From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Sat Apr 7 18:33:19 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 SAA13686 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:33:19 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id SAA20969 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:40:06 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:40:06 -0500 Message-Id: <200104072340.SAA20969@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 #2143 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 Saturday, April 7 2001 Volume 01 : Number 2143 In this digest: IN> How a Angel/Demon drinks his coffee Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) IN> Re: The Angel of Passion Re: IN> Re: The Angel of Passion Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part I Re: IN> Islam united was:[April 4, 2001 (ML)] Re: IN> A curious what if.... Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) Re: IN> How a Angel/Demon drinks his coffee IN> Tailor of Panama Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) Re: IN> Tailor of Panama Re: IN> Tailor of Panama Re: IN> In Nomine drinking game Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) Re: IN> Questions from a newbie Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part I IN> The Fine Print IN> [RELIC] Jean's Special Blend IN> April 5, 2001 (ML) IN> April 6, 2001 (ML) IN> You know, 'the Game' and 'Games' aren't really related... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 00:49:50 -0400 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> How a Angel/Demon drinks his coffee The Seraphim has his served to him in a solid gold goblet on a velvet pillow by some poor reliever, or cherub if he serves Dominic or some other "higher up" The Cherubim makes sure they'res enough coffee for two because even THEY can't be expected to share. The Ofanim go to Starbucks....every Starbucks....for four hundred miles. They always know the best places for it. Elohim debate whether or not coffee objectively improves angelic performance as they grab their cup of steaming hot java. A Malakim breaks into a demonic tether guns blazing and after everyone is dead goes over to their coffee machine and takes some. Kyriorites make coffee while they drink the old coffee then move on to where some other coffee is made then drink it before returning to possess the original coffee which is now freshly brewed. A Mercurian brews his own special blends made from years of understanding the human vessel palate (though coffee affects Jordi servitors too-why most believe it was a creation of dogs) *** A Balseraph says "The guy behind me will cover it" in line after getting ahead in line by saying he's the health inspector. A Djinn doesn'.....GIMME THE STINKING JAVA FLESHBAG! Then after he's done caring about coffee goes back to being apathetic. A Calabim pours a cauldron full of hot water and coffee bags, dumps a human in for flavoring and sets his resonance for flash fry A Habbalah sets his resonance for craving in the middle of a long line as he leans back and enjoys his straight mocha...mmmmmm All people who serve coffee are Lilim, understand this and be afraid A Shedim posseses someone to drink 666 cups of coffee then leaves before their bladder explodes, repeat. A Impudite is always hanging around the coffee machine at work smiling as he makes your much needed blends...odd that. - -Charlemagne How Saminga drinks his coffee. How Belial drinks his coffee How Laurence drinks his coffee ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 23:56:08 -0500 From: "Charles Glasgow" Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice Lane" To: Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:49 PM Subject: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) [snip] Cute. - -- Chuckg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 01:15:39 -0400 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> Re: The Angel of Passion > BTW, would someone else _please_ do a blackwing Novalis? I > shudder to think that mine will become the default, or > something, due to an utter lack of competition. :) Okay Moe...I'll try Blackwing Novalis... Part deux Well everyone during the Fall was shocked by that cute little butterfly cherub becomming a Malakim; I mean David was surprising but he'd always been a bit hard, Uriel embodied the choir, but come on you can't tell me that lovable little gal was one of the most feared choir in Heaven right? Well you'd better the girl slew a dozen Djinn before lopping off the head of Ophis trying to claw out Baal's eyes. I mean she's still sweat and you should see Uriel's face when he hears one of his beloved "unfallable bastions of honor" say woogums when describing her fellow Archangels. Novalis is still one tough little cookie, not unlike the one's she serves at her dinner party, don't get me wrong. The War faction by having her on their side may be the majority in Heaven and you can always count on her to vote for dealing with any demons, the number of demonic corpses buried in her garden to fertilize the soil is said to be legion. Yet sometimes I can tell Laurence and Michael really regret having "Little Miss Muffet" on their side, she certainly wants to carry the fight to demons-especially any who endanger children, plants, or small cute animals which is most but she is very leery about collateral damage and watching her pout in the Council is enough to make Michael and Laurence (and even old Uriel) give up most of their plans on the spot. In any case hanging around Novalis is rather like hanging around Alice from Through the Looking Glass if Alice was twenty one and trained in using a glock 45 and assault weapons. For a fairly recent example most demons dread doing damage to forrests like they dread going into caves, mainly because the best gurellia fighters in Heaven are probably there masquerading as a tree or in those poseys. You can tell this makes for some awkward conversations as a talk with her flows from flower arranging and how to get that nice Blandine to shack up with laurence to discussing how she intends to slowly feed Beleth to her well mannered giant Venus fly traps for breaking Blandine's heart. In other words it's much like a beuty salon in the South. Jordi is firmly in the War faction himself as Novalis despite her insistance on not harming humans unless they are hellsworn has given the Kyriotate new vigor on perscuting the war for the belief she's imparted that all humans need is to have the weeds among them culled in the form of demonic influence then they can be properly potted. Michael is also allied with her and it's rumored their long strategdy sessions are something much much more. On the south side of things Novalis is an el pronto enemy of Samingas who views her not without reason as his number one enemy, most of Hell agrees though for different reasons (Saminga views her as the embodiment of life for pursuing his demons unto Hell and beyond as most of Hell thinks she's the same sort of embarassment to Heaven that Saminga is to Hell). Alot less demons have redeemed in this time that might have if she'd been bubbly but alot more demons are DEAD too, she also encourages her servitors to make it clear that even some weeds can be mulched (as she describes redeeming) into something better but they better do it quickly because their arse is grass and she's the lawnmower. Adjustments: Dissonance- Use of violence save against demons or Hellsworn or those deliberately harming flowers, planets, trees, cute animals, "flower children", and genuine children. Seraphim- Attunement is capable of being turned on/off at will. +6 to invocation: A greenhouse full of dead demons replenishing the soil New attunements: Pollen of Doom: Lift up a dandellion or simlarly petalled flower, point at Demon, then blow, spend three essence and the petals will encircle the demon for three full turns inflicting five body hits of damage per turn and leaving horrofic burning acidic marks on the body. New Rites: * Bury a demon corpse in a flower garden * Kill a demon in a flower garden There you go moe. - -Charlemagne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 01:39:40 -0400 From: "Rolland Therrien" Subject: Re: IN> Re: The Angel of Passion - -----Original Message----- From: Charles Phipps To: in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Date: Saturday, April 07, 2001 1:23 AM Subject: IN> Re: The Angel of Passion >> BTW, would someone else _please_ do a blackwing Novalis? I >> shudder to think that mine will become the default, or >> something, due to an utter lack of competition. :) > >Okay Moe...I'll try > >Blackwing Novalis... > >Part deux >Novalis is still one tough little cookie, not unlike the one's she serves at >her dinner party, don't get me wrong. > >The War faction by having her on their side may be the majority in Heaven >and you can always count on her to vote for dealing with any demons, the >number of demonic corpses buried in her garden to fertilize the soil is said >to be legion. Yet sometimes I can tell Laurence and Michael really regret >having "Little Miss Muffet" on their side, she certainly wants to carry the >fight to demons-especially any who endanger children, plants, or small cute >animals which is most but she is very leery about collateral damage and >watching her pout in the Council is enough to make Michael and Laurence (and >even old Uriel) give up most of their plans on the spot. Nifty Blackwing Novalis, but I still think she should consider the Redemption of Demons a bigger priority then making mass graveyards of Demon corpses. Heck, she'd probably make a better Redeemer as a Malakite then as a Cherub; with her Malakite attunement, she can judge a Renegade's sense of honor, and thus judge his willingness to rejoin Heaven. And getting a Demon to redeem and rejoin Heaven is just as good a way of "Not Sufferng an Evil to Live" as slaughtering the Demon, ain't it? Of course, she'd still be a pretty strong opponent of Hell and all it's forces. She'd just be willing to give them all a chance to say I'm sorry and rejoin Heaven before getting down to the nasty business of wiping out the unrepentant like the blight they are... - -Exit the LoneWolf ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 03:52:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Maurice Lane wrote: > Petitioner for the Word of Who's the Third Guy? > He's wearing Italian Renn garb, knew the > Medicis, and pays for things by handing over a bank > account number on a business card. > Do the math. I think it was clear, even without the program. :) ("Programs! Getcher programs! You can't tell an Archangel from a Word-Bound without yer programs!") > The older man scowled. "Oh, look. Dream-catchers. > Didn't you need to pick one of those up?" > > The knight shut his mouth with an audible click. That.... was an AMAZING line. My hat is off to you for that alone. Oh yeah, and a great vignette. :) - -- Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian, Q4B4L! Meow! It is a sad commentary on today's society that this .sig file must be considered "offensive" simply because it contains the word "fuck". ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 01:58:18 -0400 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part I >I ignored point balance for this one, as the guy's >only there anyway to answer a specific question. >Vignette in part II. > >:) > >Moe > >Jason >Saint of Creation Ogg? :^) William ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 01:26:02 -0500 From: Matt Trent Subject: Re: IN> Islam united was:[April 4, 2001 (ML)] Maurice Lane wrote: > > That brings us, of course, to those who would oppose > this: while every Demon Prince could likewise be > involved in shutting down this vision, the most likely > opponents would be Factions and the War, for fairly > obvious reasons. The Media might be a less overt > enemy, but a subtler one. For some reason I don't think Wind is going to be too fond of this plan... - -- Matt Trent Ofanite of Doubt Commander of the Gnomish Airship Flotilla ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 03:16:33 EDT From: BillionSix@aol.com Subject: Re: IN> A curious what if.... Cosmic Paradigm Shifts, hmmm? I actually had a similar thought to this once. It has, in fact, happened. The biggest one, of course, was the Fall. Before that, in all the billions of years of existance, not one angel had fallen. It's hard to believe that, given the laws of probability, that not one angel had garnered enough dissonance to fall in all that time. Eventually, one of them had to have had a really bad week, such as all ten of the Cherub's attuned being in the same village the day of the nearby volcanic eruption. But no one fell. The THE Fall happened. A deliberate rebellion on Lucifer's part, and one-third of all angels became...... something else. What's more, every angel had the potential to make that change. Cosmic Paradigm Shift. Wait, did I say every angel? Not the Malakim. But they didn't exist before that fateful day. Normal angels spontaneously changed into..... something else. Something incorruptable. Cosmic Paradigm Shift. And one day, the Archangels came up with another new choir. Out of the blue. But instead of being incorruptable, they were TOO corruptable. The Grigori. An almost poetic Cosmic Paradigm Shift. Just a thought. Reverend Brian A. Rogers BillionSix@aol.com ICQ# 22544590 PS Am I still HTMLing? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 07:45:00 -0400 From: Amanda Kilgore Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) Incredible, Moe, as usual. :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 07:51:33 -0400 From: Amanda Kilgore Subject: Re: IN> How a Angel/Demon drinks his coffee *Picks self up off floor from laughing so hard* Now someone needs to do something similar for the Superiors... Although since my own AM coffe hasn't kicked in yet, my brain's too slow to even get too much of a start. Hmm. Eli: Always has the BEST, freshest coffee, when you can find him. Blandine: Much to Heaven's dismay, prefers decaf to avoid nightmares. Beleth: Drinks before bedtime, for the above reason. Belial: The coffee is never hot enough to satisfy him. Someone else take it from here? Please? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:36:06 -0400 From: andersonb@mindspring.com Subject: IN> Tailor of Panama If you guys see this movie check out Pierce Brosons character. This is a perfect example of a male Lilim! Charming, helpful, beautiful, manipulative and selfish ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 10:37:16 -0400 From: Jonathan Walton Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) > He's wearing Italian Renn garb, knew the > Medicis, and pays for things by handing over a bank > account number on a business card. > Do the math. Machiavelli, Undead Baron of Justice and the only human that Asmodeus admits to liking. Okay, maybe not, but I still like the idea :) Later. Jonathan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 15:57:30 From: "Janet Anderson" Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) Consider me spurred on, but not until the end of April. And no, I did not forget; it's been in draft for several months. Janet (and it was an angel/scenario, not a Tether. Well, okay, a Tether would have been in there too. I'll get back to you.) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 15:59:10 From: "Janet Anderson" Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) >Because I felt like it, and because Janet needs to >finish that Tether she's been working on, and this >might spur her on a little. :) > Okay, consider me spurred on, but not until the end of April, because I have deadlines and a new project. And no, I didn't forget; it's been in draft for several months. Janet _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 12:57:09 EDT From: BillionSix@aol.com Subject: Re: IN> Tailor of Panama - --part1_d9.12c3e4a5.2800a0e5_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/7/01 7:44:10 AM Central Daylight Time, andersonb@mindspring.com writes: If you guys see this movie check out Pierce Brosons character. This is a perfect example of a male Lilim! Charming, helpful, beautiful, manipulative and selfish My favorite male Lilim is the Marquis de Calabas. Reverend Brian A. Rogers BillionSix@aol.com ICQ# 22544590 - --part1_d9.12c3e4a5.2800a0e5_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/7/01 7:44:10 AM Central Daylight Time,
andersonb@mindspring.com writes:


If you guys see this movie check out Pierce Brosons character.  This is a
perfect example of a male Lilim!  Charming, helpful, beautiful, manipulative
and selfish


My favorite male Lilim is the Marquis de Calabas.

Reverend Brian A. Rogers
BillionSix@aol.com
ICQ# 22544590 - --part1_d9.12c3e4a5.2800a0e5_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 17:26:09 From: "Janet Anderson" Subject: Re: IN> Tailor of Panama >My favorite male Lilim is the Marquis de Calabas. Carabas. Otherwise, the more I think about it, the more I agree with you. Janet Anderson (going to dig out the book) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: 7 Apr 2001 18:12:27 -0000 From: "-=|horsefly|=-" Subject: Re: IN> In Nomine drinking game On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 23:46:35 -0400 Eric Bertish wrote: >>From: "Charles Phipps" [Marc] >>chug if he admits it's easier to get a camel through an eye of a needle >>than for a rich man to enter heaven >Oddly, this jibes nicely with a Trade organization I'm working on, called >More Money Than God. Nag me about this if you haven't seen it in a week. sounds interesting. >>* Drink once if a new Superior is posted, twice if it's list related, chug >>if it's Iolanthe >Drink the whole case if it's an Archangel of Death retread. heh, by that rule, y'all will be drinking quite a bit shortly.... -=|horsefly|=- "It was a different time: a time of blood and guns and killings.... It was a time when killers needed saints, for so much of God's good work was being done." --SAINT OF KILLERS #4, Garth Ennis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:50:16 -0500 From: "Prodigal" Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part II (Vignette) From: "Maurice Lane" > > The older man scowled. "Oh, look. Dream-catchers. > Didn't you need to pick one of those up?" > > The knight shut his mouth with an audible click. > > "Just checking." You've managed to outdo even yourself, Moe. I stand in awe. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:09:14 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Questions from a newbie At 10:32 PM -0400 4/6/01, Mike Bruner wrote: >>(p. 15, G:IN) Referring to Rites that a Word-Bound below Superior level may >>give out: "...but any time that Rite is used, the energy is taken from *his >>own* Essence!" (All emphasis in the original text.) > >Oh, OK, this must be a GURPSism; It's not a GURPSism; see the GMG, p. 12. (The original "oh, the Word- bound's Rite just taps into the Superior's Essence" toss-off just didn't mesh with how Rites later got detailed; there had to be some work-arounds, and we just didn't have the word-count* to fit them into GURPS IN.) The details on the work-around are on p. 27 of the GMG: "Normally, a Word-bound's Rites draw upon his link with his Superior's Essence. A Disfavored Word-bound loses access to his ex-Master's reserves, and any Rites will draw upon his _personal_ Essence, instead!" (*Apparently; it doesn't seem to be there, and I don't know if it got struck in editing, by us, or somehow never got there in the first place because we figured it would serve the same purpose as the GMG's "if people misuse your Rite, you get weaker" restrictions without adding in _that_ verbiage.) >And how does HE get Essence from doing it then? See the GMG, pp. 26-27; when _he_ does them, he gets the Essence then and there, from his Word. (This basically harkens back to the "diffuse Essence" theory; a Word- bound performing his own Rite instantly concentrates some diffuse Essence for his immediate use. Other people performing his Rite, with the right usages to strength his word, _generate_ diffuse Essence that supports his Word. (Which later drips back out of the Symphony, hopefully boosted by some multiplier, like coffee from a coffee-maker. (To merge in another thread.)) At 10:53 PM -0400 4/6/01, William J. Keith wrote: > Among the other advantages in the "package," I'd let a >Word-Bound have an extra Essence cache anyway, which refills at a rate >related to the strength of their Word. But then, I've also been known to >give Word-Bound a dissonance condition related to their Word, too. ;^) > In the GMG, there is listed a (quasi-optional) way to quantify Word power: Word-Forces. These contain Essence and have some other bennies listed. (I say quasi-optional because official Word-bound characters, unless the number is important to an adventure seed, have _Suggested_ Word-Forces. Some people don't like the concept, and if they have some better way of doing things, hey, whichever. I, myself, love the idea and also will cheerfully ad-lib things a Word-bound does if they're plausible. I'm rambling, where was I... Oh, right. And while you don't have to use Word-Forces, if you see Word-bound quantified in canon under my rule, it's going to be with Word-Forces.) Since GURPS IN doesn't have Forces as a game mechanic, Word-Forces weren't worth spending the word-count on... So you're in canon regarding the Essence boost. O:> And while adding on another dissonance condition is FAR too evil a pain to require it in canon, I'll cheer on anyone who does it. - --emccoy@nh.ultranet.com // arcangel@io.com In Nomine Line Editor RPG links; Random name list, Art: http://www.io.com/~arcangel/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:10:57 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Flavor NPC, Part I Argh. One slip of the finger... Jason's got too many attunements for canon -- if he only gets _one_ angelic Force. Unless he got it personally from Eli while Eli was Under The Influence of something? (A general catch-all for something exceedingly hinky...) Fun vignette. O:> [And I'd like a program! (I love looking through the advertisements.)] - --Beth, typing w/a uncoopertive baby (iolanthe) causing typos. arcangel is nursing a trout with ARMS! ARMS that reach out and try to pound the keyboard! You say "And teeth. Ow." ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:05:07 -0400 From: "William J. Keith" Subject: IN> The Fine Print Ever wonder what those contracts from VapuTech *actually* say? Well, presented here is the fine print from a real VapuTech contract, as retrieved from the body of a demon who will soon be reporting on a "hidden feature" of a device he attempted to use. As certain portions of the contract were charred and illegible, this article makes no representation that the license below constitutes a complete License, or that future VapuTech contracts may not be completely different from the below. ARTIFACT LICENSE 1. ISSUING AUTHORITY. This License(herein referred to as "the License," "the Contract," "the Agreement," or "this Document") is issued by the authority of the Prince Vapula(who may also be referred to herein as "the Genius Prince," "the Prince of Technology," "the Lord of Tartarus," "He Who Is Like Unto God," "the Most Noble Prince," or "our Master"), to the Recipient(who may also be referred to as "the User," "the Licensee," "the Test Subject," or "the Deceased") under the laws of the Principality of Tartarus and the Code of Hell as specified in Section 3, Subsection 4, Book 5, Chapter 2, Rule I, Line 12, Clause c, as such laws and Code stood at the time of issuance given by the signature below, barring ex post facto declarations to be made at any time in the future by beings authorized to make such declarations. 2. REVOCATION. Prince Vapula, or the Most Noble Prince's designated proxies, may revoke this License at any time. Awareness of revocation is solely the responsibility of the Recipient. Revocation of this License requires that the User return the Device immediately to the nearest Tether of Technology or Tartarus Supply Center staff, or authorized proxy thereof. Failure to comply constitutes tacit acceptance of any activities of a Djinn repossession squad with respect to the Device and the person of the User. 3. OWNERSHIP. This License does not grant ownership of the Artifact, Relic, Reliquary, Talisman, or Device identified by the product number at the top of this page(herein referred to as "the Device"), nor of any products of the Device, all of which remain solely under control of the Genius Prince, along with all associated rights, including but not limited to the rights to retrieve, reassign, modify, or destroy the Device or any of its products at any time without prior notice to the Recipient. The Genius Prince retains ownership of any products inspired by the design of this device made by the User in the future. After sight of any produced by the Principality of Tartarus, all future works produced by the User are assumed to be inspired by the designs of He Who Is Like Unto God. 4. AUTHORITY OF USE. This License grants the Recipient authority to use the Device. 5. ESSENCE. This License grants the Recipient use of any Essence captured, generated, or modified by the Device. 6. DERIVATIVE RIGHTS. This License grants the Recipient the authority to use any products of the Device. 7. TESTIMONY. Signing this License grants the User the right not to have it truthfully said that the User used the device without signing this license. 8. REPOSSESSION OR OTHER ACTIVITIES. So long as the User remains in possession of the Device, the Principality of Tartarus, speaking for the Most Noble Prince, will graciously remind Game or Technology repossession, hit, tracking, or execution squads of the User's right not to have Calabim as members of said squad. This right is revocable immediately upon the User's dispossession of the Device. 9. GUARANTY. The Device is guaranteed to be fit for any purpose the Device's design team had in mind. Therefore any failure of the Device to perform these functions is solely the responsibility and fault of the User. 10. MAINTENANCE. The User accepts the responsibility to properly maintain the Device. Failure to properly maintain the Device leading to loss, damage, or breakage of the Device shall be construed as loss, damage, or breakage of the personal property of Prince Vapula and shall be dealt with via all remedies seen fit by said Prince. 11. COPYING. Copying the Device without receipt of prior approval from the Genius Prince or a designated proxy shall be considered a crime of Theft from the person of the Genius Prince, and shall be dealt with expediently. 12. MODIFICATION. Modifying this Device nullifies all Guaranties and Rights granted in this Contract, while retaining in full force all Responsibilities of the User and all Rights reserved by the Genius Prince or designated proxies. 13. FEATURES. The User accepts responsibility to report hidden, synergistic, surprise, or creative features of the Device that occur in normal or abnormal operation of the Device, to the appropriate Journal or Journals of Research in Tartarus. If said feature causes the corporeal death of the User, sufficient time will be graciously granted the Deceased to recover from Trauma or Limbo before a report is required. If said feature causes amnesia via the stripping of all Ethereal or Celestial Forces, the Recipient hereby in advance grants to the Princiality of Tartarus, and to The Genius Prince, authority to retrieve the Recipient's body, Remnant, or associated material and perform any operations necessary to discover the cause of death or amnesia. If said feature was expected to appear in a choreographed official Test, the Test Subject, by signing below, grants authority to the Principality of Tartarus to publish any recorded results, reserving the right to be credited, posthumously if necessary. 14. LIBEL. Description of any hidden, synergistic, surprise, or creative features of the Device as "bugs" or "flaws," or any synonym thereof, constitutes acceptance of the activities of a Game or Technology hit squad with regards to the person of the User. 15. DIVINE AND/OR ABSOLUTE MONARCHIC RIGHT. The Most Noble Prince, or any designated proxy, reserves the right to modify this Agreement in whole or in part, with such modifications taking force ex post facto or immediately. Knowledge of such modifications to this Agreement is solely the responsibility of the Licensee. Celestial Name: Primary Role Name: Primary Role Aliases, if any: Secondary Role Names and Aliases, if Any: Date of Signature (Hell Epoch): Date of Signature (Approximate Corporeal Date, UT): Time of Signature (Approximate Corporeal Time, UT): ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 19:26:14 From: "Jo Hart" Subject: IN> [RELIC] Jean's Special Blend {I was amusing that you all were talking about coffee today, because I'd been brewing this one up overnight ...} _Jean's Special Blend_ The beans that are roasted to make this coffee are sourced from hydroponics labs within the Halls of Progress, where plants can feed on the intense, conscientous, and hard-working atmosphere without distraction. Angels of Lightning drink a lot of this stuff, and usually pick up a cup of the strong brew from the "Buzz Bar" -- a coffee shop deep inside the heavenly Lab complex -- when inspiration is failing and the project needs an extra oomph. Access to the beans themselves, for private consumption, is purely through the Archangel's fiat. The blend can be made in four strengths (five if you count normal, which is like a triple espresso.): 1. Strong -- also known as "The Buzz" -- Drinker gains three Essence but can't stop shaking for 4 hours (penalty of -2 on any Precision-based rolls, even for Ofanim; it's good for design work, less good for anything more practical.) 2. Double Strength -- also known as "What's sleep?" -- Drinker gains the effects of the Ethereal Song of Speed (can complete any single task in 1/6 of the normal time, and (if human) does not need to eat or sleep until it is done), but can't stop shaking for 12 hours after it is done (penalty as above.) 3. Ultra Strength -- also known as "I can see through time!" -- Yes, this allows limited foresight and hindsight for celestials. The drinker can use his resonance in a similar way to both Elohim of Laurence (detecting things in the past) AND Mercurians of Yves (detecting things in the future) for an hour, but can't stop shaking for 24 hours afterwards. It's also not unknown for drinkers to experience disorientating flashbacks or flashforwards while this is wearing off. 4. Total Strength -- also known as "It's alive!" or alkahest -- Universal solvent. Yes, really. No-one with a brain (or a vessel they want to keep) drinks it although it has a lot of other uses. The stuff does stop eating through matter after it has dissolved about a mile of rock, so it's not all bad. More to the point, it is guaranteed to destroy any espresso machine used to brew it, which makes Servitors of Lightning (always over-protective of their favourite gadgets) rather grouchy when quizzed about it in detail. jo _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:22:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> April 5, 2001 (ML) Gee, Jon, you could have waited until I caught up before you started being disappointed that no one had come up for an idea based around this day... ...but, given _what_ I did with it, all things considered, maybe not. ;) Moe Venerable Ancestor Corporeal Forces: 1 Strength: 1 Agility: 3 Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 7 Precision: 9 Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 10 Perception: 6 Vessel/1, +1 Charisma Skills: Dodge/2, Emote/3, Fighting/1, Languages (Cantonese/3, Mandarin/3, Japanese/3), Lying/2, Savoir-Faire/1 Songs: Charm (Ethereal/3), Dreams (All/2), Form (Celestial/3), Healing (Corporeal/2), Motion (Ethereal/3, Celestial/6), Shields (All/1), Tongues (Ethereal/3) It's entities like this that give ethereals a bad name among the Host. Granted, it's not as bad as some of the monsters that you'll find in the Aztec pantheon, or among the Unseelie, but Venerable Ancestor exists solely to feed off of humanity's fears and needs. The fact that it's the ethereal version of a confidence man, rather than a violent predator, is completely beside the point. Venerable Ancestor's modus operandi is fairly simple: it cruises a selected area until it finds a family that's lost a loved one, spends a brief time watching them, then manifests, masquerading as the ghost of the dead person. A few parlor tricks later, the grieving family is ready to believe. That's where things can get obnoxious. Venerable Ancestor would have made a wonderful Impudite: it sees nothing wrong with sucking a particular group of humans dry of Essence (via specialized worship Rites), and it enjoys having the adulation of its victims in the process. Usually, it pretends that it is in danger of being cast into whatever Bad Place exists in the local theology (or needs help getting into the Good Place): properly done, this can assure a steady supply of devotion (and Essence) until the ethereal is ready to move on. Lots of experience has taught it to move around a lot. Whether or not its food source is in good shape when it leaves is a matter of indifference to it - plenty more out there where they came from. The ethereal is one of those annoying hard-to-kill ones (in fact, some members of the Host suspect that there's more than one): it's been around for a while, and there are a lot of copycats, of various power levels. The real (beneficial) spirits of ancestors past, both ghost and ethereal happen to loathe this ethereal with a passion, and have no problem at all with calling in either side to stamp on it (Venerable Ancestor refuses to serve Hell, but only because it would rather be a free agent). Certain Malakim of Dreams have made some interesting mental adjustments to avoid Smiting later ethereals that call in an air strike against Venerable Ancestor... ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 04/01/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> April 6, 2001 (ML) Possibly I shouldn't do these when I haven't eaten yet. :) Moe Great Hero Apparently, Eli was hungry. The Great Hero resembles - well, actually, it is - a three-foot submarine sandwich (ham, cheese, bologna, onions, lettuce, oil and vinegar, mayonnaise and a little pepper). Among other things, it's the tastiest submarine sandwich that you'll ever taste in your entire life. The powers of the Great Hero are two. First, it's got a variation of the Corporeal Song of Succor that will let you carve off pieces and feed them to people. Carving off pieces never diminishes the mass (and, in fact, cannot be done without activating the Song). The Great Hero never grows stale. Second, and possibly more importantly, it's a fairly potent weapon (use the statistics for a Long Sword). The Fiery Weapon feature takes some getting used to, but the look on your opponent's face alone is worth the hassles. No one is precisely sure why Eli needed a three foot, flaming submarine sandwich that could punch through steel: very few people are sure whether they _want_ to know. Some things are better off as mysteries. Great Hero Long Sword/6 (Special effect: submarine sandwich) 6pt Relic/2 (Corporeal Song of Succor variant) 6pt Fiery Sword/1 (Variant) 3pt Unbreakable +5pt Visibility: automatically Detectable -4pt Disturbance: 3 points per use (Constant) -3pt Vulnerability: celestial Artifact destroyed if corporeal artifact destroyed -4pt Total: 9pt ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 04/01/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:31:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Maurice Lane Subject: IN> You know, 'the Game' and 'Games' aren't really related... ... at least, that's my opinion on the matter. However, it works well enough for the below NPC. What _use_ he is in an actual campaign is left as an exercise for the reader. :) Moe Heziel Balseraph Captain of Integrity Demon of Golf Corporeal Forces: 3 Strength: 4 Agility: 8 Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 6 Precision: 10 Celestial Forces: 6 Will: 12 Perception: 12 Word Forces: 4 Vessel: human male/3 Skills: Dodge/1, Emote/3, Fighting/1, Golf/6, Knowledge (golf/6), Large Weapon/6 (Golf Club), Ranged Weapon/6 (Golf Ball), Savoir-Faire/6, Tactics/1 Songs: Charm (All/3), Might (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/1, Celestial/1), Motion (Ethereal/1), Shields (Corporeal/6, Ethereal/2, Celestial/2), Tongues (Ethereal/1) Role: "Anthony Blessings-Smith" (golf pro/6, Status/4) Attunements: Balseraph of the Game, Humanity, Captain of Integrity, Demon of Golf Demon of Golf: Heziel always succeeds in his resonance when trying to convince a human (of less than 6 Forces) that he or she wants to play golf. Extra Rite: Play a round of golf. Relics: Fiery Unholy Golf Club/3, 6 Unholy Golf Balls/3 (treat as Unholy Bullets: must be hit with an Unholy Golf Club to be activated) All the good four-letter Words were taken. Asmodeus doesn't get the short end of the stick often, but when he does, it tends to be spectacular. Heziel was supposed to get the Word of Informal Contacts, but there was a grudge match going on at the time between two factions of Princes, and Asmodeus got blindsided, and, well, these things happen. The Prince had to sponsor the Balseraph for a significantly lesser Word. Actually, all things considered, everything turned out fairly well - and that's not just Heziel's resonance talking. There are advantages to having a minor Word. Asmodeus doesn't really get involved into sports, much, so Heziel managed to convince his Prince to give him a chance to find a niche on his own. Interestingly enough, he succeeded. Heziel has a Role as a fairly successful professional golf player / teacher (he tones down his skills, the better to avoid suspicion). In his latter capacity, he provides a perfect opportunity for the more corporeally successful demons to meet and confer. After all, going out and playing a round of golf is a perfectly natural activity for wealthy individuals. Better and better, golf is played outside, making eavesdropping more difficult - and it's an excellent way to make contacts, to boot. Heziel's time is usually booked months in advance. The demon is fairly relaxed, for a Balseraph and a Gamester: Heziel has a nice job and is useful to his Prince, and he has no desire at all to screw either up. He's expected to act as cover and as an introduction to corporeal society, not to go fight angels or corrupt humans: this suits him just fine. He's also even starting to enjoy the bloody game, which was something that he frankly never expected to have happen. All in all, if this is what happens when politics rears its ugly head, then hooray for faction politics. There's just one queasy part of his job, actually. Every so often, Asmodeus contacts him, informs him to clear a particular day and shows up, clubs in hand and with a couple of individuals in tow. Heziel is expected to turn on his Humanity Attunement on the spot and keep his mouth shut. The Balseraph would, anyway, on both counts: he's gotten enough hints to guess that Asmodeus uses these outings to do business with other Superiors (in neutral territory, as it were). Some of Asmodeus' golf partners were entities not normally allied to the Prince of the Game. Heziel suspects that one or two of them weren't demonic. The demon doesn't want to know any more, frankly. How does Asmodeus play? Fairly well, actually: not inspiringly well, but competently (by Superior standards). The really good one (for Hell, that is - Heziel wouldn't ever admit to ever playing 18 holes with a member of the Host) is Haagenti, though: he's got killer instincts and an excellent eye. I know, I know. Go figure, huh? ===== Liber Licentiae Moeticae: http://www.stormloader.com/users/moelane/innomine.html Last updated 04/01/01(this is usually way out of date) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2143 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2001 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.