[X] The Penitent Gunslinger
Memento Mori (Exalted/40k)
- Thread starter Maugan Ra
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[X] The Penitent Gunslinger
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- London, England
The Emperor is slowly falling apart and thus pieces of his soul (with attendant possibly madness-granting powers) are likely to be found in a few places.
Exactly how the main character appears is open to interpretation and change - drawing on the powers of the Corpse Emperor could very well make one appear to be a corpse themselves, exposed ribcage and all, but it could also reinforce their ego and self-image to make them look increasingly 'perfect'.
You will start out looking mostly mortal, save perhaps for your death wounds, and where things go from there will depend on how you choose to relate to your own (im)morality in quest.
Would Ciaphias Cain get a piece of the Emperor's soul if they are all flying about.
- Location
- London, England
Well he would need to die first, and if there is one thing that Ciaphas Cain is very good at, it is Not Dying.
I mean does old age count?
- Location
- Te Ika-a-Māui
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[X] The Contemptuous Scribe
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- Location
- Diamond City
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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- Lickwidget
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- She/Her
[X] The Contemptuous Scribe
Here is why. I want to see their faces when the nobles are reduced to penury through bureaucratic trickery. I want to see their satisfaction reduced to ashes as their wealth is destroyed.
You can't shoot wealth and power in the face, but you can cause ruinous wounds as terrible as death to it and its holders with a dark word and enough spite.
I like the Scribe because of her spite.
Here is why. I want to see their faces when the nobles are reduced to penury through bureaucratic trickery. I want to see their satisfaction reduced to ashes as their wealth is destroyed.
You can't shoot wealth and power in the face, but you can cause ruinous wounds as terrible as death to it and its holders with a dark word and enough spite.
I like the Scribe because of her spite.
Not usually. Abyssals come about from violent or disturbing deaths - deprivation, murder, suicide from despair, torture, and callous disregard.
- Location
- Victoria
[X] The Contemptuous Scribe
What BungieONI just said, pretty much.
What BungieONI just said, pretty much.
[X] The Contemptuous Scribe
FaeGlade Plural
Semper Legens
- Location
- Land of Bureaucracy
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- Plural/They
[X] The Contemptuous Scribe
Just throwing a vote in for some folks.
Just throwing a vote in for some folks.
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- He/Him
[X] The Contemptuous Scribe
I did put it among my top 3 for a reason. Being able to unfuck systems will do immense good for the Imperium.
I did put it among my top 3 for a reason. Being able to unfuck systems will do immense good for the Imperium.
The Imperium of Man has rarely if ever lacked the martial might to win its battles. The Imperium has also never had the administrative capacity to do more than win battles. It was designed as a weapon of conquest for the hand of a man who then became unable to wield it and then it rotten for ten thousand years.
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- They/Them
I will say that the Daybreak Anima is the most dramatic that doesn't kinda short-circuit a scene. Like, a warp portal's cool but, "Nah, I'd rather not be here" is more a scene ender than a dramatic inflection point.
Sure, sorta, but it should be noted that the Imperium did have an absurdly huge bureaucracy... it's just that it existed for the purpose of causing as much pointless misery as possible, and a level of fine-grained nonsense that'd need an even bigger bureaucracy than that to manage in the way they've decided to make things work.
Every option is kinda part of the problem because something something Ethical Consumption, but there's something to be said for the kind of direct experience with being shit on that comes from being a Hive-born person that's the sort who'd be in a gang, etc.
Sure, sorta, but it should be noted that the Imperium did have an absurdly huge bureaucracy... it's just that it existed for the purpose of causing as much pointless misery as possible, and a level of fine-grained nonsense that'd need an even bigger bureaucracy than that to manage in the way they've decided to make things work.
Every option is kinda part of the problem because something something Ethical Consumption, but there's something to be said for the kind of direct experience with being shit on that comes from being a Hive-born person that's the sort who'd be in a gang, etc.
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