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I was kind of surprised that the big tank full of psyker brains was so vulnerable. I mean I was fully expecting it to be protected by a void shield or something.
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Shadeoses posted:I was kind of surprised that the big tank full of psyker brains was so vulnerable. I mean I was fully expecting it to be protected by a void shield or something. It was protected by a full quarantine of the engines.
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Shadeoses posted:I was kind of surprised that the big tank full of psyker brains was so vulnerable. I mean I was fully expecting it to be protected by a void shield or something. You spent 2000 Kriegers and 5000 drug cultists getting to it, plus used 10 space marines and 15,000 Krieg and 100,000 Drusians to hold off the counter attack. Your psykers couldn't even enter the room, and you had to find a blank to even approach. 
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ElrondHubbard posted:
We should have a few servo skulls to feed us real-time data? See where the blast came from and light it up. Our boys can target the explosions.
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Yeah and then after that she just stood next to it while we burst in as if blowing up the brain-melting superweapon wouldn't be a top priority.
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Jun 26, 2015 04:05
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Our STR is 70 right now in our armor? Holy poo poo! With our lumen shield we could arm wrestled a Hive Tyrant! However this does not stop my vote of SIEGE DRILL TO THE loving FACE!
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sullat posted:We should have a few servo skulls to feed us real-time data? See where the blast came from and light it up. Our boys can target the explosions. Think we spent all the skulls on the invasion. 2 are left with the Iron Hands.
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Jun 26, 2015 04:07
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LowellDND posted:You spent 2000 Kriegers and 5000 drug cultists getting to it, plus used 10 space marines and 15,000 Krieg and 100,000 Drusians to hold off the counter attack. Your psykers couldn't even enter the room, and you had to find a blank to even approach. This whole scenario escalated kinda quickly. Shadeoses posted:Yeah and then after that she just stood next to it while we burst in as if blowing up the brain-melting superweapon wouldn't be a top priority. I like how she tried having a casual conversation while the thing continued trying to murder us (mostly Stinky).
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Shadeoses posted:Yeah and then after that she just stood next to it while we burst in as if blowing up the brain-melting superweapon wouldn't be a top priority. Rules of fair play  She didn't blow up the engines or recyclers. Have some respect for tech.
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Eddie is great if for no other reason than that we are the Iron Maiden. :metal:
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Wait, we have 70 strength? Ye Gods. Any future consideration of our options should keep in mind that we can bench a Buick without breaking a sweat.
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Jun 26, 2015 04:46
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Our strength is high, but not nearly a match for most of the things that actually fight with their muscles. It's important to know that in the game system we're using there are two mechanisms for determining physical or mental attributes. The percentile value is one of them, but then there are unnatural attribute traits. We actually have two of these in the form of unnatural intelligence x2 and unnatural ballistic skill x2. They act as scale multipliers to the affected attributes. Any of the real strong xenos or even augmented humans can be expected to have unnatural strength x2 or possibly even x3. So yes, in her armor Ohone is strong. However, against anything actually focused on raw physical power we'd struggle to even hold our own. Edit: To head off the inevitable question, yes we can get unnatural strength augmentation fairly easily. We've chosen not to, as for our skillset the drawbacks outweigh the advantages. Tran fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jun 26, 2015 |
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ElrondHubbard posted:
I agree with this
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ElrondHubbard posted:
Do this
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Music is Monsters by Gothminister Do you believe in Monsters What was it with Kiera and invisible monsters? You’d think she’d have come up with another gimmick by now. Since the grotesque and your psider hairnet hadn’t detected it, that meant it was probably technological in nature. You flicked on your psyocculum. No, wait, you take it back. This was the grotesque. Five meters high and nearly the same across, what seemed like a dozen limbs all the size of tree trunks. A ridiculous amount of spikes and claws and teeth. You shook your head. That was the problem with Biologis, they didn’t know when to stop. It took an engineer to appreciate simplicity... The hurricane bolter in your chest opened up, slamming the creature with dozens of explosive shells. The chitin fragmented, but showed little other damage. That wasn’t good. Maybe a souped-up hive tyrant? Her sister had liked those, you remembered. You lunged forward, power drills active. It wrapped around you in an embrace. Faster than you. Stronger, too. The drills bored into the creature’s exoskeleton, burrowing deep, before stalling. Glancing down, you could see interior walls of flesh pinning your forearms in place. What in damnation was this? You shifted your weight, activated flamer and meltagun at point blank range. You needed some space, and this gave it to you. It ducked away, freeing your arms. You lobbed a volley of grenades, exploding the floor and meat on it, but doing little else. The gap in its chest shifted, revealing a similar storm bolter. You barely got out of the way as it destroyed the wall behind you. This was happening too fast. It was hissing at you. Laughing. It took you a moment to realize those were words. Low Gothic. A swarm of poisonous darts launched towards you, embedded in your armor. You hoped that was the last of their effect, not that they were going to stall your weapons or something. You fired back with your eye implant, scoring off more armor. The dance continued, even as the monster spoke. “Do you know what a Magos can do with the True Mysteries?” “Die, usually. I already killed her sister.” It swung at you in response, your power drills met its chain-claws in a spray of sparks. “No, Brevet-General. We killed her sister.” In the moment of confusion, the creature twisted, lopped off your left arm. Agony flooded you as you stared at the face, extended over a meter, filled with teeth. ”Matthias?” “You never really were ready for the big time, General. It was only luck that got you this far.” What do you do?
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Stare blankly as our vision goes red and we are thrown into a murderous trance that won't end until everything in this room is dead. Hopefully Fabiyan catches on and gets out of the room at some point.
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Jun 26, 2015 10:06
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Oh for fucks sake, kill this bitch for taking more of our retinue from us. We've lost enough as it is.
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I know we didn't pick Ascended Psyker this level, Lowell, but if you have any future plot points where Ohone eventually becomes one this is the moment to tease at it, because someone with latent psyker ability could definitely manifest under this kind of emotional stress
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JT Jag posted:I know we didn't pick Ascended Psyker this level, Lowell, but if you have any future plot points where Ohone eventually becomes one this is the moment to tease at it, because someone with latent psyker ability could definitely manifest under this kind of emotional stress Funny you should say that 
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Hahah, hahah, ha, haaa.... gently caress. So this, this is very bad. Not because of the fight, or because we've lost yet another of our very small pool of friends. No, this is bad because Matthias was one of only two other people to have been with us when we found the Olympus. Tanya is dead, but Matty here joined up with Magos Kiera here. We should assume the Dark Mechanicus knows about the Olympus. Golgotha is so incredibly hosed it's hard to even imagine. Oops. Around this point we should be screaming something along the lines of "What have you done" and trying very, very hard to kill Matthias. Probably to the point that we keep pulverizing the remnant bits long after he's dead.
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Jun 26, 2015 10:23
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So I wonder who the Magos has told about Athena. loving fuckers.
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Tran posted:Hahah, hahah, ha, haaa.... gently caress. So this, this is very bad. Not because of the fight, or because we've lost yet another of our very small pool of friends. No, this is bad because Matthias was one of only two other people to have been with us when we found the Olympus. Tanya is dead, but Matty here joined up with Magos Kiera here. We should assume the Dark Mechanicus knows about the Olympus. Golgotha is so incredibly hosed it's hard to even imagine. Oops. JUST AS PLANNED  SO EXCITE RIGHT NOW
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Are all the Kriegers still busy fighting? Try to Fabiyan's attention and explain where the invisible creature is, so they can shoot at it.
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Well, if she hadn't before, the Magos has definitely signed her death warrant now. That said, there is some pretty troubling news here. We just lost our left arm. This means two things: 1) Matthias here can go through some pretty high quality power armor. 2) Unless Lowell is just playing up for dramatic effect, we're out of wounds (HP) and are starting to take some very serious critical effects. Death is near. Whatever we do, however we plan this, if there was a time to spend a fate point, this was it (it won't stop the fate point burning if we die, FYI).
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Oasx posted:Are all the Kriegers still busy fighting? Try to Fabiyan's attention and explain where the invisible creature is, so they can shoot at it. There's maybe 1-2 dozen left, but yeah, they and Fabiyan can help out
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NO. We kill this turncoat personally. Nobody else. He just signed the death warrants for every single guardsman, naval rating, and civilian in and around Golgotha. Arch Heretek Kiera's actions are nothing compared to what he's done.
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If there's any chance that the Dark Mechanicus know about Athena, we may have to inform the Adeptus Mechanicus. Allowing Athena to fall into the hands of Chaos would be absolutely catastrophic.
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Tran posted:NO. We kill this turncoat personally. Nobody else. He just signed the death warrants for every single guardsman, naval rating, and civilian in and around Golgotha. Arch Heretek Kiera's actions are nothing compared to what he's done. Can we really afford that right now, given that we're down an arm and he doesn't seem to be even slowing down? For that matter, even if we intend to take him personally, how? Though for that matter, I'm not entirely certain how much help the Kriegers can be right now with their proverbial flashlights and t-shirts. Lowell, reminder how the surviving troops are armed? Fabiyan's equipment, too.
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The creature was hidden in some technological way, and being a tech priest is still our biggest asset, can we reach out and see if there is anything electronic we can manipulate? Perhaps shutting down its invisibility, or even hinder the creature itself.Tran posted:NO. We kill this turncoat personally. Nobody else. He just signed the death warrants for every single guardsman, naval rating, and civilian in and around Golgotha. Arch Heretek Kiera's actions are nothing compared to what he's done. The trouble is that we don't seem to be doing much damage, and it just ripped our arm off. Meaning it is stronger and tougher than us.
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Now that we're at the final boss fight for this segment, I'd like to talk about what, exactly, needs to be done after this. The ship is completely hosed up. Even if it survives the trip to Titan, it'll need to spend years in drydock being repaired. This is unfortunate, but if we put in the time and effort it could be a boon. We could take the time to make major retrofits to the ship. As for what we do while the ship is in drydock... well, most of the ship's populace is dead. We need to find people who can run the various areas of the ship. A major concern, I think, should be making sure no single entity has too much control. As useful as any group might seem, they're all prone to revolt eventually. With... one exception, perhaps. I'd like to toss an idea out, to make the services of the Beast available as a formal Imperial Guard transportation ship. After being retrofitted, it will be packed as full as possible with Kriegers, with a Drusian contingent in charge of the chapel and nothing else and a small Mechanicus contingent in charge of the engines and nothing else. We'll have to ferry them around for crusades at times, but we can always just requisition them for our own purposes as an Inquisitor should needs be.
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Tomn posted:Well, if she hadn't before, the Magos has definitely signed her death warrant now. Wait when did we lose our arm?
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Lazaruise posted:Wait when did we lose our arm? quote:In the moment of confusion, the creature twisted, lopped off your left arm.
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Tomn posted:Can we really afford that right now, given that we're down an arm and he doesn't seem to be even slowing down? For that matter, even if we intend to take him personally, how? The Kriegers have lasguns, meltaguns, and heavy bolsters. Fabian has Soritras Power Armor and the consecrated Lathes Model Thunder Hammer
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LowellDND posted:The Kriegers have lasguns, meltaguns, and heavy bolsters. Fabian has Soritras Power Armor and the consecrated Lathes Model Thunder Hammer Right! Meltaguns and Thunder Hammers, both should be helpful. Try to point out this fucker's location for the Kriegers to blast out, and put out a call for both the closest available psyker, plus Eddie, plus whatever other reinforcements we can scrape up in a hurry nearby.
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We trained him, we can kill him. He may have been a promising tech priest, but he's no magos. We killed Angelika by attacking her with our technical skills, this won't even rate. Batter his goddamn brain open and break his mind, then follow suit on the hideous mutant thing that serves as his body.
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While we've been chipping away at Matthias' armour, we've also been trying to hack Kiera's techy bits. gently caress that. Focus on hacking Matthias. Inform Edourd that Magos Kiera is a traitor to Mars and the Imperium, in the way that is official inquisition trouble. Reveal rosette (I assume we have some sort of nifty MIU-controlled holographic projector or something for it) to Matthias. "I'm sorry Matthias. I really wish you could live to see the big picture."
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 To anyone who missed the implications of this, Matthias knows about Athena. He's gone off the deep end and joined the chaos-worshipping counterpart of the Mechanicus with Kiera. The Dark Mechanicus, the galactic-scale warp-worshipping conspiracy of daemons and hereteks, is aware of where and what Athena is. You notice how the list of updates in the OP lists arcs 1-4 as prologue, and beyond that as the crusade? Here's why.
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For those that forgot why Athena was such a big deal, her tech is so far beyond the current era that the Dark Mechanicus replicating even one of her ship's weapons will spell the end of the Imperium. Full stop. Matthias joining the enemy has put the entirety of humanity at risk.
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LowellDND posted:“Die, usually. I already killed her sister.” It swung at you in response, your power drills met its chain-claws in a spray of sparks. Tomn posted:Right! Meltaguns and Thunder Hammers, both should be helpful. Try to point out this fucker's location for the Kriegers to blast out, and put out a call for both the closest available psyker, plus Eddie, plus whatever other reinforcements we can scrape up in a hurry nearby.
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Tran posted:For those that forgot why Athena was such a big deal, her tech is so far beyond the current era that the Dark Mechanicus replicating even one of her ship's weapons will spell the end of the Imperium. Full stop. Matthias joining the enemy has put the entirety of humanity at risk. Pretty much. Whatever dreams we had of working with Athena in secret are over, we need to inform the Adeptus Mechanicus about her.
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