Slush Pile (The Media)

Moe Lane · 05-13-2008, 09:21 PM

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Slush Pile (The Media)

A demon with this attunement is able to swiftly and infallibly sift through a pile of raw media artifacts - sitcom pilot tapes, screen treatments, unpublished manuscripts, preliminary sketches, or anything else both related to entertainment and unfinished - and pick out the item that best suits his current needs. Note that this power is indifferent to intrinsic merit: if the demon needs a pseudo-clever piece of facile garbage, he'll get the best example of it available.

With a successful Will roll, the demon may grant this ability to any other entity in his presence: the effects will wear off once either a choice has been made, or else five minutes have passed. Lilim of the Media have discovered to their pleasure that doing this is usually good for at least a Need/2...

Rocket Man · 05-13-2008, 09:40 PM

And then there's the mirror image:

Nose for News (Revelation) -- This is the heavenly ability to pick through all the froth, puffery and assumptions in a given news piece and find the core facts, if any. An angel with this attunment could go through a 50-inch news story and instantly discover what real news is there, even if it's only a sentence or two.

Seraphim, natually, get a bonus to use this ability if they succeed in a resonance roll. But note that in the modern media, some stories may prove to be 100 percent fact-free ... there may BE no real news to be found! This makes the "feedback" even worse than usual for a Seraph amplifying their resonance in this manner; the angel is literally stunned for 1-6 minutes.

05-13-2008, 09:21 PM	#1
Moe Lane Join Date: Apr 2005	Slush Pile (The Media) http://moeticae.typepad.com/weblog_l...-pile-the.html Slush Pile (The Media) A demon with this attunement is able to swiftly and infallibly sift through a pile of raw media artifacts - sitcom pilot tapes, screen treatments, unpublished manuscripts, preliminary sketches, or anything else both related to entertainment and unfinished - and pick out the item that best suits his current needs. Note that this power is indifferent to intrinsic merit: if the demon needs a pseudo-clever piece of facile garbage, he'll get the best example of it available. With a successful Will roll, the demon may grant this ability to any other entity in his presence: the effects will wear off once either a choice has been made, or else five minutes have passed. Lilim of the Media have discovered to their pleasure that doing this is usually good for at least a Need/2... __________________ Moe Lane Moe Lane.com

05-13-2008, 09:40 PM	#2
Rocket Man Petitioner: Word of IN Filk Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Longmont, CO	Re: Slush Pile (The Media) And then there's the mirror image: Nose for News (Revelation) -- This is the heavenly ability to pick through all the froth, puffery and assumptions in a given news piece and find the core facts, if any. An angel with this attunment could go through a 50-inch news story and instantly discover what real news is there, even if it's only a sentence or two. Seraphim, natually, get a bonus to use this ability if they succeed in a resonance roll. But note that in the modern media, some stories may prove to be 100 percent fact-free ... there may BE no real news to be found! This makes the "feedback" even worse than usual for a Seraph amplifying their resonance in this manner; the angel is literally stunned for 1-6 minutes. __________________ “It's not railroading if you offer the PCs tickets and they stampede to the box office, waving their money. Metaphorically speaking” --Elizabeth McCoy, In Nomine Line Editor Author: "What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Stronger"