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The Lost (30k Primarch Quest)

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[jk] – Do something drastic
-[jk] "Well, I'm not a new concubine." Immediately rip off your shirt.

When in Rome.

Honestly not sure what the best option would be here. I kinda feel like grabbing Dalnim and booking it or just lying would be the best option, although I'm a little worried about a room full of mutants/psykers deciding they want to try and stop us before we can leave. Same with telling them we're a literal, factual pirate who's somehow infiltrated the palace.

[X] – Do something drastic
-[X] Just grab Dalnim and walk. An Outsider in the Harem would be a scandal and bring the wrath of the Empress on their heads. You doubt they'll raise the alarm.

Gonna go with this for now.
 
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[X] – Come clean
-[X] – Well you see, I'm a pirate and I was just recently plundering exploring an ancient alien bunker with Dalnim here when we accidentally awoke the inhabitants and barely escaped into a portal that led to an entirely unrelated alien spaceship up above the planet who then dumped us back through another portal in the palace to get rid of us. We were just wandering around trying to find an exit when we met our drunk friend here and now we're coming down from that incredibly stressful adventure while trying very hard not to start a huge fight in the heart of the palace.


Either one will do.


[X] Plan: Quest Story
 
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AnotherPerson said:
jk] – Do something drastic
-[jk] "Well, I'm not a new concubine." Immediately rip off your shirt.

When in Rome.
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"OH MY GODS HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!"
"... oh right I'm still covered in wounds... they're healing nicely though."
"THAT'S 'HEALING NICELY'?! It looks like someone took a brisket and covered it in rat guts!"
"... oddly specific."
 
[X] – Come clean
-[X] – Well you see, I'm a pirate and I was just recently plundering exploring an ancient alien bunker with Dalnim here when we accidentally awoke the inhabitants and barely escaped into a portal that led to an entirely unrelated alien spaceship up above the planet who then dumped us back through another portal in the palace to get rid of us. We were just wandering around trying to find an exit when we met our drunk friend here and now we're coming down from that incredibly stressful adventure while trying very hard not to start a huge fight in the heart of the palace.
 
HalfTangible said:
"OH MY GODS HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!"
"... oh right I'm still covered in wounds... they're healing nicely though."
"THAT'S 'HEALING NICELY'?! It looks like someone took a brisket and covered it in rat guts!"
"... oddly specific."
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So we have scars all over? Should we show the totally lethal wounds to prove we fought cultist with their dark gods, some Xenos and a pirate skeleton AI army?
 
The problem with quest story is that ... I don't think slavery is illegal here. I mean the pirates don't seem to be fans, but as far as the nobs go, why would they care?
 
[X] – Come clean
-[X] – Well you see, I'm a pirate and I was just recently plundering exploring an ancient alien bunker with Dalnim here when we accidentally awoke the inhabitants and barely escaped into a portal that led to an entirely unrelated alien spaceship up above the planet who then dumped us back through another portal in the palace to get rid of us. We were just wandering around trying to find an exit when we met our drunk friend here and now we're coming down from that incredibly stressful adventure while trying very hard not to start a huge fight in the heart of the palace.
 
w34v3r said:
The problem with quest story is that ... I don't think slavery is illegal here. I mean the pirates don't seem to be fans, but as far as the nobs go, why would they care?
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Unless I established it somewhere and forgot, no, slavery isn't illegal. (in my head there's certain situations where it is absolutely illegal but I'm not going to go into those as it's largely irrelevant here, broadly speaking it's legal).

The reason Sun and his pirates had such an extreme reaction to the slavers was A) the slaves were children and B) their conditions were beyond horrific. It's one thing to sell a man into slavery, it's another to sell a child and then string her up between psyker cages just to keep the other kids quiet.

Also, C), like you said, pirates aren't fans. Some of them are former slaves themselves.

*name* said:
So we have scars all over? Should we show the totally lethal wounds to prove we fought cultist with their dark gods, some Xenos and a pirate skeleton AI army?
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To be fair those wounds are self-inflicted ;)

*name* said:
Would selling other merchants and nobles to hermitic cultists and the Xenia count as illegal and treason?
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I think you guys are overestimating the social status of witch children in a noble society that primarily rewards service in a giant robot.

Although now that I think about it by establishing the presence of psykers in the harem I've called that idea into question... hrm.
 
Time for the old pirate tradition of running away :D

[X] – Do something drastic
-[X] Just grab Dalnim and walk. An Outsider in the Harem would be a scandal and bring the wrath of the Empress on their heads. You doubt they'll raise the alarm.

I hope we still get these kind of adventures after we are found by the Imperium. It's just too much fun.
 
HalfTangible said:
I think you guys are overestimating the social status of witch children in a noble society that primarily rewards service in a giant robot.

Although now that I think about it by establishing the presence of psykers in the harem I've called that idea into question... hrm.
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Well I was making the assumption that as slavers that attack merchant (read attacking suns "innocent and totally not pirate friends") and navy ships with plausible deniability of them being lost at sea, just to sell people to heretics and Xenos is illegal.

actually of the psyker children we saved, how many were nobles, or at least low ranking ones?
 
Probably not many, assuming witches aren't seen as useful or valuable most of the time odds are most of the ones that pop up in nob families are disowned or quietly killed. If they are valuable then a family that produces them isn't going to be low ranking for very long.
 
[X] – Come clean
-[X] – Well you see, I'm a pirate and I was just recently plundering exploring an ancient alien bunker with Dalnim here when we accidentally awoke the inhabitants and barely escaped into a portal that led to an entirely unrelated alien spaceship up above the planet who then dumped us back through another portal in the palace to get rid of us. We were just wandering around trying to find an exit when we met our drunk friend here and now we're coming down from that incredibly stressful adventure while trying very hard not to start a huge fight in the heart of the palace.

[X] Plan: Quest Story
 
Actually... We have a fuck ton of psykers on this planet.

I mean we're an active psyker which is unusual for primarchs this young, and the only other comparison is Magnus who set down on a world with a lot of psykers.

There was a whole shipful of psykers, and a frigging blank, just being guarded by fucking scrubs on a world with knights and tech priests, that's kind of insane for one world. Add in the hints from the harem and there's definitely something wild going on here.
 
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[X] – Come clean
-[X] – Well you see, I'm a pirate and I was just recently plundering exploring an ancient alien bunker with Dalnim here when we accidentally awoke the inhabitants and barely escaped into a portal that led to an entirely unrelated alien spaceship up above the planet who then dumped us back through another portal in the palace to get rid of us. We were just wandering around trying to find an exit when we met our drunk friend here and now we're coming down from that incredibly stressful adventure while trying very hard not to start a huge fight in the heart of the palace.

Slaanesh has a pretty deep seated and subtle grasp on this world I've noticed.
 
Metalbard said:
I hope we still get these kind of adventures after we are found by the Imperium. It's just too much fun.
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Do you think the Imperium could stop him? xD

If you mean in the quests: possibly. I'm committed to finishing The Lost, at least.

*name* said:
Well I was making the assumption that as slavers that attack merchant (read attacking suns "innocent and totally not pirate friends") and navy ships with plausible deniability of them being lost at sea, just to sell people to heretics and Xenos is illegal.

actually of the psyker children we saved, how many were nobles, or at least low ranking ones?
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I... don't recall saying where the Rude Awakening got its cargo from?

Not many. I only noted one, and he was a recent enough capture that he still had his (albeit ruined) vestments. Oda was looking into it and will probably have an answer for you by the time we get back to Shang.

w34v3r said:
Probably not many, assuming witches aren't seen as useful or valuable most of the time odds are most of the ones that pop up in nob families are disowned or quietly killed. If they are valuable then a family that produces them isn't going to be low ranking for very long.
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Keep in mind that on Knightworlds the most important thing for a noble to be able to do is pilot his knight effectively.

Mutants often have biological problems that will prevent them from accepting the various implants and cybernetic enhancements that make piloting a knight possible. Aki, for example, regularly grows gold chains out of her back, right around where you'd want the ports for neural interface to be. She'd need procedures developed specifically for her, more frequent maintenance, and make a poor pilot even if she were both nobility and physically fit for service.

While psykers don't have this same problem, they do run into the issue that they're often mentally unstable (or about to be) and you do not want to put a crazy wizard into a giant robot.

Unless you're Chaos-aligned I guess.

w34v3r said:
Actually... We have a fuck ton of psykers on this planet.

I mean we're an active psyker which is unusual for primarchs this young, and the only other comparison is Magnus who set down on a world with a lot of psykers.

There was a whole shipful of psykers, and a frigging blank, just being guarded by fucking scrubs on a world with knights and tech priests, that's kind of insane for one world. Add in the hints from the harem and there's definitely something wild going on here.
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Magnus was an active psyker from a very young age, and he also grew up on a world with a lot of psykers. But did the latter cause the former, or did he land on a world of psykers because he was an active psyker?

I will note a couple of things about this: the ship was full of psykers because they'd been gathered up, it's not like you ran into a cruise ship full of psykers. The Imperial Harem contains multiple mutants, which often comes hand in hand with psyker abilities. Fan is also the only blank you've encountered on this world.

WinterLantern said:
Slaanesh has a pretty deep seated and subtle grasp on this world I've noticed.
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In places, yes. In others she's outright rejected (see Xiulan's cultists that followed 3 gods).

She's also got a pretty good hold on most aspects of a pirate's life. Drinking, partying, whoring, murdering for fun and profit... (not saying the others don't, just saying that the murder party was definitely Slaanesh's vibe).
 
HalfTangible said:
I... don't recall saying where the Rude Awakening got its cargo from?

Not many. I only noted one, and he was a recent enough capture that he still had his (albeit ruined) vestments. Oda was looking into it and will probably have an answer for you by the time we get back to Shang.
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they got to get the slaves from somewhere and even if they weren't nobles or merchant and were the homeless, working/selling to heretical cults and dark eldar should be illegal and the act of traitors
 
HalfTangible said:
She's also got a pretty good hold on most aspects of a pirate's life. Drinking, partying, whoring, murdering for fun and profit... (not saying the others don't, just saying that the murder party was definitely Slaanesh's vibe).
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Ooh, wasnt sure we'd had the 3 gods confirmed, but it's nice to know. Granted the mermaid aid was a big hint, but any god would also probably be down to send an emissary if the pirate primarch had attracted their attention, and I'm sure tzeentch at least would have been more than willing to betray the others like that. Does that mean the execution of the crew counted as a ritual, or that it just resonated very strongly with the excess vibe?
 
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HalfTangible said:
Magnus was an active psyker from a very young age, and he also grew up on a world with a lot of psykers. But did the latter cause the former, or did he land on a world of psykers because he was an active psyker?

I will note a couple of things about this: the ship was full of psykers because they'd been gathered up, it's not like you ran into a cruise ship full of psykers. The Imperial Harem contains multiple mutants, which often comes hand in hand with psyker abilities. Fan is also the only blank you've encountered on this world.
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Well yeah, they were gathered, but that a middling level slaver op was able to find this many on a single world is rare, not unheard of, prospero and a few other places have high psyker concentration. It's just very unusual. Throw in that the royal harem apparently competes for the pretty ones indicates this planet is pretty warpy, which makes the Necron presence all the stranger since they tend to not like that.

So ... Fuckery be afoot.
 
[X] – Do something drastic
-[X] Just grab Dalnim and walk. An Outsider in the Harem would be a scandal and bring the wrath of the Empress on their heads. You doubt they'll raise the alarm.
 
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