From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Mon Nov 8 00:25:18 1999 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 AAA04385 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 00:25:18 -0600 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id AAA01408 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 00:26:02 -0600 Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 00:26:02 -0600 Message-Id: <199911080626.AAA01408@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 #1395 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, November 8 1999 Volume 01 : Number 1395 In this digest: Re: IN> In Nomine Web Page Update IN> Ethereal Campaigns IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR Re: IN> In Nomine Web Page Update Re: IN> In Nomine Web Page Update Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR RE: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR IN> laser printer toner advertisement Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR IN> Fire the Boss and break the Alarm Clock!!! Re: IN> The Final Battle (Was: Re: Pride IS a sin) IN> Destiny? IN> Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 14:55:43 -0500 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> In Nomine Web Page Update At 12:23 PM -0500 11/7/99, David Edelstein wrote: >Just a little shameless self-promotion: I've moved my web page, and finally >updated it a bit. You'll now find Azrael and Uriel, In Nomine San >Francisco, and some cuts from the Corporeal Player's Guide, among other >things. Very interesting -- I like San Francisco, though if you ever get a chance to write up some of SF's more significant Word-bound a la your New York writeup, that'd be seriously cool. The differences between it and LA are notable -- if in the Second Ed, post Fall of the Malakim, a sourcebook of LA and SF came out, I'd shed no tears.... - -- Eric Alfred Burns It was then I felt my heart break like a in-sabre@annotations.com fragile Scooby Snack upon the harsh teeth of http://www.annotations.com Reality -- and it's been broken ever since. http://www.annotations.com/~journal --Johnny Bravo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 14:23:50 -0600 From: David Edelstein Subject: IN> Ethereal Campaigns >>>As far as an EPG goes... oddly enough, I don't see it on the survey list, and I don't remember whether it was even included. It seems to be a popular idea, though.<<< I can neither confirm nor deny that there might possibly be an EPG in the works, and that I might possibly be involved with it. ;) - -David ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 13:56:52 PST From: "Jo Hart" Subject: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR Blandine, Demon Princess of Despair The world is not worth fighting for. There's just no point. The Princess of Despair is the most Djinn-like of all Djinn. She has given up on hope, and understands that nothing is worth caring about; nothing important. Life is a brief exercise in futility, followed by an eternity in Hell. She offers mortals the solace of despair, the false knowledge that it's OK to give up fighting, or trying to better themselves. She offers them a gloomy way-out from a terrifying world which they can never understand, and teaches them to love their misery. Suicides flock through the gates of Hell, each one lured by Despair's soft whispers, to find that there was something worse than living and it's going to be their lot for the rest of eternity. Blandine's hair hangs in elflocks about her face and her clothes are haphazard - sometimes stained or torn. Her eyes are hollow, and focussed always on the middle distance. Her voice is soft, and compellingly sad. Her posture is slumped, in defeat. She directs her minions numbly to spread despair across the world. Perhaps, when everyone has given in, her pain will cease too. Servitors of Despair still roam the Marches freely, although their Superior gives no signs of caring what they do, or where they go. But where Nightmares try to twist dreamscapes toward fear, despair prefers to just blot out all dreams and whisper "You are nothing. Everything you love is nothing. Give up your hopes." to the dreamers in the dark. _The_Day_the_Music_Died_ How did it happen? The waiting just weighed on her too much. The endless hoping against hope wore her down. In one day, three of her closest advisors Fell, or were killed, and Blandine's heart broke. This time, she didn't cry. Her face closed up like a book, and she summoned all of her Servitors together, calling them to follow her. Then she walked out across the Marches, with the Hosts of Dream trailing behind her. Kronos and Lucifer gave her a very special welcome at the gates of Hell. And all her Malakim were slaughtered in ambush whilst their ex-Archangel simply watched, with no expression on her face. Only one of her angels remains in Heaven. He is now the loneliest Menunite of all, the Angel of Hope. Now, true dreams are rare. When most mortals sleep, their nights are filled with nightmares and despair. Mothers no longer sing lullabies to their children, instead they try to keep them awake for as long as possible, trying to protect them from the night-terrors which they would otherwise face alone. Sales of caffeine and uppers are on an alltime high, as are sales of heavy sedatives which salesmen swear will put you into a deep and dreamless sleep. Mankind is afraid of the night, and suddenly all of their lives have taken a turn for the worst. _And_here_the_story_ends_ Blandine has no Cathedral of her own. Instead, she is ensconced in Beleth's tower, where the pair are together once more. But whatever they have, it isn't love. _Dissonance_Condition_ Servitors of Despair are nihilists, forbidden to harbor any hopes for the future, either false or true. They may make plans based on best guesses, but must never allow themselves to become attached to hopes that the plans will work. _Band_Attunements_ Balseraphs: Silver-voiced whisperers, Blandine's Balseraphs preach nothing but the Truth. The truth that all hopes are futile and that the only integrity is to be found in despair. They may add their Celestial Forces to any attempt (whether using resonance or not) to persuade someone that a given course of action is pointless. Djinn: Djinn of Despair are distant, dreamy creatures who accept their lot in life, but gloomily complain about it (Think "Eeyore"). They take no dissonance if an attuned commits suicide (not an uncommon occurrence), and may remain in the dreamscape of an attuned as long as they are asleep. Calabim: The nihilism of the Destroyers makes itself known in black destructive rages. A Calabite of Despair may literally destroy dreams. They may use their resonance to launch an Ethereal Attack on victims, even celestials in vessels. If a dreamer is defeated in ethereal combat within his own dreamscape, then he may never re-experience that dream again. Pachadim Many of the Fallen Menunim preferred to serve Beleth than Blandine, on the grounds that a Superior who tormented them was better than one who obviously didn't care. Those few Pachadim of Despair who remain ... still have the gift of lending hope to humanity. But being sadists by nature, they like to do this to people who had already given up, so that they can taste the richness of despair all over again! Habbalah: Blandine's Habbalah believe that they are sent to test humanity. If a mortal falls prey to despair, then his zeal to do God's will can't have been very strong, can it? Their resonance always succeeds in the Marches, with a check digit equal to the demon's Ethereal Forces (a Habbalite may roll to try to get a higher check digit). Lilim: Lilim of Despair just love to see a mortal give up hope, roll over and beg to die... when all the Lilim had done was given him everything that he wanted! They are so talented at persuading victims that there is no point in resisting, that any attempts to resist their geases are made at a penalty of the Lilim's Ethereal Forces. Shedim: Shedim of Despair don't need to make a Will roll to possess someone who is depressed. The victim doesn't need to be clinically depressed, an ordinary person having a particularly bad or stressful day will suffice. They find it easiest to go host hopping at around 4am. Like Blandine's Djinn, they take no dissonance if a host commits suicide (but are still ejected from the host). Impudites: These demons actually feed from their victim's hopes. An Impudite may make a Will roll to drain Essence from anyone who describes a hope to him (even if he had not charmed them first). If successful, the Impudite gains a point of Essence, and the victim realizes that the hope is futile, and abandons it. A victim may resist with a Will roll. _Servitor_Attunements_ Dream Walking - as per Blandine/ Beleth's attunement in the main book. Total Perspective Vortex A demon with this attunement may spend 1 Essence and make a Will roll to completely isolate a victim from the world around him for a number of minutes given by the check digit. For that period, the victim truly perceives how large the universe is, and how small and insignificant he is within it. Targets take a penalty of the demon's Ethereal Forces on any attempts to do anything during this period, and may be soul-scarred for months afterward. Victims may make a Will roll to resist. _Distinctions_ Knight of Gloom Demons with this distinction may automatically pick out the person closest to despair from a group. They will not necessarily know why the victim is vulnerable to despair. Captain of Despair Blandine's Captains may size up a victim and instantly know their greatest hope, and their greatest fear. Baron of the Midnight of the Soul These demons gain a bonus of +2 on any attempts to do anything (including Dream Shaping, or use of resonances) in the Marches. _Politics_ Blandine is no more interested in demonic politics than she ever was in the angelic side. The difference is that in Hell, it's much harder to stay uninvolved. Fortunately for her, Beleth and Kronos both find her useful, and the fear of two of Hell's more powerful Princes keeps the sharks at bay. She is also guileless enough to accept Malphas, who doesn't actively make fun of her. Blandine dislikes Kobal intensely, but he finds her predicament heartily amusing, and has ordered servitors to help her people out in the past (besides which, it's much funnier to watch someone live on and suffer than it is to let them go under.) Saminga doesn't actually hate her. Even in his limited understanding, despair makes people kill themselves, which is good for him. Blandine has, however, managed the unusual feat of personally winning Vapula's disgust. She was ejected from Tartarus the last time she was there - - the very last thing the Prince of Technology wants is for some small-minded Djinn to be telling his demons that their experiments have no hope of success! Allied: Beleth, Kronos Associated: Malphas (Kobal associates himself with Blandine) Neutral: (All others) Hostile: Kobal (Vapula is Hostile to Blandine) _Rites_ · Persuade a mortal to commit suicide (NB. This only counts as celestial intervention for the purposes of disturbance if the demon used his resonance.) · Spend 4 hours in the Marches, spreading despair in dreams · Preach the futility of life to at least 10 people Chance to Summon: 1 Summoning Modifiers: +1 Recite any poem by Sylvia Plath +2 Recite a depressing poem that you wrote yourself +3 10 people suffering from clinical depression +4 A group of lemmings jumping off a cliff +5 A congregation of 50 at a church service, none of whom are believers +6 A human who has given up /all/ hope in life +8 The lowest basement of Beleth's tower ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:05:03 -0600 From: Shadowstar Subject: Re: IN> In Nomine Web Page Update At 2:55 PM -0500 11/7/99, Whistling in the Dark wrote: >Very interesting -- I like San Francisco, though if you ever get a >chance to write up some of SF's more significant Word-bound a la your >New York writeup, that'd be seriously cool. The differences between >it and LA are notable -- if in the Second Ed, post Fall of the >Malakim, a sourcebook of LA and SF came out, I'd shed no tears.... FYI, David isn't the only one with an In Nomine: San Francisco. . . I have my own version in the works (which is different in many regards). It focuses on most of the Bay Area itself but since it plays a key role in the Angelic Political Scene of the City by the Bay, something had to be said about it. There's no word on how long it'll take me to do it, but hey. I'm doing it just for the fun of it anyway. Cest la vie. Be seeing you, - - Tafka J. = shadowstar@centurytel.net # Balseraph of Fate, Marquis of Delusions of Grandeur * http://www.best.com/~lyceum/shdwstar/in-nomine ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:05:03 -0600 From: Shadowstar Subject: Re: IN> In Nomine Web Page Update At 2:55 PM -0500 11/7/99, Whistling in the Dark wrote: >Very interesting -- I like San Francisco, though if you ever get a >chance to write up some of SF's more significant Word-bound a la your >New York writeup, that'd be seriously cool. The differences between >it and LA are notable -- if in the Second Ed, post Fall of the >Malakim, a sourcebook of LA and SF came out, I'd shed no tears.... FYI, David isn't the only one with an In Nomine: San Francisco. . . I have my own version in the works (which is different in many regards). It focuses on most of the Bay Area itself but since it plays a key role in the Angelic Political Scene of the City by the Bay, something had to be said about it. There's no word on how long it'll take me to do it, but hey. I'm doing it just for the fun of it anyway. Cest la vie. Be seeing you, - - Tafka J. = shadowstar@centurytel.net # Balseraph of Fate, Marquis of Delusions of Grandeur * http://www.best.com/~lyceum/shdwstar/in-nomine ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:21:14 -0500 From: Kim Foster Subject: Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR Very Dark and very compellling! I liked it. If I ever run dark styled campaign I'd love to use this. The impact of Blandine's Fall was espeically well thought out. SHe gets kinda shorted as a Superior and it was nice to see that wasn't the case her. Nice work! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:59:58 -0600 From: "Trent" Subject: RE: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR >Blandine, Demon Princess of Despair I've always thought of Balandine's post-fall word to be False Hope. The sort of hope that tells a person 'you don't need to study for the History test you already know all that junk." 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He is now the loneliest > Menunite of all, the Angel of Hope. Who'd probably be getting help from at least some of Zadkiel's lot, since in a situation like this humanity would need protection in its dreams most of all. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 18:02:16 -0800 From: Sean McCarthy Subject: Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR Our spies report that on 08:35 PM 11/7/99 -0500, Whistling in the Dark said: >This is truly excellent, and the Angels have already lost when this >happens, haven't they? > I'm not the author, but I think this definitely implies a loss for the home team, yes. Or imagine a campaign where the Angel of Hope (who has just ditched a flight of Malakim of Judgement. They are just there to keep it safe, naturally.) happens to pick YOUR PCs and lay on them the rather heavy burden of being the only ones who know what Really Happened. Obviously, something has to be done or the War is likely to poorly if not quickly... Sean ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:18:35 -0500 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR At 7:58 PM -0600 11/7/99, Prodigal wrote: >From: Jo Hart > > > > Blandine, Demon Princess of Despair > >Nicely written! > > > Only one of her angels remains in Heaven. He is now the loneliest > > Menunite of all, the Angel of Hope. > >Who'd probably be getting help from at least some of Zadkiel's lot, since in >a situation like this humanity would need protection in its dreams most of >all. Zadkiel would clearly rise up to the Majors, I think, and I agree she'd have a lot to do in the Marches. More than anything, the forces of Heaven would need someone capable of granting the Dream Walking attunement. - -- Eric Alfred Burns It was then I felt my heart break like a in-sabre@annotations.com fragile Scooby Snack upon the harsh teeth of http://www.annotations.com Reality -- and it's been broken ever since. http://www.annotations.com/~journal --Johnny Bravo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:39:30 -0400 From: Douglas Muir Subject: Re: IN> Look upon me, ye mighty, and DESPAIR >> Blandine, Demon Princess of Despair > >Nicely written! Add my voice. >> Only one of her angels remains in Heaven. He is now the loneliest >> Menunite of all, the Angel of Hope. > >Who'd probably be getting help from at least some of Zadkiel's lot, since in >a situation like this humanity would need protection in its dreams most of >all. Yeah, I think the loss of a big Word like this wouldn't be allowed to just leave a gap. Other angels would be assigned to try to fill in. 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(Oh great and puissant Demon princess...that count for Nitpicking Essence?) actually, astrology IMHO would be a more appropriate term. actually, some historians are theorizing that the lack of the 1/4 day is what did the mayans in. There planting got out of whack with the seasons but was ritualized. This brought something up in my head. speaking of Native Americans is there any canon or semi-canon on celestial involvement in manifest destiny? I could see this as being either some nasty demonic involvement or maybe something to do with leftover servitors of purity trying to continue weakening the ethereal gods. Ben ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Nov 99 16:17:50 PST From: "Azrael" Subject: IN> Destiny? Is a Bright destiny reached for selfish reasons still Bright and sttill a destiny reached? Frex, If some Soldier of God in service to Yves finds out his destiny and his fate, decides he doesn't like his fate and doesn't want to go to hell, so with a primarily selfish motivation he reaches his nice Bright Sparkly Destiny (tm). Does it count? Azrael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 01:22:04 -0500 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: IN> Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright.... JORDI Shedite Prince of Genocide "The World is full. There *is* a solution." How careful is the balance of nature. How easy it can be knocked aside. How casually humanity kicks at it, overbalances it, tears at it. How long could one Archangel be set over all the animals and beasts of the fields, but forced to watch one animal run roughshod over the rest, forced to never balance, never adjust, never do what his being cried for? And the others? The other angels? Just didn't care. They just didn't *care.* Animals were swords to be wielded, stones to be thrown. Animals were the crucible to purify humanity, the inspiration for dreams. Fertilizers for flowers. Sooner or later, Jordi felt his capacity for viewpoints narrowing. Focusing on the one creature of the fields he had no authority over. The one creature all the others *fawned* over and coddled and protected and helped to trample and kill. As species died wholesale, Jordi heard their cries, felt their genocides, and closed his heart against it, focusing on the destroyers, the killers, the maimers. And then the light burned, and he Fell to Earth, and down into Hell itself. His viewpoint was now Monomaniacal. There *was* no balance. There was just Darwin. God himself had stepped aside for Survival of the Fittest. The only way to win was to wipe out all your opponents - -- to fill *all* the ecological niches. Lucifer didn't approach the insane Shedite. The Word of Genocide was granted from afar. Jordi, Prince of Genocide, is always focused on one goal -- destruction. The elimination of a species or subspecies. The destruction of those who are different -- even a little. The Final Solution. Finally, he is free to do what the Angels say God forbade - -- but he's lost the reason to. So instead he promotes genocides within humanity and other species. But sooner or later he'll get around to it... oh yes, sooner or later humanity -- and all other beasts of the field -- will be memories on a sterile world.... Then they'll be sorry. They'll all be sorry they didn't listen to him. _The Prince of Genocide_ Jordi is the consummate Shedite. He's bitter, wanting nothing more than to worm into the good works of others and rot them from within. When everything is dead, he'll satisfied. So long as any species lives, there's someone up there watching over it and he hates that. *Hates* it. But it's not enough to kill them. That would be simple. He's got to tear them apart. One species consuming another. One subspecies displacing another. One people slaughtering another. Jordi much prefers ethnic cleansing to all humans in one place dying off at the same time. It proves the drive for the strongest to survive over the weakest. He hates anything that brings disparate beings together, from tick birds picking the teeth of alligators to dogs domesticated to help humans to religious institutions. By corrupting these into the means for slaughter, Jordi and his Servitors reestablish the only order, the true order. The strong over the weak. The niche held by one species, not many symbiotically. The top of the pyramid destroying the base, not the base supporting the top. It's ultimately self-defeating. By losing the Kyriotate's perspective of the web of life, Jordi has also lost the ability to foresee consequences to his actions. If he oversees the wiping out of all the insects in a swamp, and then all the frogs die off -- well, the frogs weren't strong enough, were they? And if that kills the kingfishers, then the fishers should have been strong enough to adapt.... Sooner or later, the World will die if he gets his way. _Animal's Wrath_ In Heaven, the Savannah is initially plunged into chaos, as the sight of the Fall of Jordi drives even the Heavenly Souls of Animals into a Frenzy. Many of Jordi's Servitors followed him into Hell, and a huge protectorate of the Corporeal Realm has lost its most powerful Heavenly protector. Jordi was one of the most powerful of Archangels before his Fall, though he was easy to overlook or dismiss. Without him, the forces of Hell -- especially Belial and Saminga -- are free to devastate the ecosystem of Earth. Novalis is forced into a far more active role, her peaceful glens suddenly overrun with the passionate war of survival of the animals. Coupled with this are Jordi's former Servitors, who very much blame Heaven and their inflexibility in protecting the Animal Kingdom in lieu of the overbalanced humans for Jordi's Fall. Almost none agree to work with or for any other Archangel, leading Dominic to near pogroms against them. Jordi welcomes any of his Followers into Hell (save Malakim, of course), and those who are Word Bound he sponsors immediately for the same Word. Of course, where the Angel of Black Bears promoted their livelihood, the Demon of Black Bears strives to wipe out any competing species in lieu of Black Bears. Novalis's Angel of Ecology has taken on as much of the responsibility for the web of life as it can. It is strongly possible it will be promoted into the Archangel of the Biosphere -- if so, its Elohite calm will be a marked departure from the passionate, Fallen Archangel of Animals. It will have to contend with Jordi's remaining Servitors, of course. DISSONANCE The Demons of Genocide can show no remorse for the forces of Darwinism. Regret is poison to them. Whenever they show any dissatisfaction with the outcome of a contest, from a game of checkers to the elimination of a rainforest, they take dissonance. This can get them in trouble with other demons.... The exception are the hosts of Heaven. Demons of Jordi will can never suggest that the Heavenly way might be better -- even if a flight of Malakim rout all the demons within a Jordite's sight, the demon will not accept that Heaven is stronger, or else be dissonant. BAND ATTUNEMENTS _Balseraphs_ The Balseraphs of Genocide are the apologists. The enforcers of prejudice. The ones who convince the crew foreman that it's all right to clear cut the forest -- to Hell with the Spotted owls. The ones who convince the soldier it's all right to gun down women and children -- they're inferior. Therefore, Jordi's Balseraphs can see the prejudices within their target. (A prejudice by this definition is any opinion about something different than the target taken on faith, not by evidence.) With this knowledge, Balseraphs are expert at using their resonance to reinforce what the target believes in the first place -- to tragic results. _Djinn_ (Restricted) Killing a single cockroach doesn't clean a house. You need to wipe them all out. When a creature or person a Djinn is attuned to dies, the Djinn may make a resonance roll to attune to the next nearest member of the same group the creature was. This can be a species or an affiliation. Once a Djinn attunes to a second member of a group in this matter, his attunement is 'set' and all new attunements must be members of that group (though he doesn't lose any attunements he already possesses). He has to break all his attunements to creatures of that subgroup (or all those he is attuned to must die) before he can attune to someone not of that group. Note that if he tries to break an attunement and fails (as per IN p. 144), his zeal and obsession to protect that attunement will extend to that affiliation as well. _Calabim_ (Restricted) Jordi loves his Calabim more than any other Servitors. Destroyers for the sake of destruction, he harnesses their ways to perfect effect. Jordi's Calabim must take their mandated Discord as a Hatred Ethereal Discord, targeting a specific group of some kind. It cannot be too broad a hatred, but must instead be some kind of sub group. (They can't target Angels, but can target Malakim or Ofanim, for example. Cats are legal, but tigers won't count as cats. Humanity can't be taken, but blacks, whites, jews, Christians or the like can. And so on.) Calabim must make a Will roll minus the Calabite's level in Hatred when encountering one of their Hated or attack with their resonance immediately. To balance this, when attacking an object of their Hatred, Calabim may *double* the applicable Forces before calculating damage. (Corporeal Forces in Corporeal combat, and Celestial Forces in Celestial combat.) If the Calabite's target resists, and the Calabite redirects the attack against someone not of his Hatred, they only take normal damage. However, if the Calabite absorbs the attack, he takes *two* points of Dissonance. One can be dissolved by killing that resisting target, however. _Habbalah_ (Restricted) The Habbalah of Genocide see themselves as the agents of purification. When using their Resonance to spread Fury towards a specific group, they may affect entire groups. Their resonance can affect as many as their Will times their Celestial Forces. The Habbalite doesn't suffer from backlash unless *all* the targets resist his resonance. It's also worth noting that while Jordi loves his Calabim more than any other, his Habbalah love *him* desperately. He is an agent of God's Punishment given form, and only the strong survive Jordi. _Lilim_ (Restricted) The Lilim of Jordi are rare. Those that do exist may use their Resonance to detect needs as normal. Once they fulfill the need, they may either geas their victim *or* they may inflict a Fear or Hatred (as per the discord, even if the victim is mortal) on them, so long as that Fear or Hatred is for a specific species or group. _Shedim_ Shedim know what petty hates are in the human heart, and how to inflame them further. At the cost of one essence, a Shedite of Jordi may remove all guilt from a person (whether possessing them or not) for committing some act out of prejudice, making it easier for that person to accept doing it again. Note that this counts as corrupting a person in a given day in regards to the Shedite's dissonance conditions, whether the person they absolve of guilt is their host or not. However, they may only perform this trick on a given person once and have it count against their dissonance conditions. Any other times will be purely to promote that person's prejudices. _Impudites_ If Jordi's Balseraphs affirm what someone secretly believes, his Impudites sow new unreasonable prejudices. Given at least five minutes to talk, with a cost of 1 Essence, an Impudite of Genocide can imprint a justification onto a target, making him believe in the innate inferiority of a group or species. While it doesn't necessarily incite the target to violence, the target isn't likely to mind violence being done to the "inferior creatures." The Impudite uses a Perception roll, and the target resists with an Intelligence roll. The Imprinting lasts CD days. SERVITOR ATTUNEMENTS _The Mark of Abel_ At a cost of 5 essence, the Servitor can brand a person with the Mark of Death. the Servitor must make a Precision roll, resisted by an Agility roll. If successful, the target receives a metaphysical brand (visible should the target assume Celestial form) for CD days. During this time, all reaction rolls made about the victim have their targets reduced by five, and their check digits reduced by three. *Failed* reaction rolls have their check digits *increased* by three, so that the minimum result is a 4 (disliking the character and actively opposing him). Characters who see one of the branded unconsciously associate them with their prejudices, and are often attacked -- sometimes viciously -- without provocation. Even characters who can prove they're not enemies (Angels who assume Celestial Form for example) will still find themselves harried -- Triads investigate them, humans try to stone them, and so forth.... _Savaging_ This attack is a physical one, though when it occurs, the Demon seems to be a quasi-real maelstrom of teeth, horns and claws. The target must be close enough for a hand-to-hand attack, and during the attack the Demon cannot dodge other attacks. If the attack hits, it does a number of hits equal to the check digit of the roll times the Essence used to power it times the Demon's Corporeal Forces. DISTINCTIONS _Knight of Darwin_ While helping one group or species to fight another, the Knight's favored group gets bonuses in their attack. A number of allies up to the Knight's total Celestial Forces (in addition to the Knight himself) receive +1 Accuracy and +1 Power to their attacks against their enemy group. The Strong survive. This can apply to demons fighting angels. _Captain of Strength_ The strong dominate and destroy the weak. Captains in Jordi's Service can cow any beneath them with a glare, preventing direct challenges to their authority. _Baron of the Cleansing_ This demon can, with a glance, see if a habitation up to the size of a small city has been completely cleansed of any one species, group or affiliation. If not, he can tell how many survivors remain, though not where they are. RELATIONS The coming of the Prince of Genocide threw Infernal Politics a curve. As desperate and active in the promotion of his Word as the Prince of Hardcore, with the tremendous power Jordi has always had, the Prince of Genocide has strongly changed Hell's position on Earth and settled into his own in Hell. He is steadily carving out his own Principality out of Sheol. To date he's been carving it from areas where Belial hasn't spread, but Belial has noticed the incursion with anger. Still, Jordi loves the power of Fire, so Belial can't be *too* mad and generally supports Jordi's efforts. The Nihilistic forces of Hell have embraced Jordi -- from afar. Like Lucifer himself, all but Jordi's own Servitors keep their distance. Saminga momentarily resented the loss of the Word of Genocide (which had been under his domain though its holder was destroyed), but Jordi's love of nihilistic destruction and the elimination of whole species are just way too darn *cool* for Saminga to stay mad for long. Beleth can appreciate the violence and horror that Jordi spreads. Kronos approves of the Fate Jordi represents. And Asmodeus finds Jordi easy to control. Those who love humanity -- the takers and users -- hate Jordi and the horror he spreads. Andrealphus *hates* Jordi and all he represents. Nybbas uses Jordi's excesses for ratings, but when you kill off a segment of the audience, you kill off a potential market. Kobal finds Jordi's Fall hysterical -- but the joke wore thin within a day. Lilith deals with him, but sees only the Freedom of the Strong preying on the Weak in him. And Malphas? Malphas knows Jordi is excellent for Factions -- without them, Genocide would have great trouble... but he also knows with the certainty of the Prince of Factions that when Jordi runs out of humans, animals and angels... the Demons will be next, until there is nothing left but Jordi. Saminga was one thing -- he's an idiot. Jordi is one of the most intelligent of Demon Princes -- and that worries him. ALLIED: Malphas, Saminga ASSOCIATED: Baal, Beleth, Belial, Kronos HOSTILE: Andrealphus, Kobal, Lilith, Nybbas BASIC RITES * Kill a member of an endangered species. * Recruit a human for a White (or Black) Supremist Group * Kill ten or more vertebrates in a twelve hour block of time CHANCE OF INVOCATION: 3 INVOCATION MODIFIERS +1 A child's lunch money +2 A list of 1000 victims in the Holocaust +3 A serial killer's weapon +4 A piece of burnt wood from a fire where twenty or more died. +5 A leftover bag of fill from a drained and destroyed wetland. +6 The corpse of the last specimen of an endangered, now extinct species. - -- Eric Alfred Burns It was then I felt my heart break like a in-sabre@annotations.com fragile Scooby Snack upon the harsh teeth of http://www.annotations.com Reality -- and it's been broken ever since. http://www.annotations.com/~journal --Johnny Bravo ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #1395 ******************************** The material here is (C) 1999 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. 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