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Wear the Power Armor at all times, it will be filled and surrounded by our enhancements, forming a protective core for our True Form (of metal) Communicate with the Magos/tech perimeter using every form of primitive and sophisticated communications and signaling methods we know. We need to get in there, we need to talk to the magos. purge anything with the alien organs enhancement, what if they're Tyranid and causing our psyckers to freak out/calling a hive fleet to throw their shadow on our warp and becalm us?
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They are coming “By the God-Emperor, what happened?” Limosa was standing at attention, clothes shredded, bloody wounds hastily patched with bits of uniform. He had his Ghosthelm held under his arm, and was barely aware of where he was. “Sit down, sit down.” “Thank you Inquisitor. I wish to report a partial success. We captured all technical components, but the xeno research you described was missing.” He paused, as if waiting for punishment. The more you learned of him, the more Siadwell seemed a monster. How could you get loyalty treating your subordinates that way? “And the attack?” “We made it to the labs without hindrance. I would have thought it a milk run, but then we started taking casualties as we gathered the gear.” “Did the Kriegers report a description?” Limosa shook his head. “They didn’t see it, not then.” “Not then?” “They acted like nothing was happening. Someone would fall over, rib cage open, no response. Is that a Krieger thing?” “No, they should have started shooting, alerted each other, something. Total non-response?” He nodded slowly. “That reinforces my theory then.” “Which was?” “The psyker pressure was very strong there. I was on the edge of blacking out for a lot of it, I think a lesser psyker would have.” “So… you think we’re facing a telekinetic?” He laughed sourly. “Oh, I wish. I started thinking about it, and I amplified my perceptions. And shared it with the Kriegers. That’s when they started shooting back.” “At what?” “Swarm of xenos. I didn’t recognize the type. My hunch is, they knock ships out of the warp, here in the void between stars, and eat the contents.” “How did they attack?” “How didn’t they? They were coordinated, ranging from the size of a human infant to a human vehicle. They would knock down barricades we built, or go under them. I had to keep up a psyker field the entire time, otherwise the Krieger would go back to ignoring them.” “What kind of weapons?” “Mostly claws. And teeth.” He gestured towards his wounds, winced. “We didn’t observe any chemical weapons. I’ve got the survivors in quarantine, just in case of a biological agent.” “Any ranged weapons?” “Not many. No laser, no plasma. Some projectile, but they seemed hastily and badly made. The xenos seem more focused on melee. Did the Magos Biologis say anything about the situation?” You shook your head. “They’ve ordered troops to only respond with the quarantine warning. I tried binary, morse, light communication. Same thing. They’ve bunkered down.”
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Jun 15, 2015 19:24
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Ask Limosa if he brought back any xenos corpses. EDIT: And though I vote for: power armor off on the ship, power armor on when elsewhere, I think we should keep the power armor on so long as there're invisible creepy-crawlies attacking the Beast. i.e. until this crisis is resolved.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:32
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If this is why the psykers are all having nightmares, do you think you could help them develop a way to work around it? Contact the ecclesiarchy and the space marines. Assemble the purging council. Inform the magos, in case they're monitoring incoming messages somehow.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:33
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The effects these Xenos are having on psykers is similar to that of a blank, and their field of ignorance is similar to that of the artifact.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:34
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Interesting. They hide themselves through psykery, and then suppress enemy psykers in order to keep them from realizing what was happening. They also seem fairly formidable in combat, too, though not advanced technologically. Sort of a scavenger or ambush predator race? Hey Lowell, how does Logis Prophecy work again, and could we try to use it with Limosa's update to try to extrapolate more about the xenos?
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Jun 15, 2015 19:35
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Remember the Magos was homies with the guy that was experimenting with Tyranid/machine combos inside of Athena. Could this be a further experiment with orks, chaos, and tyranid? Amacita has been claiming the whole time that our Magos is the real evil.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:38
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Where's amicita? They might be using the artifact somehow. Have our servo skulls seen anything? They might be mentally blocking themselves from people but they should show up on pure tech cameras.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:40
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Distribute Psider hairnets to all hunter-killer squads. Take the field ourselves and burn this scourge from our ship
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Jun 15, 2015 19:40
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Tomn posted:Interesting. They hide themselves through psykery, and then suppress enemy psykers in order to keep them from realizing what was happening. They also seem fairly formidable in combat, too, though not advanced technologically. Sort of a scavenger or ambush predator race?
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Jun 15, 2015 19:41
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Armour on at all times. Assemble a war council, distribute standing orders to organise into groups accompanied by a psyker strong enough to not pass out near the aliens, ie Limosa and Edourd. Investigate safety/feasibility of using psider hairnets to counter the effect, if they work, offer them tot he Iron Hands and to krieger/drusian officers. Attach a strobe light to our armour, just in case.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:41
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Dimensional Shamblers We are good and rightly hosed.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:43
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Priority one is to capture some living specimins of these xenos and experiment on them to see of there's a viable way to improve our ability to fight against them without needing a high-level psyker at all times. If there's a trick to keeping them visible in a non-psychic way, or if there's something that dampens their various abilities, we need to find it.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:50
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How did they get on board through the Gellar Field? Maybe they were always here . Whatever the reason, they are more powerful here in the warp and we need to get moving. I bet they are something the Magos cooked up. He then stalled the engines and are waiting for his creatures to clean up this whole mess of a ship and take power while we are all weakened from the civil war.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:53
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:Remember the Magos was homies with the guy that was experimenting with Tyranid/machine combos inside of Athena. Could this be a further experiment with orks, chaos, and tyranid? Amacita has been claiming the whole time that our Magos is the real evil. Could be that Amacita let loose the Magos' creations as part of her crusade. Could also be the Stryxis decided to let loose some of their flesh creatures on board our ship as thanks for the pleasant conversation we had. Could be lots of things, but right now we need to figure out what we're dealing with. See what we can learn from any dead bodies Limosa's team brought back (human or xeno) While also: Form both a defensive guard and a kill team unit to try and capture a monster / monster corpse for study.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:55
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We're not in the warp, and the gellar fields stops daemons, not corporeal psykers.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:55
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What variety of xenos is grumpy at us for having one of their implants? Could that be related to this problem? I know this feels more like a "Darkness" thing than an Ohone-specific issue, but it might be worth feeling out.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:58
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These are not Stryxis.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:59
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These things have a VERY similar effect to the Pillar of Suln. I bet that has much to do with it.
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Jun 15, 2015 20:01
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Grognan posted:These things have a VERY similar effect to the Pillar of Suln. I bet that has much to do with it. Just to play along with the theory that these were made by the other Magos, was she ever in possession of the Pillar for any extended period of time? In case she figured out how it worked and was able to copy its effect to living beings. JT Jag fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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Jun 15, 2015 20:03
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Treat it like a halo device, useful at first with some horrendous side-effects later. Like a plague of Xenos that scream to disable psykers that can find them.
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Jun 15, 2015 20:05
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I don't think these were made by the magos. Actually, I think they were called here to unmake the magos.
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Jun 15, 2015 20:06
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Oh, right! Lowell, can we ping every Lore roll that we can think of that might be relevant to this to see if we can remember anything like these guys? Xenos, obviously, but maybe some Daemonology, Mutants, and Tech-Heresy to be sure.
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Jun 15, 2015 20:07
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Agreeing that we should be wearing the armor at all times right now.
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Jun 15, 2015 20:08
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JT Jag posted:The effects these Xenos are having on psykers is similar to that of a blank, and their field of ignorance is similar to that of the artifact. Actually the opposite effect. They apply psychic pressure to them and use pskyer abilities to make people unaware of what's happening. Like other's have said, much like the Pillar of Suln. Waci posted:These are not Stryxis. Stryxis, like a Magos Biologis, are capable of making various creations to attack their enemies. While not very likely, it's technically something that could be a thing.
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Jun 15, 2015 20:10
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JT Jag posted:Just to play along with the theory that these were made by the other Magos, was she ever in possession of the Pillar for any extended period of time? In case she figured out how it worked and was able to copy its effect to living beings. No one has heard from Amacita in 6+ weeks.
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Jun 15, 2015 21:12
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And how long has it been since they've heard from the Magos again?
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Xun posted:And how long has it been since they've heard from the Magos again? The quarantine went into place shortly after you left a month ago. The hauntings have been going on for ... six months maybe, depending on how you view the events with Devries and Siadwell.
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Jun 15, 2015 21:31
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Are we still radioactive by the by?
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dog kisser posted:Are we still radioactive by the by? Yup. Itll take a few hours in a scrubber to get clean, and you haven't had time. Additionally, I'm seeing a lot of requests to try to grab a xeno body/prisoner. Who do you want to send/take with you on that mission?
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Jun 15, 2015 21:54
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Iron Hands, plus either Limosa or Edourd, depending on which one is awake.Possibly both. Also lots and lots of psider bits.
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Waci posted:Iron Hands, plus either Limosa or Edourd, depending on which one is awake.Possibly both. Also lots and lots of psider bits. Sounds like a plan!
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Jun 15, 2015 22:01
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Amacita has been missing 6 weeks. Magos has quarantine up for ~4. HMMMMMMMM
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Xun posted:Amacita has been missing 6 weeks. Magos has quarantine up for ~4. HMMMMMMMM Coincidences happen 
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Waci posted:Iron Hands, plus either Limosa or Edourd, depending on which one is awake.Possibly both. Also lots and lots of psider bits. This Also, while we're at it: Maybe ask the ageless super soldiers that have stood watch over our ship for generations if they know something about this whole mess or if they have some pointers they'd like to give us.
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LowellDND posted:Coincidences happen Not in this CYOA
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Can't we ask our pet supervillan in a box what's happened to Amacita? E: Devries, in case we have more than one.
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Jun 15, 2015 23:12
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Ask Tanya for advice.
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sullat posted:Can't we ask our pet supervillan in a box what's happened to Amacita? He has no idea. She went missing a while ago. He does give you a list of little helpers for when you see her though, her symptoms probably ... aren't good, about now.
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Shadeoses posted:Ask Tanya for advice. Unless you're talking about the hallucination in our head, I have some bad news...
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