Dark Heresy RPG on SD.net?

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2008-03-14 01:10am

Yeah, that was hilarious. Roll a 98, use a fate point to reroll...get a 99. What the fuck. You would have jammed a fucking lasgun without the reroll.

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2008-03-14 01:13am

Actually, it was worse than that. I rolled a 100, then a 10 for the jamming on the gun, then I spent fate to get a 99, where fortunately I rolled a 1 for reliability so I just missed horrifically instead of a jam. That was still unreal though.

It was one of the gangers who rolled a 98 immediately afterwards. If I hadn't spent fate four guns would have jammed that round, which is just insane.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2008-03-14 01:27am

Clearly their machine spirits are pacifists.

I also liked our code word. I mean, yeah, I came up with it, but then somebody suggested that all our codewords be baking related. I still say "cake" is the natural codeword for when we're the victims of treachery.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2008-03-14 01:44am

The rundown: there were 7 gangers at the base. Verum and Cyrine tried to capture one of them, but he was the Stupidest Ganger Ever and alerted the base to the presence of intruders about a second before catching a body full of buckshot. A firefight ensued in which one of the gang members was sniped by our guide Diver, one was critically wounded, losing the use of his right arm, and one (two?) were lightly wounded. Verum took a graze to the head (5 damage) and Cyrine took some splinters in the leg when two shots fragmented her cover (3 damage total). 3 of the surviving gangers are rapidly finding themselves outflanked, but two are inside a building and appear to be making for one of the gun towers. 3 rounds have passed since the Stupidest Ganger Ever shouted "INTRUDERS!" when we failed our intimidate check.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2008-03-14 12:56pm

Fortunately, one of us has Heal. So what do you guys prefer to shout : "psyker witch" or "medic"?

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2008-03-14 01:19pm

Our code phrases are all baking related, so I would think that calling for the medic would be something like, "We need the confectionist over here stat!"

RIPP_n_WIPE · Post by **RIPP_n_WIPE** » 2008-03-14 01:40pm

Right I'm back home ready to rumble.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2008-03-14 02:11pm

I'll see if I can't get the room open again tonight. Please, everyone, try to get Skype running on your systems. It's a lot easier to state actions and clarify by way of voice communications than typing them out. It also lets me yell at people who are away from the computer.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2008-03-14 02:32pm

Speaking of Heal, Camillia used Heal on Varnius, giving him back a whopping 1 Wound.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2008-03-14 04:12pm

Feil wrote:Speaking of Heal, Camillia used Heal on Varnius, giving him back a whopping 1 Wound.

Verum, chief. Varnius is the other warphead

now then, the room is back up, so if you all want to start filing back in, we might be able to get this started.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2008-03-15 03:04am

I'm sorry, I had completely forgotten that we were going again tonight, and my brother was back in town for a couple days, so I had been out with him doing some things and had not had a chance to check the forums... did you guys end up doing a few more rounds of combat?

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2008-03-15 03:05am

About 11 hours worth of combat actually.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2008-03-15 03:13am

Well I hope that the dice were kind to my character in my absence, though yesterday wasn't a good indication.

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2008-03-15 03:20am

Everyone survived the encounter, and no one got messed up too bad. We really kicked some ass though, wiped out something like 7 gangers, 10 mutants, and 2 mutant abberations.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2008-03-15 03:25am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Well I hope that the dice were kind to my character in my absence, though yesterday wasn't a good indication.

You took out the last Mutant in a blaze of glory.

Everyone gets 400 XP, remember that you have to buy 100XP from your first rank list to gain access to the second rank stuff.

More detailed stuff as I recover.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2008-03-15 05:19am

What'd I miss?

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2008-03-15 01:55pm

Okay, here's a rough summary of what I can remember, there were a lot of people to keep track of over a longer period of time and it all sort of blended together at a certain point:

We attack the ganger compound when there are only seven guards on duty and shoot them up some good. Two of the gangers make a break for an elevated gun tower carrying a heavy stubber, and they manage to get off a single burst, that missed completely, before being taken down. In that fight our friend Diver managed to take down two of them on his own. Camillia managed to set the last active ganger on fire with her laspistol and unnatural aim to the head.

Then, while we were looting the armoury, ten mutants and two mutant aberrations show up. Several of the mutants have psychic abilities, which makes the fight interesting. One of the mutants goes for the other gun tower on the other side of the complex, but I was on watch and grabbed the heavy stubber the gangers tried to use. Not proficient in it, but since I had the highest ballistic skill, and it can only autofire, and the heavy stubber was at short range in that engagement, so I had a fifty-fifty chance to hit with something.

Meanwhile everyone else is fighting. If I remember correctly, we managed to set a fountain on fire, which says a lot about about the quality of the water. Havelock makes a run for the second gun tower to try and stop the mutant, but this leaves him kind of unsupported, so then Gelt makes a run to back him up. I can't remember if that mutant manages to get off a shot, but what I do remember is that I managed to hit the bastard three times and get two righteous furies. I think I got something like 22, 12, 22 damage, it was brutal.

Unfortunately by that time three mutants and one aberration had managed to get to the tower though. Two went for the stubber, two went for Havelock who was rummaging about in a shed, for what I don't know, I would say pants probably except that I'm pretty sure he got some already. I try to sweep the guys going for Havelock and Gelt, but I only manage to wound the aberration. Meanwhile on the east one of the mutants with a psychic ability manages to flank us and get in up the tower. I whirl the stubber around and blow him apart, but this has let the other two get to the other stubber so they open up on me. I take 9 damage, but spend a fate point to recover 4. Latter Varnius heals me for 3, so I'm in good shape there. I believe at this time Verum begins to charge the second aberration and a cluster of mutants. Lazarus wastes a grenade on the aberration, missing badly, although fortunately it didn't scatter into him.

Nixios and Octavius join in on a dogpile with the mutant and aberration fighting Havelock and Gelt. Havelock had his machine pistol so he blew apart the guy attacking him with a single blast, so it quickly became a 4 on 1, 5 on 1 if Xerxes managed to get into the melee too, but I don't remember if he did.

Somewhere about here I unload on the mutants in the gun tower again and blow apart the gunner, knocking him back into his partner. I blow that guy away the next turn, on a righteous fury if I remember right, and then once the fight on the ground is done Havelock goes for the stubber to make sure no one else gets it.

Back on the east flank there is a melee involving Verum, Lazarus, two mutants and the aberration. Camillia and Cyrine are also involved, but I don't think they go hand to hand. We burn off the aberration's foot and then blow up his head... I think... not sure on the second one. Then we hit the mutant in the chest twice with a laspistol, but the second shot does precisely 1 wound, so that we end up cooking his organs quite nicely reducing his toughness to ~10 and stun him for 37 rounds, but the bastard doesn't actually die! I think he's finally finished off by Verum, but don't quote me on that.

So the last mutant is running, and... it was something like 1:30am so I can't remember who actually finished him off at this point, but I'm pretty sure he burned.

Oh, and Diver couldn't roll higher than a 2 to wound, so he did no damage against the mutants. In fact, after the gangers, I think the only damage he did was against Octavius in a friendly fire incident where he did a whopping 1 wound.

So at the end of the day we've managed to capture two stubbers and a shit pile of autoguns, pistols, some shotguns, etc. and tons of ammo for everything. How much the GM will make us give up to the Grimlochs is still up in the air, but we should be able to keep one of the heavy stubbers.

We'll see if we can't find a hand cannon for Camillia because fuck that compact laspistol isn't cutting it.

Now, on the subject of the stubber, I am somewhat conflicted. On the one hand, I already have a bit of an idea for the direction I want to go with Quintos, but damn if that stubber isn't nice. So here are the possible expenditures for my 400XP I was thinking of.

*250 for +5 to Ag
*100 for Dodge
*50 XP left over
(In that order)

or

*100 for +5 S
*200 for Heavy Weapon Prof (SP)
*100 for Dodge
(In that order)

However, since there are other Guardsmen in the party, if anyone else wanted to be the heavy weapons guy, I am willing to negotiate with you and figure out who gets the stubber. If I get it, I will change my character concept slightly to become the heavy weapons guy, otherwise I'll continue with my previous idea.

RIPP_n_WIPE · Post by **RIPP_n_WIPE** » 2008-03-15 02:23pm

Awesome! I look forward to the next combat round. I think I'm going to spend my XP as follows.

+5 Toughness
+5 Ballistic Skill
Common Lore Adeptus Arbites +10
Sound Constitution

Man how exciting.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2008-03-15 02:37pm

Of all the Guardsmen, you have the highest BS and the highest Strength; also, boosting strength would get you to 40, so you get an extra point of damage in melee and bonuses to throw and carry.

I bought:

Sound Constitution 1 (100)
Medicae (200)
Security (100)

Once Cyrine knows who's been wounded, she can find some people to assist her and then start making First Aid tests.

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2008-03-15 02:47pm

Oh yeah! I almost forgot, Ganger #3 was still bleeding out through the entire fight and the guys who shot up Zakary and Lazarus were found in the ganger's infirmary.

And yeah, that's what I was thinking too Feil. If I boost my strength again after that I will also have enough strength to take Bulging Muscles later, which means I can go Bragg, only more accurate, with the heavy weapons. Still, if someone would like a chance to use the stubber, I'm all for sharing. My original character concept was to shoot for the commander career path and take both two weapon fighting talents so that I could fight with a bolt pistol and power sword, because that is just awesome and iconic of 40k. So I'll wait to see what the other Guardsmen want to do before making a final decision. Either way is cool.

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2008-03-15 02:58pm

What's my condition? How many wounds were inflicted/what did Gelt do that was memorable? And can we burn down what we don't steal?

EDIT: Give me Rapid Reload, Common Lore (Underworld), Intimidate and . . .light sleeper. Get ready for lots of complaints about being unable to get enough rest due to you people snorring. Given where we are going to be sleeping, I think always having one of us count as being 'awake' would be a good thing. Also, it fits the character.

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2008-03-15 03:20pm

You'll have to ask Hotfoot on the burning thing, there may be the possibility that we've secured this place as our base now. I know he said that we have secured shelter somewhere, but whether that is here or somewhere that the Grimlochs will show us he didn't quite say.

Uhh... Gelt. Let's see. He got whacked by a mutant in the leg, but the only one critically wounded was Verum I think, and not that bad either. For the most part the people who weren't there tended not to do spectacular shit, and in fact got forgotten on occasion because without anyone to voice the fact that its their turn they could be overlooked. The only 'unpiloted' person who stood out was Nixios, because he managed to get a funny kill with his lascarbine.

And while the healing from Varnius was nice, his tendency to use Chameleon and hide was somewhat frustrating at times. I suspect that between the psykers Camillia will be better liked after this affair because she actual got some kills and was there fighting with the rest of us.

Hotfoot should have a wound summary, although with two psykers with the Heal talent and someone taking Medicae with access to an infirmary (how well stocked and how long of access is as yet unknown) we should be back to full health within a day or two.

RIPP_n_WIPE · Post by **RIPP_n_WIPE** » 2008-03-15 03:31pm

Vehrec wrote:What's my condition? How many wounds were inflicted/what did Gelt do that was memorable? And can we burn down what we don't steal?

It's not stealing if it's done for the Emperors glory.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2008-03-15 03:38pm

Academia Nut wrote:Hotfoot should have a wound summary, although with two psykers with the Heal talent and someone taking Medicae with access to an infirmary (how well stocked and how long of access is as yet unknown) we should be back to full health within a day or two.

We have access to what we can loot from an infermary and take with us. The rest of the gang is still out there, and we still haven't explored their main base for any nasty surprises.

EDIT: and sure; we can pour some of their flammable water on everything and light it on fire.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2008-03-15 05:15pm

What was Nixios' "funny" kill?