Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on May 27, 2006 17:28:47 GMT -5
This is where I note any noteworthy data file, communication, book, or research the team has discovered.
Angel Document: The description of the Angels here is poetic and does not indicate power, though there does appear to be some sort of implied hierarchy (of what is the question). Archaic-styled star maps are given, fitting the mapping that the Angels themselves would do of the world. It is certainly possible that a rare apologetic Angel wrote this: Finding her would be a success beyond belief [note: this could be a character concept].
"This is the tale of the Angels numbered hundred and beyond. After the hundredth, I shall number them without regard for the ninety nine fallen before him.
The hundredth Angel is the guardian of minds and souls. It hides in the shadows of the good and innocent.
The first of the hundred is brimstone and rains of ash, slipping through the firmaments laid down by God as if a house open to the tempest.
Second is man without spirit, the sheer will of God substituting for a free soul.
The third is a tapestry of destruction, each individual tendril and fiber of its visage and form being its entirety.
Fourth in rank is a shape that stretches out before the eye impossibly and defies the geometry God himself set down, celestial in perfection yet devilish in fact.
Fifth is a juggernaught of rolling tines and a dreadnaught of God's bright wrath from the sky. All swords in its path turn to plowshares, and all ashes become ashes once more.
The sixth is the means by which He keeps Hell unstable and Pandemonium's castles in fear of His fiat.
The seventh is a serpent in the shape of a man and a man in the shape of a serpent.
The eighth is sheafs of silver and leafs of paper, a tree and pyramid of the vicious words of God.
Ninth form is fluttering wings dancing to hide.
The last of which I may write, the representative of the ideal ten, is a fair maiden when deceiving and a decimating terror when honest, the inversion of the soul's relationship to the beauty of the body."
Outer Heaven to Itek: Correspondence between Big Boss the II and what is believed to be Itek.
"Dionysus of the Second:
Let us begin honestly. You have no intention of making your world one where conflict is the constancy of life, a warrior's heaven."
"Big Boss the II:
Your predecessor called his work Outer Heaven. Certainly if he could tolerate only Zanzibar Land on Earth to be his warrior's haven, you could tolerate a string of a universe for a warrior to battle on?"
"Dionysus of the Second:
Though I still do not trust your intentions, I trust your enemies less. Consider this a working relationship."
Shrines of Independence: From the Desk of Professor Ben-Ma t-Ren-Mo 3 [circa 901 AD]:
"If a warrior can rely on an independent intelligence to accompany him and perform certain strategic tasks at all times, he can be much more effective. It has come to my attention that certain shrines have been created to give those who can find them and who require the assistance have been created by a mysterious force or civilization."
What follows are notes about the Shrines' possible locations, types, guardians or traps, and so on.
Angel Document: The description of the Angels here is poetic and does not indicate power, though there does appear to be some sort of implied hierarchy (of what is the question). Archaic-styled star maps are given, fitting the mapping that the Angels themselves would do of the world. It is certainly possible that a rare apologetic Angel wrote this: Finding her would be a success beyond belief [note: this could be a character concept].
"This is the tale of the Angels numbered hundred and beyond. After the hundredth, I shall number them without regard for the ninety nine fallen before him.
The hundredth Angel is the guardian of minds and souls. It hides in the shadows of the good and innocent.
The first of the hundred is brimstone and rains of ash, slipping through the firmaments laid down by God as if a house open to the tempest.
Second is man without spirit, the sheer will of God substituting for a free soul.
The third is a tapestry of destruction, each individual tendril and fiber of its visage and form being its entirety.
Fourth in rank is a shape that stretches out before the eye impossibly and defies the geometry God himself set down, celestial in perfection yet devilish in fact.
Fifth is a juggernaught of rolling tines and a dreadnaught of God's bright wrath from the sky. All swords in its path turn to plowshares, and all ashes become ashes once more.
The sixth is the means by which He keeps Hell unstable and Pandemonium's castles in fear of His fiat.
The seventh is a serpent in the shape of a man and a man in the shape of a serpent.
The eighth is sheafs of silver and leafs of paper, a tree and pyramid of the vicious words of God.
Ninth form is fluttering wings dancing to hide.
The last of which I may write, the representative of the ideal ten, is a fair maiden when deceiving and a decimating terror when honest, the inversion of the soul's relationship to the beauty of the body."
Outer Heaven to Itek: Correspondence between Big Boss the II and what is believed to be Itek.
"Dionysus of the Second:
Let us begin honestly. You have no intention of making your world one where conflict is the constancy of life, a warrior's heaven."
"Big Boss the II:
Your predecessor called his work Outer Heaven. Certainly if he could tolerate only Zanzibar Land on Earth to be his warrior's haven, you could tolerate a string of a universe for a warrior to battle on?"
"Dionysus of the Second:
Though I still do not trust your intentions, I trust your enemies less. Consider this a working relationship."
Shrines of Independence: From the Desk of Professor Ben-Ma t-Ren-Mo 3 [circa 901 AD]:
"If a warrior can rely on an independent intelligence to accompany him and perform certain strategic tasks at all times, he can be much more effective. It has come to my attention that certain shrines have been created to give those who can find them and who require the assistance have been created by a mysterious force or civilization."
What follows are notes about the Shrines' possible locations, types, guardians or traps, and so on.