Meat Golems
These are… interesting. They’re not exactly Undead, but that’s only because the Undead are typically inedible, and these things are… well, you can safely cut bits off of them, cook the bits, and safely eat what you’ve cooked. It’s really not that strange, right?
I’m pulling this one from the archives because I saw this on Twitter this morning, and I said chlorine trifluoride without looking. And lo! It was. …Chlorine Trifluoride is fascinating stuff, really. It’s like a critical success on your Chemistry roll… or possibly a critical failure. Or, insanely: both.
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The Alkahest Projector [10pt]
Because in 1008 AD they didn’t really have “pistols” or “muskets,” that’s why. They still had to call it something. Continue reading In Nomine Revisited: The Alkahest Projector.
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Dungeon Speed Crawl
The party is called in to ‘advise’ in problems arising from the refurbishing of a long-abandoned secret facility. Before you ask, yes, the Shadow Government tries to always have a few of these salted away, in various places; it’s practically a necessity. You see, there’s a particular quirk of the adventurer mindset that makes it remarkably difficult to accept that the Illuminati might sometimes really and truly just want a particular group of freelance meddlers and applied chaoticists to go out and apply their unique skillset to a particular problem. And even when the adventurers do take the job from the Illuminati, they then spend far too much time waiting for a sudden, yet inevitable betrayal that will never actually come. But give those adventurers a chance to “loot” the exact same details about that problem from “an abandoned lair,” and they’ll jump right in, with both feet. Weird, huh?
Details here: I need to double-check whether they want the pitches for fiction tomorrow, or the actual submission. I have finally written it out (been thinking about it for a week), so I’m good either way. Still, the sooner it’s submitted the sooner I can get it either accepted, or rejected and thus ready to go out into the great wild world of the submissions merry-go-round. This one’s never been published, too, so it’s nice and fresh and has a better per-word rate.
I’m not sure what to use this one for, actually. I guess mostly local flavor? It’d work for that.
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The Lost Mace of Columbia
Very few people really pay attention to the fact that there is in fact a ceremonial weapon for the United States of America: it’s called the Mace of the House of Representatives, and it’s (theoretically) wielded by the House Sergeant at Arms. The current incarnation of the Mace is a reasonably hefty silver-and-ebony ceremonial item, so-called because it’d probably fall apart if somebody tried to use it as an actual mace for too long. A magical or esoteric scan of this particular Mace would reveal that it’s got a reasonable amount of power; but precisely the power that you’d expect from a normal item used in mundane rituals for a couple of centuries. Nothing really esoteric, in other words.
Because it looks like something that people who play both Settlers of Catan and Skyrim would buy. And I figure that there’s got to be some overlap, there. Via Constant Reader JAB in comments:
Settlers of Skyrim: Strongholds and Dragonborns https://t.co/JTbrheCgII
— Ogiel (@Ogiel23) January 7, 2017
Please note: the nature of the In Nomine game world largely requires this to be a horror setting. Sorry about that. I’m not too thrilled about it, either, but you go where the writeup takes you.
Continue reading Ethereal Domain: Miyazaki’s World. [In Nomine]
The bad news is I’m not doing it this weekend for the Unspeakable Oath thing. Not enough time, and while I have some decent ideas for what to do I think that they need to be more intensively tested before I submit them. I’m competing with serious people, here, so I gotta be just as serious about it.
But that leads to the good news! I think that the basic idea of having a monthly online playtest/gaming session would actually be fun! Also, obviously, useful. So I’m going to try to figure out the best day to have one, and then have whoever show up run through stuff that I’ve written. Or maybe I’ll pick a best day from whoever’s interested that month, and use that instead. Still thinking about that part. But, definitely, I need folks who might be interested in horror or mystery-themed games.
Titanic-1
On this world, the Titanic did not hit an iceberg and sink in the Atlantic, although possibly some of its owners might wish that it had. But that’s a backdrop to the real situation, which is this: there’s a lot of research to be done on Titanic-1 into the nature of timelines and divergence points, but unfortunately there are two broadly incompatible lines of research to be done. And each line of research has its own bureaucratic partisans. …Really, it’s almost enough to make one wish for Centrum to show up. At least they can be more directly thwarted.
This one actually is still on the Internet, at an old site of mine – but when I looked at it I realized that the layout needed fixing. Put the stats for the item next to the description, not at the end where people have to flip through the entire thing to look them up. Sheesh, younger-me. Sheesh.
Anyway, since it needed editing anyway…
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Justice & Mercy
Superior Relics: Judgment
These two relics are considered by many to be symbolic of the larger struggle within Judgment; whether this is actually True, or just propaganda, is up to the individual campaign. Both relics are exceptionally old; they, in fact, date back to the First Rebellion. They are also both exclusively associated with Dominic’s female persona Dominique. Justice and Mercy are otherwise very different. Continue reading In Nomine Revisited: Superior Relics (Justice and Mercy).
