Let's start a cult! [Demon: the Fallen]

Name:
Player: QuestionableQuesting
Nature:
House: Slayer
Faction:
Visage:

Attributes (7/5/3)
Physical ( ): Strength , Dexterity , Stamina
Social ( ): Charisma , Manipulation , Appearance
Mental ( ): Perception , Intelligence , Wits

Abilities (13/9/5)
Talents ( ): Alertness , Athletics , Awareness , Brawl , Dodge , Empathy , Expression , Intimidation , Intuition , Leadership , Subterfuge
Skills ( ): Animal Ken , Crafts , Demolitions , Drive , Etiquette , Firearms , Melee , Performance , Security , Stealth , Survival , Technology
Knowledges ( ): Academics , Computer , Finance , Investigation , Law , Linguistics , Medicine , Occult , Politics , Religion , Research , Science

Backgrounds

Virtues
Conscience
Conviction
Courage

Faith ***
-Temporary 3/3

Torment 4
-Temporary Torment 0/10

Willpower
-Temporary Willpower

Freebie Points (0/15)

Experience Points (0/0/0)

 

...It hurts. The wind flays you clean.

You have to go. Your master orders it. But the wind pushes you back.

A body. That's what you need. But before you can obtain one, you have to remember who you are.

Once we were mighty. Seven houses all in all...

That's right! A house! You had one once.

...but then the name changed, and you lost track of it in the cold, cold darkness.

Which one was it again?

[ ] Lammasu
[ ] Namaru
[ ] Rabisu
[ ] Neberu
[ ] Anunnaki
[ ] Asharu
[ ] Halaku

 

I have no idea what's going on. Excellent.

[X] Anunnaki.

For the moment, voting this one, entirely because it's the only one that doesn't end with a 'u'.

 

Well now. This is interesting.

Pity I cannot quite remember all my DtF lore. This is oWoD, yes?

 

[X] Neberu

 

For those not in the know, or with rusty memories:
Defilers (Lammasu) - Originally Angels of the Deeps, the Fifth House have an affinity with fluidity, giving them power over water, over emotions, and even their own forms.
Devils (Namaru) - The first House created by God, leaders on both sides of the rebellion, the Devils' affinity is for radiance, enabling them to command mortal and Elohim alike, and granting them power over fire.
Devourers (Rabisu) - Once the Angels of the Wild, warriors without equal, the Sixth House can command animals and plants alike, as well as shaping and reshaping the flesh of other beings as they desire.
Fiends (Neberu) - Once, the Angels of the Spheres were the ones who set the stars in their great design, who gave them the light to shine, using their mastery of portals to travel the great distances required. Now, the Fourth House fears what has become of the design in their absence.
Malefactors (Annunaki) - The Third House, the Angels of the Fundament, were the makers of form, the shapers of Creation. They defined spatial relationships, the paths from one place to another. Theirs is the power to shape the earth, and to make and empower astonishing artifacts.
Scourges (Asharu) - The Angels of the Firmanent were the second House to be created. They were the ones who guided the winds of creation, who granted the breath of life to all living things, and who defined the spiritual connections between living beings.
Slayers (Halaku) - The House of the Second World, the final House to be created, the Slayers have dominion over endings and death. They can destroy the things of the physical world, command the spirits of the dead, and even enter the Underworld.

 

[X] Halaku

Yeah, let's be a Psychopomp. That sounds fun.

 

[X] Rabisu

Because names that start in R are superior.

 

[X] Namaru

 

We need to find a mage Thrall to sell us their soul for Unlimited power.

 

A fallen quest?


[X] Halaku

How fortunate that I was currently making a fallen for someone else game and so I am back in the rules.

I take it you want a bit of silence about the metaplot from those that know it?

 

[X] Halaku

What the hey, psychopomp cult seems interesting to me.

 

[X] Anunnaki.

Evil artifacts hooo~

 

Bah, Demon: the Descent is better.

 

Oh wise time traveler, please teach me your mysterious ways.

 

Early started the edition wars have.

*invites a mage flamewar to warm the thread.*

 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7FqViticwNueVdxTmVNTjE0MTQ/edit

 

(X) Namaru

 

[X] Nemeru

 

[/reads 'Demon the Descent' fluff]

Eurgh. The hell?

 

Well it is god machine related, which is a possible explanation that does not find everyones fans. But then its Corebook version was a bit different.

And well as someone who liked part of new and old I sit on both sides of the flamewar.

 

My biggest issue is that having literal agents of God exist in the setting kind of ruins the point of it being a world of Darkness, and making God into an uncaring and unthinking machine doesn't really make it any better.

 

[X] Halaku

Lets be the commanders of the undead this time.

 

The God-Machine's been in the setting since the fiction chapters of the NWoD corebook. It's just never been elaborated upon until recently.

 

[X] Namaru

 

[X] Neberu

Portals and Stars, we gonna wormhole weapon this bitch.

 

In the oWoD, the God Machine broke, and it's servants were trapped and corrupted. In the nWoD, the God Machine is alive and kicking, and it's servants do it's will. This basically means that there is an absolute creator in the nWoD, someone who's planned out and mapped all of history and the future, and who's omniscience is not in question.

It also means that the God Machine is a total asshat, because his 'Plan' is apparently to make a world that sucks for everyone while he sits and eats popcorn. Even his own subroutines are not spared, as he ruthlessly culls any that deviate from their directive for the lulz, even if they'd be willing to continue going along with his plans.

 

[X] Halaku