Suffer Not the Witch (Warhammer 40k Psyker Quest)

Thing is, what does Chaos do that is worse than the Imperium? Mass murder? Ritual Sacrifice? Cannibalism? The doom of all life and hope? Because the Imperium does it too.

As such, joining Chaos to fuck the Imperium is, if not moral, a neutral choice.
Demonculaba, Deamonhosts, soul devouring, slow soul devouring (forcing an entire civilization too either torture other sophonts, live in a rigid cast system or have your soul devoured), the Obliterator virus, fates worst than death such as Chaos Spawnhood, the rebellion which caused the state of the 40k imperium, etc...
 
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[X] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Nadia] Terminate the Prisoner
[X] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
 
[X] [Nadia] Terminate the Prisoner
[X] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner

I don't want confirmed chaos on the ship. The Eldar is probably bad news, by dint of this being 40k, but at least they might not be a chaos worshipper.
 
...ok so I was talking with the Ops team to figure out What The Hell, but since you seem to have fixed it... ah, did you just run a tally with the categories put in manually, or was there something else?

I added a grouping label in the structured category of the tally (which I named 1st, but that isn't important), then I have manually inserted the categories, which means I wrote the possible words that could be inside the square brackets of this vote, and I separated them with a comma.

Which is a fancy way for saying that, because I knew that function of the tally worked, I tried to find a logical way to set it up. I had no idea on how to do that before I just tried a few minutes ago.

EDIT: by the way, I think you can't automatically set up the tally to recognize the various categories you want to use in your vote. Apparently this isn't true.
 
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[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
 
[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner

"In the 41st millennia, a unit of heretics was sent to the black ship for a crime they definitely committed. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the A-Team."
 
[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner

"In the 41st millennia, a unit of heretics was sent to the black ship for a crime they definitely committed. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the A-Team."
So when do we fly a tank?
 
I added a grouping label in the structured category of the tally (which I named 1st, but that isn't important), then I have manually inserted the categories, which means I wrote the possible words that could be inside the square brackets of this vote, and I separated them with a comma.

Which is a fancy way for saying that, because I knew that function of the tally worked, I tried to find a logical way to set it up. I had no idea on how to do that before I just tried a few minutes ago.

EDIT: by the way, I think you can't automatically set up the tally to recognize the various categories you want to use in your vote.

Neat, good to know. Usually just putting the task names in square brackets lets the tally automatically sort things, but I guess it got kind of confused because the rest of the vote was otherwise identical.

-/-

Anyway, character sheet has been added to the front page, for those who were interested in it. Might tweak things a bit more later, I just sat down and made it now.

Of particular note, all skills, attributes and psychic powers have been tagged with the xp cost of the next rank, to inform people when it comes time to do an advancement vote. I will also be offering xp to questers who make particularly interesting, informative or well-reasoned posts in the thread as a kind of incentive, which can be assigned at their discretion. New skill and attribute ranks are automatic, new powers become the subject of votes in the next update (or possibly an interval vote).

I would like to do something similar for talents but they are, frustratingly, all costed at wildly different rates. Hmm. Might put 20xp as the benchmark and then make those votes as well.
 
[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
 
[X] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner

After all, it's traditional to get tattoos in prison. Ooooh, it's some kind of multi headed serpent from Terran mythology, cool cool.
 
[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner

Fuck it, we can't trust any of them, so my solution is to give up on any kind of leadership and hope to skate by on someone else's coattails in the chaos releasing them all entails.

Rolling the dice!
 
[X] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Nadia] Terminate the Prisoner
[X] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Bore] Terminate the Prisoner
 
So this is going to be chaotic, yes. But let's give them all a chance and see what happens.
I AM ALL FOR THIS PLAN

What could go wrong???

TAKE SOME RISKS NERDS

[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
 
Yeah fuck the Inquisition.

[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
 
[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
 
[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner

They'll be too busy stabbing each other in the back to get us! This can't go wrong!
 
[X] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[X] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Aeldari] Terminate the Prisoner
[X] [Ciro] Abandon the Prisoner
 
[X] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[X] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner

A couple of things to note.

A) Ciro was apparently captured because he volunteered to hold off the Inquisition to buy his accomplices time to escape. Ergo, he was loyal enough to somebody or something to willingly lay down his life for them. That... Does not sound like a Chaos Marine, to me, or the average renegade, who trend towards self-serving piracy. It's too early to tell, but given what I know of Maugan I suspect this guy is invested in some kind of ideological opposition to the Imperium, which means I'm kind of fascinated by the question mark of what exactly his deal is.

B) For all that people call the Eldar treacherous, I would argue that they're meaningfully more trustworthy than the Imperium. Like, they'll happily throw catspaws at the Imperium and manipulate fate to sacrifice human lives for their own sake, but that's... not... treachery? The Imperium and the Eldar are actively at war with one another, there's no assumption that Eldar shouldn't exploit humans for their own gain, if they can engineer the opportunity. But when Eldar actually enter into an agreed upon alliance with humans, then historically speaking they do tend to hold up their end of the bargain. The Eldar are inscrutable, aloof, arrogant, and can generally be expected to live up to their word and not an inch further, but they do live up to their word. Like, Nadia supposedly murdered their own family, the Eldar is not the treacherous one here lol
Demonculaba, Deamonhosts, soul devouring, slow soul devouring (forcing an entire civilization too either torture other sophonts, live in a rigid cast system or have your soul devoured), the Obliterator virus, fates worst than death such as Chaos Spawnhood, the rebellion which caused the state of the 40k imperium, etc...
In all honesty with the exception of daemonhosts, I'd say the Imperium commits horrors analogous to every one of these. I mean, 'fates worse than death'? You want to say Chaos does that and the Imperium doesn't? Hey, remember what Tahr was going to do to us? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
 
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I added a grouping label in the structured category of the tally (which I named 1st, but that isn't important), then I have manually inserted the categories, which means I wrote the possible words that could be inside the square brackets of this vote, and I separated them with a comma.

Which is a fancy way for saying that, because I knew that function of the tally worked, I tried to find a logical way to set it up. I had no idea on how to do that before I just tried a few minutes ago.

EDIT: by the way, I think you can't automatically set up the tally to recognize the various categories you want to use in your vote.
That's what "Divide Votes by Task" does.
 
[X] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[X] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
 
[X] [Nadia] Terminate the Prisoner
[X] [Bore] Terminate the Prisoner
[X] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[X] [Ciro] Terminate the Prisoner

Nadia and Bore are both a straight up bag of nope. Nadia might represent the best chance of operating Voidcraft systems, but she's a Daemonologist, which means she should by default be considered an absolute idiot who is likely to conjure up a Daemon that we have no way of stopping at the first sign of trouble. This is not a case of 'The enemy of my enemy'; if she summons Daemons, we don't want any part of that.

Bore grafts Daemonic bodyparts onto his body? WTF? Uhhh, no thanks.

The Aeldari is interesting. I'll assume (s)he's Drukhari until proven otherwise, which would be the worse option. Drukhari are a malevolent bag of dicks and I don't trust any of them an inch, but they are absolutely committed to their self-preservation. They're also much more technologically astute as a race than humanity is. So long as we don't let our guard down, I think we can somewhat trust that our interests will (very temporarily) align together here long enough for us to co-operate. Our combat ability is likely formidable enough to delay the Aeldari's inevitable betrayal until we've found an escape route, as well.

Ciro is too much of a gamble. He's also likely to be able to paint the walls with our blood if he doesn't like us. There's way too much that can go wrong here.
 
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[x] [Nadia] Free the Prisoner.
[x] [Bore] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Aeldari] Free the Prisoner
[x] [Ciro] Free the Prisoner
 
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