From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Wed Jun 20 09:57:12 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 JAA06151 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:57:12 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id JAA21609 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:55:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:55:49 -0500 Message-Id: <200106201455.JAA21609@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 #2270 Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com Sender: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Errors-To: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Precedence: bulk in_nomine-digest Wednesday, June 20 2001 Volume 01 : Number 2270 In this digest: Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: Just Do It. Re: IN> Hellsworn in Heaven Re: IN> The Angel of Just Rewards Re: IN> Hellsworn in Heaven IN> The Royal Honor Gaurd of Novalis IN> Based on the "Stolen Italy" plot IN> On the Novalis Challenge Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: Cardinal Sin Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: Just Do It. Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: The Fourth Realm IN> Re:Novalis Stuffing Up IN> Re: Defending Popes Re: IN> On the Novalis Challenge IN> Dancing Shoes Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: The Fourth Realm Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: The Fourth Realm Re: IN> Dancing Shoes Re: IN> Dancing Shoes Re: IN> The Royal Honor Gaurd of Novalis Re: IN> On the Novalis Challenge Re: IN> Dancing Shoes Re: IN> Dancing Shoes Re: IN> Dancing Shoes Re: IN> Dancing Shoes Re: IN> On the Novalis Challenge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:59:40 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: Just Do It. At 4:43 PM -0700 6/19/01, Anthony Damiani wrote: > I'd like to repeat my motion that future Iron Revs give us a full week >and a 1500 word cap, as I've run into the same difficulties as last time... >Heck, I've got a 200 word vignette, a campaign hook and a scenario seed in >here, I need more space, and with a final this week, I could use the extra >time, too. Just remember the 10K preferred cap on posts -- if it goes to 15K as the probable length of each one, it's going to have to be sent privately to the Iron Rev judge itself, and not to the list at all. - --Beth, List Admin http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/listrules.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:59:16 -0500 From: "Erich S. Arendall" Subject: Re: IN> Hellsworn in Heaven > Of course, if he has actually met his _destiny_, despite being Hellsworn > (perhaps by a last minute change of heart which is what gets him killed?), > the two Angels of Final Judgment will look down at him; one of them will > pick him up and shake a finger at him ("Naughty, naughty"); and then he will > presumably be shipped Upstairs by whatever means they do that when they find > someone in Hell who doesn't belong there... So, if a Hellsworn ascends to Heaven, since he has an infernal force in him will it be like having a constant toothache, to emulate the pain that a diabolical faces in Heaven? Yay, I'm in paradise -- if only I could get some ointment for my teeth! Erich S. Arendall http://www.egrigor.com/ Egrigor | Bringing some colour into your drab little life. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:51:14 -0000 From: "Fallen Seraph" Subject: Re: IN> The Angel of Just Rewards >Naw lil ole annie isnt a demon, she's a soldier of judgement, who once in a >while works for the angel of -showing the world what english folks are >presumed to all be like but really are not at all like- well she used to be an angel at least. Elohite of creation, in sevice to judgement (cf: Points of View, a program dealing with people's complaints about bad TV). Unfortunately, she seems to have got a little dissonant (and even got Discord (silly Wink)/6) during her time on the program. She's definately habalah now. Eli is believed to be planning a redemption scenario for her (between parties and reefers) - -Fallen(and British)Seraph "I still believe in God, but He no longer believes in me..." http://eternalcity.freeservers.com ICQ: 110193631 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:16:52 -0400 From: Elizabeth McCoy Subject: Re: IN> Hellsworn in Heaven At 4:59 PM -0500 6/19/01, Erich S. Arendall wrote: >So, if a Hellsworn ascends to Heaven, since he has an infernal force in him >will it be like having a constant toothache, to emulate the pain that a >diabolical faces in Heaven? Presumably he'd be shipped directly to an Archangel, who would strip the offending Force away. If it didn't fry itself into ash from the Light of Heaven, much as demons do... O:> This is, of course, presumably. I don't think it needs a Pronouncement From On High of Canon. O:> - --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: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:26:33 -0400 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> The Royal Honor Gaurd of Novalis The WeedWhackers Petals (DO NOT mock the name) is a Malakim of Novalis and head of the Lady of Flower's Honor Gaurd of Malakim. Petals also is the head of Novalis's organizations's war faction and unofficially whose advisor in all things militant. Yes you heard that right. Yes for the thousandeth time NOVALIS does have a war faction AND NO IT'S NOT ROSEPETAL BUSH* DISSONANT! Petals started this roughly 20,000 odd years ago when during the Fall the Cherub of Michael distinguished himself by slaying a dozen demons in the Battle of Shattered Skulls which unfortunately took place on the present day Glade of Novalis (lovely title for a battle isn't it?). Petals who was at that time named Huzzipah decided that the destruction caused by destroying the demons was so great that he made two vows "Always help beauty recover after evil" and "Never use violence unless as a last resort when beauty is in danger". Well Petals as you can imagine thanks to his sissy oaths got laughed out of the groves and quickly went searching for a new Superior where he felt his talents could better be put to use for helping humanity recover once the proverbial (Yves 22:17 actually) Smack was laideth down on Demon Kind. Noticing that Novalis had recently been elevated to Archangel he decided that the rather sissy Cherubim he had known before fledging would need some serious muscle and flowers were definately beautiful he decided to present himself and his skills to his service. Well you can imagine how the nightlilly bluebell goldenrod meeting went. A brief transcript if your having trouble.... [Novalis the butterfly Cherub sits in a giant flower as Petals presents himself] The Soon to Be Petals: Ho! Archangel of Flowers I have come to present myself to your service so that together we might do our best to clear evil from the universe! Novalis: Ummm why don't you put down your battleax...it's dripping blood on my daffedels. The Soon to be Petals: Oh sorry that was a &@*@*@ Djinn I found wandering nearby the Marches. I have come to give you military advice and some @&*@ @@^ personal skill in order to make your new order an engine of death for the betrayers. Novalis: Good heavens why would I want to do that? And please your langauge is causing my petunias to wilt. The Soon to be petals: What do you @&@(@( mean why would you want to do that? And excuse @&@*@ me I think that my langauge is fine, if you @&*@@ think I should sound better by all @&@*@( means &@*@ fix me. Novalis: Very well *Novalis blows a dandelion seed set on him* Petals: AHHHHH! What do you merrybell sunflower do to me?!?!?! Novalis: I fixed you. I added a few forces too. Your accepted but just remember, violence is a LAST resort in my service. [End transcript] Novalis probably didn't expect Petals to toughen it out and not go crawling back to Michael within the week but it was a matter of princible and he'd already sworn an oath to Novalis's service...admittadly it was probably premature given he hadn't met her yet but Petals shoot first ask questions later policy has always given him trouble (he resolved it by shooting to miss first). Well having learned a certain ammount of manners in his years of service Petals has assembled a great deal of Malakim together along with like minded Cherubim, Ofanim, and so forth to form the "Weed Killer" faction of Novalis's order. Now don't get Petal's wrong; he lives, breathes, and cuddles the better nature of the world and utterly despises war but he personally believes the Archanegl of Flowers needs to get with the program and prosecute the War instead of constantly being so ambivalent about it like it seems. Unlike others might think however he does not necessarily believe that violence is the only way to deal with a demon and indeed the absolute worst way (suffer not an evil to live is different from "Suffer not a demon to") and takes no pride in his actions. He however recognizes that with starvation, pollution, and racial genocide that there is plenty going on in the world that mourning demons one has to destroy is really not as important as. I know what your thinking, Okay Smart guy you say these guys are the War Faction of Novalis and now your saying they're all lovey dovey so what do they DO then!? Well the Weedwhackers (as they have been affectionately dubbed by Michaelites, Stone, and Sword who find them bizzare but not offensive) go after the absolute worst demons in the Symphony whom violence is the absolute last resort for, deliberately request places in high risk areas that are not only likely but CERTAIN to be attacked by foes with no mercy, go on rescue missions (where violence to save people is much more justifiable) for fellow Flowers operatives and other allied angels which constitutes about 80% of their work, and try to organize the loose knit organization of Novalis to specific targetting units to eliminate areas of demonic activity through passive-aggressive resistance. The Seraphim members of the Weed Whackers usually are behind the latter and find the former actions rather disgraceful to their mistress. Because of the nature of the above though the Weedwhackers unfortunately also are a rather exclusive club, mostly because you have to be alittle crazy to want to join and second of all the Royal Honor gaurd of Novalis (who mostly just hangs around and tosses out troublemakers from the garden in their off duty) needs to keep only the best trained and most talented operatives or members would spend most of their time in trauma. Freaking ragweed Calabim....yuck it up why don't they.... Petals hopes someday his mistress will get with the program and mostly spends his time walking around Novalis trying to look like he's protecting her even though it's rather obvious with her seraphim attunement it would require more than Baal himself (who just looks at Novalis goes "Awwwwwww" and then makes sure no one saw him) to attack her. In truth Petals also has more than a few fuzzy feelings for his mistress and despite having butterflys about his stomach for his service to her....(they weren't relievers once he swears). He's glad to help her out. Novalis is just glad they can keep the drunks away from the punch during Springtime festivals. - -Charlemagne * It should be noted that Petals in order to avoid the nasty violent langauge that routinely emerges when a Malakim is engauged in battle was given a peculiar modification to his forces that results in every time he tries to swear it comming out quite literally "Flowery". ** This is inspired by the fact every superior should have a whacky sidekick that contrasts them. Ogiel and Michael, Sparky and vapula, and Bronwyn and Dominic. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:45:24 -0400 From: "Charles Phipps" Subject: IN> Based on the "Stolen Italy" plot Thank you. WHERE IN THE WORLD IS NOVALIS?! Okay sometimes it just doesn't pay to be a demon. Two servitors of Valephor Yaje and Obb have decided to impress their superior by stealing a bag from the labratory of Vapula which they are certain will never be missed because, let's face it, Vapula is insane. UNFORTUNATELY what these two yoyos never suspected was that the bag was actually Vapula's latest super invetion which, while resembling a bag, is actually a living gateway to a Pseudo-Limbo(TM) that creates the most powerful vortex in existence when opened. It is generally believed Vapula made this creation using parts of Mariel and other irreplacable parts. He disguised it as a plain brown bag because, of course, he thought no one would steal it. Little did Vapula know that in Hell what you steal is usually modulated by what you can get away with.... Okay enough background on the Bag. The situation wasn't really originally that problematic... Send out your robotic-flying monkeys(TM) with your robotic bees(TM), robotic wolves(TM), and robotic evil trees (Public Domain) and soul kill the poor schmuks after much much torture on the tables to get it back but the situation got freaking BAD for everyone when these two yoyos encountered Novalis by sheer accident...okay they were going to beat up one of her servitors but that's close enough. It was then the bag to Pseudo-Limbo(TM) was opened and the Archangel of Flowers was trapped in the bag. You can see where this has become a bit concerning. Completely sucked up in the bag the two demons realize that they're life situation has vastly changed and with a hop, skip, and jump promptly shattered their hearts as they paid for a vessel change....sent the poor renegade helper with the song of forms into Limbo and went off in their artifact Pink Caddillac (TM) which of course can teleport vast distances whenever they like. The Seraphim council is of course furious...since Novalis while annoying is rather sweet and whenever your feeling down you can hug her ("Ah come on over here Laurence") and the Demon Council is rather upset because Michael is tearing everything from here to Hell apart looking for her....as ninety to twenty major plots of Novalis go awry and the world becomes a much more violent place. Yaje and Obb are in the meantime now the most wanted beings in the Symphony and have come up with their own plan as everyone looks for them..... Present the Bag to Lucifer for his birthday which the idiots think is the 6th hour of the sixth day of the sixth month every year. Which means they're hanging low with the Archangel of Flowers able to talk but otherwise do nothing until then. Yes, weirdness abounds in In Nomine ville. - -Charlemagne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:26:01 -0600 From: "Peter Player" Subject: IN> On the Novalis Challenge >From: Michael Walton >Show us yours, we'll show you ours. Patience, patience. As soon as I manage to get caught up on my sleep, I'll see what I can unleash. Wouldn't want to let the story ideas ferment too long, after all. Nothing more dangerous than an idea overfermented... >From: "Janet Anderson" >No one (as far as I know) believes that Michael or David or Laurence know >more about Flowers than Novalis... so why should the opposite be feasible? This is one of the things that bothers me occasionally. Novalis is almost inevitably portrayed as having some form of advantage when dealing with the War Faction. I don't really understand where this comes from, either. For example, the earlier post from James about Novalis having extensive knowledge of logistics. While I see the logic here, and I can even agree with it to an extent, how often do people focus on those aspects of Flowers that Laurence might have a handle on? Admittedly, James did agree with the reference to Michael's Mercurian attunement, but still, why is it so easy to believe that Novalis could be a logistical genius and so difficult to believe that any of the militant Archangels could realistically compete with Novalis in the more peaceful arts? In the end, I think one would have to assume that, while Novalis is no pushover (she isn't, really), trying to say that she knows enough to second-guess the Archangel of War on, say, logistics, is a little ludicrous. I'm sorry, but if the interpretations of the Archangels' Words are *that* wide, what's the point of having distinct Words in the first place? Granted, Novalis might be really *good* at matters logistical, but unless one dares to say that Michael is equally skilled at, say, flower arrangement, I think there's something wrong with the Word interpretation. >I hope there's no time limit on your challenge. I have two IN projects in >the queue already and then there's my PBEM, whose players are giving me >gray hair and writer's cramp... No, there's no time limit. I'm not crazy enough to put one on myself, after all, because then I'd have to live up to it. ;) As for the PBeM... well, look at it this way, at least now you know to have tissues on hand, right? No, I'm not going to explain myself. Ask Janet. :) - -Peter Player - -ioghost@hotmail.com - -"A friend sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said 'wish you were here.'" Steven Wright _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:38:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: Cardinal Sin On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Joseph Rocchi/Toronto/IBM wrote: > > But... where's the footwear? I saw the other two ingredients... > > Entirely symbolic in this case.. The demon in question is attempting to > fill "The Shoes of the Fisherman" - said quoted prhase being a reference to > the office of the Papacy Yeah, some others have said that... I didn't catch that the first time, though... I've heard of the Fisherman's Ring, but never the "Fisherman's Shoes" or "Shoes of the Fisherman". I must be out of the papal loop... :) - -- Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian, Q4B4L! Meow! God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players (i.e., everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. -- Gaiman/Pratchett (_Good Omens_) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:44:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: Just Do It. On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Anthony Damiani wrote: > I'd like to repeat my motion that future Iron Revs give us a full week > and a 1500 word cap, as I've run into the same difficulties as last time... > Heck, I've got a 200 word vignette, a campaign hook and a scenario seed in > here, I need more space, and with a final this week, I could use the extra > time, too. Well, it's actually up to whomever announces and officiates the contest each time, mind. So who knows... the next person may give us 2000 words and a month... or 500 and two days. Either way, the 10K limit will obviously stand, since that's a list limit, not an Iron Rev one. BTW, great seed! Way to combine two different scenarios into an adventure. - -- Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian, Q4B4L! Meow! :: Prayers are like junk mail for Jesus ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:53:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: The Fourth Realm On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, scott hillman wrote: Please stick to regular ASCII text, as per the list rules... this... > Or “The roman conspiracy” looks like "Or ^SThe roman conspiracy^T" to me. And whatever the thing between these two words is... > plant… sardina, looks like a ^E to me. Otherwise an interesting seed... but who the heck is "Vesphor"? - -- Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian, Q4B4L! Meow! The Earth it did crack open / On the day that I was born And a thousand merry pranksters / Came dancin' through the storm I am Antipop / I'll run against the grain till the day I drop I am the Antipop / The man you cannot stop -- Primus, "The Antipop" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:46:51 +1100 From: "james walker" Subject: IN> Re:Novalis Stuffing Up > What does "stuffing up" mean? > > Earl Failing in an embarrassing or hard to correct fashion. My apologies; I didn't realise the term was only used locally. James. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:31:46 +1100 From: "james walker" Subject: IN> Re: Defending Popes >> When did Cherubim go out of fashion? Sending relievers into the >> front line is just asking for Trauma. > > If I recall correctly, relievers can stay in celestial form > on Earth indefinitely, as long as they are on a mission from > an Archangel or other Superior, unlike full-fledged angels. > I assumed this was the reason. Hmm. A couple of Calabim going on a rampage in Celestial would be nasty, and productive. You'd want a Cherub attuned to the Relievers in case they're the target. > >> Defending Popes is not likely to carry a lot of respect in Heaven, >> given the current one's been shot and the previous one was >> probably assassinated. > > Assassinated? That's a new one to me. Who is supposed to > have assassinated John Paul I? The following group, all of whom had been involved in illegal financial dealings (which JPI was investigating) using the Vatican Bank: Michele Sindona - fighting extradition to Italy; later imprisoned in the US. Roberto Calvi - JPI's reforms would have destroyed his financial empire. Fortunately, it disintegrated anyway and he "suicided" on the 17th of June 1982. Lucio Gelli - top dog criminal in Italy at that time, and associate of the others. Bishop Paul Marcinkus, nicknamed God's Banker, who was about to be removed due to his inept/corrupt running of Vatican Bank. The Italian government has attempted to serve judicial papers on him, which failed due to Vatican refusal to allow him to stand trial. there is a long list of Italian policemen, lawyers and judges who were murdered while investigating the group. And possibly cardinals Jean Villot and John Cody; they also had motives for wanting to get rid of JPI. However Villot's involvement (if any) was probably only in destroying the evidence. This he definitely did, but that may have been a knee jerk reaction to a potential scandal. Cody was to be removed; however having a motive isn't proof of a crime. > As to defending Popes -- you have a point, but Heaven might have > different priorities for defending the Pope from human attack > and for defending him from demonic attack. > > Earl A very good point - after all, if he's (openly) killed by humans, he's a martyr. By demons - if nothing else, Beleth's Word will expand. James. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:12:18 From: "Jo Hart" Subject: Re: IN> On the Novalis Challenge > >>From: "Janet Anderson" > >>No one (as far as I know) believes that Michael or David or Laurence know >>more about Flowers than Novalis... so why should the opposite be feasible? > >This is one of the things that bothers me occasionally. Novalis is almost >inevitably portrayed as having some form of advantage when dealing with the >War Faction. Well, what bugs me is the casual assumption that military action (whether assault, subversion, or espionage) must always be the most efficient way to deal with any situation, and any archangel who doesn't specialise in one of those things is somehow useless. There are concepts that Novalis understands and promotes much more than the War Faction do, and they're equally important to winning the war for the hearts and minds of humanity. Fighting demons is actually the defensive front of the War. Actively encouraging human souls to reach their higher potential is the front line. And for most humans, this does not involve picking up a weapon and blasting a demon. You could look at it this way: the war faction exists to ensure that the peace faction can do their work. You don't have to be a soldier to get to heaven. jo _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 01:40:07 -0400 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: IN> Dancing Shoes I just want to say that this is all Tony Damiani's fault. Oh, I had wanted to do a fun little seed involving Greek goddesses and mind-control footwear, but he had to go and do a Nike seed *first*.. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------ "It was a darker time... our shadows stretched across the mortal world, and the humans shuddered at our influence. Their money was becoming useless, their resources scarce. They reproduced at unprecedented rates, spreading disease with abandon while the greatest of plagues incubated in its dark womb, waiting to decimate the population of continents. Class fought class and race fought race, and all the while great nations sent their young men to die in futile struggles. It was the heyday of Hell...." "The Dark Ages? The Inquisition?" "Nineteen Seventy-Seven." "Well you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a womans' man..." IRON REV: BOOGIE WOOGIE DANCING SHOES (an adventure of questionable merit in one act) Background: Stayin' Alive - -------------------------- Arthifex is not a well demon, even by Servitor of Technology standards. In the 70s, he was an up-and-coming Impudite of the Media, and the world was his oyster. The selfishness of the Me Generation, the glitzy tastelessness, the conspicuous consumption in the face of poverty and scarcity... no, not his doing. If they were, he'd have been *competent*, and not in his current mess. No, like the humans he suckled from, here merely rode the wave of mindless glamour without thought of consequence. Until, of course, Disco was declared dead. Then Arthifex thought about consequence quite a great deal. By then, it was too late for his career; clinging too long to a trend dubbed passe by the Telegenic Prince is a direct route to nowheresville, baby, and Arthifex was yesterday's news. He transferred to Technology not long after that, and became a competent laboratory assistant in the field of Temporal Displacement. Yes, time travel. Arthifex has discovered that the Symphony experiences a sort of harmonic resonance when enough humans get together and spend Essence while performing/listening/dancing to music of a particular historical era. When this happens, it creates a temporal tether to the time that the music was first performed in that location. Funny how many clubs have a disco night during the week, huh? Arthifex's plan is simple: travel back in time, and making use of what he knows of future history, Keep Disco Alive. To aid in this endeavor, he has downloaded the contents of Tartarus' historical archive into a portable server which he has cleverly hidden in the sole of his platform shoe (the other shoe, of course, contains the backup computer.) This will help him get rich. Becoming famous is a bit harder, but see Scene 3 for how he does it. Scene 1: Oh no not I, I will survive - --------------------------------- Do you really need advice on how to get your PCs involved? Of course not. You want to shove them into the Horror That Is Disco. Make up something plausible. Oh, all right: Vapula wants Arthifex back so he can reverse-engineer the effect, and is pulling in any and all favors to get this done. All Princes not allied with the Genius Prince (and more than a few that are) think that Vapula is bad enough as it, and needn't go mucking about with time as well. Better that they alone possess knowledge of the technique, and if that's not possible then nobody else should have it either. All of Heaven agrees that time-travelling demons are Bad, and both Jean and Yves are asking for help. Smart angels will comply. This is one of those rare occasions when Dominic and Asmodeus are in complete agreement, and they are openly sharing information. Mixed parties are actually quite workable at this point-- it's not like the adventure can get any *worse*. Scene 2: Congratulations, you've discovered the Symphony's first Tether to Bad Taste - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- Through whatever means the GM finds plausible, the PCs should eventually find the club Arthifex used to go time-hopping. Perceptive characters will notice an odd Disturbance lingering in the area: rather like a Tether, but with a Doppler shift. This is a Clue that should be applied with the subtlety of a baseball bat. Going Celestial and following the trail is clearly the correct approach. Make sure that they're all appropriately dressed. Including the Mercurians and Impudites. *Especially* the Mercurians and Impudites. Inflicting afros and 'fro picks upon hapless Cherubim is likewise encouraged. The other end of the tether is the same club, circa 1977. And through a quirk of time travel, even though Arthifex has been missing for over a week in the present, he only arrived in the 70s a few hours before the PCs. Finding him will be difficult, of course, as he blends thoroughly with the rest of the clubbers. Scene 3: Saturday Night Fever - ------------------------------- Did I mention that the disco is currently holding a dance contest, like the above-mentioned movie? Should've seen that one coming. By another strange quirk of time travel (read: plot device), the act of moving through the tether spits them out in their vessels, thereby preventing them from performing reconnaissance in Celestial Form. It also sucks the accompanying Disturbance up the Tether (it happened in the future, see? So there's no Disturbance *now*...), making their arrival silent. Now the PCs must inconspicuously scour the club, guarding against further Disturbance (which *will* make noise from this point on) which will spook the target, and might attract the attention of chrono-local celestials, who will only complicate things further. Arthifex, as might be expected, is in the middle of the dance floor surrounded by adoring women and dancing admirers. Getting close to him would require several Disco skill rolls. What, you don't have that skill? Default to Dex-2.... The dance contest is being sponsored by a talent agency, and the winner will get a cash prize of $5000, exposure in an ad campaign and a contract with the agency. Arthifex is determined to be the last man standing (and with his celestial stamina and dexterity, he's got an excellent chance). Boring PCs will simply wait out the contest until he's declared the winner and then murder him in the alley outside. Demon PCs, if properly motivated, will see this as a chance to gain wealth and influence for themselves while simultaneously destroying a colleague's plans. Angel PCs will note a human by the name of Johnny Fandango whose Destiny is to "become a famous dancer", and it's *he* who should win the contest, not Arthifex. Just make sure the PCs must disco, or at least schmooze with the people at the bar looking to score. Don't forget the Herpes scare. Regardless of who wins the contest, the PCs will find a way to defeat Arthifex, and will probably find a way to trash the discotheque in the process. (Visions of Creation Malakim using the glitter ball as a melee weapon...). Have fun, go nuts. When it's all over, they'll try to go home.... and find they can't. The portal is one-way, see; Arthifex had no intentions of going back, so he didn't bother researching the return mechanism. Let the PCs panic. Eventually, one of them may realize the Disturbance-sucking effect of the tether when they arrived, and theorize that maybe it'll work with their hearts, too. The GM is encouraged to allow this to work, unless the PCs didn't properly get into the spirit of things. If it works, then they'll be properly rewarded after coming out of Trauma, and informed that the details of their mission are highly classified and not to be spoken of to anyone less than Superior-grade. The End. Oh, yes: this is an excellent way for the GM to retconn or retrofit elements of the campaign that need fixing. Ripple effect of time travel, y'see. NPCs: So you're back, from Outer Space - ------------------------------------------ Arthifex, Impudite of Technology Corp 4 Str 8 Agi 8 Eth 3 Int 5 Pre 7 Cel 4 Will 9 Per 7 Vessel: Human/1, Role/1 Attunements: Impudite of Technology, Invention (the platform shoe servers are the result of this), Soundtrack Songs: Attraction (Eth/4), Charm (2/2/2), Light (Corp/3, Eth/3, Cel2) Skills: Disco/6, whatever else is appropriate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:00 +0100 (BST) From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: The Fourth Realm In article <20010619213600.70102.qmail@web14608.mail.yahoo.com>, jcsymmes@yahoo.com (scott hillman) wrote: > Vaelphor has really done it this time. > > One Morning, on an otherwise normal rather mundane > day right after the turn of the century, he stole > Italy. Hmmm.... Have you read R A Lafferty's _Where have you been, Sandalotis?_ It concerns the forgery of an entire country. - --- John Dallman jgd@cix.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:11:50 -0700 (PDT) From: scott hillman Subject: Re: IN> Iron Rev 2: The Fourth Realm - --- John Dallman wrote: > In article > <20010619213600.70102.qmail@web14608.mail.yahoo.com>, > > jcsymmes@yahoo.com (scott hillman) wrote: > > > Vaelphor has really done it this time. > > > > One Morning, on an otherwise normal rather > mundane > > day right after the turn of the century, he stole > > Italy. > > Hmmm.... Have you read R A Lafferty's _Where have > you been, Sandalotis?_ > It concerns the forgery of an entire country. Actually i got the idea from an old garlfeld cartoon which postulated thier was no such place as Wyoming. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:14:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Ryan M Roth Subject: Re: IN> Dancing Shoes Eric, this is... (...searching for correct adjective.... .... none found. Calling word genration subroutine...) ...Derpendiculous. Yes, very derpendiculous. Be proud. Be ashamed. Ryan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:24:46 -0000 From: "Janet Anderson" Subject: Re: IN> Dancing Shoes *ROTFL* says it all ... Janet Anderson _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:43:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> The Royal Honor Gaurd of Novalis - --- Charles Phipps wrote: (suffer not an evil to live is > different from "Suffer not a demon to") Hello! Excellent point, that. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 The Aztecs had chocolate and human sacrifice. That's got to balance out on the karmic scale. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:46:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> On the Novalis Challenge - --- Peter Player wrote: > Patience, patience. As soon as I manage to get caught up > on my sleep, I'll see what I can unleash. !!! Catch up on sleep? Why would you want to do that after all the great stuff we've seen done by people who admit to being sleep-deprived when they did it? ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 The Aztecs had chocolate and human sacrifice. That's got to balance out on the karmic scale. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:56:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Walton Subject: Re: IN> Dancing Shoes - --- Eric Bertish wrote: > IRON REV: BOOGIE WOOGIE DANCING SHOES As someone who lived through the 70's and witnessed the well-deserved death of disco, I recommend that you be smitten several times with a mirrorball. Great seed, BTW. ===== Michael Walton, #9805-068 The Aztecs had chocolate and human sacrifice. That's got to balance out on the karmic scale. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:09:43 -0500 From: "Erich S. Arendall" Subject: Re: IN> Dancing Shoes Eric, This was darn beautiful, man... It's only too bad that some of my players read the list so they'll know what's up when -- if -- I inflict... er, run them through it. Erich S. Arendall http://www.egrigor.com/ Egrigor | Bringing some colour into your drab little life. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:50:48 -0400 From: Marc Bowden Subject: Re: IN> Dancing Shoes - --On Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:14 AM -0400 Ryan M Roth wrote: > > Eric, this is... > > (...searching for correct adjective.... > .... none found. Calling word genration subroutine...) > > ...Derpendiculous. Yes, very derpendiculous. Be proud. Be > ashamed. > Great. You broke Ryan. Are you happy now? Marc. Just Marc. Elohite Angel of Salvation (Working to restore his shpadoinkle.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:45:12 -0400 From: "Eric Bertish" Subject: Re: IN> Dancing Shoes > > Great. You broke Ryan. Are you happy now? Nah. I wanna break *Moe*. Besides, I'm paying for my sins: I can't get "Stayin' Alive" out of my head today. - -- Eric "You can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a womans' man, with no time to talk... " _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:54:50 -0500 (EST) From: Emily Dresner-Thornber Subject: Re: IN> On the Novalis Challenge > There are concepts that Novalis understands and promotes much more than the > War Faction do, and they're equally important to winning the war for the > hearts and minds of humanity. Fighting demons is actually the defensive > front of the War. Actively encouraging human souls to reach their higher > potential is the front line. And for most humans, this does not involve > picking up a weapon and blasting a demon. The book I'm reading, _Sewer, Gas, and Electric: the Public Works Trilogy_ by Matt Ruff, has something interesting: eco-terrorist pirates who use embarrassment and humiliation to fight their cause. Sure, they don't believe in violence and bodily harm to people, but no one ever said anything about Great Acts of Vandalism. What is a little day-glo between friends? They pirate a chunk of the airwaves, broadcast their piracy world-wide, explain what is going on and why various things companies pull are bad to Mother Earth, and then go around coating large ships intent on drilling in pristine wildlife preserves with several tons of whipped cream. And a very large pie. The Malakite of Flowers, Twenty-Nine Names for Snow, follows up the pirate action by boarding vessels with the help of a small one-man helicopter and beating the people who need it with a rubber trout. That's mildly violent -- it _does_ leave bruises, after all. Sometimes, you don't have to fire a shot to get your message across. There are alternatives to firearms. ********** Emily K. Dresner-Thornber Freelance Writer zenith@evilkitten.org "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur." ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #2270 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2001 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.