From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Sun May 6 21:27:59 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 VAA26047 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 21:27:59 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id VAA29177 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Sun, 6 May 2001 21:37:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 21:37:02 -0500 Message-Id: <200105070237.VAA29177@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 #2207 Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com Sender: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Errors-To: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Precedence: bulk in_nomine-digest Sunday, May 6 2001 Volume 01 : Number 2207 In this digest: Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) IN> Consider the Man Re: IN> April 27, 2001 (ML) Re: IN> Iron Rev Voting Q Re: IN> Iron Rev Voting Q IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse Re: IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse Re: IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse IN> Iron Rev submission RE: IN> Gabriel's Apocalypse (Corrected in *Jo's response*) Re: IN> Long Live the Queen (Iron Rev submission) Re: IN> Random IN-related stuff Re: IN> Holy Cults Re: IN> Iron Rev Scenario: Short but sweet. Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) Re: IN> April 26, 2001 (ML) Re: IN> Iron Rev Scenario: Short but sweet. Re: IN> April 27, 2001 (ML) Re: IN> Iron Rev Scenario: Short but sweet. Re: IN> April 28, 2001 (ML) Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) Re: IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse Re: IN> Iron Rev submission RE: IN> Gabriel's Apocalypse (Corrected in *Jo's response*) Re: IN> Iron Rev Scenario: Short but sweet. IN> Iron Rev: The Five Second Rule ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:04:44 -0400 From: "John Maurer" Subject: Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) - ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Glasgow To: Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 1:57 PM Subject: Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janet Anderson" > To: > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 5:29 PM > Subject: Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) > Not really. It's entirely possible to be in favor of butchering ethereals > like the above without being in favor of the Purity Crusade. I don't think > anybody here would have minded much if Uriel had slain every single SOB of > an ethereal out there because they were being SOBs. It's when you slay > every single ethereal you can catch *regardless of what they are or what > they've done*, just because they're an ethereal at all, that some people > object. As much as I hate to engage an argument here, am I wrong in thinking Uriel's angels only attacked Etherials who came into the Corporal Realm? Those that chose to stick to the Etherial realms (where they are 'Supposed' to be) were left alone, no? Speaks ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 15:05:44 -0700 From: Ryan Elias Subject: Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) John Maurer wrote: > As much as I hate to engage an argument here, am I wrong in thinking Uriel's > angels only attacked Etherials who came into the Corporal Realm? Those that > chose to stick to the Etherial realms (where they are 'Supposed' to be) were > left alone, no? Nope. Not during the crusade itself (although that's pretty much the way things are today), which started on Earth (gettin' rid of those vessels), and took itself up to the Ethereal plane afterwards. Thus the high death toll among many pantheons. IIRC, anyways (which has, admittedly, rarely been the case recently). Cheers, Ryan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:21:15 -0400 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> Consider the Man >Is Nybbas looking at God when he says this - or is he >looking at one of _us_? He's looking at beth He figured it out along with Asmodeus. "BLAST IT ALL! It's like we're in some sort of twisted Steve Jackson game!" - -Charlemagne ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 15:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> April 27, 2001 (ML) Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 22:56:19 +1200 From: "Alex Liddell" Subject: Re: IN> April 27, 2001 (ML) >Yes, I said "Revelations and>War". Litheroy and >Michael love this holiday. >This is a neat idea with one flaw as I see it. >Revelations can't do anything that involves secrecy. >Since the very nature of the plan involves >spying on people in secret, wouldn't this go against >Lithroy's nature? Depends on how you look at it. A, they're relievers, so _they're_ not being dissonant; B, they're debriefed by an Servitor of Revelations, who presumably tells Litheroy (thus not keeping it a secret, and thus subject to dissonance), who presumably ... does whatever he does with the information that he gets. Probably tells God or something. Oh, yeah, instead of that there's a C: he tells whoever it is that runs Heaven's spy services (my default option is that he, Marc and Zaddie _are_ Heaven's spy services, so that's all right). Besides... even if a Servitor of Revelations was doing tree time, it's not his fault that he can't talk to anybody (no vocal cords) and he's not supposed to reveal his angelic nature, period. It's also not the Servitor's fault that most people don't assume that trees listen to conversations... ;) Moe ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 04/29/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:25:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev Voting Q On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jonathan Walton wrote: > > > Do we vote publicly, or send the votes to Jo directly? > > Voting already, Rev? I thought they were due on Monday. Sure... my impression was that we'd rate each one on a 1-10 scale. I sent in my votes for the first four to Jo already. Jo, was that incorrect? - -- Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian, Q4B4L! Meow! "Ninety-nine percent of life is what you make of it, so if your life sucks, you suck." -- Mike Muir ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 22:31:36 From: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev Voting Q >From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" >Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev Voting Q >Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:25:19 -0400 (EDT) > > > >On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jonathan Walton wrote: > > > > > > Do we vote publicly, or send the votes to Jo directly? > > > > Voting already, Rev? I thought they were due on Monday. > >Sure... my impression was that we'd rate each one on a 1-10 scale. I sent >in my votes for the first four to Jo already. > >Jo, was that incorrect? > You can vote as soon as you feel able. I have no objection to people splitting their votes between emails (ie. that's fine Pee Kitty, and I have your votes right here waiting to be counted), but it would admittedly keep the traffic down if people stuck to one long list of votes once all entries are in :) The only thing is that if you do want to vote in more than one tranche, try to make special efforts to keep your voting criteria similar. jo _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:18:24 -0600 From: "Julian Mensch" Subject: IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse [This is 9.7K, and contains 1,631 words. Jo, you are free to decide if it’s viable or not. I won’t be offended if it’s not, but I’d rather post the full seed than massacre it to try and win a contest. It’s still a cool seed, even if it’s not an Iron Ref entry.] Gabriel's Own Personal Apocalypse - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Genre: Low-Contrast Black Comedy Synopsis: Belial gets medieval, Kobal gets Biblical, Vapula's bugs get it on, Gabriel gets psychotic, Las Vegas gets torched and Heavan gets Bambi, the new Bright Lilim Archangel of the Divine Fire. WARNING: This adventure seed is epic in scope _and_ likely to leave mile-wide scars in the fabric of any chronicle. It’s recommended to be run as a one-shot with new characters. It works as a convention game, or when everybody is drunk. Despite this, it’s definitely an adventure for _role players_; it concerns Superiors and has virtually no combat potential. Oh yeah, and the players might die arbitrarily if they try to take on Gabriel. Background - ---------- Two days ago, one of Belial’s older Servitors was informed that he was being recalled to Hell for treason; he’d been used as a scapegoat. Being a Calabite who really, _really_ hated Gabriel, he figured it would be nice to go out with a bang rather than be tortured in Hell for eternity. He captured one of *Gabriel’s* most beloved servitors*, tortured him, violated him and finally soul-killed him after using torture to force him Celestial. Then, he Soul-killed *himself*, as he had nothing to lose and wanted to deny Gabriel the chance to punish the cruel. Gabriel arrived in Vegas too late to help, and she never left. Instead, she fell into a state of deep grief over the loss of her beloved Servitor, and went to a church to pray. There, she ran into...: Bambi – Free Lilim IST Lust. Bambi is a bimbo. She is not terribly intelligent, dresses in trashy, provocative clothing and every other thing she says is either a bubble-headed “duh” comment or sexual innuendo. She has slept her way to the top in Las Vegas because no one ever assumes that owing her a favour is harmful, and they think they can always welch if she asks anything inconveniant. Bambi is currently living in the penthouse of the Luxor and turning it into (even more of) a tribune to Lust. Unlike most Lilim, however, Bambi is not a ‘user’. There are two things she genuinely enjoys in this world; the first leaves her hot and sweaty, but the second is helping people – she genuinely *likes* fulfilling needs for the sake of ful- filling needs. Also, while not overly smart, she has an uncanny kind of cleverness at times; she embodies the paradox of being both very selfish and very altruistic. Anyway, Gabriel throws a screaming fit at God in the Church over the “unjust burden” she feels she was given. Bambi tried to comfort her, sensed a Need and offered to take on the burden. When Gabriel said she could never handle it, Bambi unknowingly assured the Archangel that she could, whatever it was. Gabriel Resonated this statement as a Seraph would, saw it to be Truth and gave the Divine Fire to Bambi. (It is the Truth – Bambi might be a bubblehead, but she’s deeply, deeply compassionate and very much a strong-willed survivor; better able to cope with the Word-friction than Belial ever was.) Meanwhile, Kobal learns of Gabriel’s loss and sends some Servitors to play a cruel prank on her in her moment of weakness, implying that if the want to keep their Forces, it best be something rather impressive. The Servitors borrow some genetically engineered locusts from Tarterus and decide to release them throughout Las Vegas in a mockery of the Biblical plague. Gabriel steps out of the church free of her “burden” and face-first into a chittering, swarming omen. The end is here – it’s time for her to sound the Final Trumpet and do what she has always wanted to do – pour free God’s wrath on the cruel and the wicked. What better way to start off an Apocalypse than by nuking the Strip? Sure, she kills tens of thousands of innocents, but _the cruel suffer_, and that’s what Gabriel cares about. The resulting disturbance – an Archangel nuking a square block – screws up the Symphony enough to prevent anyone from manifesting there... except the players, who were either just in the right area or were sent to investigate *before* Gabby blew the Trumpet. Gabriel then gives Belial eight hours to show up, before she starts randomly torching more of the city. (Of course, Belial will stay right where he is. Kronos wants Gabriel to meet her fate, and got Lucifer to promise Belial that if Gabriel Falls, she’ll be made a Servitor of Belial. Gabriel’s not doing anything dissonant and is in no danger of Falling, but Belial is too dense to realize this.) The Situation - ------------- Gabriel is running about in Celestial Form torching the city. Bambi is calling in *every* geas she has, *now*, and running damage control from the Luxor, which she’s turned into a field hospital of sorts. And she’s being a little free with the Song of Healing, which should allow players to find her via disturbance, even in the after- math of Gabriel’s stunts. She only has around 12 Forces (and around 50 Word-forces at present), which means the Divine Fire is leaking out all around her. Artists in the Luxor are prone to random fits of manic inspiration. People are *seeing* the Celestial forms of angels all around them (making subtlety hard). People are having visions of the future, and prophecy is at an all time high in Las Vegas. Needless to say, every extremist religious group in the world is trying to get to the city as fast as they can – even if the Divine Fire didn’t bring that about, a rampaging Archangel would. Martial law has been declared. The military is moving in. Whatever other apolalyptic chaos the GM can invent occurs. There’s another problem as well: Vapula’s locusts are multiplying *fast*, *very* fast, and what began as a prank could turn into a genuine plague. Being Vapulan, they are resistant to toxins, physically resilient, breed up to 60 times faster than normal locusts and, depending on the GM’s desire for camp, might have Songs or other special powers. Regardless, they are *hungry*, thay are completely overrunning Vegas and if they aren’t stopped, they could very well decimate a large portion of Earth’s plant life and overrun other cities completely. Of course, the Divine Fire could clean up the pests, because unlike Belial’s (and now, Gabriel’s) Word, it has the power to destroy *selectively*. But Bambi doesn’t have the skill to use it like that. Bambi is, at this point, very interested in Redemption – largely because Andre will likely investigate, and running a field hospital is not the kind of thing he wants his servitors doing. For that matter, encouraging *tender*, *caring* sexuality is probably not high on his list either, nor is persecuting pimps. There’s just one catch: she wants to Redeem, if and only if she gets to be an arch- angel. She has the Divine Fire, after all, and has slowly begun realizing the implications of that. Never a girl to give up an oppurtunity, she is in true Lilim fashion willing to Cut A Deal(tm). To be fair, she’s also concerned that if she gives up the Fire, it will come into Gabriel’s hands again (it probably would) and she’s understandably not feeling very pleased with Gabby at the moment. She will have several logically solid but comically delivered reasons why she should keep the Fire and become an AA. For the first time in her life, she truly, really feels *hope*, and it will be like pulling teeth to get her to give that oppurtunity up. Bambi also has a geas/6 on Gabriel, but has no way to get close enough to call it in without getting burnt to a crisp. “Go to the Glades in Heavan” would be a really handy favour to ask of her at this point, as Michael could probably restrain her – if the players could safely get Bambi in range to claim the geas. The players’ role is mostly to talk to Bambi and, later, Gabriel, and try to reach some kind of compromise. Gabriel presently feels utterly empty, consumed in despair and grief; she wants the Apoc- alypse now because she wants to face Belial... and die. She knows, somewhere deep inside, that she has been as cruel as those she burns; a clever character might be able to exploit that and get her to kill herself. Bambi might be able to channel the constructive aspect of the Fire to reinspire hope in Gabriel, if anyone thinks of it. Really, it’s a very freeform scenario; players could come up with pretty much *anything* in response. Theme and Tone - -------------- This is a very absurd, silly scenario about people who are feeling very real, painful emotions. It’s funny, but it’s also very dark and tragic. Bambi will inevitably lose the Fire – barring all other options, once Gabriel recovers from her episode she’ll force-strip the Word from Bambi, killing her. If Gabriel dies, the Seraphim Council will force-strip Bambi and give the Fire to David, Novalis, Michael or Yves. Dominic will protest, *especially* if the Fire is being given back to Gabriel, but ultimately Heavan will ignore him and Gabriel’s actions will be blamed on Word-friction with Belial – as usual. Gabriel will return to her normal duties, and Novalis will send down a bunch of Servitors to try and clean up the mess. If Bambi gives up the Fire, she’ll still go for redemption – she really has no choice -- but she will likely be destroyed in the attempt. After losing the Fire, she too will be filled with despair and emptyness, and in a theological scenario, despair is the highest sin. That, after all, is what this Apocalypse is about: not fire, but ashes. * If you have the books, Soldekai works well as the Servitor that Gabriel loses to inspire all this. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 20:35:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse Can you please resend this to the list without all the 8-bit ASCII? It's damn near unreadable for me. All those things that probably look to you like "curly quotes" and "curly apostrophes" and "em-dashes", et al, look like this to me, and to many others of us who don't use your particular software: ...and then the ^Oangel^W realized ^[^O it was time to flee... Thank you. - -- Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian, Q4B4L! Meow! Some people desperately want to be a a part of the crowd. Some people are special; they stand out in a crowd... And then there's the ME PHI ME - WE STAND ALONE. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 23:45:22 From: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse >From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" >Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >Subject: Re: IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse >Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 20:35:37 -0400 (EDT) > > >Can you please resend this to the list without all the 8-bit ASCII? It's >damn near unreadable for me. > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jramsay/IronRev/apocalypse.html jo _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 17:52:26 -0700 From: Ryan Elias Subject: IN> Iron Rev submission Bit of an experiment, this. Could use a bit more revision, probably. But it is very close to a thousand words. Malachi, Running from Hell or The Concave Cup Part 14: Marcifel's Return! OUR PROTAGONIST To hear him tell it, he's a wanderer, a treasure hunter, a philosopher and, if he has a weakness, a bit of a hedonist. He's fought demons and angels, drunk the finest spirits that humanity has to offer in the biggest cities humanity has ever built and slept with the daughters of kings and the sons of dictators. Hunted by Hell and rejected by Heaven, he is doomed to live out his existence trapped in the city of man. Unless... unless he can attain that most fragile of states, completion, and pull himself back up into the arms of God. The ultimate nature of his quest? Why, the Grail, of course. What else is there? To hear Game tell it, he's a murderer, a thief and a traitor. Hell's longest lived Renegade, in fact. Although not at risk of Redemption, the glamour of his position (he refers to himself as the "second revolutionary") and his apparent success has, over the years, seduced any number of otherwise blameless demons into going renegade. He will be captured and destroyed, force by excruciating force. At any cost. THE STORY SO FAR Our protagonist finds himself in a rather difficult scenario. What's worse, he has no idea the fix he has once again gotten himself into. Having lost his trusted side-kick, Joha, that brave Soldier of Creation, to the euphoria of matrimony and family life, he finds himself lonely. A companion is what he needs, and a trip to San Diego zoo turns up just the thing: Mantidae Brachypelma Smithi; the red-kneed Mantis, a beauty almost a foot tall, with a well documented habit of eating her mates after copulation. A creature after his own heart! What he doesn't know is that this insectoid Aphrodite is actually Marcifel, a Habbalah of Baal and an old rival and lover, who is even now waiting for the right moment to summon her Superior and have our protagonist clapped in chains and brought back to Hell. There is an escape, though. Our protagonist has just caught wind of the Grail, stored, or so rumour has it, under an abandoned Masonic lodge in the heart of London. Marcifel, as avaricious as ever, will wait until he has fully investigated this avenue before calling the boss, in the hope that she will be able to claim both him and his prize as her own. Joha has gotten wind of her scheme, and has sent a plea for aid through a friend of his in Heaven. A group of angels have been sent to put an end to the mantoid Marcifel, and, if possible, to bring our protagonist to face enforced Redemption in Heaven. THE SCENARIO Our bold renegade will not wish to be caught. Now inextricably trapped by Marcifel's Song of Attraction, he will catch wind of his Heavenly pursuers and lead them on a dizzying chase through downtown London, on bicycle, foot and finally over the rooftops, taking a roundabout route to his final destination; an abandoned manse and the treasure hidden beneath. The treasure is not unguarded, of course. Corethiel, a Cherub of Stone brought low by an encounter with our Protagonist some years ago, now an unaligned Djinn, set up residence in the manse after his fall from grace and will defend it with the ferocity of one who has lost hope. Our protagonist and his would-be rescuers will be harried by Corethiel from his hiding spot in the walls and passages of the former lodge, as they make the trek down into the caverns beneath. The final confrontation will take place in the alleged Grail's resting place, an hour's hike beneath the lodge, through stinking sewers and damp tunnels. It rests in the eye at the peak of a hundred foot pyramid carved into the wall of an enormous cavern. The angels will have to deal with the beserk Corethiel and Marcifel as our protagonist makes the climb. Should he make it before Marcifel is dealt with, she will summon the Prince of the War, and things will got very badly indeed for both our protagonist and the brave angels who hoped to rescue him. Should Marcifel be sent to meet her maker, though, he will come to his senses. He has a well developed sense of caution surrounding his fellow celestials, however, and will attempt to escape, with the Grail if possible, using the Celestial Song of Motion. Should this fail, he will do whatever it takes to fight, bargain or suicide his way out of their grasp. A bit of time in Limbo never hurt anybody. And the Grail itself? A clay cup, with a crude pattern carved into the brim. Nothing more. Our protagonist will have to continue the search for his redemption elsewhere, it would seem. However, should the angels give the cup to the triad of Judgement who will question them after this affair is over, it will disappear into the folds of Dominic's robe, never to be seen by man or angel again. STATS Malachi, Renegade Calabite, formerly of the Game 15 forces. Vessel/1 (young human male, Charisma +2). Skills: Malachi has access to most skills at levels 4-6 (with combat and athletics tending towards the higher) Songs: Has Charm, Entropy, Numinous Corpus: Wings, Form, Healing, Possession, Shields, Tongues and Motion, all at high levels, but is generally reluctant to use them (they're not very sporting) Attunements: Calabite of the Game, Humanity, Knight of Judgement, Calabite of Lust Discord: Aura/3, Lustful/2, Need (to move at very high speeds/3) Marcifel, Habbalah of the War 14 forces, balanced towards Ethereal Vessel/3 (mantis) Skills: Dodge/5 and several others, few of which are esepcially usable in her current body Songs: Attraction (all/6), Entropy (Ethereal only), Shields, Thunder, all at levels 3-5 Attunements: Lilim of the War, Habbalah of the War Corethiel, Outcast Cherub, formerly of Stone 10 forces, balanced towards Corporeal Vessel/3 (Elderly human human, Charisma +1) Skills: of import are Fighting/4, Dodge/2, Climbing/5, Move Silently/2 and Throwing/1 Songs: Charm (Corporeal only), Dreams, Attraction (Ethereal only), Light (Ethereal and Celestial) at levels 2-4 Attunements: Cherub of Stone, Deep Gaze ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:05:49 -0600 From: "Julian Mensch" Subject: RE: IN> Gabriel's Apocalypse (Corrected in *Jo's response*) > Can you please resend this to the list without all the 8-bit ASCII? It's > damn near unreadable for me. > All those things that probably look to you like "curly quotes" and "curly > apostrophes" and "em-dashes", et al, look like this to me, and to many > others of us who don't use your particular software: > ...and then the ^Oangel^W realized ^[^O it was time to flee... > Thank you. I'm very sorry; from now on I won't write things in Word; I'll use notepad. I would go through and correct everything, but Jo has been kind enough to do so already, and it's up on her page in really nice HTML. (Thanks, BTW.) - -- Julian Mensch ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:35:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Long Live the Queen (Iron Rev submission) - --- "William J. Keith" wrote: > However, due to shaping by Nybbas' experts, the > "anthill" is > turning out to be an alien-like pyramid. Wow -- so glad I didn't go with that idea. Nicely done, William. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 20:35:09 -0500 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Random IN-related stuff From: "Jo Hart" > > "I am pleased to report to the Seraphim Council that as requested, I have > taken care of all the surviving Lilim. They will no longer be a problem." The mental image of Laurence saying "Right. Will do," and strapping on his sword belt came to me as well... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:39:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Holy Cults - --- Charles Phipps wrote: > I was curious if during periods of > great unrest (i.e. > always) on Earth that Heaven would maintain either divine > worshipping or > divinely guided groups even in areas where they would be > forbidden or completely unknown. I can see some Superiors doing it (Hell would be more flexible on this point than Heaven, IMHO). But Tether formation is chancy at best, so a Celestial presence would be more effective at preventing such occurances than encouraging them. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:41:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev Scenario: Short but sweet. - --- EDG wrote: > There was no minimum word limit. :) True. But where's the pyramid? ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:44:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> April 25, 2001 (ML) - --- Maurice Lane wrote: > Robigus > Roman Ethereal God of Mildew (and Mosaicist for the > Court of Death) Now that's just wrong. Mildew mosaics? Brrrr. Then again, it reminds me of my college dorm... ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:48:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> April 26, 2001 (ML) - --- Maurice Lane wrote: > Large Obsidian Machetes !!! Consider this stolen! ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:50:40 -0600 From: "Ben Glickler" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev Scenario: Short but sweet. > True. But where's the pyramid? The suggestion that the Bavarian Illuminati (Bavarian Light and Power) is involved includes the pyramid via the Illuminati's symbol. Ben ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:51:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> April 27, 2001 (ML) - --- Maurice Lane wrote: > The Arboreals Never in a million years would I have thought of this one. My greenness knows no bounds. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 02:50 +0100 (BST) From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev Scenario: Short but sweet. In article <20010507014102.25829.qmail@web509.mail.yahoo.com>, thunderdog_sa@yahoo.com (Michael Walton) wrote: > --- EDG wrote: > > There was no minimum word limit. :) > > True. But where's the pyramid? Bavarian Light & Power? - --- John Dallman jgd@cix.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:58:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> April 28, 2001 (ML) - --- Maurice Lane wrote: > Maktiel > Djinn of Fate > Demon of Flowers This made me wonder... > Actually, Kronos knows what he's doing. He's > researching Word-friction by taking demons and having > them be given Words held by Archangels, then sitting > back to watch the results. ...but this is frellin' scary. Just the sort of thing you'd expect a Demon Prince to do. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:12:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Iron Ref Entry: Gabriel's Apocalypse - --- Julian Mensch wrote: > Gabriel's Own Personal Apocalypse I agree, this is a cool seed. I shudder to think of Bambi as an AA, though. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 19:18:23 -0700 From: "Bevan Thomas" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev submission >From: Ryan Elias >Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >Subject: IN> Iron Rev submission >Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 17:52:26 -0700 > >Bit of an experiment, this. Could use a bit more revision, probably. But >it is very close to a thousand words. > >Malachi, Running from Hell >or >The Concave Cup > > Ooookay. It seems you've lost your tenous grip on sanity, my friend. Very cool though. You mentioned "masonic lodge," so your adventure gets my approval. - -Bevan - ------- "We've alway been under seige. The 'Real World' keep shoving us into cornors - -- so we've built some worlds of our own. Now whoever's controlling this... wants to take those worlds away. Well, I call that interplanetary war." -T. Campbell, "Fans: the Fandom Menace" _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:19:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: RE: IN> Gabriel's Apocalypse (Corrected in *Jo's response*) - --- Julian Mensch wrote: > I'm very sorry; from now on I won't write things in > Word; I'll use notepad. Writing in Word is fine; just save it as a separate Text Only file when you're done editing. Then close out, reopen the text version and check it for 8-bit characters before you send it. I've had to learn that the hard way. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:20:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev Scenario: Short but sweet. - --- Ben Glickler wrote: > > True. But where's the pyramid? > > The suggestion that the Bavarian Illuminati (Bavarian > Light and Power) is > involved includes the pyramid via the Illuminati's > symbol. Ah, subtle. UB YY 4 Me. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:27:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: IN> Iron Rev: The Five Second Rule Hoggonoth didn't mean to get all that Dissonance. He really didn't mean to rack up all that Discord. He just couldn't help himself. Demons of Gluttony are supposed to encourage Humans to Consume, but when he found out how bad overeating is for Humans... well, let's just say that hurting Humans goes against his newly-Merciful Impudite nature. But that's only the beginning of the problem. You see, Haagenti isn't the one who punished Hoggonoth. Lucifer did that by giving the incompetent Taker a Word -- and encouraging Humans to eat off of the floor (which is bad for them) is a must for the Demon of the Five Second Rule. Hoggonoth can't take it anymore. He also knows that his failures have probably put him on Haagenti's menu. He wisely went Renegade and is thinking about Redeeming, but he has no angelic contacts. Hoggonoth was drowning his sorrows in netsurfing when he came across what could be his salvation. There's a hobby on Earth called role-playing games. And one company (he forgets which one; something with a pyramid for a symbol) is introducing a game about angels and demons. Hoggonoth figures that the Host is bound to check this out. He just needs to be there when they do, and a major gaming convention seems like an excellent opportunity. Hell will check it out, too, of course, but the Impudite has that covered. He's now fat and homely enough that many demons won't recognize him. Even if they do, he can say that he's promoting his Word. That'll be easy -- gamers will eat anything. What Hoggonoth doesn't know is that he's being watched. Mosca, a Djinn of the Game, has been observing the Glutton for some time. He once made a name for himself spying on Asmodeus' enemies as a literal fly on the wall (insect Vessels can be useful), but it's been a while since he had any high-profile successes. If Mosca can bring in a Renegade, it's all good. If that Renegade is Word-bound, even better. A Word-bound Renegade who's too weak to resist arrest? Thank you, Lightbringer. Mosca's plan is to let Hoggonoth get himself into a compromising position and then bribe some local demons into helping make the bust. Angelic PC's will be assigned to check out the convention and find out what the deal is with this "blasphemous game." Their first glimpse of Hoggonoth will be when they see him trying to make Humans eat off the floor. If they get him alone, he'll spill his guts and beg for asylum. What the PC's do from there is up to them, but they'll have to deal with the Calabite hit squad that comes to drag the Taker back to Hell. If the PC's are demons, their mission is to take Hoggonoth in for trial. If he resists, they can kill his Vessel. They have to find him first, and there's the problem of Hoggonoth not matching his photograph any more. Once they do find Hoggonoth, assume that he has managed to make tentative contact with an angel. This NPC will call in a squad of Malakim at the first sign of demonic incursion. Whether the PC's are angels or demons, the NPC combatants should be balanced adversaries for them. Under no circumstances will Mosca engage in combat (his Vessel is far too delicate), but he will observe the entire thing and report back to Asmodeus. If you're feeling generous, give angelic PC's Perception rolls at -4 to notice the unlikely insect that's been following them (if they notice Mosca and move against him, he'll pop back to Hell). Hoggonoth will run for it if he's attacked. If he can't flee the fight, he'll fold like origami. Here are his stats: Hoggonoth Impudite of Gluttony Demon of the Five Second Rule Forces/9: Corporeal/2 (Strength/4, Agility/6; Hoggonoth has bought up his Agility) Ethereal/3 (Intelligence/5, Precision/7) Celestial/4 (Perception/8, Will/8) Vessel/1 (12 Body Hits) Skills: Computer Operation/5, Cooking/2, Emote/3, Fast-talk/5, Lying/3, Running/6 Songs: Attraction (Ethereal/4), Motion (Corporeal/4), Numinous Corpus (Wings/4) Attunements: Consume, Demon of the Five Second Rule (Hoggonoth adds his Celestial Forces to the TN of any attempt to get a Human to eat off of the floor, but only if he acts within five seconds), Impudite of Gluttony Discord: Obese/2, Ugly/1, Merciful/4 (Except for his Word, Hoggonoth is a balanced starting character) Both sides should be reminded that obvious use of celestial powers in front of all those Human witnesses is a Very Bad Idea. The PC's will also have orders to avoid unnecessary casualties and property damage. If you're feeling really mean, make the angel-demon game a live-action event. Then enjoy the looks on the players' faces as they try to sort out the targets from the noncombatants in a room full of people who all claim to be celestials. Bonus points for any PC's who actively take part in the game. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 "Holding a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William Walton (no relation) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2207 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2001 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.