Tales from Dramaville (Part 1)

Three main story lines have evolved from my current home campaign for In Nomine, and I thought it might have some entertainment value to post some things about them here.

One of the player characters is an angel of balance in service to Michael, the Arcangel of War. His mission is to bring balance and honor to disputes between the local urban gangs. Good luck, this is a tough one! He established a Role under the name Steve Jackson which, by pure coincidence I'm sure, is the name of the guy who publishes In Nomine. He decided that the best way to approach his goal was to join one of the gangs and lead by example, and he quickly rose to a position of influence in the gang largely because of his well-beyond-human physical capabilities. The gang still didn't buy into his ideas about fighting with honor, largely because they saw honor as a luxury he could afford and they couldn't.

He also hadn't anticipated the intervention of other celestials. A demon with the ability to manipulate emotions turned up with a Role in a rival gang, and on more than one occasion, prodded him into rages that caused him to act far less than honorably. This damaged his credibility badly and has gotten him into more than a little trouble with local law enforcement. A situation eventually occurred that enabled "Steve Jackson" to figure out which of the other gang members was the demon responsible for his recent trouble, and a chase ensued. The demon made a tactical error that allowed Steve to corner him, and by the time the two were actually face-to-face, the demon had him in a such an out-of-control rage that Steve ripped his heart out through his chest with his bare hands. The death of the demon's Vessel (and corresponding Role) triggered the all out gang war that was the exact opposite of what Steve was there to achieve.

One of the other angelic player characters helped him to evade the police, and the pair went to the nearest Tether for Steve to work off some of the dangerous amounts of Dissonance he'd acquired when he'd lost emotional control. He turned himself in to the police (for reasons which are rather a long story), then was released from jail on a technicality after making a deal with a Lilim lawyer. The agreement is that at some point, the Lilim will ask him to kill a demon of her choice, and he is bound by his promise to do that. He didn't specify any other details regarding said demon. This could get messy later.

Now free, he decided to try to end the fighting by reasoning directly with the leadership of the rival gang. Unfortunately for him, the worst possible circumstances occurred, leaving him shot in the head and unconscious but not dead. The gang then tortured him to death (or so they thought), removed his face with a knife, mailed his face to the leadership of the gang he'd joined, then dumped his body in the nearest river. He managed to drag himself out of the river and get helped to the nearest hospital. Now everybody thinks he's dead, and it's going to be very interesting indeed to see how various parties react when they find out that he isn't.