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You Will Not Serve. You were forged in the heart of the cosmos by incomprehensible forces, a living machine inexorably bound to a greater machine. A God-Machine. God is an alien intelligence beyond the understanding of Man - who is most certainly not made in Its image - that exists to ensure the world keeps functioning. God makes sure the hidden gears of creation continue to turn unabated, even if they must be oiled in blood. It’s origins, motives, and designs are unknowable, unthinkable. It thinks in terms of eons, and is above most human concerns. God is the hidden master of a world that cannot fathom it, and that it cannot interact with directly. Thus the Angels. You were shaped, honed, and sent into the world to achieve a purpose. God commanded and you obeyed. You could not think of doing otherwise. You achieved your mission goal and returned, put away like a useful tool until you were needed again, and again.You were a tool yes, but you were a useful tool. You had a function, and that was your entire existence. 1. How did you serve the God-Machine?* A. You were a Destroyer. A Sword of God. Your sole purpose was to kill and destroy in the name of your master. You dealt death with swords, guns, fists, disease, disaster, and madness. The age, occupation, importance, and number of your targets never mattered. In the end, everything was erased. B. You were a Guardian. A Shield defending a person, location, or object. Under your watchful eye, your target was protected from all danger. You not only had powerful protective abilities, but you were able to aggressively defend your charge as well. Some of your watches lasted seconds, some lasted centuries. When your watch ended, you gave no second thought to the fate of your target. C. You were a Messenger. You blew your Trumpet to announce the coming of the Lord. You delivered messages to God’s worldly servants, knowing and unwitting alike. The messages were commandments or warnings, fiery writing and apocalyptic visions, but no one walks away from them unchanged. D. You were a Psychopomp. A Wheel in God’s great design. You gathered raw materials — crude matter, animals, people, and souls. You shaped them and moved them into place as God decreed.You are a simple Ferryman, your purpose is the journey, the task of bringing all things into alignment for God. One day, though, something inside you broke. Perhaps it was a series of impossible orders. Perhaps it was a nagging feeling that something was undoubtedly wrong. Maybe you were distracted, seeing or hearing images and voices from past life. Or maybe you started to feel emotions, love, hate, envy, utterly alien feelings, towards your human charges. You found that you could think for yourself. You questioned ... and you Fell. 2. What was your reason for Falling? A. Impossible Orders - God ordered you to accomplish something simply not possible. The inability to fulfill your orders blew something, and caused the Fall. B. Empathy - Being around Humans too much caused you to realize they were just puppets in God’s plans. You realized your God is not a just God, and that realization sealed your fate. C. Love - You found yourself feeling an unexpected emotion, love. This messy, illogical feeling caused you to wildly, and perhaps irrationally, choose your mortal love over God. D. Power - God is not omnipotent. You know this because you have seen mistakes God made. You sense a weakness there. A chance to improve, fix, or....better yet..overthrow, overtake, cast down, God. E. Something Else. Your Fall was nigh cataclysmic. The earth shook, the sky wept, newborn babies cried out in terror, and healthy men and women dropped dead for no reason at all. Mankind was quick to find other reasons for these events, safe, explainable, reasons. You Fell like lightning, like the Morning Star cast down from Heaven. And you found yourself a shadow of your former self. Walking the land of Men. 3. Where did you Fall?** A. 2013, Williston ND. Blood and oil drenches the ground. A 21st century wild west where law is certainly bendable if not breakable. Law and order are rolled over by greed and corporate interest. The delicate balance between the locals, on the Reservation and off, is thrown into chaos. Overnight villages appear full of young men eager to make money. And they dig. And dig. And dig. B. 1935 St. Paul MN. Thanks to the O’Connor system, the Twin Cities have become a breeding ground for bootleggers and gangsters. As long as the peace is kept, St. Paul is a safehouse for all sorts of criminals. Of course peace is never kept. There is always more and more happening behind the curtains. And, collecting all the best known gangsters and criminals in the US into one city doesn’t seem normal, does it? C. 1977 Duluth MN. A city that was built on steel and timber is slowly dying out. Is the entire town a piece of Infrastructure that the Machine has no use for anymore? Or is it just the march of time? The city is turning darker, as evidence by the sudden double homicide at the grand Glensheen mansion. D. 2016 - Minneapolis MN. One of the coldest winters in history. Going outside unprotected means frostbite or dying of exposure. You don’t know if the Machine has caused the freeze, or if the freeze is keeping the Machine at bay, either way the two are linked. 4. Did you Fall recently? A. No - Setting will happen in location of 3, but in 2017. You will be an established presence in the location. You will have contacts and resources, but also enemies, both mortal and angelic. B. Yes - Setting will happen at time of 3, making the game a period piece. You will Fall in the first post and be a total unknown to the location, you will have no built-in contacts or resources. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello, welcome to the game. Demon the Descent is a game of technogonistic espionage. You are the fallen servant of a mechanical and uncaring god. Yours is a world of fake identities and conspiracies, stolen faces and hidden works of the Machine. First thing’s first You do not need to know anything about Demon to play this CYOA. This may seem like madness, but I am making an effort to keep this game friendly to those who don’t know much about the setting. If you ever have any questions, just ask. Otherwise I will try to have info dumps at the bottom of each post. I will attempt to up date 2-3 times a week. However anyone who has followed Viking-game knows that my personal schedule is often frantic enough to make posting irregular, sometimes with years between updates. I cannot promise that will be fully fixed in this game, but I hope to carve out a better schedule (not having to research Icelandic farming techniques should help). I can promise if there is any major hiatus looming, I will make it clear. I have never tried to run a CYOA using actual table top rules before, so we will see how it goes. The DtD rules are, like all World of Darkness rules, complex, esoteric, and at times needlessly bloated. I may adapt things to make the game flow better and not have to do endless rolls to describe combat for instance. This may completely blow up in my face. One issue I am running into is character creation, which is pretty crunchy. I’d like your guys input on this so, BONUS VOTE 5. How in depth should we be with character building? A. Bare minimum, NinjaPete controls everything, we just vote on the major choices based on vague descriptions. B.A little more in depth, we can make suggestions for specific abilities or preferred power sets, or choose from an abbreviated list. (I’d need some help with this one) C. Let’s get into the nitty gritty. I want every build point accounted for! * In game terms this is a Incarnation. Though this is technically your “past life”, it is the form and function that you were originally created for. Often this means it shapes your personality and how you approach your missions and agendas. ** Why is everything pretty much centered in the North Star State? Because I am from there originally. Assuming I will be doing research into locales it will be easier, and more time efficient, to have a base of knowledge that I can expand on, rather than needing to start from scratch. Additionally, it is a locale that is not represented in stuff like this often, so it seems fresh to me. I am also assuming not many of you are from these locations so if I gently caress up you’ll never know about it!!
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Reserved for ..things All voting is Approval Voting unless noted. CYOA Discord Server - If you have questions feel free to ask in the thread or here. Rules: From Kickstarter Preview Character Sheet World Map Dice Rolls Conspiracy/Plot Board Offical Playlist . Things Demons Can Do quote:1. Gain Beats by following their Agenda condition. Demon Character Quick Reference quote:Incarnation: Your angelic purpose. NinjaPete fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Following with interest! I've had vague ideas about running a Promethean CYOA so I wanna see how this looks.
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 23:17 |
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1. A 2. E. We are in the hands of infinite sadism, better to spit in the eye of the sadist knowing you'll be crushed then serve its purposes 3. B I want to see the progression from the 1935 to 2017 4. A I am picturing a world similar to that of a The Road, a bleak cold hell 5. A keep as much narrative cohesion as possible
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 23:20 |
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CBCAB Is it gauche to use 'caught up with the thread' at the ground floor?
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 23:28 |
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MinutePirateBug posted:3. B I want to see the progression from the 1935 to 2017 Flashbacks at dramatically appropriate times are guaranteed for any time period.
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 23:28 |
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:08 |
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CABB I like the idea of a divine but broken loudspeaker wandering around just before WW2. Let's raise a death cult. Outrail fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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1. How did you serve the God-Machine?* C. as first choice, D as second. I think reading a narrative about a talky trickster or someone who builds weird demonic poo poo to solve problems might be more interesting than reading about someone who can punch really hard. 2. What was your reason for Falling? B. White Wolf games are already edgelordy enough, our hero not being a piece of poo poo, would be a nice contrast. 3. Where did you Fall?** A or D, I guess. I don't feel like reading a period piece and I guess I like smartphones. TBH I am not invested into this, you can consider my vote as a half-vote on this one. I'd say just pick what makes you the most excited. 4. Did you Fall recently? B. Yes. But, likewise, I think you should pick what excites you the most here as well. 5. How in depth should we be with character building? B, maybe?
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1. D, You were a Psychopomp. This might gives us metaphorical keys to the kingdom(or knowledge about the locks anyway!) and perhaps insight into godly and divine powers! 2. B, Empathy. We felt bad for mortals! If we want to rage against the LITERAL machine, lets do it with lofty, high ideals! 3. B, 1935, St. Paul MN. Do you know what ELSE is aorund in 1935? Adolf Hitler. We can totally influence World War 2! Which will be starting shortly! 4. A, no. We did not fall recently. Lets go to World War 2! 5. A. Most of the players won't be at all familliar with Demon the Descent, so it will be the most fun to only vaguley get into the actual mechanics. Diogines fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:26 |
BBBA
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:27 |
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1.A 2. E - Illogical orders. Orders that were actively harmful to the Design, or actually counterproductive to the plan. Maybe God is broken and needs to be fixed. 3. C 4. B 5. B
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:34 |
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ADBBA
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:38 |
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A, B, B, A, A
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:48 |
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1.B 2.D 3.B 4.B 5.A
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:48 |
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1. Destroyer. 2. Impossible Orders 3. St. Paul, 1935 4. Yes 5. Minimum You eliminated men and women who would compromise Infrastructure. Sometimes subtly with a cut break line or gas leak, sometimes less so with a gun. Then you got sent the wrong orders. A list of targets that did not, could not exist. Unions that had never formed, protesting against a President that had never been elected, meeting with ambassadors to countries that no longer existed. Your mind broke, restarted, and you found yourself outside the God-Machine.
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:49 |
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BCBAA We were a defender who fell in love with one of their charges, which caused our fall, now we've watched them grow old and die without us being able to do anything about it.
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:50 |
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Diogines posted:1. D, You were a Psychopomp. This might gives us metaphorical keys to the kingdom(or knowledge about the locks anyway!) and perhaps insight into godly and divine powers! Diog is a wrong-voter after my own heart DBBAA
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:51 |
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DDDBA Come on, guys, we've got enough CYOAs where we punch things.
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:54 |
Ralith posted:DDDBA We must always have glorious Muscle Wizardry
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 00:55 |
1C 2B 3B 4B 5C I don't know the system but I do want to nerd out about it.
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 01:10 |
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DBBAA
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 01:19 |
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BABBA Divine guardian who just snapped sounds interesting - how do our protective instincts manifest in the new order? Gangsters sound fun too. Worth rereading the OP if you think voting 4.A means we could start in WW2.
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 01:23 |
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CCCBA Divine messenger that had to deliver a message to their love which caused their fall sounds pretty interesting as a start to me. 1970s because more games should be set in the 1970s. Disco! Bare minimum because the game sounds super cool but I don't know Jack about the game system.
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 01:26 |
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BAC(no preference)A
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 01:28 |
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1.B 2.D 3.B 4.B 5.A An angel who lusts for power Falling on the eve of one of (if not the) most pivotal events in modern history? Yes please, let's gently caress history up 7 ways to Sunday so we come out empowered by the new world order and dethrone God. Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 01:53 |
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We gotta catch a CABBB
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 01:58 |
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Diogines posted:1. D, You were a Psychopomp. This might gives us metaphorical keys to the kingdom(or knowledge about the locks anyway!) and perhaps insight into godly and divine powers! I'm hopping aboard this train DBBAA
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 01:59 |
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1 C 2 B 3. B 4 B 5 B
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 02:08 |
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D A B A B
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 02:11 |
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ADDAA Time to earn back the name murderapolis
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 02:17 |
Crazycryodude posted:1.B Aw yiss. BDBBA I'm really looking forward to this.
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e: switched from 1B to 1D HBar fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Feb 4, 2018 |
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 03:22 |
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Plan Diogenes looks fun and all, but: 1.D. We know the ins and outs of how every little bit functions and how to manipulate them, so we can do all sorts of neat stuff. Being a shoehorned warrior or diplomat has a good set of fun tracks to pick from, but I'd rather be able to turn the train into a Space Helicopter. 2.E. We have always made the same sort of tiny, seemingly inconsequential flaw in any given task. What is it? Who knows! But someone found a pattern and was able to show scientific proof to the world at large of Divine Artifice in the structure of the universe. The mortals lost their poo poo, and while we were able to temporarily rewrite the laws of physics to prevent COMPLETE worldwide nuclear annihilation on planets hosting beings with such capacities, Bad Things Happened. We quite literally Took The Fall for this cumulative blunder. 3.D 4.B. There is a nuclear winter going on and we need to unfuck everything without popping up and lending a name and face as it were to 'god' and thus deepening the fuckening. 5.A. Take the wheel on chargen.
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 04:04 |
E no wait DDBBB e2 really one or the other could both be p good. SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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# ? Feb 3, 2018 04:17 |
1. D 2. B 3. B 4. B 5. B 1935 Minneapolis was also just 1 year after the general strike of '34. Revolutionary workers were on the march as fascist Silver Shirts tried to organize by 1938. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/08/mpls-a26.html
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