So, I decided to reread the previous parts... In DW5-3, "katakan", I think you probably mean katakana, and in one place in 5-5, Skuld says "Solder" instead of "soldier".
On to actual comments.
So I was thinking about Megumi, whose decision I seem to find a lot more understandable than most people. And was looking at this part in the concordance...
And on thinking about it some more... Well, I've only had one relatively cursory read through the IN rules, but it seems like "servitor" in this story is pretty much equivalent to "soldier" in the game. With "soldier" in the story being something with no direct counterpart. Or at least it didn't sound to me like soldiers in IN lost their free will to the degree that everyone is so upset about.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not *complaining* about things being different... I just want to be sure I understand where things are going.
On a less serious note, while at work tonight I was seized by an irrational desire to refer to... whatever that thing is Doug's using... as the "thwack'em stick". (It's too effective to be the "stick of pain".) As I'm in the habit of giving in to my irrational desires... hopefully it'll get a real name at some point, or I might end up using this one again. ^_-
There was something I was going to say about the Ami and Rachel situation, but it's late and I don't feel like the poking around it'd take to find the quote involved tonight, so I'm putting this note in to remind me of it later.
I kind of wonder what this fanon about the Doublet System is like. Nothing I've heard about it makes it sound like a very good idea. I like the UF system a lot better, where you don't attack people on the other side because it would make *your* boss mad. It certainly scales better."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)
On to actual comments.
So I was thinking about Megumi, whose decision I seem to find a lot more understandable than most people. And was looking at this part in the concordance...
Quote:And Skuld very pointedly would not make Megumi a soldier... but Megumi seems to have gotten this bit anyway. (Presumably a corporeal force, given later events.)
When a mortal becomes a Soldier, he is usually given at least one Force by the Celestial to whom he has sworn, which brings with it at the very least the ability to perceive the Symphony -- the In Nomine term for the "sound" of the Cosmic All -- in addition to whatever ability boost it provides.
And on thinking about it some more... Well, I've only had one relatively cursory read through the IN rules, but it seems like "servitor" in this story is pretty much equivalent to "soldier" in the game. With "soldier" in the story being something with no direct counterpart. Or at least it didn't sound to me like soldiers in IN lost their free will to the degree that everyone is so upset about.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not *complaining* about things being different... I just want to be sure I understand where things are going.
On a less serious note, while at work tonight I was seized by an irrational desire to refer to... whatever that thing is Doug's using... as the "thwack'em stick". (It's too effective to be the "stick of pain".) As I'm in the habit of giving in to my irrational desires... hopefully it'll get a real name at some point, or I might end up using this one again. ^_-
There was something I was going to say about the Ami and Rachel situation, but it's late and I don't feel like the poking around it'd take to find the quote involved tonight, so I'm putting this note in to remind me of it later.
I kind of wonder what this fanon about the Doublet System is like. Nothing I've heard about it makes it sound like a very good idea. I like the UF system a lot better, where you don't attack people on the other side because it would make *your* boss mad. It certainly scales better."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)