by PriamNevhausten » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:16 pm
So recently I tripped across the word "seneschal," incidentally as the game The Riddle Of Steel's term for, basically, a GM. And I realized that I had seen the word before, somewhere, most likely in a different game of some sort. Where was it?
Google is no help; I get links to the SCA, references to In Nomine, and blurbs about Vampire: The Masquerade, as well as a billion and a quarter pages that tell me what a seneschal is (spoiler: a major-domo). None of these help me, because I am not familiar with their source materials; I heard the term elsewhere.
This is where I turn to you guys. What the hell games have or use the word/name "Seneschal"? I know it's somewhere. And fifteen heads is better than just me.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru