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chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012


Pancracius Boselmann

Nodding as the others speak, Pancracius taps away at a dataslate held in his hands, while Vault hulks at his side, silent and still. "Nurgle rituals are by definition hard to properly ward and contain, they tend to leak power to the surrounding area, which then leads to an uptick in rates of illness. We might do well to check the local hospices and see if there are any unusual outbreaks, especially ones that are disfiguring or hard to treat. That could at least eliminate the workers as a possibility. A ritual done among the nobles Spires or Mechanicus will take more work to find, they aren't likely to let infected wander away to where we can find them."


pre:
Name: Pancracius Boselmann
Archetype: Apostate
Alignment: Unaligned, leaning Tzeentch
Concept: Scholar/Researcher in Banca's service
Pride: Logic
Disgrace: Dread
Motivation: Arcane

Stats:
WSk: 33 = 25 + 8
BSk: 40 = 25 + 15
Str: 30 = 25 + 8 - 3 [Arcane]
Tou: 35 = 25 + 10
Agi: 37 = 25 + 12
Int: 48 = 25 + 16 + 5 [Pride] + 2 [Arcane]
Per: 41 = 25 + 16 - 5 [Pride] + 5 [Dread]
Wil: 36 = 25 + 16 - 5 [Dread]
Fel: 41 = 25 + 11 + 5 [Apostate]
Inf: 26 = 19 + 2 + 5
Cor: 10 = 03 + 4 [Arcane] + 3
Wounds: 13/13

Skills:
Awareness
Charm + 10
Command
Deceive + 10
Inquiry + 10
Dodge
Commerce
Logic

Knowledge Skills:
Common Lore (Imperium, Administratum)
Forbidden Lore (Daemonology, Archeotech, The Inquisition)
Linguistics (Low Gothic)
Scholastic Lore (Occult, Cryptology, Chymistry, Numerology)
Trade (Chymist)

Talents:
Air of Authority
Hatred (CSM)
Peer (Administratum)
Total Recall
Unshakeable Will
Weapon Training (Las, Primary)
Disturbing Voice
Polyglot
Lesser Minion of Chaos (Servitor that is a Walking Warded 
Lockbox for storing our heretical poo poo)

Traits:
The Quick And The Dead
Serpents Tongue
Emaciated

Gear:
Good Laspistol
Common Power Blade (traded for Vault's Light Power Armor)
Mesh Armour
Chaos Pendant
Unholy Tomes
Best-Craftsmanship Reaver Long Rifle - Acquisition
Common Refractor Field - Acquisition, given to Vault

Exp [1300/2100] K:0/N:0/S:1/T:2
Exotic Weapon Training (Reaver Long Rifle) - 500
Deadeye Shot - 250
Scholastic Lore (Numerology) - 200
Deceive (Trained) - 350

Vault, the Mobile Warded Vault Servitor (Ogryn Chasis)
pre:
Lesser Minion Of Chaos (Mobile Warded Vault Servitor)
Name: Vault
WSk: 26 = 10 + 16
BSk: 18 = 10 + 8
Str: 31 = 10 + 16 + 5
Tou: 31 = 10 + 16 + 5
Agi: 25 = 10 + 15
Int: 15 = 10 + 10 - 5
Per: 22 = 10 + 12
Wil: 21 = 10 + 11
Fel: 13 = 10 + 8 - 5
Wounds: 9
Armor: 7
TB: 3

Skills:
Awareness
Athletics
Dodge
Security

Talents:
Cold Hearted
Orthoproxy
Sound Constitution x3

Traits:
Size (5)
Sturdy
Machine (2)

Equipment:
Light Power Armour
Common Refractor Field

chin up everything sucks fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jan 14, 2017

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chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

"Yes, we might as well get this done with. I'd suggest that we first check with the staff, and if they remember anything unusual we start checking whatever records they have to see what information we can find. While I'm talking, take a quick look through some of the Wards, just in case it's actually the staff itself. If you find anything that could be dangerous, we can store it in Vault until we can investigate it safely. I think that covers everything that might give us information there." Pancracius lets his gaze wander across the rest of the group as he continues to think. "Do remember to not flash your insignia around until we have some kind of lead to work with, if somebody gets alarmed we could find a full fledged plague across the entire hive... or daemons... or find nothing at all. The more competent we make Inquisitor Whitehall look, the better the odds he can pull the strings needed to help Banca."

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Pancracius smiles coldly as he looks towards his fellow acolytes, standing not far from the warehouse. "Pathetic security measures, standard worker rebellion recruiting, no good escape route because of the volcano below... I don't know how they survived this long. Probably because nobody cared about worker discontent. So, suggest some plans. Brute force might let the important people get away, if we missed something. They are patting down people who go in, so we can't sneak in with guns easily. Rodan, think you can walk in unarmed and open the side door for us? If we can get inside with armor and guns, the workers will be defenceless, so we only need to worry about the real troublemakers being armed. We should have one or two of us covering the front as well, so nobody can escape. Myself or Jenny are probably best equipped for that. Thoughts?"

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Stifling a sigh as the sounds of panic begin to come through the closed door, Pancracius takes a stun grenade from Cully without comment. "Right. Primary objective is kill anyone we can't guarantee capturing, we can check the corpses for information later. Take the door down, Jenny can handle the front."

Init Roll: 15

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

A quick glance through the nearest office window is enough to show Pancracius that people are fleeing the building towards the entrance. He needed to slow them down. A few steps forward puts him in front of the glass, and quick bash from his free hand is enough to drop a few big shards out of the now shattered pane. The sudden pain clawing up his hand is enough to make him tense up as his right arm flings forward in a throwing motion, dropping the grenade just short of the Apostates feet.


Pancracius moved to the leftmost window, broke it, and tossed a grenade. Vault has followed him.
Toughness test to avoid breaking hand vs 35: 38, failure
Stun grenade thrown at apostate, vs 50: 100! Explodes in my hand
Infamy reroll: 83
Scatter distance: 2 meters - with Blast 3, it still hits the Apostate, but misses the guys next to him.
Scatter direction roll: 7, southwest

Stun grenade is Blast 3, Concussive 2, no damage.

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Vault spits smoke and sparks for a moment behind Pancracius, as the psychic power fries some of the servitors systems.

Vault fails his toughness test and takes 1 damage. Pancracius isn't effected except for his weapons being jammed.

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Pancracius shrugs his reaver long rifle off of his shoulder and starts cursing as he notices the string of lights indicating that the weapon had malfunctioned. Quickly he props the weapons barrel in the broken window to free up a hand for popping the magazine free and then dislodging the chambered ammunition.

Draw gun, clear jam

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

"Dispose of the weapons, or place them in Vault until we can sanitize them. We don't know what might be carrying the taint of the plaguefather" Pancracius advises as the others begin to loot the dead, then quickly directs Vault to accompany Tess before he follows Yeseul.

Going to sit in on the interrogation

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

"Print shop it is. Toss her into the pit and lets get going."

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Ignoring the chaotic firefight going on around him, Pancracius takes his time to aim at the grenade-toting leader through the iron-sights on his rifle, calmly pulling the trigger to fire a single shot through the smoke even as light starts bending oddly around his target from the sudden gravitational anomaly that was forming in the same space.

Sorry, was waiting for my turn to come up in the action order. Half action aim, half action single shot. That should actually be a 25 vs 75, not 60, but I forgot to add the +5 for Best Quality and +10 for Accurate, giving me 5 DoS, which means I do an extra 2d10 damage from Accurate.

BS vs 75: 1d100 25
Damage: 1d10+4 9
Accurate damage: 2d10 5 - replacing the 1 with my DoS, giving me 19 damage total with pen 2, Felling 3, and Toxic (0)

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

The Instar-infested crag-whore-fucker took a perfectly good shot to the head, and he refused to die!

Howling in sudden senseless rage, Pancracius dropped his gun on the ground as he dashed forward towards the leader, hands outstretched as if to strangle the man for his disrespect for a perfectly good shot.

Behind him, Vault slowly lumbered into a shuffling run as he followed his master.

WP against frenzy vs 26: 1d100 88
Corruption gain: 1d5 3

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Enraged beyond reason, Pancracius tries to bodyslam into the nearest thug, his limbs flailing unsuccessful to land a hit on his enemy. Vault, the lumbering mountain following behind his master, moves in to assist, but is similarly clumsy at striking with his crude mechanical arms.

Charge is at WS 33 + 10 for frenzy + 20 for charging - 20 for attacking an armed enemy while unarmed
Pan Unarmed Charge vs Thug 4 vs 43: 1d100 51

Vault charges the same target: Ws 26 + 20 charging + 10 outnumbering - 20 unarmed vs armed target
Vault Charging Thug 4: 1d100 40

Both attacks miss.

Pan currently has a TB of 4, cannot parry, and 4 Armor on arms/body/legs. Vault is TB 3, Armor 7, and has a Refractor Field with a Protection Rating of 30 and an Overload number of 10 or less.

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pan will be fine with letting the arbites do the fighting, but will want to be involved in going over documents and writings that are left. Too much poo poo that can't be trusted for untrained eyes.

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Rubbing his balding head with both hands, Pancracius's eyes fix on Banca with anguish, and maybe just a bit of obsession, showing in them. "I'm sorry Banca, but we have to do this. We have to free you. We have sacrificed so much to try and bring you back..."

As the planning session proceeds, the adept shakes his head in negation. "If we go in guns blazing, they may destroy everything we need to banish Xanaroch. After all, the logical assumption would be that we are cultists, especially if Inquisitor Sloane knows of the plague cult in Gunmetal City. We need to secure as much of the location as we can before they do anything rash. Could we announce ourselves as allies of Inquisitor Sloane, with a bound daemonhost in tow that needs to be stored? That would likely get us access to the location."

Bought Deceive at +10, banking 150xp

chin up everything sucks fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Oct 7, 2016

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Pancracius's gaze finds itself fixed on Cully's retreating form, his clenched hands trembling slightly at his side. Cullys casual disregard for Banca's life did that to him, most of the time. Still, he kept himself under control. Trying to berate the man for his words would simply send him into a rage that would likely result in Pancracius's injury.

"Unfortunately Tess, that would seem to be the case. I managed to trip over the one I picked up after that mission, and, well, it has a rather nice tear going halfway across it. But we need to find someway to sneak inside, or we risk everything we need being destroyed. Searching a Hive for a hidden facility is like trying to find a Grimlet in a swamp though..."

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

"Ugh, if you really must kill them, make sure that you answer their vox. The longer before they know we are here, the better."

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

How bad could chaos spawn be, compared to the terror of a daemonhost? Pan smiles coldly as the platform descends far enough for the spawn to become visible, then confusedly finds himself falling towards the ground as his vision fades to black, even as Vault suddenly roars and begins swinging his arms wildly around it.


Pancracius:
Init: 1d10+5 12
Fear vs 36: 1d100 67
Unshakeable Will reroll: 1d100 96 :suicide:
Shock result: 1d100+60 138
Infamy modification brings it down to 117
The character faints dead away, and remains unconscious for 1d5 rounds. Once he regains consciousness, he is still shaken
and suffer a –10 penalty to all tests for the remainder of the Encounter.
Rounds passed out: 1d5 1

Vault:
Vault Init: 1d10+2 10
Fear vs 11: 1d100 64 - Fail by 53
Shock roll: 1d100+53 133 :eyepop:
The character laughs hysterically and attacks anything near him in a manic frenzy, firing wildly or using any weapon he
has at hand. This effect lasts until the character Snaps Out of It or is knocked unconscious.

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pan and Vault are in a corner, preferably with Cully between them and the elevator.

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Pancracius woke back up with a start, his heart already racing from the adrenalin that had been dumped into his veins. What was going on?! Where was he? He wasn't on his bed, he was in his clothing and...

Memory returned suddenly, causing the adept to suddenly roll onto his belly and bring his gun to bear in front of him. Combat raged around him, while Vault stood and twitched at his side. Whitehall and Xanaroch... no, she was Banca, not Xanaroch he reminded himself, were fighting the abomination just in front of him. They had saved him, again.

The rifle in his hand belched a shot at the creature before Pancracius could even stop to think about it, his trembling finger pulling the trigger out of sheer reflex, sending a bullet flying over the combatants head.


BS 40 + 10 single shot - 10 panic = target of 40
Shoot the bloodleech vs 40: 1d100 91

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

Pan begins to trail behind the group as his mind tries to wrap around Xanarochs words. He couldn't trust them, he knew that the Daemon mixed lies with truth in order to find the most damning ways to say things... but sometimes the truth was more damning than any lie.

Whitehall is desperate. He is taking risks on unsubstantiated rumor now, risks that put him at odds with one of his own colleagues. The chaos spawn being released below shows that something is wrong here, any Inquisitor should be destroying such beasts, not releasing them... Yet Whitehall didn't question it. Is she too obsessed? Does he believe that what he thinks must be true because he hopes it is, rather than because he has proof? Why would an Inquisitor who binds daemons for eternity know how to release a daemon anyways? Such knowledge would go completely against their goal... None of this adds up. If Whitehall is desperate, she truly could be taking insane risks because she has run out of logical paths inside the Imperium... or simply feels she is running out of time. Can I risk Banca's soul on chance and hope, instead of on steady research? What happens if we succeed here, but don't find what we need? What would Whitehall do next?

Pan's hands were trembling as the true impact of the situation came to him. Whitehalls judgement was clouded by her need to free her Interrogator, clouded by the guilt she felt over Banca's damnation. They needed to stop, take time to examine the situation and the facts. Proceeding in blindly was foolhardy at best.

With a decision made, Pan's steps pick up momentarily, moving himself ahead of Xanaroch and up alongside Yeseul and Tess long enough to whisper a comment to the two ladies.

"Whitehall isn't thinking logically, I think she's desperate to find a solution now, and pinning her hopes on an unsubstantiated rumor. None of this situation makes sense. I'm worried she will push ahead no matter what we find. We need to stop and reassess her information before we walk into something we aren't expecting, or worse, something that Whitehall knows about but isn't telling us."

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chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Pancracius Boselmann

"There are reasons, good reasons, why Inquisitors are not supposed to interfere with the works of other Inquisitors. Sometimes they must break the rules in order to protect the Imperium, and to interfere without full knowledge could cause greater catastrophe than letting the Inquisitor proceed. She has chosen to break rules in order to save Banca, but I fear she is breaking the wrong rules."

Pancracius slumps down against one of the pews and begins to stare towards the ruined icons of faith, an odd feeling of familiarity and similarity encompassing him for a long lonely moment. Trembling fingers begin to silently tap against the pew, rapping out the beat of an unheard song of prayer as his trembling voice whispers out to the others.

"There are places we could go, places we could find knowledge... beyond the edges of the Imperium. Repositories of knowledge, colonies of sorcerers and daemon-binders. Until now, Whitehall has held tight to her oaths, both to us, the Inquisition, and the Emperor himself. Maybe, to save Whitehall and Banca both, it is time we had her release us from our oaths to her, so we could take the search where she cannot?"

chin up everything sucks fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Dec 24, 2016

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