Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)

What should your focus for the rest of the Quest be?

  • Mercy (Diplomacy and Expansion)

    Votes: 138 82.6%

  • Ruthlessness (Kick the Duchy in the Balls)

    Votes: 36 21.6%

  • Thule (Yeeni Handholding and Piscarian Cuddling)

    Votes: 64 38.3%
  • Total voters
    167
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@Alectai Oh, you need to add the target world to be consecrated. Here's a suggestion:
-[] [Free] Consecrate In Sacred Sand (Faith - Grace of the Faith)
We're 4 worlds away from consecrating every world in the Irridanus sub-sector, which we have confirmation would provide stacking bonuses. Then we can then expand the consecration out from there. It seems appropriate to turn the previous holy sector of the Imperium into a Consecrated sector of the Star-child. The worlds remaining are:
Faith - Grace of the Faith
Ixcat - Grace of the Faith
Nurn - Grace of the Light
Mothome - Mothome

I think the plan is to get Mothome last, which should happen right about the time that they are finished being uplifted and would be a nice little marker for the occasion. Might have some cool positive effects too, since there's a nice symmetry about it.
 
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[X] Plan: The Monkey's Paw Curls Its Finger
-[X] [Psykana] Conduct Six Melodies (0.6/1 - Auto Complete) - [Choose Melodies] x2
--[X] Fire III, Protection III, Sun III, Hope III, Humanity III, Machinery II
--[X] Technology III, Progress III, Perception II, Unity III, The Home III, Creativity III
-[X] [Psykana] Sing a Song
--[X] Struggle, Fire, Machinery, Unity, Hope, Song
--[X] Humanity, Technology, Technology, Perception, Perception
-[X] [Faith] An Unborn Guide Sought Out (Write-In)
--[X] If we've learned anything by now, it's that the greatest calamities seem to arise when we think we've gotten things together, do you have any advice as to where the next calamity is going to come from and how we might prepare for it?
-[X] [Free] Consecrate In Sacred Sand (Grace of the Faith - Faith)
 
HeroCooky said:
Nope. Those are swim-or-sink type deals. You have the information to glean what certain combinations of Melodies turn into when made into a Song, and you can infer what story those Songs tell when chained together.
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HAHAHAHA oh my god this is going to be a trainwreck. That's how the is case for songs but holy shit this is a gamble, we mostly get by with asking you about the song by hipfiring.

So for making Songs using Melodies the First is overall vibe, second is direction, after that it gets into the details. the Proposed Symphony is Bound to the Stars, A Web of Song, A Glint of Genius, The Devouring Mechadendrite, Unto Works Generational. You normally want to plan how things will go based on repeating or songs used again.

For example Empty All Warmth Into The Yawning Abyss - Void, Fire, Sun, Song, Void. the reason its a depressing/crushing song is because of that last Void. normally its Void, Fire, Sun, Song it implies the void/space and fire, some degree of warmth then boosted or starting a Sun and providing the warmth/light and Song speaking or singing it. Normally this would be an lively song and result in something completely but that last Void implies a loop back in that it creates all of this and then snuffs it out since the void is empty and cold and the like.

Actually thinking on this QM how Would Void, Fire, Sun, Song work as a Song?


Laser Beam Of Magic - Sun, Fire, Death, Void. Where as Laser Beam of Magic is simply Sun as start and fire direction so it gives a sun putting out something then shaped into The Sun using fire to deal death then narrowed by the Sun throwing/shooting/dealing fire to deal death in space.

Devour Souls, Oh End Of All Things - Grounding Grounding Death Death Death
Devour Souls In The Promethean Fire - Grounding Grounding Fire Fire Fire
these two songs show what grounding can do and how you can narrow specific things in that Grounding was one way to do what the Sisters of Silence can do in grounding stuff into the material stuff. it was general grounding of all and going with the others was the type of end. So first one was an permanent end with dealing a truth death to them while the Second one was just grounding the soul or like into the material world and then burning it.


United Against The Yawning Abyss - Hope, Unity, Struggle, Death, Void
This one is obvious focusing with Hope first and then unity giving message of hope to untie, which then is directed in a struggle against Death, then further narrowed into Death. So Hope, Hope that unites, Hope that unties us all in a conflict, Hope that unites us in a struggle against morality/death, Hope that unites us in the face of the End/Abyss.
 
Ok, so symphonies are a story. Order matters, content matters, theme matters. This is where we need to pay attention to the flavor of the song, not just try to jam together the effects.

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HeroCooky said:
First is overall vibe, second is direction, after that it gets into the details.
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I'm going to post some initial symphony ideas. Quotes are taken from song descriptions.
First Symphony - of aspirational progress.
1. A Web of Song - "Sing for me of better days." It's a proclamation of purpose and a good start to the symphony. Sets the tone.
2. The Devouring Mechadendrite - "Idle hands cannot exist when work abounds." Describes how we'll achieve our goals. Work unceasing.
3. A Glint of Genius - "The efforts of the many, distilled into one singular moment. A singular moment of inspiration." - Continues the theme, success will require more than hard work, but also cleverness and inspiration from everybody.
4.Unto Works Generational - "Generations upon generations toiling with only one promise. That their children may one day see the fruits of their ancestor's labors." - A dedication to continuing this effort far into the future.
5. Bound to the Stars - "So we can burn our story into the Stars Themselves!" Seems like a great way to end a potential song.

Second symphony - Protection from an overwhelming force
1. Diverting Power - "Let Power flow around this place." - The purpose of the song, to avoid an enemy's attention.
2. Turn Their Eyes Away - "One needs not hide when hidden not by might." - Describes the method - avoiding power by misdirection and hiding.
3. A Web Of Song - "How we wish for days long gone," A wish that this threat would bypass us, be gone without trouble.
4. A Glint of Genius. - "The efforts of the many, distilled into one singular moment." - Through inspiration we'll avoid our fate. This one doesn't really fit I think, but neither do any of the other options.
5. Dirge for the Innocent - "Don't cry bitter tears for me" - an ending, an acknowledgement of the sacrifice that will be required for what we want.

@HeroCooky Is this the right way to think about it?
 
Weaving_Dreamer said:
Void, Fire, Sun, Song
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Eat The Warmth.

"Void" represents something going away, or being eaten, "Fire" is warmth, life, or energy, "Sun" holds power in its own right, a command over systems and itself, a force that does not beg, something that takes when called upon, and "Song" is a uniter, something that makes the disharmonious cohesive. In this context, it makes opposites (Void=/=Sun) exist and feed into one another, by making the Sun give the Primus to the Void without trouble.

So, if this specific Song were to be spelled out, it would be: Eat (Void) the Warmth (Fire) [Directive] (Sun) {Negate Void=/=Sun Clash} (Song).
Neablis said:
Is this the right way to think about it?
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Yep.
 
I do understand that we'll pay for our hubris by invoking a Chaos Turn, but it's still funny to me that we're doing a three Psykana turn finally.
 
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