- Location
- Australia
Removed her from the plan. Renamed it to Plan Psyker Raid.
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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
- Start date
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
1. a significant amount@Durin
1. How big an impact would her null zone have on the Third Circle? -200 is a pretty big debuff after all.
But, yeah I'm leaning away from the plan now.
Avernus taught him his lesson last time
1. yes
2. no
3. no
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Updateedddd Plan. Longterm Biomancy and Wallbuffing can't be done, so save for the next phase.
- Location
- Australia
Trolls will still prepare ground but will do so without divination, 2nd Diviner Choir on Telepath marking, saving 2nd Pyromancy Choir for later, and Biomancers off for this turn.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
TBH I'm wondering if we can take down the Sorcerer Choir summoning the 3rd Circle Angyl.
@Durin
How do you figure this force/plan would do in destroying the choir?
Heroes: Ridcully, Xavier, Lulana, Jacob, Jane, Aria
Strike Force: 3 Primaris Executioner Forces
Plan A: Teleport near Summoning Area. Enter and Annihlate Choir. Teleport Out.
Plan B: Teleport near Summoning Area. Sabotage Void Shields. Call in Deathstrikes. Teleport Out.
@Durin
How do you figure this force/plan would do in destroying the choir?
Heroes: Ridcully, Xavier, Lulana, Jacob, Jane, Aria
Strike Force: 3 Primaris Executioner Forces
Plan A: Teleport near Summoning Area. Enter and Annihlate Choir. Teleport Out.
Plan B: Teleport near Summoning Area. Sabotage Void Shields. Call in Deathstrikes. Teleport Out.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
I think that it would have a very good chance of succeeding, a decent chance of killing one of your execution forces and some heroes and a small chance of killing most of your heroes and execution forces and still failing
The issue is that you are attacking the best defended location in the Abomination forces, which is also a clear target.
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I'd rather not risk losing heroes when Avernus might just smite the demon if they succeed anyway. The summoning site is a decent distance from any of our cities to avoid bombardment, so if an Avernus Abomination shows up to eat the demon, we should be fairly safe.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Looking at the Military Sheet:
Executioner Squads have an amazing *1863 skill multiplier. Otherwise they mostly have above-average stats, like having 20 Armor (But only 2.88 HP, prob cause there aren't many of them).
Psyker Regiments are okay. When they go Veteran and Elite they becoming going amazing.
The Abomination standard troops have horrible skill multipliers compared to us. *2.1 and *8 are the highest shown so far. We have *15 to *42.
Executioner Squads have an amazing *1863 skill multiplier. Otherwise they mostly have above-average stats, like having 20 Armor (But only 2.88 HP, prob cause there aren't many of them).
Psyker Regiments are okay. When they go Veteran and Elite they becoming going amazing.
The Abomination standard troops have horrible skill multipliers compared to us. *2.1 and *8 are the highest shown so far. We have *15 to *42.
- Location
- Leeds
Pretty sure Abomination is actually pretty good, that elite Guard level isn't it? They're just not ready for Avernus.
- Location
- madison
well it seems we have a transcendent psyker running around. interesting. I did a review thing of it like I did for the last gia omake. given it was made 1000% cannon we can actually infer some interesting stuff about the world from it.
*evil megacorp noises* how dare the scientist treat the test tube baby like a person! it might grow up well adjusted or something!
daww, their adorable. it'd be a shame if anything tragic happened during this backstory. Also it's nice to see a living weapon treated like a kid. honestly so many secret labs would not have been destroyed if they treated their human weapons like humans rather than weapons.
again, super adorable.
and able to copy a power that took our well equipped experts years. on her own, without even the psyker equivalent of a box of scraps.
and now this is a tragic backstory. Though it's well done, you can feel her confusion and anquish.
she should have fallen here. her control was broken, she should have fallen and burned out. she didn't, that's odd. I also can't help but feel the AI's she killed are in a server wondering WTF just happened. They can't know that much about psykers.
so ball park high beta to low alpha if I remember how strong siren queens are.
huh, looks like the DAOT people cut a simlar deal with the sirens as we did. also interesting that he trusts her with his kid.
this is clearly not something she expects to be doable. that kind of alteration from scratch is hard as fuck. I expect that the intention is to see what she does and evaluate how close she comes.
wow, that is an impressive level of bullshit, even by local standards.
again, I suspect she did not expect success in such a short timeframe.
not the healthiest of mindsets, but hey coping is coping.
raised by sirens. heh. I wonder if she keeps in touch?
wanderlust. I expect she's not the sort to spend a lot of time in one place. which means I suspect she's never going to be one of "our" heroes. an ally, but never somone who sticks around.
oh we've all been there. some friend keeps texting us for some silly reason.
oh shit! a mid level just wanded into the endgame zone. The caverns are not something anyone sane wants to fuck with. (I stand by this statement despite the existence of cavern delvers)
it's small stuff like this that shows that she is a good person despite being kind of a flake.
heh. i'm reminded of an interview of an astronaut who had just come down from the international space station, he lifted up a pen and dropped it in the air to pick up something else, he was surprised when it fell because he needed to get used to gravity again.
she has a trick to stop blink spiders, she has an AOE trick to stop blink spiders! that's huge. even if it's hard to maintain, it would be very useful. we have enofgh psykers we could afford to task some with keeping vital areas or VIP's safe in a field like that.
again, she seems like the sort to love finding new and horrifying places. I wonder if she'll ask to tag along if we ever raid a demonworld. She'd probably enjoy that, or at least think she would before she saw the legions of downtrodden and dammed cultists.
intresting. i'm surprised humans have lived this long. it's been well over 20 years. doubly so if they are dumb enofgh to pick a fight with the trolls. The guys we never did anything more aggressive than patrol against, and who we gladly made peace with as soon as it was an option on the table. Maybe they only went nuts recently?
huh, that's an odd way to ask somone to flay your soul and pull the info from you still screaming mind. but hey, apparently some people are into that.
yeah, the guy is not the Darth Vader in this particular cloud city.
good lord, they live in caves and picked a fight with the fucking stone walking trolls? are they legitimately trying to commit suicide by cop or something?
Jesus, ok i'm betting on some sort of group insanity setting in. I mean imperials have mental health issues here, a softer people could easily just fucking snap. Honestly if this wasn't pre slanesh i'd expect chaos corruption.
... it took her how many years to get around to reading her fathers last message to her? marceline seems uniquly bad at focusing, and prone to letting shit slide for years or decades baring a time crunch. though it could be simply her having issues bringing herself to face this.
hmmm. somone with an intrest in psykers, and access to luna. holy shit, she's a prototype primarch. Or at least an offshoot of big E's early research. I wonder if anything of her design showed up in the final version? the primarchs where supposed to be super chaos resistant, and marceline seems to be near immune. I wonder if her genome would help with gene seeds any?
interesting. nillfiam was the site of some sort of psyekr research. I can see how trying to make psykers more stable would result in blanks. also now we know why she didn't fall. she's got some of the local color in her genes.
it's rare to see somone win best dad post humorously. Goddammit, the main breakthrough that came from this for the primarch project was that you needed to be a good dad. If only the men of iron had rebelled a decade later, if the project had finished the emperor may have known to take some parenting workshops.
makes sense. you don't know exactly what kind of stress psyker powers place on the body. so optimize everything.
appernatly she's a expy of somone, but eh, she stands on her own even if she was based on somone else and looks like them.
Simon was a scientist with no extraordinary combat skills or powers. he was still patient and brave enofgh to raise what sounds like a beta or alpha class psyker without getting fried. parent of the age.
odd. he gave the crystal but not a reader to the person the crystal said to contact. maybe he never got around to giving it to Marcelee? and they just found it on his body with a note or something.
here we see both Marcelee still having issues facing her issues, and a reminder where she is when a forest tries to pick a fight with her.
I can't help but feel if she was in a AGG type quest this plan would be immediately proceeded by a lot of failed checks.
welcome to the poles. tough I wonder what it eats if it turns it's prey into ice? proably a psychic thing.
interesting. they were able to scare up a blank to poke her with. probably tied to that world with the hard to spell name that has a bunch of weak ones. Sometimes I supect that people view Avernus as the weird planet because we don't bother hiding it. I also wonder what the point of blank bears are? they don't seem to be a weapon and I suspect a blank causes issues for a planet that manages things psychically. Maybe they are there so the local garden species has to keep it's anti-blank skills sharp?
I know that he's a psyker of immense potency, and entrusted with a bloody and vital duty, but he's also an adorable penguin. I am conflicted.
interesting. sounds like they have a lot of more powerful psykers than their gamma level base.
coming from a tech level 25 society can make it hard to talk to people from a tech level 10 society. I also wonder if the penguins mange their own breeding program? or only think they do and the world mind think's it's cute that they think that? a bio-weapon that can do it's own maintenance and eugenics would be quite useful.
interesting. dissonance is an usual word for chaos. it has some implications of how they see the world that they chose that word for their greatest foe.
I fell that the underlined may be a typo. it's also interesting that they see to keep fairly well informed on the warp. which makes sense given their job.
hmmm, the Black crystal crown? or just an impossible potent artifact?
this does let us ball park her age. since we know the last human enclave she found was when she was fairly young. so she's probably less than 500 years old right now.
the world shakingly powerful psykers remain adorable. this may be a diplomacy issue in the future if the diplomats we send have poor poker faces.
I notice marceline has a habit of taking serious things like this. first the 20 minutes to make gills test, then accepting a joking offer to pay for her services with room and board.
interesting. It sounds like the Guardians are kept fairly in the loop by the planet-mind. I wonder if it's visions, or some other dramatic method, or just the psyker equivalent a business phone call?
I suspect this is at least partially a form factor thing. penguins are not going to be able to fight well in melee with their body shape. I wonder if we could sell them murder servitors or something in the future? a disposable melee line might be of use to them in their duties.
amusingly, that makes her slipperier than most greater demons. only a lord of change would be a good enofgh scorer to have a bag of ticks that deep, and they would much rather stay back and blast.
Daww, she made a friend.
confirmation she was trained by the penguins. Though it's odd she hates chaos given she hasn't met it yet. a side effect of the genes?
ah, her first incursion.
i'm like 90% sure An'ggrath is supposed to be immune to psychic powers. so this is double impressive, and frankly her suviving the splash from a world serpent strike is one of the more impressive things our local pocket primarch has done.
yeah, this seems to be her pattern. stay a while then wonder off again. I do wonder if she ever checks back on any of the places she's called home.
I feel he's being both a friend and a king right now. He's seeing somone who would fight incursions anyways is officially on the roster, in a way that has no risk of her flaking out on. not that she would do it intentionally, but she has focus issues and I could see her not noticing if she was losing herself in something. He's also giving a good friend a parting gift.
and the gift is something to help her kill demons. dudes being a good friend and a good king at the same time. props.
she's flakier than a pastry. honestly, if she wasn't ageless she'd probably have died of old age before getting anything done. I suspect without people around her she has no real sense for how much time is passing.
and her issues letting go come to a head. because psychic bullshit. which honestly makes sense and is rather fitting.
i'm sure this will be a simple monster hunt, with no emotional growth or important soul searching required.
Wow that's nasty. if we ever encounter them they are going to be a nightmare. we're going to need some conceptuall weirdness to fight them off. since it looks like aircraft wouldn't work unless they where autonomous. Maybe mount a small flying gun drone on a fighter craft and have pilots give i a shot or something?
the planet mind knows how broken that is. So it takes steps to keep them from being an issue. though if we could steal that power... something to look forward to.
just as planned!
daww, it looks like she's finally ready to really move byond her fathers death.
I suspect she's still a little miffed about being given the runaround.
fascinating, another place where the old ones touched this world directly. I wonder what she charged for this weapon? because it looks like it cost her quite a few years of her life.
bitt odd that her soul weapon would be something she has no idea how to use, probably a metaphor or something. psychic bullshit can be weird.
interesting. purely psychical projectiles. given the local weapons are martial skill focused I wonder if that's this regions purpose? physical prowess and might rather than more exotic forms of combat? some times you need somone who can run up and stab psi jammers.
probably a few decades at last given her issues with time. also again, it looks like a purely physical fight.
sounds like they are testing warrior type constructs against beast type constructs.
well that's a training method. spend a few years losing spars until you stop sucking.
there is a nonzero chance the rock is what's calling for help. because the unofficial motto is "this fucking planet."
if by hear he means throw, and by word of he means fire at then yes. also wrong hear.
wait, Kairos? one of the least trustworthy demons of the god diametrically opposed to nurgle told this guy this was a good idea, and he did it? goddammit, I think Marceline just upped the average intelligence of Nurgl's demons by a non trial amount.
that is some bad juju. we are never going to so much as poke that thing. I wonder if that's the forbidden zone? or if the forbidden zone is another WMD? honestly sometimes it feels more like we are living in an old one ICBM silo more than a weapons lab.
thats... is that the first vlad or somone named after him? or just one of our descendants going on a trip.
one of our descendants. that's an avanite trait right there.
that's the face of a man looking at a possible time paradox, and slowly backing away. Reminds me of a story where somone tried set up time loops where outside information would be needed to close the loop as an Intel tool, and he got a message from his future self saying "don't fuck with time."
interesting. at some point we're going to be important enofgh for the plantmind to talk to us. I suspect it'll mostly be asking us to act as off-world hands because that's just about the one big thing we can do that no other species can.
and now Kairos shows up to finish the job. so we've seen 1 out of 4 incursions. we're still due one from the star father, that's something to look forward to.
well now that's interesting. the ultimate neutral meeting ground. why would the old ones make that I wonder? what devil where they intending to sup with to need a spoon that long?
I thought one head was supposed to lie
it bears repeating, I still can't believe he fell for it.
probably more for believing bloody kaross than simply losing.
huh, I wonder what plans she's going to disrupt stuck on one out of the way world? maybe she's going to end up bumming a ride off us and heading out to see the galaxy, meet interesting new people, and kill demon in their own homes?
A CHILDREN'S CARD GAME! it's time to duel!
oh, or that. missed opportunity man. also fucking with people playing that exact game is literally what this assholes whole shtick is. It's not quite rigged, but it's like letting a chess master settle a dispute with a boxer over a game of chess.
yep. he plays this game all day everyday.
holy shit she figured it out.
that's interesting. Very much in the spirit of his god.
there is no prophecy at all that would help when the other guy rolls a 100.
and a reminder that demons are petty little shits.
asshole.
sounds like she spent a while meditating in the void to finish growing up.
ok she spent a few decades or centuries mediating in the void. she just has no feel for the passing of time at all does she?
and we are now post start of the quest.
oh she's met the orcs. they seem to have weirded her out.
The day of pink skies, our first incursion and the worlds fourth.
I looked this guy up. apparently that worked the last time he tried it. He destroyed a craft-world by seducing the daughter of the craft-worlds gatekeeper. course Marcelein is not a hormonal eldar youth. So this time it ends poorly for him.
she's come a long way from struggling in the presence of an exalted demon. Though I suspect that mr date rape was poorly specked for this fight. he was a seducer and a corrupter against somone who's near immune to that sort of bullshit.
yeah, the original vlad would not have had good codes to give. this guy cna't have been from too far in the future, unless he gave her a clavis full of old codes. Which is possible. also do we have clavis tech? they are decently high end DAoT tech, being essentially super secure pip boys.
daww, she's come a long way. it'll be interesting to meet her in quest. I wonder if we could get her to help foster one of our alphas? she also may want to go on some off-world tripe, which would be kind of terrifying for any trust world she visited. but a working vacation to a not fully taken world would be a mutually beneficial deal.
*evil megacorp noises* how dare the scientist treat the test tube baby like a person! it might grow up well adjusted or something!
daww, their adorable. it'd be a shame if anything tragic happened during this backstory. Also it's nice to see a living weapon treated like a kid. honestly so many secret labs would not have been destroyed if they treated their human weapons like humans rather than weapons.
again, super adorable.
and able to copy a power that took our well equipped experts years. on her own, without even the psyker equivalent of a box of scraps.
and now this is a tragic backstory. Though it's well done, you can feel her confusion and anquish.
she should have fallen here. her control was broken, she should have fallen and burned out. she didn't, that's odd. I also can't help but feel the AI's she killed are in a server wondering WTF just happened. They can't know that much about psykers.
so ball park high beta to low alpha if I remember how strong siren queens are.
huh, looks like the DAOT people cut a simlar deal with the sirens as we did. also interesting that he trusts her with his kid.
this is clearly not something she expects to be doable. that kind of alteration from scratch is hard as fuck. I expect that the intention is to see what she does and evaluate how close she comes.
wow, that is an impressive level of bullshit, even by local standards.
again, I suspect she did not expect success in such a short timeframe.
not the healthiest of mindsets, but hey coping is coping.
raised by sirens. heh. I wonder if she keeps in touch?
wanderlust. I expect she's not the sort to spend a lot of time in one place. which means I suspect she's never going to be one of "our" heroes. an ally, but never somone who sticks around.
oh we've all been there. some friend keeps texting us for some silly reason.
oh shit! a mid level just wanded into the endgame zone. The caverns are not something anyone sane wants to fuck with. (I stand by this statement despite the existence of cavern delvers)
it's small stuff like this that shows that she is a good person despite being kind of a flake.
heh. i'm reminded of an interview of an astronaut who had just come down from the international space station, he lifted up a pen and dropped it in the air to pick up something else, he was surprised when it fell because he needed to get used to gravity again.
she has a trick to stop blink spiders, she has an AOE trick to stop blink spiders! that's huge. even if it's hard to maintain, it would be very useful. we have enofgh psykers we could afford to task some with keeping vital areas or VIP's safe in a field like that.
again, she seems like the sort to love finding new and horrifying places. I wonder if she'll ask to tag along if we ever raid a demonworld. She'd probably enjoy that, or at least think she would before she saw the legions of downtrodden and dammed cultists.
intresting. i'm surprised humans have lived this long. it's been well over 20 years. doubly so if they are dumb enofgh to pick a fight with the trolls. The guys we never did anything more aggressive than patrol against, and who we gladly made peace with as soon as it was an option on the table. Maybe they only went nuts recently?
huh, that's an odd way to ask somone to flay your soul and pull the info from you still screaming mind. but hey, apparently some people are into that.
yeah, the guy is not the Darth Vader in this particular cloud city.
good lord, they live in caves and picked a fight with the fucking stone walking trolls? are they legitimately trying to commit suicide by cop or something?
Jesus, ok i'm betting on some sort of group insanity setting in. I mean imperials have mental health issues here, a softer people could easily just fucking snap. Honestly if this wasn't pre slanesh i'd expect chaos corruption.
... it took her how many years to get around to reading her fathers last message to her? marceline seems uniquly bad at focusing, and prone to letting shit slide for years or decades baring a time crunch. though it could be simply her having issues bringing herself to face this.
hmmm. somone with an intrest in psykers, and access to luna. holy shit, she's a prototype primarch. Or at least an offshoot of big E's early research. I wonder if anything of her design showed up in the final version? the primarchs where supposed to be super chaos resistant, and marceline seems to be near immune. I wonder if her genome would help with gene seeds any?
interesting. nillfiam was the site of some sort of psyekr research. I can see how trying to make psykers more stable would result in blanks. also now we know why she didn't fall. she's got some of the local color in her genes.
it's rare to see somone win best dad post humorously. Goddammit, the main breakthrough that came from this for the primarch project was that you needed to be a good dad. If only the men of iron had rebelled a decade later, if the project had finished the emperor may have known to take some parenting workshops.
makes sense. you don't know exactly what kind of stress psyker powers place on the body. so optimize everything.
appernatly she's a expy of somone, but eh, she stands on her own even if she was based on somone else and looks like them.
Simon was a scientist with no extraordinary combat skills or powers. he was still patient and brave enofgh to raise what sounds like a beta or alpha class psyker without getting fried. parent of the age.
odd. he gave the crystal but not a reader to the person the crystal said to contact. maybe he never got around to giving it to Marcelee? and they just found it on his body with a note or something.
here we see both Marcelee still having issues facing her issues, and a reminder where she is when a forest tries to pick a fight with her.
I can't help but feel if she was in a AGG type quest this plan would be immediately proceeded by a lot of failed checks.
welcome to the poles. tough I wonder what it eats if it turns it's prey into ice? proably a psychic thing.
interesting. they were able to scare up a blank to poke her with. probably tied to that world with the hard to spell name that has a bunch of weak ones. Sometimes I supect that people view Avernus as the weird planet because we don't bother hiding it. I also wonder what the point of blank bears are? they don't seem to be a weapon and I suspect a blank causes issues for a planet that manages things psychically. Maybe they are there so the local garden species has to keep it's anti-blank skills sharp?
I know that he's a psyker of immense potency, and entrusted with a bloody and vital duty, but he's also an adorable penguin. I am conflicted.
interesting. sounds like they have a lot of more powerful psykers than their gamma level base.
coming from a tech level 25 society can make it hard to talk to people from a tech level 10 society. I also wonder if the penguins mange their own breeding program? or only think they do and the world mind think's it's cute that they think that? a bio-weapon that can do it's own maintenance and eugenics would be quite useful.
interesting. dissonance is an usual word for chaos. it has some implications of how they see the world that they chose that word for their greatest foe.
I fell that the underlined may be a typo. it's also interesting that they see to keep fairly well informed on the warp. which makes sense given their job.
hmmm, the Black crystal crown? or just an impossible potent artifact?
this does let us ball park her age. since we know the last human enclave she found was when she was fairly young. so she's probably less than 500 years old right now.
the world shakingly powerful psykers remain adorable. this may be a diplomacy issue in the future if the diplomats we send have poor poker faces.
I notice marceline has a habit of taking serious things like this. first the 20 minutes to make gills test, then accepting a joking offer to pay for her services with room and board.
interesting. It sounds like the Guardians are kept fairly in the loop by the planet-mind. I wonder if it's visions, or some other dramatic method, or just the psyker equivalent a business phone call?
I suspect this is at least partially a form factor thing. penguins are not going to be able to fight well in melee with their body shape. I wonder if we could sell them murder servitors or something in the future? a disposable melee line might be of use to them in their duties.
amusingly, that makes her slipperier than most greater demons. only a lord of change would be a good enofgh scorer to have a bag of ticks that deep, and they would much rather stay back and blast.
Daww, she made a friend.
confirmation she was trained by the penguins. Though it's odd she hates chaos given she hasn't met it yet. a side effect of the genes?
ah, her first incursion.
i'm like 90% sure An'ggrath is supposed to be immune to psychic powers. so this is double impressive, and frankly her suviving the splash from a world serpent strike is one of the more impressive things our local pocket primarch has done.
yeah, this seems to be her pattern. stay a while then wonder off again. I do wonder if she ever checks back on any of the places she's called home.
I feel he's being both a friend and a king right now. He's seeing somone who would fight incursions anyways is officially on the roster, in a way that has no risk of her flaking out on. not that she would do it intentionally, but she has focus issues and I could see her not noticing if she was losing herself in something. He's also giving a good friend a parting gift.
and the gift is something to help her kill demons. dudes being a good friend and a good king at the same time. props.
she's flakier than a pastry. honestly, if she wasn't ageless she'd probably have died of old age before getting anything done. I suspect without people around her she has no real sense for how much time is passing.
and her issues letting go come to a head. because psychic bullshit. which honestly makes sense and is rather fitting.
i'm sure this will be a simple monster hunt, with no emotional growth or important soul searching required.
Wow that's nasty. if we ever encounter them they are going to be a nightmare. we're going to need some conceptuall weirdness to fight them off. since it looks like aircraft wouldn't work unless they where autonomous. Maybe mount a small flying gun drone on a fighter craft and have pilots give i a shot or something?
the planet mind knows how broken that is. So it takes steps to keep them from being an issue. though if we could steal that power... something to look forward to.
just as planned!
daww, it looks like she's finally ready to really move byond her fathers death.
I suspect she's still a little miffed about being given the runaround.
fascinating, another place where the old ones touched this world directly. I wonder what she charged for this weapon? because it looks like it cost her quite a few years of her life.
bitt odd that her soul weapon would be something she has no idea how to use, probably a metaphor or something. psychic bullshit can be weird.
interesting. purely psychical projectiles. given the local weapons are martial skill focused I wonder if that's this regions purpose? physical prowess and might rather than more exotic forms of combat? some times you need somone who can run up and stab psi jammers.
probably a few decades at last given her issues with time. also again, it looks like a purely physical fight.
sounds like they are testing warrior type constructs against beast type constructs.
well that's a training method. spend a few years losing spars until you stop sucking.
there is a nonzero chance the rock is what's calling for help. because the unofficial motto is "this fucking planet."
if by hear he means throw, and by word of he means fire at then yes. also wrong hear.
wait, Kairos? one of the least trustworthy demons of the god diametrically opposed to nurgle told this guy this was a good idea, and he did it? goddammit, I think Marceline just upped the average intelligence of Nurgl's demons by a non trial amount.
that is some bad juju. we are never going to so much as poke that thing. I wonder if that's the forbidden zone? or if the forbidden zone is another WMD? honestly sometimes it feels more like we are living in an old one ICBM silo more than a weapons lab.
thats... is that the first vlad or somone named after him? or just one of our descendants going on a trip.
one of our descendants. that's an avanite trait right there.
that's the face of a man looking at a possible time paradox, and slowly backing away. Reminds me of a story where somone tried set up time loops where outside information would be needed to close the loop as an Intel tool, and he got a message from his future self saying "don't fuck with time."
interesting. at some point we're going to be important enofgh for the plantmind to talk to us. I suspect it'll mostly be asking us to act as off-world hands because that's just about the one big thing we can do that no other species can.
and now Kairos shows up to finish the job. so we've seen 1 out of 4 incursions. we're still due one from the star father, that's something to look forward to.
well now that's interesting. the ultimate neutral meeting ground. why would the old ones make that I wonder? what devil where they intending to sup with to need a spoon that long?
I thought one head was supposed to lie
it bears repeating, I still can't believe he fell for it.
probably more for believing bloody kaross than simply losing.
huh, I wonder what plans she's going to disrupt stuck on one out of the way world? maybe she's going to end up bumming a ride off us and heading out to see the galaxy, meet interesting new people, and kill demon in their own homes?
A CHILDREN'S CARD GAME! it's time to duel!
oh, or that. missed opportunity man. also fucking with people playing that exact game is literally what this assholes whole shtick is. It's not quite rigged, but it's like letting a chess master settle a dispute with a boxer over a game of chess.
yep. he plays this game all day everyday.
holy shit she figured it out.
that's interesting. Very much in the spirit of his god.
there is no prophecy at all that would help when the other guy rolls a 100.
and a reminder that demons are petty little shits.
asshole.
sounds like she spent a while meditating in the void to finish growing up.
ok she spent a few decades or centuries mediating in the void. she just has no feel for the passing of time at all does she?
and we are now post start of the quest.
oh she's met the orcs. they seem to have weirded her out.
The day of pink skies, our first incursion and the worlds fourth.
I looked this guy up. apparently that worked the last time he tried it. He destroyed a craft-world by seducing the daughter of the craft-worlds gatekeeper. course Marcelein is not a hormonal eldar youth. So this time it ends poorly for him.
she's come a long way from struggling in the presence of an exalted demon. Though I suspect that mr date rape was poorly specked for this fight. he was a seducer and a corrupter against somone who's near immune to that sort of bullshit.
yeah, the original vlad would not have had good codes to give. this guy cna't have been from too far in the future, unless he gave her a clavis full of old codes. Which is possible. also do we have clavis tech? they are decently high end DAoT tech, being essentially super secure pip boys.
daww, she's come a long way. it'll be interesting to meet her in quest. I wonder if we could get her to help foster one of our alphas? she also may want to go on some off-world tripe, which would be kind of terrifying for any trust world she visited. but a working vacation to a not fully taken world would be a mutually beneficial deal.
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Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
This kind of jumped out at me when you posted, but it wasn't that she didn't want to its that she couldn't.
The reader that was with the crystal got destroyed when the MoI shot him the reason she agreed to work with the guy was that he had the only other working one on the planet.
- Location
- To the left. No, not there, the other left.
Remember that they are trapped living on Helheim, and unlike Avernites they don't have any duty, purpose or pride in living here, only fear, horror, suffering and death. After spending decades if not centuries on this horrible murderous hellish deathball wanting every native lifeform to die screaming is a natural response really.
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- madison
yep. Like I said, they snapped. At least they committed suicide by troll rather than something that would do worse than kill them.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Right a bit more of a response
The council had access to Luna due to ancient contracts (remember they created the navigators after all). However, she is not connected to emps as far as I am aware, besides being created with machines of a similar quality.
As for why. Well they're on the poles for a reason, there are few things more powerful against demons after all.
But yes, they do have significantly more powerful psykers, they're a caste society normal penguins, royals, kings and emperors with Emperors being alpha. Each kingdom has a lot of emperors with a very powerful royal family at the top.
Its not technically an artifact though, more of a psycic representation that transfers to the successor on the death of the current holder, the crown like growth growing out to become the crown.
As for them going nuts, yeah them going all 12 flavours of mad came fairly recently, they survived because they had a fair amount of DAoT tech left over, even some basic manufacturing ability to create new impalers and the Trolls helped out.
But, as time went past things started to get worse and worse and in then end the trolls unmade the cave in a rather...brutal fashion. There's a reason we never suspected there was a lab in the spine.
Your not wrong, but she is also more than a bit distressed at the fact that she's the last human on Avernus being thrown at her...she always kinda knew, but well...its another thing to have confirmation.
Travel on Avernus takes a while, especially with her travelling habits.
Of course her stay a while is usually centuries in length.
Long story short Bublol was a very rapidly rising Great Unclean One hoping to become an exalted. In a lot of futures it pulled it off and was a real pain in the ass for Tzeench so Kairos was sent to deal with the problem before it became such. To ensure Bubol was killed off and Nurgle got ****ed in the process Kairos let himself be captured and "tortured" for information (there's very little anyone can actually do to harm him, but he's a good actor).
In exchange for his "freedom" he told him that the best way to get into Nurgle's good graces would be to lead an assault on Avernus and damage *ERROR DATA NOT FOUND.*
As he is very good at acting, very good at marketing (everyone knows his predictions are pretty much 100% accurate and he is right about 99% of the time) and he was in a shitty situation he was able to make Bubol believe him.
End result one very happy Kairos and Tzeench and one blubber mountain destroyed.
The way it works was that his codes were hard wired into the STCs because he was such an important figure, basically being the expert on Avernus for most of his life.
Now this was only the case for the surface STCs not the orbital ones, but a lot of the ones we have especially the back ground ones are from the surface STC constructor stored in Storms End and the cogitators we recovered from around the place are also from the surface all of which have his codes in them at the very lowest depths of their programming.
As he claimed his codes were destroyed and he had the only version of them it was considered too much of a hassle to try and change every STC especially as identifying which ones were his codes would be really hard without the Clavis, so his codes drifted to the bottom and were ignored for ever until Marcey came along with the supposedly "destroyed" clavis.
She very nearly did. Thankfully she was so angry everything else was just kinda blotted out.
Medium Alpha at this point she grows stronger as psykers are wont to do later on, but you know.
Its not quite AOE and its very complex. We have psykers who can do similar things though.
At that point she was halfway convinced yes,
Not quite.
The council had access to Luna due to ancient contracts (remember they created the navigators after all). However, she is not connected to emps as far as I am aware, besides being created with machines of a similar quality.
Niflheim was not the result of psycic research it was blank research. Apparently the scientists were quite fascinated that a genetic code that appears in human DNA was also present in the blank bears and integrated it into the Nilfar. The result was the blank population.
Yeah they got a Nilfar.
As for why. Well they're on the poles for a reason, there are few things more powerful against demons after all.
Actually a normal penguin is only an epsilon.
But yes, they do have significantly more powerful psykers, they're a caste society normal penguins, royals, kings and emperors with Emperors being alpha. Each kingdom has a lot of emperors with a very powerful royal family at the top.
More of a representation that that penguin is top penguin and lets him easily tap into the hundreds of millions of penguins that make up his kingdom forming them into a massive choir that could obliterate entire worlds.
Its not technically an artifact though, more of a psycic representation that transfers to the successor on the death of the current holder, the crown like growth growing out to become the crown.
Actually a fair few thousand years old, (she was born M24, she found the humans around M25 on their last legs she doesn't reach the pole until late M31...yeah she has a real issue with time. She'll stay put for a long time, or spend ages wondering around. It doesn't help that she tends to act like a completionist in areas she's in. To give context we still don't know the complete ecosystem of the spine or all of its hidden nooks and crannies and she will figure out the entirety of it and every power she can find in it.)
As for them going nuts, yeah them going all 12 flavours of mad came fairly recently, they survived because they had a fair amount of DAoT tech left over, even some basic manufacturing ability to create new impalers and the Trolls helped out.
But, as time went past things started to get worse and worse and in then end the trolls unmade the cave in a rather...brutal fashion. There's a reason we never suspected there was a lab in the spine.
Kinda.
Your not wrong, but she is also more than a bit distressed at the fact that she's the last human on Avernus being thrown at her...she always kinda knew, but well...its another thing to have confirmation.
Not really.
Travel on Avernus takes a while, especially with her travelling habits.
Of course her stay a while is usually centuries in length.
She has an idea of how, it was more like it was instinctual. She had no real training with it though and she recognises that this is an issue and she can use it much better if she were trained.
I was wondering when someone would comment on this.
Long story short Bublol was a very rapidly rising Great Unclean One hoping to become an exalted. In a lot of futures it pulled it off and was a real pain in the ass for Tzeench so Kairos was sent to deal with the problem before it became such. To ensure Bubol was killed off and Nurgle got ****ed in the process Kairos let himself be captured and "tortured" for information (there's very little anyone can actually do to harm him, but he's a good actor).
In exchange for his "freedom" he told him that the best way to get into Nurgle's good graces would be to lead an assault on Avernus and damage *ERROR DATA NOT FOUND.*
As he is very good at acting, very good at marketing (everyone knows his predictions are pretty much 100% accurate and he is right about 99% of the time) and he was in a shitty situation he was able to make Bubol believe him.
End result one very happy Kairos and Tzeench and one blubber mountain destroyed.
Nah tis the original Vlad. The man explored Avernus pretty much on his lonesome almost in its entirety he's more Avernite than any living Avernite.
Yes that was one of the biggest reasons he got dumped in the couldron.
Actually no.
The way it works was that his codes were hard wired into the STCs because he was such an important figure, basically being the expert on Avernus for most of his life.
Now this was only the case for the surface STCs not the orbital ones, but a lot of the ones we have especially the back ground ones are from the surface STC constructor stored in Storms End and the cogitators we recovered from around the place are also from the surface all of which have his codes in them at the very lowest depths of their programming.
As he claimed his codes were destroyed and he had the only version of them it was considered too much of a hassle to try and change every STC especially as identifying which ones were his codes would be really hard without the Clavis, so his codes drifted to the bottom and were ignored for ever until Marcey came along with the supposedly "destroyed" clavis.
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RogueInquisitor
Unexpected!
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. The entire bit that resulted in Harry getting a Time Turner in the first place was kinda stupid, summarized as "giving a child a time machine as a sleep aid."
- Location
- Australia
Kinda debatable. Their objection isn't to him treating her as a human child, but rather him treating her as his own daughter. They've given him a great amount of leeway and otherwise don't seem to mind how he's raised her. It could be interpreted as them simply telling him to be prepared to give her the Emperor's Mercy, given that she's an experimental psyker after five consecutive failures whose stability is still in question. The "authorities other than ourselves" line also implies that the project isn't for their own personal benefit (as they could die before its completion), but to fight the Men of Iron.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
By that point yes.
The project began before the start of the War, but by that point they needed a weapon the MoI couldn't eventually steal or replicate, it was another reason they got their hands on Luna grade genetic machines.
- Location
- Australia