Bachliel
Ofanite Friend of the Sages
Ethereal Forces: 6 Intelligence:
12 Precision: 12
Celestial Forces: 6 Will:
12 Perception:
12
Word-Forces: 5
Vessel: human male/3, human female/3
Skills: Acrobatics/6, Chemistry/6, Computer
Operation/6, Driving/6, Dodge/6, Emote/6, Fighting/6, Large Weapon (Sword/6),
Medicine/6, Ranged Weapon (rifle/6, shotgun/6), Savior-Faire/6, Tactics/6
Songs: Correspondence (All/6), Daydreams/6, Healing
(All/6), Motion (All/6) (Virtuoso), Shields (All/6), Speed (All/6), Symphony
(All/6), Tongues (All/6)
Attunements: Ofanite of Destiny, Malakite of
Destiny, The Akashic Record, Divine Destiny, Divine Logic, Library Card, Right
of Passage, Synchronicity, Angel of Laziness
Angel of Laziness: When Bachliel does actually do
something, it stays done. He doubles
the final CD of all successful rolls.
Yes, this is cumulative with his Ofanite Attunement
and natural resonance. Yes, this means
that Bachiel has an average minimum CD of 14 when succeeding at the
above skills and Songs. Yes, this is an
incredibly powerful (if not downright frightening) ability to have - and, yes,
there are whole divisions of angels voluntarily and independently doing their
best to boost the Word of Laziness to the point where the Wheel could give out
this ability as a Servitor Attunement.
Hopefully, this should give the reader a certain
insight in the way Bachliel operates.
Rites:
Solve a problem right the first time (usable twice
per day).
Meserach?
Bah: the Prince of Sloth was a rank amateur in the art of laziness,
compared to Bachliel. That's
incidentally one of the reasons why the Ofanite is still around and Meserach
isn't, but we'll get back to that later.
You see, laziness is more than just flopping on the
couch and doing nothing all day: in fact, people who do that sort of thing are
profoundly unworthy of the august and honorable designation of 'lazy'. A truly lazy individual is so much
more. He or she is someone who has learned,
deep in their bones and souls, two of the greatest Truths of the universe:
1). If
something is not broken, do not fix it; and
2). If
something is broken, fixing it properly the first time means that you
never have to bother with it again.
Ever.
Bachliel keeps to these two Truths with all the
passion and energy one would expect from an Ofanite. He keeps himself at the peak of condition - because it makes it so
much easier to do his job. He masters
whatever skills and Songs that he needs for his duties - because that way he
doesn't have to waste valuable free time looking things up. He performs his tasks quickly and thoroughly
- because he loathes having things come back to haunt him.
He also sits around a lot, simply because he likes
to. Hey, just because you can move fast
all the time doesn't mean that you have to move fast all the time. It's more fun if you're doing it because you
want to.
Bachliel makes other Ofanim faintly nervous - well,
he makes just about everyone fairly nervous, but it's more noticeable with the
Wheels. OK, 'fairly nervous' is way too
mild a term: 'headache-level cognitive dissonance' is much, much more apt. He's very good at loafing, you see. The Ofanite has lots and lots of free time
and likes to spend it idling along.
Oddly, he always seems to get to where he needs to be with a bare
minimum of fuss and invariably just when he's needed, which leads one to wonder
just what is going on in Bachliel's head.
He's tried to explain it to others - Bachliel is nothing if not
genuinely helpful and pleasant (makes it easier to get people to listen to you
later, don't you know) - but his explanations are usually so esoteric that they
stop barely short of being ineffable.
By now angels in the Host that deal with him know enough to just smile,
nod and not ask dumb questions. It took
him forever to set it up that way, but once he did it was worth it.
Oh, and Meserach?
Long story: the short version was that Bachliel got
his Word somewhere around 800 AD, after a fairly lively debate in the Seraphim
Council about possible Word-friction issues with Sloth. Yves indicated that it wouldn't be a
problem, and it certainly didn't seem to affect the Ofanite much in the
following two centuries. Obviously, any
lingering issues went away after Sloth got masticated, thanks to a certain
Calabite who also happened to have worked closely with Bachliel in the
just-ended Legion War.
Funny, that.