From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Thu Nov 2 09:24:55 2000 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 JAA22276 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:24:55 -0600 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id JAA17269 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:23:29 -0600 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:23:29 -0600 Message-Id: <200011021523.JAA17269@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 #1898 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 Thursday, November 2 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1898 In this digest: Re: IN> Looking for a signature Re: IN> Fwd: I suppose you could call him a Sidekick, but not to his face. Re: IN> Evil Thought #4534/b4 (vii.) Re: IN> What *are* Songs Re: IN> What *are* Songs Re: IN> Michael, the Peacemaker? Re: IN> Michael the Peacemaker Re: IN> meaning of names Re: IN> Michael, the Peacemaker? Uriel (was Re: IN> Michael, the Peacemaker?) IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) Re: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) Re: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) IN> Campaign: Falling Stars Re: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) IN> Arakel & Kenny pt 2 Re: IN> Impudite resonance (was Hatiphas question) IN> Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk... IN> Time to draw shut the Pearly Gates IN> STUFF! Re: IN> STUFF! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:58:18 +1100 From: "Azrael/Demigouge" Subject: Re: IN> Looking for a signature Rev. Pee Kitty's the one responsible for exposing us to marvelous little passage. Want to hold up a bank in Latin? "Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam." (I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head." Azrael You laugh at me because I'm different...I laugh at you because you're all the same. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:55:51 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Fwd: I suppose you could call him a Sidekick, but not to his face. Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 15:54:26 -0500From: Earl Wajenberg Subject: Re: IN> Fwd: I suppose you could call him a Sidekick, but not to his face. >And so Samuel has, I am quite sure, been doing all he >can to keep Laurence out of trouble, but I imagine >he's been much more worried about keeping Khalid out >of trouble. >Very trying, especially for a cherub. >Earl (LEVEL 5 NON-CANON ALERT!) Yeah, but Khalid was always the _smart_ one. Besides, if Sam's has a flaw, it's his assumption that even ex-Servitors of Purity (that haven't been kicked out of the group) are safe from Falling, period. Granted, Khalid worked it all out, so Sam's probably never even considered the matter. Keeping the Lieut... excuse me, "the Supreme Commander" ... out of trouble was the important thing. (/LEVEL 5 NON-CANON ALERT!) As I said, a goofy writeup for goofy campaigns. :) Moe ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Everything else (not that there is, right now): http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/main.html Last updated 9/5/00 (this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:44:02 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Evil Thought #4534/b4 (vii.) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 22:24:16 GMTFrom: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> Evil Thought #4534/b4 (vii.) >From: Maurice Lane >Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com >To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com>Subject: IN> Evil Thought #4534/b4 (vii.) >Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:52:48 -0800 (PST) >>Vapula. >>Saminga. >>Eli. >>Steampunk. >You missed out Marc, for the Victoriana. Weeder of the Symphony*, so I did. :) >I have a load of notes for that campaign somewhere. I >vaguely remember it was connected with the Great >Exhibition and one of Bismark's plots to assassinate >one of the crowned heads of Europe. (serious look) You know, Jo, that would make for a good Pyramid article, considering that SJGORP Steampunk just came out. Topical interest, and all that. Moe *Why, I haven't even scratched the surface of possible oaths, by the Guardian of the Akashic Records' Index... ;) ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Everything else (not that there is, right now): http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/main.html Last updated 9/5/00 (this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:09:57 -0500 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> What *are* Songs At 5:58 PM -0800 11/1/00, Maurice Lane wrote: >Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 15:41:55 -0500 >From: Elizabeth McCoy > >Well, if your group needs such a dictate... Sure. >I don't mind my name being taken in vain. O:> > >(I can just imagine how many of you are going to >start going "bethdammit!" or otherwise invoking >me... Yes, Moe, I'm looking at you. And you, there, >Whistling one.) Hey now, hey now. I'd never say B*thdammit. That's just wrong, and crude, and disrespectful. My mother taught me to say Buthdarnit. Or Bethany Whillickers (Bethany not being B*th or Elizab*th, after all), or Bet'de tabanac - -- me being from Acadia.... - -- Eric Alfred Burns - Habbalite of Belaboring the Point ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:22:34 -0400 From: Douglas Muir Subject: Re: IN> What *are* Songs >My mother taught me to say Buthdarnit. Or Bethany Whillickers >(Bethany not being B*th or Elizab*th, after all), or Bet'de tabanac >-- me being from Acadia.... Elizabeth H. McCoy. Or Beth on a motorcycle. Doug M. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:57:32 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: Re: IN> Michael, the Peacemaker? Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:18:31 -0500From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> Michael, the Peacemaker? >Thanks for bringing this up Charles. >Now this makes an interesting question that no doubt >will perplex many in heaven. Is their an Angel >(Archangel) of peace and if so is she/was she a >servant of Michaels? Honestly it might make very odd >sense for Michael of all the angels to have >Mercurian/Seraph/Malakim (whose foresworn >violence)/Elohim/or whatever serving the word. While >Blandine and Novalis are also possibilities...it >makes a odd certain sense. OK, I was following you up to this point. Novalis / Blandine makes sense (so would Marc, actually); Michael may be a stretch in some campaigns, but you could get away with it. >...oh and of course Uriel. But ... _Uriel?_ Mr. "Time to clean out the ethereal Marches, no, I don't care if some of this stuff is useful, it's trash day and we need the room" Archangel of Purity* himself? Maybe it's just me, but I just can't get my head around this one. Which, knowing me, just means that I wanna hear _this_ one. :) Moe *You'll have guessed that I don't like the basta**d. Any entity who wouldn't make a distinction between Huitzilopchtli and Kermit T. Frog ain't exactly on my Christmas card list. :) ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Everything else (not that there is, right now): http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/main.html Last updated 9/5/00 (this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:07:15 -0800 From: "Bevan Thomas" Subject: Re: IN> Michael the Peacemaker He was the first of God's servants next to Yves. He is the strongest of God's angels. I think that Michael would have been an Archangel from day one. He just probably had a different word (such as Strength or Power). > > It does seem that Michael has been following his Word-nature ever since the > day he first fledged... I guess if you define the *Angelic* Word of War as > something that doesn't *necessarily* require actual violence (IOW, extending > it out to cover pretty much all competition and conflict), then yes, Michael > could have been the Angel of War ever since day 1. > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:09:48 -0800 From: "Bevan Thomas" Subject: Re: IN> meaning of names Yeah, I know. Most of them are not in the Bible though. More's the pity. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Elizabeth McCoy To: Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:03 PM Subject: Re: IN> meaning of names > At 2:20 AM -0700 11/1/00, Tim Groth wrote: > >I would recomend www.britannica.com, if you don't look it up yourself > >you'll never learn. > > There's also the INC: > > http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/articles/biblenames.txt > > > --Beth, typing w/a uncoopertive baby (iolanthe) causing typos. > "She's either babbling, or summoning Elder Gods. I'm not sure which." > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:24:35 -0500 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> Michael, the Peacemaker? At 8:57 PM -0800 11/1/00, Maurice Lane wrote: >Any entity who wouldn't make a distinction between >Huitzilopchtli and Kermit T. Frog ain't exactly on my >Christmas card list. :) Kermit's nothing but an Essence whore. That whole "Not Easy being Green" song? Celestial Charm. He warps your will and talks you into the worship rites. Or did you think the alphabet song was supposed to be *educational?* - -- Eric Alfred Burns - Habbalite of Belaboring the Point ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:28:55 -0600 From: "Charles Glasgow" Subject: Uriel (was Re: IN> Michael, the Peacemaker?) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice Lane" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:57 PM Subject: Re: IN> Michael, the Peacemaker? Re: Uriel... > *You'll have guessed that I don't like the basta**d. > Any entity who wouldn't make a distinction between > Huitzilopchtli and Kermit T. Frog ain't exactly on my > Christmas card list. :) I was trying to explain Uriel to some novice IN'ers around here, and how the Archangel of Purity got just a *wee* bit overzealous and started defining anything that wasn't exactly according to his own specs as "impure" and scourging it with fire and sword... .. only to be interrupted by one of them. "Oh, so what happened is that he turned into Heaven's Nazi executioner, right?" After a brief pause, I nodded and said "Yeah, that's about it." And from then on, that's how Uriel got referred to. [1] Uriel. He might have been one of the good guys to start with, but IMO he definitely wasn't by the time he was finished. - -- Chuckg [1] They really liked the part where it went "And then Uriel was called into God's office one day -- and was never seen again. Anywhere." Their attitude was 'Well, at least it had a happy *ending*...' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:32:42 -0400 From: Douglas Muir Subject: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) Thanks to everyone who has commented so far. Someone asked if Sloth wasn't supposed to oppose Janus, not Yves. This is certainly reasonable, but canon is silent. And you'll notice that was in the "rumors" section of the writeup... Earl wrote: >Very good. I particularly like the attention paid to the >tension between being Sloth and being slothful. This is one >of those problems with allegorical personifications (which >is what Word-bound virtually are), not addressed often enough. Yah, I'd agree. Some Words must be a lot harder to serve than others! and Neil wrote: > > [Meserach's] exact appearance varied, but always included burning, > > bloodshot eyes and a sneer; think of Asmodeus' younger brother, hung > > over and sleepless after a long weekend in Shal-Mari. >What an excellent image! Thank you kindly. That gave me a lot of trouble... what _would_ the Prince of Sloth look like? Oddly enough, when I finally figured it out, an additional image immediately popped into my head. This was cut from the extended writeup (it was getting really long), but: "Meserach was one of the few Princes to occasionally appear in his original Celestial form, which was unpleasant even by the broad standards of his Band. The general outline was of an enormous, bloated, pulsing parasite, combining the least attractive aspects of tick and tapeworm. Surrealistic details included vestigial wings, hairy gibbonlike arms, turkey wattles, and a single huge, burning, bloodshot eye. "All Servitors of Sloth knew that when their Prince manifested in this guise, it was a very, very bad sign. It almost always meant that Meserach was about to lose his temper, or had already. Time for a wise demon to start either sidling towards an exit, or hitting the floor to grovel." (Look, I don't know where this stuff comes from. But there it is.) and Moe Lane added: >I liked it. Nasty little bugger: I'm glad he's dead*. Two or three his former comrades from before the Fall got together with Novalis in Quiet Willows for a brief memorial ceremony. "Such a waste!" But that's about it. Nobody seems to miss him much. > The added adventure seeds and MacGuffins were a nice >touch. Thankee. >Unless, of course, he came out at the beginning of >'Genti's Renegadeship... > >...no, that thought is simply too disgusting for words. Y'know how I see that? God's light shines through, as per your Mariel writeup... ...and Meserach screams, "No! No! Not until you admit I was right!" Subsequent events up to the GM. Doug M. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:10:30 -0800 From: "Bevan Thomas" Subject: Re: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) Actually, Canon is not silent. According to the Demonic Player's Guide, Meserach was set up as the opposite number of Janus. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Muir To: Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:32 PM Subject: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) > > Thanks to everyone who has commented so far. > > Someone asked if Sloth wasn't supposed to oppose Janus, not Yves. This is > certainly reasonable, but canon is silent. And you'll notice that was in > the "rumors" section of the writeup... > > > Earl wrote: > > >Very good. I particularly like the attention paid to the > >tension between being Sloth and being slothful. This is one > >of those problems with allegorical personifications (which > >is what Word-bound virtually are), not addressed often enough. > > Yah, I'd agree. Some Words must be a lot harder to serve than others! > > > and Neil wrote: > > > > [Meserach's] exact appearance varied, but always included burning, > > > bloodshot eyes and a sneer; think of Asmodeus' younger brother, hung > > > over and sleepless after a long weekend in Shal-Mari. > > >What an excellent image! > > Thank you kindly. That gave me a lot of trouble... what _would_ the Prince > of Sloth look like? > > Oddly enough, when I finally figured it out, an additional image > immediately popped into my head. This was cut from the extended writeup > (it was getting really long), but: > > > "Meserach was one of the few Princes to occasionally appear in his original > Celestial form, which was unpleasant even by the broad standards of his > Band. The general outline was of an enormous, bloated, pulsing parasite, > combining the least attractive aspects of tick and tapeworm. Surrealistic > details included vestigial wings, hairy gibbonlike arms, turkey wattles, > and a single huge, burning, bloodshot eye. > > "All Servitors of Sloth knew that when their Prince manifested in this > guise, it was a very, very bad sign. It almost always meant that Meserach > was about to lose his temper, or had already. Time for a wise demon to > start either sidling towards an exit, or hitting the floor to grovel." > > > (Look, I don't know where this stuff comes from. But there it is.) > > > and Moe Lane added: > > > >I liked it. Nasty little bugger: I'm glad he's dead*. > > Two or three his former comrades from before the Fall got together with > Novalis in Quiet Willows for a brief memorial ceremony. "Such a waste!" > > But that's about it. Nobody seems to miss him much. > > > > The added adventure seeds and MacGuffins were a nice > >touch. > > Thankee. > > > >Unless, of course, he came out at the beginning of > >'Genti's Renegadeship... > > > >...no, that thought is simply too disgusting for words. > > > Y'know how I see that? God's light shines through, as per your Mariel > writeup... > > ...and Meserach screams, "No! No! Not until you admit I was right!" > > Subsequent events up to the GM. > > > > Doug M. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:24:41 -0400 From: Douglas Muir Subject: Re: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) >Actually, Canon is not silent. According to the Demonic Player's Guide, >Meserach was set up as the opposite number of Janus. You know, I quite missed that. Thanks for the correction. Doug M. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:55:17 -0600 From: "Tafka J." Subject: IN> Campaign: Falling Stars With all the massive (and inspired) activity lately, I thought I'd contribute in my own little way. For those of you who are interested (and didn't already know about it), I'm quite pleased to let you in on my little ongoing (online) campaign of In Nomine. "Falling Stars", is a tale about three Angels dealing with something greater than themselves. Since the game is in an online format, it won't suffer the same fate as the campaign-that-spawned-the-website: Solitaire. (It's been two years, you'd think I'd have gotten the synopsis all written out by now?) The logs themselves can be found here: http://www.thrifty.net/~tafkaj/in-nomine/campaigns/falling_stars/game_logs/ I'm the most proud of the latest chapter: "On the wingtips of Angels", where things begin to fall further into place. (And, if you're not one of my players, I'd be quite happy to explain to you -privately- just what the heck is really going on.) Be seeing you, - - Tafka J. = Balseraph of Fate, Marquis of Delusions of Grandeur # http://www.thrifty.net/~tafkaj/in-nomine ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:54:04 -0800 From: "Bevan Thomas" Subject: Re: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) I find it interesting that originally the demon princes were mainly set up as opposites to archangels (Wind vs Sloth, Knowledge vs. Secrets and Oblivion, etc...), where as they were later changed to corruptions of the archangels (Wind vs. Theft, Lightning vs. Technology). I guess that after seeing Gabriel and Belial, Lucifer felt that this was a more effective method. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Muir To: Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:24 PM Subject: Re: IN> Meserach, Demon Prince of Sloth (deceased) > >Actually, Canon is not silent. According to the Demonic Player's Guide, > >Meserach was set up as the opposite number of Janus. > > You know, I quite missed that. Thanks for the correction. > > > Doug M. > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:20:03 GMT From: "nick sands" Subject: IN> Arakel & Kenny pt 2 =================== Kenny looked about from the window of the appartment he had found empty of life other than rats and cockroaches, he wished dearly that Arakel was with him, it had been a little over a day and he had not returned, perhaps the Host had forgotton about him he thought, perhaps he was alone, with the hordes of hell chasing him. He took a look around the apartment, looking for anything at all usefull and was pleasently surprised when he found a number of matchboxes, and a number of cleaning fluids that if he could remember rightly from college, would make a fair explosion if mixed and agitated enough. he looked about some more and could have sworn that plastic piping wasn't in the bedroom the first time he looked in there, he set to work with the fine blade that Arakel had given to him the day he 'signed up', he started to ponder the fact that if he was going to die, then so was whoever got near him. ================= The twins jumped from the train before it even came to a stop, they had a scent, a trail left in the ether by thier prey. Barcley jumped off after them, knocking a couple over as he rolled to a stand from the jump. the twins were already running towards a taxi, as one of them pulled the driver out the other mock bowed to the Calabite and opened a door for him, slamming it shut as soon as he was in himself, the taxi roared off, knocking over other pedestrians as it steamed along the pavement, and finally on to the road. After some twenty minutes the Calabite had all but ruined the back seats upholstry in agitation, of needing something to rip apart, then the car came to a sudden stop, almost throwing him out of the windscreen whilst the twins got out and stood still for a secound, relocating their quarry, the smiled as they looked down a block, to a battered and ruined tenement, they could smell the prey there, well, they could smell one of them any way and that was enough for a start. They started to turn back to the taxi only to find that the Calabite had found a release for his tensions, as he ripped the wheels and doors off throwing them at a cat down the alley, leaving dents in the ground but missing the cat until he threw the steering wheel and all but cut the creature in two, then he smiled, feeling the rush of destruction and shrugged as the twins looked at him. "What? I hate them things whats the matter with that?" The twins merely sighed as one and turned back to the tenement and started walking calmly towards it, letting the Calabite follow them. ================== Kenny heard the car screach to a halt, and looked out of a tiny gap in the blinds, he saw the twins as they looked directly at him, he saw them turn to the nazi-esque body builder, he saw what that body builder had done to the car, then he got out his blade and calmly made a small slit in his thumb and drew a cross apon his forehead and also on each of the pipe bombs, of which he only had three. Then he began to prey. =================== Barcley looked up at the tenement, to the top floor, where the Kata'im had told him that the soldier was hiding, just as he started to look away he saw something drop from a window, he drew his hand back to stike the object as it fell to him, the twins at this point called a song and then they was in a sickly green cocoon, just as he hit the pipe, just as he unleashed his anger in to the punch, chanelling his Resonance in to that one act. =================== Arakel heard the explosion from three blocks away, it wasn't that it was all that loud but it did ring out at the same time as the Symphony screamed as a hellish song was used, and in the distance he thought he heard a scream, but he started to run, to where the explosion came from, to where his freind was. =================== The twins song ended barely a moment later, it lasted long enough for them to be protected from the explosion of the resonance primed pipe bomb, they looked at the six foot wide and one foot deep crater, they saw one of Barcleys feet, as well as a few other bits of him before the remains of his vessal slowly turned to ash and blew away in an invisible wind, they looked at each other, and smiled, both speaking at the same time. "The animal has claws, this will be fun." They started in to the building, and started up the stairs, keeping an eye out for traps. As they reached the secound landing they stood still, and spotted a length of string at ankle height barely three inches from where they stood, if they had been rushing they would likely have walked in to it and triggered the secound pipe bomb, as they went to step over it they then noticed that a secound length of string was directly where they would have trodden, they lightly leaped over the secound trap after a quick look for any lengths of string, then they started up the next flight of stairs as a crashing boom howled out down on the ground floor, at first they thought that some how a trap bomb had gone off down there, but then they heard the angelic tongue called out, they recognized the voice of the Malakite, Arakel, and turned to head upstairs a little faster, but still wary for traps. ================== Arakel kicked the door off of its hinges, and looked around, he had seen the crater and knew that his freind had not died their, and he rushed inside calling out to his freind, using his name in angelic tongue to draw his attention, but no reply came, only silence, then he heard the scraping of footsteps above him and rushed to the stairs and started to run up them. ================== Kenny heard his name being called out by Arakel, he knew that he was not alone, he knew that just as the door to the appartment burst in, and two men in grey suits stood there, their mouths filled with fangs, grinning in malicious glee . As one of the twins moved towards Kenny the building shook, throwing them all to the floor, then a secound explosion sounded out and the building began to list to one side at a dangerous angle. Kenny sliced wildly at one of the twins, the blade biting in to his arm and lodging there, being wrenched from Kenny's grip. One of the twins howled in agony even though he was not the one hit and threw himself at Kenny, a song cried from him, Kenny knelt there, then realised that the creature stood above him, its hand had gone through him, through his gut, and out the other side, he felt as the twin slowly pulled the barbed and sharpened claws from his gut, then he fell slowly it seemed to the ground, the building followed only a moment later, as his world crumbled around him he saw one of the twins crushed by masonry, crushed till all that remained of him was an ashen pile, then he felt his body move, not of his own accord, but like a puppet, he felt warm, then he felt nothing. =================== The man in the green suit sat in the hospital lobby, in the hospital that he never knew existed, but was glad that it did. A nurse came over to him, her hands clasped a clip board which she passd to him. "The Dr has assesed your freinds injuries, you managed to heal most of it but he doesn't respond to us, and he dwells not in the marches, Her Blessed White Ladyship as not seen him, nor have any of her get. The Dr thinks you should visit him, it may help, we can't be sure though." Arakel stood a little shakily, the vessel was not as perfectly made as he would have liked but it sufficed, he followed the nurse in to a room filled with machines and the soft humm of power, he took a seat by his freinds bed as the nurse closed the door behind herself as she left. "Friend, i have let you down, you have all but died for my fears, i should have stayed, we should have fought them together.. i am sorry" Arakel never knew that vessels could cry, he never knew unil his did it, and he let the tears run freely, crying out in celestial the many deeds that his freind had performed, he cried as he recanted all the tales they had shared, he stayed there for three days and nights, never leaving the beside, even as nurses and Dominations of Dreams tried to help, he never noticed any of them, he cried all that time, and wailed of his freinds bravery. ================= Kenny lay there for three more days, not able to do anything, some how he was and wasn't in his body, he recalled one of the demons (?) touching him and muttering something, that was when it all went black, when he felt his body being used as a puppet, he knew that it was Arakel, he knew that some of the host were able to possess others and he felt his body being healed as the Malakite hovered in his celestial form above him, singing and praying then he recalled being in hospital, and hearing his freind wail and cry for him as if he was dead. He might well have been dead for he was not able to do anything, he could see the roiling mass of what Arakel once called a Kyriotate, he could feel it in his body, he could feel the machines. ================== Arakel woke with a start, the first time he had ever let his vessel sleep, and looked at his freind staring at him, sitting up in bed, an aura of white all about him, his eyes burning with joy and humility. "Arakel, you have not failed me, you never did, i needed to prove that i am worthy of the war, and i have come from the forge anew, a sword to be weilded." "Kenny.. are you ok.. you.. oh my lord.. your speaking.. Tongues... no human has spoken that for so long.. only those who are imbued by the blood of angels.. the silenced choir.." "Arakel, Kenny" a voice called from behind them, they were no longer in the hospital they were on a plain, and a score of the Host knelt there, singing praise of He Who Is Most Holy. Arakel saw before him Michael and Gabriel, he knelt as they walked towards them, Kenny stood there, in awe of the sight, unable to move for he saw beauty and purity before him and he stood there as the two archangels kissed his cheeks and he felt invigorated, he knew that he was amongst freinds and he knew his name, Keniel Servant of The Flame. Gabriel turned to Arakel and bade him stand. "Arakel, LongWinged, you have brought home to us one of our most treasured, for he has been gone long, wandering as a mortal, with no recollection of his true self, we thank you and grant unto thee the rank of Friend of the Fiery Eyes" She kissed his cheeks and forehead after she spoke and he felt the flame of righteous flow through him. "Arakel, you have stayed true to your oaths, no matter that you thought otherwise, you never left your freind for you was there when he needed you most and he is reborn unto us, for this i grant unto thee the higher rank of Master of The Dominations, for that is what once you were until you were born anew to us." Michael saluted Arakel and Keniel and took his celestial for with Gabriel following suit they sped across the distant corner of the Groves, the score of honourguard stood and took off in different directions, leaving the Malakite and the only Grigori in heaven to trade tales of thier past and speak of glories of the future before they went thier separate ways, the Malakite to his duties and debriefing and the Grigori back to earth, where he was to walk once more, but with knowledge of who he was. ================== The ginger haired kid smiled, and put down the last of the popcorn, leaving his private cinema, turning to a Daughter one arm out for her to coil her own arm about. "You know what.. i love a happy ending.. it sells more than any other kind of movie, a film with freinds, chase scenes, innocent bystanders being butchered and some weepy bits. OK folks send it straight to press, i want Every one who thinks they're worth something to have one of these, no, Two of these, one copy to watch and another copy with the free trip to Earth competition in..., hehehe that'll sell Millions Baby. You stick with me and you'll go far..." The daughter just nodded, and wondered how many buckets of popcorn she'd have to feed him before he even asks her name. ========================= _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:28:28 GMT From: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> Impudite resonance (was Hatiphas question) > >Well, the whole point of being an Impudite is that you have Essence to >burn... but yes, I agree. This is where I disagree. I think the whole point of being an Impudite is being able to do the colgate *smile* and effortlessly charm everyone you will ever meet. The Essence drain is just a mechanical way of showing that the demon is a very demanding 'friend'. This is why, in games, I favour letting Impudites charm on a straight Will roll -- same as most other demonic resonances. Then keep the Essence drain at the same level. This does make them more fun to play. jo _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:45:34 -0600 From: "Prodigal" Subject: IN> Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk... Personally, I blame my local TV station's broadcasts of Three Stooges... Moaz, Angel of Creative Mayhem "The world has too many oppresive people with no sense of humor. Hit them with pies." Corporeal Forces: 6 Strength: 12 Agility: 12 Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 12 Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 8 Perception: 8 Word Forces: 6 Vessels: Human male/6, Human male/6 (Chinese) Role: Stuntman/3, Status 2 Songs: Charm (Corporeal)/3, Charm (Ethereal)/3, Form (Corporeal)/4, Healing (Corporeal)/5, Healing (Celestial)/5, Motion (Corporeal)/3, Motion (Ethereal)/3, Motion (Celestial)/3, Thunder/2 Skills: Acrobatics/6, Climbing/4, Dodge/6, Driving/3, Emote/6, Escape/3, Fighting/6, Large Weapon (Improvised)/6, Move Silently/3, Ranged Weapon (Improvised)/6, Running/3, Small Weapon (Improvised)/6, Swimming/2, Tactics/3, Throwing (Improvised)/6 Attunements: Malakite of Creation, Malakite of War, Seraph of War, Ofanite of War, Proficiency (Pies), Angel of Creative Mayhem Distinctions: Vassal of War, Friend of the Fighters, Master of Valor Rites: Succeed at 3 Precision-based skills in a row, Duel with a diabolical, Kill a demon or fallen angel using an unconventional weapon or method, Spend three hours in armed practice, Teach another person how to fight with improvised weaponry, Introduce another being to slapstick comedy, Kill a minion of Magog (5) Oaths: "I will not suffer an evil to live, if it is my choice." "I will never surrender, nor allow myself to be captured by, the armies of Lucifer." "I will never turn away one who sincerely seeks Redemption." "I will never use conventional weapons." "I will never refuse an honorable challenge to a fight." In 1934, Moaz entered a movie theatre rumored to be the hiding place of a renegade Mercurian of the Media, only to discover the Three Stooges. He spent time watching as many movies along similar lines that he could find, and asked Eli for the word of Slapstick immediately upon his return to Heaven. This form of humor lifted the spirits of a humanity sorely oppressed by the Depression, he stated, as well as showing them methods of combat few save Malakim of Creation viewed as either possible or desireable, and Eli was either amused or impressed enough by this line of reasoning to sponsor him before the seraphim council. The council felt that Slapstick was a word that could too easily be perverted by Hell, but still saw the merits in awarding one that could be turned to Heaven's purposes, and decided upon Creative Mayhem instead. Since then, Moaz has been promoting comedies in which the hero uses unconventional methods of combat to defeat evildoers (he uses his Chinese vessel to help ensure that Jackie Chan doesn't quite kill himself doing his own stunts, for example.) When slapstick comedy waned in popularity, Moaz requested that Eli transfer his services to War. With what he viewed as little hope of his most beloved form of entertainment experiencing a resurgence, he felt that his word could only be served on the front lines against Hell. He came to hate both Nybbas (for the media's lack of promotion of slapstick) and Kobal (for turning slapstick into just another way of taking pleasure from the pain of others [as opposed to simply emphasizing the humor in a good pie fight,]) unlike any other superiors on the other side. When he saw his first action movie from Hong Kong, however, Moaz felt the same joy as he did on that fateful day in 1934. Any visitor to the apartment he lives in between stunt jobs will be introduced to one of the thousands of videotapes featuring the Stooges, the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin or Jackie Chan. "It's a long road from Law to Justice." - -Dar Williams, "I Had No Right" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:06:05 +1000 From: "Patrick O'Duffy" Subject: IN> Time to draw shut the Pearly Gates It may have been as many as five years ago that I joined this mailing list, scant weeks after buying a hot-from-the-presses copy of In Nomine. Time to call it a day. I'm outta here. I'm getting a small business started, but I'm not making much money at the moment. One of the casualties of that poverty has been my RPG collection, as I slowly liquidated each element for much needed cash. Finally, this week, I looked at my IN collection. An almost complete run, missing only 'You Are Here' and 'The Final Trumpet'. All in decent nick. Many of them signed. And I realized I have no interest in running IN again. I only ran it once, actually; rather, I ran one shortish campaign / long adventure, details of which are on the INC. It was fun. I've had ideas. But there are other games, and ones that (to be honest) I enjoy more. I've mainly kept hold of them for reference books, for use in playtesting or (perhaps) doing some more writing for the line. But I don't think that's enough of a reason. So I sold the lot of them off and paid the rent for the rest of the month. And now, it's time to go. Kudos and farewells to those listmembers I've exchanged gossip, chatter and flamewars with over the years - David, Neel, Leath, Jo, Elizabeth, Eric, Emily (once again, Em, sorry about those Fluerity rants). It's been fun. Hope y'all keep enjoying the game. With any luck, you may see some of my IN material surface on Pyramid sometime. Ciao. - -- Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia Don't expect me to compensate your wife and five retarded kids after I've drowned your exposed brain in my semen. - Spider Jerusalem, TRANSMETROPOLITAN #29 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 06:23:26 -0800 (PST) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> STUFF! Hey, Mikey's got his axe(s), Larry's obviously got his sword, Dave's got a hammer around here somewhere, just where did he put it, crap, I left it at that last construction job, I'll be forgetting my own head next... Anyway. What about the rest of them? Does Marc have a Vorpal Pen that _is_ mightier than 99.999999999% of the swords out there? Does Kobal have a Squirting Flower of Doom? Does Andre... never mind that one, actually. Anyway, it was just something I was pondering on the train ride in. :) Moe ===== In Nomine stuff: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Everything else (not that there is, right now): http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/main.html Last updated 9/5/00 (this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: 2 Nov 2000 07:22:27 -0800 From: Casca Subject: Re: IN> STUFF! On Thu, 02 November 2000, Maurice Lane wrote: > Anyway. What about the rest of them? I always figured Janus had a whip -- it's a weapon AND it can do neat Indy Jones tricks. And it can be used to grab stuff out of someone's hands. ;) - -- Casca "...I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him were seraphs, each with six wings: with two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying...At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke." -- Isaiah 6:2,4 _______________________________________________________ Are you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! Many to choose from! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #1898 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2000 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.