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NecronLord wrote:This cult is a bit more subtle than that. Most of the citizenry are Emperor Fearing Citizens, Spoiler: the chaos cults aren't the root of the problem here. It just seems that way. They're a symptom of something that goes deeper.

Grr. See. Now I have to raise the bar on the uberness level horribly.

Nah, you can just have the uber things mutually kill most of the marine squad, leaving tycho with a single marine, like he should have gone with in the first place.

Typhonis 1 wrote:Hmmm loooks like Yosemite and I are the only ones without a retinue...*chuckle*

yes but we are the only two that have acess to a liberary of stones....

No one stand to close to the marines. There is no telling when NecronLord will trim their numbers and the rest of us will get fried by the collateral damage.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:

Typhonis 1 wrote:Hmmm loooks like Yosemite and I are the only ones without a retinue...*chuckle*

yes but we are the only two that have acess to a liberary of stones....

My retinue are nameless, expendable guardsmen. They're like extras, y'see.

"Guardsman 23, Guardsman 275 and Guardsman 321, go stand watch over the suspicious Xenotech artifact. If anybody misses a radio check, just assume they're off taking a leak."

"Yes sir! For the Emperor!"

NecronLord wrote:

GeneralTacticus wrote:Question: Would the armoury of the Starfort contain any jetpacks or similar gear for use in a vacuum?

EVA suits with engines are common gear for boarding actions, but they'd be quite secured. Do I even want to know what you want them for?

I think he wants them because you said the Cargo Bay opened onto space, and he's expecting some nasty person to throw our characters into it's cold, unforgiving embrace.

Typhonis, is your character really five feet tall and two hundred twenty pounds? That seems a little odd to me.

Did my first post, whee.

Hmm, here's another representative of the super secret stabby contingent:

Knives
Age:27 active, 632 counting time in stasis
"*rendslashclawtearmutilatespindlegristlegristlescreamcrackAArrrrGGGH!*"

Gear: Lightning claws, displacer field, lots of combat drugs, vortex grenade(self-destruct device, designed to go off upon his death, or if control cannot be reestablished), assault cannon

An atypical example of the Eversor school, Knives was located on a desert world reclaimed for the Imperium during Solar Macharius's crusade. Already possessed of a complete detestation for human life, it was trivially easy to turn him into a nearly unstoppable killing machine, perhaps too easy. The modifications performed on him were more extreme than normal, and this was exacerbated by unknown mutations already present before his induction. Thus the failsafe, on the theory that an out of control Knives is better off obliterated, with the added benefit that it could be used to eliminate a threat potent enough to end him.

Currently in stasis tended round the clock by a half dozen unnamed assassinorum underlings, would make a great GM threat if NL gets bored.

I'd like to put in a Culexus, but its the one of the four main assassin schools that I hadn't practically memorised. I know they are essentially soulless abominations, buut have no idea as to the abilities derived from this, and what wargear they generally use. Can anyone help?

For a nostalgic moment, I'd like everyone to reflect upon the good old days of the 2nd edition main rulebook codex, which would let you have an Imperial Assassin in Terminator armor with a displacer field(3+ 2d6 save, 4+Inv, 3+Inv), or even a power field if you were bored enough.

An assassin in Terminator armor? I can trump that.

Assassin in a dreadnough suit. And he's omega-dan!

Imperial Overlord wrote:An assassin in Terminator armor? I can trump that.

Assassin in a dreadnough suit. And he's omega-dan!

You do know that dreadnoughts aren't precisely suits, yes?

Imperial Overlord wrote:An assassin in Terminator armor? I can trump that.

Assassin in a dreadnough suit. And he's omega-dan!

If we're allowed to put them in Dreadnoughts then I nominate the Assassain in a Titan!

They were call Dreadnough suits in 1st edition when I started playing. And yes I know the pilot is in a life support suit in the center of the robot body.

The character is from the Draco books. He's a renegade.

Sorry. Replace "life support suit" with "coffin". Damn lack of edit. (Yes, yes I know it is absent for good reason.)

if you do that I wait till the big baddies wake up, and then show up at an aspect shrine with a knife....

Whoooa there xenos-boy. No need to bring any gods into a discussion of ridiculously wanked out assassins.

Imperial Overlord wrote:Whoooa there xenos-boy. No need to bring any gods into a discussion of ridiculously wanked out assassins.

*puffs, pants, looks at the stasis chamber he just towed in containing a lost SM Primarch.*

Fine, I'm not even gonna ask about mine then.

*grabs tow-line and drags it back out.*

Don't fee left out. Mehlindi (assassin of the same shrine) started asking the first SM she met about the vulnerable points of a dreadnough.

Imperial Overlord wrote:Don't fee left out. Mehlindi (assassin of the same shrine) started asking the first SM she met about the vulnerable points of a dreadnough.

Thanks, I'm trying to forget the latter two books of that trilogy. They really didn't work for me.

Petrosjko wrote:

Imperial Overlord wrote:Don't fee left out. Mehlindi (assassin of the same shrine) started asking the first SM she met about the vulnerable points of a dreadnough.

Thanks, I'm trying to forget the latter two books of that trilogy. They really didn't work for me.

I actually liked the second book, but the third was just messed up.

Pcm979 wrote:

NecronLord wrote:

GeneralTacticus wrote:Question: Would the armoury of the Starfort contain any jetpacks or similar gear for use in a vacuum?

EVA suits with engines are common gear for boarding actions, but they'd be quite secured. Do I even want to know what you want them for?

I think he wants them because you said the Cargo Bay opened onto space, and he's expecting some nasty person to throw our characters into it's cold, unforgiving embrace.

Got it in one. So my other question: would we actually know that stuff about the docking bay that you mentioned, or would we only notice after arriving?

Well, you could always have procured some floor plans. Also, it's a docking bay, I'd expect it to open onto space. So ships can dock.

It's Ian Watson, of course it is messed up. I'm surprised it took to book three to get completely wacko. The second book was only somewhat wacko, but the renegade assassin was cool.

Imperial Overlord wrote:It's Ian Watson, of course it is messed up. I'm surprised it took to book three to get completely wacko. The second book was only somewhat wacko, but the renegade assassin was cool.

I was still relatively new to the universe when I read the first book, and I had no idea it was a reprint.

Spoilers for those who might wish to read it...

So, first book... "Huh? Marines get mindwiped whenever they encounter Chaos? Whiskey-tango-foxtrot!" then it moved to "Hydra. Cool. New conspiracy, cool. Inquisition War... oh, that sounds promising."

Second book... "Uh... yeah. So where's the Inquisition War, anyway?"

Third book... "Kill me... please... before Draco does another overblown, melodramatic 'I miss Me'Lindi!' scene. And WHERE'S THE DAMN INQUISITION WAR?"

Yes, the glories of GW changing its background fluff.

You spelled Inquisitor wrong in the thread title.

Yuk it up, Rouge 9.