WARHAMMER 40,000 Genestealer Management Quest

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THE SISTERHOOD OF THE LEVITHAN
(Cycle 1, Month 4 - the Month of Gathering)


MIGHT: 2 | TREASURE: 5 | INFLUENCE: 4 | TERRITORY: 1 | SOVEREIGNTY: 4

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ASSETS
Defensive Psykers [MIGHT]: +2d to fight anyone who is using combat psykers against you.
Pleasurable Kiss [TERRITORY]: +2d to raise Sovereignty
Tunnels and Bunkers [TERRITROY]: +2d to defend if attacked (using your secret bunker)
Kelermorphs [Influence]: +2d to unconventional warfare (doing it)
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THEDIAS PRIME
Penal Colony
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KNOWN COMPANIES
Adeptus Arbites
The Priesthood of Chemistry and Orbital Dynamics
Krullz
House Pierre
House Mark
House Zav
Thedasian PDF​
 
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Why don't we try to steal some of the Marks shit, then sick the MM on them via Shexia?

[X] Lets You and Him Fight: Send the Marines Malevolent after that chaos cult. Rig up a few car bombs to do as much damage to both parties as possible then prepare to murder whoever is left. For the marines, make it look like an accident or the cult's activity if possible, and if the Cult survives… well. Even gangers don't like Chaos. Have some of our "normal" looking members hand over a few corpses to the Interrogator.

[X] Talk to Pure (roll Sov flat, modified by plan. Success = the pure join whole heartedly! Fail = CIVIL WAR????)
-[X] Use the Magos's psychic ability to talk within the mind of one of the pure, to better understand them
-[X] The Pure once had 2 anchor points. The cult, from which they derived their patterns, and the hive fleet, from which they derived their marching orders.
-[X] One has been destroyed, the other has been altered, but this alteration offers a new future. The hivemind, any hivemind, has shown critical weakness, a fatal flaw. It is on the hybrid species which could hope to survive this weapon, and so per evolutionary directives, cooperation must be ascertained.
 
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pheonix89 said:
Why don't we try to steal some of the Marks shit, then sick the MM on them via Shexia?

[x] Attack House Mark (Might + Treasure VS Might + Territory)
-[x] Focus on stealing their shit and not being where the MM are.
[x] Have Shexia Influence The Marines Malevolent to do Attack House Mark (Influence + Treasury vs Influence + Territory)
[X] Talk to Pure (roll Sov flat, modified by plan. Success = the pure join whole heartedly! Fail = CIVIL WAR????)
-[X] Use the Magos's psychic ability to talk within the mind of one of the pure, to better understand them
-[X] The Pure once had 2 anchor points. The cult, from which they derived their patterns, and the hive fleet, from which they derived their marching orders.
-[X] One has been destroyed, the other has been altered, but this alteration offers a new future. The hivemind, any hivemind, has shown critical weakness, a fatal flaw. It is on the hybrid species which could hope to survive this weapon, and so per evolutionary directives, cooperation must be ascertained.
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Problem is that might end up leaving a paper trail directly to us when the MM discover that the cult has been bloodied recently and all their goodies have been stolen.
 
DecaffeinatedOwl said:
Warn the...Slaanesh cult...

OK, it's probably not the worst cult to warn ahead of time--a Nurgle cult would take it as a signal to start brewing the zombie-ebola--but it's got to be pretty close. Could we see about getting our hands on a big truck bomb to sneak in instead?
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…That'd probably work better.

[X] Lets You and Him Fight: Send the Marines Malevolent after that chaos cult. Rig up a few car bombs to do as much damage to both parties as possible then prepare to murder whoever is left. For the marines, make it look like an accident or the cult's activity if possible, and if the Cult survives… well. Even gangers don't like Chaos. Have some of our "normal" looking members hand over a few corpses to the Interrogator.

[X] Talk to Pure (roll Sov flat, modified by plan. Success = the pure join whole heartedly! Fail = CIVIL WAR????)
-[X] Use the Magos's psychic ability to talk within the mind of one of the pure, to better understand them
-[X] The Pure once had 2 anchor points. The cult, from which they derived their patterns, and the hive fleet, from which they derived their marching orders.
-[X] One has been destroyed, the other has been altered, but this alteration offers a new future. The hivemind, any hivemind, has shown critical weakness, a fatal flaw. It is on the hybrid species which could hope to survive this weapon, and so per evolutionary directives, cooperation must be ascertained.
 
[x] Attack House Mark (Might + Treasure VS Might + Territory)
-[x] Focus on stealing their shit and not being where the MM are.
[x] Have Shexia Influence The Marines Malevolent to do Attack House Mark (Influence + Treasury vs Influence + Territory)

[X] Lets You and Him Fight: Send the Marines Malevolent after that chaos cult. Rig up a few car bombs to do as much damage to both parties as possible then prepare to murder whoever is left. For the marines, make it look like an accident or the cult's activity if possible, and if the Cult survives… well. Even gangers don't like Chaos. Have some of our "normal" looking members hand over a few corpses to the Interrogator.

Either one of these is good.

[X] Talk to Pure (roll Sov flat, modified by plan. Success = the pure join whole heartedly! Fail = CIVIL WAR????)
-[X] Use the Magos's psychic ability to talk within the mind of one of the pure, to better understand them
-[X] The Pure once had 2 anchor points. The cult, from which they derived their patterns, and the hive fleet, from which they derived their marching orders.
-[X] One has been destroyed, the other has been altered, but this alteration offers a new future. The hivemind, any hivemind, has shown critical weakness, a fatal flaw. It is on the hybrid species which could hope to survive this weapon, and so per evolutionary directives, cooperation must be ascertained.
 
BigFungus26 said:
Problem is that might end up leaving a paper trail directly to us when the MM discover that the cult has been bloodied recently and all their goodies have been stolen.
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Point.

Friction is Bad.

I'm ... not sure how I feel about trying to jump the MM I can't see how we can predict the where precisely enough.

Wait, if we know where cult sites are, and we know where Shexai is sending them, we can time Ze Car Bombs.
 
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pheonix89 said:
Wait, if we know where cult sites are, and we know where Shexai is sending them, we can time Ze Car Bombs.
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Pretty much. We can't count on the MM taking Shexai's orders to the letter, mind, but we can count on them not bullshitting around when it comes to attacking the cult.

So, big tanker of promethium, big charge of ANFO to aerosolize it, judiciously placed flare to ignite the fuel air bomb. Paint the truck with Mark symbology to look like it's their truck bomb about to do a terrorism, and stick it in their garage the night before.

EDIT: Actually, it needs to go in two nights before, just in case the MM jump the gun trying to catch Shexai out. Hmm.
 
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pheonix89 said:
I mean, they wouldn't knife the cultists in the back if they were doing that.

Also, they'd deploy them resleeved.

If the Nids were doing that they'd something like Anya's defector guard in humanid Nid combat bodies from Consume.

Consume is great, my personal wincon for this quest is to to do Anya's schtick with less douchebaggery and more lewds.

A good enough write-in gets us a Master Dice which is an auto-succ.

What does Police BLANK do?
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I mean, they have deployed them resleeved in the past, that is something that has happened

And I don't see how, from their perspective anyway, it's knifing them in the back? Their absorbing the biomass to aid the fleet while bringing them into the hive, it's a little messy but you go from being the equivalent of a single cell to being a whole person
 
[x] Attack House Mark (Might + Treasure VS Might + Territory)
-[x] Focus on stealing their shit and not being where the MM are.
[x] Have Shexia Influence The Marines Malevolent to do Attack House Mark (Influence + Treasury vs Influence + Territory)

[X] Talk to Pure (roll Sov flat, modified by plan. Success = the pure join whole heartedly! Fail = CIVIL WAR????)
-[X] Use the Magos's psychic ability to talk within the mind of one of the pure, to better understand them
-[X] The Pure once had 2 anchor points. The cult, from which they derived their patterns, and the hive fleet, from which they derived their marching orders.
-[X] One has been destroyed, the other has been altered, but this alteration offers a new future. The hivemind, any hivemind, has shown critical weakness, a fatal flaw. It is on the hybrid species which could hope to survive this weapon, and so per evolutionary directives, cooperation must be ascertained.
 
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One thing about the terrorism is if it's targeting the Marks, do be careful, they live on a big areostat and it's...not exactly the fanciest areostat, it's nice for Thedias, but it's still mostly scrap metal.
 
DecaffeinatedOwl said:
Well, how many not-Mark people live on?
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I'm pretty sure most of Mark is innocent. Regardless of whether blowing an aerostat full of innocent people to kill a Chaos cult and 20 Marines Malevolent is tactically sound it's not who the Sisterhood is.

Also blowing an aerostat out of the sky will have many, many questions asked.
 
So what you're saying is we could wipe out the MM, and all three noble houses? I'm not seeing a downside to this plan! (Joking to be clear, oh god please lets not go that all in on collateral damage)
 
[X] Lets You and Him Fight: Send the Marines Malevolent after that chaos cult. Rig up a few car bombs to do as much damage to both parties as possible then prepare to murder whoever is left. For the marines, make it look like an accident or the cult's activity if possible, and if the Cult survives… well. Even gangers don't like Chaos. Have some of our "normal" looking members hand over a few corpses to the Interrogator.

[X] Talk to Pure (roll Sov flat, modified by plan. Success = the pure join whole heartedly! Fail = CIVIL WAR????)
-[X] Use the Magos's psychic ability to talk within the mind of one of the pure, to better understand them
-[X] The Pure once had 2 anchor points. The cult, from which they derived their patterns, and the hive fleet, from which they derived their marching orders.
-[X] One has been destroyed, the other has been altered, but this alteration offers a new future. The hivemind, any hivemind, has shown critical weakness, a fatal flaw. It is on the hybrid species which could hope to survive this weapon, and so per evolutionary directives, cooperation must be ascertained.

We've gotta take care of the MM, but we can't let Chaos take root.
 
I wonder do you think the Marines could tell out psychic attacks from cultist attacks?

One of our magi was able to puppet a marine for a while.

We could just kill them by letting them attack the cult and hammering them with that kind of paralysis/puppet attack to get them killed during the battle?
 
Because it was the second not terrible idea that got a vote written up and bandwagon and I'm way too eepy to come up with something else

Come up with something clever like using our psykers to manipulate the fight or something.
 
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The more I think about the less of a fan I am at throwing the MM at the chaos cult. And yes I know I was the first one to vote for it. I've canceled that vote to be clear. Marines Malevolent are basically Collateral Damage the Legion. And the carbomb vote is just going to make it worse. House Marks will likely perish, and if we're lucky so will the MM but how much of the capital is going to be left? Between the MM being the MM and our cult deciding to aid them in that? No. That's too much.

I really want more info on the MM at this point I think. Be that whatever their main objective is for the planet at this point or even exact stats. I don't like leaving the Chaos Cult alone currently but I think they need to wait.

[X]Spying on Marines Malevolent (Influence + Treasury vs Influence + Territory)

Sadly, I couldn't really think of a good plan for the spying. Trying to get one of ours in as a slave was my best idea, but yikes. Them getting back out to give us the info is the hard part. (Assuming we don't send one of our psykers, but like if the MM find out they enslaved a psyker they're probably just going to immediately kill them)

[X] Talk to Pure (roll Sov flat, modified by plan. Success = the pure join whole heartedly! Fail = CIVIL WAR????)
-[X] Use the Magos's psychic ability to talk within the mind of one of the pure, to better understand them
-[X] The Pure once had 2 anchor points. The cult, from which they derived their patterns, and the hive fleet, from which they derived their marching orders.
-[X] One has been destroyed, the other has been altered, but this alteration offers a new future. The hivemind, any hivemind, has shown critical weakness, a fatal flaw. It is on the hybrid species which could hope to survive this weapon, and so per evolutionary directives, cooperation must be ascertained.

Still down to talk with the pure though. (Revoting for it since pretty sure the vote counter only grabs your latest post)
 
[X] [Sisterhood] Increase your Sovereignty (Territory + Treasure vs Diff [Current Sovereignty])
-[X] Acquiring assets: Revolutionary Rhetoric (-1 difficulty to raise Sovereignty or Might)
--[X] Organize as whole cult as possible secret convention to adapt a more revolutionary practice. We won't create stuffy and boring convention. We will have dances in our revolution!
---[X] It's been too long for our resource to sit still gathering dust. Organize internal mutual aid and utilize it. We shall have Bread and Rose!
---[X] Let's celebrate our recent achievement, the welcomed Sisters from the Orbtz and the defense of the Sisterhood from Deathwatch attack. We can succeed! We will have Justice and Peace!
---[X] Write down together new revolutionary pamphlet. For The Child!

Before everything else I wanted to obtain asset first if it is still possible or just Standard Sov raise to prepare for Pure Forms roll. Also pure forms what are those actually? I am not familiar with WH40K.
Kosjurake said:
Sadly, I couldn't really think of a good plan for the spying. Trying to get one of ours in as a slave was my best idea, but yikes. Them getting back out to give us the info is the hard part. (Assuming we don't send one of our psykers, but like if the MM find out they enslaved a psyker they're probably just going to immediately kill them)
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Let me write some fluff plan and specify it as Lackey action to minimize general risk from failure.
[X] [Lackey] Spying on Marines Malevolent (Influence + Treasury vs Influence + Territory)
-[X] Investigate recently captured MM "assets" in the name of ensuring cleanliness of the assets from Chaos. Spy MM logistic and ascertain their intention and capability in general.
 
UrbanAvena said:
Let me write some fluff plan and specify it as Lackey action to minimize general risk from failure.
[X] [Lackey] Spying on Marines Malevolent (Influence + Treasury vs Influence + Territory)
-[X] Investigate recently captured MM "assets" in the name of ensuring cleanliness of the assets from Chaos. Spy MM logistic and ascertain their intention and capability in general.
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The problem with using the Lackeys right now is their spy stats are both quite low at the moment. They'd be rolling 3 dice, probably best to let them rest the rest of the month and get the stat refresh.
 
Off the top of my head, we could organize a psychic divination/spying session combined with spies acting as menials the MM wouldn't care about.

So:
Plan Farsight
[x] Organize a coordinated information-gathering campaign against the MM
- [x] Focus the Magi's Psychic attention on understanding what the MM's current goals are and why, using their psychic powers to eavesdrop on key meetings, gossip, high-ranking marines, along with divining what they're doing from their thoughts.
- [x] Have street members of the cult focus their attentions on what people heard of the MM's raids for slaves and whether anyone heard anything of note (either during the raids or near their Thunderhawks)

Everyone else is free to improve on this if they'd like
 
[X] [Sisterhood] Increase your Sovereignty (Territory + Treasure vs Diff [Current Sovereignty])
-[X] Acquiring assets: Revolutionary Rhetoric (-1 difficulty to raise Sovereignty or Might)
--[X] Organize as whole cult as possible secret convention to adapt a more revolutionary practice. We won't create stuffy and boring convention. We will have dances in our revolution!
---[X] It's been too long for our resource to sit still gathering dust. Organize internal mutual aid and utilize it. We shall have Bread and Rose!
---[X] Let's celebrate our recent achievement, the welcomed Sisters from the Orbtz and the defense of the Sisterhood from Deathwatch attack. We can succeed! We will have Justice and Peace!
---[X] Write down together new revolutionary pamphlet. For The Child!
 
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