New game! Yay!
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kilroySo, I've been playing in a Nobilis game for about a year or so, and I love it to death. I love it so much that I had to try running it myself. This Monday was the pilot session, and it went wonderfully. I love being a GM sometimes. :)
If you want to know more about Nobilis, click here.
If you want to read the gamelog, .
Nobilis mini-series, Chapter One
the 19th of June, Two-Thousand and Six
Dramatis Personae:
Isabella Leota, an honest New York lawyer
Marty Williams, a welder from the sticks
Michael Pawee, an American-raised Tibetan monk
Steven "Steve" Sawyer, a midwestern football coach
Novae Personae (new characters):
Carides, Imperator of Human Potential
Rebecca, former embodiment of Locus Carides
Kristine, panicked intern
Pronuncatae Personae (characters mentioned):
Anaximander, former member of Familia Carides
Chloe Verdigris Stuart, former member of Familia Carides
Enoch, former Power of Persistence
Amitai Lior Ami, Power of Possibilities and Sacrifice
Siely, a relation of Locus Hymalia
Susannah Christiansen, a woman in trouble
Play opens with Michael Pawee fetching water for the temple in the mountains. He becomes lost, and encounters an old man breathing hard against a pile of rocks. Michael gives him water, and the old man claims that he knows Michael. The man is obviously a master, and offers the suggestions that perhaps a wider perspective would aid Michael’s quest for enlightenment. Michael agrees, and the Master hands him a white flower with closed petals, at which point Michael and the old man dissolve in a flash of white.
Elsewhere, Steven Sawyer is enjoying a day out with his son and daughter at the pool. He notices a strange man who looks like a reporter from the 1930s, and starts up a conversation with him. The man recognizes Sawyer and claims to be a talent scout. Steven mentions his son doing laps, and the man offers Steven his card. Steven accepts, and also dissolves in a flash of white.
Marty Williams is driving home from work in her pickup truck. She notices an old VW Beetle steaming along the side of the road, and offers to help. The southern gentleman standing beside the car is grateful for her assistance; he notices Marty’s limp and mentions that he is a doctor and would not mind repaying her kindness by having a look at it. She agrees, and he examines it-- after which he exclaims that any fool could have fixed it if they’d put their mind to it. He explains that he can probably fix it for her, and she sees no harm in the idea; he offers her a flask with a floral design on it as an anesthetic, and when she takes a drink she too dissolves.
Isabella Leota is at the grocery store on the way home from work when she gets a call from Kristine, who is manning the office. Kristine is extremely flustered and asks Isabella to come back and deal with a strange man who is asking for her. She does, and finds a blind, scruffily-dressed man in her waiting room mumbling to himself. He starts crying and having a fit, yelling that he needs help, and Isabella notices that his right hand has disappeared, and a strange floral tattoo is crawling up his arm. Undeterred, she reaches out for him and also dissolves.
The four lost souls feel the universe shoved inside them in all its pain and glory, and are led through the whiteness by their respective guides to a burnt-out husk of an office in Brooklyn. The four guides blur together into one figure who appears almost like a blurred photograph; he greets them briefly and collapses, missing his right hand.
The four travelers decide to get him to a hospital and wait for him to recover. As they do, strange things begin to happen to each of them. Steven begins to hear things with perfect clarity several blocks away, and finds that if he loses his thoughts while pacing he ends up hundreds of yards from where he started. Isabella finds several extremely large rolls of duct tape in her tiny purse, and develops an urge to fix any broken things she finds. Marty can feel the individual threads of her clothing knitted together, and notices that the connecting tissues of her knee have been restored to full functioning. Michael feels a strong urge to let all the taps in the hospital bathroom run, and tells a Zen story to a young man who seems to achieve a more-than-usual level of understanding. At one point Michael dumps a bucket of water on Steven, who accidentally propels him into a wall, breaking several of his ribs. Michael, surprised to be alive, uses a healing chant which actually seems to help his condition.
Eventually, the four are allowed to see their charge; the medical staff don’t seem to have noticed his missing hand, and the IV machine hooked to air registers as if it were truly connected. Physical proximity to the four of them rouses him, and he says his name is Carides, and that the four of them are now his children: Nobles. He calls Steven "Persistence," and Michael "Enlightenment," but looks slightly mortified as he calls Isabella "Duct Tape?" He mentions that the burnt office they found him in was the main office of the Temper School-- a tremendously prestigious and mysterious school which he apparently owned. At this point Carides starts to have a fit, and chokes off a few cryptic instructions: “Find the others like us. Find your brother. Find Amitai. Beware loss... beware the horn...” He is taken back to the emergency room as his vitals fail, but as he is carted away the Nobles hear him screaming inside their heads, and the words “This is not the only world anymore...”
Confused, the Nobles decide to go back to the ruins of the Temper School to look for clues-- but not before duct-taping a very surprised nurse. Outside the building, Michael feels as though they are being watched but Steven assures him this is not the case. Inside the school they find some personnel files buried in the back of a filing cabinet; many of these are students at the school, each of which is listed with a “Mentor.” While examining the names of the mentors, Steven has flashes of images: Anaxamander is a man in full plate mail with an enormous sword; Chloe is a bookish woman with reddish-brown hair and a laptop; Enoch brings back a memory of working at a forge with an extremely tall man made entirely out of brass. Some of the personnel files are separated from the others, each with a date in the last few months written on the upper-right corner. Meanwhile, Marty examines some of the debris and gets the feeling that some of the explosions occurred from inside the walls without damaging the exterior, and that some of the human remains are from people that simply fell apart.
Michael, meanwhile, looks into a bucket of water and begins to see visions of distant places that no one else can. One of these visions appears to be from the sprinkler system in the office; he sees a Rasputin-like elderly man run out of the flaming office clutching a bundle under one arm, followed by a man in full plate and a girl with glasses. The man wants to follow, but the girl insists they save what they can from the burning office, and they both disappear back down a hallway. Their descriptions match Steven’s memories of Anaxamander and Chloe, and the monk-like man matches the name “Amitai.” In the vision, there is a door that leads to a stone room; in reality the room is a utility closet. Marty confirms that the door used to be connected to stone, but no amount of stepping in and out of the door allows anyone to access the stone room.
At the same time, Isabella begins hearing a whisper in the back of her head, much like Carides’ last words: there are more worlds than this one, repeated over and over. She opens her eyes and sees something different; concentrating on the difference, she sees a brightly-colored overlay of reality, where things appear slightly differently. She goes to the utility closet door, and seeing the entrance to the stone room, enters. After some slight confusion, she pulls everyone else into the room.
The room is round, with a huge mosaic of flagstones on the floor. The ceiling is open to the sky, although the sky is more purple than it should be and the star patterns are unrecognizable. There are many normal-looking office doors leading from the room, each arriving at a Temper School outpost in a different part of the globe where some damage has been done and all the people are dead. Cross-referencing the files, Steven realizes that all the dead bodies are employees or students of the School, and that there are only five files not accounted for-- also the mysterious group of files with the dates, none of whom appear to be present.
Other explorations prove that the circular structure is hovering in mid-air over a vast and physics-defying sea which seems to follow its own rules of fluid mechanics and shows flickers of visions when you look at it. Michael feels that the sea is related to him in some way, but cannot determine what. At least one of the stars above also appears to be a bright, floating city. Isabella throws a penny into the sea, but nothing appears to happen.
More importantly, the center of the room features a woman in a blue robe sprawled on the floor, covered in blood. Her heart has been cut out, but she still appears to be alive-- barely. Marty realizes that the weapon which caused this wound left the same kind of cut as the one used on Carides' hand. She considers for a moment, then pulls a hair-tie from her hair and transforms it into a new heart for the woman. This works, surprising everyone. The woman is now relatively functional, but remains unconscious. They decide to leave and take her back to Isabella’s apartment across town.
When the woman wakes, she introduces herself as Rebecca, and begins both asking questions and explaining some of the basics of Nobility including mythic sight and prayer. She claims to have been the representation of the School, which she calls a “Chancel,” although the process which saved her life appears to have also made her mortal. She also explains that the circular room was the heart of the Chancel, and mentions in passing that it was hovering over the Human Subconscious. Rebecca also tries to pray to various Nobles that she knows, but strangely meets with no success. She knows that Amitai--an old friend of hers--is the one who stabbed her, although she is unaware of Carides' condition. The Nobles decide to rescue Carides and bring him back to the apartment, since presumably Rebecca will know what to do with him better than mortal doctors.
During the rescue, it is discovered that Isabella cannot lie, and that Steven can leap across town in a single bound. As the four meet back at the apartment to discuss their options, Steven receives a prayer from a Susannah Christiansen; she is on the train between Stuttgart and Warsaw and needs help. She is being followed. Rebecca believes Susannah to have been a friend of Enoch's, and the Nobles decide to head to Europe to help her...
If you want to know more about Nobilis, click here.
If you want to read the gamelog, .
Nobilis mini-series, Chapter One
the 19th of June, Two-Thousand and Six
Dramatis Personae:
Isabella Leota, an honest New York lawyer
Marty Williams, a welder from the sticks
Michael Pawee, an American-raised Tibetan monk
Steven "Steve" Sawyer, a midwestern football coach
Novae Personae (new characters):
Carides, Imperator of Human Potential
Rebecca, former embodiment of Locus Carides
Kristine, panicked intern
Pronuncatae Personae (characters mentioned):
Anaximander, former member of Familia Carides
Chloe Verdigris Stuart, former member of Familia Carides
Enoch, former Power of Persistence
Amitai Lior Ami, Power of Possibilities and Sacrifice
Siely, a relation of Locus Hymalia
Susannah Christiansen, a woman in trouble
Play opens with Michael Pawee fetching water for the temple in the mountains. He becomes lost, and encounters an old man breathing hard against a pile of rocks. Michael gives him water, and the old man claims that he knows Michael. The man is obviously a master, and offers the suggestions that perhaps a wider perspective would aid Michael’s quest for enlightenment. Michael agrees, and the Master hands him a white flower with closed petals, at which point Michael and the old man dissolve in a flash of white.
Elsewhere, Steven Sawyer is enjoying a day out with his son and daughter at the pool. He notices a strange man who looks like a reporter from the 1930s, and starts up a conversation with him. The man recognizes Sawyer and claims to be a talent scout. Steven mentions his son doing laps, and the man offers Steven his card. Steven accepts, and also dissolves in a flash of white.
Marty Williams is driving home from work in her pickup truck. She notices an old VW Beetle steaming along the side of the road, and offers to help. The southern gentleman standing beside the car is grateful for her assistance; he notices Marty’s limp and mentions that he is a doctor and would not mind repaying her kindness by having a look at it. She agrees, and he examines it-- after which he exclaims that any fool could have fixed it if they’d put their mind to it. He explains that he can probably fix it for her, and she sees no harm in the idea; he offers her a flask with a floral design on it as an anesthetic, and when she takes a drink she too dissolves.
Isabella Leota is at the grocery store on the way home from work when she gets a call from Kristine, who is manning the office. Kristine is extremely flustered and asks Isabella to come back and deal with a strange man who is asking for her. She does, and finds a blind, scruffily-dressed man in her waiting room mumbling to himself. He starts crying and having a fit, yelling that he needs help, and Isabella notices that his right hand has disappeared, and a strange floral tattoo is crawling up his arm. Undeterred, she reaches out for him and also dissolves.
The four lost souls feel the universe shoved inside them in all its pain and glory, and are led through the whiteness by their respective guides to a burnt-out husk of an office in Brooklyn. The four guides blur together into one figure who appears almost like a blurred photograph; he greets them briefly and collapses, missing his right hand.
The four travelers decide to get him to a hospital and wait for him to recover. As they do, strange things begin to happen to each of them. Steven begins to hear things with perfect clarity several blocks away, and finds that if he loses his thoughts while pacing he ends up hundreds of yards from where he started. Isabella finds several extremely large rolls of duct tape in her tiny purse, and develops an urge to fix any broken things she finds. Marty can feel the individual threads of her clothing knitted together, and notices that the connecting tissues of her knee have been restored to full functioning. Michael feels a strong urge to let all the taps in the hospital bathroom run, and tells a Zen story to a young man who seems to achieve a more-than-usual level of understanding. At one point Michael dumps a bucket of water on Steven, who accidentally propels him into a wall, breaking several of his ribs. Michael, surprised to be alive, uses a healing chant which actually seems to help his condition.
Eventually, the four are allowed to see their charge; the medical staff don’t seem to have noticed his missing hand, and the IV machine hooked to air registers as if it were truly connected. Physical proximity to the four of them rouses him, and he says his name is Carides, and that the four of them are now his children: Nobles. He calls Steven "Persistence," and Michael "Enlightenment," but looks slightly mortified as he calls Isabella "Duct Tape?" He mentions that the burnt office they found him in was the main office of the Temper School-- a tremendously prestigious and mysterious school which he apparently owned. At this point Carides starts to have a fit, and chokes off a few cryptic instructions: “Find the others like us. Find your brother. Find Amitai. Beware loss... beware the horn...” He is taken back to the emergency room as his vitals fail, but as he is carted away the Nobles hear him screaming inside their heads, and the words “This is not the only world anymore...”
Confused, the Nobles decide to go back to the ruins of the Temper School to look for clues-- but not before duct-taping a very surprised nurse. Outside the building, Michael feels as though they are being watched but Steven assures him this is not the case. Inside the school they find some personnel files buried in the back of a filing cabinet; many of these are students at the school, each of which is listed with a “Mentor.” While examining the names of the mentors, Steven has flashes of images: Anaxamander is a man in full plate mail with an enormous sword; Chloe is a bookish woman with reddish-brown hair and a laptop; Enoch brings back a memory of working at a forge with an extremely tall man made entirely out of brass. Some of the personnel files are separated from the others, each with a date in the last few months written on the upper-right corner. Meanwhile, Marty examines some of the debris and gets the feeling that some of the explosions occurred from inside the walls without damaging the exterior, and that some of the human remains are from people that simply fell apart.
Michael, meanwhile, looks into a bucket of water and begins to see visions of distant places that no one else can. One of these visions appears to be from the sprinkler system in the office; he sees a Rasputin-like elderly man run out of the flaming office clutching a bundle under one arm, followed by a man in full plate and a girl with glasses. The man wants to follow, but the girl insists they save what they can from the burning office, and they both disappear back down a hallway. Their descriptions match Steven’s memories of Anaxamander and Chloe, and the monk-like man matches the name “Amitai.” In the vision, there is a door that leads to a stone room; in reality the room is a utility closet. Marty confirms that the door used to be connected to stone, but no amount of stepping in and out of the door allows anyone to access the stone room.
At the same time, Isabella begins hearing a whisper in the back of her head, much like Carides’ last words: there are more worlds than this one, repeated over and over. She opens her eyes and sees something different; concentrating on the difference, she sees a brightly-colored overlay of reality, where things appear slightly differently. She goes to the utility closet door, and seeing the entrance to the stone room, enters. After some slight confusion, she pulls everyone else into the room.
The room is round, with a huge mosaic of flagstones on the floor. The ceiling is open to the sky, although the sky is more purple than it should be and the star patterns are unrecognizable. There are many normal-looking office doors leading from the room, each arriving at a Temper School outpost in a different part of the globe where some damage has been done and all the people are dead. Cross-referencing the files, Steven realizes that all the dead bodies are employees or students of the School, and that there are only five files not accounted for-- also the mysterious group of files with the dates, none of whom appear to be present.
Other explorations prove that the circular structure is hovering in mid-air over a vast and physics-defying sea which seems to follow its own rules of fluid mechanics and shows flickers of visions when you look at it. Michael feels that the sea is related to him in some way, but cannot determine what. At least one of the stars above also appears to be a bright, floating city. Isabella throws a penny into the sea, but nothing appears to happen.
More importantly, the center of the room features a woman in a blue robe sprawled on the floor, covered in blood. Her heart has been cut out, but she still appears to be alive-- barely. Marty realizes that the weapon which caused this wound left the same kind of cut as the one used on Carides' hand. She considers for a moment, then pulls a hair-tie from her hair and transforms it into a new heart for the woman. This works, surprising everyone. The woman is now relatively functional, but remains unconscious. They decide to leave and take her back to Isabella’s apartment across town.
When the woman wakes, she introduces herself as Rebecca, and begins both asking questions and explaining some of the basics of Nobility including mythic sight and prayer. She claims to have been the representation of the School, which she calls a “Chancel,” although the process which saved her life appears to have also made her mortal. She also explains that the circular room was the heart of the Chancel, and mentions in passing that it was hovering over the Human Subconscious. Rebecca also tries to pray to various Nobles that she knows, but strangely meets with no success. She knows that Amitai--an old friend of hers--is the one who stabbed her, although she is unaware of Carides' condition. The Nobles decide to rescue Carides and bring him back to the apartment, since presumably Rebecca will know what to do with him better than mortal doctors.
During the rescue, it is discovered that Isabella cannot lie, and that Steven can leap across town in a single bound. As the four meet back at the apartment to discuss their options, Steven receives a prayer from a Susannah Christiansen; she is on the train between Stuttgart and Warsaw and needs help. She is being followed. Rebecca believes Susannah to have been a friend of Enoch's, and the Nobles decide to head to Europe to help her...