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Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
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Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
B

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
E. "Those that know don't speak, and those that speak, don't know."

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Spend!

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

Tran posted:

E: Inform Inquisitor Kozilek that the last surviving heir to a warrant of trade will be in need of training and a guiding hand. Waste not, want not.

The kid is nothing to us as an enemy or test subject, but to Kozilek he'll likely prove a very pleasant bonus.

This sounds good.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Question: Do you have access to your family's Warrant of Trade? Do you know where it is kept?

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Changing vote to B, okay this guy is totally useless.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Can we find out what the mission will be using back channels, then go to the HQ and volunteer like it was our idea in the first place?

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Please, we are clearly making a crocheted Rosetta.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
B

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Things we should do on our trip to the hive:

1. B

2. Start making plans to strand our cousin on the planet.

3. Knit bow ties for the Kriegers.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
C

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

Tomn posted:

So...

...anyone feel like making a medicae roll to try and spot a weakness in the bio-titan nearest where we want to go in, interfacing with the machine-spirit of the bullet to guide its aim better, and handing the Gargant-Slayer over to our best shooter to see if we can simultaneously become a war hero while making our approach much easier by expending little more than one of the ten amazingly rare and irreplaceable superbullets we have?

Only if we ride in on a titan.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Burn the fate point. Tell no one.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Option 2, Wait for us! We will come back for you!

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Option One.

We will be happy to take some of our payment in Cash and Kriegers of course.

Sniper's Plan: D: The Magos' instructions were to make a copy and destroy the original. We will make two copies. The first copy will be the one we will give to the Magos. The portions of the log involving Athena will be corrupted beyond retrieval. It will reveal that the Magos decided to fuse herself with the Tyranids for reasons unknown to us. The second copy--- and be sure it's the second, in case the Magos can somehow tell that something was taken off the dataslate before we give him his version---- will be the full file, for our purposes.

Do you tell anyone about Athena?

No

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Voting for Command.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

Lanky Coconut Tree posted:

Blowing those rolled up party noisemakers at regular intervals

Playing the imperial anthem on the noise makers.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
D Question Fabiyan about his previous experience with this. Try to find out how he was infected.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Let's go tell the Lord-Sire about the death in the family. Suggest he postpone the wedding until a suitable window of execution mourning period has past.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

Tran posted:

Make a visible show of deference to the Lord Sire, lead a toast in memory to Limosa. This celebration is not just for inviting a new arrival into the family, but also to alternately celebrate and mourn the recent successes and losses of the family. It is a show that the dynasty remains strong, and by following old traditions we ever maintain its greatness. With this show of might, we prove for all to see that no work of the enemy can weaken us for long.

This
+ Send servoskulls to investigate
+ Show a cheesy, heroic, (if almost entirely untrue) in memorial video for our dear beloved cousin detailing his many years of service to the family, and his heroic triumphs during the war (We can make them up as needed)

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Use the servoskull to ask if they want any ouer d'oeuvres.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Yes to all but revealing ourselves as a member of the inquisition.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
"I assure you Inquisitor I would not so crudely kill a fellow Interrogator who was purposing an alliance against a mutual enemy in the middle of a party on such a holy holiday."

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Install better security on the door locks.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

Arkanomen posted:

WORK ON OUR KNITTING! MAKE A NICE SHAWL HONORING THE EMPEROR!

Also this!

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

VanSandman posted:

They have yet to conflict, Sire.

This.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
No Wedding

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
So since we are stuck in a room for three months + the trial I was thinking of how we could put our contacts to use to either maintain or develop our power base in our absence. Off the top of my head I came up with the following:

Sincera Pax / Countering Devries where she can, even if she simply serves as a way to start rumors about him / run a general propaganda campaign against him.
Megabite / Be a good cyberdog
Matthias / Techpriests
Tanya / Explorers and Tribes
Lieutenant Skade / Nobles
Commissar-General Fabiyan / Grey Guards
Father Kraig / Ecclesiarchy

So that just leaves the dregs and the gangs, the gangs are probably the most vulnerable to switching sides (provided Devries makes contact with them and doesn't stick topside). This all depends on if these individuals would be willing to work for us in this capacity of course.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
A

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Kinda pointless now that we wasted an absolutely perfect opportunity to get the upper hand in this fight, deciding to make a Disney entrance instead of using the element of surprise to catch our enemies off balance but let's make the best of a bad situation:
Arm our people first, wear the rosette openly, use the witch radical hunt to gather inquisitors looking to distance themselves from the radical factions or get on our good side and create a strike force with the power of the inquisition to purge the beast of our enemies.
Since their leader is heretical in several ways and the rest are guilty by association this should be easy as well as an excellent inquisition team building exercise, and a good way to make contacts and give us leadership experience within the inquisition itself.

Mr Apollo fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jun 7, 2015

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

my dad posted:

Here's the thing: We didn't have the power to do it back then, regardless of what everyone expected us to do, and there was a loving inquisitor waiting to bust us. Now, we have ALL the power.

Of course we couldn't do it while the trial was happening. My opinion is that instead of openly announcing our triumph and return we should have used the uncertainty about our fate to lull our opponents into a false sense of security and into the open. Of course the enemy leadership is on the alpha deck which we've been told is tightly controlled by a single checkpoint so a purge will probably be easy anyway. No matter what it was a terrible waste of an opportunity. We should have definitely informed everybody that rumours of our demise were greatly exaggerated in a dramatic swivel chair moment at the formal ceremony naming the new lord sire. I mean we are an Inquisitor, we have a reputation to uphold.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

Ghostwoods posted:

So, OK, I get that we're an Inquisitor now, and thus suddenly we're hot poo poo.

But what actual, tangible power does this give us against a well-armed, highly professional enemy numbering in the tens or hundreds of thousands who are already entrenched in territory we are not prepared to obliterate?

Because from my (admittedly ignorant) viewpoint, a lot of these plans seem to boil down to waving a rosette around and demanding that the tide stop coming in.

If memory serves, being an Inquisitor in 40k is basically being the right hand of the God-Emperor. In theory our authority is near limitless, entire planets could live or die with a single word from us, our enemies on the beast should throw themselves at our feet and beg for mercy. Now that won't happen of course, but being an inquisitor means we have the backing of a secret and powerful organization which means that a lot of his supporters just trying to back the winning side will begin to second guess their decision, the grey guards might be convinced to fully back us and the criminal gangs might run in terror. For the average person to being on the wrong side of the inquisition means being on the wrong side of the God-Emperor himself.

Changing vote to keep the Rosette hidden.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013

ElrondHubbard posted:

It also means no one with any power will trust you and everyone will resent your presence. Every xeno, mutant, and heretic will immediately start gunning for you to the point of ignoring other potential targets because they'll assume you're on to them. Mechanicus will consider you compromised in your loyalties. Rogue traders and anyone interested in black market deals will avoid you like the space plague.

One of our greatest assets is that we're a tech priest, making us easy to overlook/underestimate, and a rogue trader, making us someone people want to make deals with while avoiding red tape.

This is very true.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Buy everything, have it charged to Devires.



(Not a real vote)

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Blow the asteroid up using our ship's weapons. Have it coincide with the ship based purge. Have the inquisitor that is getting a ride with us use his authority and take the blame for the asteroid's destruction. If the company complains send them a bill for services rendered.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Leave. We've been warned it's a trap and precautions would be taken so that our usual tricks would not help us. Better to extract now and use some disposable assets (mercs, space mob etc.) to set off the trap / investigate. It probably would be a better use of our time to trace the payment through the auction house and try to see if that leads us to Devires.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
What use do I have for a spymaster that allows a usurper to claim my rightful place? One who allows our legacy and resources to be sold off by a jumped up drug addict, allows an inquisitor to scrounge through our families secrets and lets the Lord-Sire walk her most trusted and skilled advisors into a trap.

Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
Yes to time travel for the opportunity to have our past self become part of our future self's retinue.

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Mr Apollo
Jan 1, 2013
I hate him, but DeVries is certainly cunning.

Edit: Willing to bring both.

Mr Apollo fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jun 11, 2015

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