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A Shrouded Dawn (Warhammer/Stellaris)

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I like the bio ascension path, and this one seems to let us get it and psionic ascended too.

[X] Flesh accepted, life hardened
 
so we have a draw at the moment 6 for I Refuse Your Offers and 6 for Flesh Accepted, Life Hardened 4 votes full + 2 short hand votes. so how are we dealing with a draw if it shows up at the end?
 
Basically if there is a tie I will roll a dice on SV with a number of faces with the number of ties, with each number relating to one option. The option that is rolled will be the one that wins the vote. I am sorry if this feels unfair to people, but I dislike the idea of having runoff votes due to time and the bandwagon effect.
 
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    • Scheduled vote count started by Leon12431 on Jul 26, 2021 at 1:26 AM, finished with 28 posts and 18 votes.
    • [X] I Refuse Your Offers (choose to turn aside the offers of the Shroud Gods. Gain: ????????)
      [X] Flesh Accepted, Life Hardened (Increase Wounds to double what you currently have, gain Regeneration at 1 wound per round, All Biology Technology count as 1 tier lower for research. Become unable to directly circumvent the truth, have to go out of your way to improve the physicality and mentality of people via genetic upgrades, have to research Biological technology every 4th tech.)
      [X] Gold shines brighter, the stars blaze ever onward, let us join in chorus. (All production technologies are reduced by 1 tier for research purposes, gain Instrument of Desire as a tier 2 perk relating to Government and Crafting actions. Become very Aeldari like with speech patterns, also have to spend a meaningful amount of time on Arts and Craft actions per year.)
      [X] Flesh accepted, life hardened
      [x] I accept/take your offer/gift/assistance as mine/own (Increase Chosen One research cost reduction to 125 from 100, gain Whispers of the Void as a Perk dedicated to Research/Intrigue at tier 2. Become unbearably cryptic to everyone, anything you invent will be inherently 2x times harder to reverse engineer, you can't have mortal assistance for Stellaris Research)
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    • Well this is pretty clear.

    The Ascendancy of Man - You have seen the faces of gods of another realm, you have felt their might and power, you have been offered their gifts and might to call your own. Yet, in the end you Rejected their offers and affirmed your own nature in so doing. Never Again shall you consider bending the knee to those beyond the light of the God Emperor of Man. Never Again, your rejection of the Divine reverberates far and wide even across the planes.

    Gain Unique Trait: Illumination, Unique Perks: Beacon of Light, Furious March, Downside: You Reject for now and always the ways of others, you will never waver from the Duties that the God Emperor demands of his people.

    Illumination: Can Forcibly convert those that Deny the Truth of the God Emperor's Light. (Is Shroud interaction based that will be revealed more in time)
    Beacon of Light (Tier 2) - Flat bonus to interaction rolls with Humans and their religion, can Convert with time Xenos to the Light
    Furious March (Tier 8) - Once per decade you Can Force the Instant Completion of a Single Technology that is 2 Tiers Below your highest Completed.
     
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    Anatol: The Chosen One
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    • Age: 4 months
    Birth Date: 01/01/40,000 (month/day/year)
    Mind: Fully formed, beyond Primarch level
    Body: Teenager (15 years, Psionic acceleration)

    Personal Action Limit
    Base: 5 + 10 (Robust)
    Currently gaining 2 per month for 5 months

    Roll Bonuses for usual usage
    Research: 40 (erudite) + 40 (genius)
    Psionic Research: 40 (erudite) + 40 (genius) + 80 (Chosen One)

    Roll Bonuses for very rare cases
    Combat: 80 (Chosen One) + 5 (Strong) + 5 (Dexterous) + 40 (Robust)
    Psionic Combat: 80 (Chosen One)
    Government: 160 (Chosen One)
    Interaction: 160 (Chosen One)
    - Ecclesiarchy: Modifier of 2x from Beacon of Light Perk
    - Human: Modifier of 2x from Beacon of Light Perk
    Tactics: 160 (Chosen One) + 40 (genius) + 40 (erudite)

    Appearance
    Currently your physical form is that of a idealized Human being with piercing purple eyes and almost radiant golden hair, with alabaster skin.

    Narrative Perks
    Reader of Echos - echos drift around you, faded yet seen from the corner of your eyes. shinning with soul light even in the darkest reaches of reality, you perceive them and from them gleam secrets. (Anatol can spend Personal Actions to Read the Echos of a place, revealing hidden information and secrets, able to read any language used in the region from any point in time passively)
    Shroud Domain - might unmatched lays at your fingertips only waiting for the call to answer your demand. the might of a God made real is no little thing to wield within the mortal realm, but it can change the course of worlds if used properly. (Anatol can spend all of his Actions to complete a Miracle once per century. A Miracle is a completely Freeform action that can be as precise or as generalized as you desire, it has only Five Limits. 1) It can Not give Understanding of technology, 2) it can not reverse time or otherwise affect time's passing, 3) it can not affect the warp, 4) It can only affect a world at most, 5) Narrative Individuals Severely reduce the effectiveness of Miracles regardless of intent)
    The Unending March - never can you rest, nor can you stop the march for progress, your duty compels you to move forward and create works of wonder. (Anatol can Overspend actions per turn. He can spend up to 5 extra actions per turn. These actions can not be used for anything but Building/Researching, each overspent action inflicts a narrative malus to next turn, can not be used twice in a row)
    The Unmatched Intellect - a million thoughts considered in a second, a billion ideas discard in mere moments. There is none alive today that could match the intellect of Anatol and so he stands above them all. (Anatol gains an Extra Research Action for every multiple of 3 actions he spends on research per turn. For ever research project he adds 1 extra action per multiple of 3 he spends on research, All Intelligence bonuses are Doubled when facing off against Narrative Individuals)
    The Chosen One - power beyond power courses through Anatol's body without end, enough power to allow one to emulate a god of a primitive world without issue, enough power to bend the whims of reality to one's side. (Anatol can spend all of his actions to Invoke a Boon of the Shroud upon himself and all psions in the galaxy. The Boons are going to be the Stellaris ones with maybe a few original ones thrown in that give modifiers to roll bonuses, gains the actions Explore the Shroud, Contact the Shroud Gods)
    The Unbowed - Anatol looked upon the Gods of the Shroud in their full form and stood unbowed by their might, he listened to their offers and declined them all. Never would he bend the knee to a God, never would he turn aside from the course of his Duty to Humanity, for he is the Champion of the One upon the Golden Throne. (Anatol's very presence upon a world shutters the doorway between the mundane the realm of gods. All creatures born of Gods suffer in his presence. The spawn of Gods are Unmade by his Hand, those that bend the Knee are made to bend the knee to Him. The Gods themselves find themselves Vulnerable to Anatol's Will.)

    Age: 1 month
    Birth Date: 01/01/40,000 (month/day/year)
    Mind: Fully formed, beyond Primarch level
    Body: Teenager (15 years, Psionic acceleration)

    Traits: those marked with a (P) are personal while (S) mean species
    Erudite (P)
    Robust (P)
    Chosen One (P)
    Strong (S)
    Adaptable (S)
    Dexterous (S)
    Illumination (P)

    Perks
    Beacon of Light (Tier 2) - 2x bonus to interaction rolls with Humans and their religion, can Convert with time Xenos to the Light
    Furious March (Tier 8) - Once per decade you Can Force the Instant Completion of a Single Technology that is 2 Tiers Below your highest Completed. (This Perk works for Repaired level knowledge, IE if you learn how to Repair a Tier 10 technology you can use this Perk to auto complete the Repair amount for a Tier 8)
    Dark Age Technical Understanding (Tier 1) - you can with a minor amount of effort understand the technical language that your distant ancestors used on Olynn. This allows you to repair/reinitialize Dark Age systems that have been locked due to lack of language comprehension on Olynn.
    Salvaged Secrets (Tier 2) - when researching technology options gained from examples the lowest possible roll is 50
    Master Researcher (Tier 1) - Can stop work on research without losing progress.

    Appearance
    Currently your physical form is that of a idealized Human being with piercing purple eyes and almost radiant golden hair, with alabaster skin.

    Roll Bonuses
    Combat: 80 (Chosen One) + 5 (Strong) + 5 (Dexterous) + 40 (Robust)
    Psionic Combat: 80 (Chosen One)
    Government: 160 (Chosen One)
    Interaction: 160 (Chosen One)
    - Ecclesiarchy: Modifier of 2x from Beacon of Light Perk
    - Human: Modifier of 2x from Beacon of Light Perk
    Tactics: 160 (Chosen One) + 40 (genius) + 40 (erudite)
    Research: 40 (erudite) + 40 (genius)
    Survival: 40 (Robust) + 80 (Chosen One)

    Wound Count
    Base: 4 + 10 (Robust)

    Personal Action Limit
    Base: 5 + 10 (Robust)
    Currently gaining 2 per month for 5 months
     
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    • I will say that No Mystery box will be negative or at least negative in the sense that it will ruin everything. Yes, I won't deny that there might be negatives in them but they will not be any worse than Known options. I feel that is sucky and unfair to do, so all of my mystery options will be on the same level of usefulness/negativeness as with the known options.
     
    Leon12431 said:
    I will say that No Mystery box will be negative or at least negative in the sense that it will ruin everything. Yes, I won't deny that there might be negatives in them but they will not be any worse than Known options. I feel that is sucky and unfair to do, so all of my mystery options will be on the same level of usefulness/negativeness as with the known options.
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    That is fair. And makes sense. Also I do have a question if you don't mind that is.
     
    Leon12431 said:
    sure ask away. I am very free with answering questions when I feel its fine with IC info. Or if its just background stuff, so ask.
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    The Emperor, he effects the warp, can make "demons", and bless folks right? Does he still hold to a bit of his old ideas, or has he lost them thanks to what has happened, and the iron war. And can we become linked to the Adeptus Ministorum give our boons?
     
    So I hope I am not asking a stupid question here, but after being caught up on this I am confused.
    Do psychic nulls and Pariahs not exist? As in not exist in this crossover universe?

    EDIT: I should have voted given I like this one:
    [X] Flesh accepted, life hardened
     
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    gale said:
    The Emperor, he effects the warp, can make "demons", and bless folks right? Does he still hold to a bit of his old ideas, or has he lost them thanks to what has happened, and the iron war. And can we become linked to the Adeptus Ministorum give our boons?
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    16 characters said:
    So I hope I am not asking a stupid question here, but after being caught up on this I am confused.
    Do psychic nulls and Pariahs not exist? As in not exist in this crossover universe?
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    Okay so this timeline is a bit divergent due to my own head canon of things regarding Emps and how he works. Basically without spoiling too much of the stuff, it is much more correct to say that Emps is NOT the God Emperor in any shape or form.

    Also Blanks/Pariahs do Exist, but the Shroud doesn't notice them. So to a psion they are the exact same as a normal person. Their inverted Soul only affects the Warp, the Shroud couldn't care less about them.
     
    Leon12431 said:
    Okay so this timeline is a bit divergent due to my own head canon of things regarding Emps and how he works. Basically without spoiling too much of the stuff, it is much more correct to say that Emps is NOT the God Emperor in any shape or form.
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    Well then. Mind if I ask another question then?
     
    Leon12431 said:
    Ask your questions and I will respond to them with either a statement saying that is hidden or I will answer them outright. No need to ask permission for every question.
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    Got it. DAOT, is it OP as it is in Lore. Or being made wakened? Becaues DAOT was some shiiiiiiiit. There is a reason I call it the Era when Humanity made Anime real.
     
    gale said:
    Got it. DAOT, is it OP as it is in Lore. Or being made wakened? Becaues DAOT was some shiiiiiiiit. There is a reason I call it the Era when Humanity made Anime real.
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    The Dark Age is weird in this quest. You will find the odd Tier 10 and above relics but due to the sheer amount of time since it, they will be rare and instead you will tend to find things that are roughly on Tier 7/8 levels. Note that the tier system is not a precise measure of Impact but instead of complexity. A tier 10 technology can be weaker than a tier 5 in a certain edge case.

    Also, the Dark Age stuff is the second Highest stuff you will find second only to Necron relics. Its going to be usually above Aeldari relics due to them having very few relics that you can actually research and those tending towards the weaker/simpler end.

    However, I will say that some Dark Age artifacts like the Golden Throne are going to be Tier 10+ to understand due to the sheer insanity of the Dark Age. They won't be common nor easy to get but they do exist.
     
    Leon12431 said:
    The Dark Age is weird in this quest. You will find the odd Tier 10 and above relics but due to the sheer amount of time since it, they will be rare and instead you will tend to find things that are roughly on Tier 7/8 levels. Note that the tier system is not a precise measure of Impact but instead of complexity. A tier 10 technology can be weaker than a tier 5 in a certain edge case.

    Also, the Dark Age stuff is the second Highest stuff you will find second only to Necron relics. Its going to be usually above Aeldari relics due to them having very few relics that you can actually research and those tending towards the weaker/simpler end.

    However, I will say that some Dark Age artifacts like the Golden Throne are going to be Tier 10+ to understand due to the sheer insanity of the Dark Age. They won't be common nor easy to get but they do exist.
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    That beings me another thing. How bad was the Iron War? Time tech existed, reality to data was very much a thing, and Sun Eaters exist. So, how fucked was it? And did it effect the original Emps?
     
    gale said:
    That beings me another thing. How bad was the Iron War? Time tech existed, reality to data was very much a thing, and Sun Eaters exist. So, how fucked was it? And did it effect the original Emps?
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    The Iron War, was basically second only to the original War In Heaven. With the Aeldari so self absorbed the war spiraled far out of control, basically a little under three percent of the galaxy ended up deleted from time and space, the warp was carved off of another few percent, a good number of stars were turned into Dyson spheres or star lifters. Basically no matter how bad you think it was it was worse.

    It did affect Emps badly, it was a war on such a scale that he was meaningless in the face of it. The Iron Minds commanding the forces of the MoI quickly figured out methods that could snipe potent psykers across light years. Basically, Emps was made impotent and he could only watch as humanity came extremely close to the edge of extinction. So yes, The Emperor was massively affected by the Iron War.
     
    Leon12431 said:
    The Iron War, was basically second only to the original War In Heaven. With the Aeldari so self absorbed the war spiraled far out of control, basically a little under three percent of the galaxy ended up deleted from time and space, the warp was carved off of another few percent, a good number of stars were turned into Dyson spheres or star lifters. Basically no matter how bad you think it was it was worse.

    It did affect Emps badly, it was a war on such a scale that he was meaningless in the face of it. The Iron Minds commanding the forces of the MoI quickly figured out methods that could snipe potent psykers across light years. Basically, Emps was made impotent and he could only watch as humanity came extremely close to the edge of extinction. So yes, The Emperor was massively affected by the Iron War.
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    Oof

    How did mankind survive that even?
    Did some lf the AI stay loyal or was external intervention?
     
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