New OoC thread.

It's got that new thread smell...

Quick, describe your characters with zero actual setting context.

"Flaming tsundere lizard man who hates bugs is hoping to get terminated."

"A very angry Dr. Acula."

Lurking maniac that plots 10 ways to kill you while he stands motionless in the corner some of them including magic.

A pair of chainswords set to the theme of Jaws.

A ghost ready to squish your head with oversized jaws of life while fixing the rhino's radiator.

Religious warrior aesthete with exceedingly violent and psychotic monastic brothers.

The hound that's eyeing you up as if deciding to befriend or savage you.

Sweet.

While we're waiting for the mission top finish up, does anyone else want to do an in-character, time-irrelevant sparring session/skill competition back at the Watch Fortress?  I really want to roleplay some character interaction and brotherly competitive bonding is right up my alley, but don't want to overload our gracious Gamemaster with keeping track of our antics.

I'll open up a thread for you. Gladiatorial Arena, Barren Wasteland, or Urban throw down?

I'm good with any of them, so I'll let the "challenger" decide.

Urban?

So I'm guessing this is one of the simulation chambers on the watch fortress, correct? Can't find the book that has all the Erioch info in at the moment but I know we have the technology.

Its an out of time place so who knows what it is. It might just as well be some backwater planet where we could train.

Anybody want to go first?  I'm ready and waiting!

Sorry not interested in just a combat as i got to look everything up in the book thats not on my sheet.

Probably should have the new guys run the duels so they're not just waiting around.

Well, doesn't seem like anyone's interested in competing.

Anyone have a fun Roleplaying story?  I can also share one, if you prefer.  There's...

• Captain Gareth "The Gator" Cortez, or the time I accidentally destabilized an entire country because I forgot my alarm clock.
• The Black Crusade/Rogue Trader crossover, or how my party of incompetent heretics decimated a chapter of space marines by failing in all the right ways
• The Tengu Story, or how my brother's ninja character pulled a fast one on the entire party.

Winning b loosing? That sounds like an interesting story.

Maybe instead of doing a duel (i really don't like those) we could do a little freeform on that death world instead?

Also boss can you let us know if we can 'easily' rocket that weapon or if we need to make a massive detour? If its easy to shoot at i'll take a few pot shots.

You'll have to literally go out onto the surface of the hole. It's not difficult to get out there, but once you are, you're in space. I think you can take it out with a krack. The module is not very specific.

I honestly thought the duel was already set up. I only asked if it was in a simulation room because it would need someone to help oversee the smooth operation of it.

Well nobody is posting in the simulation or otherwise non canon duel so its understandable Xander thinks nobody wants to play with him.

So i might make a BS shot but Demolitions? Untrained its as good as a no go. Anyone else skilled enough?

Unless it's involving chainswords and jump packs, I got nothing.

You know what? Never mind. You can make a ballistic skill check.

Gah, figured the flamer would have an oxygen supply and oxygenated fuel. Shows how much I know.

I mean, it might. I don't know what the rules are. I figured if it was spraying pure promethium... Nope I don't know. I didn't want to take it away from you just because you're in space. We should come up with a precedent in case this comes up again.

Use the rule of cool to determine when a flamer works in vacuum and not, & blame it on different fuel qualities?

The game is developed with vacuum in mind. There is nothing saying flame weapons don't work there so id say go with they work. Probably will not set anything on fire but it should do its initial damage

Sorry for the delay, had a bunch of overtime this week.

I'm totally okay with free-forming the "duel" thread.  The origin story for the  primarch Vulkan was that he and the emperor didn't fight directly,  but made a bet on who could hunt the biggest prey.  Vulkan slew a massive creature, but slipped into a volcanic rift and couldn't climb out without abandoning his catch.  Them the emperor showed up, dragging a beast even bigger than the one Vulkan had caught,  and without hesitation threw it into the lava so Vulkan could climb out safely.   Even though the Emperor had no proof of his catch, Vulkan forfeited before his own people because he was so moved by the Emperors benevolence.   A similar,  perhaps less epic confrontation would be fine by me.

Also,  Hooray for joining the party in-game!   I'm assuming we're not prepared to be in the belly of a Kraken, so I'm just going to fight with standard-issue gear.

Glad we're all together too.  And this is an ideal circumstance for it to happen. It fits right in.

How big are the hordes?  Just wondering for to-hit modifiers.

+30 to hit.

How damaged is the reactor? I don't expect the ship to fly us out but if we can get it powered up...

The ship is 3/4 sunk into bile. It was grabbed by an enormous space tentacle and thrown in here. The reactor is in need of some serious prayers.

Reactor goes kablooey?

Indeed :)

I feel you on the Heavy Flamer thirst.  Flame weapons leave something to be desired in terms of range, but there's nothing better at destroying hordes.  Salamanders get access to a special relic weapon that has a whopping 40m range and terrifies its victims.   With the right talents, it can deal (40m/4= 10) hits, plus 1d5 for being a flame weapon, plus 1d5 for Unrelenting Devestation, plus ANOTHER 1d5 for Cleanse and Purify, for a total of 13 to 25 magnitude damage.  If you include Storm of Iron, that's 26 to 50 magnitude damage off of a single attack.

That said, as of now I can do about 10-22 mag-damage with a heavy flamer which is pretty good for just Rank 2.

And for Nids there's the always fun Hellfire Flamer. May not pack the punch of a heavy but ignoring natural armour lets you take it to the heavy creatures a bit easier.

Also, who is considered "must rescue" and expendable?
This message was last edited by the player at 15:40, Thu 21 Nov 2019.

Only the one imperial officer is considered high value Target. The others are expendable. To be honest, they're probably less valuable than the Stormtroopers, and the Stormtroopers were expecting this to be a suicide mission for them.

The way i see it we are on a suicide mission. The extra bodies are a great asset to keep the hordes at bay. Once we have completed the main objective and if then we have enough survivors Marine or otherwise we can deal with it at that point. The teleport homer for now is just a morale boost for those who might need it. ;-)

So for initiative we're looking at

• Detrum, 17
• Kubra, 13
• Arkio, 12
• Kyros and Barachiel, 6
• Xander, 5
• Hrothgar, ?
• Tyranids, ?

Do you guys want to get your rolls in, or are you leaving it up to Tzeentch?

Edit: I got u fam.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:52, Fri 22 Nov 2019.

Oh! Sorry, I must have missed that post IC.

I'll get my actions up right away.

I got no idiea what you are talking about. My initiative is there. ;-)

One thing that can save time and dice rolls Zayn (and anyone else that chews through hoards) if you can't fail to damage the hoard even if you roll a 1 for damage (once penetration and minimum damage is figured out) then just count the hits landed.  Kyros is a hoard killer, all I do is count how many DOS per swing, and each hit is 1 magnitude of hoard damage.  No one is should be able to hit a gaunt and not cause at least one wound.

For open ground combat, yeah.   A situation like what is happening right now means no cover bonus to armor.   If we're at enough range or in broken terrain,  that might make it questionable.

On the subject of melee combat,  does anyone know if Promethean Blessing gains the additional horde damage from Cleanse and Purify talent, or is it just the (-20 to flame effect tests)?

So all enemies are gone?

All the hordes are gone. There are two genestealers that you know of. One of them is lurking right next to kubra near the entrance you came in at. The other one is on the ship, making eyes at your salamander friend.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:48, Sat 23 Nov 2019.

Lets drag this here. As i read it everything in the bubble now has an additional +14 Armor vs Ranged attacks. Or anything shooting from the outside in? As written i'f say anything in it which is a double edged sword if used in melee situations where we got mad lad gunemn around.

If you feel like pushing the power and dealing with psychic phenomena, sure.  It's great if a group of warriors or a hive tyrant show up to blast us, but otherwise it's not worth the automatic phenomena when facing termagaunts and the like.  If you cast it unfettered you still get a respectable +8 AP from the power in a 20m radius, but run less risk of harming allies.  Also,  because the dome is a shell and not a field if effect, having a smaller radius is actually more useful in tight passageways where enemies might ambush us so close that a guaranteed +4  armor in a 10m radius might be more useful than a +14 that enemies just walk past. 

Another nifty thing to note it's the fact that it traps air and water,  making it an effective escape pod in a pinch.   If we need to,  we could literally just strap the VIP to the librarians chest and tie the rest of us together and wait for a shuttle to pick us up.

The last bit is why i pushed it. We got  the oath that gives you guys +10 ws and BS vs Nids and i can reroll phenomena. So if i roll under 75 its good to go.  Else i can reroll.

Now we got a bubble of 35 meter that protects us against the enviorment. And being inside a digestive tract does sound like we are in an enviornment we want to protect against.

What's the word on the reactor's functionality?

It's in an inactive state right now. You could reactivate it but other parts of the ship are in bad states and might cause problems.

Hey, I'll be out this weekend, I'll follow a bit but can't post.  Have a great week.

How about the Reactor detonatability?

I figured if we could get it started we'd just have to disable any safeties that are in place and overload it. Though we'd have to stay long enough to make sure the nids don't dmg it enough to disable it.

Honestly the hardest part about getting this reactor to detonate would be getting far enough away from it once it is engaged.

I'm going to be AWOL for the next two days.

We got our way out already? Or do we need to get back the way we came? Not sure we got to much time to waste inside a creatures digestive system. It might send us endless hordes on our ass if we fuck around to much with it and unsure how big the ship is but on average we are talking kilometers of tunnels filled with bile isnt it? I say we pull the VIP out and hope the reactor goes when the bile destroys it. But then this room might be made to sustain it and we'll just get a massive burp.

Just have the 'new' guys take their VIP out and then go to the exit if Kurba found one.

I don't think us new guys are equipped to extract the VIP, unless you happened to bring multiple teleporter beacons or are willing to have Arkio go on a spacewalk with the VIP.  Additionally, if the tyranid vessel is so big that the Imperial ship was sinking in its stomach acid, the blast will probably disembowel it but won't guarantee the destruction of the synapse node.  Without that, the whole mission would have been a waste of time and assets.

If we CAN get the reactor to overload,  this might actually be a good point to interact with the other survivors and the Stormtroopers you brought with you.  Try to convince them to buy the space Marines time to finish the mission by holding out on the remainder of the ship, and let THEM detonate it once we're clear/when they get overrun.  If we can't get it to perform a controlled detonation, the extra bodies can at least earn their lives as cannon fodder covering our backs on the way to the objective.

No i mean extract it from this vessel while we keep any nasties away from you here. And then we move on together.

I don't think the ship is fit for extraction, unless we're going to spend several HOURS holding off increasing waves of enemies while our Techmarine struggles against the slowly dissolving hull.  It's better to just push on in that instance.

What's the state of the warp core?

As i read it the ship is of no use for us. Stuff either takes to much time we do not have or is lost to us. Lets get the VIP and other troops out and move on.

I'm not talking about taking it with us. If the chamber is somewhat able to survive a reactor blast like Xander suggested, then trighering both the reactor and warp core at the same time could multiply the destructive force. Even with the shadow of the warp.

Whilst I like the idea of blowing up the buggered ship, perhaps after a dungeon crawl inside another dungeon crawl, I think it might be a none starter & we should push on.

And this. It serves us no purpose if we are ot sure it kills the hive mind and we still all die. So get the VIP and any extra troops out and evacuate.

Dammit, forgot about the insanity roll. I'll get on it soon as I get chance.

Hey, I'm back from a trip to Vegas, had a great time.  If you're ever out there, see the show Absinthe, it was incredible.  One of the funniest shows I've ever seen (plus sexy, and some incredible acrobatics and stuff.

You lucky dog... I wish my broke ass could afford it.  Sounds like my kinda show.

The last vacation trip I had was before my son was born, staying with some family who had a timeshare down in Belize.  The scuba diving was great, at least.

Before we all wade into this alien breeding nest and spawn an army of face huggers.

How many soldiers we have still with us? As they will be having an around 50% chance to rouse these lil fucks.

And how big is the chamber? We got 3 flamers i believe. Maybe cooking this is the better way to go.

And if we had an apotech this was prime xenophage stuff ;-)

Given that it was described as 200m long and "cavernous", I'd guess it's at least 30m-80m wide.  If you really want to go that route we would have to pray it doesn't just piss off the ship itself, as I think burning Promethium is a bit more disruptive than just walking around.

I'd also assume the soldiers with us would be LESS likely to disturb the pods than us, given that they aren't Hulking or wearing a literal half ton of ceramite.  That alone should only give them a 10% chance of waking something up.

Yeah, and Stormtroopers of all Guard know how to keep their gobs shut, so they don't have to roll.

Dang so its really me and my crappy agi rolls thats going to kill us all ;-)

Naw, bro.  I'm willing to bet straight Requisition that it's a threshold challenge, and even if we all passed SOMETHING would still happen as we're progressing through the hatchery.  This is probably just to see how far down the chamber we're able to go before shit goes sideways.

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My guess is a carnifex or some warriors are going to get hatched halfway down the chamber,  regardless of what we do.   If we all get enough success,  they'll probably pop out just after we walk by giving us the option to run or fight.  If we don't get enough,  we'll likely end up waking up something else partway and cause a chain reaction in the hatchery, thus forcing us to fight our way through for every meter of ground.  At least, that's what I picture when the GM teases "interesting encounters ahead"...

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*Blink*

No-one failed? I don't think the module expected that. I was given a schedule of what creatures pop out in each round, all after it says "if a PC fails this test..."

Anyway, side message,
I'm planning to start a Star Wars game using FFG's Force & Destiny rules if any of you fine people want to join.

In reply to Jericho Reach (msg # 77):

The Emperor has blessed our mission.   DEUS VULT

No-one failed eh? Hold my mjod...

Dont have those rules. Still looking for some new games though.

If climbing is an issue for some (Astartes should be good) Kyros could fly up and secure a rope or cable.  I was about to post up when that occurred to me.  Should I make line to climb?

If we can move at +20 Agi it should be 'easy' enough to scale Not sure how much rope we will be needing to get everyone up. Mayby whip that out if there are trouble ascending with the group as rope climbing will most likely mean we loose time we no longer have.

Did you guys hear about the channel behind the ASTARTES animations getting hacked and deleted?  Feels bad, man.

Awww damn. I was hoping someone with money & sense would get them involved in making a feature length.

I declare Exterminatus on those hackers!!

Holy Terra, I just checked on it a minute ago and he FINALLY got his channel restored!  He even posted a teaser if the next episode on Twitter.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ast.../1205050496781668353

I hadn't heard he got hacked, glad he's back, those videos were incredible.

Is there any horde left? That was a pretty big opening salvo.

Yeah, we all rolled shockingly well there. Waiting for the pendulum to swing back the other way & us to start losing limbs now :D

So what's going on?

Holidays?

But ready to move on yeah. If we are waiting on someone maybe implement a 24 hours warning or so? You just post who you are waiting for and that you will update regardless if they have posted the next day? So we will not take till next year for a quick mission? ;-)

Sorry folks, getting ready for the Christmas wind down in work & prepping at home has been eating my time. I'll get a post done first chance I get.

Yeah, sorry for taking awhile.
This part only really requires a roll to avoid damage, so I'll update later this week. If you haven't got your post in by then it's okay, just include the roll in your next post.

09:59, Today: Jericho Reach rolled 27 using 3d10.  electrical damage,.

Made the roll. But then i wonderd. Is the discharge an enviornment my bubble could protect against? As i could conjure it up as a 'save zone' if it works like that.

22:05, Today: Brother Arkio rolled 42 -- 3 degrees of success using the Only War system with a
target number of 68.  Perception.

Yes, your bubble would work on this, I figure.

20 meter radius suffices to cover everyone?

Does it take two rounds from the team or can two people attacking it in one turn also do the trick?

Two people working in concert can destroy it in one go.

Merry Christmas all, hope the holidays treat you well.

And a blessed Sanguinala to you,  too!  Praise be to the son of the Emperor, may flights of servo-skulls bearing nutrient packs with real Artificial Plum Flavoring visit your dreams.  Remember, Lord-Inquisitor Klaus St. Nicholas is watching to see who the good little boys and girls are, and who is a filthy heretic that deserves Promethium in their stockings!

Dang why did i get a full tank of promethium in my stockings?

That's because you've been a good servant of the Emperor and deserve lots of ammo.   The heretics get LIT promethium, to purge them of their sins.

For Sanguinalia this year, you can all have 5 extra Requisition, usable when you next visit an armoury.

Happy new year's all, may the Emperor smash your enemies!

May slaanesh bring you pleasure! Khorne destroy those who are in your way. Tzeentzh grant you the wisdom to make the right choices and may Nurgle remain from your path.

Blessed be the emperor who rots in his chair and turns a blind eye to those who serve him well in the name of the true gods.

Boss i didn't roll an attack as i assumed it was not neccecary but i did actually hit one of the nerve things so the one Hrotgar and I are taking on should be destroyed right? Or do i need to make an attack roll?

Sorry, I didn't notice that you had began the attempt. Should have read more closely. Yes, I will include in the next post the update that you successfully destroyed one of the nodes.

Coolies. I feared it would get us more trouble in one go.

Can i use Avenger to hit more targets? Multiple nerve clusters and maybe even those bad warriors?

Might want to tell us before your warp powers shoot a flaming hellshark, I'm pretty sure Hrothgar and I would be in the cone of fire.

I surely hope i can aim my power enough i wont hit those standing next to me.

If that's not the name of someone's band, it should be.

Most likely is. Some obscure Dubsteb band worshipping Slaneesh.

Not sure if this was clear, but if you want to act in this round you may.

I was waitinf for an answer to this. To Avenge or maybe even smite some stuff.

You can hit one of the nerve clusters and the Warrior next to it.

How close are the warriors?

About 10 meters. Call it Close range.

How many Warriors at this point?

As i read it one active and a bunch ready to be dropped into action.

That's how I understood it as well.

You got it. You have a ticking clock made of Warriors.

Will update tomorrow.

I'd have Kyros go for one of the pillars, but he's lost in a frenzy, so he's going for his next opponent.

Bored. Updating tomorrow.

Im all in favor of setting a time limit for a turn so it doesn't take ages to get murdered by hive tyrants.

Just trying to find which oath we took. Like a buffoon I forgot to put it in my scratch pad & every time I've gone looking for it I've got interrupted. I'm thinking these 'nids are due a good squad mode-ing. How about Strongpoint with Xander as the centre?

Edit: Found it, Oath of Knowledge. Hands up all those who forgot we get +10 to WS & BS Vs Tyranids...*sheepishly raises a hand*
This message was last edited by the player at 12:44, Sat 25 Jan 2020.

Doh!  Forgot too.

I'll create a thread where you can post your most recent Squad mode Choice, and then everyone will be able to check what it was most recently without scrolling through the archives.

In reply to Hrothgar (msg # 126):

I'm okay with being the Center (since you can designate a Battle Brother other than yourself)  if you still want to be mobile.  Otherwise, just let us know what to aim for :)

Also, entering squad mode doesn't cost cohesion.  Rather, you roll a d10 and try to get = to or less than our current cohesion.  If you succeed,  it's just a free action on your turn.  If you fail, it requires a full action to join Squad Mode.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:16, Sat 25 Jan 2020.

If you're ok being the centre, fill your magboots dude. I only nominated myself because you'd already posted for this round.

The 3 cohesion spent was to fire up the Strongpoint pattern.

In reply to Hrothgar (msg # 130):

More than happy to plant mah feet .  I just figured that since I passed the willpower test,  it would be better to spend the round attacking and let someone else spend the full action to activate Strongpoint.

I just saw that I didn't include a reaction in my post, can I still roll one?

Of course.

Great, I usually put that in my attack post.  I'll get that done later today.

I managed to dodge the first attack, so he's hit on the second one, I updated my post.  The second hit was to the right arm, and with 3 Pen, reduces the armor to 5.  24 damage minus 5 - 8 is 11 wounds.  A solid hit, and actually the first hit of any consequence for Kyros so far, but he's still in this (pretty worried until I did the math).

Great minds Arkio. I was just about to ask if you had anything to stop the Stormtroopers going Cthulu on us from the teleport.

I am bubble boy!! ;-)

Well done Brothers.  I was going to post about Kyros coming out of his frenzy just in time to get brought in by the teleportation homer, but we'll just assume he made it.

Was there a Renown reward for mission 1 of Final Sanction?

Yes, someone forgot to indicate how much it actually was. Since the Munitorium doesn't make mistakes, it must have been you. Turn in your bolter.

You also gain 8 renown from something else.

I may yet be redeemed before the Munitorum!  It shows I have 4 Renown on my sheet, so I may already have it from mission 1?

Maybe, I forget.

Yes Renown 4 was from the first mission. But i gladly double it or even add it to the existing 4 ;-)
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With us becoming Dragon Lords, do we still have access to our old Chapter Advances list OR do we have a new list of Dragon Lord Advances, or do we get both?

You will keep advancing on your old Chapter as long as you are playing that guy. I don't have a list of Chapter Advances for DLs yet.

What are Dragon Lords?

You'll find explanation about what is going on in the game in the new thread called Rogue Crusade prologue.

Sorry for being 'that guy' but did we bag any XP for taking out the 'nid brain & its minions?

Experience and Renown rewards are being listed in the deathwatch mission logs.

Ah yeah, found it. Thanks.

We should perhaps work together on a list of Advances for the Dragon Lords, as well as specifics for them, their tactics, psi powers, insanities, etc.

Obviously we wouldn't access these early on, perhaps this iteration might never live to see them, but the later recruits could.  A good chance to put a decent stamp on a homebrewed chapter.

Based on what our GM already described, it looks like new recruits are indicted piecemeal from various worlds.   Dragon Lords also favor mobile warfare and in- your-face weapons like shotguns and flamers.   The chapter was also specifically raised to uphold the Codex and the honor of the Emperor in the face of another Black Crusade.   Based on that information,  here's my suggestions:

PRIMARCH'S CURSE:  DRAGON'S DISDAIN
As the will of a Dragon Lord is tested, their patience wanes.   Their wargear suffers the worst, as their neglect of maintenance leads to rebellious machine spirits, and the Dragon Lord begins to build a hoard to compensate.
LEVEL ONE (Wyrm-haste): The Dragon Lord must pass a Willpower test before each mission to perform the proper rites if maintenance.  Failure means that all their signature wargear loses the Reliable keyword, and whenever they roll a natural 100 for any reason some relevant machine spirit begins to protest.
LEVEL TWO (Arrogant Serpent): The difficulty of the Willpower test increases to (-10), and Signature Wargear without the Reliable keyword gains the Unreliable keyword if he fails.   The Dragon Lord's abuse of machine spirits becomes readily apparent, and he suffers a -20 to all Interactions with Adeptus Mechanicus.
LEVEL THREE (Dragon's Hoard): The difficulty of the willpower test increases to(-20), and the effect extends to requisitioned wargear as well.  The Dragon Lord's instinctive need to gather supplies means he must pass a Willpower test to relinquish something in his possession,  even when ordered.

That sounds pretty neat. I'd like it if all of you guys contributed over time to the developments of the Dragon Lord. Because their culture still nascent, these early days and you influencers are going to Have a big impact.

Can I have everyone Post in the new thread? Anything you want to say to the 4th company Captain or to the bridge crew of the undoubted benefit, Or anything you want to say to one another.

I should also say that as Sergeants Oh, you have your own private cell and room apart from your squads barracks. You have 1 chapter surf who's responsible for your wargear and one chapter surf who's responsible for all of your other needs. You can give them names right now, or later. I can't imagine that they'll be present on the bridge.

At the risk of looking stupid.

New thread?

In reply to Xander (msg # 152):

Sticking with the theme of Dragons and hordes (treasure, not aliens, cultists or daemons), could the flaw involve trophy collection? Maybe on a failed WP roll we/they stop to nab trophies even when under fire or pursued by gibbering monstrosities.

Not sure what the escalation could be, I'm working from my phone and don't have all the books on here.

In reply to Hrothgar (msg # 155):

Ooh, I like that.   Let's use that instead for the Level 3 Curse.

Does anyone have suggestions for Chapter Trappings?

The new threat is called the Rogue Crusade: prologue.

What if they have to go for a trophy from every foe they kill, no matter how small. Kill 10 cultists, 10 trophies. For trappings what if they have the option to "scale" part of their armour, giving a bonus to intimidation tests.

Also would Detrum been in mission long enough to add his vid-capture to the debriefing?

That sort of fits with the traditional dragonic pride. Showing off what you did. Usually you just do it for the big stufff. But man our ships are going to stink. And if we make taking thropies as a thing why not add a throphy rack to the gear. I know there is one in BC that might make a fun accent.

Also for Colors. I havent seen any but i might have read over it. Purple as main color as its the color of nobility and then gold accents as dragons love shiny things.

I didn't choose colours or emblem because I didn't want to accidentally borrow from another chapter that already existed.

Having meaty trophies seems a bit like the Night Lords.  But the acquiring of trophies and treasure is a good theme.  How about as the insanity mounts, the need to acquire starts costing objective points?  Tasked with bringing in live examples, we need to get extra because some we designate for the hoard, regardless of orders?

I never said anything about meaty trophies...I was thinking more of the hording aspect of small, completely useless things like one knife from each cultist. Kinda like how Ariel collected junk.

Not objecting either, these are insanities after all.

New idea for the "scaling" idea: the armour is white or black with scales picked out in the opposite color. For every major event it participated in a scale gets colored in. Like killing an enemy vehicle would be metalic red, leader gold, century of service silver, and so on. A black scale means the wearer died, and the new recipient starts their story on the next scale. That way as the centuries pass the armour becomes more dragon like.

Maybe the marines could do the same, get scale tatoos for their personal achievements.

That's a cool sounding tradition, let's use it.

How about another of the curses (level 2, I think fits best) being that they have to use flame or flame like weapons, even if it makes no tactical sense? Perhaps on a failed roll of some kind.

 How about as As an alternative to that, they're unable to function properly unless there's some kind of fire burning

There are four battle brothers on the bridge itself. There are two providing an honour guard outside the Navigator's chamber and the astropathic choir chamber, respectively.

So as the resident psyker. Is there anything i can do? Im a wee bit lost at what our options are in this situation,.

We haven't entered a combat situation yet, So we're kind of playing Calvin ball with the rules right now. What do You want to achieve with your psychic Powers? Do you simply want to force the enemy out of control of the astropath? Do you want to protect others? Basically, come up with something and then make it appropriate role, and if you succeed you will succeed. , and the degrees of success will indicate just how much of a benefit it has to the overall situation.

That sort of goes for all of you. I know you don't all have psychic powers, but if there's something you want to do right now that isn't strictly Allowed by the rules as written, this is the moment for that. Think of yourselves as authors in the black Library at a time like this.

To be honest, Hrothgar isn't far off dishing out some Emperor's mercy. Best be quick Arkio :D

Before I jump the gun, do we need to roll initiative?  How many things are on the bridge now?

Yeah, don't worry about initiative yet. I'll tell you when you're really in combat. This is more of a puzzle to solve.

Any chance we could vent this portion of the ship?  I don't think the bridge is close enough to the exterior, but if we were Kyros might suggest that.

We vent the ship so our people die and the demons just live on? Those bastards don't play by the rules. ;-)

Could Arkio send his little piranha minions through the vents to clear them out?

Yes.

Let me clarify...Could Arkio send his piranha minions through the vents to clear them out without blowing up the ship? :D

Probably the greater risk would be losing a bunch of crewmates to being bitten alive.

Avenger is a flamer. Its gonna be fun. ;-) But with my last 2 rolls i think ill end up summoning a greater demon.

Pirahnas is smite though. That doesnt blow shit up right ;-)

In retrospect I didn't have this one planned out as well as I thought I did. It's a bit of a rail-road right now because we need to get from one plot-point to another. Bear with me as I try to get us back on track, so that we can get off the track again.

The creature is clearly a low-ranking slaneeshi daemon. Further bulletins as warranted. Now could somebody please destroy it?

OK, sorry, I wasn't sure if I needed to wait for an Init roll.  I will kill.

But i like to keep it as a pet!!

Magnitude provides +10 to hit the lesser daemon horde.

So I'm at the lifts now, any targets there?  I assume my orders still stand.

No, everyone is at Main engineering now.

Can Smite or Avenger be 'safely' deployed here or are to many friendlies in the way?

You might have some friendly fire or collateral damage.

So we killed em all?

Yeah, but just for fun, let me calculate how much damage you actually did. Update today.

I am arisen!

Oh, wait, this isn't a Black Crusade game. I have just recovered from a Sus-An coma.

Welcome back Brother.

Thank you. It has been an odd few months. More odd now. At any rate, I'm still catching up but should be in full swing by tomorrow.

WB Brother.

Forgot my servo arm has 10 pen, edited it in.

The Horde still a thing? time we kill it an go play with the deadly enemy.

Nah, I think you pretty much killed it.

So Kyros can reach the thing that Captain Uros is fighting, or is that in a separate area?

Just a bit of distance, easy to reach.

There's just the Keeper of Secrets left now, isn't there? If so, is it plausible for me to bung a Krak grenade in its undies then give it an atomic wedgie, or something like that?

In reply to Hrothgar (msg # 201):

Damn it! I have a great bead and walked all three rounds into Squiddy. Heothgar, bung away, my point of aim is a forgone conclusion.

You can transfer the benefits of the Aim to the Keeper if you want to.

My mild corona symptoms seem to have worsened. Not sure how much energy to RP i got left.

Oh wow.  Make sure you take care of yourself and get better soon.

We'll be here when you get back.

Kyros you really stop to pat my on the shoulder when i am going toe to to with that keeper? I knew you where bad ass but thats beyond cool. ;-)

I thought the Keeper was dead?

I mistook the Keeper for the tentacle thing, ill revise shortly.

OK, updated the post.  I hope I have a better perspective of the battle at this point.  If the Keeper or other target is in front of him Kyros is going to attack.

The keeper was in charging range. So get t killing please. I am giving you a +10 bonus for outnumbering but i have littlem elee utilty.

I've got the Double Team talent, so I'll be incoming soon as I get chance. New job has me doing loads of distance learning, bleh!

Guys! Astartes part 5 is up on the youtubes. Seven whole minutes of staying home killed off there.

Yeah, I watched that.  Very cool stuff, very interesting.  Not sure where there headed with it.  The engine or whatever it is reminds me of the machine that Lion El'Jonson has in the Horus Heresy novels, but I'm not sure if that's what it is.

Is there any damage that looks like it would need immediate attention to keep from going critical? Not that I'm avoiding the fight but it would kinda suck to beat the Keeper just to have the ship die right after.

That cogitator stack that's melting down?

Edit: anyone a member of the now seemingly defunct <a href ="https://rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=35128">Warhammer & 40k forum</a> run by flakk? There's a DW character sheet I'd like to copy but it uses tables but isn't in "code" tags so I need to quote it to get the code. If someone could rMail or PM it to me I'd appreciate it.
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No, the ship as a whole is safe. There will be a lot of lost data, though. Some menials might get their paycheques delayed, and the vacation day schedule is just a loss.

Vacation is heresy.

The Keeper is still alive right?  That energy blast wasn't it committing suicide?

It's dying. This is its swan song.

In reply to Kubra (msg # 216):

Maybe its in Heaven?

Hmm 1000 xp. What to get?

Heaven is also Heresy (although as a Red Scorpion I actually do worship the Emperor and follow the Imperial Cult) according to the Imperial Truth. Guess I'm a heretic...

You are a Dragon Lord!!!

Woot!  Got the Renown to Requisition a Power Sword!

We got more renown? I think I missed that, where was it mentioned?

In the Mission logs, XP and Renown award.

Well 16 Renown is what i got. Havent looked at what that gets me yet.

In reply to Brother Arkio (msg # 228):

It means you can boss the scout squads around. That's about it :D

Eeeep. This would be the deep end people get thrown into.

Characharadons know all about swimming in the deep end.  Hop in Captain!

So renown is bumped from Initiated to respected at 20. As we got 16 shouldn't we get like 4 more so we are a wee bit more equal and Respected instead of initiates leading a fleet of initiates?  Though i start to fear Rank will not be whats going to determine our gear anytime soon ;-)

Okay, fine, 4 more, you're at 20.
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

Well im a notoriously hard to please. But yeah im happy now. Not that i know what i need it for yet but more is better right.

Okay, now that we're all on the same page, I'm going to open up two new threads.
One will be the Briefing, where we will get acclimated to our new campaign in-character.
One will be the new OoC thread, where we will discuss the new mechanics.