naughty Nickers!" *Nickers being a British term for Underwear* On second thought... Does Novalis even HAVE Underwear? Ok, now there's an interesting argument about Archangels: Panties or Lingerie? (Or, for the male ones: Boxers, or Briefs?) Me, I think Laurence wears Briefs. It's more athletic. - -Exit the LoneWolf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:50:45 -0600 From: "Charles Glasgow" Subject: Re: IN> St. Edward's Oaths (Plus Underwear) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rolland Therrien" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Re: IN> St. Edward's Oaths (Plus Underwear) > On second thought... Does Novalis even HAVE Underwear? [snip] I think that, in the interests of good taste, we should all just skip this one. - -- Chuckg ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2127 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2001 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.