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Ironic, isn't it? You'd think coming from a planet dedicated to the Imperial Creed's saints and heroes, a locus of pilgrimage, one of the most religiously important places in the sector... you'd think that would breed a people with a high degree of religious fervor. And I suppose for the most part it does. I've seen the numbers and I'm what you would call an 'ideological outlier'. For the pilgrims, the dazzling processionals, rousing sermons, and gilded iconography paints the picture of one race of mankind, unified in their devotion to the Emperor. And don't take this as me questioning the Emperor's divinity, because I'm not. No, I just mean that when you live there, work there, see it every day... it becomes routine. You start to see how the sausage is made, that it's all a big show put on for the benefit of the tourists. Pilgrims, rather. I mean, I personally had to file the paperwork for replacement holy relic when a scuffle broke out next to a reliquary, so now saint so-and-so has two skulls - one in a thousand pieces and one buffed and polished sitting on velvet. I'm sure you can imagine how that kind of thing breeds a cynic. Then there's the pilgrims themselves. We collect data on who they are, where they come from, and more importantly the differences in beliefs in their local flavor of the Creed. Like when we get a ship full of monks from backwater Iocanthos we have to put away all the aquilas with detailed feathers sculpted on them because of some old local legend about a bird-demon. And each time you do that, put them away, take them out, that's more paperwork. So anyway, being as this was all so routine and boring, I had a lot of time to read. Extra-curricular reading. I started looking at the data we were collecting, seeing what we did with it. Turns out, other than tailoring sermons, that information was just getting warehoused. So I started looking at it. Learned a lot, too. Some of it was... shall we say, outside the orthodox. Interesting stuff, who we let on-world, who we don't, what arrangements are made. I started to see just how varied the Creed is - so much so that our shrines only represent a fraction of it. The rest, they go to other shrine worlds that, to put it politically, more closely align to their beliefs. On this little team of ours we've got men and women who've single handedly stopped heretical rituals or shot their way through cult compounds. Me, I just filled out the paperwork detailing the systematic inability to detect and act on obvious heretical activity using our little pilgrim-stop as a way to move forbidden texts from one world to another. Two days later the high magistrate 'disappeared' and Inquisitor Kane's team found me. I was never sure if figuring out I had psychic ability and being forced to hide it made me a cynic and an addict, or if my cynicism led me to seek out profane knowledge which led to all the rest. Either way I was hiding in plain sight and long story short Inquisitor Kane's willingness to ignore the fact I never took the pilgrimage on the Black Ships myself is the only thing that kept me from ending up dead on pyre or from a bad dose. Well, in this line of work I guess those are both still possibilities, but at least now I don't have to hide it. pre:Saint Home World: Shrine World Background: Adeptus Administratum Role: Sage Divination: 56 Violence solves everything. Increase this character's Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill characteristic by 3. Reduce his Agility or Intelligence characteristic by 3. Fate: 4 Wounds: 12 Insanity: 0 Corruption: 7 WS: 25 (25) BS: 38 (25 + 10 + 3) S: 30 (25 + 5) T: 30 (25 + 5) Ag: 27 (25 + 5 - 3) Int: 45 (25 + 15 + 5) Per: 30 (20 + 10) WP: 45 (30 + 10 + 5) Fel: 30 (30) Inf: 30 (25 + 5) APTITUDES Toughness Willpower Knowledge Agility Intelligence Perception Tech Psyker TRAITS Faith in the Creed: Whenever a shrine world character spends a Fate point, he rolls 1d10. On a result of 1, the character’s total number of Fate points is not reduced. Master of Paperwork: An Adeptus Administratum character counts the Availability of all items as one level more available (Very Rare items count as Rare, Average items count as Common, etc.). Quest for Knowledge: In addition to the normal uses of Fate points (see page 293), a Sage character may spend a Fate point to automatically succeed at a Logic or any Lore skill test with a number of degrees of success equal to his Intelligence bonus. Rogue Psyker (!) SKILLS Commerce Common Lore (Adeptus Administratum) Common Lore (Imperial Creed) Linguistics (High Gothic) Logic Scholastic Lore (Occult) Scholastic Lore (Legend) Forbidden Lore (The Warp) Forbidden Lore (Heresy) Forbidden Lore (Daemonology) Psyniscience Tech Use TALENTS Psy Rating 1 Weapon Training (Las) Clues from the Crowds Resistance (Psychic Powers) EQUIPMENT Laspistol Imperial robes autoquill chrono dataslate medi-kit Hot-Shot Laspistol Armored Bodyglove Obscura ADVANCES 300 Psyker l33t advance 100 Telekinetic Control 200 Assail 100 Forbidden Lore (The Warp) 100 Forbidden Lore (Heresy) 100 Forbidden Lore (Daemonology) 100 Psyniscience 100 Simple Int 100 Simple WP 100 Tech Use 300 Resistance (Psychic Powers) 100 Common Lore (Imperial Creed) 100 Scholastic Lore (Legend) XP 1800/1800 pre:08:51 CPS .roll 1d10 fate 08:51 imouto CPS: fate: 6 (1d10=6) 08:51 CPS .roll 1d100 divination 08:51 imouto CPS: divination: 56 (1d100=56) 09:33 CPS .roll 1d10+3 corruption 09:33 imouto CPS: corruption: 7 (1d10+3=4) Clanpot Shake fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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MaliciousOnion posted:CPS you've got Logic twice. Swapped it for tech use. Thanks.
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Nov 19, 2014 00:35
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Voting A since Saint would have some idea how to to deal with that and doesn't know bupkis about xenos or nobles.
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Nov 22, 2014 15:24
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Saint "Gentlemen," Saint says with a smile, "My name is Castus Castinius, chief submagistrate of infrastructure census data collection and retention in the Cyclopia subsector. These fine men are my assistants and local escorts, guiding us through the hive as we preform our duties. Very important data collection, you see. Now if you'll excuse us, there is a very important public works project that is behind on reporting labor projections that I must see to. I'd hate to be delayed, more paperwork you see, the who and why our collection was delayed. I do hate getting the locals in trouble, especially seeing as you're only doing your jobs. What were your names again?" the best lies hold a grain of truth, so I'm going with option C, using my intimidate knowledge of bureaucracy to stun them into loving off. CL Administratum at 45 or fel 30, whichever is more appropriate. Phone posting so no roll
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Nov 22, 2014 19:28
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Saint "Even mansions like this are under government purview," Saint says to his comrades at the end of their stake-out. "Let's look up the records for this building and pose as inspector or engineers. Easiest way in is to be invited, after all." Left unsaid was that Saying had the sinking suspicion some of his... rougher associates would suggest something involving a sewer inflation and that did not suit him. Going with C - not necessarily to try to get invited with those other nobles, but to try to get in under false pretenses.
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Nov 26, 2014 15:24
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Saint "We can just dig up that information later," Saint says flatly. "Or, if want to just tell us now we can make it quick." A
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Nov 27, 2014 16:26
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I was gonna post to acknowledge I'm still playing but I was waiting on Werix to tell me what my wounds are at so I can decide how many fate to spend regaining wounds. But we can fast forward.
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Mar 17, 2015 13:39
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My vote was to phone this one in, so now that we're here someone more martially inclined should take the drat shot so we can all go home and shoot obscura. I mean that's what Saint will be doing. You all can do whatevs.
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Apr 30, 2015 01:59
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In that case I'd like more drugs, please.
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May 3, 2015 17:04
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Glow globe should be automatic for me. I have plans for it okay.
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May 4, 2015 12:59
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Had some crazy life things come up, but yeah. People want to spitball ideas for stealing this thing?
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May 19, 2015 21:20
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As the group's personal paper pusher I'm all for anything involving using paperork to get poo poo done.
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May 20, 2015 23:25
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Definitely still interested. I'll have to go back and read the last couple updates to remember where we are though.
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Yeah I'm up to speed. Still not sure exactly how we should approach this one though. Leaning toward midnight caper but open to ideas.
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