Mizumah
Mercurian of
Flowers
Corporeal Forces: 2 Strength:
4 Agility: 4
Ethereal Forces: 3 Intelligence:
6 Precision: 6
Celestial Forces: 4 Will:
7 Perception:
9
Vessel/1, (Woman) +1 Charisma
Skills: Dodge/2, Emote/4, Knowledge (Occultism/1,
Angelogy/3)
Songs: Healing (Corporeal/2, Ethereal/3), Harmony
(Ethereal/2), Shields (Corporeal/3)
Role: "Jenny Winston" (New Age
Shopkeeper/4, Status/3)
Attunements: Mercurian of Flowers, Seraph of Flowers
Mizumah regularly reminds herself
that this is just how it goes. When
you're new, you start off with Halo-flashing.
Ah, right, well, maybe that phrase should be more
fully explained. It goes like this:
there's a percentage of the population out there that believes in angels. Fluffy angels, to be precise: all full
of the mystic soft-edged wonder of the cosmos and the healing power of the
musical spheres and a whole bunch of other concepts that, while sounding quite
nice and profound, clash horribly with the operating paradigm of a Manichean
war to the knife. Unfortunately, the
percentage of the population that believes in the old-fashioned sort of angels
is much, much lower, which can be a real pain when you're trying to get a message ported over.
And Hell is way too amused with the entire concept to just let attempts
to change public perception go unanswered.
So: Halo-flashing.
If fluffy is what is expected, by God the Host has angels that
can approximate it (although it's largely unnecessary during direct action
scenarios: it's amazing how fast a human can get behind the entire I Am An
Angel Of The Lord concept when it's immediately followed by So Let Go Of The
Human, Foul Hell-Spawn). Needless to
say, for every message of actual importance you need X number of unimportant
messages, with X being equivalent to the average number of messages needed to
provide a reasonable amount of anonymity for the important ones. After all, the Horde would notice very
quickly if every time an angel appeared to a human something important
happened.
So that's Mizumah's job:
she's just started up with Ambiguous Visitations. As her training progresses, she'll learn how
to do Minor Serendipities, then branch out into Reassuring Manifestations, and
her trainer thinks that the Mercurian has what it takes to cross-train into
Visionary Dreamings.
If she's very good, Mizumah might even
get a shot at Holiday Miracles; the slots are usually full, but there's always
a place for the younger angels. Even if
she doesn't get the shot, Halo-flashing is still one of the standard beginning
scenario for new angels, so she'll probably be doing it for a while; it's
volunteer work, and work that Novalines actually tend
to like, after all. Although, as the
above noted, Mizumah is perhaps getting just the
tiniest bit interested in getting the chance to be a little more pro-active
about things.
After all, there is a War on.
Mizumah is a balanced starting
character.