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Harry Cooper, Soldier of Destiny, True Prophet (In Nomine)

Harry Cooper
Soldier of Destiny
True Prophet

Corporeal Forces: 2 Strength: 3 Agility: 5
Ethereal Forces: 3 Intelligence: 6 Precision: 6
Celestial Forces: 3 Will: 6 Perception: 6
Status/4, Charisma +1

Skills: Area Knowledge (local area/3), Artistry/6 (painting), Climbing/3, Knowledge (History/3, Kabbalah/6, Linguistics/3, Research/3), Languages (French/1, Greek/1, Hebrew/3, Latin/1), Move Silently/6, Savoir-Faire/1, Seduction/2

Songs: Form (Ethereal/6)

Attunements: Library Card

Snarky (Ethereal for In Nomine)

Happy birthday, Eric Burns-White. Next time, remind us ahead of time, huh? I only really noticed an hour or so ago.

Snarky

Corporeal Forces: 2 Strength: 4 Agility: 4
Ethereal Forces: 3 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 4
Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 4 Perception: 12
Vessel: None

Skills: Area Knowledge (The Marches), Artistry/1 (webcomics), Dream-Shaping/3, Emote/2, Knowledge (History of the Marches/3, Omens/3, Psychology/2, Webcomics/6), Move Silently/1, Survival/3 (Marches)

Songs: Dreams (All/4), Healing (Ethereal/2, Celestial/1), Light (Corporeal/1), Projection (Ethereal/1), Shields (All/3), Tongues (Ethereal/1)

Elements: Information: Wisdom (Primary); Emotions: Laziness (Secondary)

Affinities: Divination (strong); Books (moderate); Obscurement (moderate)

Dread: Updating (Uncommon/3)

Cryptozoological Entry: Wolpertinger (In Nomine)

Name: Wolpertinger
Also Known As: Skvader
Type: Naturally-Occurring Zoological Oddity

Corporeal Forces: 1 Strength: 1 Agility: 3 Body Hits: 1
Ethereal Forces: 0 Intelligence: 2 Precision: 1 Mind Hits: 0
Celestial Forces: 0 Will: 1 Perception: 2 Soul Hits: 0

Skills: Fighting/6, Dodge/6, Flying/6, Move Silently/6
Songs: None Esoteric Abilities: Flight; -6 to hit due to unusually tough feathers on wings
Primary Attack: [Antlers/7/7/+3/-]
Secondary Attack: [Teeth/7/12/+3/-]

Appearance: A rabbit with wings, fangs, antlers, and duck feet.

Favored Habitat: Forest
Number Typically Encountered: 2-12
General Classification: Ethereals: Neutral; Heaven: Neutral; Hell: Neutral; Humanity: Neutral

Liar's Shout (and Liar's Shout Royale) (In Nomine)

Liar's Shout (and Liar's Shout Royale)
Alchemical Ritual

This alchemical talisman always comes as a brooch or necklace; when activated, it uses the Corporeal Song of Cacophony to give the false aural impression of mortality. Someone wearing an activated Shout will generate pseudo-disturbance as if he, she or it was actually a regular human: in practical terms, this means that any damage dealt to the user will seem generate the usual one point of disturbance per Body Hit. Note that this is not really disturbance: it can be detected as false with a (Perception - skill level of the Song) roll, and it will not affect the formation of Tethers at all.

This alchemical ritual can come in handy in a wide range of covert operations, so many sorcerers learn it; they can usually find a buyer, or in a pinch, somebody who'd take it as a bribe. Those relatively few Gamesters with both knowledge of enchantment/alchemy and the Humanity attunement have taken this ritual a step further; their version of Liar's Shout can be used to create an illusion that a mortal is actually a celestial. Duration and detection is as for the Corporeal Song of Cacophony, except that the skill roll to detect is actually (Perception - Celestial Forces of the alchemist); any disturbance being masked by a Liar's Shout Royale will be merely delayed until the talisman ceases to work.

The Infinity Thumbnails now have a home on Moe Lane.com.

I will continue to post them on this site, but their final home will be here.  I need to play with the formatting over there a little, obviously.

The In Nomine stuff... is going to be interesting.  So far, I'm thinking of keeping the Stormloader site up, but not updated; we can do mass transfer of my own material over to ML and people won't have to deal with that godawful scrolling ad space anymore.  Anybody have an opinion?

My new site. Which is not going to mean the end of this one.

As you may have noted by now, I have a new site: Moe Lane.  It is going to be an eclectic sort of place, combining my various hobbies, obsessions, and Things About Moe That We Don't Talk About.  WLM is not going away: I've configured ML to publish a link and excerpt from anything that's written here.  This site is going to concentrate on gaming and (probably) bardic material; I'll be putting up general goofiness over on ML, but that site is going to be as unapologetic about being political as it is about being geeky.  My wife's site is not going anywhere, either.

There is one thing over there that might be of interest, though: it's a WordPress blog, which means easy to work with pages.  I've created a test page that reproduces my Stormloader LLM main page, but the links still go back to Stormloader.  I have a ridiculous amount of files available over at the old site; anybody have a good suggestion on a better place to host them that doesn't involve inundiating my current host with them (not a practical solution at all)?

Machen (Quantum 7)

Machen

This world has been formally part of Centrum's Green Zone for the last decade, and under effective Centran control for about a decade before that. It has never been considered to be particularly fertile ground for Homeline interference, both because of its location on Quantum 7 and the overwhelming presence of Interworld; Infinity is reassessing this conclusion in the wake of reports that the timeline is now undergoing a surprisingly successful set of rebellions against their outtime masters. Whether Infinity reassesses the assessment once it becomes clear that this is due to a third party's interference is not yet known.

Machen, 1904 AD

Current Affairs
The somewhat monotonous peace of a Green Zone Centran satrapy is in the process of being wrecked by various rebels with mystical outtime backing.

Divergence Point
1856 AD: William Walker's Republic of Nicaragua survives.

Major Civilizations
Western (diffuse)

Great Powers (all meritocracies unless noted otherwise)
United States of North America (representative democracy with meritocratic overtones, CR 4), Republic of Venezuela (dictatorship, CR 6), South American Direct Control Zone (CR 5), South American Union (representative democracy, CR 3), Scandinavian Union (CR 5), British Empire (representative democracy with meritocratic overtones, CR 4), French Imperial Republic (dictatorship with meritocratic overtones, CR 5), German-Hungarian Confederation (CR 5), Slavic Union (CR 5), Special Unaligned Confederation (CR 3-4), Siberian Direct Control Zone (CR 5), Japanese-Chinese Union (dictatorship with meritocratic overtones, CR 2-4), South Chinese Republic (oligarchy with meritocratic overtones, CR 5), Southeast Asian Direct Control Zone (CR 5), Middle Eastern Confederation (feudal, CR 1-6), African Direct Control Zone (CR 5)

Worldline Data
TL: 8/6
Quantum: 7
Mana Level: low to normal
Centrum Zone: Green
Infinity Level: Z10

This is another test.

This was also a pretty good book:

Things are afoot.

I know that sounds mysterious, but it's not, really: I'm merely working on refining my online presence a bit.  Details to follow.

My Lady Wife is the new Poeta Atlantiae.

She got the news this morning.

Poeta Atlantiae is a Kingdom Notable position in the Kingdom of Atlantia in the SCA; it's not King's or Queen's Bard, but it's on the level of either. Essentially, she's the Royal Poet instead of one of the two Court Bards, which is both way cool and long overdue for her.