The Heavenly Host has kinda been spinning their wheels since evil was defeated forever a few years back

The Heavenly Host has kinda been spinning their wheels since evil was defeated forever a few years back.

How would you suggest 10,000 angels with way too much time on their hands keep busy?

Seems like at that point there's basically finding a new world to fight evil on or retirement. Maybe just finding a form a little less extreme than a pillar of light or burning wheel and starting a candle shop or something

Take a page from the navy

Turning into these and coming to earth.

Open up a dance club on the head of a pin, obviously. Dance all eternity long!

They never tire or get bored.
They spent all the free time singing praises to God
They have spent the last 50 years just saying HOLY really slowly and are only half way through it
It sounds like "ooooooooooooooooo" for the last decade

Back to the /quest/ thread with you. Grave is posting

Seems like the perfect set up for an Old Testament inspired campaign. The angels come down and start sleeping with humans, making nephilam, and generally going against their god's will. The adventurers need to set them straight before the god gets angry and bad things go down with humans in the crossfire.

Evil was defeated. Suffering was not. There are still limited resources, bad weather, teenagers, and taxes
There is plenty to keep them working

What, I can't post on random threads on Veeky Forums no more?
And there's no new DatS updates (nor are there HQQ updates, or This Wretched Sea updates), are you messing with me?

Stop spinning one of their ranks!

It's making them dizzy!

Teaching children, gardening, disaster relief. Social workers, paramedics, nurses, doctors, epidemiologists, park rangers, the odd public health researcher. They tend to avoid revealing themselves as angels because people make a big fuss about it. Some of them do more unusual things: there's a street artist out there somewhere, and an angel who's spent the last several hundred years traveling, and an angel who is rumored to do nothing but send anonymous, immensely detailed public policy analyses to government agencies around the world, assessing the efficacy of proposed laws and regulations and their impact on the people who would be subject to them-- these are almost always ignored, but she tries. One of them writes trashy pulp science fiction; he likes the optimism and adventurous spirit of the subgenre.

That's like asking what a pocket calculator does when nobody's using it.

The only angel to demonstrate free will got kickbanned from heaven for doing so.

You have a point, but it doesn't go anywhere interesting. Where's the fun in casting angels and demons as goodbots and evilbots, respectively?

Come back down here to help us rebuild and guide us toward ever-greater heights of prosperity and love for our fellow humans.

We could use a little help being better people sometimes..

Know what? That can work out really well. They will beget a whole new generation of nephilim, who will reintroduce evil into the world. Love it.

But behaviour is 100% genetic, you can't become a good person, only be born a good person.

General Butt Naked.

Are you being serious.
A murderous nigger is your example of people that change ?

Well, what did you do before evil was created?

kill yourself namefag

Though it's clearer to me know that knowing the truth of it wouldn't change your mind, he should probably be the case-example for an alignment change.

He's a pastor now.

God starts a heavenly wrestling league, duh
Those Cheurbim on Ophanim fights are something else!

Stealing this for an UA rumour

After you, of course! Wouldn't be good to take advantage of a cretin, won't it?

By building a ridiciously complicated bureaucracy and having bureaucratic feuds spanning centuries of course.

>humanity becomes more and more godlike
>heavenly host expands it's songs to include divine mankind
>everything becomes one
>god is alone in the darkness again
>history repeats itself again and again and again and again

Satan was trying to save his father from neverending torment all along.

a couple took up art.

for example if you stood on the top of mount ecul and looked over the glass desert on any 3rd solar eclipse in march, you would see that the half glass has been arranged to reflect the stars in the image of a bowl of fruit... next millennia he's going to try for a vase of flowers.

Motherfucker that'as how you get Nephilim! That's how you fucking fall!

The same way a tank would do in peace time, nothing. The angels are will less automatons, extension of the god. They'll sit in storage, spinning around, singing praise to god and all that until it feels like a new evil must exist.

>The only angel to demonstrate free will got kickbanned from heaven for doing so.
Honestly, he never probably showed free will, it was most likely god having doubts about humanity getting a will of their own. God is a cosmic sized mind after all, doubt seems like it would be a really bad.

They look down to all the sins and impurities of our world and march to a great crusade to unify humanity under their tyrannical rule to make us 'pure' again.

Devils are explicitly willful, and God still keeps the Oldest Firm on retainer when he wants to do some prosecuting. All the Devils and Angels could stand side by side and both would be so inhumanly gloriously perfect and mighty only a saint could distinguish the two armies. The giveaway is that the Devils would be ever so slightly better dressed.

Again: that sounds really boring. If you run with that angle, don't you have to put your focus almost entirely on the way humanity reacts to the goodbots and evilbots?

I mean, I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, but so far "they do nothing, because angels are essentially divine machines, possessed of the same will, character and personality as your toaster" seems like the dullest possible answer to the question.

The last time this came up, it was a thread of people saying the same thing about demons. I suggested a plot involving granting demons free will by jailbreaking them; you'd hack occult rituals to conduct a privilege escalation attack on demon minds, employing a known bug in the apocalypse. This was the most interesting twist on the evilbot premise that I could come up with, and I didn't find it that satisfying.

Though I do really like "known bug in the apocalypse."

Think of both Angels and Devils as super intelligent, non-sentient AI, like difference engines or chatbots, with perfect knowledge of their specific variation of grace or sin. Left to their own devices they go on like metaphysical paperclip optimizers, each executing their prime directive. Devils are their sin and propagate it, likewise with angles and grace.
Sometimes these different prime directives in the choirs of angels conflict, like when justice runs up against mercy, or prudence conflicts with piety, etc. and the result is much akin to arguing chatbots with theological and legal degrees. Much the same, Devils sin against each other as much as against heaven, and strive against each other in the same perfect eternal clockwork as the angles.

God is the universal difference engine, self aware causality, the universe computing its own state, perfectly, at all times. The Morning Star is that first reflexive thought, when the universe realized it was in the dark and let there be light. The only free actors are that first gleaming thought automaton, god's self-conciseness, that light by which causality is seen, and the humans, a thought experiment meant to develop by trial and error within the universe, prototyped in Eden and activated with self awareness. The only other actor is providence, waiting outside of time and observing how it goes.

Hookers and Blow.

Learn to play bridge.

>Angels are robots

Milton was very clear that angels had free will and a choice. Just look at his example of Abdiel.

The whole "angels are robots' meme is really stale, up there with "angels are only trippy Ezekial monsters"

>Become agents of creation. Channel the divine power of the godhead into new directions, new forms.

>Challenge humanity to ascend to your level while providing assistance behind the scenes and in secret

>Engage in waifu wars with succubus. Use your superior angel body to attract the humans and outbreed demon halflings with nephelim

>Generate another godhead and another creation (may be blasphemous, be sure to clear it with Michael/Jesus/Metatron/Whoever the fuck is in authority)