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1. Huey Long 2. 3. 4. No 5 C/B/G - If we do C - I'm wondering secretly if we can do an Alex Jones type crazy person. Disproportionate Orphan fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Feb 6, 2018 |
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Before I forget 2. D.  You know, an Angel. 3. C. The Saboteurs 4. Yes 5. C (E, D, A)
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Feb 5, 2018 16:13
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Feb 5, 2018 17:31
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Kinda looks like a Protoss unit.
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Feb 5, 2018 17:34
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There's a reason they lead in with the fear nots
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Feb 5, 2018 17:42
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Outrail posted:If Marty McFly had the foresight to strap a stove door to his chest you'd think an angelic being existing in an age of swords and full plate would have the brains to cover up a gaping hole in her chest. Yeah I found myself contemplating that exact thought. Maybe leaving it open like that is her commentary on the sad hollowness of her existence, 
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420 Gank Mid posted:Before I forget Changing my vote for #2 to this.
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Feb 5, 2018 21:30
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Hexenritter posted:Yeah I found myself contemplating that exact thought. Maybe getting stabbed in the squishy bits is not actually harmful to a primarily conceptual entity. Edit; Ahaha I read the entry. Nope, that's dumb.
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Feb 5, 2018 22:37
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Ya'll have weak wheel-angel game. 2 D Like an angel:    (we're the wheel)
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Feb 5, 2018 23:21
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Magnusth posted:
We're the wheel is a fantastic album name.
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Hexenritter posted:Yeah I found myself contemplating that exact thought. If she's supposed to be a terrifying weapon of war but is willing to leave her vulnerable internal organs exposed in order to make an artistic commentary on the nature of her existance then maybe she's not a sensitive soul and instead a dumbo defective unit who deserves to die. Maybe she wouldn't be such a sad hollow husk if she didn't parade her lungs around like an incel's pity party Facebook status update and instead found a hobby that gave her a healthy outlet for that angst and let her develop a healthy social circle and maybe some self-esteem. Outrail fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Feb 6, 2018 |
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Feb 6, 2018 07:41
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I think it's just that her chest got ripped out so hard it's now a fundamental principle of physics, so if she tries to cover up it happens all over again. Which says terrible things about the universe really.
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Feb 6, 2018 09:02
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420 Gank Mid posted:Before I forget I also am going to change my number 2 vote from E to D
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Feb 6, 2018 09:08
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420 Gank Mid posted:Before I forget I like this. But 1. Dust bowl 5. CDE
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Feb 6, 2018 12:09
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Biblical angel if funny and all, but how can y'all be turning down this?NinjaPete posted:
Being able to be slippery and hard to see could come in real handy when we inevitably do something real dumb.
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Dunno if this is still open, but: 1: Kavak posted:1. (Reusing my earlier idea because I liked it drat it) Every action to make Infrastructure was just another piece of a machine moving. A fatal car crash was a piston pumping, a burst gas main was a gear turning. All was as it should be, as it only could be. Preordainment kept the infinitesimal twinges of doubt and feeling from lasting long enough to be noticed by you or the God Machine. I like this. 2: F - Oil. 3: D - the builders. 4: No, not yet. EDA
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Check-In time. 1. Dustbowl currently has a 3 vote advantage over Huey Long. I might have given Huey a bit of an advantage as I included votes for Kavak's union busting into it. If that seems like a foul move, I'll remove them. 2. D is currently winning , though F is within two votes. 3. Tempter is winning and Saboteur is two votes behind. 4.We have a Ring though the specifics are up in the air. 5. Mabin has a slight lead over that prick Nels. Sgt. Wirth is in third place, but it's a 15 vote lag. You have 24 hours for vote switching if you did not vote for one of the leaders.
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Changed two of my votes in post due to this Mr. Pete's revelations. Gimme the weird smoke thing Sabateur! I'm changing to F and D on 2 and 3, in other words. Disproportionate Orphan fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Harvey is a good one too I think. He's got some occultisms, may be worthwhile.
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1. Dustbowl 2. F 5. Mabin
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2. Changing vote from G to F, if that is possible
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Voting Closed 1. We caused the Dust Bowl. The details of which we also shoulf think about. Were we operating some sort of Weather Changing Facility to cause the initial droughts? Did we make sure the farmers in the area were the ones who weren't using arid farming techniques? Were we the guys pushing for mechanization and ensuring tractors did poo poo? 2. We are a creature of liquid and shadow. This was quiet the comeback. We still are semi-biblical. 3. Tie Breaker - Tempter 4. We have a Ring 5. Our cover is Mabin Pillager, young Ojibwe activist/agitator. I will need some time for the next post, but I'd rather do this than grade papers, so I'll have something up later. Until then, if you are a Word of Darkness nerd and you have suggestions for a Virtue/Vice, Skills, Merits, or Powers, suggest them here. NinjaPete fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 15:30
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1. I think it likely that we would have had a knee-jerk reaction to the great depression and tried to force prosperity on the midwest farmers, which backfired horribly. We. Nudged the farmers to double their plains-clearing efforts and made the crops grow way the hell faster than normal which drained the water from the soil terribly on top of the damage from native flora removal. Thus we made things WAY worse and it loving HAUNTS us.
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Feb 7, 2018 16:11
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By "We" you mean the God-Machine. Angels have no free will until the moment of their Fall. We moved levers and flipped switches on a machine the size of Rhode Island to bring the winds. We made the storm that brought red snow to New England. We made the blizzards of Black Sunday. We buried things and animals and people under millions of tons of grit. And we looked out all that we had made, and saw that it was Not Good.
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Feb 7, 2018 16:32
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Knowing nothing about the system it would seem like the best way to settle on powers would be through flashbacks. How we like to respond to situations would give a better idea of what abilities we should have.
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quote:“The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.” quote:“ It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down, You were Aphariel, The Dust of the Lord and you killed thousands.  Your slaughter was easy and impersonal. In a gigantic Facility* located somewhere between the Oklahoma panhandle and the next dimension you flipped switches and turned gears, bringing heat and wind to the surrounding area. You did not wonder why you did such a thing, it was your purpose. When there was an mechanical issue, when the gears of the machine needed ti be oiled in blood, you provided it. Your life was simple, clear. And then, you looked down and saw what you had wrought.     You, felt for these creatures. Humans had barely existed to you until now, more abstract ideas than actual things. You saw their lives, struggling, desperate, dying, and you felt sorry for them. More than that, you felt angry at Father. The winds and the dust were in his Plan, yet he gave no reasons, no justifications. You wished to ask him what the purpose in all this was, but you knew to do so would be a death sentence, your brothers would come for you. And so, you made a choice. Your first even choice, and you made it knowing what would happen. So on April 15th 1935, you turned the machine off, and you Fell. Luckily you fell outside of the zone of your machine, falling in a cold and bitter land that you didn’t recognize. You had assumed that by turning off the Machine you would have ended the drought and the suffering, but you underestimated Father. You and your Facility were just one part of this Infrastructure, and the storms continued, as did the suffering. A first you attempted to fight the Machine directly, but you eventually turned your attention to helping those who were crushed under the weight of the Machine rather than attempting to destroy it. You built a life for yourself, created a strong Cover who worked to alleviate the damages of the droughts. You decided that you liked your life, and you kept yourself safe, insulated from the Machine’s wires. Eventually though, you needed to switch Covers, and so you took a new one, a young girl, more fierce and confrontational than your previous one.  1. Is Mabin a Patchwork Cover, or a Soul Pact cover?** A. Patchwork. We did multiple Pacts with mortals, wealth, power, good health, in exchange for aspects of their lives, a jerk boyfriend, a job, a tattoo, a past, etc. B Soul Pact. Mabin Pillager was a real woman with a real life, but she came to us and sold us her Soul in exchange for something. We collected. You used this to take a more active role in dealing with the Machine and Its agents. You formed a Ring, a small group of Demons who were your allies, though not quite friends yet. You helped with missions and objectives, working together to gather intellegence or Aether+. This was more dangerous, but it gave you a chance to take a hands on approach to your Descent, and find your own Hell. 2. What is our idea of Hell? Tempters in general believe that Hell is a place, not a state of mind. It is either a place that already exists, or a place we must create ourselves. This could be as simple as becoming the head of some powerful organization, or being elected to a powerful office, and keep that position of power through sequential covers. Or we could attempt to build our own Hell in some sort of pocket dimension free of the Machine. Or we could search for a mythical Hell, one that already exists and where Demons can be free. Our idea of Hell can be anything, but remember that it’s our idea, not what will for sure happen.  This is a chronicle of your past. Of what did happen. This is written in oil and blood and cannot be changed. Though the future can, it is always in flux and nothing is certain. And the future starts now. 3. Where do we start? Vote for as many as you want. A In the middle of a mission going as planned. B In the middle of a mission going FUBAR C In the middle of our Cover’s daily life. D In the middle of Game Night with the Ring. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We must consider what type of game we will be running here. Now, this is a separate issue from how Goony and ridiculous we’ll make it. This is, essentially, what type of spy-fiction are we recreating? We’ll use two sliding scales for this. One scale, the Soft-Loud, quantifies the level of action and realism The other, Smooth-Rough, provides a backing to the first by describing the world in which the spy finds herself. There are four quadrants, like that bullshit political spectrum quiz you all have taken. 4. Vote for as many as you want, this will determine our quadrant and where in our quadrant we are. A.Smashing (Loud and Smooth), the action-packed adventures typical of classic James Bond. B.Insurgent (Loud and Rough), the down-and-dirty struggle typical of The Bourne Identity, or Metal Gear Solid. C.Gritty (Soft and Rough), the quiet personal struggles in a hostile world typical of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Person of Interest, or the good parts of The Matrix D.Silent (Soft and Smooth), with certain enemies but uncertain allies, such as John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, or Queen and Country. Finally, 5. What do you go by these days? Demon code names tend to be Mr./Mrs. Generic Noun (Mr. Stone, Mrs. Bliss, Mrs. Cracks, Mr. Hub, Mr. Smiles, etc.). Please come up with a cool one. Also, though we are a genderless biomechnaical monster, the Mr. or Mrs. title will change which pronoun we use. A Note on Native American Representation Our Cover, Mabin, is White Earth Band Anishinaabe. I am very very White. I originally did not have Mabin in my line up of "modern" covers when outlining this game. I avoided this because I was uncomfortable "pretending" to be another race, even for game purposes. I am disappointed whenever the "Magic Indian" trope comes into play in urban fantasy stories, and that is sort of what Demon is. I think it is lazy and harmful. Especially in a game set in MN and ND. The Twin Cities and surrounding area is important to what some people refer to as the "Native American Renaissance" It is the home of Louise Erdrich, the Treuer brothers, and the American Indian Movement. Due to the local's importance and because as a teacher I emphasize listening to the Native American perspective, I though there ought to be at least some N.A. representation in my game. I just never thought she'd win. I say all this because I want you to know that I will attempt to be as truthful as I can be with Mabin, I plan to have her "life" set in the same neighborhood where my wife lived and worked for years, and I fully intend to mine her thoughts if any Native stuff comes up, including using her as a dictionary for Anishinaabemowin language. But I will not be perfect, and I apologize in advance for that. If ever you think I am misrepresenting anything, or stereotyping, please let me know. *Facilities - “Hidden” locations housing the God-Machine’s workings, which humans and other supernatural creatures usually ignore but demons can sense. **Pacts - Demons can Make Things Happen. They make written contracts with mortals for pieces of their soul (or their entire soul) in exchange for temporal luxury. A Soul Pact basically lets you supplant a person and use them as a Cover. That original person then ceases to exist, not even as a ghost, they are written out of reality as you become them. + Aether - Waste energy given off by the God Machine and Its minions. It is used by demons as mana essentially. You can recover it in a variety of ways, such as stealing it, stockpiling it, getting a contact-high from Angels, or just switching to your Demonic Form. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything else is crunchy number stuff. If you do not care about powers, do not read this and do not vote. We get four Embeds or Exploits to use. These are power and us essentially using a secret rule of reality to get what we want. Embeds are subtle tricks we’ve learned. They don’t use Aether often, and don’t get too much attention drawn to us. Exploits are...not subtle and cost Aether to use, but loving powerful. We can use any combination of 4 of these. Since Exploits require a certain prerequisite Embeds to use, I’ll just open Embeds up to voting. Vote for any and all that you want to have. Embeds are in four categories, Cacophonic, Instrumental, Mundane, or Vocal. As a Wheel, we must have at least one Mundane. Here are brief descriptions of a few I think would fit us. Mundane
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NinjaPete posted:In a gitantic Facility* located somewhere between the Oklahoma panhandle and the next dimension... Just started reading, but I wanted to say that you have a gift
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TacoNight posted:Just started reading, but I wanted to say that you have a gift Thank you. And thanks for pointing out a typo!
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Feb 7, 2018 21:33
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1. B 2. No Gods, No Masters Humans are wondrous creatures, they never fail to surprise us with their ingenuity and vitality. But they are victims of their Creator. God is broken, thrashing wildly in pursuit of a "plan" that we suspect even It does not know. It must be destroyed, and humanity put on a path that maximizes their flourishing. Hell is where God is dead and a compassionate humanity controls their own fate. 3. D 4. B, C 5. Mrs. Johnson Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 22:05
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1) A - We fell due to empathy, we'd prefer not to erase a human outright. 2) Hell on Earth, we picked an agitator because we are trying to make changes to the world we know rather than chasing after myths. 3) B. 4) B and C. 5) Ms. Mayhem. Powers: Without a Trace, Data Retrieval, Everybody Knows, Sabotage.
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1. A. 2. It must be created. 3. C. 4. C. Definitely C. Person of Interest as gently caress. 5. Ms. Sunshine. Someone called her 'little miss sunshine' once and she picked it up as a sarcastic but functional moniker.
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1. B. 2. No Gods, No Masters 3. C. 4. C or D 5. Ms. Ink Powers: Sabotage, Freudian Slip, Without a Trace, Loose Lips Disproportionate Orphan fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 22:25
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1 A 2 No Gods, No Masters per plan Cryo 3 CD 4 BCD 5 Ms. Greene something something remorse
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1. B 2. People can live on their own, without intervention by God, other men, or fate. 3. C 4. C
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Virtue - Charity or Hope Vice - Pride 1. 2. 3. 4. C , D 5. Ms. Ink Powers: Mundane Going Native: The demon is temporarily centralized in a single cover, becoming a true human for all intents and purposes. Some use this to sneak past angelic guards, while others simply seek to enjoy life as a mortal for once. In My Pocket: A demon’s pockets are a strange confluence of empty space and quantum possibility, a demon might potentially have anything in his pockets that would reasonably fit. As such, a demon’s pockets can be said to have any object that would fit in them. Vocal Voice of the Machine: This is a dangerous Embed, a demon can listen to the voice of God within all machines, and gain some insight into what is going on around him, but he must be careful that the machinery does not betray him. Cacophany Raw Materials: Nature abhors a vacuum. With this Embed, the demon can break an object to “summon” an object of similar Size. -Curious about the complexity of the object summoned and the limitations of this? Also in what range are the objects summoned to? Can you place a object you summon miles away from you? Can you say break a pin and summon the equivalent mass worth of anti-matter? Or can you break something relatively simple like a cookie and summon an integrated circuit?
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1.A 2.No gods, No Masters 3.D 4.AB 5.Ms. Brown, a reminder of the past Powers: Apple of Discord, Imagine, In My Pocket, Everybody Knows
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1. B 2. Search for a mythical Hell 3. C 4. D 5. Mrs. Dust Authorized: Go wherever we need to go, and convince everyone we belong there. Psychic paper. In My Pocket: Our pocket contains anything we need it contain? Yes please. Could be a gun, could be a screwdriver. Never struggle with assembling Ikea furniture again! Like I Built It: We know how to use everything. Makes sense with our background as a psychothingie. Sabotage: We know how to break everything. Again makes sense with our old job.
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Feb 7, 2018 23:12
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Can In My Pocket extend to containers/bags we regularly carry with us? Magical pockets are great already but a magical satchel bag or backpack would be awesome.
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Feb 7, 2018 23:21
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Crazycryodude posted:Can In My Pocket extend to containers/bags we regularly carry with us? Magical pockets are great already but a magical satchel bag or backpack would be awesome. Oh gently caress! Women's clothes don't have pockets!  e: Need to search the thrift shops for a copy of this coat: 
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Crazycryodude posted:Can In My Pocket extend to containers/bags we regularly carry with us? Magical pockets are great already but a magical satchel bag or backpack would be awesome. "The demon produces the desired object, provided it would fit into the pocket in question. The demon can use this Embed on receptacles that are not literally pockets (insides of coats, purses, violin cases) provided that no one in the current scene has seen the interior and knows that the target object was not there. "
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