From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Wed Sep 9 07:52:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: from lists.io.com (majordom@lists.io.com [199.170.88.15]) by pyramid.sjgames.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA10342 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 07:52:58 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id HAA31561 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 07:23:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 07:23:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199809091223.HAA31561@lists.io.com> X-Authentication-Warning: lists.io.com: majordom set sender to owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com using -f From: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com (in_nomine-digest) To: in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Subject: in_nomine-digest V1 #941 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 Wednesday, September 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 941 In this digest: Re: IN> Undead (was Re: IN> Changing Sides) Re: IN> Flowers of the Fall (Was Falling Archangels) IN> Choir/Band Attunements IN> Random Plot-Seeds ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:00:38 +0100 From: Kevin Walsh Subject: Re: IN> Undead (was Re: IN> Changing Sides) On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 12:20:01PM -0400, Emily K. Dresner wrote: > In IN canon, instead, the undead gets to be alive (totally unjustifying > Saminga's research into the corpse preservation technics of the Egyptians) I think that assumes there's been no refinement since. How did the Duke of Mummification get his Word? > and they don't go to Hell. Maybe they don't go to Hell, but maybe the component Forces still do. And quite possibly it's much easier to use those Forces to create other Undead, making a virtuous cycle. Kevin Walsh, Balseraph of Nitpicking, Demon of Off-Topic Trivia. - -- "We have been fortunate enough to live to a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nevertheless not always tormented by attack dogs." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Gulag Archipelago. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:39:50 -0400 From: IceHeart EvenFall Subject: Re: IN> Flowers of the Fall (Was Falling Archangels) At 11:14 PM 9/6/98 -0700, you wrote: >Demon Princess of Compromise? Demon Princess of half measures? >Demon Princess of Passive-Aggressive behaviour? Demon Princess of battered women? >Demon Princess of Surrender? Demon Princess of Suicide? Ice. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:38:36 -0400 From: David Edelstein Subject: IN> Choir/Band Attunements >>>Is it canon that *choir/band* attunements are only granted by Superiors, or do lesser beings such as Dukes, Arch-Dukes, Colonels, etc, have the ability to grant their own?<<< Canon says only Superiors can grant Choir/Band attunements. Otherwise there would quickly be an unmanageable proliferation of multiple Choir/Band attunements, and all the debates and arguments already generated by possible conflicts and fuzzy canon would be multiplied by a frightening factor... - -David ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:19:59 +0100 From: "Hart, Joanna" Subject: IN> Random Plot-Seeds 1. Survival of the Fittest: Hook: There is an emergency in a local hospital. Three people (possibly including a friend/ acquaintance of one of the PCs) are admitted with strange rashes which they claim came from a local (and rare) variety of moth. Faint disturbances were heard from the swampland where said moths live when the people were bitten. It seems to be contagious and they are in quarantine within the hospital. An old angel (or demon) recognised the disturbance as something associated with the long-extinct Demon Prince of plague and sends the PCs urgently to find out what was going on. Background: Many years ago, two favoured servitors of Jordi were each honoured by their Bright Lord with the important tasks of watching over the welfare and progress of a subspecies of insect, which was local to one area of wetland. Happily, they set to work with their appointed wards, one guarding a group of flower-eating weevils and the other guarding a group of moths, and all was well. However, times change, the climate changes and the ecology changes with it. Unfortunate weather conditions and new strains of parasites and pesticides began the attrition, and local work in draining the wetlands to build houses has almost finished it off.. (This probably would have happened eventually even without the human factor, but more slowly). Unfortunately, the species both depend on the same terrain and the same type of vegetation to survive. The angels had tried to work together to save the local environment but when the crunch came, each one felt forced to place its own responsibility first. They are now resorting to more underhand tactics. If one species is wiped out, it will be sad, but the other will have a vastly improved chance of survival. The weevil angel has managed to get hold of a strange artefact which seems to inflict some plague-like disease on humans. It used this, along with Ethereal songs of light to make it very obvious to the humans that moths were involved, because it thinks that weevils are more important than humans and doesn't much care if they live or die. Suggestions: The weevil angel was given its artefact by Jordi, who wants to breed resistant strains of humans in case the infernal plague ever returns. The weevil angel was given its artefact by a demon of Fate, who claims to be a weevil-lover. The weevil angel found its artefact in the bottom of the swamp. The moth angel is furious and will be looking at any possible opportunity to show that moths are sweet and pleasant creatures, but that all weevils must die. It is trying to encourage new strains of anti-weevil pesticide. 2. The Outcast's Prayer Hook: A recently redeemed demon has just had its vessel killed on live TV in a car crash, totally destroying its (new) role. A Malakite of Destiny who witnessed the scene reports that it heard the disturbance from the destruction but it was definitely angelic. The new angel is terrified because it has been getting death threats from its old demonic buddies, and PCs are sent to help guard it (in a new vessel) and find out who killed the last one. Background: The newly redeemed one is quite right to be afraid of its old pals, because they are intent on trying to embarrass it, make it a liability for other angels, and finally have it destroyed. They were behind the assassination but had the luck of locating an outcast which they were able to hire to do the job for them. The outcast is an ex-Sword seraph which specialised in hunting (it has the Hunt attunement and Songs of Affinity), but got so obsessed in pursuing the target of one hunt that it refused to acknowledge orders telling it to call the hunt off. It had actually fought the demon when it was still a demon, and wasn't told by the people who hired it that the celestial in question had since redeemed. It is a patient and clever hunter, but still tends to obsess about always getting its target. However, it is certainly honorable enough to offer single combat to anyone who wants to champion the target, and give any cherub a chance to deattune before it goes for the final strike. Suggestions: The outcast is a proud creature and unwilling to petition any archangel to let it back into heaven. It has also decided that it likes being able to think for itself and not always obey orders, especially as it thinks Laurence is likely to just dismember it for disobedience. (So it isn't impossible that over time, PCs might be able to persuade it to talk to one of the less uptight superiors) It also knows that every note of dissonance it gets may be its last and doesn't want to fall. If PCs have good relations with any seneschals who can offer it temporary refuge and a chance to work off dissonance quietly, it will be suitably grateful and will offer help in the future with any tracking that they might need. The demons will keep trying to monitor the proceedings as best they can, and have a Djinn attuned to the outcast because they don't trust it. ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #941 ******************************* The material here is (C) 1997 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.