So, um... How strong is this Daemon actually?

And I'm actually worried about that Breach too -- what if it's going to cause Perils of the Warp for Psyker power-use for the rest of the fight? That's going to suck.

The Daemonhost is a huge threat, but the Ordained One is the one who's basically fucking the Veil up at every turn. Plus, we need to recover the Treasures.

Hopefully Mag can keep the Daemonhost pinned for a bit while we deal with the OO, the Breach will solve itself when Dandriss gets wind of it. We need to stay on target.
 
I think that was a one time deal. We won't be able to get rid of more corruption without further research into Sanctic Sorcery or another Kebhon-esque intervention.

@Academia Nut have I missed my guess that we would've had to soulkill him once for every single member of the Psychic Chorus? :o And then once more for good measure? :mad:

So long as you have Kebhon with you, you can spend XP to reduce corruption immediately.

You have missed your guess. He... well, you might be able to perceive it now.

Rolled 90 + 106 = 196

Yeah... yeah, with the glare from the chorus gone, you can see that beneath the outer flesh of the Ordained One there is some sort of physical object that is also burning with Warp energy, but is somehow channelling and containing it.

So...would the AM rifle have done anything?

Judging from the force you needed to penetrate his torso and the fact that there is something inside... a solid hit to the torso and possibly the head (you don't know the full extent of the "meat armour") would have been instantly lethal.

So you want to pull a wildbow?

Kind of yeah, something I've considered for a few years in various incarnations. *glances at GW's lawyers* Probably have to be original IP though, and I would need to get my ducks in a row, so not for a while.
 
So...

Huh, is it maybe that he's incorporated one of the Relics into himself? And that's what's making him immune to consequences?

Anyway, while hitting him with the AM Rifle may have guaranteed a kill, the chances of us making that shot with all of our buffs turned off is slim to none.
 
@Academia Nut I'm confused... I thought Memento Mori worked against all attacks, including barehanded kung fu. I reread the description of its power

Returning your mind to reality, you pick up the weapon and frown slightly. The weapon you have crafted now carries with it a concept of "mortality" within its frame, for both what it strikes and for its wielder. On the one hand, this makes it far better at killing, but it also means that it is useless for protecting. A weapon that cannot block or be blocked.

Gained force longsword Memento Mori, the Mortal Blade.
AN: While the rules are slightly different for this game, if you wanted to use something like this for a DH game you could model it by making it so that it cannot be used for Parry reactions, but neither can Parry reaction be used against it. The only way to use this sword 'defensively' is to counterattack and hope you kill your opponent before their blow lands


That is going to require an unusual fighting style to work out, considering how much sword technique involves using the weapon to redirect blows. You can feel though that this weapon will physically refuse to interpose itself between a strike that would land and you. You will have to focus on dodging and striking first, which you get the feeling will annoy whoever you pick as an instructor.

And I don't quite get why mirande would think otherwise?
 
...Shit, the fucker has the artifact piece inside him I'm guessing. Which means that we need to kill him and drag his ass out of there before the trees tunnel in and cover the entire place.
 
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I'm confused... I thought Memento Mori worked against all attacks, including barehanded kung fu. I reread the description of its power

His arms don't count as part of his body. The count as pure weapons and thus the blade rewrites reality so that they are not blocked nor do they block. Had they been metaphysically a part of him then you would have struck him and had the contest of wills right away, instead of striking "armour".
 
His arms don't count as part of his body. The count as pure weapons and thus the blade rewrites reality so that they are not blocked nor do they block. Had they been metaphysically a part of him then you would have struck him and had the contest of wills right away, instead of striking "armour".
So it's possible he's inside the giant body piloting it like a meat gundam?

Rolled 90 + 106 = 196

Yeah... yeah, with the glare from the chorus gone, you can see that beneath the outer flesh of the Ordained One there is some sort of physical object that is also burning with Warp energy, but is somehow channelling and containing it.
Going to need to cut it out then.
 
His arms don't count as part of his body. The count as pure weapons and thus the blade rewrites reality so that they are not blocked nor do they block. Had they been metaphysically a part of him then you would have struck him and had the contest of wills right away, instead of striking "armour".
But if we were aiming for the arm to try to attack it, that's the same as sundering a weapon, right? You said earlier that was okay.
 
So long as you have Kebhon with you, you can spend XP to reduce corruption immediately.

You have missed your guess. He... well, you might be able to perceive it now.

Rolled 90 + 106 = 196

Yeah... yeah, with the glare from the chorus gone, you can see that beneath the outer flesh of the Ordained One there is some sort of physical object that is also burning with Warp energy, but is somehow channelling and containing it.



Judging from the force you needed to penetrate his torso and the fact that there is something inside... a solid hit to the torso and possibly the head (you don't know the full extent of the "meat armour") would have been instantly lethal.



Kind of yeah, something I've considered for a few years in various incarnations. *glances at GW's lawyers* Probably have to be original IP though, and I would need to get my ducks in a row, so not for a while.
So... he stuffed some of the treasures in his chest, huh?

Huh, so the AMR ended up being the 'trade success chance for success power' choice? Glad we didn't take it myself. We had shit personal rolls this round anyway...
His arms don't count as part of his body. The count as pure weapons and thus the blade rewrites reality so that they are not blocked nor do they block. Had they been metaphysically a part of him then you would have struck him and had the contest of wills right away, instead of striking "armour".
Oh hell, this isn't even technically his physical body? So while the AMR would have dropped the meat puppet, he'd still be alive?!
 
Rolled 88
Interesting...

Saving this for later
Thank you, khorne, for saving us from perils.
Your rush in hard and fast and the Ordained One puts up a hand to swat your blade aside, with you changing the angle to cut him at the last moment... only for your blade to deflect about his hand and arm impossibly. Your blade strikes him upon the torso but the steel hard flesh is only mildly gouged and you feel no contact with your mind to his through the sword. In the second before his palm strikes your face, it occurs to you that the only way that makes sense is if metaphysically his arms count as weapons and his flesh as armour.
Crap, that's a LOT of harden flesh.
Girl... oh wait, you actually have. Good boast.
snerk.
Rolled (98 Discharge! + 89) + 30 + 50 WC + 65 WV + 40 Push + 10 Focus = 382
+40 push mod? He's almost certainly not a grandmaster sorcerer, how the warp did he get that?

Also, he has warp conduit 5.

Finally, he has a power focus that isn't readily visible.

"Fuck!"

You're not sure exactly who said it, but the screaming starts shortly after that.
Italics? Was that kebhon?

Soaked in blood, Mag leaps on stage only to blink in confusion at the hole into nothingness in midair.
Loving this reaction. Mag gives very few fucks.
which is now dripping greenish pus that causes the metal of the tunnel to curl up into adamantine flies that skitter flightlessly across the ground for a few seconds before crumbling away to rust
Oh dear, it's eating though the tunnel.

Before you can adequately do anything about that the daemonhost gestures and fires a bolt of sickly vomit brown energy into the remains of the screaming cloud, afflicting those struck with horrible wasting diseases that rapidly begins to rot the flesh from their bones.
Should be crowd, not cloud. Unless there was a screaming cloud that I missed. There could well be, considering how crazy that was.
 
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[] Close range, Memento Mori (0.9x)

Choosing this over the antimateriel head shot for now because it allows us to ascertain that the big guy we are trying to gank is actually the one we can't read and not a decoy. Or a bio-suit for a small guy to wear. Kebhon's comment is making me nervous.
Called it.
 
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@Academia Nut what would the odds have been of actually connecting with the rifle in a way that would've been enough to murderize him (and without him noticing something was up and using Harden Flesh) in his weird entropic zone from the Weakened Veil? In the update Mirande didn't think she would've been able to hit him accurately.
 
@Academia Nut what would the odds have been of actually connecting with the rifle in a way that would've been enough to murderize him (and without him noticing something was up and using Harden Flesh) in his weird entropic zone from the Weakened Veil? In the update Mirande didn't think she would've been able to hit him accurately.
We likely would have been forced to succeed at a torso shot check with possibly either weapon(ironically the joke vote I used my amazing powers to persuade a few people into taking), since the head of a meat puppet is sort of worthless in terms of killing some tiny little Quaid mutant psyker. But then, we had literally no idea he would be piloting the meat suit, so it's a really good thing we didn't go for shooting him because all it would have done is tricked us into thinking the guy died as we made our getaway, right up until we realized he was still freakin alive and had to go back in to figure out how.
 
Hey guys... We've all been jumping on going for the Ordained One, but let's consider this a minute.

The Ordained One probably isn't getting out of here alive. Even if he does, without his psyker chorus we can track him and leverage all our buffs (and our Mag) into kicking his teeth into his brain. The Daemons and the breach will hopefully (largely) be cleaned up by the forest and, again, we can run them down.

The Daemonhost Psyker however, has likely got the means and the good sense to GTFO from here, and the potential to become a major generational threat. I really don't want to be dealing with Chaos Cults for the next three centuries.

... We might want to talk out the pros and cons of this. What does everyone think?
 
We likely would have been forced to succeed at a torso shot check with possibly either weapon(ironically the joke vote I used my amazing powers to persuade a few people into taking), since the head of a meat puppet is sort of worthless in terms of killing some tiny little Quaid mutant psyker. But then, we had literally no idea he would be piloting the meat suit, so it's a really good thing we didn't go for shooting him because all it would have done is tricked us into thinking the guy died as we made our getaway, right up until we realized he was still freakin alive and had to go back in to figure out how.
It might not be a meatsuit scenario. It might be that he swallowed the Gravekeeper Treasure. (To be fair he might've somehow put his soul inside it or something. No idea what it is)
 
Lesser Psychic Shriek (willpower contest vs. manifestation roll for all other characters within 5m or be stunned, or; willpower contest against target within 10m, failure of target takes energy damage to head)
Least Psychic Shriek (willpower contest vs. manifestation roll for all other characters within 3m or be stunned)

our psychic shriek is 1d100+ 176
His willpower is 15 ( so if I understand right, he'll roll 1d100+30)

...

even on an exploding crit there's a decent chance he'll fail.

yeah, I think we can afford to focus on a higher-priority target.
 
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I think we can hope that Mag can keep the Daemonhost under control until we're done mopping up the Ordained One.

Or something.
 
Hey guys... We've all been jumping on going for the Ordained One, but let's consider this a minute.

The Ordained One probably isn't getting out of here alive. Even if he does, without his psyker chorus we can track him and leverage all our buffs (and our Mag) into kicking his teeth into his brain. The Daemons and the breach will hopefully (largely) be cleaned up by the forest and, again, we can run them down.

The Daemonhost Psyker however, has likely got the means and the good sense to GTFO from here, and the potential to become a major generational threat. I really don't want to be dealing with Chaos Cults for the next three centuries.

... We might want to talk out the pros and cons of this. What does everyone think?
It might not be a meatsuit scenario. It might be that he swallowed the Gravekeeper Treasure. (To be fair he might've somehow put his soul inside it or something. No idea what it is)
His arms and torso are calculated as weapons and armor, not metaphysically part of the OO's body, this implies that, since a wound near his chest caused the obliterate roll, he's piloting a massive suit of flesh not his own.

Hmm, we may have bandwagon'd too hard...

@Alectai There's no guarantee that Mag won't just attack what we attack, which leads to the problem of 'write-in, have mag attack something else, and possibly lose both' or 'pick one option to power down, and maybe deal with a second before they either get handled or get away'.
 
Lesser Psychic Shriek (willpower contest vs. manifestation roll for all other characters within 5m or be stunned, or; willpower contest against target within 10m, failure of target takes energy damage to head)

our psychic shriek is 1d100+ 176
His willpower is 15 ( so if I understand right, he'll roll 1d100+30)

...

even on an exploding crit there's a decent chance he'll fail.

yeah, I think we can afford to focus on a higher-priority target.
We have least, not lesser.


So, my questions to @Academia Nut :
Did we actually do any damage to him by winning that martial roll as far as we know?
Is mag in range of least psychic shriek?
Alternatively, is it possible to deliberately limit psychic shriek to a lower magnitude than our manifestation bonus? Like, say, 132?
 
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