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Oy! Pcm! Phone call from Prius!

I'm not (properly) available until about Thursday. Please puppet Pater after the beep.

*Beeeeeeep*

P.S. Don't be afraid to throw him into a dangerous situation.
P.P.S. Within reason, of course.
P.P.P.S. Don't forget his retinue. Have fun.
P.P.P.P.S. Again, within reason.

Pcm979 wrote:I'm not (properly) available until about Thursday. Please puppet Pater after the beep.

*Beeeeeeep*

P.S. Don't be afraid to throw him into a dangerous situation.
P.P.S. Within reason, of course.
P.P.P.S. Don't forget his retinue. Have fun.
P.P.P.P.S. Again, within reason.

IO's been puppeting him, actually. Prius has gone off on a damnfool crazy mission to try to rescue him, y'see.

Anyway, see ya Thursday, then.

<voice=space wolf> That's THOR'S DAY! </voice>

Yo, YB, feel free to right up a scene with Yashida finishing off the survivors in the bunker any way you feel like big cat.

Ow, I'm in and out all day today.

Since no one is posting anything, I'm pushing this ahead.

I was likewise waiting for everyone else.

Anyway, there's a post, and then I've got a meeting in about twenty minutes, and I won't be back online until after midnight CST sometime.

Cheers.

Petrosjko wrote:I was likewise waiting for everyone else.

Anyway, there's a post, and then I've got a meeting in about twenty minutes, and I won't be back online until after midnight CST sometime.

Cheers.

And I'm just waiting for something to do.

Stormbringer wrote:

Petrosjko wrote:I was likewise waiting for everyone else.

Anyway, there's a post, and then I've got a meeting in about twenty minutes, and I won't be back online until after midnight CST sometime.

Cheers.

And I'm just waiting for something to do.

Yeah, I didn't mean to ice you out of the action. It's just that Prius would tend to try to keep Varian and Pater insulated from the action.

Varian could say to hell with it and come riding to the rescue, too. He is on the young and impulsive side, and some thrilling heroics would not go amiss.

Petrosjko wrote:Yeah, I didn't mean to ice you out of the action. It's just that Prius would tend to try to keep Varian and Pater insulated from the action.

Varian could say to hell with it and come riding to the rescue, too. He is on the young and impulsive side, and some thrilling heroics would not go amiss.

It's no problem, you're playing the character as he is. That's just fine by me.

As for the heroics? Well, maybe if I need to bail out a certain commisar.

Let's just say it's not looking good for the home team right now. Though recovering Pater does make the losses worthwhile, assuming they can actually get his ass back to 'safety'.

In other news, just finished reading Lord of the Night. Good read, fairly well written. However, one major glitch when he referred to hellguns shots as 'spattering lead' against a hard surface.

Er.

No.

Majorly interesting insight into the Schola Psykana, though. In the story, the character is trained as a psyker first, with no foreknowledge of where she'll be assigned. Then she get shipped off to join the Inquisition.

Major bone of contention. A lead circlet blocks the abilities of an astropath in the story. While it does feed a really cool plot device... LEAD, for Christ's sake.

If there was some kind of fancy circutry inside, I could by it.

But lead.

Christ.

Petrosjko wrote:In other news, just finished reading Lord of the Night. Good read, fairly well written. However, one major glitch when he referred to hellguns shots as 'spattering lead' against a hard surface.

Er.

No.

Majorly interesting insight into the Schola Psykana, though. In the story, the character is trained as a psyker first, with no foreknowledge of where she'll be assigned. Then she get shipped off to join the Inquisition.

Major bone of contention. A lead circlet blocks the abilities of an astropath in the story. While it does feed a really cool plot device... LEAD, for Christ's sake.

Lead was supposed to have that sort of propety, according to classic alchemy, and the same is used in parts of various imperial sheildings.

Hey Imperial Overlord,

Would it be possible to have Varian take some more resistance men and fall up the Chaos rear as they move in on the Sword?

I don't know. Could an inquisitor issue orders to loyal Imperial subjects and have them obeyed? One must ponder the subject at great length.

Dive right in.

Stormbringer wrote:Lead was supposed to have that sort of propety, according to classic alchemy, and the same is used in parts of various imperial sheildings.

Yeah, but if it was so simple to nullify psyker powers, lead would be far more in use.

It did make for one of the best scenes of the novel. I gave Spurrier a mulligan for Firewarrior because it was an adaptation of the computer game, and he managed to carry it off well for the most part. I knew jack-all about the Night Lords and Konrad Kurze, and this gave an insider account of both Kurze's life and the actions of the legion in the pre-Heresy and Heresy era.

knowing a little about fragmentation and what not, the "Helmetless powered armour" has always been a pet peeve of mine....

I take it that it's Prius giving this big speech?

ok, fluff wise master crafted chainsword

Stormbringer wrote:I take it that it's Prius giving this big speech?

Shoulda specified a bit more, but yeah, I was trying to go for a dramatic style of writing that let the reader fill in the blanks visually.

The beauty of this format being that it allows for experimentation.

As for the head-on business the Judges are worried about, that's not precisely what he's planning, although if he thinks that's what'll make the big splash that Jolan needs to get through and accomplish his mission, he's quite willing to do it.

But he's so looking forward to tossing waves of martyrs at the gates. It's just like in all the history slates about the great crusades of the past! And he's the guy inspiring the charge! How cool is that?

(Truthfully, I had meant that to just be his speech for the senior leadership... for the troops not so much on the whole 'rigging the sanitorium to blow' business. My bad for not specifying. But cool, we'll run with it.)

Actually, it was less the content that I was worried about and more who was giving it.

And for all his knowledge of war comes from Zap Brannigan's Big Book Of War, Varian has no problem sending men to their deaths either. He's still a hard-line puritan, push come to shove.

really bad is that I'm starting to lapse back into the eldar mindset....

*speaks something about humans, like the species was the most vile curse word in the universe.*

hmm should I just open a gate, kill a shitload, and then run like hell?