NecronLord wrote:So, anyone want to do anything more at this point, or should I write up a brief bit on the tour, and then do the warp jump?
I'm good to go, unless the rest of the team wanted to hit the Chapel for confession and purity seals for our gear. Nobody else seemed enthralled with the idea.
As for guns and gear, we can get it for cheaper on the ground where people know there's competition.
hey am I overplaying my character's ignorance, even though he's from a space ship?
oh and how to chastise a machine spirit when you need it to fly in a hurry.
1. begin the rituals of warming the machines heart (press the power on rune)
2. immediatly begin stoking the fury of the machine spirit. press the start engine button, while slapping the consol, and calling the machine horrible names.
3. repeat the stoking until the machine fires.
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This thread inspired me to find a copy and roll up a character. My dice are apparently very eager to be on the player side.. Given they rolled a character with nothing below 32, and a WS and BS of 35, and a S of 45.
That's a fucking Scout Marine.
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Zablorg wrote:It disturbes me that the fate of the Imperium depends on soldiers who can't hit their targets in close combat 2/3rds of the time.
What class are you thinking of becoming, Nit?
I'm not sure. The Strength is actually wrong; it's 40. I blame late night adding. Rolled up Imperial Worlder. Sick part? Type of world: Paradise World.
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SirNitram wrote:
I'm not sure. The Strength is actually wrong; it's 40. I blame late night adding. Rolled up Imperial Worlder. Sick part? Type of world: Paradise World.
Well-fed, lots of outdoor activity and healthy living, good health care...it makes sense. My character's stats were pretty average to slightly-above average. I keep forgetting his int is only 27 though and thinking of him as being fairly intelligent; I am terrible at playing low intelligences.
As a side note, I was trying to put together my new computer and all I could think of was comparisons to a WH40K techpriest trying to do repairs by rote and worrying about the proper prayers to appease the machine spirit. Which probably tells you just how bad I am as a computer technician.
...Fortunately, unlike most WH40K tech, my stuff is under warranty so when the power supply hiccuped and fried the mobo, ram, and PSU I had options other than waving an incense burner over it and hoping for the best.
On the other hand, the Mechanicum doesn't have to fuss with our finicky solid-state transitional crap, working from tech at least 20,000 years more advanced.
I've thought about Machine Cult rituals a couple of times while at work, right after getting the DH book. I started the IT position six weeks after a major change of hands and most of the original staff leaving, so I took over the setup & maintenance of used PCs and had to learn a lot of where stuff was & how it worked without knowing who made it that way and why, especially with installation scripts.
I can relate quite a bit to their preservation efforts in memorization and interpretation, and can image how little time and few employee replacements it'd take for people to forget what "XPLOADSET15+WCERTS" was supposed to mean when a finished unit was labeled with it, but keep doing it anyway. Hell, if they ran out of tape they'd have to find a lower-tech way of replacing it, to the point of parchment paper and wax seals if it went on for centuries (not that it would, but it provides a frame of mind). Don't forget to tap twice on top of the machine or else the CD won't automatically eject.
The idea that I could teach someone how to set up partitions & devices only by the keystrokes was another source of inspiration; Tech-priests might only know some system commands purely by rune sequences or even touch-typing hand gestures rather than the actual instructions themselves.
I have never fried a PC part, though. Did see someone else fry a power supply though; it released its machine spirit in the form of a foul blue smoke.
too late, maybe if we're really, really lucky they will rape, torture, make clothes from our skins, kill and eat us in exactly that order. (firefly ref)
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
That's what you get for telling ghost stories! Fate/The Gods/The Dark Gods/Demons/The Emperor rattles your chains for kicks!
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Zablorg wrote:How are we for weapons? I think if any daemons assault us we should be able to shoot them dead pretty quick through sheer numbers alone.
Oh hell, I missed this earlier.
Never say that again. I may be new to play-by-post RPGs, but I know *exactly* what most of my DMs' reactions to a straight line like that would be. I mean, at least you said "I think" instead of "We'll blast 'em back to the Warp, no problem!" which would have been a death sentence. But still.
Helicopters, I hear you cry with scorn? Even in the 41st millennium, the same laws of aerodynamics (generally) apply!
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